I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

Chapter 108 Prerequisites for the Tentacle Project

Murphy doubted for the first time whether he had misread the information, so he scanned the excellent examples in the small box again.

It realized it was wrong.

It's not that only slimes have "girl" in their name, but rather that slimes with "girl" at the end of their name account for 90% of slime modifications.

The other core organisms weren't much better off.

What tentacled girl? What water elemental girl? What ice elemental girl?

There's even a stone girl?

Murphy: <；（OoO）>；

It felt a slight itch in its head again.

However, the itching just now was because I saw a god, and the itching now is probably because I saw a god-man.

As a race that has no distinction between male and female, and even no blood relation.

Murphy truly couldn't understand why these humans, even such intelligent humans, would have such strange ideas.

Shocked, respectful, but incomprehensible.

Who knows what these people are up to?

These smart people wouldn't be so idle as to be thinking about how to anthropomorphize some kind of creature, right?

Murphy immediately began to think.

The messenger and Billham, who were standing nearby, saw that Murphy had suddenly fallen into a daze again. Although they felt it was a bit inappropriate to disturb him, they didn't have much time to linger there and had to get on with their business quickly.

So Bilhan took out an amulet that looked like three eyes stacked together, handed it over, and then respectfully asked.

"Mr. Murphy, we have some matters to attend to and need to leave first. I wonder if you could keep this amulet?"

We might need your help to forge some things in the future, so we're hoping to find a way to reach you.

Murphy took the amulet, examined it carefully, nodded, and casually tossed it into a crevice in the rock around his body.

After all, what it is seeing now is actually a reward from the divine messenger for taking care of these believers.

Of course, even without this box, since the customer said they would place orders with them in the future, they should still provide contact information.

Murphy naturally disagreed.

Bill and the messenger breathed a sigh of relief when Murphy accepted the amulet. After thanking him a few times, they straightened the box and dragged it back into the water.

It quickly disappeared onto the surface of the river.

Murphy glanced at it with some surprise. It had initially thought the box was an ordinary magical item, but it seemed to have some kind of invisibility effect.

However, it didn't seem to care and continued looking at the contents of the box.

In fact, Murphy felt that the Cursed Slime Girl still had a lot of room for development.

Because the creator didn't seem to put much effort into the modifications; he was just doing it for fun.

But Murphy did have some new ideas.

For example, in the design of Cursed Slime, there doesn't seem to be any work done on the gel produced when the slime splits.

So Murphy wondered if he could collect all the excess curse energy into the gel.

For the same volume, a gel can certainly contain more energy than a liquid.

If Murphy plans to build any large machinery in the future, energy conversion efficiency will definitely be an extremely important factor.

More importantly, this has nothing to do with Murphy.

But they kept saying that a cold wave was coming, and Murphy naturally kept that in mind.

If the temperature had been lowered at that time, this gel might have had a significant effect.

Besides the Cursed Slime, there are two other evolutionary directions that Murphy is particularly interested in.

The first one might be the Cursed Slime variant, Purified Slime.

Murphy once learned a skill to change his size from a slime.

The direction of this transformation to purify slimes is somewhat biased towards this.

Its ability to transform is equivalent to Murphy's ability to change size, and it can do so freely.

You can also change the properties of your body.

Then it actively generates suction to absorb the curses from different objects.

It absorbs the curse and turns it into curse fuel, but the efficiency is extremely low.

It's nowhere near as efficient as the process of processing mountain kernels.

Or rather, the inspiration for this thing comes from mountain kernels.

Therefore, Murphy's focus on purifying slimes is not on this, but on another aspect.

After the curse is converted into curse fuel, the purified slime cannot withstand such a high intensity of energy, so it will dilute it by constantly reproducing.

It will stop only when the energy content in each slime is appropriate.

This thing seems unremarkable.

But Murphy noticed something.

Even for creatures like slimes, reproduction requires the expenditure of life force and mental energy.

So where do the life force and mental energy it consumes come from?

Yes, it was converted from those cursed energies.

In other words, purifying slimes is not just about purifying the curse; it also allows Murphy to convert the curse's energy into spiritual power and life force!

So what can these two things be used for?

Then we have to mention the last evolutionary direction that Murphy cares about, which is the tentacles that Murphy has been longing for.

This evolutionary path is called Gigantamax Rapid Tentacles.

It has no other significant use except that it can consume more life force to make the tentacles grow larger and faster.

With Murphy's current technology, it's naturally impossible for him to research and develop those mechanically made tentacles.

Therefore, it can only use biological modification to complete its tentacle engineering network.

Therefore, it is natural to need to consume an enormous amount of tentacles as experimental materials and raw materials for making the tentacle engineering network.

However, although Murphy's location is not far from the sea, that sea is the Blood Sea of ​​the South.

Although Murphy didn't know the specifics of the situation there, he had heard from others that the place was very dangerous.

Therefore, if we want to reach out, we need to transport it from other sea areas further away.

Murphy needs more than just one or two; he might need hundreds or even thousands. Putting aside the price, the very question of whether he can even catch these tentacle-covered creatures is a huge problem.

Therefore, Murphy's thoughts naturally came together at this moment.

First and foremost, we need to implement the cursed slime technique or at least research the relevant technology.

If it needs to extract a large amount of cursed fuel in the future, the gel cursed fuel can be prevented from spontaneously combusting by the high concentration of magic, but the liquid cursed fuel cannot.

Therefore, in terms of both portability and safety, gel-cursed fuel is superior.

Secondly, Murphy planned to thoroughly study the purifying slime as well.

Putting aside the possibility that this thing might affect the tentacle technology Murphy plans to develop in the future.

The fact that it can provide spiritual energy is a very important factor for Murphy, who may need a lot of spiritual energy to carve spiritual objects in the future.

So now the question is...

After looking at it carefully, it discovered...

Even disregarding the tentacle at the back, the raw materials for the first two slime modifications, namely the core, don't seem to come from this area.

Just like Murphy's core is to attract anti-magic stones.

The slime cores naturally differ depending on the region.

Transforming the core into different directions of evolution and directly modifying the core are two completely different levels of difficulty.

It would be very difficult for Murphy to do that at his current level.

Not to mention the core of the tentacle creature, Murphy had no idea where to obtain it.

No, wait, I think I've got it.

With the reach of the Human Alliance Business Network, as long as you have the money, you can buy any of these things with a snap of my fingers.

I finally remembered why I came to this dock; I think I was originally going to the village.

I was so busy doing this and that I forgot about it.