My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

But the Golden Ship is precisely an exception.

It wasn’t even a particularly strong horse, yet with the blessing of Alice’s Wind Elemental Fairy, it was able to weave through the Deep Forest, moving even faster than ordinary Magical Beasts. At least several times, Alice saw Magical Beasts preparing to attack the intruders in their territory, but before they could get up, the Golden Ship had already whisked Alice out of their sight.

Of course, since it’s the Demon Beast Forest, it’s not surprising that there exist Magical Beasts whose speed surpasses that of the blessed Golden Ship.

Soon, the group encountered a fierce Lightning Mink.

The volatile Thunder even caused dangerous arcs of electricity to flash around the area.

But Alice wasn’t the least bit flustered and was even quite excited.

Not only because the divine favor of the Master of Thunder granted her Thunder Power, making her unafraid of these arcs, but also because the Lightning Mink’s core was a necessary ingredient for the Golden Ship’s Transformation Potion.

After relentless searching, the effort turned out to be effortless.

This Lightning Mink, unfortunately trying to attack them, became Alice’s first prey, easily dispatched by Alice who was immune to Thunder damage.

Transformation Potions for Magical Beasts generally don’t enhance their strength much; in fact, many become weaker because, after transforming into human shape, they lose some of their functional Magical Beast parts.

From their inception, Transformation Potions were merely tools humans devised to satisfy their desires.

And given that these potions are of no use in enhancing strength, their preparation isn’t overly challenging, and the materials required aren’t all that precious.

Ordinary materials, of course, didn’t require Alice to venture into the dangerous depths of the Demon Beast Forest. At the dawn of a Beast Disaster, with Magical Beast numbers skyrocketing, Alice could collect all the materials she desired with just a lap around the periphery.

Indeed, from the records of the Dueling Device, Alice initially had quite a smooth run.

Alice’s strength might not be enough to handle many Mages stronger than her, but she could wreak havoc on the outskirts of the Demon Beast Forest.

The entire material collection process could be said to be smooth sailing.

This puzzled Shen Sui, making him wonder what exactly Alice did to cause her Dueling Device to frequently issue alerts.

Could it be that Alice set the Demon Beast Forest on fire?

Shen Sui quickly flipped through, but even after Alice collected all the target materials, he still didn’t find much useful information.

[Alice found a quiet and safe spot by a lakeside, laying out all her materials.]

[She left Hali and her Miniature Puppet on watch outside while she took out Vivian’s Transformation Potion formula to study it.]

[Alice started, following the instructions on the potion, with the Chameleon’s mucus as the main base, fusing it with various other potions.]

[Soon, a bottle of beautiful silver-lustrous solution appeared in Alice’s hand, and what she had to do next was to use flames to make the potion rise.]

[Alice did just that.]

[Under the pure white flame, the potion boiled swiftly, its original silvery glow completely disappeared, eventually turning entirely transparent.]

[As soon as Alice withdrew the flames, the once-boiling potion cooled down rapidly, but its transparent appearance looked strikingly like drinkable spring water.]

[Huh? Didn’t the formula say that the potion was supposed to be orange-yellow? What’s with this transparency?]

[Alice fetched a Gale Deer and poured the potion into it.]

[No change at all.]

[The Gale Deer escaped from Alice’s hand at the fastest speed possible.]

[Boom!]

[The moment the Gale Deer left Alice’s vision, a massive explosion echoed.]

[Alice looked dumbfounded at the flying deer head.]

[Thud!]

[The deer head landed in front of Alice, with its antlers sticking into the soft soil.]

[The Golden Ship stepped back in fright and panic; from its young master’s previous intention, this potion was originally meant to be used on it.]

[Ding! You have gained a Spell Card: Alice’s Number One Bomb.]

???

No!

Weren’t you making a Transformation Potion? How did you end up creating a bomb instead!

What is this Number One Bomb? Do you have other strange bombs after this?

Vivian noticed Shen Sui’s unusual expression and came over to glance at Shen Sui’s Dueling Device, seeing the scene of Alice turning the Transformation Potion into a bomb, her expression became very animated too.

"Is this how it is?" Vivian murmured, "Turns out it requires the Dawn Power flames to ignite. No wonder I could never succeed before."

"You know about this?" Shen Sui asked in surprise.

Vivian said, "Various types of Transformation Potions using the Chameleon’s mucus as a base can indeed turn into explosive Magic Potions under certain conditions. I researched a similar topic before, and potions for equine and cervine Magical Beasts can theoretically transform into a kind of colorless, tasteless transparent explosive potion."

"It can mix into water, turning the water into an explosive potion like it. But there should be a limit to the transformation amount; I never succeeded in making it, so I don’t know where the limit is. However, this potion cannot be detonated actively." Vivian raised her index finger to Shen Sui, "Its explosion condition is but one: it explodes the instant it’s out of the alchemist’s line of sight."

"The bodies of most living beings consist largely of water," Vivian said, "Once ingested, this potion turns the consumer into a massive bomb, with the explosion condition being the same as before, so the deer exploded the moment it was out of Alice’s sight."

"Isn’t its limitation quite severe?"

"Did you forget Alice also has Miniature Puppets?" Vivian said, "The vision provided by such tools counts too."

Shen Sui didn’t know how to comment anymore.

Alice was just making a simple Transformation Potion, yet somehow she ended up crafting a bomb by sheer coincidence.

["Don’t worry, I won’t use it on you." Alice quickly reassured the frightened Golden Ship, then took the remaining potion.]

["See, I’ll pour it out now." Alice straightaway poured the potion in her hand into the nearby lake.]

...

Alice, you fool!

Experimental Magic Potions can’t just be poured into water like that!!!!

This is a basic rule for Alchemists!