[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t":3,"chapter-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-48":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Global Survival: The Tower Witch with an E-Rank Talent",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1374193,1818,"Chapter 48: The Gun Blew Up!","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-48",48,"\u003Cp>After two days of studying, she felt that using alchemy to manufacture bullets was actually a fairly straightforward affair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Albert had once said that the most fundamental — and universally applicable — three steps of alchemy were: \"comprehension,\" \"deconstruction,\" and \"reconstruction.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Comprehension\" could be thought of as learning — understanding the relationships between things and figuring out exactly how the materials in your hands should be used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Deconstruction\" was even simpler. Whether you were boiling herbs in a crucible over high heat or crushing dried insects and rodents to powder in a medicine pounding mortar, it was all a process of breaking things down — primarily to release the mana or medicinal properties sealed within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Reconstruction\" was the finished product — the completed potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou tried drawing an alchemy array, then placed a chunk of iron ore on it and used the array to \"deconstruct\" it into fragments. From those fragments, she reorganized the iron molecules and \"reconstructed\" them into a block of pure iron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simple to describe, but far from easy in practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweat was already beading on Lan Qingyou's forehead as she pressed both hands against the brilliantly glowing alchemy array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only she, through the feedback of her mana, could tell what was happening inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two piles of material now sat within the array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the outer ring was a circular mound of gray ash, while in the small circle drawn at the center rested a thumb-sized silvery-white object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou picked it up and checked it through the Appraisal Glasses, and only then did she allow herself a satisfied smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninety percent purity iron — well within usable parameters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant the alchemy array she'd drawn was functional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sweeping aside the debris from the cracked stone slab beneath her, she pulled out the lead ore, copper ore, and other minerals Shang Chuan had provided and began batch-refining them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once refinement was complete, came the shaping of casings and bullet tips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the difference in manufacturing precision, the casings she produced ended up considerably thicker than the sample Shang Chuan had given her, leaving far less internal space for propellant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was fine — Lan Qingyou had anticipated this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after all of that was finished did she turn her attention to the propellant itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, she knew next to nothing about gunpowder. She'd barely even heard of the stuff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she'd noted before, alchemy followed specific steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without understanding something, attempting to manufacture gunpowder — or a primer, for that matter — was simply impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no worries. Lan Qingyou had already prepared a backup plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She first numbered each casing with ink, then pulled out her Explosion Potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One drop, two drops, three drops...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With meticulous care, she dripped varying amounts of Explosion Potion into differently numbered casings, then placed them on the alchemy array to fuse casing and bullet tip together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The defining property of Explosion Potions was that they detonated upon strong vibration or impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This characteristic was functionally identical to gunpowder's combustion-explosion serving as propellant for a bullet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was exactly why Lan Qingyou considered this approach entirely viable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Burst Bullet (E-)\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Effect: Has a chance to produce a small-scale explosion upon hitting an enemy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Description: A 7.62mm bullet with extra bang for the same price. Using it to take out your enemies should be a thoroughly satisfying experience.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Were the Appraisal Glasses glitching?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that description panel, Lan Qingyou blinked, then remembered the Explosion Potion loaded inside the casing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was probably where the extra effect came from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fact that this otherworld even recognized 7.62mm ammunition made Lan Qingyou crack a wry smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kalim's World Will certainly knew a lot — must have had quite a few chats with Blue Star's World Will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Oh well, let me make a few more and see how they perform.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou then produced ten bullets in total, each loaded with progressively more propellant than the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once all ten were ready, she sent them over to Shang Chuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"Each bullet is numbered. Test them and tell me which one works best.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Chuan: \"No problem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Shang Chuan received the bullets, he forwarded them to Eluel for test-firing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Lan Qingyou pulled out a pile of iron ore chunks and began refining them into iron plates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she wanted to try now was whether she could turn iron plates into alchemy array bases.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that worked, she'd never need to commission Li Huai for stone slabs again — and she wouldn't have to sweep out all those shattered slab fragments after every alchemy session.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, a sizable pile of broken stone slabs — tossed out the door by Lan Qingyou — had accumulated at the base of the great tree beneath her shelter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the experiment was a disappointment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iron-based alchemy array pedestals, it seemed, weren't so easy to make.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even with the Appraisal Glasses, she couldn't pinpoint where the problem lay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She'd always assumed that as long as she stayed airborne, no threat could touch her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Shang Chuan's firearms, the crossbow now in her own possession, and the longbows and shortbows she'd seen among the starter tool options — all of these could apparently threaten her even in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, they still seemed mediocre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what about later?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the lowest-tier E-rank weapons. When D-rank and C-rank versions came along, who could say how far they'd shoot?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding! Ding! Ding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A message from Shang Chuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Chuan: \"The gun blew up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"...How? Give me the details.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Chuan: \"When testing bullet number 9, the barrel suddenly exploded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"What about the rest?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Chuan: \"Number 8 was the best. It even triggered the explosion effect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"Err... you can't blame me for that. They're alchemy bullets — they come with a burst effect built in. You should have appraisal glasses, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Like hell I believe you.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Chuan was already regretting asking Lan Qingyou to make ammunition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before this, he'd assumed it would be straightforward — just bullets, surely an alchemist could handle that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now he realized that if an alchemist wanted to screw you over, you wouldn't even be able to find evidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did Shang Chuan have Appraisal Glasses?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He actually didn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He almost never left his shelter, and with the Small Screen's built-in appraisal function, he had no use for that inferior product.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was precisely why he'd sold the glasses to Lan Qingyou in the first place — to maximize profit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was also thanks to the Small Screen's appraisal that he'd identified what the bullets were. He'd even been pleased at first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't until Eluel reported the barrel explosion that he realized he'd been thoroughly played by someone who looked like nothing more than a young girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his assessment, Lan Qingyou's goal was crystal clear: destroy the firearms on his end, thereby ensuring her own safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And was that actually what Lan Qingyou had been thinking?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need to question it. Exactly as Shang Chuan suspected, that was precisely Lan Qingyou's intention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because there was no way she would tolerate something like that existing anywhere near her.\u003C\u002Fp>",1201,"2026-06-05T21:58:31.676Z",1,"novelbin.me","1346c528e359acd63513cd302bed33f0046236d39ead341709d42f2e2f6c5826","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-49","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-47",965,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-cover.jpg"]