Wizard Alchemist

Chapter 73 Continuous Harvest
Faintly feeling the enormous life energy emanating from the other party, Roy dismounted his warhorse, but did not put it away. Instead, he put it aside, ready to escape for his life at any time.

Only after confirming that the other party had no intelligent consciousness, not even any mental fluctuations, and was just a big lump of meat, did he feel relieved.

"Try to find a way to get some!"

After that, Roy set his sights on the other party.

However, when we actually started fighting, we found that this slug-like giant was tough and hard, and not easy to deal with.

Even with his enhanced physique at the Great Knight stage, he could only inflict a wound on it if he swung hard.

Moreover, the wound quickly secreted a large amount of mucus and healed automatically.

"What an incredible vitality! With such rapid recovery, it's hard to cut it off!"

He went around to the other side and tried it in several places.

As a result, a fist-sized pore formed in the body of the strange insect.

Roy quickly dodged.

"Zi..."

The strong acid sprayed and almost sprayed him in the face.

"This guy can actually spray acid... Wait!"

Roy was a little confused. After retreating to the side and keeping alert for a while, he suddenly thought of something and raised his hand to look at the iron sword in his hand.

The sharp edge of the iron sword was being corroded, and rust spots were visible to the naked eye on the part where it had cut through the flesh.

"The mucus is corrosive and can dull ordinary iron!"

Seeing that the big guy seemed to have sensed something and wanted to spray acid again, Roy hurriedly moved away.

……

After tidying up a bit, Roy stared at the big guy for a while, thinking about how to deal with it.

This thing has the huge life energy of a wizard's body, but it lacks the corresponding intelligence, so its danger level is actually not very high.

But just by virtue of this instinct to secrete acidic mucus, most tools such as swords and knives are restrained by it.

"It seems that ordinary methods are impossible to cut it, I have to use some ruthless methods...

Use the blackening agent to corrode and dissolve it!"

Then he connected his mind to the space ring and took out a bottle of clear and transparent medicine like water from it.

Then he took aim and smashed it from a distance.

sizzle...

Like a carbonated drink poured onto the ground, the sound of rapid bubbling was heard.

The huge piece of meat was charred black and immediately carbonized and withered at an alarming speed visible to the naked eye.

The melted solution turned black and continued to react with the flesh and blood, turning into a new solution.

This causes the blackening agent to spread like a fire wherever it comes into contact with it.

This fleshy body is inherently acidic and can secrete a strange liquid that quickly corrodes metal.

But the blackening potion was even more terrifying than its own characteristics. It actually smashed a millstone-sized gap inside it in one breath, and black solution dripped out.

In fact, the gap continued to expand until it melted away several hundred kilograms in size, and then stopped due to dilution, neutralization, and lack of contact surface.

"it works!"

Roy was greatly encouraged and continued to work.

Before being promoted to an elite apprentice, he had already begun preparing for this adventure, vowing to save enough capital for future development.

I have prepared quite a few things that I can make myself, such as blackening potions.

It really worked.

"The third tube!"

Roy watched as it gradually stopped expelling acid, and with one last effort, he threw out the third tube of blackening potion.

"Zizi..."

The wound on the giant insect became bigger.

"These are all good things!" Roy looked down and saw a large pool of "soup" as black as thick ink below, from which he felt a strong magical power.

Without further ado, he started working hard again.

Next.

The fifth tube, the tenth tube, the twentieth tube...

Roy consumed a large amount of blackening potion, almost turning the entire giant insect into soup.

He looked at the ground with sharp eyes.

“Get rich!

For a large creature of this level, the life energy and transformed magic power in its body are enormous. Even if the refining efficiency is low, at least tens of thousands of magic stones can be collected!

Although I consumed a lot of blackening potions here, they were all accumulated normally.

If you can refine it properly, it's like picking up magic stones for free!"

Because the giant insect's flesh and blood had completely melted, the magic power also dissolved in the "soup". Roy began to plow a ditch with his iron sword to lead the black soup to a nearby natural pit.

Subsequently, precipitation, purification, fine screening and other operations are carried out on site.

This was not about refining the magic stone on the spot; he did not have the time for that. Instead, he wanted to purify and refine the raw materials so that they could be packed into large barrels prepared in advance and kept for further refining in the future.

“Thanks to me, all the conditions are ripe, and I can decompose and utilize this strange insect on the spot.

Otherwise, even if we gather a small team to kill it, we won’t be able to start with the monster’s corpse.”

While busy, Roy felt fortunate.

Large-scale transportation is not practical.

With the storage capacity of the space ring he was using, even if he emptied it out and used it all to store its corpse parts, it would still be full.

And if there is no space ring, it would be even more ridiculous.

There are tens of thousands of pounds of flesh and blood, which cannot be brought back, so we will definitely miss this harvest.

These are all factors that weaken profits.

It turned out to be the right decision to spend a lot of money to buy a space ring. This kind of thing is necessary!
……

After a while, Roy completed the basic preparations and then sprinkled a magical alum in it.

This thing can combine with impurities containing magic power to form a flocculent precipitate.

Eventually, a black paste resembling melted asphalt formed at the bottom of the pit, while the upper layer was purified water.

This "black mud" looks disgusting, but it is actually rich in mana and can be called "magic ointment mud".

Take it back for further refinement and you'll get a lot of magic stones!
This kind of money is not something that anyone can earn. There is no such thing as daring to fight and risking your life to gain something. You need to have certain alchemical skills.

"It's thanks to me that [Skilled Worker], [Alchemy Machine], and [Darkness] worked together to dispose of this thing on the spot!"

Roy was not sure about other aspects, but in terms of alchemy technology, he was definitely superior to other apprentices.

If Sophia, Oren or others came and discovered this thing, they would probably just sigh in despair.

Just as he was feeling emotional, Roy suddenly caught a glimpse of a translucent illusory panel emerging from the corner of his eye.

[Alchemy Talent Acquisition (91% → 100%)]

What I'm thinking about...

Alchemy talent progress...

It’s finally full!

Mana Return (Iron)

[When performing apprentice-level alchemy operations, half of the mana consumed will be returned]

"New Black Iron-level talent!"

Roy's eyes were fixed on the translucent illusory panel.

[Alchemy Talent Acquisition (0%)]

It finally stopped, completely cleared.

(End of this chapter)