More than an hour later, inside the single-family house in Sector 7.
Li Nuo completed the work of instilling knowledge into Maeve Le. He entered his study and summoned Dinas over.
Under the other party's gaze, Li Nuo took out ten gold bars and a few gold coins and placed them on the table.
"Dinas, put these coins and gold bars away. Let's simply reconcile the accounts."
Li Nuo sat down at the desk.
Dinasi smoothed her skirt and sat down opposite Li Nuo.
She took out the notepad she usually used to keep accounts and said while writing:
"The reward given by the Alchemy Temple is worth 500 gold coins. The payment for selling the alchemy weapons is 25,000 gold coins. The deposit paid by Mevle to purchase the knowledge is 50,000 gold coins. Well~ Counting the life potions harvested before, we now have a total of about 83,000 gold coins. According to the minimum standard, the funds required for the island project are 150,000 gold coins, and we have already reached half of it~"
Li Nuo nodded with satisfaction and suddenly remembered something.
"Oh, by the way, more than half. I also have an alchemy well here."
Li Nuo rummaged through the Xena space, found the sage particles that had been squeezed into the corner, and put them on the table.
Dinas looked at the white beads on the table, blinked and asked:
"Did you find this from the Rift Corridor?"
"Yes. Because the pollution field appeared so suddenly, I only found this alchemy well for the time being."
Li Nuo pushed the small beads emitting white light in front of Dinas:
"Here, put it away. Once we buy the island, we will use it as a magic water purifier."
"Okay~" Dinas reached into her magic pocket and took out a separate metal box to encapsulate the sage particles.
She picked up the pen, wrote a few lines on the account book, and asked at the same time:
"What is the fresh water production of this alchemy well?"
Li Nuo compared the decomposition results in his mind and said:
"It is now severely damaged, and the water output per 24 hours is about 10 tons. If it is repaired, the water output will increase to 15 tons."
"15 tons~" Dinas said while writing with a smile:
"A small magic water purifier can only purify 15 tons of water per day. We can save money on buying a small magic water purifier. The money is about 7,000 gold coins."
Li Nuo thought about it:
"Well, there is a disadvantage to using alchemical wells to obtain fresh water. We need to use an alchemical stone to activate it and expand it into the sage space. Doing so will also make our spiritual ocean narrow. So use alchemical wells instead of magic Water purifiers are just what you do when you are short of money. When we have sufficient funds in the future, we will still have to buy a magic water purifier."
Dinas rested her chin on the penholder and considered the matter for a moment.
She nodded slowly, as if she had an idea, and smiled tenderly and said:
"You usually have to be busy outside. Letting you bear the mental burden of the alchemy well will have a negative impact on your strength.
"Let me bear the mental burden of the alchemy well. I have learned all the alchemy knowledge in the Alchemy Temple over the years. With a little review, I can pass the self-study alchemy exam and get my own alchemy stone."
Faced with Dinas's kindness, Li Nuo did not refuse.
"No problem, Dinas. I'll leave this matter to you. However, I thought about it. We don't get the alchemy stone through the Alchemy Temple."
"What?" Dinasi's eyes flashed with confusion, and she didn't understand what Li Nuo meant for a while.
"I don't know how to explain it to you right now." Li Nuo raised his index finger and shook it:
"Just remember one thing. You are in charge of the alchemy stone and sage particles. But your alchemy stone is made by the soul transposition ceremony I arranged. We do not use the Alchemy Temple or other forces."
Dinas was stunned for a moment, her expression slightly dull:
"The soul transposition ritual you arranged."
"Yes, I arranged it. This matter is not urgent. Let's wait until we get to the Suman Islands."
Li Nuo shook his hand and dropped the topic:
"Please help me see what other magic devices can be replaced with sage particles?"
