Otaku Translation: The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life Chapter 361 Part 1

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Chapter 361: Dark Demon Boiling the Holy Sword

After leaving the tavern, Dark stocked up on materials for experiments and bought some food and drink supplies on before finally pulling his heavy cart back to the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

Without the capital of 50,000 points, it would've been really difficult to raise a bunch of babies whose number never decreased and only kept increasing.

He hoped he would be able to successfully reopen [] in his second year so that by then, he could apply for club funds from the academy to raise his babies.

Dark returned to the tower of Noble House with a smile.

The aftertaste of yesterday's dungeon adventure had yet to dissipate. In the common room, there were many first-year students who were still talking about topics revolving around the dungeon.

The three teams that successfully defeated the floor boss and the only team that triggered [] seemed to have become the main topic.

The atmosphere was ever so lively as the young magisters chatted and laughed together.

Dark waved to the students who took the initiative to greet him as he went upstairs.

Doron's team was nowhere to be seen in the crowd. It was apparent that they were also digesting yesterday's harvest.

Only after returning to room 201 did Dark at last summon the impatient [].

Meowth, who appeared amidst the light of the summon, immediately darted towards the small corner filled with wood carving materials and tools. It had never forgotten about carving its own "armor".

Seeing Meowth look so hurried, Dark couldn't help putting his hand over his head.

"Now that I think about it, I haven't crafted most of the armors I promised to make for the other magical spirits… It can't be helped, I can only put it off for now."

……

"Mi~"

eagerly came over and tapped the cardboard box containing the with its ribbon-like feelers.

Only then did Dark pick up the cardboard box and move it near the bedside. Then, he beckoned to the magical spirits and said, "It's a new friend."

The magical spirits instantly looked over curiously, waiting for him to open the box.

Dark opened the cardboard box and reached in to grab the dragon grass' neck, trying to fish it out.

But the dragon grass struggled so hard that he failed to fish it out for a while.

"No other choice then."

Dark composed himself. Following Miss Cat's pointers, he reached out to touch the sole reverse scale under the dragon grass' neck.

—the only scale that grew in reverse, the single soft scale that didn't turn hard as the dragon matured.

A large number of nerves grew underneath the reverse scale, and its surface was covered with receptors, making it extremely sensitive.

Whether it was touch, pain, or other sensations, they would be amplified several times!

It was one of the most important treasures of dragons.

The dragon grass had perfectly inherited the biological traits of dragons, so it naturally also had a reverse scale.

Once Dark found the reverse scale, he gently stroked it with the pad of his finger.

"Miu~"

Not long after, the dragon grass let out a soft cry.

It promptly softened into a puddle of goo.

Curling his lips, Dark successfully dug it out of the cardboard box.

"Come, say hello to your sisters and brothers."

He grabbed one of the dragon grass' paws and waved it at the magical spirits and other cat grasses.

But for some reason, something was wrong with the atmosphere.

……

Although Dark was quite eager to use the dragon grass to cultivate [deadly sin fruit], his [deadly sin] reserve was still insufficient. He also hadn’t yet decided on which sin to use for now, so he planned to raise it for the time being and let it get used to this home before cultivating it.

As for where to keep it...

Because there was no water tank, he temporarily put it in ’s inflatable pool.

Popplio turned out to be rather fond of this timid and shy dragon grass. It didn't take long for the two to huddle together.

Dark carefully observed them for a while and gradually put down his worries.

Then, he opened 《》 that he had acquired without much effort and started to read it casually.

was a somewhat famous magister.

On the title page of the book, Parkin referred to himself as "the Grand Magister".

But in fact, his attainments in Magic Theory were very limited.

Even the surname "Chimera" was given to him by himself.

The original meaning of the so-called "Chimera" was "she-goat". It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a snake. It was synonymous with "synthetic beast".

The purpose in taking on the surname "Chimera" was nothing more than to flaunt oneself as an expert of "synthetic beasts".

However, "synthetic beast" itself was a forbidden skill that originated from the demon race and couldn't be done above board.

Magic technology incorporated things of diverse nature and could turn the technology of synthetic beast into its own.

But magisters generally thought it to be a kind of dark and forbidden art.

Instead of "synthesis", why not "fusion"?

Fusion was the combination of two or more magical spirits into one, whereas synthesizing was to sew together parts from two or more magical spirits.

One was a combination that could be reverted at any time, while the other was a mere superficial patchwork.

The difference could be seen at a glance.

《Parkin Chimera's Guidebook on Crafting Synthetic Beast》 talked about choosing the most powerful parts from the bodies of various monsters and sewing them together into a monster made up of various different monster parts through the technique of magical spirit crafting.

Similar to it, there was a monster called "Abomination" that was made up of numerous mangled corpses.

This kind of patchwork synthetic beast didn't even possess the most basic intelligence and was very prone to collapse on its own.

It might even turn into a pool of sludge as it was being used.

Most of the time, this kind of collapse also extended to its magic card.

The reason Parkin Chimera became famous was because during a certain battle, he spontaneously sewed up the corpses of monsters on the battlefield into a gigantic and hideous super synthetic beast.

The appearance of that super synthetic beast shocked the entire battlefield.

However, after surviving for only three seconds, the super synthetic beast turned into a pool of sludge...

The sludge came pouring down and submerged half of the battlefield.

And thus, Parkin Chimera became even more famous.

Now that Parkin Chimera had been missing for many years, his book 《Parkin Chimera's Guidebook on Crafting Synthetic Beast》 had in turn gained an additional collection value.

Just like the well-intentioned senior had said, this was truly a book that didn't have much use other than its collection value.

But "not having much use" didn't mean it was "completely useless".

The most exceptional characteristic of the "synthetic beast" crafting method was that it possessed multiple cores!

……

Dark's main purpose for buying this book was to find out how to use multiple cores to craft a magical spirit.

There were clear limitations to the basic crafting method taught in the first year. The crafting method only allowed for a single core—putting in two or more core materials would lead to experimental accidents due to violent clash between the materials.

But the [Honedge] Dark wanted to craft required two core materials, the [Holy Sword] and [].

Although his idea was to use [Holy Sword] as the main core and [Shield Turtle Jade] as the supplement, it was very likely that he wouldn't be able to correctly do this when he actually started to craft it.

If he could gain some relevant knowledge from 《Parkin Chimera's Guidebook on Crafting Synthetic Beast》 that enabled him to make appropriate adjustments in the crafting process, then the 300 points spent would be well worth it.

……

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