Chapter 290: Beastkin with wings are just too awesome!

"Have the townspeople all been settled?"

Three hours after the Xiangyang sailed away from the blizzard, Yun Mu stood before the helm and asked Brenna, who was at her side.

"Everything has been arranged properly. Although it is a bit crowded, the temperature inside the cabin is quite comfortable; no one should fall ill."

"As for food, it can last for about a week, and we only need three days to reach Frostfall City, so there is nothing to worry about."

"What about the mood of the townspeople?" Yun Mu asked again: "To leave their own hometown to live in another city, and as refugees at that..."

"Don't worry." Brenna saw through her thoughts and chuckled softly: "The situation in Folaka Town is considered a disaster impact, and the Kingdom will issue corresponding subsidies for disaster relief."

"Besides, most of the residents of Folaka Town have relatives living outside. For example, the mayor's son, Alex, has a house in the Winter Capital and is himself a certified Senior Engineer, so he shouldn't have any worries regarding his livelihood. Moreover, he had originally planned to bring the mayor to the Winter Capital to live."

"As for the others, if I am the one arranging it, Miss Yun can rest assured, right?"

"Won't it delay your time?" Yun Mu looked at her with some concern.

"It's fine, it won't take that much time." Brenna shook her head and said seriously: "These are responsibilities I should fulfill; I cannot sit idly by just because of my own private affairs."

"..."

For some reason, when Yun Mu heard this, she suddenly felt a sense of loss in her heart.

Brenna was heading to the Orc Federation this time for Elena, so after this matter was over, would she continue to accompany her on adventures? After all, she was a princess of the Frost Kingdom and had her own responsibilities and obligations to fulfill.

Unlike her, who was a Chuanzhezhe and whose predecessor was an orphan, so she had no ties (meaning being bound hand and foot) in this world; she was free and easy, without needing to worry too much.

If one day Brenna had to leave, what should she do?

"Is something uncomfortable, Miss Yun?" Brenna noticed Yun Mu's silence at this moment and couldn't help but ask softly.

"No, I'm fine." Coming back to her senses, Yun Mu shook her head.

Forget it, even if Brenna had to leave one day, that was her freedom.

Besides, no matter what she went to do, it wasn't as if they could never meet again after death; she could still go find her! Thinking of this, Yun Mu's mood instantly recovered.

She was never a sentimental person to begin with; as for things that might happen in the future, she would deal with them when the time came! The second day on the return journey.

Yun Mu recalled that Lucy wanted to refine the core of the Extreme Cold Ice and Snow Element Lord, so she took the stone coffin out from the space of the Divine Blood Pendant and placed it steadily on the deck of the Xiangyang.

Speaking of the core of the Extreme Cold Ice and Snow Element Lord... Yun Mu thought of the status that had inexplicably appeared on her status bar—

【Ice Flame Possession】

Saying it appeared inexplicably wasn't entirely accurate, because she knew who had bestowed this status.

The God of the Ice Flame Polar Circle, the culprit who created the Extreme Cold Core and caused her to have to turn back now.

She had been sailing in the blizzard yesterday so she hadn't studied it carefully, but this morning while she was training her Qi Strength, she discovered that the Qi Strength within her body had changed from the original white mixed with scarlet to a purple-blue mixed with scarlet.

And the Qi Strength in her attribute panel had also undergone some slight changes.

【Qi (Ice·Dark·Scarlet): 98/98【lv1 (10): All Attributes +1】】【Ice: Your Qi Strength possesses the Freeze attribute, capable of freezing the target's body and Qi Strength, and slowing the opponent's movements.】【Dark: After your Qi Strength hits a target, it will randomly apply a special status to the target, such as Corrosion, Paralysis, Slow, Weakness, Blindness, Chaos, etc.】【Scarlet: Your Qi Strength and Health can be freely converted; every 1 point of Health is equivalent to 10 points of Qi Strength. In addition, when your Health is below half, all skills that restore Health, including life-steal, will be enhanced by 20%; when Health is below one-quarter, the effect is further strengthened to 35%.】 Well, perhaps it wasn't a slight change, but a very large one.

First was the total amount of Qi Strength increasing from 60 to 98; this was the result of Yun Mu's training this morning, not worth mentioning.

What was truly worth noting were the Qi Strength attributes marked afterward.

Ice, Dark, and Scarlet.

