High Above

The storm outside the window is fading away, and the terrifying hurricane is turning after hitting the mountains.

The wind speed weakened, but the rainfall became more unimaginable. It seemed that after the strong wind that lifted half of the South China Sea into the sky left, the sea water that was originally suspended in the sky fell back to the earth and ocean.

As if a meteorite had fallen, large chunks of water fell on the ground and the roof, causing the stone houses to shake slightly.

"This is……"

Inside the house, squinting his eyes, Hilliard took off his dry coat, raised his hand, the golden source quality lighted up, and then slapped his palm on the wall of the house casually.

In an instant, the moaning house suddenly stopped shaking, and the sound of the wind and rain outside became much smaller, as if it was separated by several walls and weakened layer by layer.

"It's truly extraordinary."

Hilliard came to Ian's side. He bent down and carefully observed the crystallized flesh in the boy's hands. He couldn't help praising from the bottom of his heart: "This is a really good thing. The source quality thymus of the second-level peak monster Fragments...Ian, how did you get it? If it wasn't for the serious injuries that were close to death, it would be impossible to knock out the thymus of a monster!"

"Thymus?" Ian couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard the teacher reveal the body of crystallized flesh and blood in his hand. He lowered his head, stared at the blue-red flesh and blood on the table, and marveled: "It's too big!"

The thymus is generally located below the thyroid gland, and it is a fragile thin tissue. It is the earliest mature immune organ in most organisms, and it is generally not very large. Like Ian’s thymus, which weighs at least a few kilograms, only the totem master Only giant monsters like Crocodile can be produced.

The main function of the thymus is to produce hormones and catalyze hematopoietic stem cells into primitive T cells (a type of immune cell), which is a very important part of the biological immune system.

"Is such that."

Ian considered his vocabulary, and told Hilliard that he went to the tower, fired the alchemy cannon with the help of the guards stationed in the city, and assisted Viscount Grant in repelling the Crocodile Dragon: "Death is not enough, but I feel that The shell must have entered the lung of the crocodile."

"...you will aim and fire the artillery?"

After listening, Hilliard's expression became subtle.

He frowned, looked at Ian, and said in disbelief, "Didn't you say that Elder Pude didn't operate and repair the alchemy cannon by himself?"

"It's the first actual operation, how dare you take risks!"

--is it hard? Aiming, firing and launching are all monkeys can do.

Although he thought so in his mind, Ian just said honestly: "Maybe I'm smarter, so I'll just see it?"

"If you have seen it, you will know it. If you use it, it is a unique skill. If you hit it, it is a perfect skill-how is it the same as those old soldiers bragging."

He shook his head slightly. Originally, the old knight wanted to reprimand Ian.

This kid, without looking at how much he is, dares to fire a cannon, to face a big demon beast that is at the peak of the second energy level and has a high probability of being able to advance to the third energy level?

To say that he is not afraid of death is a tact, he was not so courageous back then!

Although he was very angry, seeing Ian's well-behaved and sensible expression, his upright sitting posture, and his expectant eyes, Hilliard couldn't get angry again, and just sighed.

"Forget it, anyway, you won."

He stretched out his hand and rubbed the boy's hair fiercely: "I guess, you also know the consequences of your actions, just make your own judgment."

"But remember, if it is really impossible to fight, running away is the choice that really requires courage."

After the boy responded softly, Hilliard let go of his hand. He sat at the table and began to examine Ian's booty in further detail.

"The swamp crocodile has extremely strong immunity, and can almost ignore most of the natural toxins and diseases. Its thymus hormone can induce several different powerful immune cells to mature, and it is even more effective against parasites and miasma in tropical areas. "

While checking, Hilliard explained to Ian: "These are just the basics. After reaching the second energy level, when the thymus of the crocodile dragon is transformed into a completely sublimated organ, it will gradually transform into the crystal flesh tissue in your hand. .”

"At that time, it can not only regulate the immune ability, but also interact with the heart, modify the blood composition, make it have a certain disinfection ability, and at the same time greatly accelerate the wound healing speed."

"This crocodile is close to the third energy level. His internal organs are condensing the 'phase element structure'. The phase structure in this thymus is very complete. This is your biggest gain this time!"

"It's so..." Looking at the bluish-red flesh on the table, Ian thought of the orange-red plasma splashed out from under the scales when the crocodile invaded Harrison Harbor and was hit by artillery.

Indeed, that little wound healed quickly.

Even the shot that hit the vital point, and the sword that Viscount Grant almost cut off the midfoot, did not cause it to lose too much blood, affecting its ability to escape.

And the mud shield that covered the whole body of the crocodile dragon was so powerful that even the electric cannon that could shoot supersonic shells couldn't completely break through the defense.

As for the cells and hormones that appeared in the teacher's mouth...

With the level of technology currently displayed on the continent of Terra, it is strange that Hilliard does not know about cells and hormones.

Especially for sublimators, skills that are obviously closely related to the level of biotechnology, and may even involve deep genetic modification.

"Well, it can be used as the main ingredient of your future potions."

In the end, Hilliard made a judgment: "Swamp Crocodile is an earth monster with certain water attribute characteristics, and its talent 'body of fertile soil' needs to control the source quality of both water and soil at the same time, otherwise, it cannot control the mud as Your own shield is just a cover for your 'Inheritance of the Wavesinger'."

