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"Sigh." He sighed softly, "If my sister is going to be like this, she might as well just ignore me. It makes me look like I'm being unreasonable..."
"Waaaah..." A sharp pain swept over Black Swallow's head, and she finally couldn't help but start crying. While crying, she still tried to run, but she found in despair that she couldn't shake off Latis at all.
"Oh right, did I forget something?" Latis suddenly paused, slowed his pace, and then stood still.
"Finally... they're not chasing anymore..." Black Flash Swallow, a highly talented alchemist, had never experienced such a humiliating escape. Seeing Latis stop, she forgot to continue running for a moment, and collapsed to the ground, panting with tears in her eyes.
What exactly does he want...?
All that remained in her mind was this desperate thought, but the next second when she turned around, she found that the mentally unstable barbarian had run away in a flash.
"Yes, I'm saved..."
Black Swallow struggled to her feet, wiped away her tears, and limped forward.
She pulled out a few scattered scrolls from her bra. Seeing that these were all that was left, she sadly continued to rummage inside. However, the empty vest became emptier and emptier with each rummage, and she felt more and more aggrieved. Just as she began to calculate how many gold coins she had lost on this trip, she suddenly saw a gust of wind fly past her.
"Then, what is that?"
……
"It seems we've gone too far."
Latis suddenly stopped and turned around to look.
However, what came towards him was Serfal, who was tied around the neck with a rope and being pulled from behind. Seeing the sleeping red-haired woman flying straight towards him due to inertia, Latis's pupils dilated instantly, and his face showed despair.
boom!
He spat out blood, staggered to his feet, glanced at Serfael in horror, coughed twice, and like a frightened bird, obediently pulled Serfael toward the Black Flash Swallow not far away.
It's almost dawn.
As Black Swallow's mood gradually calmed down, she looked at the rising sun on the horizon and was about to return to the alchemy hut when she noticed a demon with a mouthful of blood pulling a dragon girl who looked like she had been strangled towards her.
"No wonder so many strange things happened to me today; am I about to die?"
A sense of pessimism welled up in Hei Shanyan's heart. She slumped to the ground, dejected, thinking:
"It's a pity that the ambush on Mitu still didn't come to fruition. I still haven't obtained the method for making the Lich's Life Box from that person. Waaah, if only I hadn't only obtained the alchemical knowledge from the Wizarding Trinity, I wouldn't be so powerless and at the mercy of others..."
She couldn't help but shed tears and cried out loudly:
"My money—"
"Uh."
The sudden appearance of a man's voice made Hei Shanyan cry even louder. She tilted her head back, exposing her slender neck, and shouted:
"Go ahead and strangle me! I only have a little bit of stock left anyway, I might as well be dead!"
Latis looked at the Black Flash Swallow crying loudly in front of him and couldn't help but scratch his head awkwardly.
"Wasn't this a bit too much bullying?"
In the simulation, although he was exploited day and night by Black Flash Swallow for his agricultural products, he eventually retaliated. In reality, he even gained a lot of alchemy-related knowledge from her for free.
Furthermore, judging from her experiences recorded in her magic notebook, she is a straightforward person who started to fight evil with evil and violence with violence after being persecuted in her youth. Although she is extremely cruel to evil people, she seems to have never actually met a good person.
Unfortunately, in the simulation, Blackfly always thought Latis was a member of the Black Hat Gang because of his initial "testicle contact" with the Black Hat Warlock... Anyway, this served as a wake-up call for Latis; indeed, it's best not to touch other people's testicles so casually...
“That’s how it is,” Latis said to Black Flash Swallow after thinking for a moment.
"Is your current experiment stuck at the stage of developing a limb-integrated machine? I can help you refine your theory, and even teach you how to apply the knowledge of magical puppets to the integrated machine, provided that you no longer conduct experiments that violate morality and ethics, and become a kind alchemist."
"what?"
Black Swallow's mouth hung open for several minutes before she grasped the weight of information in those words. Her dark eyes widened, seemingly unable to comprehend why their stance had suddenly shifted from hostile to neutral, or even friendly. Forcibly suppressing the wariness ingrained from her years on the run, she cautiously asked:
"What... what can I do for you? As an alchemist specializing in the creation of life, my research would cease without human experimentation... In truth, everyone I've killed deserved to die..."
“That won’t do either. If life creation has to be this cruel, then we should switch to magical puppets.” Latis’s face darkened. In his memory, the all-in-one machine experiment never brought a truly practical result. Black Flash Swallow seemed to want to give organs a living ability, but the upper limit of this experiment was only to provide her alchemy hut with an automatic navigation function.
"Alright, alright." Hei Shan Yan sighed, looked at the mysterious man in front of her, bit her lip, and asked:
"So, what price do I need to pay?"
"I'm such a wicked person, using other people's knowledge to deceive them..."
Latis gave a wicked laugh without any moral restraint. In his previous life, as a seasoned office worker, he was very good at this kind of thing. Although he couldn't help but blush when he tricked a naive girl, why not?
He thought for a while and said:
"First, find me someone. He's a half-elf with short silver hair, about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a hooded robe..."
Chapter 41 Magical Wonders (Part 2)
"It's getting light."
Artemis wiped the blood from her face and gently washed her hands in the river. She looked at the pale green tree frog she was clutching in her other hand, and its pointed ears twitched happily.
"Next, we just need to temporarily restrain that thing behind us to buy some time for the spell inscription..."
A slight tremor suddenly came from the woods. Her eyes sharpened, and her magic surged. The grimoire hanging at her waist began to flip instantly.
"Flash!"
The overlapping dimensional gaps enveloped her, and the next second, a long, narrow sword swept across the area with the force of lightning, directly cleaving all the trees within a radius of more than ten meters in half!
