The Void Walker Starting from Xumi

Chapter 52: Worrying Academic Ability
"It's really shocking. Your hardware shouldn't be able to support psychic power of this intensity." Alecino was already firing on all cylinders at this moment.

The transformation of God's Eye and Evil Eye plus the power of one's own bloodline.

Six exoskeleton-like limbs also appeared on Alechino's side.

On the opposite side, Fugate still looked a little weak and decadent.

A laser swept over, and blue light came out of Fuget's eyes, and the Eye of God also emitted a blue light. A layer of bubbles appeared in front of Fuget, and the laser was immediately blocked.

"It won't be a problem for a while." said Fugate.

"How long can you last?" Alechino asked curiously.

"I can hold out all day," Fugate replied smoothly.

"Coincidentally, me too." Alecino laughed. Of course, Alecino was joking because the evil eye was not enough to support a whole day of outbursts.

The same was true for the blood of the Dark Moon in her body, but no matter what, she couldn't be inferior to Fgate in momentum, and Arecino hadn't really used his full strength yet.

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"Well, the warm-up ends here, and I will go all out." Alechino smiled.

The blood-colored spear instantly grew fang-like sharp teeth.

"The hunt begins!"

"Then I have to be more serious as well." Fuget clenched his hands, and the water element formed a water knife.

Then the evil eye of the ice element also began to exert its power, the temperature dropped suddenly, and the water knife turned into an ice blade.

"Please!" Before Fugate could finish his words, the ice blade was raised forward and the sound of metal clashing was heard.

"It's really dangerous, but if it's just this, it won't be a problem for me."

"Yeah, then how about this." Alecino used 31 moves in a row, each one aimed at the vital points, while Fgate moved slowly, and each time seemed very slow, but each time he dodged Alecino's combo just right.

"As expected, I simply have no intention to kill you. It has no effect on you at all." Alechino put away the sickle.

Then he snapped his fingers.

But there was no spider silk rising in front of him as Alechino had expected.

"The same trick is useless to me." Fuget lowered his eyebrows and said casually, "My Lord [Servant], please appreciate my full strength attack."

"Steam venue!"

Violent steam began to spread throughout the world.

Alechino said solemnly, "The predictive ability has been suppressed."

"If there is nothing in your mind, then there is nothing on the knife." Fuget said nonchalantly, "A knife with nothing in it naturally does not exist."

“This is called ‘casting existence into nothingness’.”

"No matter how profound your 'realm' is, the external expression will ultimately rely on your 'hardware'." Alechino said with a smile after taking a few stabs.

"In that case, then..." Alechino burst out with all his strength, and the fierce flames enveloped the entire steam field. The steam field laid by Fugate was directly overturned.

Fgate's figure appeared at the edge of the huge pit in a somewhat embarrassed manner, with burn marks all over his body.

But the burns are healing rapidly.

This is the combined effect of the Six Water Magic, psychic power, and Fuget's special physique.

"Are you going to kill me, my dear servant?" Fugate raised his hands to indicate that he had surrendered.

With his current strength, Fuget is no match for Arlecino. Facing Arlecino who is firing at full power, he can only hold out for a few dozen more moves.

"You smooth talker, I don't believe you can be defeated by me so easily." Although Alecino said this, he also retracted his evil eye and blood power.

"I really tried my best." Fugate muttered.

"Hmph~" Alechino said that he didn't believe it at all, but through this battle Alechino also figured out some of Fuget's strength.

Due to his superb skills in physical attack, Fuget can reach the level of LV80+, but his hard power (attack power) has not yet reached the standard and is still only LV65+.

The element control ability is still at LV90, the witchcraft is also at LV90, the survivability is at full capacity, and the body's resistance to elements is much stronger than his own.

Its resistance to curses is also very strong, and basically curses will not work on it.

At the same time, most psychic magic will be ineffective when facing Fuget, because Fuget knows how to counter psychic magic better than Alechino.

Among the executives, Fuget's overall ability is probably equivalent to that of the seventh seat. He is not as good as that puppet, but better than others.

"It seems that you have recovered well. How does Xia Mian compare to you?" asked Alechino.

"Xiamian is better at fighting than I am." Fuget said, "After all, I am just a weak academic. Not only am I old and frail, but I am also retired. It is very inhumane to be forced to work here."

"..." Faced with such a Fuget, Alechino didn't know what to say.

This guy knows what is called yin and yang.

"It's a miracle that you can live this long. If I talked like you, I would have been beaten to death long ago," said Alecino.

She had stopped the amplification of the evil eye, and her entire body fell into a weak state.

But she is Alechino after all. Even if she is weak, she is still stronger than the average top-level strongman.

Arlecino has not yet reached her peak.

But it’s not much different now. After the psychic power upgrade, Alechino is now confident that he is no weaker than any other existence.

Of course, we should not compare the monsters in the first three seats of the Fatui, because those guys are real "monsters" according to Fuget.

Each of them is not only extremely talented, but also very experienced, with many being hundreds of years old.

