You Are Too Rational

Half a month later.

Brandenburg Territory, somewhere in a Blood Ring stronghold.

Clang!

Amidst the crisp, resonant sound of colliding metal, two Blood Ring Hammer Knights crashed into each other with a thunderous impact.

Identical Blood Ring armor made them look like two steel cans. The only difference was that the knight on the left had a ribbon tied to his arm, bearing the Brandenburg coat of arms.

Moreover, this particular Blood Ring Hammer Knight appeared even more robust, possessing superior strength, causing his opponent to stagger back two steps! Even the armor showed slight dents.

"All seven free attributes from Pure Blood Guard are added to the minion's strength, the improvement is still obvious. It's a pity that Pure Blood Guard has a lower success rate of converting minions for elite template enemies.

"Most importantly, the pure-blooded conversion at this stage is only a temporary minion, and cannot be taken out of this plane! My departure means its death. If I want to turn Qin into my minion, I need to be promoted to a hero class in the future and obtain the qualification to transform permanent minions."

Behind them, Bai Pu held a book of alchemy, looking up at the two Blood Ring Hammer Knights fighting each other, steel hammers constantly colliding with sparks, slowly evaluating in his heart.

The Blood Ring Hammer Knight with the ribbon was an elite minion Bai Pu had enslaved using his talent skill 2: Pure Blood Guard.

The enemy Blood Ring Hammer Knight suddenly roared loudly. With his roar, several Plague Dead quickened their shambling steps, lunging towards Bai Pu.

Self-Adaptive Evolution: Keratinous Skin! Bai Pu put away the book and directly activated his first evolutionary form, gaining a high damage reduction of 50% against sharp damage! He lowered his shoulder and rammed forward, the spiked Iron Thorn Shoulder Guard directly causing the first Plague Dead to stagger backward.

Left rush, right thrust! The siege of several Plague Dead only scratched a few white marks on Bai Pu's skin, hardly breaking his defense.

It should be known that in addition to the targeted defense of Self-Adaptive Evolution, Bai Pu's own basic stamina was as high as 15 points, meaning 15 points of basic armor, which could reduce a lot of physical damage.

On the Iron Thorn Shoulder Guard, the scarlet lines of the Flesh Rune lit up, as if crimson flames were burning. Around Bai Pu, wisps of scarlet energy extended from the bodies of several Plague Dead, attaching to Bai Pu's body surface, forming a layer of translucent scarlet shield.

Class Skill: Flesh Armor! The Plague Dead constantly suffered magical damage. Although 1-3 points of magic damage per second was not high, it added up, and for the Plague Dead with only seventy or eighty points of health, high armor and low magic resistance, it was still unbearable!

The bone hammer in Bai Pu's hand also fell constantly in a methodical manner, each blow accurately hitting the head of a Plague Dead, smashing its skull out of shape, with black blood spurting from its nostrils and ear holes!

Soon, several Plague Dead died under Bai Pu's bone hammer, providing a few dozen Spirit Energy Points.

After clearing the mobs, Bai Pu switched to Self-Adaptive Evolution: Fluid Skeleton form, stepped forward, and cooperated with the Hammer Knight minion to kill the Blood Ring Hammer Knight.

Wisps of blood-red mist escaped from the Blood Ring Hammer Knight's body and were absorbed into Bai Pu's body. Only Bai Pu could see this process clearly.

[You have gained 2 Life Source Points. Current Life Source Points: 79/100.]

Life Source Points were the resource for unlocking the third unknown ability of the Evolution Heart. After Bai Pu's experiment, he found that only enemies above the elite level would produce them.

He didn't know the function of Life Source Points yet, so he could only collect them first.

A blue treasure chest floated out in front of him.

Picking up the treasure chest, Bai Pu felt a hint of joy in his heart. He opened it directly and selected one of the blue cards to click on.

The card flipped over, revealing a pattern of a lucky bag, with a small "X3" symbol next to it. Immediately afterward, Bai Pu received a prompt:

[You have gained 458 Spirit Energy Points.]

"It's Spirit Energy Points again, but a three-times drop rate is not bad, it's better than drawing unusable equipment..." Bai Pu comforted himself.

"Your combat power has initially taken shape. Now, none of the elite knights under Zweig Lieutenant are your opponents. After you accumulate more combat experience (level up), Zweig may not be able to win against you."

Qin, draped in a gorgeous wide-brimmed fur-collared cloak, said from not far behind Bai Pu.

