Chapter 98: Alchemy Failure?

  McDonald's, Sixth Avenue Night.

  The thunder rumbled on, and countless civilians looked up at the terrifying cloud layer above their heads. Those clouds were filled with a power called destruction.

  "Aegys strained his spiritual energy to comprehend, only to find that he could barely withstand two lightning bolts. He smiled wryly into the microphone and said: "All personnel, listen up! Evacuate the central area of McPhee's Castle! Repeat! Evacuate the central area of McPhee's Castle!"

  The cloud layer in the sky seemed to be conscious, quietly waiting for the crowd's withdrawal. When the last person left the central area, the cloud layer began to roar.

  Chen Le gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, using all his might to control his spiritual energy and guide the vengeful spirit to surround that puddle of unknown substance.

  "Just a little! Just a little!" Chen Le's inner self was frantically shouting, while the sweat on his forehead kept emerging.

  "Mortal! Halt! This thing should not exist in this world!" The cloud spoke, as if there was a person above.

  Chen Le did not respond, but he once again increased his investment in spiritual power, using this method to answer the voice from the clouds.

  The cloud seemed angry: "Since you're so reckless, I'll fulfill your wish!"

  "Rumble!" The first bolt of lightning struck down, this bolt of lightning was as fast and fierce as an arrow off the string! The lightning accurately split onto the small house, but a light screen blocked it at the outer edge.

  That flash of lightning seemed to have never appeared at all, and it disappeared without a trace. The red alchemy furnace below, however, seemed very happy, and even started jumping up.

  "Detected thunderbolt, activating tribulation mode!" The AI's voice was still as calm as ever, as if he were simply narrating an extremely mundane event.

  Chen Le originally didn't have much confidence in getting through this disaster, but when he heard the news, his eyes lit up.

  "Zha Zha Ben! Come out, now I'm going to use up all the time for this week!" Chen Le silently called out to Zha Zha Ben.

  Soon, Zha Zha responded to Chen Le's call: "I'm here! To make a long story short, I'll tell you what the Tribulation Mode is: The Tribulation Mode refers to a mode that will be automatically triggered when the system detects a tribulation. The effect of this mode is that it can use energy points to exchange for various props needed to pass through the tribulation."

  Chen Le is now fed up with hearing about energy points, and he said helplessly: "What was our income last time? You tell me to get energy points now? Where can I find them? And I'm sure these things are going to be ridiculously expensive!"

  The tone of the rubbish book was a bit strange: "Master, you have energy points! And there are quite a few!"

  Chen Le was shocked, he didn't know when he had so many energy points, and they were quite a lot even in the eyes of Zha Zha Ben!

  Chen Le muttered to himself: "Zha Zha Ben, quickly tell me how many energy points I have now!"

  Zhang Zhangben's tone was also extremely surprised: "A few tens of hundreds, thousands, millions... three million! We have three million energy points!"

  Chen Le was puzzled now, what's the deal with these 30 million energy points? However, these questions weren't to be considered now, what he needed now was something that could help him get through his current predicament.

  Chen Le said urgently: "Zha Zha Ben! Never mind! Quickly tell me what I can exchange for now!"

  "Rumble!" Apparently, Jie Yun did not intend to let Chen Le have a smooth conversation. Another blue lightning bolt struck down, although its intensity was no different from the previous one, but this lightning bolt carried a hint of dragon's aura. The arrival of this aura even affected the humans on the Hope Wall.

  The soldiers were fine, just feeling a strong aura, while those civilians were trembling with fear.

  Aegis looked at the situation and suddenly felt something was wrong. He shouted loudly, "Notify, now open the passage of the Alchemy Barrier! All soldiers below level 5 and civilians, get inside the Alchemy Barrier!"

  Alchemist's bulwark, should be hidden under the Hope Bulwark, originally a defensive building used by the attacking side in siege warfare to defend against tunnel warfare, but this building is more often used to defend against natural disasters such as tornadoes.

  "Evacuate in order of strength, the weaker ones first!" Eggers' voice echoed through the skies above McPherson Castle. Then ten 30-meter-wide channels opened on the ground.

