Chapter 363: Help

After swallowing three drops of 'Amphitrite's Tears', Li Mochen walked into the alchemy room and began using the residual secret blood left by Delfinia, along with some magical materials, to forge a compass and a puppet.

Delfinia's abilities were extremely powerful. Though not yet a demigod, in a direct confrontation she alone could suppress more than three demigod-level experts.

After witnessing her ability to traverse the void barrier, Li Mochen began to regret. So after firing that shot, his killing intent did not diminish but grew even stronger.

Li Mochen knew he had underestimated this 'Void Night Lord'. Had he known this, he would rather risk retaliation from the Heteromorphs and let Hazel endure another passive 'Divine Descent' to kill her on the spot.

This would come at a cost, but it would avoid endless future troubles.

But now, what was done was done. No matter how much Li Mochen regretted it, it was useless. He could only do some remedial work. He had to have means to counterbalance Delfinia, to avoid being helpless when the next battle with the 'Void Night Lord' and the Heteromorphs came.

Fortunately, she had left quite a bit of 'secret blood', which contained the Void Night Lord's life essence and source information, giving him the confidence to deal with her.

You see, 'secret blood' is what is called life essence blood in the East. If it fell into the hands of someone skilled in 'voodoo' or 'curse arts', it could directly take a life.

In the past, Li Mochen had fought against a skilled curse mage in the south of the Primordial Dome Realm. That person, using only a drop of life essence blood, had cursed to death one of his senior brothers at the Return to Void stage.

Of course, Li Mochen did not have that ability. During the demonic calamity, although he had wiped out more than twenty sect forces colluding with demons and collected thousands of heretical secret methods and heterodox classics, he had not studied them carefully.

So these two items were: one compass capable of detecting the 'Void Night Lord's' location within a thousand miles, and one peachwood figurine that could interfere with her spellcasting.

Within a hundred kilometers, as long as he held this item and squeezed it, he could cause Delfinia Aldrich's 'Banishment' to fail.

It seemed of little use, but if there was another chance for a sniper shot, with just another 2 billion gold shields, he might have the opportunity to kill her. Li Mochen believed that the billionaire would be willing to pay for such a sniper shot.

After forging these two items, Li Mochen next took out a yellowish-brown crystal.

This came from a few months ago, when Li Mochen, along with Eliza, Jeremy Burt, and others, had harvested in the Dark World.

At that time, they had jointly killed the 'Black Scale Fire Dragon' and also obtained the intact corpse of the Mountain-Swallowing Python that the dragon had killed.

Among the spoils, the Mountain-Swallowing Python's beast crystal and its pair of eyes belonged to Li Mochen.

Originally, he had planned to use these items as a base to personally make a gift for Angela. Unfortunately, Li Mochen's alchemy skills had not seen much practice, so his level was limited, and he had never dared to start forging the magical device he had designed for Angela.

Not long after, he inherited a large amount of precious magical energy materials from his original parents. Although the beast crystal and eyes from the 'Mountain-Swallowing Python' were valuable, they were insignificant compared to those from lord-level magical beasts.

Over time, these things were almost forgotten by him.

But today, after seeing Angela's battle, Li Mochen had a new idea. The remains of this 'Mountain-Swallowing Python' might be used to create an item that could maximize Angela's illusionist abilities.

But for now, he still needed to design a blueprint and gather some materials—

After deep contemplation for a while, Li Mochen went through a teleportation gate to the Death Home magic tower and found Anthony, who was hard at work in his workshop.

"This is a genius idea!"

After Li Mochen drew a half-finished magical device blueprint, Anthony's eyes lit up: "If this thing can really be forged, it would be a dream treasure for illusionists, especially those on the 'Mental Manifestation' path. A-Mo, you want me to help complete the design of this device, right?"

"Not just the magic array design, but also some of the key components. My current abilities are insufficient. I know you have many skilled alchemists under you."

As Li Mochen spoke, he took out the 'Mountain-Swallowing Python's' beast crystal and eyes: "I also need your help with materials, including processing and design fees. I can pay you at market price."

"Alright, I'll charge you at cost. I'm also very interested in this design of yours. I look forward to seeing the final effect."

Anthony glanced at those items and then shook his head: "Forget your materials; I can provide better ones. For a magical device like this, you need at least level 20 materials, otherwise it would be an insult to your creativity. I happen to have the bones, claws, and even the dragon soul of a level 3 lord black dragon. How about 80 million gold shields? That's what I paid for it back then, and it counts as part of the loan I'm giving you."

80 million gold shields?

Li Mochen's heart ached, but he agreed very readily.

He knew that someone like Anthony would not bother to cheat him. If he said it was the purchase price back then, it was definitely that, not a single coin more. If he wanted to haggle, he could, but it would seem classless and make him look cheap.

Li Mochen could see that this billionaire wanted to befriend him, and he himself, though putting on a cold exterior, also had the same idea of befriending this genius.

At level 15, under thirty years old, already mastering the mysteries of divine authority—this guy's talent and comprehension far surpassed his own. And the various resources and channels this billionaire controlled were also things Li Mochen coveted greatly. How could he lose the big for the small?

Moreover, from what he knew, the lowest price for a legendary black dragon corpse was at least 400 million.

In this world, magical materials below level 11 were very cheap due to the large-scale farming of various magical creatures. But above level 11, the prices rose geometrically.

For example, the basic Sacred Oak potion, though produced in small quantities, cost only 50,000 gold shields. But the advanced Sacred Oak potion Li Mochen had asked Anthony for cost at least 50 million gold shields, a difference of nearly a thousand times!

Of course, this was also related to the latter's effects. An average level 10 magic professional, with just one bottle of advanced Sacred Oak, had over a 70% chance of directly advancing to the Outlaw level.

And a legendary black dragon corpse, in the hands of a necromancer, could be used to create a lord-level 'Skeletal Dragon'.

The lord level is above level 20 and below legendary. Since most beasts, including dragons, have limited intelligence and cannot actively purify their own magic and source power like humans from a young age, their levels have five additional tiers.

These five tiers of beasts are usually called lord-level. They possess massive bodies and life energy, and their strength is a hundred times greater than 'Outlaw level', only slightly weaker than 'Legendary'.

So regarding Anthony's offer, aside from heartache, Li Mochen's feeling was only 'rich bastard'. He had just wanted to give his girlfriend a small gift, but this guy had directly elevated it to the level of making a holy artifact.

But that was fine; too cheap a gift would be hard to offer, and he felt it wouldn't be enough to repay Angela's help.

After all, the object of his affection was the princess of the Mitchell Consortium, which put some pressure on him.

At this moment, Li Mochen also looked at an exoskeleton armor standing behind Anthony.

Since it was still unfinished, he could directly see the armor's abdominal cavity, and then his mind stirred: "Is this a relic of the Moshra? Are you planning to use this as the energy source for the Light Demon No. 5?"