Your Hall of Curiosities has added two new collectibles. Please click to view them.
Frankly, the rewards from this rewind were unexpectedly good. Not only did I gain two new collectibles for the Hall of Curiosities, but I also received a purple talent.
For the first time in a long while, Zhou Ning experienced the thrill of being overpowered.
Is this what it feels like to cheat? It's truly exhilarating!
Clicking on the Hall of Curiosities, two new items indeed appeared on the Infinite War shelf: [Tony Stark's Super Soldier Serum] and [Tesseract].
By clicking 'Claim' next to the items, he received 7 and 8 traversal coins respectively. Including the 12 traversal coins from the previous clear reward, this rewind actually resulted in a net gain of 7 coins.
It wasn't easy. Zhou Ning, who had always relied on topping up to keep the game running, finally experienced the joy of getting something for free.
Subsequently, two brand new item bonds appeared in the 'Item Bonds' section, and one bond was even already complete.
[Serum Collector (2/2): Super Soldier Serum + Tony Stark's Super Serum. Activating bond grants Agility +2, Stamina +2.]
[Infinite Gemstones: (1/6): Tesseract +??? +??? +??? +??? +???]
No wonder people who play mobile games love gacha. Collecting is truly an incurable human disease.
Closing the Hall of Curiosities, he then opened his inventory, selected the two new items, and chose to view them.
A panel popped up with a prompt:
[Tony Stark's Super Serum: Epic item. A serum developed and improved by Stark on Earth-8371. It is a semi-civilian product, with a milder effect and no side effects. It can be injected directly and enhances the user's metabolic function and all bodily functions, developing human potential. It does not conflict with any other strengthening serums.]
[Tesseract: The container for the Space Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones in the Endless War world. It contains a Space Stone, effective only in the Earth-83716 universe and some derivative universes. In this plane, it only has collection value.]
Zhou Ning:...He didn't expect the Tesseract, which he had placed high hopes on, to be such a useless item, and could be temporarily ignored. However, the effect of Tony Stark's Super Serum filled him with pleasant surprise. He would never target Tony Stark again; this guy was truly a genius!
To be able to strengthen oneself again after already being injected with the Super Soldier Serum was truly a unique approach.
Zhou Ning took out the serum from his inventory and injected it into his bloodstream without hesitation.
A sharp pain instantly spread throughout his body. Zhou Ning felt waves of palpitations, as if all the blood in his body was boiling, and two flames were colliding and expanding within him!
But the sharp pain came and went quickly, subsiding after about half a minute. The two flames in his blood had merged, and Zhou Ning could feel subtle changes occurring within him, his physical fitness noticeably strengthening.
Opening the game panel again, the notification messages had already flooded the screen. Among them was a notification that made him exceptionally happy.
[You used Tony Stark's Super Serum, which is merging with the Super Soldier Serum... Fusion complete, permanent attribute increase: Strength +2, Agility +3, Stamina +2!]
[You used Tony Stark's Super Serum, which is merging with the Super Soldier Serum... Fusion complete, permanent attribute increase: Strength +1, Agility +1, Stamina +4!]
...[Injection complete, you have gained a total of 7 Strength, 8 Agility, 9 Stamina, and 3 Spirit.]
[Your Elite Specialty [Extraordinary Physique] is upgrading... Upgrade complete, original specialty becomes [Extraordinary Physique (Advanced)]!]
[Extraordinary Physique (Advanced): Your physique has reached an extraordinary level, increasing main attribute bonus by 0.5 per level, passively increasing Health recovery speed by 4 points/second and Stamina recovery speed by 4 points/second.]
Zhou Ning couldn't help but be slightly surprised. If this specialty was already considered powerful before the upgrade, after the upgrade, it could only be described as overpowered.
The main attribute bonus not only increased from 0.35 to 0.5, but also gained a new effect: passively increasing Health recovery speed and Stamina recovery speed, equivalent to half a Dragon Bloodline, greatly improving his endurance.
What was even more impressive was that this main attribute bonus was retroactive.
Zhou Ning opened the panel and looked at his attributes.
Agility had an additional 2 points, while Spirit and Will each had an additional 3 points. At his current level 16, his Agility had already surpassed 50 points. Some Thieves at level 30 in his previous life didn't even have such high Agility. If he continued to develop, he would truly be rushing towards becoming a boss...
Due to staying up "playing games" until past 5 AM, Zhou Ning woke up at 10:45 AM on Thursday.
There was still some bread in the room. He ate a few pieces casually, put on his jacket, donned his hat, and hurried out of the apartment.
He had already decided what to do today last night.
Professor Wesley's batch of sagacity potions was due in a week, but since they were already made, there was no need to delay; he could just deliver them directly.
As for the afternoon, Zhou Ning planned to rent a horse-drawn carriage and tour along the Canal District and the Seton River, to see if he could find the blue-roofed house from the TV series.
Professor Wesley should be in his Alchemy Laboratory right now.
About half an hour later, he retrieved the 150 bottles of sagacity potion he had made from the Alchemy Laboratory, went to the laboratory in the Alchemy Building, and knocked on the door.
"Come in," Professor Wesley said.
Zhou Ning pushed open the door and found the laboratory filled with smoke, with numerous gears and parts scattered on the floor. Professor Wesley was busy with something, and an unfamiliar girl was assisting him. She must be the new assistant replacing him, and she was looking up at him, stunned for a while.
Zhou Ning glanced at her. The girl was quite innocent; her face immediately turned red, and she quickly lowered her head.
As he approached, Zhou Ning noticed some unassembled mechanical parts on the table. The mechanical parts were filled with countless complex patterns and obscure symbols of Alchemy arrays.
This must be a type of Applied Alchemy. Just from the number of mechanical parts, it was a huge project. Zhou Ning narrowed his eyes. He had only known that Professor Wesley was proficient in Applied Alchemy, but he didn't expect his skill to be so high.
"Please wait a moment," Wesley looked up and said.
"Okay," Zhou Ning simply stood by and observed.
Although his Alchemy had reached expert level, his specialization was entirely focused on Potionology, and he hadn't delved deeply into Applied Alchemy. Before long, a prompt actually appeared on his panel:
[Albert Wesley (Lv48) demonstrated [Applied Alchemy] to you. Your Alchemy proficiency increased by 17 points.]
...About 20 minutes later, Professor Wesley sighed lightly. A half-human-tall, somewhat clumsy mechanical puppet was completed. Its hands had been modified into a sprinkler and a broom, capable of cleaning under the drive of an Alchemy array.
"It's very smart, is it alive?" the girl asked curiously.
"No, it's just a puppet operating according to an Alchemy array. Creating life is a forbidden zone for gods," Professor Wesley said in a low voice, then took off his gloves and walked over to Zhou Ning, asking, "Strowell, is there something you need?"
"Sorry to disturb you, but the 150 bottles of sagacity potion you asked me to refine are finished," Zhou Ning said politely, lifting the potion box in his hand and placing it on the table.