In the dark room, a figure lying on the ground moved slightly.

Am I still alive?

Livia thought groggily as she felt her consciousness slowly returning.

…

Where is this?

Livia opened his eyes with difficulty, and saw pitch black all around. With the witcher's unique night vision ability, he could barely see the surrounding environment.

It was probably the same as the previous Coral Castle. Livia came to this conclusion after taking a quick look around.

Coral...

castle?

Livia suddenly thought of something, "Uh..." Livia tried to get up tremblingly, but the severe pain in his abdomen and the weak limbs made him collapse to the ground again.

It hurts!

Unbearable pain!

Livia felt the severe pain in her abdomen surging like a tide, and her body curled up instinctively.

"Cough, cough..." His hands slowly moved to the place where the severe pain came from in his abdomen. He felt wetness on his hands, and then he slowly stroked them.

"Hiss..." Livia gritted her teeth and took a breath of cold air, damn it!

The wound is too big!

By touching the flesh and blood, Livia realized that her abdomen was finally scratched by the bloodthirsty crow demon. If there was no way to treat it, she estimated that she would not be able to hold on for long based on the amount of bleeding from the wound.

I had barely managed to escape from the clutches of the bloodthirsty crow. It would be really weird if I died from excessive blood loss.

"Hiss..." Gritting her teeth, Livia slowly turned over.

He untied the leather armor with trembling fingers. What usually took only a few seconds now took several minutes to complete, and it cost Livia a lot of effort.

"Hu~Hu~" Livia panted heavily, and a heavy feeling of fatigue surged into his heart, making him really want to close his eyes and rest for a while.

no!

Livia's eyes suddenly widened and she gritted her teeth.

I can’t rest yet. If I take a rest now, I may be able to rest completely soon!

His hands moved again tremblingly, and his right hand slowly touched the leather bag around his waist.

fine!

Livia breathed a sigh of relief. If this was lost, she would be doomed. In her current state, she wanted to tear off a strip of cloth from her clothes to use as a hemostatic bandage...

Burlap and leather...

I'm afraid I won't be able to tear it apart until I die.

No, it's impossible to stop the bleeding completely with just a bandage.

After finally getting a roll of bandage out of the skin bag, Livia was about to bandage the wound when she used her newly recovered mental power to perceive and discovered that the wounds caused by the bloodthirsty crow demon's claws were all cuts on the inside of the flesh, and could not be stopped by squeezing with bandages alone.

what to do……

what to do……

Livia's brain was working rapidly, thinking about what other options she could have.

After an unknown amount of time, when Livia felt his body getting colder and colder, he suddenly gritted his teeth and pressed the wound with his left hand.

Whoosh~sizzle…

"hiss!

! ! "

Livia gritted her teeth, tilted her head back and closed her eyes in pain.

A faint flame flickered in his palm, and there was a sound like barbecue.

Igni Seal.

This was the only solution Livia could think of. Since squeezing alone was not enough to stop the bleeding, she could use flames to burn the muscles around the wound to stop the bleeding. Although this might lead to muscle necrosis or infection, it was better than dying now. She had to give it a try. Sizzle...

The burning sound lasted for more than ten seconds. When Livia had used up all the power of the seal in his body and the flame in his palm went out, the surrounding air was already filled with the aroma of barbecue.

Livia was covered in cold sweat. He ignored the sweat that had already flowed from his cheeks into his eyes. He endured the severe pain in his abdomen, raised his waist, and slowly wrapped the bandage around the wound on his abdomen several times.

"Ugh..." He pulled the bandage tighter with one final tug, and his abdomen suddenly felt an unbearable pain as he moved.

The severe pain made Livia's eyes roll back and she almost fainted, but fortunately she had strong mental strength to hold on.

There was no other way. Livia didn't know how to bandage the wound, and in her current condition where she could barely move, this was the only way.

After tying the bandage, Livia finally relaxed and collapsed to the ground.

"grid……

yes……

You said…” The sudden voice from outside made Livia’s spirit tense again.

Someone!

Who is it?

Livia slowed down her breathing and listened carefully to the words coming from outside.

“Obviously this castle…

We cleaned it once...

How could there be someone else…” “Alas…” “You said…” The voices outside were getting closer and closer, and the words that reached Livia’s ears became clearer and clearer.

"You think you have nothing to do? You only let ten of us train in such a big castle. Not to mention that we have cleaned it up once, how could there be anyone still there? Even if someone can escape the cleanup, it is definitely not something we can find and deal with."

"Hey, stop talking too much. This job is relatively good. If you were assigned to attack the top floor or underground, that would be really bad luck."

