Chapter 33

Ren had a deep understanding of the hardness of gold-eating ants. In that shop in the afternoon, the shopkeeper killed ants with a hammer, as if he were forging iron. It took several hits to kill one.

The owner of the shop is just an ordinary person, killing a few gold-eating ants in a row doesn't have much strength.

Ren's physical fitness and strength are of course much stronger than ordinary people, but there are no tools at home, and he has never cooked before, and he doesn't even have a kitchen knife.

You can't kill gold-eating ants with your bare hands.

In desperation, Ryan decided to go out and buy a tool and come back.

That Hogan couldn't just find him during this time, right? If it's really that unlucky, then I admit it myself!

He remembered that there was a blacksmith's shop on the next street, not far from the apartment, and it had just been transformed into a mechanic's shop not long ago, selling all kinds of tools, there should be some suitable ones.

After hiding the gold-eating ants, Ren quickly went downstairs and crossed the street to find the craftsman's shop.

Because it was getting late, there were no customers in the craftsman's shop, only a man who looked like a boss was sitting behind the counter, guarding the things in the shop. Looking at the boss's attire, the canvas apron was covered with oil stains, his waist was big and his arms were round, and his appearance was slovenly. He should be a mechanical craftsman.

A mechanical craftsman is not an extraordinary profession, but an ordinary person who has mastered mechanical technology, similar to the combination of a mechanic and a blacksmith in the previous life.

Of course, most of the craftsmen in the empire are inextricably linked with the Mechanical Union.

The mechanical craftsman seemed very tired. When Ren came in, he just glanced at him and had no intention of getting up to entertain him.

Ren glanced around the shop and found that there were a complete range of weapons here.

All kinds of long swords, short swords, two-handed swords, broadswords, rapiers, stabbing swords, and half-handed swords. There are more than a dozen kinds of swords alone, as well as axes, daggers, shields, bows, gloves, and armor for defense. , chain armor, and of course there are some tools in daily life, such as kitchen knives, hammers, scissors, etc., which covered several walls, and some were even piled up on the table for guests to try.

Ren didn't want to waste time and went straight to the hammer weapon.

Gold-eating ants are insects with strong defenses. Swords can only do limited damage to them, so they still need blunt weapons, and the most suitable one is a hammer.

It's also a coincidence that Ren's nickname in his previous life was "Hammer".

His name, Shi Jingzhen, was chosen by his grandfather who participated in the war. His original intention was to pacify the frontiers. Because of the homonym for "hard hammer", he was nicknamed him since he was a child. His classmates and friends called him that, and he was used to it.

When he participated in a metalworking internship in college, Ryan even made a hammer with his own hands, and he couldn't put it down.

At that time, several roommates liked the hammer so much that they brought it back to the dormitory for storage, so they often joked and thanked him for not killing him...

For a while, Renn missed those roommates a little bit, but it is a pity that he will never see them again.

Putting aside his sentimentality, he casually picked up a hammer and swung it a few times, feeling uncomfortable.

"Too light."

This hammer is not a combat weapon, but an everyday tool. It may only weigh two or three pounds, and holding it in your hand is as weightless as holding a straw.

There is also a hammer as a weapon, which is called a war hammer in Ellenus, and Ren just shook his head and gave up after looking at it. These warhammers are too heavy. The hammer head alone is as big as a head. It is obviously used by berserkers or iron guards. They can be held easily, but they cannot be swung.

He was in a hurry to go back, so he randomly chose an octagonal hammer.

This kind of hammer is exactly the same as the one used on the construction site in the previous life, which is what people often call a sledgehammer, except that the hammer head is heavier, about 30 pounds, and the hammer handle is about one meter long. One layer of shock-resistant leather.

Ren held the sledgehammer in his hand, as if he heard a magical voice shouting in his ears: Eighty! eighty! eighty……

The hammer is not expensive, only three silver crowns.

Wren paid and left, took the hammer and went back to the apartment, nothing happened.

