Will Projection of a Five-Star God
Medea leaned back on the hotel sofa, the end credits of a TV series already playing on the projector. She had binged all three episodes of the series this time, each about forty minutes long, totaling over two hours. She glanced at her watch, noting that it had been about two and a half hours since she and Elizabeth had parted ways. She silently calculated the time.
Logically, Elizabeth should be back soon by now. Even if she had a meal with the pharmacist, which would take over an hour, and then a leisurely chat, two hours should have been enough. She should be arriving at the hotel by now. If she was delayed on the way or changed her mind and went somewhere else, Elizabeth would always let her know or let her know she arrived safely, but now there's nothing.
Medea felt a growing unease. After hesitating for a long time, she finally dialed Elizabeth's number. The communicator rang once or less before being disconnected.
"What happened? Why did they hang up on me?" This was the first time Medea had encountered something like this. She dialed back, but the call could not be connected.
Elizabeth was now completely focused on treating Bigge and didn't even know that Gu Ding had returned to the cabin. Upon hearing the communicator ring, Gu Ding immediately had Sea Emperor disconnect the call to avoid interfering with Bigge's treatment.
But Gu Ding didn't expect was that it was precisely because he had the Sea Emperor cut off the call that he brought him subsequent trouble.
When Elizabeth's call went unanswered, Medea's unease grew, and she turned to dial Qiao Di's number.
"Sorry, the number you dialed is temporarily out of service." This message sent a chill down Medea's spine. She immediately dialed the numbers of the other three bodyguards, only to receive the same message.
Medea sat up from the sofa, still clinging to a sliver of hope, "Could it be that my communicator is malfunctioning?"
She immediately picked up the public communicator on the hotel coffee table and dialed Elizabeth's number again. "I'm sorry, the number you dialed is unavailable."
But she still refused to give up and dialed the four bodyguards' numbers again using a public communicator, only to receive the same message as before.
Only then did she believe that Elizabeth was really in trouble. She found a name on the communicator's number storage page, hesitated for a long time, and then pressed the dial button.
"Medea? Is that you?" A Middle-Aged Man's voice came from the other end of the communicator.
"Speaker of the Council of the Senate..." Medea hesitated upon hearing the voice on the other end of the line.
"Looks like it's business. No problem, you can tell Dad anything." The man on the other end of the communicator sounded somewhat cheerful.
"It's Elizabeth ... I can't get through to her number, and all four bodyguards' numbers are in the same situation," Medea finally said.
"Now, describe the details of what happened to me. Is there anyone you find suspicious, or anything that seems strange?" the Middle-Aged Man continued.
"Here's the thing, today we met a young man with exceptional pharmacist talent at the Medicine God Alliance. Elizabeth said she had some questions about pharmacism that she wanted to discuss with him, and also invited him to dinner. I've taken pharmacist courses before, but I wasn't interested at all. I heard they were going to discuss potion-making, so I didn't go with them for their dinner. Now, two and a half hours have passed, and Elizabeth still hasn't returned to the hotel, and we can't contact the mastermind, nor can we reach her bodyguards. I suspect that young pharmacist is suspicious..."
After Medea recounted the whole story, the Middle-Aged Man's voice came again, "I roughly understand what happened. Find a place to hide and don't wander around. I'll notify someone to handle it. I'll contact you once it's all taken care of."
After hanging up the call, the tall Frank dialed a number with a serious expression.
"Sorry, the user you dialed is not in service."
"What's going on?" Frank frowned upon hearing the notification tone. He dialed another number, but the same notification tone came through the communicator.
"Even Johnny and Lei Lute were taken care of?" Frank frowned, and after a moment's hesitation, he dialed a number.
This time, the call finally went through, but the beeping tone kept ringing without anyone answering. Frank waited patiently; he knew the person on the other end of the line's habit—they liked to answer the call just before the ringing ended.
Sure enough, the call was only connected after the beeping tone lasted for a full fifty-nine seconds.
"Is there anything I can help you with?" A woman's voice came from the other end of the communicator.
"Lord Queen, Elizabeth seems to be in danger..." Frank then recounted the whole story.
"Even Johnny and Lei Lute were taken down? Johnny was almost a four-star, right?" The female voice on the other end seemed a little incredulous.
"I tried calling their communicators, but it said they were out of service. I suspect they're trapped in the area. Elizabeth's bodyguards were getting the same message," Frank offered his guess.
