157: Green Consumables

Having completed the equipment card test, Lin Yu's thoughts did not pause for a moment as he immediately turned to his next target.

Follower Cards.

If equipment cards were about strengthening oneself, then Follower Cards were about expanding one's "influence."

The power of a single person is ultimately limited.

Even if that "person" could unleash a million times their power, they would still have the shortcoming of being unable to be in multiple places at once.

But followers are different.

A qualified follower can become his eyes and limbs, handling matters he has no time for or finds inconvenient to deal with personally.

More importantly, like equipment cards, the entities summoned by Follower Cards are also physical existences detached from the card system.

He wondered if they also didn't occupy card slots!

This was the most crucial point!

In Lin Yu's mind, that vast card universe reappeared.

Over five years, the types of Follower Cards he had innovated were equally numerous.

From the lowest-grade Slime to the Dragon-blooded creature that could breathe dragon fire.

From Element Golem with no intelligence to Fallen Angel with an independent personality.

Powerful followers were countless.

But the crafting formulas for those high-tier followers were all incredibly complex, and the required materials were unheard of.

For him, at his current Card Making LV1 level, attempting those was akin to a fool's dream.

You have to eat one bite at a time.

You have to walk one step at a time.

He needed the most cost-effective choice.

Lin Yu's mind rapidly sifted through the ocean of memories, and soon, an inconspicuous figure emerged from countless powerful followers.

Vampire Bat.

White quality, one of the most basic followers.

Five years ago, he had seen this card countless times during innovations, and countless times he had used it as a stepping stone to continue innovating.

But in Lin Yu's current view, this card was practically tailor-made for him.

First, its small size.

Its palm-sized body meant extreme stealth, making it a natural scout and assassin.

Second, it's a flying unit.

This allowed it to ignore most terrain obstacles, possessing extremely high mobility.

Third, it has built-in sustainability.

The "vampiric" characteristic allowed it to restore its own injuries while dealing damage, greatly enhancing its survivability.

Finally, and most crucially.

Its damage was not bad.

Don't let its white quality fool you; its sharp fangs were enough to easily tear open the throats of low-level professionals.

Stealthy, fast, capable of attacking, and able to heal.

What more could you ask for from a low-level follower?

Its only drawback was its fragility.

Perhaps a single bullet, or even a small skill, could take its life.

And for a Follower Card, once the summoned creature dies, the card is completely waste.

For ordinary card makers, every loss of a follower was a complete write-off.

But for him... Lin Yu's thoughts expanded.

One Vampire Bat card is very fragile.

What about a million?

A black cloud formed by a million Vampire Bats, overwhelming everything.

That would no longer be a scout.

That would be a natural disaster.

This thought flashed through his mind and was immediately suppressed.

The idea is feasible.

Then let's get to work.

Lin Yu immediately retrieved the Card Creation formula for Vampire Bat from his memory.

Card Creation Formula: White Quality · Vampire Bat

Main Material: Standard Flesh Consumable x10

Auxiliary Materials: Bat Wing Specimen x1, Canine Tooth Specimen x2

Catalyst: primary magic dust x1

Success Rate: 8% (Affected by mental power, Card Creation skill level, material purity)

The success rate was even lower than for the apprentice longsword.

Moreover, the main material had changed from the inorganic Metal Consumable to the organic Flesh Consumable.

This was a completely new material.

Lin Yu opened his hand and took out a duplicated white base consumable.

Lin Yu concentrated, and his invisible mental power probed into the white base consumable in his palm.

He tried to reconstruct the internal structure of the consumable according to his memory's understanding of organic matter, stripping, transforming, and condensing it into flesh.

One second.

Ten seconds.

One minute.

The white block in his palm remained motionless.

It was like a stubborn stone, refusing any form of vitalization.

Lin Yu increased his mental power output; the edges of the consumable even began to heat up slightly due to the excessive concentration of energy, showing signs of impending disintegration.

But essentially, it was still inorganic.

It failed.

white base consumable cannot be refined into organic matter.

The cornerstones of all things also have their yin and yang, five elements. To create flesh out of thin air was clearly beyond the capabilities of white consumables.

Lin Yu was not at all discouraged; this was within his expectations.

His consciousness sank into the network, quickly searching the black market's internal database.

Keywords: Flesh Consumable, Organic Matter Refinement, Life Material

A massive flow of information passed by, and soon, he found the answer.

Green Base Consumable.

A card-making base material one level higher than white consumables, containing faint life energy. It is an essential material for making most organic matter, low-level life forms, and some plant-based cards.

Of course, the price was also higher.

The black market's public listed price was 1,300 yuan per kilogram.

That was thirteen times the price of white base consumable.

Online shopping!

In less than ten minutes, the special channel of Insect Dwelling sounded a notification.

A standard unit, a block with a faint greenish hue, was delivered.

Unlike the pure white inorganic feel, holding this green consumable in his hand, he could feel a faint pulsation, like a plant breathing.

Lin Yu's mind stirred.

Card Transformation!

Although it was a bit more difficult than with white base consumable, it still succeeded... Judging by this level, Lin Yu should currently be able to easily convert consumables below the gold level into cards.

Ghost Card duplication.

Multiplication Card stacking.

In an instant, he possessed over a million units of Green Base Consumable.

The so-called "expensive" once again lost its meaning before him.

He casually duplicated a small mountain of green blocks in the room, then took one out and began a new refinement process.

Mental power probed into it.

This time, the process went incredibly smoothly.

That faint life energy, guided by his mental power, was quickly activated and amplified. The structure of the consumable began to soften and reorganize, transforming into the form of flesh.

Hum.

A muffled sound.

The original one-kilogram green block rapidly contracted, eventually turning into a small, fist-sized, dark red chunk of meat with a faint smell of blood.

Standard Flesh Consumable x1 (50g)

One kilogram of green consumable could only refine fifty grams of flesh consumable.

A twenty-to-one loss.

Lin Yu quickly calculated the cost.

To make one Vampire Bat, ten units of Standard Flesh Consumable were needed, which meant five hundred grams.

This meant that for the main material alone, ten kilograms of Green Base Consumable would be consumed, costing ten thousand yuan.