Chapter 780: Delicious dish
As for why he wasn't going to collect 2,900 or almost 3,000 mana points in the first place, it was simply unrealistic. Even if Su Xiao could survive in this world, his next world would most likely contain a rank-up quest, and such quests were as difficult as the dangers of this world.
It was quite easy to collect 2,700 mana, and if Su Xiao used this branch with 2,700 mana points, the 15% increase from this amount would be 405 mana points.
As for the increase in health, since health was only half digitized, he couldn't find out about the specific increase in the case of using a branch yet, but one thing was for sure — the increase wouldn't be small at all.
Increasing mana by 405 points sounded like a very good thing, and it was because of this that Su Xiao decided not to spend his merit points for now. Moreover, in the near future, everyone will spend their military merits on cheap things to increase their survival rate in this very dangerous world.
For example, the same Heaven Merit Points were very valuable and many people would obviously buy them first before turning their attention to other things. After all, Heaven's Merit Points could also be obtained by killing enemies, but only in very small amounts — killing an enemy general only gave 1 to 3 Heaven's Merit Points, and killing an enemy contractor gave 3 to 5 Heaven's Merit Points. Exchanging those same Heaven Merit Points for their military merits wasn't such a bad decision given the dangerous ways they were obtained.
After thinking about it, Su Xiao resolutely maintained his military merits. He could buy Heaven's merits at any time. Even if they were redeemed, he would still be able to obtain the merits of Paradise since he was strong enough to do so.
Su Xiao closed the list and was about to leave, when suddenly a sharp smell of burnt wood wafted out from the quartermaster.
Nicholas Caesar held a test tube in his hand. The test tube was filled with a gray-brown liquid, very viscous, most of all it looked like snot.
— How could this happen? This wasn't supposed to happen. This has never happened before... Nicholas Caesar wanted to throw the test tube aside, but Su Xiao suddenly said — " If you don't want to burn the tent down, you need to be more careful with this test tube.
Although Su Xiao didn't know the exact composition of the liquid in this test tube, given his knowledge and skill of making bombs along with potions, he could tell at a glance that the liquid inside the test tube was very unstable.
It could explode at the first careless contact with the air.
— What? Nicholas Caesar's sharp nose wrinkled slightly. "If you don't need anything else, just get out of here," Nicholas Caesar said, sounding a little impatient.
He was very confident in his alchemy skills, so he wasn't going to listen to an ordinary warrior who only knew how to kill on the battlefield.
Su Xiao shrugged and walked out of the large tent.
Would he have left so easily? Of course not. Nikolos Caesar's personality seems to have been a bit special. If he could make contact with it, he would obviously be able to gain a lot of benefits.
— A rather crude method of making a liquid bomb. Although phosphorus is highly flammable, it reacts in a chain reaction with other materials. The biggest feature of such bombs is that the wrong proportion eventually creates a gray-brown viscous liquid... After saying that, Su Xiao stepped out of the tent.
Just as he took a step out of the tent, a voice shouted from behind him, " Wait a minute! After shouting that, Nicholas Caesar glanced at the test tube in his hand, then looked at Su Xiao.
— Phosphorus is one of the key components of liquid bombs. It has a low flash point, high burning temperature and is easy to get hold of, but...
Hearing Su Xiao's words, Nikolos Caesar realized that he at least understood something about alchemy.
— Okay, I'll go, I won't bother you, " Su Xiao said and took another step out of the tent. Nicholas Caesar, who was initially displeased, was now a little anxious. Among the Ironblood Legion, he was the only one who had some understanding of alchemy. Normally, he wouldn't even have someone to talk to, but now, there was finally someone who understood alchemy.
Would he have let such a person walk away so easily?
In fact, Nicholas Caesar didn't believe that Su Xiao was such a good alchemist, but he urgently needed an expert to discuss his current research. After all, his research hadn't progressed much in the past two years.
— Wait, I'll decide when you need to leave, " Nicholas Caesar said and put the test tube down on the table, then pulled out a wooden chair from the pile of rags behind him. — Have a seat, have you had breakfast yet?
His sudden enthusiasm slightly exceeded Su Xiao's expectations. He had planned to "go fishing", but now it didn't seem to be necessary at all.
— Thank you. Su Xiao sat down on a wooden chair with only three and a half legs. If it wasn't for his good sense of balance, he wouldn't have been able to sit on it.
Nicholas Caesar took out a plate of wild vegetable soup from his testing table. He hadn't finished this dish last night. What was even more outrageous was that this plate was covered in cracks and clearly held on a good word.
— No problem.
Faced with Nicholas Caesar's 'warm welcome', Su Xiao glanced at the plate of muddy unknown liquid and the corners of his mouth twitched.
— Thanks, but I've already eaten.
— Whatever you want, " Nicholas Caesar said, and downed the soup in one gulp. It was actually quite delicious.
Licking the corners of his mouth, he said with excitement — " The soup made with geham is as delicious as ever.
— Geham? Su Xiao asked. He had never heard of " geham».
— Unwashed bison colon, pig bladder, troll blood, crushed and dried rhizome of a blue flower... All this, put together, is called "geham". I came up with this dish myself. It has a special effect, " Nicholas Caesar said, and began to raise and lower his thumb. Su Xiao immediately understood what the other party meant by that.
But this dish was really unusual even for Su Xiao. The mere mention of these ingredients made his stomach clench, even though he had no problem sitting in the middle of a pile of corpses and enjoying the soup earlier.
Nicholas Caesar, after drinking the soup, began to pick up the minced meat from the bottom of the plate with a spoon. Su Xiao's face had gone pale by now.
He could see dung mixed in the minced meat...
— So, you've changed your mind, can I get you some? "when Nicholas Caesar said that, it was obvious that he didn't really want to share it.
— Thank you, but I've already eaten, " Su Xiao immediately replied. He didn't feel like eating right now, and he really wanted to clear his stomach.
— Okay, then let's not discuss food just yet. You seem to know something about alchemy?" Nikolos Caesar asked and carefully put away the cracked plate.
From his actions and phrases, it was obvious that he was an extremely stingy guy.
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