Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 297 [Sacrificial Offering: Heavenly Craftsmanship - Nether Iron Forging Table]

Looking at the three extraordinary materials in front of him, Chu Sheng pondered for a long time before finally putting the sharpening rod aside.

All that remained in front of him was a piece of flesh exuding a scarlet aura and a seemingly ordinary crystal ball.

The crimson flesh and blood need no further explanation; it's simply used to strengthen the butcher's body.

But this crystal ball is completely different.

The crystal ball's property is hypnosis, and the concept is a change he has never seen before.

In Chu Sheng's memory, many of the hypnotic abilities seemed to be aided by things like crystal balls and clocks, and the characteristics and concepts of this crystal ball seemed to extend in that direction.

Thinking it over, Chu Sheng pulled the butcher out of his waist. With a thought, the butcher appeared in front of him with a strange cry.

"Waaaaah!" The tentacles behind the butcher thrashed about, and the cat demon he was holding in his left hand was also baring its teeth and hissing.

However, Chu Sheng felt a strange sense of peace when he looked at him.

Perhaps this is the sense of security that the butcher provides him.

A butcher who has embedded loyalty into the price he pays provides him with unparalleled security.

Looking at the butcher, Chu Sheng said to him, "Butcher, we recently acquired two new extraordinary materials. It's time to upgrade them for you."

"Waaaaah!" Upon hearing this, the butcher raised his pig-slaughtering knife high in his right hand, and the tentacles behind him moved even faster. A ferocious and terrifying smile appeared on his face, and long, thin zombie fangs protruded from his mouth.

"Don't rush," Chu Sheng comforted him, then continued, "Pick up these two extraordinary materials on the ground, and then start upgrading."

Upon hearing Chu Sheng's words, the butcher obediently used his tentacles to pick up the piece of flesh and the crystal ball from the ground.

Just as its tentacles curled up, a beam of white light instantly engulfed it.

Scarlet Butcher

[Ranking of offerings: 3009]

[Deterrence: The intimidation emanating from the Butcher greatly enhances the deterrent effect against the eerie creatures and significantly increases lethality against cats! Making felines fear the Butcher!]

[Butcher: Two chicken claws serve as feet, while dog and cat claws form his left and right arms. Tentacles sprout from his back, allowing the Butcher to descend into battle! The Butcher's abilities depend on the summoner's sequence level! Current sequence level: 7!]

[Crimson Transformation: Creatures attacked by the Butcher will be infected with the Crimson Curse and die instantly within half an hour! It can affect up to Sequence 7!]

[Breath Bomb: The Butcher produces one cat head every day. This cat head can be thrown to flatten an area within a 50-meter radius. Three days after the explosion, any creature that enters the area will be killed by the vicious cat!]

[Haki Bite: Throw the cat head at the enemy, and the cat head will bite the enemy, simultaneously infecting them with nuclear radiation! The distance the cat head is thrown can be controlled using a fishing line!]

[Cat killing: The butcher loathes cats and will go berserk upon seeing any cat!]

[Killer Aura: When encountering large numbers of pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, zombies, or tentacle-like monsters, your combat power increases while their abilities are weakened! The effect is enhanced against cats!]

[Return: After the Butcher disappears, he will return to his master!]

[Cat Demon: There will always be a Cat Demon, bloodily slaughtered by the Butcher, on the Butcher's left hand. The Cat Demon's strength is always one level lower than the Butcher's! Current Rank: 8!]

[Cognitive Impairment: The Crimson Butcher suffers from severe cognitive impairment. Any eerie creature emanating black energy or any enemy is perceived by him as a disobedient kitten.]

[Crimson Blade: Every creature and monster that dies by its blade has its soul absorbed, permanently enhancing the blade's sharpness, resilience, weight, sturdiness, and the butcher's own power!]

[Crimson Aura: The Butcher's body is completely connected by crimson flesh and blood, emanating a crimson aura at all times. Any attack can be blocked by this crimson aura!]

[Sacrifice: Extraordinary items; every use comes at a price!]

[Use Cost: Do not show affection to your cat in front of the Butcher. Otherwise, your owner will be infected by nuclear radiation! The Butcher's owner will be affected by the crimson aura, and their sanity will be gradually eroded! When the Butcher appears, the cognitive impairment will be transmitted to the owner!]

[Chu Sheng is unaffected by the Butcher's actions! He is the Butcher's sole master!]

[Hidden Attribute: But if you are Chu Sheng, there is no cost to using it!]

As the white light gradually dissipated, the butcher's figure was revealed.

The original bizarre and grotesque sense of patchwork disappeared, replaced by a body wrapped in scarlet flesh.

His entire body was bright red, and the connections between his parts became gradual transitions rather than abrupt patchwork. In addition, a faint red mist emanated from the butcher and surrounded him.

The fog wasn't thick, but it gave the butcher a fierce, brutal, and bloodthirsty aura.

