John walked towards the first spot with green special codes. These weren’t lying on the floor in a neat cluster form; instead, they were spreading over an area of a half-ter radius, shimring like a digital moss. They pulsed with a rhythmic, erald light, making no distinct shape in his normal vision.
He simply stretched out his hand to touch the rugged surface of the dungeon wall where the special codes resided. The mont his fingertips made contact, he received a system notification that made his heart skip a beat.
[Ding! You discovered Bug Dungeon 51 Source Code Fragnt!]
[Ding! Stay put for one minute, and the system will extract the code for you!]
"Extract? Source Code Fragnt?" John was startled, yet he didn’t move his hand away from the green cluster. He stood frozen, feeling a strange warmth seeping through his skin as the digital extraction began. He waited with much anticipation, his mind racing through what Source Code ant in reality.
[Ding! You acquired Bug Dungeon 51 Source Code Fragnt.]
[Ding! You can use the Code Fragnt to code a potion!]
[Ding! 10 ntal Points are deducted to extract the Code Fragnt!]
"A potion? Now I’ll be an alchemist!" John muttered, quickly getting over the ten points deducted to focus on the weight of the system’s words. He raised an eyebrow, feeling sothing soft and humming fall into his palm. It was a cluster of green codes.
When he looked back at the spot these green codes had occupied, he recoiled. It was now a dark, swirling void! It felt like the system had literally ripped a piece of the dungeon’s foundational structure out, leaving a hole in the dungeon itself.
"Hmm, there are four more like this," he whispered, his eyes scanning the hall after getting the first green cluster. "What type of potion will I make using these codes? Is it just a high-level MP or HP Regeneration potion?"
[Ding! A Bug ans a breakdown in the world’s structure! And that requires a lot of power. The Bug Dungeon 51 Source Code Fragnt you have holds an imnse amount of power, plus the intent and logic to destruct and construct!]
"Sorry, lost you halfway there," John sighed. He didn’t know when his system had beco this generous in explaining things in such detail, but it was getting a bit too complicated for his current state of exhaustion. "Can you tell sothing brief so I can understand?"
[Ding! It holds evolution codes!]
[Ding! The potion you’ll make will enable any normal human to unlock their attributes! To you, it’s useless, but to others, it’s priceless!]
[Ding! 1 ntal Point is deducted!]
"What the heck?!!!" John froze midway. He had been walking towards the next green-coded spot, but the information hit him like a blow. "Are you kidding ? This cluster of green codes can make the Miraculous Potion?!"
His mind imdiately flashed back to the first lecture given by Nikolas. He rembered the small bottle with the blue liquid the professor had held up. Nikolas had described it as being incredibly rare, prohibitively expensive, and the only hope for the students to unlock their attributes.
John stood motionless for a long mont, trying to process the magnitude of this discovery.
"It ans I can now make potions that can unlock attributes and add special abilities! I can turn a loser into a formidable force..." He paused, a dark shadow of doubt crossing his mind. "Wait, if I can make this, does it an Ricky can also make one? Did he find these codes before?"
The thought startled him, but he quickly dismissed it with a shake of his head. "No, he didn’t even finish the dungeon in the first place! Besides, these fragnts aren’t just loot or a dropped item. He doesn’t have a system that can extract source code, and he doesn’t have the abilities I have to code them into a real potion!"
As he realised he held a monopoly, his thoughts shifted toward the social and political power he now possessed. "Helping soone to unlock their attributes must co with a price. I won’t just randomly pick soone; I need to find the right person—soone who will be loyal, soone I can use to build my own faction in the future."
He knew that by holding the ans to make such a potion, he held the power to change soone’s destiny. That was a heavy burden and a lethal weapon. He needed to be cautious with his generosity to ensure that whoever received this life-changing favour would remain in his debt forever.
"I already have a na in my mind," John said, his gaze hardening. He didn’t need to think further; there was one suitable person for this potion. But first, he needed to successfully brew the thing.
He moved across the hall, visiting one green-lit spot after another. He repeated the extraction process until he had gathered five Bug Dungeon 51 Source Code Fragnts in total. He looked down at the five glowing green clusters in his hands, comparing them to the Iron Codes he used for his weaponry.
"The sword needed ten Iron Codes back then," he mused, his brow furrowing as he returned to his pile of loot. "Will five of these code fragnts be enough to synthesise a potion?"
He had his doubts, but there was only one way to find out. He decided to give it a try first and worry later. He stood amidst the piles of fabric, iron, and potions, and centred himself.
"I’ll do it the sa way I did with the Iron Codes... Shell!"
The ability’s black window appeared in front of him, but his eyes were fixated on the five green cluster codes on the ground. Like how it had happened earlier with the Iron Codes, the code fragnts vanished as if sucked into a digital vacuum, only to be replaced by five distinct code lines on the Shell’s interface.
[PARAM Unlock_Limiters = False;]
[PARAM Purge_Human_Weakness = 0.2;]
[PARAM Structural_Reinforcent = 0.2;]
[PARAM Synaptic_Speed = 0.2;]
[PARAM latent_affinity = False;]
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