"Senior?"
Matthew squeezed out such a sound from her pale lips. Ice & Fire # Text
"Are you awake? Matthew? "
Rozen continued to hold Matthew's hand, injecting mana into the runes engraved on her arm to provide vitality to Matthew. At the same time, he couldn't help but soften his voice.
"How do you feel?"
So Rozen showed a gentle smile to Matthew, which made Matthew's expression more relaxed and relieved.
"What happened to me?"
Matthew asked blankly as if she didn't understand her current situation.
"You fell."
Rozen didn't hide anything and answered directly.
With just this one sentence, Matthew roughly understood her situation.
"Really?"
Matthew lowered her eyes and remained silent.
Seeing this, Rozen sighed and said in a somewhat reproachful tone.
"You knew about your body's condition a long time ago, but you kept it a secret, didn't you?"
Rozen was very sure that he would ask that question.
Come to think of it, Matthew's body had already shown abnormalities when they were in the singularity. She had just kept it a secret, causing Chaldea to collapse after he relaxed his body and mind.
"There's clearly something wrong with your body, yet you're still forcing yourself to fight. Do you really think I won't be angry?"
Rozen gazed at Matthew and sighed.
This made Matthew look like a child who had done something wrong. She lowered her head and spoke.
"I'm sorry, senior."
Matthew apologized just like that.
It's just...
"Hey, Senior." Matthew asked softly, "Can I hold on until we finish saving people together?"
Matthew actually asked such a question.
As expected, Matthew was the one who understood his body's condition the best.
However, this young girl did not feel any fear or pain. She only asked Rozen as if she was looking forward to it.
This made Rozen's heart ache, and he closed his eyes.
There was no doubt that Matthew had already accepted her fate.
The girl's last hope was to fight alongside Rozen to the end and save Renli.
That way, he could leave with a peace of mind.
This fool must be thinking this way, right?
The young girl wanted to use the remaining years of her life to save the future of humanity, to save the world where Rozen could continue to live.
As for himself, he was no longer in the young girl's consideration.
"Although you have a more reliable servant now, I still want to fight with you."
The girl who used to be extremely afraid of battle actually took the initiative to say so, and even begged.
As long as she could do this, the young girl would be satisfied. She believed that the less than a year left in her life had meaning.
This made Rozen subconsciously prepare to tighten his grip on Matthew's hand, but because he was afraid of hurting this fragile girl, he desperately relaxed his grip.
In fact, if he just wanted to keep Matthew alive, with Rozen's knowledge, there were still many ways.
For example, Rozen could use Mount Tai Prefect's Sacrifice to extract Matthew's soul from her exhausted body, and then replace it with a new body that matched her soul, so that Matthew could be resurrected.
For example, Rozen could also use Karyuusai's secret technique to make crystal, which was equivalent to artificial cells, to replace Matthew's lifeless cells and revitalize her.
Another example, Rozen could also use runes, which could resurrect people, which was equivalent to a noble phantasm.
What's more, Rozen could even make an absolute contract with Matthew, turning Matthew into a pure record and engraved it into his soul. In this way, she could be immortal.
In other words, what even the Holy Grail might not be able to do, Rozen could make Matthew live.
However, all of these methods had their drawbacks.
Needless to say, using Mount Tai Prefect's Sacrifice was classified as a forbidden spell. Whether it could be used successfully was a problem. Even if Rozen could use it successfully, it would not be easy to find a new body that could match Matthew, not to mention if something went wrong in the ritual, it might cause damage to Matthew's soul. Therefore, if it was not the last resort, Rozen did not want to use it.
Replacing the cells of the whole body with crystal was equivalent to transforming the whole body of Matthew. At that time, Matthew might no longer be a human being. She would either become an automaton like Ye Ye, Irori, and Komurasaki, or simply become an unknown monster. Rozen naturally did not want to use such a method.
Not to mention, if he wanted to use it, there were many restrictions. Not only the runes needed to be engraved on the user's body in advance, but it could only be used at the moment when the heart stopped beating to resurrect the person. But it was only resurrection. There was no way to prolong Matthew's life. Even if she was resurrected, she would die immediately. Therefore, this magic could not be used on people who were already dead. It still needed a lot of preparation, and it could not be effective on people with too much physical damage. If it was only the heart that was pierced, there was a way to fix it, but if the head was blown away, it would be completely hopeless.
As for establishing an absolute contract with Matthew, that was the best way.
Needless to say, Matthew's heart to Rozen now, as long as Rozen wanted to establish an absolute contract with her, he could succeed in any minute.
However, it was still the problem mentioned before.
To maintain the existence of the tamed monster, Rozen must consume a lot of magical power, otherwise, he could only let Matthew sleep in his body.
Although Rozen's ability was much stronger than before, and he could even use the Great Source's magical power, using magical power to fight was another matter. The magical power to maintain the existence of the tamed monster was directly absorbed from Rozen through the contract.
And Matthew was now a servant of the highest tamed monster level. Even if she was not at the strategic level, she had the power of a tactical level.
If he wanted to maintain the existence of such a tamed monster for two or three days, Rozen could still maintain it for a long time by using means such as the Crimson Wing Formation. But once he was in a battle or used magical power, the duration would be shortened. In addition, the magical power needed to summon the tamed monster was even greater.
Fortunately, Attila's summoning relied on the magical power provided by the Holy Grail. Rozen now only needed to maintain her existence, so there was no problem for a short time.
However, after a long time, Attila could only return to Rozen's soul and wait for Rozen to summon her again.
But if he wanted to summon her again, the magical power needed had to be borne by Rozen himself. He didn't know if he could do it without using the two trump cards in his hand. Coupled with the need to maintain her existence and fight, as long as Rozen did not solve the problem of magical power, perhaps in the future, Attila would have to sleep in Rozen's soul for a long time.
Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit did not have this drawback.
The magical power consumption of these two gods was definitely higher than the current Attila and Matthew, but they relied on the method of attaching to the curse tools. They did not directly use their power, but just let them transform into curse tools to assist themselves. Not only the consumption of magical power was not high at all, but it could even feed back to Rozen, so that Rozen could accelerate the consumption and recovery.
Therefore, as long as they did not fight directly, there was no need to worry about the problem of magical power consumption.
But servants like Attila and Mashu couldn't do anything about it.
In view of this, before solving the problem of magical power, or before there was absolute certainty to save Matthew, Rozen could only watch Matthew become so weak until there was no other way.
In such a situation.
"Don't worry, trust me."
Rozen showed a relaxed smile to Matthew.
"In any case, I will definitely save you."
That was the only and absolute promise Rozen gave.
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