8. The "God's Contract" is too cheap, isn't it, hey, what about the ritual? - Happy Chinese New Year's Eve【15/15】
"Successfully completed an excellent quality and outstanding craftsmanship alchemy creation, wisdom enlightenment took effect, and alchemy skill proficiency X80 increased, currently Lv5+1."
In the cabin of the Black Pearl in the middle of the night, Mason looked at the slightly cloudy liquid in the golden cup in front of him, and a familiar prompt popped up in front of him.
At this time, more than half a month has passed since the last improvement of alchemy, but everything is as if it were a matter of course, and after exhausting the necessary penance, Mason once again ushered in a breakthrough in the skill level.
But he is no longer as agitated as he used to be.
Probably because although the time is not long, he has experienced too much to precipitate his temperament and make him more calm.
He pushed the smart frame on the bridge of his nose that exuded a cold breath, took out a spoonful of the liquid in the golden cup and put it in front of his eyes to look at it, and the information label quickly popped up:
An improved version of the Green Goblin Transformer
Quality: Excellent alchemy and outstanding craftsmanship
Item Effect: Gives the drinker a number of temporary enhancements within 48 hours after drinking, including [Super Strength/Max 9 Tons], [Super Reactive], [Super Endurance], and [Enhanced Regeneration].
The taker will be in a state of mental excitement when the shapeshifter is active, and will be immune to low-level sanity interference spells and illusions.
Note!
Although the metamorphic agent has been modified, it still has a greater stimulating effect on the pituitary gland and may give birth to a second personality after multiple drinks, but the symptoms can be alleviated through psychological intervention and drug treatment.
Maker: Mason Cooper
Item description: Take a sip to refresh your mind! Drink two sips and turn the world upside down! Drink three sips of ghost crying wolf howl! One more bite, tsk, hell report.
"Good job."
Mason finished reading today's equally neurotic item description with a blank face, and then picked up the transformation potion and poured himself a sip.
Although there are hidden dangers, for traditional alchemy, an alchemist who doesn't even dare to drink the potions he makes is definitely not qualified!
As the liquid with the scent of gardenia flowers entered his mouth, it brought a bitter taste, but it was quickly replaced by a strange feeling in his mind, which made Mason breathe a sigh of relief, and the back pain caused by continuous alchemy for several hours was relieved a lot.
At the same time, an exhilarating force surged out of the body.
He turned around and grabbed a seamless steel pipe on the workbench, leaving a clear fingerprint on it with the force of his five fingers, and then picked up a knife forged by Isu and slashed it on his skin, and the blood flowed out, but the bleeding stopped and healed in an instant.
He was very pleased with the effect of this transformation potion.
After Consus, the Isu ghost who specializes in biotechnology, gave suggestions for improvement, the side effects of this thing have been reduced a lot, and it only takes a while of observation before it can be used as a full-fledged war medicine rationed for the servant army.
Of course, the main members of Team K don't need this thing.
They have even better.
With a sense of satisfaction, a clear-headed Mason walked over to the window of the captain's cabin and pushed it open, letting the smell of herbs in the house dissipate a little.
After a short break of a few minutes, he pulled out another bottle of gravity and a bunch of engineering components that had been prepared in advance, intending to take advantage of the prototype mechanism of the "gravity well" to be made tonight.
However, just as Mason placed the gravitational reins into the electromagnetic generator in strict proportions, the hatch of the captain's cabin was suddenly pushed open.
In the sinister hours of five o'clock in the morning, a drunken Captain Jack Sparrow walks in with a lady in a cloak.
"Mason, I brought you a guest."
With a wave of manly dissatisfaction, Jack introduced:
"She insisted on seeing you, especially after hearing about our mission and your crazy plans, and she didn't want to delay for a moment, and I was forced out of bed by her."
"I'm busy."
Mason sat down at the workbench and said without looking up:
"Can you wait a little longer, or come back tomorrow, this strange lady of the gods?"
"No way!"
The uninvited lady lifted her hood and revealed a beautiful white face, very different from the human form of Colypso, the goddess of the sea, in Mason's memory.
But this is not surprising.
It would be too much if she, a true nature deity, couldn't even transform into a human form freely.
She stared at Mason and said in a dumb voice:
"It's a matter of life.
Not just for me, but for the world. I could feel the stars above me in the light of death, and the world beneath my feet was already trembling at the lament of the end times.
Every second counts.
It will directly determine whether everything in this world will end or be reborn, including me, of course. ”
"Well, you're starting to care about everything in the world now?"
