Although he had gleaned a vast amount of knowledge from the Gate of Truth, he hadn't had the chance to organize it yet. The knowledge was like apples just plucked from a tree: some big, some small, some unripe, some ripe, some half-ripe, some beautiful, some downright ugly, some whole, and some damaged...
In short, it was a complete mess—a hodgepodge of all kinds of things, strange and bizarre, beyond all comprehension...
After testing all three colors of bullets, Wang Zhen understood that they represented three types. Yellow was the basic type, just an ordinary .50 Magnum round. Red was a tungsten-core armor-piercing discarding-sabot round, and gray was a buckshot shell containing miniature pellets.
Then Wang Zhen set the gun on the platform, lay back down on the recliner, and began sorting through the knowledge that was as tangled as a ball of yarn!
After all, an alchemist's strength was closely tied to the knowledge he possessed. The more knowledge, the greater his strength!
Especially since Wang Zhen wanted to modify these two revolvers with enhancements. Alchemy was the perfect medium!
Sorting through everything took Wang Zhen most of the day. By the time he stopped for a short break, it was already late at night in his private space, which was set to run on a twenty-four-hour cycle.
He stood up again and picked up a handgun. Then he inscribed a Transmutation Circle into it. The first one went smoothly, but the difficulty increased exponentially from the second onward!
"Is it because I lack talent, or is inscribing multiple Transmutation Circles really this difficult? A single Transmutation Circle would have some effect, but it definitely wouldn't be very powerful."
Wang Zhen took out the Ouroboros Eye he had made earlier and inscribed a Transmutation Circle into it. Then he slapped his palm down, pressing the strange eyeball against the gun's frame.
Then came the second, the third...
"Hmm?"
In one go, Wang Zhen inscribed the Flame Transmutation Circle, Ice Transmutation Circle, Explosion Transmutation Circle, Metal Transmutation Array, and Lightning Transmutation Circle—a combination of three circles. That made four types and six circles in total. He successively slapped four Ouroboros Eyes onto the handgun in his hand!
"Hmm?"
"Is it really... that simple?"
Although Wang Zhen had received an instruction manual after making the Ouroboros Eye, he hadn't expected that he only needed to inscribe a Transmutation Circle into it, then slap the strange eyeball onto any target he wanted to add a Transmutation Circle to.
And then, congratulations!
You now had a weapon with an attached Transmutation Circle!
It was no longer a product of modern science and technology, but a supernatural weapon from the fantasy realm, infused with magical elements!
"Cheating... really doesn't have to make sense!"
"Cheating... is just ridiculous!"
"Bang..."
Wang Zhen raised the handgun in his hand, aimed at the metal target ahead, and pulled the trigger...
The first bullet showed nothing unusual. It was just an ordinary bullet. But this Remington 1875 revolver was modeled after the Smith & Wesson M-500, a large-caliber revolver nicknamed the "hand cannon." It had the same 12.7 mm caliber and the same tremendous recoil.
But Wang Zhen's body had already been transformed into that of a vampire by Alucard's blood. So the tremendous recoil, enough to break an ordinary person's wrist, vanished like a stone sinking into the sea. Wang Zhen's wrist didn't move a fraction. The massive Remington 1875 didn't even twitch. If not for the wisp of blue smoke curling from its muzzle, no one would have believed the handgun had just fired!
"Boom..."
The bullet seemed ordinary as it left the barrel, but when it hit the metal humanoid target fifty meters away, an orange-red fireball erupted across its chest. A bowl-shaped crater, ten centimeters across and five centimeters deep, appeared where the bullet struck.
"Bang..."
Another bullet fired. It looked just as ordinary as it left the barrel, but when it hit another metal humanoid target fifty meters away, it silently punched a fist-sized hole straight through its chest.
"Bang... Bang..."
Wang Zhen pulled the trigger twice in succession, firing two bullets one after the other. The first rapidly transformed into a sky-blue fireball the size of a golf ball. The moment it hit the metal target fifty meters away, the one with a bowl-shaped crater in its chest, the target began to melt at a visible rate. In just over ten seconds, its upper body had melted into an abstract shape.
After leaving the barrel, the other bullet rapidly transformed into a ten-centimeter-long icicle as thick as a finger. When it struck the target with the hole straight through its chest, a layer of crystal-clear ice, radiating cold, instantly formed over the metal target!
"Bang..."
Wang Zhen pulled the trigger again and fired the last bullet. The cylinder held only five rounds because .50 Magnum bullets were so large. This bullet was the most dazzling of them all. The moment it left the barrel, it became a blazing white orb about the size of a grape, surrounded by crackling white lightning. It crossed the fifty meters at incredible speed and burned the metal humanoid target into a lump that looked like shit!
"Whew... That's some decent firepower. At the same range, a 20 mm autocannon probably wouldn't do much better. Of course, autocannons use belt-fed ammunition, so they blow a handgun out of the water in sustained fire. Unless I can come up with some black technology like infinite ammo!"
"Still, this handgun isn't useless! Against ghosts and monsters in horror movies, this handgun would probably outperform more than ninety percent of firearms. A 20 mm autocannon might pack a punch, but it can't kill evil spirits. This handgun probably can!" Wang Zhen grinned and gave himself a pat on the back!
He felt that after merging with the black technology of Alchemy, his handgun hadn't just gained a modest increase in power. More importantly, it had acquired supernatural properties!
Once this modified Remington 1875 had supernatural properties, it was no longer merely a large-caliber firearm. It had become a powerful firearm with supernatural attributes!
"The only thing holding this weapon back now is the damn ammo capacity! But while I was sorting through that knowledge just now, I came across something that might be useful."
"I can give it a try!"
"If it works, then I can temporarily solve the awkward problem of the cylinder holding only five rounds!"
"Sure, that knowledge won't give me infinite ammo, but..."
"But it can increase a container's capacity. That counts as black technology too, I suppose!"
Wang Zhen recalled the knowledge as he experimented on a bucket nearby!
The knowledge he'd classified as black technology was indeed much harder to master than the Alchemy knowledge he'd learned before. The Transmutation Circle was even more complex and obscure—harder than even the Lightning Transmutation Circle, which was made up of three combined circles!
Fortunately, Wang Zhen had been favored by the Gate of Truth and possessed the Eye of Truth. So after failing more than a dozen times, he finally succeeded. Using this Transmutation Circle, he made a new bucket. Though its size hadn't changed, its capacity had increased fivefold!
"Now my handgun can finally stop worrying about its limited cylinder capacity for a while!" Wang Zhen said happily, looking at the bucket that now held five times as much water.
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