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Chapter 191 A New Body

Grace's chestnut hair was matted together with sweat and seemed to be covered in dust, probably from the dust and dirt kicked up when she fought the gray dwarf, Disos, while casting powerful sorcery.

It has been more than twenty years since she was chosen by the matriarch, rising from an ordinary night elf woman to a high-ranking member of the Price family after being endowed with the blood of a spider woman.

This is the first time in so many years that I have encountered such a frustrating task.

Putting aside the fact that during the previous tracking period, they were misled and even played by the target.

Take that battle at the hotel for example. Looking back now, it seems that the other side had set a trap beforehand, and I just happened to walk right into it.

If Richard heard this, he would definitely protest his innocence, claiming it was truly a coincidence. He never expected that a wanted criminal like Dissol, a Night Elf, would be in the inn.

So, by sheer coincidence, the two sides ended up having a fierce fight.

However, Grace still managed to lift her head and give a sincere smile to her dejected subordinates, as if to show that as the commander of the pursuit team, she had not been defeated by difficulties and setbacks!

Irene's condition wasn't much better. The wizard's robe that she used to cover her appearance was now torn to shreds, revealing a tight-fitting dark leather armor.

Even the leather armor now bears numerous scratches, with blood seeping faintly.

The three spider knights who followed her were also all injured, and their injuries seemed to be quite serious.

The thought that the twelve elite Spider Knights who were once full of vigor had now dwindled to just a handful of them filled Grace with sorrow.

Of course, what hit Grace the hardest was Fritty's tragic death.

If the complete annihilation of the Spider Knights in this battle could save Fritty's life, Grace would be more than willing.

Unfortunately, Fritty had only just come of age and been promoted to a high-ranking spider woman (equivalent to a formal human wizard), but unexpectedly, she encountered an accident on her first mission. It should be noted that Fritty was a spider woman with extremely outstanding talent.

In the second year after being granted the Spider Woman bloodline by the Mistress, she was able to advance to the rank of High-Level Spider Woman, which is at least in the top ten in the history of the Price family, and she was deeply loved by the Mistress.

He volunteered for the mission and assured his mistress that he would ensure Flitty's safety, but he never expected to perish in this seemingly insignificant task.

By the grace of Rose, by the grace of the Matriarch, it was truly Fritty who volunteered to go and investigate; she really hadn't arranged it herself. No one could have imagined such an unexpected turn of events!

To this day, he still doesn't know how Fritty died.

Was it Shadra or Dissol who killed her? Fritty died so quickly, there was no time to save her!

Grace shuddered at the thought of the mission failure and Fritty's death, and the terrifying punishment she might suffer at the hands of the Matriarch that the two events combined.

No! I can't go back like a stray dog!

What will be the outcome for me then?

Irene: "Grace, what do we do now?"

"I'm going to find Nicole."

"What! Is it that guy who betrayed the faith of the goddess Rose and turned to the devil? Are you crazy, Grace!" Irene's face was filled with shock, as if the name Nicol represented an extremely terrifying person.

"I will absolutely not go with you." Irene turned and prepared to leave.

"Irene, are you really going back like this? Do you know what punishment you'll face if you go back now?" Grace's voice, like a mother beast's growl, came from behind Irene.

"It's just..." Before she could finish her sentence, Irene suddenly realized something.

Yes, not only did I fail in my mission this time, but more importantly, Frietty, who was deeply loved by the mistress, was killed in action.

Irene stopped in her tracks, clearly hesitant.

After returning to his room, Richard summoned the crystal.

As the facehugger-like crystals crawled across Fritty's face, images flashed through Richard's mind like a slideshow.

After a moment, Richard looked thoughtful and said, "Stephena, I think you should consider changing your body."

Stephania was surprised and pointed at Fritty's body, saying, "Master, is there something strange about this body?"

Richard nodded: "That's right, this spider woman is named Fritty. She is a spider woman with extremely high talent, and her potential is much higher than your current Shadra body."

This immediately caught Stephena's eye. The pursuit of improving her own strength had always been Stephena's lifelong goal, and it was also a concept instilled in her from childhood in the Knight family.

The pursuit of power was once Stephania's obsession. Although she had died once before, and was resurrected as a spirit, her desire and interest in becoming stronger remained strong.

Now that she had this opportunity, she had no objection whatsoever and naturally supported it wholeheartedly, saying, "Master, of course I am willing. Stephania is willing to follow any of your arrangements."

Richard nodded. Since Stephanie herself had no objections, they could now begin implementing the plan.

Looking at the size of the room, Richard found that the room the bearded dwarf leader had arranged for him was quite luxurious and spacious, with more than enough room on the living room floor to draw a witch's circle.

