Ashen God
Chapter 526 - 525: Maka Bagga’s Alchemy Notebook

Chapter 526: Chapter 525: Maka Bagga’s Alchemy Notebook

"A Dark Purple Quality drop treasure box, and it’s from a Lord Monster, too. I feel like it should have a lot of good stuff inside."

However, as tempting as this Dark Purple Quality drop treasure box in front of him was, due to time constraints, Zhang Yanhang wasn’t planning to open it right now.

Zhang Yanhang took another look at his watch. It had taken him roughly a minute and a half to deal with both the Goblin Chief Shaman Maka Baga and the Goblin Chief Nu Shan; most of that time was spent on scanning and observation, with the actual combat only lasting about ten seconds or so.

After all, both he and the Goblin Chief possessed fifty points of Agility, meaning the pace of the battle was naturally quite fast. At its quickest, the Goblin Chief could almost strike Zhang Yanhang a dozen times in a second, dropping several hundred points of his Shield Value with just normal attacks.

Then, the time he had spent testing his Strength and weight consumed another half minute, so in total, the entire process had taken him two minutes.

"Now with sixteen minutes remaining, I somehow feel like I have quite a bit of spare time."

Zhang Yanhang thought for a moment and then teleported directly to the Lucky Slot Machine in the Goblin Plains to check the refresh status of the Tier Three prize pool.

Much to his disappointment, the machine hadn’t refreshed, meaning that he wouldn’t be able to take advantage of a free Tier Three prize pool before leaving.

"Thinking about it carefully, I killed those Goblin Shamans a bit late. Even if the Tier Three prize pool in the Goblin Plains could refresh at five a.m. like usual, it would most likely not be able to refresh Goblin Shamans or creatures like Maka Baga.

As a result, the Tier Three prize pool wouldn’t be much use to me."

Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but sigh. He had actually wanted the Tier Three prize pool to refresh again. After all, if nothing went wrong, it would definitely include a portion of Goblin Wolf Cavalry.

And now, he only lacked the last pair of Swift Leggings to combine into a Dark Purple Quality Swift Leggings+5. He would just need to kill about twenty more Goblin Wolf Cavalries and collect the treasures through the drop treasure boxes to achieve this small goal.

But now, to be just that short of Goblin Wolf Cavalry was indeed quite frustrating; he could only say it was a good thing he didn’t have any compulsive tendencies, or else he would feel even worse.

"In that case, maybe I’ll have to wait until the next visit to the Goblin Plain to collect the last pair of Swift Leggings." While saying this, Zhang Yanhang teleported to Raccoon City to check if the slot machine’s Tier Three prize pool had refreshed there.

After a quick check, Zhang Yanhang found that the slot machine in Raccoon City had indeed refreshed normally, so he immediately started pulling the metal lever on the side of the slot machine.

[Please choose the specific content for this Lucky Slot Machine drawing]

[Option One: (Tier Three Prize, Licker, First Tier Two Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

[Option Two: (Tier Three Prize, Zombie Dog, First Tier One Star, Ordinary Monster.)]

...

[Option Fifty-Seven: (Tier Three Prize, Beta Type Hunter, First Tier Three Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

...

[Option Eighty-Nine: (Tier Three Prize, T-001 Prototype Tyrant, Second Order One Star, Ordinary Monster.)]

...

[Option One Hundred Ninety-Two: ✫✫✫ (Fourth Prize, Thank You for Participating, No Physical Prize.)]

...

After quickly scanning the prize pool list and finding no changes to the Tier Three prize pool of the Raccoon City slot machine, Zhang Yanhang started making rapid selections.

......

Five minutes later, Zhang Yanhang swept the chamber clean with a Death Wave, taking out the dense crowd of zombies in the pit and the more mobile monsters surrounding him, including the T-001 Prototype Tyrant, the Beta-type Hunters, the Gamma Type Hunters, and Lickers.

