bookbashuk Chapter 35 Knowledge Explosion
Chapter 35 Knowledge Explosion
[Consuming Chaos Essence: ...]
[Already forged: "The Anderson Wilderness Survival Guide"]
[Already completed: "A History of Geographical Changes in the Storm Sea and the Central Continent"]
[Already forged: "The Witch's Cauldron: 500 Practical Potion Recipes"]
[Already forged: Scales, Claws, Tail, Wings: A Comprehensive Study of Dragon Subspecies]
[Already forged: "Introduction to Alchemy: Starting with Understanding the Elemental Realms"]
[Already forged: Bloodline Mysteries: Werewolves, Orcs, and Demi-humans]
[Already forged: "The Book of Dwarves and Hatred: Cold Jokes You Need to Watch Out For"]
[Already compiled: "My 99 Failures and 1 Success - The Tames Experiment Diary"]
[Already forged: "The Boundary Between Shadows and Entities, Forgotten Energy-State Life - Legends of the Void Spirits"]
……
As the reserves of chaotic source matter gradually decrease.
One book after another. Enveloped in purplish-black light particles, the books gradually vanished into nothingness. The words and images peeled away from the dissipating pages, floating in the air and arranging themselves into flowing ribbons of light, etching "knowledge" into Luo Lan's mind.
Whether it was books scattered on the ground or on the counter, or thick hardcover books leaning on the bookshelves, or notebooks pressed under piles of parchment scrolls, nothing was missed.
[Already melted down...]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 5000]
When the last copy in his hand turned into particles of light and dissipated, Luo Lan felt that his brain was about to burst from being crammed with these alien characters in such a short period of time.
Correspondingly, in just half an hour, they devoured more than ten books completely.
This has filled Luo Lan's mind with all sorts of bizarre and incomplete knowledge.
[Adventurer's Wilderness Knowledge lv.0.5]
[Akquaid Geography lv.0.3]
[Common Monster Anatomy lv.0.4]
[Potion Physiology lv.0.2]
……
Now Luo Lan roughly knows: how ordinary human adventurers should survive in the wilderness, how many continents and oceans this world has, and he also knows a little about how many bones a common low-level monster has, and he has even figured out the ingredients of some basic magic potions...
However, because these dozen or so books belong to different fields, their knowledge has generally not reached level 1.
This feeling is like I understand something, but it's also like I only have a superficial understanding.
He's all talk and no action; if you really asked Luo Lan to explain something coherent, he certainly wouldn't be able to come up with anything truly useful.
However, in this chaotic sweep, only one fundamental skill accumulated early on, reaching the critical point of qualitative change from quantitative accumulation.
[Akquad Common Language lv.1: You have learned the common language of the various races of Akquad, and can now listen, speak, read, and write it in daily life.]
This is exactly what Luo Lan needs most urgently.
Learn knowledge like crazy, and you'll become illiterate in no time!
Now, looking at all the bottles and jars in the room, Luo Lan could understand the labels on them.
Those characters began to automatically combine and translate within Luo Lan's consciousness, transforming into meanings he could fluently understand:
"Extracted Magic Essence", "Pure Mercury", "Moonlight Grass Extract", "Mandragora Root Tincture", "Nightmare Beast's Nightmare Saliva", "Soul Thief's Aerial Whispers"...
The room was full of alchemy materials, but Luo Lan had no intention of tinkering with them for the time being.
Given Luo Lan's current rudimentary alchemy skills, rashly conducting experiments would only result in a waste of materials.
Luo Lan turned around. Now, in the entire research room, only the ancient hardcover book that had previously emitted arcane light remained on the wooden table in the very center.
Luo Lan deliberately saved this extraordinary-looking book for last, hoping to gain some advanced and extraordinary knowledge from it.
After the soreness in his brain from "eating" the book subsided somewhat, Luo Lan turned the pages and activated [Condensation] again.
The purplish-black particles surged from the palm and touched the book cover, but it was as if they had hit some invisible barrier. The light particles bounced back from the surface of the pages and retracted into the palm.
