Chapter 377: A Rare Moment of Daily Rest

The commotion from Yun Mu's side attracted the Wolf that had been resting on the ground; it floated over to Yun Mu's side out of curiosity and looked at the painting she was creating.

"Oh, it's gold!" The Wolf looked somewhat excited.

"Do you like gold?" Yun Mu looked at it with some surprise.

"Of course!" Ignoring Yun Mu's surprised expression, the Wolf nodded without hesitation: "Gold is the best bait for dealing with humans; those greedy souls who are unwilling to face death are often bound by this simple Desire."

"Uh," so that's the kind of liking it is? Yun Mu's mouth twitched.

However, now that the topic had reached this point, Yun Mu was suddenly a bit curious.

"Say, what do you and the Sheep Spirit usually do? I heard from Elena that you are always Purifying those souls," she asked it.

"Rest, then hunt!" The Wolf bared its teeth at Yun Mu.

"All dead souls should return to peace. For those fellows willing to accept death, the Sheep Spirit will use His breath of life to ferry their souls; if they want to run, they must face my fangs!"

"Hehe." Having said this, He suddenly laughed out loud: "You must run when you die!"

"Why?" Yun Mu asked subconsciously.

"Ha, I'm a bit curious about the taste of your soul," the Wolf answered very honestly.

"Hehehe." For some reason, hearing this, Yun Mu didn't feel angry at all; instead, she felt the other party was somewhat cute.

She reached out to touch the Wolf's ears, and seeing that it didn't seem to resist, she stroked its dog head.

"Then what if I can't die?" Yun Mu asked with a light chuckle: "For example, if I ascend to become a god or something."

Hearing her words, the Wolf looked completely indifferent: "Even gods have a day when they decay and fall. Before that, I'll just use the souls of ordinary people to satisfy my appetite."

"Then I'd better try hard to live a little longer."

Yun Mu withdrew her palm and refocused her attention on the painting before her.

And the Wolf just floated quietly by her side, without saying a word.

"Huh, so it's a Supernatural Painting?"

Noticing the description at the very bottom of the attribute panel, Yun Mu raised her eyebrows in surprise.

It was originally just something she drew randomly while distracted; she didn't expect the effect to be even better than when she drew seriously.

But that couldn't be said for sure; after all, if she really wanted to create a Supernatural Painting, she could do so at any time.

This time, it could only be said to be a coincidence.

Come to think of it, if it hadn't become a Supernatural Painting after the first painting was completed, she wouldn't have needed to name the painting at all.

She didn't know if this painting would need her to rename it if it were to be promoted to a Supernatural Painting—she would just try it when she had the chance later. Yun Mu didn't spend too much time thinking about it; she put away the Painting Board in front of her and then began to tinker with the Alchemy tools at hand.

She didn't mass-produce sea urchin ball bombs, but was instead delving into the assignment Lucy had arranged for her a few days ago. According to the other party, as long as she could complete this assignment, she could be called a qualified Alchemist Apprentice.

As for mass-producing Alchemy tools for Sell, there was no need to rush; this kind of repetitive labor work could wait until after her studies were finished.

Taking advantage of the fact that she was in a good state now, Yun Mu wanted to do something more meaningful.

"Ah, Alchemy is so hard."

Stuck at a difficult point in the assignment for several hours, Yun Mu looked at the Alchemy Array before her with a headache.

Clearly, the array was drawn without any problems, and her operation had no errors, but every time she was halfway through the transmutation, the Alchemy Array would inexplicably Collapse.

Could it be a problem with the materials?

Scratching her hair in frustration, Yun Mu began to check for potential problems one by one.

As for the matter of refining consumables... she would deal with that after she found the reason why the Alchemy Array would inexplicably Collapse.

If she couldn't figure out the reason, she reckoned it would be very difficult for her to fall asleep tonight. "So that's it..." After an unknown number of hours had passed, Yun Mu looked somewhat tiredly at the Alchemy Array emitting a milky white halo before her, muttering to herself:

"The stability of the entry-level Alchemy Array is insufficient and cannot withstand the refining process of higher-quality Alchemy items. Lucy couldn't possibly not know this, but she didn't tell me how to draw an advanced Alchemy Array, so I still have to find a way myself..."

Having figured out the cause, the next thing to do was naturally to solve the problem.

