Alan dragged the big fish back to the underground warehouse.
There were large commercial freezers in the warehouse, but the power was cut off.
Alan doesn't have the technology to rebuild a power station, but he can cast a spell to create a classical refrigerator.
Cut the edible fish meat into pieces and stack them neatly in the cold storage, then put ice cubes in there as well.
On top of the ice, place a thick blanket.
Every other day, Alan would cast a spell to recreate the ice.
Using this primitive method of ice storage, the fish can be kept from spoiling for at least two weeks.
In fact, with his antiviral constitution, it doesn’t matter if he eats stale fish.
The main purpose of refrigerated preservation is for taste and psychological effects.
Even in difficult situations, he did not want to easily give up his civilized lifestyle.
In this way, Alan concentrated on practicing in the underground warehouse.
After eating the mutant fish meat for a week, the purity of the ogre's bloodline increased to 6%!
This is a pleasant surprise!
Eating the flesh and blood of mutant creatures can purify the bloodline.
Knowing this rule, Alan finally saw a glimmer of hope on his path of cultivation!
…
That night.
Alan woke up from his sleep.
Through the crack in the door, the sound of fighting could be faintly heard.
Alan stood up and walked to the door.
Put your ear to the crack of the door and listen.
From the distant street came the sound of a woman's screams and roars.
There was also the dull sound of sticks hitting each other and the crowing of roosters.
Hearing the noises, Alan conjured a picture in his mind.
An impatient old lady was waving a stick and cursing, trying to drive a rebellious rooster back to its roost.
This lifelike picture looks particularly terrifying when placed in the ruins of a town filled with mutant creatures.
It was past midnight and Alan's magic pool was full.
Cast the "Wish" spell to simulate the "Delayed Advanced Invisibility Spell".
After becoming invisible, he quietly opened the security door and walked out.
As expected.
On the moonlit street, a woman holding a wooden stick was fighting a rooster.
Both the woman and the rooster are excessively large and show mutant characteristics.
The naked curly-haired woman with dark and shiny skin contrasted sharply with the pale moonlight.
At first glance, she looks like a female hill giant.
Alan looked at her face carefully before confirming that she was a human.
At least it was once human.
The five-meter-tall height and bloated body are the result of the crazy proliferation of mutant cells in the body.
The rooster opposite had a fiery red comb and was covered in gorgeous dark golden feathers. It was only half the height of the giantess.
Compared to the female giant who relied on brute force and swung a stick recklessly, the mutant rooster's fighting skills were obviously superior.
He ran and stopped, jumped up and down among the ruins of the building until the giantess was exhausted and gasping for breath, then he turned around and gave her a provocative clucking cry.
The giantess's brain also seemed to be eroded by mutated cells, and she lost the rationality that a human should have.
The bloodshot eyes revealed naked animality.
He foamed at the mouth and uttered a string of incoherent curses.
Holding the big stick, he rushed towards the mutant rooster again.
Suddenly, he stepped into a mud puddle and fell down with a thud!
The stick flew out of his hand.
The giantess groaned, supported herself on the ground with her hands, and struggled to get up.
Just at this moment, the mutant rooster stretched out its neck and let out a long, magical cry at her.
BANG!!
The sound waves that came out of the rooster's mouth turned into a shock wave, tearing through the night sky and hitting the giantess directly in the face.
Suddenly, his skin was torn apart and blood gushed out.
The giantess's face was a bloody mess.
He covered his face with his hands and let out a miserable scream.
The mutant rooster took the opportunity to pounce on her and pecked her face wildly.
At the same time, he used his chicken claws, which were as sharp as daggers, to cut open the belly, and the intestines flowed all over the floor.
Alan watched from the sidelines, slightly moved.
The shock wave emitted by the mutant rooster is extremely powerful.
To use magical martial arts as an analogy, it is equivalent to a thunderous blast wave.
It seems that organisms infected with mutated cells have a certain probability of evolving supernatural abilities.
For example, the mind-piercing power of the strange fish in the lake and the sonic impact of this mutant rooster.
As for the female giant who was severely injured by the mutant rooster, she didn't seem to have evolved any superpowers except for her brute strength.
His intelligence has degenerated to a level even lower than that of an ogre, and he was fooled around by a chicken.
In this fight, the mutant rooster, which had already gained an overwhelming advantage, jumped away from the giantess and hid behind a pile of building ruins.
Just as Eren was wondering, the bloody head of the female giant suddenly exploded with a bang.
Then, the giantess 's abdomen swelled rapidly.
It exploded with a rumble like thunder.
The internal organs turned into blood plasma and minced meat, splattering all over the sky and drifting away with the wind.
Seeing this scene, Alan immediately recalled the corpse in the underground warehouse.
