Ashen God
Chapter 519 - 518 [Gun Mastery LV.6]

Chapter 519: Chapter 518 [Gun Mastery LV.6]

"Because there was simply no difference between raising to Grandmaster Level 5 and Master LV.MAX, Zhang Yanhang planned to wait and use the Soul points from the Goblin Chief’s treasure box to upgrade something else.

It did feel a bit inappropriate to be planning the distribution of its inheritance while the Goblin Chief was still alive.

"Then, let’s start upgrading the Skill Level directly. Choose! Skill Level Upgrade!" Zhang Yanhang immediately began to trigger the related options, and the familiar Time Pause once again descended upon the Goblin Plain.

...

After spending 102,400 Soul points to raise Gun Mastery to Level 6, before Zhang Yan could react, he immediately triggered a new option regarding the Additional Attributes of Gun Mastery Level 6.

[You have acquired the Skill ’Gun Mastery LV.6’, randomly drawing Additional Attributes.]

[Do you want to choose the Additional Attribute for ’Gun Mastery LV.6’?]

[Additional Attribute One: Sharpshooter (After choosing Sharpshooter, ’Gun Mastery LV.6’ will add a suffix ’Sharpshooter’ and specialize the Skill’s own bonus effects to a certain extent.

Specific specializations include, but are not limited to, a slight decrease in Remote Attack Power Bonus, a moderate increase in related ’Hit’, ’Penetration’, ’Burst’ judgment attributes, and the addition of an extra ’Precise Shooting’ effect...)]

[Additional Attribute Two: Heavy Cannon Master (After choosing Heavy Cannon Master, the ’Gun Mastery LV.6’ Skill will completely transform into ’Heavy Cannon Master LV.7’.

The specific transformation includes, but is not limited to, a significant decrease in Remote Attack Power Bonus when attacking with weapons other than heavy and super-heavy cannons, a moderate increase in Remote Attack Power Bonus for each additional order of magnitude of heavy cannons used in the attack.

The related ’Loading’, ’Rapid Fire’, ’Suppression’ judgment attributes have a moderate increase...)]

[Additional Attribute Three: Remote Attack Power +40%.]

"Sharpshooter? This term seems like a weaker version of that Sniper Master before, but although it’s a weaker version, it’s actually much stronger than Sniper Master, which was too extreme, and couldn’t even enjoy normal Attack Power Bonus if the shooting distance wasn’t enough.

Now, this Sharpshooter simply trades a small part of Attack Power Bonus for a stronger hitting ability and precision, which is actually quite a nice term.

Unfortunately, Sharpshooter is more suitable for those who use old-fashioned bolt-action rifles and carbines, where bullets are scarce, so they aim to hit an enemy with each bullet.

But I use the Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear, which is a kind of heavy machine gun, or rather, aircraft cannon with five hundred bullets in a magazine, so there’s no worry about missing enemies.

Moreover, when I fire at enemies, it’s usually point-blank spraying, and with help from Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, there’s even less concern over missing, so Sharpshooter doesn’t seem very useful to me."

From the perspective of hunting monsters, Zhang Yan felt that he really didn’t need the Sharpshooter term, so he moved on to investigate the second option, Heavy Cannon Master.

"I remember one of the options triggered by Gun Master LV.MAX was Heavy Firepower Master, which at least could be used with any heavy equipment, but this Heavy Cannon Master seems to be an extreme version of that, excluding other heavy equipment altogether, leaving only heavy cannons.

But although it seems far less flexible than Heavy Firepower Master, it indeed offers much stronger attack power bonuses.

After all, each additional order of magnitude of cannons provides a moderate increase in Remote Attack Power Bonus, which means the more cannons, the higher the attack power, essentially an essential Skill for the ’Multi-Turret God Sect’.

Moreover, those three judgment attributes are very interesting—’Loading’, ’Rapid Fire’, ’Suppression’, could become ’Shell loading’, ’Heavy Cannon Rapid Fire’, ’Firepower Suppression’ when applied to volley fire, perfectly supporting the shooting of heavy cannons and greatly improving the efficiency of bombarding the ground with fire."

However, although Heavy Cannon Master is very much in line with the doctrine of the Multi-Turret God Sect, it didn’t have much to do with Zhang Yan, who was not particularly interested in heavy cannons, as they were considered outdated since the invention of nuclear weapons.

He still preferred his own Thermo-baric Bombs; if heavy cannons were used to bombard tens of kilometers of land, it probably wouldn’t be enough even with a hundred cannons, but with a Thermo-baric Bomb? One shot could wipe it all out.

Besides, heavy cannons were not very mobile, mostly limited to positional warfare, clearly unsuitable for an Awakener like Zhang Yan who hunts across the Ashen World.

"Who knows if there will be a Nuclear Bomb Master or something like that in the future. If there were such a thing, I’d probably be more interested."

After reviewing the second option, Heavy Cannon Master, Zhang Yanhang moved on to the third option.

"Remote Attack Power +40%? If this were with the Gun Master, raising four levels might be needed to get this, not to mention Gun Mastery, which is incredible, as LV.6’s Additional Attributes doubled the 20% Remote Attack Power Bonus provided by Gun Master LV.6."

Although heavy cannons could be packed into a Waist Bag, they were still not very convenient to move around, so naturally, Zhang Yan tilted towards the third option, a straightforward yet exceedingly effective Remote Attack Power Bonus.

"So, I choose Option Three, Remote Attack Power +40%." After reviewing all three options, Zhang Yanhang made his final choice without hesitation.

After upgrading Gun Mastery LV.6, Zhang Yan immediately began to check its Skill Effect.

[Gun Mastery LV.6 (Passive)]

[Skill Effect: Increase Remote Attack Power by 120% (+20%), improve firearms proficiency and related remote combat skills.]

[Additional Attribute: Remote Attack Power +90% (+40%).]

"Goodness, just reaching Level 6 provides a 20% Remote Attack Power Bonus, plus the 40% provided by Additional Attributes, means I’ve effectively increased my Remote Attack Power Bonus by 60% with only one level up. Truly strong for LV.6."

Zhang Yanhang was extremely satisfied with the enhancements brought by upgrading Gun Mastery to Level 6.

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