282 System

"Boom!"

His Alchemy Ingredients immediately ruined, and his furnace exploded along with the monster core. He was then transported back again to reality.

Alex had gotten surprised by it. He never thought the situation would become like that. Alex took a deep breath to calm his mind before entering the Simulation Room again.

Alex failed every single time. The second time he tried, he thought he had enough preparation. But when he tried to kill the Wind Leopard with his Phoenix Claw. The Wind Leopard dodged him and landed a hit.

Because of that, his concentration on the rest of his ingredients got disturbed, leading to another explosion.

He fought the Wind Leopard again and again before finally succeeded in killing him. But when he tried to merge the rest of his ingredients. The Wind Leopard ruined it again with the last bit of energy from its will.

He was practicing this pill like mad. Every single time the furnace exploded and forced him to go out. He immediately tried it again.

At first, when he thought he could refine the Energy Pill after succeeding in refining the wind leopard. He failed again on the second monster core.

The second monster core was a peak Grandmaster Stage rhino. It was another type of monster core. He needed to solve the monster differently from the first one.

And it became another loop of that after Alex managed to refine the rhino. Because he fought with only his Fire, Alex's options were limited.

Each time, Alex would come up with a different way of fighting. Alex didn't know how long he needed to master this technique if he didn't have a Simulation Room.

If he failed, he could just restart it again with his Simulation Room. But for Alchemists who didn't have this god-like technique, they might get injured while fighting those monsters.

Unfortunately, the monsters didn't have a physical body. That meant, if they got hit by them, they might get an internal injury, which was more troublesome than a physical injury.

He might only master it after a few months, if not years. But it did not matter to him because Alex managed to learn it in a week.

After fighting numerous types of monster's wills, he could feel the distinction from every kind of soul. A wind leopard emphasized speed. When he fought with the same type of will, he could grasp it more easily.

After he got familiar with the monsters' will, he finally asked Anna for more Monster Core as he wanted to try fighting with as many as possible.

Alex was able to get a good grasp of each soul characteristic, which gave him a more profound understanding of the monster beast. He might be able to increase his efficiency in killing monsters outside.

Nonetheless, he could not afford to spare some time to test that. He would rather practice the next pill, Ocean Mind Pill, than killing monsters. He didn't have much time left.

At first, he wanted to make Crystal Skin Pill that could give him more strength. Considering his Muscle Tempered Pill, this pill should be popular. After all, the pill gave a half-dragon strength. Sadly, each person could only eat this pill once.

Alex chose the Ocean Mind Pill because Crystal Skin Pill was a mid 4th rank Pill. He didn't know whether he could make it or not, especially with the limited time he had.

So he chose a safety path but still beneficial, which was Ocean Mind Pill.

A few days later,

Alex was refining ten Medicinal Ingredients at the same time. From a blue herb, a green wooden stick, an orange fruit to a monster core. All of them were hovering around him while he was refining them. He refined them outside his furnace because he was purging the impurities inside each ingredient.

If he did this step inside the furnace, the impurities might combine with each other and disrupt the flow of energy. Alex didn't use this method previously because the ingredients for each pill was not as many as this pill.

At first, he tried to separate them into two and refined the first group of ingredients then refined the second one. But he came up with another possibility, which he refined it outside.

Although he was able to do this, it required a great extent of Mental Energy. If he were distracted at this moment, the refinement would become a failure.

After a few more minutes, the ingredients didn't let out impurities anymore. Alex finally moved to the final phase, which was the merging process.

He tossed all of the ingredients inside his furnace and started refining it. With a constant flame from him, the pill slowly formed inside the cauldron.

"Form!"

A Purple Pill came out from his furnace. He took a deep breath and pumped his fist after seeing it was a Perfect Purity Ocean Mind Pill.

He was happy because he did it in the real world. He had been refining in the outside world, not in his Simulation Room.

The moment he swallowed it, he didn't know why, but his nose could pick up the salt sea's scent. There was a deep blue ocean inside his mind.

He felt his mind and soul were strengthened by this deep blue ocean. He just enjoyed the feeling while refining the pill inside his body.

Alex refined the efficacy for a few hours. The image of the ocean slowly disappeared from his mind as he finally opened his eyes.

His Mental Energy, as well as his senses, got enhanced once more. He felt really refreshed.

Alex checked Sherry's and Kyle's condition. Kyle's cultivation increased two stars from his original 8-Star Grandmaster cultivation. It seemed he would undergo his breakthrough before the Inner Disciple Tournament.

As for Sherry... Alex couldn't see a change in her. Alex then tried to check his spirits.

