Parasite (Part 2)

"Long time no see, Real Game Map. A must-have for farming equipment."

Ronan was no stranger to this "interface." He had encountered something similar when gathering the exoskeleton components needed for the Jin Tong Spirit Light Seed. Back then, these "indicator lights" had appeared only in Xia City, but now they had spread across the globe.

Hey, don't tell me I have to travel the entire planet and collect all these rare materials? That'd be one hell of a project... Wait!

A new system description popped up on the Void Brain interface. Its general meaning was: "Based on current conditions, theoretical completeness of the Advanced Formula: 21%."

There were actually further decimal places after that, but Ronan skipped over them. They did not mean much.

As for what this description meant, he had to sort it out... Did it mean that even if he traveled to every corner of the planet, the types of materials he could gather would amount to only one-fifth of the complete Advanced Formula?

This really was an Immortal Formula. It seemed the Mortal Realm simply could not make it!

Ronan could not help grinning. He had not had any particular expectations for the "Advanced Formula," but this fact was simply too absurd.

But thinking one level deeper, since this Culture Medium Recipe belonged to an "Extraterrestrial Civilization," it was perfectly reasonable for substances not found on Earth to appear in it. Perhaps he ought to learn more about that monster parasitizing the Biochemical Reactor?

Just as he was shaking his head with a laugh, another system message appeared. It was identical to the previous one: "Based on current conditions, theoretical completeness of the Advanced Formula: 21%"... No, the value had changed!

Ronan still noticed the subtle change in the thousandths digit. It had ticked up