The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

Although it wasn't as successful as [20], it wasn't far off.

[Mutant: Ice]

A line of primordial text appeared before Chen Li.

"Hmm, mutation? Ice? What is that?" Chen Li was stunned for a moment.

Just as Chen Li was somewhat confused, the four words suddenly disintegrated into countless points of light, surging towards Chen Li.

Chen Li originally thought that these light spots were coming towards him, but unexpectedly a miracle card suddenly appeared and absorbed all of them.

"Let me see... Cleansing Master?" Chen Li discovered that the card that absorbed these light spots was actually the Miracle Card [Cleansing Master].

Upon holding it in his hand, Chen Li noticed that the word "Slime" was highlighted in red in the original effect 1 of his Miracle Card: "[Every act of cleaning away filth will become your merit. Merit can be used to initiate the judgment of filthy beings and, depending on their sins, transform them into slime cleaners to devour filth for the world.]".

After clicking it, an additional comment popped up.

PS: When used in this world, you can choose to transform the Slime Cleaner into an Ice Slime Cleaner, which has absolute resistance to ice attributes. It can also store a large amount of ice attribute power and turn the cold air into a shield. You will not be damaged until the shield disappears.

"Miracle Cards can even have collaborations? This..." Chen Li was stunned for a moment, then imagined a scene.

When facing an enemy, first use your social circle to rely on the bonds between yourself and your friends to temporarily withstand the opponent's attack. Then, countless miracle cards appear in front of you, and you begin Fusion, Ritual, Synchro, Xyz, Link, Pendulum...

Three minutes later, the Dark Archmage was successfully summoned, resulting in an unconditional victory!

"Oh, so I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh! player! I didn't know that!" Chen Li exclaimed in realization.

So that's how Miracle Cards are played? I get it now.

"...What the hell!" Chen Li smashed the dice on the ground.

Then the Delight Dice bounced back into Chen Li's hand.

"Speaking of which, isn't this slime's effect a bit too effective against a certain Teigu user in this world? Or rather, isn't it a mutation specifically created to counter that opponent? So, the key to breaking the deadlock actually lies with Esdeath?" Chen Li stroked his chin, beginning to ponder the hints given by the Pleasure Dice.

Slimes, as cleaners, are inherently immortal, almost like a rule. Even if they are completely crushed, they will return to their original state after a long period of time.

It is particularly important to note that the recovery time is not included in the sentence.

Crying? Crying also counts as time.jpg

If you add immunity to ice and the ability to obtain an ice shield, then it becomes even more overpowered.

"What do you two think of Esdeath?" Chen Li turned to look at Sayo and Ieyasu, the two local country folk.

“General Esdeath? I heard about her when I first came to the capital. They say she’s a rare good person, very kind to her subordinates and ordinary people, and undefeated in every battle—the strongest general in the empire! When the shopkeepers on the streets of the capital heard that we wanted to join the army to save the village, they all told me to learn from General Esdeath,” Sayo said excitedly.

Sayo, Ieyasu, and Tatsumi, the protagonist of this world, originally went to the capital hoping to make a name for themselves in the army and save their village from its plight.

As a rare female general in the Imperial Army, every female soldier who joined the army naturally strived to emulate Esdeath.

"If General Esdeath wants to become empress, would you support her?" Chen Li asked.

"There's no real question of whether I should support it or not. I feel like it won't be any worse than it is now," Sayo said after thinking for a moment.

"So what's your impression of Esdeath?" Chen Li turned to look at the local privileged class, the nobleman.

"Well, he's an outlier in Minister Ernest's faction. Not only does he never accept bribes, but he also distributes the various rewards bestowed by the emperor or the ministers' gifts of gratitude to his subordinates. I've heard that he always eats with ordinary soldiers in the army, and the morale of the troops he leads is extremely high. He's one of the two pillars of the empire."

"What? General Esdeath is also Minister Ernest's lackey?" Sayo looked at the nobleman in great surprise.

Even country bumpkins like Shayou, who had only been in the capital for a day, had heard from passersby that the reason the empire's taxes were so heavy was because of the minister, the mastermind behind it all.

"Not really... Esdeath's position is quite unique..." Even the nobleman found it difficult to describe Esdeath.

"I think I understand. So, what if... Esdeath became the Empress? Would you be able to accept that?" Chen Li asked.

"Of course not! She can't make money for us! That rigid woman... I'm sorry, Master." The nobleman, suddenly realizing his current status, quickly began to apologize.

“I’m in a good mood now, too lazy to beat you up. Very well, you officials and nobles don’t want Esdeath to be empress. The Revolutionary Army certainly doesn’t want Esdeath to be empress either. Isn’t that perfect? ​​You’re unhappy, but I’m the one who’s happy.” Chen Li suddenly laughed after hearing the nobleman’s reply.

Most importantly, Sayo and Iyeas, as ordinary people, did not object.

Very good, I understand. I'll turn all the demons and monsters in the capital into ice slimes one by one, and then go to Esdeath to start a rebellion!

Esdeath Ice Slime is invincible, right?

Compared to ordinary human soldiers, ice slimes are a more suitable subordinate for Esdeath!

Moreover, it is said that Esdeath has a hidden technique called "Ice Storm General," which allows her to create a large number of ice cavalry. These cavalry not only possess combat power that ordinary soldiers cannot match, but they can also store the energy of the Imperial Arms, enough for at least several days. Esdeath can then release the energy stored over the past few days in one go during the final battle, creating a massive blizzard.

