◎Cold weapons & hot weapons◎
A few seconds later, she received a new notification.
【This is unfortunate news, your synthesis failed】
Shit! Xia Li's blood pressure shot up in anger. She knew there was only a 50% chance of success, and she'd already mentally prepared herself for the experience points and gold to go down the drain. But when she received the news that the synthesis had failed, she couldn't help but feel a pang of pain. The 500-plus gold coins she'd painstakingly saved up were gone in the blink of an eye, without even a splash.
Xia Li wore a mask of pain, frowned hard, slowly raised her hand, and looked at a button on the panel, wanting to press it but not daring to.
After hesitating for a while, he finally took a deep breath and opened the skill panel...
Sure enough, the two skills previously used for synthesis also went to waste. One was the single-target attack skill Green Mist, and the other was the group attack skill Poison Bee. After the synthesis failed, they all disappeared from the skill grid, leaving only two empty spaces.
That was her original plan. Green Mist was a basic attack skill with low damage, so she wouldn't be upset if it was lost during a build. As for the Poison Bee, while it had decent damage and could attack multiple targets at long range, making it a useful power skill, from her perspective, it didn't fit her career plan.
She focuses on damage output, specifically critical strikes, which are relatively difficult to master. Critical strikes are primarily used in close-range combat, so her Poison Bee isn't particularly useful, having been largely replaced by Poison Gas Critical in the later stages. Therefore, even if the Poison Bee fails, it won't significantly impact her.
But! Not having a big impact doesn’t mean there is no impact!
Looking at the last two skills left in the skill grid, Xia Li sighed deeply.
Now, she only had two skills left: Poison Gas Blast and Potion Throw. One guaranteed damage, the other a secondary skill, and they were two she had deliberately kept. Even if she wanted to combine new skills, she couldn't risk these two. In other words, if she wanted to continue combining, she would have to go back to Morgan and ask him for the two old recipes to confiscate.
Xia Li did it right away and turned around and ran into the city.
It had been ages since she'd last seen Morgan. To please Fakula, Morgan had traveled a thousand miles to the frigid lands of Seville to pick flowers. Xia Li calculated that over a month had passed. He should have finished picking and returned by then, right? Otherwise, what would the other players do? Without him, they wouldn't get the alchemy recipes, and the newly selected players would be furious.
With a guess in her mind, she soon returned to Morgan Hall through the teleportation NPC Ere.
A lively atmosphere hits you in the face.
Unlike the first time she stepped into this place, the whole cottage was in a state of dilapidation. The yards in front and behind the cottage were deserted because no one had visited them for a long time. Even Morgan himself was reluctant to accept a disciple.
But what was happening now? The messy bushes had been straightened out, the broken leaves on the path had been removed, and the dust in the yard had been swept away. It was no longer the shabby house she had imagined.
Xia Li didn't expect that during the time she was away, so many new players joined the Alchemist camp. Of course, this also meant that Morgan was indeed back.
"Wow, Tanggao, look! It's the Pear God!" Suddenly, a female player who was cleaning the yard saw Xia Li and shouted with joy. The ID above her head read "Little Tomato".
"Really? You finally get to see the real person. It seems that we didn't choose the alchemist profession in vain. We can finally be on equal footing with her as fellow disciples. I'm so happy!" Another female alchemist named Tanggao looked excited, and there was a look of envy and satisfaction in her eyes as she looked at Xia Li.
However, a passing male player glanced at Xia Li sideways, then turned back to look at the two girls who were talking, his face full of disdain: "Tsk, he's not the top-ranked God in Miracles, is there any need to flatter him?"
"That's right. You flatter me so much, but no one comes to talk to you two. I feel embarrassed for you." Another male alchemist came over and ridiculed them. When he saw the embarrassed looks on the faces of the two female players who were lower level than him, he shook his head with joy.
Tanggao and Xiaofanqie looked at the two boys who spoke so rudely, their faces flushed with anger: "We like the great goddess Lihua, what's it to you!"
These days, aren't they allowed to have their own gaming idols?
"Haha," the boy with the ID "Going up the mountain to fight the tiger" snorted contemptuously. "It's true that you girls are short-sighted. What Pear Goddess? Don't you see who's rising on the professional rankings right now? I kindly suggest you two idiots, if you want to cling to someone powerful, find someone bigger to cling to. Your Pear Goddess hasn't had much of a presence in the game lately. Didn't you see that the two alchemy formulas Morgan just released were snatched up by Fishing Boat? I'm afraid her time is up."
"New alchemy formulas?" Two of them? Tanggao and Xiaofanqie's eyes widened in surprise. They had entered the game relatively late, having only chosen their classes in the last few days. Although they were relatively new alchemists, that didn't stop them from knowing how difficult it was to trigger the alchemy formulas.
Almost everyone who plays Alchemist knows that Morgan has more than ten recipes, but according to them, Morgan has only opened three recipes so far, namely: Poison Bee, Poison Gas Critical Strike and Potion Throwing, all of which were triggered by Li Shen alone.
At first, everyone thought that these three skills plus a normal attack green mist were enough, but gradually, some players began to be dissatisfied with just these few skills, thinking that the gameplay was too monotonous; others could not handle it, because their skill configuration was obviously the same as hers, but the effects were very different.
Naturally, everyone had the same goal - to work hard to establish a good relationship with Morgan, and then work hard to pry other skill formulas out of him.
