Essence Swallowing

Thor was indeed trying to find a way to get here.

It was just that there was still some distance between the crater and Old Bridge Town. Otherwise, he would not have needed to go to a pet store to buy a horse, right?

Fortunately, he had found help: Jane Foster and Dr. Erik Selvig from the original story. After successfully convincing them of his identity as Thor, they began planning how to reclaim Thor's Hammer.

While they were working out their plan, Fang Mo took the opportunity to study his MC item realization experiment.

As mentioned before, before this trip, Fang Mo had deliberately stuffed Steve's backpack and the Alchemical Bag full of things. These included, but were not limited to, Golden Apples, an enchanting table, Redstone, potions, weapons, Ender Hands, Giant's Hammers, fishing rods, milk, Lava, water buckets, Sculk Shells, Ender Pearls, and even Tinkers' Construct Essence Berries.

Even the Alchemical Bag had nearly been stuffed full.

It could not be helped. There were simply too many things Fang Mo wanted to test.

Take the Ender Hand, for example.

After being realized, it had transformed directly from a physical object into a special telekinetic field, allowing Fang Mo to easily lift objects weighing dozens of tons.

In fact, the Ender Hand had now become Fang Mo's primary means of attack.

After all, once it had been realized, it no longer had the concept of "Unbreaking." He could use it however he wanted, and that alone was already absurdly overpowered.

But even so.

The Ender Field still had its drawbacks.

After using it for some time, Fang Mo discovered that the Ender Field had two rather serious flaws.

The first was that its grasping ability could not affect living entities.

Take Abomination, for instance. Fang Mo could only use the Ender Field to grab nearby cars, buildings, rocks, and other objects to attack Abomination. He could not directly seize Abomination's body with the Ender Field and repeatedly slam him into the ground.

There was also another flaw: the Ender Field could not grow stronger through constant training like telekinesis or magic.

The Ender Field's maximum lifting capacity was only a few dozen tons. No matter how Fang Mo trained, he could not break through that limit.

That was because its essence was not an ability, but a tool.

But since it was a tool.

It naturally had another way to be strengthened.

One excavator could dig at most a dozen or so meters of trench in an hour, but what if ten excavators dug at once? What about a hundred?

With a thought from Fang Mo, Steve immediately pulled an Ender Hand from his backpack and handed it over.

The instant Fang Mo's fingertips touched the Ender Hand, the rules of the MC world and reality began to clash violently. Realization took effect at once. With a flash of white light, a dim violet glow appeared directly in Fang Mo's hand.

At the same time, a faint purple radiance lit up around Fang Mo's hand as well.

The newly realized Ender Field seemed drawn by something and slowly merged with the Ender Field surrounding Fang Mo.

After the fusion, Fang Mo could clearly feel that the strength of his Ender Field had doubled.

"Just as I thought..."

Feeling the Ender Field's current power, Fang Mo could not help revealing a delighted expression.

It seemed he had guessed correctly.

Since the Ender Field was a force field, its strength could surely be increased through fusion.

It was like certain fleets in the universe. A single ship's shield had limited power, but if countless ships gathered together and formed one enormous shield, its defensive capability would become unparalleled.

At that thought, Fang Mo immediately had Steve take out four more Ender Hands.

After grasping the pattern, he quickly converted those Ender Hands into his own Ender Field. This meant that he now possessed the strength to lift objects weighing over a hundred tons.

Of course, that was only because the Mutant Ender Man King's spawn rate in the MC world was too low.

Otherwise, Fang Mo would definitely have brought several hundred Ender Hands this time. Then he could put on a Moses parting the sea performance for Nick Fury. Even Thanos would be scared straight into a heart attack.

After resolving the Ender Field issue, Fang Mo turned his attention to the next item.

It was an item added by Tinkers' Construct, something called an Essence Berry.

Its effects had already been explained before. Essence Berry Bushes periodically grew Essence Berries, which players could right-click to eat and gain experience.

How should he put it...

Anyone who had played MC knew that Steve's experience points did not actually serve much purpose.

It was not like DNF or other online games, where characters gained experience to level up, learned skills after leveling, and increased their attack power.

In MC, experience had almost no use beyond enchanting.

But that was the MC world, after all.

Those were its rules.

What truly made Fang Mo curious was not experience in MC.

It was realized experience.

If Fang Mo conducted a realization experiment on Essence Berries, then ate those Essence Berries himself, what would happen?

Would they be completely useless?

Or would he "level up" too?

At that thought, Fang Mo could not help feeling tempted.

With a thought, Steve plucked an Essence Berry and handed it over.

Fang Mo caught it. White light flashed, and a small cluster of crystal-clear, gemlike fruit appeared in his hand.

He examined it briefly and found that it resembled a miniature bunch of grapes. The stem was covered in round, tender green fruit, each one radiating a soft multicolored glow that looked exceptionally eye-catching.

Fang Mo swallowed, then stuffed the entire cluster of Essence Berries into his mouth.

However, instead of the sweet, delicious flavor he had expected.

An incomparably disgusting taste, full of sulfur and like the stench of nearly rotten farts, surged straight into his skull.

"Blech!"

Fang Mo instinctively spat everything out. "Fuck, why does this taste like some goddamn Devil Fruit...?"

Yet despite his desperate efforts to spit it out, some pale green liquid still seemed to have gone down his throat. It made him feel unbearably nauseated, as though he had swallowed half a pound of sulfur. His entire respiratory tract felt clogged with farts, and even breathing became a form of torture.

But just as Fang Mo was about to quickly take a drink of milk to ease it, a warm and comfortable sensation suddenly welled up within his body.

Feeling that sudden, strange sensation, Fang Mo froze.