Volume 4: The Last Day Chapter 8 “God’s Contract” is too cheap. Hey, where is the sense of ritual?
"Successfully completed the production of an excellent quality and outstanding craftsmanship alchemical creation. Wisdom enlightenment took effect, and the proficiency of alchemical skills increased by X80, currently at Lv5+1."
In the cabin of the Black Pearl late at night, when Mason looked at the slightly turbid liquid in the golden cup in front of him, a familiar prompt popped up in front of him.
At this time, more than half a month had passed since the last improvement in alchemy, but everything seemed to have fallen into place naturally. After spending the necessary time in hard training, Mason once again achieved a breakthrough in his skills.
But he is no longer as excited as he used to be.
Perhaps it was because although the time was not long, the many experiences he had gone through had settled his temper, making him a little calmer.
He pushed the glasses that exuded a cold aura on his nose, took a spoonful of liquid from the golden cup and put it in front of his eyes to check. The information label popped up quickly:
Improved Green Goblin Transformation Agent
Quality: Excellent alchemical creation, outstanding craftsmanship
Item Effect: After drinking it, the drinker will be given multiple temporary enhancements within 48 hours, including [Super Strength/upper limit 9 tons], [Super Reaction], [Super Endurance], and [Enhanced Regeneration].
When this transformation potion takes effect, the user will be in a state of mental excitement, immune to low-level mind-interfering spells and illusion effects.
Notice!
Although this transformation agent has been modified, it still has a strong stimulating effect on the pituitary gland. Drinking it multiple times may give rise to a second personality, but the symptoms can be alleviated through psychological intervention and drug treatment.
Producer: Mason Cooper
Item Description: Take one sip and you will be refreshed! Take two sips and the world will turn upside down! Take three sips and ghosts will howl! Take another sip and you will hear the news of hell.
"Good life."
Mason read the item description, which was also very neurotic today, expressionlessly, then picked up the transformation potion and took a sip.
Although there are hidden dangers, for traditional alchemy, an alchemist who doesn't even dare to drink the potion he made is definitely unqualified!
As the liquid with the scent of gardenia entered his mouth, it brought a bitter taste, but it was soon replaced by a strange feeling of clear mind, which made Mason breathe a sigh of relief. The back pain caused by several hours of continuous alchemy was relieved a lot at once.
At the same time, an exciting force surged from the body.
He turned around and grabbed a seamless steel pipe on the workbench, leaving clear fingerprints on it with his five fingers. He then picked up a knife forged with Isu craftsmanship and cut his skin. Blood flowed out but the bleeding stopped and healed in an instant.
He was very satisfied with the effect of this transformation agent.
After Consus, the Isu ghost who is good at the field of biotechnology, gave suggestions for improvement, the side effects of this thing have been reduced a lot. After only a period of observation, it can be distributed to the servant army as a mature combat medicine.
Of course, the main players of Team K don't use this thing.
They have better ones.
With a sense of satisfaction, Mason, with a clear mind, walked to the window of the captain's room and opened it to let the smell of herbs in the house dissipate.
After a short rest of a few minutes, he took out a bottle of gravity gun and a bunch of engineering components that had been made in advance, intending to make a prototype of the unscientific "gravity well" tonight.
However, just when Mason placed the gravity gun into the electromagnetic generator according to strict proportions, the door of the captain's room was suddenly pushed open.
At the evil hour of five in the morning, in walked a drunken Captain Jack Sparrow with a lady in a cloak.
"Mason, I've got a guest for you."
Jack introduced with a man's dissatisfaction:
"She strongly requested to meet you, especially after hearing about our mission and your crazy plan. She was unwilling to delay even a moment. I was even dragged out of bed by her."
"I'm busy."
Mason sat at the workbench and said without looking up:
"Can you wait a little longer, or come back tomorrow, strange lady of the gods?"
"no!"
The uninvited lady lifted her hood, revealing a beautiful white face, which was very different from the human form of the sea goddess Colepso in Mason's memory.
But this shouldn't be surprising.
If she, a genuine nature spirit, couldn't even transform into a human form freely, then she was too weak.
She stared at Mason and said in a hoarse voice:
“This is a matter of life and death.
Not just for me, but for the world as well. I can feel the stars above me forming a deathly glow, and the world beneath us smells the elegy of doom and shudders.
Every second from now on is important.
It will directly determine whether everything in this world will end or be reborn, including me, of course."