Why bother with ice riders? Ice slimes are much better!

What? Esdeath disagrees?

Then punch her until she kneels, and let the ice slime hang Esdeath up and whip her for three days and three nights, and she'll agree.

Listen to me, the Ice Slime is the most suitable subordinate for you.

If you don't obey, the Ice Slime will be your most troublesome enemy.

Chen Li never intended to discuss it with Esdeath.

91

Chapter 91 Chen Li: Even a savior needs to eat!

"Emmm..." Chen Li, with a ghost floating beside him, stared into thought as he looked at the slime in front of him.

The ice slime created by combining the Joyful Dice with the Miracle Card Cleanse Master struck Chen Li as particularly interesting.

It's cool and refreshing, and it looks more solid than regular slime.

This is the first unlucky person Chen Li encountered while traveling in the capital at night.

Chen Li activated the effect of [Cleaning Master], spending merit to turn it into a slime. [Joyful Dice] added an extra effect within this "Field" (World), transforming it into an ice slime. Due to the opponent's grave sins, punishing evil and upholding justice triggered the passive effect of the Merit Balance, increasing Chen Li's merit by 45 coins.

Excellent, as expected of Yu-Gi-Oh!

With more Oddities and Miracles having passive effects in the future, it's unknown how many chain effects can be triggered when activating the effect of a certain Oddity or Miracle.

"This capital city is truly delightful; you can even find walking gold coins of merit on the streets. Let me see your sentence... 589 years? You're really despicable." Chen Li was shocked after glancing at the other party's sentence.

Everyone in the capital is incredibly talented! And their words are so harsh!

"Then for the rest of the time, you'll be moving around within the capital city. As a cleaner, you'll be giving this capital a thorough cleaning." Chen Li, feeling sorry for the other party's deep sins, patted the round ice slime, which was about a meter in diameter, and then defined its range of movement.

As a user of the Miracle Card, Chen Li is able to control the Slime Cleaner to a certain extent.

It can issue simple commands and define the cleaning area.

No matter how long you train them, at most you can only teach them what it means to rush forward, to stop, and to retreat.

However, since slimes don't have brains, ideas like confining their movement to a factory or ordering them to tighten screws are impossible; they can't do such delicate work.

The only skill they are born with that doesn't need to be taught is cleaning.

Chen Li only cleaned up a small part of the garbage in the capital city, so he has not yet received any feedback on his achievements.

Although Chen Li could treat dealing with this person as a cleanup action and immediately receive corresponding random rewards and merits, the larger the scope of the cleanup, the higher the final reward. Chen Li wanted to save the rewards for last and make a big splash!

"Then it's time to deal with your matter... Why are you looking at me like that? Do you have a problem with me?" Chen Li turned his head to look at the girl who was leaning against the wall of the alley after he flicked her on the head, staring intently at him.

“If I remember correctly, your name should be… Seryu Ubiquitas, right?” Chen Li asked.

"As expected, you know me! A despicable criminal like you must have been a thief caught by my master before, right? Because of this, you held a grudge and used some unknown evil spirit to turn my respected master into this state!" The girl looked at Chen Li with a face full of anger.

"Sigh..." Chen Li sighed.

The guy he just turned into an ice slime was Ouka, the captain of the Imperial Capital Garrison. Chen Li remembered that in the backstory, Ouka's nickname was "Ouka the Demon." He colluded with an oil merchant whose name he didn't know to illegally make huge profits and framed and killed many innocent people.

The 45 merit coins that were found on the other party also represent that the other party deserved their punishment.

At the same time, Chen Li's series of actions also allowed him to obtain more star stones.

Defeating Arya's family yielded 200 Star Stones, and defeating the Demon Ouka yielded 50 Star Stones.

Compared to ordinary people, they are quite valuable, probably because they are indeed very useful in advancing the plot.

Transmigrators have such great talent; they can get rewards just by causing trouble in another world.

The girl in front of them was named Seryu Ubiquitas, and she was the captain's apprentice.

The reason Chen Li didn't know how to deal with the girl in front of him was that although his master was a wicked man, she had become a member of the guard team who upheld justice under the careful guidance of Oni no Ouka.

Euca's original intention was to better control this tool, but it brought Chen Li a little trouble.

Although the other party's concept of "justice" is actually somewhat distorted, leading to a slightly harsher approach to criminals, Chen Li can at least not see much sin in her now.

“Young lady, don’t be sold out and then help the seller count the money, okay? If I told you that your master isn’t a good person, and even plans to sell you for a good price after a while, would you believe me?” Chen Li asked.

"Shut up! You villain, you're not allowed to insult my master like that!" Upon hearing Chen Li's words, Seryu, fueled by her anger, slowly stood up.

"The power of anger is indeed great. Let me think about how to deal with you... Never mind, I guess I'll have to rely on the omnipotent Pleasure Dice." A die radiating a dazzling pink light appeared in Chen Li's hand. Then, after Seryu rushed in front of him, he flicked her forehead, sending her flying.

Chen Li was not surprised that Seryu was able to get up and charge at him again, because Chen Li had not used much force to begin with.

On the contrary, the fact that a single flick on the head could keep the other person from getting up for a long time made Chen Li realize once again just how strong and fast the enhancement of his physical abilities brought about by the Gourmet Cells was.

As long as there's an abundance of all sorts of strange and delicious food, your physical fitness will improve rapidly, like riding a rocket.

What if Chen Li uses the Pleasure Dice and the result is less than 10?

Then let's just leave Seryu as is.

After all, it's not a big problem.