In the blacksmith shop, Lizer was finally willing to learn the blacksmith's inheritance. Naturally, Patiff dedicated himself to explaining and demonstrating it to Lizer.
Although Patiff's ancestral blacksmithing inheritance was ordinary, it was complete and its knowledge was comprehensive. A blacksmith who inherited this set of skills had almost no shortcomings.
Therefore, Patiff's skills had always been number one in Gray Fog Mountain Town, and even neighboring towns had heard of him.
A complete blacksmithing inheritance included knowledge in mineral identification, metal smelting, forging, polishing, repairing, and maintenance.
Patiff brought out over thirty kinds of minerals stored in the blacksmith shop for Lizer to touch and explained them one by one, causing Lizer's Mineral Identification skill (Normal) proficiency to flash continuously:
[Identified minerals - Iron, Black Iron, Meteoric Iron, Copper, Red Copper, Zinc... Mineral Identification (Normal Novice 38/100)]
After Lizer became familiar with common minerals, Patiff used the shop's blacksmith furnace to teach Lizer the knowledge and techniques of metal smelting.
He explained it very carefully, and Lizer also activated [Pay-to-Win] to earnestly analyze it:
[Observed a senior blacksmith demonstrating metal smelting, consumed 10 energy points, analyzed skill: Metal Smelting Novice: 0/100]
Note: One of the ancestral blacksmithing inheritances of Patiff's family. After continuous summarization and improvement by several generations, certain aspects have reached the pinnacle of the mortal world.
Through metal smelting, one can extract the metal components from ores to obtain high-purity metal. Current novice level: Metal Purity +10%.
Sensing the skill information, Lizer's heart skipped a beat:
Just a moment ago, he thought the ancestral blacksmithing skills were ordinary, but he didn't expect this metal smelting could actually increase metal purity.
For example, a metal with an original purity of 99.00% could reach 99.15% through Patiff's ancestral metal smelting.
And this was only at the novice level!
With subsequent skill upgrades and optimizations, this purity could continue to increase.
Lizer knew very well that purity was an extremely important parameter for metal materials.
It affected the performance and durability of metals, and was a crucial indicator for the smelting of new materials and alloys.
This was a very important point for researching new metal and alloy materials.
He never expected that a blacksmith family in the mortal world would possess such a skill!
The subsequent forging skill did not disappoint Lizer either, bringing its own little surprise:
[Observed a senior blacksmith demonstrating forging, consumed 20 energy points, analyzed skill: Ancestral Forging Secret Art Novice: 0/100]
Note: One of the ancestral blacksmithing inheritances of Patiff's family, an improved secret forging art formed through continuous summarization and improvement by several generations.
Current novice level: Has a small chance to slightly increase quality, improving performance, durability, toughness, etc.
It truly was one surprise after another!
With the successful analysis of the two skills, Lizer actually already possessed the ability to forge firearms.
Naturally unable to suppress his inner impulses, he spent another day preparing the molds needed to personally forge a revolver.
Once these were ready, he couldn't wait to begin his first firearm manufacturing.
He carefully recalled the analyzed crafting process of a revolver.
A standard revolver consists of:
A frame, cylinder swing-out mechanism, cylinder, barrel, hammer, firing pin, left and right locking rollers, trigger, trigger bar, sear, ejector rod, moon clip, and grip panels...
A total of 13 components.
This blueprint was practically identical to the designs from his past life on Blue Star.
He wondered what the historical inventor of firearms had gone through and how they had succeeded; looking at this structure, it was highly likely that the inventor was a modern transmigrator.
Mass-producing revolver parts would require high-precision machine tools, but for individual crafting, forging techniques paired with molds would work just fine.
Moreover, personally crafted firearms would have more character and potentially superior performance.
If it required integrating specific mystical powers through alchemy, individual crafting was the only way.
The true difficulty of making a revolver lay in the materials, not the forging or assembly—specifically, the metal smelting process.
According to his knowledge from Blue Star:
Especially for components like the barrel, hammer, and firing pin, only a few high-performance metals could meet the strict requirements.
These included stainless steel alloys, chromium-molybdenum high-alloy steel, high-carbon steel, and pattern-welded steel.
This world commonly used an alloy similar to stainless steel, known as Tough Iron.
It was made by adding 8 to 12 percent chromium to slightly high-carbon steel.
Using metals with insufficient performance could lead to accidents like chamber explosions, fractures, and rapid wear.
Lizer, following the guidance of his Firearm Manufacturing skill:
First used his metal smelting skill to extract steel with sufficient purity and the right carbon content from iron ore.
Then, he further refined it into Tough Iron, a highly durable, silver-white metal with exceptional properties.
Next, utilizing his forging skill and molds, he crafted the thirteen components one by one.
Under Patiff's dumbfounded gaze, he assembled them into the Silver Lightning that Lizer had used before, the standard-issue handgun of the Crimson Soul Principality's police department.
Patiff couldn't believe that after he had only explained and demonstrated his blacksmithing techniques once, Lizer, though slightly unpolished, was able to forge such a complex firearm.
He muttered in sheer disbelief:
Are all wizards this miraculous?
Lizer fondly stroked the first revolver he had crafted in this world, unable to put it down.
The silver-white body reflected a cold, sharp gleam in the light, engraved with streamlined anti-slip patterns, while the cylinder gave off a matte metallic luster.
It felt cool and heavy in his hand, as if he could feel the violent power hidden within.
The feel was exactly the same as the Silver Lightning Lizer used to wield; every detail exuded the precision and deterrence of a standard-issue weapon.
He couldn't wait to test it out, but helplessly realized he had no bullets.
He wanted to make some, only to remember that while crafting the bullet casings was no problem, he still didn't know how to make gunpowder.
Gunpowder production was one of the material synthesis products in the field of alchemy.
Lizer hadn't yet had the time to study and learn how gunpowder was made in this world, so naturally, he couldn't manufacture bullets.
He silently moved the study of alchemical material synthesis and gunpowder making up on his schedule.
He looked at the sky, which was gradually turning to night...
Crafting this revolver had taken him almost an entire day, but he felt it was worth it.
After some thought, he returned to Felina's apartment, asked her for some bullets, and brought her to a deserted clearing outside the factory...
To test out his handgun.
A rather plump bird flew across the night sky...
He took aim and fired decisively. A tongue of flame flashed from the muzzle, and a deafening bang shattered the silence of the night sky.
The loading, safety mechanism, firing, cylinder rotation, bullet discharge, shell ejection, and heat dissipation of this 'Silver Lightning' were all flawless.
Although it did not trigger the Forging skill's ten percent chance for a quality upgrade, with the support of high-quality materials, it could already be considered perfect among ordinary firearms.
Too bad...
The shot missed...
"Squawk... squawk..."
The fat bird was startled, its body jerking so hard it almost fell from the sky.
A moment later, realizing it was unharmed, it let out a series of strange cries and hastily flew away.
Felina saw this and covered her mouth, giggling secretly...
Lizer glared at her, helplessly sensing his own shooting skill:
[Shooting Skill: Novice 90/100]
100% accuracy for large targets within range, 70% accuracy for small targets.
That damn 70% accuracy!
He had obviously just missed!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
