Extraordinary Voyage-Chapter 584 - 515: Consecutive Surprises

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As Aiven finished speaking, Calvin had already charged up to the third level of the fortress, riding a Celestial White Deer behind Angie.

The nimble girl jumped off the White Deer, leading the way into the Hollow Castle, her silvery long hair dancing like a stream of moonlight, revealing a pair of drop-shaped crystalline earrings by her ears.

"Teacher, you're back!"

Seeing Angie who hadn't been around for months and Calvin who hadn't been around for half a year, a smile spread across Aiven's face as he waved at the two students:

"You arrived just in time, I was going to call you. Come on, let's experience what mass-produced transcendents are all about."

Everyone else had seen this, these two were among the few in the Privateer Fleet who knew the true relationship between the deputy leader and the leader, and they had a natural kinship with Anita.

Anita put on her Golden Mask again, and the group marched to the high-standard biological laboratory Aiven had long established.

Angie was in charge here now; Aiven's ship doctor, Dr. Taylor, was freed from the repetitive labor of drug production and went to the continent to practice medicine.

In the philosophy of the "Vesalian School," the best way to ensure continuous medical advancement is to keep treating patients.

The "mass-produced Skin-Wearing People plan" wasn't just a whim of Aiven, but a preemptive strategy after witnessing the powerful force of reversing Gel's loss of control.

He had long instructed Bess stationed at Hatrafa Port to pre-select suitable candidates.

"Angie, how many Demonized Creature Level 'Activated Beast Hides' do we have in stock now?"

"Well, since I returned, we have stockpiled quite a bit of Demonized Shark Skin for practice, and there are also two pieces of Ferocious Continental Gray Wolf skin."

Angie, equipped with the Magic-like Technique [Beast Domination], was far more efficient than Aiven in sourcing biological materials or contract subjects.

With her stationed at Hatrafa Port, the stock of "Activated Beast Hide" was already quite abundant.

"It's just..."

Angie hesitated slightly, knowing full well the consequences for ordinary people wearing "Activated Beast Hide" made from demonized creatures.

The vast majority of people are completely eroded and engulfed by the powerful "Activated Beast Hide," disappearing entirely from the world;

Only a very few can, with an extraordinary will, overcome the residual demonized creature's will within, assimilating the hide into a part of themselves, becoming an attendant of the "Vitalist School" Wizard—the "Skin-Wearers."

Obtaining the Solidification Transformation Technique, they hold both human and beast forms for combat.

In human form, they are almost equivalent to mid-late stage Apprentice Knights, but after "Fur Transformation," they immediately possess about seventy percent of the original skin owner's strength.

This can be considered a very straightforward and crude Extraordinary Path, requiring no prior knowledge or efforts, nearly a shortcut to greatness, assuming one can endure the much higher mortality rate than "Extraordinary Transformation!"

An "Activated Beast Hide" is the boundary between heaven and hell.

Another downside is that this is not an Extraordinary Path imprinted in the World Root Source, posing a higher risk of loss of control and making power extremely difficult to grow.

However, the inability to grow in power is secondary; like Baldwin, who Angie has seen before, after becoming a Horned Shark Skin Person, is almost capable of rivaling veteran Official Knights, a lifetime achievement that surpasses most.

Among all who achieve Extraordinary Transformation to Official Knights, those who succeed in breaking through to Tier 3 Great Knights with the aid of "Breath of the Giant Beast" only account for 2%-3%. When expanded to all ordinary people, the probability of breaking through to Tier 3 is negligible from the start.

Compared to the terrifying mortality rate, the disadvantage of power being unable to increase is insignificant.

Seeing Angie's concern, Aiven temporarily refrained from explaining, merely instructing:

"For the Pirate Gang here, use the Gray Wolf skins first. When there's time, take a trip to the continent; even if the number of wild Ferocious Gray Wolves is low, bringing back ordinary ones to cultivate ourselves is acceptable."

"Alright, Teacher."

Angie nodded in response, retrieving two wolf skin cloaks that seemed to gently squirm from her "Magic Pocket," passing them to Aiven.

Upon receiving them, Aiven casually handed them off to Olivia at his side.

Click!

Watching her carry the wolf skin cloaks into the experiment preparation room, Anita, Angie, and Calvin all felt somewhat baffled. Yet they remained silent, as Aiven (Teacher) was confident, there surely had to be a reason.

After shutting the door, the preparations inside were no longer visible from outside.

Olivia gently pinched a light blue artificial Moonstone with a unique halo at her fingertips.

The essence of this gemstone is sodium and potassium aluminosilicate, formed through alternating layers of these components into a magnificent gemstone. Combined with the scattering of visible light and interference or diffraction of cleavage planes, it ultimately produces the moonlight effect.

Even ordinary oysters seeding in summer can be ready for market by winter. The "Demonized Gem Shells" held in their hands can grow even faster.

With the implementation of their "encourage fertility" policy, the number of demonized gem shells has greatly increased.

Aiven planned over ten independent breeding grounds in the Alchemy Workshop, allocating different raw materials for the gem shells to produce various types of gemstones.

Though Moonstones in Olivia's hands can be used indefinitely without causing Spiritual loss, in future sales, they will be a crucial part of the standardized gemstone system.

This burgeoning organic gemstone industry may also possess significant potential influence.

When cheap, artificial organic gemstones completely dominate the market, they will undoubtedly have a substantial impact on the majority of Gem School Wizards, who are often wealthy and of noble descent, potentially even affecting the internal power distribution of the "Gem School" to a certain extent.