  The common people began to form long queues, walking in an orderly manner towards those seemingly dark entrances.

  After experiencing so many life-and-death situations, everyone still in Macross knows that if they don't listen to Focker and act on their own initiative, nothing good will come of it.

  "Has it worked again? It seems that the divine medicine is indeed effective!" Chen Le thought to himself, feeling a mix of emotions.

  "Master, I've found it! I know the price list!"

  Chen Le felt an urge to grab the Creator God and give him a good beating at this time. Price list! Again, it's a price list!

  "Thunderbolt Reducer: reduces thunderbolt damage by 20%, priced at 500,000 energy points. Thunderbolt Cloaker: allows escape from thunderbolt lock-on. Note: using this item will greatly reduce the effect of crossing tribulation. Priced at 500,000. Heart Devil Screen Dan: as the name suggests, it is a dan medicine that screens out heart devil invasion. Effective with one pellet. Priced at 5,000,000 energy points..."

  Chen Le hurriedly interrupted Zha Zha Ben's introduction, suspecting that if he let him continue, he would probably go crazy: "Zha Zha Ben, tell me what can be used now?"

  "Thunderbolt reducer, physical strengthening pill, random dao tool."

  Chen Le was taken aback for a moment before saying: "Physical Enhancement Dan? What's that?"

  "It's just a temporary reinforcement of your physical body, reinforcing it to the sacred level. Your physical endurance is too low, and you can't withstand the aftermath of the thunderbolt at all."

  "Random equipment is randomly drawn from a piece of equipment. This thing can only be bought once, but it's cheap, only 10,000 energy points."

  If Chen Le wasn't currently unable to move his hands, he would have already overturned the alchemy furnace.

  Chen Le said helplessly: "Zha Zha Ben, just tell me how many energy points these things cost in total!"

  "1001 Universal Energy Points!" Zha Zha replied matter-of-factly.

  "Hurry up!" Chen Le shouted in a somewhat angry tone.

  A blue light enveloped Chen Le's surface, and then the layer of blue light grew wider and wider until it blocked out the barrier outside.

  The voice on the hijacked cloud was somewhat puzzled. He had just felt a familiar yet strange aura, but he quickly gave up thinking about it because he felt challenged!

  The thunderstorm continued, and in this storm, a total of 80 shocking thunders were cut by the cloud.

  The next morning, Jie Yun's voice came out again: "The last thunderbolt! Die!"

  This bolt of lightning carried a devastating aura as it flew towards that dilapidated alchemy furnace.

  Chen Le roared loudly, once again summoning the power of the Lich King!

  "Roar!"

  A flash of lightning, and the dark cloud disappeared in an instant. At the same time, a person also disappeared from the furnace.

  After a while, Egas woke up from his shock and shouted: "Go find Master Arthur quickly!"

  "In the depths of the forest, Long Heng took a deep breath and said to Beiqi: "Beiqi! I feel that terrible thing has disappeared!"

  Beach smiled and said, "Well, today we'll make it a double success. Let's calculate the time when Uncle's reinforcements will arrive, and then we'll contact them to work together to overthrow that fortress. I believe the Council of Elders is already impatient, and there has been no progress on the southern matter until now."

  Long Yan smiled and said: "En."

  "Report to Lord Aegs! We have found no body of Master Arthur!" a blue-robed mage said respectfully as he approached Aegs.

  Aegis suddenly sat down on the ground, took a deep breath and said: "Notify other soldiers to leave immediately! Today is probably the day when the magic beast breaks into the city!"

  "Sir Egbert! We mages will never retreat!" Blue Robe Mage said, kneeling.

  "The Garrison Legion will fight to the death and never retreat!"

  "We adventurers may not be from here, but our brothers died fighting for this land, so we will fulfill their wishes and continue to fight!"

  "We swear to fight to the death!"

  Eggs stood up and shouted: "Swear to live or die together at Maikepusi Castle!"

  "I swear to live and die with McPherson!"

  The final battle begins tomorrow!