Day Twelve #9

No matter how powerful or useful a gun was.

No matter how well made they were.

No matter how well a person knew everything about them.

No matter how much a person mastered them.

There were always limitations to how much of a use they be in a real battle up against the creatures that were constantly evolving and growing more powerful.

There were always times when the guns would run out of ammunition mid combat and would have to be reloaded or would have no more left to do so leaving the user vulnerable.

There could be people who existed that could fix any faults a gun had and could take them apart before putting them back together while others knew how to prepare ammunition but it still took time and resources to do so.

When in the middle of combat or inside the territory of different creatures, it was difficult for anyone to fix those problems no matter how skilled a person was or how quickly and quietly they tried to do so.

Once they ran out of ammunition or broke without a means to fix or resupply then they were only useful for being used as a club to be swung around.

There was a larger problem with the noise they created when fired unless they had a silencer or fired silent shots of bullets or energy.

Having one bullet be used to save the life of the user in a critical moment was still much too risky if the cost of it was drawing more creatures towards them after the gunfire was heard by those nearby.

If there was a skilled gunner or marksmen that existed among the hunters then they still needed a team to support them and delay the advances of the various creatures or they would need skills that would compliment their style of combat like having better speed and dexterity to stay on the move while preparing for the next shot.

Guns were powerful and useful but they caused people to become overly reliant on them which was one of the main reasons why most skilled hunters only saw them as useful tools.

Once they were used up then they were discarded if it was too bothersome to keep carrying them since their main usage was gone.

It was one of the main reasons why most guns had been collected and put into the hands of ordinary people and soldiers who were not hunters so that ordinary people could have some kind of reliance to hold onto when the creatures spilled out from a dungeon break.

Mankind found it very easy to grow complacent and reliant on such things if it gave them some layer of protection and decreased the amount of threat they felt towards the dangers around them.

It would form a way for them to feel more relieved that they had a way to protect their lives but it would let many forget how terrible the threat truly was resulting in their own efforts to work together and efforts to improve themselves to falter.

When there was no longer an impending doom looming over them, it was easy for them to fall back into old patterns that have kept repeating throughout history as they would begin to turn on each other for their own benefits, be swayed by outside forces and let down their guards at the most critical times when they should have remained vigilant.

The village Inis had visited seemed to show off such a state of humanity that had grown more lax and lazy in their efforts to survive despite them being surrounded by many kinds of threats outside of their walls.

The Dungeon Era relied on people rising up from nothing to risk their lives against many kinds of dangers inside the dungeons as they earned skills from achievements, boss kills and their own individual insights or what they had endured.

Some took on the various creatures with their own bodies and endured many attacks before they had gained a skill that let them feel or resist the pain while others increased their bodies endurance.

Others consumed deadly substances and poisons to raise their resistances to them resulting in them gaining skills or innate abilities suitable for what they had consumed.

Others trained hard and studied different forms of martial arts styles so they gained skills related to those.

Others pushed their willpower further and gained skills related to mental fortitude and resistance to different temptation or fear effects.

Each skill or innate ability could be pushed further if trained and understood further beyond what the system had shown resulting in a skill upgrade.

The skill scrolls were very rare and only dropped from the bosses of the dungeons while skills granted from achievements were directly awarded to the person who did it by the system so they were very hard to get.

It required a skilled individual or group to take down a dungeon then there was the issue if the skill being split between them.

The achievements were unknown to all so it was all about luck and who had achieved such a feat first before all others.

Those that were able to achieve those feats before others would be rewarded with something to match the achievements they had made so lower level ones would gain low level rewards and highly difficult ones would reward great and rare items or skills by the system.

Once a feat had been achieved by someone then it would be gone forever which was why they were so rare and valuable.

The system rewarded those that worked hard to survive and achieved great things to overcome their dire situation while giving little to nothing to those that were unwilling to do so.

Mankind lost the system once the threat had passed and they entered a new era where they had to share their world with the remains of those that were a part of the dungeons and were no longer bound the the will of the dungeons.

The small village and the small experiences that had been had by Inis had let her see a small piece of how mankind had turned out.

The weapons she had gained including the advanced energy guns were studied and used but were eventually put aside for a time when they would be useful.

Inis had it built in her not to become reliant on such things and to only see them as tools to be used.

Just like the days supported by the system where skills, levels and stats were important more than anything, the new era had its similarities in the way she had to put in the effort if she wanted to survive and achieve what she desired.

The world revolved around Aether and so many others had a long advantage of time over her.

Inis had only seen a small piece of the world so far but it would not be long before she would be exposed to more or larger fragments of the world.

Another day passed bringing about another day full of unpredictable events all around her.