Chapter 17 Harvest Time

Sullen looked a little weak, but he couldn't hide the joy in his eyes.

Lord-level monsters have an almost 100% chance of dropping silver-quality materials or higher, and a high probability of gold.

He looked at the glowing corpse of the Spider Queen, as if he were looking at a pile of gold. "Tsk tsk, as expected, it dropped high-level curse materials..."

This was the first time he had personally killed a monster and obtained high-level materials.

The corpse of this lord monster emanated a special spiritual light, characteristic of curse materials.

Spider silk, venom sacs, skin, head, blood, bones... even the internal organs, even if they couldn't be used as Bio-tech Implants materials, were all very high-level and rare alchemical materials.

Sullen was most concerned about the spider legs needed for his [Eight-Armed Spider God Spear].

Originally, he only hoped to buy eight silver spider leg materials to assemble together, and he would be very satisfied. Gold was even harder to come by. Unexpectedly, a very complete set of spider legs appeared before his eyes!

"Huh... could these actually be dark gold-quality spider legs?"

The eight gleaming, metallic, dark-lighted spider spears on the Spider Queen's corpse instantly caught Sullen's eye.

"Dark Gold Grade" was an extremely rare material half a grade higher than gold materials. Even the top auction houses in the inner city might not see one once every few years.

This was a truly priceless treasure.

Complete structure, sturdy, strong, tenacious, barbs, hooks, natural magic patterns... almost every item met the blueprint requirements, or even better. He immediately felt that this was probably the most suitable material for the [Eight-Armed Spider God Spear] blueprint.

This trip to the catacombs, although risky, was worth it just for the materials he had obtained!

.......

"What kind of mutation occurred on this lord monster that allowed it to condense such high-quality aberrant limbs?"

While surprised by his gains, Sullen also felt that something was wrong.

The probability of a lord appearing among Tier 1 aberrant monsters, a phenomenon usually only seen in high-level aberrant monster groups, was already extremely low. Now, the degree of mutation of this lord was so exaggerated that he couldn't help but wonder what was happening underground.

At this time, Sullen looked at the gray mist on the Spider Queen's corpse and casually devoured it.

After all, it was a high-intelligence aberrant monster, and the Queen's memory fragments contained some information that humans could identify.

[Acquired 'Aberrant Ghost-Faced Spider Queen' Memory Fragment *2]

[You have obtained some information: 'The terrifying existence in the puddle, do not approach'... ]

[You have comprehended [Intermediate Spider Climbing]...]

[Spirit +3.5]

There wasn't much in this Spider Queen's memory fragments, but it was all very practical.

The "Intermediate Spider Climbing" skill was very suitable for Sullen, and could even be said to be an exclusive skill.

Once he fused with the Spider Spear Bio-tech Implant, this technique could be used immediately. Ignore obstacles, hang and climb, quickly shift positions... an essential skill for escaping and hunting.

And the "3.5" increase in Spirit was equivalent to harvesting the spiritual strength of nearly ten assistant instructors like Rosa, who were "quasi-Tier 2" professionals.

After harvesting, he felt refreshed, and his senses instantly became much clearer.

But the last piece of information made Sullen frown, and he analyzed in his mind: "There is a huge pool in the depths of this sewer... and in the pool, there is a 'terrifying existence' that even this lord monster is afraid of? A predator with huge tentacles... Could it be a mutated octopus monster?"

Although everyone knew that the underground of Old London was a paradise for aberrant monsters, after seeing this information, Sullen felt that things were probably worse than he thought.

The environment-induced mutations had probably bred many terrifying monsters.

However, he didn't think too deeply about it.

If he could get out of this alive, he probably wouldn't be willing to come to the catacombs again.

After cleaning up the Spider Queen's curse materials, Sullen went to find the unrecognizable corpse of the assassin and looted the spoils.

Unfortunately, killing the monster had taken up some time, and the soul had dissipated a lot. Apart from some proficiency, he didn't harvest anything good.

The items carried on the corpse were worth a lot of money: Tier 2 Bio-tech Implants, weapons, mechanical equipment, potions... all the combat equipment was quite complete.

However, although these spoils looked tempting, most of them couldn't be converted into cash.

If these things were to appear on the black market and be recognized, those with ulterior motives would immediately be able to deduce a lot of useful information.

Sullen didn't want everything he did in the catacombs to become public knowledge.

After looting the assassin, Sullen went to the pile of spider monster corpses and harvested a few fragments, gaining some experience points for "Spider Climbing."

Then, he pulled Daniel's tattered corpse out from under the pile of bodies.

Previously, when he killed this guy, he only hastily extracted his soul, and the storage ring was still on the corpse.

It must be said that after harvesting Rosa's soul fragments, there was a lot of "knowledge" overlap when harvesting Daniel's.

After all, they were both assistant instructors at the Black Tower Academy, and there was a lot of overlap in the areas of knowledge they studied.

But the good thing was that the knowledge of the two assistant instructors complemented each other, and Sullen became more proficient in certain areas.

Well... Daniel's corpse's spoils were even more unsavory and couldn't be converted into cash.

This was also quite a pain.

.......

The process of harvesting corpses was always a pleasure.

