Wizard: I Can Synthesis Everything
Chapter 297 - 284 What is a Demon?

Chapter 297: Chapter 284 What is a Demon?

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For a specific type of Synthetic Beast, Lin Suo can basically force a mix ratio production, as long as he adheres slightly to theoretical knowledge, preventing immediate collapse due to genetic diseases.

Even if it’s a successful project.

is like a lump of shit-green jelly, resembling a puddle of mud, its strength is almost negligible, but its survival ability in the Boiling Oil Sea is definitely superior to the current popular Polluted Oil Demon Miners of the 786th layer.

There are mainly three drawbacks: short lifespan, low potential, and weak strength.

But there are also advantages: rapid reproduction, quick growth, and strong survivability.

And it can gobble up a feast at the bottom of the Boiling Oil Sea through its eating method.

Using its body’s corrosive ability, it corrodes materials around Settled Glaze, and since it can’t digest Settled Glaze itself, everything excreted is the resource itself.

Excrement might sound unpleasant, and indeed—it really is.

But emm...

there’s no denying that this capability is very practical.

After making it and recording the Genetic Map, Lin Suo immediately started mass cultivation. Initially, due to limited lab equipment, there were only a thousand.

After several cultivation phases, it could reproduce and expand at a remarkably fast rate. In not too many years, the entire Boiling Oil Sea would be under his reign.

But this rapid reproduction of Synthetic Beasts also requires attention.

Theoretically, Synthetic Beasts are completely controlled by their master, Lin Suo, but just like the philosophy with plant seeds, Lin Suo can optimize the same Magic Potion’s seeds continually with the Stacking Method.

After several generations of reproduction, the limit of enhancements resets.

This is good news, but it also means losing Lin Suo’s control, implying that the ownership of the synthetic entity isn’t entirely without flaws and loopholes.

The more generations the Pollution Devourer reproduces, the easier it is to lose the synthetic traces inside the body and transform into a natural life form.

At that point, they will naturally slip out of his control, and this is an unchangeable fact.

But having researched for so many years, Lin Suo also has many other methods, specifically targeting this situation, creating a backdoor!

Just like many Alchemy Witchcraft masters like to sign their Magic Tools, leaving a backdoor to prevent others from using their own creations against them.

It’s an unspoken but well-understood rule.

Similarly, genetic modifications can also have backdoors. With past experiences like the Beastmen Miner Groups, there’s experience to draw upon, making execution relatively smooth.

The next step is then to release to begin feeding in the Boiling Oil Sea. With genetic fine-tuning, all Devourers will possess an instinctual urge to feed on Settled Glaze, making a decent "radar" effect.

With the first batch of Pollution Devourers emerging from their shells using the Embryo Synthesis Method and starting to feed 24 hours a day, their bodies begin to expand limitlessly, developing into full bodies within half a month.

Though their weak strength might not stand a chance against anyone, their functionality is robust.

Once the number of Devourers reaches three thousand, Lin Suo begins subtly releasing some Devourers into the Boiling Sea through underground channels.

Officially starting his mining career.

And by utilizing the characteristics of the Divine Power Wish Machine, he prepares to establish a Teleportation Array connected to the Shadow Ruins deeper underground.

There surely isn’t any more Settled Glaze near the sea bottom; one must go deeper. As a precaution, Lin Suo instructs his Fire God Avatar to conjure a Fire Shield and open the seabed map.

His Water God Avatar is sent to the Dead Water Ruins, attempting to blend into some mining teams to gather information and experiences.

The area of Dead Water Ruins is several times larger than the expanded Shadow Ruins; the scale of the original city’s civilization must have been magnificent and vast.

Unfortunately, having fallen into the Abyss, it is now occupied by demons.

The number of demons is endless, with all kinds of dealings, killings, and frequent instances of eating one another upon disagreements.

Blending into a team heading to the seafloor for mining is quite simple.

Just spit at a local demon patroller and be sure to be immediately captured as forced labor for Demon Prince Haral’s private slave force.

Becoming a demon laborer.

Together with the Polluted Oil Demons, they search for Settled Glaze at the sea bottom. Apart from this legendary resource, there are actually many other types of ores at the bottom of the Boiling Oil Sea.

It’s considered a rich mining area.

Various levels of demons can be seen here; the team Water God·Rhein blended into consists of all sorts of miscellaneous demons.

Being demoted to a demon slave ironically made his surrounding environment a bit safer because he counted as the private property of the Demon Prince, giving him a stronger voice.

Ironic.GIF

"Hey, blue guy, what did you do to piss off that scum?"

"Me?"

Lin Suo’s avatar of Water God looked in disbelief towards what seemed to be speaking to him—the enormous buttocks.

This demon, with a body as big as an elephant, stood on four lizard-like legs and had a very short tail.

The upper body resembled a massive human fatty.

Dark purple skin, small demon wings on the back, no horns on the head, just a few sparse hairs, and a large mouth shaped like buttocks on the chest-abdomen area...

