The magical alchemy machine roared in the room along with the sound of gears turning.
But one step away, Wu Ming was observing carefully at this moment, checking Gargamel's notes from time to time, and doing some modifications and other work.
Seriously speaking, the subject of alchemy is really a bit elusive without the guidance of a mentor.
Although Wu Ming followed his notes and followed the steps meticulously, many things were still unexpected.
"Five minutes after the experiment started, Smurfette had convulsions all over his body. Ten minutes after the experiment started, accompanied by retching and trance, Smurfette became extremely uncomfortable!"
Wu Ming wrote down the data in his notes, then took two steps forward and came to the glass container holding the Smurf, wondering what went wrong.
In Gargamel's notes, each step is recorded in detail, so there should be no problem in copying the cat.
But looking at the two Smurfs struggling painfully in the glass container, as if they were going to die at any time. Wu Ming did not dare to continue. After all, he only had two Smurfs. If any one of them died, it would be very difficult for him.
It's an intolerable loss.
...click...
With a tap of Wu Ming's fingers, the mage's hand stopped the machine and sent the two Smurfs out of the glass container.
After leaving the glass container, the two Smurfs gasped for air and rolled their eyes from time to time.
Wu Ming held a magnifying glass in one hand and grabbed the Smurfs with the other. He observed the pupils of the two Smurfs, hoping to find out the reason for the failure.
It's just a pity that Wu Ming is not a real alchemist master, nor is he an experienced veterinarian.
After observing for a few minutes, he had to give up such a move, because it looked really stupid and made no sense.
"You two little guys, how are you feeling now?" Smurfs can communicate. Wu Ming couldn't figure out the reason, so he could only ask the question to the person involved.
Upon hearing Wu Ming's question, the two Smurfs looked listless and had no intention of answering.
Wu Ming waited for a few minutes but did not get an answer. He couldn't help but shook his head slightly and whispered: "Listen, two little guys. Since you can't resist fate, why did you choose to surrender? Think about it, my strength is not
You can resist, and I don’t want you to get hurt. Isn’t this the beginning of our good cooperation?”
"Pooh!"
Sister Smurf tried her best to slobber at Wu Ming, showing such disdain.
The smile on Wu Ming's face quickly disappeared. He gently wiped away Sister Smurf's spit with his fingers, and his brows inevitably wrinkled.
"It seems you haven't adapted to your status as a prisoner yet."
Wu Ming frowned, and while speaking, he stretched out a finger and tapped the nanny's head heavily.
An adult's finger was no less than a jade pillar when placed on Smurfette's body. After touching Smurfette's head, it even caused Smurfette to moan in pain.
Hearing the painful groan, Wu Ming did not choose to stop. Instead, he stretched out his hand with more interest and flicked Sister Smurf's head hard several times.
"Stop, stop quickly, you will kill her!"
Three snaps of his fingers in a row made Smurfette's eyes flash with stars, and even caused Smurfette to curse stupidly.
You know, the character traits of everyone in the entire Smurf family are reflected in their names.
Smurfette, as the only female member of the Smurf tribe, can be said to be the joy of all Smurfs, even Clumsy is no exception.
At this moment, seeing Sister Smurf being tortured like this by the bad guys, Benben was so blind that he wanted to bite off one of Wu Ming's ears.
"Why, this is unbearable!"
Wu Ming looked back at Benben, who was furious, shook his head and said with a smile: "Since you can't bear it, then cooperate with me. Now tell me, how do you feel inside, and why do you have such a big reaction?"
"No, I don't know. I just feel as if something is slipping away from me. This feeling makes me dizzy, as if I am going to die."
Benben's answer was very hasty, but when it fell in Wu Ming's ears, it made him feel fresh and new.
Something seemed to be slipping away from the body. It was obviously an alchemy machine, extracting the happy essence of the Smurfs.
In this way, it shows that the alchemy machine has not failed, and as long as the Smurf's own reflection is solved, the experiment can be a complete success.
