Blue Sword

The two left the hotel and walked on the Theodosius Avenue in Constantinople.

"I don't quite understand." Peggy said, "Ask, you probably want to recruit her, but why do you want to discourage her from becoming a transcendent?"

"No, I didn't dissuade her." Asik shook his head, "I just reminded her that there are risks in becoming a transcendent. Have you heard of the threshold effect? ​​First tell the customer one silver coin to try it out, and when the customer pays, you If you convince him to pay nine silver coins to buy it, it will be easier to succeed than if you sell him ten silver coins in the first place."

"To put it bluntly, becoming non-human is just a matter of self-perception conflict. This is the least significant of the negative impacts faced by extraordinary beings. I have not yet mentioned the loss of physical control and the collapse of rationality. Those are the things that will lead to the fall of extraordinary beings. There is a huge danger. If I had said it directly, I’m afraid they would have been scared away on the spot.”

"What is the loss of physical control and the collapse of rationality?" Paige immediately became nervous.

"To reach the end of the bloodline journey, you need to reach level ten, which means taking a total of ten magic potions." Asker explained, "There are many sequences of magic potions, and most of them will conflict with each other, so The further you go, the easier it is to collapse. Losing control of your physical strength will cause you to irreversibly turn into a monster, and the collapse of your mental strength will turn you into a madman."

"Then the two vampire routes you mentioned..."

"That's an ancient secret organization (player forum). After many experiments, it selected the magic potion combination that has less risks and the greatest benefits." Asker sighed, "The two vampire routes, in Nowadays, it is a secret knowledge that almost no one knows, so don’t tell anyone.”

"You've already told them." Paige felt helpless.

"It's okay, they two will join us." Asik was very confident.

Oriole Tavern.

Today, when location is becoming more and more important for business, the business of the Oriole Tavern near the city wall has become extremely sluggish. Only old residents nearby occasionally come over for a drink, lamenting that they don’t know when this pub will be restored. Will go out of business.

What no one knows is that as a secret intelligence base of the Seljuk Empire in the Eastern Solomon Empire, this tavern will never close down due to "poor management" - unless it is discovered by the Imperial Military Intelligence Agency.

Vampire Mortius walked sadly along the passage on the third floor, came to the room at the end of the corridor, and knocked on the door with a certain rhythm.

The door opened.

She immediately opened the door and went in. After closing the door, the vampire knelt on the ground and begged with a trembling voice:

"My master, the stronghold of the Achilles family was uprooted by the church. This is indeed my mistake..."

"You have no right to defend yourself, Mortius." The voice behind the curtain said coldly, "You will have your limbs broken, your spirituality imprisoned, and thrown into the arena surrounded by the river of sulfur, and let the devil decide your life and death. ...If I hadn’t begged His Majesty for you.”

"My kind master, thank you, I thank you." The vampire hurriedly kissed the ground to express his surrender and loyalty.

"My kindness is not without price, Motius." As the female voice sounded, a round table on wheels was pushed out, with a bottle of magic potion in a narrow-mouth bottle placed on it.

The potion is a viscous and turbid liquid, milky white mixed with bright red lines, and orange-red vortices appear in some places. Looking at it makes people feel itchy, as if the flesh and blood all over the body are in rebellion.

"This is... the potion of Flesh and Blood II?" Vampire Motius trembled. There was a faint desire in her voice, but more of it was fear, "My master, I am applying for the mind control I potion..."

"Do you think you are qualified to bargain with me under this situation?" The female voice said coldly, "Take it or die."

Most potion sequences have I and II. The extraordinary ability of Sequence II is far better than that of Sequence I, but the risk of conflict with different sequences is also greater. Like most entry-level transcendental beings, Vampire Motius originally did not plan to take the first Sequence II so quickly, because this would greatly increase the probability of her losing control when taking new sequences in the future.

However, there is a saying that "the situation is stronger than the person." She has not yet fully digested the extraordinary power brought by the level 1 potion, but the person behind the curtain is already a level 2 extraordinary person.

You can't beat him for sure. If you don't take Flesh II, you will die. For those behind the scenes, a vampire who ascended to Flesh II can perform tasks better in Constantinople. As for her own wishes, who cares?

At this point she had no choice.

Shakingly picking up the narrow-mouth bottle, vampire Motius unscrewed the cork, and drank it resolutely with an expression of desperate death.

The first thing that changed was her head, which turned red as if being burned by fire, and then the crimson spread down to her neck.

The extraordinary power characteristics of Flesh II can be described in two words as "barbaric". Like a nomad from the grassland, the domineering extraordinary power instantly invaded every cell of her.

For a moment, it seemed that all the flesh and blood in her body was rioting, screaming and wailing. She scratched her skin painfully. In some places, fine, disgusting granulations grew, and in some places, cheese-like pits appeared. of necrotic tissue.

The extraordinary power was still penetrating deeper into her body, including muscles, connective tissues, mucous membranes and internal organs. The severe pain spread rapidly like a virus. She felt as if her body had turned into a volcano about to erupt, and had already destroyed her body before the eruption. It’s riddled with corrosion!

