After putting away the Corrupted Puree, Chen Xu went up to the second floor of the alchemy lab, which corresponded to the Corruption affix.
The style of the second floor was completely different from the first. The floor was no longer traditional wood or tile, but a crimson carpet of flesh. The blood vessels on the carpet were still pulsing rhythmically as if they were alive.
Looking in from the doorway, he saw a blood pool in the center of the room, with bubbles constantly rolling to the surface.
Chen Xu raised an eyebrow. To be honest, this environment was far too hellish. This was supposed to be an alchemy lab, so why was the decoration style so realistic? Wasn't it afraid of attracting the gaze of the hellish will?
No wonder the description said there were minor safety issues.
Chen Xu walked in and looked around, finding no other facilities besides the blood pool in front of him.
"How do I operate this thing? I can't just throw things directly into the blood pool, can I?"
As if hearing Chen Xu's complaint, a display screen descended from the ceiling again.
【Corrupted Blood Pool: Throw a creature or item into the blood pool, then retreat to the laboratory entrance and chant the incantation: "Endless Mother of Flesh, churn your blood and bestow the grace of corruption!" Then, exit the laboratory immediately! Remember! Exit immediately unless you also wish to join the corruption ritual.】
After reading the contents of the display, Chen Xu fell into silence and silently backed out of the room.
Next, he reached out and grabbed a skeleton soldier and a ghost. He then took out the Green Dragon Scale Armor from his storage space, an epic-tier piece of armor that had long since been replaced, and handed it to the skeleton soldier.
Then, Chen Xu commanded the skeleton soldier to walk into the room and jump into the blood pool before turning his gaze toward the ghost.
"You saw the display screen up there, right? Do you understand the instructions?"
Facing Chen Xu's question and his cold, emotionless tone, the ghost nodded repeatedly to indicate it understood.
"Very good. Then go in and chant the incantation. Remember to exit immediately after you finish. If you don't make it and an accident occurs, the Undead Kingdom will remember your sacrifice."
After saying that, he directly used his mental strength to push the ghost into the doorway.
The ghosts had no choice. They were used to it. Every Lord of the Undead would play with strange things. And because of their natural advantage as spiritual bodies, they were always favored by the Lord of the Undead to participate in such matters.
The ghost looked at the display screen, channeled its mental strength, and spoke.
"Endless Mother of Flesh, churn your blood and bestow the grace of corruption!"
As the words fell, a terrifying aura emerged in the room, and the ghost quickly floated out.
Boom!
Just as it came out, a heavy stone door covered in complex runes dropped down, completely sealing the second floor laboratory.
After a long time, the stone door slowly rose.
The man and the ghost each poked their heads out from either side of the doorway to look inside.
He saw that the skeleton soldier's originally clear, blue crystal bones were now laced with numerous blood-colored patterns. The shield and bone blade in its hands had vanished, and the skeleton's palms had turned into giant beast claws.
Even the skull had split down the middle, with one side remaining the original blue crystal and the other side becoming a crimson skull covered in meat.
Its temperament had also changed from an elegant sense of art to something hideous and bloodthirsty, like a beast ready to tear its enemies apart at any moment. Fortunately, Chen Xu had no issues with absolute control over his summons.
Crack! The display screen dropped down, showing the results of the ritual.
【Corruption successful. Final products: Fallen Skeleton, Magic Dragon Armor】
【Fallen Skeleton: A skeleton that has merged the three special powers of the undead, extreme ice, and corruption, possessing extraordinary combat strength far exceeding that of ordinary skeletons. However, the overly radical modification of corruption has also caused the skeleton's original regeneration ability to be reduced.】
【Magic Dragon Armor: The life attributes of a dragon are excellent nourishment for corruption. And green dragons are the finest among dragons. Corruption has completely transformed the armor, bestowing it with incredibly powerful evil energy. By wearing it, you will gain power comparable to mythic-tier power, but the armor will also devour your life until it consumes your soul.】
Judging from the results of the skeleton soldier and the green dragon armor, the modifications of the corruption ritual were focused on aggression.