Therefore, Richard immediately decided to perform the body-swapping ritual on Stephana right now. The body-swapping ritual was essentially an enhanced version of the spirit rebirth ritual.

For Richard, who had already pushed the spirit rebirth ritual to its limit, it was naturally not difficult at all.

The outer frame of the shamanic array used in the spirit rebirth ritual is a circle with a diameter of about three meters, while two square structures are drawn inside it.

After Richard finished drawing the diagram, he had Fingart move Fritty's body to one of the two squares in the magic circle, while he had Stephanie lie down in the center of the other square.

Once everything was ready, Richard prepared to begin the formal spirit rebirth ceremony.

Richard was already familiar with the entire reincarnation ritual process.

This time, the difficulty has simply increased. First, we need to completely separate Stephana's spirit from Shadra's current body, and then transfer her spirit into Fritty's body.

In Richard's view, the most difficult part of the whole process was that Stephanie had to endure extraordinary pain during the separation.

However, he will speed up this process as much as possible to reduce Stephanie's pain.

Following Richard's instructions, Fingart placed eight intermediate-level magic stones at the intersections of the outer ring of the magic array and the two vertices of the square, which were crucial for the array's energy supply.

A moment later, a deep incantation resounded in Richard's throat, and his mental energy began to flow into the magic array on the ground at a special frequency through the spirit reincarnation ritual magic model in his mind.

Instantly, the witch array glowed brightly with green light!

Suddenly, Richard's eyes were completely black, the whites of his eyes had disappeared, and when he turned to look at the location of Stephanie's body, Stephanie felt that Richard's eyes were like black holes staring directly at her.

Immediately, Stephania felt an invisible, immense force pulling her entire spirit from the body of the Spider Woman Shadra, and with intense pain, she quickly flew into the air above the magic circle.

Just a few seconds later, Stephania felt her spirit return to her mother's body, as if she were soaking in a hot spring, and the pain immediately disappeared.

It turns out that her spirit had been re-entered into a new body by Richard, Frietty's.

At this moment, the green light was so bright that it was impossible to look directly at it!

After a few seconds, the light of the entire magic array began to dim, and the eight magic stones that were originally full of energy shattered automatically, losing all their energy.

A moment later, Fritty's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she opened her eyes, a hint of confusion showing in her charming gaze.

"How are you feeling?"

"I can't quite put my finger on it, but it seems like this body accepts me more than the original one." Stephania thought for a moment and used the word "acceptance."

After listening, Richard nodded. The whole process should not have caused much damage to Stephania's spirit. After all, the interval between the separation and reincarnation was only a few seconds, which is something that ordinary wizards cannot do.

As Stephania slowly stood up and took a few steps, she was surprised to find that this body seemed to have a natural affinity with her.

Stephania remembered that when she was reincarnated into Shadra's body, she had difficulty even standing up right after the successful incarnation. She staggered and even needed Richard's help to walk. It took a long time for her to get better.

But this time.

The reincarnation ceremony had just ended when I was able to stand and walk with ease.

In addition, she could feel that this body had a vibrant energy, as if some kind of magical power was contained in her blood, promoting the healthy growth of the whole body.

Fingart, standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded.

Richard trusted Fingart, his first servant and the one who had surrendered a wisp of his soul, quite a bit. After all, he could control Fingart's life and death with just a thought.

Therefore, Richard did not let him go out during the secret spiritual reincarnation ritual, but instead let him observe from the side to broaden his horizons.

He was very satisfied with Fingert's performance over the past six months, so letting the other party see this secret would make the other party feel that the master did not treat him as an outsider.

It is considered a highly effective method of managing subordinates.

At this moment, Fingart's mind was filled with admiration for his master, Richard.

At the same time, a glimmer of hope arose in my heart!

If one day I were to find the corpse of an ancient dark fishman, would it be possible to have my master perform this magical spell on me as well?

No! The master will definitely agree!

Because I am the master's number one servant, representing the master's face!

Fingart grew more and more confident. His master must also want his servants to be as strong as possible!

"Master, your knowledge is truly vast, and your skill in drawing magic arrays is superb. I, Fingart, offer my highest admiration!" Fingart bowed and praised with a smile.

"Um... Master, if one day your humble servant is able to find the body of the ancient dark fishman, Master, may I also..."

Richard immediately understood Fingart's meaning, nodded, and said with a smile, "Do a good job! The body of the ancient dark fishman shouldn't be too hard to find."

"Thank you, Master!" Fingart was almost moved to tears!

He heard his master grant his request!

Now, even if his master orders him to fight the Dark Night Mistress, he will bravely charge forward without hesitation!

