The third floor of the stone tower.
After Grimm finished his daily meditation, he slowly walked to a secret room.
Inside the secret room, the beginner acolyte Bliss was sitting cross-legged in a large wooden barrel. His expression was twisted and sinister, as if he was silently enduring some great pain. The barrel was filled with a purplish black liquid that emitted a pungent smell.
Seeing Grimm enter, Bliss struggled to get up and salute, but was stopped.
"How is it? Is the fusion going smoothly?" Grimm asked with concern.
"Everything is going smoothly, my lord!" Bliss endured the pain and replied with difficulty, "I will definitely succeed!"
With that, he gently lifted the robe that was draped over his body, revealing his bony chest and the wriggling sarcoma.
As a wandering acolyte, although Bliss's body could not be said to be sturdy, he was not weak either. However, in just two to three days, he had lost 30 to 40 kilograms, looking like a lamp that had run out of oil. And the culprit that caused him to be in such a miserable state was that terrifying tumor parasitic on his chest.
At this moment, a tumor the size of a fist hung from Bliss's chest. Through the translucent skin, one could vaguely see a strange insect wriggling inside. Its head had already pierced deep into Bliss's flesh, leaving only a small part of its body and its abdominal sac outside.
As the insect approached his heart, the pain Bliss felt became more and more intense.
Grimm bent over to check the progress of the fusion. He stood up straight and warned Bliss with a solemn expression: "The Mutated Insect Queen has already come into contact with your heart. Next, it will try to parasitize your heart and try its best to fuse with your heart. So … I'll ask you one last time. Do you regret this? If you do, I can still interrupt this process. Otherwise, once you pass this stage, your body will show obvious signs of insect transformation in a short period of time. When that happens, even I will be powerless! "
"Without my lord's guidance, I know that with my talent, I will never be able to become a true Magus. So, I do not regret this choice … Ah … "Just as Bliss finished speaking, he felt a piercing pain in his chest. He could not help but grab the edge of the barrel with both hands, raising his head and letting out a pained howl.
Before he could even scream, a large amount of blood spurted out of Bliss's mouth like a fountain. From the way he was vomiting blood, his internal organs must have suffered serious damage.
The moment the bright red blood came into contact with the purplish black liquid, it was immediately absorbed and passed through Bliss's skin to replenish his body. During this process, the purplish black liquid gradually boiled, and a strange fragrance began to spread throughout the secret room.
During this process, the purplish black liquid gradually boiled, and a strange fragrance began to spread throughout the secret room.
This song was like the sound of nature. Sometimes it was fresh and sweet, sometimes it was resounding and shocking, sometimes it was like an orchid in a valley, sometimes it was quiet and deep … In the song, a few beautiful female sirens the size of a palm were bobbing up and down on the purple-black liquid, singing together.
However, as their singing drifted in the air, the flesh and blood of the beautiful sirens suddenly rotted and collapsed, turning into puddles of purplish-black pus that flowed into the wooden barrel. At the same time, the melodious and beautiful voice turned into a vicious curse of blood and tears. Waves of spiritual force filled with intense resentment and enmity rippled in the air, then surged into Bliss's body.
At the same time, the melodious voice turned into a malicious curse of blood and tears. Spiritual undulations filled with intense resentment and enmity rippled in the air and surged into Blitz's body.
Inside his body, that damned Insect Queen was frantically devouring his heart. Outside his body, the strange Siren's curse surged in unceasingly, continuously eroding his soul.
Inside his body, that damned Insect Queen was frantically devouring his heart. Outside his body, the strange Siren's curse surged in unceasingly, continuously eroding his soul.
When the pain reached its peak, Bliss suddenly sank into the purplish black liquid, suppressing the disgust in his heart as he gulped down mouthfuls of it.
The liquid in the wooden barrel was the blood of the Sirens.
Looking at the volume of the barrel, one would need to suck out the blood of ten Sirens to gather such a large amount. Sirens were a type of marine magical creature that could be compared to human Magi. Grimm had spent 150,000 magic crystals on ten Sirens with the strength of high-grade Acolytes.
The fusion between Bliss and the Mutant Insect Queen was actually a process of devouring each other. During this process, the Insect Queen's body would become Bliss's new heart core after the fusion, while the Insect Queen's soul would live in Bliss's soul.
The Mutant Insect Queen itself no longer had the space to grow, but by living in Bliss's body, it could grow stronger together with Bliss. This was a unique way for their race to grow!
However, because the fusion process was too cruel and bloody, if the host could not endure it, both the human and the insect would die.
Hence, in order to increase the success rate of the fusion, Grimm could only purchase the Siren's blood at a high price.
Just like the Elves' Water of Life, the Siren's blood also had an astonishing regenerative ability. However, the blood was already soaked with the hatred and curses of the Sirens before they died, so using the Siren's blood would require one to bear the power of the curse.
