Dream Travel

Chapter 319 can be used for preservation.
"Are you charging a percentage of the customer's assets?" The white-clad hand holding the selection process paused; the craftsman was truly asking for an exorbitant price this time.

"Don't you know the difference in difficulty between making a finished product and remaking a finished product?"

"Prepare the raw materials for those things, and I'll take one-third of the money from you, guaranteeing that the finished product will be exactly the same as what we're making now."

The craftsman lost the first game while he was talking, but he was just getting used to the controls. By the second game, Bai Mu was already feeling a bit of pressure.

His reaction speed is very fast, but the reaction speed in the game has an upper limit. Even if you can lock every frame of the animation, different combinations of moves will produce different results.

Moreover, playing games in the white screen relies on physical reflexes and doesn't require much brainpower.

So after the third game, the outcome began to reverse.

"Wait a minute, you haven't played so many characters..."

"Pretty much, I've played similar games." After ten rounds, the craftsman decisively ended the game, with a score of four to six.

In other words, he's playing a new fighting game, and once he gets used to it, things will be a different story.

However, this game will likely only be played once.

"You can continue playing," the craftsman said, returning to his workshop. In the meantime, the knife had turned into molten metal.

The only difference was that these molten metals were different colors. The craftsmen skillfully filtered out the useless parts and kept the main ones.

He frowned slightly. This separation method caused some damage to the finished product, but the advantage was that it could preserve the properties of the separated raw materials to the greatest extent.

He could have handled it in other ways and preserved more raw materials, but those methods would have had a greater impact on the properties of the raw materials, making it even more counterproductive.

He didn't intend to just brush off Bai Mu's request, so he used this method.

After all, he had painstakingly crafted the weapon case, and he didn't want Bai Mu's unnecessary demands to negatively impact its quality.

As for the increased difficulty of upgrading weapon cases in the future, that was chosen by White Curtain himself.

He would bear the increased difficulty himself; the only thing the craftsman could guarantee was that the Dream Erosion equipment could be upgraded a second time, and that the success rate would not decrease.

He knows more about Dream Erosion items than Lily does about them.

When using Dream Erosion Crystals to upgrade Dream Erosion items, the success rate of further upgrades decreases with each upgrade, even for highly pure Dream Erosion Crystals.

However, this problem arises only when a large number of different dream-eating crystals are used.

The sources of dream-eroded crystals are inconsistent, and no matter how high the purity, different dream-eroded residues will accumulate as the number of enhancements increases.

These remnants of dream erosion are the main reason for the decrease in the success rate of equipment sublimation.

However, the White Curtain uses the same Dream Erosion Crystals for all Dream Erosion equipment, so it doesn't accumulate different Dream Erosion residues, resulting in the highest success rate during upgrades.

Others had no choice, but Bai Mu had his own path, choosing the most successful one.

Separating the relevant materials went smoothly; the real trouble lay in the follow-up.

Bai Mu used the craftsman's phone to contact Lily and tell her that he wouldn't be going back for the next few days.

"Where did you go? I'm staying with the craftsman."

"You're actually going to stay at a man's house for several days?" Lily's tone sounded surprised.

"Don't talk nonsense. I'm doing serious business here. After it's over, I can stay at your place for a few days."

"Really?" Lily seemed quite excited about it.

"As long as you don't mind... Oh, by the way, help me get the money. The craftsman is charging me one million this time."

"Oh, then you must have made some really outrageous demands." Lily said with a smile, "I'll be there later."

After the craftsman and Bai Mu finished playing the game, he stayed alone in the studio for several days. If it weren't for the lack of any smell of decaying corpses, Bai Mu would have thought he was dead.

On the fifth day, the craftsman came out of the workshop and tossed the weapon case to White Curtain.

"Alright, hurry up and settle the bill, I'm going to rest."

Bai Mu took out the prepared deposit slip. After glancing at it, the craftsman nodded and said, "Give me the rest of your Dream Erosion Crystals."

The remaining Dream Erosion Crystals are used to polish the weapon cases to create variations.

After all, although the new materials he incorporated had been treated with Dream Erosion Crystals and had not become completely Dream Erosion items, they still carried the essence of Dream Erosion.

For most other people, they would turn it into a Dream Erosion item before proceeding with the subsequent fusion.

But for the craftsmen, that step is actually a bad thing. It's just right to fuse the new materials when they can bear the Dream Erosion without turning them into Dream Erosion items.

Those materials are additives; the main body is still the weapon case. After turning those materials into complete Dream Erosion items, who is the main body?

Want to take a gamble and give it a try?
Craftsmen won't gamble in their professional fields, because gambling means there's no certainty.

He allowed those materials to bear the Dream Erosion only to enhance the fusion. Only after the fusion was complete would he proceed with the subsequent Dream Erosion Crystallization.

After using up the remaining Dream Erosion Crystals, the craftsman's slightly furrowed brows relaxed a little.