This was the conclusion Olivia reached during her heartfelt discussion with her mother Nymph last night.

Putting her thoughts aside, she uttered the cool Curse:

prol——

Bright Radiance spilled over the two cloaks like water, quickly washing away the instinctual will remaining from the original master in the beast hides' spirituality.

[Gem Witchcraft: Spiritual Purification]

When Olivia emerged with the beast hides, two seasoned Pirates had already arrived here, arranged by Bess. Under Aiven's directive, the girl handed these hides to them respectively.

"Babbit, Sam, wear these; I hope you can make good use of this power."

Aiven remembered the names of everyone in the pirate gang, not to mention these two who were specially selected for their top-notch loyalty, willpower, and physical fitness.

Unfortunately, their hopes of becoming official knights were still slim.

"Next is the moment to witness a miracle."

"Yes, sir, we will offer our hearts to you!"

Without hesitation, the two of them simultaneously donned the wolfskin cloaks in their hands.

"Awooo—!"

"Awooo—!"

The fur moved on its own like a living creature, and in the blink of an eye, the two had transformed into two large Continental Gray Wolves, crouching on the ground on all fours, baring sharp gleaming fangs with a faint red glow in their eyes.

It seemed as if a group of small mice were wriggling under their brown-gray fur, and the transformations in their flesh, bones, and even the essence of their lives caused them to emit extremely pained growls.

Scratch...

With wolf claws as hard as steel scratching the ground, they made sharp, jarring noises.

However.

Although they looked pained, Angie, an official wizard of the Vitalist School who personally crafted these two activated beast hides, immediately noticed something amiss.

The difficulty of the "Skin-Wearing People" transformation should have been far greater; compared to the physical pain, the mental struggle against the will of the original owner was the most brutal and dangerous.

Even though they had been made into activated beast hides, the will of the ferocious large carnivorous demonized creatures still lingered in the hides. Humans wanting to completely take over this power had to first ask if the original owner agreed.

The transformation process should have been a dual test of body and soul!

But why does it feel like the residual consciousness within the fur is not the original ferocious Gray Wolf King but two already tamed mutts? No, calling them mutts is too flattering; they were practically the gentlest, most harmless Chihuahuas.

Clearly, this was directly related to Olivia's handling of the fur just now.

"Huff... huff..."

Without any unexpected occurrences, it didn't take long before the two stabilized completely, and thus, the two "werewolves" were born.

Back when Baldwin transformed, it took him several hours, during which he nearly died. Yet, they completed the transformation in just an hour, without even showing uncontrollable aggressive urges.

It was simply a miracle!

As an insider, Angie watched Olivia with sparkling eyes but didn't lose composure like the guardian wizards at Treasure Tree Bay, because the meaning of "preventing loss of control" and "reversing loss of control" were worlds apart.

This difference is akin to the same bottle of water, one with the cap screwed on to prevent spills, the other collecting spill by spill back into the bottle after it has been poured out.

This ability wouldn't pose any risk to Olivia and could be used as an overt regular power.

Earlier, with Aiven's assistance, they jointly established the "organic gemstone standardized industrial system", and now, with Olivia's help, the "Skin-Wearing People" army in Aiven's hands was about to be born.

Whether the dual blades of "Adventurer's Blood" could enhance luck hadn't been proven, but the huge benefits of their dual blades in "Wisdom" were already foreseeable.

Supporting each other, they were surely capable of venturing farther on the Extraordinary Path.

Afterward, Aiven let the two newly transformed Gray Wolf Skin-Wearing People, now able to move by themselves, go to rest.

He walked over to Anita, whose face was still shocked and dazed, placed a hand on her shoulder, and said with a smile:

"How about it, were you scared?

The 'Oathbreakers' only incorporated some thirty or forty extraordinary people, right?

We'll give them fifty or a hundred extraordinary people and establish a 'Skin-Wearing People' army. Let the great Pirate Queen 'Jade Light' sweep across the four seas."

However, the surprise Aiven brought Anita was far from over.

Taking his sister, whose steps were slightly unsteady, he led her to the other side of the laboratory, which connected to a large granite cavern.

This cavern was actually one of the main tasks Angie had returned here for, and a large part of the building materials for the fortress came from here, laid out exactly like the unnamed island.

[King Mansa Musa's Treasure Box] was also placed here, and Aiven casually bound the ever-sealed Voodoo Doll to it as the treasure box's guardian spirit.

Snap—

Aiven snapped his fingers.

A shadow rose and fell, and a multitude of log piles filled this cavern.

"Sister, take a look at this."

"Wood? What's this for?"

Although Anita didn't have the wizard's spiritual vision, as a Great Knight with the Dragon Vein casting ability, she vaguely sensed the uniqueness of these logs.

Aiven gave a mysterious smile:

"These are the famed extraordinary ship materials—Treasure Tree, and our future legendary battleship!"

Anita's face showed a faint hint of surprise, and the same vibrant "Adventurer's Blood" in her gradually began to boil as she gently caressed these Treasure Trees, which felt like iron, murmuring:

"What have you been out doing? Bringing me so many surprises one after another!"

Very satisfied with Anita's expression, Aiven stepped forward, taking her hand:

"Surprise? That's nothing; even greater surprises are yet to come.

Come on, change clothes, let's go witness the revival of the Galliot family! That's the main task of today!"