Five Mao Effect

The gunshot echoed across the entire beach, startling all the Little Demons nearby who were also locked in battle with their opponents!

They stopped fighting as if by unspoken agreement and turned toward the sound. Then, two more gunshots rang out in quick succession, making them shriek in alarm again.

They had never heard such a bizarre sound before...

Roy, who had fired the gun, was startled as well. He discovered that the Four-Eyed Little Devil he had shot in the abdomen had not died immediately. Instead, driven by excruciating pain, it jerked its head and tore a large chunk of flesh from Roy's left arm, which he had been using to block.

The pain nearly drove Roy mad. With blood in his eyes, he pressed the muzzle against the Four-Eyed Little Devil's stomach and fired two more shots with a bang, bang.

This time, the Four-Eyed Little Devil finally went rigid. Roy heaved hard, throwing it off himself. It fell beside him, three Large Holes blasted through its stomach continuously pouring out blood and quickly staining the sand beneath it purple-red.

Covered in blood himself, Roy climbed to his feet and panted heavily as he stared down at the Four-Eyed Little Devil. Its vitality was astonishingly tenacious. Even in that state, it still had not breathed its last. Having narrowly escaped death, Roy was overcome with fury. He aimed at the Four-Eyed Little Devil's forehead and pulled the trigger again!

This time, the Four-Eyed Little Devil finally fell silent...

To ensure that the revolver could be Save and Manifested, Roy had even removed the Accuracy Attribute. At such close range, accuracy made no difference to him anyway. But he had not expected that, even with the muzzle pressed against its stomach, the Four-Eyed Little Devil would take four bullets before dying. Its vitality was terrifyingly strong, completely unlike the Worm Devil he had killed inside the egg sac!

Demons were fundamentally different before and after hatching.

Well, of course, it might also have been because the gun was not powerful enough...

The Four-Eyed Little Devil's soul floated out of its corpse. This Soul Light Orb was far larger and brighter than the one Roy had obtained earlier. He did not rush to take it. Raising his head, he saw that, as expected, several Little Demons nearby were gathering around.

The consecutive gunshots had startled them, and they could not help coming over to investigate. Coupled with the greed ingrained in demons' bones, the sight of such a high-quality soul made more and more of them gather.

Roy was not in good condition. His entire upper body was covered in wounds. His left shoulder had been bitten, and although the Four-Eyed Little Devil's venomous saliva was not fatal, it had left half his body stiff and numb. The left forearm he had used to fend off attacks had even been gnawed down to pale white bone.

But even in such a miserable state, Roy knew that he absolutely could not show weakness. He feared that if he showed even the slightest exhaustion or panic, the Little Demons gathering around him would rush him Without Hesitation and tear him to pieces. So he raised his gun, aimed it at a nearby Little Demon, and fired!

Bang! The shot missed, but it struck the ground beside the Little Demon's feet, scraping up a trail of sparks. Startled, the Little Demon quickly leaped backward.

Then Roy aimed the muzzle at another Little Demon. This one was smarter. The moment it saw the gun pointed at it, it fled before Roy even fired.

With that example before them, whichever direction Roy pointed the muzzle, the Little Demons in that direction would hurriedly flee. They did not know that he had only one bullet left. They only knew that the strange object in Roy's hand had killed a strong Little Demon. It was terrifying, and none of them wanted to go up and die. They all hoped another Little Demon would go first.

Eventually, Roy did not even need to point the gun at them. He merely Opened His Mouth, bared his sharp teeth, and gave them a slight threat, and the Little Demons would flee.

Roy had achieved his goal of establishing dominance. Unfortunately, he had still underestimated demons' greed for souls. As long as he did not put away the Four-Eyed Little Devil's soul, those Little Demons would cautiously gather again soon after fleeing.

Once he noticed this, Roy developed a headache. In fact, he could feel his body instinctively craving the soul. The Soul Light Orb lay at his feet, making saliva flow uncontrollably from his mouth. This was probably caused by Soul Devouring Addiction. Although Roy also wanted to know what a soul tasted like, he understood that souls were the foundation of his survival. He could only force himself to suppress his Physical Instinct and try to see whether the system could store the soul.

