Wizard Alchemist

Chapter 77 Eye of Hermes
"You guys should work hard."

Roy didn't care much and simply gave some instructions to his former teammates. Then he found a small mound nearby and sat down to rest for a while.

It is impossible to sleep because the entrance here is open for limited hours. If it were not for exchanging information and conserving his energy, he would have wanted to continue exploring 7 hours a day, 24 days a week.

In addition, there are so many people around, and there are many people with ulterior motives. If you let your guard down, you might be attacked.

It was so simple that it took until late at night. The artificial moon in the Cretaceous Kingdom - a huge celestial body suspended in the starry sky - had already reached the zenith, and the virtual panel of the alchemy talent finally changed.

Hallucinations surge.

The torn sky, the rotting flesh, the terrifying wails...

Scenes flashed through my mind like a kaleidoscope.

“Is this the scene where the experiment failed?
Strange, how come I see this?"

Roy's eyes trembled violently.

The next moment, a severe headache like the one at the beginning of the time travel came up.

"what!"

After a while, the stinging subsided and the phantom disappeared.

what happened?

Roy was shocked and confused.

When I came to my senses, I found that the panel had skyrocketed without me noticing.

[Alchemy Talent Acquisition (100%)]

Roy couldn't help but feel inexplicably excited.

He had a vague feeling that the process of obtaining it this time was not simple, and it was much more obvious than the bronze-level talent he had obtained before.

Words appeared on the illusory panel, faithfully presenting the new harvest.

【Eye of Hermes (Origin Level)】

[Perceives magical auras. This ability will not be deceived by illusions, and what you see is real. When identifying items, the corresponding ability level is increased by 4.]

Origin-level talent...

Insight into the magical aura...

What you see must be true...

Corresponding ability level +4!

The amount of information was so overwhelming that Roy was a little distracted.

"How could this happen?"

He looked around.

The eyes are full of gray and white aura!
They are all zero-quality miscellaneous items and ordinary magic items.

Looking at the space ring in his hand, dark gold is mixed with light green and white, and the final mixture forms olive green.

"Is this the aura of magical equipment?"

According to the standards of appraisal, different items have an artificial standard of "quality", which corresponds to the aura they naturally possess, which is similar to the radiation of witchcraft energy.

It is based on the item's inherent magical strength and spell effect, as well as its rarity and value as a comprehensive measure.

Among them, gray and white mean dim magic power, corresponding to zero-level miscellaneous items and zero-level ordinary items.

The green aura corresponds to ordinary and common magic treasures of first-class quality.

Roy tried to use his mental power to contact the floating magic beads hidden in his hair band, and as expected, a blue light shone brightly!

"This corresponds to rare and excellent items of second-level quality..."

Suddenly, Roy thought of something and quickly probed his spiritual power into the ring, locking onto the treasured high-level puppet.

There was a spiritual light on the other person, and the clarity of the orange with a translucent texture gave it an extraordinary quality that seemed like divinity.

"Orange aura! This is a fourth-level legendary treasure, or in other words—a semi-artifact!"

Roy was shocked. A mysterious knowledge seemed to emerge naturally in his mind.

"This is a humanoid angel from the Cretaceous Country, essentially the administrator of the Little Garden World!
Her status in alchemy was originally "gold", but now her soul has been shattered and she is no longer even "black iron"!

This high-level puppet is equivalent to legendary equipment and a semi-artifact, corresponding to the fourth level!
This must have been created by a great wizard of level four or above, and a great wizard of level four...

Many otherworldly and external civilizations correspond to levels of divine beings! False gods! Demigods! Legendary mages!

In other words, a demigod-level puppet!
No wonder the identification result was "human-shaped angel"!
"Gold" is the professional term used by alchemists to judge the essence of the soul.

It has nothing to do with combat strength, magical aura, etc. It is purely a difference in innate endowment and level sequence.

The main basis is the proportion of instinct, emotion, feeling, wisdom and divinity, which reflects the original nature of the soul.

“This is definitely the biggest reward!

It seems I need to study some Creation Studies when I get back, and also research the secrets of puppetry."

Thinking of this, Roy's eyes lit up and he became excited.

Although its status has fallen, its magical aura has not decreased at all.

Generally speaking, it can be regarded as a "semi-artifact that has lost its spirit"!
"and many more!
Black iron, bronze, silver, gold..."

Suddenly, Roy thought of something.

"I understand!
This is the process of metal transmutation and continuous nobleness in alchemy, which was later extended by alchemists to express the quality of metals.

Is it because of the different personalities that the innate essence exhibits different characteristics?"

Roy immediately guessed that a large part of the dissipated soul of this high-level puppet was probably plundered by him and transformed into the original-level talent [Eye of Hermes]!
This is an existence beyond "gold"!

"According to legend, the soul is the only original entity in the universe, an existence beyond 'gold'.

The source quality descends into spirit, which is dispersed among all living things in heaven and earth, and qualitative differences arise due to the concentration of spirituality.

Perhaps, it is the essence of personality!

So, what I used to think of as the source of talent is actually the power of the soul, which is gradually completing and elevating my status!"

Before, I was an ordinary mediocre human being. After gaining the benefits of the source of talent, I should have undergone a fundamental change.

Especially now, having obtained the "origin-level" talent, one can be considered a high-quality human being.

He was suddenly shocked, feeling a chill down his spine. "When I first crossed over, I had 100% progress, then awakened [Skilled Worker], slowly digested it, and then obtained [Alchemy Machine]. Actually...

But that’s not necessarily the case.

Through the experience of killing Trides, Portning and others, it can be confirmed that evil methods such as killing people and taking souls cannot plunder the source of talent, at least ordinary killing cannot do it.

No, it doesn’t seem right either.

Traveling through time and taking souls is not simply killing people..."

It is never a good idea to just blindly search around and try your luck to complete it.

We still need to understand its essence...

And a stable way to obtain it!

……

December 12th, the third day.

Roy suddenly opened his eyes and recovered from his shallow meditation.

"Sophia and Celine didn't come back yesterday? I don't know what happened to them.

And Renien and the others seemed impatient and set out on an expedition overnight..."

Last night, everyone's luck was not very good, so they just exchanged some information briefly and there was no decent trade fair.

This made Roy want to test the [Eye of Hermes], but he didn't have the chance.

But with this thing in hand, it's only a matter of time before it comes in handy.

He stood up, summoned his undead steed, and left his resting place.

(End of this chapter)