Allen carefully examined the several panels and immediately made up his mind: once he returned to Kaer Morhen, he would arrange everything at once.
He had long been troubled by the fact that the Witcher Corps found it difficult to participate in high-intensity combat.
Establishing a base in The Valley of Thousand Monsters, and rapidly increasing the Witcher Corps' strength by raising the density of monsters in the environment, had been a choice forced upon him by necessity.
But now, it seemed he had obtained another path to enhancing the Witcher Corps' combat power.
Of course!
This did not conflict with establishing a new Wolf School base in the Valley of Thousand Monsters. On the contrary, the two complemented each other.
"The Red Rider Standard Synchronized Breathing Method is the core. The Red Rider Temporary Training Ground Blueprint, the Red Rider Standard Synchronized corps Combat Spell: Blade, the Red Rider Standard Synchronized corps Defensive Spell: Shield, and even the alchemical blueprint for the Wild Hunt Skeleton Horse were all created and improved to accelerate the learning speed of the Standard Synchronized Breathing Method."
"The requirements of Strength 10, Agility 10, Constitution 20, Perception 30, and Mystery 20 are not low, but after all, this is not a high-tier skill. It is a core prepared for large-scale armies, so it cannot demand too much."
"Constitution and Perception are the Wolf School witchers' advantageous attributes. After passing the Trial of the Mountains, a witcher only needs about ten years of natural growth to meet the requirements of the Red Rider Standard Synchronized Breathing Method."
"If training is deliberately focused in this direction, the growth time can be shortened even further. With the use of Heart Essence Fluid, even witcher apprentices who have just passed the Trial can meet the requirements at an extremely fast pace."
"And compared to the Red Riders, the Wolf School not only has Heart Essence Fluid and purification spirits—"
Allen's mind stirred.
[Resonance]
[Level: 2]
[Type: Corps Skill]
[Active Effect: When corps members simultaneously use the same magic skill, the corps commander has a small chance to gain controllable resonance, increasing the power and effect of the skill.]
In fact, he had never given up on allowing the Witcher Corps to explore the release conditions of "Resonance."
Unfortunately, although experience with various Signs could be improved through achievement points, there had been little progress with "Resonance."
This was not surprising.
The Standard Synchronized Breathing Method was clearly a military core technique created and optimized countless times by the Alder Folk, who must have gathered untold numbers of talents and spent many years refining it.
For the Wolf School to try to figure it out in mere months—even with the bonus from a Corps Skill—was indeed somewhat arrogant.
When he had the Witcher Corps train, he had never expected it to take shape quickly. His aim was simply to raise the level of Corps Skill: Resonance a bit more, reduce the difficulty, and start training early as preparation.
It was just that managing the loyalty of the Witcher Corps members was not an easy matter either.
But now, there was clearly no need to delay any longer.
The Standard Synchronized Breathing Method, the Red Rider Standard Synchronized corps Combat Spell: Blade, and the Red Rider Standard Synchronized corps Defensive Spell: Shield almost perfectly met the requirements of Corps Skill: Resonance.
The Witcher Corps would learn faster than the Red Riders, and the spells they released would be stronger.
Of course, this did not mean that the Wolf School could surpass the Red Riders in terms of baseline combat strength.
That was impossible!
The Red Riders were an elite force accumulated over hundreds or thousands of years by the Alder Folk, and further forged through wars across the worlds, harvesting massive resources.
Moreover, even though the Alder Folk had low fertility, their population base was still there, making it cheaper to cultivate them than to train a qualified witcher.
As for expanding the Witcher Corps' recruitment pool—
Although the requirements of Strength 10, Agility 10, Constitution 20, Perception 30, and Mystery 20 were not high for the Wolf School, they were already heights that ordinary humans could hardly reach in a lifetime.
While it was possible to forcibly stack attributes using Heart Essence Fluid and purification spirits, the consumption would be too great.
It would require Allen to invest even more in hunting ordinary monsters, and it might not be cost-effective.
For now, the Witcher Corps could only be selected from among witchers.
Therefore, In the short term, surpassing the Red Rider unit was still an impossible task for the Witcher Corps.
However—
"Being able to turn the Witcher Corps from a sidelined, even drag-down role into a force that cannot be ignored on the battlefield is already very good," Allen thought. "As for everything else, we'll take it slowly."
The witcher decided to continue opening treasure chests.
[Ding! Aen Elle Treasure Chest ×5 opened!]
Five rays of golden light burst forth.
Because these were treasure chests related to the Alder Folk, Allen still did not skip the cutscene, instead waiting quietly.