Scarlet didn't need to be mentioned; it was an attribute that would inevitably arise as she was a Bloodline. As for Ice and Dark, they were the attributes brought by the 【Ice Flame Possession】 status.

Normally speaking, a Transcendental's Qi Strength attribute should only have one type; only a very small number of people possessed two Qi Strength attributes.

Yun Mu had asked Brenna before; her Qi Strength attribute was Magnetic, and the effect was being able to remotely control machines and make machines float in the air.

Besides that, it could also enhance the performance of machines, enabling them to exert capabilities far exceeding their panel values.

It was an effect very consistent with the positioning of a Mechanic, and the amplification ability was also quite gratifying.

One attribute was already so powerful; it was hard to imagine just how awesome she was, possessing three Qi Strength attributes.

The Ice attribute seemed to have the fewest words in its description, but the Freeze effect was extremely powerful.

Yun Mu had previously tested it with an ordinary iron knife.

The latter had now turned into a pile of ice shards and been thrown by her into the sea.

It is worth noting that the knife was "frozen" and not made brittle due to ultra-low temperatures.

There is a big difference between the two; one must not get them mixed up.

As for the Dark attribute... this attribute performed quite well in battle; not only living things, but even machines would be affected by negative debuffs.

Of course, it was limited to effects like Slow, Corrosion, and Chaos; things like Paralysis and Weakness, which were only effective on living things, didn't work well.

Because the Paralysis of the Dark attribute was more like a poison, rather than the kind caused by being shocked by electricity.

As for Weakness, it went without saying; how could a machine be weak? That would count as a malfunction at most.

And then, there was Yun Mu's own Scarlet attribute... After reading this attribute effect, Yun Mu exclaimed, "Good fellow."

Now she could really learn from a certain great technician and perform blue-blood conversion. What was the most saucy part of this attribute? Of course, it was the latter half: when Health was below a certain level, all means of restoring Health would be enhanced.

Yun Mu had tested it; this enhanced healing effect included converting Qi Strength into Health.

In fact, she could even directly convert Health into Qi Strength, and the excess Qi Strength would not dissipate immediately, but would overflow! It was just like this: 【Qi: 108/98【lv2 (100): All Attributes +5, Qi Strength Recovery Speed +10%】】 The overflowing Qi Strength would dissipate over time, and the more the Qi Strength overflowed, the faster it would dissipate.

But before the overflowing Qi Strength dissipated, Yun Mu could enjoy the effect of Qi lv2! Moreover, as long as she used it up before the overflowing Qi Strength dissipated, it wouldn't count as overflowing! The more the Qi Strength overflowed, the less her Health was; the less her Health was, the higher the recovery amount was; the higher the recovery amount was, the higher her Health was; therefore, the more the Qi Strength overflowed, the more Health she had.

Applause if you understood.

Ahem, no more nonsense.

Although theoretically, relying on the Scarlet Qi Strength attribute, her Health was infinite, but!

Her Health had a cap, and besides, if too much Qi Strength overflowed, the dissipation speed would also become faster.

Before she could convert the overflowing Qi Strength into Health, the Qi Strength would dissipate completely first.

So it was only theoretically infinite.

Furthermore, this thing couldn't prevent being killed in one hit; when it truly reached a life-threatening moment, she would still die if she was meant to die. Let's look at her title of 【Favorite of the Gods】 instead.

Although she didn't know what that God of the Ice Flame Polar Circle wanted to do, the fact that her title progress was +1 was a very real fact.

At this moment, there were only four gods' recognition left until the title was completely unlocked.

I wonder if it's possible to collect them all in the Orc Federation. What am I thinking? How could it be that easy?

The previous eleven points of progress were just luck; it's better not to harbor any wishful thinking.

"Phew, let's call Lucy out."

There's no point in wasting time thinking about these things; it's impossible for her to guess the other party's thoughts out of thin air, so she should just focus on what needs to be done right now.

Opening the Game Panel, Yun Mu skillfully summoned Lucy.

"Is it already the second day?" After being summoned, Lucy observed the surrounding environment and spoke.

"That's right, it is already the second day."

Yun Mu took out the core of the Extreme Cold Ice Element Lord and placed it in front of her: "Miss Lucy, what do you intend to do with this?"

"I only have some ideas for now; the specifics depend on the materials." After a pause, Lucy thought of something and asked her: "In the last Dungeon, didn't Miss Yun obtain a Planting Box item?"

"How are those plants I had you grow doing?"

