It has been more than 20 years since she was chosen by the Matron, from an ordinary night elf woman, to be endowed with the blood of the Spider Woman, and promoted to a high position in the Price family.
This is the first time in all these years that I have encountered such a frustrating task.
Not to mention that during the previous tracking period, the target of tracking misled him in various ways, and he could even be said to have played a trick on him.
Take the battle in the inn just now, for example. Now thinking back, it seems that the other party had set a trap in advance, and I just rushed into it.
If Richard heard this, he would definitely cry out for injustice, saying this was really a coincidence. He also didn't expect that there would be a wanted criminal like Desol in the inn.
So by chance, the two sides had a fierce fight.
However, Grace still raised her head and gave a sincere smile to the frustrated subordinates around her, as if to show that as the commander of the pursuit team, she was not defeated by difficulties and setbacks!
Irene's situation at the moment was not much better. The wizard robe that was originally used to cover her appearance was torn to shreds, revealing a tight black leather armor.
Even on the leather armor, there were many scratches, and blood was faintly seeping out.
The three spider knights who followed her were also injured, and their injuries seemed serious.
Grace couldn't help but feel sad when she thought about the fact that there were only two or three big cats and small cats left out of the twelve elite Demon Spider Knights who were full of energy before they came.
Of course, the biggest blow to Grace was the tragic accident that happened to Felicity.
If the death of all the Spider Knights in this battle could ensure the survival of Felicity, Grace would be willing to do it.
Unfortunately, Felicity had just reached adulthood and was promoted to a senior spider-woman (equivalent to a formal human wizard). Unexpectedly, an accident happened on her first mission. You know, Felicity is a spider-woman with extremely outstanding talents.
In the second year after being bestowed with Spider Woman blood by the Mistress, she was promoted to a senior Spider Woman, which puts her at least in the top ten in the history of the Price family, and she is deeply loved by the Mistress.
He had volunteered to participate this time and had promised the mistress that he would ensure Felicity's safety, but he did not expect to fail in this inconspicuous mission.
Goddess Rose, mistress, it was really Flitti who volunteered to go for the investigation, I really didn't take the initiative to arrange it. No one could have imagined that such an accident would happen! Until now, I don't even know how Flitti died.
Was it Shadra or Desol who killed her? Felidi died so quickly that he had no time to rescue her!
When Grace thought about the failure of the mission and the death of Felicity, and the horrible punishment she might face from her mistress, she shuddered all over.
No! I can't just go back like a lost dog! The result that awaits me will be... Irene: "Grace, what should we do now?"
"I'm going to go look for Nicole."
"What! Is he the guy who abandoned his faith in Goddess Rose and turned to the devil? Are you crazy! Grace!" Irene's face was filled with horror, as if the three words "Nicole" represented an extremely terrifying person.
"I will never go with you." Irene turned around and prepared to leave.
"Irene, are you going back like this? Do you know what punishment you will face if you go back now?" Grace's voice, like a low roar of a female beast, came from behind Irene.
"It's just that" Irene had just said halfway when she suddenly realized.
Yes, not only did he fail in his mission this time, but more importantly, Felicity, who was deeply loved by the mistress, was also killed. In this case... Irene stopped and was obviously hesitant. - After returning to his room, Richard called out the crystal.
As the facehugger-like crystals crawled over Felicity's face, images flashed through Richard's mind like slides.
After a moment, Richard showed a thoughtful expression and said, "Stephanie, I think you can consider changing your body."
Stephanie was surprised and pointed at Feliddy's body and said, "Master, is there something strange about this body?"
Richard nodded, "Yes, this spider girl is called Felidi. She is a very talented spider girl. She has much higher potential than the body of Shadra you have now."
This immediately made Stephanie's eyes light up. The pursuit of improving one's own strength has always been Stephanie's lifelong pursuit, and it is also the concept instilled in her since childhood in the Knight family.
The pursuit of strength was once Stephanie's obsession. Although she had died once before, after her spirit was resurrected, she still had a strong desire and interest in becoming stronger.
Now that she had this opportunity, she had no idea of objecting, and naturally supported it 100%, saying: "Master, of course I am willing, Stephanie is willing to follow any of your arrangements."
Richard nodded. Since Stephanie herself had no objection, they could start implementing this matter now.
Looking at the size of the room, Richard found that the room arranged for him by the bearded dwarf leader was quite luxurious and spacious, and the floor of the living room was more than enough for drawing magic arrays.
