Siren Blade

Chapter 134 Smoldering
I have spent a lot of time on my own training during this period. In addition to actually learning the "Ignition Flame" rune, I have also mastered the special ability of Siren Blade proficiently.

For example, now I can freely turn off the "true kill" ability of Siren Blade, which has the effects of creating irreparable wounds, restraining undead, attacking enemies from future vision or memories, etc., or vice versa. based on further strengthening.But in actual operation, even if the "true killing" is strengthened, there seems to be no special change. Wounds that cannot be repaired cannot be repaired, and undead bodies that can be killed will still be killed.It’s okay to say that this kind of enhancement is useless, I still have some thoughts in my heart, but I have to admit that the “true killing” after enhancement has no room for better effects in most cases.

And I am not the only one who has improved, Siren is still growing.It's just that she doesn't seem to be satisfied with her "lukewarm" growth, and wants to make more progress in other ways.

She set her sights on secret knowledge at first.

Although she always regards herself as a weapon, she is still an individual who can think and learn by herself anyway, and it is only logical that she wants to strengthen herself with knowledge.Unfortunately, although she can understand secret lore, she cannot learn spells.Even if she can manipulate spirituality to a certain extent, and even exhibit some special abilities, she still doesn't seem to have the innate conditions to become a warlock.In her words, she can understand the logic of secret knowledge on a rational level, but cannot grasp the essence of it on an emotional level.

The group of warlocks is full of all kinds of transcendentalism and mysticism.When casting spells, it is not so much "reason" as it is "intuition and experience" that I can't explain clearly.When understanding secret knowledge, what we rely on is not rigorous "induction and summary", but mysterious "awareness".Sirens also have advanced awareness, but there seems to be a fatal deviation from the "awareness" required by warlocks.

She had to temporarily abandon the path of secret knowledge and magic, but I thought of other things.

Whatever her true origins, it is still true that there is an inextricable connection between me and her.Take the matter of her devouring the spirit body fragments of the person I killed, she is obviously responsible for devouring, but the precondition for swallowing is my killing, and the burning spirit body fragments after she devours can also be used for nothing. Obstacles are my strength.That is to say, I can draw on her strength through my close relationship with her, so conversely, can she also draw on my strength?

To put it more directly, I have already mastered the "Ignition Flame" rune, so can she, who claims to be "another me", do it too?
When I suggested this to her in the Siren's dream, her expressionless face exuded eagerness to try.

"However, this is a dreamland. Is it okay to try the runes here?" I thought of this question.

"It is the power of spirituality that drives the runes, and spirituality is universal even in dreams." She neatly gathered the hem of her white ruffled dress and squatted down on the grass.

Then, she stretched out her finger and pointed it at the ground, her voice seemed a little nervous, "I'm going to try."

"Let's go." I also focused all my attention.

She concentrated her spirituality on her fingertips, carved the "ignite the flame" rune on the grass, and then stared intently.

If the rune is carved successfully, a flame will rise next.

However, we waited for 20 seconds, let alone a flame, not even a little flame.

She was disappointed.

"Sure enough..." Even she couldn't help showing frustration.

"Try it again, maybe it's just not proficient." I couldn't help comforting her, and found something wrong again, "Wait..."

I suddenly noticed that there was a faint black burnt smoke coming out of the place where she carved the rune on the grass.

"Was it a success?" she froze. "But shouldn't 'ignite the flame' at least sparkle?"

This is also the first time I have encountered this situation, so I can only suggest this, "Try it again."

After a dozen attempts, I finally found the problem.And the problem is in a direction that I never thought about.

What the Siren portrayed was not the rune of "Ignite the Flame" at all.

In other words, she mistakenly thought that what she was portraying was the "Ignite the Flame" rune, but that was actually something else that was specious.It's not that she discovered an unprecedented new rune by accident, it's not that cheap, but that the "Ignite the Flame" rune has gone wrong in her understanding.She couldn't draw the correct "ignition flame" no matter what, and the lines she drew were always distorted in subtle places.Every time I remind her that there is a problem with her painting, I also point out where the problem lies, but she just can't apply what she has learned.

It is also possible that she has already applied what she has learned, but she seems to be following the logic of other universes to understand runes.What's even more bizarre is that such a rune actually had an effect.

However, this has mutated into another rune.In order to distinguish it from the original "Ignition Flame", the Siren and I call this mutant rune "Smoldering".

The so-called smoldering refers to the slow burning physical phenomenon that does not produce an open flame.

I don't know how this mutation occurs, so I can only guess wildly. Let's make a layman's far-fetched explanation for the time being, that is, the siren is likely to conflict with the attributes of the "Ignition Flame" rune.

If you want to simply and crudely define an attribute for Siren Blade, then it should be "water attribute" in feeling.The surface of this ax is covered with rust as if it had been soaked in seawater for many years, and the "it" that awakened it in the first place was also named "Kraken" by the Security Bureau, which seems to support my feeling from the side.And the siren that is closely connected with the siren blade seems to have the same attributes as the siren blade, so when using the "ignite flame" rune, it will greatly slow down the original violent burning, from the bright flame into a gloomy burn.

Frankly, this is a weakening. The "Ignition Flame" rune was originally a basic rune, and after it was weakened like this, the lethality was so weak that I didn't know what it could be used for.