Unfortunately, the cutscene did not contain anything as extremely useful as the chest of Centurion Renakins Galleon Price.
Or rather, Renakins Galleon Price himself already represented a high degree of overlap with the Aen Elle treasure chests.
Renakins Galleon Price's chest was like a university student who had already graduated from high school—still a student, but whose learning content was no longer comparable to the "high-school student" Aen Elle chests that only went back and forth between dormitory and classroom every day.
Very soon,
The five rays of golden light gradually faded.
[Ding! Obtained: Wild Hunt Standard Ice Spike Spell ×1, Potion Formula: Enhanced Blizzard ×1, Potion Formula: Enhanced Full Moon ×1, Wild Hunt Standard Lightning Spell ×1, Bomb Recipe: Samum Bomb ×1]
[Name: Wild Hunt Standard Ice Spike Spell]
[Type: Water-Element Veteran Spell]
[Learning Requirement: Water Affinity 40, Mystery 70]
[Effect: You can use Ice Spike to summon a spike of ice with extremely low temperature, extremely strong penetration, and extremely high flight speed, whose power is limited only by the caster's magic.]
[Remark: A veteran spell with a structure so exquisite and concise that it would drive Ban Ard and Aretuza mad, representing several top-tier Brotherhood of Sorcerers papers—and a rising new star among sorcerers! It's just a pity you're a witcher—]
[Name: Enhanced Blizzard]
[Type: Potion Formula]
[Brewing Requirement: Alchemy LV5]
[Formula: Alcohest ×1, Blizzard ×1, Celandine ×1, White Crape Myrtle Petals ×5, Golem Heart ×1]
[Effect: When in danger, time slows down. Duration increased.]
[Remark: Bullet time?]
[Name: Enhanced Full Moon]
[Type: Potion Formula]
[Brewing Requirement: Alchemy LV5]
[Formula: Alcohest ×1, Full Moon ×1, Crow's Eye ×1, Wolfsbane ×2, Dark Essence ×1]
[Effect: After consumption, increases maximum vitality. Duration increased.]
[Remark: When Full Moon is mentioned, what do you think of?]
[Name: Wild Hunt Standard Lightning Spell]
[Type: Wind-Element Veteran Spell]
[Learning Requirement: Wind Affinity 40, Mystery 70]
[Effect: You can use Lightning to summon a bolt with extremely high flight speed, extremely strong penetration, and extremely fast casting speed, whose power is limited only by the caster's magic.]
[Remark: A veteran spell with a structure so exquisite and concise that it would drive Ban Ard and Aretuza mad, representing several top-tier Brotherhood of Sorcerers papers—and a rising new star among sorcerers! It's just a pity you're a witcher—]
[Name: Samum]
[Type: Bomb Recipe]
[Brewing Requirement: Alchemy LV2]
[Formula: Saltpeter ×1, Celandine ×2]
[Effect:
1. Blinds enemies within the explosion radius.
2. Destroys monster nests.]
[Remark: Samum! Samum! Burn everything!]
"It seems the Wild Hunt's standard spells are almost complete: standard Fireball, standard Ice Spike, standard Lightning—
—only an earth-element spell is missing."
"That's not a big deal—"
Allen gave his evaluation, and did not feel disappointed by yet another failure to unlock the advancement method.
In the end, if something couldn't even be obtained from Centurion Renakins Galleon Price's treasure chest, then expecting it to drop from an ordinary Aen Elle chest was, no matter how one looked at it, nothing but wishful thinking.
What was more, the items obtained this time were already quite good.
The power of the Wild Hunt's standard spells could be seen clearly from that fireball spell in the Passolon Forest, which swept away Ban Ard's elite forces like a high-yield explosive.
Although the Wild Hunt member named Parnoys himself possessed considerable proficiency in fire-element magic, and the violent surge of fire elements caused by the deaths of his companions also played a major role—
This still served to demonstrate the potential of the Wild Hunt's standard spells.
No matter how thoroughly ordinary wood burns, its temperature is still far inferior to coal capable of smelting gold and refining iron.
In addition, the Blizzard potion was a core component of Allen's current combat build.
This upgrade of Enhanced Blizzard alone was enough to increase his strength by twenty percent—at the very least, twenty percent.
So even though he hadn't obtained an advancement method—naturally, there was a bit of disappointment—he was genuinely satisfied. Moreover, after opening so many chests, Allen had actually summarized some patterns.
