[Slime Essence Crystals]
The moment I wake up, I immediately went over to the Town Hall and checked on the availability of entrance token for different caves. Most of them are about the same compared to each other, but the Red Blood Cave is the one I managed to get, after receiving disappointment at the same Green Stone Cave and Yellow River Cave. And today, I actually almost stumble across a new cave, but unfortunately, I am a little too late, so the notice had been taken off before I can properly read it.
With a total of five Entrance token purchased, I immediately went over to the teleportation Gate and use one of them. My surrounding quickly changed into a bloody cave with some hard Rocky Slime. "Oh shit, I forget that this cave is filled with monsters!" I talk to myself as I quickly withdraw my Demonic Air Shooter and begins to shoot at those slimes.
"BAM!"
"BAM!"
"BAM!"
I fire three consecutive shot towards the three Rocky Slimes before me and see their health reduced by only half. "Damn! This is no sneak attack, so its damage is just normal without any bonuses!" I shouted as I fire three consecutive shot again and finally kill the three Rocky Slimes. But before I managed to get close to the dropped item, two more slimes appear from both left and right, attracted by the item on the floor.
"No, you don't get the chance to eat my item!" I aimed at the Rocky Slime and fire two shots immediately, killing the final two off. The moment that item falls to the ground, I charge over to the spot and quickly pick up all of them, before the Rocky Slimes got attracted towards this spot again. Luckily, the Rocky Slime is not too aggressive, so even if I accidentally walk pass in front of it, it might won't attack me on the spot.
"SCAN!" I run my scan immediately, and immediately, a few location immediately appeared before me as I quickly travel over to the location. Seems like this place is quite rich with the Lower Red Crystals and the Blood Crystal Sand. I get close to a location where it seems best for me to start. With the Battery activation, I could focus more on handling all the Rocky Slime that tries to come over and eat those crystals that fall on the ground for picking.
"Damn, the number of slimes actually not too little. If I am forced into this condition, very soon I will finish using all my Demonic Metal Slugs!" just within two hours, the number of Slugs quickly reduced from 55 to 25, and soon only 15 left at three hours. With only three hours of mining had been done, I felt that another hour more, I will be forced to leave this cave.
Exactly four hours of mining, I immediately rush over to the exit as I only have five more Slugs in my inventory. The weird thing is, the magazine that was used to store a twelve bullet within, actually went missing the moment all the bullets within is fired. I guess to craft the bullet, I need to prepare a magazine as well. I wonder If I can customize it into a fifteen, or even thirty bullets mag? But for now, my main focus, is to escape from this cave first.
BECAUSE THERE IS AT LEAST TWENTY ROCKY SLIMES IS CHASING AFTER ME!!!!!
I wonder what made the Rocky Slimes is chasing me, but without considering other options, I escaped. With the Teleportation Spot is directly in front of me while the slimes are about four minutes from me, I stopped about fifteen steps before the spot. "Why is the water here red in colour? There aren't any water puddle at all at where I came from." I suspect the puddle of water might carry some secret, and I run a scan on this spot.
"DAMN! There is actually a bigger spot of water below where I stand. But this time, I got to give up on it because I only have five more slugs left. Without fail, I used one of the Liquid Canister to collects the available small puddle of water within and managed to fill it with a total of 15 units before I entered the Portal Spot. "WHISH!" I got transferred back to the Portal Gate Exit and returned to Ling Hun Town once again.
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I choose to take a seat on an empty spot before I bring up my Pedlar Setup Ring to check on my inventory as well on my status. After calculating the benefits, I actually managed to get a total of 125 points in my Hunter Skills, while a little increment on my other skills such as tenacity, Battery Charging, and Scan. In total, I managed to kill a total of 25 Rocky Slime and managed to obtain a total of 50 units of items. When I opened the inventory, two kinds of Items stat came out.
Slime Digestive Substance x 25
Slime Essence Crystal x 25
Category: Corrosive Material / Grade: Lower Grade 10
Category: Soul / Grade: Lower Grade 10
Durability: NIL
Durability: NIL
Stat: Could be used in Concoction
Stat: Could be refined into one Slime core when (0/1000) is gathered.
