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As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a chill in his chest. He looked down in astonishment and found that the broken sword had pierced his heart.
The man trembled all over as he watched Yashutia, expressionless as she let the bloody thread pierce her throat, retract her sword and turn to leave. He couldn't utter a word and could only collapse to the ground in despair.
"Life is forged..."
After clutching her throat and rubbing a new section of her trachea to repair herself, Yashutia finally let out a long breath and stood up wearily, carrying her broken sword.
Her perception of divine power was as acute as her perception of demonic essence, so she was quite certain that the crimson threads composed of divine power could not kill her.
Of course, her confidence was based on her self-taught ancient alchemy skills, but this was also one of the main reasons why she was being hunted down.
"Janium is absolutely rotten."
Young Yashutia, carrying a sword, tied several corpses together and dragged them toward her unfinished alchemy hut outside the city.
"What divine power, what life-and-death feuds? This is the kind of place Yanium is. You kill everyone in front of you, and the people behind you might not even recognize you. It's utterly devoid of any sense of satisfaction in revenge..."
"Alchemy needs further study. Some time ago, I found the formula for necromancy runes, but the magic element in Anium is too diluted... I've heard that Norard is a treacherous place; I wonder if I can find any trace of liches there..."
As she recalled everything about the town of Pandora, from its interior to its exterior, a hint of menace appeared on her face.
“Janium is rotten, and so am I, but I’m a genius, so I have to live.”
……
Welcome to the Kurosawa Alchemy Workshop!
The chibi-style black bear, remade to take care of Frico, shouted. Yashutia rubbed her eyes and sat up from the dark bed.
"Miss Kurosawa! It's already afternoon. I haven't seen you all morning. Are you alright? I brought you breakfast, remember to eat it!"
Frico's voice came from outside the door. She seemed to have placed a pile of plates on the table outside, and then called out again:
"I'll be going now! By the way, Lundia has entered a period of magical energy surge, and the vegetation in the mage territory has started to grow wildly. Miss Kurosawa, if you have time, could you please craft some equipment to deal with the plants? Thank you!"
“It’s a piece of cake, leave it to me!” Yashutia replied instinctively. Only after Frico’s footsteps faded into the distance did she come to her senses and murmur to herself:
"It turned out to be a dream..."
She looked at her now strong arms, which were strong enough to lift a cauldron, sighed softly, bent over, hugged her knees, and buried her head in her arms.
"...Waaah! Waaah..."
Yashutia let out two soft whimpers, then suddenly swung her fist, sprang up from the bed, and cursed as she shouted:
"Ugh, damn it! Why didn't I kill all three with one sword strike? Ugh! I could have bragged about that for the rest of my life, but I ended up getting injured in return. How embarrassing!"
Her firm chest heaved violently, and after a long while, she muttered something else:
"It's all because my arms were too short back then..."
Yashutia shook her head, not thinking about whether it would be different if the sword were a little longer. In her opinion, the broken sword had already done a very good job.
Gululu...
Suddenly, the lid of the magic furnace next to her began to vibrate. Yashutia was startled and rushed forward to lift the lid. A golden light instantly filled the dark cave, so bright that it was blinding.
"Wow, gold..."
Before she could finish speaking, she fell silent as she looked at the golden panties she had pulled out of the magic furnace.
"How strange... Wasn't I making the Golden Armor for my elder brother? What is this?"
Yashutia scratched her head in confusion, carefully sensing the function of the golden panties.
"Accumulating power, wearing it for an extended period can enhance the body's hardness and defense; the effect dissipates after half an hour of removal... Feels pretty good?"
Although the result was quite different from the expected golden armor, it can still be regarded as a commemorative gift given to Latis after settling in Lundia. Its golden brilliance is very uplifting to look at, and as an inner garment, it will not be too eye-catching. It is the embodiment of understated luxury.
"Well, let's go see my older brother first. If it doesn't work out, we can always go back to the factory..."
Yashutia put the golden panties into the gift box, pushed open the door, casually ate a few bites of tea and snacks, and then excitedly ran towards the direction of the mage tower.
……
"Big brother, big brother, big brother, look what good stuff I've made for you!"
There was a loud knocking on Latis's door. After waiting for a while, Yashutia muttered to herself in confusion:
"Is my older brother not here? Then let's put it in his room first."
She cautiously pushed open the door, glanced at the messy room, frowned, sniffed, shook her head, and muttered:
"What's that smell? It's so strange!"
Yashutia opened the door, placed the gift box she was carrying on Latis's table, glanced at the blank scrolls and cushions scattered haphazardly on the floor, shook her head, sighed, and said:
"Fine, fine! Let this genius girl tidy up your room then. What can I do? I'm just that capable."
She rolled up her sleeves, picked up the cushion from the floor, patted off the dents from kneeling on it, put it back on the chair, then pushed the chair under the table and picked up the blank scroll from the floor.
"Hey, what is this?"
Yashutia suddenly noticed the Life Box and the Demon Gathering Tower on the table. She neatly arranged the scrolls, scratched her head, leaned closer to take a look, and murmured:
"It's strange, it has a kind of... strange yet familiar feeling..."
She subconsciously reached out and slowly approached the life box.
"What...is this...?"
