Chapter 389 Re-evolution
The moment the spiritual marrow slipped through his throat, Gothe could clearly feel the powerful magic contained in it, pouring in like a surging tide.
In an instant, an indescribable force exploded in his body, rushing along his magic veins.
Gothe's body trembled slightly, his forehead was instantly covered with beads of sweat, his facial muscles tightened, and his teeth clenched subconsciously.
It was also at this time that he discovered another benefit from Leomon's magic power network:
The magic power network constructed by a total of 360 main magic power veins gave Gothe the ability to withstand magic power far better than ordinary people.
One drop of spiritual essence contains the magic power equivalent to three days of meditation for a fourth-level mage. This powerful magic power is a terrifying impact for a first-level mage.
This is like the water from the Yangtze River pouring into the river all at once, causing the river to collapse in an instant.
However, there are enough main magic veins, like countless diverging rivers, to dilute the impact of this powerful magic well, giving Gaode enough buffer time.
But the main magic power line is helpless against the harmful substances contained in the spiritual marrow.
With the flow of magic power, Gaode could clearly feel a burning sensation spreading throughout his body.
Master Lu Ping said at the beginning that those who swallow spiritual marrow will indeed have a surge in mana, but at the cost of it, they will suffer from "spiritual marrow disease" in the future.
Because spiritual marrow is different from ordinary magic plants, in addition to magic power, it also contains extremely high concentrations of harmful impurities.
Gaode is not a stubborn person and knows the stakes involved.
But he still ignored Master Lu Ping's reminder and chose to swallow the spiritual marrow.
All the confidence naturally comes from [Adaptive].
In the process of building Leomont's magical power network, he took countless bottles of Kaimai tincture, which was also known as "ferocious medicine".
Under the stimulation of Kaimai Tincture, his body's anti-toxic and metabolic capabilities have been greatly improved:
[Your immunity to toxins increases by 9%, and the ability of your body organs to digest, metabolize and excrete various toxins increases by 5%].
Due to taking too much, even in the later stages, the body has developed additional resistance to Kaimai Tincture. After one or two bottles, it is like drinking plain water, without any stimulation to the body.
That's why Gao Decai chose to swallow the spiritual marrow.
In fact, he had already come up with this idea when Master Lu Ping told him not to swallow the spiritual marrow alive.
First, aside from its own toxicity, spiritual marrow is really a "treasure of heaven and earth" that can help low-level mages quickly increase their mage level.
It’s just that I generally can’t put it away.
Secondly, at this point, even strong medicines such as Kaimai Tincture have no effect on his body, let alone ordinary magic medicines.
But both values have reached 80%+. If nothing else, as long as it reaches 100%, new abilities such as [Body of Ice Blessing] and [Body of Legal Ninja] can be evolved.
With this "reward" so close at hand, how many people can resist the urge to "live"?
Gaode couldn't help it anyway.
But in order to stimulate the body to adapt, a stronger potion than Kaimai Tincture must be administered.
This condition is actually very harsh.
Gothe thought about it, and it seemed that only "poison" could achieve this requirement.
It just seems a bit "self-abuse".
Until the appearance of "spiritual marrow".
Swallowing spiritual marrow stimulates the body no less than swallowing poison.
But taking poison is just pure self-abuse. In addition to stimulating the body, swallowing spiritual marrow can also increase one's magic power.
A win-win situation.
Win the pot.
Winning is a win, you still have to endure the hardships you deserve. You cannot escape this.
The inside of Gaode's body was like a burning fire, and the stimulation brought by the poison was like a winding snake, following the flow of blood, penetrating into every inch of his bone marrow, and then surging outwards.
These are harmful substances contained within the spiritual marrow.
Spirit marrow is an extremely compressed substance. The magic power and harmful substances in it are concentrated hundreds of times. After taking it, it explodes like an explosion with a huge yield, which is enough to knock people out of their minds.
The moment Gaode's body sensed the intrusion of toxins, it activated its automatic defense mechanism to destroy enemies.
Because his body's function in this area is much stronger than that of other people, his entire physiological reaction is also faster and more ferocious than other people's.
Under normal circumstances, most people will have to wait a few days after swallowing spiritual marrow to experience various uncomfortable physiological reactions.
However, by that time, those toxic substances had already spread throughout the body and were beyond the ability of the body to contend with.
It's like a siege. The body is the city and the toxins are the enemy. Other people's city guards are relatively poor. When the enemy first sneaks in, they don't notice it at all. By the time they find out, the whole city has already been infiltrated, and naturally they will be unable to save the day.
As for Gothic's city guards, they discovered the enemy's situation just when the enemy was about to sneak in, and the battle was about to break out.
