Chapter 105: [Soul Crystal (D)]

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Successive explosions rang out.

Black lines were dyed across the white canvas.

These were all caused by the explosion potions Lan Qingyou had brought out this time.

After flying back and forth, horizontally and vertically in the sky for quite a few rounds, Lan Qingyou had finally blasted away the accumulated snow and ice layer traversing this small area.

Along the way, she also 'awakened' those hibernating Slimes hidden beneath the ice layer.

It was just that the Slimes had already undergone a radical transformation right now.

Coupled with some of the ice dregs and snowflakes originally remaining on the ground, they looked exactly like a rag.

Calling their overall appearance 'dirty, messy, and awful' wouldn't even be entirely appropriate.

[Crushed Stone Slime (D)]

[Health Points: 400]

[Mana Points: 20]

[Skills: (Soft Body) (Crushed Stone Flying Strike)]

[Introduction: A type of monster living in swamp regions. It is an advanced version of a Slime. Compared to Slimes, they process the additional ability to launch attacks using the crushed stones on their bodies.]

Lan Qingyou's methods for fighting these fellows were still the same old routine.

Freeze them, blow them to pieces, then stab them.

Only then would she pick up the chunks of frozen stiff sludge and D-rank monster crystal cores dropped from their bodies.

Perhaps because of the weather, Lan Qingyou discovered towards the end that she didn't even need to freeze them to kill them; directly bombing them did the trick.

It was just that the consequence of doing this was that because the monster hadn't frozen hard enough, the sludge couldn't be picked up directly like an ice cube.

Therefore, chasing after convenience, she still employed her old three-step method.

Of course.

Aside from her old three-step method, Lan Qingyou also had the skill 'Soul Siphon'.

This was her first time using it after acquiring this skill. She was a bit rusty, but overall it was still quite good.

Even though the skill introduction stated there was 'a chance', from Lan Qingyou's recordings, the probability didn't seem low.

It was roughly a fifty-fifty chance.

[Soul Crystal (D)]

[Function: Alchemy, Rituals]

[Introduction: This is the soul crystal of a D-rank monster. Although it doesn't have much major utility, it is quite a decent casting material for novice alchemists, invokers, and summoners.]

Looking at the irregular, grey, translucent crystalline body in her hands, Lan Qingyou frowned slightly.

Invoker? Summoner?

This was the first time she had heard of such names.

From the looks of it, they were similar to her alchemist class, belonging to the category of professions?

How strange.

These monsters clearly possessed things like health points and mana points. Yet in Lan Qingyou's eyes, they were exactly the same as the previous Slimes.

A single frost potion and a single explosion potion were capable of dealing with them.

It was as if this combination was specifically designed to counter their Slime clan.

After filling up her herb pouch, which had now been nurtured to a capacity of 2 cubic meters, Lan Qingyou contentedly stayed her hand.

Pulling out her Tarot Card, Lan Qingyou checked her bearings before flying toward the grey dot she had spotted earlier.

She still had about half an hour before the sun set anyway.

Taking a look wouldn't hurt.

However, when Lan Qingyou flew over to the location of the grey dot displayed on the card, she was utterly shocked speechless by the scene before her eyes.

A collapsed building.

To be exact, it was a wooden cabin where roughly a quarter of it had collapsed.

Of course, this wasn't the main point. The main point was that this wooden house was a shelter—a shelter that had lost its resident.

Judging by the wooden cabin's floor area, it should be a Level Two shelter.

Level Two... From the looks of it, it possessed a high chance of having been destroyed during the first mana tide.

She just didn't know where the resident of this shelter went.

It was possible they ran away, possible they were blown away by the gale, possible they were torn to shreds by the chaotic mana during the mana tide, or perhaps it was even those three people she killed a while ago.

After all, everyone's activity radius wasn't large. Moreover, those two thieves had been right beside her prior to the forced transmigration.

It made perfect sense for their shelter to be distributed in her vicinity.

Lan Qingyou cautiously floated over, intending to head inside to take a look.

Yet she discovered she couldn't enter at all.

It wasn't because there were any restrictions, but rather because the room was piled full of various basic units.

Perhaps it was exactly because it had the support of these basic units that this shelter hadn't completely collapsed, right?

As Lan Qingyou made this guess, the thought that the resident of this shelter was highly likely to be those three people grew even more certain in her heart.

Because she clearly recalled someone saying previously that when a person was killed, the items in their trading house would automatically pop out from the magic desk.

Of course, guesses were merely restricted to guesses.

Even though her herb pouch was full, she still had her card.

Thus, she pressed the card against them and began to absorb these basic materials.

Wood3816, Stone1588, Vines2651, Dried Sludge Chunks1597, E-rank Monster Crystal Core * 181... the ensuing miscellaneous items were quite numerous.

But since the card only had ten grid compartments, Lan Qingyou could only throw away some of the unimportant items, or items that the predecessor had utilized.

Only then did she barely manage to stuff everything in the room away.

Lan Qingyou was extremely cautious while collecting these items, deeply afraid that moving too quickly would cause the house to collapse.

Fortunately, the structure of this shelter was still somewhat intact. Aside from the area there that had originally collapsed spilling a few more blocks of wood down, nothing else happened.

Right after Lan Qingyou stepped inside, the very first thing she did was stuff the magic desk inside the room into her card, directly hanging the magic carriage lantern at her waist.

What a joke, these were top-grade research resources. How could she not bring them back to dismantle, see the underlying mechanisms, and research them properly?

Lan Qingyou had purposefully kept a free slot empty just for it.

Subsequently, Lan Qingyou commenced her investigation of this shelter.

While she called it an investigation, she was mainly just looking at the magic circuits of its magic shield.

The circuits along the walls of this shelter possessed minuscule differences from the symbols of her own shelter. Upon closer inspection, she discovered that not only were the styles of these symbols different, but even their sequence of arrangement was different.

If the circuits of her own shelter were arranged staggeringly, then this shelter possessed an extremely tidy arrangement format—one that would make people with severe OCD feel entirely comfortable.

Because they had been devoid of energy for a long time, these magic circuits had already dimmed down, becoming ordinary circuits.

But this was precisely what Lan Qingyou wanted.

After all, considering her current level, wanting to research the magic circuits of an intact magic shield was a complete fantasy.

But now that she conveniently had an incomplete magic circuit entirely devoid of energy for her to research, how could she let slip such a wonderful opportunity?

"The circuit pauses here... the connection..."

"It seems it even employed some elements of the Baham Formula."

"I see. So it connects the two of them through the details in the composition..."

"An opening? It seems there was a discussion regarding this issue in the group before..."

Mumbling to herself, Lan Qingyou sprawled on the ground, researching vigorously. She completely failed to notice the sky outside gradually darkening until it eventually turned completely pitch-black.

Right now, she was immersed in the ocean of learning.

If it were the fourteen or fifteen-year-old her from a few years ago, she probably wouldn't have been able to imagine there would come a day when she possessed such a passionate love for learning, right?