"The experiment continues!"
Wu Ming quickly put the two Smurfs into the glass cover, turned the machine on again, and began to make some subtle adjustments.
Reduce the power by 30% to make the machine run more smoothly.
This time, as the speed of power output decreased, Smurf's condition improved, and there was no more retching and eye-rolling behavior.
Subsequently, Wu Ming continued to reduce some power and reduced the air pressure in the glass cover.
As time passed little by little, Smurf's whole body began to glow.
Wu Ming stared closely at the situation inside the glass cover, witnessing with his own eyes the blue light emerging bit by bit and slowly breaking away from the Smurf. Finally, driven by the air pressure, the blue light condensed into liquid water droplets, slowly but surely
into the transmission pipeline.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
Blue water droplets dripped into the vial that had been prepared, and as the light restrained, it condensed into a paste-like solid.
"Success, success!"
The blue essence is so charming, and the fluctuation of magic power it emits is even more difficult to conceal.
Wu Ming excitedly picked up the bottle and dropped a drop of it onto his hand.
"Hand of the Mage..."
...shua...
The hand of the mage appeared in front of Wu Ming, and what was even more amazing was that Wu Ming did not feel any magic power flowing away.
"This is instead of casting a spell!"
Wu Ming looked at the slightly darker color of the happy essence on his palm, and his eyes couldn't help but reveal a bit of obsession.
"No wonder, no wonder Gargamel is so interested in the Smurfs. It turns out that the blue happy essence extracted from the Smurfs can actually replace spell casting."
Just at that moment, the mage's hand, which was supposed to consume magic power, did not use Wu Ming's own magic power.
The moment the magic was activated, Wu Ming's magic power flowed back into his body without using it. Instead, the blue essence flickered, releasing part of the magic power to support the operation of this spell.
Incredible, really incredible.
Wu Ming didn't know if the happiness essence extracted by Gargamel himself had this effect.
If so, the value of these Smurfs may be far beyond imagination.
Even if there is any award in the magic world, Gargamel is enough to become the greatest wizard in the history of magic with this discovery. Even if he is not powerful himself, he is enough to open a new era of magic, allowing ordinary people to rely on these happy essences to
Contact and even use the power of magic.
"The magic power of one drop of Happy Essence is enough to support me using the Hand of the Mage ten times, or two transformations. Even two Smurfs can extract only a limited amount of Happy Essence every day, as long as I don't fight with people every day.
, is enough to cover up my lack of magic power. In this way, I can stop worrying about magic power issues before I become strong."
Stroking the bottle in his hand, Wu Ming's eyes flashed with joy, having solved what was arguably the most difficult problem at the moment.
In the initial stages of a magician's journey, insufficient magic power is a problem that all magicians need to face.
Speaking for Wu Ming himself, with his current magic power reserves, even if he uses the magic of Mage's Hand, he can only use it five times in a row at most.
You can convert it, five times of mage's hand consumes the same amount of magic power as one time of transposition.
In other words, if Wu Ming encounters some unexpected problems and uses the hand of the mage, he will no longer have the magic power to use transposition.
However, if he uses teleportation, his magic power will be exhausted and no magic will be used.
But now the situation has changed. With the happiness essence that can replace spell casting, Wu Ming does not need to consume his own magic power at all.
In this way, as long as the happiness essence is not exhausted, he will become the strongest magician, a mobile humanoid fort. Even, in some necessary situations, he can use some magic that his own magic power is not enough to support.
magic.
very good, very powerful.
Wu Ming couldn't help but whistle, with one foot in front and one foot behind, and danced Michael Jackson's moonwalk to vent his excitement.
...
...
"Ding dong...the one-month mission deadline has expired. Please select the bounty mission and enter the mission world."
The time of happiness is always short-lived. Just when the vial is about to be filled with the essence of happiness, thirty days pass in the blink of an eye.
The only difference is that this time Wu Ming is somewhat more confident.