The mechanical arm, forged from monster vertebrae and ore, effortlessly lifted the greatsword. Its precisely cut polygonal compound eyes gleamed with soulfire as it gently lowered its head to look at Atelius's original spot.
A tree frog, its skin completely peeled off, was still kicking its legs with all its might, driven by the reflexes of its spinal cord.
The magical puppet raised its greatsword high and slammed it down on the tree frog!
With its movement, the greatsword instantly transformed into a giant pounding hammer, smashing the tree frog into a bloody pulp with a loud crack.
The magical puppet mechanically lifted the hammer, revealing the ground without any marks from being smashed—this was the magic puppet's precision!
Without any emotion, it merged its four mechanical legs together, then inserted its slender waist between them. Its body shone with a magical glow as it absorbed magic energy, and it fell into a dormant state, leaving only its head with compound eyes constantly patrolling the area.
Artemis saw this scene through the many dimensional gaps, and a hint of helplessness appeared on her usually aloof face.
"This is so unlucky... I wonder how Latis, um, my brother is doing..."
After the red dragon Serfal crushed the poor spatial passage with her twelve-ton weight, Ateliers unfortunately crashed into a ruin. The huge commotion immediately awakened the ruin's puppet guards, who then began to hunt down Ateliers.
"I can obtain magically imbued fabric and eyelashes from higher beings from my own body. I've already acquired the river water and ancient tree bark from the forest, and with the skin of the slippery tree frog I just obtained, I can now inscribe an invisibility spell into my magic book."
Artemis nodded to herself, then noticed her body gradually solidifying. She knew this was a sign that she would be squeezed out of the dimensional rift after the Blink spell ended, so she took a deep breath and prepared herself.
She opened her eyes, and the faint morning sun appeared at the edge of the forest. In that instant, the magic puppet's weapon had transformed into a scythe and attacked at lightning speed.
Ateliers looked at the scythe that was already close to her neck. The grimoire at her waist froze instantly, then she parted her lips slightly and uttered:
"Shrinking technique".
The enormous scythe swept across the hair beneath her cheek, shrinking uncontrollably. Seeing this, Ateliers didn't hesitate and immediately continued reciting:
"Transformation!"
The spellbook turned a page, and a pale blue light covered her cheeks and limbs, transforming into cheeks and webbed feet reflected in illusory light and shadow.
Artemis stuffed the materials into the inner pocket of her robe and leaped into the river like a slender and graceful fish.
Swish!
The sharp greatsword grazed her calf, splattering a few drops of blood which were then swept away by the rushing water. The puppet, its body glowing with a solidified effect that granted it magic immunity, shouldered the greatsword and walked to the riverbank.
Its eyes flickered with soul fire as it took four steps and ran towards the front of the river.
After a long time, Ateliers was squeezed out of the dimensional rift and fell awkwardly into the river.
"Fortunately, in the logic of the magical puppet, the cooldown time of the magic network spell isn't that fast..."
She struggled to climb onto the riverbank, her face pale, and clutched her calf, whispering:
"The Healing Mantra".
A pale green glow covered her calf, and the deep, bone-revealing sword wound immediately stopped bleeding. However, healing wounds was not the forte of this type of magic, so she could only endure the pain, lean on a tree to stand up, and walk in the opposite direction of the river.
"This river appears to be one of the rivers flowing from the floating islands towards the border between the Forest Sea Territory and the Dragon Horn Territory. Following this route should lead to the Dragon Horn Territory."
"If I were to draw a straight line connecting Dragonhorn's capital city and Lundia, I'd be about twenty miles from that line."
When the spatial passage shatters, those with lighter mass are thrown farther. My older brother should be much closer to that straight line than I am. I need to find him as soon as possible; it's too dangerous here, and he's just an apprentice…
Artemis gritted her teeth, tore a piece of cloth from the hem of her robe to bind the wound on her calf, then took out the materials and began to inscribe spells on the magic book.
"The magical puppet could discover the problem and return at any time; I can't lead it to my elder brother."
She plucked a silver-white eyelash, and magic surged wildly into the blank pages of the book.
"Invisibility spell... Inscription!"
……
"Nani kore ah, Nani kore ah!"
Latis turned his face, which was wrinkled like a chrysanthemum, and leaned against a withered tree trunk, retching twice.
"This, this is my alchemy hut?" Black Flash Swallow looked at the alchemy hut at a loss, then at Latis, her black curly hair swaying in clumps, emitting a faint smell of formaldehyde.
"Nanikoreah!!" Latis roared, looking up at the azure sky bathed in the rising sun, slowly calming his emotions. He closed his eyes tightly, silently thinking to himself:
"Latis, cheer up! As a twenty-year tabletop role-playing enthusiast, what kind of Khmer cuisine haven't you tried? You're the man who prides himself on being able to achieve a perfect happy ending even after twenty major failures! It's just a magical spectacle, you can definitely do it!"
"Yes, of course, after all, it's me."
He looked up at the cloud in the distance that looked like a cow and said slowly, then calmly lowered his head.
Beneath a small hut of about ten square meters, entwined with twisted vines, more than twenty bare legs were scratching at each other, rubbing the large welts caused by blood-sucking mosquito bites.
Their fur of various colors intertwined, their skin of various colors blended seamlessly with the various monster remnants attached to them, and some of their continuously growing nails snaked into the flesh of their other legs, yet they were content, leaning against each other, their insteps stroking each other, looking very affectionate.
"Nani korea!!!"
Latis couldn't help but shout again. He gagged violently, wiped away the tears he had squeezed out, closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose, and massaged it as he said to Black Swallow:
"Let's go inside. It should be alright inside, right?"
"Yes, it should be..."
Blackfly led Latis inside with a very uncertain tone and closed the door.
Suddenly, the entire alchemy hut began to shake.