Wizards begin by accessing the Inspiration panel.

Chapter 232 Spray Modification

"But this isn't my mission at all; it's clearly Hera's own mission."

But Matisse obviously didn't dare say such things out loud; he could only secretly complain to himself.

Furthermore, there was another layer of meaning in Helara's words: the assassination squads within the organization were all currently on missions, and Mattis had to find manpower or complete these missions himself.

This is practically making things difficult!

But there's no way around it; wherever there are people, there will be struggle.

It's because he, along with his backers, are not from the same faction as Hera.

"Lady Hera, may I request two Ghost Flowers in advance? I believe I will be able to complete this task then."

Hera did not answer Mattis's request.

Her face was hidden under her hood and could not be clearly seen.

She fiddled with the seal ring on her right ring finger for a while, then said:

"Okay! I agree to your request. I will issue you an order immediately so that you can receive part of the reward in advance."

"but."

"If the mission fails again, I think, Mattis, whatever your reasons may be, you will have to bear the consequences yourself."

Although Helala agreed to Mattis's request, she also blocked Mattis's way out.

"Of course, Lady Hera, if I fail again, I will personally go to the Price family and ask Madam Benita to forgive my incompetence!" Mattis bowed slightly, and from his expression, he seemed to say it with great confidence.

Mattis knew that Hralakan had agreed to give him an advance on the Ghost Flower, probably because of Vice President Dawn.

But as long as the other party agrees, that's fine.

As for how to complete the mission, Mattis already had his own plans.

In the study on the second floor, after Mattis left with Herara's warrant, Claudia, nicknamed "Dark Bow," turned to Herara and asked:

"Sir, are you sure Mattis can complete this task?"

There are some things that are obviously not easy to say in front of Mattis, but now that he's gone, it doesn't matter anymore.

"Heh, whether Mattis can complete the mission or not, what does it have to do with me?" Hera chuckled softly.

Judging from Hera's relaxed expression, it seems that the failure of Claudia's group's mission did not cause her much distress.

Hera glanced at Claudia, noticing her subordinate still frowning, and inwardly cursed her as an idiot, but aloud offered an explanation:

"Claudia, this mission didn't come through the military intelligence network, so it's not included in the regional mission evaluation."

"So, if Mattis fails to complete the mission, he either has to go to his patron Lord Dawn, or he has to go to the Price family and Madam Benita to explain himself."

"Tell me, why should I worry?"

After hearing Hera's explanation, Claudia suddenly understood.

After receiving two Ghost Flowers in advance, Mattis sought out a master potion maker within the organization.

Three days later, Mattis took the two potions he had successfully created to a secluded valley.

The valley appears to be surrounded by a protective magic array. On the surface, it looks like a cliff, but once you step inside, you discover a completely different world.

A secluded path winds its way into the depths of the valley.

The trees surrounding the valley are layered in distinct ways, including tall ferns and short vines, but these plants all seem to have been polluted in some way, giving them a peculiar and strange feel.

Mattis seemed completely unaware, following the path with practiced ease, walking step by step into the cave. After walking more than a hundred meters, he stopped in front of a cave.

"Your Excellency Mobutu, I am Matisse, and I have come to visit you!"

At this moment, a deep, resonant voice rang out, but it was intermittent, and the speaker seemed to be speaking unclearly:

"Mattis, that name sounds familiar... I remember now, you're that lizard man."

Seemingly remembering who Matisse really was, the being in the cave decided to come out.

"Thump! Thump!"

The ground began to shake.

Judging from the sound, the other person must be very large and heavy; otherwise, there wouldn't be such a dull thud in their footsteps.

Sure enough, a moment later, a huge body more than four meters tall slowly emerged from the shadows.

Because the entrance to the cave was shaded by tall tree branches and backlit, the other person's appearance was not clearly visible. However, what was astonishing was that the other person's shadow on the ground was shaped like an octopus.

A few seconds later, after the other person had completely emerged from the shadows, their full appearance was revealed.

