After the tragedian frankly stated that his support for Philip was not as strong as that of Caffney...he added one more sentence.
"Furthermore, I actually have never had any support for Philip. That is all due to his own intelligence. His use of the power of gods is more to use this name to deceive those who follow him.
"Even the Lady Holding the Cup, all she did was give him [Rustless Blood]. The 'sugar' he created had nothing to do with the Lady's divine magic, or even the transformation spell. It was just
It’s just a product of ritual.”
"Blood without rust?"
Annan was a little surprised: "Philip is a blood eater?"
Blood Eaters are the silver-level advanced professions of berserkers. After drinking rust-free blood and advancing, they only need to offer a cup of their own blood every month to get rust-free blood that extends their lifespan.
After taking it, they will be energetic throughout the month, their body's self-healing ability is extremely strong, they will no longer get sick and their appearance will not grow old; but on the other hand, if they cannot take the rust-free blood in time, their blood will "rust"
", will soon suffer from torture, weaken and die.
This is indeed very consistent with Annan's impression of Philip.
but……
"As far as I know, Prince Philip is not an extraordinary person, right?"
"Indeed he is not."
The tragedy writer replied with a smile: "Because he was born a 'rust-blooded'. He cannot become a berserker, let alone worship the cup-holder like an ordinary believer."
"His homemade candy mixed with devil's blood, his superficial belief in the cup girl, his deeper belief in the rotten husband, and his actual belief in me are all performances he uses to control his men.
That's all. He performs rituals to the cup-bearing girl and rotten husband every day to maintain his youth... But it's just an ordinary 'ritual', not a religious 'sacrifice ceremony'.
"He is just using this method to build momentum for himself. But in fact, he knows it himself, the cup-holder girl knows it, the rotten man knows it, and I also know it...Prince Philip, he doesn't believe in any god.
"He only believes in himself. He is a very simple child... because all he wants is to have fun.
"It's just a pity. His origin, his destiny, his talents, and the diseases he suffers from all prevent him from this wish."
——The Rusty Blooded One.
Annan knows this term.
This is what people in this world call hemophilia.
Because their skin often has bruise marks for no reason, or a very light impact will cause bruises that are difficult to dissipate, and their joints are abnormally tingling and stiff, and their urine will occasionally turn into rust color...and finally
The key point is that once injured, bleeding will stop, and people believe that their blood is "rusty".
People in this world have already discovered through Sui Fu's magical skills and the judgment effect of transformation spells that human blood actually contains a very small amount of "iron".
But they didn't know what form the iron existed in... So some wizards explained this phenomenon as "the veins are solid, and the iron ore is solid; the blood is liquid, so the iron in the blood
It should also be liquid and mixed with blood."
Those wizards were the ancient doctors and researchers.
They believe that just as iron rusts and becomes "unhealthy", the reason why people get sick is because "blood rusts".
Therefore, the blood in the cup given by the girl holding the cup, which can keep people young forever and eliminate all kinds of diseases, is called "rust-free blood".
Because rust-blooded people will bleed endlessly once they are cut... so they cannot perform a self-sacrifice ceremony to the Cup Girl.
After all, not all cup-holding women's rituals will reward "rust-free blood". Only blood-eaters can obtain rust-free blood conveniently and quickly.
So the Cup Bearer simply forbids the Rusty-Blooded to perform self-sacrifice rituals to her... This means that Philip cannot sacrifice his own blood to the Cup Bearer.
The berserker's curse must be a self-harming type. This is the prerequisite for the berserker to advance.
"...In other words, if Philip was a rust-blooded person, he should not be able to offer sacrifices to the cup-bearing girl at all; he also cannot be a berserker. So -"
The answer is ready to come out.
What Philip drank was not "rustless blood" purchased with his own blood.
There are at least four blood eaters who are raising him with their own blood!
The time limit for blood replacement by blood eaters is nine days plus or minus one month.
The ceremony can be held nine days in advance at the earliest. If it is any earlier, the "rust-free blood" in their blood has not been exhausted. They will not be judged by the [Cup] as their own blood.
And if it is nine days late, you will die from decay.
The amount of "a cup of blood" refers to one-ninth of the total blood volume of the human body. That is, it is about 500cc.
Generally speaking, the blood sacrificed to the cup-holder girl will remain in the disappearing state for nine months, and then return to itself in the form of rust-free blood... This is also the conventional method of sacrifice chosen by ordinary cup-holder female believers.
——Sacrifice a cup of animal blood every nine days, add one or two drops of your own blood, and after nine months of continuous sacrifice, you can obtain a continuous state of youthfulness.
But Philip was unable to use this method because of rust disease.
However, neither magical means nor self-healing methods can relieve the victim's weakened state, let alone regenerate blood.
Because strictly speaking, the blood is not lost, but exists in their bodies in a different way.
Without the ability to regenerate itself, continuous blood loss of one thousand milliliters during the expiration date of Rustless Blood may already be life-threatening.
It is impossible for a silver-level transcendent to sacrifice his life directly and cheaply to Prince Philip...
But they still had a way to sell the rustless blood to Philip.
——All it takes is four people.
The first man first sacrificed a cup of blood at the 21-day mark. Let Philip drink it first... and then nine days later, he drank the rust-free blood obtained by the second man's sacrifice of his own blood to maintain his health.
its own activity; and the second person will drink the rust-free blood that the third person exchanged for his own blood nine days later, and so on.
Rust-free blood has an effectiveness time of 21 to 22 days per month, a nine-day expiration time and a nine-day illness time. As long as four blood-eating disciples circulate the operation, they can even out enough rust-free blood to cover a month.
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"But why did Philip so thirst for rustless blood?"
Annan asked with some vigilance: "You wouldn't say that this question also requires 40 holy light seals, right?"
"This is also a supplement to the previous question. I won't charge you."
"Thank you very much."
"You're welcome."
The tragedy writer smiled slightly: "The reason is simple... because Philip was old once."
"...Are you old once?"
It was difficult for Annan to understand this statement.
"That's right. He has indeed [aged] once, and he has aged to the point where he is close to death."
The tragedian said with certainty: "That is the power of a [great level] curse."