Volume 4 Chapter 50: The Demon Clan’s Response

Qin Lun’s trade negotiation with the consignment Apostle of “Burial of Light and Darkness” was very difficult. He originally planned to exchange the pair of Dark Gold revolvers with his Earth Spike Technique and the FN-500, but that Apostle was very shrewd. He accepted the quite practical Earth Spike Technique, but scoffed at the FN-500.

From his words, it could be seen that he was a pure physical attack shooter. The FN-500’s instant shot skill could only unleash the power of light bullets in the hands of a shooter with strong perception and good spiritual power. This Apostle had good perception, but his spiritual power was a weak point. Also, in his eyes, the two-mode switching of the FN-500 was just a joke.

To be serious, physical attack shooters rarely practiced advanced sword skills. Even if forced into close combat with enemies, most used daggers or combat skills like “Combat Gunmanship.”

Practicing both gun skills and sword skills was seen as a waste of training resources by that Apostle. Moreover, the switching speed between the FN-500’s two modes was too slow. Just like Qin Lun’s initial thought when he bought the FN-500, that Apostle also considered the FN-500 a useless Dark Gold item, not worth more than forty thousand Shattered Crystals.

The key disagreement was that even if Qin Lun was willing to price the FN-500 at forty thousand Shattered Crystals, the other party still didn’t want it. He insisted that Qin Lun sell the FN-500 first, then complete the transaction between them.

Of course, Qin Lun couldn’t act like a fool, selling his main weapon first and then seeking the trade. Not to mention whether that Apostle would raise the price later, even if during that time, the “Burial of Light and Darkness” was bought by someone else, Qin Lun would want to jump into the Huangpu River. No matter how useless the FN-500 was, it was his main weapon that he was used to. How could he recklessly sell it before having a replacement?

In the end, Qin Lun paid an additional ten thousand Shattered Crystals he had on him, plus the Earth Spike Technique, the FN-500, a Law of Shattering Fusion Crystal, and a Phantom Demon Tenderloin to complete the transaction.

The Law of Shattering Fusion Crystal was a hard currency, and the Phantom Demon Tenderloin was also a high-grade recovery item. Adding the ten thousand Shattered Crystals, the total transaction value was nearly 120,000 Shattered Crystals, a premium of twenty thousand.

However, although “Burial of Light and Darkness” had a fatal flaw, its weapon material had great potential, even the ability to climb to Sub-Legendary level. If that Apostle hadn’t been unable to bear its huge consumption and was temporarily short of Shattered Crystals, he might not have sold this pair of Dark Gold revolvers.

Qin Lun could completely believe this point. Because after the transaction was completed, that Apostle immediately did something that made him not know whether to laugh or cry. Although the FN-500 was still in Qin Lun’s Storage Space, that Apostle had already priced it at fifty thousand Shattered Crystals and directly threw it into the Auction House.

Perhaps because the transaction went smoothly, that Apostle answered almost all of Qin Lun’s questions about “Burial of Light and Darkness.” It was clear that he had put great effort into this pair of Dark Gold revolvers. Even though the weapon had changed owners, he still seemed a bit reluctant to part with it.

The description of “Burial of Light and Darkness” was very complete. Qin Lun’s only confusion was the general introduction of the bullet mold. Regarding this, that Apostle readily explained, even with a bit of schadenfreude.

It turned out that the bullet mold for “Burial of Light and Darkness” could not be made freely. It not only required the mold blueprint and mold materials, but also needed to find a Professional Apostle with forging skills to craft it. Taking the existing mold as an example, the blueprint could be obtained from the “Exchange List” in Shattered Starry Sky, and even a Dark Gold mold only cost a few thousand Shattered Crystals.

Back when that Apostle obtained “Burial of Light and Darkness,” he cheered happily for a while. However, when he started collecting the manufacturing materials for the Dark Gold mold, he discovered he had fallen into a huge pit.

The manufacturing materials for the Dark Gold mold in the Exchange List were extremely expensive. After exchanging all the materials, plus the forging labor cost, it was almost equivalent to crafting a new ordinary Dark Gold item. If not collected from the Exchange List, then one could only slowly accumulate them from the Auction House and Quest Worlds, which took too long.

Since both “Thorn Technique” and “Burial of Light and Darkness” were already in the Auction House, when Qin Lun came out of the Auction House, he directly obtained these two items.

Returning to his villa room, Qin Lun immediately took out the black and white twin guns. His eyes shone as he played with them. Although he and Joey weren’t normal people, they shared a common hobby of big boys. That was a passion for all kinds of weapons, not to mention that “Burial of Light and Darkness” was also an artwork with an elegant shape and full of gorgeous temperament.

Burial of Light and Darkness (Firearm Set)

Quality: Purple Gold (High-grade Dark Gold)

Set Right: Angel’s Praise (Red Firearm)

Set Left: Demon’s Song (Red Firearm)

Material: Divine Light White Gold, Hell Black Gold, Eternal Flintstone

Single Gun Weight: 1125 grams

Total Length: 325 millimeters

Caliber: 9 millimeters

Effective Range: 200 meters

Inlay Slot: Empty

Equipment Passive Abilities: Enchantment, Critical Strike,

Enchantment One: Angel’s Praise could use the engraved runes to activate the attribute special effects of Divine Light White Gold, attaching sacred power to the bullets, causing extra damage to dark-type, necro-type, and chaos-type creatures.

