Blood tax

Chapter 371 Dangerous Attempt

After a day's rest on Sunday, students at Homewarts have another day of exams on Monday.

Twenty minutes before the exam, Griffith flipped through the textbook on the window sill outside the exam room, trying to memorize two more words.The bitter north wind made him grin his teeth, but he could only endure the thought of being ridiculed by those villains when he entered the examination room.

The sky is full of swaying, boundless little gray flakes, flying between the pillars of the corridor, falling on the shoulders, and hitting the face wetly.The sky and the earth are gray.Griffith looked from his textbook to the timer on the wall.The students of the magic department slowly passed by across the garden, and the familiar figures flashed past the branches and falling snow in the distance, which made his heart skip a beat.

"Morning, Griffith~" Galadia came to the side, startling Griffith, "Did you have a good time yesterday?"

"It's okay, um." Thinking of the Sunday party, Griffith felt a little embarrassed and dignified.

The elf looked at his furrowed eyebrows suspiciously, took out a paper package from his pocket and stuffed it into Griffith's hand: "Don't be nervous, I will help you with tutoring during the winter vacation! As long as you pass the make-up exam, everything will be fine of!"

You have tacitly agreed that I will fail!Griffith wanted to complain, but he was not in the mood.He looked at the paper bag in his hand, and the familiar fragrance had caught his soul.

"This is for you! Look~" Galadia unfolded the paper bag, broke off a piece of chocolate from a large piece and stuffed it into his mouth, "Is it delicious?"

The silky taste is completely different from the past, brushing like satin, sweet and mellow, and just a small piece is endless aftertaste.

"Oh—!" Griffith felt like he was about to glow.Such a rich and long-lasting taste is comparable to eating cocoa shortbread for the first time.

Miss Elf watched him licking her fingers contentedly, and raised her chin: "On Frost Day, the headmaster will hold a dance..."

As she spoke, she broke off another piece and blocked the mouth of Griffith who wanted to mutter.

The dense mellowness surrounds the knight again, and there is a heart-pounding touch of thin and cold fingers in the silky smoothness.Griffith took the opportunity to carefully lick the girl's fingers with his tongue, and rolled them.

"Ah, you hate it~" Galadia hurriedly withdrew her hand, "I saw you on the list. You can bring a dance partner."

Griffith immediately yelled.

"Please be my dance partner!"

"Okay~" Galadia nodded, put her slender hand in her boyfriend's hand and let him shake it, and happily went to her classroom.

……

The exam on Monday went on for another whole day, and it was dark when the papers were handed in.Shutoral had more subjects than Magic Science students. In order to answer the questions in a hurry, everyone had little time to eat and rest.Griffith was not willing to eat the chocolate that Galadia gave, and was dizzy from hunger.

A group of Sutorals walked crookedly towards the dormitory, as if they had just crawled out of a cemetery.

Ophelia held Kulala's arm, and leaned her whole body up: "I'm going to starve to death, my stomach is perforated, and I can't walk anymore. Who is carrying me weakly~"

Kulala pushed her away forcefully: "Go away, isn't your mount right here?"

Midian Maiya touched his empty pockets: "The restaurant has closed early, and the access control is about to expire. Who still has food? Come down for me, who still has food reserves?"

"Let's go, let's go to the school gate to buy a sheep and come back to roast," Lana suddenly regained his energy, "It's so late, and it's so cold, it's time for a vegetable addict to go to sleep, guys, I'm free!"

"That's right!" Nona echoed, "Now is our time, let's go, let's roast a lamb, and then drink the wine from Xiaoyu! Finally the exam is over, I love freedom!"

This good proposal attracted a burst of approval.Griffith whimpered and was about to settle the drink bill with everyone when he suddenly saw a cloud of pale gold swaying around the corner.

Wrapped in a thick wool cloak, Sonia was standing in the corner, with snow still falling on the tip of her hair, her pretty face was pale with cold.She was breathing heavily on her little hand, when she saw everyone approaching, she quickly forced a smile.

"Good evening, Griffith~
"Good evening, everyone."

"..."

The noisy group of people suddenly fell silent.

"I seem to hear that the air is freezing!" Kulala whispered, "Hurry up and disperse."

"Yes, everyone, let's go," LS nodded stiffly, "I mean, 'everyone'."

Lana and Murat each gave Griffith a kick, kicked him out of the crowd, and then ran away with a stab.

These unscrupulous traitors, ungrateful robbers!While cursing the hateful classmates in his heart, Griffith hurried to Sonia, took off his cloak and put it on her, and walked with her towards the dormitory.

The Countess walked beside Griffith, and said softly, "The principal invited you to the Frost Festival Ball, and you can bring a dance partner..."

……

How good is this!

The Frost Festival Gala is coming up soon.This year's situation was unprecedented. Griffith was like a piece of bread sandwiched between two slices of cheese, with nowhere to escape.

Griffith hid in his wine cellar, trying to be quiet.He summoned the clone controlled by Minos, and stared at this guy who was exactly the same as himself for a while.

This thing looks the same as the real thing, and it has been integrated into his blood to achieve the greatest degree of simulation in terms of demeanor, smell and eyes.Griffith also planned to let it attend the unavoidable tea party instead of him, or help him cheat on exams.

However, Minos is not himself after all, and it is impossible to guess what he is thinking in his heart. To express complicated feelings, Griffith himself, who is not far away, needs to use spiritual power to issue instructions, and everything must be delayed.

