Chapter 17 Everything can be enchanted!
Chapter 17 Everything can be enchanted!
As the Ender Pearl shattered, Pei Qi's figure appeared at the other end of the corridor, widening the distance between him and Muzan.
Pei Qi looked down and saw that the steel syringe that had been enchanted with "Sharp V" by the anvil was completely ruined.
Because Muzan's muscles had convulsed due to the intense pain, the needle tip twisted into a strange right angle, and the enchantment that had been flowing disappeared.
"Tsk, durability is indeed a major flaw." Looking at the now useless syringe, Pei Qi let out a sigh tinged with excitement.
Although the syringe broke, this attempt to enchant real-world objects opened the door to a new world for him.
In Minecraft, enchantment books, combined with an anvil, can be used to apply specific enchantments to many pieces of equipment.
Although tests have shown that any item can only have one enchantment applied, and the enchantment will disintegrate if the overall structure is damaged, this is just the beginning.
If ordinary steel needles, when equipped with a "sharp V," can pierce Muzan's supposedly indestructible skin as easily as piercing tofu, then what about others?
Pei Qi's mind raced at that moment, rapidly deducing in his mind whether if the bullet were equipped with "Power V" or "Fire Arrow", would the muzzle clearance directly ignore resistance?
If you attach a "Knockback II" or "Impact IV" to a long-range missile, could it become an even more powerful demolition device?
Even... if a more robust carrier could be found, the "Wither" effect could be attached to some kind of weapon of mass destruction.
"Could we even try enchanting a nuclear bomb?" Pei Qi chuckled self-deprecatingly. Although the idea was crazy, he had grasped the principles of enchanting items, and everything could become a vessel for an "enchanting book".
However, that's all for the future. The most urgent task now is to deal with the immediate troubles.
"Lord Muzan, how does this 'greeting gift' taste?"
Pei Qi stood in the shadows of the long corridor, his voice echoing through the empty mansion.
At this moment, Muzan's physical condition was undergoing an extremely strange change.
In Demon Slayer, the drugs developed by Tamayo usually take several hours or even longer to take effect at the cellular level.
However, what Pei Qi injected was a "potion" blessed by the MC law.
This drug doesn't rely on biology; it only relies on judgment.
Muzan was horrified to discover that his body did not produce an immune response as it usually does when poisoned.
Because there was no "toxin" in his body, but he was forcibly given several negative status icons called "weakness", "slowness" and "digging fatigue".
The tentacles, which could originally tear steel apart instantly, now moved with a heavy, sluggish feel.
His speed, so fast that it was impossible for the naked eye to detect, became like being stuck in a quagmire under the "Slow II" judgment.
What terrified him most was that his cell regeneration ability, which he was so proud of, was suffering from widespread "necrosis," a continuous reduction in his health due to the decay effect.
"What...did you do to me..." Muzan's voice squeezed out from deep in his throat.
His red, vertical pupils were fixed on Pei Qi, and granulation tissue was constantly bulging under his skin, trying to reject the drug, but it was continuously suppressed by the drug.
Pei Qi spread his hands, a mocking smile playing on his lips.
"Does it feel like your breathing is getting heavy? Does it feel like the strength you used to have so easily now feels like you're trying to push a block that will never move?"
"Don't worry, this is only the first minute of the medicine taking effect."
Muzan's rage had reached a breaking point. Although he had lost some of his rationality, his survival instinct still led him to choose the safest option—to hide.
He then swiftly dodged and disappeared from Pei Qi's sight.
Muzan's twisted limbs scraped rapidly across the ground, using the complex structure of the mansion and shadowy corners to conceal his presence, temporarily disappearing from Pei Qi's sight.
He endured Pei Qi's annoying sarcasm, which was as persistent as a mosquito's buzz, and even deliberately slowed his heartbeat and held his breath, like a venomous snake slithering through the grass.
What he didn't know was that, as reflected on the minimap, Muzan's supposed concealment was nothing but a joke.
Muzan dodged several tripwire-lined floorboards and sidestepped several devices that looked like launchers.
In his weakened state caused by the medicine, he became more cautious than ever before.
"Very good... As long as I get close enough, one strike will suffice..."
He finally crept to the spot where Pei Qi had been standing. In his all-seeing senses, that should have been the last foothold for Pei Qi and Tanjiro.
However, as he suddenly sprang from the shadows, ready to thrust all his tentacles into that spot, he froze.
The place was deserted. There was neither that heavily armored bastard nor that red-haired brat.
Are you looking for me?
A voice tinged with laughter suddenly came from behind Muzan.
Muzan's hair stood on end instantly. He turned his head sharply and saw Pei Qi emerging from a hidden passage in the wall.
Just as Muzan attempted to launch an attack, Pei Qi's hand speed reached the peak of the Electric Player.
Instead of drawing his sword, he placed an object at Muzan's feet.
"Bang!"
A wooden boat made entirely of dark oak, with sharp angles due to the style of the painting.
The next second, to Muzan's utter incomprehension, his massive, powerful body was uncontrollably and as if instantly captured by some kind of forced suction force, and he "sat" into the small wooden boat in an extremely disheveled and comical manner.
This is one of the most unsolvable operations in the Minecraft world: vehicle capture detection.
Whether you're the Wither or the Ender Dragon, without any specific judgment protection, once you fall into the judgment zone of the wooden boat, you have to obediently sit inside.
"What...what is this?!" Muzan struggled frantically, but he found that because he had "sat" inside, his body's movement was forcibly locked to the coordinates of the wooden boat.
His superhuman strength, enough to overturn a train, seemed to falter when faced with this ordinary wooden boat.
"This was originally a gift that Kagaya Ubuyashiki intended to give you personally."
Pei Qi stood five meters away from the wooden boat, next to a lever connected to a red wire.
"Although my involvement as an outsider caused some changes along the way, and his original plan was abandoned by me."
"But looking at the hundreds of boxes of black powder that were buried in this mansion... I felt it was such a waste to just let them go to waste."
"You know, I can't stand waste, so I made some improvements to them."
Before pulling the lever, Pei Qi took one last look at Muzan's face, which was filled with disgust and vigilance.
"I hope you like it. After all, this is a small token of our appreciation from the entire Demon Slayer Corps."
Muzan sensed the shadow of death.
With the effects of the potion weakening him and the wooden boat binding him, he unleashed his final potential, with all his tentacles sweeping wildly outwards, instantly smashing the wooden boat, along with the surrounding spider webs and floor, into dust.
Beneath the ruins, the objects that emitted the pungent smell of saltpeter finally revealed themselves.
"Explosives? Oh no!"
Muzan roared, attempting to launch a ranged attack to shatter the lever in Pei Qi's hand.
However, in the "slow" state, his attacks were a full beat slower.
"Click".
Pei Qi smoothly brought down the lever.
"This amount should be enough as an appetizer. Well then, good luck."
The next moment, a devastating white light erupted from the center of the entire Ubuyashiki mansion...
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