Enchantment Two: Demon’s Song could use the engraved runes to activate the attribute special effects of Hell Black Gold, attaching dark curse power to the bullets, causing continuous corrosive damage to any living creature.

Critical Strike: The top-grade material and excellent craftsmanship of Burial of Light and Darkness would occasionally make the bullets burst with higher initial speed and rotation, having a notable 15% critical strike rate.

Additional Description One: Burial of Light and Darkness had a sacrificial Magical Array engraved at the bottom of the grip, which could inlay various gem crystals with peculiar abilities.

Additional Description Two: The material of Burial of Light and Darkness had memory ability, able to slowly repair the barrel damage caused by shooting, possessing a never-wear attribute.

Additional Description Three: During the long process of changing hands, Burial of Light and Darkness lost its original matching bullet mold. The Apostle needed to re-forge the bullet mold for this firearm set. (In Samuel Colt’s Earth parallel space-time, the Apostle could try to search for the original bullet mold of Burial of Light and Darkness.)

Equipment Evaluation: Burial of Light and Darkness was one of Samuel Colt’s early excellent works. As the greatest firearms master and demon hunter, Samuel Colt forged countless Legendary firearms. Although he didn’t reach his peak level during his early creative period, Burial of Light and Darkness was still full of Colt’s consistent elegant and gorgeous style, making it an outstanding revolver set pistol.

Equipment Usage Conditions: The Apostle must have intermediate Firearms Expertise to use the firearm’s critical strike ability. With 30 points of Perception, the firearm’s enchantment would take effect.

After obtaining Burial of Light and Darkness, Qin Lun’s enthusiasm for training was reignited. He spent all day soaking in the shooting range. With his current shooting skill, he no longer needed a shooting coach. Future progress could only rely on himself.

Qin Lun only used blue bullets for training shooting. Blue bullets were very cheap, and the daily cost of over a hundred Shattered Crystals was still bearable. The bullets for Burial of Light and Darkness were different from ordinary bullets. Ordinary bullets consisted of four parts: bullet head, casing, gunpowder, and primer. The bullets for Burial of Light and Darkness only had the bullet head component. The gunpowder was replaced by the unique energy possessed by the bullet material, ignited during firing by the gun mechanism made of Eternal Flintstone.

Among the three bullet molds that came with Burial of Light and Darkness, the blue and purple molds were not unusual. They just needed to stamp the bullet material with the mold to produce bullets. Only the bullet material used by the purple mold was higher grade than the blue mold. The blue mold produced ordinary bullets, while the purple mold produced hard-core armor-piercing bullets.

However, the Dark Gold mold was different. The original owner of Burial of Light and Darkness equipped a Dark Gold mold for high-explosive bullets. This mold could engrave a splash rune on the bullet, while the bullet used soft metal material.

After the bullet hit an object, the soft metal bullet head would shatter into pieces under the effect of the splash rune and its own material, tearing a huge gap at the impact point. It was an Other World version of a dumdum bullet.

Of course, although this kind of high-explosive bullet had great lethality against living creatures, it sacrificed armor-piercing ability. Against some high-armor targets, its penetration power was actually worse than the purple armor-piercing bullet.

Qin Lun had already used the Thorn Technique. To his delight, the Wood Element Affinity of his Moon Night Elf Bloodline actually raised the skill level of Thorn Technique. It directly increased from D+ grade to C grade, but the Stamina/Energy Points consumption also increased, from 20-50 points to 50-100 points.

When Qin Lun’s training enthusiasm eased a little, fifteen days of rest time had already passed mostly. In his second week back in Shattered Starry Sky, Beruses, who had been silent all along, finally sent a reply. The Demon Clan agreed to his request and helped him find a summoning creature that met the conditions.

Considering the protection of the Apostle’s privacy, Beruses invited Qin Lun to the Demon Clan’s council residence in Devil’s Horn.

“Lord Qin Lun, you came at the right time. We have prepared the contract Magical Array for you!” Beruses greeted Qin Lun into the residence with a smile. “Of course, before that, you should first see if you are satisfied with the contract creature!”

In a spacious hall that could completely be called a square, a huge blood-colored Magical Array was drawn on the ground. Several cunning Magicians in black magic robes stood around the Magical Array. In the center of the Magical Array stood a demon over five meters tall.

This demon was covered in blazing flames. Its body, composed of lava, flowed with dark red magma everywhere. The horns on its head pointed to the sky, and its scarlet eyes radiated a fierceness that looked down upon the world.

“This… you don’t mean him, do you?” Qin Lun licked his dry lips, pointing uncertainly at the High Rank Flame Demon in the center of the venue.

“Haha, of course not. Lord Mengkins is here to preside over the contract Magical Array. I mean… that little thing!” Beruses chuckled and pointed at the demon creature held in the Flame Demon’s palm.