This Lich Needs More Money

Chapter 90: Not the kind of vampire you think

 As a lich who no longer has worldly desires, experimenting is one of the few entertainment projects for Amber Xiu.

 After all, you can't make money every day. When you don't have any money, you can only do experiments to pass the time. If it is an experiment related to making money, then Amber Xiu will be even happier.

 Theoretically, the ability of the Golden Throne can give Amberxiu endless wealth and power.

 Coupled with the two legendary favors of Amber Xiu's artificial soul and material conversion, a self-sufficient cycle can be achieved. Given enough time, he will become the richest man in mainland China in no time.

 But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is a little cruel.

 It’s not that this theory doesn’t work, it’s that the blank soul created by the artificial soul has too low an IQ.

Amber Xiu lined up in front of his eyes, five new types of "undead" that he had just created.

 In terms of material transformation, under the same quality, the higher the density of a substance, the greater the amount of gold consumed when changing its properties.

The five new types of "undead" in front of us are made of books, leather, steel, sand and gold. They all weigh one kilogram, and the strength of the blank souls put in is a relatively accurate 100 souls. This is the soul strength unit set by Amber Xiu himself. The soul of ordinary humans fluctuates between 80 and 130 souls. The blank soul created by Amber Xiu himself will be relatively standard, and the experimental error will be smaller.

 When converting attributes, the difference in gold consumption of different materials is huge. The difference between the cheapest and the most expensive is a hundred times. The small skeleton made of one kilogram of gold consumed seventeen times the same weight of gold when the material was transformed into a "corpse" attribute. Perhaps it has something to do with Amber Xiu's unskilled operation, but this cost is undoubtedly unacceptable.

And the final experiment proved that no matter what material is used, the faith recharging efficiency of the created undead puppets is not much different - they are all very good.

Amberxiu roughly estimated that after the Golden Throne, which was made with one million gold coins, was completely consumed, it would require about a few million blank souls of standard strength to pray, which should be able to be restored within a day.

However, it is possible for blank souls to evolve. The newly created little guys have low IQs, but as long as Amberxiu relaxes the restrictions on blank souls, they will have a chance to become smart, and the efficiency of faith recharge will also increase accordingly.

And the undead are relatively easy to feed. As long as they sleep, they can automatically absorb dark magic power to maintain their activity, basically at no cost.

 In other words, the more undead there are and the longer the time, the more and more Amboxiu's income will snowball.

 After all, the undead are immortal, and if there are no battle losses, they will only continue to increase.

 Give Amberxiu a long time, it is really possible for him to achieve golden freedom in this way.

The only limit is the upper limit of the Golden Throne. Amberxiu guessed that this throne also has an upper limit, but it has not been tested yet. Anyway, it is definitely more than a few million. Legendary abilities also require constant exploration and practice before they can be fully mastered.

 The basic data test is completed, and the final question returns to the quality of the undead puppet.

Although the blank soul is highly malleable, it cannot reach the basic human IQ no matter how much it is adjusted, and it takes time to grow.

 So, using gold to make a puppet is a complete loss, because gold has a high density, and a blank soul needs to consume more power when controlling the body. It is small and bulky, and only has some advantages in resistance. It has no combat effectiveness, no advantage in terms of faith output, and the cost is extremely high, so this material can be eliminated directly.

 Perhaps when Amber is free of gold, he can get two gold death knights to play with.

However, the "undead puppet" made of sand gave Amber Xiu a little surprise. After the blank soul was integrated into the scattered sand, he was able to control every grain of sand and learned the quicksand without Amber Xiu's guidance. The same way of movement, but also showed a very good imitation talent.

This little guy looked at the brothers and sisters around him. Sometimes he turned like a book and turned the pages, and sometimes he turned into a silly person and rolled around.

Curiosity is the source of wisdom. It is obvious that this little guy made of sand has a higher IQ than the other four. Although the faith recharging effect when ordering them to pray does not meet expectations, this little guy is a talent that can be made.

 As for the other four... I'm sorry, we need to increase revenue and reduce expenditure now.

In order to test the effect of material form on the blank soul, Amberxiu tried water flow, iron sand and gold sand scraped off with pain.

 Finally, we came to an interesting conclusion. The loose "corpse" seems to really strengthen the wisdom of the blank soul. It is also made of gold, so the small skull shape looks very stupid, but the gold sand shape looks more lively. Although it is still too heavy, its external sensing ability has indeed been improved, and it also shows its innate ability to imitate.

This discovery is very interesting, but Amberxiu has not been able to come up with a reasonable explanation for the time being. He can only guess that the loose body structure allows the blank soul to have a larger contact area with the outside world and perceive more information.

This guess may not be reliable and more practice is needed. But this is the result of the experiment. The only problem is that running water would have been the best choice, but the water will evaporate. Once it evaporates, the poor little guy will die completely.

 So, after many experiments, Amber Xin finally confirmed two materials as new undead puppets.

 One is broken glass, and the other is sifted sand.

The density of these two materials is not much different, and the conversion cost is within an acceptable range. Moreover, glass and sand are relatively stable and will not be easily lost due to the environment. Amber Xiu made five of them and kept them in the same place as the mercury figurines. Inside the castle, come back later to observe the growth.

Maybe it’s time to cultivate high-level undead using conventional methods. It happened that Dahei and Erha were saved by Amber Xiu, and he would continue to help them make bodies in two days. At most, it would cost some money to replace the bones with other materials.

High-level undead with independent consciousness should provide a lot more faith recharge.

