Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 277 Odysseus's First Round of Cashing Out

Odysseus presided over the division of the spoils: "You can choose whether to exchange them for the items I have prepared for you or for the corresponding items obtained from the capture.

"Noi, do you have the formula for a Sequence 8 potion? Okay, your merits from this battle are enough to exchange for half of the main ingredient for the Joker potion."

Noy was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that he would have the hope of promotion just after going to sea.

"And Boatswain Salina, you've also obtained half of the main ingredient for the 'Raging People' potion," Odysseus said. "You two can choose to apply for promotion first, and you can earn the merits required for the other half later."

He has already agreed with "The World" to conduct the transaction tonight, and he will be able to obtain the characteristics needed for Noy's promotion by tomorrow at the latest.

Salina opened her arms exaggeratedly and said, "Captain, you are so great!"

She has been at sea for three years, but has only obtained the potion formula for promotion, and has never bought the main ingredients for promotion.

This is mainly because the characteristics or main materials of the "Sailor" path at sea are very popular, and most of the time you can't buy them even if you have money.

Moreover, for a Sequence 9, 600 pounds is a huge sum of money. Moreover, the trait of "Raging People" usually sells for to pounds, or even as high as pounds!
Odysseus smiled slightly at Salina's exaggerated praise and said to Boris, "Your reward is officially becoming a crew member of the Argonaut. You can accumulate merits and exchange them for the traits you need."

Boris breathed a sigh of relief, suppressing his sarcastic thoughts. "It's my pleasure, Captain."

"Cleveland, do you have the potion formula?" Odysseus continued to ask.

The taciturn and low-profile combat captain said, "Yes."

He had just recently saved enough money to buy the "Weapon Master" potion formula.

Odysseus smiled and said, "Very good, the merits you gained in this battle can be exchanged for one-third of the main ingredients for the 'Weapon Master' potion.

"Beavis, do you have a potion recipe?"

Beavis shook his head: "No."

That's already a Sequence 6 potion recipe, not so easy to obtain.

"That's right, I have it here." Odysseus said, "Your merits can get you half of the 'Craftsman' formula. You can also apply to get the formula first, go find the main ingredients, and then make up the merits later."

Beavis rubbed his hands and smiled, "After so many years, I finally feel the benefits of having an organization behind me."

Everyone laughed together, feeling that the things that could be exchanged for merit were what they needed most at the moment, and they would definitely choose to exchange merit for items.

At the same time, they also realized that the captain was an extraordinary person with rich experience.

Odysseus then said to Second Mate Rupert, "I don't have the potion formula and main ingredients you need. You can choose from the spoils, but based on your contribution, your level will not exceed Sequence 7.

"You can also accumulate merits first, and then redeem them with merits once you have the main materials you need."

Rupert thought for a moment and then said, "I hope to accumulate merit."

Odysseus nodded and said to Bazel, "In this battle, the merits you gain can be used to obtain the potion formula of the Corrupted Baron.

"We also seized a Beyonder trait this time. Since it was seized, I'll give you another quarter of that Beyonder trait. You can exchange it for more by continuing to accumulate merit."

Bazel smiled and said, "Thank you, Captain."

Then he said, "I hope to get a magical item with stronger offensive power, which I can trade for gold pounds."

The gold pounds he had accumulated were enough to buy a magical item of Sequence 6, but he didn't have the channels to do so.

Odysseus took out the sealed item he had just seized from Egbert: "This is a magical item I found from Egbert, comparable to the 'Wind Blessed'.

"I've already checked it. It has four abilities: Flight, Wind Blade, Diving, and Furious Blow. The negative effects aren't that significant.

"Because this is a war trophy, if you need it, I can sell it to you for 4500 pounds."

Egbert always carries the seal with him, so the negative effects are certainly not very great.

On the sea, the "Sailor" path sequence level 6, a seal with not too big a negative effect, starts at 6000 pounds!
Bazel immediately said, "I want it!"

