"Are you alright?"
Seeing the obvious wrinkles on Li Ke's palm, Karina held Li Ke's hand worriedly. After all, it was obvious that Garen was fine now, and she didn't think that Li Ke would do such a thing without paying any price.
"I'm fine."
Li Ke, who had slightly overdrawn his life force, pulled down his cloak slightly. After all, he didn't need to look to know that his beard and eyebrows must have turned white, and his face must have aged excessively.
"I'm afraid you'll have to buy some cattle and sheep from the villagers later. Tell them that it's to lure monsters, otherwise you'll be in a lot of trouble."
But he didn't care much about his current appearance. After all, he only needed to extract some life force to restore himself to his youthful and powerful state. In fact, if he wanted to, he could even make his body younger. In fact, this was one of the reasons why he was so strong. As long as he had enough life force, he could always maintain the reaction speed of a 16-year-old, the learning ability of a 12-year-old, the desire of an 18-year-old, and the physique of a 30-year-old.
Although these numbers were only approximate and couldn't represent the real situation, it also showed how terrifying it would be if all the qualities of a person were put together at their peak. And not only could Li Ke maintain these attributes forever, but he could also constantly strengthen them. It could even be said that after the four extraordinary powers that were beyond the comprehension of ordinary people entered his body, his various attributes became stronger day by day.
In the game, he was the kind of hero that would increase all attributes by 10 points every time he leveled up. Not only would his attack speed, movement speed, magic defense, and physical defense increase, but even his critical strike rate and defense would also increase. He was an ultimate 'growth-type' hero.
"Is this the price?"
Li Ke's words made Karina understand a lot of things in an instant, and that was, the price of Li Ke's magic was his life. And because of Li Ke's instructions, she also realized how terrifying Li Ke's magic was. If Li Ke was a guy with evil intentions, then she couldn't think of anything in this world that could stop him except for God. After all, the other party's strength wasn't something that mortals could resist.
Karina, who thought that Yatokus was also Li Ke's power, instantly thought of many things. According to her duty, she had to report such a powerful magic power to the Demon Hunters, cooperate with the Demon Hunters to capture Li Ke, and keep him locked up in the Demon Hunters' prison. After all, this ability was simply too terrifying. From a certain point of view, Li Ke's magic would shake the public opinion that Demacia had always maintained.
After all, no one would refuse a magic spell that could make people no longer disabled, but only at the cost of the lives of livestock.
"Yes, life is always equal."
Li Ke sighed and prepared to control his potato vines to hide in the ground. After all, if a bunch of potato vines appeared on the road, everyone would know that there was magic here. But while he was doing this, Karina, who had confirmed that Lux and Garen had recovered, went to find her female servant so that the two little ones could have a good sleep.
After Li Ke finished his work, he walked to the side of a big tree. When he was controlling the potato vines, this big tree gave him the strongest feeling, and he could easily sense its source of life. So after hesitating for a while, he placed his hand on the big tree and used his ability to sense the source of life of this big tree.
He had never seen such a situation before.
And what he expected, or perhaps what he didn't expect, was that this big tree, which was about two people hugging it, already had some faint consciousness. When Li Ke came into contact with it, it was very surprised and puzzled. After uttering some unknown syllables, it constantly projected a sense of expectation into Li Ke's heart. This made Li Ke very puzzled because the feelings given by the big tree were too simple. He couldn't even tell what it was expecting.
But while he was puzzled, Ai Weng's voice sounded, and he seemed to be very happy.
"Oh, that's great. Your magic has finally improved and you can hear more voices. But about your doubts … She is looking forward to your greetings."
After he finished speaking, he called out happily before continuing to speak to Li Ke.
"Greetings?"
Even though Li Ke was still somewhat resistant to this existence, the fact that Ai Weng was always able to deliver information at crucial moments made him somewhat waver.
"Yes, doubt is a good habit. You can keep it up. After all, we have plenty of time in the future … But she is indeed looking forward to your greetings. She is a passionate girl. If you don't greet her, she will be very sad."
Ai Weng's voice was always warm and gentle. After Li Ke heard it, he tried to control his ability and transmitted a simple thought to the big tree.
"Hello."
Sure enough, the tree's simple consciousness instantly became active, and a gentle force was transmitted to Li Ke's palm. And this force was very familiar to Li Ke. It was the life force that he usually used! But this life force was unusually gentle and tranquil, unlike the usual life force. It had a sense of calmness, but the life force couldn't be faked. Li Ke could also feel that this was a force that he could manipulate at will. And it was huge, far beyond the life force that he could obtain by plundering a human.
If he really wanted to compare, he would have to kill at least ten humans to obtain the same amount of life force.
But it felt like something was missing. It was a little different from plundering the life force of an animal. It felt like the increase in his physical fitness and strength was very small, only one-twentieth of that of animals and humans. But surprisingly, when the tree sent this power to him, he also discovered a way to destroy the tree's stability and directly rob its life force.
After all, as a bandit, you only need to know where the door is, right?
"Don't worry about it. For a tree, extracting nutrients from the earth and condensing them into life force is a very simple action. The force that it gave you is only the amount that it collected today. If you don't use it, it will only keep a little bit at most, and the rest will dissipate and return to nature … But for you, it should be enough to restore your youth."
Ai Weng was right. The life energy needed to save Garen was equivalent to the lives of 12 people, but it would only take the lives of 2 people to recover his youth. So when Li Ke tried to absorb this force into his body and restore his youth, he transmitted a feeling of 'gratitude' to the tree, causing the source of life of the tree to constantly transmit feelings of joy.
But just when Li Ke was about to break away from this feeling and give the tree some fertilizer, Ai Weng spoke again.
"You can try to return a little of the life force that this young lady gave you to her in the way that you're used to, but only a little."
His words made Li Ke a little confused, but Li Ke still did it. But when he returned a part of the force that originated from the tree to the lady, something happened that made him dumbfounded.
Because the tree directly grew bigger and taller by half a meter in front of him.
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