[Anna (Dark)

Level: 35/80 (5-Star Martial Lord Stage)

Exp: 153478/260000]

[Leoz (Thunder)

Level: 35/80 (5-Star Martial Lord Stage)

Exp: 123498/260000]

[Nelson (Dark)

Level: 31/80 (1-Star Martial Lord Stage)

Exp: 137837/220000]

[Fabio Fabotelli(Fire)

Level: 33/80 (3-Star Martial Lord Stage)

Exp: 226187/240000]

[Greg (Earth)

Level: 31/80 (1-Star Martial Lord Stage)

Exp: 1345/220000]

[Jeanne (Thunder)

Level: 28/80 (8-Star Martial Grandmaster Stage)

Exp: 16877/190000]

[Vera Fabotelli (Water)

Level: 27/80 (7-Star Martial Grandmaster Stage)

Exp: 167683/180000]

It seemed his spirits had a nice hunt in these few months, especially since all of them reached Martial Lord rank except Jeanne and Vera.

He then checked his Gacha Tickets.

[Gacha Ticket x1708

Premium Ticket x0

Dart x0

Summoning Ticket x0

Summoning Coin x0]

He didn't expect he got this many tickets. After all, he didn't kill that much on the battlefield. Only a few thousand soldiers.

"System, I want to exchange five Premium Tickets."

[Processing]

[Premium Ticket x5 Acquired]

[Here you go, Host. Since you want to use Premium Tickets. You must miss me.]

Alex opened his mouth in surprise as he never expected the system to say that.

"You are right," Alex said without thinking. He became startled as he couldn't believe he said that.

[Granting Host's wish...]

[Drawing Five Premium Tickets Automatically...]

"Eh, wait, I haven't said anything about that." Alex wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

A brown-haired girl appeared once again. She didn't use her previous white dress. Instead, he wore a cute white uniform. It complemented her body line that even made him think she was going to seduce him with this uniform.

She handed him the box while smiling. Alex shook his head helplessly and sighed. Well, he didn't complain since he wanted to use the ticket too.

"Hehe... Did you miss me, Host?"

Alex looked into her brown eyes and said, "Well... Not really."

"But you said you miss me." She grinned and teased him.

"I just said it without thinking."

"Then, what do you think of me?"

"Hmm..." Alex contemplated. His system had accompanied him from the start, saving him numerous times. And when he thought about this, he felt that the water bottle's case and so many times, he still got so many water bottles, though. It was just a joke.

Because of his condition, he couldn't understand it back then. But when he started enjoying his journey like this, he could tell. Until he finally felt something wrong.

'Wait? Even I cursed her or something out of anger back then, System... I mean, She only said 'I Love You.' Did... Did that count as flirting?" Alex was startled when he thought about that.

"Em..." Alex started acting awkward. He tried to regain composure while thinking about Alicia, Firia, and Anna. "Are you..."

Alex hesitated in asking whether she was real or not. He had so many questions inside his mind when he became unsure of this. After remembering his question, he decided not to think about it at the moment and just answered her question honestly.

"A system, a friend... No, a partner... I think. You became my strength in the time needed. You soothed me when my heart was breaking down after Alicia got contracted by that poison. You were the one who opened this path for me. I am really thankful for what you have done for me."

The system girl was astonished when she heard that. She couldn't help but smile.

Her body started to disappear. She waved her hand on Alex while her other hand was on her back, pumping a fist to show her joy. She teased him before she disappeared. "I am glad you think that way. But the way you said it, it was like you are trying to hit me, you know. Not that I mind it, though."

Alex was startled. He only honestly said how grateful he was. But she used that to tease him again. He shook his head helplessly as he couldn't complain to her because she disappeared the moment she finished saying those words.

"Not that she minds..." Alex smiled when he thought about that. 'What kind of system is she that could say something like that.'

[I am, of course, a Good Luck Gacha System. Did Host forget about that name?]

"Hell no. How can I forget the name of a system that could only give encouragement instead of the actual luck."

[Do you want to use your Gacha Ticket?]

"Do you think you can change the topic?" Alex said with a poker face.

[#Auto message: Do you want to use your Gacha Ticket?]

"..." Alex was speechless by the system's shamelessness. He didn't know whether the 'Auto Message' thing was true or not. But if it was true, then the system shamelessly used it to avoid the topic.

"Yeah, good enough. You can change the topic that way because I am not that bored to say other things to get another question like that. Yeah, use all my tickets."

[Processing]

[Kevlar (UC) x1]

[Summoning Coin (C) x1]

[Water Bottle (C) x1]

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[A roll of silk (C) x1]

"..." Alex looked through his reward. He got a bunch of Common and Uncommon things more than usual. "System, how can I get so many Common and Uncommon things?"

[Because you are trying to tease me.]

"..." Alex was speechless. This system was trying to test his patient once again. At first, after his character grew up, he didn't have an urge to get angry easily. But he was almost got triggered again by this system.

[Is what I wanted to say, but I don't have the authorities for that. In other words, it is because your luck sucks at the moment.]

"..." After knowing the reason... He said, "I will stick with the first reason."

Well, who wanted to know they had bad luck at the moment when they wanted to open a Premium Gacha after this. He immediately opened five Premium Gacha Balls from the box before the system said something again.

[Truncheon (R) x1]

[Magic Cloak (SR) x1]

[Space Arrow Tube (SR) x1]

[Sunglasses (C) x1]

[Moon Tulip (R) x1]

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