Apocalypse: I Can See Health Bars

Chapter 107: Chapter 106: Blueprint Creation

’This little thing...’

Lin Fan turned the small, circular badge over and over in his hand.

’As the name suggests, it’s used to link crystals and items, creating an energy pathway. It allows me to directly power the crystal on an item without affecting the one I have equipped...’

’One is for items under ten kilograms, and the other is for items under one hundred kilograms...’

’If I want to "enchant" this spear of mine, I’ll have to use this blue [Interface Module (Medium)].’

With that thought, he slowly pressed the light-blue badge against the spear...

[Use Interface Module on current object?]

[Confirming use...]

At Lin Fan’s mental command, the badge pressed against the spear seemed to lose its physical form, turning into a phantom image.

Waves of energy emanated from this phantom image, causing the spear resting on his legs to grow lighter and lighter until it was weightless. It joined the badge in becoming a translucent blue shape.

It looked as if it were bound by some sort of energy, constantly trembling. Lin Fan didn’t dare to move a muscle, afraid that shifting his legs would shatter the energy-form spear.

But in the next instant, a line of text appeared in his mind.

[Blueprint shaping requires: Scrap Metal x16, Blade x4, Tape x4, Rubber x3. All materials available. Beginning shaping...]

Lin Fan’s vision blurred. One by one, the materials appeared in the empty space before him, then all transformed into translucent phantoms and flowed into the energy spear on his legs.

As the materials were absorbed, the energy flow within the spear’s phantom image grew more intense. The image itself became more solid until, once it was completely filled, the form of a metal spear could be faintly discerned...

The overall texture was completely different from before. It was still shrouded in a phantom layer, but he could clearly see that the spear’s entire composition had been replaced with metallic materials similar to the Scrap Metal and Blades. Even just by intuition, Lin Fan could tell this thing was much sturdier than the previous galvanized steel pipe...

[Blueprint shaping complete... Adjustments available (1/1)...]

"I can still adjust it? Adjust..."

The moment he confirmed the thought in his mind, Lin Fan finally experienced the sensation Chu Zhaozhao had described...

The phantom spear hovering over his legs felt like a part of his own body, like an arm or some strange, new limb he’d never had before.

Every part of it could be enlarged, shrunk, twisted, and warped within certain limits...

But this morphological shaping was limited. For instance, Lin Fan initially wanted to shape it into a large, wide-swinging double-bladed long axe, but after flattening the spear’s tip to a certain degree, it refused to widen any further...

Watching the spear gradually turn into a boat paddle under his guidance, Lin Fan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry...

’The description says I only get one chance to adjust it. I’d better not mess around. I can experiment later when I have more modules.’

’Can it be reset?’

The thought had barely formed when the "boat paddle" reverted to its original spear shape...

"Hmm..."

Lin Fan recalled the difficulties he had encountered while fighting with this spear, visualizing the shape of a new spearhead in his mind.

’It needs a blade...’

And so, it gained a blade.

Under Lin Fan’s subconscious control, the phantom spear began to slowly transform...

The quadrangular pyramid that formed the original spearhead slowly elongated. Two opposing edges widened outward, becoming a double-edged blade over twenty centimeters long and five or six centimeters wide.

However, it retained the other two ridges of the pyramid, running from the tip to the base. This transformed the head from a purely piercing point into a sharp and deadly weapon capable of both cutting and armor-piercing.

The base of the spearhead was slightly thickened, with short, claw-like wings pulled out to the sides, which could be used for pecking strikes, preventing over-penetration, and widening wounds.

He adjusted the weight distribution to move the center of gravity forward, then added an uneven pattern to the shaft and wrapped it with rubber and tape to prevent slipping. He also adjusted a portion of the shaft into a slight oval to help align the blade’s edge.

Finally, he added a metal butt cap to the tail end for counterbalance.

"Hmm..."

Lin Fan looked with satisfaction at the new weapon slowly taking shape before him, when another thought suddenly occurred to him...

’Can I increase the weight?’

After all, the original spear had been completely filled just to reach 15 kilograms, but with his HP now exceeding 600, even that weight felt a bit light.

’If possible, I should add as much weight as I can without affecting my agility. After all, greater mass means greater inertia.’

[Current weight: 15.4kg. Adding weight requires materials. Currently, adding 1kg requires: Scrap Metal x1...]

"Add it..."

[Adding the next 1kg requires: Blade x1...]

"Add it... Huh? The material requirement changes?"

He kept adding weight until it reached 20kg, consuming 2 Scrap Metal, 2 Blades, and 1 Rubber. He couldn’t increase it any further, because...

[Adding the next 1kg requires: Rare Metal x1...]

...

"What the... Rare Metal?"

A material he had never seen before appeared in the requirements...

’It seems there’s a limit to the density you can achieve just by cramming Scrap Metal and Blades into it.’

To add more weight, he would need higher-grade materials. Unfortunately, even though he had already killed quite a few Mutated Zombies, he hadn’t found a single piece of this "Rare Metal"...

’Still, 20kg is enough for now. It’s an increase of 5 kilograms, so it should feel much more substantial in my hands.’

"Confirm!"

With Lin Fan’s confirmation, the phantom iron spear hovering in midair seemed to gain a heart, pulsing violently once.

Then, the energy within the phantom image roiled like boiling water as it slowly compressed inward. Lin Fan could even faintly hear a kind of HUMMING sound coming from inside the spear!

The process lasted only a second. When all the light had receded and contracted into the spear’s shaft, the sound vanished from Lin Fan’s ears. The spear before him now had only a translucent phantom layer enveloping it...

It floated there quietly in midair, its entire body a deep, metallic black that seemed to absorb light. Only the edge of the blade gave off a faint, cold glint.

Lin Fan reached out. The instant his fingertip touched the shaft, the formless power holding the spear aloft finally dissipated completely.

The heavy spear slammed down onto his leg. With a CLANG, the tip struck the roof’s edge to his left. The sharp blade sliced right through the concrete molding, shearing off a chunk that CLATTERED to the street below, attracting the attention of nearby wandering zombies...

"Holy..."

Luckily, Lin Fan’s reflexes were quick. He snatched the spear’s shaft, and the moment he gripped it, an immense weight pulled at him. He was fortunate to have been prepared; otherwise, it might have dragged him right off the roof...

The spear was barely in his grasp, before Lin Fan could even steady himself, when several lines of text appeared before his eyes...

[Item: "Unnamed"]

[Durability: 100/100]

[Crystal Interface 1: Empty]...

"Oh..."

’That’s strange,’ Lin Fan thought. ’Didn’t the interface module link items and crystals? The crystal wasn’t involved at all... ah, so this is where it comes in...’

"Eh? Wait a second..."

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