Chapter 651 - Electromagnetic Rifle and Pills
When Bai Zemin's body stepped through the open doors of the first silver pagoda, he immediately felt as if he was stepping through some kind of invisible membrane. Although it was only one step, the unspeakable feeling made him feel slightly uncomfortable for a mere fraction of a second before that feeling of discomfort disappeared without a trace.
However, Bai Zemin did not expect to encounter something so miraculous when he stepped into the pagoda so when he finally saw what lay beyond that strange darkness that even the sun's rays could not pierce he stood there frozen.
His reaction was by no means special since Shangguan Bing Xue and Chen He also froze when they entered the building moments after him. The same happened to Sun Ling, Xia Ya, Wu Yijun, Huang Tian, Liang Jing, Teng Hua, and all the others who entered the pagoda not long after.
Soon, the situation had grown to the point that if not for the door being especially wide many might have stayed outside as those in front did not advance and blocked the way to the inside.
"Awesome..."
Bai Zemin's memory was still clear when it came to the inner appearance of this pagoda even though it had been a few years since the time he visited it together with his family back then. However, what was in front of him was definitely in any way not similar to what he had stored in his memories.
"What's this all about?"
"Where are we?"
"No, but... Look, the square is right behind..."
"How is this possible?"
"Such a magical place!"
Everyone immediately began muttering words under their breath as they stared at the huge room before them that was easily the size of two soccer stadiums with a capacity of 100,000 people each. Furthermore, the most incredible thing was that when they looked up they all saw a ceiling over their heads which made no sense whatsoever since in theory, they should be looking at a huge circular staircase that would lead them to the rest of the pagoda's floors.
"This place was actually built by a rather talented rune master I have to say," Lilith spoke in a voice that only Bai Zemin and Shangguan Bing Xue could hear. She surveyed the surroundings casually and commented nonchalantly, "Even though I know practically nothing about runes, I can say that the person who drew these magic circles really knew what they were doing."
She pointed to one of the two huge magic circles inside the room, on which they were all standing, and noted, "If I'm not mistaken, this magic circle must act as a teleporter. I bet that when the pagoda received the required energy of 2000 Unclassified Soul Stones through the two bronze statues, this magic circle would immediately activate once the test is passed so that when the victor walks through the pagoda's door he or she would be taken to the treasure."
Ironically or not, just as in the novels, many powerful existences liked to leave their legacies or any kind of mark that proved they once existed in the world before they died. Lilith had known some Fourth Order existences that after reaching the limit of their lives or suffering mortal incurable wounds decided to create their own mausoleums where they would leave part of their wealth along with trials waiting to be discovered and surpassed by some lucky soul evolver.
Of course, if one did not have the necessary strength then one would definitely die like a dog. Taking the previous case as the most recent example, if not for the fact that in this group there were monster level existences such as Bai Zemin, Shangguan Bing Xue, Chen He, and a few more, then all the other humans would have been slaughtered; even an army of five hundred thousand armed men would have been destroyed by the mechanical golems.
"Shangguan Bing Xue and I will go in the front, the rest stay behind with Nangong Lingxin and Huang Tian as the second line." Bai Zemin took a deep breath and began to walk slowly and cautiously, being closely followed by the rest of the human troops.
Seeing how cautious he was being, Lilith didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Although she was actually happy that he was not being overconfident, his caution was too high!
Bai Zemin did not allow anyone to touch anything inside the room and even he pulled back at the urge to grab one of those weird-looking strange weapons lying on the floor next to the twenty thousand plus gunner golems that had now been reduced to nothing more than a pile of scrap metal.
It was only after walking around aimlessly for more than five minutes and making sure that at least in the immediate vicinity there were no hidden movie-like mechanisms when Bai Zemin finally waved his hand for everyone to relax.
"Too cautious." Shangguan Bing Xue muttered to herself as she looked at him with bitter eyes.
"Em?" Bai Zemin looked at her and said with a raised eyebrow, "Did you say something?"
"... It's nothing." Shangguan Bing Xue withdrew her eyes and even whistled childishly.
"Hmph!" Bai Zemin snorted before bending down to pick up one of the weapons from the ground.
Shangguan Bing Xue also picked one up and soon each of the leaders of each guild or deputy leaders picked up one of the futuristic looking weapons.
He didn't know it, and Shangguan Bing Xue didn't know it either, but actually that short exchange drew a lot of attention, mostly due to her ever cold expression finally melting away and demonstrating such a gentle and playful personality that contrasted greatly with her usual indifferent and cold self.
The gun was approximately 100 centimeters long and weighed about 5 kilos which made it a relatively heavy weapon considering it was shaped like a rifle with the most notable difference being the barrel. The barrel of the gun was actually two metal arms that extended along the gun in a straight line, making up in total more than 60% of the total length of the weapon. In addition, the barrel had what looked like several bright red metal plates joining the two arms.
Overall, the weapon looked quite powerful despite its peculiar structure.
Soon, the weapon's records flashed in the eyes of Bai Zemin.
[Electromagnetic Rifle- } [Long-Range Weapon] [Rank: 1] [Physical attack power: 75]
[Magical attack power: 3500] [Remaining Energy: 2240 Soul Megacyclone]
[Durability: 2,548 / 3,000] [Options- } [1) The wielder of the weapon can switch between rapid-fire and single-shot mode at will.]

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