Chapter 162: Occupational Templates

Chapter 162: Professional Templates

When Li Hongshen and the butler returned from the Continental Hotel, the battle between Rem and Chiquita had already come to an end.

Looking at Rem, who was covered in sweat and bruised all over, Li Hongshen felt more and more convinced that the female warrior originating from the combat-nations thoroughly suppressed this mercenary from the United States.

However, Li Hongshen did not pay much attention to them. Carrying three boxes, he walked past the two of them and returned to his own room.

Sitting on the bed, Li Hongshen sensed the World Force within his body and brought up his personal status interface:

"Name: David Li (Li Hongshen)
Profession: Gunman
Age: 13
Constitution: 18
Strength: 17
Agility: 19
Spirit: ??
Talents: Resilience, Sturdiness, Marksmanship, Life Harvest"

Li Hongshen nodded as he looked at his interface. He had created this system himself. It was quite a decent system; apart from lacking intelligent notifications, a stat-allocation mode, and the ability to open grand gift bags, it was not inferior to any other system.

Ever since Li Hongshen transmigrated, he had continuously constructed his own interface using the laws of data. The data displayed here was built by comparing it against the statistics of ordinary people.

In this world, the numerical stats of an ordinary person were around 5. Through professional training, one could reach two or even three times that number, but it was impossible to surpass the worldly limit of 20 unless one ceased to be human.

Aside from physical attributes, the most obscure stat was one's spiritual power. Because the civilization from which Li Hongshen originated taught based on the rules and laws of planes to construct a framework of laws, it was already extremely high-end in itself.

To be able to carry such power, the soul strength of the civilization's populace was inherently formidable. If it were not restrained and sealed, it would cause a terrifying soul infection effect on the creatures of lower-tier planes.

At best, it would draw the resistance of the world's consciousness; at worst, it would summon unspeakable existences from the void. Therefore, to ensure the safety of the transmigrator, soul strength was automatically sealed in lower-tier worlds. As a result, Li Hongshen could not measure his own spiritual strength at the moment, but all in all, it was exceedingly powerful.

As for what made him happiest right now, it was not obtaining the firearms he desired, but rather acquiring the special profession of Gunman.

Thanks to that nameless elder, he had been able to touch the veins of this world, subsequently receiving a certain feedback of World Force, which successfully allowed him to forge the Gunman professional template.

Such professional templates were the ultimate goals that Lord transmigrators strove for across the heavens. These professional templates had actually always existed within every world. Certain top-tier indigenous talents possessed such special professional templates.

Of course, to the indigenous people, this thing was invisible; it merely made others perceive them as geniuses in certain fields, similar to top-tier scientists, renowned politicians, famous assassins, and so on.

However, to Lord transmigrators like Li Hongshen, these professional templates were truly real.

If one could acquire such a professional template, it could be directly embedded into the laws of the Lord's Heart, allowing the loading of this professional template onto territory residents to enhance their combat effectiveness.

From this, two acquisition modes had evolved. The first was violent extraction: directly killing the indigenous person who possessed the template.

Because the template-possessing indigenous person carried World Force to a greater or lesser degree, that World Force was directly used to strip the template from them. If the World Force was insufficient, one's own Origin Points would be used to cover the difference.

However, this method had a rather poor impact. Especially in the early stages of a civilization, when little attention was paid to one's reputation, titles such as "Heaven-Defying Bandit" and "World-Sea Pirate" were pinned onto the civilization's head.

Later on, after years of development and research, civilization discovered that this direct, violent extraction model was not actually the optimal choice. Because although the template was acquired, the Lord actually knew very little about this profession.

If a Lord casually loaded a profession into their territory without understanding it, it could trigger a series of uncontrollable consequences and simultaneously cause chaos within their territory.

Moreover, because the template was stripped directly from an indigenous person, its professional development ceiling was not high. Unless one obtained the identical template in a higher-tier world and replaced it, its potential remained limited.

Consequently, Lords developed a second acquisition mode: integrating into the world, studying it, and then using World Force to propel the birth of the professional template.

Such a professional template was born from the Lord, meaning the Lord had one-hundred-percent control over this profession. Loading it onto territory residents allowed for a better utilization of their functions, while also permitting artificial leveling.

Because this professional template originated from the Lord, as long as the Lord traveled to a high-tier world and acquired a bit of World Force, they could advance their own template.

Being even lazier, a Lord could directly and actively provoke the attention of the world's consciousness, trade Origin Points for World Force with it, and thereby promote the template's advancement.

For Li Hongshen now, the priority was to become as familiar as possible with the Gunman profession while ideally acquiring more World Force to parse the legal framework of the current world.

As for how to acquire World Force, he already had a clue. Once he made contact with the World Force of this realm through that nameless elder, he had been able to clearly perceive the fluctuations emanating from Rem and Chiquita.

In response, Li Hongshen had no intention of carrying out a violent extraction, because he knew that simply by staying alongside these two people, he could continuously absorb some of the stray World Force, and might even encounter events that pushed the worldline forward later on.

If he intervened when that time came, he would reap sufficient rewards. Playing a long game to catch a big fish was the most normal thing in the world for any Lord.

After reviewing his personal information, Li Hongshen opened the three boxes he had brought back. Two of the boxes contained a total of four guns, while the third box held a row of flying knives.

In the first box rested two silver-matte revolvers with black rubber grips, complemented by thick and long stainless steel barrels. These were the 5-round double-action revolvers manufactured by Smith & Wesson.

This revolver was initially designed for hunting large wild animals; its firepower was immense, and ordinary people simply could not master it.

Originally, the sommelier at the Continental Hotel would not have sold them to Li Hongshen at all, because he kept these two revolvers for his personal collection, and also feared ruining his reputation if he handed them to Li Hongshen.

In the end, Li Hongshen had no choice but to dual-wield two M500s right in front of him, rapidly firing at the shooting range while maintaining accuracy to prove that he was capable, which finally shut the sommelier up.

Faced with such a formidable person, the sommelier then recommended another firearm: a match-grade-barrel-equipped pistol capable of accepting a silencer, which was also an extremely powerful handgun.

Confronted with the sommelier's recommendation, Li Hongshen readily agreed. Anyway, he wasn't the one paying, so he seized the opportunity to fleece the wealthy by taking two of them, which were now placed in his second box.