Rogue Ascension: Book 5: First Ascension: A Progression LitRPG by Hunter Mythos

Author:Hunter Mythos [Mythos, Hunter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Luckrun Publishing LLC
Published: 2024-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

26. Get Strong, Get Strength Pills

There were a couple of limitations – or tradeoffs – for the Double-Dragon to exist. The most obvious tradeoff was being unable to swap out fresh rounds with spent shell casings instantly. The lever action was required to expose the chamber before Joey could use his dungeon inventory magic.

Not a big deal, but it was notable.

Another limitation was the charge-up time and base-charge requirement. The upper barrel wouldn’t fire without meeting a minimum essence threshold.

At the very least, the essence bleed-off wasn’t much in case Joey had to take his thumb off the charging crystal. And he had a lot of essence. He could stuff it into the shotgun and quickly meet the base-charge requirement to fire the over-barrel.

Another annoying tradeoff was the area where his firing hand gripped. It was barely narrow enough for him to hold. But it would’ve helped if he had bigger hands.

Honestly, I can use a growth spurt. Will Multiverse Z let me grow up more? Or does it want me stuck this way?

Joey wasn’t sure. But he was getting a little tired of his smaller frame. The multiverse system was a big place for big personalities and big creatures. He could use a few more inches in height, at the very least. Or bigger hands.

A lot of these limiting trade-offs for the Glyphlever Double-Dragon Shotgun were on purpose. Mainly so Joey could do something that would be considered a straight up cheat.

“It worked!” a clone said, dashing across rooftops beside the original. Clones couldn’t fly. So Joey ran across the rooftops with the clone. Shady trailed behind them. “Look!”

A shadow-copy of the Double-Dragon was in the clone’s hands. More importantly, an alchemical round was inside the open chamber.

The round wasn’t a copy.

That was an original round. It came from Joey’s cache in his dungeon inventory.

Copying alchemies and mass-produced glyph items were a big no-no in the multiverse system. So the clones had searched for a workaround.

They learned to achieve seamless transportation of alchemy products between Joey’s dungeon inventory and a Double-Dragon copy. This wouldn’t have been possible if they hadn’t sacrificed items from the Shade Desert Dungeon. Those items had helped with their glyph research into shadows, portals, teleportation, and spatial magic.

They hadn’t gotten very far into that research.

The research had been too complicated for a deep dive.

But the clones had experimented with a bunch of glyph inscriptions they found. They’d theorized and tested multiple ideas. Some bad. Some decent. They’d found the right idea. Now Joey could transport rounds whenever he shadow-copied the glyphlever shotgun.

This only worked one time with each glyphlever shadow copy. If the clone and glyphlever copy poofed away without firing the under-barrel, the round would fall as normal. Ready for pickup.

“Yo, this is insane,” the clone said as they neared the port. “How should we use this to mess up the haters?”

“With the element of surprise. Let’s save this for later, okay?” Joey said.

“Fine by me.”

The clone wrenched the lever and ejected the unused round.

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