Chapter 81: The Beginning of the Secret Pattern Potion

After a moment, the butler Frasier entered the hall, came to Gunie's side, and spoke softly.

"Lord Gunie, this is a batch of materials that arrived at noon."

"Along with the proceeds from some of the extraordinary equipment you sold to the association during this time."

As he spoke, Frasier placed a black extraordinary storage bracelet before Gunie.

"Is there any life spring water?" Gunie raised an eyebrow.

"There is... but not much."

Frasier's tone always seemed unhurried.

"As you know, life spring water is only produced by the elves in the north at the Elf Life Tree deep within the Twisted Secret Realm."

"And those elves strictly control the flow of this life spring water into human territory."

"This makes life spring water extremely expensive and scarce."

"Mm."

Gunie nodded slightly, then opened the black extraordinary storage bracelet.

There were many things inside the bracelet.

There was a large quantity of materials for high-grade premium potions from this batch.

There were also various extraordinary herbs over a hundred years old that Gunie needed for experiments.

There was also a stack of gold pounds, and a small bottle of life spring water that was probably less than 50 milliliters.

Gunie turned his hand and took out the small bottle of life spring water.

After staring at it for a moment, Gunie nodded.

The amount didn't matter; the main thing was to have it.

With this small amount of life spring water, Gunie could recklessly use his own spring water for experiments.

After all, no one could know how much spring water Gunie used.

Putting away the life spring water, Gunie began to count the batch of gold pounds.

These gold pounds were paper notes with only one denomination: 10 gold pounds, mainly in purple-gold tones.

Although he had seen such gold pounds in the Extraordinary Daily before, holding them in his hand gave Gunie an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Since coming to this world, the gold pounds, silver dragons, and copper coins Gunie had encountered were all in coin form.

Having been used to paper currency in his previous life, Gunie was indeed a bit unaccustomed.

"With these gold pounds, transactions will be much more convenient."

Using coins for transactions had many drawbacks.

Small amounts were fine, but if the quantity was large and you didn't have extraordinary storage equipment, carrying them was troublesome.

Moreover, it was easy to be targeted by petty thieves.

Those petty thieves, though not extraordinary professionals, had trained some thieving skills and could easily steal a certain amount of gold coins through storage bags or backpacks.

At the same time, during large-scale transactions among extraordinary individuals,

transactions of tens or hundreds of gold pounds were not a big problem.

But when transactions reached thousands or even tens of thousands of gold pounds, coins were quite troublesome.

Now, with the appearance of these 10-gold-pound notes, both carrying and transactions were indeed much more convenient.

After a brief inspection of these 10-gold-pound notes, Gunie found over ten overt and covert anti-counterfeiting marks.

Touching the 10-gold-pound note, Gunie carefully felt it.

After about half a minute, a smile curled at the corner of Gunie's mouth.

"There's even some kind of mystical cipher. Truly, a different world has different anti-counterfeiting methods."

Gunie flicked the note lightly, and it rustled.

After counting, there were a total of four hundred and twenty-two notes.

Accumulating to four thousand two hundred and twenty gold pounds.

This included the proceeds from the extraordinary equipment of relatively fixed value that Gunie had sold in the Extraordinary Association, as well as the gold pounds he had earned from refining potions during this time.

As for those good items with fluctuating values, such as extraordinary storage equipment, Gunie still held onto them.

"These four thousand two hundred gold pounds plus the gold pounds I have on hand amount to about six thousand or so."

"Adding the good items I have, it's worth about ten thousand gold pounds."

"With this many gold pounds, I can enter the black market's extraordinary exchange and buy those good items." Gunie mused inwardly.

For regular supplies, Gunie would naturally buy them through the Extraordinary Association's channels.

But for items that needed to be kept secret, Gunie would not buy them within the Extraordinary Association.

Especially things like spells that could easily reveal his strength and identity, Gunie absolutely could not buy them within the Extraordinary Association.

After finishing the inventory, Gunie looked at the butler Frasier, who had not left, and said softly, "Is there anything else?"

