Chapter 780

Su Xiao examined the numerous materials on the test bench. Most of these materials were fire-attributed or metal-attributed. From these materials, he could infer that Nicholas Caesar's alchemy leaned toward bombology.

Alchemy had hundreds of branches: bombology, pharmacy, biology, familiar manufacturing, life pattern analysis, mechanical and biological combination, etc.

Su Xiao specialized in bombology and pharmacy, which happened to coincide with Nicholas Caesar's research direction.

"The material processing is not bad; you are impeccable in this regard. As for the blending and proportions, forgive me for being blunt, your technique is not very good."

"Fart!"

Nicholas Caesar snatched the test tube from Su Xiao's hand; that test tube seemed to be his heart and soul.

"I have studied alchemy for a full 15 years, starting from the age of 16..."

Nicholas Caesar began to introduce his great achievements.

"Being an alchemy apprentice must be very hard."

Su Xiao's simple sentence made Nicholas Caesar stop his incessant chatter.

"Very... hard."

Nicholas Caesar sighed, remembering his life with his 'mentor'. In a sense, the other party wasn't actually his mentor; he was just the other party's drudge, specifically responsible for processing materials. As for alchemy bombology, that was something he had stolen.

"Independent research is a good path, but don't ignore one point: before independent research, one must first master the basics. That is the experience summarized by numerous alchemists who spent countless days and nights. The preciousness of knowledge is sometimes no less than power. Am I right, Kasa?"

Su Xiao's words made Nicholas Caesar fall into silence.

"You're right, but my name is Caesar, not Kasa. Kasa translated in goblin language means monkey dung."

Not to mention why goblin language was so peculiar, at this moment, Caesar looked at Su Xiao with an unusually fiery gaze, as if he wanted to 'devour' Su Xiao 'alive'.

"You understand... knowledge of alchemy-based bombology?"

Caesar swallowed his saliva, his large, round eyes staring intently at Su Xiao.

"Understand..."

"Really?!"

Caesar stood up excitedly and grabbed at Su Xiao's hand. Su Xiao stepped back, and Caesar grabbed at thin air.

"Understand... some."

Su Xiao's drawn-out tone made Caesar sluggish. At this moment, Caesar's mood was as uncomfortable as winning a five-million-dollar jackpot, only to find out when claiming the prize that it required a 5.01-million-dollar handling fee.

"To what extent, roughly?"

Caesar took a deep breath to stay calm. Su Xiao didn't speak, just picked up a crumpled formula on the test bench, examined it for a while, and began to prepare the liquid bomb on the formula.

Ten minutes later, a bottle of semi-finished liquid bomb was prepared. Su Xiao could actually perfect this thing, but if he did that, he would attract the attention of the Imperial military. In that case, he would very likely leave the battlefield, and he could forget about battle merits and the like.

Caesar held the test tube like a treasure, his movements cautious.

"Although your level doesn't compare to my mentor's, it's... about the same as mine."

Nicholas Caesar gave a strained smile. In fact, he knew that Su Xiao's alchemy level was higher than his, but he wasn't willing to admit it. More importantly, Caesar felt threatened.

"Compared to killing enemies on the battlefield, I don't like manufacturing this stuff; it's too tedious."

Hearing this, Caesar's eyes lit up.

"Then... can you tell me the reasonable formula for a liquid bomb? Just like this one. Although it's not a finished product, after a period of research, I can perfect it."

"I can."

Su Xiao's answer was unusually crisp, so crisp that Caesar found it somewhat unbelievable.

"Really?"

"Of course, but I have a condition."

"What?"

Caesar subconsciously pulled the test tube rack on the table closer to himself; his property was inviolable.

"You are not allowed to spread the word that I understand alchemy. This will cause me unnecessary trouble. You should be clear about the level of madness in alchemy."

"No problem."

Nicholas Caesar was ecstatic in his heart. This hit it off perfectly with his thoughts; it wouldn't threaten his status in the Iron-Blood Legion, and it would also allow him to master a higher level of alchemy-based bombology.

Caesar stretched out his hand, which looked like a withered tree branch, and Su Xiao also stretched out his hand. The two shook hands.

【Prompt: The Hunter has activated the personal favorability of an important figure in the Iron-Blood Legion, Quartermaster Nicholas Caesar. Current favorability: 31.】

【Prompt: Favorability 1–10 is first meeting, 10–60 is friend relationship, 60–80 is close friend, 80–100 can recruit slaves or followers in specific situations.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao felt quite surprised. If the favorability with a female plot character reached 80 or above, wouldn't it be possible to 'hey hey hey'?

Su Xiao glanced at Caesar, who was grinning with a mouthful of yellow teeth, and he almost threw a punch. His sexual orientation was very normal, and the favorability with same-sex creatures was a friend or slave relationship.

Before this, Su Xiao hadn't come into contact with information like favorability. This was actually something that Charisma-specialized Qiyuezhe were accustomed to. The higher the favorability of plot characters, the more benefits one could reap. As an attribute that didn't have independent combat power and needed to be combined with skills to improve combat power, Charisma naturally had its unique aspects.

Not to mention Su Xiao's murderous aura, his touching 6 points of Charisma attribute was enough to discourage most plot characters. Moreover, a few derived worlds ago, his Charisma attribute was below 5 points.

Su Xiao sighed. While gaining something, one also had to discard something. His simultaneous development of four attributes was already an anomaly among Qiyuezhe.

Picking up the alchemy materials at hand, Su Xiao began to explain the knowledge of alchemy bombology to Caesar. Although Su Xiao hadn't seen these materials, the characteristics of most materials for manufacturing bombs were common; it was nothing more than stabilizing explosives while increasing the power and range of the explosion.

Nicholas Caesar sat up straight like an elementary school student, listening intently. At this time, he couldn't care about the dignity of a quartermaster. Knowledge was priceless; dignity and integrity and the like could be picked up when needed.

As Su Xiao explained, prompts from Reincarnation Paradise appeared continuously.

【Quartermaster Nicholas Caesar's favorability +5.】

【Quartermaster Nicholas Caesar's favorability +8.】

【Quartermaster Nicholas Caesar's favorability +6.】

After Su Xiao explained for a full half-hour, Caesar's favorability had reached an astonishing 95 points. This made Su Xiao somewhat unbelievable. Could he recruit Caesar as a slave or follower? That would be a huge profit. Caesar's personal ability wasn't great, but his position was high.

Reincarnation Paradise didn't give a prompt, which made Su Xiao vaguely feel something was wrong. Perhaps Nicholas Caesar was harder to deal with than imagined.

Su Xiao stopped explaining the knowledge about alchemy bombology, and Nicholas Caesar was somewhat unsatisfied.

"Caesar."

"Hmm?"

"That piece of Holy Oak Branch in the supplies, how about making it cheaper?"

"This... that's not good."

Caesar gave a lewd smile.

"Oh? Looking at it that way, are those pieces of knowledge just now worthless?"

Although Su Xiao only revealed a small amount of alchemy bomb knowledge, that knowledge wasn't something Caesar could have researched on his own.