Chapter 40
The Giant Alligator King had died, and it had done so at the hands of two seemingly insignificant beings!
Greem commanded the Clay Golem to hack into the Giant Alligator King’s corpse so that he could harvest some important materials, including an egg-sized Earth Elemental core. After that, before all the other Giant Alligators could bother them, they hastily left the area.
After Greem’s form had disappeared at the end of the trail, behind a Killer Tree less than half a mile away from the battlefield, Mary was staring distractedly at the Giant Alligators who were roaring angrily in the distance. On the ground around her, fourteen broken Scavenger Crow bodies were scattered around.
She had witnessed the entire course of Greem’s battle just now, and was now filled with mixed emotions.
The Giant Alligator King was a terrifying demon that even she had not dared provoke!
Although the Giant Alligator King was considered to be on the same level as an Advanced Apprentice, this wasn’t a good representation of it’s true fighting ability. With her high Agility, even if Giant Alligator King was given a pair of wings, it would still not be able to think about catching her. However, the thick and strong scales of Giant Alligator King were not something she could break through either, as she was ‘weak’.
If they fought, the Giant Alligator King couldn’t do anything about her speed, and she couldn’t do anything about its defense.
Mary knew the limitations of her abilities. While they were weak, she might be able to bully most of these Apprentice Adepts. But following their inevitable improvement, her advantage was, in fact, shrinking.
Mary stared straight at Greem’s face with her dazzling eyes. Finally, she nodded her head without saying anything.
After obtained an ‘investment’ from Mary, and unaware of the beating that he had narrowly escaped, Greem eagerly rushed off to the Alchemy Laboratory and, like an extravagant man, rented out the high-quality Alchemy Station for seven hours.
The Earth Elemental Core obtained from Giant Alligator King was as big as a pigeon egg. According to the Chip’s designs, besides a few basic controlling magical formations, he could place a few more energy nodes on the extra space. Thus, while the previous summoning core could only have four energy nodes, this one could have nine.
More energy nodes meant a more complex magical formation and numerous modifications to the entire structure. So, since the moment Greem had obtained the core, the Chip had been busy calculating and testing the design.
When Greem had finally prepared all the magical materials, the Chip had completed the task.
*Beep* “The latest structural design for golem summoning core has been completed. Commence data transfer?”
“Transfer!”
After the data finished transferring, Greem closed his eyes and saw the custom three-dimensional design of the magical formation.
After on these calculations, he needed to carve fifteen magical formations of all sizes on the surface of the pigeon egg sized summoning core. He also needed to connect them all together, forming them into a larger, more complex magical formation. A design task like this could only be completed by the Chip in such a short amount of time. For Greem, he could barely recognize any of the rune structures on it.
After spending a few minutes trying to understand it, Greem stopped trying and turned his attention to the issues he had to face later during the carving process.
With the help of the Chip, Greem could totally avoid the problem of insufficient knowledge and skill, and was able to divide the entire complex crafting task into countless simple and straightforward operations. Through these trivial, small operations, Greem, who was only a rookie in Alchemy, could complete the complex rune structures in one go, while this would usually only be possible in the hands of those Master Alchemists.
Therefore, at this moment, what Greem worried about was not whether he was competent enough to complete this project, but if his Spirit was sufficient to support the massive strain he was about to put on it.
But he didn’t have any alternatives.
He had to construct his Golem army as quickly as possible in order to optimize his offensive ability. Then had to find the time to learn one defensive magic spell in order to give himself both the offensive and defensive advantage. And this was the key to his survival in the compulsory mission!
Greem took a deep breath, and once again stood in front of the Alchemy Station. He rid himself of any distracting thoughts and fully focused on crafting the brand new summoning core.