Chapter 99 Two months, sprouting, brain-eating flowers
Thanks to the fact that no one was watching, Ronan's posture was as if he was ready to commit seppuku at any moment.
"Would it be ineffective to be so deliberate?"
Ronan thought for a moment and put down the sword again.
He carefully recalled the experience of being injured in the battle with the Green Thorn Queen Bee.
"In addition to the trauma that penetrates the waist and abdomen, the toxins carried on the tail spines of the Queen Bee are also a very important source of injuries."
The bee venom of a second-level monster is enough to easily destroy the body of a first-level wizard.
Even Ronan, whose unsullied body was extremely powerful, consumed nearly half of the vitality in his body to suppress the poison.
"It's better to start with the poison first. It would be too stupid to harm yourself with a sword."
Ronan took out a section several meters long from his storage pocket, with dark green spikes nearly one meter thick at the thickest part.
When cleaning up the body of the Green Thorn Queen Bee, he deliberately left the tail thorns behind. Now is the time to put them to use.
This huge tail thorn is shaped like the upper half of a palace knight's spear. Although it is huge, it is as light as nothing in the hand. It contains extremely rich wind energy particles.
"call--"
Ronan picked up the tail thorn with both hands, and the needle-sharp thorn tip slowly moved along his body, looking for a suitable landing point.
To be on the safe side, Ronan also prepared many bottles of first-level detoxification potions and first-order healing potions, keeping them at hand so he could reach them at a stretch of his hand.
After a moment's hesitation, Ronan aimed at the right abdomen, exerted force with both hands, and slowly pressed down the tail thorn in his hand.
The fine skin was dented little by little. Although the skin was not broken yet, there was already a sharp stinging sensation coming from the point of impact.
"puff--"
There was a slight poking sound, and the tail stinger of the Green Thorn Queen Bee completely penetrated Ronan's flesh and blood.
In an instant, the stinging sensation was amplified dozens of times, and it was like a dark green spider web spreading rapidly around the wound.
"Ho--"
Ronan took a short breath. Dense beads of sweat began to appear on his fair and handsome face, and the veins on his forehead twitched slightly.
The movements of his hands never stopped for a moment, and he kept pressing the tail thorns gradually deeper.
The white light ball representing the majestic vitality in the body has been consumed rapidly, releasing a large number of light points representing vitality and rushing toward the wound.
Ronan's eyes were fixed on his character panel, the number displayed after the master level proficiency of [Ascetic Exercise].
I don't know how long this process lasted. When the queen bee's tail thorn penetrated into the flesh for almost half a foot, Ronan finally saw the panel data he had been thinking about beating.
[Ascetic Exercise (Master 5/1600)] - [Ascetic Exercise (Master 7/1600)]!
It rose by two points in one breath.
"call--"
Ronan let go immediately, and the queen bee's tail stinger fell to the ground with a clang. He quickly picked up the antidote and healing potion at hand and poured it into his mouth.
"Huhu——"
He was covered in sweat, as if he had just been fished out of the water.
Instantaneous pain and this slow pressure-type pain are completely different concepts, and they are all performed by myself.
Ronan looked at the stab wound on his right abdomen that was slowly healing. He had clearly found the right way to increase his master-level proficiency in [Ascetic Exercise], but for a while he didn't have the courage to pick up the queen bee's tail sting a second time. .
"Do I have to poke and prod myself like this in the future?
Is there a less painful way?
How about taking poison directly? "
Ronan had just reunited with "Pain" a few days ago and called him an old friend whom he hadn't seen for a long time. But now he just wanted this "old friend" to get away as soon as possible.
He does not have a masochistic constitution. He was accompanied by pain at the beginning and was forced to do so by the threat of death if he failed to succeed in promotion.
"Um?!"
Ronan was considering the feasibility of skipping the stabbing process and taking the poison directly, when he suddenly noticed something strange.
"Why didn't the antidote work?"
Ronan had just taken two antidote potions and one healing potion.
Therapeutic potions are mainly used to replenish the consumption of white vitality light balls in the body. After all, the principle of most therapeutic potions is to promote the healing of injuries by replenishing vitality.
The treatment potion worked normally, but after drinking two bottles of antidote potion, Ronan found that it had no effect.
