quicksilver blood

Chapter 150
The impact of Kluveen's death on Roland was far less than he expected.

Roland just felt a faint sadness in his heart - that's all.

Maybe it was because he didn't see Kluvern's body, so Roland didn't have any real feeling about "never seeing Kluvern again".

Besides, we’ll never see each other again—so what?
Many students from primary and secondary schools will never see each other again after graduation.Similar situations include childhood playmates who have moved to other cities, or friends and tablemates who have transferred from another school.

No matter how enjoyable it was to play at that time, the probability of seeing it in the future is infinitely close to zero.

So, it is no different from dying.

Perhaps it was because of his sister's deception when he was a child - "Mom and dad just went to a place where they can never come back". Roland has understood death in this way from a long time ago.

Roland just felt that he should be angry, and this anger was just based on moral inertia.Just like people habitually condemning some immoral behavior, they will naturally forget it after a few hours.

The more unpleasant feeling came from Old Joseph's arrogance in making decisions.

Roland couldn't bear an uncontrollable unstable factor by his side.

But at the same time, he didn't want to lose a rare martyr.

There were too few people with the potential to become martyrs. Before the sect was established, Roland really didn't have the time to go all over the world to recruit new members.

The most important thing is that if old Joseph can awaken the origin before he dies, Roland will have a way to make him change his job to be a coffin bearer.

If the martyr is just a human-shaped bomb, then the power held by the coffin-bearer is enough to drive the world crazy——

The coffin bearer can completely resurrect another person at the cost of his own life, as long as he has that person's corpse.

——Whether it is a player or an NPC.

This kind of resurrection is a complete resurrection, completely different from the cursed resurrection of the undead.

The resurrected person will return to the age when the vitality was the most vigorous, but the strength is the strongest moment in the entire life cycle.

Moreover, all the attributes of the coffin-bearer will also be increased in proportion to the resurrected person.

Although in the game, the transfer of this attribute has a time limit.After the coffin-bearer player is revived in the temple, this transferred attribute will return to the coffin-bearer.

At that time, someone raised a question: If the NPC coffin bearer resurrects a player or NPC, do these transferred attributes have a time limit?
This question undoubtedly has considerable research value.

But in fact, NPC martyrs are rare due to the limitation of characteristics, and they are basically blown up in the early stage of the plague revival, and the remaining ones have no possibility of awakening origin.

It doesn't matter even if the attributes transferred by the resurrection of NPC martyrs have a time limit or cannot be transferred at all.As long as old Joseph can become the coffin-bearer, it means that Roland has a third life.

After all, Roland had already decided to use the chance of resurrection that the death crow had in the White Tower.

Because only by truly "dead last time" and letting them see their own corpses, can everyone believe that Orlando is dead.

Only in this way can it be guaranteed that Roland's subsequent plans will not fail due to various strange reasons.

However, although this can make Roland completely fade away from everyone's eyes, it also means that Roland no longer has other resurrection abilities.

Once you die again, you are really dead.

In this real world, there is nothing more precious than life.

Therefore, after Roland discovered that Joseph Sr. had become a martyr, he gave up the idea of ​​killing him.

But the lesson this time made Roland unable to trust him.

Even if he no longer has any bad influence on Roland's plan, Roland will not allow him to be completely free.

From Roland's point of view, old Joseph has now equated his own life.Even if he was agitated and died with the enemy in a certain mission, it would cause huge losses to Roland.

However, there is a way around this.

It's like Feynman's lovely ice pick—just drive the ice pick into the brain from the bottom of the eye socket, pull it lightly, and everything will be solved.

This is called a frontal lobotomy.And Roland has a more subtle surgical method than ice cone therapy.

Although the memory of that year is blurred, Roland still remembers that he had a strong fear of the "ice pick" for a while.

However, Roland did not agree to take the medicine because of this.

He chose another way to fight this fear.

That is to understand it.

After a lot of experiments, Roland gradually gained a deep understanding of this thing.

Even though the memory of those days has been so blurred that he can no longer recall it, that skill was engraved in Roland's bones, making him extremely familiar with the dull and inhumane surgical treatment of ice picks, completely eradicating his fear.

It might make poor old Joseph lose his passion - but what's the problem?

Old Joseph is still alive, his soul is still controlling his body, and his mind is still guiding his thinking.

Isn't that luckier than death?
"Ah, as you wish."

After Roland asked that sentence, Old Joseph was stunned for a moment, and laughed inexplicably.

Roland ignored why he laughed.

After getting the best answer, the silver-white holy flame trembled slightly and disappeared into the body of the sword, making the slender staff sword sharper.

Roland stared closely at Old Joseph's forehead, and under his strong expectation, familiar knowledge slowly flowed into his mind.

Although this was the first operation in many years, Roland's agility and perception were no longer as fragile and low as before.

"May all the glory be to the teacher..."

Roland prayed in a low voice, and slowly withdrew his right hand holding the staff and sword, and the old Joseph's held breath immediately relaxed.

But then, before Old Joseph even had time to react, a sword light flashed past in a subtle arc——

The holy flame condensed into a very thin point at the tip of the staff and sword, drawing a flat silver trace on Joseph's forehead.

If you can look down from the top, you can see that this mark is actually a sharp V-shaped scar.It was the deepest in the center, but it only penetrated the skull without injuring any brain tissue.

The silver-white holy fire did not erupt, but remained in the deepest part of the scar.

These holy fires and the dark gray flames buried deep in Old Joseph's body were from the same god, so they did not trigger the body's autonomous defense.

Before the dark gray flame had time to react, Roland instantly reset his attacking action under the posture of continuous attack, and a vertical light silver scar was engraved on the old man within a quarter of a second. On Joseph's forehead, the holy fire erupted in his brain immediately, suppressing the dark gray poisonous fire to other places, but did not hurt any part of him, but gently wrapped the whole brain together.

At the same time, old Joseph lost consciousness.

——This is not for anesthesia, but to prevent old Joseph's brain from permanent damage due to excessive anesthesia in the next session.

Roland took a deep breath, and cut his wrist with the stick sword with his backhand, and the blood gushed out immediately, staining the white and shining stick sword with a trace of scarlet.

He retracted the blade casually, and the blood gushing from his left wrist formed an extremely sharp cone under the control of his consciousness.

Roland swiftly pierced the scarlet fangs into the eye socket of Old Joseph, cutting something with experience and touch, and the spike-like scarlet fangs completely melted into a drop of blood at the moment of success.

The actual surgical part was completed in two seconds.

The blood of the half-fairy didn't seep into the brain too much under the holy fire.Instead, after the operation, it slowly flowed out from the cross-shaped wound along with the holy flame.

After the holy flame had completely flowed out, the wound also faintly healed, leaving only a cross-shaped scar.

"In that case, I forgive you."

To the old Joseph who was still in a coma, Roland said softly.

"Your guilt is cleared."

(End of this chapter)