Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 660 - 619: Magic Spring_2

At that time, she thought it was just a special situation, and later, the Petroleum Lake and the dragon took up more of her energy, making her pay less attention to this matter.

But now, seeing similar situations again, she started to care about it.

"With the return of the White Star, the magic power of this world is itself in a state of recovery. Encountering a magic spring is not particularly unusual; such springs were quite common during the mythological era." The God of Wisdom explained to Perfikot.

"Is that so? How did you usually utilize these springs during the mythological era? Just for bathing?" Perfikot wanted to know how this natural resource was used in the mythical times.

After all, a spring filled with magic power is a very important and precious resource no matter how you look at it.

"They were mainly used for making magic potions. The God of Forging liked to use magic spring water for quenching weapons. However, the magic power concentration of the spring before us is not very high, whether for making magic potions or as quenching material, it cannot be used to create high-quality items." The God of Wisdom gave his opinion.

Perfikot didn't mind this. Not enough concentration? Just condense and purify it.

And if evaluated by the standards of divine beings saying it's not very high-end, it's actually quite good for ordinary people.

Just like a giant over ten meters tall telling you that you're short. By his standards, you might not truly be short.

At least in Perfikot's view, the quality of the magic hot spring in front of her was still quite good.

"Get someone to send a construction team here, build a small energy tower, and then build me a private laboratory." Perfikot ordered Beifa beside her.

The environment around this magic spring seemed nice; Perfikot thought building a laboratory and a hot spring villa here as her private retreat spot was a great idea.

When she didn't want to interact with too many people, hiding in such a place was undoubtedly a very good choice.

Especially with the fantastic element of geothermal hot springs here, soaking in hot springs in a snowy landscape is the ultimate enjoyment.

"As you command, my Master." Beifa, although still wearing divine armor, retained her maid demeanor.

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The construction of the hot spring villa would take some time. Naturally, Perfikot couldn't stay put waiting for them to finish building the villa, especially with two ancient beasts to deal with. So, she took Beifa back to Chernobyl first.

As for the hot spring villa, she left it to the survey team's clerical officer and Shay to manage.

After all, the location of the magic spring wasn't far from Shay's settlement. They could transport construction materials to Shay's place first and then to the magic spring site.

This was just a small matter, and once she returned to her lord's estate, Perfikot merely mentioned it to the old butler and paid no further attention, trusting him to handle such trivial matters.

As for herself, she delved back into the laboratory, dissecting and properly preserving the corpse of the slain ancient beast, while she ordered the construction of a prison outside Chernobyl to incarcerate the living ancient beast.

This prison definitely couldn't just be an iron cage, as that could never hold an ancient beast capable of contending with gods.

Perfikot's plan was to build a massive dungeon and suspend the beast in mid-air with sturdy chains, preventing it from gaining any leverage and thus hindering its brute strength.

Meanwhile, a four-armed lion was stationed here as a warden. If this ancient beast showed any intent to break free, the lion would beat it up.

Not to kill, but to injure, ensuring each blow left a lasting impression.

Perfikot believed that even if a beast wasn't particularly bright, it would become obedient after enough beatings.

As to why the ancient gods couldn't domesticate ancient beasts, Perfikot privately thought they might have been too high-and-mighty, accustomed to humans bowing down at their mere show of authority, lacking the patience for slowly taming an ancient beast.

After all, expecting a 'noble' divine being to patiently train a beast every day was practically an insult to the gods.

Especially since those gods were better at alluring mortals to worship them, they naturally lacked the willingness to expend much effort when their charming methods proved futile on wild beasts.

But in Perfikot's view, too dumb to tame? Just beat it until it's obedient!

And if three days of small beatings and two days of big thrashings couldn't teach the beast to fear and obey, Perfikot would just employ the wisdom of her predecessors and slaughter it directly.

Whips, iron awls, and machetes—one of these should work.

Moreover, for Perfikot, taming an ancient beast wasn't particularly necessary.

Human Alchemy, under her research and development, perhaps now more fittingly called Biological Alchemy, had reached a point where she could achieve cloning and cell induction, technologies possible only by the third Industrial Revolution in her original world. She could cultivate a new ancient beast from mere body cells.

The four-armed lion, as the third-generation Godslaying Armor, already proved the feasibility of this technique, and Perfikot's next step was refining it to achieve greater stability and maturity.

She could even delve into gene editing, fundamentally altering some traits of the ancient beast, making it more obedient and tame.

Don't think it's difficult. For an alchemy master of Perfikot's caliber, as long as she knew about genes, gene editing wouldn't pose a problem.

It's just that researching gene editing would take some time and lots of experiments.

But for Perfikot, it was precisely what she didn't lack. Coupled with ample technical expertise and the omniscient seventh ability of the Jade Record, Perfikot didn't even need to think about how to do it.

Although the omniscience could provide her with sufficient knowledge, Perfikot planned to first conduct her research and only resort to the omniscient Jade Record if she reached a dead end.

After all, using the Jade Record consumed mental energy, and becoming too reliant on it for acquiring knowledge might make her gradually dependent on it, ultimately losing her room for personal growth and capability.

So she set a rule for herself: she would not easily use the omniscience unless absolutely necessary when she couldn't find a solution.

At the end of the day, this ability was simply too exaggerated.

This is because the alchemical knowledge retrieved by the Jade Record likely wasn't limited to this world; many of it was new to Perfikot, with technical concepts and development paths entirely different from this world.

Not to mention some of its techniques were so advanced they could replicate technological creations from her pre-transmigration world!

Thus, it could be imagined how terrifying the omniscient ability truly was.

However, it also provided Perfikot with tremendous confidence, for with this omniscient ability, she really had a way to deal with divine beings.

It's just that she hadn't needed to play this trump card yet.

But Perfikot's immersion in the laboratory, to the high echelons of Chernobyl and the Northern Territory, made her seclusion somewhat susceptible to speculation.

Especially now, with the Eldest Princess Annie in the colonies and the Empress in frail health, should anything happen to Perfikot, the Lord of the Northern Territory, the political situation there could drastically change.

Some opportunists were even hoping for an incident, enabling them to rise amid the chaos.

Thus, unbeknownst to Perfikot, a storm was already brewing.