Therefore, Richard immediately decided to perform a body-changing ceremony on Stephanie, which was actually an enhanced version of the soul reincarnation ceremony.
For Richard, who had already advanced the spirit reincarnation ritual to the limit, it was naturally not difficult.
The outer contour of the witch formation for the spirit reincarnation ceremony is a circle with a diameter of about three meters, and two square structures are drawn inside.
When Richard finished drawing, he asked Fingart to move Felicity's body to one of the two squares of the magic circle. At the same time, he let Stephanie lie in the center of the other square.
After everything was ready, Richard prepared to start the formal soul reincarnation ceremony.
Richard already knew the entire process of the reincarnation ceremony.
This time, the difficulty has simply increased. First, Stephanna's spirit needs to be separated from Shadra's current body intact, and then her spirit needs to be reincarnated into Felicity's body.
In Richard's opinion, the most difficult part of the whole process is that Stephanie has to endure extraordinary pain during the peeling.
However, he would speed up this process as much as possible to reduce Stephanie's pain.
According to Richard's instructions, Fingart placed eight intermediate magic stones at the intersection of the outer circle of the magic circle and the two square vertices. This is an important energy supply for the magic circle.
After a while, a low incantation sounded in Richard's throat, and his mental power began to be injected into the witch formation on the ground at a special frequency through the witchcraft model of the spirit reincarnation ritual in his mind.
Suddenly, the witch array glowed green! Suddenly, Richard's eyes were completely dark, and the whites of his eyes had disappeared. When he turned his head to look at Stephanie's body, Stephanie felt that Richard's eyes were like black holes.
Immediately, Stephanie felt an invisible and powerful force pulling her entire spirit out of the body of the spider woman Shadra, and with severe pain, she quickly flew into the air above the witch formation.
After just a few seconds, Stephanie felt her soul returning to the mother's body again, as if she was soaking in a hot spring, and the pain immediately disappeared.
It turned out that her spirit had been stuffed back into Richard's new body, Felicity's.
At this time, the green light was so dazzling that it was impossible to look directly at it!
After a few seconds, the light of the entire magic formation began to gradually dim, and the eight magic stones that were originally full of energy automatically shattered at this moment, and all the energy was gone.
After a while, Felidi's eyelashes trembled slightly, and then she opened her eyes, a hint of confusion in her charming eyes.
"How does it feel?"
"I can't explain the feeling, but it seems that this body accepts me more than the previous one." Stephanie thought for a moment and used the word "acceptance".
After listening to this, Richard nodded. The whole process should not cause much damage to Stephanie's spirit. After all, the interval between peeling and reincarnation was only a few seconds, which was not something that ordinary wizards could do.
When Stephanie slowly stood up and took two steps, she was surprised to find that this body seemed to have a natural fit with her.
Stephanie still remembered that when she was reincarnated into Shadra's body, she had difficulty standing up right after she succeeded. She staggered when she walked and even needed Richard's support. It was only after a long time that she slowly got better.
But this time, as soon as the reincarnation ceremony was over, I was able to stand and walk calmly.
In addition, she could feel that this body had a sense of vitality, as if there was some magical power contained in the blood that was promoting the healthy growth of the whole body.
Fingart, who was standing by, was already stunned at this moment.
As his first servant and the one who had surrendered a wisp of soul, Richard was quite confident in Fingart. After all, he could control the other's life and death with just a thought.
Therefore, Richard did not let him go out for the secret soul reincarnation ceremony just now, but let him observe from the side to gain more knowledge.
Fingate's performance over the past six months made him very satisfied, so letting him see this secret would make him feel that the master did not treat him as an outsider.
It is an extremely effective means of controlling subordinates.
At this moment, Fingart's mind was full of admiration for his master Richard.
At the same time, a little yearning arose in his heart! If one day he could find the body of the ancient dark fishman, could he ask the master to cast this magical spell on him?
No! The master will definitely agree! Because I am the master's number one servant and represent the master's face!
The more Fingat thought about it, the more confident he became. The master must also want his servant to be as strong as possible! "Master, your knowledge is so profound, and your skills in drawing witch arrays are so superb. Fingat pays you the highest respect!" Fingat bowed and praised with a smile on his face.
"Master, if one day, your humble servant can find the body of the ancient dark fishman, Master, can I also..."
Richard immediately understood what Fingart meant, nodded, and said with a smile: "Do a good job! The body of the ancient dark fishman should not be difficult to find."
"Thank you, Master!" Fingate was almost crying with excitement!
Stephanie's movements became smoother and smoother. She became more and more satisfied with this body, and there was one thing that made her particularly satisfied.