Creatures and items modified by it would receive an increase in offensive capabilities, and the magnitude of the increase was not small. The Green Dragon Scale Armor, which was only epic-tier, could actually allow the user to obtain mythic-tier power after modification. Even if it was at the cost of one's life, this was still astonishing.
Chen Xu's gaze shifted back and forth between the Fallen Skeleton and the Magic Dragon Armor.
"Is there any potential in having a Fallen Skeleton wear the Magic Dragon Armor?"
For a normal person, the cost of using the Magic Dragon Armor was to give up everything. But for skeleton soldiers, they already had to give everything to Chen Xu. In this way, it was equivalent to ignoring the side effects of the Magic Dragon Armor.
Furthermore, the Fallen Skeleton's regeneration had been weakened while its offensive power was increased. If it wore the Magic Dragon Armor, it would be a mythic-tier berserker with maxed-out attack power.
The only issue was that the quantity was a bit low. Chen Xu could mass-produce the Fallen Skeleton, but he had no more stock of dragon armor.
The rewards for clearing the Green Dragon Lair dungeon outside Mohai previously hadn't given any green dragon armor, only some dragon scales for the kill rewards. He wasn't sure if the craftsmen of the Heavenly Crafts Academy like Xia Deliang and Qi Xuanheng could forge them.
But the quantity was still too small. If he could gather 300 sets of dragon armor and then perform the corruption modification, he could create a skeleton combat squad with mythic-tier strength for every member.
Three hundred mythic-tier units. Although their endurance might be poor, not many enemies could endure being mobbed by 300 mythic-tier powerhouses.
In short, Chen Xu was very satisfied with the modification capabilities of the corruption ritual. In the eyes of others, corruption modifications had massive side effects, but for Chen Xu, or rather, for his skeleton brothers, it wasn't a problem at all.
Corruption had given Chen Xu a surprise, making him full of anticipation for the aberration on the third floor.
Arriving at the third floor, the style of the room changed again, becoming heavily tech-oriented.
But a tech style had its advantages, which were the various operation prompts and precautions written directly on the walls. It looked much more reliable than the previous two floors just by looking at it.
Chen Xu looked at the operating steps on the wall. They were very simple: place a creature into the giant culture medium in the middle of the room, close the cover, press the button, and wait for the experiment to complete.
Simple and clear, it had to be a modern technological society.
Chen Xu looked at the culture medium in the center and felt it should be able to fit an abomination. So, he used his mental strength to grab an abomination that hadn't been fitted with an egg.
Since it was an aberration experiment, a flesh-and-blood abomination should be more suitable than those other undead creatures that were all bone, right?
After the abomination walked to the center, Chen Xu pulled the lever, lowered the cover, and enclosed the abomination. Then, he walked behind the laboratory bench and pressed the button.
Hiss!
A large amount of smoke sprayed out from below, quickly filling the cover and obscuring the abomination's form.
Then, after about five seconds, some flesh color appeared on the cover. Subsequently, this flesh color occupied more and more space, pushing all the smoke away.
Chen Xu walked over and took a close look: "Why does this look a bit like the color of an abomination's flesh?"
Just as Chen Xu wanted to walk to the other side to observe from a different angle, he heard the sound of glass shattering.
Without a second thought, Chen Xu immediately used Teleport to move himself outside the alchemy lab.
After landing, he looked up and saw a large mass of flesh squeezing out of the doorway on the third floor. It was a good thing he flashed away quickly, or he would have had an intimate encounter with the abomination's flesh.
Chen Xu wasn't sure if the experiment was considered complete, successful, or a failure in this state. So he waited a few more minutes before dragging that large mountain of flesh out.
Then he returned to the third-floor laboratory. The quality of the facilities here was quite good. Except for the cover, nothing else was damaged, though they were stained with some unknown liquid.
Chen Xu went to the laboratory bench to check the results of the experiment.
【Aberration experiment successful. Final product: Source of the Plague】
【Source of the Plague: The abomination was ultimately defeated by the virus within its body. The evolutionary will of the virus was stronger, and the main subject of the aberration became the plague. Within this mountain of infinitely proliferating flesh, an unknown mysterious virus is rapidly multiplying.】
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