My God-Level System Can Rebuild Civilization in the Apocalypse!

Chapter 68: A Deal for Arrows

It was a classic armor piercing bolt.

The arrowhead featured jagged edges and grooves that resembled the blood channels found on triangular military bayonets.

If the target had been a living creature capable of bleeding rather than a zombie, a single shot would likely have been enough to kill them outright.

After all, this kind of arrowhead could not simply be pulled back out.

Removing it required proper medical treatment.

In many cases, the victim would probably be dead before a doctor even arrived.

Joo Joowon vaguely remembered that arrow technology had already matured before the fourteenth century.

As a result, arrowheads had long since evolved into highly specialized tools designed for specific purposes.

Armor piercing arrows existed specifically to penetrate heavily armored soldiers.

If they could pierce plate armor, then their destructive power spoke for itself.

If his luck turned out poorly, this weapon might need to stay with him all the way until Level 10.

Unfortunately, thirty bolts were clearly nowhere near enough to last that long.

As for the shop?

That was almost laughable.

After seven days, even the trading marketplace would disappear.

The game store felt even further away than that.

Where exactly was he supposed to buy ammunition from?

With a might as well try attitude, Joo Joowon took a picture of one of the bolts and sent it to HighlyCultured.

[ @Ashfall: Do you happen to have arrows like these over there? ]

Although the system stated that these arrows were specially made, in Joo Joowon’s eyes, that only meant they were uncommon, not that they could only be manufactured by the game itself.

After all, the arrows did not possess any item traits or attributes attached to them.

With modern craftsmanship, producing something similar should not be particularly difficult.

[ @HighlyCultured: These arrows are about one third smaller than standard arrows and the diameter is different too. I don’t have anything like them here. ]

Joo Joowon immediately felt disappointed.

HighlyCultured guessed that these were probably items Ashfall had obtained after opening a Weapon Card.

After thinking for a moment, he then replied.

[ @HighlyCultured: However, I know a master bowyer and fletcher. I’ll ask him whether he can make them. ]

[ @Ashfall: Thank you! ]

[ @HighlyCultured: ...No need to thank me. Just pay the brokerage fee. ]

Thinking about what had happened to all the people whom Ashfall had publicly declared to be his friends in the past, HighlyCultured could not help shivering.

In a certain sense, a fate like the Harbinger of Endless Misfortune was not all that different from a causality weapon.

He absolutely did not want Ashfall to misunderstand anything.

It would be better if Ashfall simply thought of him as a profiteering merchant.

Joo Joowon, on the other hand, did not think there was anything strange about the arrangement.

After all, without the other person’s help, he would never have been able to find someone capable of making specialized arrows in the first place.

While chatting with HighlyCultured, he had also spent some time browsing the marketplace.

The facts proved that the marketplace was not some all powerful online shopping platform.

There were certainly people selling arrows.

However, there was not a single person accepting custom commissions.

As long as the other party was not taking advantage of the situation to extort him, Joo Joowon felt that paying a reasonable brokerage fee was perfectly acceptable.

[ @Ashfall: That’s only fair. ]

The current Ashfall really did have a good temper.

Still, he did not think too much about it.

Even the kindest and friendliest people would find it difficult to maintain their temperament after surviving through the Age of Apocalypse.

Eventually, even the mask of hypocrisy became too exhausting to wear.

Out of a hundred players, it was difficult to find even one who remained truly neutral.

As for players who genuinely stood on the side of kindness, they were even rarer.

After forwarding the photos, HighlyCultured replied to Ashfall.

[ @HighlyCultured: Do you have a video? Record it in more detail. Make sure to capture all the finer details of the arrows. ]

[ @Ashfall: OK. ]

Since the other party had not rejected the request outright, it was obvious that the so called master he mentioned did not believe the arrows were impossible to reproduce.

That immediately gave Joo Joowon a sense of hope.

He carefully recorded detailed footage of the arrows from every angle.

HighlyCultured forwarded the material directly.

A short while later, he sent another message to him.

[ @HighlyCultured: He says he can make them. I’ll send you his ID. Just search for his name through the marketplace. As for the brokerage fee, just pay whatever you think is appropriate. ]

The reason HighlyCultured said pay whatever you think is appropriate was because he genuinely had no idea how to set a price.

If he asked for too much, then given how poor even top players currently were, the other party might not be able to afford it.

But if he asked for too little, Ashfall might misunderstand and think he was deliberately trying to build goodwill.

That possibility was far too terrifying.

Because of that, it was better to let the other side decide the amount themselves.

Unfortunately, that only created a problem for Joo Joowon.

If HighlyCultured did not know how to price it, then Joo Joowon certainly knew even less.

After thinking carefully for a while, Joo Joowon finally sent over a Molotov Cocktail.

The importance of arrows to Joo Joowon hardly needed to be stated.

Although he had no idea what HighlyCultured had done before the apocalypse, it was obvious that the man belonged to a completely different circle from ordinary people.

There was a good chance he would need to ask for his help again in the future.

Since that was the case, even if he could not make the other party think highly of him, he should at least avoid leaving behind any bad impressions.

Molotov Cocktails possessed considerable destructive power.

HighlyCultured had originally assumed that Joo Joowon would pay with Apocalypse Coins, unused beginner equipment, or perhaps ordinary supplies.