His strength has already grown to the level of a 'demon god'.

It was far beyond the reach of her, an orphan of 'Er Yue' who had not yet grown to her peak.

Perhaps when she has perfectly developed her own bloodline and then transcended her own bloodline, she will be able to be on par with those guys.

Fugate gave Alechino some nutritional potions that would help his body recover.

Alechino didn't hesitate to take it and started drinking.

"Are all of you alchemists like you, with a treasure chest?" Alechino asked, "As if you can take out anything."

"You have to be good enough to do that. Mediocrities often have empty pockets." Fugate and Alechino walked back.

The two of them simultaneously used their spiritual energy to converge their existence, and passed by the members of the Law Enforcement Court who came here to investigate.

"How long will it take for your new potion to be completed?" Alechino asked. "I have been looking forward to that scene for a long time."

"It's uncertain how long it will take. After all, we have no way of determining whether the special structure will affect the efficacy of the drug." Fugate said, "Scientific research, no, alchemy, is often a matter of millimeters, and a thousand miles of error."

"It's like the Shadow Chaser Potion. Logically, after dilution, it will become [Diluted Justice Potion] instead of the Shadow Chaser Potion."

"The degradation of the drug and how it degrades are also something we need to consider."

"Theory is theory, practice is practice, and we will not make those low-level mistakes."

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"Teacher, I'm so bored during this period." Hetala's voice came from Fuget's ears.

"What's wrong with you this time?" asked Fuget, who was doing an experiment, trying to do two things at the same time.

"The little red-haired kid at home has started traveling, and I have nothing to do." said Hetala.

A lot of bullshit happened in Mondstadt.

Dirty politics has triumphed once again, and truth and justice have been silenced.

Although greater justice and truth came later, justice delayed is not justice in Diluk's eyes. Having already withdrawn from the Knights Templar, he has no intention of rejoining.

He chose to travel and take revenge on the culprit of all this - Dr.

But obviously he chose the wrong person. The executive officer [Doctor] was not someone he could challenge. With the help of Hetala, Diluc managed to survive until he was rescued by someone who claimed to be from the Northland Intelligence Organization.

From then on, Diluk also embarked on a journey of travel.

Hetala, the old lady who was always by her side, was now free. "Since you have nothing to do, come and help," said Fuget.

"By the way, teacher, aren't you working for the Fatui? What are you busy with?" asked Hetala.

"Recently, Xia Mian dragged me into alchemy, and I discovered a new track." Fugate said, "Maybe my alchemy level will take a big step forward with this."

Hetala asked Fuget to wait for a moment, and then the illusory projection appeared.

"Are you here to study and improve alchemy?" Hetala appeared in the laboratory.

Xia Mian sensed it immediately.

"You're here, Hetala." Xiamian greeted happily.

"Long time no see, Xia Mian." The two best friends greeted each other, and then Hetala noticed something wrong.

"Speaking of which, Xia Mian, why is your alchemy table the largest?" asked Hetala.

According to the rules of the laboratory, the person who leads the experiment has the largest alchemy table.

"It's simple, because Xiamian's alchemy level is now higher than mine." Fuget said happily, and he really didn't seem annoyed at all.

Fugate told him about Xiamian's development of the [Gem Potion] and the discovery of the overhead structure, the Shadow-Chasing Bottle.

Hetala also asked for the formulas of [Gem Potion] and [Justice Potion].

Although the Justice Potion is not needed, my little red-haired cat still needs the Jade Potion.

"Since you are here, come and help." Fuget assigned several tasks to Hetala without any hesitation.

Hetala had no complaints and got straight to work.

"What are you doing? You've brought ghosts to work here?" Alechino asked with a strange look on his face during his routine inspection of the pharmacy laboratory.

"Hello, I'm Hetala, the apprentice of Master Fuget. As you can see, I've been dead for hundreds of years and suddenly I was pulled out to work." Hetala greeted Alechino.

"Uh~ Hello, you can call me Arlecchino." Arlecchino was still a little nervous facing the ghost.

"Don't worry too much, Servant." Fuget said, "Hetala is my apprentice. She is closely related to my fate and is someone I can trust."

"Also, you may not know that Doctor just had a feud with Hetala."

"Oh? What is it?" Alechino suddenly became interested.

"You should be aware of [Doctor's] recent actions in Mond," asked Fuget.

"I know a little about this. It's mainly to supplement the Fatui's Abyss Investigation Team, so we need to recruit some new soldiers in Mondstadt." Alechino said, "But I don't know the details. I only know that the Doctor has done a very good job."

"It was indeed done very well." Fuget said, "But there were inevitably some sacrifices in this process. Coincidentally, the one who was sacrificed this time was Krips, a direct descendant of Hetala."

"...Is it such a coincidence?"

"It is such a coincidence that Klips is also the father of Diluc, a junior whom Hetala is very optimistic about."