If you discover it in time and defend the city and fight, your winning rate will naturally be much higher.
Severe pain struck his heart, hitting Gaode's nerves!
Even with the body of Dharma Ninja, Gothe still felt uncomfortable all over. He clenched his fingers and clenched his teeth, making a slight friction sound between his teeth.
Every inch of his muscles, bones, flesh and blood seemed to be alive, squirming violently, struggling to resist the poison of the spiritual marrow.
His blood began to flow violently, like a rushing river, and the flow rate was much faster than usual.
· Driven by this high-speed flow of blood, Gaode's external skin instantly turned red, as if it had been burned by fire.
A large amount of hot sweat gushes out from his pores and flows down his body. Under the action of high temperature, it turns into water vapor and rises.
Gaode felt like he was in a sauna at the moment. Not only was he feeling hot, but he was also in a fog.
As the hot sweat flows out, the poison contained in the spiritual marrow is also mixed with the sweat and flows out little by little.
While enduring the pain, Gothe also needs to focus on running the "Aoki Immortality Sutra" to refine and absorb the magic power contained in the spiritual marrow.
It's like someone is whipping you with a whip while asking you to focus on "study". If you don't have Gaode and have the "body of Dharma Ninja", it will be difficult to persevere.
Fortunately, he has.
So, although the whole process was torture, everything went smoothly.
Just like when he swallowed wolf blood ginseng, a mana vortex appeared in his lower abdomen, spinning rapidly, sucking in the mana burst out from the spiritual marrow, and then began to temper it.
Every once in a while, a drop of crystal liquid mana will drip from the funnel-like bottom of the vortex.
One drop, two drops
I don't know how long it took, but when Gothe's body was weak and his thick nerves collapsed to the limit, everything finally ended.
All the magic power has been refined long ago, and at this moment, all impurities are expelled from the body.
One drop of spiritual essence, and finally five drops of liquid mana were added to Gaode, causing his total mana to suddenly increase to 47 drops.
It is not as heaven-defying as Wolf Blood Ginseng, but it cannot be underestimated. It is worth a year or two of hard work.
The other side is the improvement from the body.
【Your immunity to toxins is increased by 1%, and your body's organs' ability to digest, metabolize and excrete various toxins is increased by 5%】.
Just one drop of spiritual essence can stimulate the body as much as hundreds of bottles of Kai Mai tincture.
Gothe also did not expect that a drop of spiritual essence would improve his fitness so much.
Maybe it’s because the toxins in spiritual marrow are mineral-based, which are essentially different from plant-based toxins. It is a completely new “experience” for the body.
After all, plant-based toxins are actually contained in daily diet to some extent. Over time, the body has an initial resistance value.
According to this progress, after swallowing all three drops of spiritual marrow, whether it is toxin immunity or digestion, metabolism and elimination ability, there is a high probability that it will break through 100 at the same time.
When he thought of this, Gaode became excited.
But even if he is impatient, he has to slow down.
In the current weak state where both mental and physical strength are completely exhausted, one more drop of spiritual essence will kill someone.
Gaode stayed for two whole days.
He had his usual routine for the past two days. With the blessing of [Comfortable Sleep], he ensured eight hours of deep sleep every day. In addition, he had to eat more food than usual.
Him went to the Wal-Mart Magic Materials Store twice.
There is no such thing as a store becoming instantly popular as soon as a new magic material is released.
Wal-Mart Magic Materials Store has been open for two or three months, and others’ impression of it has been fixed as a “seed store”.
If you want to change this inherent impression, without special publicity, it will take time to slowly ferment.
At least according to what Joel said, a business was completed in the past two days, and a first-level magic material was sold.
This is a good sign.
However, there is still a long way to go before it can become a magic material store that can operate independently.
————At least one must be able to start the business of acquiring magic materials in order to be considered a qualified magic materials store.
This requirement is too high and will not be achieved for a long time.
But it doesn’t matter to Gaode, as it is now, by bringing magic materials from the north for blood transfusions, attracting popularity, and attracting some mages to sell magic tree seeds, the goal will be achieved.
His mentality is very good without thinking about relying on the store to make profits.
After confirming that his mental and physical strength had recovered to the best condition after a good rest, Gothe took the second drop of spiritual essence.
This time, the effect was not as significant as the first time I took it.
A drop of spiritual marrow only increased him by four drops of liquid mana.
The stimulation to the body has also decreased.
【Your immunity to toxins is increased by 9%, and your body's organs' ability to digest, metabolize and excrete various toxins is increased by 5%】.
This is normal. The effect of any natural treasure or magic potion is most obvious when it is taken for the first time.
