Day Seven #8

After eating the metal from the lock, Inis did not experience any kind of bad side effects as she had expected so she was still in good health upon entering the storage room.

It had helped her confirm that her innate ability to consume different types of things had worked on metals and other things too without there being any harm done to her.

Her gaze turned towards the boxes that had some faint lights coming from the gaps then towards the different kinds of things that were stored in the room. 'So I was right, this must be the main store house of the village. They made it so obvious and the security around it is so poor. So disappointed.'

The storage room was in the area where the bigger and more valuable looking houses were within the village and it just so happened to be next to the main house that stood out the most.

If there was some kind of hierarchy within the village then it was usually the person in charge that would handle anything of value or potentially dangerous like weapons.

The storage room was right by the biggest house that stood out the most within the village but there was no guard around so Inis was able to find it and slip in easily.

The hand of Inis had reached out towards the nearby box which had been opened and there were several guns in different shapes and sizes lying within.

The most common ones among them were rifles and pistols while there were some others like shotguns and others that fired more rapidly.

There were normal bullets in boxes by them which had caused a grin to form on her face. 'Ah.. these are definitely like the guns from my era. So they still have this type even now.'

She played around with them for a little while before stopping as she had thought to herself. 'Hm.. but they could not have done that much damage and left those kinds of wounds.'

Ordinary guns could harm ordinary and grade one creatures depending on how much physical endurance they had to be able to withstand the gun shots, those could have been used to kill the Gremlins that were a part of her own group but the villagers had used something more lethal.

Her attention was turned towards the other boxes that had light glowing through the gaps then she had opened them up after breaking the locks using her strong biting power.

Once she could see what was inside, her eyes had suddenly lit up. 'Oh.. the technology has progressed really well.'

In front of her eyes were different versions of pistols and rifles that looked more advanced than the other guns.

There were ammunition boxes that had ammo packs that would be slotted into the guns which were glowing.

Upon inspecting the energy that she sensed coming from them and the contents of the ammo packs, Inis noticed that the energy source was made up of a material that she was familiar with. 'Energy Stones? So they have figured out how to harness the energy inside of them?'

Energy Stones, Magic Crystals, Aether Crystals or whatever they would be referred to in any era, they were valuable resources that could be mined from the dungeons during the Dungeon Era and were very valuable.

Some mage based classes used them to help channel their magic energy and spells while helping to aid their practice but that was not their sole use.

There were those that had developed methods to smelt them into artefacts to make magical weapons with different effects and some were even mounted on priest or mage staffs.

They were used to power the test dummies for dungeon hunters and had a variety of different uses but the technology developed during that time had its flaws and was unstable and was still in its infancy.

Hundreds of years had passed since that era and the technology surrounding the use of Aether Stones had advanced quickly during that time.

They could no longer be mined from the dungeons once the dungeons no longer existed on Earth but everyone still got to keep what they had mined and taken from the dungeons before they had disappeared.

Later the new resources had started appearing in different parts of the world snd many had rushed forward to monopolise it.

Those that had got a stable source of the crystals and had capable people to aid in the research had played a major role in advancing the human civilisation into the new era where energy weapons were developed and other technologies were developed to work with the crystals and other resources.

The gun was within the hands of Inis who had suddenly had a very strange urge all of a sudden.

It was like a primal urge for destruction that came from her bodies natural instincts that had suddenly made her hands move quickly onto different parts of the advanced energy rifle.

Her hands seemed to move very naturally as she had located every little part that was a key part of the gun before loosening different places and disassembling it completely into many parts.

Her innate talent for disassembling and mechanics were a natural part of her that if not suppressed, she would be able to quickly disassemble and destroy different kinds of structures with ease.

There was no need for studying of advanced knowledge or looking over blueprints when her innate senses towards mechanics had let her naturally dismantle the gun that she had never seen before.

An even more amazing thing had happened again as the parts were put back together at a speed just as fast as she had dismantled it. 'How fun.'

Once she had dismantled and rebuilt it, it seemed like she just seemed to know how the gun could be built so even if she had different spare parts, she could still recreate it or make something similar that could function in a similar way.

Once she understood how gifted the Gremlins truly were in that area, Inis had thought to herself. 'And they all just use this gift purely for destruction? What a waste!'