The strangeness is coming, I build a forbidden kingdom of God in the end times

Chapter 255: Proficiency Improvement, Epic Enhancement of the Heart of Synthesis

More than an hour later.

More than three hundred pale bone dragons were like a white storm, blowing away the surrounding green poisonous fog and sweeping over the blood lake one by one.

They hovered in the air around the blood lake but did not enter it.

The purpose of the pale bone dragon coming here was not to explore the blood lake, but to use its advantageous position in the sky to comprehensively monitor and record all dynamics in the blood lake.

There are eleven bloody octopuses in the blood lake, and there are also unknown enemies hidden. If you enter it rashly, even if the pale bone dragon is very powerful, you may die in it.

This is true for pale bone dragons, and even more so for pale skeleton warriors and pale skeleton warhorses.

Although these undead creatures are worthless and will die if they do, if the information gained from the exploration is not transmitted back, wouldn’t it be a waste of their lives?
Even if it is just a bloody octopus, with the help of the environment, it can kill the pale bone dragon in seconds.

Once the pale skeleton warriors and pale skeleton horses are attacked, they will most likely never be able to return, so the information they have discovered will naturally be difficult to pass back. Wouldn't Su Hao's work be in vain?
The mission of the pale bone dragon is to accurately convey the undead army's exploration and discoveries so that Su Hao can get timely information about the blood lake.

Another hour or so passed.

More than four thousand pale skeleton warriors and pale skeleton war horses arrived quietly. They moved through the green poisonous fog like ghosts, and came to the blood lake silently from different directions.

They looked up at the bone dragon in the sky, the soul fire in their skulls flickering, as if conveying some tacit message to the bone dragon.

After a brief communication, these undead creatures stepped into the blood lake without hesitation.

The water of the Blood Lake is made entirely of blood. It is bottomless and extremely viscous.

Not only is visibility in the lake extremely low, it also contains a special power that can corrode the bodies of living creatures and pollute or devour their blood.

For ordinary creatures, even if they are of the first level of transcendence, if they do not have special means, they will probably die if they enter the blood lake.

Pale skeleton warriors and pale skeleton horses are both undead creatures. They have no blood in their bodies and are not afraid of the erosion of the blood lake.

Although the Undead Army was not afraid of the erosion of the Blood Lake, the chaos and almost zero visibility in the Blood Lake still brought a lot of trouble to their exploration.

In this dark red and lightless environment, every step forward is full of unknowns and risks.

What's even more troublesome is that the eleven bloody octopuses lurking in various places in the blood lake began to launch fierce attacks.

They are intelligent, cunning and ferocious. They take advantage of the terrain and indiscriminately hunt all the pale undead creatures that enter the lake.

Sometimes, they would spray out blood arrows with extremely strong penetrating power, silently taking the lives of undead warriors.

Sometimes it would swing its powerful tentacles to violently whip nearby enemies.

It can even stir up huge waves of blood, sweeping the surrounding undead into the bottom of the lake and launching a devastating area attack.

Under the ravages of the octopus, the undead army suffered heavy losses. Soon, Su Hao, who was far away in the cave, sensed that hundreds of pale skeleton warriors and horses had fallen forever.

Su Hao was not surprised or sad about the loss of the undead army. He had already expected such a result.

The cost of summoning the pale undead creatures was almost nothing for him. Even though the undead army suffered some losses under the fierce attack of the bloody octopus, he did not feel any regret.

As long as he could thoroughly explore the secrets of Qingxue Lake, he thought it was worth it even if he had to sacrifice these five thousand undead armies.

"It's past twelve o'clock. We can start today's synthesis."

Su Hao looked up at the dark sky, then glanced at the time on the communication bracelet.

He reached into the storage space and took out six pieces of expanded muscle, combining them into two pieces of Titan meat.

Then, he placed the two newly synthesized pieces of Titan meat together with the piece of Titan meat synthesized yesterday on the ground in front of him and started the third synthesis of the day.

After more than an hour, the golden ball of light wrapped around the three pieces of Titan meat burst into dazzling light, completing the synthesis.

As the golden light disappeared, a huge heart appeared in Su Hao's eyes.

