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Chapter 269 [Philosopher's Stone] and the Enemy

After seeing Fang Yi not far away defeat the enemy, sheathing his sword and putting on a cloak as he walked towards him.

Hei Tong first tightened the cloak on his body without leaving any trace, making sure that the cloak could cover his body.

It can prevent Fang Yi from seeing his sailor uniform which was a little tattered after his body was cut in two by the samurai.

After blocking the other party's possible way to explore his own injuries and discover abnormalities in his own body.

The girl raised her head towards Fang Yi and a sweet smile appeared on her face.

She was ready to report her glorious achievements to the other party and show the man that she had exceeded his instructions.

At the same time, it also shows the other party that you are worth obeying his orders, following him to continue fighting, and not being abandoned.

Although she had regained her human thinking ability after being healed by the man, the girl did not intend to use it often.

After living as a tool for many years, obeying the orders of others has become an instinct in Hei Tong's body.

At the same time, after regaining his sanity, he vaguely felt that his body was heading towards irreversible destruction under the influence of the drug [Secret Medicine of the Assassination Force].

And every time he used this evil [Imperial Weapon], his body was gradually corroded by this dark energy and became more dilapidated.

At this moment, Heitong already understood a fact:
I don’t have much time left to live.

It is an extremely extravagant and unrealistic idea to want to pursue the same things as ordinary people and realize your own ideals.

Being used as a tool and destroyed is the only good ending for me.

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Hei Tong looked at the man who was gradually approaching her, and a smile from the heart appeared on her face.

She looked at the man's face, and a thousand thoughts ran through her mind.

Fang Yi is the 'new master' she chose for herself.

[As a tool, all I can do is pray that I meet a qualified user. Compared to the Empire, the one before me makes me want to follow him more.]

Although I don't know where the sense of urgency he inadvertently exudes comes from, I know he must need some help.

[Therefore, as long as I am still worthy of carrying out orders, the other party should not refuse my following.]

Hei Tong kicked the dismembered pieces of flesh of the sleeping monsters in front of him without leaving any trace, to prevent the man from getting close to him and dirtying his shoes.

When she glanced at these pieces of flesh that were still trembling slightly and seemed to have vitality, she couldn't help but feel her hands trembling.

The trembling was caused half by the side effects of using the [Imperial Tool] and half by physical fatigue.

After taking the samurai's blow head-on, which was meant to split his body in two, he quickly killed the opponent.

She immediately started the "slaughtering pig" activity.

It turns out that even killing dozens of defenseless pigs is a very physically demanding activity in a short period of time.

After spending several minutes, dozens of sleeping monsters in cylindrical glass covers were easily killed.

It might take some effort to activate these, which were basically unaffected by "momentum", but after she had accomplished the feat of chopping up all the resistance-free experimental subjects, the girl sat down and rested for a while.

And now is her 'harvest' moment.

After completing all this, she could finally say loudly to the man who was in front of her what she had always wanted to say.

Looking at Fang Yi whose mouth corners moved slightly.

The girl took a deep breath and said what was in her mind in her loudest voice before the man could finish his words.

"I have carried out all your instructions perfectly without compromise. Please review!"
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Fang Yi looked at the girl in front of him who was trying hard to act as if she was fine, and glanced at the pile of corpses on her body.

Listening to the passionate words coming out of the other party's mouth, I couldn't help but sigh again in my heart.

[As expected, simply curing her mentally without addressing her physical and medication issues would cause her to become like this.]

“That’s why I hate using that option, extending a helping hand to give people hope and becoming someone else’s pillar of support.”

Fang Yi looked carefully at the girl in front of him. He had easily seen what the other party was trying hard to hide.

The [Transparent World], which had not yet stopped running, accurately displayed the damaged spine and muscle cross-sections, as well as the broken blood vessels in the opponent's body.

It was obvious that the girl had been chopped in half.

At the same time, the [Spirit] attribute has reached 17 points, which is why he did not kill the enemy in one blow during the battle. Instead, he rarely dragged the enemy to the brink for a while, and then stacked several layers of buffs to temporarily increase the [Character] skill of a little perception ability.

There was also the passive blessing brought by [Imperial Weapon] [Shangri-La·Kai], which allowed him to clearly sense that an energy that the other party could not control was slowly eroding the girl's body.