Just like in games from his previous life, formulas for sword oils, potions, bombs, and the like could all be obtained from monster treasure chests belonging to creatures native to the Witcher world. Special monsters drawn in by the Conjunction of the Spheres, rather than being native, would not drop them.
In theory, the Aen Elle were also non-native "monsters," but perhaps because they shared the same origin as the Aen Seidhe, and since the Aen Seidhe were native "monsters" of the Witcher world, they were also classified as native "monsters" by the Witcher Journal.
Furthermore—
Treasure chests of the same species were divided into species chests and named chests. Just as Renakins Galleon Price's chest related to the Aen Elle chests, or Ronnie Dickinson's chest related to sorcerer chests—
The reward pools of named chests were often closely tied to the individual they were named after, and their upper limit for gold-quality rewards was higher than that of species chests.
For example, in species chests, the Wild Hunt Skeleton Horse was already a gold-quality item, but in a named chest, one could obtain the complete crafting blueprint. Both were gold-quality, yet their value was obviously on entirely different levels.
Therefore,
It was perfectly normal that the Aen Elle chests did not drop an advancement method—perhaps such content did not even exist in their reward pool.
"Still, that means I'll have to rely on the Crystal of Memory of the Undying after all—" Allen felt somewhat uncertain.
Crystals of Memory of the Undying were also divided into named crystals and ordinary memory crystals.
He had not used Renakins Galleon Price's crystal. His original plan was to open it only after all the other Crystals of Memory of the Undying had been used up.
It wasn't really any particular strategy. Crystals of Memory of the Undying weren't necessarily like treasure chests, and couldn't necessarily be "cheesed" with the Blessing of Bountiful Harvest—
Mm—
Not necessarily—
Allen looked at the hazy, dreamlike mass of mist in his inventory and hesitated.
He had never applied the Blessing of Bountiful Harvest to a memory crystal. The idea that it was useless was merely his own conjecture, and he couldn't be completely certain that the blessing truly had no effect on memory crystals—
"Should I try it?"
The witcher's heart thumped restlessly, as if a cat were scratching at it, making him itch with temptation.
But after thinking it through carefully, he ultimately gave up on the idea for now.
For one thing, using a single Crystal of Memory of the Undying would basically take up an entire night. If he used it now, the Blessing of Bountiful Harvest definitely wouldn't be able to affect the next batch of treasure chests.
But if he precisely reserved only one or two gold-quality slots for the Crystals of Memory of the Undying, it might not achieve any effect at all.
There was only one Crystal of Memory of the Undying from Renakins Galleon Price, and in the short term, it would be very difficult to obtain another named one.
"Forget it, this time I'll just open treasure chests," the witcher thought. "After all the Crystals of Memory of the Undying are used up, and after Goddess Melitele's divine power has recovered a bit more, I'll specifically pray for a blessing for Renakins Galleon Price's crystal."
"That will be the safest approach."
"And I'm still forty-one points short in the Mystery attribute anyway—should be just about enough after the expedition to The Valley of Thousand Monsters—"
Having made up his mind, Allen no longer hesitated. He immediately continued opening chests in the previously decided order—and the next one happened to be the evil god's treasure chest.
[Ding! @#￥%&;'s Treasure Chest ×5 opened!]
Five blazing, dazzling rays of golden light flashed in an instant, the field of vision brightening, dimming, and then brightening again—
Immediately afterward—
"Roar!"
A furious, savage howl suddenly resounded in his ears, shaking the witcher's very mind.
[————Usurpation————Treachery————Blasphemer————]
Scalding thoughts of ultimate evil churned in the witcher's mind, as if trying to tear his soul apart.
But in the next second—
The golden light from the treasure chest surged violently. The voice that should have belonged to the evil god faltered, followed by a cry of pain, and then an enraged tide of consciousness crashed down like a tsunami falling from the heavens.
[Lowly mortal, how dare you! How dare you! How dare you————]
The raging tide of thought came to an abrupt halt, leaving behind nothing but deathly silence.
After the golden light faded, no cutscene appeared.
Allen was drenched in sweat, his back completely soaked with cold perspiration. He felt as though he had just taken a swim through the River of Death and Despair.
"Buzz—buzz~"
It wasn't just the wolf medallion humming.
After regaining his senses, he lowered his head. The Praise of the Forerunner bestowed by Goddess Melitele shimmered with golden light within its wood grain, only gradually calming down after quite some time.
"It was that close—the Praise of the Forerunner almost activated divine protection!"
"So—"
"That voice just now was—an evil god?"
[Ding! Obtained: Hymn to Pure Wisdom ×5]
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