To his surprise, he actually succeeded. The Soul Light Orb vanished in an instant.

Only then did he notice that, under his main attributes in the System Interface, the number of souls currently held had changed from 0 to "Complete Low-Level Soul (1), Fading Low-Level Soul (1)"!

The Complete Low-Level Soul should have been the Four-Eyed Little Devil's soul he had just obtained. As for that "Fading Low-Level Soul," Roy paused in surprise. If nothing unexpected had happened, it should have been the first soul he had acquired. What he had not expected was that after manifesting the revolver, some of that soul still remained instead of disappearing completely.

This once again astonished Roy with the difference in Soul Consumption caused by different Defined Attributes. Previously, after adding an Infinite Ammo attribute, that soul had not even been enough to cover the cost...

Did this count as the difference between basic equipment and blue or purple gear?

Roy was a little regretful now. If he had known the system could store souls, he should have stored the Worm Devil's soul first. Then he would not have had to fight the Four-Eyed Little Devil...

The moment the Soul Light Orb Disappeared, the Little Demons gathered nearby immediately became restless. Roy warily raised his gun again, but although they stirred uneasily, they eventually dispersed. They ran toward other places where demons were fighting, hoping to pick up some leftovers...

Once he saw that the danger had passed, Roy finally let out a breath and plopped down on the ground. But out of habit, he forgot to move his tail aside first, and ended up painfully sitting on it.

It Seems that after changing forms, many habits from his time as a human would need to change as well. After sighing and moving his tail aside, Roy finally had time to inspect the revolver he had drawn.

But the moment he looked at it, Roy's face darkened.

How should he put it? The gun in his hand was simply too bizarre! If he had to describe it in one sentence, it would be: Five Mao Effect!

Really, not even one mao more! It looked unbelievably fake!

It had already been crooked and uneven when he drew it. Then, because he had rushed it out in an emergency, he had not colored it at all and had not even defined its material. After manifesting, it looked in his hand like a white plastic gun—the background color while drawing had been white—and the kind of crudely molded plastic gun covered in burrs after being cast...

Roy swore that this thing was worse than the BB gun he had played with as a child!

But... that was precisely what made it strange. This Five Mao Effect gun could actually fire, and it even had real power. All because Roy had defined a single [Firearm Attribute]. For the first time, Roy realized that this Private Customization System was truly extraordinary!

The system's power of defining functions through words felt somewhat like a Word Spirit, or perhaps the information-to-matter conversion technology mentioned in the novels Roy had read before. Except this was practically foolproof...

Thinking of how, in games before, he had always had to kill monsters for equipment or complete quests to obtain it, Roy could not help but grin. Now he had gone a step further—he could create his own equipment...

He had gained another soul, and It Seems to be of decent quality. But Roy did not rush to upgrade the revolver in his hand. Instead, he summoned the System Interface and began drawing again.

This time, he drew a Test Tube. Then he drew a line across its middle to indicate the liquid level, and colored the inside of the Test Tube blue.

A Test Tube filled with blue liquid took shape. Beside it, Roy used text to define it: antidote!

Yes, the first thing he needed to do now was cure his poisoned state. To save on consumption, he did not add too many definitions to the antidote. He only intended to use up that Fading Low-Level Soul.

The Four-Eyed Little Devil's venom should not be too potent. This ought to cure it, right?

After finishing, Roy was just about to Save and Manifest it when he reconsidered and changed the liquid in the Test Tube from blue to dark brown.

He also added another attribute to its definition: [Cola Flavor]!

After adding that, Roy finally saved it with satisfaction. As expected, the Fading Low-Level Soul disappeared completely this time, and a Test Tube of dark brown medicine appeared in Roy's hand.

Come on, bottoms up on this bottle of gamer happiness water! Roy tilted his head back and drank it...

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