Age of Gods - A VRMMO Story

With the rifle completed, he moved onto making some ammunition for it. He planned to spend the rest of the day making ammo for it and work on his new sword tomorrow. Even if the new rifle was useless for the moment, it wouldn't be long before he had the chance to test it out. Though he would need to head out of the city, just to be safe. With the plan set, for the time being, he focused on making the ammo for his rifle.

The process of making the ammo wasn't too difficult. Thanks to his access to the internet it was easy to recreate a basic shell casing and bullet that would fit properly into the chamber of the rifle. To make the shell casings, he used plain iron. He still hadn't found any brass but that didn't matter anymore. Brass was used in steel guns because brass was softer than steel and wouldn't cause any damage to the weapon when it expanded. Iron would work just fine inside of the Mithril rifle for the same reason, it was softer than Mithril.

For the bullets themselves, they would be made of basic steel for the most basic of slugs. He'd experiment with other metals when making more interesting options. He had to make sure that whatever bullets he fired from the gun would be affected by magnetic forces. Otherwise, it would be pointless. He'd only recently learned that lead wasn't magnetic so he would need to test each metal before he put it to use as a bullet. Steel was definitely magnetic so he started there.

The design for the shell casing was similar to the ones he'd made for his Peace Maker. Instead of a primer, he made the area where it would go extremely thin. Thin enough that the Mithril firing pin would be more than capable of piercing into it. With the metal pierced by the flaming Mithril tip, it would ignite the small amount of Firestone Gem powder that would be inside of it. The small burst of energy would push the bullet down the first small section of the barrel and directly into the first magnetic field. From there it would rapidly accelerate until it left the barrel.

The most difficult part of designing the bullet was trying to decide just how much of the purified Firestone power he should use inside of the bullet. After thinking about it for a bit, he decided that it didn't really matter at all. Even if he put in 'too much' Firestone powder it wouldn't make much of a difference. All that would mean is that the bullet would travel faster, probably. So, he decided not to worry about it and went about purifying all of the Firestone Ore that he'd purchased thereby turning it into Firestone Gems. From there is was swiftly ground into a fine powder.

He set the powder to the side and retrieved some iron ore from his inventory. Like everything else so far, he used his Transmutation to change the iron ore into multiple shell casings. Thanks to the casings being so thin he was able to make just over twenty casings in one go. However, because he couldn't split things with his Transmutation he had to break the casings apart by hand and smooth out what was left of the small spurs that had held them together. He also needed to adjust the thickness of the shell where the primer would normally be located. The best part was, the shell casings would be reusable. All he would need to do was use his Transmutation to fix the small hole that would be created by the firing pin punching through.

With the shells completed, he started to fill them with a small amount of Firestone powder. Small being relative to the large size of the shells. A fifty caliber bullet was not something to be underestimated. Once all of the shells had some firestone power inside of them, he set them off to the side. He retrieved several iron ingots and a lump of coal from his inventory. He used his purification on the coal to get pure carbon. After that, it was a simple matter to use his mixing to add the carbon evenly into the iron to make crude steel. At the same time, he used his mixing to perfectly spread out the impurities within the ingot. The same way that folding steel would.

Once all of the ingots were turned into steel, he started to split them up into the individual bullets. Because he wasn't using as much gunpowder as they would need in the real world, he made the slugs significantly bigger. On the plus side, they would impart more kinetic energy upon impact. This, in turn, would make them much deadlier. It took a few tries for him to get the bullet to the perfect size to fit into the shells, but once he had it right making the rest was rather simple. When the first shell was finished he got a pleasant notification.