Whether it is the real situation or the novels and biographies he has read, this is the case, and Gothe has been mentally prepared for it.
The magnitude of the decline is higher than Gaode expected.
Whether this last drop of spiritual essence can help him increase his adaptation progress to 100%, he is also a little unsure.
After another two days of respite, Gaode took the last drop of spiritual marrow.
This time, the increased liquid mana power has dropped sharply to two drops.
With three drops of spiritual marrow, his magic power has increased from 42 drops in the middle of the first ring to 53 drops in one fell swoop.
The progress is over halfway, and there are only 7 drops of liquid mana left before the end of the first level.
According to this progress, before the end of this year, he is fully expected to hit the second-level mage.
If he could succeed, it would be a sixteen-year-old second-level mage
Two years ago, how would he have dared to think of such a thing.
All changes seem to have started from [Summoning Demon Pet+] and the contract to Flora.
O lucky star!
There is joy and "sadness".
The worst-case scenario as expected really happened. With his body's strong adaptability, the stimulation brought by this last drop of spiritual essence was indeed unable to complete his body's adaptation.
And it's just stuck at the critical point.
【Your immunity to toxins is increased by 9%, and the ability of your body organs to digest, metabolize and excrete various toxins is increased by 9%】.
Gaode, who came back to his senses, was speechless for a moment after confirming his physical condition.
As long as there is a slight difference, he is not anxious, but it happens to be just such a 1% difference.
This familiar sense of déjà vu made Gothe unable to help but think of Pin Xixi in his previous life.
Can you bear it?
It must be unbearable.
What else can be done?
You can only be a masochist!
Handsuffering is the only way to become a master. After comforting himself with the words of his ancestors in his previous life, Gothe took the money bag, left the dormitory, took a carriage and went straight to the potion store in the city center.
Go buy poison!
Similar to Gothe's previous life, the Plantagenet Dynasty had controls on the sale of poisons. Only poisons listed on the sellable list were allowed to be sold publicly, and everything else was classified as prohibited.
If a store dares to sell illegal poisons privately, it will be reported immediately, and it is a serious crime.
But this only applies to ordinary poisons. The official does not have much control over the poisonous potions sold to mages.
First, mages have to fight against earth-line creatures. Earth-line creatures are ferocious and powerful and often require various means to subdue them. It is normal to purchase some poisonous magic potions for assistance.
Secondly, if a mage has evil intentions, he has plenty of means, including one or two bottles of poisonous potions, so control does not make much sense.
However, the market for poison potions is much smaller than that of auxiliary potions and buff potions.
Hence, the types of poisonous potions sold in potions stores are also extremely limited.
Gothe doesn’t dare to buy high-end poisonous potions. It would be funny if he actually poisoned himself to death.
He chose from the first-level potions.
The most common ones are the "first-order paralysis potion", "first-order slowing potion", "first-order psychedelic potion", and "first-order debilitating potion".
The efficacy of the medicine is also obvious.
Gaode finally thought about it and ordered one of the four potions.
The advantage of these four kinds of medicines is that their toxicity is biased rather than harmful. They are not instant fatal poisons and will not cause any pain to Gaode. They are relatively "safe" poisons.
The disadvantage is that the effect of the drug is relatively weak, and a single dose may not be enough to help him break through the last 1%.
Just like Pinxixi, it is said that there is only one point left before the withdrawal, but the result is that there are still 01 points and 001 points are possible.
Returning to the dormitory with four bottles of potion, Gothe did not take a rest to adjust the state like taking spiritual marrow, but directly took out the first-level slow potion.
The four bottles of magic potion are all used to assist the mage in combat and cannot be taken internally.
The correct way to use it is to apply it on the weapon and use the weapon attack to transfer the poison to the enemy.
But Gao De originally valued its toxicity, and the harm caused by improper use may, on the contrary, be good to him.
Hence, he didn't care, uncorked the bottle, pinched his nose to block the pungent smell, and drank the bottle in one gulp.
A pungent and cold feeling instantly spread within the body.
In Gothe's perception, he felt as if he had fallen into thick mud at the moment, or as if he had slept on his stomach. His whole body was numb, and the speed at which various parts responded to the commands of his brain was much slower.
The function of the slow potion is to reduce the speed of the target.
If I have to explain it in scientific terms, it means that it interferes with the signal transmission between the nervous system and muscle tissue, making people's movements slower.
Compared to the spiritual marrow, after taking the slowing potion, Gaode does not need to take any additional actions. You only need to wait for the body to metabolize the toxins in the slowing potion.
He lay down on the bed, gave himself a [Comfortable Sleep+] with great difficulty, and then dragged his exhausted body into a deep sleep.