192. Acceleration bullet




 The next day, in the village of Haglemono, I took another bullet of the same size.
 When I took one, the ball of light became smaller, and the next day it returned to the same size, so I figured it was something that I could take one bullet in one day.

 Of course, it might not be, but we'll see if that's the case.

 I came to an empty suburban wasteland with two new bullets in my hand.
 Testing the bullets, as long as I don't know what they are, it's better to do it in the middle of nowhere.

 In that sense, I could have done it in the dungeons of Nihonium, but that's where the important stuff is waiting for me over there.

 You have to get your remaining abilities up to SS, and you have to find the sword after the mirror/gatama and meet the spirit of the dungeon.
 That's what's coming up, so I won't be able to do anything crazy there.

 By the way, I brought Leia with me. Since it's too risky, I'll be on my own first.

 I put down one sprout and kept my distance.
 After a while, the sprouts hatched into a haggler, a slime.

 I loaded a new bullet and aimed firmly and pulled the trigger.
 If it's only a slime, there's no way to miss, but I aimed and hit it properly.

 The bullet that I fired went through the middle of the slime - and it easily disappeared.

"So it's like a recovery bullet---haha!

 Instantly, I felt a strong impact of something in my midsection.
 The impact of being hit as hard as I could by something.
 I instantly knew the cause, because just before the impact, the slime disappeared with a poof.

 The slime's body hit, and it just met the middle of my body.
 I kicked the ground and stepped back - and this time I was hit in the back of the head with a smack.

 My eyes go blank for a moment, my head is buzzing and my eyes are flickering.
 I grit my teeth and stay on my feet.

 I understand from the flurry of attacks, and the slightest sign that my eyes and ears have caught.
 The slime is attacking me at super-high speed - so fast that even I can't catch it now.

 The reason is obvious, that bullet.
 It's called an accelerated bullet .......

 There's one more bullet left, if it's really an accelerated bullet, you can counter it by firing at yourself--but I want to test it further.

 I want to test it further, and it's not clear whether it's an accelerated bullet or not.
 We'll deal with it as is first.

 In the meantime, I received a shock like being punched as hard as I could on the side, the taste of iron cutting through my mouth and spreading.

 Soooo ...... I close my eyes, take a deep breath and calm myself down.
 I let my nerves ...... sharpen up.

 Something touched my right side - I dropped my elbow with a reflex faster than my spinal cord.
 The blow that sharpened all my nerves caught my opponent firmly, and the slime was blown away by the elbow strike, blasting it to pieces.

'Fufu......'

 Probably the moment I struggled with slime the most.
 It was the moment I struggled the most with slime, including right after I transitioned to this world, which was nothing.

     Stars

 Nifonium Dungeon, first basement level.
 After getting some information, I moved my location here.

 I loaded the other remaining accelerator bullet (provisional) into the gun and shot it at myself, just like the recovery bullet, as if it were an injection.

 The world changed.
 It became incredibly quiet.

 It's hard to describe it, but I think "quiet" is something that sounds like "silence". Or, rather, that's what I've been experiencing.

 This silence is completely different.
 Silence.

 Everything has stopped, even the air is silent.

 If this had been the first shot I would have associated it with 'time stoppage', but having tried it with the slime first and seen how wild it was, I thought it was 'super acceleration'.

 I set up my gun and shoot a loaded conventional round.
 The bullet flew out of the muzzle of the ...... no-frills bullet.

 The situation is like a scrap metal bullet in a normal state, moving forward like a slow-moving frame.
 Time hasn't stopped, it's just slowed down tremendously.

 I fired all types of bullets in rapid succession, side by side with the normal bullets.
 I noticed something interesting.

 The bullets that were shot out in a side-by-side line were different in the distance they went - that is, the speed.

 The slowest one was, of course, the scrap bullets, which were slow at first, but with me accelerating them, they seemed to be fixed in the air.

 The fastest was, surprisingly, the recovery bullets.
 From the situation where they all started at once, the recovery bullets were already a head above the rest.

 But the situation changed even more.
 The tracking bullets that had been slow until then changed their trajectory and flew towards the skeleton that appeared to be some distance away. The tracking bullet that found its target and accelerated was the fastest out of all the bullets.

 The state of acceleration still continued.
 I went towards the skeleton.

 The skeleton in an almost stationary state.
 I walked slowly for about twenty meters before I approached, and the other side could only move about twenty meters away from me, with a closed mouth that opened a skimmer with just one finger in it.

 I hit the skeleton as hard as I could, the skull breaking apart and shattering.
 Normally, this would make it fall over and drop - but it didn't.
 The skeleton didn't fall over when my head was blown off, it didn't drop.

'...... Well, I'm too fast and it takes the opposite to drop.

 I hit more skeletons, not falling down and not dropping, so I hit them all.
 Arms, body, legs.
 I crush every part of my body, but the skeleton's body shatters in the air and the bone fragments slowly fall to the ground in super slow motion.

 Eventually, the effect of the bullets wears off and the speed returns to normal.
 The skeleton blows apart and drops--.

''Whoa!''

 I dodged a bullet that flew past me.
 I'd shot it the first time and forgot it existed, but now it had arrived. I dodged the bullet as quickly as I could and it was all over.

 I understood the general effect of the bullet, I knew it was what I should call an accelerated bullet.

 I ruminate on the effects of the bullet and the scene I just tried.
 I make an evaluation.

'It's nearly as strong as the strongest against strong enemies, but it's not at all usable for circumvention.

 Strong but peaking performance bullets.
 It could be interesting if used well, I thought.