Gelos Demon Species, barely considered a type of advanced demon; they are accustomed to speaking through a mouth resembling buttocks, so Lin Suo finds them quite awkward.

"Yes, talking about you, Haral smells worse than my grandma’s chrysanthemum tea. I need to whack his ass with a donkey’s root, little blue skin, what did you do?"

"Uh..."

"Spit randomly?"

"Oh, poor fellow."

Water God Rhein’s cheeks twitched as he subtly moved away from the dark purple hand that had just picked his enormous teeth.

This Gelos Demon spoke quite eloquently, clearly a big shot who had mixed in the Material Realm, causing the other demons on the ship to give it a wide berth.

It spoke non-stop and incessantly. Since boarding, it had constantly cursed Demon Prince Haral and kept throwing threatening words around. Its power seemed to be around the Seventh Ring.

That’s Big Demon Level.

The ship sailing on the Boiling Oil Sea looked no different from a poor bamboo raft, yet it could safely navigate through such an extreme environment.

Lin Suo had reason to suspect that the Abyss Demon had mastered some kind of "Ragged Disguise Technology."

Honestly, it was quite mind-boggling.

Throughout the journey, he discreetly recorded the characteristics of the seas they passed, listening to other demons chatting and farting around, sorting out several rich mining areas that were currently being excavated.

He promptly relayed the information to his main body, directing the Pollution Devourer to steal from them.

Their underwater tools also very much matched the demonic style.

Just endure hardship until the body couldn’t take it anymore, then come up on their own, but the leading demon captain enforced a hard standard; at least one piece per person, weighing more than 10 grams, otherwise, there was no need to come back.

Just stay in the Oil Sea.

That job was done roughly.

A shabby "raft" carried more than thirty demons; every day, fleets like theirs totaled over ten thousand demons, and fewer than a hundred came back intact.

The mortality rate was maxed out.

Initially, Lin Suo couldn’t figure out why the death rate was so high, given that the Boiling Oil Sea had no native species, and the dangers weren’t that high.

As long as you leave on time, the damage caused by the Polluted Oil to the body could still be recovered. Only if you stay beyond the time limit, letting the pollution seep into the bones, then there is no return—completely beyond salvation.

With this confusion in mind.

Until the third day of the voyage, Lin Suo saw Big Fatty chew on a two-headed demon with two snake heads, right in front of him!

Oh boy, he had just felt that being Demon Prince Haral’s slave was safer than an average demon, but now, once they left the Dead Water Ruins, the demons’ true nature revealed itself.

Suffering? Not really!

Once out at sea, it’s all about power.

The demon captain also had a strength around the Seventh Ring, but he belonged to the Demon Prince’s Guards and relied on it to submit Settled Glaze. In the past, when a captain died, Demon Prince’s method of dealing was to kill the entire ship of demons.

Thus, there was still a bit of deterrence.

But not much, as captains died in large numbers every day, so these captains were also wise, basically minding their own business and only caring if the task quota was met.

If not, the only option was to flee.

Demon chaos and disorder exhibited to the fullest!

The other demons were not as strong as Big Fatty, so initially, there was some avoidance.

Lin Suo was curious and asked outright.

"Big Fatty, why don’t you eat me?"

Its reply went like this.

"You look a lot like a blue-skinned octopus I used to keep. It was a parasitic demon, massaged me every day, helping clear my intestines."

"But Haral killed it, so you..."

"Get lost."

Demon friendships come fast and leave fast.

Half a month into the journey, reaching the destination, of the over thirty demons on board, only twelve remained, including Lin Suo, the captain, Big Fatty, leaving just nine uninteresting Polluted Oil demons...

This was seriously messed up.

The miners had been eaten.

On the raft, Big Fatty lay sideways on a bone rocking chair, which he had made over the past few days using the bones of the eaten demons, looking quite comfortable.

"Don’t panic little blue-skin, nine oil demons are enough. If they weren’t so unpalatable, actually just three would suffice."

The captain lying on another bone lounge chair nodded in agreement, this guy was a bat-wing demon.

"Big Butt is right, let them go and mine. 10 grams is enough to settle it."

"Isn’t it 10 grams per demon?"

"That’s what’s said, but Settled Glaze is a rare resource, it’s not so easy to come by, getting 10g in ninety days is enough."

"Let’s get this straight, these nine oil demons are my personal property, anything extra is mine."

Lin Suo had no objections, this trip was purely for gathering information.

However, Big Fatty was displeased and turned hostile on the spot.

"Stinkin’ bat, I want half, my little bro gets twenty percent, we have two demons, taking seventy percent is reasonable."

"You’re farting!"

"My dermatitis isn’t even that valuable, why should you two?"

"I said I want it, will you give it?"

A fat and a thin, began arguing, saliva almost hitting each other’s throats, but no fight ensued.

Very slippery.

Honestly, along the way, these two "smart guys" contributed quite a bit of data to Lin Suo, giving him a further insight into Abyss Demons.

This was all very important research data.

Quarrel as they might, the two demons of similar strength ended up not fighting.

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