"Well, now you are beginning to care about everything in the world? "
Mason snorted, and his deft hands continued to assemble the components in his hands and adjust the position of the liquid gravity hammer, and said with a hint of sarcasm:
"You turned a blind eye when the hounds of the Star Society spread the virus, you watched coldly when the Old Continent fell into hell, and you didn't care when the last group of survivors fled to the sea in despair.
Over the past few months you have acted as if you have nothing to do with this world, and that beings like us have no value in your eyes.
How come he suddenly became a kind and compassionate god?
Is it because the disaster that I had always thought was insignificant has finally spread to my feet, so for the first time I feel fear from the bottom of my heart?"
The captain curled his lips and said:
"The arrogant Sea God finally realized the true meaning of cruel fate, but he was still not honest enough. When he talked to me, he started talking about the world and the future, which was full of the familiar flavor of 'pie in the sky'.
Should I perhaps assume that you are trying to trick me?"
"How dare you say that."
Captain Jack, who was listening in, glanced cautiously at Colepso's gloomy face, took another sip of wine to calm himself, and whispered to his captain:
"I keep words like these in my heart."
"It's okay, Jack. Lady Collipso is very clear about her situation. Just like when she was down and out, she would be patient and flatter the pirate kings in order to regain her throne.
She has always been a person who knows how to judge the situation.”
Mason shook his head and said:
"But now I have to ask you to leave, Jack. Stand guard outside the door and don't let anyone disturb us. By the way, help me send a message to Barbossa and the others. I want to talk to them tomorrow morning."
"receive."
Jack snapped his fingers and turned to leave, closing the door of the captain's room gently.
When Mason and Poseidon were the only ones left in the cabin, Colepso finally stopped talking about the world and the future.
She was silent for a moment, then said:
"They are coming for me! Every rush of the sea tide is a warning to me. I wanted to hide deep in the sea to survive this doomsday, but at your instruction, those damn pirates got the trident.
They coerced me into helping them, but they had no idea that all their efforts were in vain.
Like a bilge rat before a sinking ship, I was driven by fear of the unknown and jumped up and down to do everything I could to try to save the situation. But I could have stayed out of it.
You made me..."
"Stay out of it? Are you kidding?"
Mason raised his head and looked at the angry and "wronged" female sea goddess in front of him with a look of looking at a fool. He said:
"You are just a low-level god, Colepso. Your existence is based on the sailors and pirates of this world's fear and worship of the sea.
You are a natural god and naturally cannot be separated from nature.
If the world is doomed, and you, who are in every drop of seawater, still think you can escape death? If you still hold on to this childish idea of staying out of it, then I think there is nothing to talk about between us.
I need you to be a brave warrior in the next few days, but you act like you're scared before you even go to the battlefield.
Why don't I just kill you here and give you a quick death, so that you won't be humiliated and tortured after being captured? What do you think?"
Collypso fell silent.
She was speechless, and it was true.
Even Will Turner, the captain of the ghost ship Dutchman that was cursed by her, could feel the approach of doomsday. It was impossible for her, a natural god who relied on the existence of the world, not to feel it.
She just doesn't care and regards everything that happens in the mortal world as a cruel drama to entertain herself. After all, due to some past experiences, the relationship between this female sea goddess and humans is not friendly.
From a dark perspective, she even earnestly hoped to see the demise of these cunning things.
"What do you want?"
Seeing that Mason was immersed in assembling those strange things and had no intention of speaking again, the Poseidon had to take the initiative to ask:
“I don’t hide my hatred and contempt for humans, but I also know from Jack that you intend to save them and lead them away from doomsday.
If you show enough confidence, then maybe you can also help me save a god who has nowhere to escape?"
Collipso didn't want to be so humble.
It was just that the keen perception that came with being born as a god was rolling in her mind like a hot iron rod , allowing her to feel the coming crisis more clearly than weak humans.
She couldn't even control the overflow of fear.
After all, the biggest crisis she faced in her long life was being sealed as a mortal by a group of cunning pirate kings. But now, she has to face death...
"It's not easy to save you."
Mason finally stopped the assembly at hand. He frowned as he looked at the gravity well in front of him that was almost assembled. It seemed that he had encountered some mechanical problems.
While wiping the lubricant off his fingers with a handkerchief, he said to the Poseidon:
"For example, you first have to figure out why those coming destroyers are coming? They are not coming to cause massacres but for a very clear goal.
The divinity in you, Colepso.
It is the last remaining source of all supernatural power in this world, and it can break the rules and elevate a weak world to a level that does not belong to it.
