Frostfire Rose (Please Recommend)

Chapter 007

After returning home, Li Mu immediately entered the Seedship and eagerly took out the Frostfire Rose.

It was a flintlock pistol with a silver-white body, its surface inlaid with a Rose Carving Pattern of intertwining red and blue. As he gathered Spark Energy around the Frostfire Rose, the HuoZhong Firearm's detailed attributes immediately appeared before him.

[Frostfire Rose: HuoZhong Firearm]

[Quality: Profound Grade Upper]

[Damage: 5-10]

[Spark Energy: 1,000 Kilo-calories]

[Magazine Capacity: 2]

[Skill 1: Frostfire Rapid Fire—Converts Spark Energy into Frostfire Energy Bullets for rapid fire with unlimited ammunition.]

[Skill 2: Frostfire Bullet Crafting—Consumes 1,000 Kilo-calories of Spark Energy to create one Frostfire Armor-Piercing Bullet.]

[Evaluation: The Rose Gun Shop welcomes private custom orders.]

Li Mu directly ignored the final advertising line and focused on examining the Frostfire Rose's attributes.

Ordinary Frostfire Firearms only had Skill One and lacked Skill Two.

Their damage was also fixed at only four points. Here, one point of damage corresponded to one point of Physique defense. If a HuoZhong Professional with five Physique had no protection at all, the Frostfire Rose's energy-bullet mode could basically kill them with a single shot.

As for HuoZhong Professionals with more than five Physique, each additional point of Physique reduced damage by twenty percent.

A HuoZhong Professional with ten Physique could basically become immune to Frostfire Rapid Fire.

Of course, that was only the Frostfire Rose's own lethality. His Profound Grade Frostfire Gun Fu LV1 also came with a passive effect that increased damage by one point. As Frostfire Gun Fu rose in level, the Frostfire Gunner's upper and lower damage limits would continue to increase.

The Frostfire Rose was worth 3,000 HuoZhong Coin, and its price mainly came from its second skill, Frostfire Bullet Crafting.

Don't be fooled by the Frostfire Armor-Piercing Bullet only raising the Frostfire Rose's damage to its upper limit of ten points. The armor-piercing effect was the real key. It could directly pierce any armor with less than ten defense strength. If not for its magazine capacity of only two rounds, the Frostfire Rose would have cost far more than this.

Spark Energy thoroughly permeated it, and the Frostfire Rose vanished from Li Mu's hand as it fused with his First Origin HuoZhong.

He possessed an Earth Grade Origin HuoZhong. Even at Extraordinary Level LV1, he could load two Profound Grade HuoZhongs at the same time.

That did not even include his Heaven Grade Second Origin HuoZhong. Compared to a normal Profound Grade Origin HuoZhong, the number of HuoZhongs he could load at LV1 was a full six times greater. The higher the Transcendence Level, the larger the gap became. Sometimes, talent really was impossible to catch up to through effort alone.

Red and blue light flashed in Li Mu's hand, and the Frostfire Rose instantly appeared in his grasp.

Although the Frostfire Gunner was only a Profound Grade profession, at low Transcendence Levels, its lethality did not even lose out to some Earth Grade professions. It was also a ranged profession with greater room for error, and Frostfire Gun Fu did not affect shooting damage even in close combat.

After exhausting 1,000 Kilo-calories of Spark Energy, a Frostfire Armor-Piercing Bullet formed within the Frostfire Rose.

Li Mu immediately poured his own Spark Energy into it. A normal Profound Grade Origin HuoZhong only possessed around 200 Kilo-calories of Spark Energy. With energy doubling for every grade difference, his two Origin HuoZhongs could replenish 1,200 Kilo-calories of Spark Energy in one go.

After the replenishment was complete, Li Mu began using the Spark Meditation Technique to absorb the omnipresent Spark Energy and restore what he had consumed.

This was merely an ordinary residence, so the Spark Energy was extremely thin.