Coupled with his appearance, which is even more bizarre than the bizarre, Chu Sheng believed that if the butcher were to go out alone and encounter other people, and it were said that he was a true bizarre creature, probably no one would disagree.

Even if the butcher doesn't possess any dark aura and can't sense any eerie presence through his spiritual perception, he would still react this way.

Others would only feel that the butcher was more eerie than usual, as he was able to prevent them from sensing any eerie aura or any dark energy.

"Waaaaah!" The butcher bared his zombie fangs and let out a strange cry. His whole body was red as if he had crawled out of a pool of blood, and red mist surrounded him. His left hand held a blood-red cat demon, while his right hand held a blood-red battle blade.

It looks quite impressive.

"Not bad, it's starting to look good." Chu Sheng looked at the butcher with satisfaction.

This upgrade has brought significant changes to the Butcher, giving him three more abilities and altering one of them.

First, there's that transformation that's never been used before, which has turned into the Crimson Curse. If you're attacked by the Butcher, you'll definitely die from the curse within half an hour.

Without something like purifying water to remove the curse, once the butcher breaks through your defenses, it's almost certain death.

Secondly, there are the three abilities: cognitive impairment, the Crimson Blade, and the Crimson Aura.

There's not much to say about cognitive impairment.

Chu Sheng had told the butcher this many times before.

This time, however, it wasn't the butcher's trust in him that transformed into real ability.

He doesn't need to trick the killer to put him into a berserk state.

If you are my enemy, then in the Butcher's eyes you are just a disobedient little kitten.

The Crimson Blade further grants the Butcher unlimited potential for growth in combat power.

As long as the butcher kills enough strange or unusual creatures, the butcher will grow indefinitely.

However, Chu Sheng could sense that this ability did not greatly enhance the Butcher's power; in fact, it was quite subtle.

However, when viewed on a time scale, this ability can be considered the Butcher's strongest ability.

After all, the longer the time, the greater the buff the butcher will receive.

The ability to perform well in the late game.

As for the final crimson aura, Chu Sheng could also sense that this ability didn't significantly enhance the Butcher's power.

However, this ability is also one that can be stacked.

The butcher will continuously release a crimson aura that surrounds him. The longer it lasts, the stronger the crimson aura becomes, and the stronger the attacks it can withstand.

It's also a late-game ability, but the accumulation of crimson aura isn't permanent.

It's the kind of ability that consumes a little bit with every use, but even so, this ability can still be considered quite powerful.

This is similar to the sword nurturing technique in some fantasy novels; the longer it is nurtured, the stronger its power becomes.

"Waaaaah!" the butcher kept yelling, turning the scarlet cleaver in his hand over and over to examine it.

After the butcher had looked at it for a while, Chu Sheng turned it back into a knife.

The original butcher knife was gone; the butcher's true form had transformed into the scarlet butcher knife it held in its hand.

Three feet six inches, or 1.2 meters in length, was no longer suitable to be worn around the waist. Chu Sheng thought for a moment, then simply found a strip of cloth and carried the butcher on his back.

The butcher was difficult to pull out because it was on his back, but fortunately it was the butcher, and Chu Sheng had never intended to use the butcher in battle.

His weapons had long since been replaced with a dark gold longsword carried by his dark gold armor and a red and white bone bow.

The butcher will come out on his own when needed; there's no need for him to draw his knife.

After strapping the butcher to his back, Chu Sheng looked at the sharpening stick he had previously tossed aside, pondered for a moment, and then turned his gaze to the forging table in the corner.

The sharpening stick would actually be quite suitable for the Butcher, since it's not really appropriate for a Butcher to be without a sharpening stick. However, he later realized that the sharpening stick's characteristic is hammering, and its concept is toughness, so he didn't integrate it with the Butcher.

As I said before, using unsuitable materials to blend will have the opposite effect.

What kind of toughness does a butcher need? And what does a butcher, who uses a knife, need to pound?
To beat the physical body?
However, just because a butcher is unsuitable doesn't mean other places are unsuitable.

In Chu Sheng's opinion, a forging table would be perfect for this extraordinary material.

Thinking it over, he had a thought, and the extraordinary material and the forging table in the corner turned into a white light and merged together.

The sharpening rod fused quickly with the dark iron and ordinary steel.

The white light appeared almost instantly and then disappeared.

The forging table's appearance remained unchanged, except that many patterns appeared on its surface, and the overall color turned dark.

[Heavenly Craftsmanship - Dark Iron Forging Table]

[Ranking of offerings: 10210]

[Hammering: No amount of striking can change the shape of the forging table!]

[Ghost Iron: The ghost iron in the forging table will absorb and store excess heat, which can be released to assist in forging when needed!]

[Heavenly Craftsmanship Series: Offerings from the Heavenly Craftsmanship Series will have their cost reduced by 70% when used by users of the Heavenly Craftsmanship sequence or its lower-level sequences to create the Heavenly Craftsmanship·Nether Iron Forging Table!]

