My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Every moment you walk down the street, you can smell the combustion aids, refined powder, and burning fuel.

As soon as Xia Zuo arrived at the teleportation room of the Wild Hammer Alchemist Association, he felt an unusually "enthusiastic" atmosphere.

"Why is it so hot?" Xia Zuo adjusted the parameters of [Stability Skin] and lowered his body surface temperature to 18 degrees Celsius before feeling cool and comfortable.

“We’re standing on a giant furnace,” Rexor said, unsurprised.

"A massive furnace covering more than two thousand square meters. It provides energy to the entire headquarters of the Wildhammer Alchemists' Guild. It is said that there are three to five more furnaces of this size deeper underground, but they are not in use. The Wildhammer Alchemists' Guild uses them as backup furnaces."

"My God..." Xia Zuo exclaimed, "If all the furnaces were turned on, wouldn't this place be blown to bits?"

"Probably... not really..." Rexor said uncertainly, clearly lacking confidence. "Never mind that, it's a matter for the Wildhammer Kingdom. We're outsiders, so it's best not to pry."

The two walked out of the teleportation room and into a long corridor made of beige stone. There was a long skylight in the ceiling, and the midday sun shone straight into the corridor, casting a row of bright beams of light.

At the stone door at the end of the corridor, Liszt was holding something that looked like an abacus, his right hand constantly moving the paddles, making a continuous clicking sound.

Xia Zuo quietly released his detection spell and learned that the "abacus" in the other party's hand was a flat container specially designed for busy people, called the Secret Message Platter... The plate can hold up to 20 secret message rings, making it convenient for users to read and reply quickly.

Hearing footsteps, Lister looked up, temporarily putting down the coded message tray, and said:

"Master, you're back. Is this the helper from the inner palace?"

“Yes, Lister.” Rexol pointed to Shazo. “You can call him Hades. You know the special nature of the inner sanctum; they disguise themselves and use aliases.”

“Yes, Your Excellency. I know the rules.” Lister pushed open the stone door behind him and led the two into an exceptionally spacious underground plaza.

When Xia Zuo first saw the architectural style of the Wild Hammer Kingdom, he immediately felt as if he had come to the mountain city of his previous life.

That corridor we just passed was about 1 meter underground, corresponding to the basement level of a normal building.

But when Xia Zuo faced the underground plaza, he found himself on the top floor of a five-story building, more than 20 meters above the ground.

Looking around, you see buildings carved out of the rock walls.

Each level of the rock-paved corridor is decorated with evergreen potted plant railings. Between the buildings are stone-paved streets, and hanging baskets with water pipes extending from them spray a misty, cool spray of water downwards. On the base of each basket is a light bulb facing the ground, presumably transforming into a chandelier at night.

Chapter 115 Unlocked

Lister prepared a private room for the pureblood mage who came from the inner sanctum.

Rexor used the excuse of inspecting the Temple's armory to leave the room with Lister, giving Shazor some time alone.

The bald man secretly instructed Xia Zuo using a communication ring to learn the Blood Curse as soon as possible, because the dragon-slaying army would set off by tomorrow morning at the latest. Before the army departed, Xia Zuo could contact him if he needed any items.

After Xia Zuo and the other two left, he closed the stone door of the room.

He first checked the room for any potential surveillance guards before taking out the blood magic scroll.

Xia Zuo placed the scroll face up, extended his finger and pressed it on the circular pattern in the center, patiently waiting for the scroll to take effect.

To be honest, Xia Zuo himself wasn't quite sure what would happen if he learned the same spell twice...

As the last character on the paper merged into my fingertip, a message from the cheat code appeared in my mind:

"The host has learned the complete [Blood Curse]. The level cap of [Blood Curse] has been increased."

Xia Zuo brought up the spell template for [Blood Curse].

...

[Spell Level] Blood Curse

[Spell Level] Lv.0, 0/5

[Upgrade Effect]

For levels 10 and below, the backlash effect of Blood Curse is reduced by 10% for each level gained.

For levels 10 and above, the effect of Blood Curse increases by 10% for each level gained.

There is no level cap.

[Spell Description]

Spell Backlash: The caster will suffer approximately 10% of the curse's effect.

...

Previously, Blood Curse could only be leveled up to level 10, but now there is no level limit. This is the advantage of learning blood magic using blood magic scrolls.

Xia Zuo couldn't help but think about getting more blood magic scrolls.

If crucial blood magic spells like [Blood Sacrifice Spellcasting], [Blood Rage Spellcasting], and [Blood Breath Pouch] could have their level caps unlocked... tsk tsk... Xia Zuo would probably pour all his blood runes into them.

At that point, the only limitation will be the number of blood runes.

The curse to be cast on the Frost Dragon this time is the [Interference Curse].