The wound he suffered from the Queen Bee Tail Stinger, both in terms of healing speed and pain subsidence speed, are only related to the consumption of vitality of the white light ball in the body.
"Isn't this poison at all?"
Ronan picked up the queen bee tail stinger on the ground again, penetrated it with his spiritual power, and examined it carefully.
After a moment, he let out a "tsk" sound, slowly put down the queen bee's tail with a "really" expression, and turned his eyes.
"It's not a toxin, but an ultra-high concentration of wind energy particles."
"After being injected into the body with the tail thorn, these energy particles suddenly accumulated together and seemed to be a kind of poison..."
After Ronan discovered this, he suddenly realized that his previous judgment was still not accurate enough.
What really increases the master-level proficiency of [Ascetic Exercise] is not simply "injury", but should be - being attacked by energy particles.
"in other words."
Ronan's eyes shone, "Is it just a spell?"
It couldn't be easier to prove this.
Ronan snapped his fingers, and a large number of ice particles gathered in the air in front of him, and soon a spinning ice ball was born out of thin air.
The zero-level low-level spell——[Ice Hockey].
Of course, the power of the [Ice Hockey Spell] that Ronan summoned right now is very ordinary, and it is only at the level of an ordinary zero-level low-level spell.
"Bang!"
A whole ice ball hit him directly, and the sudden burst of cold air made him feel a stabbing pain in the skin on the surface of his body, and his whole body shivered involuntarily.
"call--"
He stood up, moved his body a little, and shook off the ice residue all over his body.
After checking his body, he didn't have any injuries except that he felt a little cold.
This was the first time he tested the defense ability of his [Innocuous Body], and unexpectedly found that it was not bad. It could directly resist zero-level low-level spells without being affected in any way.
However, the proficiency of [Ascetic Body Training] on the panel has not increased either.
As expected, Ronan summoned a second puck.
The third.
The fourth.
After throwing five ice hockey spells at himself, the proficiency level on the character panel finally increased from the original 7 points to 8 points.
Ronan, whose whole body was covered with a thin layer of frost, looked at the panel and clenched his fists fiercely.
feasible!
He has the right idea!
Since wind and ice spells can increase the master-level proficiency of [Ascetic Body Forging], then other spells can definitely do the same. He finally knew how to practice after the master level of [Ascetic Exercise].
"It's just about resisting thunder with your body, washing your face with frost, and bathing in lava. That's all."
"Master-level [Ascetic Body Training], is this starting to focus on improving the elemental resistance of the body?"
Ronan's eyes were burning, and a long-lost passion ignited in his heart.
“While you’re exercising your body, you can also increase your spell proficiency. It’s like killing two birds with one stone.”
"Open your liver"
Micro secret space.
Next to a transparent ice coffin wrapped in a dense rune array, Benigo sat on a chair, holding a silver cup in his hand, as if resting.
Compared with a few months ago, the ulcer on Benigo's left cheek that looked like metal rust marks had improved a lot, gradually revealing his original heroic facial contours.
But his temples were much grayer, and his whole person was more unkempt and looked very tired. Only his pair of pale golden eyes maintained a calm and sober luster, as if he was thinking at all times.
"Boom——"
A strange sound sounded, which was so clear in the silent and uninhabited secret space.
Benigo, who was resting, came back from his meditation, thinking that he heard wrongly, but when his eyes habitually turned to a certain direction.
His eyes fell into a trance for a moment, followed by an uncontrollable wave of excitement. Excitement and joy welled up from his eyes.
Benigo quickly stood up from his chair and teleported in front of an experimental table filled with various utensils and exuding a strong smell of blood.
His eyes were completely attracted by a seed soaked in an unknown dark red liquid on the table.
This seed has sprouted, and a small pinkish-white color has grown on the black embryo. The pinkish-white seems to have lines like human blood vessels extending little by little.
Benigo stared at that thing for a long time, his eyes intoxicated, as if he was about to fall into it.
After a while, he regained his composure, quickly took out a communication stone from his pocket, and said in a low voice: "The seeds have sprouted. Also, I have something to tell you. You'd better come here as soon as possible." ”
After saying that, Benigo put away the communication stone and continued to focus all his attention on the seeds in front of him.
