Chapter 477 - 303: The Blood Moon Will Appears
Lin Qi had only felt a preliminary flicker before but failed to grasp it. Now, he had no choice but to search for that "Spiritual Light" all over again.
Fortunately, perhaps because his Talent was sufficient, this wisp of Spiritual Light was not difficult for him to find.
As he added the 322nd Extraordinary Material and began the boiling process, Lin Qi was suddenly struck by a peculiar sensation.
He couldn’t pinpoint the origin of the feeling, but it was as if his very soul had shuddered for an instant.
’Perhaps if I just add a few more Extraordinary Materials, the Willpower unique to an S-Class Potion will truly be born!’
For other Pharmaceutical Researchers, this was a huge hurdle.
It was at moments like these that it was easiest to fail at the final hurdle.
Once this "Spiritual Light" dissipated, it would be nearly impossible for this Potion to ever reach this state again.
For this very reason, the shrewd S-Class Pharmaceutical Researchers of the Cyber World had developed a shortcut.
The moment the "Spiritual Light" appeared, one simply had to add an Extraordinary Item to the Potion, and the S-Class Potion would be completed instantly.
’Can Extraordinary Items guide the birth of Willpower?’
’Or do Extraordinary Items actually contain Willpower themselves?’
Lin Qi’s mind raced, but the movements of his hands didn’t slow in the slightest.
’Extraordinary Items... I’m not short on those!’
’There are as many Extraordinary Items in the Doomsday World as I could ever want!’
In any case, the preparation of an S-Class Potion had no requirements regarding the Level of the Extraordinary Item.
As long as it was an Extraordinary Item, it could be integrated to catalyze the creation of the S-Class Potion.
Lin Qi picked up a Crimson Crystal Stone from the metal tray at his side.
It was a Tier One Extraordinary Item, the most common type in the Doomsday World. It was also the most abundant, numbering in the billions.
Extraordinary Items required no complex processing. One simply had to... drop it in.
The translucent Crimson Crystal Stone, held by a pair of tweezers, was slowly brought into contact with the semi-finished Potion that had generated the "Spiritual Light."
The moment they touched, something miraculous happened.
The Crimson Crystal Stone melted with incredible speed, silent and traceless, like a snowflake landing on water.
This process...
’It looks... familiar?’
Lin Qi’s brow suddenly furrowed.
He used his Spiritual Vision to observe the process.
The way the Crimson Crystal Stone dissolved in the Potion inevitably reminded Lin Qi of the process a Wizard uses to analyze an Extraordinary Item.
The two processes were far too similar.
The silent disappearance, the quiet integration... the Extraordinary Item even seemed to have an almost human-like, "proactive" quality to it.
Lin Qi immediately focused his attention. This was the first S-Class Potion he had ever personally created, the first time he had witnessed one’s birth, and, in fact, the first time he had ever even seen one.
Lin Qi didn’t feel the joy he had anticipated. Instead, he frowned, silently observing the Potion’s transformation.
The Crimson Crystal Stone dissolved the instant it touched the liquid, which in turn changed color, as if it had been dyed red by the stone.
Immediately after, a unique power was born within the Potion.
This power was not unfamiliar to Lin Qi.
Willpower!
Lin Qi had witnessed this special power during his battle with King Arthur.
This didn’t surprise Lin Qi. After all, this was exactly what was supposed to happen when creating an S-Class Potion.
But what made Lin Qi’s brow furrow was this Willpower itself.
’This is different from what’s described in the literature. The records state that the Willpower in an S-Class Potion should be pure, unadulterated, featureless, and ownerless...’
’But this Will...’
Just as his gaze locked onto it, Lin Qi abruptly sensed a tremendous change in the surrounding Spiritual Particles.
A vortex seemed to form as the S-Class Potion began to exhibit an unparalleled aggregation effect on the Spiritual Particles.
As the Spiritual Particles converged, Lin Qi suddenly realized they were forming a massive image.
A... blood-red moon, over a hundred meters in diameter!
"Fuck!"