Yun Mu thought for a moment; since she couldn't tamper with the Alchemy Array, she could only optimize other processes.

Lowering the Spirituality Activation Degree of the materials, deliberately using less Spirituality when driving the Alchemy Array, constantly subtracting from the Alchemy process to reduce the pressure on the Alchemy Array. "Ah."

Not paying attention for a moment, the Spirituality Yun Mu injected into the Alchemy Array exceeded the limit, and almost in the blink of an eye, the Alchemy Array she had just drawn, along with the Alchemy materials on it, disintegrated together.

"..."

With her mouth twitching in heartache, Yun Mu took a deep breath to calm herself down.

An Alchemist is truly one of the most expensive professions; the losses after every failed Alchemy attempt are hard to accept.

"Next time, next time it will definitely succeed..." Yun Mu whispered to encourage herself.

Soon, she began her second round of attempts.

This time she didn't make the same mistake, but perhaps because she was too cautious, the quality of the item she finally refined was completely substandard.

The radiance of Spirituality was obscure and dim, as if a light blow would cause that faint Supernatural characteristic to disappear completely.

Clearly, this was a completely unqualified Alchemy product.

But regardless, this was the first finished product she had refined. Yun Mu didn't throw it away or clean it up, but stored it in the Storage space of the Divine Blood Pendant.

Maybe it would have some use in the future; even if it was useless... hmm, she wondered if the merchant in the Dungeon wanted this thing.

Time passed quickly as Yun Mu studied Alchemy.

By the time evening approached, she finally completed the assignment Lucy had given her.

【Alchemy Tool · Shining Light (Blue)】

【Skill · Light Up!】

【Ranged / All Units / Damage 0】

【Range 8】

【Applies 【Flash】 effect to all enemies, deals 400 damage to 【Undead】 type enemies.】

【Flash: Unable to see for a short time, Precision Correction -80, Dodge -35.】

【This is a ball of... light?】 "Success!"

Yun Mu felt a surge of spirit; she looked at the golden ball of light that had appeared above the Alchemy Array and reached out to grab it from the tabletop.

This thing felt somewhat warm to the touch, with a texture just like a fuzzy water balloon.

Yun Mu squeezed it hard, and as her fingers exerted force, the shape of the golden ball of light kept changing.

There was no need to worry about this thing exploding, unless Yun Mu had made some unknown mistake during the refining process.

Normally, unless a bit of Spirituality was injected into it to activate it, it would not just explode at will.

Come to think of it, most Alchemy items seemed to have similar safety measures.

For example, the Chestnut Bomb also required the injection of Spirituality to explode, and if the bottle of Frost Breath were to break, it would immediately freeze into a lump of ice instead of spreading everywhere. This reminded Yun Mu of what Lucy had once said when lecturing her and Brenna.

"Alchemy is a very dangerous technique; you must never let your guard down at any time. Do not casually use Alchemy items whose effects have not been tested, and do not presumptuously alter formulas or the structure of Alchemy Arrays with half-baked knowledge, nor should you entertain dangerous ideas or transmutations."

Shaking her head, Yun Mu dispelled the image from her mind.

"Let's test the effect."

Leaving the Command Center, Yun Mu held the ball of light and came to a dim basement.

She called over several executors, intending to have them use cameras to record the footage of the 【Radiance】 exploding.

"Here we go~"

Injecting Spirituality into 【Radiance】, Yun Mu threw it into the air with force once she felt it was enough.

Afterwards, she turned her back without hesitation.

Pop!!

A blinding, bright white ball of light exploded from behind Yun Mu, and countless light Elements filled the entire basement in an instant.

Only after everything had settled did Yun Mu dare to turn back to look at the site of the explosion.

Leaving no trace behind was exactly as she had expected.

The moment 【Radiance】 exploded, it had already dissipated into pure light Elements; it was impossible for any residue to remain.

As for the effect, although she hadn't seen the moment of the explosion head-on because she had her back turned, judging by the radiance that had illuminated the entire basement in that instant, if anyone had looked directly at the scene of 【Radiance】 exploding, they would certainly have been blinded instantly.

If the target were an ordinary person, their vision would likely be permanently impaired.