"It's not a big matter. It's just that the Pioneer Group is extremely short of high-grade premium potions."

"So they want you to refine more."

Gunie smiled lightly upon hearing this.

"When has the Pioneer Group not been short of high-grade premium potions?"

"Nowadays, I already spend a lot of time every day refining these high-grade premium potions."

"I also need time to rest, cultivate, learn, and even do research."

"If they are not satisfied with the current amount of about a hundred bottles per day, then let's revert to our previous agreement of twenty bottles per day. You can convey my exact words to them."

Frasier paused for a moment, then nodded slightly. "I will relay that to them."

...

Night fell!

Beneath Shenjue Castle.

Apart from the "Grand Alchemy Laboratory" where everyone could refine potions,

Gunie also had a private alchemy secret room.

This private alchemy secret room was not highly equipped but was quite decent, much better than the potion secret room Gunie had on Old Stone Street.

At this moment, Gunie looked at the five materials laid out on the table.

Sixth-tier Nightmare Fragment.

Approximately 150-year-old "Soul Saliva Herb."

Sixth-tier Nightmare Dragon's Blood.

Approximately 150-year-old "Mystic Soul Eye."

Approximately 150-year-old "Soul Crystal."

All these materials were soul-type materials.

And they all contained considerable soul-type extraordinary characteristics.

The current goal of "Secret Pattern Potionology" was to refine these extraordinary characteristics—whether they were indigestible or even conflicting with human soul extraordinary characteristics—into a secret pattern potion that could be digested by humans and contained "extraordinary characteristics."

The goal was simple: to convert these extraordinary characteristics into ones that humans could absorb and utilize.

However.

Extraordinary characteristics determine a creature's rank within the extraordinary world system. How could they be so easily extracted, refined, and absorbed?

Take the common steppe wolf pack, for example. Their wolf bloodline contains certain extraordinary characteristics.

Among ordinary steppe wolf packs, there is a probability of a giant wolf being born.

Steppe giant wolves are much larger than ordinary steppe wolves and have greatly enhanced strength. Most importantly, the extraordinary characteristics in their bloodline are very strong.

A steppe extraordinary giant wolf can easily hunt over a dozen ordinary steppe wolves with few extraordinary characteristics.

This giant wolf is equivalent to an "elite" level existence.

But it is only equivalent to the alpha wolf, unable to become a wolf king.

When the wolf pack numbers over two or three hundred, or even more,

there is a possibility that a "wolf king" may emerge from among the elite wolves.

The wolf king's bloodline contains extremely rich "extraordinary characteristics."

Such powerful extraordinary characteristics bring about:

lightning-fast speed, fur as tough as black iron alloy steel needles, and defenses that even sharp black-iron-grade weapons struggle to break.

A terrifying bite force capable of crushing black iron alloy armor, and the unique super perception ability characteristic of "king-level" creatures.

Additionally, relying on its bloodline, the wolf king can also spontaneously comprehend some bloodline extraordinary skills.

If the wolf king, through some fortuitous encounters, accumulates even richer extraordinary characteristics and advances to become a "wolf emperor," also known as a lord, it can essentially rule over a large extraordinary wilderness area and become a regional overlord.

In the extraordinary wilderness, "lord"-level extraordinary creatures are few and far between.

Elite giant wolf, wolf king, wolf emperor.

The reason for such leaps in qualitative change is the richness of "extraordinary characteristics."

So, are extraordinary characteristics easy to extract and absorb?

The answer is clearly: the difficulty is suffocating.

Over the past few decades, especially in recent years,

with the theory of secret pattern potions being researched,

a large number of potion experiments have gradually followed.

Currently, the secret pattern potions that can be refined are only "useless secret pattern potions" where the positive and negative effects are about equal.

Now, Gunie has only just begun his research on secret pattern potions.

To make a breakthrough, it will obviously take some time of accumulation and沉淀.

Calming himself, Gunie began the preliminary experiments on the secret pattern potion.