If Minos is allowed to act on his own... this ring is not a living person, and his way of thinking is completely different.In case Galadia or Sonia asks if their Frost Festival dress looks good, Minos will say:
"Organism, long gene sequence, too many useless reproductive fragments, it is recommended to decompose and supply to the army..."

Ouch!I'm afraid I'm going to be sunk in the sea with this crap.

Griffith held his head and rolled on the floor of his moonshine warehouse.

"Minos has detected extremely violent mood swings," at this time, Bone Ring suddenly said, "Your Excellency, Captain of the Second Assault Squadron, please submit a report on the battle situation so that Minos can provide assistance."

"what?"

Griffith stopped rolling.Such an initiative by Minos is very rare, and there is almost no precedent.

"Why did you take the initiative to contact me?"

"Minos, collect the source quality and assist the holder to evolve into a higher life form. Your outstanding achievements have significantly enhanced the power of Minos, and the advanced tactical control plan has been carried."

"In other words, your intelligence has improved," Griffith thought for a while, "then can you highly imitate my thinking habits and action patterns? Act independently in my name."

"The plan cannot be implemented. Minos is not equipped with an organic emotion module," Minos replied, "I found a high-level psionic resonance plan from the available plans, and I suggest you try it."

Griffith immediately reproduced some mysterious knowledge in his mind.He can place part of his consciousness on Minos to achieve long-distance and long-term control.

"Sounds like a try, but what are the risks?"

"The high-level psionic resonance project needs to open consciousness to Minos and authorize the authority of the organism's emotional module, but this module is not actually installed on Minos," Ring explained, "the existence of the high-level psionic resonance project is controlled by Minos. Risk of built-in information beam impact."

In this way, both Galadia and Sonia's demands can be met...

Moreover, this seems to greatly enhance the tactical value of Minos, and I can completely entrust it with dangerous tasks...

Griffith was very curious. He gathered his spiritual energy, concentrated his consciousness, and slowly touched the core of Minos.Soon, he did find the unique psionic ripples of the ring and clone.

The soulless, empty eyes and body shone brightly at this moment!

Griffith found himself as if he was in the void. Near him, there was a flame-like light. If you looked closely, you could vaguely see the tiny dot matrix forming the flame.

That was the Bone Ring clone who shared his will and thought.

This wonderful experience has never been experienced before.Griffith found himself with an extra body, so coordinated, so unified, able to share information, take action without command!
Before he had time to be happy, a kind of empty confusion seized him suddenly.It was as if a huge black hole had opened up in the depths of Minos, and it was slowly sucking his consciousness into it.He was lost in two bodies, almost unable to tell which one was his own.

At this moment, he sensed a powerful indescribable aura surging in the darkness.

Griffith heard a certain sound again, very close, like thousands of claws scratching the blackboard, sweeping past him.What followed was a cold and chaotic breath, which made people creepy and frightened.

Every minute the sound gets closer, the temperature will drop a little.The candlelight in the room cast a huge shadow faintly.Its size is astonishing, dragging its huge body, wriggling in an inhuman form, winding from the shadow of the steps to the roof and skylight.

Snapped! "

Something hit Griffith hard, knocking him to the ground.The Minos clone on the side was also attacked and disintegrated instantly.The terrifying feeling of being swallowed disappeared.

"What are you doing?"

Griffith looked up and saw that Miss Lover was standing barefoot on the basement floor looking at him.His long hair hung down to his smooth ankles, drawing all his attention.

"Good evening, Mister Death Knight, what are you thinking?" Seeing that Griffith didn't answer, Miss Lover asked again.

Griffith hurried out and tidied up his clothes.

"Good evening, Miss Lover, how can you leave Silver Moon Tower?"

"Generally speaking, it is not possible, but my divination found that if you don't go out tonight, you will kill yourself. I can only reluctantly come to see you."

Indeed... I ignored the danger of Minos. Galadia had warned me long ago, and I knew it myself, but I just couldn't help it...

Griffith explained his actions just now to the hostess of the Silver Moon Tower with a face full of shame, ready to accept criticism.

"So it is like this~" Miss Lover first looked at Griffith's brewed pumpkin wine, poured herself a glass, and tapped Griffith's forehead, "You are blinded by greed. You may have heard Bar,

"After a powerful psychic user dies, his soul or consciousness after death will go to a special place in the spirit world, where he will merge with the vast sea of ​​psychic energy.

"If the soul can be preserved, there is still a possibility of invading the host. This is an extremely dangerous thing. Once it fails, the end result is that the soul is torn to pieces, completely sunk in the chaos waiting to dissipate.

"Strong psychic power can certainly increase the success rate of soul possession to a certain extent, but the degree of improvement is limited.

"Even if the invading party trying to transfer the soul is a demigod and the host is a mortal, if the host has a mature and strong self-awareness and is determined to resist during the soul transfer process, the intention of the demigod will easily fail.

"In order to solve this problem, there are usually three methods. One is to occupy the body of the dying or just dead, and fuse it when the host's self-awareness is greatly weakened; the other method is to integrate into the newborn baby and grow slowly. .”

"Oh—" Griffith nodded knowingly.

"Oh what, you idiot!" Miss Lover said with a face full of reproach, "The third way is to gradually let go of the host's guard, and make promises to him when he is desperate, so that he will surrender himself willingly.

"And just now, you actually opened your consciousness to the creation of the unknown Mr. Hermit. What happened to you recently, is the date not going well? Have you been frustrated?"

(End of this chapter)