[Successfully killed a First Tier One Star Monster ’German Shepherd Zombie (ordinary)’×1, Soul points +3.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Two Stars Monster ’Licker (ordinary)’×1, Soul points +6.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Stars Monster ’Beta Type Hunter (ordinary)’×1, Soul points +10.]

...

After wiping out a hundred monsters from the Tier Three prize pool of the Raccoon City slot machine, Zhang Yanhang stood still for a few seconds. Then he picked up five drop treasure boxes from the ground: one from a Licker, one from a Zombie Dog, one from a Police Zombie, and two from Ordinary Zombies.

After finishing up with the Raccoon City slot machine’s prize pool, Zhang Yanhang glanced at his watch and discovered he still had eleven minutes remaining.

"Eleven minutes left, huh? Maybe I should open a treasure box. If I just open the ones from Maka Baga, Goblin Chief Nu Shan, and the five I picked up just now, it shouldn’t take that long."

Zhang Yanhang thought for a moment. With the seven treasure boxes he had on hand, opening them all would take at most five minutes, leaving him with six minutes to claim achievements and the Ashen Treasure Box. There was plenty of time to spare, as he didn’t have anything else to do next.

"With that in mind, let’s start opening treasure boxes right away." Zhang Yanhang couldn’t be bothered to go back to his room; he just sat on the body of the T-001 Prototype Tyrant and began opening treasure boxes. He first picked up the Purple Quality Treasure Box dropped by Goblin Chief Shaman Maka Baga.

"I hope I can open something useful, particularly Dark Purple Quality Equipment. And ideally, I’d like to get the formula for Magic Recovery Potion through alchemy as well." After a brief prayer, Zhang Yanhang started opening the treasure box.

[Would you like to open ’Drop Treasure Box (Goblin Chief Shaman Maka Baga)’?]

"Yes, open it."

Zhang Yanhang didn’t hesitate to confirm. In truth, aside from equipment and alchemy formulas, if he could open some other alchemy-related items from Maka Baga’s drop treasure box, he would be quite accepting, as he was truly in dire need in this area.

Maka Bagga differed significantly from the rest, though. While not very strong, it had a wealth of crafting experience, marking it a practitioner of sorts. Perhaps it couldn’t compete with Zhang Yanhang in other areas, but in the crafting of alchemy potions, it might have crushed Zhang Yanhang, who had no real-world crafting experience whatsoever.

So, if Zhang Yanhang did manage to find items related to alchemy, they would likely be of considerable value to him.

As for the specific types of alchemy items included, the list could be quite extensive. The most likely to be found, in his opinion, could be something like Maka Bagga’s alchemy notebook, which generally would serve as a source of practical experience.

Next in line might be something like the crucible Maka Bagga used for crafting magic recovery potions and other alchemy potions. Considering the treasure box dropped by Maka Bagga was of purple quality, the crucible should at least be of blue quality.

With blue quality comes the usual likelihood of possessing some special attributes, such as a slight increase in the chance of successful crafting or a slight enhancement of the potion’s effects. In any case, it would be much better than any no-attribute, low-quality tool he could craft by hand.

By the way, the reason Zhang Yanhang believed these two items might appear was because he had seen them before in the treasure boxes of wandering goblin merchants, though at that time, the items had been produced by ordinary Goblin Shamans.

He felt that as the Chief Shaman Goblin, Maka Bagga was undoubtedly much stronger in this regard than the ordinary Goblin Shamans.

After all, its alchemy within the Goblin Plain was the strongest, easily crafting blue-quality medium magic recovery potions and likely higher-quality alchemy potions as well, such as purple-quality large magic recovery potions.

In summary, Zhang Yanhang was indeed quite interested in the alchemy items that could be found inside Maka Bagga’s ashen treasure box.

Moreover, if he managed to obtain such items, he would likely put them to use soon in the Main World, as he intended to try his hand at crafting with the materials he had peeled from the Goblin Chief Nu Shan.

[Please select the specific contents of the "Drop treasure box (Chief Shaman Goblin Maka Bagga)"]

[Item One: ?]

[Item Two: ?]

[Item Three: ?]

[Item Four: ?]

[Item Five: ?]

