Chapter 91: A Guess

A green-haired girl who caught the eye appeared in Kaja, but she did not cause much of a stir. Kaja was a big city with many people, so hair color was an even more negligible factor here. Moreover, people from alien races often came here—those with red, green, blue, or white hair were all around!

Qin found a chair and sat down. She looked up at the sun in the sky and slightly narrowed her eyes. This feeling of being able to blend into the crowd without worrying about anything happening… it was really nice!

She withdrew her gaze and looked again at the palm of this alchemical body. Suddenly, she felt a bit of regret now… If she had known earlier that Zheng Yichen had such abilities, she would have used better materials, not these materials that she considered merely acceptable to create this alchemical puppet.

Even though this alchemical puppet was already quite strong due to its material, and its power output surpassed that of some ranked warriors, it was still… not enough. In her eyes, this alchemical body was still fragile, no different from ordinary people. To ordinary people, she could send hundreds or thousands to the underworld with a single word. While the strength of this alchemical body couldn’t be destroyed by a word, it could be dealt with by just a flick of a finger.

Alchemical items had a common characteristic: once created, their power and performance were basically fixed. Even though the designer of this alchemical body had ingeniously added extra functions—the instruction manual clearly called it “overclocking,” temporarily lifting some safety restrictions of the alchemical body to unleash greater power in a short time—the consequence was that the greater the power unleashed, the more severe the damage to the alchemical body, even to the point of complete destruction.

So, using such “inferior” materials to make this alchemical body… was truly an extreme waste. However, there had been too many setbacks in related aspects, which made Qin value this current body extra. She wanted to use better materials to make a new alchemical body.

As for how to handle it with Zheng Yichen, there was a clause for negotiation in the cooperation agreement. She didn’t mind paying a higher price in this regard. After all, veteran witches had deep accumulations.

“Hmm?” Seeing a figure appear at the street corner, Qin raised an eyebrow slightly and revealed a faint smile. She walked toward that figure first. The features of the alchemical body Zheng Yichen used were also quite noticeable. Black hair and black eyes weren’t absent in this world, but they were a minority.

“Oh? You’re already using it?” Seeing the long, eye-catching green twin tails in front of him, Zheng Yichen felt it was good but not surprised. When making this alchemical body, based on the production requirements, he knew this alchemical body would be used by someone.

“I need to order a new alchemical body,” Qin got straight to the point.

“…The reason? Did I not do well?” Even the voice was so similar… Was it just dissatisfaction? Zheng Yichen’s smile faded a bit. He had put the most care into the refinement of this alchemical body, even more than the one he used himself. He guaranteed that some alchemy masters in this world might be inferior to him in terms of refinement.

“I’m just dissatisfied with the materials of this body,” Qin shook her head. “I can provide better materials!”

How wasteful… no, how rich must one be to say that? Those materials weren’t good? Hey, the previous materials were already extremely rare on the market, right? And you’re still dissatisfied with those? How high are your standards exactly?

“Ahem, I’m afraid that’s not possible for now,” Zheng Yichen coughed lightly. “I haven’t been studying alchemy and engineering for long. Even handling this batch of materials was already strenuous for me. If I switched to higher-grade ones, even if I wanted to do it, I wouldn’t be able to handle them.”

“Is that so?” Qin’s tone was somewhat strange. Since he could make such a body, even if the materials were too advanced, he should be able to handle them, right? Handling advanced materials mainly required mana capacity and mental energy, which weren’t heavily tied to study time—after all, Zheng Yichen already had a successful example. But now he said he couldn’t handle more advanced materials.

Either he was making excuses and didn’t want to make a new one, or… Zheng Yichen’s true body was very weak, and his mana and mental energy couldn’t meet the requirements!

If it was the latter?

That basically ruled out the possibility that Zheng Yichen’s true body was a witch. Even a newborn witch would naturally possess far greater mana capacity than other ordinary people, and their mana growth rate was extremely fast!

“How long will it take for you to handle more advanced materials?”

“That also depends on how advanced the materials you provide are,” Zheng Yichen shrugged. Qin didn’t hide anything and directly stated the grade of materials she would provide next time. Zheng Yichen couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment. This woman was truly incredibly rich!

The materials she mentioned were ones Zheng Yichen had seen in material reference books. In terms of quality, they were only slightly inferior to the materials used to make the Magic Weapon Summoning Book… How advanced were the materials for the Magic Weapon Summoning Book? The materials were provided by Loris. Among the accumulations of a witch who had lived for a thousand years, the materials used for the Magic Weapon Summoning Book were also the ones she had stored the least of!

“About a year or so…” Zheng Yichen pondered and said. This time frame wasn’t just a random guess. By then, he would have accumulated enough and reached the tier. The dragon clan’s foundation was too strong; the threshold for reaching the tier was far beyond that of humans. Of course, if reaching the tier was only related to mana, Zheng Yichen’s current mana accumulation could already produce more than ten human magic users who had reached the tier.

However, it required not just mana but also spiritual power…

“Oh~ That’s not too long. I can wait,” Qin nodded gently. The eye structure of the alchemical body largely hid her slightly subtle expression. One or two years… Tsk, perhaps there was some gap compared to a witch, but it wouldn’t be too far. If he really wasn’t a witch, he definitely wouldn’t be human either.

Taking the materials used for this alchemical body as a standard and estimating upwards a bit, to be able to handle the materials she mentioned would require over ten years of accumulation by human standards—and that was assuming the person had excellent talent. Yet Zheng Yichen gave one-tenth of that time, which largely ruled out his identity as a human.

Of course, there might be such freakishly talented aberrations among humans, but such aberrations could truly be said to appear once in ten thousand years. Such a talent would be heavily protected wherever they went, and they would never lack resources—in fact, they might even have more than they could handle. How could they be left to grow freely as he was now?

Based on what she knew, no other alien races with naturally high mana capacity had similar examples… The most likely was the dragon clan? Hmm… With such talent, he would be considered outstanding even among the dragon clan.