"I know a little about Diluk. Because of Diluk's matter, the Fatui and the Northern Intelligence Organization have been in conflict recently." Alechino said, "For this reason, they have transferred a lot of agents from me."

The Hokuriku Intelligence Organization was founded by the young wolf Rustan five hundred years ago to protect Mondstadt in the darkness.

It has been growing and developing secretly over the years, and is now a strong organization, one of the best in the entire continent of Teyvat.

The clash between the Fatui and the Hokuriku Intelligence Organization is big news.

However, because the fights between the two sides were basically carried out in secret, not many ordinary people knew about it.

"Then I agree." Alechino approved of Hetala, and said that if it came to [Doctor], although he couldn't do it himself, he would provide as much help as he wanted.

"[Doctor] has done so many bad things that even his colleagues can't stand seeing him do well." Hetala complained.

"That's true. The Doctor's popularity among the Fatui is not that great. He's on par with Arlecchino. If he wasn't so difficult to kill, he would have been killed long ago."

"Speaking of which, why does the instructor seem to be very familiar with the Doctor?" Hetala asked.

"It was that guy who interrupted my resurrection ceremony and made me come back to life early." said Fugate.

Seeing Hetala fail to prepare the potion and pour it directly into the waste pool, Fuget couldn't help but complain, "Hetala, if you are not proficient in multitasking, why don't you use it less? Look how much you have wasted."

"Stop talking too much." Hetala said, and then began to prepare the medicine seriously.

After all, he is a gold-level alchemist. After he got serious about it, not only did his success rate go up, but the quality also improved.

"Speaking of which, Master, do you have any idea of ​​giving us a body? Hmm~ or ability." Hetala asked, "Although we can live well with psychic power, we still miss having a body."

"I don't have any solution for this for now." Fuget said after a moment's hesitation, "But I can study it later."

There are many ways for a spirit to obtain a physical body, the most common one is to directly occupy the body by force.

The current situation is somewhat similar to that of several apprentices of the Warp Demon, who are also able to do this.

However, occupying someone else's body naturally has its disadvantages. The most important one is that it will pollute one's own existence and make oneself no longer pure.

Naturally, they don't want to do things that will affect development.

"I guess you have some questions about this kind of vitalism." said Fugate.

Fuget also thought of this. Perhaps he could use similar means to make his body recover faster and eliminate the aftereffects of the forced escape ceremony as soon as possible.

Moreover, after searching his memory bank, Fugate discovered a lot of technologies that could be used for reference.

I'm going to have a good draw after I finish my busy preparations. It's been a long time since I last drew a prize.

With the help of Hetala, the research progress of Fuget and his team suddenly became much faster. First, they completed the dilution and improvement of Xiamian's [Gem Potion].

A bottle of [Baoyu Medicine] can maintain its efficacy under the effect of ten kilograms of diluent.

The diluent uses 30% specially made high-energy nutrient solution, 30% pure water, 30% slime gel and 10% [Dragon Essence] as the base dilution.

[Dragon Essence] is the essence of the dragon lizard extracted, liquefied and diluted by Xia Mian.

Each young dragon lizard can produce three eggs in a week. In order to complete the experiment, the number of dragon lizards raised increased from one of each type to three of each type, which met the needs of the experiment.

"I really miss Kuru. If he were here, I would just leave the paper writing task to him." Hetala said with nostalgia.

After completing the experiment, the task of writing the paper was thrown to Hetala by Xiamian and Fuget.

Xiamian and Fuget are optimizing the refining process.

And try to replace more manual labor with machines.

At present, Fugate's mechanical research technology is very advanced and can definitely surpass most Fontaine researchers.

"Stop complaining, why don't you help us optimize the process?" Xia Mian said.

"Forget it." Hetala smiled awkwardly and continued to write her paper.

Compared with writing a paper, this optimization process is the most tiring. It requires extreme meticulousness and the ability to understand the specific meaning of each alchemical action.

The paper is easier to write, as long as you understand the theory.

You only need to write a rough outline of the operation. Anyway, there are not many people in the whole Teyvat who can understand this level of paper.

Those mediocre people in the Ministry of Education were probably at the level of reading on their knees. It wouldn’t be said that they were reading a book written in heaven, but that’s almost the same, because they couldn’t understand it anyway.

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Half a month later, after taking the expedited passage of the Adventurer's Association, the paper successfully arrived at Xumi.

In fact, the sages really couldn't understand the paper of Fuget and Xiamian, even if the one who read the paper was the great sage of the Sulun School, Cyresh. After all, Cyresh was the main researcher of elements, so it was understandable.

But Gulersh had his own way.

"Good disciple, come and help the teacher look at this paper." Gulesh said to his student Lisa.

"Are these papers sent back by those big shots again?" Lisa also adjusted her hat.

As someone who has reached the [Gold] level of alchemy, Lisa is the only person in the academy who can understand these papers and manuscripts.

"Yeah." Gulesh rubbed his brows in distress and said, "These old guys are really good at making trouble for others."

(End of this chapter)