【fail.】
This item is of too high a tier to be [forged].
"what?"
Luo Lan was dumbfounded. How could this possibly fail?
Since he transmigrated to this other world, [Condensation] has never failed him. Whether it was dealing with the stitched-up zombie horde, devouring the Thunder Crocodile, or even just now fusing other books one after another, it has worked incredibly well.
But now we've encountered this situation.
[No. I remember...]
After calming down, Luo Lan vaguely recalled the complete prompt that echoed in her mind when she first activated [Condensation]:
[Condensation: Can absorb all unclaimed chaotic derivatives, transforming, purifying, and condensing them into chaotic essence; can consume chaotic essence, using all things as materials to assemble, strengthen, and fuse any target. (The targets of the above abilities cannot exceed the host's current soul rank +2)]
"The above abilities cannot be applied to targets exceeding the host's current soul rank +2."
An important ability note, which Luo Lan had overlooked because the ability had never failed.
Most importantly, Luo Lan doesn't know his current soul level, let alone how to judge whether the extraordinary level of the target of his abilities exceeds his own soul level by more than two levels.
It's also thanks to the fact that the monsters in this underground palace are generally not of a high extraordinary level, which has allowed Luo Lan to rely on [Condensation] to fight his way up to this point.
What to do if the cheating ability of directly "eating books" is no longer usable?
Just read it honestly.
Luo Lan has now mastered [Akquad Common Language lv.1], so at least he can understand the otherworldly language.
Dragging over a heavy hardwood chair, the eight spider spears obediently retracted behind him. Adjusting his posture, Luo Lan sat down on the somewhat petite chair, placing his two-meter-tall stitched corpse body on it.
Luo Lan was prepared to spend a long time "studying" this hardcover book.
Full of anticipation, I opened the yellowed pages and quickly skimmed through the whole book.
A problem that was giving Luo Lan a headache has reappeared—
Luo Lan still doesn't understand!
It's true that Luo Lan can now understand the otherworldly language.
But who says that if you master the Xinhua Dictionary, you can understand quantum mechanics?
The book is filled with technical arcane terms that make your scalp crawl, such as "plane folding coefficient," "element collapse state construction," and "chaotic magic recombination threshold."
There were also some large magic array patterns that looked like a tangled mess, with densely packed tiny runes and calculation formulas marked on the side, which Luo Lan also couldn't understand.
Fortunately, this hardcover book is not simply a magic textbook; to be precise, it should be called a "research log".
Aside from the obscure and difficult-to-understand magical incantations and arcane arrays, Luo Lan had no difficulty reading the sections that simply recorded key events.
Turning the book back to the title page, Luo Lan selected the parts she could understand and began to read them carefully:
…………
Stranger, whoever you are.
If you can see this message, it means you have already broken the "Seal of Tames" that I set up outside the door.
This is enough to prove that you are also a wise person who is proficient in shaping rune arcane or life magic, and I'm sure my hard work will not be wasted.
As you can probably tell, although this book is a copy made using the [Mirror Imprinting Technique], I assure you that its contents are entirely true.
It records all my understanding of "new life", and it integrates and organizes the classic theories of many works such as "The Theory of Life in the Rift World", "The Emerald Bible", "The Song of Blood and Flesh, Bone and Spirit", "Constructing Life: From Golems to Flesh Puppets"... and introduces new ideas.
If you can gain something from this, I hope you can continue my unfinished research.
By the way, the book is not entirely composed of rigorous academic content; it also contains some of my personal reflections and diary entries.
There may be some nonsense in this, please don't mind it, just treat it as the ramblings of a lonely old monk.
—Earles Frankenstein, quoting.
…………
Luo Lan couldn't hold back her emotions after just reading the title page.
[Breaking access control, a clever person...]
Luo Lan raised his single eye, looked at the intact door on the wall that was still shimmering with arcane light, and then looked down at the hole in the floor that had been blasted open by [Sonic Shock].
[Yes, I am indeed very clever.]
Skipping over the incomprehensible magical incantations, Luo Lan chose to continue reading the diary-style passages in the book.