Wizard Bloodline.

Chapter 99: Two Months, Sprouting, Brain-Eating Flower

Fortunately, no one was watching. Ronan now looked as if he was ready to commit seppuku at any time.

"Will it be ineffective if we do it so deliberately?"

Ronan thought about it and put the sword down again.

He carefully recalled the experience of being injured in the battle with the Green Thorn Hurricane Queen Bee.

"In addition to the external injuries that penetrated the waist and abdomen, the toxins carried by the stinger of the Green Thorn Queen Bee are also a very important source of injury."

The bee venom of a second-level monster is enough to easily destroy the body of a first-level wizard.

Even Ronan, whose Immaculate body was extremely powerful, had to consume nearly half of his vitality to suppress the poison.

"It's better to start with the poison first. Using a sword to hurt yourself is too stupid."

Ronan took out a several-meter-long dark green spike from his storage pocket. The thickest part was nearly one meter thick.

When he was cleaning up the body of the Green Thorn Hurricane Queen Bee, he deliberately left behind its stinger, which came in handy now.

This huge tail spike is shaped like the upper half of a court knight's lance. Although it looks huge, it feels light in the hand and contains extremely rich wind energy particles.

"call--"

Ronan held the tail stinger in both hands, and the needle-sharp tip slowly moved across 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-level healing potions, and placed them at hand so that he could reach them with just 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 spike in his hand.

The delicate skin was slightly sunken, and although it hadn't broken yet, an intense stinging sensation was already emanating from the point where it had landed.

"puff--"

With a slight piercing sound, the stinger of the Green Thorn Hurricane Queen Bee completely pierced into Ronan's flesh.

In an instant, the stinging sensation was magnified dozens of times, and it felt like a dark green spider web was rapidly spreading around the wound.

"Ho-"

Ronan took a short breath, beads of sweat began to appear on his fair and handsome face, and the veins on his forehead were twitching slightly.

His hands never stopped moving, pressing the stinger deeper and deeper.

The white light ball representing the tremendous vitality in the body was being consumed rapidly, and a large number of light spots representing vitality were released and rushed towards the wound location.

Ronan's eyes were fixed on his own character panel, and the number displayed after his master-level proficiency in [Austerity Body Building].

It was unknown how long this process lasted. When the queen bee's stinger had penetrated almost half a foot into the flesh, Ronan finally saw the panel data he had been thinking about start to jump.

[Austere Body Tempering (Master 5/1600)]——[Austere Body Tempering (Master 7/1600)]!
It increased by two points in one breath.

"call--"

Ronan let go instantly, and the queen bee's stinger fell to the ground with a bang. He then quickly picked up the antidote and healing potion at hand and poured them into his mouth.

"Whoosh-"

He was covered in sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water.

The instantaneous pain and this kind of slow pressure pain are two completely different concepts, and I did it myself.

Ronan looked at the puncture wound on the right side of his abdomen that was slowly healing. He had clearly found the right way to increase his proficiency in [Austerity Body Tempering] to the master level, but for the moment he did not have the courage to pick up the queen bee's stinger a second time.

“Do I have to poke and prod myself like this from now on?

Is there a less painful way?

How about taking poison directly?"

Ronan had just reunited with "Pain" a few days ago and called the other party an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time, but now he just wants this "old friend" to get away as soon as possible.

He was not a masochist. He was forced to endure pain because of the threat of death if he failed to get promoted.

"Um?!"

Ronan was considering the feasibility of skipping the stabbing process and taking the poison directly when he suddenly discovered something strange.

"Why didn't the antidote work?"

Ronan had just taken two bottles of antidote and one bottle of healing potion.

The main purpose of healing potions is to replenish the consumption of white vitality balls in the body. After all, the principle of most healing potions is to promote injury healing by replenishing vitality.

The healing potion worked normally, but after drinking two bottles of antidote, Ronan found that they had no effect.

The speed at which the wound healed from the queen bee's stinger and the speed at which the pain subsided were only related to the consumption of vitality of the white light ball in his body.