Equipment Disadvantage:
If this Substance is not stored in a specialized Container within 24 hours, it will evaporates.
Equipment Bonus:
One Slime (Level 1) will be summoned and controlled until destroyed.
LOL?
Summon one slime? Is that means I am going to have a pet on my own? A Monster that listens to all my orders and level as I grow? If this is how it goes, I am going to have my own army of slimes. Not only they will be able to produce materials for me when I need them, but in the same time, I can try to breed them, and increase their numbers depending on my needs.
Damn. I'm sick. I just felt that I am so mighty now, as long I am given the time to grow. Should I actually quits from the Refining Workshop and look for a place to strengthen myself? No, I shouldn't. My foundation is not strong enough to be independent. I will still need the protection and the help I could get from the Workshop.
But the Slime Digestive Substance. It is used in Concoction, I wonder what is available within that workshop. But I'm not going to check it for now, as I am going back to the Refining Workshop for a moment. Perhaps it was difficult for the others, but for me, who have the assistance of the Battery Activation Skill, I could actually put all my attention in getting rid of the Rocky Slimes when the battery mines the crystals out for me.
Because of this reason, my production managed to increase into a double, where in an hour, I managed to mine a total of 240 Lower Red Crystals, along with about 30 Blood Crystal Sand. In four hours, I managed to obtain a total of 960 Lower Grade 10 Red Power Crystals, and 120 Blood Crystal Sand. As I returned to the Refining Workshop, I immediately went into the Refining Central Workshop first to refine all the Crystals I have in hand, before I went back to the room for a rest.
The 960 red crystals came out with a result of 192 tries, and among them, I managed to get a total of 101 success, and 91 failure. My percentage of success had raised into quite decent now, with around half of them easily successfully refined. While for the Blood Crystal Sand, the 120 units yield me a total of 12 Blood Crystal, and instead of refining them into a Medium grade, I decided to keep them for now, in case I would be required them when I'm mining within the cave.
After this two different cave experience, I started to consider about going only to the payable caves instead of the free one, because in exchange for my effort, the return came over to me in a more lucrative way. But since I had promised to the man that I will be helping him in obtaining more Night Copper, I guess I will need to settle my works before I could focus on obtaining as much Night Copper as I could.
With my hand still have some of the Medium Grade Crystals, I tried my hand in refining the Upper Grade 10 Crystals. I tried the same way once again, and within the first ten attempts, I failed all of them. I tried for the next nine attempts, and also failed at all of them. With only 11 tries remaining from the green physical crystals, I tried refining them once again, and finally, at my last attempt, I finally succeed in refining one single Upper Grade 10 Green Physical Crystal!
The next day, I take out a total of 170 Medium Green Crystals, 330 Medium Red Crystals and an Upper Green Crystal to be passed on the counter, to indicates that I had achieved their target to obtains a single Stamp in my Identification Plate. Next, I walked over to the Blacksmithing Workshop, and get ready to prepare as much Demonic Metal Slugs as I could. One Brass Rod for each magazine, and two bullets crafted from each Brass Rod, I quickly produce the items in a blink of eyes.
With so many Brass Rod in hand, I did not have a feeling of hurt as I continue to forge them into the bullets I need. A further preparation is needed, If I have the intention to properly mine the crystals as well this time, my main objective is to hunt enough Rocky Slime to obtain enough Slime Essence Crystal! Just for this motive alone, I end up using 600 Brass Rod to craft 1200 bullets, as well a hundred of Brass Rod to craft a 100 piece of the magazine to fill all the bullets.
Deadly Demonic Metal Slugs x 1200
(Ammunition)
Category: Crafted Ammunition
Grade: Medium Grade 10
Durability: 1/1
Stats: 35 ATK / 3 SPD
Equipment Bonus:
Instant Damage when used in a direct fight.
With this preparation, I went into the Red Blood Cave once again, this time, well prepared!