Stephania found herself moving more and more smoothly, becoming increasingly satisfied with the body, and there was one thing in particular that pleased her.

That is, this body seems to have never been "used" before.

This is considered exceptionally sacred among high-ranking spider women!

Half an hour ago.

The room next door.

Sitting on the mahogany chair, Dissol, unusually, was not playing with the twin girls. Instead, he was holding a recording crystal and probing his consciousness into it, carefully examining the top-secret formula for the alchemical combination bomb that Richard had exchanged with him.

As Dessall studied, he marveled at Richard's ingenious ideas.

"What a brilliant idea! Using only these common raw materials, they have created an alchemical bomb with power comparable to a first-level sorcery spell."

"It's a pity that the total cost of raw materials is too high, and the technical requirements are too high. Otherwise, if it could be mass-produced, it would be enough to change the outcome of a small battle."

However, after a short while, Desol felt the massive gathering and surging of dark elemental energy coming from the room next door.

"Huh! This is some kind of witchcraft array! It has such strong energy fluctuations? Could it be that the young witch doctor Li Wei is also proficient in witchcraft arrays?"

After carefully sensing the energy fluctuations in the adjacent room, Desor couldn't help but admire the young wizard named "Levi" even more.

It should be noted that although many senior wizards are proficient in various skills, these wizards are generally over one hundred years old, or even one hundred and fifty years old.

As for young wizards in their thirties and forties, the mere practice of meditation and the study of witchcraft generally exhaust all their free time and energy. How could they possibly have the spare energy to learn or even improve their skills in potions, witchcraft arrays, and other techniques?

"Wizard Levi is truly a talent!" Dessol couldn't help but exclaim. If he could recruit such a talent into his organization, he would surely receive a considerable reward.

At this moment, the thought of recruiting the other party in Dessol's mind was like a seed sown in spring, sprouting uncontrollably after the spring rain.

Suppressing the urge to immediately knock on the other party's door, Desol decided to postpone the recruitment until tomorrow.

After all, so much has already happened tonight, it wouldn't be appropriate to bother them now.

The twin girls stared wide-eyed at their master's muttering, and asked curiously, "Lord Dissol, is that human wizard really that talented?"

"Yes, am I even more capable than you, sir?"

Dissol shook his head and said, "You're not wizards, so of course you wouldn't understand. This young man has already developed such a wonderful formula for alchemical combination bombs. If you give him some of our Grey Dwarves' alchemical formulas, who knows what other ingenious ideas he'll come up with!"

"You know, young people have the most active minds!"

"Moreover, judging from the energy fluctuations just now, the other party is also proficient in witchcraft arrays. Such talent is truly astonishing."

"I am 148 years old this year, but I was promoted to a full wizard at the age of 49. At the age of 55, I began to systematically study the branch of alchemy - puppetry. At the age of 121, I finally became a master of gray dwarf puppetry."

"It took me 66 years to go from puppet apprentice to puppet master, but even so, my teacher praised me, saying that I am a genius that is only seen once in a hundred years among the gray dwarves."

"Do you understand what I'm saying?"

The twin girls blinked their bright eyes, covering their mouths in surprise, and exclaimed, "Then isn't this wizard Levi a genius, one in a thousand years?"

Desol was both amused and exasperated, and laughed, "It's not that exaggerated, but he can certainly be considered a genius that only appears once every five hundred years!"

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Let's turn our attention back to Richard's room.

After completing the reincarnation of Stephena's new body, Richard immediately began to study the record crystal he had just obtained, which contained information given to him by Dissol about the extraction and purification of source blood and the Flame Crystal.

In a previous deal with Dessol, Richard exchanged his alchemical combination bomb formula for this material, a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Richard discovered that to use the essence of the bloodline, the source blood, to stimulate the enhancement of one's own spiritual power, it is necessary to use fire-type crystals of different levels, as well as source blood absorption magic arrays of different levels.

In this transaction, he exchanged for the extraction and purification of first-tier bloodline essence, which corresponds to the source blood within a bloodline creature equivalent to a first-level wizard.

Because the extraction of source blood requires extremely high standards for the corpse, the quality of the source blood will be greatly reduced if it exceeds one hour. Therefore, Richard plans to extract the essence of the Spider Woman's bloodline—that is, the Spider Woman's source blood—from Shadra's body now.

Fortunately, Richard already had considerable experience in drawing witch arrays, so he picked up the source blood absorption witch array very quickly.

At the same time, Richard invested all the few thousand energy points he had earned from casually killing monsters while traveling through the Gray Fern Wilderness over the past few days into improving the Source Blood Absorption Witch Array.

