【Plague Slaughterhouse: Blood! Meat! And rot! The mountain of rotting meat in the slaughterhouse provides the perfect breeding ground for viruses. Abominations will now carry a deadly plague.
(These foolish undead, their slaughterhouse has no health regulations at all, those rotting meats are so foul that even maggots can't stand them! — Myriad Worlds Health Organization)】
The change to the slaughterhouse was very much in line with Chen Xu's expectations. Now that abominations could carry the plague, it was equivalent to upgrading from a purely physical tank to a dual physical and magical tank.
It was a pity that the dungeons in the South Realm had already been cleared, otherwise, he could have sent an abomination over to see the power of the plague.
Wait, Chen Xu suddenly noticed the extra content in the regional description: even maggots couldn't stay there?
Alarmed, Chen Xu immediately used his mental strength to pull a parasite egg out of an abomination. After observing it for a while, he found that the egg was in excellent condition and showed no signs of discomfort.
It seemed that this plague would not attack creatures of the same origin. As Chen Xu's summons, the parasites were exempt from friendly fire.
After casually stuffing the egg back into the abomination, Chen Xu proceeded to check the other new region.
He had almost forgotten about the Eerie Distillery. As a resource-type region, the distillery couldn't periodically produce rare treasures like the Flesh Refinement Pool or the Extreme Ice Zone.
Nor was it like the Ghost Factory, which could churn out undead-themed equipment after ghosts were put into it.
Furthermore, he was a Necromancer, not a Sword Immortal or a Martial Artist who could become a Drunken Sword Immortal or perform drunken boxing after drinking.
Over time, the distillery had been neglected by Chen Xu, and he had never thought of finding corresponding affixes to change its fate.
Unexpectedly, this time, the distillery had directly swallowed two of his good affix fragments. If this Mad Alchemy Lab turned out to be trash as well, he would suffer a great loss.
【Mad Alchemy Lab: A fully equipped top-tier laboratory, though it seems to be slightly lacking in terms of safety. However, these are all minor issues; after all, madmen shouldn't care about safety. (Genius? Or madman? Alchemists do not care. They spend their entire lives pursuing the eternal truth. Mortal standards cannot become their shackles. As long as life does not end, the journey toward the mad truth never stops. Long live the truth!)
Provides different alchemy functions based on the merged affixes. Current affixes: Distillery, Corruption, Aberration.
Distillery: Miraculous liquor synthesis formula. 1 unit of liquor + 1 unit of material + 1 unit of material = Final Product. (What? You want me to go back and inherit the family winery? Please, I'm a man who's going to become a master alchemist.)
Corruption: Corrupted transformation ritual. Performs an irreversible corrupted modification on a creature or item. Corruption is full of uncertainty. A small mouse, after corruption, might turn into a terrifying ion dinosaur. Of course, it is more likely to directly turn into a puddle of pus.
(Extra! Extra! The first Hell Lottery Shop in the Myriad Worlds! The corrupted lottery is full of infinite possibilities. Do you want to take your lover back from the nobles? Do you want to kill those bullies who torment you? Then come buy a corrupted lottery ticket! Only one soul is required, and we accept installments!)
Aberration: Aberrant induction experiment. This is a mad experiment that only works on creatures with souls. The experiment stimulates the latent nature within a creature's soul to serve as an induction source for physical mutation, granting the creature a mad evolution.
(Little kitty, little kitty, let me see how much you've changed? Oh, no! Why are tentacles coming out of the cat's mouth? Help! — Alchemy Experiment Warning Case No. 9,613)】
This alchemy lab seemed... okay, probably? At least the Corruption and Aberration affixes weren't wasted and had become individual functions.
Furthermore, adding more affixes in the future could unlock new functions. Combined with Chen Xu's directed fusion, he could blindly merge fragments without fear of generating trash regions that would pollute the quality of the Undead Kingdom.
"Alchemy brewing, plus two eerie rituals."
Chen Xu intended to test these three functions. Even if the functions in the lab weren't great, the fact that it acted as a recycling station was enough to break even. If the functions were strong, he would be hitting the jackpot, a massive profit.
The Mad Alchemy Lab was shaped like a mage tower and currently had only three floors, each corresponding to an affix.
The first floor held the Distillery affix. In the center of the room stood a large vat with two trays on either side. It appeared the central vat was for liquor, while the trays were for materials.
Coincidentally, the South Realm dungeons had produced quite a bit of monkey wine. Chen Xu commanded several ghosts to carry ten barrels of monkey wine over to serve as the base for the synthesis formula.
With the base ready, what should he use for the remaining two materials? Chen Xu had cleared so many dungeons that he had all sorts of miscellaneous items, but he didn't want to make trash; that would be a waste of time.
Chen Xu pulled two items from his storage space: a Corrupted Heart and a Corrupted Fruit. Both were fresh rewards from the dungeons.
He placed the heart and the fruit on their respective trays and poured a barrel of monkey wine into the central vat. A red light flashed in the room, and a display screen descended from the ceiling, while a red button and a green button rose from below.
【Base Liquor Quality: Poor. Left Material Quality: Medium. Right Material Quality: Medium. Material and Base Compatibility: Medium. Expected Product Quality: Low. Synthesize: Yes (Red) / No (Green)】
"As expected of an alchemy lab. Those doing research are indeed rigorous, even providing a preliminary analysis."
No wonder the regional description called it a fully equipped top-tier laboratory. Unfortunately, Chen Xu was not a professional researcher; he only understood the trial-and-error method.
Stepping on the red button, the trays automatically dumped the materials into the vat. Then, two hemispherical covers rose from the ground, enclosing the vat.
Eerie light continuously shot out from within the covers—sometimes red, sometimes green, and sometimes even multicolored. Besides the eerie beams, strange sounds emerged: the popping of bubbles, the sharp hiss of steam, and weird whispers.
After a long time, these strange noises finally ceased. The covers opened, revealing the vat inside.
Chen Xu walked over to take a look and found that the originally clear monkey wine had turned blood-red. Furthermore, something seemed to be swimming in the liquid, constantly releasing bubbles.
Crack!
The display screen on the ceiling descended again, showing the synthesis result.
【Synthesis successful. Obtained final product: Corrupted Puree (Temporary Name)】
【Quality: Medium】
【Effect: After drinking the puree, the user suffers from corruption. There is an extremely low probability of obtaining extraordinary abilities from the corruption.】
【Notes: 1. Most effective for Transcendent tier and below; those at the epic-tier are immune to corruption. 2. Touching the puree has the same effect as drinking it. 3. Given that the probability of obtaining extraordinary abilities is too low to be significant, it is recommended that the user treats Corrupted Puree as an offensive item.】
Well, the first attempt seemed to be a failure. Chen Xu took a large block of ice from the Everfrost Dragon Kingdom and used his mental strength to carve out a wine barrel, into which he poured the Corrupted Puree.
Since those at the epic-tier were immune to corruption, he would save it for Ye Bufan and Xiang Longwu. The next time he met them, he would let them have a taste.
Rate on N.U.
