Chapter 59: Seeing the dagger in the face of poverty
Chapter 59: Seeing the dagger in the face of poverty
"If you don't tell me, I'm going to close the secret seal."
Purney sighed, "You should understand. If Birrell's actions cause the curse power in Toins' body to be unable to be suppressed, he will definitely find a way to transfer it. The transfer targets are nothing more than you and me, and Birrell himself. No one can escape. Birrell must be crazy to do such a thing.
Originally, given Toins's situation, he didn't need to transfer the curse power in a short period of time, but now - it's hard to say. Ivan, I'm afraid you don't have time."
Ivan's heart sank after hearing what the other party said. He realized that Biller was using the method of killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of his own men, and he and others might be implicated.
He found a problem: "No, you mean that Toins can also transfer the power of the curse to Birrell. Isn't he outside the castle?"
Purney said, "Otherwise, why can Billel and I stay alive? It's because we are valuable to Toins. According to our observation, when the power of the curse was first transferred to us, the curse still belonged to Toins. Once someone dies, the power of the curse will definitely return to him.
Only if we are alive can we slowly integrate the power of the curse. The longer we live, the more we can integrate. Toins can continue to transfer the curse, and the curse will no longer affect Toins after death."
This seems to be good news.
Ivan suddenly thought of something: "Then can I take this opportunity to ask Toins for a small request?"
"Tsk." Penny was amused by his words, "You can give it a try. I'm very optimistic about you, haha."
The two discussed for a while but couldn't come to any conclusion. After all, they were far inferior to the other party in strength, so they could only let it go and look for a good opportunity.
The next day.
The sky was clear and the light shining through the clouds was exceptionally bright, but Ivan felt an unstoppable chill in his heart.
An hour ago, the cloud servant brought Toins new instructions, asking him to go to Lar Hall at noon.
I didn't expect Penny's words to come true so quickly. I was gloating and ready to watch the show, but just a few days later, the boomerang hit me. Fate is so unpredictable!
Some things can't be avoided after all.
When it was noon, Ivan found that he was not the only one who received the notice. This time he was ranked first. The second one should be Lowry, who was somewhat excited. He was probably thinking about something good.
"Chirp."
Led by the cloud servant, Ivan did not enter the Lar Hall, but came to a windowless house not far to the left.
The door opened and a cool breeze blew in.
This is a laboratory. After Ivan entered the room, he could sense high-energy fields in many places. What caught his eyes were various biological samples soaked in solutions in glass bottles, including the hearts, horns, claws, and eyeballs of demonized beasts with tentacles, etc. There were also hideous-looking big insects, weird ugly fish, and floating objects that looked like human organs.
His pupils shrank.
A familiar head sealed in glue, lifelike, turned out to be Roseside who disappeared after landing on the island.
It turned out that Roseside had already entered his mentor's laboratory. It was no one's fault. It was only because he did not see clearly his own status and value.
Even though they were enemies, Ivan still felt grief-stricken.
"Ivan, good boy, come here."
Toins' words brought Ivan back to his senses. Toins was sitting inside the laboratory, still with a gentle smile on his face.
Ivan stepped forward and saluted: "Nice to meet you, mentor."
Toins nodded slightly: "Ivan, I remember I told you that knowledge has a price."
"You said so. I remember it very clearly."
"Very well, then I will share a part of my power with you, a part of my living power, what do you think?"
Sure enough, this was Toins's purpose. Ivan estimated in his mind that the chance of being killed if he took action was 90%. The other 10% would be imprisonment, which would have the same bad result.
"If I can repay your kindness, mentor, I see no reason to refuse."
"Very good, you are a sensible person, unlike some people who only know how to ask for things but don't know how to be grateful."
Toins was very satisfied with his answer. He rolled up the sleeves of his wizard robe, revealing his arm, on which there was a dark blue pattern covering half of his arm. The patterns that made up the pattern looked like intertwined venomous snakes, revealing a different kind of hideousness. Ivan glanced at it subconsciously, and immediately felt a bone-chilling chill, which frightened him so much that he quickly retracted his gaze.
At Toines's signal, he rolled up the sleeve of his left arm.
Toins carefully absorbed a small ball of energy from the dark green pattern, muttered a spell, and accurately bounced the power to Ivan's left arm with his backhand. Ivan only felt his arm burned by the scorching temperature and shivered uncontrollably.
Toins put down his sleeves and said, "This is the Seal of Spring Wood. It will be beneficial to your meditation practice. You will slowly experience it when you return."
Believe it or not!
Ivan was secretly complaining that this Laozichun Wood Seal was indeed a curse, and changes appeared on the light film.
[Curse: lv0 (1/10)]
He never could have imagined that this would bring him a new subject, which was a little consolation.
However, Toins' words did not seem to be false. The curse was emitting a warm breath, which made the nearby flesh and blood feel strangely comfortable, which was obviously beneficial to the body.
He also realized that some kind of connection had been established between himself and his mentor through the curse, which might be another troublesome problem.
Seeing that his disciple had not moved, Toins asked in surprise: "Ivan, do you have anything else to do?"
Ivan looked at him: "Teacher, this shouldn't be the Spring Wood Seal."
"What do you think it should be?"
"A curse that can kill people. I think the apprentices before me died here, and I will be one of them in the future."
Ivan directly exposed the hypocrisy of his mentor.
As soon as he finished speaking, even the air in the laboratory became solidified and dangerous. A huge power emanated from Toins and fell on him.
At this moment, Ivan did not choose to retreat.
As he had told Purney, he was going to try to make some demands, some demands that were nothing to Toynes but were the hope of survival for him.
The worst case scenario is that they break up and he dies a few months early, which makes Toins' initial investment go down the drain. He cherishes his life more than anyone else, so he can't just wait for a chance to survive, but fight for himself.
After a while, Toins asked, "Ivan, what do you want to do?"
"I just want to live on, live longer, and not wait to die in ignorance, so I dare to make a small request."
"Tell me your plans."
"In order to live a better life, I want to learn more about this curse. I also hope to make medicine for my mentor. When I was in Feiyu Port, I worked as a pharmacist in a clinic. During that time, I repaired a damaged medium-level secret medicine and turned it into another easy-to-make breathing secret medicine."
Ivan took out the prepared prescriptions from his pocket, one was the original water vortex potion, and the other was the azure potion, to prove his ability in alchemy.
The two requests were the result of his repeated consideration. Pharmacy was the only science that might offer hope of breaking the deadlock and was most suitable for the current situation. He was willing to take a risk for this.
Toins took the two prescriptions and glanced at them. With his experience, he could easily determine that these were indeed prescriptions with the same efficacy, proving that what the other party said was true.
"Ivan, knowledge has a price. It is of little value to me. What else do you have?"
"There is still time left. I guess if I live longer, I will be able to share more of the curse power with my mentor. So please consider your request seriously." Ivan decided to fight for himself to the end. If the other party got angry, it would only mean that he had misjudged his own value.
There was no sign of joy or anger on Toins' face, but Ivan could feel that there was a volcano in him that was about to erupt.
"You are really smart. I will consider your request. Now go back."
"As you command, Master."
Coming out of the laboratory, Ivan's back was wet with sweat and he breathed a sigh of relief.
(End of this chapter)