Chapter 261

「Blood Wolf Robe—this is an epic‑level enhancement……ah, no, it should now be called the Blood Sea Magic Robe; I just don't know whether the blood stored inside the robe can truly turn into a sea of blood. 」

Looking at the content displayed by the appraisal result, Su Hao nodded slightly.

After synthesizing the Blood Wolf Robe and the Blood Pouch, he gained the ability to produce and store blood.

Furthermore, the original effects were greatly enhanced, making the boost to movement speed even stronger.

After a simple experiment, Su Hao confirmed that the acceleration effect of the Blood Sea Robe roughly doubled.

Moreover, the original Blood Wolf Robe could only repair damaged parts by absorbing blood when it was not completely destroyed.

Now, after being synthesized into the Blood Sea Robe, as long as even a fragment remains, it can fully recover by absorbing blood, essentially making damage impossible.

Furthermore, the Blood Sea Robe can, by consuming blood, become immune to all attacks below Supernatural Grade Third Tier.

In other words, if the opponent's attack power cannot reach Fourth Tier, then even if Su Hao simply stands still, the opponent cannot pierce the Blood Sea Robe's defense and cannot inflict any harm on him.

Since the Blood Sea Robe can immune all attacks below Third Tier, even a Supernatural Grade Fourth Tier attack can be effectively defended against with its defensive power.

Finally, an additional effect was added, namely the main ability of the Blood Pouch.

However, this newly added effect is not merely the Blood Pouch's ability to produce and store blood.

As the amount of blood stored inside the Blood Sea Robe increases, its defensive power will become stronger.

If the Blood Sea Robe's built-in storage space is filled with First-Tier Scarlet Blood, perhaps even Supernatural Grade Fourth Tier attacks would find it difficult to breach its defense.

Moreover, as the blood within the Blood Sea Robe increases, the blood element it contains will become richer, granting an even greater bonus to blood magic.

With the dual enhancement from the Blood Sea Robe and the Omniscient Magic Book to blood magic, even an ordinary blood spell can unleash astonishing power in Su Hao's hands!

No matter from which angle one looks, after synthesizing the Blood Pouch and the Blood Wolf Robe, the Blood Sea Robe's capabilities in all aspects have seen significant improvement.

The only shortcoming is that the Blood Sea Robe can only produce First-Tier Scarlet Blood, which clearly cannot meet Su Hao's needs.

Even if it cannot produce Supernatural Grade Fourth Tier Scarlet Essence Blood, at the very least it should be able to produce Third Tier, right?

Actually, as long as the Blood Sea Robe stores enough First-Tier Scarlet Blood, its defensive power and bonus to blood magic can be further enhanced.

Then, if the blood stored inside the Blood Sea Robe were to become Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood, would this effect be further enhanced? Coincidentally, Su Hao still had plenty of Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood on him; he immediately took out a portion, intending to store it in the Blood Sea Robe to see whether its defensive power and blood element concentration would see a greater increase.

If the results truly match his expectations, then raising the grade of blood produced by the Blood Sea Robe would become an inevitable task.

After placing all of his Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood into the Blood Sea Robe, Su Hao could clearly feel that, for the same quantity of blood, the enhancement brought by Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood was several times greater than that of First-Tier Scarlet Blood.

According to his estimate, if the Blood Sea Robe's built-in storage space were completely filled with Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood.

Even if the Blood Sea Robe's Supernatural Grade remained unchanged at Fourth Tier, it is estimated that it could still block a portion of Supernatural Grade Fifth Tier attacks! Although Su Hao can now obtain Scarlet Essence Blood continuously by summoning Scarlet Tendrils and refining them.

However, this method's efficiency is too low and its consumption too great; using it to meet daily consumption is naturally not feasible.

Yet, trying to fill the Blood Sea Robe's built-in storage space using this method is clearly unrealistic, so synthesis of the Blood Sea Robe is still necessary.

However, even if the Synthesis Heart is extremely powerful, using a single drop of Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood to make the Blood Sea Robe produce Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood instead of First-Tier Scarlet Blood still carries a somewhat low success rate.

After some thought, Su Hao took three drops of Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood from the Blood Sea Robe and first performed a synthesis on them.

A single drop of Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood after synthesis is unlikely to cause the Blood Sea Robe to produce Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood.

But if a drop of Fifth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood were used for synthesis, it's hard to say.