But it was obvious that after so much time had passed, none of them had succeeded in prying the new skills out of Morgan. Therefore, the alchemist circle was privately saying that whoever had the ability to pry the new skills out of Morgan would be the one they would follow!
Tanggao and Xiaofanqie looked at each other in bewilderment. It was obvious that they both didn't know that their profession had new skills, and two at a time.
The two boys felt relieved when they saw that Tanggao and Xiaofanqie’s faces were even redder than before. So they whistled triumphantly and left with their arms around each other.
Xia Li watched the two departing figures, feeling no emotion. This was perfectly normal; she wasn't a coin; she couldn't please everyone. However, the fishing boat the two boys mentioned did raise an eyebrow in interest. She hadn't expected them to finally enter the game and even obtain two new recipes.
What new skill could it be? Xia Li asked for directions while speculating, and came to a corner.
The door leading to the laboratory was not locked. Xia Li was about to knock on the door when she suddenly heard whispers coming from inside.
"You've done a great job, and this is your reward." Morgan said inside the house, "Now I need you to help me investigate another matter.
"Okay, no problem." A male voice came from behind the door. Although Xia Li felt it was unfamiliar, she knew without thinking that it was Yuzhou Changwan speaking.
Fisherman's Song at Dusk, male, occupation: Alchemist. In his previous life, someone accidentally recorded a fight video of him, and he quickly became famous. As an alchemist with low starting talent, he had no sense of existence in the world. Until that brief one-minute operation in the video, players suddenly discovered his talent! Major guilds rushed to recruit him to their guilds.
As for where he went in the end, Xia Li no longer remembered. She only remembered that in the recorded video, Yuzhou Changwan's operation was very good. Of course, this operation did not refer to output, but to his assistance.
Yes, Yuzhou Changwan was a pure support alchemist, a path completely opposite to hers. In a gaming world where damage was king, sticking with support and persevering through it was actually quite an undertaking. Especially after experiencing firsthand the difficulty of mastering the alchemist profession in this life, Xia Li developed a certain respect for him.
At this moment, her admirer turned his head to look at her, frowning slightly, with an expression as if to ask, "Why don't you knock on the door but hide behind and eavesdrop?"
Xia Li coughed a few times, strode into the laboratory, and greeted Morgan and him.
Yuzhou Changwan withdrew his strange look, said "Hello", and then left the room.
She and Morgan were the only ones left in the lab. Oh yes, it was Morgan, whom she hadn't seen for a long time. Morgan was looking at her with feigned anger, his tone returning to the unfriendly tone they had when they first met: "You finally remembered to come back to see an old man like me?"
Xia Li chuckled and made up a few random excuses.
Probably too lazy to discuss it further with her, Morgan curled his lips and continued to lower his head to fiddle with the instruments on the table.
This was Xia Li's first time in Morgan's lab. It wasn't large, but it was packed with stuff. There were over a dozen different glass bottles, long and short, round and square—everything was there. There were also test tubes, droppers, tweezers, and other small items, all neatly arranged on the shelves. This reminded Xia Li of the pharmacist Xiqi's home. They were both doing experiments, so why was Xiqi's house so messy? On the other hand, Morgan, who seemed so slovenly and didn't even bother trimming his beard, managed his lab so neatly.
Her eyes swept across the room one by one, and suddenly, her eyes fell on a four-legged metal rack. The thing on the metal rack was not big, but she recognized what it was at a glance.
Xia Li frowned. How could it be... This is a miracle place, a game. The official professional weapons set for players are either swords, daggers, spears or staffs. There is no profession that needs to use guns!
But what was placed before him was clearly a box of empty pistol magazines!
She would not be mistaken. As someone who grew up in the war-torn slum No. 36, she had been exposed to guns and other equipment since she was a child, especially those worn-out pistols. If she looked carefully, she could find them in the sewers or trash cans in the streets and alleys.
Empty magazine, impossible. Xia Li stared at the things on the shelf again and again, thinking over and over again in her mind that in her previous life, until her death, she had never seen anyone using a gun as a weapon, at least not a player. In addition, the demons of the Saye continent could basically be ruled out. It was clearly written on the official website, and her experience could also prove that the weapons of the demons were basically the same - knives, axes, bows and arrows, and the healing staff handed over by Wen Li, the Hamman orc she had just met some time ago.
Apart from this, Xia Li really couldn't think of any other party that would use guns.
It wasn't that she was deliberately making a fuss, but in this game world where cold weapons were the only weapons, if one side was secretly controlling the guns, it meant that if the two sides came to blows, with cold weapons versus hot weapons, the players of the Shia continent would definitely be the ones who were slaughtered. No, not just the human race, but perhaps the demons, goblins, and countless other races that used cold weapons as their main defense would also suffer.
When she thought of this, Xia Li couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on her back.
The laboratory suddenly became quiet, and the sound of Morgan fiddling with the instrument stopped. Xia Li turned her eyes and looked at Morgan, who had stopped and had a very serious expression.
Morgan: "I found this in the bushes on my way back. I've lived so long and have never seen anything like this on the Xia continent. I'm sure it's not from Xia. I don't know what it's used for, but my intuition tells me it's very dangerous. For the safety of the people, I need you to help me investigate its origins."
[Job: Investigate what Morgan brought back (need to find clues *3)]
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