"Oh. Okay." Dinas came back from her slight trance and looked down at the account book in her hand:
"Food on the Suman Islands is very expensive. Even seafood must go through a magic purifier before it can be eaten. In order to eat normally, we need to buy ingredients produced in magic farmlands and orchards and a magic food processor. The magic food processor can be omitted. , we can cook by ourselves, or let the magic servant do it for us. The crops and fruits produced in the magic farmland and orchard can be replaced by the sage space where the ingredients are produced."
Dinas paused and continued:
"Also. We need to buy building materials to transform the island. If we can find a sage space that produces building materials, then we can save about 30,000 gold coins in building materials."
"Okay, Dinas. I remember it. The sage's space that produces food and building materials."
Li Nuo clapped his hands and stood up from the chair:
"I'm going to take a walk in the rift corridor now. I'll be staying underground a lot in the next few days. Just wait for me in the house."
"Okay~" Dinas put the ledger, gold bars and coins into her pocket and summoned a torch.
"Then I'm leaving." Dinas waved her hand and teleported away in the flickering light of the fire.
After checking the props he carried with him, Li Nuo rubbed the illusion ring on his finger, cast the "Illusion Body Technique", and entered the invisible state.
He transformed into a white skull, flew out of the hut, and flew towards Sector 6 next door.
In order to understand the situation in the crack corridor, Li Nuo often went underground in the past few days.
To do this, he borrowed an illusion ring from Dinath.
The condition of the underground area in Sector 6 is relatively bad.
Starting from the 15th floor underground to the 90th floor underground, all floors collapsed. Large pieces of gravel and soil accumulated in the deformed walkway, blocking the way. Even the cylindrical cliff extending vertically downwards was broken into several sections.
The Alchemy Temple organized manpower to investigate the details of the collapse underground. It is estimated that it will take about a year from the time they draw up the plan to repair the cloister to the time when the cloister is actually repaired.
During this year, if people on the ground wanted to reach the Black City, they could only go through a few well-preserved shafts. Except for these normally functioning shafts, signs saying "front and rear collapse, this road is blocked" were hung in all other places.
These things were said by Darrick and Li Nuo, the swordsmen of gold merchants. This gold merchant's sword, who has worked with Li Nuo twice, will stay underground for a whole year. The same is true for Iron Thorn Shield's security members, including Conte, Mark, and Fals.
Repairing the cracked corridor requires investing a huge amount of resources, which will undoubtedly push the alchemy workshops on the ground to operate at full capacity. A series of subsequent reactions were that the prices of building materials soared, labor remuneration increased, and the alchemy workshops in Xiacheng District were in full swing.
Li Nuo has seen too many alchemists in the past few days, using alchemy stones to carry building materials underground.
Sector 6 is currently unowned, and no one is coming to repair the corridor. And because of the severe collapse of the corridor, there were almost no people in Sector 6.
Li Nuo transformed into an invisible skull and flew into the underground passage in Sector 6, flying all the way down to the 15th floor underground.
The space here for living people to move around is extremely limited.
As soon as Li Nuo passed through the stairwell gate, he was stopped by the pile of rubble blocking the walkway.
Using "life and death tracking" and deconstruction techniques, Li Nuo checked the narrow and crowded aisles.
After confirming that there were no prying eyes here, he took out a homemade alchemy tool from the folding space of his backpack.
This alchemy tool has a barrel-shaped appearance and a built-in spiral metal drill bit.
Li Nuo named it a pipeline excavation device.
Place one end of it against a pile of rubble, and the drill bit inside will dig into the pile of rubble. Every few centimeters the drill bit moves forward, the metal sleeve outside the drill bit will follow and support the circular channel carved by the drill bit.
The moment the drill bit cuts through the rubble, a metal channel with a diameter of about 15 centimeters will appear on the rubble.
How could Li Nuo enter such a small metal passage?
There are two options, one is to use the "Death Flight" that he just obtained, and the other is to make use of the characteristics of "The Breath of the Dead".
After Li Nuo activates "The Breath of the Dead", he will enter the skeleton form. In this form, he can divide himself into six sections, one each for his head, torso, legs, and arms.
Each segment has its own magical field of vision - the head can see the surrounding scene clearly, and the magical field of view of the torso, legs and arms is 30 degrees directly in front.
