Almighty Alchemist

Chapter 24: Shadow Reappearance

Sido.

The Great Council Hall of Bike Town.

This used to be the mayor's mansion. Since the unfortunate mayor was kicked out by the Vengeful Spirit Legion, it has been changed into a meeting hall for the committee. Before Xiu Yi came back, this was the highest command center.

In the conference hall, seven or eight people are standing now, and there is a huge sand table in the middle of them, which is the terrain of Baike Town and its surroundings. On the wall at the end of the conference hall, there is a map of Sido.

"Five months ago, our people took the town of Bake and established their own territory here. Because of Bluff's stupidity, he not only buried his own troops, but also wiped out the troops of the three neighboring towns. So we made a decision at the time and immediately took the three surrounding towns. If we want to attack these three towns, we must pass through a rainforest." Hailey was the one who spoke.

"Is that where you were ambushed?" Raschel asked.

"Yes." Creo, the flame clouded leopard, replied, pointing to the corner of the sand table: "This is the rain forest. The roads in it are very complicated and very difficult to walk. The tree canopy blocks the sunlight and the vision is dim. Our people were beaten out before they saw the enemy."

This battle was the most miserable battle the Spirit of Vengeance fought. They suffered a big loss without even seeing the enemy, and they were all very annoyed. After that, Haili and other six heavenly kings organized three battles to attack the rainforest, but none of them touched the enemy. Their enemies are like ghosts, never fighting head-on. And has unexpected evasion ability.

They always attack suddenly in secret, and then disappear suddenly. The legionnaires who are ambushed are often fatally hit by one blow, and they can't even call out before they die. Fortunately, the enemy doesn't seem to plan to rush out of the rainforest to fight. As long as the Vengeful Spirit exits the rainforest, they won't pursue them. Therefore, the casualties of the soul of revenge are not too large. But the road to expansion was thus blocked, which was quite annoying to the Vengeful Spirit.

What shocked Haley and others was that if a situation like this was just the work of a small group of powerful people, it would be justified. But during those few encounters, they discovered that this was basically something that one or two strong men could do, but an attack by a whole army divided into parts. Their attack methods are so hidden and weird that until now, Vengeful Spirit doesn't even know who his enemy is.

Their expansion plans also stalled.

"You mean, the entire army of the enemy is high-ranking warriors?" Raschel couldn't believe it.

Haili spread his hands helplessly: "I also know that this is incredible. It seems that all the high-ranking warriors from the entire Fengming Continent have come to this corner and ambushed us. But other than that, I can't explain what kind of soldiers can let my people die in ambushes without even seeing their faces."

"It's not only the strong who can kill silently, professional killers and assassins can too. Their force may not be very powerful, but they are very good at hiding their tracks," Raschel said.

"However, it is impossible for assassins to have the guts to fight head-on with the army. Moreover, assassins are born loners. They don't like and are not good at cooperating with others. But the opponents we encountered this time are obviously different. They are very organized, disciplined, unified in action, and closely coordinated. They often create battles here, and after attracting the attention of our people, they launch a sudden onslaught on the other side." Dire Wolf replied.

"Then is it possible that they are hidden elves? They are good hunters in the jungle, and they also have their own organization and discipline. If they want, they can indeed be hidden from you. Because if you find them, they will die." Raschel asked again.

"We have also considered this aspect, and it is not that Xido has no elves. But the problem is that elves never take the initiative to get involved in human wars. But the most important thing is that elves are good at long-range attacks. But this time, all we encounter are melee attacks." Haley replied.

Tina also said: "In addition, the elves are a stubborn and conservative race. In their eyes, only nature is beautiful, and only art is sacred. Even if they kill people, they also like to use artistic methods. They will sprinkle flowers on the corpse, and they will never make the corpse bloody."

Raschel froze: "Let's make the corpse bloody?"

"That's right." Ikbiwan the Spirit Ape shouted angrily: "Those guys are insidious and cruel. They like to kill people by disembowelling them. No one they kill is whole. They hide in the shadows and suddenly attack when our troops pass by. As long as they are within their attack range, they will not spare anyone. At least half of the dead are killed by them with their hands! Their way of killing is even more cruel than Dunan!"

"Hey, don't take me with you, I'm not those bastards." The Earth Bear Denan hummed dissatisfied. As a powerful warrior, Denan's favorite thing to do is to smash people's heads, watching the bloody dick flow out. The Spirit of Vengeance once thought that there would not be many perverts like Denan, but they didn't expect that they encountered all such perverts in the rainforest attack this time.

"Do you use scout bees to find enemies?" Raschel asked.

"It worked, but I don't know why. The enemy seems to have some kind of reconnaissance method that can detect us. The scout bees are all destroyed after they are sent out. Instead, the detection eye can play a role. But the problem is that the detection eye can only monitor a fixed area, and that rainforest does not belong to us..."

