In several battles with Silver Lantern, Ash and his team were not always at a disadvantage.
On the contrary, guided by the Mercury Trojan's prophecy, they accidentally dealt heavy damage to Silver Lamp several times.
In the battle at the food factory town, Tamashi had pierced Silver Lantern's heart with the Gray Fox's sharp blade - it wasn't a close call, Black Crow would never make such a mistake - if it weren't for Silver Lantern's miracle of saving his life, Ash and the others would have already completed the mission and were ready to return to Gospel.
Although Silver Lantern has been using miracles to disguise herself, there is one feature she cannot hide: when she is injured, silver blood will bleed.
After Mercury Trojan's popular science, they learned that Silver Lamp used the Gray Fox legacy'Dragon Blood Cultivation System', which absorbs the extraordinary blood condensed by the energy of nearby life forms. In theory, this system cannot be effective for humans, but they, the 'informal citizens', cannot obtain the qualifications to be human in the Dragon Blood Cultivation System.
The blood in Ash, Igula, and Harvey's bodies was absorbing their life energy, condensing into silver dragon blood cells, which flowed to the silver lamp little by little. If they could not replenish their life energy in time, they would be squeezed into a dry corpse sooner or later.
"A few drops of your silver dragon blood came from me," said Ash.
"Since you know, I don't need to explain too much," Weisser said, "Although silver dragon blood is called blood, it is actually a fantasy creation. Because silver dragon blood is too powerful, even if all measures are taken, it will definitely cause rejection reactions. Therefore, the Gray Fox magician uses the nature of 'body and soul influencing each other' to improve the compatibility of silver dragon blood through the soul."
Ash nodded repeatedly, but Weisser knew he didn't understand. She rolled her eyes at him and said, "To put it simply, the silver dragon blood contains my soul. It can not only completely solve the rejection reaction of the silver dragon blood, but also improve my control over my body and my talent in blood magic."
"Of course, here we only use the products of normal soul metabolism, and do not harm the complete soul. For magicians, a complete soul is more important than anything else." At this point, Yin Deng also showed a trace of curiosity: "I saw from other people's magician manuals that the Blood Moon Blood Saint Clan completely disperses the soul into the soul, claiming that 'blood is the currency of the soul', thereby gaining immortality. I don't know how they do it..."
Ash groaned, "Your soul is in your blood... and then what?"
"To control a magic spirit, physical contact is only a medium for the soul." Weisser said, "The real way to control a magic spirit is to lure it into your soul palace."
Ash recalled the time when he controlled the magic spirits in the virtual world, and thought that it was indeed true. However, the word "abduct" was used in a very strange way. Thinking about it this way, the magician was like a beast king hunter who caught wild cats and dogs on the street. Summoning magic spirits was like adopting a newborn pet. The battle between magicians was like a superpower battle between pets...
"You want to control Fangyuan Cicada through blood?" Yaxiu frowned and said, "But that requires us to get very close to Fangyuan Cicada."
"No need." Weisser pointed at Fangyuan Cicada and said, "Look, it is not only eating them, but also drinking the water of Liujin River all the time."
Yaxiu looked closely and found that although the cicada was sucking yogurt with its mouthparts, its whole body was absorbing the Golden River water. Any Golden River water that hit its body would quickly seep in.
Although it looks a lot like a cicada, it is a legendary creature after all. Using its mouthparts to eat is just a ritual. In fact, its whole body can absorb energy.
Just like the orc legend at the beginning, the orc was sucked dry by it even when lying on its back. It can be seen that the mouthparts are not such inconvenient things, and its whole body can be transformed into mouthparts.
The golden river water... the silver dragon blood...
Ash opened his eyes wide and stared at the fox mask.
"I don't need to get close. Maybe I can control Fangyuan Cicada." Weisser said in a light tone: "I can control the silver dragon blood to flow downstream and be absorbed by it along with the flowing golden river water."
