Ch. 138 - Boiling Blood Potion
After handing the enhancement stones to Suna and completing the upgrades, Yang Yi began forging the Ironbreaker and the Crystal Greatshield.
After all, he'd taken people's deposits, meaning he had to deliver quickly.
He had also commissioned Suna to make several extra moulds: four for greatswords and two for greatshields, which would speed up the process.
Yang Yi worked until nightfall, still owing four greats words. Seeing that his energy was nearing 30, he stopped working.
After replying to a few private messages, all thirty-six pieces of crystal gear were fully booked. Ten greatswords and two greatshields remained.
Counting the greatsword and five greatshields Yang Yi had reserved for himself, he figured he could finish everything by the following day.
He began shipping the items according to order sequence, completing the transactions, and then had a simple meal with Suna. Thanks to the gas masks, their appetites weren’t affected this time.
After dinner, Suna said she wanted to stay in the lab a bit longer and returned to the ship's cabin.
As for the improved formula for scorched liquor, she'd already figured it out. It still came down to the glutton's stomach.
It could digest and break down almost anything, secreting different digestive fluids depending on the contents.
After throwing in the fire banana, the stomach secreted digestive fluids similar to those of the fire macaque but it digested things even more thoroughly.
Suna then began cultivating the gut flora from the fire macaque’s intestines. Using fire bananas and water, she made a culture medium and used streak plating to isolate and grow the colonies.
After several rounds of purification, she screened out a special strain of yeast-like microbes which, with the help of digestive fluids, could further break down the fire bananas into scorched liquor.
The process had to be repeated many times, estimating that a week from then, the newly brewed scorched liquor would be ready.
On that island, Yang Yi had harvested about two tons of fire bananas. Most were unripe, which helped keep them from spoiling. Now that the formula for scorched liquor was complete, the two tons wouldn’t go to waste.
Yang Yi took one and munched on it as he walked towards the captain’s cabin. Eaten raw, the fruit was spicy enough to make him sweat all over, with only a hint of sweetness, probably because it wasn’t fully ripe.
He looked at the two extra magic potions in his hand. Both were ones he hadn't tried before. One was an orange potion that Yang Yi had never dared to drink. The other was the one he made for the collector, brewed with fire banana seeds, Yang Yi’s blood, and some other unknown ingredients.
As for the powdered lycanthropy potion, he’d lit it for five seconds and tried it properly once, but it had no effect, probably because he was already a werewolf.
“Maybe I should give it a shot?”
Yang Yi looked at the slightly murky red potion, hesitated a few seconds, then downed it.
As soon as the cap was opened, the potion began to boil, like a soda gone wild. The taste was like spicy cola: slightly sweet but very intense.
【You drank an unknown potion. Sanity -20】
【Your blood pressure spikes. Blood nears boiling. Body temperature rises. All attributes except Spirit +2, lasts for 20 minutes.】
Yang Yi's skin turned visibly red, much redder than when he drank the Crimson Potion. His body temperature soared to sixty or seventy degrees Celsius. He could hear his blood boiling in his veins, like water on a rolling boil. His body felt like it was swelling.
"An enhanced Crimson Potion?" Yang Yi muttered in surprise.
The effect was impressive. All attributes except Spirit got a +2 boost, twice the effect of the original Crimson Potion!
But the moment he saw the potion’s description, he froze, because this potion was dangerous!
【Name: Boiling Blood Potion】