Since he met "Captain Gal", he made a lot of money through several operations. Combined with his previous accumulation, even if he did not get the bonus from this operation, it would be enough for him to immediately get this magical item.

Since everyone accepted the spoils exchanged for merit, the remaining spoils belonged to Odysseus.

After dividing up the spoils, Odysseus added, "This time we also captured a ghost ship and a merchant ship. We, the Sword of Dawn, now have a fleet!"

Everyone was very happy. After all, "fleet" was a symbol of a pirate group's growing strength.

Salina couldn't help but ask, "Why haven't I heard before that fighting pirates is so profitable?"

After a battle, you can not only be promoted, but also have a fleet.

Rupert smiled and said, "To be exact, it's because I'm fighting pirates with Captain Gar that I make so much money."

Beavis said silently: "Yes."

After seeing how Captain Gal fought the pirates, he deeply agreed with Rupert's statement.

You know, among the pirates who rushed towards "Lighthouse Hill" at that time, there were more than a dozen Beyonders, including a Sequence 6. As a result, they all died on the hillside in less than ten minutes.

Without the Argo, this battle would be very difficult, after all, the opponent has a ghost ship and two Sequence 6 Beyonders.

Beavis had never heard of this kind of fighting style, and several times he wanted to ask the captain how those weapons worked.

But he felt that he had been a member of the pirate group for too short a time, so he didn't ask.

"I am already the mayor of Cruz Island." Odysseus continued, "This involves the issue of rotation on the island.

"At least one crew member and one navigator trainee must stay on the Ghost, and at least one crew member must be stationed on Cruz Island."

Then Odysseus made detailed deployments. The first group to be on duty on the "Ghost" were Bazel and Ansel, and the first group to be on duty on Cruz Island were Rupert and Noy.

Odysseus' plan was to keep the Argonauta sailing on the sea, traveling back and forth between the sea and Cruz Island. The work arranged on Cruz Island needed to be supervised by the crew.

Only after completing the deployment did they raise their glasses to celebrate and truly begin to enjoy the dinner.

After a few drinks, the atmosphere of the conversation became more lively, and Rupert began to "popularize" the story of the first mate Bazel with the new crew members.

This story is widely circulated in the Rorsted Archipelago. Everyone has heard it more or less, and today we finally heard the "full version".

But when talking about the negotiation with the navy, Bazel suddenly said: "The reason why I was able to complete the transformation from a pirate to a bounty hunter is mainly because I was an informant for the navy very early on.

"'Severed Finger' also knew about this and thought this identity would get him some help, so he didn't object.

"Because I provided valuable intelligence to the navy several times, I bribed their officers and they agreed to cancel my reward."

Everyone was stunned. Salina didn't understand for a moment: "Pirates can get help from the navy?"

Bazel laughed and said, “The Raging Sea is too vast, and the main forces of the navy are all tied down to contain other countries’ navies, so there is not much force left to actually deal with the pirates.

“So they also need some pirates who can provide them with intelligence and do something for them after they pay some gold pounds.

"Aside from some financial benefits, the navy generally doesn't intervene as long as there's no bloodshed during the looting."

Salina nodded slowly, obviously this was something she had not thought of before.

Rupert was a little disappointed: "This truth will greatly affect the plot of the story of 'Bazel's Revenge'!"

"Then you can continue to use the original version." Odysseus smiled and then asked Bazel: "What level of naval officer can you contact now?"

Odysseus had long known that Basel was an informant of the Navy, or at least he would have known it if he was not blind.

At the same time, Odysseus did not think that this was something that needed to be opposed. Not only that, the person he trusted most among the crew was Bazel, because Bazel was very sensible and knew very well that he was first the first mate of the "Argo" and then an informant of the navy.

Salina looked at the captain and then at the first mate. She realized that the captain didn't really care about the fact that the first mate was a naval informant.

"Colonel," Bazel replied, "the colonel in charge of intelligence."

Odysseus nodded: "That's good."