Li Nuo only needs to stuff his arm into the metal pipe to complete the subsequent operations. As for the head, torso and legs, just find a place to hide them.
Li Nuo has tried this set of moves many times and has never had any accidents.
As for why not to use "death flight" to drill into metal pipes...this has to do with a bad experience.
Li Nuo did indeed use "Death Flight" to match the pipeline excavation device at the beginning. However, the space behind the obstacle was too narrow, and he was unable to control the excavation device while in human form.
In contrast, the bony arms, which take up less space, can easily complete the task of controlling the excavation device.
Therefore, after several attempts, Li Nuo decided to use the "breath of the dead" to match the excavation device.
This time is no exception.
His bony arms entered the metal pipe and reached the back of the rubble.
Behind the rubble is a very crowded corridor void. It was pitch black, without any light. And because the road is blocked by piles of rubble, it is difficult for the air here to circulate with the outside world, and the atmosphere is extremely depressing.
Li Nuo's arms pulled out the drill bit and metal sleeve from the rubble pile, and continued to drill through another rubble pile and entered another corridor closed by rubble.
Following the same pattern, repeated more than ten times, Li Nuo's arms reached the destination of this trip.
This is the southeast corner of the 15th underground floor, a place used to make fires for cooking 30 years ago. The sage's space, which produces carrots, tomatoes, flour, and salt, is arranged in the corner in the form of an alchemy ingredient cabinet.
Now, this sage space is covered with rubble.
Li Nuo had to spend some time and use his arms and a pipe-type digging device to dig out the passage leading to the alchemy ingredients cabinet.
This job requires patience and time, and you can't be interrupted.
Li Nuo used his skeletal legs to hold his skull and skeletal torso, jumped up and down on the ground, and found a safe place to hide.
His skeletal arms were working hard a thousand meters away from his skull.
Use the pipe-like digging device to dig a passage to get the bone arms into the alchemy ingredient cabinet. Li Nuo threw the deconstruction spell in the magic vision of the bone arms to obtain the method of breaking the sage's lock and the sage's space core spell array.
The left arm is connected to the left palm. The left palm is where the magic formation of the blood Na space is located.
Put your right arm on the back of your left hand to take out the rune rod in the blood space and crack the Sage's Lock.
Li Nuo was completely immersed in his work, and time passed quickly.
Three hours later, as the sun sank into the ground and night fell, Li Nuo finally used his bone arms to obtain the sage particles that produced the ingredients.
It took three hours to get one sage particle. There was nothing we could do about such a slow progress.
The magical vision of the bone arms is very limited, and it can only see things within 30 degrees directly in front of it. Li Nuo became dizzy several times because of his narrow field of vision.
"Okay, the most difficult step is completed. There are piles of rubble sealing the corridor. I don't have to worry about meeting others in the collapsed corridor, but it is too time-consuming to go back and forth among the piles of rubble."
Li Nuo controlled the bones and arms to dig a return passage.
Li Nuo had previously tested that Dinas could not locate herself when her body was divided into six segments.
He had to put his body together completely before he could summon Dinath to come and take him away.
When Li Nuo's arms used the digging device to dig through piles of rubble one after another, an unexpected voice sounded near Li Nuo's arms.
"Look what I found? A bone arm that moves on its own. Is this a novel and extraordinary creation, or is it some kind of magic?"
Li Nuo's heart sank as he felt his arms being forcibly held and lifted from the ground. The pipe-type digging device held between his arms fell to the ground.
In the magic vision of Bone Arms, a figure familiar to Li Nuo appeared.
Nehkat.
This tomb wizard, who did not return to the surface after the pollution field was closed, went with Li Nuo.
He relied on the fact that he was a skeletal undead and did not need to eat, excrete or breathe, so he stayed underground for a long time.
The magic pocket on his waist was open, and all kinds of bones continued to fly out of it, turning into skeleton soldiers around him.