Raschel frowned, he thought for a while, and then suddenly said: "You said that the soldiers who were attacked were all killed?"

"Yes."

"Can you tell from the wound what weapon they used?"

"It's a knife. It's a strange knife edge. We can't be sure what kind of knife edge it is, but ordinary swords can't do that kind of damage. Surprisingly, in all the battles, we not only did not find the opponent's person, nor did we find any weapons left behind by the opponent." Haley replied very frustrated. Indeed, with the battle fought like this, the Vengeful Spirit can be said to have lost a lot.

Raschel immediately said: "I need a recently dead body!"

"A guy went into the rainforest against orders eight days ago, and the body was brought out three days later, decomposed. I'm afraid there are only bones left now."

"Come on, let's go take a look."

Standing in front of an open coffin, the corpse inside was rotten beyond recognition. Maggots were crawling everywhere on it, exposing thick bones and emitting a strong stench.

Haili and the others held their noses and backed away, but Raschel ignored all of this.

He jumped into the tomb, looked at the body that had been divided into several pieces, and stared at those wounds, as if he saw the most charming beauty.

Back to Raschel, who is good at work, looks energetic.

"I said...Mr. Raschel, do you see anything?" Bailey really couldn't bear the smell here.

"Chakle, Bailey, you two come here." Raschel suddenly called out.

Chakle and Bailey looked at each other, but Raschel actually called them over, what does that mean.

Seeing that they didn't respond, Raschel raised his head angrily: "You better come down now, I want you to look at this thing."

"We didn't study that," Bailey exclaimed.

"You better have it, because if I'm not mistaken, we've seen such wounds before!" Raschel yelled.

"What?" Chakle and Bailey were startled.

Regardless of the filth and rot, they jumped down from the tomb to stand with Raschel.

Raschel lifted a piece of rotten meat full of maggots, pointed to the smooth bone and said, "Look here, don't you think the cut marks here are very similar to the injuries we found somewhere?"

"Somewhere?" Chuckley and Bailey looked at each other again, then shook their heads together.

Chakle said: "Master Raschel, this is not something I am good at. Even if I have seen it before, it is impossible to see something based on this."

"Oh, really? Then maybe I should remind you." Raschel laughed. He shook off a maggot that crawled on his finger, and then said softly: "It is good at sneak attack, even the best samurai will not notice it, its methods are cruel, quite organized, bloodthirsty, killing corpses, leaving no weapons behind, fast, and ferocious... Don't you think that such an army should be related to a forgotten memory in your mind?"

The expressions of Chakle and Bailey changed drastically at the same time.

Bailey made a trembling voice: "You...you mean...they?"

"Yes, it's them, not them." Raschel let out a cruel laugh: "You finally remembered? Purgatory Island, those dead teenagers, and the... army that the empire cultivated at any cost!"

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In the laboratory at the headquarters of the Scourge Church.

Xiu Yi is concentrating on making a King Kong puppet.

Due to the plastic surgery, currently only Xiuyi has the ability to make this kind of puppet. After the city of Royo, Xiu Yi never made this kind of Vajra puppets again, but today, he took them out again.

What is different from the past is that this time, Xiu Yi will make a King Kong puppet with six changes in shape, further surpassing Electra's invention.

Reciting the Shaping Mantra in his mouth, Xiu Yi fully mobilized all the power of the magic furnace in his body.

Compared with the risk when making the King Kong puppet in the valley laboratory, now Xiuyi has greater confidence and stronger ability. In his hands, the liquid metal body of the Vajra Puppet is constantly changing its shape like a rubber man, like flowing mercury.

Strangely, Xiu Yi's attention was not on the King Kong puppet.

He wasn't interested in the sixth change he made, what he was interested in was the reaction of the magic furnace in his body.

Shaping consumes so much magic power that even Xiu Yi, who has the magic power of a fifth-level magician, can't bear it. In the process of successfully breaking through the fifth layer of form change and hitting the sixth layer, the magic furnace in Xiu Yi's body is rolling like boiling water. Big drops of sweat rolled down Xiu Yi's forehead, and he focused all his attention on himself.

At the same time when the last bit of mana was exhausted, he let out a loud roar, mobilizing all the fighting energy in his body, and rushed towards the magic furnace. They rushed in quickly, and then left quickly, leaving only a trace of grudge energy...

This is an absolutely risky attempt to blend dou qi and magic power, but Xiu Yi has already experienced it once in the valley laboratory. Having a successful experience, even if it was just a fluke, is enough for Xiu Yi to take another risk.

This time, Xiu Yi managed to bear the terrible feeling that his body was about to explode. He roared, and quickly released strength from his hands. The golden light was no longer pure battle energy, but an indescribable kind of power coming out of him.