"Isn't this a poison at all?"

Ronan picked up the queen bee's stinger on the ground again, penetrated his mental power into it, and examined it carefully.

After a moment, he let out a "tsk" sound, and slowly put down the queen bee's stinger with an expression of "really?", his eyes turning.

"It's not toxins, but extremely high concentrations of wind energy particles."

"After being injected into the body by the stinger, these energy particles suddenly accumulated together and seemed like a poison..."

After discovering this, Ronan suddenly realized that his previous judgment was not accurate enough.

What really increases the master-level proficiency of [Austerity Body Tempering] is not simply "injury", but rather - being attacked by energy particles.

"in other words."

Ronan's eyes lit up, "It only needs to be a spell?"

It is easy to prove this.

Ronan snapped his fingers, and a large amount of ice particles gathered in the air in front of him, and soon a rotating ice ball appeared out of thin air.

Zero-order low-level spell——[Ice Hockey].

Of course, the power of the [Ice Ball Spell] that Ronan summoned at the moment was very ordinary, and it was just at the level of an ordinary low-level zero-order spell.

"Oh!"

An entire ice ball hit him directly. The icy air that splashed out instantly made him feel a pricking pain in the surface of his skin, and he couldn't help but shiver slightly.

"call--"

He stood up, stretched his body a little, and shook off the ice chips on his body.

After checking his body, he found no injuries other than feeling a little cold.

This was the first time he tested the defensive ability of his [Innocent Body], and he unexpectedly found that it was quite good. It could actually directly withstand low-level zero-order spells without being affected in any way.

However, the proficiency of [Austerity Body Tempering] on the panel did not increase.

As Ronan expected, he summoned a second ice ball immediately afterwards.

The third.
the fourth.
After casting five ice ball spells on himself in a row, the proficiency on the character panel finally increased from 7 points to 8 points.

Ronan, his body covered with a thin layer of frost, looked at the panel and clenched his fists.

feasible!

He is right!

Since wind and ice spells can increase the master level proficiency of [Austerity Body Refining], then spells of other systems can definitely do the same. He finally knew how to practice [Austerity Body Refining] after reaching the master level.

"It's just using your body to resist lightning, using frost to wash your face, and using lava to take a bath. That's all."

"Master-level [Austerity Body Refining], is this starting to focus on improving the body's elemental resistance?"

Ronan's eyes were burning, and a long-lost passion ignited in his heart.

"While strengthening the body, you can also improve your spell proficiency. It's really killing two birds with one stone."

"Open the liver"

Miniature secret space.

Next to a transparent ice coffin wrapped in dense rune arrays, Benigo sat on a chair, holding a silver cup in his hand, as if taking a rest.

Compared with a few months ago, the rust-like ulcer on Benigo's left cheek has improved a lot, and his original handsome facial features are gradually revealed.

But his temples had become much more gray, and he looked even more unkempt and tired. Only his pair of light golden eyes maintained a calm and clear luster, as if he was always thinking.

"Boom——"

A strange and bizarre sound was heard, and it was so clear in the silent and deserted secret space.

Benigo came back to his senses from his reverie, thinking he had misheard, but when his eyes turned in a certain direction out of habit.
His eyes fell into a momentary trance, and then uncontrollable excitement and joy surged out from his eyes.

Benig quickly stood up from his chair and appeared in front of a laboratory table filled with various utensils and emitting a strong smell of blood.

His eyes were completely attracted by a seed on the table that was soaked in an unknown dark red liquid.

This seed has sprouted, and a tiny bit of pink has grown on the black embryo. In the pink, there seem to be lines like human blood vessels extending little by little.

Benigo stared at the seed for a long time, his eyes intoxicated, as if he was about to fall into it.

After a moment, he regained his composure, quickly took out a communication stone from his pocket, and whispered: "The seeds have sprouted.
Also, I have something to tell you, you'd better come over 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 a pen and paper appeared in his hand. He was observing, thinking, and quickly writing something down.