"Hey!" Just as she was about to touch the fate box, she abruptly pulled her hand back, stylishly tossed her hair, and laughed triumphantly:
"A feint! This is obviously one of Big Brother's treasures, with its divine power and eerie dark aura. I won't touch it randomly, or Big Brother will spank me if I break it."
She turned around decisively, intending to leave, when suddenly a black ripple appeared in her consciousness.
Trusting her intuition completely, Yashutia instantly twisted her body and dodged the ripples. At the same time, she also noticed the strange life box that was emitting the ripples in her peripheral vision.
"You little rascal, trying to trick me, trying to ambush me, huh?..."
A wave of dizziness interrupted Yashutia's words. She raised her hand in confusion, looking at the black ripples swirling around her, then lowered her head and exclaimed in sudden realization:
So that's how it is!
She fainted on the ground as soon as she finished speaking.
Black ripples slowly spread across Yashutia's chest—yes, as she became more and more skilled in alchemy, she rarely engaged in close combat, to the point that she didn't even realize that her breasts had grown much larger with age.
Sure enough, those with smaller breasts have a higher evasion rate!
……
……
"Mr. Latis, are you dissatisfied with any of these proposals?"
The receptionist, April, nervously held the book in her hands, looking at Latis, who had a thoughtful expression on her face.
As a mage association that directly serves the high-level mage community, their services, while somewhat rigidly defined, are absolutely worth the money.
After Artemis decided to accept the Association's mission, the Association planned to put her mage tower modification needs into production before the half-elf began the mission. Therefore, Aypo spent a long time explaining various modification and upgrade directions to the half-elf in detail.
However, although the half-elf possessed the innate aesthetic sensibilities of the elven race, having left home at a young age, she had little concept of what functions a defensive fortification should have.
She originally intended to modify and construct it in imitation of the ancient war tree from elven legends, but after some analysis, the Mage Association still felt that such a modification would have little practical effect. After some deliberation, the half-elf entrusted the matter to her all-powerful elder brother.
"I know you still recommend adding a teleportation array to the mage tower during its initial renovation," Latis said, stroking his chin.
"However... please show me some other examples of defensive fortifications for mage towers."
“Okay.” Aibo wiped the sweat from his forehead, opened the book, and a virtual mage tower appeared in the air.
She pointed to both sides of the mage tower and said:
"Within the contribution point limit, when upgrading a mage tower for the first time, they usually choose to place trigger-based defensive spells in these areas, such as 'Iron Wall'..."
Chapter 199 A Shura Field Without a Trace of Human Touch, Probably
After Apo's explanation, Latis fell into deep thought.
It turns out that although mage towers can be projected onto the location of their owners for defense, due to certain spatial limitations, current magic cannot yet make the projected mage towers move with them.
In other words, the current Wizard Tower projection is essentially a defensive spell with an appearance, but its configuration can be changed manually.
Most mages are not very interested in this kind of turtle-style defensive fortification that loses the flexibility of mages, so they basically choose to add teleportation array functionality to mage towers.
However, Latis immediately came up with several ways to play, such as adding a super-large "Cloud" spell to the mage tower, summoning projections to act as fixed-point sprayers, and then hiding in the fog to assassinate enemies.
Or you could add a super-powerful "Flash" ability, using it directly as a giant A1 high-flash, since you're always backlit when facing enemies anyway.
For example, with "animated objects," even though the mage tower cannot move, the enemy would surely be greatly shocked to see a mage tower that jumps, dodges, and shakes in place...
Who says magic towers can only serve as tall nuts and turrets? Magic is not such an inconvenient thing!
Of course, for Latis, who had already gained the power of a goddess priestess, he had an even more shocking idea... However, at this moment he was considering a renovation plan for Art's mage tower, so he temporarily suppressed his inner ambitions.
"I'll think about it when I'm able to build my own mage tower..."
Latis stroked his chin, nodded silently, then looked at Arte who was waiting, and whispered in her ear:
“I think this is a good idea, Arte. Since you're a spellcaster using a grimoire, you don't lack firepower. It would be best to equip the mage tower with spells that can buff you, such as healing and mana restoration, removing negative effects, and adding buffs…”
……
In the evening, Latis and Artemis pushed open the gates of the Mage Guild, waved goodbye to the dazed-looking Amber inside, and then headed home.
"Brother, the receptionist was quite frightened by you."
The half-elf, arm in arm with Latis, said with a smile:
"This is probably the first time she's heard of a request to split two pre-set sixth-circle spell slots into several lower-circle spell slots."
“A higher magic ring doesn’t necessarily guarantee an overwhelming advantage,” Latis said, shaking his head. “This is true even for us, let alone for mages of the Magic Network. Or rather, under the constraints of the Magic Network, the difference between low-ring and high-ring mages isn’t that significant, but of course, things change after legendary status.”
The half-elf looked up at Latis beside him, his gaze shifting, and said in a low voice:
"Big brother's knowledge is becoming more and more profound, and it's only been a few days..."
Latis paused briefly as he passed the spire's perimeter, sighed, and then led the half-elf out of the inner city, saying:
"After experiencing a lot, many things naturally become your own knowledge, which is probably a good thing."
"Hmm..." The half-elf looked at Latis with a probing gaze, pinched his arm, and after realizing he didn't feel it, pursed his lips slightly and said:
"If you could have Ate by your side when you encounter difficulties, it would probably help ease some of the pressure, right?"