After chatting for a few more sentences, Rupert began to imagine the future development of the pirate group. Everyone started to brag. After a meal, everyone felt that they would become the "King of Pirates" on the sea tomorrow.

Odysseus returned to the ship and did not rest. Instead, he set up an altar and used the "Bestowal Ceremony" to obtain the "Master of Secret Puppetry" characteristics that were contaminated by the "True Creator".

This feature is placed in an iron box and covered with a "spiritual wall", so if you reach out and touch the iron box, you will not hear any whispers.

Odysseus kept it with him for the time being and did not immediately go to the "Wilderness of Knowledge" to deal with it. He guessed that "The Fool" was still watching him.

Then Odysseus entered working mode, engraved a magic circle on the metal sheet, and embedded a copy of the extraordinary characteristics of the "Pharmacist" path on it.

Odysseus found some prescriptions he had traded for before and brought the corresponding herbs, which were the kind of herbs that could not be called spiritual materials but could cure diseases.

After preparing the herbs according to the dosage of the prescription, Odysseus injected spirituality into the metal piece he had just made. The magic circle on it was activated, and the spirituality was injected into the herbs on the workbench.

Then Odysseus boiled the herbs and got a pot of black potion.

His spiritual power told him that this pot of medicine was very effective in treating malaria and would take effect within a few minutes of drinking it.

This proves that Odysseus's experiment was successful.

Odysseus has been researching the corresponding abilities of the "Recorder". He hopes that the magic circle he draws will have the same power as the extraordinary ability.

However, this research has been going on for a long time. He can now even use the "Gar Rune" to describe the corresponding extraordinary abilities, but he is still unable to release them.

Just a few days ago, while exploring with Fors, Odysseus acquired the trait of a "recorder."

These days, whenever he has time, he will use this feature to conduct further research.

During the continuous experiments, Odysseus realized a problem: his research direction was wrong!
Although the spirituality of this world can call upon some natural forces, if you have to say it, it is more like a "physical reaction"!
If spirituality is regarded as a kind of energy, then the magic circle before Odysseus is the application of this energy.

It's like the application of electricity, which can make light bulbs light up and machines run.

But what Odysseus mobilized through the magic circle was definitely not an extraordinary ability.

Extraordinary abilities are the abilities that are ultimately revealed after spirituality has been "processed" by Extraordinary characteristics.

This "processing" is very special and can only be completed by extraordinary characteristics, and Odysseus cannot imitate this process with anything other than extraordinary characteristics.

His research failed, but he gained a new understanding of the relationship between spirituality and extraordinary characteristics.

Through his research on the "teleportation array", Odysseus found a new way to apply the array and extraordinary characteristics.

That method is the experiment he is doing now, such as using the corresponding magic circle to activate the characteristics of the "pharmacist" and create a medicine that is very effective against malaria.

This seemed like a special method of utilizing extraordinary properties, or even a way of creating a seal, but it was actually not the case at all.

If combined with a magic array that condenses spiritual energy, this will become a production line for manufacturing drugs to treat malaria!
This breaks through the limitation that "pharmacists" cannot "prepare" medicines continuously.

The principle of the "pharmacist" in preparing medicine is probably to find the corresponding herbs, and then inject these herbs with spirituality that has been "processed" by extraordinary properties. Those ordinary herbs will immediately have magical effects.

Odysseus had tried it a long time ago, but herbs that were not infused with spirituality by the "pharmacist" had almost no effect.

But the problem is that the "pharmacist" has limited spiritual power and cannot continuously prepare magical medicines.

Now, Odysseus's research has perfectly solved this problem. As long as the spirituality is sufficient, this extraordinary characteristic can work 24 hours a day.

This will enable mass production of the "miracle drug".

Although it was different from what Odysseus had initially expected, it basically achieved his original idea: mass production!
In fact, all of Odysseus's research is aimed at mass production, and his research purpose is to allow more people to enjoy the benefits brought by extraordinary performance.