The experiments were always too busy, and the gold coins were never enough. After sorting out today's experiment records, Amber Xiu opened the Code of the Undead and sent a message to Apoptotic Rose: [Ms. Rose, does our transaction need to be adjusted? Suddenly, the Alchemy City disappeared, and I'm afraid there will be chaos here for a while. 】

 After waiting for a while, Apoptotic Rose had not yet replied. Amberxiu looked at the group chat again and found that today was unexpectedly lively. 【Headless Horseman's Crown: Are those elves really ready to take action? 】

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 I heard it is, and they have already started to assemble their troops. Fortunately, we came back early, otherwise we might run into the elven army. 】

　　【Headless Horseman's Crown: You were decisive and ran away directly. Fortunately. 】

Amber Xiu’s facial features wrinkled up. What do you think your husband and wife are doing in group chat to show their affection?

But what are these two people talking about?

 Amber was about to look at the previous chat records when she suddenly discovered a new user.

I don’t like humans: Haha, not only the elves, but the desert dwarves are also ready to take action. As you know, Ryan recently beat the desert dwarves until they screamed, and several oases have been lost. The Alchemy City is such a large territory, and the desert dwarves have long been eyeing it. 】

I don’t know who this user named [doesn’t like humans] is?

The undead can often sleep for decades. Amber Xiu has not seen this person speak since he joined the Mourning Poets Society. He suddenly appeared today, so he needs to get to know him well.

　　【Ultraman Tiga: Hello, senior, I am a newcomer. Senior, are you also a lich? I have a design plan here for the transformation of an alien skeleton. I wonder if you are interested. 】

　　【Don't like humans: Oh, newcomers, I haven't seen newcomers join for many years. But I'm not a lich, I'm a vampire, and I don't usually use skeletons. 】

 Amberson:…

The name vampire makes Amberxiu feel a little uncomfortable. After all, there are too many vampire-related "cases" recorded in the Code of the Undead, all of which ended tragically because they fell in love with the food on the table.

So much so that when Amberxiu saw a vampire, he subconsciously felt that there was something wrong with the other person's xp.

Perhaps he had been silent for too long, so the senior vampire sent a message.

　　【Dislike humans: I'm not the kind of vampire you think! 】

　　【Ultraman Tiga: No, no, no, you misunderstood, I don't discriminate, really. 】

　　【Dislike Humans: Look at my name, isn't it obvious? 】

　　【The Headless Horseman's Crown: Haha, aren't there elves besides humans? Several cases in the code include vampires, orcs, and even mind flayers. You are more playful than the druids. 】

　　【Don't like humans: Go away, you riding a bone dragon have the nerve to call yourself a vampire? 】

　　【Pale Little Skeleton: What? Have an opinion about the Dragon Clan? Do you want me to take my tribe to visit your home for a few days? 】

Seeing that there was going to be a quarrel, Amberxiu was a little embarrassed. It was his silence that triggered the war.

At this time, Apoptotic Rose, who had not replied to the message, spoke in the chat group: [You just said that the elves and desert dwarves are mobilizing their armies? Are they all heading towards the Alchemy City? 】

As expected of the Queen of the Undead, as soon as she opened her mouth, the others immediately stopped.

[Dislike humans: This is normal. The city of alchemy occupies a large area of ​​fertile land. Although the main city is gone, other areas still retain a complete alchemy craft system. Who doesn’t want to grab it? Especially the desert dwarves. They were defeated by Ryan, so it was reasonable for them to want to change their territory. 】

Amberxiu recalled the territory of each country. The Alchemy City borders the Silver Moon Highgarden and the Kingdom of Gold in the desert. On the contrary, the strongest Lion Empire is separated from the Alchemy City by an entire desert.

Lian is probably also coveting the heritage of the Alchemy City, but he is just out of reach. He can only watch the desert dwarves occupy the territory and get a chance to breathe.

Amber Xiu asked curiously: "What's going on in Silver Moon High Court?" The elves rarely launch wars with other countries, right? Have they been crazy about raising prices for materials recently? They have offended many people. Are they really not afraid of being beaten by the remaining kingdoms? 】

Apoptotic Rose: I have also received news about this. The elves have indeed assembled an army, and their behavior of raising the price of materials seems to have a hidden purpose. It is not simply to destroy the economies of other kingdoms. Some time ago, Silver Moon High Court was only allowed in but not allowed out, and all information was blocked. I don’t know what happened specifically. 】

 Only in but not out?

Amberxiu vaguely remembered that Isabel also mentioned that her former teacher went to Silvermoon Highgarden and never came back, so she was targeted by the lord. Otherwise, with an official alchemist as a teacher, ordinary lords would really not dare to mess around.

What the **** are those elves in Silvermoon Highgarden doing? They're not just trying to be gods and crashing like Alchemy City, are they?

But it probably won’t be the case. Alchemists are not controlled by gods when they want to die. The elves are different. The elves are a bunch of gods and take special care of their own people. It is impossible for them to have any big accidents.

  【Apoptotic Rose: Brother Diga, are you still planning to stay in the Alchemy City? It's about to become a battlefield. The desert dwarves want to survive, so they will not give in, while the elves have always been strong, and they will definitely fight to decide how to carve up a kingdom. 】

The words of the Apoptotic Rose made Amberxiu fall into deep thought. Although with the power of the Golden Throne, he is no longer the bottom of the legend.

 But the war between the two kingdoms cannot be controlled by one or two legends. Staying here is indeed easy to cause trouble.

 But the question is, where can he move?

I have almost adjusted my mentality. To express my apology, I will update more than 10,000 words today! As usual, one update at noon and two updates at night

 (End of this chapter)