He thought about it, hammering and killing gold-eating ants in the apartment, the movement was too loud, and it would affect others. So I went downstairs with two glass jars, and with the voice of all things, I avoided everyone and entered a remote corner behind the apartment at night, spread a thick cloth on a stone, and poured out a gold-eating ant.

This ant has no elements, it's just for practice.

The gold-eating ants have been soaked in the potion for a long time, and have not eaten, so they are already half dead.

Ren raised the hammer with both hands, and after aiming, he hammered it down with all his strength. With the assistance of the mobile phone's gyroscope, all the strength of the whole body was concentrated in the hand, passed to the sledgehammer, and hit the gold-eating ant with heavy precision.

With a muffled bang, the gold-eating ants turned into a mass of rotten meat.

Ren took out the soul stone and put it close to the ant's body, a soul flew out quickly and injected the soul stone. Even though it was very dark, he could clearly see that the demon soul in the soul stone was just a mass of darkness without any elements.

He put down the soul stone, and said in his heart: "The critical time has come."

Carefully pour out the gold-eating ants with three elements. It is obviously in better condition than the last one, and it starts to crawl immediately, but at a slower speed.

Ren was a little nervous, this gold-eating ant was really different.

He spat a little into his palms, rubbed his hands a few times, raised the hammer and smashed it down again.

boom!

After the muffled sound, a counter-shock force came from Ren's hand, the jaws of the tiger felt a little numb, and the hammer was bounced away. The gold-eating ant was hit so hard, but it didn't die. It's just that the body was a little bit torn, and the six iron-like legs scratched white marks on the stone, splashing sporadic sparks.

"Damn it, it's so hard!"

Ren couldn't believe it. Seeing that the gold-eating ants were moving again, he quickly swung the sledgehammer again, and while hitting hard, he said silently: "Eighty, eighty, eighty..."

It seemed to be a random smash, but under the control of the gyroscope, each hammer hit the gold-eating ants precisely, without wasting any power. Its body was slowly deformed, its legs and upper limbs were separated, it was hit with more than a dozen hammers in a row, and finally it was smashed into a flat corpse with a puff.

Ren quickly threw away the hammer and used the soul stone to absorb the demon soul.

In his expectant eyes, a demon soul flew out, quickly filled the white crystal in his hand, and turned into a dark and deep black gemstone. You can vaguely see three elemental runes flashing away. If there is no soul With the eyes of the eye, it is difficult to detect their existence.

"Successful!"

Ren clenched his fist and almost jumped up in excitement.

This gold-eating ant will become his first demon soul, taking a solid first step on the road to fighting wizards!

After being happy, Ren put away the soul stone, only to find that the cloth on the ground had been smashed into tatters by himself, and the stone underneath was also cracked.

He hurriedly cleaned up the scene, threw the corpses of the two gold-eating ants into the sewer, and returned upstairs with the hammer.

Taking all the money, Ren left the apartment overnight.

Instead of returning to the Basil Hotel, he found an ordinary small hotel in Honiton District, which is across the river from the Silver Star District. He listened outside for half an hour to confirm that there were no Transcendents inside, and then opened a room. live in.

It wasn't until the middle of the night, when it was almost dawn, that Ren fell asleep peacefully.

After sleeping until almost noon, Ren woke up refreshed, ate a delicious meal to fill his stomach, and then boarded the carriage to Violet House.

As long as today is over and you become an extraordinary person, you don't have to worry about it anymore.

The carriage arrived smoothly.

As soon as Ren got out of the car and went in, he saw Talini was already waiting. She smiled and greeted her, "Mr. Ren, good afternoon."

"Ms. Talini, can the ceremony be held today?"

"certainly."

Ren nodded, and handed over the more than 60 gold shields he had prepared to the waitress at the front desk, and then followed Talini to the back of the Violet House and entered a spacious room.

Unexpectedly, the half-elf Viola was also inside. She was still wearing a simple and elegant robe, with a graceful figure.

Just standing there, she is like a ray of light, which cannot be ignored.

"Ms. Viola." Ren greeted, with a strange look in his eyes.

