Chapter 369 Blood of the World

Nicholas slowly opened his eyes from the chair.

In the bottom of his calm lake green eyes, there is neither malicious nor goodwill, god-like gentleness and compassion.

He moved his head from side to side, slightly soothing the cervical spine that was stiff from sitting still for a long time.

Nicholas exhaled lightly, reached out and stroked his long white hair back, tied it into a ponytail, and took out a rope from the table to tie it. He reached out and pushed the instruments on the table aside, picked up a little-finger-sized bottle of sky-blue medicine from the reagent rack, and drank it.

At this moment, a calm and depressed middle-aged male voice came from behind Nicholas:

"Where did you just go?"

"Going out for a while."

Nicholas reached out and wiped the corner of his mouth, then turned around and replied softly.

And behind him, there is no living person.

There is only one plaster statue of human height sitting on the ground. The distressed expression on its face is reminiscent of a philosopher, and its eyes are slightly closed, thinking about something.

But the statue looked up and glanced at Nicholas.

The dull middle-aged voice poured out of its mouth: "You drank the 'Soul Healing Potion'. Is your soul hurt?"

"Well, I was injured by Paper Ji's 'red' and 'yellow'. It's not a big problem. Although He also took out the 'blue' pen, he didn't use it to attack me."

Nicholas replied calmly: "My soul is orange, and it's not a big problem to eat a 'red' attack."

"How did you provoke Zhi Ji?"

The stone statue made a dull voice: "She has a good temper."

"I saw Annan."

Nicholas smiled slightly, took out another tube of pale yellow oily reagent, drank it and said softly, "Go and say hello to him."

"...Annan Winter?"

The stone statue paused for a while before continuing: "Has he come to Noah?"

"Ok,

Just came. But unlike what you told me before, Lord Shifu, his soul is not snow-colored... but rainbow-colored. "

"That means his ritual was a success."

Father Shi said calmly: "But this has nothing to do with your work.

"Work with peace of mind, don't contact Annan."

"But my job is to make poison dust, and Annan is the most well-known alien species, right? I need some of his blood and soul fragments to be sure that poison dust is also effective against alien species."

"Don't think too much, your job is to make poison dust, that's all. Regardless of Annan being special, even if poison dust is effective against aliens, it's not an excuse for you to attack other aliens. Swordsmiths can't use people to try them either. Knife...you are close to taboo."

Father Stone said plainly: "Also, do you really only use his blood and soul for experiments? Don't forget how your creator died. Don't forget how the inheritance of Hermes was cut off. .Don't underestimate the memory of the gods.

"—Don't try to touch taboos."

"Okay, I get it... I won't make the mistake that Father made."

Nicholas sighed helplessly: "So let's showdown, Lord Shi. So what are you going to use for poison dust? You asked me to make this thing, constantly changing the formula, but never telling me yours. The purpose...it's unnecessarily increasing my workload.

"I need to know its use and purpose. It's a very legitimate need... You don't know much about Hermetic alchemy, but I do."

Hearing this, the stone statue behind him was silent for a long time.

Then the humanoid statue stood up and walked behind Nicholas.

"...Speaking of which, it's time."

Father Shi said in a deep voice, "Do you know how the elves perished?"

"Is it because of the magic power?"

Nicholas replied fluently: "Using the curse as a transmission medium, extracting the power of the world itself as energy. It is an incomplete creative power... a limited degree of 'the ability to achieve what you want'.

"What the curse can extract is the blood of the world. The curse can be restored naturally, but with the expansion of the elves and the gradual expansion of the use of the curse, it gradually weakens the barriers of the world, allowing the world and the The other worlds are gradually overlapping...and thus cursed by the world."

"Is this the part you learned."

Father Shi nodded and said calmly: "It's generally not bad. There is only one point that I need to correct.

"This world was originally colliding and overlapping with other worlds. Nightmares are not something that only existed in these epochs, and our world has many books of truth as the backbone of the world. The power of the elements is the flesh... the other worlds are even more difficult to oppose us.

"It doesn't matter whether it's the virtual world, the dream world, or other worlds at the end of the dream world... Only after the curse can weaken the barriers of our world, will there be occasional 'world collapse' accidents , to permanently banish a creature from our world to another world. That means—"

"...In other words, without using spell energy, will creatures from other worlds be exiled to us?"

Nicholas quickly realized what Father Stone meant.

It's like the collision of two ships.

If it will inevitably lead to damage to one party... Then after the use of the spell can be completely stopped, the foggy world will gradually recover. Then, the creatures in the virtual world or the dream world may be exiled here by the broken world - just like the creatures here are exiled to other worlds.

For the world, this is undoubtedly a victory.

But for the tiny creatures living in the world, compared to "losing a few strangers forever", "terrifying creatures descended from another world" is a terrifying disaster that is more related to their vital interests.

"You'd better understand."

Father Shi glanced at Nicholas, stretched out a hand made of stone and patted his shoulder: "The dream world is relatively stable... But the virtual world has gradually begun to shatter in the past few years. The scale of the current invasion is still relatively small, so The Red Knight and Lady Silent can still stop them, but as the virtual world is broken, more and more virtual world creatures will fall into the dream world and the real world.

"But this may also be an opportunity for us... You must know that the 'real sage's stone' is the blood of the virtual world."

"...That's why you wake me up?"

Nicholas said in a low voice with a complicated expression: "Because I inherited the memory and ability of my father?"

"Because he is the 'Second Hermes' and you are the 'Second Nicholas.'"

Father Shi replied plainly, his tone did not change in the slightest, just like a real stone statue: "Hermes was able to collect the power of elements and artificially create the stone of sages... You may also be able to invade from the virtual world. become a new sage stone. What we need is not a Hermetic dust that can effectively kill all outsiders, but a kind that can 'extract and extract the power of the corpses of ethereal creatures' Portable Consumables'.

"Since the imaginary creatures will inevitably fall to us, what we have to do is not to think about how to reduce the impact and reduce the disaster... but whether this matter can be turned into a favorable impact. In the end, the answer we gave is- -can.

"If the remains of the imaginary creatures can be made into something similar to the sage's stone and fed back to the world through the elf's curse cellar, the power of the elements flowing in the world can be further enhanced... In the future, it may not only be the golden rank, Only silver can ignite the fire of the elements.

"Even, maybe... someday, we'll be able to completely dispel these damn fogs. Let the land be bathed in sunlight again."