In Odysseus's view, ordinary people can enjoy the convenience of extraordinary things without knowing about them, just as ordinary people can enjoy the brightness of electric lights without understanding the principles of electricity. Of course, Odysseus did not have any sense of selfless dedication, but he also realized that this process also contained huge business opportunities and wealth.

So he has always had a big plan, which is to use part of his research to monetize, develop his own extraordinary power, and gain greater strength.

However, considering the attention he received, Odysseus only demonstrated some of the most basic research while in Backlund. It was not until he left Backlund that Odysseus's plan officially began.

Things like the "Argo," the "Extraordinary Puppet," and the "special medicine production line" he just experimented with are all ways to monetize his research.

Moreover, this kind of monetization is within a controllable range and will not attract the attention of others for the time being.

When a certain amount of wealth has been accumulated and Odysseus's power becomes stronger and his strength becomes stronger, he will further cash in on it, thereby gaining even more powerful power.

Just like that, like a snowball, it becomes stronger step by step.

Now that Odysseus has a place to build his own base, he has space to deploy a "special medicine production line."

After this drug enters the market, it will not attract much attention. After all, it is something that can be "produced" at the Sequence 9 level.

Moreover, Odysseus has noticed that there are currently no good drugs to treat malaria in the Rorsted Archipelago, and a large number of people in the northern continent die from malaria every year.

People from the Northern Continent who were born in low-dimensional areas basically have no antibodies against tropical parasitic diseases, so many people from the Northern Continent who come to Rorsted will die from this disease.

Other diseases that the colonists frequently suffered from included cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, etc., almost all of which were fatal.

Before, Odysseus was wondering why Emperor Roselle didn’t popularize antibiotics?

Until one day he tried to cultivate a batch of penicillin bacteria himself in the "Wilderness of Knowledge", and found that antibiotics had almost no effect in this extraordinary world.

However, penicillin bacteria are extremely destructive and can easily cause a new disease if cultivated in large quantities.

Odysseus pondered for a while before realizing that after the "Prime Creator" awakened, it was not only humans and other animals that mutated, but also viruses, fungi and other microorganisms.

Since then, the diseases caused by the virus have become more powerful, but because the human body has also mutated, the quality of those who survive has improved a lot, and their antibodies are just enough to fight these viruses.

The problem is that although the penicillin bacteria have mutated, the efficacy of penicillin has not changed much. Odysseus speculates that this may be because the production process of penicillin involves human intervention, so the effect of penicillin is still at the level before the "Prime Creator" awakened.

But the medicines at that time can no longer cure the diseases we have today.

As a result, Odysseus' plan to cultivate penicillin on a large scale was also scrapped.

But now Odysseus has found a new idea. Since this is an era of virus mutation and an era of extraordinary power, it is obvious that the world's method of making "antibiotics" also needs to be improved and changed.

The "miracle drug" that Odysseus just successfully experimented with is the "antibiotic" that belongs to this world. Such a miracle drug will have a huge market just in the Rorsted Islands.

Moreover, the medicines produced by Odysseus must be cheap enough, because those herbs are not valuable at all. The valuable part lies in the "processing" part of the extraordinary properties.

Odysseus's research has made this valuable "process" "worthless". Perhaps the biggest expense is hiring local people to cook the medicine and can it.

After making some simple plans for the future, Odysseus put away the experimental product, casually placed the characteristics of the "Master of Secret Puppetry" into the "Wildness of Knowledge", and returned to the bedroom to sleep.

In the early hours of the morning, a spiritual reminder woke Odysseus up. He did not open his eyes, but took a deep breath and entered the "wilderness of knowledge" through "meditation".

Inside the source substance, Odysseus stretched and waved his hand, and an iron box containing the "Master of Secret Puppetry" characteristics flew over.

After removing the "spiritual wall" on the iron box, the moment the iron box was opened, Odysseus heard a very sacred whisper in his ears.

This made Odysseus feel a little strange. Theoretically, the mumbling of the "True Creator" should not be heard in the "Wilderness of Knowledge".