Above the neck is an octopus head with eight tentacles flying everywhere, and below the neck is the body of a swamp giant, its surface covered with moss and various fungi.

Mattis, on the other hand, remained calm, as if he already knew what Mobutu looked like.

"Your Excellency Mobutu, this is a pain-relieving potion. I hope you will like it."

"Pain potion? That's great. Thank you, Mattis. My friend, I didn't expect you to remember me."

Mobutu spoke this sentence much more fluently.

The octopus's large eyes stared at Mattis with a delighted expression, and a tentacle slowly reached out and took the purple glass bottle that Mattis had taken out.

"Mattis, you brought pain-relieving medicine with you this time. It can't be just to visit me, right? What's the matter? Tell me."

Mattis froze, inwardly cursing, "Wasn't Mobutu supposed to be on the verge of a mental breakdown? How can he still be so lucid? It seems the aftereffects of the Nightmare Church's forbidden techniques aren't as terrible as the legends say!"

Mobutu was once a priest of the Nightmare Church, and later fought against many wizards when the Nightmare Church stronghold in Tug City was besieged.

Finally, he managed to escape using a forbidden technique.

However, Mobutu later became what he is now due to the aftereffects of the forbidden technique.

Although Mattis was several meters away from the other party, he could clearly sense that there seemed to be some kind of pollutant inside the other party's body, which was radiating waves.

Mattis instinctively felt a wave of disgust!

Mobutu still suffers from severe aftereffects; painkillers, which would normally cause intense stimulation to a wizard, actually work as painkillers for him.

I heard that after he drank the pain-relieving potion, he was able to sleep soundly, but the effect only lasted for a few days.

"Your Excellency Mobutu, I do have something on my end that might require your help," Mattis said, rubbing his hands together as if embarrassed that his lord had seen through him.

"Haha, Matisse, I'm in a good mood right now. Tell me about your business, and maybe I'll agree." Mobutu laughed heartily upon seeing this, seemingly amused by Matisse's actions as well.

The laughter was so loud that the surrounding trees shed their leaves!

Upon seeing this, Mattis immediately stopped trying to hide it and said directly, "Your Excellency Mobutu, I would like to ask you to retrieve something for me, a black mirror."

"Currently, the mirror is in the hands of a young human necromancer in Tug City. However, the problem is that he is not living alone."

"Including him, there are two high-level first-class wizards and one low-level first-class wizard, making a total of three formal wizards together."

Just as Mattis was about to continue his presentation, Mobutu suddenly interrupted him.

"Mattis, the number of ordinary wizards doesn't mean much to me unless they're second-level archmages. Tell me, what are you willing to pay me if I help you? If there's nothing that tempts me, you can go back."

"Of course, Your Excellency Mobutu, you will certainly need what I have prepared for you. A precious bottle of Nightmare Potion, naturally, after the mission is completed."

"What? Nightmare potion! Give it to me now!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mobutu's octopus eyes widened instantly.

The eight tentacles around Mobutu's head, which had been curled up, suddenly stretched out and shot towards Mattis.

Mattis hadn't expected Mobutu to attack him so suddenly. Although he instantly cast an elemental shield, he was immediately lifted up by tentacles along with the shield and moved into mid-air, where he faced off against the four-meter-tall Mobutu.

"Lord Mobutu! What are you trying to do? I didn't bring the Nightmare Potion with me. Besides, I already told someone before I came that unless I come to collect it myself, don't trust anyone. So, please remain calm!"

Although flustered, Mattis, who was being pulled up by the tentacles, still managed to clearly express his meaning.

This immediately brought Mobutu back to his senses from his hunger and thirst, and he stood still, seemingly deep in thought.

After a while, he said, "Nightmare Potion, I've been searching for it for a long time. Where did you find it?"

"Your Excellency Mobutu, you should put me down first, otherwise, how can I tell you?"

-

Five days later, in Tug City.

Since the last assassination attempt, Fana has further strengthened her defenses.