The soul transformation ceremony can be carried out by one person alone, but it is best to have an experienced host, and an extraordinary person who can cast spells is the best, and Talini is very suitable. It was agreed yesterday that Talini will help me with this soul change. If I want a better host, I have to pay more.

Viola smiled, and said like a spring breeze: "Mr. Ren, Talini is still presiding over the ceremony today. I'm just here to watch, don't you mind?"

"No." Ren was still a little puzzled.

As the owner of the Violet House, Viola has seen countless soul transformation rituals. What's so interesting about it?

Considering that after the ceremony, I will discuss with her about purchasing the World Tree Seed, so I can only suppress my doubts.

This room is specially used for the soul transformation ceremony, and there is a platform like an operating table in the middle, with a large number of runes engraved on it, forming a complete magic circle.

Next to the rune table was a table with a few things on it, namely a syringe, a tube of Soul Eater Potion and a white scroll.

"Mr. Wren, if you're ready, lie down."

Talini spoke in a calm tone, trying to create a relaxed atmosphere and reduce the pressure on Ryan.

"OK."

Ren took off his coat and threw the coat aside casually. In fact, it contained all his belongings, including all the money and the demon soul of the gold-eating ants.

He lay on the rune table with only his shirt on. Talini tied his hands, feet and waist with a tough belt, and explained: "Because the ceremony is too painful, in order to prevent you from struggling and exhausting your energy, or falling from the rune table, you must be immobilized." live."

Ren hesitated for a moment, thinking that he didn't need to fix his body, and after being tied up, he was really at the mercy of others.

He wanted to refuse, but in the eyes of the soul, Talini and Viola didn't have any malice, so he accepted.

After being fixed, the whole body cannot move, only the head can turn left and right.

Talini picked up the scroll and uttered a short incantation. The scroll unfolded immediately, and pale golden characters flew out of it, sinking into Ren's forehead.

Being blessed with spiritual protection, Ren felt as if his heart had become calm, with a special sense of security, and it seemed that nothing had changed.

Immediately afterwards, Talini activated the rune table with a magic energy crystal.

With a buzzing sound, Ren felt a slight heat under his body, and an indescribable energy enveloped his body, making him more sensitive to the outside world.

Talini drew the soul-devouring potion into the syringe and said seriously, "Mr. Ren, it's time to start."

Ren nodded slightly.

Then, Talini inserted the needle of the syringe into his neck artery. Her hand was very steady, and she did not inject all of it at once, but slowly pushed in, and stopped after injecting a third of the medicine.

Ren has already learned about it, and the weight of a soul-eating potion is about 30 milliliters.

In the world of Ellenus, the volume of one milliliter is equivalent to one "girun", and it only takes ten gigaillons of potion to complete the initial soul transformation, unlock the ability to fuse demon souls, and become a superhuman.

But this is only the minimum requirement. If you want to become a meditative spellcaster, you must continue to inject potions after completing the initial soul transformation.

Every time five gigalons of potions are injected, the soul transformation will go further.

The threshold for a spellcaster is to inject fifteen gigalons of soul-devouring potion, and if you reach twenty gigalons, you are eligible to become a wizard, as well as any extraordinary profession.

Further upwards, every additional Gillen potion used is a difficult improvement.

Reaching twenty-five gigalons, even among wizards, is a top talent, which is rare in ten years.

The more potions injected, the more thorough the soul transformation and the higher the talent.

Of course, the premise is that you can't pass out during the soul transformation ceremony, and continue to inject medicine after losing consciousness, even if it's just a little bit, it will kill people.

In fact, there is an upper limit to injecting medicine, and it can only be used at most 30 gigalons, which is the limit of human beings. Any more would be counterproductive, and the potion would become truly poisonous.

Therefore, each soul-devouring potion is thirty gigalons, but almost no one can use it up.

Talini followed the steps and first injected Rennes with ten gigalons.

