dmims Chapter 70 Don't Put Everything into Your Body
Chapter 70 Don't Put Everything into Your Body
[Chaos Essence +100]
……
[Current Chaotic Essence: 4500]
Under the absorption of [Condensation], each fragment of the Rift Core transformed into a massive amount of purplish-black particles that surged into Luo Lan's left hand.
After the aurora color faded from the last fragment, Luo Lan stood up and shook off the slime threads hanging from his left hand.
The previously depleted reserves of Chaos Origin Essence surged from zero to a full 4,500 points.
But this amazing harvest is not the end.
Luo Lan turned and walked toward the wreckage of the skeleton Gundam "Azeus".
He extended his pale white left hand claw again and placed it directly on a thick thigh bone that required two people to hug.
[Condensation].
Purple-black particle vortexes formed on the surface of this thick leg bone, which was several meters long.
Under the powerful force of decomposition, the massive bone rapidly weathered and disintegrated, eventually transforming into a relatively thin stream of black particles that entered Luo Lan's palm.
Luo Lan continued walking along the 27-meter-high pile of skeletal remains without stopping.
Next came ribs, spine, skull fragments, broken bone blades... The massive skeleton disappeared piece by piece, rapidly fading, shattering, and turning into purplish-black particles that were absorbed into the palm of his left hand.
In the end, all that remained were indentations and scattered bone fragments on the ground.
[Chaos Essence +88]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 4588]
The mountain of skeletons provided Luo Lan with a mere eighty-eight points of source essence.
Luo Lan recalled that in order to improve this bone mech, he had used 250 points of source essence in one go with [Condensation-Enhancement], plus 50 points from [Condensation-Assembly], for a total of 300 points of source essence consumed.
Now, during the second round of recycling, less than a third of the samples have been recovered.
"The loss rate reached 70.7%."
Victor's neutral synthesized voice rang in my mind at just the right moment.
"Explanation: During the forging and strengthening process, the chaotic source matter is converted into catalytic energy for bone proliferation, which is an irreversible consumption. Furthermore, the construct has already suffered severe entropy increase losses during the battle."
Luo Lan nodded:
"Understood"
To draw an analogy, it's like burning gasoline to generate power, but now Luo Lan wants to recover gasoline from exhaust fumes.
Moreover, without the extraordinary power imbued by the ghostly blue soul fire of the [Dead Remains Assembly], this pile of bones that makes up the Gundam would just be an ordinary bunch of monster skeletons.
Despite its enormous size, the skeleton had suffered significant losses in the battle against the evil slime, and lacking any transcendent rank, it naturally couldn't extract any more chaotic essence.
[It seems that "piloting a Gundam" is only a means of consuming Source Essence to unleash combat power in a short period of time. I wonder if there will be a way to make it permanent in the future...]
Luo Lan was quickly calculating in her mind.
This hastily assembled "Gundam" is indeed powerful, but it also has many limitations. Not only does the Chaos Source burn up quickly, but even with Luo Lan's current Holy Light Circuit power supply, it cannot withstand prolonged consumption.
It's fine as a last-ditch effort, but it's unrealistic to use it as a regular fighting force.
Ultimately, we still need to perform permanent [forging] in the underground palace ruins, just like before, to truly enhance our combat power.
After figuring things out, Luo Lan bent down and picked up the last small pile of bone fragments from the ground.
After spending some time recovering the Chaos Source Essence, the [Pale Holy Light Circuit] within his body recovered by about 10%, and a faint glow could once again condense in his palm.
"I'm feeling a bit better. Victor, put Ah Mao back together."
"receive."
Luo Lan held the pile of broken, rough bone fragments. Black, chaotic energy surged from his left bone claw, while pale holy light burst forth from his right gauntlet.
Two completely opposite forces intertwined in mid-air, transforming into a ball of ghostly blue soul fire that adhered to the shattered bone fragments.
Guided by Victor's consciousness, the shattered bones began to reassemble. Small fragments pieced together to form paw pads, long bone strips bent into the curve of a spine, and semi-circular pieces came together to form the outline of a small cat's head.
A few seconds later, a skeletal kitten emitting blue flames landed steadily in Luo Lan's outstretched palm.
Immediately afterwards, the cat's tail swayed gently. As light and shadow shifted, the [Optical Camouflage] pattern re-covered the skeleton, and the smooth white fur instantly concealed the body's surface.
A harmless, even somewhat cute, ragdoll kitten landed lightly in Luo Lan's hands, meowing a few times.
"The new body has been formed and is well-coordinated."