After Xia Zuo learned the advanced curse sign, all of his control-type curse spells underwent a qualitative change.

The original interference curse had a certain chance of causing the target to fail to cast a spell.

Now, it has become like this:

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[Spell Name] Interference Curse

[Spell Grade] High

[Spell Effect]

Prevents the target from casting the specified spell for a period of time.

For every 50 points of non-elemental power a caster inputs, they can designate a target to have one spell disabled.

Continuous energy input can extend the lockdown time, but as time goes on, the energy required to maintain the lockdown will gradually increase.

..

The backlash effect of this curse spell is to randomly seal one of the caster's own spells. Xia Zuo dared not gamble that he would be incredibly lucky and not seal the [Bloodline Curse].

So, with a thought, he infused the Blood Curse with 50 Blood Runes, raising it to level 10 and completely eliminating its side effects.

谷掔

On the way to the room, Lister and Xia Zuo explained the overall action plan.

Faced with nine frost dragons scattered across different mountain peaks, the dragon-slaying team planned to take them down one by one, minimizing the chances of them escaping.

Therefore, the Wild Hammer Kingdom assembled an army of about 200 people.

It wasn't the kind of mortal army that would charge into the frozen snowfields on horseback with shields and broadswords to their deaths, but rather an entire army of mages composed of high-ranking mages, archmages, and temple mages.

Well... in a sense, Xia Zuo, who was tasked with severing blood ties, had only recently been promoted to a high-level mage. He was probably the weakest mage in the entire mage army, or even a complete slacker.

Even if you're just going through the motions, you still have to do the things that need to be done properly.

Frost Dragons possess extremely high curse resistance.

The dragon blood provided by the Desolate Hammer can enhance the bloodline curse, allowing Xia Zuo to ignore the Frost Dragon's curse resistance.

So, all Xia Zuo can do is try to prolong the duration of the bloodline curse.

This requires accommodating more elements.

Thinking of this, Xia Zuo picked up the bald man's secret communication ring and sent a secret message.

...

Half an hour later.

"Knock knock." There was a knock on the door.

The stone door to the room was enchanted, and the inner facade immediately became a one-way mirror.

Xia Zuo saw the bald man standing outside the door and opened the door.

Rexor placed a heavy alchemy pouch on the stone table in the room:

“I’ve brought everything you asked for. 200 small Untamed Elementals, payable with your own citizen account. A magic array to enhance perception and spellcasting abilities, provided by Wild Hammer, which you’ll have to return after the mission.”

“Thank you, Master.” Xia Zuo handed over the blood essence servant he had prepared beforehand. “Please take this with you so we can communicate. As long as you speak to it or write with silver sand, I will receive your message. This is faster and more convenient than communicating with the secret communication ring.”

"Oh right, I almost forgot you know this blood magic. That saves me a lot of trouble."

Rexor took the blood-element servant, shrunk to the size of a grain of rice, examined it closely, and said:

"Hmm...you'd better think this through. If I bring your blood element servants into battle, someone will notice that I'm not using the communication ring to contact you."

"I need to report on the Blood Servant during the post-battle debriefing so that I can explain the abnormalities I exhibited in the battle."

“This is the Temple’s requirement for the Witcher School: all anomalies must be explained. Of course, I’m not reporting to the Outer Temple, but to Christo. She will help me clarify things.”

"This..." Xia Zuo scratched his head, looking somewhat troubled.

He suggested that the bald man bring along the Blood Element servants... actually to reclaim the Frost Dragon's vitality. If they were lucky and encountered a 10% chance, they could get back at least a dozen vitality points.

But Rexor must report the Blood Servant to Crestor after the war…

This requires careful consideration.

Shazo pondered for a few seconds, then clenched his fist and said, "Take it, Your Excellency. Consider it a sacrifice I'm making for this dragon-slaying operation. You can tell Christo about the existence of the Blood Elemental Servant."

Rexor nodded and took out a collar stud with a flap, seemingly intending to put the Blood Servant inside the stud.

Xia Zuo waved his hand, stopping the other party from doing so, "No need for such trouble, Master."

He used his mind to control the blood element servant to fly to the other party's collar, "That's it."

“If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going.” Rexor glanced at his collar, then at the alchemy pouch on the table. “You’re trying to maximize your spell power before you leave, right? Are you planning to use the [Poison Crystal] meditation technique to contain all 200 untamed elementals?”

"Of course not, Master. I don't have that ability." Xia Zuo escorted the bald man to the door.

“You’ll have it from now on.” Rexol shook his head slightly and said from the bottom of his heart, “If you ask me, this meditation method is simply designed for you pure-blood mages.”

The stone door slid open, and the bald man left.

Xia Zuo locked the door from the inside, reached out and pressed a button by the door, turning on the "Do Not Disturb" sign outside.

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