After pondering for a while, Odysseus recalled the reaction that occurred here after he came into contact with the "Eternal Whisper" and entered the "Wilderness of Knowledge".

Now he seriously doubted that this kind of "babbling" could have any effect in the "wilderness of knowledge".

Odysseus went on to speculate that the way of imparting knowledge also includes "language", and at the level of gods, language becomes "babble".

Because the authority of the "True Creator" has the ability of "rambles", it will cause a certain reaction in the "Wilderness of Knowledge".

After figuring this out, Odysseus listened carefully to the whispers, because in the "wilderness of knowledge", these "whispers" could not cause him any harm.

Each of these "mumblings" sounds profound, but they are basically incoherent words. The only content that can be heard clearly is several unique ways of using the "corruption" ability.

But Odysseus has no use for these contents because he does not have the ability to "fall".

Then Odysseus came to the "Central Simulator" and shattered the extraordinary characteristics of this "Master of Secret Puppets".

After the characteristics were shattered, a black mucus-like substance appeared. When it was about to wrap up those characteristics again, Odysseus raised his hand, used the power of the "Wilderness of Knowledge" to "pull" it out, and put it into a glass bottle that had been prepared long ago.

In the "wilderness of knowledge", this mass of sticky black liquid looks very quiet.

But Odysseus knew very well that if this glass bottle was brought into the real world, people within dozens of meters would be able to hear the muttering of the "real creator".

There was no rush to make it into a scroll, so Odysseus temporarily put the glass bottle on the shelf.

Then Oss looked at today's seizure. A total of 18 extraordinary characteristics were seized, two of which were at the Sequence 6 level, one was the "Corrupted Baron" and the other was the "Undead Mentor".

There are four traits at the Sequence 7 level: "Navigator" from the "Sailor" path, "Vampire" from the "Pharmacist" path, "Interrogator" from the "Arbitrator" path, and "Briber" from the "Lawyer" path.

The rest are "low-sequence" features, mainly concentrated in the "lawyer" path and the "arbitrator" path.

There are three magical items in total. One was sold to the first mate Bazel, and the remaining two were respectively targeted at the "psychologist" of the "audience" path and the "sheriff" of the "arbitrator" path.

Odysseus saw that there was already a small pile of extraordinary characteristics in the corner of the room. He only took the "Corrupted Baron" characteristics that he had seized this time and crushed them, rather than crushing all the characteristics.

Because this is really a lot, Odysseus is already considering whether to give away some of it.

But Odysseus looked at the pile of gold pounds again. The initial use of the "Argo" had already allowed Odysseus to accumulate a lot of wealth. This was his first step to monetize his research, and it was going even better than he had planned.

Odysseus picked up piles of gold pounds and did a "financial statistics". After counting for a long time, he came up with a number that surprised Odysseus: 17330 pounds!
This did not include the more than 100 pounds and change in his wallet, and the more than 300 pounds of public funds on the "Argo".

This does not include the bounty from this battle, nor the 4500 pounds from selling the magical items.

Odysseus immediately realized a problem. Now it was no longer a question of how to make money, but how to spend it.

It is indeed pleasing to the eye to see all this cash, but Odysseus also knows that if he wants to develop his own power and become stronger, he has to spend all this money!
Odysseus's first idea was to develop infrastructure and education on Cruz Island, and to begin training a group of "low-sequence" extraordinary people among the locals.

The second idea is to use the "biological waist ring" to transform agriculture and animal husbandry, so that these two industries that are related to everyone's survival can become more productive and occupy a smaller area.

So Odysseus struck while the iron was hot and wrote two plans.

The plan here is written, and the features there are also re-aggregated.

Odysseus placed the plan and the characteristics of the "Master of Secret Puppetry" on the "Space Array" so that they could be picked up tomorrow.

Then Odysseus breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the real world, and fell asleep again using the method of "meditation".