Luo Lan rubbed the cat's head with her left hand:
"Hmm, Cat, go patrol and see if there are any lone monsters, or any that aren't quite dead like that little slime from before..."
Cat obediently leaped down from Luo Lan's palm, its four paws landing silently, and began to walk deeper into the passage.
After taking only a couple of steps, the cat tilted its head slightly, turned around, and meowed.
"Confirmed. Begin basic reconnaissance mission."
In a short while, the small white figure quickly disappeared into the shadows deep within the third level of the Rift Ruins.
After letting Ah Mao go on patrol outside, Luo Lan's gaze fell on the scattered evil slime slime on the ground.
Most of these slime residues were either burned and carbonized by the holy light during the previous fierce battle, or turned into dry, burnt slag by the red lightning strikes.
For these completely inactive pieces, Luo Lan directly activated his left-hand bone claw to [condense] and absorb all the residual liquid fragments that were inactive but still contained chaotic energy.
[Chaos Essence +400]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 4988]
After most of the slime "corpses" were drained and turned into source matter, Luo Lan looked down at the last small puddle of slime core slime on the ground, which was dark red in color and still maintained a semi-liquid viscous texture.
This is the best-preserved piece among the entire remains of the evil slime, untouched by holy light or red lightning.
Luo Lan activated [True Sight Lv.1] and stared at it, thinking for a few seconds.
[The core characteristics of the Evil Slime are: physical resistance, semi-liquid state, and rapid self-healing... If only these characteristics could be combined into a body.]
Having observed the potential perks and skills of the Evil Thought Slime using [True Sight Lv.1], Luo Lan decided to use it directly as a new material for his [Forging] skill.
Press your left hand onto this pool of slime.
[Condensation-Assembly] Activation.
[Consumed Chaos Essence: 3000]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 1988]
The entire expenditure of three thousand points of Chaos Essence was instantly drained.
Purple-black particles gushed from the palm and poured into the pool of viscous fluid. The dark red, semi-liquid substance, activated by the purple-black particles, regained its vitality and began to wriggle.
The slime crawled up the ground, seeped into the gaps in Luo Lan's armor, and stuck to his skin.
A warm, slightly pulsating sensation spread across my calves, then my thighs, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and head...
They seeped in through every gap and seam of the armor, and burrowed into the pores of the skin.
Dark red slime instantly adhered to Luo Lan's entire body.
And no longer content with simply attaching themselves, they transformed into countless tiny liquid tentacles, frantically burrowing into the pores of the skin's surface.
The slime forcefully peeled away and replaced Luo Lan's original subcutaneous tissue, and even began to penetrate deeper into the muscle tissue throughout his body.
Itching and stinging sensations kept coming from all over my body!
[Assembled: Evil Slime's ???]
[Assembled: Evil Thoughts%……&#@? ? ]
[Assembled: █? █? █? █? █]
The notification sound in my mind distorted into a jumble of incoherent babbling.
[Huh? What's going on?!]
[Condensation] This situation has never occurred before, and Luo Lan felt a great sense of foreboding.
The purplish-black particles, which were supposed to guide the extraordinary demon's organs to assemble intelligently in a direction beneficial to the body, were now rushing around haphazardly as if their strings had been cut.
Luo Lan was unaware of one thing.
Or rather, having only recently arrived in this world, he was simply unaware of this possibility—
Not just anything can be put inside the body!
In particular, the slime residue that had been contaminated by the evil thoughts of an unknown deity!
[Already assembled: His delicious clam and slug chowder~]
A series of incomprehensible, lingering echoes of pain exploded in my mind.
The evil slime beneath his skin suddenly began to surge wildly.
Skin torn and flesh ripped open!
Blood is flowing from all seven orifices!
Dark red slime mixed with Luo Lan's blood gushed wildly from his eyes, mouth, nose, and pores all over his body.
Red slurry gushed out from the seams of the heavy armor, creating puddles of foul-smelling liquid on the ground.
The viscous liquid flowed down his limbs and gradually gathered on the main body of Luo Lan's left hand bone claw.
It looked as if a layer of gel-like flesh had appeared out of thin air on the outside of the stark white bone claws.
Dark red, gelatinous mucus wrapped around the bone layer by layer, tightening every crevice.
Enveloped in this newly formed, dark red gel-like flesh, Luo Lan felt an irresistible force gripping her soul.
As the excruciating pain of tearing apart the connection between soul and body intensified, the dark red viscous fluid tightened.
It almost ripped Luo Lan's soul out of the bone hand's body!