Of course, she had only experimented in a dim basement for now; if there was an opportunity, it would be best to experiment again during the daytime. Returning to the combat command room, Yun Mu pulled up the visual records of the executors.

"Hmm."

When the glaring white light appeared on the screen, Yun Mu squinted instinctively.

There wasn't any uncomfortable feeling, after all, she was at least a Third-tier Expert Transcendental, not to mention that the lights in the command room were relatively bright, and the display screen certainly couldn't compare to the visual experience of 【Radiance】 actually exploding. In short, she was quite satisfied.

Having achieved this level, she should be able to go to Lucy to settle the assignment.

Thinking this, Yun Mu returned to the room where she studied Alchemy, intending to make a few more 【Radiance】 for self-defense; besides that, there were 【Sea Roller Bomb】s, to be used as items to sell to merchants within the game Dungeon.

Time passed in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, it was the eighth day after the New Year.

There were three pieces of good news: the mechanical squad that had set out earlier, as well as the two Magic Trains, had all reached the location of the God Bone.

Among them, the mechanical squad in the due west direction had already found the location of the God Bone during the excavation process.

As for the rest, those two mechanical squads riding the Magic Trains were still excavating.

It would take about two to three days for the mechanical squads to return along the dirt roads on the map, and Yun Mu's Shanyin Cruise Ship still needed half a day to finish construction. Things seemed to be moving in a good direction.

Originally, Yun Mu thought so, until—Boom! The floor of the combat command room suddenly trembled violently, and Airui Laya's voice rang out in Yun Mu's ear from the Remote Communication Device.

"Miss Yun, please immediately switch your view to my side; the guys from the Beast God Cult have made a new move."

"Airui Laya? What happened?" Hearing the voice coming from the communication device, Yun Mu was somewhat surprised.

How come the guys from the Beast God Cult always made such a big commotion every time they caused trouble? She switched the screen in the combat command room to Airui Laya's side, and saw that in the center of the streets of Feiluoka, on that massive Scarlet Spine, countless blood-red energies were gathering toward the upper right corner of the spine.

Hum!!

The entire city, and even the air itself, was trembling and emitting a dull Echo. Yun Mu felt the ground beneath her feet vibrate, and subsequently, a blood-red skeleton grew from the spine, forming the shape of ribs.

A scarlet right arm hung lonely beside the spine, and as the spine rotated, that huge right arm swung high into the air.

"Whoosh!!"

The scarlet bone palm whistled through the air like a hurricane sweeping the ground; all the buildings it struck collapsed, and the palm wind it generated even overturned all the nearby Flash Silver Tanks! Rat-tat-tat-tat!! The Armed Helicopter continuously spat tongues of fire, and rocket after rocket poured out from the magazine.

A whistling sound of breaking through the air came from the sky, and one Flash Silver Fighter of the Old Legion after another dived down, whistling as they launched a suicide attack on the spine.

However, when the smoke cleared, not even a single scratch remained on the skeleton.

"This is the power of a god..." Seeing these scenes through the screen, Yun Mu was somewhat horrified.

The last time she had experienced the divine might of a god was when she was in the Frost Kingdom and saw with her own eyes the entire city restored to its original state.

But her feelings at that time were clearly not as intuitive as the current situation.

Could a God Bone that only had a spine and a right arm left still exert such powerful strength? When the Beast God was in his prime before he fell ill, just how powerful must he have been?

Yun Mu couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

At the same time, beside the Beast God's spine.

"Urgh, ahhh..." The High Priest struggled desperately in the Bishop's hand; his neck was tightly pinched by the other's iron-like arm, and no matter how hard he tried, his feet couldn't touch the ground at all.

"What an ugly posture." The Bishop looked at the High Priest, whose veins were popping and eyes were wide open, and commented with an indifferent expression.

A guy like this wanted to replace him?

The Bishop laughed mockingly, then pinched the other's neck with force, throwing the corpse casually to his feet.

Gurgle... As if melted by high heat, the High Priest's corpse soon turned into blood and dissipated, being absorbed completely by the Beast God's spine.

Not enough, it's not enough at all!

A look of Bloodthirst flashed in his eyes, and the Bishop spread his arms; the previously indestructible Scarlet Spine suddenly became like flowing water and opened to both sides.

The Bishop's body merged into the spine, and soon no trace was left behind.

(End of chapter)