Huo Qi looked at the slightly beating black bag and felt an inexplicable chill. There was a strange and evil aura that was continuously wafting out of the bag.
This evil smell is exactly the same as the smell on O'Neal.
Hotch instinctively felt disgusted.
disgust?
Hotch was stunned for a moment, then understood something. He looked at the black bag and asked, "What's in the bag?"
"Back to the young master, this is the evil thing of the [Juting Sect]. It has extremely strong degenerative power and can make the extraordinary people on the knight path unknowingly degenerate, go crazy, and become fanatical believers of the giant family. The reason why O'Neill mutated
Crazy because it is contaminated by this giant statue."
"Just now, when Russell was taking you to escape, I sensed that the statue had mutated. It was swallowing the blood of living people and gradually appeared to be alive. In order to prevent the statue from completely mutating and swallowing the entire village, I chose to go first.
Go and deal with it.”
"I'm sorry for bringing you danger."
"Doctor Bird's Beak" explained hoarsely.
"Ju Ting Sect?" Huo Qi heard the name, and his face was a little unhappy. It was a cult that he had never heard of before. Why did the evil things of Ju Ting Sect appear in the fiefdom?
Who is plotting against his father, the Marquis Bach?
"Since you saw O'Neal mutate into a giant, why didn't you take action immediately and instead chose to watch?"
Hotch looked at "Doctor Beak" and asked another question.
The explanation of "Doctor Bird's Beak" is logically correct, but it still has loopholes.
Since he was his bodyguard, why didn't he choose to deal with it as soon as possible when he encountered danger, but instead just watched and waited?
This is unreasonable.
"The Marquis ordered me to take action at the appropriate time to ensure your safety, and at the same time investigate whether the people around you are in danger?" "Doctor Bird's Beak" replied calmly.
"So, you are using my life to test the loyalty of Russell and Bessemer?" Hodge said coldly, suppressing his anger.
"Back to the young master, I must ensure that the two of them are not infected." "Doctor Bird's Beak" said in an indifferent tone.
Hotch sneered: "Oh, they were almost killed by O'Neal to protect me. Are you satisfied with this result?"
"Do you think they're loyal enough?"
Hearing Hodge's sarcastic words, "Doctor Bird's Beak" remained calm and said, "Young Master, I will apologize to the Marquis. This is my fault."
"Your name?" Hodge looked at "Doctor Beak" and said expressionlessly.
If Hodge's personal maids saw Hodge's expression at this moment, they would definitely be frightened and tremble, because this expression means that Hodge is really angry.
"Will Cortez." Will Cortez, "Doctor Beak", replied.
"Okay." Hodge nodded and ordered: "Unlock the controls on them."
"Yes." Dr. Will Cortez tapped his cane, and an invisible ripple shook out. In an instant, the numbness and restraint on both of them completely disappeared.
Russell and Bessemer stood up quickly, glanced at Doctor Will with a somewhat fearful look, and said nothing.
With the conversation between Hotch and Will, they already understood what happened and why Will didn't take action immediately.
They were relatively understanding of Will's choice.
But equally, they can also understand Master Hoch's anger.
Because Will neglected his duty and at the same time took advantage of Master Hodge.
This is something that as a host, is absolutely unacceptable.
This is the following offense.
"Get your horses ready, I want to go back to the mansion." Hodge ordered.
"you go."
"Yes, Master." Will nodded slightly, and his figure moved and disappeared from the place.
Hodge looked at Will who was coming and going without a trace, narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked: "Do you know this Will Cortez?"
Bessimo shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"It seems that during the last foreign war, the Marquis captured the enemy general from the rebels in the New Gill area." Russell seemed to understand something and said softly: "I heard the elders in the village say this. This Will
It seems that in the last war, he suffered extensive burns and became a ghost. He was finally saved by the Marquis. In order to repay his kindness, he chose to stay and become a slave in the mansion."
"Repay favor? Slave? New Gil area?"
Hodge chewed on these words, and related memories emerged in his mind. This was a war ten years ago. In order to continue to expand and occupy land, minerals, coal and other resources, the empire's senior officials constructed a reason to take the initiative to invade the New Gil region.
Launched an attack.
This attack encountered fierce resistance from the rebels, and the empire suffered heavy losses. However, it eventually captured most of the area. Only a small half of the area has not yet been captured. The rebels continued to make detours in the mountains and forests based on their terrain advantages.
The war caused a lot of trouble to the empire.