[Sacrifice: Extraordinary items; every use comes at a price!]

[Usage Cost: Exclusive to the Heavenly Craft series. Using it with a lower-level series other than the Heavenly Craft series will consume half of the user's mental energy. If the forging fails on the first attempt, the user will be struck by the forging table.]

[Hidden Attribute: If you are Chu Sheng, there is no cost to using this!]
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Feeling the power of the forging platform, Chu Sheng nodded.

The forging table's capabilities were somewhat beyond his expectations, but that was all.

For him, the forging table was simply a place to experiment with crafting some sacrificial offerings.

It might be useful in the future, but for now, the ability of the Heavenly Craft Sequence to fuse sacrificial offerings is still better.

After all, the lower-ranking offerings provided him with negligible blessings.

He doesn't yet have the ability to forge high-grade extraordinary materials and create top-ranking sacrificial objects.

Therefore, the forging table is just a preparation for the future.

Admittedly, forging extraordinary materials can yield multiple sacrificial objects, but the sacrificial objects fused together from these sacrificial objects are of no use to him, let alone using a single extraordinary material to forge multiple sacrificial objects.

The next day.

Chu Sheng wore black leather armor, with a black cloak covering his silver-white hair and enveloping his entire body. A knife about 1.2 meters long was hung on the back of the cloak.

Upon seeing Chu Sheng, Xingzi, who was originally with An Xi and Hui Dui, immediately brightened up and ran over to Chu Sheng's side.

"Good morning, Brother Chusheng!"

"Mm." Chu Sheng nodded. "Good morning."

"Now that we're here, let's get ready to go in," Hui said to the others as soon as he saw Chu Sheng get out of the car.

"We'll distribute them the same way we always have, is that alright?" he said, looking at Chu Sheng who had just gotten off the car.

Upon hearing his words, Chu Sheng nodded, "Distributing according to contribution is very reasonable."

“Okay!” Team Leader Hui nodded and continued, “Before you came down, I spoke with them all, and everyone agreed to this distribution.”

"Let's decide on the allocation rules now to avoid any disagreements later."

He continued, "I'm the guide, with a 15% share, but Fang Hong sometimes takes over my work and also provides information regularly."

"So I get one-tenth, and Fang Hong gets half a-tenth."

"Any objections?" He looked at Fang Hong and the others.

Upon hearing his words, everyone shook their heads.

The assignment of the team leaders is self-evident; both Hui and Fang Hong have made significant contributions to the team.

It can be said that Fang Hong's addition filled the loophole that Hui's team's calculations could sometimes be misleading.

Fang Hong also nodded in agreement with Hui's suggestion.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Hui continued, "In that case, there's still 85% left."

"Ah Xin accounts for half of that, no need to say more. She calms down the team every day, this is a percentage that was agreed upon long ago, and no one can refute it."

His words were quite forceful, and as a result, no one refuted them.

If Ah Xin doesn't even get half a percent, then there's no need for them to continue negotiating. After all, Ah Xin's abilities have genuinely helped them avoid a lot of bizarre attacks.

Otherwise, the convoy wouldn't be so calm now, not encountering a single strange creature for several days.

"Apricot will provide bandages, adrenaline, and other medications. In addition, everyone will receive free treatment to restore some of their mental strength after returning home, accounting for 10% of the cost."

"Zhuo Wu provides various talismans and also controls the Great Sage's body to act together, taking up both support and combat roles, accounting for 10%."

"Old Li provides various plants with different effects as auxiliary means in battle, but he makes no other contributions, so he accounts for half a percent."

“An Xi, Zhu Qing, Qing Qing, one person for each of them.”

"Lu Guan is not participating in this operation, so he has no share."

"As for Chu Sheng," Hui looked at Chu Sheng, thought for a moment, and asked, "The Light of the Netherworld?"

Hearing him suddenly mention the Netherworld Light, Chu Sheng was taken aback for a moment, then realized what he meant and nodded, "The Netherworld Light will be with us."

"I'll be with the butcher too."

Hearing his words, Hui nodded, then took a deep breath, "Chu Sheng, Butcher, and Nether Light together account for 25%.

"Chu Sheng is Sequence Seven. Although his combat strength is not as good as An Xi, Zhu Qing, and Qing Qing, it is still quite impressive. He can be considered half a percent."

"The Butcher is a Sequence 7 combatant, and the Netherworld Mech transformed from the Netherworld Light is also a Sequence 7 combatant. The combat power of these two is not weak. In addition, the Netherworld Light can store a large number of various items, so each accounts for 10%."

"That adds up to 25 percent."

"I have no objection!" Kyoko raised her hand and spoke up before Hui could even ask.

An Xi is the same.

"No objection." Fang Hong shook her head. "Chu Sheng's combat strength is high, so it's only right that he receives more."

"Whether it's the Butcher or the Nether Light, they are both powerful combat forces, which is very beneficial for us to enter this village."

As Fang Hong spoke, the others nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)