"But you also said that your blood only contains the metabolites of your soul, and Fangyuan Cicada may not really be a magic spirit that can be controlled, not to mention that even if it is a magic spirit, it is a four-winged magic spirit!" Ash said: "How much blood do you need to control it?"
"Do we have a choice?"
Weisser let go of Ash's hand, took off the chain glove, and handed it to Ash, "Come on."
Ash looked at her fair wrist and didn't move for a moment. After waiting for a moment, Weisser seemed to suddenly realize, "Yes, if you just want blood, you don't have to stick to the artery in the wrist. Chest, abdomen, thigh... You can leave as many scars on me as you want, without a sword. You used your teeth to bite a bloody hole in my neck last time."
"Or," Weisser twisted the zipper of the combat suit and pulled it down, "You want me to take off my clothes before--"
Ash pulled Weisser's hand over and drew a shallow bloody mark on it with his sword.
The silver blood formed into a thin stream and fell into the golden river, blending with the golden blood and flowing down the river. Yin Deng was not lying, she could indeed slightly control the flow of blood, allowing the silver dragon blood to flow accurately into Fang Yuanchan's body.
"Do you feel anything?"
"It hurts a little."
"I'm talking about my feelings towards Fang Yuanchan!" Yaxiu was a little angry. It was impossible for Yin Deng not to hear what he was asking.
"Nothing." Weisser turned to look at her hand, which had been cut off: "It has healed."
Not only the Fangyuan cicada, but other time-like creatures in the Liujin River also have certain strange properties. For example, their injuries can heal quickly over a long period of time.
Ash once again drew a bloody mark on her wrist, which healed after flowing for more than 20 seconds. When Ash put the sword on Weisser's wrist for the third time, Weisser suddenly pressed down on the sword!
The long sword almost cut her wrist in half, she dropped her hand, and silver blood flowed continuously along her fingers into the Flowing Golden River. If the Flowing Golden River just now was just silver mixed with gold, then now she had simply overturned the silver paint bucket, and the Milky Way flowed into Fang Yuanchan's mouth along the water.
Fang Yuan Cicada paused for a moment, as if it sensed that the taste of the water had changed. But Weisser's blood seemed quite delicious, or perhaps it was just because it was fresh, so it didn't care and lowered its head to continue eating yogurt.
"You opened the wound. I'm afraid my blood won't have dried up by the time Fang Yuanchan comes to us." Weisser sneered, "It's not your blood that's being shed. Why are you so stingy?"
Ash wanted to say something but held back. However, Weisser seemed to hear his question: "It hurts, of course it hurts, but... it was you who caused the wound after all."
What about the wounds I caused?
Ash was silent for a moment, then said, "People who are implicated by you will also feel pain."
"I don't care." Weisser stared at him and said, "Ash, if you think I will 'repent' and 'turn over a new leaf' when I face death, then you might as well just watch me bleed to death. In my eyes, you are the ones who are wrong, and I am the only one who is right."
"It doesn't matter even if the whole world is against me. I can now go against the flow in the Golden River, so I naturally don't care about going against the flow in reality. Those who stand in my way, those who pass by, those who are innocent..." The voice under the fox mask became more and more sinister: "I never care about their feelings."
"Ash, I'm not a psychic or a necromancer." She said, "I won't change myself because of someone or something."
Ash: "So what do you care about?"
"I used to only care about myself," she said. "Now..."
Bang!
Silver Lantern suddenly fell down. Fortunately, the flow of the Golden River in front was not fast, and Ash immediately supported her and prevented her from being washed away by the Golden River.
"I'm fine." She stood up immediately.
However, Ash felt that her hand was cold, which was a symptom of acute excessive blood loss. The amount of silver dragon blood she had lost had reached the point where she could no longer maintain her body functions.