It wasn't until two-thirds of the skin on her body was scratched or rotted that the mutations caused by Flesh II gradually subsided. The vampire Mortius was twitching on the ground, almost unconscious.

From beginning to end, the people behind the curtain didn't make any sound, they just watched her struggle as if nothing happened. The vampire Mortius stood up in exhaustion and bowed tremblingly behind the curtain.

Then she turned around, opened the door, and stumbled out.

Before Flesh I was fully digested, forcibly taking Flesh II caused a huge amount of harm to her. She now urgently needs to find a place to digest the magic potion as soon as possible and calm down her spirituality, otherwise the mutation is likely to break out again.

And once she loses control, she has no doubt that the person behind the curtain will kill her immediately.

"Damn it, old maid!" Vampire Mortius thought viciously as he went down the stairs, "If I can reach level 3 early..."

"...I will imprison her in a coffin, insert blood-drawing needles into the most delicate parts of her body, and provide them to the lowest blood servants for wanton abuse..."

Walking down the stairs, she raised her eyes and saw Ask and Paige standing at the door.

The moment the three people's eyes met, the expression of vampire Mortius was one of surprise and surprise, Peggy's expression was hatred and rage, and Ask...

Asker had no expression, as if he had finally discovered the hidden boss according to the strategy steps, and there was no emotion in his heart.

"Kill you!" Paige, dominated by rage, had completely abandoned her reason and charged at full speed like lightning. The vampire Mortius just waved his hand - her arm suddenly turned into a huge flesh-and-blood whip and was thrown out, pinning Paige to the ground as she rushed halfway.

Countless bone spikes burst out from the end of the whip, nailing Paige to death in an instant. Along with Peggy's cry of pain, Motius also let out a scream.

Her right eye was blown out, leaving a dark hole.

The bullet came from Asker's rapid-fire pistol Aphrodite. He quickly moved his arm, aimed at his left eye and pulled the trigger again. Although Flesh II no longer causes fatal injuries, you will still be temporarily blinded if your eyes are blown out. Vampire Mortius quickly activated his ability.

Flesh and blood transfer! The Transcendent of Flesh and Blood II can move her organs freely. Her eyeballs were instantly sunken. When the original spot was blasted and penetrated by a bullet, her eyes emerged from the fleshy whip.

Paige has been penetrated by the bone spurs so much that she is breathing out. Vampire Mortius once again raised his flesh whip and whipped at him at super high speed.

If there were any professional players watching, they would definitely laugh at the stupidity of the vampire Mortius. Because she was afraid of being hit in the eye, she moved her eyes to the high-speed moving flesh whip. However, this caused the vampire's own perspective to change frequently, creating a large number of fleeting blind spots.

Aske, who is also at a professional level, will naturally not let his opponent make this mistake. He calmly took a step sideways and dodged the blow with an accuracy that almost grazed his scalp. At the same time, he quickly switched guns and reloaded them with both hands.

Since the long whip hit the eyeballs with its eyes and landed on Ask's back, the vampire Motius could not see the movements of Ask's hands in front of him at all.

The next second, the gunfire exploded like thunder. In an instant, the ears of Ask and Peggy were filled with huge buzzing sounds, and the vampire Mortius was even worse - under the bombardment of 15.2mm elephant hunting bullets, Her whole head exploded like a watermelon.

boom! boom! boom! boom! Asker continued to load and shoot in an orderly manner, and four rounds of elephant hunting bullets almost beat the vampire Mortius into mud. Under this situation, Mortius's body was still squirming tenaciously in an attempt to heal, which clearly shows the strength of Flesh II.

Asker's handling techniques are even more skillful. He pulled out his long sword, split the vampire's flesh into four, took it to the four corners of the room, and pressed it down with tables and chairs respectively.

Now, no matter how powerful the Flesh II was, there was nothing he could do. Soon, amidst the reluctant whining sounds around him, the vampire Motius finally died, and the dark red extraordinary characteristics emerged from the four piles of flesh.

Paige, who was lying on the ground, stopped struggling and just stared at the piles of flesh and blood. Asker stepped forward slowly and collected the extraordinary properties on the flesh.

Every time he picked one up, he squeezed it hard in his palm to absorb the extraordinary power inside (the extraordinary qualities themselves need to be made into potions to absorb, so the method of squeezing them by hand can only absorb the power inside, which will cause the original qualities to escape). A long-lost feeling came from the body, as if a person who had been hungry for many days suddenly got food, happy and sweet.

Picking up the last extraordinary characteristic, he didn't crush it with his hands, but turned around and stuffed it into Peggy's mouth.

As if chewing the flesh and blood of her enemy, Peggy bit down hard with hatred. The extraordinary power was like rain falling on dry land, nourishing her spirituality that was almost dry due to repeated body healing.

Then she burst into tears.

"Hurry up and finish crying." Asik said, pressing his sword, "We still have things to do."

Peggy got up from the ground and wiped her tears hard. The wounds on her body were almost healed.

"Let's go," she said shortly.

The two walked up the stairs to the third floor.

"Hold the stairs and wait for me to come back." Ask ordered.

"Okay." Peggy said.