Mutated creatures... at least mutated humans, generally have the characteristic of self-destruction when they are near death.
The mutant rooster is well aware of this characteristic.
So when the female giant was on the verge of death, she ran to a safe place far away and hid.
Only after the prey exploded and the crisis was over, would it hold its head high and slowly return to the broken corpse to enjoy dinner.
Alan watched the mutant rooster eat.
He secretly evaluated how likely he was to kill the monster if he took action.
The assessment
With his current magical reserves, he can only perform the "Prayer" once a day.
Today's spellcasting opportunity has been spent on invisibility.
Without the help of spells, Alan would not have much chance of winning in a direct fight with a mutant rooster that was over two meters tall, strong, agile, and able to spray "shock waves".
After taking one last deep look at the mutant rooster, Alan maintained his invisible state, returned to the underground warehouse, and locked the security door.
Put aside distracting thoughts and continue to meditate and practice.
Two days later.
Early in the morning, Alan quietly opened the door, stood in the shadow of the corner, and observed the movements outside.
On the streets there were still traces of blood from the fight the night before.
There was no trace of the giantess's body.
With the mutant rooster's size, it is not possible to eat the entire giant female.
It may be dragging the leftover prey back to the nest as backup food.
It is also possible that after the mutant rooster had its fill and left, other mutant creatures ate the remaining remains.
Now, Alan has a deeper understanding of the dangerous creatures in the ruins of Kang Town.
When walking outside, you have to be extra careful.
There is still a lot of reserve grain in the underground warehouse.
Alan didn't have to go out to find food to fill his stomach.
The reason for returning to the lakeside was mainly to hunt strange fish and purify the giant bloodline.
Today Alan was not in a hurry to fish, but explored around the lake.
He hadn't cast any spells in the past two days.
The accumulated magic power is used to simulate the "trigger spell" and "teleportation spell", and chain them to oneself.
This insurance policy is what enables him to dare to go out and explore.
In case of a monster attack, the "trigger technique" would be automatically activated, chain-activating the "teleportation technique" to ensure that he could escape to the underground warehouse .
Not far away, Alan noticed a large group of pink umbrella-shaped creatures floating on the lake near the shore.
From a distance, it looks like a blooming lotus.
Of course, Allen knew that there were no lotus flowers in the Finger Lakes.
Those floating pink creatures are actually a group of moon jellyfish.
To be precise, it is a mutated moon jellyfish.
The size of each one has increased by at least ten times.
Alan picked up a stone and threw it into the lake.
Plop!
A small wave splashed on the calm lake surface.
The mutant jellyfish was frightened and shrank and floated.
The crown-shaped head stimulates a circle of bright electric light!
Crackling!
The surface of the water was flashing with lightning.
Alan stood on the shore and watched, as if he understood something.
These mutated jellyfish have evolved the ability to discharge electricity.
Suddenly, Alan came up with a good idea.
Open the super-limit area, covering the waters where the mutant jellyfish live.
Stimulate the "source of energy" and quietly absorb electrical energy from the water.
Using this method, Alan can convert electrical energy into magic power and quickly replenish the dried-up magic power pool.
The electrical energy that cannot be absorbed by the magic pool is stored in the "energy source".
It is released during meditation to enhance the efficiency of practice, just like using electric magic stones to assist practice.
Every half an hour, Alan threw a stone into the lake, causing the frightened mutant jellyfish to discharge electricity collectively.
Hide yourself on the safe shore and absorb electrical energy calmly.
This process is repeated many times until the mutant jellyfish no longer discharges in response to stress.
Floating on the water exhausted, as if drained dry.
Alan found a large travel bag in the underground warehouse, which he used to carry various tools when he went out.
He took off his backpack, took out the rope with an iron hook tied to it, and threw it into the lake.
Using the same fishing method as before, the mutant jellyfish close to the hook was frozen in an ice ball and dragged back to the shore.
Alan knew that the moon jellyfish was poisonous.
After mutation, will the toxicity increase significantly?
With this question in mind, he activated the "Origin of Annihilation" to decompose the ice shell that wrapped the mutated jellyfish.
How to extract toxins from the frozen mutant jellyfish?
For ordinary people, this is a technical challenge.
But for Allen it was easy.
Although he no longer has bone spurs and venom glands, he still has the "Wish" spell. By spending 20 magic points, he can simulate the spell of extracting and preserving toxins.
Where does the magic come from?
The mutant jellyfish in the lake are all his free chargers.
There are also crystals containing magical powers inside the mutant jellyfish.
Just like the superpowers it manifests, the crystal contains a high concentration of electrical magic.
Alan's electrical divinity is equivalent to the bloodline of an electric sorcerer, and he can use this crystal to assist in meditation practice.
What Allen cares more about is the toxin extracted from the mutant jellyfish.
