"It must be difficult to get here, right? I remember Badia was guarding above... Well, he is still alive. How did you avoid him, little guy?"
He is the best creature under my command. If he continues to train him, he will be able to access higher fields, but now it seems that the value of training has been reduced."
The lord's blood-red eyes were full of amusement, and there was no unnecessary emotion in his words. With an understatement, he sentenced the most outstanding subordinate in his mouth to death.
Hero swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously, forcing his trembling soul to calm down.
"Lord? I think you should retreat as soon as possible. Why do you think we are here? It's the High Tower... The High Tower has issued an exploration mission, which means that this place has been discovered by the High Tower.
In other words, your experiment cannot continue at all. If we don't restore the tower, they will send high-level magicians to clean it up.
The cost of shielding the tower must be very high, and you don’t want to waste your efforts in building this place. Trust me, we apprentices will not expose the secrets here, and you have enough time to move here!"
Hero explained calmly, wanting to help the lord understand the pros and cons and find a way out for himself with the help of the tiger skin from the tower.
But the lord still had that joking expression.
"It's too late for you to understand... Maybe this is a common problem among apprentices.
Confidence, stubbornness, and desire for the unknown can make you desperate. If you really think about me, you should retreat when you meet a researcher, instead of exploring all the way to the center!
Your current behavior is just a desperate struggle to stay alive."
A large number of black wire conduits extending from the Lord began to retract.
Swish, brush, brush...
The black lines covering the entire space are like thick black snakes, slowly squirming on the ground and above the head.
The position of Helo's station is very awkward. Going forward and backward... the path of escape is too far.
At this moment, a large part of the shrinking black line was surrounding him.
The lord who had untied the black threads stood firmly on the stone bricks with his feet. He stretched out his huge body and stretched comfortably. The black threads shrank and gathered on the top of his head, forming a thick patch of hair.
.
"Pajiguji?"
I was stunned by the big snot that was pushed up by the black line and rolled down on the stone bricks.
When he was above the lord's head, he didn't realize how terrifying his figure was. Now when he was kneeling at his feet, he realized that there was such a monster beside him.
No wonder I didn't absorb any soul from what I just swallowed.
The realm between the two is too great.
Big Nose exclaimed, his soft and sticky body squirmed wildly, and began to roll towards Holo.
But I don't know why, such an obvious action did not attract the lord's attention.
"Byrne, hurry up! Hurry up!"
Hero pushed the [Black Sea] with all his strength, and the pressure on him finally eased a little, but this was not enough.
He could feel the black lines slowly surrounding him, which was far more terrifying than before without the control of the host.
The coercion exuded matches the smell of pollution.
Even with the characteristics of the [Black Sea], Hero still felt uncomfortable.
There are already some black threads "gently" entwining from the cuffs and collar of the robe to the inside.
The lord is toying with him!
He's breathing in!
He was enjoying the breath of fear unconsciously emanating from Holo's soul.
Hero quickly activated the wind on his wrist.
'Byrne shouldn't be far away, all it takes is a chance to attract firepower!'
"Let me guess what you are thinking about? Praying for your companions to appear and save you?"
The great lord knelt down, his palms resting on the ground, his entire back hunched down, and his huge head lowered in front of Hero.
Their faces were only less than half a meter apart.
From such a close distance, Hero could clearly feel the breath coming from the lord's nasal cavity.
Heavy, smelly, filthy!
But this also allowed him to see the lord's upper body that was originally submerged in the dim light.
From the chest upwards, including the collarbone and neck, everything was sewn up with black threads, but under the black threads, there were festering wounds.
Judging from the traces of the wound, it was not a new injury. It had been injured for a long time. With the strength of the soul of the lord, there was no way to repair it. One can imagine how terrifying the existence that caused him harm in the first place was.
Of course, Hero knew the characteristics of this pollutant. Like his [Black Sea], it could only repair the damage caused by pollution.
The seductive tone passed quietly to Hero's ears.
"Give up hope and embrace the abyss of pain. Do you know that just now, three of your so-called companions have died? Oh~ I forgot to tell you. They killed each other. Of course there are my creations.
——Puppet’s help!”
The lord's huge palm spread out in front of Hero, raised three palms, and then turned into a finger and pointed at Hero's forehead.
Just this one finger is almost as thick as Holo's entire body.
The thick columnar object hit his forehead, causing him to lose his vision instantly, and everything in front of him was completely blocked.
"I can help you repair your body!"
"Hahahaha, don't be ridiculous, little guy. Your soul energy fluctuations are not like the system of the [Scarlet Tower]. I guess even your mentor is here. I can't save you with this lie!"
The black teeth opened, and a stench sprayed onto Hero's face.
This damn thing didn’t even brush its teeth after all!
歘!
Hero didn't say much. He raised the spear with all his strength and scratched a gash on his wrist.
The moment the wound appeared, he suppressed the surge of soul energy and repaired the wound purely by relying on the flesh filaments generated by the mutual amplitude of the three modules of [Recovery], [Physique] and [Rebirth].
He took the initiative to expose the secrets of the module.
No soul skills or soul circuits were used.
All this was done under the lord's nose, and because of this, he was able to detect that Holo was using nothing, no medicine, no help from Horcruxes.
Everything seemed to appear out of thin air.
magic.
Hero saw a glimmer of interest in his eyes.
This was obviously beyond his understanding of a tower apprentice.
It was precisely this that gave him a glimmer of hope in Hero's methods.
"Tell me how this is done. I can make you leave alive!"
Hero knew he was telling the truth, and this promise was not difficult for him to fulfill.
With his strength, he doesn't worry about how much trouble Hero can cause him.
Hero stared at the lord with stern eyes, firmness in his eyes.
"I don't know how it works, but I can help you recover your body. As long as I come into contact with your body, I can judge the extent of the injury. If it's just a physical injury, it can be easily recovered."
Of course he didn't tell the truth, the module can only act on itself.
But he wanted to take a gamble, as long as he was allowed to come into contact with the wound and let the [Black Sea] invade his body...
The lord narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Hero's wound suspiciously.
The feeling of oppression increased again, but he did not feel any threat.
Even if the black water was also polluted, he didn't think it would cause harm to him.
"Okay, let's give it a try and let me see what the little guy can do."