Chapter 429
Chapter 429 The Accumulation of Power
Greem spent six whole hours in the alchemical lab before coming out of the room.
His formerly plentiful Spirit was utterly exhausted when he stepped out. He was even swaying about on his feet when he walked.
Greem started his daily meditation as soon as he reached his room on the fourth floor.
The five hours of deep meditation quickly replenished his Spirit and also brought about a minor Spirit increase of 0.0005 points. It was an extremely slow increase, but his powers would still grow considerably if he kept it up.
However, the development of Spirit through daily meditation wasn’t always constant. The effect of meditation would gradually decrease once his Spirit grew to a certain extent. That was why adepts who wanted to advance to Second Grade through daily accumulation were many, yet those who succeeded were few.
Why else were there so many First Grade adepts with lifespans of two to three hundred years, but only a few Second Grade adepts? The most important reason was the limits imposed by the planar laws!
Greem couldn’t help but ask a question when he saw the bloody knives and saws on the robotic arms of the auxiliary golem, “How is the treatment of Subjects One and Two coming along?”
“Subject One has been completely cleaned up. Subject Two’s life force is still decreasing. At the moment, only 87% of their body functions remain.”
The robot and its master walked as they talked. They soon arrived before a massive stone platform.
A humongous magical spider laid across the platform. Its head was gone, and the large abdominal sac on its rear had also withered. However, its massive body and sharp limbs remained on the platform. It was an intimidating sight to anyone who saw them.
Tula might be dead, but its body still held tremendous value!
Its eight limbs were all sharp enough to compare with magically-enhanced weapons. Their power could be further maximized if they were handed over to enchanters or alchemists and modified into proper magical armaments.
The old spider’s shell was also flexible, sturdy, and magic-resistant. Greem didn’t know what material it was composed of, but there was no doubt it was an excellent one. If the shell was crafted into a small shield, it would be light enough that even adepts would be able to hold it up.
Greem also found a large poison gland, a poison sac, and a considerable silk gland within Tula’s body.
These items would have radically different effects in the hands of different adepts. However, Greem was not at all experienced in the treatment of magical materials. He had no choice but to give them all to Gargamel. After all, Gargamel was a potions master. The poison gland and poison sac would undoubtedly increase his reserve of poisons and further improve the efficacy of his poisonous potions.
Gargamel didn’t disappoint Greem either. He soaked the silk gland in a mysterious solution, and it started to produce the same silk and webbing that Tula used. Even though it barely produced one meter of silk over ten days, Gargamel confirmed that this silk was not only soft and comfortable to the touch, but was also exceptionally tough and resilient as well. An ordinary magically-enhanced weapon couldn’t sever it.
Apart from that, this strange silk could also absorb elementium of fewer than ten points of power, as well as obscure mental probes.
That meant that an undergarment woven from this silk would allow an adept to possess ten points of elementium resistance and enable them to become immune to an adept’s passive spiritual senses.
In doing so, the wearer no longer needed to worry about exposure of their mental state, even if they were standing near an adept with superior Spirit.
After all, the passive probing would be obscured by the undergarment, and active mental probing was unlikely to happen; it was considered an extremely hostile act between adepts!