These days, Bai Pu had been running around and fighting on the Brandenburg Northland frozen soil, while Qin had been accompanying him, ostensibly to record Bai Pu's combat data for research.

The Northland was vast, and the Blood Ring strongholds were scattered far apart. Even if Bai Pu could calculate the approximate location of a Blood Ring stronghold with his brainpower, he often had to run for a day or two to find one.

On the road, Bai Pu sometimes encountered some Plague Dead. All in all, Bai Pu had experienced dozens of battles, large and small, in the past half month.

At this time, Bai Pu had already trained his one-handed hammer combat expertise to Basic Level 4, 56%, while his fighting expertise was at Basic Level 3, 99%.

Such a speed of expertise improvement was quite terrifying. In addition to Bai Pu's own high comprehension and ability to summarize shortcomings, the guidance of experts among the natives was also an important reason—these days, Bai Pu often found Zweig Lieutenant and his subordinate elite knights to spar with.

With Qin's following, Bai Pu had an alchemy teacher he could consult at any time. He had successfully comprehended the alchemist sub-profession as early as ten days ago and learned several basic alchemy recipes.

In terms of spoils, Bai Pu had obtained four blue treasure chests, all dropped by Blood Ring Hammer Knights. There were also several white treasure chests, obtained by killing Plague Dead.

The four blue treasure chests only yielded two pieces of equipment. The rest of the lottery draws were lucky bags, which exploded with Spirit Energy Points.

The low drop rate of equipment was evident.

One of the pieces of equipment was Bai Pu's current "Iron Thorn Shoulder Guard," from the Blood Hand Colen's guard, the deep blue treasure chest dropped by the mutated person with the giant right arm.

[Iron Thorn Shoulder Guard (Sealed)]
[Quality: Enhanced Elite (Deep Blue)]
[Equipment Position: Shoulder]
[Equipment Requirement: Basic Strength 5]
[Attribute: Shoulder Armor +10]
[Additional Skill: Ram: Charge at the target at double speed, dealing minor piercing damage, blunt damage, and a knockback effect. During the charge, you are immune to the effects of deceleration below priority (2). Cooldown: 12 hours.]
[Durability: 18/20]
[Description: The Blood Ring's fangs crave the blood of the innocent.]

The quality of deep blue equipment was much better than white equipment. The attached [Ram] skill was an active activation, equivalent to having one more displacement. With Bai Pu's current basic 3 points of priority for the enhanced elite template, he was immune to deceleration effects below a total of priority (5) points.

The other piece of equipment was an ordinary white top: Blood Ring Standard Plate Armor (Sealed), +15 upper body armor value, fixed reduction of 5 points of physical damage, but it required a full 10 points of basic strength to equip! Bai Pu's pitiful 5 points of basic strength were simply not enough, so he could only put it in the storage space to gather dust.

At this time, Bai Pu's personal attribute panel was:

[Bai Pu/Enhanced Elite Level 1]
[Race: Humanoid/Human]
[Class: Blood Armor Shield Guard/Alchemist]
[Attributes: Strength 5, Agility 5, Constitution 15, Spirit 9]
[Class Skill: Flesh Armor]
[Combat Expertise: Advanced Weaponry (Two-Handed Hammer) Level 1, Basic Weaponry (One-Handed Hammer) Level 4, Basic Fighting Level 3.]
[Combat Skills: None]

"Let's go back to Stettin Town... It's time for me to leave," Bai Pu said.

There was less than a day left of free exploration time, and Bai Pu's spirit was also a little tired. There was no point in continuing to stay here.

News came from Brandenburg Territory that Duke William had convened a lord assembly in Westphalia. During the meeting, Yvette, the former Swedish Royal Junior Knight, spoke generously, revealing the Blood Ring Fortress's ambition to conquer the world. Duke William took the opportunity to issue a call to form a resistance army.

But the short-sighted lords were arguing endlessly over the number of troops and command. Even with Duke William's prestige, he couldn't quell the dispute; after all, there were more than three hundred autonomous territories, large and small.

It is said that Duke William said half-jokingly and half-seriously after the meeting: "We need a unified German Empire."

Because the key faction leader was absent, it was basically impossible for Bai Pu to dig out the Main Quest III and obtain the third stage of stay time. The later the main quest, the more difficult it was to trigger.

Qin hugged Bai Pu from behind. Even through the clothes, the soft and thick weight was clearly transmitted.

"Dio, you are too rational. Sometimes, I really doubt my charm..."

Bai Pu turned sideways, reached back with his arm, and with a gentle lift, picked up Qin.