[Trouble is here. I'm afraid her [Spirit] attribute is insufficient to fully control that powerful [Imperial Tool].]

[First, feel her body and treat her minor injuries.]

[Once Akame gets the [Imperial Tool] [God's Hand·Perfect], I can try to use [Alchemy·Body Transformation] to solve these problems.]

Having made up his mind, Fang Yi did not respond to Hei Tong's report, but reached out and touched the girl's waist.
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Looking at Fang Yi who didn't say a word, Heitong couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

The girl even felt a little uneasy and thought, "He didn't praise me like before. Is it because I didn't do well enough?"

When Fang Yi reached out to touch her waist, the girl even subconsciously made a dodging gesture.

But her reason made her try her best to suppress her body's instinctive reaction, and then pray in her heart.

[Don't let him find out I'm injured, otherwise I'll be seen as a worthless 'tool']

Tools that are 'broken' and worthless will be discarded.

I don't want him to suddenly disappear from my sight like my sister did.

However, the next moment, she felt a warm current coming from the man's palm and then flowing through her torso.

But in a moment, she was surprised to find that her spine, which had been aching slightly and her arms, which had been numb after being damaged in the battle, had returned to normal.

After using the power of the [Imperial Tool] to 'join', the body that had felt strange and stiff regained its flexibility.

At the same time, the man's plain yet touching words reached her ears.

"It's been a hard battle."

Before the girl could react to these unexpected words, she saw the man put away his smile and added something to her seriously.

"Hiding an injury is a very bad act.

"Next time, remember to tell me if you're hurt.

"I just happen to have this kind of miraculous healing ability that needs to be exercised." After hearing the man's words, she first lowered her head, closed her eyes and tried hard to control the tears in her eyes.

After sniffing again to control her emotions, she grabbed the man's hand and said softly, "Okay."

Fang Yi looked at Hei Tong's dependent attitude and heard the notification sound of increased friendship level, so he did not interrupt the other party immediately.

Instead, he delayed the 'treatment' for a while longer and let the girl hold his hand.

Only after the other party loosened her wrist as if waking from a dream did Fang Yi take out the [Strange Blood] again and "devour" the slightly trembling flesh behind the girl bit by bit.

He added a few approving 'lies', affirming the other party's contribution in the battle.

"Thanks for your great help. Without you killing and chopping up these dormant monsters, I definitely wouldn't have been able to defeat that terrifying monster so easily.

"You successfully cut off the alchemist's 'reserve army' and the monster's 'food' for recovery.

"This monster, capable of shapeshifting, possesses extremely strong vitality, and is not greatly affected by 'momentum'. It is truly the nemesis of swords and a nightmare for close combat."

As soon as these words that the other party wanted to hear were spoken, the prompt sound for the friendliness increase rang again.
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Fang Yi looked at the girl who was staring at him and nodded with satisfaction.

He planned to continue to improve the other party's friendliness in order to facilitate the implementation of the sister reconciliation plan later, and obtain a higher "follower" exchange discount to save some resources.

This time, the 'Follower' will not be free like the last novice mission.
He had a hunch that according to the nature of the reincarnation space, it would not be easy for him to bring out the resources that the reincarnated people had to pay.

Therefore, he chose to "scrape" out as many resources as possible from the space.

While [Strange Blood] and [California Clear Light] were sucking the pile of flesh into a mummy to replenish the blood and energy, Fang Yi took out [Soul-Burning Wax] again.

While destroying these monsters, I also added some wax to restore the durability of this item.

Just now, when I activated the [Blood Moat] mixed with wax oil to defend against Zhu Tian's attack, it really consumed a lot of durability.

This kind of durable items and equipment has extremely excellent effects, but the price is that it is difficult to replenish its "energy".

But after refining all the 'corpses', Fang Yi was surprised to find that the durability of the [Soul-Burning Wax] had only increased by 11 points.

Eating so many monsters only increased the durability of this artifact from [21/70] to [32/70].

[This alchemically transformed monster only has human flesh and appearance, but almost no soul? ]

After obtaining some more information about the monster, Fang Yi contentedly put away the strange object and signaled Heitong to leave first.

