Chapter 1 Planning

As usual, Li Ang didn't touch the three attribute points, in case he found satisfactory equipment or items but discovered his attributes didn't meet the requirements, making him unable to equip them.

So, what should he do now?

Li Ang rubbed his chin, pondering silently.

After all, he was a lone wolf player, lacking information and unclear about what the inexplicable Doorway Contention War was all about.

However, one thing was always correct: enhance his own strength.

Even if the future was a black ocean of surging tsunamis, a ten-thousand-ton behemoth had a higher survival rate than a small sampan.

Li Ang thought for a moment and picked up a pen and paper to write.

[Short-Term Goals]: Figure out what the Doorway Contention War is. Manage the Immaculate Furnace shop well. Upgrade Elementary Alchemy to Intermediate. Strengthen the Alchemist's Magic Box. Spend money. Find an extraordinary life form as a pet to fill the Secondary Master Ball.

[Mid-Term Goals]: Upgrade Intermediate Dead Object Reanimation to Advanced. Find a stable way to replenish divine power. Find a perfect way to restrain the Brain Bug. Cultivate more Zerg units.

[Long-Term Goals]: Use divinity to become a god (tentative). Survive.

"The three types of goals are mainly classified according to the estimated completion time.

Alchemy is improving every day, and it is estimated that it will take more than a month to fully understand the contents of Morgan's travel notes."

Li Ang looked at the content on the paper and muttered to himself, "The Immaculate Furnace shop is simple, it will generate income just by being there.

It's just that the plaza won't provide a list of goods that need to be restocked.

I need to observe the out-of-stock items every once in a while and restock them myself,

which is more troublesome.

And if there are customers who urgently need surgery and are willing to pay a higher price for surgical services,

they may not be able to contact me when they arrive at the store.

Should I hire a front desk cashier for the store?"

The front desk cashier could sign a contract and become Li Ang's friend, usually staying in the Immaculate Furnace shop,

helping Li Ang look after the store,

seeing what goods need to be restocked, or contacting customers who urgently need surgery,

and informing Li Ang of their needs through friend communication.

"The cashier issue can be discussed later. The Immaculate Furnace's customer traffic isn't so large that I can't handle it at the moment.

But if I develop new products and expand the store in the future, I might have to hire someone."

Li Ang muttered, "It's a pity that the plaza only allows players to enter and exit, otherwise I could send a Brain Bug to look after the store.

Forget it, next item."

Another short-term goal was to find a powerful extraordinary creature.

The Secondary Master Ball, as one of the biggest gains of this mission, had an effect that could be described as powerfully exaggerated,

able to 100% capture a biologically weakened creature whose level was lower than the user's, and turn it into a loyal state.

"Considering that the spherical space inside the Master Ball has a diameter of thirty meters, the captured creature's size probably can't be too large. Titans and giants are definitely out."

Li Ang murmured, "And only one can be released at a time. I can't pack the entire Zerg inside.

Hmm... I remember there seems to be a guild on the game plaza that specializes in beast taming, right?

Called Thousand-Throated Beasts?

They specialize in taming wyverns, mammoths, fire lizards, and other extraordinary creatures,

and will put some of them up for sale in the auction house."

Taming magical beasts can also be considered a type of logistics skill.

The Thousand-Throated Beasts guild usually doesn't show off, but their strength should be pretty good—having a way to tame and suppress magical beasts proves that they themselves are also very capable fighters.

In addition to the Thousand-Throated Beasts, other guilds are also engaged in the business of extraordinary creatures.

For example, the Devil Scientist Alliance—their members each have a few unique skills, and among them are experts who are good at biological modification, who will put their proud products up for auction.

Like the Tyrant Pyramid Head, which combines the final bosses of two horror games—with a metal triangle on its head, wielding a door-sized blade, able to cut the frontal armor of a main battle tank in half with a single strike.

Emotionless, physically strong zombified human legions—totaling a hundred people, with tough skin on their bodies, able to ignore light machine gun fire, and perfectly execute the employer's simple instructions.

There are even half-machine, half-demon monsters—the Devil Scientist Alliance draws magic circles, uses soul fragments as bait to summon demons from the abyss, then cripples them and locks them in cages,

replaces the ferocious demons with metal prosthetics, puts on mental control collars,

and sells them to patrons like pet dogs.

Brutal and evil, but also full of rational science,

the Devil Scientist Alliance is such a cool and niche guild.

However,

according to some inside information on the forum,

the Devil Scientist Alliance seems to be running an underground elf trading business, specializing in selling elves to high-end customers with special needs.

However, they didn't tell the customers that

the elves they sold were originally gnolls, kobolds, and deep-sea fishmen,

who had been transformed into blond, blue-eyed handsome men and beautiful women.

The Devil Scientist Alliance righteously and sternly denied this claim on the forum,

firstly, they wouldn't run such a low-end industry like elf trading, which lacked taste,

secondly, even if they did,

they would prioritize using short, ugly, and pus-filled stinky goblins as raw materials—goblins reproduce far more efficiently than gnolls or fishmen.

Hmm...

Li Ang, who was also good at biological modification, said that turning goblins into elves was actually not difficult,

and if he wanted to, he could even sculpt worms into handsome men and beautiful women comparable to ancient Greek statues in under 20 minutes.

"According to the notes on the Secondary Master Ball, it's best to find an extraordinary creature whose level and strength are only slightly lower than mine."

Li Ang said to himself, "This isn't urgent either. I'll take a stroll around the plaza later."

Next were the mid-term goals.

Li Ang's previously mastered [Dead Object Reanimation (Elementary)] had already been upgraded to Intermediate, consuming less power and being able to awaken larger dead objects with higher intelligence.

Surprisingly, the Intermediate Dead Object Reanimation could still be upgraded,

and upgrading to Advanced required 1000 proficiency points, which would take two hundred and fifty days if he released it four times a day.

"Will I be able to awaken a cruiser and get a few ship spirits when I reach Advanced?"

Li Ang shook his head, drawing dots on the paper with his pen, "Unfortunately, the thing players lack most is time."

Improving the level of Dead Object Reanimation relied entirely on accumulating slowly over time and couldn't be rushed.

The goal of [finding a stable way to replenish divine power], on the other hand, was more difficult...

"What are you doing?"

Chai Chai's head passed through the wall and floated in,

rushing to Li Ang's side with a "whoosh," leaning closer and looking at the content on the paper.

"Stable replenishment of divine power?"

Chai Chai rolled her eyes and thought for a while, then slapped her palm, "That's right, didn't you make a self-aware Brain Bug before?

That bug seems to be able to provide you with faith power, right?"