The main reason why Grimm chose the Siren's blood instead of the Water of Life was that the Insect Queen and Bliss both had unique dark and earth attributes, which had serious conflicts with the Water of Life. Hence, Grimm had no choice but to choose the Siren's blood even if there were serious repercussions.
Fortunately, as long as Bliss could successfully fuse with the Siren's blood, it would be easy to remove the curse.
The intense pain of both his body and soul tortured Bliss to the point where he wanted to die. He curled up into a ball and soaked in the Siren's blood, silently enduring the terrifying pain of the Insect Queen devouring his heart.
Bright red blood spurted out from his nose and mouth, mixed with the Siren's blood, and was absorbed into his body through his skin. With this life cycle, Bliss would not die during the fusion due to the exhaustion of his life force.
Throughout the entire process, Grimm stood silently at the edge of the barrel, carefully observing every step of the fusion process. Relying on the subtle connection between their souls and the A.I. Chip's full frequency vision, Bliss's body was like a transparent skin bag, unable to obstruct Grimm's vision at all.
Not only did Grimm observe carefully, he even took out some blood samples from the barrel from time to time and stored them away. Afterwards, he could compare the changes in Bliss's blood composition to understand the deeper mysteries of the Insect Queen's fusion.
While Grimm waited anxiously, the mutated Insect Queen had already drilled its entire body into Bliss's chest and successfully devoured his heart.
Under normal circumstances, Bliss would have been a dead man by now!
After all, with the strength of a junior acolyte, it was impossible for him to use magic to support the life cycle in his body.
However, the existence of the Siren's Blood gave Blitz an extra life force, allowing him to survive until the Mutated Insect Queen transformed into a new core to replace his heart even though his heart was missing.
Splash! Water splashed everywhere.
Bliss suddenly drilled out of the Siren's blood, his hands grabbing the edge of the barrel as he panted heavily.
In his wide open eyes, a pair of strange yellow vertical pupils could be seen!
… …
Three days later.
Sabrina carried a large plate of lamb ribs that still had traces of blood on it into the secret room.
This was the second floor of the stone tower.
Apart from a few Quasi Magi, normal acolytes were not allowed to set foot on the second floor. However, Bliss, who only had the strength of a beginner apprentice, not only had his own residence here, but he also enjoyed the privilege of having Sabrina personally bring him five meals a day!
Such preferential treatment undoubtedly made the other acolytes go crazy with jealousy.
However, only Sabrina knew that it was very difficult to tell if this guy who locked himself in the secret room was still the same junior acolyte Bliss!
Ever since Lord Grim had ordered him to move from the first floor of the stone tower to the second floor, Billis had never left the tower again. He always hid in the dark, airtight secret room and spent most of his time feasting crazily all day long.
At first, he still ate those delicately grilled steaks with a thick layer of bright grease on them. However, even the two chefs sent by the city lord could not keep up with Bliss's horrifying, bottomless stomach.
Sabrina watched as his three meals a day turned into five meals a day, and then into continuous eating and drinking. She was like a busy porter, shuttling back and forth between the secret room and the kitchen with a large plate of food.
Later, Sabrina realized that Bliss did not seem to be picky about whether the food was cooked or not, so she made the decision to let the chefs skip the process of frying, frying, and applying sauce. She only needed to cut the lamb into suitable sizes, grill it, and send it in.
In the end, Sabrina even used the mechanical claws hidden in her body to grab the bloody half of the cow's carcass and send it into the secret room.
Finally, Grimm could not stand it anymore. He called Sabrina over and said a few words.
Thus, as a mechanical girl, Sabrina sent a live cow into Bliss's secret room!
…
It was unknown if it was intentional or not, but most of the sorcerer-apprentices in the stone tower had been sent out.
Thus, four to five shiny silver mechanical tentacles extended from the side of Sabrina's waist. She lifted a 300-kilogram bull and walked into Blitz's secret chamber with ease.
The secret room was dark and devoid of light.
With Sabrina's powerful mechanical eyes, which naturally had infrared and low-light vision, she should have been able to see through the small secret room.
However, it was rather strange. The darkness in the secret room seemed to be mixed with some kind of witchcraft effect. No matter how hard she tried, she could not see through it. She could only vaguely feel that there was a terrifying secret hidden in the darkness.
Standing at the door, she did not dare to take another step forward. Instead, she used the mechanical tentacles to carry the struggling bull into the darkness.
Every time she did this, she would feel a strong pulling force from the mechanical tentacles. If she did not let go of the bull in time, she was afraid that she would have been pulled into the darkness of the secret room.
When she retracted the mechanical tentacles, the bull had disappeared without a trace. The end of the tentacles was stained with some green, pungent mucus.
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