Lin Qi cursed, a chilling numbness instantly spreading over every inch of his skin.
Every hair on his body stood on end!
Even the "eyes" he was using to observe the phantom of the blood-red moon began to sting with pain.
No, it wasn’t his eyes that stung, but his Spiritual Power. His Sea of Consciousness was sounding an alarm.
The instant the piercing pain appeared, a special power manifested around Lin Qi, and the sensation vanished completely.
This was the effect of the buff he’d received from the Special Merit, which granted him immunity to mental attacks.
The buff had activated, which meant he had just been subjected to a mental attack.
The source of the attack was the very Potion in front of him!
Or, more accurately, the Willpower that had just been born within it.
This was no pure, unadulterated, featureless, ownerless Will Power.
This was clearly... the Blood Moon Will!
It was even purer than the Blood Moon Will summoned through a ritual with a Blood Moon Descent Object.
Lin Qi felt as if he was being targeted by some terrifying entity.
’No! I have to destroy this thing!’
’How do I destroy it? I can’t just find someone to drink it, can I?’
’Flushing it down the drain would be useless. This Willpower won’t dissipate so easily!’
Lin Qi never expected that he would personally dig himself into such a deep hole.
The effect of this S-Class Potion was more than ten times stronger than that of a Blood Moon Descent Object.
If he handled this improperly, everything they had built at the Mo University Camp would be for nothing.
What should he do?
Lin Qi’s thoughts raced.
In a flash, an idea came to him.
’What if... I just drink it?’
This plan was a complete gamble.
Lin Qi would be betting that the buff he’d acquired could grant him immunity from the Blood Moon Will’s direct assault on his Sea of Consciousness.
He was also betting that the mysterious [Door] in his Sea of Consciousness could suppress any anomalies that appeared there.
By rational assessment, Lin Qi believed the [Door] was likely a higher-level existence than the Blood Moon.
Time was short. Lin Qi barely had a moment to think.
As the Spiritual Particles rapidly converged, Lin Qi could directly "see" the Willpower growing stronger at an incredible rate.
Right now, the Willpower was still relatively weak, but in just a little while, it might rival the strength of the Knight’s Will Badge that King Arthur had created.
’I have to deal with this as soon as possible!’
’There’s no time to overthink it. The cooldown on the [Door] is still a long way off. I don’t even have time to choose the option to abandon the Doomsday World.’
’I have no choice... I have to gamble!’
Grabbing the Potion in front of him, Lin Qi prepared to drink it.
But just then, within the range of his Spiritual Vision, Lin Qi suddenly detected two distinct anomalies.
The anomalies were coming from the adjacent room, which was his exclusive territory—the conference room on the 6th floor of the Club Activity Building.
The conference room stored his entire collection of assets from the Extraordinary Domain.
The two items exhibiting anomalies were both Extraordinary Items.
One was a Tier Three Extraordinary Item he had only acquired yesterday: the Dragon Country Medal from Ding Yang. Lin Qi still hadn’t figured out what it did.
The other was a Tier One Extraordinary Item. At a glance, the object looked like a kidney. It originated from the Cyber World Alliance City, from within the body of a junior Wizard of the Aishwarya Clan.
In essence, it was an Extraordinary Item formed from Holy Light Exotic Spiritual Particles that had bonded with part of that Wizard’s body.
Both of these Extraordinary Items were now emitting peculiar fluctuations.
Exotic Spiritual Particles were even erupting from their surfaces.
’The Dragon Country Badge? The Holy Light Kidney?’
’That’s right, the Holy Light!’
’There’s a deep connection between Wizard Professionals and the Blood Moon, and Holy Light just so happens to be a unique product that counters them.’
’If I can trigger a burst of Holy Light, might I be able to stop this Willpower from growing, or even... annihilate it!’
Lin Qi temporarily dismissed the idea of drinking the S-Class Potion.
’You can’t just drink any Potion!’
If there was another way to deal with this Blood Moon Will, Lin Qi had no desire to resort to such an extreme solution.