Even if, after synthesis, the Blood Sea Robe still cannot produce Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood, producing Third Tier should certainly be no problem.

Time flew by; after more than two hours, the golden light sphere enveloping the three drops of Scarlet Essence Blood suddenly burst forth with a dazzling golden light, completing this synthesis.

When the golden light completely dissipated, a drop of bright red blood hovered above the ground, appearing before Su Hao's eyes.

"Strange, it feels like the Supernatural Grade hasn't increased…"

Looking at the drop of blood suspended before him on the ground, Su Hao's brows furrowed slightly.

From the intensity of this drop's aura, compared to the Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood before synthesis, there is not much difference,,

If it weren't for this drop of blood possessing a faint yet distinctive aura, Su Hao would suspect that the synthesis had failed.

To determine exactly what this drop of blood is, confirmation must await appraisal; thus Su Hao's mind stirred slightly and he applied the Item Appraisal Technique to it.

【Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood】

Supernatural Grade: Fourth Tier

Effect: Contains a thread of essence blood within the Scarlet Essence Blood; consuming it greatly enhances resistance to the Scarlet Curse, granting immunity to part of its effects.

Furthermore, after consumption, there is an extremely small probability of gaining a random blood magic talent; this effect can be triggered only once per person.

Description: An unknown force is beginning to revive; perhaps further increasing the purity of Scarlet Essence Blood could allow this unknown force to revive completely.

……

"Wait a minute, consuming Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood actually has an extremely small chance to grant a blood magic-related talent…"

Looking at the content displayed on the appraisal result, Su Hao couldn't help but roll his eyes, showing an expression of speechlessness.

Over these days, he has consumed perhaps a thousand or eight hundred drops of Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood, yet even so, he still hasn't obtained that blood magic-related talent.

Originally, based on his experience, such a minuscule probability meant the success rate was essentially zero; now seeing this, it's not just close to zero—it's practically zero…

However, from the appraisal result, one thing can be confirmed: the synthesis indeed did not fail.

Perhaps the synthesis from Fourth to Fifth Tier is not that simple, or maybe Fifth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood is particularly special, such that a single synthesis cannot cause a significant change.

This is not a major problem; if one attempt fails, just try again.

Anyway, after the Synthesis Heart's proficiency reaches mastery, only the synthesis of items of Fourth Tier and above is limited in number of attempts.

Thus, the current synthesis attempts are not that scarce; even if the final result is failure after four attempts, it will not affect the synthesis of lower-tier items.

Immediately, Su Hao again took out six drops of Fourth-Tier Scarlet Essence Blood from his Storage Bag, performed syntheses on them separately, and obtained two drops of blood that likewise contained a special aura.

Next, he combined these two newly synthesized drops of blood with the previous drop, conducting another synthesis.

One can clearly feel that this synthesis consumes more resources and will require a longer time.

Taking advantage of this waiting period, Su Hao retrieved three Crystal Cores from his Storage Bag and synthesized them. Crystal Cores are First-Tier Supernatural Items extracted from the corpses of Crystal Monsters, and their synthesis does not consume synthesis attempts.

Unfortunately, this synthesis without attempt limits cannot be performed multiple times simultaneously.

This means that for items below Third Tier, one can only start the next synthesis after the current one is completed.

Unlike items of Fourth Tier or higher, which can undergo multiple syntheses simultaneously, the efficiency would drop considerably.

Fortunately, as proficiency increases, Su Hao's spiritual power grows stronger, and the synthesis speed of these low-tier items will also increase accordingly, thereby somewhat improving synthesis efficiency.

After undergoing multiple syntheses, crystal cores can be synthesized into energy crystals, which can greatly reduce the consumption of energy crystals by various facilities within the territory.

Therefore, Su Hao intends to synthesize all the crystal cores on his person into energy crystals, after all, there are not a few facilities in the territory that need energy crystals, and their number will only increase in the future.

After the dwarves' capital relocation is completed, in order to let the dwarves serve him better, he plans to help them rebuild their new capital and add some new facilities.

To save energy crystal consumption there, some energy crystals need to be equipped; if they are not synthesized in advance, a lot of energy crystals would likely be wasted later.

A fully equipped faction is not comparable to an individual unit; to maintain the normal operation of the territory, the consumption of energy crystals is enormously terrifying.

Even though the dwarves' capital cannot compare to Su Hao's territory, operating solar smelters, forging supernatural equipment, and mining underground ores all require energy crystals.