"Although for ordinary sublimators, using the material of the peak of the second energy level as the base of the first energy level is a bit overkill, if you really want to go on the road of 'immovable fortified city', such Extra effort is necessary."

The more powerful, the more expensive.

Turning his head to look at Ian, the old knight was half narrating, half admonishing: "As compensation for the price, when you are at the first energy level, you can make your source quality have obvious attributes."

"This is a benefit, but also a risk. If you are not a psychic or just a commoner, I will not let you take this extreme path."

Source quality also has different properties.

Just as human beings live in different areas, they have different physical signs, life itself is different, so the source quality extracted by each person is naturally different.

——In the ancient myth of Terra, the breath, heart and soul, flesh and blood of the heavenly father are transformed into four heavenly and four-dimension four stewards, and the four heavenly stewards are intertwined and entangled, constructing a thousand winds and shining suns under the sky, and the earth and heaven The sea is the origin of the four genera of wind, fire, earth and water, the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the four states of gas separation, solid liquid.

The source quality of different attributes has different aspects of strengthening the human body. Earth focuses on endurance and body strength, water tends to regenerate and prolong life, wind is good at self-amplification and unloading, and fire has the most diverse explosive power and destructive methods, but it is also the most unstable .

Ian himself is still young and doesn't often go out to work, so he is not much affected by the subtle influence of the environment, but after all, he has lived by the sea for nearly ten years, and his original source quality is biased towards water and wind.

So after he extracted the source quality, the injuries on his body healed quickly, and his strength could be improved.

However, attributes are not born, nor are they absolute.

If Ian now settles next to the volcano, eats local food, and breathes the volcanic smog, it will not take a few months for his natural source quality to be transformed into fire and earth.

Compared with the innate tendency, the choice of the person itself is more important-in other words, the innate attributes of the person's self are not also determined by the choices of the parents? .

"Is the obvious attribute source quality... It is indeed very powerful and dangerous."

Ian has a very deep memory of the many sublimation common senses that Hilliard taught him, and he is very clear about the nature of 'attributes'.

That is the interaction with nature.

The swamp crocodile is a magical beast dominated by earth and water. It will never leave the swamp area of ​​the jungle area throughout its life. This is not only because it adapts to this environment, but also because only in this environment can it become stronger.

It's like when the crocodile dragon enters the city, it can turn fossils into mud, and turn rocks and mud into its own skin and shield-if it is in a swamp or deep in a mountain, how much more difficult should it be?

While changing the natural environment, we also make ourselves more adaptable to nature.

But on the other hand, if the crocodile dragon goes to the sea and fights in snowy mountains and volcanic areas, then 100% of its combat power will be used at most 30% to 40%. Over time, it will even be unable to synthesize the special resources needed for various sublimation organs in its body. Quality, 'starve' there.

Therefore, even if it had to move, Crocodile would choose desert oasis, or areas such as coastal flatlands... If it is not satisfied, even if it does not die by chance, the bloodline will deteriorate, and the descendants will not be able to inherit the bloodline characteristics of monsters, gradually retreating. Switch back to the common beast crocodile.

'Immovable Fortified City' is the inheritance of the true shape of the earth attribute. If the material of the crocodile dragon is used as the main material of the potion, it will convert Ian's source quality into the earth attribute, thereby improving his physical fitness in all aspects, and in some cases The soil and rock environment has an advantage, and the source matter in the body will be more active.

This is the advantage of attribute source quality.

"The earth attribute is actually not bad. After all, as long as you are on the planet, you can't really leave the earth."

Ian knows that risks are accompanied by opportunities, and that power and cost co-exist - the attribute tendency that should have appeared at the second energy level, but he can master it at the first energy level, which is naturally an excellent opportunity to exercise in advance.

In the future, when he advances to the second energy level, he can quickly master many skills that should have been honed for a long time, and he can speed up a lot compared to other people.

But the first energy level is far less resistant to the environment than the second energy level...

"It's a trade-off." Ian is very clear about this: "At most, it will be farther away from the sea in the future."

On the contrary, there is no serious problem near the sea. The sand armor apprentices can reduce the breathing rate. As long as they are not too deep and too far away from the land, even if they cannot swim, they can still walk all the way from the bottom of the sea to the shore.

In short.

The environment in Port Harrison wasn't extremely harsh, but it wasn't exactly safe either.

Among other things, if after taking the potion, he could possess even a tiny bit of crocodile's ability to call sand to protect his body, his safety and survival ability would be greatly enhanced.

"Leave it to me to handle it. Your current level of alchemy is not enough to handle this level of Warcraft material perfectly."

Hilliard patted the table, and Ian naturally had no objection, or rather, this was his original idea.

With his current level of alchemy, he was naturally able to handle the material of a low-level monster like the reef-eating sea otter, but it was impossible for the swamp crocodile.

Mainly because he hasn't learned it yet.

However, just when the old knight was about to put away the crocodile's crystallized thymus, Ian inadvertently looked up at his teacher's face, and found something wrong.

"Wait, teacher..."

He stared straight at Hilliard's face, and Ian frowned: "The wrinkles on your face..."