Gluttonous Warlock

Chapter 335 Phoenix
In the darkness, two huge birds were fighting fiercely.

The thing flapping its wings on the ground is a mutant rooster.

Hovering in the sky was a giant crow.

Alan looked up at the night sky.

I remembered that more than two months ago, the black dragon-like crow briefly stopped on the roof of the gas station.

In the days that followed, Allen also caught a glimpse of this mutated raptor in other places in the town.

Always grabbing prey at an astonishing speed and flying high!
For some unknown reason, the rooster and the crow came into conflict.

Roosters flap their wings vigorously and glide between abandoned buildings, chasing crows.

Such a clumsy flying ability obviously cannot catch up with crows that can fly flexibly in the air.

The crow takes full advantage of the air and observes the rooster's movements from a high position.

When he found an opportunity, he swooped down and tore at it with his sharp claws.

Bloody feathers were scattered in the night wind.

Unable to catch the cunning crow, the rooster crows angrily at his opponent.

A powerful shock wave erupted from its mouth.

Unfortunately, the crow was already prepared for this move.

When I saw the rooster stretching its neck and crowing into the sky, it immediately flapped its wings at high frequency.

The huge body covered with jet-black feathers disappeared into the night with a wave of magic power that distorted the space.

The next moment, the crow suddenly appeared from beside the rooster.

While the opponent was concentrating on spitting out shock waves, he pecked it hard on the face.

puff!
The crow held a bloody eyeball in its mouth and flew high.

The rooster tilted his head and screamed in pain and unwillingness.

In the empty eye socket on the right side, blood flowed uncontrollably.

Allen stood in the shadow of the corner and watched the crow and the rooster fighting.

Judging from the current situation, the rooster is not far from death.

Allen had no sympathy for this ferocious mutated raptor.

However, since the rooster died, he would no longer be able to hear the crow calling him to get up on time in the morning, which was somewhat of a pity.

Allen didn't want to be broken by the routine of life he was used to.

So he took out a small bottle of mutated jellyfish poison kept fresh by magic, and prayed to cast a spell.

"Lumbor!"

Allen grabbed the crow and teleported. The moment he appeared behind the rooster, he whispered a spell.

Bang!
Along with a slight explosion, a large pink cloud enveloped both the crow and the rooster.

Since the fight, the crow and the rooster have wounds of various sizes on their bodies.

The neurotoxins contained in the clouds can cause infection through skin contact.

If the skin barrier is lost, toxins will directly enter the blood circulation through the wound, and the toxicity will occur faster and more violently!

The poisoned crow used his last bit of strength to teleport to the extreme height.

This instinctive self-rescue behavior hastened its death.

Intense exercise makes the heart beat faster.

Toxins in the blood invade the heart at a faster rate, causing general paralysis.

Thousands of feet high in the night sky, the crow's cries could be heard.

The huge raptor couldn't flap its wings, like an out-of-control helicopter, hovering and falling.

He fell heavily onto the street, causing a cloud of sand and dust.

Roosters also infected with toxin showed greater endurance and will for revenge.

With faltering steps, he walked up to the crow and pecked out his old enemy's head, then collapsed on the ground, the luster in his eyes gradually dimming.

Allen observed for a while.

It wasn't until the crow, whose brains were all over the floor, exploded with a bang, and the dying rooster was unable to get up, that he stepped forward to reap the fruits of victory.

Dissect the crow corpse and obtain a light cyan crystal.

Regardless of its appearance or properties, it looks very much like a wind magic stone.

By hunting various mutant creatures, Allen concluded a rule.

Mutated creatures mostly have magic crystals in their bodies.

Apart from physical mutation, there are no other creatures with superpowers, and the crystals in their bodies usually have no special properties, similar to the non-property magic stones in the warlock world.

Mutated creatures that have evolved superpowers often have attribute crystals in their bodies that correspond to their abilities.

For example, the mutant carp is good at spiritual attacks, and the crystals in its body contain spiritual magic.

Mutated jellyfish are good at electric discharges and have electric crystals in their bodies.

The mutant crow's teleportation ability is probably related to the crystal in his body that contains a high concentration of wind magic power.

Allen put the cyan crystal into his pocket and turned to look at the dying rooster.

Judging from the fact that it is good at spitting out supersonic shock waves, it probably has wind or thunder magic crystals in its body.

However, Alan felt it was too wasteful to kill the rooster for a piece of magic crystal.

It's better to tame this raptor and serve as a guard.