She expressed frustration about it, but that being said, it was the only spell she could use now, and she still fiddled with it from time to time.Only after a week passed, she seemed to have other thoughts about this "smoldering" rune, and gradually stopped playing with this rune.It's not that I'm bored, but that I seem to have some scruples.

Although her emotional performance is very indifferent, I know that she actually has quite rich feelings and a sensitive heart, and is very bad at acting and lying.After getting along for such a long time, I have slowly become aware of how to read her true feelings from her unchanging expression, and I can also see that she seems to want to tell me something now, but feels uncomfortable Should have spoken to me.And under my repeated questioning, she finally told me reluctantly.

"This 'smoldering' rune doesn't seem to be as useless as it seems." Although she said so, her expression was not very happy.

I thought for a while, "Actually, this rune hides a very powerful power?"

"No, this rune is really weak, that's right. But depending on how it's used, it can become very... dangerous." She considered her words, "You should remember that I will burn when you fight The spirit body fragments collected before will prolong the battery life of the battle for you."

"Remember." I said.Originally, the time for me to fight with all my strength lasted at most 1 minute, and if I had to release the knife gang, it would be greatly shortened.Thanks to her, I can fight without fear.

"The so-called 'burning' is just my description. In fact, it is to let the fragments of the spirit body be further digested inside me and decompose into a large amount of spirituality. And if it is replaced by the rune of 'ignite flame' to burn the spirit body , can also play a part of my effect. The spiritual flame will destroy the structure of the spiritual body, and then achieve the purpose of decomposition. It’s just that the decomposition is far from deep enough, and the unit after decomposition is not small enough to be decomposed into spirituality. She explained, "Theoretically, as long as the problem of decomposition depth is overcome, warlocks can obtain greater spiritual power by burning and decomposing their own spirit bodies, but there is still a contradiction in this approach. That is If even the structure of his own spirit body is destroyed, this person will become a vegetative state without a soul, and it is impossible to talk about manipulating a huge spirituality by his own hands."

"But the 'smoldering' rune is different?" I asked.

"Yes. The 'Smoldering' rune is too weak, it can even slowly decompose the spirit body while maintaining the structure of the spirit body." She said.

"And it can burn deep?" I asked.

"No, it can't decompose the spirit body so deeply. It's just that, as your inner power, I have the conditions to set runes in the deep and subtle parts of your spirit body." She said, "In my vision In the middle, as long as you launch the 'smoldering' rune on your spirit body, you can get much stronger spiritual power than now."

"I see." I said, "So can I try?"

"However, I don't know what will happen after I try it." She hesitated, "After all, this is just an extremely superficial idea, you should forget it. The premise of destroying one's own soul is too dangerous. Even if you want to use it, you should do a long-term practice with other things first."

That's what she said, but according to what she said, this skill can only be used on me, and there is no need to use "other things" as training conditions at all.

Although I am not interested in destroying my own soul, it is very likely that I will encounter battles where I must risk my life again in the future.At that point, if I was to win, or at least save my life, I would have to make a decision again with significant risk.

Before leaving the dream, the siren mentioned another thing to me.

"As I mentioned before, let me in the dream convey my voice to you in reality, I should be able to do it soon." She said to me, "Didn't you use that image in the collective dream a while ago? Is it the props of the bluetooth headset that communicate with the blue bird in reality? At that time, I analyzed the spiritual fluctuations emitted by the bluetooth headset when it was working, and mastered some tricks.”

"That's really great." I deeply felt that she was growing up all the time, even in places I didn't see, she was always working hard silently in her own way.

Looking at her immature face like a child, thinking about all the things she has done for me in the past, I couldn't help asking: "Is there anything you want? If you have any wishes, I will try my best within my ability Achieve it for you."

Without hesitation, she said, "I don't want anything."

How is it possible to want nothing?Since she is not another me, she must have a need for me, so she will spare no effort to help me.If it were someone else, I would probably have deeply doubted the other party's motives.But I feel like she really doesn't want more.

The conflict between thinking and awareness makes me not know where to direct my heart.

I still believe in her, but I also want to know her better.
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Although we have had a showdown with Jade Bird, the relationship between us still doesn't seem to have changed.

She's the same blue bird as ever, but whenever I look at her sunny face, it always reminds me that she probably holds the truth about who I am.But I was doomed not to get the truth from her, because like she said, I could only accept the answer that I was a villain, and she would never give that answer anyway.Even so, I still love her deeply, and still yearn for her warmth and embrace.

Now she is also frequently looking for all kinds of information on how to prolong my life, but my physique is very special, and it is impossible to prolong my life with ordinary means.

The issue of longevity has always been a sore point in the relationship between me and Jade Bird.On the one hand, I think that my short life is the retribution I deserve; on the other hand, I know very well that there will be no good results in associating with the blue bird with this short remaining life.However, she held me tightly and would never allow me to leave her side for that reason.

She still seems to want to have a child with me, but the number of times we have done it is obviously too many to count, but she still hasn't responded in that way.And the problem was clearly mine.

According to the results of the physical examination, my body transformed by "it" has completely lost its normal fertility.

Strictly speaking, I'm not really infertile, just infertile with normal women.As for how I determined this, the reason is simple.In the past, I have had children with "it".

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