Ling Yufei looked towards the weapon Ji Xinghuo was pointing at.
It was a Gauss Pistol, half larger than a regular pistol.
The gun was nearly 40 centimeters long, bulky and rugged with a silver-gray surface overlaid with dark red patterns that, at first glance, resembled rust stained with blood.
Its primary structure was a revolver design, with a massive cylinder, particularly drawing attention to its barrel, which had square structures on both the top and bottom where the coil acceleration assemblies were housed. The barrel was bigger and thicker than that of an ordinary pistol, giving the whole gun a somewhat top-heavy feel.
"Steel Emperor’s Iron Hammer!" Ling Yufei exclaimed in surprise, "Why would you choose this gun?"
Ji Xinghuo picked up the unique pistol, immediately feeling its heaviness, over 10 kilograms, which was extremely heavy for a pistol. Many electromagnetic rifles weren’t even this heavy.
It felt very good in the hand, sturdy and weighty, like holding a hammer.
But its lethality was countless times more terrifying than a hammer!
The manufacturer of the "Iron Hammer" was a military company from the New Roman Empire. Its design principle was the same as other Gauss Pistols, but the difference lay in the Iron Hammer using more than three times the coil acceleration assemblies, firing bullets faster and with greater force.
This caused many drawbacks: the gun was excessively heavy and long, its recoil was many times greater than that of ordinary Gauss pistols, making it difficult to control during shooting, drastically reducing precision.
Additionally, the Iron Hammer’s bullets were specially made high-explosive bombs containing high-explosive gunpowder within iron-magnetic metal projectiles that exploded instantly upon hitting the target, causing greater damage.
The volume of the high-explosive bullets was much larger than ordinary metal bullets, so they could only use a revolver design, capable of holding only six bullets at a time.
Compared to other Gauss pistols, which often had hundreds of bullets, it was tens of times fewer.
Super heavy, difficult to use, low precision, short range, slow firing rate, small bullet capacity, and slow reloading... In sum, the "Iron Hammer" had many drawbacks.
However, all the drawbacks were overshadowed by one advantage.
That was its unparalleled powerful force!
For mutants below Legendary, they were basically doomed to be shot in the head with one bullet. Even Legendary fighters found it hard to withstand a blow from the Iron Hammer.
The power of the Iron Hammer surpassed most conventional firearms, comparable to a plasma gun.
It was often called the "Hand Cannon."
The name Iron Hammer originated from the founder of the New Roman Empire, the "Steel Emperor" Ivan Zhugashvili.
This supreme powerhouse, ranked second on the Heavenly King list, was best known for the image of a burly warrior wielding a warhammer, which he referred to as "The Hammer"; in reality, it was an Apocalypse Two Stars weapon, extraordinarily powerful, one of the few divine weapons in the world.
The designer’s inspiration came from that hammer, hence the name "Steel Emperor’s Iron Hammer".
Ji Xinghuo had tried shooting it just before and liked the Iron Hammer very much.
Its myriad drawbacks were negligible to him; its advantages seemed tailor-made for him!
He raised the gun, aiming at the target, and pulled the trigger.
A thunderous blast echoed in the shooting range, the alloy target a hundred meters away violently shook, exploding into a bright white fireball at the bullseye, immediately leaving a pitch-black crater with traces of high-temperature melting, scorched and pocked as if it had been bombed.
The enormous recoil made the gun barrel jump up, and his wrist felt a severe impact.
This kind of recoil was not something that could be offset by strength alone. It required skillful unloading techniques to control the direction of the gun, allowing for the quickest possible follow-up shot.
Ji Xinghuo held the Iron Hammer steadily.
The barrel only lifted slightly before it returned to its original position.
The Fourth Level Thousand Spirit Skillful Hand minimized over ninety percent of the recoil under the control of Microscopic Perception.
He felt a slight sting in his eardrums, the gunshot was really too loud.
Such high volume, the Stealth Ring’s "Silence" couldn’t absorb it all. Just firing one shot would expose his position.
But, eliminating an enemy took only one shot!
The range’s indicator sounded.
Min Chongwu was amazed, "You can score ten rings with the Hand Cannon?"
He was very envious. With such shooting skills coupled with the Iron Hammer, even Legendary fighters would have to think twice before facing Ji Xinghuo.
Ling Yufei wasn’t surprised at all.
She had already experienced Ji Xinghuo’s archery skill, which was stronger than hers. Actually, she had also thought about using the Iron Hammer as a standard weapon, but it was too heavy, and in actual combat, it basically only offered one chance to shoot, which was too risky and far less stable than other firearms.
"What’s your maximum precision range?" Ling Yufei couldn’t help asking.
Generally speaking, a Ranger integrated with "Precision" used the Iron Hammer within thirty meters to control shooting accuracy, while she herself could reach about eighty meters.
Beyond eighty meters the precision dropped significantly, basically a random trajectory, whether hitting the target or not was all down to luck.
Ji Xing casually replied, "About a hundred meters, I guess."
In reality, it was much more.
With the assistance of Microscopic Perception, his hand cannon could hit targets within two hundred meters. If he utilized Myriad Phenomena, the Iron Hammer’s lethal range was its maximum range.
That was five hundred meters!
This range was much shorter than that of an electromagnetic rifle because the high-explosive bullets of the Iron Hammer, if not hitting the target within five hundred meters, would automatically explode.
Ling Yufei guessed that Ji Xing was not telling the whole truth, but as it was another’s secret, she didn’t press further.
Ji Xinghuo continued firing at the target, exhausting the remaining five bullets in one go.