In the next second, he felt a chill hit his forehead, and a burst of unspeakable pain broke out. He subconsciously clenched his teeth and didn't yell out. At the same time, it seemed that something was melting his brain, bit by bit, producing a wonderful effect.

"Fuck, this is really painful!"

Ryan persisted for a few minutes, feeling that it was meaningless for him to suffer so much, so he turned on the music player, and a beautiful song sounded in his head.

"A big river has wide waves, and the wind blows the fragrance of rice and flowers on both sides..."

Immediately, the pain subsides.

In the eyes of Viola and Talini, Ren's expression eased, as if gradually getting used to the pain.

The two looked at each other in surprise, but didn't speak for fear of disturbing Ren.

Twenty minutes passed in the blink of an eye. According to the normal ritual process, the initial soul transformation has been completed. If it is a Transcendent with relatively ordinary talent, he has reached the limit at this moment, and it is difficult to persevere, so he can only end the ceremony.

However, Ren looked relaxed, opened his eyes and said, "Inject another five gigalons."

Talini immediately complied.

From yesterday's soul test, she knew that Ren could inject at least twenty gigalons, so she was not surprised at all.

Ren's face turned pale, but he was still calm.

Ten minutes later, he said again: "Inject another five gigaliters."

Talini obeyed.

She carefully observed Ren's changes, and had injected a total of 20 Jihua Soul-eating Potions. As long as Ren supported it, he could become a wizard.

However, Ryan still seemed to be very relaxed, which made her feel incredible.

Another ten minutes passed, and Ren said for the third time: "Continue, it's still five gigalons."

This time, Talini hesitated a little. After 20 gigalons, every extra dose of injection is extremely risky, and the safest way is to inject bit by bit.

But Ryan insisted again and again, so she had to inject.

Viola next to him couldn't hold back anymore, and approached the rune table, watching the progress of Ren's ceremony.

According to the usual ritual, at this time Ren was suffering unimaginable pain and was on the verge of collapse. Even his thinking was blurred, and his body struggled uncontrollably.

But Ren lay there very comfortably, except for a little shortness of breath, it seemed like he was taking a nap!

Viola's eyes were full of surprise, and she even carefully checked the soul-devouring potion in Tarini's hand, wondering whether she had taken the wrong medicine or the dosage was wrong.

However, how could Talini make such a low-level mistake, there is no problem with Soul Devouring Potion.

As time passed by, Renn, who was in the ceremony, looked very relaxed, but Viola and Talini, who were watching, were even more nervous.

Under their shocked gazes, Ren opened his eyes and said clearly, "Use up all the potions."

Viola couldn't help asking, "Ren, are you sure?"

Being able to inject thirty gigalons and completely complete the soul transformation ceremony is called a perfect soul transformation.

Such people only exist in legends, each of them is a rare rare genius in a hundred years, and they are all famous figures, and several of them are holy soul wizards of the Supreme Council!

If Ren also achieves perfect soul transformation, once it is spread, it will spread throughout the entire empire!

Ren knew what this meant, and he looked very calm, and replied: "I have no problem, Ms. Talini, give me the injection."

Talini's hand was originally steady, but when she heard Ren's request, she trembled with excitement.

She has presided over hundreds of soul transformation ceremonies and met several geniuses, but she never thought that she might witness the birth of a perfect soul transformation with her own eyes.

"let me."

Seeing that Talini's hands were trembling, Viola took the syringe and steadily injected the last five gigalons of medicine into Ren's neck artery.

Then, the two of them stared at Ren, even breathing lightly, and clenched their hands unconsciously, with sweaty palms, for fear that Ren would die suddenly on the rune table in the next second.

In this case, it would be a pity.

The last ten minutes seemed to be a torment for the two of Viola. It seemed that they were performing the soul transformation ceremony, and the time became extraordinarily long.

On the contrary, Ren's condition is fine, but his limbs tremble slightly, and his chest rises and falls smoothly.

Finally, under their nervous and expectant eyes, Ren completed the soul transformation ceremony. He opened his eyes, with a smile on his face, and said softly, "Can you untie it for me?"