The moment Fang Xinhan returned to the real world, he heard a system prompt.
Instead of collecting his reward immediately, Fang Xinhan first went to the inner world, checked that the red-haired 'big' sister still hadn't woken up, and then checked his attribute panel.
Name: Fang Xinhan
Age: 17 years old
Race: Human?
Game Nickname: Xin Bu Re (Lv15) Experience needed to level up (1351 / 6800)
Strength: 20 points
Stamina: 20 points
Agility: 20 points
Intelligence: 20 points
Perception: 20 points
Charm: 10 points
Available Attribute Points: 6 points
(Normal human values for each attribute are 5)
Mana: 1320 points
Sanity: 990 points
Skill Slots: Healing Art, Alchemy, Falling Sky Art
Item Slots: (Omitted)
Equipment Slots: (Omitted)
Titles: evil destroyer, Zombie Butcher
Gold: 2750
Indeed, Fang Xinhan's current attributes were capped at 20, and free attribute points could not be added to attributes already at 20.
And the system also gave a new prompt:
〈You have reached your limit. Please undertake a breakthrough mission.〉
Fang Xinhan was slightly stunned. Good heavens, there's a limit! This means he has to break through his shackles to continue improving.
"How do I break through?"
〈Requires player level Lv20〉
Fang Xinhan: ...
"Alright, alright, so this is how we're playing."
Fang Xinhan closed the panel and first put away all the staff materials and other items he had on him.
After eliminating the Aberrant Mother, Fang Xinhan obtained a pile of rotten flesh and slime. He was speechless; as a boss, it dropped nothing but experience, right?
After calming down, Fang Xinhan first expanded the island by another circle, then proceeded to craft the items from the Age of Mystery.
First were the arcane distiller and the alchemical furnace, then the essentia jars. For convenience, Fang Xinhan made many essentia pipes.
"And then there's this."
Fang Xinhan walked to the arcane worktable, opened it, and crafted arcane stone, arcane bricks, and arcane pedestals.
Finally, to conserve essentia, he used various magic shards to create compound magic crystals and synthesize a runic matrix. Fang Xinhan specifically found a larger area to place the infusion altar.
To increase the success rate of infusion, Fang Xinhan also mass-produced a pile of magic tallow.
He synthesized several sets of candles and placed them on a 13x13 empty space, above which was the infusion altar.
For convenience, Fang Xinhan also routed the essentia pipes from the arcane distiller, so he wouldn't have to run back and forth.
"Excellent, now let's test if the altar works well."
Fang Xinhan put on the Goggles of Revealing he had just made and began to burn essentia.
"It's a pity, there's no way to get an ancient alchemical furnace yet, otherwise some hard-to-burn things could also produce essentia."
Ordinary alchemical furnaces operate relatively slowly and require fuel to run. Although these are not insurmountable problems for you, the undeniable fact is that you face a bottleneck in producing large quantities of essentia. Unfortunately, due to the inherent instability of essentia, accumulating large amounts of essentia goo in one location is still very dangerous.
Upon discovering the primordial pearl, you found a solution to this problem—the ancient alchemical furnace.
—Excerpt from the Magus's Handbook.
The key is that Fang Xinhan doesn't even know how to get to the Outer Lands right now. Rely on a dark ritual altar? Tell me, which world spawns that thing now?
Let alone a dark ritual altar, Fang Xinhan doesn't even know where to find corrupted lands or magic forests.
Of course, there is another way to obtain primordial pearls: opening rare treasure bags has a very small chance (about 0.04%) of dropping one. If Fang Xinhan could open one, it would mean his ancestors' graves were smoking green (extreme luck).
However, luckily, they are sold in the MC panel for 10,000 energy per pearl.
But with Fang Xinhan's current 15802 energy, it's still a bit tight. He has other things to do, and honestly, Fang Xinhan doesn't really want to use this energy to exchange for primordial pearls.
"I'll make do for now."
As Fang Xinhan said this, he was already holding an iron ingot and beginning to convert it into a mysterious ingot, followed by an inert mysterious staff tip.
Then he threw magic shards into the crucible to make balance shards, which were then smelted into world salt.
"Oh, and the silverwood staff core!"
Fang Xinhan spent 250 energy to exchange for a silverwood sapling and then immediately used bone meal to grow it.
He chopped down a piece of silverwood log, placed it in the center of the infusion altar, followed by six different types of magic shards and one balance shard.
"It's coming, the first arcane infusion."
Fang Xinhan took out the gold capped greatwood staff and tapped it on the runic matrix.
Wearing the Goggles of Revealing, Fang Xinhan saw the essentia drifting from the essentia jars, converging towards the runic matrix.
"This is truly beautiful."
"Isn't it? Watching the essentia converge into the runic matrix, the graceful colors intermingling, filled with mystery and temptation—it's beautiful, isn't it?"
Fang Xinhan commented on the infusion process from the bottom of his heart, but then he felt something was off. This island seemed to be his, right? He hadn't invited anyone else to his island.
Moreover, his golems couldn't think, and Ford wasn't released. So there was only one answer.
"You're awake, Wu Liangta Himeko, Miss."
Fang Xinhan turned around and saw Wu Liangta Himeko wearing a patient gown, arms crossed, leaning against a bookshelf. However, even in a patient gown, her surging twin peaks were still very conspicuous.
"Who are you, and where is this? What have you done to my body?"
Classic questions. Fang Xinhan didn't have time right now; he had to make the Magic Staff, Silverwood today.
So Fang Xinhan threw a bottle of apple cider he had brewed yesterday to Ji Zi.
"I'm a bit busy right now. I'll explain the situation to you after I'm done."
Ji Zi looked at the apple cider in her hand and, without ceremony, took a sip.
"Mmm, it has the unique fresh and mellow aroma of apple cider. The aroma is harmonious, the wine is rich and delicate, with a pleasant sweet and sour taste. The original fruit flavor is prominent, and there's a lingering aftertaste after drinking."
With wine to drink, Ji Zi found a place to sit and watched Fang Xinhan work.
Doctor: Letting a patient drink alcohol, what the hell were you thinking?! Baka yarou!
Fang Xinhan turned back, and the silverwood staff core was already complete. Next were two charged mysterious staff tips.
Fang Xinhan removed the silverwood staff core and replaced it with an inert mysterious staff tip, then placed the world salt and proceeded to smelt corresponding items to extract essentia.
Then he clicked the runic matrix, and another stream of essentia floated into it, absorbing the world salt on the arcane pedestal. As the inert mysterious staff tip glowed, what remained on the arcane pedestal was a charged mysterious staff tip.
Following the same steps, Fang Xinhan made another one, completing all the materials for the Magic Staff, Silverwood.
Fang Xinhan walked to the arcane worktable, placed the gold capped greatwood staff full of essentia into it, and then added the three items.
Then the Magic Staff, Silverwood appeared on the right, but it still showed insufficient essentia. (The Goggles of Revealing provide a 5% mana reduction, but the Magic Staff, Silverwood requires 54 points).
Fang Xinhan: ...
(PS: mhy, give me back my Ji Zi sister)
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