Wizard: Fusing Everything - Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Building a Safe House

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Lin Suo had prepared the Enlightening Flower as one of the means of cleaning up the scene.

He did not expect to really use it, but fortunately, he had prepared it.

Carrying two corpses, Lin Suo jumped onto the rooftop and erased the traces, scattering odor-eliminating powder everywhere, as well as on himself and the corpses. The product was made of a unique combination of medicinal powder and seaweed powder. It had a unique smell of the sea, which was the best in eliminating smells in coastal cities.

It was initially just a flavor enhancer though…

The wharf area late at night was quite quiet. Many ships of various styles were moored. The atmosphere now was not suitable for appreciating the scenery though.

Lin Suo pulled out a small bottle containing a corrosive green liquid from his waist.

“Corpse-dissolving solution!”

It was an Overlapping Compound specially researched, formed from a combination of the digestive juices of a flytrap, spider, and livestock, as well as concentrated sulfuric acid, putrid corpse fluid, and others.

With the power of synthesis and no shortage of money, Lin Suo had many weird things on him. Anything he could possibly use, he had brought them with him today. The ones that weren’t needed for the moment were placed in a secret compartment.

The issue was not a huge one.

After stripping the clothing off the two corpses, Lin Suo poured the corpse-dissolving solution on them, and the two overlapping corpses immediately emitted thick white smoke. The stench was overwhelming.

Lin Suo quickly stepped back. This was his first time using the solution to dissolve human corpses, and he didn’t expect the smoke produced to be so much more than doing the same on a mouse.

Fortunately, it was nighttime.

After three minutes, the corpses by the dock were corroded and only left behind a transparent liquid that smelled fragrant.

The corrosion did not damage the stone dock.

Then, Lin Suo wiped the liquid off with the clothing of the two corpses. With a spark, the clothes burned intensely as if he had poured oil on them.

Lin Suo threw them into the water while he couldn’t help but mutter to himself, “If it weren’t for the fact that the corpse oil made from human corpses is too disgusting, I wouldn’t have burned it.”

After a few seconds, he nodded in satisfaction when he saw that see the flames of the burning clothes, like the corpse oil extracted from mice, were not extinguished by the water.

He sprinkled another packet of powder and left after a few turns.

…

With a loud yawn, Lin Suo woke up from his three-meter-wide and four-meter-long soft bed.

He forced himself to get up and took a small green potion from his bedside table, applying it to his philtrum.

“Ah! Refreshing! Another energetic day.”

Lin Suo temporarily hid the Moon Snake Meditation Technique in a forest outside the city, fearing the person who provided this Meditation Technique might have a tracking method.

He would only choose to learn the Meditation Technique once he could be sure the magic cube could eliminate its side effects. In any case, the Round Pupil Meditation Technique was enough for him to use for a long time.

If not for worry about being manipulated by the nature association, he wouldn’t have gone to the White Rose Spells and Supplies Shop to buy spells.

He was still too weak.

“Today, let’s practice spells. As expected of spells that come in a set, they’re quite extraordinary.”

He went to a small room on the first floor where only cleaning tools were kept.

Before starting, Lin Suo scanned himself.

[Lin Suo]

[Age: 19 (72)]

[Talent: Myriad Synthesis]

[Level: Superior Knight (99.3/100); Beginner Magi apprentice (46/100)]

[Transcendence: Moon Plate Breathing Technique (red); Original Beast Training Method +4 (90/100); Round Pupil Meditation Technique (96/100)]

[Skill: Mud Stone Conversion (20/100)]

[Art: Language guru (red), medicine (red), noble etiquette +3 (61/100), culinary skills +3 (9/100)]

[Body Condition: Healthy]

Mud Stone Conversion was the spell he learned from eating the books. It was only an apprentice-level spell and should not have any attack or defense capabilities.

However, because of the spells’ perfect compatibility, they could be automatically fused even without reaching the red grade.

The additional information in his mind showed that even though it was just a functional spell, it had some other abilities.

“Mud Splatter!”

Lin Suo used the spell model in his mental power space to resonate with the magic energy in the air.

Thirty seconds later, a mass of purple-black mud floated in front of him, wriggling irregularly. With a splat, it was smeared on the ground.

Lin Suo was speechless.

It was as he expected, not much use. As expected of a construction set spell.

That being said, it was still quite suitable for digging a basement, creating a larger safe house and laboratory.

That was his intention in the first place.

Hopefully, there will be some improvement after he achieved Enhanced Limit-Breaking a few times.

Lin Suo’s other abilities were also on the verge of a breakthrough, and he felt that he could complete the breakthroughs one after another in the next week.

By then, he would be more powerful and could learn an attack-type spell instead.

Oh, he still needed money.

Furthermore, the casting time of thirty seconds must be explained from the principle of spell casting.

The learning and casting of spells could be divided into several stages.

Constructing a spell model – injecting mental power – resonating with the magic energy in the air – completing the casting.

This was for the average Magi apprentice.

Apprentices of the Charm School could reduce casting time through charms and gestures. Even beginners could cast spells in a few seconds.

Comparing the two, the Charm School undoubtedly had more advantages.

That being said, when proficiency in practicing reached the maximum, spells could be cast instantaneously. It would be the same for charm apprentices and regular apprentices.

Not to mention formal Magi.

Even if they have not learned it, they could understand the principle of apprentice-level spells and complete the casting in a second.

As for constructing spell models, the manual described it as difficult, but Lin Suo did not feel that way.

He just copied it, synthesized it into a book cover, and then “ate” it by patting it on his forehead. It was that easy.

This is how unreasonable he was as a scholar.

Lin Suo guided his mental power and kept communicating with the spell model.

Every thirty seconds, the ground would abruptly sink about a meter, which was the effect of the Mud Stone Conversion.

Koster’s underground was a sewer. It was all made up of complete rocks, and without a doubt, it was the work of the Magi.

Lin Suo deliberately avoided the sewer system.

He opened up a passage from the crevices straight to the depths of the earth.

The soil was squeezed to the side, turning it into green-gray rocks, and after going down eight meters, Lin Suo felt that it was almost enough.

Controlling the spell, he constructed the rocks into a staircase.

After going down another ten meters, his mental power was exhausted, and he had no choice but to meditate to recover on the spot.

After three days of not opening Rhein Bookstore, a vast stone chamber of 500 square meters at a depth of 100 meters below ground level had been completely formed, entirely composed of dark-green rocks.

The walls are as thick as ten meters. In addition to twelve load-bearing columns, there was a passageway connecting the sewer system, a second passageway connecting his material storage room in the Phil Administrative district, and a third passageway connecting the inland outside the city. A fourth passageway lead directly to the seabed but had yet to be opened. The fifth passageway led to the Rhein Bookstore above.

The word “safe” seemed to be engraved on Lin Suo’s exhausted, pale face.

Rubbing the stiff corners of his eyes, Lin Suo temporarily returned to the surface. According to the time, the task he entrusted to Valia should have been completed.

In terms of the mental power detection of Magis, beginner apprentices had a detection range of only 1 meter, intermediate apprentices 5 meters, and senior apprentices 10 meters.

Official Magis, on the other hand, had a detection range of at least 100 meters. The specific figure depended on the strength of the soul and not the amount of mental power.

Mental power was like electricity while the soul was the machinery.

Given the maximum limit of the machinery, even if one had a vast amount of electricity, it did not matter.