And energy crystals happen to be the material Su Hao lacks the most; even a single piece he does not want to waste.

Time flew by, and before he knew it, the sky had grown dark.

At that moment, the golden light sphere enveloping the three drops of blood burst forth with a blinding golden light, completing this synthesis.

A drop of blood that appeared unchanged hovered above the ground, appearing before Su Hao's eyes.

The only noticeable change was that the special aura had become a bit stronger.

"Strange, could it be that it hasn't been synthesized to Supernatural Grade Fifth Tier yet?"

Su Hao furrowed his brow slightly and applied the Item Appraisal Technique to this drop of scarlet essence blood.

【Scarlet Essence Blood (Recovery)】

Supernatural Grade: Fourth Tier

Effect: (omitted) Introduction: Scarlet divine power shows signs of recovery; please continue to increase the purity of the scarlet essence blood……

"Holy shit? Divine power!!!"

Looking at the content displayed in the appraisal result, Su Hao's forehead instantly broke out in a cold sweat; for the first time he felt relieved that the synthesis had not succeeded.

If it had been synthesized to Supernatural Grade Fifth Tier, this drop of scarlet blood would likely contain the divine power of the Scarlet Lord.

In the battle against the Scarlet Nest, Su Hao was worried that Scarlet divine power might still linger at the bottom of the blood lake; if he rashly entered, he might well be eroded by that divine power and degenerate into a monster.

Now he had almost synthesized a drop of blood containing Scarlet divine power; how could one not feel afraid?

Not to mention that today's synthesis quota for Fourth Tier or higher has been exhausted; even if there were remaining chances, Su Hao would not dare to continue synthesizing scarlet essence blood.

He could not guarantee that his current physique and spiritual power could withstand the erosion of scarlet essence blood; if his mind were sound, he would never take such a risk.

However, this drop of blood was made using four drops of Fourth Tier scarlet essence blood, consuming four synthesis opportunities, resulting in this supernatural item.

When tomorrow's synthesis count refreshes, combining it with the Blood Sea Robe might allow the robe to produce Third Tier, or even Fourth Tier, scarlet essence blood.

Afterward, Su Hao turned his gaze to the last item.

It was a blood-red heart, beating rhythmically, as if it possessed its own life.

The surface of the heart was covered with fine blood vessels, wriggling like a living creature; each beat emitted a faint blood mist.

The heart's volume was several times that of a normal human heart, exuding a peculiar yet immensely powerful aura.

【Heart of the Scarlet Nest】

Supernatural Grade: Fourth Tier

Effect: Having been eroded by Scarlet divine power, this heart has undergone an aberration; after consumption, the consumer will definitely gain a certain special skill.

At the same time, after consumption there is a considerable chance of losing self-awareness and degenerating into a flesh-and-blood monster.

……

"Definitely gain a skill!!!"

Su Hao couldn't help but widen his eyes; the Scarlet Nest's ability to rebirth using blood made him drool with envy,

Su Hao looked at that heart, showing a hint of hesitation.

After consumption, one can obtain a special skill.

The Scarlet Nest's ability to revive using fresh blood made Su Hao drool with envy.

If consuming the heart granted such a skill, combined with the ocean-like blood within the Blood Sea Robe, Su Hao's survivability would be greatly enhanced.

Moreover, the blood in Su Hao's robe can be carried on his person, and he need not remain confined to the blood lake like the Scarlet Nest.

However, the problem is that directly consuming the heart carries a certain risk of degenerating into a flesh-and-blood monster, which Su Hao would never accept under any circumstances.

Yet for some reason, Su Hao felt this heart was extremely familiar.

His intuition told him that even if taken directly, it would produce no side effects; in other words, what would be side effects for others would instead be an enhancement for him.

"Could it be because I've consumed too much scarlet essence blood?"

Su Hao stroked his chin, wearing a thoughtful expression.

If counted from the time he first obtained scarlet blood, the amount he has drunk so far could probably be measured in tons, and part of it is even higher-grade scarlet essence blood.

If it weren't for the supernatural abilities of the Flesh-and-Blood Controller and the Crimson Bone Demon, allowing him to completely absorb the blood he consumes, Su Hao's body would likely have turned entirely into scarlet essence blood.

Even so, his blood still retains a strong scarlet essence aura; perhaps that is why he feels this heart rather familiar.

"Let's give it a try!"

After repeated consideration, Su Hao ultimately decided to give it a try.

(End of Chapter)