That is, this body seems to have never been "used" before. This is extremely holy among high-level spider women! ——Half an hour ago
Next room.
Disol, who was sitting on a mahogany chair, was not playing with the twin girls at this moment. Instead, he was holding a recording crystal, probing his consciousness, and carefully checking the top-secret formula of the alchemical combination bomb that Richard had exchanged with him.
While studying, Disol marveled at Richard's brilliant ideas.
"What a brilliant idea. Using only these common raw materials, we can create an alchemical bomb with power comparable to first-level sorcery."
"It's a pity that the raw materials are a bit expensive and require too high a level of craftsmanship. Otherwise, if they could be mass-produced, it would be enough to change the outcome of a small battle."
However, after a while, Disol felt the huge gathering and surge of dark elemental energy coming from the next room.
"Hey! This is some kind of magic array! There is such a strong energy fluctuation? Could it be that the young wizard Levi is also proficient in magic arrays?"
After carefully sensing the energy fluctuations in the next room, Disol couldn't help but admire the young wizard named "Levi" even more.
You know, although many senior wizards are proficient in various skills, the age of these wizards is generally over one hundred years old, or even one hundred and fifty years old.
As for young wizards in their thirties and forties, practicing meditation and learning witchcraft alone generally consumes all their free time and energy. How could they possibly have the energy left to learn or even improve their attainments in various skills such as potions and witchcraft formations?
"Wizard Levi is such a talent!" Disol couldn't help but sigh. If he could recruit such a talent into his organization, he would probably receive a valuable reward.
At this moment, the idea of recruiting the other party in Disol's heart was like a seed sown in spring, which sprouted uncontrollably when it encountered the spring rain.
Suppressing the urge to knock on the other person's door immediately, Disol decided to put off the recruitment until tomorrow.
After all, too much has happened tonight, and it would not be appropriate to disturb others now.
The twin girls stared at their master mumbling to himself with wide eyes, and asked curiously, "Master Disol, is that human wizard really so talented?"
"Yes, is he more powerful than you, my Lord?"
Disol shook his head and said, "You are not wizards, so of course you don't understand. He is so young, but he has developed such a wonderful formula for alchemical combination bombs. If you give him some alchemical formulas from our gray dwarves, I don't know what wonderful ideas he will come up with!"
"You know, young people have the most active minds!"
"Moreover, judging from the energy fluctuations just now, the other party is also proficient in witch formations. This talent is truly amazing."
"I am 148 years old this year, but I was promoted to a formal wizard at the age of 49. At the age of 55, I began to systematically study the branch of alchemy - puppetry. At the age of 121, I finally became a master of puppetry among the gray dwarves."
"It took me 66 years to go from a puppet apprentice to a puppet master. But even so, my teacher praised me and said that I was a rare genius among the gray dwarves in a century."
"Do you understand what I mean?"
The twin girls fluttered their bright eyes, covered their mouths in surprise and said, "Then isn't this wizard Levi a rare genius that only appears once in a thousand years?"
Disol was immediately amused and said with a smile: "It's not that exaggerated, but he can be regarded as a genius that is rarely seen in five hundred years!" - Turning his gaze back to Richard's room.
After completing the reincarnation of Stephana's new body, Richard immediately began to study the record crystal he had just obtained, which contained some information given by Disor about the absorption and purification of source blood and flame crystals.
In the previous transaction with Desol, Richard exchanged this material for the secret recipe of the alchemical combination bomb he developed himself, which can be said to be a win-win situation for both parties.
Richard discovered that if he wanted to use the essence of blood, such as source blood, to stimulate the improvement of his own mental power, he would need to use different levels of fire crystals and different levels of source blood absorption magic arrays.
What he exchanged for this transaction was the extraction and purification of the first-level blood essence, which corresponds to the source blood in the body of a blood creature equivalent to the first-level wizard level.
Since the extraction of source blood has extremely high requirements for the corpse, if it exceeds an hour, the quality of the source blood will be greatly reduced. Therefore, Richard plans to extract the essence of the spider woman's blood in Shadra's body now - that is, the spider woman's source blood.
Fortunately, Richard already had a lot of experience in drawing wizard arrays, so he was able to learn the source blood absorption wizard array very quickly.
At the same time, Richard put all the thousands of energy points he earned from killing monsters while traveling in the Gray Fern Wilderness in the past few days into improving the Source Blood Absorption Witch Array.
In the dream space, Richard quickly upgraded it to: Source Blood Absorbing Witch Array (Mastery 9%), which was sufficient for current use.