I took a few deep breaths, put away the vial containing the essence of happiness, and had another hearty lunch.
After everything was ready, Wu Ming relaxed and lay on the sofa and clicked on the task menu.
"Hey, it's perfect this time!"
Wu Ming was surprised when he clicked on the primary mission menu.
On the menu, there were five tasks lined up, belonging to martial arts, supernatural, technology, magic, and the last doomsday tasks.
Five tasks belong to five categories. This phenomenon surprised Wu Ming for a few seconds.
After a brief surprise, the selection of tasks continued, and this time there were still not many options to choose from.
Supernatural people, scare yourself, be the first to give up...
Wu Ming is a martial arts type and has no love for martial arts. Wu Ming thought about it and still gave up...
"Technology!"
Seeing the technology category, Wu Ming paused briefly, and then shook his head slightly.
From the beginning, the technology category is the category with the fastest results, and the time to form combat effectiveness is much shorter than other categories in the same period.
But now Wu Ming has one foot on the road of magic, and it is time to move forward bravely.
During this period, he felt that he should work steadily. As for whether there is a possibility of combining magic and technology in the future, this will be discussed later.
If he gave up on science and technology tasks, Wu Ming would not even choose the final doomsday type.
With Wu Ming's current strength, although he has mastered the two magics of Mage's Hand and Transposition, his defense is still no different from ordinary people.
Generally speaking, the dangers involved in doomsday missions are second only to supernatural missions for ordinary people.
Even with Wu Ming's current financial situation, if he wants to survive a large-scale disaster, he will have to hide here and there like a mouse.
Therefore, instead of training yourself in the apocalypse, it is better to find a magical world to improve your strength.
"System, abandon the doomsday type and the other three tasks, and choose the final magic type."
Wu Ming made a quick decision and chose the magic journey for the second mission world to strengthen his current self.
"Ding dong...select the magical movie world, The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
Choose one mission mode...
Choose one, choose to join the side of justice, help the descendants of Merlin, kill the leader of the dark wizard, and destroy the witch Morgana Le Fay.
Option two, join the dark wizard Morgana's side and kill Merlin's successor and Merlin's disciple Balthazar.
Special reminder... There is no reward for this mission. You can join any camp and ask the other party for magic after gaining their trust.
"Interesting, I was not explicitly asked to join which side, but I was given two camps to choose from. What's even more interesting is that there is no reward for this mission, but an opportunity to ask the other side for advice!"
Wu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly and quickly analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the two camps so that he could choose the best choice.
Among them, on the side of the White Wizard, Balthazar is a disciple of Merlin, possesses the inheritance of the Book of Merlin, and holds the secret of immortality.
As for the dark wizard, Morgana tore the pages of resurrection magic from the Book of Merlin before she was sealed, and possessed a large amount of extremely lethal black magic.
In this comparison, if the development of the plot is not considered, joining Balthazar's side should be more beneficial than joining Morgana's side.
After all, Wu Ming currently has no one to resurrect. All he needs is the inheritance of the Book of Merlin and the immortality mastered by Balthazar.
On the other hand, if plot factors are also taken into account, then joining Balthazar will have to face the terrifying Morgana. Such a situation is definitely a narrow escape.
"Hey, that's not right..."
Wu Ming was suddenly stunned and thought of another possibility.
Why should we consider the plot? At the beginning of the plot, Morgana is in a sealed state. As long as he advances the time and starts acting before touching the plot, he can actually avoid trouble.
Even when the plot unfolds later, it has nothing to do with Wu Ming. Even the fight between the black wizard and the white wizard is a joke to Wu Ming. He can choose to hide instead of participating in it.
“I’ve watched too many Infinite Streams. When I saw the mission, I wanted to complete it. I almost got myself involved in it!”
After figuring out the key, Wu Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, glad that he noticed the word play here.
At this time, with the intention of not participating in the plot at all, Wu Ming made a quick decision in his heart.
"System, choose to join the White Wizard camp and go to the mission world..."