"Uh," hearing Lucy's words, Yun Mu said with shifty eyes: "Of those nine materials you mentioned, I only found five. I used the remaining four slots to grow vegetables."

"After all, we need to supplement vitamins while sailing at sea. I'd be very troubled if the crew got scurvy, haha." She gave a dry laugh, attempting to muddle through.

". Why didn't you tell me?" Lucy looked at her with some helplessness: "Which five materials did you find?"

"Hmm, let me think," she recalled and said: "Cold Shiver Grass, Shining Root, Moisture Mushroom, Air-Boosting Grass, and Silver Cup Flower."

Because she had recited the names many times when purchasing the medicinal herbs and seeds, Yun Mu still had some impression of them.

"Hmm, is there a fishing rod on the ship?" Lucy asked after pondering for a moment.

"A fishing rod?" Yun Mu was slightly stunned: "There should be one, I suppose."

"Are you wanting to go fishing? But the ship is still sailing..."

Although Yun Mu had never been in contact with fishing, she knew that when a ship is sailing at high speed, there certainly wouldn't be any fish coming to take the bait.

After all, at the speed of the Xiangyang, many fish would probably have the ship sail away before they even saw the bait clearly.

"Don't worry, I have my own plans." Lucy smiled confidently.

Among the crew of the Xiangyang, there were those who liked fishing. Yun Mu asked around and found a sea-blue metal fishing rod.

As for the bait?

The canned goods scavenged from the shelter in Folaka Town would do. They contained a lot of meat and were marinated with seasonings like sugar and salt, making them very suitable as bait.

"Watch me."

Lucy possessed her original body, used the fishhook to pierce her own palm, and then placed the bait onto the blood-stained hook.

Yun Mu watched and couldn't help but feel phantom pain; if she didn't know that her original body was an Epic Transcendental, she would have been afraid that Lucy would contract tetanus.

Soon, the float that Lucy had thrown into the sea sank a little.

"It's here!"

Lucy's spirit lifted, then she gave a violent tug, and a large fish with a snow-white belly and a body covered in black scales was pulled onto the deck.

"A pity, this fish won't do."

Shaking her head, Lucy threw it into the bucket beside her, then repeated the steps above to continue fishing.

"It seems the process will be a bit long; Miss Yun should go attend to other matters." She sat on a lounge chair she had refined on the spot and said to Yun Mu.

Wait, since you can use 【Equivalent Exchange】 to refine a lounge chair, why don't you just make a fishing rod yourself?

Seeming to see through Yun Mu's confusion, Lucy explained to her: "Items refined out of thin air have a very short existence time, and there will also be Spirituality leaking out."

"If the little guy I want to catch senses that Spirituality, it won't take the bait."

The time Lucy spent fishing seemed to be even longer than expected.

Soon, the two days of sailing at sea passed.

She would control her original body to fish at sea for two hours every day. Thanks to her, the meals for Yun Mu and the crew of the Xiangyang had improved quite a bit over these few days.

After all, the efficiency of catching a large fish every two minutes on average was simply too terrifying. If this were on Earth, even Yun Mu would probably deliberately stroll the streets all day without going home.

"Frostfall Port can already be seen."

Standing before the helm of the Xiangyang, Yun Mu looked at the harbor gradually appearing on the horizon and said.

In fact, they had already encountered several cargo ships sailing on the sea along the way, so she was not surprised by it.

What was surprising was that when the Xiangyang docked at the edge of the harbor, Edward and Leinuode were actually standing on the pier.

And beside them, a female Beastkin was following.

"Dad, why are you here?"

Walking down from the deck of the Xiangyang, Yun Mu had just opened her mouth to speak when Lita spoke up first.

Thus, Yun Mu immediately changed her words: "That's right, why are you two here?"

"And who is this..." She looked at the female Beastkin beside them.

"H-hello, I am Iliyasi!" With long, slightly curly orange-red hair, two huge orange-red wings on her back, and bird feathers growing at her neck, Iliyasi greeted the group quite nervously.

As she spoke, the two ear-feathers emerging from her hair were twitching slightly.

Hiss, this child is so cute, it's the feeling of a heartbeat! "Eh?" Yun Mu suddenly noticed the point of interest—Iliyasi, as a bird Beastkin, had beautiful wings.

Then the question arises, where are Mr. Leinuode's wings? Isn't he a hawk Beastkin? (End of chapter)