After making up his mind, he used the "Prayer Technique" again to simulate "advanced animal transformation into friends" and cast a permanent charm on the rooster.

Rooster, who was on the verge of death and unconscious, couldn't muster the will to resist, so he was easily seduced by Allen.

Allen used the last "Prayer Technique" today to simulate the 7th level "Regeneration Technique".

A soft glow emanates from the fingertips, soothing the rooster's wounds.

In the blink of an eye, the bruised rooster returned to health.

The feathers that fell off during the battle, and even the eye that was pecked out by a crow, all grew back.

Allen is pleased with the results of the treatment.

He continued to dissect the mutated crow with a knife, cut off the remaining flesh and blood organs after the self-destruction, and threw them to the rooster.

The rooster devoured his food. After a hearty meal, he took the initiative to approach Allen, cooing lowly, his eyes filled with gratitude.

Allen caressed the rooster's neck. The gorgeous golden-red feathers felt warm and silky, like fine satin.

At the same time, Allen sensed the mental fluctuations of the rooster.

The other person seemed to be seeking spiritual communication with him.

Allen is no stranger to this situation.

In fact, mutant creatures in this world can awaken telepathy as long as their intelligence reaches a certain level.

However, due to their respective cognitive levels, communication may not be smooth.

Allen once tried to communicate telepathically with a stray cat, but unfortunately the cat was not interested in anything else except catching mice.

Allen was unable to obtain valuable information from the minds of these mutated animals with low intelligence.

However, the mutant rooster is an exception.

The mutated cells that invade the brain seem to promote its intellectual evolution.

Although its ability to express and understand is still far from normal human levels, it can barely communicate.

Through telepathy, Allen learned that this rooster was actually a pure-blooded fighting cock.

Before it mutated, it was carefully raised and trained by its original owner, hoping that it would become a hit and win a large sum of money for itself in the cockfighting ring.

The owner who had high hopes for it even gave it a majestic name!

"A phoenix?"

Allen laughed secretly.

Try calling a rooster by this name.

"Phoenix!"

"Cuckoo!"

As expected, the rooster responded, jumping for joy and looking very happy.

It is indeed an excellent fighting cock.Unfortunately, before they had time to fight, a catastrophe ushered in.

Phoenix couldn't understand the cause of this disaster.

I just remember that that morning, the owner didn't come to feed it.

He endured hunger until evening, but his master was nowhere to be seen.

Phoenix was so hungry that he ran out to find food.

From that moment on, the world as we once knew it collapsed.

For unknown reasons, overnight, the air and water were contaminated by some mysterious bacteria.

After the disaster broke out, the residents of the town fled to find their own way to make a living.

Phoenix, along with other animals that had no time to migrate, stayed in the town to fend for themselves.

In this abandoned land, mysterious germs are everywhere and pervasive.

All animals and plants will sooner or later get sick and mutate into monsters.

Phoenix has no clear concept of time and does not know how many years he has lived in the town after the disaster.

But he still remembered that almost all the poultry and livestock he was familiar with died before him.

Some were hunted by other mutated creatures, and many died of self-explosion.

A second ago, I was walking on the road calmly.

The next second it exploded without warning!

These horrific and puzzling scenes left a psychological shadow on Phoenix.

I am worried that I will die in the same miserable way in the near future.

Allen knew that Phoenix's concerns were by no means unfounded.

He has settled in the ruins of Kangzhen these days and has spent a lot of energy studying the mysterious germs that cause biological mutations.

Any organism infected with germs will mutate the cells and tissues in the body.

When the mutated cells exceed a certain limit and enter the cancerous stage, the host will lose control of its mind and grow in size.

Without treatment, it will self-destruct and die in the late stages of cancer.

Allen found a lot of medical equipment that could still be used in the abandoned hospital in the town.

Back in the underground warehouse, he used a syringe to draw blood from Phoenix for testing.

The result weighed heavily on his heart.

The mutated cells in Phoenix's body are proliferating uncontrollably and are already in the middle stages of cancer.

If this momentum continues, within half a year, its life will come to an end with the roar of flesh and blood exploding.

How to save Phoenix?

Allen thought of two options.

The first is the simplest.

Use "Prayer" to simulate the 6th level "Medical" or the 7th level "Advanced Restoration", which can immediately eliminate all mutated cells in Phoenix's body.

However, there is a drawback to this approach.

When Phoenix recovers, he will also lose his superpowers due to cell mutation and return to the ordinary fighting cock he originally was.

It is conceivable that in this apocalyptic world where mutated monsters are rampant, Phoenix, who has returned to his original form, has no ability to protect himself.