"Alright, the Dream Erosion properties of the newly fused materials are now balanced with the weapon case. If you have similar requests in the future, please find someone else." "That won't happen again. Speaking of which, hasn't the difficulty of attempting a second enhancement of this case increased?"

"The increase isn't that much, maybe one-tenth to one-fifth."

The craftsman casually remarked that if someone else were to attempt this kind of enhancement, it would essentially mean saying goodbye to a second level of refinement.

However, if Bai Mu were to come, it would be the same as nothing. It's a necessary upgrade. No matter how much the difficulty increases, it's just an increase in the acquisition of resources.

Unless White Curtain is bored and wants to slack off, and uses Dream Erosion Crystals from other sources of dreams.

After putting away the deposit slip given to him by Bai Mu, the craftsman thought for a moment and said, "With so many upgraded Dream Erosion equipment, you'd better take care of yourself."

"Why do you all seem to think I can survive?"

The white curtain seemed somewhat speechless at the craftsman's reminder.

"Otherwise what? If you're still alive and well in ten years... no, five years, I won't think that way anymore."

"Alright, we'll talk about this later. As for the weapon you mentioned..." Bai Mu checked the inside of the weapon case and couldn't see any signs of modification.

"Come pick it up the day after tomorrow!" The craftsman decided to work a little overtime, since Bai Mu had given him 1.2 million.

He took the box and left Rota City, heading to the mountains to conduct tests.

The Dream Erosion effect of the weapon case remains unchanged after its upgrade, but the Dream Erosion Crystals added this time did not provide any improvement to the weapon case.

It's obvious that they were all used to break in the newly added materials.

The weapon case controlled only six puppets. After testing for nearly two hours, Bai Mu started eating barbecue in the wild.

Beatrice, standing nearby, sighed in exasperation. She had been called out during the white curtain test.

She was quite curious about the changes to the weapon case, especially the addition of the Puppet Domination effect, which was quite impressive.

After testing them, Atelier couldn't help but praise them; the controlled puppets were preserved very well.

The puppet's remaining life force was locked by the weapon box. This part of the life force would maintain the puppet's state, ensuring that the puppet would not decay further and retain its combat capabilities from when it was alive.

However, the main power source for the puppets is the White Curtain.

Summoning the phantoms consumes White Curtain's mental energy, while the actions of these puppets consume White Curtain's physical energy. Although the number that can be controlled is limited, it is actually a good thing that it does not consume mental energy.

The White Curtain possesses some characteristics of the Mushroom People; as long as it accumulates enough satiety, it will not lack stamina.

However, these puppets are connected to the weapon cases, so in order to control those puppets, the person who kills the puppets must be connected to the weapon cases.

Bai Mu can kill the target by smashing them with a weapon box, or he can take down the target himself, as long as the weapon box is within a certain range of him.

If it exceeds the range, then the connection between the kill and the kill must be sufficient.

For example, when Bai Mu uses Ling Shu to kill a target, part of the lightning attached to Ling Shu must come from the weapon box.

Overall, the effect of Kurome's Imperial Arms was weakened in some aspects in the weapon case, but based on the original characteristics of the weapon case, some of its effects were enhanced.

After completing the tests, Bai Mu used the weapon crate as a food storage room, and the beasts he killed became his food reserves.

They're being roasted and eaten by the white curtain right now.

"It would have been better if you had made this box a little bigger from the beginning."

"I think it's quite suitable. Who would have thought that this thing could be used to carry people in the future?" Bai Mu had no complaints about the size of the weapon box.

This thing is meant to be carried around as miscellaneous items, not a coffin.

"As long as you're happy." Beatrice looked at the grilled meat Bai Mu was eating with mixed feelings, but quickly adjusted her mindset.

Thinking about it, it makes sense. The puppets are alive, and it's normal for the White Curtain to keep them alive by using weapon boxes to make the most of non-intelligent beings.

White Curtain doesn't stick to any particular methods; if something works, it should be used to the fullest extent.

If the weapon crates are just for preserving corpses... well, as long as the corpses don't decompose for a long time, White Curtain will probably use them as refrigeration rooms too.

Unless the weapon crates are full.

"The temporary enhancement is also useful for these puppets. I wonder if they can retain some of the enhancement due to the Dream Erosion Ascension."

Bai Mu ate the barbecue and made his comments.

"This is so unfair!" Beatrice was very dissatisfied. Why could the corpse receive such enhancement, but she couldn't?
"It's probably because the corpses have a physical form, but most of the time it's not very cost-effective." Bai Mu commented on the function, waving the roasted meat in his hand: "At most, it just makes the meat a little better."

"...Then it would be quite suitable for you to become a chef in the future."

"Then I might as well hire a great chef to support me." Bai Mu glanced at the fire. He wasn't picky about food, but that didn't mean he didn't want to eat good food.

He just didn't want to do that because it was time-consuming and laborious to make delicious food.

(End of this chapter)