"By the way, although I haven’t seen Maka Bagga’s attribute list, this fellow most likely isn’t strictly a magic unit, but similar to ordinary Goblin Shamans, a type that mainly uses close combat with spellcasting as a supplement."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the body of Maka Bagga he had recovered was about two and a half meters long, meaning it stood a head taller than the ordinary Goblin Shamans, and its muscles were more developed; it looked very much like a creature adept at close combat.

"And since it’s so proficient at close combat, I suppose it wouldn’t be too much to expect to find equipment on Maka Bagga that could enhance attributes like Strength effects, Movement Speed, or Attack Speed, right?"

While these three additional attributes had already appeared in the equipment retrieved from the treasure boxes of Big Saber Goblins, Goblin Spear Throwers, and Goblin Wolf Cavalry, those were all low-quality, blue-quality equipment.

If a new piece of equipment really did come out of Maka Bagga’s treasure box, it would at least be Dark Purple Quality equipment, so it is still quite possible that those kinds of Additional Attributes would appear.

After all, from the perspective of Red Dragon Salcano, Dark Purple Quality Equipment and Blue Quality Equipment not only don’t overlap but can even complement the original Low-Quality Equipment to form a mix of high and low.

"Although the probability isn’t large, a person always needs to dream..." Zhang Yanhang clicked on the first item with a nervous heart.

Item One

Option One: Maka Bagga’s Alchemy Crucible, Blue Quality, Equipment.

Option Two: 500 Soul Points

Option Three: 1000 Soul Points

"Incredible, an Alchemy Crucible really did come out. It seems that the alchemy techniques on the Goblin Plain really did develop through Maka Bagga’s lineage."

Zhang Yanhang was actually quite surprised that an Alchemy Crucible could be drawn, and even more surprised that it turned out to be a Blue Quality Alchemy Crucible, exactly as he predicted.

"If only I knew I could predict this accurately, I would have predicted a Purple Quality Alchemy Crucible. After all, with my luck and the aid of Multiple Choice, it’s quite possible to make it happen. Well, maybe it’s just wishful thinking."

Zhang Yanhang said that while he started to check the Attribute list of the Alchemy Crucible, and, well, how should I put it? It was completely different from what he imagined.

Zhang Yanhang’s ideal Additional Attributes were increased success rates and enhanced Usage effects of medicine, but the Additional Attributes listed were the utterly useless reduction in concoction time.

Of course, considering that Maka Bagga had to supply Alchemy Potions for the entire tribe, the reduction in concoction time could be understood. But the problem was the reduction was too minimal, merely 5%. What use was that?

"A 5% reduction? Do I lack that little bit of time?" What made Zhang Yanhang feel even worse wasn’t just this worthless Additional Attribute, but its description.

If the Additional Attribute was something Zhang Yanhang could barely tolerate under the principle of "better something than nothing," the description was totally unbearable for him.

Because this Blue Quality Alchemy Crucible was not the one Maka Bagga used to make Magic Recovery Potions, but a Crucible specifically used for experiments.

With this thing, who knows what kind of experiments Maka Bagga had conducted before? Maybe there are still harmful substances at the bottom of the Crucible—who would dare to use that?

And the most intolerable part for Zhang Yanhang was that, according to the description, Maka Bagga’s Crucible was often lent to other Goblin Shamans under his command who were interested in Alchemy. This meant that, most likely, this Crucible was also used for the less savory practice of boiling feces.

After all, Zhang Yanhang had already learned the little fact that ordinary Goblin Shamans had a habit of boiling feces when he opened the treasure box of a wandering Goblin merchant before.

Therefore, asking Zhang Yanhang to use a Crucible that has boiled feces to cook Alchemy Potions he would drink was utterly out of the question. As an adult human with fairly good hygiene habits, his well-developed brain made it impossible for him to tolerate all of this.

Though there’s the automatic filtering from the Energy Shield, and even if something dirty was accidentally ingested, it would be automatically filtered out, that’s completely different from deliberately drinking unsanitary potions.