On Wednesday morning, as soon as the other crew members got up, Odysseus asked them to have breakfast quickly and hold a meeting after breakfast.

The food on the ship is now provided by two "extraordinary puppets". The taste cannot be said to be very good, but it is acceptable.

Odysseus still wanted to find a chef, but most chefs were reluctant to board a pirate ship.

When they arrived at the conference room, Odysseus explained the upcoming construction plan on Cruz Island, which made everyone a little confused.

They kept asking themselves, Am I really on a pirate ship? Am I really a pirate?

After outlining the overall plan, Odysseus began to make specific arrangements: "Bazel, go to Bayam first. I have a few tasks for you.

“First, redeem the bounty.

"Second, go to the interior of Blue Mountain Island and buy a small manor, close to the train station and with convenient transportation.

"Third, arrange an intelligence exchange meeting on Friday.

"Fourth, rent a shop and prepare to sell a special medicine for treating malaria.

"Fifth, contact your old subordinates and have them purchase a batch of inexpensive supplies and food that can be used on the island. You can take a look at what Cruz Island needs for specific supplies and food.

"Also, they are asked to purchase building materials in large quantities, taking whatever is available on the market, and continue to do so until the price is raised.

"Come to me for all the above expenses. Keep a detailed account of them. If you think it is necessary, you can hire a financial officer."

Bazel was stunned for a moment: "Wait a moment, I'll write it down."

After he made a note of it, Odysseus asked the second mate Rupert and Noy to follow him around the island later, and asked Beavis to be the first crew member to go to the "Ghost" to take up duty.

The rest of the crew is free to move around and prepare to set sail tomorrow.

After explaining the specific tasks, Rupert asked, "Captain, what are we going to do?"

"Spend money." Odysseus smiled and said, "I want to build this island into the second economic and commercial center of the Raging Sea!"

Another economic and commercial center is Bayam.

Everyone was slightly stunned. They didn't know how to comment on the captain's bold words, and they couldn't even find the appropriate expression to respond.

Seeing everyone's confused expressions, Odysseus added, "You may not understand now, but in the near future, everyone will understand my purpose."

He stood up and said, "Anyway, everyone, get stronger quickly!"

After saying that, Odysseus hurried away. After he left the meeting room, Rupert called Noy: "Hurry, hurry, the captain has entered the working state!"

Noy quickly closed his notebook and quickly caught up.

When they got to the deck, Odysseus gave Rupert and Noy three "flying scrolls" each. They first traveled around the port town and the southern plains.

At this time, when people see the "flying mayor", they will take off their hats and salute. The legend about the new mayor has spread on the island.

One of the legends is that the mayor has a pair of "invisible wings" that allow him to fly himself and also allow others to temporarily have the ability to fly.

The two places that Odysseus visited were the only place on the island that had been simply developed by modern humans, and the other was a densely populated and grain-producing area.

Odysseus walked around and finally landed on the "Lighthouse Hill" in the middle with Rupert and Noy.

From here, one can clearly see the port town and the southern plains. Odysseus said, "The new town is built on this mountain.

"But it can't be built towards the sea, because that's where we need to build forts and trenches to form a line of defense."

Rupert and Noy didn't ask any questions now, but just quickly wrote down the captain's words.

Then Odysseus said, "Rupert, you go and inform the residents of the port town. Noy will go find Wells and ask him to inform the villages.

“Then the island was divided into two towns, one was a port town and the other was a plain town.

"The mayor of Plain Town is Wells, and the deputy mayor is Glenn. I'll personally confirm the specific location for the town government in a couple of days."

Rupert asked, "What about the mayor of Port Town?"

Odysseus thought for a moment and smiled, "Let's talk about it in a couple of days. For now, let the autonomous association play the role of the town government.

"Oh, by the way, you have to tell them that I've chosen 'Beacon Hill' as my base and that I'm going to requisition one of their large warehouses."

This was a condition they had agreed upon before.

Odysseus took a deep breath and suddenly felt that he had a lot of things to do.

(End of this chapter)