My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Vickers, who was guarding the control panel, pushed off with his foot and ran towards the door. He looked at the action team members running outside and a dozen armed elemental servants floating towards the stairwell with a gloomy expression.

"Click-clack-click..."

The several coded rings on Vickers' fingers made a continuous clicking sound.

Shazo walked over to Vickers and glanced in the direction of the culture tank.

"Supervisor, the blood essence stone seems to have changed."

Vickers walked toward the culture tank while reading the coded message on the ring.

He glanced up at the tank, then pressed the ice-blue button on the control panel.

Four crystals emitted a thicker beam of ice-blue light.

Even through the glass partition, one could feel the chill emanating from around the culture tank, causing the once vibrant red bloodstone to darken again.

"That high-ranking blood demon sacrificed the transformers in the underground laboratory."

Vickers stared at the culture tank, frozen into an ice sculpture, his eyes filled with resentment.

"I never imagined that all the experimental subjects we've captured over the years were manufactured by it. Luckily, we didn't let it into the Posing Building."

In just a short while, the bloodstone turned a bright blood red again.

"This is troublesome."

Vickers frowned and went to the control panel, pressing the ice-blue button again.

Three of the five indicator lights representing the gear position are already lit.

Xia Zuo began to understand the effects of the sacrifice.

The high-ranking Blood Demon sacrificed the Transformer it created, transferring the resulting energy to the Blood Essence Stone of Blood Demon No. 13, helping Blood Demon No. 13 escape its frozen state.

The arrival of a secret message confirmed Xia Zuo's suspicions.

Vickers glanced at the message on the ring, and his expression changed instantly.

"Damn it! This high-level blood demon has gone mad! He's even sacrificing his own blood runes!"

Xia Zuo stared wide-eyed at the culture jar.

The pale red bloodstone turned bright red, shining like a light bulb and emitting a blood-red glow.

The bloodstone began to spin, trying to break free from the ice.

Vickers pressed the ice-blue button twice.

All five indicator lights are on.

The icy blue beams of light emitted from the four octahedral crystals suspended in the air grew thicker than Xia Zuo's head, but they still couldn't stop the ice sculpture from being slowly broken apart by the blood essence stone.

"Come on!"

Vickers roared and shoved Shazo toward the door.

"Open the door! Simpson! Get out!"

Vickers slammed the alarm button next to the door, then darted out through the crack in the door before it could close.

The sound of gears turning came from inside the door; the door was locked.

In the laboratory.

The armed elemental servants hanging from the ceiling activated, their gun barrels, which were originally pointing upwards, now aimed at the incubation tank.

Through the glass window of the door, Xia Zuo saw that the blood essence stone was beating like a heart, and cracks had appeared on the culture tank.

The chains binding the Demon Hunter to the cultivation tank seemed to be under immense pressure, the circular lock rings stretched into ovals.

"It's almost... a success..."

The words of a high-ranking blood demon echoed in his ears.

“Kualo Wuqi, I will sacrifice the Blood Rune once more, using all my strength to unleash a Blood Domain over the Bosing Building, channeling the Blood Rune into you to block the enemies inside. There is a powerful protective barrier there, and the domain will only last for one minute. You, escape as soon as possible.”

What is the Bloodstained Domain...? Xia Zuo was taken aback.

Footsteps came from deep within the corridor.

The team members who had gone to check the upper floors ran over, each with a shimmering magical shield around them.

"Xia Zuo, quickly use the Wind Walk spell to leave and go to the alchemy room on the third basement level."

Vickers shoved the only non-combatant in the room toward the elevator, then said to Simpson:

"Have your team cast an anti-magic barrier to seal off Laboratory 13, and use fire-based elemental energy munitions to deal with the enemy. Our reinforcements will be here shortly, in three minutes at most."

"Yes, sir," Simpson replied loudly, walking toward the approaching team members.

Xia Zuo transformed into a cloud of energy and brushed past the action team.

He glanced back as he floated into the elevator lobby.

At the entrance of Laboratory 13, there was already obvious blood seeping out.

The frozen blood essence stone is about to break free of its restraints.

Xia Zuo slipped into the elevator lobby and floated upwards in the elevator shaft.

At that very moment, the words of a high-ranking blood demon reached his ears:

"Kualouki! The Blood Domain has descended! Quickly condense your body!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the surroundings were instantly covered in blood. Everything looked as if it had been soaked in blood, and everything in sight was a blood red.

Xia Zuo felt incredibly heavy, as if he were soaked in blood, and the surrounding air reeked of a foul, bloody smell.

He floated into the elevator lobby on the 5th basement level and transformed back into human form.

The armed elemental servants guarding the elevator shaft, corroded by the filth in the sea of ​​blood, swayed and floated in the air before finally falling to the ground, their metal spheres covered in bloodstains.

Xia Zuo had a bloodstain on the back of his hand that he couldn't wipe off, and his fingertips were sticky, as if they had just been pulled out of the blood.

A warning voice from the cheat system echoed in my mind:

"The host has been detected to be in a weakened Bloodstained Domain and is being contaminated by the blood runes of a high-level blood demon, losing 17.6 points of health per minute (Note ①) until he or she leaves the Bloodstained Domain."

..

Health Points

209/210 (mild poisoning)

[Implement the speed of health recovery]

-16.85 points/minute

..

Having not fought alone for a long time, Xia Zuo's on-the-spot reaction was several beats slower.

Only after being reminded by his cheat code did he realize that he could use protective spells to resist the erosion of the blood-spreading field.

Xia Zuo cast an Anti-Magic Shield, and magical light appeared around him.

...

[Spell Name] Anti-Magic Shield

[Spell Type] Protection Style, Defensive, Shield Type

[Spell Grade] Formal Spell

[Spell Phase] Basics

[Related Energy] Attribute-less Energy

[Spell Power] Currently, the maximum non-elemental power is 6 points.

[Spell Description] Can block spell damage of all attributes and types.

[Spell Effect]

When this spell is used, a shield that absorbs spell damage will be formed around the user.

For every 1 point of non-attribute power invested, damage absorption increases by 1 point.

...

There are five stages in learning orthodox magic:

Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Perfect.

Mastering the spells of the primary school to an advanced level is one of the necessary conditions for advancing to the rank of high-level mage.

Xia Zuo's anti-magic shield is still in its basic stage and its effect is relatively poor. It can only absorb 6 points of all-attribute spell damage once used.

Furthermore, since it is the basic stage, there are no requirements for strength, agility, and stamina, and these three attributes do not provide any additional power bonuses.

The anti-magic shield looks like a duck egg; it wraps around the body and pushes the bloodstains to the outside.

The high-ranking blood demon's voice rang in his ears again, his tone unusually anxious:

"Hurry up! Quarovich!"

"boom!"

A loud bang came from below the elevator shaft, seemingly indicating that the door to Laboratory 13 had been blasted open.

"Attack! Attack! Push it back!"

Vickers yelled at the top of his lungs downstairs, his shrill voice carrying all the way to the elevator lobby on the fifth basement level.

"Boom boom boom..." A series of explosions and the sound of flames spitting out echoed in the elevator shaft.

"Hold on! Hold on!" Vickers shouted.

"Bang!" Another explosion.

This time, however, no shouts were heard.

Xia Zuo's face darkened. He leaned against the wall of the elevator lobby door and observed the elevator shaft from the side.

There are only two paths leading to the lobby on the first floor.

One is the elevator shaft, and the other is the emergency exit next to it.