The power of the sea, the true and only treasure of this world.
They will not give up until they get these things, and even if I can take you away from this world, you must shed your divinity in advance.
Otherwise you won’t be able to pass through the escape door prepared for mortals.”
"impossible!"
Colepso, in human form, frowned immediately, and the sound of waves rolling and lapping could be heard outside the window, representing the sea goddess's drastic changes in thoughts.
She refused outright:
"I will not allow myself to be weak a second time. I will never allow myself to be weak and humble again. Once is enough for me to lose my power."
"Then we have nothing to talk about."
Mason shook his head and said:
"Being unwilling to give up your power means that you must face the invaders and defeat them. It is not impossible to do so, but if you want to retain your power and escape, you are asking for too much.
I'm just an ordinary C-level staff. I don't have a magic lamp, so I naturally can't give you everything you want.
But we can bypass this topic and talk about the next level of cooperation.”
He looked at Collypso and said:
"We can stand with you to fight against the invaders, those emotionless killing machines, those cleaners, they are also our enemies.
My teammates and I would love to see these guys buried here.
The more they die, the happier we are.
Jack, that boastful fellow, should have told you when he had sex with you just now that we defeated them in another world and we are not afraid to fight them.
We can help you share the pressure so that you can better control the storm and destroy it.
But it's not free, Colepso."
Mason stretched out his voice, walked to the side of the Poseidon, picked up the bottle, poured her a glass of wine, and handed it to her, saying:
"You still have the illusion that your world can survive, and even without humans, you can still make a comeback in the next era of lingering survival.
I admire your optimism.
I will also keep this opportunity for you. That door of escape has always had a place for you, but you know what it will take to pass through it.
This is the last offer I can make for you.”
"Deal! Now what? What do I do?"
The Poseidon glanced at Mason, took the drink he handed over and drank it all in one gulp, then asked again in a hoarse voice.
"Ride the ocean and do what you do best, Collypso, Lord Poseidon."
Mason pointed out the window and said:
"Bring all the living beings still scattered across the sea here, the sooner the better. I know you have the ability to do so."
"Are you really going to save everyone? I thought Jack was just drunk and bragging, wondering how could such a saint be born in this world?"
The female sea goddess was stunned for a moment, then she covered her mouth and let out strange laughs.
She looked Mason up and down and said:
"You know, I saw that man crucified, and compared to him, you really don't look like a savior. But you are doing what only a savior can do...
How arrogant! "
"I'm not as great as you say."
Mason waved his hands and said modestly:
"Just like when I first entered this world, I told my teammates that I didn't like the end of the world, and they ridiculed me like you, saying that I couldn't resist the end of the world.
I may indeed be unable to resist the fate of everything turning to ashes.
But I just want to tell you that when I say I'm going to do something, I mean it! No kidding, no trying, do it with all my might, and do it until I die.
Either do it or don’t do it!
Didn't try this statement.
So, you'll help me, right? Ms. Collipsso.
In this time when we are all heading into the unknown, you will give those you have disdained a little much-needed help in return for the thousands of years of admiration and respect you have received.”
He watched the sea goddess add more wine to her cup, and he also raised another cup to clink with hers, saying:
"The end of the world is here, and mortals will have their own struggles. Gods like you should also return to your position. Isn't it said that God loves the world?
If you have the ability, why not love them for once?"
"I'm not as powerful as a mortal would imagine to be a god."
Colippo curled her lips, the sea goddess drank the wine in her hand, wiped her mouth, and said:
"I'm just grasping at your visible lifeline. It doesn't mean that I like these bastards who hurt me."
"Don't be like this. The unhappiness of the past should be forgotten."
Mason shook his head and said:
"If you meet again in another world in the future, fellow villagers should take care of each other and maintain a bond of friendship so that it won't be too awkward when you meet again.
This is the choice of smart people.
Well, I wish us a pleasant cooperation in advance, Your Excellency Poseidon."
A few minutes later, Colepso left the Black Pearl alone. Mason didn't even see her off because he didn't want to waste time and he had a gravity hammer device that he hadn't finished yet.
"That chick just now was quite interesting."
Like a bee smelling sweetness or a buzzing fly attracted by rotten fruit, Zha Kang poked his head out of the meditation room above Mason's head and said to Mason:
"You said, if I plan to develop some relationship with her..."
"Whatever you want, I won't tell Xiao Zha."
Mason said without looking up:
"Hurry up and get familiar with that component, John. Now, all lives depend on you."