So, this is not a perfect treatment plan.

So, is it possible to retain some of the mutated cells in Phoenix's body to curb cancer while retaining the mutated strong physique and superpowers?

Under the guidance of this line of thinking, Allen thought of himself.

He himself possesses poison-type divinity and is immune to all germs and toxins in the world.

His blood, the blood of demigods, also has miraculous effects on killing bacteria and poisons.

Theoretically, giving Phoenix his blood would have the effect of curbing cancer growth.

However, Allen didn't know what dose to give it.

The dose is too small and the effect is not good.

Too high a dose and the result is like applying medical magic.

To do this, Allen needs to conduct a series of experiments.

In the days that followed, with the assistance of Phoenix, Allen captured various mutant creatures in the town as experimental materials.

In fact, he and Phoenix teamed up to be able to walk sideways all over town.

Later, when the wild cats and dogs in the town saw the majestic rooster and the boy riding on the back of the rooster from a distance, they all turned around and ran away in fright.

It took two months and hundreds of experiments before Allen finally came to a firm conclusion.

A drop of his blood, injected into a mutated organism, can immediately kill all the mutated cells and restore it to the way it was before the mutation.

The effect of blood diluted with water on killing mutated cells decreases with the concentration.

Specifically, one drop of Allen's blood (about 0.1 ml) + one liter of water, diluted ten thousand times with a solvent, and injected into a mutated organism weighing no more than 100kg and in the middle and late stages of cancer can significantly curb the progression of the disease.

At the same time, the superpowers of mutated creatures will not be abolished.

The injection dose is positively related to the weight of the mutated organism.

Allen tried injecting three units of blood solvent into Phoenix, with good results.

If the cancerous tissue in the rooster's body stops spreading, there will be no need to worry about the disease getting worse for at least ten years.

For a chicken, that's a long life.

Allen felt that the disaster that Kang Zhen suffered was not accidental.

The world outside Kangzhen is probably also filled with mysterious germs and has long been reduced to ruins.

In the wasteland after the disaster, do the surviving humans, like Phoenix, have to face the superpowers brought about by mutation and the curse of cancer at the same time?

If this is the case, Allen has reason to believe that anti-cancer drugs prepared from his own blood will be of great use in this world.

With this idea, Allen had the urge to leave the ruins of Kangzhen and go to the outside world.

However, he is no longer the passionate young man he was before, and he knows that the world may be more dangerous than he expected.

The experience of being swallowed by the mutant fish at the Finger Lakes was still vivid in his mind, and Allen didn't want to lose his life anymore.

The Sword God has not yet been trained, and it is too early to leave Shilipo now.

Suppressing the urge to go out for adventure, Allen continued to devote himself to boring daily practice.

Day after day, half a year flies by.

It has been a full year since Allen came into this world.

Now, his warlock level has reached the early stage of the fourth level.

Not long ago, he successfully upgraded his bloodline talent from a hill giant to a stone giant.

From now on, Allen's return to his ancestral form will change from a naive hill giant to a stone giant with a dark and shiny complexion and sharp and angular features like a sculpture.

From the ogre bloodline to the hill giant bloodline, it is still a stage of quantitative change, it is just getting bigger and stronger.

However, the evolution from the hill giant bloodline to the stone giant bloodline is a qualitative change!

After upgrading, in addition to improving physical attributes, the growth of mental attributes is also greatly enhanced.

After all, stone giants are not simple-minded guys with well-developed limbs. They are stone carving artists called giants, philosophers who meditate in the dark, and are even smarter than humans.

In addition to the growth of spiritual attributes, Allen also awakened two stone giant blood talents.

One is "tremor perception," also known as blindsight.

Blindsight is a higher extraordinary sense than dark vision.

Even if you close your eyes, you can also sense the surrounding wind and grass through your sensitive ears and skin, and then generate a clear picture in your mind.

The second ability is "Escape" derived from the earth bloodline, which is also vividly called "Earth Snorkeling".

In his atavistic form, Allen transformed into an earth giant and could travel freely deep into the earth.

No matter whether it is mud, sand or solid rock formations, it cannot stop the earth giant's footsteps. It is like diving in the water, leaving no traces of tunnels or excavations behind it.

What's even more amazing is that in his earth giant form, Allen will not feel suffocated even if he dives deep into solid rock formations.

With this ability, when exploring the outside world in the future, if you encounter danger, you can immediately hide and sneak, and your safety will be guaranteed.

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