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Someone inflicted with this status has been overweighed with equipment or an oversized weapon, resulting in movement being reduced by 40% and accuracy reduced by 30% due to the weight of the weapon/armour.
Considering that the accuracy of the Ratmen mustn't be all that high to begin with, that meant that one of the Jezails might as well be shooting blanks. He could handle the remaining one alone.
"[Lesser Barrier Shield]!" Issei snarled as he came out from cover. The shield materialised again, intercepting the bullet from the one remaining Jezail user that had a Shielder. The other one shot wide.
Rushing forwards, he sent another [Earth Shot] at the Shielder, killing it. As the two gun-wielding Ratmen panicked, Issei got in amongst them, disembowelling the one on the right and beheading the one on the left.
You have slain a [Ratman Shielder]! You earn 130 EXP!
You have slain X2 [Ratman Jezailiers]! You earn 300 EXP!
Do you wish to loot the bodies, including the one slain prior to the above?
Yes/No
Hitting 'Yes,' Issei watched as the list formed up.
X2 Warplock Jezails
X2 Magiscopes
X2 Shattered Triangular Pavise
X4 Ragged Leather Tunics
X2 Lesser MP Potions
X1 Skill Book (Unknown Skill)
¥758
Considering he'd seen the familiar shine of Warpstone on the Jezails, Issei didn't want anything to do with them. He marked the Jezails, the useless shields and the tunics for sale, earning him another ¥2367. Then he pulled one of the MP potions out of his inventory and [Observed] it.
[Lesser MP Potion]
A common potion used by apprentice-level magicians and other magic users. While weak, it is commonly used due to the fact it can be created by even a beginner potioneer.
- Rarity: Very Common
- Restores 150 MP when drunk.
When he drunk it, Issei almost spat it out. It tasted like concentrated wasabi and miso! It did work though, filling his MP back up to a full tank again in an instant. Then he turned his attention to the Skill Book, aware that he could only acquire one more Skill from a Skill Book today.
[You have acquired the [Tier 1 Earth Magic: Small Pit of Spikes] Skill Book]
Do you wish to learn this?
Yes/No
At this point in time, no.
Hitting 'No,' he stowed the book into his inventory before having a look around the passage he was in. It was fairly narrow, with four pillars set into the walls at intervals. It being narrow would prevent enemies from jinking around to throw off the aim of the Jezails, but that advantage was negated by the pillars acting as ready-made cover.
You receive +1 INT for a well thought out deduction!
Shut up!
Issei then had a look at the Magiscopes. They were why he had been attacked even with his Cloak fully deployed, as they granted the skills [Mage Sight] and [Awareness Amplification] to anyone who looked through them. If all the Jezails had those things, this would be a pain in the ass dungeon to clear.
Flipping his hood on again nevertheless, Issei moved forwards cautiously. The doorway into the next room was open and this made him suspicious. Peeking into the next room, he spotted his next opponents, four of them. Organised into teams of two, they each carried a weapon between them.
One was clearly a flamethrower of some kind, demonstrated by the fact the one carrying the business-end unleashed it at a Giant Rat, green flames engulfing the hapless rodent, leaving only a charred skeleton behind. The other ratman carried a large wooden tank on its back, which presumably held the fuel for the weapon, and was connected by a heavily patched leather hose to the rear of the flamethrower.
The other weapon was a goddamn mini-Gatling Gun, not something that Issei wanted to play chicken with. The other rat seemed to be responsible for operating the cooling system or something. The two teams were walking around in a circular room with a central pillar and no other obstacles to prevent a certain Sekiryūtei from getting burn to a crisp or ventilated with bullets.
Brute force wouldn't help him here; Issei would have to use his mind to fight here. His new magic, [Force Absorption Field], was only Level 1 and wouldn't slow the bullets down by much. As a kid, he'd liked Superman and wondered how fast a speeding bullet really was. The answer had been informative.
Nowadays, bullets from even 0.22 rimfire cartridge averaged between 370 and 460 metres per second and those were the slowest he had found other than shotgun shells (335-427mps). As this was a machine gun-type, and a supernatural one at that, he guessed that the speed of the bullets would be quite a bit faster than that. No way did he want to get in the way of those bullets.
That left the flamethrower. If he could get in close and cut the fuel line before retreating, he'd eliminate the effectiveness of the weapon to a small belch of flames before becoming dead weight. On the other hand, he didn't want to get burned by that stuff either, and he was quite fond of the [Rapscallion Wave Blade], so he'd use the plain steel short sword for that, just in case the raw fuel of the flamethrower is corrosive as well as flammable.
Mind made up, he checked one more time, this time for Levels and to see if they had any Magiscopes that could spot him in his Cloak.
Ratman Fireteam – Warpfire Thrower LV13
[Burning Hell]
Ratman Fireteam – Ratling Gun LV13
[Destructive Impulse]
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