Chapter 4 Forging the Body

  The battle with the demonic leopard left Wu Song injured, but the injury was not enough to affect his speed. He rushed back and finally returned to Mill Town a whole day ahead of schedule.

  "Wu! Great to see you again, looks like maybe tomorrow we can continue drinking together." Wu Song walked up to the gate of Miltown that didn't look very solid when the garrison officer Koran took the initiative to greet Wu Song.

  Korin is the Garrison Officer of Mill Town, the second administrative officer in the town, next only to the Mayor. This big man with a thick beard is somewhat arrogant, but for adventurers like Wu Song who have a legendary color, he still gives due respect.

  "I'm also very happy to see you again." Wu Song smiled and walked forward, warmly hugging Colin in the eyes of many envious passersby.

  After a glass-like greeting, Colin smiled and looked at Wu Song in a low voice, "Miss Mu has been in our town for two days. She asked me to tell you that after returning, go to the Alchemist's house to find her."

  "I see." Wu Song smiled and nodded, but he was filled with doubts in his heart. The transaction between him and Miss Mu seemed to have been completed a month ago. Wu Song couldn't figure out why Miss Mu would personally come all the way to this remote town of Mill Town to find him. But that was no longer important to Wu Song now. What he needed most urgently was to get his hands on the red pine stone.

  "It's really hard to imagine that you actually brought back a corpse of a Ghost Mist Ridge Demon Leopard with no external injuries." When the old man, Mud, who was in charge of receiving goods at the Adventurer's Guild, saw Wu Song throw an entire demon leopard in front of him, he was thoroughly shocked. However, when he noticed that there was still a circle of silver fur around the demon leopard's neck, Mud's mood could only be described as "ejaculation". The old man stared with wide eyes, looking at the Ghost Mist Ridge Demon Leopard on the ground with an expression as if he had seen his long-dead father crawl out of his grave. He trembled and said, "Oh my god! What am I seeing? This is actually a Silver-maned Demon Leopard! Young man, this is the biggest surprise I've gotten in nearly a year!"

  Old Mu De was still babbling on with his praise, but Wu Song had no mood to listen to such empty flattery at this time. He pursed his lips and directly got to the point, asking, "I think...such a demon leopard should be enough, right? When can I get my reward?"

  "Of course! If a whole silver-maned leopard isn't enough, what else could be?! Mu De rubbed his somewhat dizzy old eyes and chuckled, "However, young fellow, as per usual, I need to contact the task publisher first and ask for their opinion. But this process is very quick, you know that they've already stored all the task rewards here with us. Just wait a bit, it'll only take a few minutes to get their response. If that guy's brain isn't rotten, I guarantee that within a few minutes, you'll have everything that belongs to you!"

  Mude said as he pulled out a memory scroll from the drawer, and gestured to Wu Song to help him lift up the corpse of the magic leopard. He then used the memory scroll to record the full characteristics of the magic leopard's body. After finishing, Mude opened the information transmission magic array on the square table, and transmitted the three-dimensional virtual image of the magic leopard recorded by the scroll to the Adventurer's Guild headquarters. A few minutes later, the headquarters sent back the audit result. As expected by Mude, the corpse of this magic leopard passed the audit without any suspense.

  "Congratulations, young man, this is the reward you deserve." After receiving the audit results from headquarters, Mu De stuffed the Magic Leopard's corpse into his storage space and immediately took out a white paper box to give to Wu Song. Wu Song opened the box on the spot, inside were twenty crystal coins, as well as a fist-sized stone that emitted a dark red glow.

  "It's this thing!" Wu Song recognized the stone in front of him at a glance, which was the red pine stone he had been thinking about day and night. He picked up the red pine stone and was about to take a closer look when he heard Old Mu De ask, "Young man, is there any problem with your task reward?"

  "No!" Wu Song nodded, realizing that this didn't seem to be the right place to admire his spoils. He quickly put away the Red Pine Stone and the twenty Crystal Coins, bid farewell to Mu De, and swiftly left the Adventurer's Guild.

  In a game world full of crises, there's nothing more important than upgrading one's strength. Wu Song left the Adventurer's Guild and went straight home, locking the door and setting up an isolation barrier with a scroll. He then took out all the materials needed for the Body Enhancement upgrade from his storage space and placed them in the alchemy dissolver he had prepared earlier, according to the requirements. Next, he activated the alchemy dissolver using an energy rod.

  Through the transparent crystal container of the solvent, Wu Song saw very clearly that each material was like a dumpling thrown into boiling water, rolling and gradually getting smaller in the solvent. When the hardest-to-melt red pine stone also disappeared, the thing emitting crimson light in the container finally stopped rolling. Wu Song picked up the container, gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and gulped down all the **gurgling sounds** inside.

  After drinking that crimson Wu Song didn't feel good, this wasn't because it was hard to swallow but the process of absorbing its energy and re-forging his body was extremely painful.

  In fact, the red stuff in the bowl is not only not difficult to drink, but it's actually sweet and refreshing. The taste when you first put it in your mouth is similar to watermelon juice, but after swallowing, the feeling isn't very good.

  The sweet taste in his mouth had not yet completely dissipated when Wu Song's stomach began to react, first with a series of foul-smelling farts, followed by a wave of intense cramping pain in his lower abdomen, similar to the feeling of acute enteritis. Next, he felt an unusual sensation at the anus, as if something huge was being forcibly inserted into him. Wu Song quickly ran to the bathroom, squatting down and excreting a large amount of dark, sticky feces. After finishing, Wu Song felt bloated all over his body, with every joint creaking and emitting a sharp, piercing pain. He rolled around on the ground in agony, but within five minutes, as the pain intensified, he finally fainted.