Blood of Mercury

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 Kluwynn's body, Roland didn't have any real feeling about "never see Kluwyen again in the future".

Besides, never to be seen again—so what?

Many students from primary and secondary schools will never see each other again after graduation. The same goes for childhood playmates who have moved to another city, or friends and tablemates who have transferred schools.

No matter how enjoyable it was at the time, the probability of seeing it later is infinitely close to zero.

So, it's no different from dying.

Maybe 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 known death like this from a long time ago.

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

More unpleasant feelings, but from old Joseph's presumptuous proposition.

Roland couldn't stand an uncontrollable unrest around him.

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

There are very few people who have the potential to become martyrs. Before the establishment of the sect, Roland really didn't have the time to go all over the world to find new members.

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

If the martyr is just a humanoid bomb, then the power of 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 the body of that person.

- Whether it's the player or the .

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

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

Moreover, all the attributes of the coffin bearer will also be added to the resurrected person at a proportional rate.

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

A question was raised at the time: what if the coffin-bearer resurrected a player or. Are these transferred properties time-bound?

This question is undoubtedly worth exploring.

But in fact, the martyrs are rare because of the limitations of their characteristics, and they were basically blown up in the early stage of the revival of the plague, and the rest have no possibility of awakening.

It doesn't matter if the attributes passed on by the resurrection of the martyrs have a time limit or simply cannot be passed on. As long as old Joseph can be the coffin bearer. It means that Roland has a third life.

After all, Roland has decided to use the resurrection chance that the dead crow has in the White Tower.

Because only the real "dead last time" and letting them see their body can convince everyone that Orlando is dead.

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

but. Although this can completely fade Roland from everyone's eyes, it also means that Roland no longer has other resurrection abilities.

Once you die, you are really dead.

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

Therefore, after Roland found out that Joseph Sr. had turned to a martyr, he gave up the idea of ​​killing him.

However, this lesson also made Roland unable to trust him.

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

In Roland's view, old Joseph has now drawn the same sign as his own life. Even if he was excited and perished 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 cute ice pick - just drive the ice pick from the bottom of the eye socket into the brain. With a little tug, everything is settled.

This is called a frontal lobectomy. And Roland has a more sophisticated surgical method than ice pick therapy.

Although the memory of that year has been 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 combat 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 was so blurred that he couldn't recall it, that skill was engraved into Roland's bone marrow, making him very familiar with the dull and inhuman surgical treatment of ice picks, and completely eradicated his fears.

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

Old Joseph is still alive, and his soul is still in control of his body. It is still his thinking that dominates his thinking.

Isn't that lucky enough compared to death?

"Ah, as you wish."

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

Roland ignored why he laughed.

After getting the best answer. The silver-white holy fire trembled slightly, hiding in the body of the sword, making the thin stick and sword sharper.

Roland stared at Old Joseph's forehead closely, 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 lowly as before.

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

Roland prayed in a low voice. The right hand holding the cane and sword slowly retracted, and the breath that Old Joseph was holding also relaxed.

But then, before the old Joseph even had time to react, a sword light flashed in a delicate arc—

The holy fire condensed into a very slender point on the tip of the sword, and a silver mark was drawn flat on Joseph's forehead.

If you can look down from the top, you can see that the mark is actually a sharp V-shaped scar. Deepest in the center, but only penetrated the skull without damaging any brain tissue.

The silver-white flame did not erupt, but stayed in the deepest part of the scar.

These sacred fires were from the same **** as the dark gray flames buried deep in Joseph's body, so they did not trigger the body's autonomous defense.

Before the dark gray flames could react, Roland instantly reset his attack movements under the stance of continuous attacks, 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 suddenly burst out in his brain, suppressing the dark gray poisonous fire to other places, but did not hurt any part of him, but gently wrapped the entire brain together.

At the same time, old Joseph lost consciousness.

- This is not for anesthesia, but to prevent old Joseph's brain from being permanently damaged due to excessive anesthesia in the next session.

Roland took a deep breath, and cut his wrist with the sword with his backhand. Blood spurted out, dyeing the white and shining sword with a hint of scarlet.

He retracted the blade at will, and the blood gushing out of his left wrist formed an extremely sharp cone under the manipulation of consciousness.

Roland simply and neatly stabbed the scarlet fangs into old Joseph's eye sockets, using his experience and feeling to cut something, and the thorn-like scarlet fangs completely melted into a drop of blood at the moment of success.

The real surgery part was done in two seconds.

The blood of the half-goblin did not penetrate too much into the brain under the package of the holy fire. But after the operation was over, it slowly flowed out from the cross-shaped wound along with the holy flame.

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

"In that case, I forgive you."

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

"Your sins are cleared." (To be continued.)