But just as Su Hao was about to take the Titan's heart, the synthetic heart rune deep in his soul suddenly vibrated, causing his soul power to increase significantly. At the same time, a message popped up in front of his eyes.

[Congratulations, your proficiency in the Heart of Synthesis has reached perfection! ]

"Ok?"

Looking at the message that popped up in front of him, Su Hao frowned slightly.

The improvement in proficiency was undoubtedly a good thing for him, but based on his past experience, such prompt information would usually be accompanied by detailed explanations of the changes after the improvement, but this time there was none.

It's impossible that nothing will change after the proficiency is improved...

With a somewhat uneasy mood, his thoughts moved slightly and he clicked on the detailed information interface of the Synthetic Heart.

[Heart of Synthesis]

Proficiency: Great
Daily synthesis times: 5 times

Effect 1 - Conventional synthesis: You can synthesize items up to level , and can perform multiple synthesizers at the same time.

Effect 2 - Low-level synthesis: Extraordinary items below level do not occupy synthesis times, but please note that as the number of synthesis times increases on the day, the mental energy consumption will gradually increase.

And multiple synthesis cannot be performed at the same time. The current synthesis must be completed before a new synthesis can be started.

……

"Oh my god, this improvement is too big!"

Looking at the content displayed on the talent details, Su Hao couldn't help but exclaimed. The expression on his face changed from slightly worried to unbelievable, and his heartbeat quickened a bit.

Although he knew that there would be some benefits after his proficiency improved, this change was still far beyond his expectations.

The proficiency of the Heart of Synthesis has been raised to Great Mastery. Although the daily maximum number of synthesizing times is still five, this limit is now only valid for extraordinary fourth- and fifth-level advanced items.

As for low-level items of level three or below, there is no limit on the number of times they can be synthesized.

This change is of great significance to Su Hao. In the past, he was often restricted by the limit on the number of synthesis times and could only synthesize important items.

And now, he can synthesize a large number of low-level items at will.

As long as Su Hao's mental strength is not exhausted, he can synthesize day and night, from the first ray of sunshine in the early morning until the depths of night.

For Su Hao, the consumption of mental energy is no longer a problem.

A long time ago, Su Hao was able to summon scarlet tentacles and extract scarlet blood essence from them.

When he took this scarlet blood essence, not only could he increase his physical and mental strength to the limit and recover from his injuries, but he could also slowly recover his consumed mental strength.

Especially after the extraordinary level of the Scarlet Touch was upgraded to the fourth level, and it was able to extract the fourth level scarlet blood.

The spiritual power restored by the fourth-level scarlet blood is much higher than the spiritual power consumed by summoning and refining the scarlet tentacles, but the recovery speed is slightly slower. However, the spiritual power consumption for synthesizing items below the third level is not too severe.
From now on, as long as Su Hao continues to summon and refine the scarlet tentacles, and then consume the fourth-level scarlet blood essence, he will not have to worry about running out of mental energy. Working more than ten hours a day should not be a problem.

"I'm just too damn tired..."

Su Hao smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Although Su Hao was delighted with the significant improvement in his proficiency, there was one drawback.

Although there will be no limit on the number of times he can synthesize extraordinary items below the third level in the future, he can no longer perform multiple synthesis at the same time as before.

Now, he has to complete each synthesis one by one before he can start the next one.

However, this small limitation is so insignificant compared to the huge benefits brought by improved proficiency that it can be completely ignored.

In addition to the breakthrough in the number of synthesis times, the highest level of the extraordinary items he can synthesize in the future has also jumped from level four to level five.

This filled his heart with anticipation. When he returned to the territory, if he had successfully copied three hearts of the black dragon, he would be able to synthesize them.

He has long been fascinated by the talents of the dragon clan.

Then, Su Hao brought his thoughts back to reality and his eyes fell on the Titan heart in front of him.

He took a deep breath, opened his jaw, and swallowed the huge heart in one gulp.

As the Titan's heart entered his throat, Su Hao immediately felt a surge of energy bursting out in his body.

This energy surged like a torrent, washing over every inch of his flesh and blood, bringing an unprecedented sense of fullness.

As energy continued to flow in, his physical strength began to rise rapidly.