So, Richard quickly drew the magic circle in the room again, and asked Stephanie to place Shadra's body in the center of the magic circle.
After everything was ready, Richard began to recite the activation spell of the Origin Blood Absorption Wizardry.
The effect of this witch formation, to some extent, is very similar to the witch formation collected by Blood Amber, and it seems that they are of the same origin to some extent. This may mean that a long, long time ago, these two witch formations were created by ancient wizards.
On the other hand, this also allowed Richard to quickly improve the source blood absorption magic array to the level of proficiency.
Otherwise, if you start from scratch, relying on the few thousand energy points you easily obtain, you will most likely not be able to reach the mastery level.
As the originally plump body gradually shriveled, strands of blood were drawn from Shadra's body and gathered above the witch formation, forming a blood clot the size of a head.
In a short while, all the blood in the body was drained away!
Looking at Shadra's body again, it was completely unrecognizable! It was impossible to tell the charming face of the other party. It looked like a dried corpse that had been exposed to the sun in the desert for thousands of years. It was impossible to tell the face, gender or even race.
But this is only half of the process. Next, this large mass of blood must be concentrated and refined to produce the most fundamental source blood in the body of the Spider Woman.
This process will take a little time, and requires a high level of continuity and concentration of the caster's mental strength.
I saw a blood clot the size of a head, which began to beat like a heart.
With each tremor, the color of the blood cells will become brighter and thicker. At the same time, some impurities mixed in them will be discharged and turned into black smoke and dissipated in the air.
Gradually, the blood cells gradually concentrated and became smaller and smaller, and the color changed from light red to dark red . Finally, they condensed into a fingernail-sized, droplet-shaped bright red crystal.
The process of absorbing and purifying the blood essence of the entire Spider Woman's body, that is, the Spider Woman's source blood, is now completed!
Staring at the Spider Woman's Blood in his hand and feeling the surging blood energy within it, Richard couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Currently, he has three options for dealing with this Spider Woman's Blood. One is to sell it to the gray dwarf wizard Disor. Considering how eager the other party was when he saw the Spider Woman's corpse in his hand, he will surely give him a satisfactory price.
The other option is to keep it and buy flame crystals after arriving in Tug City, and use them as consumables to stimulate and enhance your mental strength.
The last method is to use it on Stephanie. You must know that this drop of Spider Woman's blood is like a super tonic for Spider Women of the same bloodline!
This will allow Stephanie, who has just changed her body, to enter a period of explosive strength.
The original owner of this new body, Felicity, seemed to be a spider woman with outstanding talent. If this drop of source blood was infused into it - and Disol and the twin gray dwarf girls in the room next to them felt the surging energy fluctuations coming from the side again, and were shocked again.
"Source Blood Absorbing Witch Array!" Disol couldn't help but exclaimed.
"There's no mistake about this fluctuation!!"
Disol clearly remembered that this wizard named "Levi" did not know how to absorb and purify source blood. Otherwise, he would not have exchanged relevant knowledge with him for the secret recipe of the alchemical combination bomb that he had developed with great effort.
But what did I feel just now? The sound coming from the next room was clearly the movement of the blood-absorbing magic array! Oh my God! Father Titan! This. This. Disol was shocked!
The twin girls next to them were obviously aware of this problem. Their beautiful eyes widened in shock and their mouths were big enough to fit a wine glass.
Disol immediately stood up and paced back and forth in the room, muttering to himself, "No, we can't wait until tomorrow. The other party must have absorbed the blood of the spider woman. What if this wizard Levi directly used the blood of the spider woman?"
"No, he shouldn't have the Flame Crystal. No, no, what if he does?"
Disol found that he was confused! "Wait, is it possible that he could use the source blood for other purposes?"
Disol scratched his chicken coop hair, feeling a headache. It seemed that if he wanted to impress the wizard Levi and get the Spider Woman's blood, he would have to bleed a lot! After a while, just as Richard closed his eyes and meditated, slowly recovering his mental strength.
There was a knock on the door, and at the same time, there was the familiar loud voice of Desor:
"Sir Levi, sorry to bother you so late!"
At this time, Fingart had returned to his room to rest, and only Richard and Stephanie were left in the room.
Stephanie, who was lying on the bed enjoying the wonderful time alone with her master, couldn't help but mutter: "This old pervert, in the middle of the night."
Richard opened his eyes and motioned for Stephanie to put on a half mask first to cover her face before he slowly opened the door.
(End of this chapter)