The Grey Dwarf Brotherhood took great care of Richard, the alchemist master, and specially arranged guards to protect him on his journey and at his residence.

Meanwhile, Richard was tinkering with something in the alchemy room of Fana's villa.

A massive mountain of flesh lay sprawled on the floor of the alchemy chamber within a huge magic array.

It turns out that Richard was carefully modifying the hateful, thick neck.

It appears that the entire renovation process is quite challenging.

Indeed, this is the case. Modifications to the neck require ingenious design and stable, safe spell-drawing techniques. They must not damage the blood vessels, tendons, and nerves in the abomination's neck, while also enabling the abomination to control and spit venom autonomously.

Therefore, the entire renovation process involves a very high level of technical expertise.

In the past few days, Richard exchanged his share of the spoils from the two gray-robed men last time for magic stones.

Then, Fingart used these magic stones to buy some monsters for Fingart to kill, thereby earning energy points.

Using the Inspiration Panel, Richard practiced the modified process of the vengeful spirit's hateful breath, which he was not yet familiar with, repeatedly in the dream space.

Finally, just yesterday, Richard was fortunate enough to hear the system notification:

[Beep! Unknown modification attempt successful. Please name it, host?]

"Abomination Venom Spray Modification Technique!"

two hours later

Richard had already cut open the vengeful spirit's neck and placed a pouch made of a special material inside. After stuffing it in, he had intricately drawn several magic circles with different effects around it, which were now emitting different colored lights.

Richard wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead, feeling quite excited.

Currently, the entire renovation project is more than halfway complete and everything is going smoothly!

It is expected to be finished in about an hour.

However, the already ugly abomination now looks even uglier. In order to successfully spew out highly corrosive venom, the venom-containing sac is designed to resemble some creatures with the ability to breathe, such as swamp wyverns.

Furthermore, to improve practicality, Richard modified two sacs on either side of the Abomination's thick neck to store venom.

As expected, the crystal core of the Poison Spring Surger can slowly absorb discrete energy particles from the air, and it takes about a day to fill a sac with venom.

The two sachets will take almost a whole day to prepare.

In fact, Richard had already created a pouch-like space on the upper part of the stomach on the side of the esophagus that was filled with hatred.

Therefore, in actual combat, the Wraith Abomination can use the modified ability of venom spitting a total of three times.

If you want to use it again after one and a half days, you can spray the venom three more times.

Richard had considered creating more pouches to increase the frequency with which the vengeful spirits would release venom.

But this is extremely difficult!

As for the current renovation plan, it was only barely completed by Richard after expending a lot of energy points in the dream space and with the help of a massive amount of inspiration.

To continue improving, you either need to use a large amount of energy points to continue evolving!

Either return to the school as soon as possible and learn about the relevant knowledge of Abomination Modification, then you will be able to complete the secondary modification of Abomination Venom Spray with less energy!

However, these are all things for the future, and we won't consider them for now.

Richard's plan is to complete the modifications as soon as possible to make the equipment combat-ready. Although the modifications may not be perfect, they just need to be practical.

An hour later, the renovation was finally completed.

Once Richard recited the incantation to awaken the vengeful spirit, the entire transformation process was essentially complete.

The next step is to put it to the test in real-world situations.

Let's see if the abomination can freely control the release of venom from the sac.

Because Stephena was quite interested in Richard's modification experiments and had been observing for a long time, when she heard that Richard wanted to test Abomination's new abilities, she volunteered to try it out.

"Master, how about I test the results of the transformation of the vengeful spirit?" Stephania's beautiful eyes sparkled, seemingly quite interested in the test.

"Alright! But, Stephania, remember to concentrate. If you see anything amiss, immediately use your innate sorcery to dodge the poison."

Richard agreed to Stephanie's request after a moment's thought.

With her innate ability to switch between shadows and magic, Stephania can completely avoid the venom that splashes everywhere.

If it were anyone else, it wouldn't necessarily be safe; they really can't compare to Stephanie, including myself.

(End of this chapter)