At this moment, he seemed to hear a "crack" sound in his ears. Under this powerful energy impact, Su Hao's physique finally broke through the fourth-level intermediate barrier and successfully advanced to the fourth-level upper level.

He could clearly feel that every inch of his muscle and every bone was becoming tougher and stronger.

"The Extraordinary Series is only at the second level, but he has a physique at the upper level of the fourth level. Who would believe this if I told anyone else?"

Su Hao felt the powerful force in his body and was deeply moved.

Afterwards, Su Hao calmed down his slightly excited mood and continued with the remaining two syntheses of the day.

He first planned to combine the Divine Light Heavy Axe and the Explosive Flame Heavy Hammer to create a more powerful weapon.

The Divine Light Heavy Axe, as Su Hao's most handy weapon so far, has become his right-hand man in battle.

Now, with the improvement of his proficiency in the Heart of Synthesis, Su Hao decided to further improve it to make this weapon even stronger.

Su Hao decided to choose the Explosive Hammer as the synthetic material after considering many factors.

First of all, the Explosive Hammer is incredibly heavy. For heavy weapons, weight often means stronger attack power.

This feature combined with the gravity field of the Divine Light Heavy Axe will undoubtedly further enhance the overall strength of the weapon.

In addition, the Explosive Hammer also has an extremely explosive skill that can cause horrific fire damage to close-range enemies.

The only thing that worried him was that if the new weapon looked more like an Explosive Hammer, it would be like losing his handy weapon, the Divine Light Heavy Axe.

But soon, he stopped worrying about it.

With his current physique and strength, he can control any weapon.

The improvement in his physique not only made his strength, defense, speed, etc. stronger, but also made his ability to learn martial arts stronger.

As long as he is willing, he can quickly master either axe or hammer.

Most importantly, as long as the new weapon retains the gravity field, that's enough.

The gravity field can play a vital role in combat. As long as this feature remains, the new weapons after synthesis will not become worse!

Now that he had made up his mind, Su Hao started the synthesis.

However, he had just used the Heart of Synthesis when his expression changed slightly.

"hiss--!"

"This consumption is too great..."

In just a moment, he felt that a large part of his mental power was rapidly consumed. If the current situation continued, his mental power would definitely not be enough to complete this synthesis.

After all, the items synthesized this time included a fifth-order extraordinary item and a fourth-order extraordinary item, so the consumption of mental power would definitely be greater, but he did not expect it to be so great.

Fortunately, Su Hao carried a large amount of fourth-level scarlet essence on his body.

He quickly took out a handful of scarlet blood and swallowed it without hesitation to replenish his rapidly depleted mental strength.

As the power of the scarlet blood essence was released in his body, Su Hao's mental strength gradually began to recover.

With enough mental support, the Divine Light Axe and the Explosive Flame Hammer were gradually wrapped by a golden ball of light, and the synthesis officially began.

Since the items being synthesized this time are fourth- and fifth-level extraordinary items, the time required for synthesis becomes significantly longer.

While waiting, Su Hao had nothing to do, so he started to organize his storage bag.

When his eyes fell on the Omniscient Magic Book, he suddenly slapped his head as if awakened from a dream, with a gleam of annoyance in his eyes.

"Oh! How could I have forgotten this treasure..."

I was so anxious to end the battle that I forgot about the Omniscient Magic Book.

If I had remembered to use the Omniscient Magic Book to identify the bloody octopus, perhaps I could have discovered more secrets about the blood lake through the relevant information of the bloody octopus.

Now that things have come to this, there is no point in regretting. We can only hope that the undead army can make some discoveries.

If he couldn't find anything with so many pale undead armies, then it wouldn't make much sense even if he identified the bloody octopus in advance.

For an enemy of that level, even if we know some relevant information, it would probably be difficult to find him. Even if we find him, we might be able to deal with him.

Time passed quickly, and soon more than five hours had passed. The power wrapped in the divine light axe and the explosive flaming hammer showed no signs of dissipating.

"Roar--!"

But at this moment, a roar suddenly came from the sky, and a pale bird flew back from over the blood lake and hovered above the cave.

(End of this chapter)