Improvement and disappointment
Without the slightest hesitation, he uncorked the bottle, tilted his head back, and drank it all in one gulp.
The moment the medicine entered his throat, Lu Yuan felt a scalding heat flow down his throat and surge through his entire body.
Under the influence of this heat, Lu Yuan could clearly feel his body beginning to strengthen. The muscle fibers and bones throughout his body were heating up and tightening, showing a slight but substantial enhancement.
Flame- like patterns began to travel throughout his body, scorching Lu Yuan as if his flesh Flesh were being burned. The pain made the veins on his forehead throb and cold sweat instantly seep out from his back.
"Don't worry, you won't die," Oden reassured himself in his mind.
After all, that's the truth. Besides, Lu Yuan dared to rush in even Taboo, so what's a little pain?
Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and endured for a while. The Flame light within his body finally faded little by little, and the burning pain also dissipated.
Lu Yuan looked down at his hands and felt as if his entire body had just been reforged from the inside out by a heavy hammer. His original muscle contours had become more defined and strong, and his whole body exuded a vigorous aura. His physical fitness had been significantly improved.
If Lu Yuan before taking the medicine was just a slightly stronger Transcendence, then now he has truly become a physically strong Transcendence, although he hasn't reached the pinnacle of power from just one small bottle.
But it was a world of difference from his previous frail body that would pant after just a few steps, and he could feel that his understanding of Knight Body Technique and his control over his body had also improved significantly.
After the medicine was completely absorbed by his body, several new lines of Gray-White Text suddenly appeared before Lu Yuan's eyes.
[Knight Body Technique Basics: +2...4.1/10]
[Sanity V: +5...65.5/200 (Experience)]
[Sanity: +10...140.5/200]
Before Lu Yuan could examine the new values closely, a new line of Gray-White Text suddenly appeared at the bottom of his field of vision. Before the text could fully solidify, it flickered, shrank back, and disappeared without a trace, leaving only a blank space in its place.
The Gray-White Text popped up and then disappeared on its own. This wasn't the first time. The last time was when he was washed by the sea of Sea of Knowledge in Bronze City. At that time, a large number of max-level entries suddenly appeared, but he couldn't catch any of them. But this time there was only one lonely entry, and it just so happened to be after he drank the Dragon Blood Potion.
The warm scent of the Fire Salamander Embers still lingered in the independent Potion Room. Lu Yuan held an empty glass medicine bottle, his gaze still fixed on the few lines of Gray-White Text that had not yet completely dissipated in mid-air.
Especially the blank space at the very bottom of his field of vision, which had just popped up for a moment and then instantly shrank back before the words had even fully solidified, made him stand there stunned for several breaths, and he couldn't help but blink again.
It's obvious that some new terms or abilities were about to pop up, but it seems that some prerequisite wasn't met yet, so it got stuck halfway and retracted instead of fully manifesting.
Lu Yuan looked down at the empty bottle in his hand, which still bore dark red medicine stains. He knew very well that this incident was most likely related to the Dragon Blood Potion he had just drunk. He had only done this one thing all night, so it seemed that there were other secrets hidden in this bottle of Dragon Blood Potion.
He casually placed the empty medicine bottle back on the table, subconsciously raised his hand to touch his left chest, lower abdomen, and limbs, and then tried to move his wrists and shoulder blades, carefully sensing his body from the inside out using the Breathing Method technique.
Aside from the fact that his blood and energy were still surging and his heart was beating stronger than usual, he didn't notice anything unusual about his body. He could only silently remember this and keep it to himself for later verification.
Oden, who had been hiding inside Lu Yuan's Drowner body, emerged. A misty consciousness scanned Lu Yuan's current body several times, then clicked his tongue and said with some regret:
"It seems your physical condition hasn't improved much."
Oden circled Lu Yuan's body, which had just been cleansed by the drug, and carefully assessed the strength of his muscles and bones. He had to admit that the result was about the same as he had predicted before taking action; the potion produced by this bottle was indeed much less effective than the original version.
Upon hearing this, Lu Yuan shook his arm and clenched his fist tightly, a dull and powerful cracking sound coming from his knuckles.
He felt the abundant and vigorous blood and energy in his body and the muscle fibers that were much firmer than before. He secretly calculated in his mind that when he first came to the North Campus, the Blue Knight evaluated his physique as being at most twice that of an ordinary person. Now, compared with the weak body that he had before taking the medicine, which was so weak that he could barely run a few steps, his overall physical fitness had improved by about 30%.
Lu Yuan only considered this specific estimate in his mind and did not tell Oden. In fact, he was already very satisfied with the 30% increase in physique, plus the two points of Knight Body Technique Basics and ten points of sanity that he gained for free.
However, recalling Oden's earlier confident assertion that as long as he continued to take this potion, it could theoretically even push his physical body to the Fourth Order, Lu Yuan couldn't help but mutter under his breath that the progress of drinking the first bottle was indeed quite far from his goal of reaching the Fourth Order.
Hearing Lu Yuan's mutterings, Oden couldn't help but chuckle, and calmly offered words of comfort:
"Don't sigh. This stuff is effective over time. That last burst was just the most intense initial effect. The remaining medicinal power deep within your Flesh will continue to have an effect on you, though it certainly won't be as noticeable as the first time you took it. Besides, this stuff can be taken multiple times."
"You just need to take it a few more times," Oden paused, a hint of regret in his voice.
"The amount of real dragon blood extracted from the Dragonblood Resin this time is far too small. The quality of the materials is too ordinary. It has been diluted countless times outside. I estimate that you would need to drink four or five more bottles to equal the amount of the bottle we made before, and it might not even be as good."
Lu Yuan sighed helplessly after hearing this. Drinking four or five more bottles sounded easy, but he was really broke right now. He had spent all thirty Knight Token he had on the bounty, and he didn't have many coins left.
Fortunately, the prices of Dragonblood Resin and Frozen Blood Amber in the Abundance Tower are relatively cheap. As long as the daily Knight Token arrive one after another, I can afford to drink them if I grit my teeth. These things can't be rushed; I can take it slowly later.
As for the other few scarce ingredients, now that the distribution channels are fully open, it's much easier to procure them than the first time.