After doing all this, Sullen finally thought about his own troubles.

He hadn't forgotten that using the [Hypnos' Night Scythe] came at a painful price.

Killing the monster in seconds was great, but he would have to bear 80% of the attack backlash.

Sullen sighed helplessly, estimated the size of the wound on the Queen's corpse, and calculated in his mind: "According to my calculations, the damage from that strike should backlash on my body in about an hour. If I had cut off the head and heart, it would have almost triggered instant death. Which means, at least a 10-30% chance of death? Well... not too bad."

He estimated his chances of survival and was quite optimistic.

After all, exchanging a certain-death situation for at least a 60-70% chance of survival was already a great deal.

But then he faced a big problem: how to deal with the wounds that would appear in the future.

That kind of terrifying laceration would appear randomly on his body, losing an arm or a leg would be easy... it would be terrible if it cut off his internal organs.

If not handled properly, although he wouldn't die on the spot, he wouldn't live long either.

The actual mortality rate was higher than he calculated.

Sullen thought of the advanced healing potions he had brought, but then shook his head: "For this kind of laceration, advanced healing potions probably have limited effectiveness. Surgery is the most direct treatment. If there were advanced medical equipment, perhaps the chances of survival would be higher. But this is the sewer, and there's no time to get to the hospital in an hour..."

Besides, those simple clinics in the outer city, those clumsy doctors, probably couldn't handle such serious injuries.

"Wait, didn't Rosa and Daniel have some medical equipment in their storage rings?!"

Sullen suddenly thought of something and quickly looked through the storage rings that he had looted as spoils.

Sure enough, he saw several high-end medical emergency instruments. There were also surgical instrument sets, a simple operating table, blood transfusion and oxygen supply equipment... all kinds of emergency equipment were complete!

Probably prepared for emergency treatment of injured students during trials, the two assistant instructors carried the most top-notch medical equipment in the inner city.

But seeing these good things, Sullen was happy at first, but then frowned and muttered to himself: "I do know some basic first aid, but... I can't stitch myself up, can I? What if the injured area is very special and I can't even move my hands? Wouldn't I just have to wait to die?"

Thinking of this, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Isn't there still one person?"

At this time, Miss Reina, who was acting as bait, hadn't heard any movement around for a long time, and finally couldn't help but cautiously ask, "Mr. Sullen, are you... are you still there?"

Hearing this, Sullen raised his eyebrows slightly.

.......

Reina got permission and finally took off her blindfold.

The sticky spider webs were all over her body, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she couldn't wait to get rid of these disgusting mucus.

But when she looked around, she was stunned.

Mountains of spider monster corpses came into view, limbs and broken arms were all over the ground, and green blood flowed into rivers...

Only the small area where she was standing had some space to stand.

Did Mr. Sullen kill all these monsters? The number is too exaggerated...

Although she had personally witnessed this fierce battle earlier, she was speechless at the sight of such an exaggerated mountain of monster corpses.

Reina was about to ask what had happened when she turned her head and saw a pair of fiery eyes staring at her.

The bait girl's heart skipped a beat. If she remembered correctly, this was the first time the cold guide had looked at her directly.

Could it be that... Mr. Sullen had fallen for it?

Automatically filling in some strange images in her mind, Reina couldn't help but panic.

But at this time, Sullen didn't give her a chance to overthink and asked directly, "Do you know how to use these emergency equipment?"

Reina looked at the equipment on the ground. Wasn't it the academy's standard battlefield emergency equipment?

Although she didn't know what Sullen was going to do, she weakly replied, "Yes."

Hearing this, Sullen breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Can you handle very tricky injuries? Like being cut in half at the waist or something..."

Reina was a little nervous under his gaze. "Maybe... I think so."

"Maybe?"

Sullen didn't like this uncertain tone.

This was a matter of life and death, and he needed a definite answer.

Seeing that Sullen seemed to need a doctor, Reina explained, "Actually... I'm not a student majoring in the combat department, I'm in the medical department..."

After a pause, she asked, "Mr. Sullen, are you injured?"

But looking at it, this Mr. Sullen didn't seem to have any serious injuries.

Well... she should be able to handle those small wounds.

Reina thought so.

This girl is actually majoring in medicine?

Hearing this, Sullen felt like he had been given a pillow when he was sleepy. "How's your... how are your skills?"

"S-so-so."

Reina thought about it, it was clearly something to be proud of, but she said it without confidence, "I... I got a perfect score on my doctor graduation exam."

Oh, she's a top student?

Sullen felt that his chances of survival were greater. "Have you ever saved anyone in practice?"

"Yes..."

Sullen was about to breathe a sigh of relief when Reina said the second half of the sentence: "I... I've tried it in the lab."

"Good, you're the one!"

Although Sullen felt that this silly girl was still a bit unreliable, finding someone in this catacomb who knew how to use these emergency equipment was already extremely lucky.

After carrying such a burden all the way, she finally came in handy.

"Ah...?"

Hearing the normally calm, almost monstrous, Mr. Sullen's tone have normal human emotional fluctuations for the first time, Reina was actually a little flattered.

She weakly asked, "Mr. Sullen, what... what can I do?"

Sullen said, "Save me!"