Mason snorted, his dexterous hands continued to combine the components in his hands, and by the way, he adjusted the position of the liquid gravity, and said with a little teasing:
"You turn a blind eye when the hounds of the Stars spread the virus, you watch the Old World fall into hell, and you ignore the last survivors who fled to the sea in despair.
You have behaved for the past few months as if you have nothing to do with the world, and there is no value in the eyes of us creatures.
How did he suddenly become a good deity who was compassionate to the heavens?
Is it because the disaster that I had always thought was indifferent had finally spread to my feet, so I felt the fear from the bottom of my heart for the first time? ”
The captain pursed his lips and said:
"The invincible sea god finally realized the true meaning of cruel fate, but he was still not honest enough, and as soon as he talked to me, he was full of the world and the future, full of a familiar taste of 'painting a pie'.
Perhaps I should have acquiesced that you were planning to trick me? ”
"How dare you say that?"
Captain Jack, who was listening, cautiously glanced at Colypso's gloomy face, took another sip of wine to suppress the shock, and whispered to his captain:
"I keep words like these things in my heart."
"It's okay, Jack, Lady Colypso knows her situation very well, just as she was so patient with the pirate kings in order to return to the throne that she was so desperate as she was to return to the throne.
She has always been a person who knows how to judge the situation. ”
Mason shook his head and said:
"But now I'm going to ask you out, Jack. Stay outside the door, don't let anyone else disturb us, and by the way, send me a message to Barbossa, and I'll talk to them tomorrow morning. ”
"Roger."
Jack snapped his fingers and turned away, closing the door to the captain's quarters softly.
With only Mason and Poseidon left in the cabin, Colypso finally stopped talking about the world and the future.
She was silent for a moment and said:
"They're coming for me! Every swift tide warns me, and I wanted to survive the end of the day by hiding in the water, but at your behest, the damned pirates got their hands on the Trident.
They coerced me into helping them, but they didn't know that all the efforts they were trying were meaningless.
Like a bilge rat before the ship sank, he jumped up and down to do everything he could, trying to save the situation, driven by the fear of the unknown. But I could have stayed out of it.
It was you who made me."
"Staying out of the way? You're kidding? ”
Mason raised his head and looked at the angry and "aggrieved" female sea god in front of him with a foolish look, and he said:
"You are a lowly deity, Colypso, and your existence is based on the fear and worship of the seas of the sailors and pirates of this world.
You are a deity of nature, and nature cannot be separated from nature.
If the world is finished, do you still think you can escape death in every drop of seawater? If you're still holding on to this naïve idea of staying out of the way, then I don't think there's much to talk about between the two of us.
I need you to be a brave warrior for the next few days, but you're scared before you even go to war.
Why don't I kill you here and give you a good time, lest you be humiliated and tortured again after you are captured, what do you say? ”
Colypso fell silent.
She was speechless, and it was.
Even Will Turner, the captain of the ghost ship Dutchman, whom she cursed, could feel the march of the apocalypse, and she, the god of nature who relied on the world, could not feel it.
She just doesn't care and sees everything that happens in the mortal world as a cruel drama to please herself, after all, some past experiences have caused the female sea god to have an unfriendly relationship with humans.
From the dark of her mind, she even earnestly wanted to see the demise of these cunning things.
"What exactly do you want?"
Seeing that Mason was immersed in assembling those strange things and didn't plan to speak again, the female sea god had to take the initiative to ask:
"I don't hide my hatred and contempt for humanity, but I also know from Jack that you intend to save them and take them away from the apocalypse.
If you show faith, then maybe you can take a little bit of a God who can save me from nowhere? ”
Colypso didn't want to be so humble.
It's just that the keen perception brought by being born as a god rolls in her mind like a hot iron rod at this time, making her feel the coming of the crisis more clearly than the weaker humans.
She couldn't even restrain the spillover of fear herself.
After all, the biggest crisis she faced in her long life was to be sealed as mortal by a group of cunning pirate kings. But now, she had to face death
"It's not easy to save you."
Mason finally stopped assembling it, and he frowned as he looked at the half-assembled gravity well in front of him, as if he was experiencing some kind of mechanical problem.
While taking a handkerchief to wipe the lubricating oil on his fingers, he said to the goddess of the sea:
"For example, you first have to figure out what the upcoming destroyers are here for? They didn't do it to create a massacre, but to have a very clear goal.
The divinity in you, Colypso.