After an unknown amount of time, a slight energy fluctuation came from the entrance to the secret space.

"Now that you are here, the Holy Blood Tree seeds will need some after they sprout. Hmm?"

Benigo, who was observing, subconsciously called out in the direction of the entrance to the secret realm, but when he saw the person coming, he was stunned.

The change in the man's appearance and temperament was so strange that Benigol almost thought he had recognized the wrong partner.

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He saw a young man with a handsome figure striding towards him.

He has white hair, blue eyes, and wears an armband surrounded by black mist on his right arm. Silver and blue rune patterns grow upward along his chest and neck, highlighting his exquisite and noble temperament.

The young man seemed to have just come out of a training session, and his body was wet with lingering beads of sweat.

The whole person seemed like a huge and terrifying molten iron furnace. There were terrible and invisible rolling heat waves emanating from all around his body, burning everything around him, giving people an extremely domineering and powerful feeling of oppression.

As the young man approached Benig, the momentum gradually faded, and finally disappeared completely like a sword returning to its sheath.

The young man returned to his original exquisite and handsome appearance, his skin was as white and smooth as fine silk, and an ice-blue gem necklace was faintly visible around his neck, as if he was a prince who had just walked out of a wealthy family.

“Is this what the Holy Blood Tree seeds look like after they sprout?”

The boy walked quickly to the lab table, squinted his eyes and carefully examined the germinating seeds on the table, then turned to look at Benigo, "What did you say you would need in the future?"

Benigo recovered from his brief trance and looked at the boy deeply.

He didn't understand why, even though the mental fluctuations emanating from the other party had not improved much, the threat he felt was several times stronger than it was two months ago.

It's like there's a legendary dragon sealed in the body, whose scales and claws occasionally appear inadvertently, bringing a thrilling feeling to people's souls.

This is someone else's secret. Everyone has secrets, including him.

"Your blood is needed to be watered regularly"

Benigo said, “If you want the seeds to continue to grow, you must water them with blood that is rich in vitality.

Your blood is by far the most vibrant and alive I have ever seen."

Ronan frowned slightly, and then he heard Benigo speak again: "You don't need a lot, it won't have much impact on your body.

And there is another benefit to watering the Holy Blood Tree 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 stronger than some soul-binding master-servant contracts."

"Does that mean that after it drinks my blood, it will recognize me as its master?"

Ronan understood.

"That's about right. You should have been its owner."

Benigault replied calmly.

Ronan nodded without further ado. A bit of the black armband made of nightmare tungsten steel on his right arm separated and flowed into Ronan's hand, turning into a small knife, and then quickly turned into a silver color.

Ronan picked up the knife and gently cut his index finger.

After two months of hard training in [Ascetic Body Building], this was not an easy task.

Only Ronan himself knew how much force he had used to cut the flesh on the tip of his finger and force the blood to drip drop by drop into the petri dish containing the seeds of the Holy Blood Tree.

After about ten drops of blood, Benigold called for Ronan to stop.

"It's a lot less than I originally thought..."

Benigel looked at Ronan with a strange look on his face.

Ronan pretended not to hear, put his torn finger into his mouth, and asked Benigo, "What was the other thing you said in the communication stone?"

"It's about you."

Benigo carefully fiddled with the Holy Blood Tree seeds in the petri dish and said, "The Magic Circle recently discovered another brain-eating flower in a secret realm. It was released as a mission..."

"You stay in the secret realm every day and never go out. How come you are so well-informed about all the news in the magic circle?"

Ronan was surprised.

Benigo just shook his head and said, “It’s just a little privilege of being a third ring that has not been completely taken back.

This is not the point.

The point is that I happen to know an ancient potion recipe that requires brain-eating flower as the main ingredient.

This ancient magic potion has the effect of greatly improving mental strength."

Benig paused here, looked at Ronan, thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps it can increase your chances of comprehending a domain resonance in advance."

"Om-"

Ronan's pupils trembled slightly.

Soon, he calmed down.

"Tell me more about this mission."

(End of this chapter)