Chapter 24 (2/2)

“Alchemic Engineers are skilled artisans who create automatons and other curious inventions, a good choice. Young sacred soul, please enter this transportation gate and experience the charm of this subclass.”

Jiang Qiao waved his hand to a side, and a bright blue transportation gate appeared along with a message for Xia Shan.

‘Do you want to experience the subclass Alchemic Engineer?’

Xia Shan immediately pressed on the confirm button, and the next moment Xia Shan disappeared in front of Jiang Qiao, with the latter following behind her. In his place, another subclass mentor appeared in his place.

On the other side of the transportation gate was an alchemy workshop and not an independent space. If she wanted to, she could push the door and leave.

The alchemy workshop was filled with a few tools and materials required for basic alchemy.

Jiang Qiao acted as an NPC and waited dutifully at the doorway for Xia Shan to finish her experience.

Xia Shan started looking around the workshop, and the tools that she picked up weren’t the screwdriver and mechanical template that were the basic tools of the subclass, but instead a charcoal stove, a small kettle and a metal windmill.

Xia Shan lit up the stove and filled the kettle with water, and after that she started boiling the water on the stove.

“Why doesn’t she return to the real world if she wants to have warm water?” Ocean Blue followed behind Jiang Qiao invisibly, while the latter was already shocked beyond belief.

“Woah…This girl doesn’t want water, she wants to bring about the first industrial revolution!”

“W-What’s that…?” Ocean Blue asked in confusion.

“You don’t need to understand.”

Jiang Qiao stared at the girl who was already looking expectantly at the boiling kettle, feeling a little caught off guard.

She was indeed a player that had the uncanny ability to create and think out of the box.

Jiang Qiao had already thought of this under Maker Mode, and Sacred Souls was a game that was both realistic yet game-like.

Xia Shan continued to look at this tool that had been duly renamed as ‘Kettle Filled with Water’ in excitement.

The regular player would probably only be so excited had they seen a legendary or epic equipment, but Xia Shan was different. It was only because of a certain piece of data under the kettle.

[Temperature of fluid in kettle: 62 °C]

As this data continued to rise, the water in the kettle started to boil in half a minute, and when Xia Shan saw steam piping out of the mouth of the kettle and made the miniature windmill spin, she was so excited that she jumped up!

Sacred Souls even successfully emulated the physics of steam and heat! This wasn’t anything that could be achieved by any VR game on the planet, not even War. In War, there wasn’t even an option to heat things up, and the flames in that game were only used as projectiles!

This game had great potential! In creating new methods to play!

As Xia Shan was having this thought, the flames in the stove suddenly went out, and the steam disappeared immediately.

It went out? But why? Wasn’t there still fuel in the stove…”

Xia Shan looked at the system notifications in confusion, and she saw a whole bunch of messages on her dashboard.

[You ignited a small source of fire. 1 MP required per second.]

[You have lost 1 MP.]

[You have lost 1 MP.’]

The basic MP that players had at Level 1 was only a hundred, and their MP recovery was only in the decimal points per second, so after a hundred seconds Xia Shan received another message.’

[Your MP has been exhausted, the source of fire has gone out.]

“What’s the deal with this setting!” Xia Shan looked at the steam that had disappeared, and she could see her grand vision gone with the dust.