"So what? I'm looking forward to it. Look, that bastard in the village became a small leader just because he was lucky enough to kill three castle guards. Now he's commanding people..." The owner of the sharper voice seemed a little dissatisfied.

Through the conversation between the two people outside, Livia roughly understood the current situation. He was indeed in Coral Castle, and Coral Castle had now been mostly captured by the Blood Mist Cultists. Only the top floor and the underground of the castle were still holding on.

Listening to the information revealed in the words of the cultist outside, Livia knew that these two should be villagers from the same village as Bandy, but they seemed completely different from Bandy. They had completely lost their nature and become real cultists.

"Hey!"

Another voice suddenly interrupted the sharp voice.

"You want to know what's on top of the castle and under the castle?

If we really went there, we wouldn’t even know how we died! "

The other one seemed to speak in a lowered voice.

"…" "Okay, let's continue and stop thinking about those unrealistic things."

Step, step...

The footsteps slowly approached and then stopped at the door.

Listening to the footsteps pausing outside the door, Livia's heart rose to his throat. He slowly moved his body behind the bed in the room. Suddenly, he bumped into something and almost made a sound. Livia nervously moved his body away from the thing and looked at the dull long sword revealed after he moved his body away.

Um?

Toharne?

It was only then that Livia noticed that her silver sword was right next to her and was not lost in the space teleportation.

"Hey, there's another room here. Do you want to go in and search to see if there's anything good there?"

A rough voice sounded outside the door.

Bang!

Bang bang!

As Livia heard these words, her heart rose to her throat and her heartbeat accelerated. Without thinking about anything else, she grabbed Toharne and moved faster towards the back of the bed.

Damn it, I can’t be so unlucky. Given my current condition, it’s impossible for me to deal with the two people outside.

What should I do? What should I do?

Just as Livia was thinking of a solution quickly with a grim look on his face, words that sounded like heavenly music to Livia's ears rang out outside the door.

"Forget it. This floor is mostly servants' rooms. There's nothing good there. I was exhausted searching the three rooms just now. It took so much time to find only a few dozen longding. These guys basically gave their money to their families in the city, just like the few people in our village before. What money is left in the room?"

A sharp sound rang out outside, but at this moment, Livia did not feel it was sharp or unpleasant at all, but rather so pleasant to the ear.

"..." There was a sudden silence outside the door. Livia just moved to the left side of the bed and hid against the wall.

"There's nothing to do patrolling this castle anyway, so why not spend my time here? Ten or so longdins are still money!"

The heavy voice sounded again, and in Livia's ears it sounded like bad news.

Damn it!

You must be mentally ill!

Livia found it difficult to understand what was going on in the mind of the cultist outside the door. His companions were obviously unwilling to search the room, and actually no money was found, so why was he still determined to search the room he was in?

“…

OK, then you search, I'll wait at the door, hurry up."

Wow, brother, why are you so unsteady in your stance?

Bad news comes one after another.

Is there really no other way? Livia gritted her teeth and tightly grasped the hilt of Toharne's sword with her right hand.

Damn it, if all else fails I'll have to resort to a sneak attack and give him a hard blow.

Creak~ The door was slowly pushed open, and a ray of firelight from outside shone in.

In Livia's field of vision, a blurry figure was taking his left foot into the room. The moment he saw the figure, Livia calmed down extremely and tensed his body quietly. At this moment, the weakness and pain in his body seemed to disappear. He squatted sideways with an expressionless face and slowly bent his body, as if he would be shot out like an arrow from a bow in the next moment.

boom!

boom!

boom!

A huge explosion sounded, as if the entire castle was shaking at that moment.

"what happened?"

The sudden explosion caused the figure at the door to stop and turn his head towards the door in panic.

"have no idea……

Is there something going on down there?"

The person standing outside the door also seemed nervous.

Livia ignored the explosion and the vibration coming from below, and squatted behind the bed, staring intently at the figure at the door.

Woo woo woo~ Suddenly a ghost-like sound rang out, as if it was ringing in her ears. Livia felt a pain in her head, but her movements did not change at all. She still stared at the door, holding the sword in her hand tighter.

“It’s a call from the sect!

Let’s go quickly.”

The person outside the door spoke anxiously, and then the figure at the door turned and walked out.

Trample, tramp...

The fire at the door disappeared and the footsteps gradually faded away.

"Clang..." When the footsteps could no longer be heard, Livia, who was as motionless as a statue, suddenly collapsed backwards, and the Toharne in her hand fell to the side with a crisp sound.

"Well……

Ahhh…" The weakness and severe pain that she had been holding back suddenly surged up at this moment, and Livia instinctively wailed in pain.