My health recovery is incredibly fast.

To his surprise, the elemental shell woven by the [Elemental Manifestation] meditation method could actually be combined with alchemical products to form a cannon that could be fired by a single person.

Moreover, judging from Tim's calm expression, launching a burst of light didn't seem to take much effort...

It's practically a living, breathing self-propelled artillery piece!

Xia Zuo pressed his hand to his chest, took a few deep breaths to calm his turbulent emotions, and his previous understanding of magic and meditation was once again refreshed.

"Hit the enemy! That feels great. It's been years since I've used the Elemental Cannon. I really want more of these sneaky scum to come so I can practice more."

Dim stood up, brushed the dirt off his knees, pulled the shield out of the dirt and fastened it back to his back, and retracted the cannon barrel on his right shoulder into the metal protrusion.

"What kind of magic is this, Dim?" Shazo asked, looking at the bearded man walking towards them.

Dim fastened the metal cube on his chest, and his heavy armor disappeared, revealing a simple brown leather armor and potion straps tied to his shoulders.

He stroked his beard, and said thoughtfully:

"Hmm... this is just a fireball spell fired from a cannon powered by elemental energy. With the cannon's help, the fireball's flight distance becomes exceptionally long. If I really had to give it a name... there's a saying in the Silvermoon Federation, 'Justice exists within the range of cannons.' I think 'Justice Barrage' would be pretty good. Haha~"

Tim patted Carrot on the back, fed his packhorse a carrot, then turned over and sat in the driver's seat, giving him instructions:

"Let's go check out where the fireball exploded. Keep a close eye on the surroundings for me. If you spot any wriggling chunks of flesh or other strange things, just use fireballs on them without hesitation."

“Oh, right.” Dim picked up the reins and added:

"You need to keep track of how many pieces of meat you've eaten. We'll check them later to make sure nothing's been missed."

“Okay, I’ll keep an eye out.” Xia Zuo nodded and reached out to touch the Life Alchemy Stone under his right armpit.

Chapter 38 [Blood Sacrifice Spellcasting]

The two traveled by carriage and it took them some time to reach the explosion site.

The ground here is bare, as if it had been plowed, with a depression in the center surrounded by still-burning black ash.

Dim took several glass bottles from his medicine bag, sprinkled the medicine evenly around the carriage, and then walked toward the dent.

As soon as Xia Zuo stepped off the carriage, he conjured a fireball and threw it to the side.

A gray chunk of meat crawling like a caterpillar was blasted to pieces by the fireball, and the intense flames burned away the fragments.

Xia Zuo frowned, glanced at the message sent by his cheat system in his mind, then condensed another fireball and threw it at the piece of meat a little distance away.

"Bang." The fireball exploded, and the gray flesh burned in the flames, turning to ashes along with the evil.

"What are these things? They're disgusting..."

Xia Zuo frowned and threw fireballs one after another, seemingly disgusted, but secretly delighted.

"Successfully destroyed the unknown object with a fireball spell. The spell power is 2 points, and the reward is 15 experience points, as well as several values ​​for the four elemental resistances, spirit, perception, and willpower."

A fireball spell with only 2 power can destroy the gray flesh and give 15 experience points!

If you don't grind experience now, when will you?

Xia Zuoshi unleashed miniature fireballs, doing his utmost to eliminate the gray chunks of flesh within his field of vision.

Dim wasn't idle either.

He walked to the depression and saw a pile of twisted, struggling, mangled flesh.

He stretched out his right hand towards the pile of rotting flesh below, and surging crimson flames erupted from his palm.

A crackling sound, like dry firewood splitting, came from underground, mixed with faint wails.

"Dim~~I was wrong~~~Please forgive me~~I~~go~~back~~to~~the~~academy~~~with~~you~~~"

"Friz! You've undergone the transformation ritual, you have absolutely no chance!!" Dimga increased the power of his flames, the firelight changing from crimson to yellowish-white.

A mournful cry emanated from the depression, as plaintive as a mournful wind blowing through a canyon.

Xia Zuo glanced at the situation on Dim's side a few times, without stopping what he was doing. "15, 16, 17... Ah~ so many pieces of meat to finish. 18, 19..."

"Hey!" Dim stopped spewing flames and shouted to the figure struggling to clear chunks of flesh beside him, "Come on, come here! Take him down. The last blow is up to you."

Upon hearing that the other party had bestowed upon him the honor of "the final blow," Xia Zuo smiled and strode over.

He glanced into the crater, his brows furrowing deeply. "What is this weird thing? It's disgusting..."