"He just defeated you all at once. According to your judgment, what is his path? What is the approximate sequence?" Hodge asked another question.
After the battle of life and death, Hodge had a lot more trust in these two people in charge.
Especially now that O'Neal, the suspected source, has been dealt with, Hodge currently believes that the two of them are trustworthy.
Of course, follow-up observations are needed.
After all, O'Neill's mutation can only show that he may be one of the reasons why the cavalry regiment was unable to support the mansion in the end, but it cannot completely prove that Russell and Bessemer have no problems.
"He is at least a strong man at the level of Sequence 6. His path should be related to the night and the God of Death. The aura on his body is cold and cold. It is definitely not something that can be possessed by the knight path or the magician path." Bessimo immediately gave his judgment.
.
"Night Path? Death Path?"
Huo Qi nodded slightly and said, "Okay, I understand."
"You should cultivate yourself well. When the time comes, you will need to go to the mansion and report to the Marquis in person."
"Yes, Master." Russell and Bessimo nodded quickly and said respectfully.
Not long after, Dr. Will, the bird-beaked doctor, led the dark black horse and walked up to Hodge.
Hodge didn't waste any time, got on his horse, swung the reins, and ran towards the mansion.
Will looked at Hodge's figure in the distance, moved, raised his hand, grabbed O'Neill's head and withered and decayed body, and disappeared from the place again.
The whole person came and went without a trace, leaving no trace, just like a ghost in the spiritual world.
"Russell, did you find that... there were no extraordinary characteristics sucked out of O'Neill's body..."
It wasn't until the two of them left that Bessimo, who was sore and scarred all over, sat down and said in a rather complicated tone.
"That wine glass, in the process of extracting blood, fused the extraordinary characteristics with the blood. This is also the reason why blood wine can improve and weaken the essential power. In a sense, that glass of blood wine is equivalent to neutralization and purification.
The extraordinary characteristics of the end.”
The female magician Russell's tone was a little complicated. As an Extraordinary who was promoted to Sequence 9 Pharmacist, she knew very well how difficult it was to neutralize and purify Extraordinary characteristics. If she wanted to refine the corresponding medicine from the Extraordinary's blood, the success rate was extremely low.
Pitiful.
Take the thin werewolf blood potion that Hodge took out. If Russell were to refine it, the probability of failure would reach 70%, because the extraordinary characteristics are essentially crazy and evil. In the process of purification,
By accumulating madness and evil, the pharmacist may be tempted, infected, and perform incomprehensible actions, which may ultimately lead to failure in refining the medicine and make him or her a lunatic.
And the blood cup in Huo Qi's hand can actually perfectly integrate extraordinary characteristics with blood in just a dozen breaths, and directly produce blood wine similar to a potion. Is this simply unbelievable?
"This ability is impossible even for the most senior pharmacist in the Salom Empire!!"
Hearing this, Bessimo's expression became serious and he asked: "According to your estimation, what level can that blood cup reach if it is sent to the three major churches for evaluation?"
"Level 3 Sealed Artifact, or even Level 2 Sealed Artifact." Russell gave his own answer.
Bessemer frowned, carefully recalled the knowledge taught to him by the Knights Hall and the Church, and slowly said:
"The "Level 3" Sealed Artifact of the Church of Light requires at least two or more low-sequence Beyonders to apply together before it can be used. It is assessed as having a certain risk and the possibility of death."
""Level 2" sealed artifacts are rated extremely dangerous by the church. Improper operation may cause collective destruction at the village or town level, corresponding to the middle sequence level."
"Our current level is still low-sequence. Only starting from sequence 6 can it be called mid-sequence."
"In other words, the blood cup in the young master's hand is the fusion of Sequence 6 or above Sequence 6 extraordinary characteristics..."
"Well, Will just said that O'Neill was contaminated by the giant statue, and the statue became alive. Once it wakes up, it will engulf the entire village. This shows that the giant statue that polluted O'Neill is also a mid-sequence level magical item." Russell
He hummed softly, recalling Will's words just now, "The Will who can handle the mutation of medium-sequence magical items will be at least a strong one at Sequence 6, or even higher."
"What happened recently?"
"Why do magical items at the serial level appear one after another?" Bessimo also felt a headache. The Marquis would definitely summon them. By then, there would probably be a lot of trouble in the future.
"Rather than this, I'm more curious about the side effects of the blood cup. What are they?"
Russell recalled the various miraculous phenomena that appeared in the blood cup, and murmured: "A magical item of this level has a huge negative effect. I don't know how the young master can offset it..."