Overwhelming Firepower Chapter 148: Choosing skills

Lucen started thinking about what skill to unlock. This made him feel like he was back in his old room, looking through forums on how to make the best build for a character.

Unfortunately, there were no forums about his gun mage character, as the skill choices were different from the ones he remembered this character had.

Still, even this process had a kind of old-school charm to it. Picking a skill based solely on instinct without knowing if it would synergize with later skills.

Despite his body being in great pain, he was actually enjoying thinking about what skill to unlock. As for the one skill point he gained, he already knew which skill he would be placing it into.

Lucen did not hesitate as he selected Gun Knowledge and used his skill point. The second he did so, the gun knowledge skill upgraded from novice to Intermediate.

A lot of knowledge came flooding into Lucen’s mind, but due to the physical pain he was already feeling, the pain from the torrent of information wasn’t much.

The torrent of knowledge was dizzying. Blueprints, measurements, the metallic scent of gun oil, even the echo of unseen firing ranges rattled inside his skull. Revolvers, bolt-action rifles, Gatling guns, his head spun with possibilities.

He now had complete knowledge of guns up to 1900. That means he also has knowledge about things like steam engines, since there were some people who made guns with that knowledge.

Unfortunately, there was nothing in there about tanks. Still, he now had knowledge about how to make things like Gatling guns.

Lucen was immersed in the gun knowledge he acquired and noticed something.

Lucen remembered that in this game, the best weapons were created by dwarves. Still, the dwarves he knew only appeared mid-game after the Rocton Empire started attacking the neighboring countries in earnest.

The emperor in the mid-game changed into one who advocated human supremacy. So the vassal kingdoms that had other races changed their treatment of non-human races, forcing many races to run to different countries.

The dwarves in this game had great similarities to Tolkien’s dwarves. So they would most likely either live underground or near mountains.

"I guess I can hire somebody to search for them, or maybe Robert of Father already knows where they are..." Lucen muttered under his breath. "I’ll ask them when I get the chance."

Lucen stopped thinking about the dwarves and once again focused on what kind of skills he should unlock.

Lucen once again read all the active skills and what they could do.

Lucen then shifted his attention to the last Active skill.

Lucen thought hard about what to pick, since he wasn’t sure if he would get the same choices later on.

He pictured a low-yield flame round detonating just after it left the barrel, the backwards force timed to a step, careful, predictable, repeatable.

It would eat mana, sure, and require exact blast geometry, but with his new Gun Knowledge and his marksmanship skill, the math for blast vectors seemed doable.

Lucen had finally convinced himself and unlocked the Elemental Bullet skill.

[Skill Unlocked: Elemental Bullet – Active (Novice)]

Bullets may now be imbued with elemental mana (Fire / Water / Earth / Wind / Lightning).

Element strength, area, and stability scale with mana invested.

Lucen checked the passive skills, and unlike the active skills, there were more of them.

Lucen started thinking about every other scenario in which he would need to face multiple opponents at once.

Lucen then shifted his attention to the next skill before he started geeking out about other snipers he remembers.

His eyes slid down to Suppressive Presence.

Lucen then looked at the final passive skill he could unlock.

Lucen closed his eyes to focus more on his thoughts. Unlike the active skills, which were only three, these ones each had great advantages that the others can’t replicate. There’s also the fact that most of these skills can synergize with his existing skills.

Lucen opened his eyes, his eyes practically burning with irritation. "Tch, why can’t I just choose all of them? Why can’t my system be something like the one in Skyrim, which I can basically max out everything?"

Lucen once again looked at all the passive skills, and after much frustrating deliberation, he narrowed it down to two options.

Lucen thought about it for a long while, and he finally reached a verdict.

two,Lucen then picked one passive skill.