He himself was completely immune to toxins and was unable to test how toxic the mutated jellyfish was.
Now, he needs a group of volunteers who are willing to devote themselves to scientific research.
So he once again turned his attention to the mutated monster fish in the lake.
Allen tested the toxins of the mutant jellyfish on ten strange fish
Swelling and paralysis are the most prominent physiological manifestations after poisoning.
However, it did not cause fatal harm to the mutant fish.
This result is normal.
If the mutant jellyfish could easily poison the strange fish, there would be no schools of fish in the lake.
Alan needs more experimental samples.
For the next week, he experimented with rats and stray cats, the most common species found in the town ruins.
These two mutant creatures are hundreds of times larger than ordinary cats and mice.
After being poisoned, he immediately collapsed and his whole body became swollen.
If they can't hold out for more than twenty minutes, they will die of a heart attack.
Allen was very satisfied with the results of this phase of the experiment.
Playing with drugs is his signature skill that made him famous.
With the mutant jellyfish toxin, poison magic now has the material to cast.
Alan felt that the day when he could walk around the town in a domineering manner was not far away.
…
Two months later.
Alan's warlock level has been raised to the early second stage.
Attributes: Constitution 21, Agility 16, Spirit 14.
After five upgrades, the physical attribute increased by 5 points in total, plus 1 point of mental attribute.
The extra 1 point each for physique, agility and mental attributes are all gained by eating.
Now Alan knows that long-term consumption of mutant creatures can not only improve the purity of blood, but also increase attributes!
Specifically, eating the flesh and blood of mutant creatures helps to enhance physical strength and agility attributes.
Eating or absorbing the magic crystals in the bodies of mutated organisms can promote the growth of spiritual attributes.
Now, the purity of his ogre blood has reached 7%!
The physical attribute also exceeds 20 points.
After one day, Alan successfully advanced to Hill Giant!
After the bloodline is advanced, the physical growth is further improved.
If you upgrade again in the future, your physical attribute will most likely increase by 2 points.
Agility and spirit are not the strengths of hill giants.
The probability of increasing these two attributes during upgrades is extremely low. It is better to eat more mutated monsters than to rely on luck.
Allen's second-level atavism form changed from a three-meter-tall ogre to a hill giant with a height of five meters and a weight of more than one ton.
Hill giants look like taller and stronger ogres.
Their greed for food is even worse than that of an ogre.
In his ancestral form, Allen gains an additional 4 points of physique and 4 levels of natural armor.
In terms of physical combat alone, he has surpassed his peers in reality.
A giant warlock who was not very good at casting spells in the early stages.
But for Allen, it doesn't matter whether the spell is awakened or not.
Anyway, the demigod status has its own "prayer magic", so if you need any magic, you can just pray for simulation.
Alan's current magic value is 70 points in total.
It allows him to cast the "Wish Spell" three times a day.
During this time, he also developed a knack for quickly replenishing his magic power.
In fact, it is very simple. Just carry a crystal taken from a mutant jellyfish with you, drive the "energy source", extract the magic power contained in the crystal, and replenish the magic pool immediately.
By draining a crystal, you can restore 20 to 30 points of magic power, which is enough to perform a "wish spell".
In addition to the electric crystals produced by the mutant jellyfish, Alan can also absorb the corresponding crystals of other energy attributes contained in the "Energy Source" to replenish magic power consumption.
Just like in the warlock world, absorbing magic stones or magic shells with energy properties.
During this period, in addition to practicing, Allen was also cautiously expanding the scope of his exploration.
He was the only human resident in the entire ruins of Kang Town.
There are quite a few mutated insects and beasts.
Fighting alone, Allen is confident of winning.
However, social creatures in nature may continue to live in groups after mutation.
For example, there are swarms of giant ants and swarms of mutant bees that cover the sky. Alan doesn't dare to provoke them yet.
Occasionally he would go out to hunt mutant creatures to obtain food and energy crystals, and he would always do it quickly.
Avoid alerting the mutant insect swarm and getting surrounded.
That evening, Alan was meditating when he suddenly heard a rooster crowing outside the door.
Alan recognized it as the mutant rooster that had hunted the female titan before.
Excluding himself, that rooster was probably the most powerful creature in the ruins of Kang Town.
Even the mutant ants were frightened and took a detour when they heard the crowing of a rooster.
Alan has never taken action to hunt the mutant rooster, mainly because it rarely moves around in this area.
In addition, the mutant roosters crow on time every morning, like a natural alarm clock.
Living in this ruined area lacking precise timekeeping devices, Alan has become accustomed to waking up every morning to the loud crowing of roosters.
But tonight was different.
The crowing of the rooster was intermittent and sounded a little weak.
Alan got up, opened the security door, and went out to check.