Frostfire City had specially constructed Training Rooms with dense Spark Energy, but those places were so expensive that ordinary HuoZhong Professionals could not afford them. Although the Spark Energy density in the mist outside the city was high, using the Spark Meditation Technique in the Misty Wilderness was extremely dangerous.

Completely exhausting Spark Energy and then replenishing it could raise the Transcendence Level by roughly one point of experience.

It was not until more than half a day later that Li Mu restored all of his Spark Energy through the Spark Meditation Technique.

[Li Mu: Human]

[Spirit: 3.9]

[Physique: 3.5]

[Transcendence Level: LV1 (1/100)]

[Hint: Normal humans have Spirit and Physique attributes of around one point. Normal HuoZhong Awakeners have both attributes at around two points. Each Transcendence Level increase grants one Free Attribute Point. Self-training and External Enhancement can provide additional attribute increases.]

[First Origin HuoZhong: Earth Grade]

[Seed Talent: Camouflage—Can freely disguise his own HuoZhong fluctuations.]

[Second Origin HuoZhong: Heaven Grade]

[Seed Talent: Nirvana]

[Acquired HuoZhong: Frostfire Gunner (Profound Grade)]

[Seedship: Phoenix Seed Destroyer]

[Spark Equipment: Frostfire Rose (Profound Grade)]

"Transcendence Level: LV1 (1/100)..."

Li Mu murmured to himself.

At this rate, it would take at least three months to reach LV2.

The Spark Meditation Technique could only be fully practiced once a day at most. After all, what he had mastered was merely the common Spark Meditation Technique, not the secret Spark Meditation Techniques passed down by families and major powers. It seemed that if he wanted to quickly raise his Transcendence Level, he would still have to rely on HuoZhong Source Power.

No wonder Seedship Captains who could harvest HuoZhong Source Power in other worlds were Human Civilization's strongest profession.

Putting away the Frostfire Rose, Li Mu took out the HuoZhong Crystals that stored Spark Energy.

With a full 150,000 Kilo-calories of Spark Energy, the Phoenix's energy reserves were finally no longer at zero.

Li Mu immediately attempted to generate a Fantasy Coordinate. The first world could not be too powerful, or his novice Frostfire Gunner would not be able to handle it. Secondly, the world had to provide sufficient help for his future development. Finally, the Spark Energy consumed to generate the Fantasy Coordinate had to be below 50,000 Kilo-calories.

That was because the Seedship needed at least 100,000 Kilo-calories of Spark Energy to traverse dimensions, according to feedback from his Second Origin HuoZhong.

In truth, that small amount of energy was fundamentally insufficient for a Seedship to traverse dimensions.

The true cost was borne by the Spark World itself. The Phoenix's consumption of 100,000 Kilo-calories was merely the minimum cost of activating the Seedship. He believed that the entire Spark World could not possibly have a poorer Seedship Captain than him.

After repeated attempts, Li Mu quickly selected a Fantasy World []~(￣▽￣)~*.

This world was not very powerful, but it was highly suitable for providing him with sufficient growth resources in the early stages.

Everything was ready except the east wind. Now, he only needed to wait until Frostfire City stopped and moved far away from it. Although the Seedship could traverse dimensions, time flowed synchronously on both sides. By the time he returned, Frostfire City would already have gone who knew where.

Moreover, when traversing dimensions, the Seedship had to exist in reality.

He had to enter in person. He could not possibly send his spiritual consciousness across and turn into a ghost. Besides, the Seedship would traverse dimensions directly within his soul, and he was worried it might roast his brain. So no matter what, he had to leave Frostfire City.

He had lived here for more than ten years. It would be a lie to say he felt no attachment at all.

Although Hyperthymesia had made him rather withdrawn, and he had no close friends at Spark Academy, abruptly leaving a place he had known for more than ten years still gave him the reluctant feeling of running away from home.

Once he left this time, he had no idea when he would have another chance to return to Frostfire City.

From now on, the Phoenix would be his home, his destination.

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