Black threads writhed on the pile of rotting flesh, and wisps of black smoke drifted from it, devoid of any elemental radiance. The rotting flesh itself resembled swarms of dense, gray maggots, utterly repulsive…

Xia Zuo suppressed his discomfort, expended all his energy, and condensed a fireball with 24 points of power, then flicked his right hand downwards.

"boom!"

The fireball collided with the pile of rotten flesh, sending a burst of flame soaring into the sky.

A strong stench and black smoke wafted out, but were diluted by the surrounding air, leaving a faint lingering smell around the nose.

There was no longer any meat in the depression, only blackened ash.

A long string of information came to my mind.

It would take a long time to read through those dozen or so lines of information, so Xia Zuo put them aside for the time being and said to Dim, who was cleaning up pieces of meat a few meters away:

"Dim, is this enough? Should I add a few more fireballs?"

Dim turned his back to Shazo and waved his hand behind him.

Xia Zuo realized something, stopped talking, turned around and walked to the side to continue eating the remaining pieces of meat.

After the wriggling chunks of flesh were burned in the rotten pile in the depression, they seemed to have lost most of their activity. The frequency and movement of the wriggling decreased a lot, and they became very slow, but they were still crawling outwards.

Xia Zuo finished off the pieces of meat while reviewing the information he had gathered earlier.

"Successfully using Fireball to destroy the unknown object grants 24 spell power, 140 experience points, and several elemental resistances, spirit, perception, and willpower attributes."

"Due to contact with an unknown entity, a forced attribute assessment is underway. Failure to assess the outcome will result in unknown negative effects..."

"[Strength] Detection failed"

"【Agility】Judgment failed"

"[Endurance] assessment failed"

"[Willpower] assessment failed"

"[Perception] Judgment failed"

"[Mental] assessment failed"

"【Vitality】Check passed!"

"Gained knowledge of blood magic related to [Vitality]... Currently undergoing datafication... Gained a new perk: [Blood Sacrifice Spellcasting - Incomplete]."

...

[Special Skill Name] Blood Sacrifice Spellcasting - Incomplete

[Special Note]:

This ability is incomplete; you can only use your own life force as a consumable for casting spells.

[Special Effects]

When this trait is activated, you will consume Vitality (on yourself only) instead of Energy when casting spells.

...

!!!

You don't need to learn blood magic; you can gain knowledge of it simply by killing someone skilled in it!

Suppressing his excitement, Xia Zuo tossed a small fireball at the chunk of meat beneath his feet with trembling fingers.

He suddenly had a brilliant idea!

If the person killed is skilled in magic other than blood magic, but rather in spirit, totem, curse, aura, or other spell types, would they also gain the corresponding specialization or skill?

We'll have to wait for a suitable opportunity to verify that.

Xia Zuo glanced at Dim, then quietly activated [Blood Sacrifice Spellcasting - Incomplete], switching to casting spells using life force while simultaneously monitoring the changes in health on the character's template.

When the small fireball with a power of 4 appeared in his hand, Xia Zuo could no longer suppress the joy on his face.

..

[Health Points] 210/210 (Slight Poisoning)

[Base Health Regeneration Speed]

45 points/hour

[Real-time Health Regeneration Speed]

45 - 0.04 - 4 → 40.96 points/hour

..

When casting spells using the Elemental Poison Crystal, the rate at which Mild Poison #1 loses health will increase slightly, resulting in a health loss of 0.04 points per hour.

The 4 points/hour health deduction effect is due to maintaining the small fireball currently in hand.

Maintaining the fireball used to consume energy, and when that energy was depleted, I would feel dizzy and have a headache.

But things are different now!

As long as the real-time health regeneration rate is positive, it's fine for a fireball to hover around you all night.

Xia Zuo wanted to laugh out loud, but reason told him not to.

He threw the fireball in his hand at the piece of meat two meters away, smoothed the corners of his mouth that were curving upwards, and walked calmly toward Dim.

"Dim, I cleared 52 chunks of meat. How about you?"

Tim wiped his face a couple of times, took out a carrot and ate it, then turned around and said with slightly reddened eyes:

"I...cough cough. I cleaned 56."

He walked around the area, picked up the scraps on the ground while wearing gloves, and stuffed them into a metal box. "Yes, that's right, the two of us together cleared out a total of 108 pieces of flesh. The enemy has been completely wiped out."

He went to the depression, bent down, picked up the ashes, and put them into the metal box. After closing the box, he put another, larger metal box over it, and finally put the box into his alchemy pouch.

"Come with me. We're continuing west." Dim waved his hand and walked towards the carriage.