webnovel Chapter 99 : Rapid Improvement! A Hundred-Thousand-Fire Emergency!
Chapter 99 : Rapid Improvement! A Hundred-Thousand-Fire Emergency!
Chapter 99: Rapid Improvement! A Hundred-Thousand-Fire Emergency!
The progress of this skill was not particularly fast.
At this moment, he looked at the sealed bottles neatly arranged in categories on the table before him.
Leo still felt a certain sense of accomplishment in his heart.
This was far more technical than his earlier work of butchering Beastkin.
Over the past few days, Leo had gone to the dungeon once a day, and after handing the feeding work over to the Dragon-Elephant,
most of his time had been spent on butchering.
It seemed that, in preparation for a new round of Alchemy,
Lady Manta had given Leo a long butchering list.
He had conveniently used this opportunity to grind his sword technique, Mountain-Cleaving Cross Sword, to Level 5.
【Mountain-Cleaving Cross Sword Level 5 2/100 (Special Effect: Level 4 Armor Break)】
At the same time, the Armor Break special effect had also reached Level 4.
In addition, it was worth mentioning that yesterday, he had butchered a Level 3 Beastkin race called Minotaur.
It seemed this Minotaur had been brought back from the direction of Elf Valley by Ray and Ross.
【Minotaur: A nomadic Beastkin race, mainly active on the Endless Grasslands north of Elf Valley. Adult Minotaurs could reach four meters in height, were born with divine strength, and possessed extremely strong charging and trampling abilities. They highly treasured the females within their tribe.
Characteristics: Powerful physique, thick keratinized hide, highly destructive sharp horns, possession of their own totemic faith, extremely strong impact force in battle
Weaknesses: Can be provoked and enraged by using female individuals, poor dynamic vision, slow turning speed
Special Value: The Minotaur Heart could be used to make a Tier 3 Activation Potion, Minotaur Horn was a primary material for Tier 3 Body Tempering Potion, and the totems painted on their bodies were important fragments of some kind of witchcraft】
This was his first time butchering a Minotaur.
This Beastkin race seemed to possess some cultural inheritance.
What caught Leo’s attention was its special value.
Horns, heart, totems.
It seemed that the main material Lady Manta used to make Tier 3 Body Tempering Potion was precisely Minotaur Horn.
After these past days of high-intensity butchering,
the experience of Leo’s 【Hunting】 skill was also about to approach Level 5.
This skill not only provided him with the important special effect of Hunting Moment,
but at this moment, his mind was also filled with detailed information about various Beastkin races.
Leo felt that he had benefited greatly from it.
Not only in words—through constructing anatomical models, he had also gained a very deep understanding of the bodily structures of the Beastkin races.
Now Leo felt that, purely in terms of understanding various Beastkin races,
he could rank among the best in all of Blackstone City.
Even Ray Fley, despite his rich hunting experience and having seen many Beastkin races, might not necessarily have grasped their habits, weaknesses, and value so clearly.
Leo felt that he now counted as an expert on Beastkin.
“Feels like I want to go out of the city and try it more and more.”
Although Leo was now a thorough homebody, he was unwilling to remain only a homebody.
Otherwise, when choosing his profession in his previous life, he would not have chosen the latter between neighborhood security guard and knight.
Freedom would always occupy a place in his heart.
Moreover, Zoro had already turned into spring mud, and Leo felt that he should no longer be under too much threat.
Still, it was better to play it safe for now.
He still had too many things to do, and there was no need to risk venturing out of the city.
In less than a month, nearly half of the Tier 2 Body Tempering Potion he had obtained during the year-end assessment had already been used up.
Leo could not make this Tier 2 potion now.
His consumption of Beastkin Meat was also very high.
Potions and Beastkin Meat—those were both things forced forward purely by money and Merit Points.
On the knight’s path, if one wanted to pursue faster cultivation speed, it was entirely built up with resources.
With the help of the Tier 2 Body Tempering Potion, Leo’s current progress in the Breathing Technique had risen at a terrifying pace to 74.
That was much faster than he had previously expected.
At this rate, Leo felt that in a little over a month, he would be able to break his Breathing Technique through to the second stage.
It felt as though becoming a Formal Knight was no longer far away.
“Formal Knight.” Leo clenched his fist at this moment. “As expected, I still had to rely on technology.
But the biggest problem right now is that high-tier Body Tempering Potions all have to be exchanged with Merit Points, and my current source of Merit Points is only the 10 points per month from butchering Beastkin.”
That meant once the Tier 2 Body Tempering Potion in his possession was used up, it would be gone.
