Chapter 272: Item Synergy |
[You have obtained 'Profound Yin Corpse Nurturing Secret Record (Complete Volume)' x1.]
After reading the attribute stats, Bai Mu synthesized it without thinking.
'Corpse Raising' and 'Blood Demon' were the respective effects of Volume One and Volume Two, but after synthesis, the restriction of only being able to raise low-level corpses disappeared. In other words, as long as it was a corpse, he could control it using the Profound Yin Corpse Nurturing Secret Record.
Although they were temporary servants, the effect was terrifying enough. If he had obtained this item in the previous script, he could have controlled the corpses of elite monsters in advance before the boss fight to help him fight. Even after killing the red-haired flying zombie, he could have raised the flying zombie's corpse, making the boss his follower.
However, raising powerful corpses also consumed more Mana, which could be considered a minor restriction.
And what made him feel it was the best value for money was naturally the newly added 'Possession' special effect.
He recognized the value of this skill in controlling raised corpses at a glance. This was possession, not issuing orders. In other words, he essentially possessed another body, allowing him to safely control the corpse to scout dangerous places without worrying about dying. Furthermore, it also gave the user an extra life upon death.
Of course, the cost was immense. If he controlled a raised corpse and his main body unexpectedly died, causing him to resurrect as a zombie inside the raised corpse's body, although he wouldn't be dead, all the equipment and items on his main body would be lost.
These lost items naturally included this 'Profound Yin Corpse Nurturing Secret Record (Complete Volume)'. In other words, this was a one-time death transfer, unless he could find his main body again and retrieve the items from the corpse.
After tossing the third Perfect grade item he obtained into his inventory, he took out the other item dropped from killing the boss.
[Name: True Interpretation of Maoshan Alchemy]
[Type: Special Item]
[Quality: Rare]
[Effect: The holder unlocks the Maoshan Alchemy crafting blueprints.]
[Note: The Dao of Alchemy has three essentials: First is the vessel, second is the medicinal herbs, third is the heat control.]
Bai Mu studied it briefly and quickly understood the use of this thing. Its effect was like a special synthesis mechanism where materials could be inputted to synthesize alchemical pills.
There were over a dozen types of spiritual pills that could be crafted, divided into three grades: low-grade, mid-grade, and high-grade. These included low-grade Qi-Restoring Powder and Vitality Paste, and high-grade alchemical pills like the Life-Sustaining Pill and Clarity Pill he had found in the alchemy room. The rest included the Vajra Pill, which could increase defense, and the Divine Movement Pill, which could speed up movement. As an item dropped by a boss, the True Interpretation of Alchemy simplified the alchemy process. He only needed to input materials to directly produce alchemical pills. Furthermore, the materials for the alchemical pills weren't rigidly fixed. If he couldn't find the materials according to the recipe, he could use other materials as substitutes. However, when using substitute materials to synthesize alchemical pills, there was a probability of failure, and the substituted materials also needed to be of the corresponding grade.
For example, if he wanted to craft a high-grade Life-Sustaining Pill, he had to find high-grade materials as substitutes, and they had to be items produced within a script. If he used low-grade materials for synthesis, it would prompt 'Material grade insufficient'.
However, the lowest-grade 'Vitality Paste' and 'Qi-Restoring Powder' didn't have material grade restrictions. After all, they were low-grade recovery items themselves. The former's recovery effect was recovering 30% of Health over 15 seconds, while the latter could recover Mana, but one packet of 'Qi-Restoring Powder' could only recover 20 points of Mana, and it took a minute to recover slowly.
He searched around and found the 'fruit candies' he used to refill the Candy Box in his storage. He successfully threw three of them into the synthesis slot for the 'Vitality Paste'.
"Could it be that to synthesize alchemical pills, it has to be something edible?" Bai Mu pondered over the material categories.
These were three very ordinary fruit candies, without any special effects, nor were they Blood-Restoring Candies taken out of the Candy Box.
But it was such a thing that made Bai Mu discover something strange. The synthesis probability of the alchemical pill wasn't 0%, but 1%.
"This... why is this?" Bai Mu didn't understand for a moment.
It wasn't until he browsed through his inventory that he figured out what was going on.
He took out a rusty small knife. This was the special item he had obtained for completing 'Survival in Despair', the [Lucky Dagger]. For a long time, he had been using the [Lucky Dagger]'s 'Critical Strike' effect, leaving its other special effect in the back of his mind, almost forgetting it completely.
[Fortune's Favor: When you hold this equipment, your luck is enhanced. Any of your judgment-type skills and probability-type items will gain an additional success probability of at least 1%.]
This 'Fortune's Favor' that he had forgotten had a wondrous synergy with the 'True Interpretation of Maoshan Alchemy', granting him at least a 1% success rate regardless of what alchemical pill he crafted. Even if he used irrelevant garbage to craft, there was still 1%.
Do not underestimate this 1%; this was the difference between having something and nothing. 0% meant garbage would always be garbage and could never become a useful alchemical pill. But with this extra 1%, he could turn corruption into magic!
"It truly is the Lucky Dagger," Bai Mu rubbed his chin and pressed the synthesis button.
['Vitality Paste' crafting failed.]
Alright, a 1% success rate was still a bit too low, but there was nothing to feel bad about regarding the consumed materials; they were just three cheap candies. After spending ten minutes completely figuring out the 'True Interpretation of Maoshan Alchemy', he took out another book, the 'True Interpretation of Maoshan Talismans'. This was his reward for completing the Side Quest. From the name, it could be seen that it was the same type of item as the True Interpretation of Alchemy. The effects could be said to be exactly the same; the only difference was that the latter synthesized talismans instead of alchemical pills.
[Fortune's Favor] similarly took effect on it, allowing Bai Mu to gain at least a 1% success rate when crafting low-grade talismans. And crafting talismans, besides consuming materials, also consumed Mana.
There were two types of low-grade talismans that could be synthesized: 'Low-Grade Fire Talisman' and 'Low-Grade Thunder Talisman', equivalent to a small Fireball Spell and a small lightning strike, which had a special extra attack effect against ghost creatures and evil entities.
Bai Mu took a pen and paper and did a quick calculation. Based on a 1% success rate, using 300 fruit candies would just about produce one low-grade alchemical pill or low-grade talisman. The price of 300 fruit candies fluctuated on the market at around 50 to 100 points. This was equivalent to buying a consumable at this price, which was half the price of directly buying a consumable with similar effects.
But thinking about it another way, if he didn't synthesize in the Community but instead used items within a script to synthesize during the script, then no matter how much garbage there was, he could accept it all and turn it all into useful consumables.