These skeleton soldiers hold pickaxes and clank against the rubble to open a path for their masters to pass.
Nehkat himself was leisurely waiting for his skeletons to clear the way for him.
When Li Nuo turns on "Life and Death Tracking" when it is divided into six sections, only the magic vision of the skull will be replaced by the magic vision of "Life and Death Tracking". Vision of the torso, legs, and arms is temporarily disabled, plunging them into darkness.
Because of this, when his skeletal arms are working apart from the body, he cannot use "life and death tracking" to detect the surrounding situation. So it was only when Nehekat touched his boney arms that he discovered the other person's existence.
Nehkat took the bone he had just received and looked at it with both arms, and muttered novelly:
"It's really interesting. This arm is made of human bones, with weak spell fluctuations. Whose limb are you? Where is your body? I noticed that there is a pattern of a spell space on the back of your left hand, which should be hidden You have a lot of treasures, right? If you are willing to hand over the treasures in the magic circle space, I will let go of your bones and arms. How about it? This deal is not a loss for you. I want my own arms. , or you want the treasure in the magic array space, it’s up to you to decide.”
A sly smile appeared on Nehkat's face.
He was feeling proud that he had grasped the unknown handle, but he was horrified to find that several half-meter-thick black lightning shot out from the bone in his right arm.
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
"Boom boom boom"
A series of lightning explosions surged in the narrow enclosed space.
Dozens of black lightning licked every corner of the space like a dog's lick.
Nehkat's skeleton soldiers were blasted into bone fragments on the spot. The bone fragments were crushed into powder by the continuous black lightning.
Nehekat's magic robe automatically activates the "Death Shield". A layer of black light shield crossed the direction of Lightning's attack before the lightning fell on him.
The black lightning washed over the black light shield like a rushing river, causing the magic shield to shake violently and possibly break at any time.
Nehekat was so frightened that he hurriedly threw away Li Nuo's bone arms.
Before he could launch a decent resistance, Bones' right arm fired a new black lightning, piercing his face. At the same time, black lightning shot out from the fingertips of Bones' left arm.
Double the black lightning, double the ferocious offensive, Nehkat could only get beaten in the frenzy set off by the black lightning.
"ah!"
Nehekat screamed, and the magic shield on his body broke.
"boom!"
Nehekat was struck by black lightning and instantly torn apart. Every bone fragment of his was swept by black lightning and turned into handfuls of bone fragments, scattered around.
Black Lightning refused to let go, repeatedly ravaging the remains of Nehekat and the Skeleton Soldiers.
It wasn't until Li Nuo received the news of the kill that Bones' arms stopped firing black lightning.
The airflow in the narrow space returns to stability, and floating dust and bone chips sink slowly.
"Hey, Nehekat is just here to send you off. What's wrong with learning? Just imitate other people's extortion. Now it's better. Not only did you not get a good deal, but you also lost your life."
Li Nuo grinned, then stopped smiling.
He calmed down and began to control the bones and arms to collect the loot.
When he fired black lightning with his bone arm, he deliberately avoided the tunnel-type digging device he made and Nehekat's magic pocket.
The two creatures had survived the battle and were now lying peacefully on the floor.
Li Nuo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the excavation device and the magic pocket were safe and sound.
His two skeletal arms swept over Nehkat's remains, activating "Soul Absorption".
The news fed back by the system stunned Li Nuo for a moment.
[Failed to absorb soul! 】
[There are no soul fragments on the target! 】
Li Nuo turned the magic vision of his bone arm and looked around carefully.
There are many reasons why there are no soul fragments on the remains. One of them is that other people or other magic props took them away first.
Could it be that besides his own bone arm, there is someone or something else hidden in this narrow space?
Li Nuo looked at it carefully, and then his brows jumped.
There were several blood-red flesh strips emerging from Nehekat's bones, "twitching" toward Li Nuo's skeletal arms.
"Isn't this the weak Blood Sun Transformer of the Blood Sun Divine Seal?!"
Li Nuo instantly realized the seriousness of the matter.
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