Leo was currently drinking all kinds of potions every day almost as if they were water.
However, in this world, there was no saying that every medicine carried some poison.
Or rather, this was the normal state for knight cultivators in this world.
Potions of slightly worse quality might contain some impurities or trace toxins.
But knights had strong constitutions, so those toxins were not much of a problem—at most, they would cause diarrhea.
Leo, however, did not have such a problem. The potions he used were all exchanged through the official channels of Blackstone City.
Leo felt they were probably made by Lady Manta, with high quality and purity.
As for the other potions he made himself, with the assistance of the 【Alchemy】 skill, they were also all very high-quality potions.
“Lady Manta has gone into closed-door work in the Potion Laboratory again. I wonder how this attempt is going.”
The brief rest passed in Leo’s wandering thoughts.
Leo glanced at the water clock on the wall, and it was once again time for those Beastkin to have their lunch.
Leo closed his eyes and directly entered the Shared State with the Dragon-Elephant in the dungeon.
But at the very instant the Shared State was activated,
Leo’s eyes suddenly flew open, and he sprang to his feet.
Without saying a word, Leo did not even have time to clear the table before rushing toward the dungeon at top speed.
……
“Damn it! Damn it! Where is Leo?!” Lady Manta was hysterical with a rarity seldom seen. Even the hair that she always kept meticulously arranged had several stray locks sticking out. “What is he doing now! Why did he put such a horse in my dungeon?”
“Damn it! Why has even an honest child like Leo become this unreliable?” At this moment, Lady Manta no longer cared about her image and kicked over the feed bucket the Dragon-Elephant had just brought with one foot.
At this moment, even the giant beast, nearly over four meters tall, was startled by the small tigress in front of it.
For a moment, it shrank into the corner, stamping its hooves, not knowing what to do.
Lady Manta no longer looked anything like the lady of the city lord’s household.
She looked exactly like a madwoman in a frenzy.
She panted heavily, pacing back and forth in place as if she could find no outlet for her anger.
Even the Beastkin in the dungeon did not dare make a sound when faced with the ferocious Lady Manta.
Only when the dungeon door creaked open and Leo quickly descended the stairs—
“I’m sorry, Lady Manta. Just now—”
“Come here.” Lady Manta was unusually rude toward Leo. “Let me ask you—what is the deal with this big stupid horse, hm?”
At this moment, Lady Manta stood there angrily with her hands on her hips. Already full of pent-up fury, the moment she saw Leo, all the gloom in her chest came pouring out.
That feeling of hating iron for not becoming steel made her angrier the more she thought about it.
“I never thought that even you would become like this! You should know that I originally regarded you as a key person to cultivate. I wanted to teach you Alchemy, even…” At this moment, Lady Manta pointed at Leo in anger, but the words reached her lips and were swallowed back down, turning into a long sigh instead.
At this moment, Leo slightly lowered his head and looked toward the door of the Potion Laboratory. He spoke softly, “Lady Manta, may I ask, is it Green…”
“Oh! Damn it! It would have been one thing if you hadn’t mentioned him, but the moment you brought him up, I got so angry my lungs were about to explode… my heavens my heavens my heavens.”
The moment that damned veterinary doctor was mentioned, Lady Manta’s face flushed red.
Her anger nearly made it hard for her to breathe, and she gasped heavily.
But suddenly, she stopped, then sniffed.
The atmosphere instantly turned strange.
Lady Manta slowly took two steps forward and sniffed again.
It seemed she had smelled something.
She moved close to Leo, her high nose carefully sniffing him, and then she raised her head in disbelief.
Looking at Leo in front of her, she froze for a moment. “Why do I smell the scent of freshly made potions on you?”
She carefully distinguished it again. “Sedative Potion, a fine-quality Sedative Potion, and also Sleep Potion, Digestion Potion. You… you made potions!?”
Lady Manta widened her eyes, staring fixedly at Leo before her, waiting for his answer.
Being stared at from such close range by Lady Manta made Leo a little uncomfortable, but he slowly nodded. “I followed the methods in 《General Knowledge of Alchemy》 and tried it.”
Lady Manta’s mouth remained open.
Her face, which had been flushed red from congestion, slowly returned to pale.
She suddenly found it a little hard to believe, and confirmed it once again, “You’re saying you successfully made a Tier 1 potion, successfully?!”
At this moment, Lady Manta seemed somewhat dazed. She circled around Leo once, looking him over like some strange beast, and then she said with certainty, “There’s no mistake. My nose cannot be wrong. You succeeded.”