Crimson Servant

John got up from the floor, his back burning like fire, and his body seemed to have just been freed from the petrification curse, warm and soft, with the smell of blood.

The slime of the mud monster did not last long in the slide. When moving at high speed, the stone slab under John's feet was like a hot knife. John controlled the crimson chains to connect his companions together, weaving them into a thick mat as he fell. This effectively isolated wear and tear. The adventurer's muscles and bones were not scratched by sliding on the rocks, but the temperature of the friction could not be isolated. This high temperature and wear caused a lot of magic power to maintain the crimson chain, making it difficult to maintain the depth of the magic form. The red chain shattered into its most primitive form. The depleted blood reserves emit the strong smell of blood in a heated environment.

Covered in blood, every adventurer who landed seemed to be covered in a layer of blood. They stood up feebly and made retching sounds when they smelled the rich smell on their bodies.

"I need to take a shower." Barnes turned to avoid the smell that rushed into his nose, but the dodge had no effect. He took off his leather jacket and swung it in the air.

"Be content, or all you need is an operation," John said.

"Or a funeral." Raven added that the warrior did not complain about the blood on his body. He had faced worse environments than this.

Relighting the torches and looking around, the adventurers found themselves in a cold and hard stone room. The exit of the large slope was at a hole ten feet above the ground. Except for a few adventurers, the only things that rolled down were gravel. and dust.

It seems that the Stone Yi gave up tracking them.

This place does not belong to the Stoneborn's territory, and the heavy and solemn black stone bricks remind John of this fact.

They fell upon ancient ruins, the ruins of a temple inscribed with blasphemous prayers.

Before a few people could take action, a strange wind blew over their heads. Before anyone could react, they felt a sharp pain in their bodies.

It's like a hand grasping the heart and slowly tightening it. The adventurers fell down one after another. They clutched their chests and gasped for breath. They feebly felt the sanity in their minds continue to drain away as the oxygen decreased. In a daze, a vague illusion emerged in their minds.

That is the spark of life, that is the joy in the soul. These vague feelings gradually take entity, changing into concrete forms in the adventurer's increasingly crazy mind.

Vivian? No. The woman wore a crown and her unruly eyes forced the soul to surrender, and John soon realized that this was another person, Morgan.

They were already too close to the royal city. Morgan's charm ability actually penetrated the ruins of the temple, and the situation deteriorated instantly.

The psychic suggestion in the Warlock's mind is activated, the psychic tentacles isolate the pain from the mind, and the cold coolness makes the Warlock open his eyes. Under his psychic perception, John saw the true face of Morgan's charming ability, a thick pink mist connected to the mouth and nose of the adventurer who tilted his head back.

This power first causes weakness on the physical level, affects consciousness through the physical body, creates loopholes on the spiritual level, and then takes advantage of it.

Psychic energy resisted Morgan's mental charm, but John, who was troubled by the current situation of his companions being brainwashed, saw Crowe's strange actions.

The thief clasped his hands in front of his chest and struggled to say a name.

"Milia..." It was an obvious woman's name. John judged that the name had no special metaphor and was just a simple name.

Crowe's voice was full of tragic longing, just like the syllables uttered with emotion at the last moment of life. This call carried Crowe's most sincere affection. This affection seemed to be responding to him, and then, the trembling in his body miraculously eased. Pink mist flowed out of his body, lingering unwillingly but helplessly on top of Crowe's head.

The second person to react was Barnes. He never made any sound. The pink mist coiled around the captain's head after a slight trial. The observation of Crowe made John miss the beginning of his friend's influence. He couldn't even Determine whether Barnes was affected by Morgan's charm powers.

Before John had time to carefully observe the reason for Barnes' recovery, the phantom fog that had sneaked into the depths of his consciousness made John concentrate. The mind flayer's ability allowed John's consciousness to observe from the perspective of a bystander what the phantom fog was doing in the depths of his consciousness. Transformation.

It is trying to invade John Camp's soul, instill a fanatical obsession with Morgan in the mind of the warlock, distort John Camp's personality, and turn this soul into a firewood for the Queen to burn her ego.

An image of Morgan was generated in John's mind, but before John could try to use psychic powers to protect his heart, John saw a strange scene.

The two love hearts rooted in his emotional center appeared in front of Morgan in the form of Mariana and Vivian respectively. A battle broke out between the three women in John's heart, and they fought.

Mariana and Vivian teamed up to fight against the enemy, and Morgan was defeated steadily with the combined efforts of the two. Mariana was the main attacker, her rapier drawing a graceful arc in the exchange. Vivian was reduced to a support, but she became more and more fierce in the battle. John realized that Vivian could actually absorb Morgan's power to strengthen herself. This no-suspense spiritual confrontation ended quickly.

John recovered from the weakness eroded by the phantom mist, and the phantom mist was forced back, which meant that Morgan's charm effect was completely ineffective on John. He felt that his feelings for Mariana had not changed, but his affection for Vivian had skyrocketed. Morgan's charm increased his favorability towards Vivian.

John understood the weakness of Morgan's charm powers.

Morgan cannot charm the person he belongs to, and that sincere affection will be transformed into combat power at the spiritual level to stop Morgan's invasion. Crowe inadvertently uttered his lover's name to strengthen this longing; Barnes, John, who listened to the story of the Sea Witch, knew that this captain had been deeply affectionate.

As for John himself, his affection for Mariana is enough, but why can his affection for Vivian absorb Morgan's power and strengthen himself? John believes that the identical appearance of the inverter creates a magical connection between Morgan and Vivian. Morgan's charm strengthens his inner impression of this face, and he already has the same impression of Vivian as Morgan. Love. So the influence exerted by Morgan was absorbed by Vivian, who was preconceived. It was like a seed getting the most suitable nutrients to grow rapidly.

John even suspected that even if he didn't have feelings for Mariana, as long as he had a good impression of Vivian in his heart, Morgan's charm would only make his feelings for Vivian stronger.

Suppressing the throbbing in his heart at the increased strength of the female vampire, John used his psychic tentacles to transmit Charming's weakness to the remaining two who were still struggling.

Raven was calm on the surface, but there was a turmoil in his heart. Although the warrior has constantly examined his heart, used freedom and justice as the armor of the soul, and used reason to dismantle and analyze his thoughts. But Raven knew in his heart that these were just the warrior's own self-deception.

"Morena Adelac." He finally said the name.

The soft call made the image of the mistress emerge in Raven's mind.

He remembered the noble lady who had taken him from the farm and given him his name. Remember her guidance and expectations, the resentment of betrayal and the final indifference. Raven remembered all her expressions. These fragments ran through the life of the slave warrior and created the perseverance in his heart.

This time, she helped the crow again.

Raven opened his eyes, just in time to see the teasing look his companion was looking at him, and he subconsciously shifted his gaze.

"It seems we are all warriors of love."

"But if you don't have someone you like in your heart, then you've completely lost your qualifications to fight Morgan."

John said he had a solution.

"I can remove the charm of others, but I need to pay some price."

The price of absorbing more phantom mist and becoming more fond of Vivian Ordiz.