It is the source of all the supernatural powers that are the last remaining in this world, and can break the law and elevate a weak world to a level that does not belong to it.
The power of the sea, the true and only treasure of this world.
They won't stop without getting these things, and even if I can take you out of this world, you'll have to fade your divinity in advance.
Otherwise, you won't be able to pass through the escape door for mortals. ”
"Impossible!"
The humanoid Kolypso frowned suddenly, and the sound of waves rolling and lapping also sounded outside the window, representing the drastic thoughts of the female sea god.
She refused:
"I won't let myself go into weakness a second time, and it is enough to lose the humility and weakness of strength once."
"Then we don't have much more to say."
Mason shook his head and said:
"Not wanting to give up your power means you have to face the invaders and defeat them, which is not impossible, but you have to ask for too much to keep your power and escape.
I'm just an ordinary C-class person, I don't have a magic lamp in my hand, so naturally I can't give you everything you want.
But we can bypass this topic and talk about sub-level cooperation. ”
He looked at Colypso and said:
"We can stand with you against the invaders, the emotionless killing machines, the cleaners, who are also our enemies.
My teammates and I would love to see these guys buried here.
The more they die, the happier we get.
Jack, that braggart guy should have told you when we had a time with you that we had defeated them in another world, and we're not afraid to fight them.
We can help you take the pressure off and better navigate the storm to destroy.
But it's not gratuitous, Colypso. ”
Mason stretched out his voice, walked up to the goddess of the sea, picked up the wine bottle, poured a glass of wine for her, handed it to her, and said:
"You still have illusions that your world will survive, and that you will be able to rise again in the next era without humanity.
I appreciate your optimism.
I will also reserve this opportunity for you, that escape door has always had your place, but you know what it takes to get through it.
That's the last thing I can give you. ”
"Deal! What now? What should I do? ”
The goddess glanced at Mason, took what he handed and drank it down, and asked in a dumb voice.
"Harness the ocean, do what you are most adept at, Colypso, Lord Poseidon."
Mason pointed out the window and said:
"Bring in all the living who are still scattered on the sea, the sooner the better, I know you have the ability."
"Are you really going to save everyone? I thought Jack was bragging about drinking too much, thinking to myself how could such a saint be born in this world? ”
The female sea god was stunned for a moment, and casually covered her mouth and let out a strange laugh.
She looked Mason up and down and said:
"You know, I've seen that man crucified, and you really don't feel like a savior compared to him. But you are doing what only a savior can do
How arrogant! ”
"I'm not as great as you say."
Mason waved his hand and said with a humble face:
"It's like when I first entered this world, I told my teammates that I didn't like the end, and he taunted me like you that I couldn't resist the end.
I may indeed be no match for the fate of all things in ashes.
But I just want to tell you that I must mean something when I say I'm going to do something! No kidding, no trying, do your best, and die.
Do it or don't do it!
Didn't try this statement.
So, you're going to help me, right? Ms. Colypso.
At this time when we are all about to enter the unknown, you will give those you disdain a little help they desperately need, and repay their admiration and respect for you for thousands of years. ”
He watched as the goddess of the sea added some more wine to her glass, and he himself took another glass and clinked glasses with her, and said:
"The end is coming, and mortals have their own struggles in it, and gods like you should also return to your place, doesn't it say that God loves the world?
If you have the ability, why not really love them once? ”
"I'm not strong enough for mortals to fantasize about being a god."
Colypso pursed her lips, and the goddess drank all the wine in her hand, wiped her mouth, and said:
"Just because I'm just trying to grab you as a visible straw doesn't mean I'm going to like these bastards who hurt me so much."
"Don't be like that, the unhappiness of the past should be forgotten."
Mason shook his head and said:
"If you meet again in another world in the future, the fellows will have to take care of each other, and leave a piece of incense so that it will not be too embarrassing to meet later.
That's the choice of smart people.
So, I wish us a happy cooperation in advance, Your Excellency Poseidon. ”
A few minutes later, Colypso left the Black Pearl alone, and Mason didn't even go to see her off because he didn't want to waste his time, and he still had a gravitational device on hand that wasn't ready.
"That girl was kind of funny just now."
Like a bee smelling sweetness and a buzzing fly attracted to rotten fruit, he poked his head out of the meditation room above Mason's head and said to Mason:
"You say, if I'm going to develop some with her."
"Whatever, I won't tell Xiaozha."
Mason said without raising his head:
"Hurry up and familiarize yourself with that component, John, and now, all the little lives are in your hands."