"Very likely," the female voice finally spoke again after a moment of silence. She seemed to have tried dialing Johnny and Lei Lute's numbers as well, but the calls didn't go through. "However, my true self is currently at a critical juncture in my attempt to break through to the Mid-rank God, and I can't leave. I can only Will Projection there. This projection can only allocate one-tenth of my soul power to avoid my true self being too affected. Although it's only one-tenth, combined with my divine abilities, it's still equivalent to the Combat Strength of Five-Star Low-rank God. As long as the opponent isn't Mid-rank God, it shouldn't be a big problem."
"Ten percent should be enough!" Frank knew how powerful his opponent was. "Then I'll leave it to you."
"I'll get ready first, then I'll deal with this." Queen said this and hung up the phone.
Meanwhile, Gu Ding, having nothing to do on the spaceship, was counting his spoils with Sea Emperor.
"This harvest is truly remarkable. The expansion of Storage Space alone is astonishing. Now, the capacity is enough to fit three Golden Eagle inside," the Sea Emperor couldn't help but exclaim.
"These guys are really rich." Gu Ding couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the skyrocketing amount in his savings account.
"Indeed, especially those two gods, they're practically rolling in money. Your current savings can't be measured in Universe Coin anymore, it has to be measured in Universe Crystal. You have a total of over 88 million units of Universe Crystal. One unit of Universe Crystal is worth 10,000 Universe Coin, so your savings alone have increased more than twentyfold. There are also over 2,300 source stones, plus the few dozen you originally had, making a total of about 2,400. With the value of the source stones, your net worth is now over 100 million Universe Crystal."
"Besides that, there's also a divine artifact in the tall, thin man's Storage Space —a sword—but it hasn't recognized a master yet, probably because it hasn't been tamed," the Sea Emperor continued.
"This Bigge is perfect for us. He has the power of Blade Heart, so he should be able to easily tame even a divine artifact." Gu Ding had already planned the distribution of items. "And that divine axe I used before, although it has lost its Artifact Spirit, should still be useful to Elsa. I'll give it to her when we get back. As for Originium, currently only I have divine Originium within me, so I won't distribute it for now. Are there any other items available for distribution?"
"In the space of the six people, there are a total of twelve demigod items, but I took a look and found that, like the three demigod items I got from Boti's Storage Space, none of us need them. We can find an opportunity to sell them. Fifteen items together can fetch at least 20 million units of Universe Crystal."
"Huh, these are..." The Sea Emperor, who was counting his spoils, suddenly sounded surprised, but then his voice turned into wild joy, "Hahahaha... The Fei Me Universe Country actually has such good stuff?"
"What is it? What is it?!" Gu Ding was intrigued by the Sea Emperor's reaction and asked repeatedly.
"It's a good thing that everyone can use, and it should be useful to Tagore as well." The Sea Emperor's voice sounded very pleasant. "I never expected that the Fei Me Universe Country would have such a thing."
"What is it? Stop keeping us in suspense." Gu Ding was quite certain that what made the Sea Emperor so happy must be something extraordinary.
"It's the fruit bred from spiritual soil and the spiritual blood of beasts!" The Emperor of the Sea then explained, "Spiritual soil is a very special kind of soil. As for the origin of this soil, there is no relevant information in my database yet. It should require a higher level of authority to know. But my database has recorded some other information about spiritual soil. Spiritual soil can cause great mutations in animal and plant embryos. Plant an ordinary seed into the spiritual soil, and the plant that grows will be hundreds of times the size of a normal plant, and the plant fruit will contain a large amount of non-attributed energy. After this energy is absorbed by the eater, it can be converted into various kinds of energy. It can be converted into divine energy, or even into Yuanli."
"If an animal embryo is conceived in an area covered by Spirit Soil, it will grow to gigantic size after birth, becoming hundreds of times the size of a normal animal, and containing a large amount of energy. The Beast Blood of these animals not only contains energy no less than that of plant fruits, but is also an invaluable treasure for flesh and blood life. It can greatly strengthen the flesh and blood body, is easier to absorb than Blood Essence Stone, and is much gentler."
"There must be at least a hundred of these fruits, and a hundred bottles of Beast Blood. That should be enough for a while, and I believe everyone's overall strength will soon see a significant leap forward." Gu Ding glanced at the area opposite the fruits and made a rough assessment.
"The special energy contained in this Beast Blood should wake Tagore up soon..." The Sea Emperor's voice suddenly stopped. He sensed that not far from the port, the clouds were surging, and there was a heart-palpitating energy fluctuation coming from there. "Gu Ding, that Five-Star God must have Will Projection directly over here..." (To be continued.)