He took out a notebook from his backpack, looked at the few pages of text already written on it, let out a breath, and took out a ballpoint pen from the pen holder on the desk.
Perhaps it was a habit from his previous life as a web writer that he liked to write down his thoughts on paper.
Fortunately, the existence of the backpack made the possibility of the leakage of this notebook containing his great secrets extremely small, so it didn't matter whether it was corrected or not.
The slender pen body turned back and forth in his hand twice. When it returned to his palm again, Colin grabbed it and began to record on a new page.
Before, he went to the slaughterhouse to kill cows, but the experience bar on the attribute panel did not change at all. It is basically certain that killing cannot make him stronger.
Second, there is the issue of resources.
The period of rapid growth in strength was over after he became an official necromancer and opened the attribute and skill panels.
If you want to significantly increase your strength in a short period of time, you cannot rely on daily practice, but on external things such as equipment and props.
But if you want to forge these, it will inevitably involve resources.
He considered himself lucky.
With the help of the Horadric Cube, there is no need to worry about not being able to find suitable materials, as long as you can get a large amount of ordinary resources.
But even so, it doesn't mean that this matter is easy.
He had roughly calculated a few days ago that if he wanted to turn his customized set of equipment from paper into reality, the funds required to purchase materials would be between 50 and 60 million US dollars.
Among them, there are some materials, such as vibranium and soul, which cannot be bought with money.
However, although the cost is high, once the equipment is truly built, it will be a great improvement to him.
Even if he cannot quickly improve his strength in a short period of time, it is enough for him to protect himself from the covetousness of various forces when his abilities are exposed.
He also has some ideas about how to obtain this astronomical amount of money for ordinary people.
First, look for those elderly wealthy people.
This type of people hold huge social resources in their hands and no longer care much about money. But on the contrary, they have a desire for health and longevity that ordinary people cannot imagine.
With the mild healing potion he made by mixing ruby powder with dozens of mineral herbs and magic power, it is entirely possible to extend the lifespan of these people for a period of time and exchange them for the desired resources without any problem.
But the question is whether using this method will lead to being deceived by those cunning old foxes.
Even if you succeed, it cannot exceed three times at most, otherwise it will easily be noticed by the outside world and eventually lead to your identity being exposed.
Second, start a company, or secretly support someone to start a company.
The advantage of this method is that as long as it is successful, there will be basically no need to worry about material issues in the future, but the existing problems are also equally huge.
He is well aware that he is not a qualified manager.
Even if you can come up with technology that causes a sensation among capital, it is more likely that you will be easily kicked out by capital.
In order to prevent the situation from developing to the point where he would flip the table and cause the situation to become irreversible, he would not choose this route unless he thought he had grown up enough to face these things.
Third, directly contact governments, S.H.I.E.L.D., Stark Industries, Hydra, and other forces, big and small, that have a voice on the world stage.
They will surely be able to take out what they need easily.
But as long as he is not crazy, he will not expose himself voluntarily.
Everything he did was an effort to control his own destiny, and from the moment he became enlightened and began to practice, it would be impossible for him to put his future destiny in the hands of others!
He wrote to this point with a frown on his face, then crossed out the second and third methods with his pen, focused his attention on the first method, opened his computer, searched for information, and improved it.
There are certainly more ways to collect resources than just these three, and some are far safer than the above.
But time is also important.
As long as he doesn't want to risk his life on the 50% chance of turning into ashes and whether the Avengers can successfully reverse the situation, he can only become strong enough to fight against Thanos and an entire alien fleet in less than eight years.
Every day, every minute and every second is precious to him.
He must take risks, and he can only take risks!
This is the price he has to pay for making this decision!
He was happy to bear it.
After filling out the plan with a little excitement, he paused and turned his attention to the two special materials he had circled.
Among them, vibranium is relatively easy to deal with. Even if it is not available, other materials can be used to replace it. At most, the effect will be slightly worse than what he expected.
But the soul cannot be replaced just by saying so.
While experimenting in a slaughterhouse to see if killing could make one stronger, he once curiously captured the soul of a cow to observe.
But after comparing them with the human souls and demon souls in the inherited memories, it was discovered that the gap was too huge.
The soul of a sentient being is tens of thousands times different from the soul of an animal with less intelligence, and there is no possibility of replacement at all.
In other words, under the premise that he cannot find demons or other highly intelligent species, he must have human souls as auxiliary materials for the equipment he forges.
As for not using the soul.
In that case, not only would the other materials required for forging need to be greatly increased, but the strength improvement would only be able to reach two-thirds of the currently constructed set!
At this time when he was extremely eager to become stronger, this thought only flashed through his mind before he threw it into the trash can.
As for the acquisition of the soul.
Because once a life in this world dies, the soul will be pulled away by the laws after half an hour, going to the hospital to slowly collect it is the best option.
No attention is drawn and no risks are taken.
But to be honest, taking innocent human souls and forging them into his own equipment was beyond his bottom line.
Therefore, he decided to change to a method that would make him feel less guilty.
For example, find those scumbags who make people want to kill them as soon as they think about it.
Of course, this doesn't mean that he has to go out and be a vigilante every night.
He doesn't spend enough time practicing every day, nor does he have the heart to become a superhero.
All he wanted was to simply prepare, wait for other materials to be gathered, find a way to find out from Josel where a very evil gang base was, and then rush in directly to gather the materials he needed and eliminate the harm to the people at the same time.
He estimated that this would be the only time this kind of thing happened. Next time, if he needed such materials again, he should go to war-torn areas such as Afghanistan or the Middle East to get the required materials, instead of causing trouble under the nose of the United States in New York.
Colin paused abruptly, looking at the roughly finalized plan on the notebook. He stuffed the notebook back into his backpack, went to the bathroom to wash up, and then sat cross-legged on the bed to meditate.
Even if he was prepared to use external forces to improve himself, he was very clear about what his foundation was.
He meditates for eight hours every day, and has never stopped since the day he started practicing.
(End of this chapter)