He needed to make some preparations to create a "big noise" to attract the imperial guards and the [ministerial camp] of the capital.

After the girl left with the "doll" and looked back every three steps, Fang Yi began to draw the magic circle of "Bloody Alchemy" with his bare hands in this underground laboratory.

The acquisition of the [Philosopher's Stone (Fake)] allowed him to avoid using the difficult-to-control destructive power of [Black Flash] and instead complete his plans in a relatively 'elegant' and delicate manner.
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【Philosopher's Stone (Fake)】

Category: Strange Objects

Quality: Tier 2 Epic

Durability: 182/200
Origin: Unnamed World
Conditions of Use:

1. The user's intelligence attribute must be higher than 15 points, and the spiritual attribute must be higher than 15 points. Forcibly using it with attributes lower than this will lead to unknown consequences.

2. The user needs to master the [Alchemy] skill to [level 10] or above to gradually unlock the effects of this item.

Equipment effect:

1. When the reincarnator holding this artifact activates the [Alchemy] skill, the performance of the [Alchemy] skill can be slightly improved.

Tip: This bonus does not consume the durability of the item.

2. It can consume the durability of a certain amount of items, greatly improving the performance of [Alchemy] skills, and accelerating the decomposition and processing of items by [Alchemy] skills.

Warning: When crafting alchemical items, if you choose to increase the durability of consumable items to improve the performance of the [Alchemy] skill, it will only increase the speed at which the user crafts the alchemical item, and will not significantly improve the performance of the alchemical item.

3. Consumable items can be used as universal materials to replace most alchemical materials, and can be used to make alchemical potions, as well as the creation, repair, and improvement of rare items and equipment.

Tip: This way of using items will give the crafted and repaired items additional positive properties.

4. Consumable items can act as catalysts and combustion aids for a long time, shortening the time it takes to activate branch skills such as [Alchemy·Material Transformation] and [Alchemy·Body Transformation].

"The following equipment effects are not yet unlocked due to insufficient skill levels in [Alchemy].

Summary:
This item has a similar appearance and highly similar functions to the Philosopher's Stone, the item coveted by the Alchemist.

Although it is just a fake, no Alchemist would refuse to own it.

After your [Alchemy] skill reaches a certain level, you may be able to find a way to restore the durability of this item.

Evaluation:

Although this is a crude fake, almost a fake, and based on misinformation, it still has some value in preservation and use.
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In addition to using her body to replenish Fang Yi's [California Qingguang]'s energy and blood, the alchemist Dotya also brought him relevant knowledge of [Alchemy·Body Transformation].

This item called [Philosopher's Stone (Fake)] is considered a pretty good harvest.

Although the color of this alchemist's treasure chest doesn't look very good, it is much better than the monster 'Zhu Tian' who only gave Fang Yi 8000 points and nothing else.

Right now, Fang Yi was going to use this item to experiment with the effect of [consuming durability and significantly increasing [Alchemy-type] skills], and try to use [Bloody Alchemy] to turn this laboratory into a 'dangerous building' that would collapse after he left.

With the completion of drawing several magic circles and the payment of a little spare life, after consuming 5 points of durability of [Philosopher's Stone (Fake)].

The alchemical array with the effect of [cracking] drawn by Fang Yi's hand efficiently destroyed the geological structure like a hot knife cutting butter.

Fang Yi could clearly feel that under the influence of the decomposition array with a delay function, a collapse like an earthquake would occur here in a few minutes, burying all traces of the battle here.

By then, even Sherlock Holmes would find it difficult to deduce what happened here.
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A few minutes later, Fang Yi walked out of the passage with satisfaction and was about to greet Kohler and Heitong.

The next moment, a man's severed hand flew towards his cheek and Hei Tong's suppressed groan after being hit, breaking his good mood of harvesting items.

"It looks like you are the [Death in the Mist].

"As a 'return gift' for killing Zhu Tian, ​​I will immediately execute your companions in front of you."

Fang Yi looked at Linglu, one of the Four Rakshasa Ghosts, who was pointing at him and starting to talk nonsense, and reached for the knife at hand.

[I remember 'promising' her that I would only unsheathe this knife once, against her.]

Now is the time to fulfill this 'promise'.

Fang Yi thought so.

(End of this chapter)