He didn't know when he had extra pen and paper in his hand. He was observing, thinking, and writing down something quickly.
After an unknown amount of time, a slight energy fluctuation came from the entrance to the secret space.
"You are here. After the Holy Blood Tree seeds germinate, you will need them. Huh?"
Benigo, who was observing, subconsciously waved in the direction of the entrance to the secret realm, but after seeing the appearance of the person clearly, he was stunned.
The change in appearance and temperament of the person in front of him was so strange that Benigo almost thought he had mistaken his partner.
——
He saw a handsome young man striding towards him.
He has white hair, blue eyes, and wears a black mist-wrapped armband on his right arm. Silver and blue rune patterns grow upwards along his chest and neck, highlighting his exquisite and noble temperament.
The young man seemed to have just come out of a practice session, and his body was wet with undried sweat.
The whole person was like a huge and terrifying molten iron furnace, with terrifying invisible billowing heat waves emanating from all around his body, burning everything around him, giving people an extremely domineering and powerful sense of oppression.
As the young man stepped closer to Benigo, this momentum gradually subsided, and finally disappeared completely like a sword sheathed.
The young man returned to his original delicate and handsome appearance, his skin was as white as fine brocade, and an icy blue gemstone necklace loomed around his neck, looking like a prince who had just walked out of a wealthy family.
"Is this what the Holy Blood Tree seeds will look like after they sprout?"
The young man walked quickly to the experimental table, squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the germinated seeds on the table, then turned to look at Benigo, "What did you just say you need in the future?"
Benigo recovered from his brief absence and took a deep look at the young man.
He didn't know why the mental power fluctuations emitted by the other party had not improved much, but the threat he felt was several times stronger than two months ago.
It's like a legendary dragon is sealed in the body. Occasionally, its scales and claws are revealed inadvertently, which can make people's souls tremble with horror.
This is someone else's secret. Everyone has secrets, and so does he.
"Need your blood to water regularly"
Benigo said, “If you want the seeds to continue to grow, they must be watered with blood rich in vitality.
Your blood is by far the most vibrant and energetic I have ever seen."
Ronan frowned slightly, and then heard Benigo speak again: "It doesn't need a lot, it won't have much impact on your body.
And there is another benefit of watering it with your blood. When the Holy Blood Tree is fully grown, it will be especially close to you.
That is a close connection of blood, even greater than some soul-bound master-slave contracts."
"Does that mean that after it drinks my blood, it will recognize me as its master in the future?"
Ronan understood.
"Almost, you should be its owner."
Benigo replied calmly.
Ronan nodded and said nothing. The black armband made of nightmare tungsten steel on his right arm separated a little, flowed into Ronan's hand and turned into a small knife, and then quickly turned into a bright silver color.
Ronan picked up the knife and gently cut his index finger.
After two months of hard training, this was not an easy task.
Only Ronan knew exactly how much force he used to cut open the flesh on his fingertips and force the blood to drip drop by drop into the petri dish containing the seeds of the Holy Blood Tree.
After dripping about ten drops of blood, Benigo shouted to Ronan to stop.
“It’s much less than what I originally expected..”
Benigo glanced at Ronan with a strange expression.
Ronan pretended not to hear, casually put the cut finger into his mouth, and asked Benigo: "What is the other thing you said in the communication stone?"
"It's about you."
Benigo carefully played with the Holy Blood Tree seeds in the petri dish and said: "The Magic Circle recently discovered another brain-eating flower. It was released in the form of a mission in a certain secret realm..."
"You stay in the secret realm every day and don't go out. How come you are so well-informed about all kinds of news in the magic circle?"
Ronan was surprised.
But Benigo just shook his head and said: "It's just a little privilege that I once had as a third ring and has not been completely taken back.
This is not the point.
The point is that I happen to know an ancient magic potion recipe, which requires brain-eating flowers as the main ingredient.
The effect of this ancient magic potion is not only to greatly enhance mental strength."
Benigo paused for a moment when he said this, looked at Ronan, thought for a while and said: "Maybe it can increase your chance of understanding the resonance of a legal domain in advance."
"Buzz——"
There was a slight earthquake in Ronan's pupils.
Soon, he calmed down.
"Tell me more about this mission."
(End of chapter)