In the dream space, Richard quickly upgraded it to: Source Blood Absorption Witch Array (Mastery 9%), which was sufficient for current use.

Richard then quickly drew the magic circle in the room again and had Stephanie place Shadra's body in the center of the magic circle.

Once everything was ready, Richard began reciting the activation incantation for the Origin Blood Absorption Magic Array.

The effect of this magic array is, in some ways, very similar to the magic array collected by Blood Amber. They seem to be of the same lineage, which may mean that both magic arrays were created by ancient wizards a long, long time ago.

On the other hand, this also allowed Richard to quickly absorb the source blood into the witch array and elevate it to the level of mastery.

Otherwise, if you start from scratch and rely on the few thousand energy points you casually acquire, you will most likely not be able to reach the mastery level.

As the once plump body gradually withered, strands of blood were drawn from Shadra's body, gathering above the magic circle to form a blood clot the size of a head.

In no time, all the blood in the body was drained!

Looking at Shadra's body now, it was completely unrecognizable! Her original charming face was no longer discernible; instead, it resembled a dried corpse that had been exposed to the sun in the desert for thousands of years, making it impossible to discern her face, gender, or even race.

But this is only halfway through the process. Next, this large mass of blood needs to be concentrated and refined to extract the most fundamental source blood from the body of a spider woman.

This process takes a little time and requires a high degree of sustained and focused mental energy from the practitioner.

A blood clot the size of a head began to throb like a heart.

With each tremor, the blood cells become more vibrant and viscous in color, while some impurities mixed in are expelled, turning into black smoke and dissipating into the air.

Gradually, the blood cells became more concentrated, smaller and smaller, and their color changed from light red to dark red.

Eventually, it condensed into a bright red, teardrop-shaped crystal the size of a fingernail.

The process of extracting and purifying the essence of the Spider Woman's bloodline, that is, the Spider Woman's original blood, is now complete!

Gazing at the Spider Woman's source blood in his hand, feeling the surging bloodline energy within, Richard couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Currently, I have three options regarding the disposal of this Spider Woman's blood. One option is to sell it to the gray dwarf wizard Dissol. Given how eager he was when he saw the Spider Woman's corpse in my hands, he should be able to offer me a satisfactory price.

Another option is to keep them and buy Flame Crystals after arriving in Tug City, using them as consumables to stimulate and enhance one's mental power.

The last method is to use it on Stephena. You should know that this drop of Spider Woman's source blood is like a super-powerful tonic for Spider Women of the same bloodline!

This will allow Stephania, who has just changed bodies, to enter a period of explosive growth in power.

The original owner of this new body, Fritty, seemed to be a spider woman with exceptional talent. If this drop of primal blood were infused into her—

Meanwhile, in the room next door, Desol and the twin gray dwarf girls were once again shocked to feel the surging energy fluctuations coming from the side.

"Blood Extraction Magic Array!!" Dissol exclaimed in disbelief.

"There's no mistake, this fluctuation!!"

Dessol clearly remembered that this wizard named "Levi" did not understand the extraction and purification of source blood. Otherwise, the other party would not have exchanged the alchemical combination bomb formula that he had painstakingly developed with him for related knowledge.

But what did I just feel?

The noise coming from the next room is clearly the sound of a bloodline-absorbing magic array!

Good heavens! By the Titan Father! This...this...

Desol was shocked!

The twin girls next to them clearly realized the problem as well, their beautiful eyes widening in shock, their small mouths big enough to fit a wine glass.

Dissol immediately stood up and paced back and forth in the room, muttering to himself, "No, we can't wait until tomorrow. The other party must have absorbed the source blood of that Spider Woman. What if this wizard Levi directly used the Spider Woman's source blood?"

"No, he shouldn't have a fire crystal. No, no, what if he does?"

Dessol realized that his mind was in turmoil!

"Wait a minute, is it possible that he might use the source blood for other purposes?"

Dissol scratched his messy hair, feeling a headache coming on. It seemed that if he wanted to persuade this wizard Levi to give him the Spider Woman's blood, he would have to spend a lot of money!

A short while later, as Richard closed his eyes to meditate and slowly regained his mental strength...

There was a knocking sound at the door, followed by that familiar booming voice of Dessol:

"Lord Li Wei, I apologize for disturbing you so late!"

By this time, Fingart had already returned to his room to rest, leaving only Richard and Stephanie in the room.

Stephena, who was lying in bed enjoying some precious time alone with her master, couldn't help but mutter, "That lecherous old man, in the middle of the night..."

Richard opened his eyes and gestured for Stephanie to put on a half-mask first, covering her face, before slowly opening the door.

(End of this chapter)