Chapter 53: The Calm Before the Storm (Part 2)

  The southern central part of the forest is desolate.

  The granite puppet sat quietly on the ground, facing the demon beast below: "I've been to find those skeleton frame leaders, it's a humanoid creature."

  No one responded, but they could hear that the Granite Puppet, this southern king, seemed to have a very deep grudge.

  The granite puppet stood up, the gruesome fragments on its chest making other demons feel a chill. What kind of powerful force could have shattered the granite puppet's armor? And judging from the severity of the wound, it should be a human, done in one attack.

  The granite puppet glanced at the magic beasts sitting on the ground with their eyes wide open and said, "You should know how terrifying the leader of the skull is, and they are extremely aggressive. If we don't take any measures, it's very likely that someone present will not be seen in the next meeting!"

  The furious beast patted its own chest, with hot air coming out of its nostrils, saying: "Isn't it just a bunch of skeleton frames? Let my sons go up and crush them, then can't we few kings defeat a single saint?"

  The female demon queen smoothed out her own wings, then said to the fierce beast: "How do you know they only have skeletons? One of my daughters discovered that they also have a kind of extremely agile creature, about fourth-level and incredibly numerous!"

  The leader of the wild boars laughed, saying with his nose up in the air: "A large number? Is it bigger than my tribe of wild boars? My people have several million in this forest!"

  The terrifying wolf licked its own paws and said with a menacing glint in its eyes: "Haha, indeed numerous and delicious."

  The boar leader was enraged, he had not expected this guy to actually insult his own race.

  "If you two dare to quarrel at this time, I guarantee that neither of you will be able to leave!" The granite puppet said coldly.

  The leader of the wild boars and the terror wolf shivered with fear, then sat down obediently.

  The granite puppet roared at the crowd of magical beasts: "That guy told me that in two days, the entire southern part of the Absolute Human Forest will be bathed in blood! If you don't want to become food for those skull racks, get ready for me, we'll launch a preemptive attack in two days!"

  Got it! Head!

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  The Alchemist's Workshop on the Second Floor of the Hall of the Dead

  "Anlun! There's a problem with what you're doing!" Chen Le angrily slapped Anlun on the head.

  An Lunda suddenly squatted down and covered her head with her hands.

  Chen Le was speechless. This guy wasn't supposed to be a genius? How could he even get the formula of an intermediate alchemist wrong dozens of times?

  "Teacher! Can't you spare me? Making me refine this medicine is really too difficult for me!"

  Chen Le said with a smile: "How am I making things difficult for you? You tell me, how exactly am I making things difficult for you?"

  "Teacher, I've only just been promoted to intermediate alchemist for less than a day and you're already asking me to take the assessment potion to advance to advanced alchemist! And I've only just started brewing for less than five days!"

  Chen Le rubbed his own head, and he recalled that it seemed to be the case. He said to An Lun: "Forget it, let you rest for a while, and then refine some crazy medicine, what your father wants."

  "Anlun heard his father's words and immediately stood up anxiously saying: 'Teacher! What happened to my father?'"

  Chen Le smiled and said: "You don't know these things yet, when it's time to say them, I'll tell you."

  Anlun surrendered, he knew that if his teacher didn't want to say something, then she really didn't want to say it.

  Chen Le smiled and said: "However, I can reveal something to you, do you know what your father wants?"

  An Lun was perplexed, he didn't know what his father wanted. Wealth? He was already the 3rd richest man in the Brave and Wise Kingdom! A beautiful woman? He himself had three fiancées, not to mention his own father! Status? He was already second only to one person! Power? Wasn't being a 9th level cultivator enough?!

  Chen Le saw An Lun's puzzled expression and smiled, saying: "You still don't understand your father. Your father is deeper than you think, but rest assured that your father's feelings for you are not fake."

  An Lun was too lazy to think about it, as long as his own father didn't abandon him, then he should go all out to support his own father.

  Chen Le smiled and walked out of the alchemy room, then lowered his head and said: "Zha Zha Ben, now I need some skills!"

  Chen Le's body suddenly became somewhat illusory, then began to disappear from the feet up, and finally the whole person disappeared in this room, as if this person had never appeared.

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  Chen Le opened his eyes to find himself surrounded by a sea of white, and in front of him was an enormous laptop. Chen Le was speechless - this was the space where the Trashy Notebook resided.

  "Laptop transmitted sound: 'Master, welcome to the training space!'"

  "Training space?" Chen Le rubbed his chin, his black eyes (I didn't get it wrong! Absolutely black!) darting back and forth. Seemingly somewhat doubtful.

  "This is a bonus for the task you took on, it wasn't fully mature yet, I was going to tell you after it's matured, but now that you need it, I have no choice but to let you know ahead of time."

  Chen Le suddenly discovered a serious problem, why was Zha Zha originally in a laptop form!

  "Master, my form was decided when you first imagined me."

  Chen Le clenched his fists and pounded his own head, why was he so stupid, a good girl didn't want to think about it, but he had to think about a laptop. Suddenly, he looked up at the trashy laptop, and in his heart, an even greater doubt arose!

  "Hmm, master, I know everything you're thinking of."

  Chen Le felt powerless, okay, anyway you are just a system.

  "Master, what kind of skill do you want? Offensive type? Defensive type? Supportive type? Or stealth type?"

  Chen Le thought for a moment and said, "I'd still like some stealth and defensive ones, after all I'm only level 1, and at the time I didn't know what was going on and said something about massacring all the magical beasts in this area tomorrow."

  "This is the consequence of this S-level task, your personality will become that of the Lich King after encountering death and blood! The most obvious feature is your eyes, if you haven't transformed into the Lich King, your eyes should still be black, but if you've become the Lich King, your eyes will turn red."

  Chen Le didn't continue to explore this topic, he was here for real business: "What are the skills of defensive and stealth types?"

  "Gale Step, 10,000 energy points. Frost Shield, 10,000 energy points. Sleep, 50,000 energy points. Flicker, you already know that one. Rebirth, 1,000,000! Holy Shield, 1,000,000!"

  "Damn it! He's really heartless!"

  "Each skill can be upgraded to enhance its effect, especially the rebirth skill. The rebirth skill has three levels, and each level upgrade requires energy points that are ten times that of the previous level! Level 1 rebirth can revive levels 1-3, level 2 rebirth can revive levels 4-6, and level 3 rebirth can revive levels 7 to holy level. If I'm not mistaken, I estimate there's still one more level - divine level!"

  Chen Le looked at the exorbitant fee and weakly asked: "How many energy points do I have now?"

  "These past few days, due to a large-scale output of soldiers, your energy points have only been 100W!"

  Chen Le almost didn't stand firm, and 1,000 energy points were reduced to only 100! How many troops are there in the base?!

  Chen Le thought for a moment about the pros and cons of each skill, then said: "Give me Whirlwind Step and Frost Shield..."

  "As you wished, you should have received it by now."

  Chen Le suddenly felt a slight headache, and when he came to, he found that there was something more in his mind.

  "Frost Shield, Level 1: Can resist physical damage of levels 1-3 for 10 times. Gale Step, Level 1: Increases movement speed by 20% and turns invisible, lasting for 10 seconds."

  Chen Le was about to cry, this is robbery, and he just realized that this was only the first step, there's still equipment later!

  "Money, money, money!" Chen Le swore, he must make a big fortune in the future, definitely!

  After the mainland experienced a crazy era, a group of historians argued there about why Chen Le would anonymously go crazy and rob. No one knew that Chen Le was forced by the system.