"Ah!" Xiu Yi yelled, his whole body was bleeding, the vajra puppet in his hand changed rapidly, and the sixth form was finally shaped successfully, but Xiu Yi no longer cared about the new vajra puppet, his whole body seemed to be impacted by countless forces, tearing at his body, almost making him pass out from pain.

As if engraving magic lines on herself, Xiu Yi tried her best to stay awake, to feel the reaction of that trace of vindictiveness in the magic furnace.

He could even feel that power roaring!

"Restore..." Xiu Yi spat out these two words with difficulty.

The power disappeared, and a magic power miraculously appeared in the originally empty magic furnace.

"Huh!" Xiu Yi let out a long breath.

The experiment was a success!

This experiment is actually not about making Vajra puppets, but about finding the mystery between battle qi and magic.

Isardo is right, there is something in common between battle qi and magic. Magic is the borrowing of the natural power of heaven and earth, while grudge is the discovery of the human body's own power.

However, this kind of excavation has a further explanation in essence, that is, where does the power of the human body come from?

From muscle? of course not.

Although warriors have strong physical strength, their real strength is still supported by fighting spirit. So what is the essence of vindictiveness?

It has been claimed more than once that battle qi itself is actually another form of magic power, because the human body itself is a small world, which can also produce the power of elements.

But no one has ever been able to prove it.

But this time, Huey got confirmation from Isado.

According to Isado's reminder, battle qi and magic are likely to have the same origin.

Although their ways of expression and production are so different, this does not prevent them from being homogeneous.

The simplest example, diamond, graphite, and charcoal, are all composed of carbon elements. It is the combination of carbon elements that causes the huge difference in their functions and shapes.

Even wind elements, thunder elements, earth elements, and water elements may not be too different in essence. All the magic elements are actually just one kind, and only the molecular formula leads to further changes.

From this point of view, maybe the magicians are not manipulating magic elements, but magic molecules.

At its most fundamental core, no one has been able to fully develop it.

However, Isardo is obviously already close to this step, his chaotic domain can cause a double disorder of magic and grudge. If it is only controlled at the level of magic molecules, it is obviously impossible to do this, which fully demonstrates the strength of his elemental control ability.

But it is not easy to prove this point.

Huey thought of the wonderful incident that happened when he made the King Kong puppet for the first time.

At that time, his magic power was exhausted due to the shaping technique, and he finally entered the magic furnace with the power of vindictiveness, but miraculously completed the shaping of the King Kong puppet.

Although Xiu Yi himself couldn't figure out the reason afterwards, but thinking about it now, it should have something to do with it.

He thought that maybe he could try again by making King Kong puppets to exhaust his magic power, and then infuse the battle energy into the magic furnace, and then try to decompose it, using his body as the furnace, to do the greatest homologous experiment of magic battle energy.

Of course, this is a very dangerous job, he dare not instill them all, he can only mix them to a limited extent. He hopes to use the huge power of the magic furnace to completely disintegrate his vindictive energy and restore them to the most essential magic elements.

If the experiment is successful, his cultivation path will have a new direction from now on.

He thought it would be a near-death experience, and there might not be any results. But to his surprise, he succeeded in one attempt, and he didn't pay any price except for some injuries.

As for the vindictiveness that was melted into the magic furnace, he watched it be dissipated into the most primitive elemental power, and then re-evolved.

Just like the recombination of molecular formula, it evolved into magic power in the magic furnace.

"Huh!" Seeing this scene, Xiu Yi couldn't say how happy she was.

He didn't know how the Scourge Church cultivated their magic warriors, but he knew that even the Destruction Knights and Holy Knights couldn't transform their power like him. If he can freely control the conversion of this power, then the future Xiuyi will have a whole new world.

Perhaps hearing the loud roar from the laboratory, Keith pushed open the door. Seeing that Xiu Yiglaer was covered in blood, he was shocked: "Hui Yi, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah, nothing." Xiu Yi quickly replied, "It's just a small experiment."

"Experiment? What kind of experiment can make you like this? Are you crazy? You are joking with your own life."

"Not every lunatic is a genius, but often every genius is a lunatic." Xiuyi murmured.

"So, what did you experiment with?" Keith asked.

"It's a very important thing. I finally understand that the acquisition of power is also related to knowledge. The deeper you understand, the more effective your cultivation method may be, which means that you are on the right path. When others take decades to reach their destination, it may take you only a few years or even a few months." Xiuyi looked at the formed diamond puppet and smiled happily: "Alchemy, magic, and vindictiveness, they are not completely isolated. They can communicate and help each other, just like Electra. Yes, that's what I found."

After saying this, he closed his eyes and fell down straight.

Completely unconscious.

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