This is different from the test of will in Liujin River. You can still cheat and deceive yourself about will, but the body is the body. If you don't have enough blood, you will be deprived of oxygen, and then you will fall into a coma or even have a myocardial infarction. They don't have miracles now, everything can only follow common sense.
"Fangyuan Cicada——"
"Not enough, not yet." Weisser said hurriedly: "I'm fine."
However, most of Weisser's body weight was on him, and it had nothing to do with the Golden River. It was because she began to feel weak all over. If this continued, she would lose consciousness before the silver blood ran out.
Ash watched the silver blood flowing from Silver Lamp's wrist, and suddenly felt the throbbing in his body. He looked down at his hand, and although it was almost invisible, there were indeed tiny specks of silver flakes floating from his body toward Silver Lamp.
This is natural.
Because he was too close to Silver Lamp, the blood in his body increased its intensity, extracting his life energy and transporting it into Silver Lamp's body -
“Yes.”
Weisser turned to look at Ash, who murmured, "I am the blood you cursed."
After saying that, he reached out to Weisser's fox mask.
Bang!
Weisser pushed his hand away with all her strength and simply pushed him away.
"You have to take off your mask to drink my blood." Ash said.
"I'm not a vampire," Weisser lowered her eyelids, "I'm not interested in your blood. Also, don't touch my mask. I hate it most when someone touches me."
Where is the Silver Lamp who was willing to take off his clothes just now... Ash suppressed the urge to complain and said, "I am your blood, and you can quickly produce blood by drinking my blood. If you are now lacking too much blood and fall into a coma, then your hope of dominating Fangyuan Cicada will be completely ruined!"
"You were willing to bleed in order to survive, but now you don't even want to drink blood!?"
Without waiting for Silver Lantern to answer, Ash drew his sword and cut his wrist.
The bright red blood flowed down his arm into the golden river.
"If I don't deal with Fang Yuanchan, I can't escape either." He extended his hand: "It's your turn."
Weisser looked at him coldly, lowered her head and said, "You are decisive now."
As if she realized the current situation, Yin Deng took Ash's wrist, but she still refused to take off the mask and insisted on turning her back to Ash. So she pressed her back against Ash so that Ash could not see what was happening in front of her. But in this way, she felt like she was being embraced by Ash.
Ash shuddered.
He felt the tip of Yin Deng's tongue licking the wound on his wrist, drawing blood into her mouth. The strange sticky touch, coupled with the pain in his wrist, mixed into a weird feeling.
After a moment, Weisser said, "You were stingy with yourself, too, for only making such a shallow cut."
"Then I'll cut deeper this time." Ash wanted to pull his hand back, but Silver Lantern held on to it.
"You just gave up the chance to hurt me, but I don't want to miss it." Weisser bit his finger directly, her voice full of evil malice: "I have long wanted to hurt you to my heart's content!"
"Um!"
Ash felt the pain in his ten fingers, and he felt that his fingers were bitten hard by the silver lamp.
This hurt much more than the wrist, not to mention that she kept dilating the wound with her teeth. Although Ash was also a battle-hardened magician and was no longer afraid of ordinary pain, he could not tolerate such unprovoked malice - especially since he did not intentionally hurt Silver Lantern just now!
Ash wanted to pull his hand back, but Silver still had the strength to hold his hand like a vice. However, he didn't dare to hurt Silver now because he needed Silver to bleed. Silver's back was facing him, which just provided him with a perfect place to attack.
Bang!
Silver Lantern's whole body trembled, and then she became much more obedient, not hurting him intentionally with her teeth. Just when Ash breathed a sigh of relief, he found that Silver Lantern did not give up.
Silver Light's tongue slid gently over his fingers.
Fingers are much more sensitive than wrists, and are more easily rolled and rubbed by the tongue, plus there is the dull pain of the wound... In the slow blood loss, in the constantly torn wounds and gentle comfort, an indescribable feeling lurks among the numbness, itching and pain, violently and gently seeping into Ash's heart.