OBS Chapter 4164 The Vanished Forge
Chapter 4164 The Vanished Forge
Chapter 4164 The Vanished Forge
Seeing everyone saying goodbye to Shad, the halfling girl standing nearby felt she should also say a few words. She thought Shad was a very nice person.
"It seems I won't have the chance to invite you to my hometown again. I don't have any souvenirs to give you, and Mrs. Gustave has already given her her best wishes, so I won't repeat them."
She opened her arms to Shad and, under Gina's somewhat doubtful gaze, hugged Shad as he bent down.
"The people you encounter in the future who collect the Demon Eyes may be your sisters' juniors, but I don't have much contact with them, and my sisters may not listen to me, so I can't leave you anything."
However, if I can leave here smoothly, I'd like to go to school in St. Byron. Although life in this small town is comfortable, this experience has made me want to go out and see the world.
"The college entrance exam is very difficult, but I have some old study materials!"
Gina immediately spoke, and Miss Bradwell nodded, looking up at Shad:
"Mr. Shad Hamilton, I hope you and your lovely cat will live happily every day from now on."
"Meow?"
The cat, which had been stuffed into his pocket when they left the first lounge, poked its head out again, and Shad quickly pressed it back down.
"I also hope that you can all live a happy and peaceful life. Actually, there's no need to say goodbye so soon. Maybe we'll see the sun in the real world in ten minutes."
"Meow?"
"Oh, Mia, now you'd better behave and not come out until I call you out."
"Meow~"
"So, let's start the furnace. What should we do with the remaining flesh and blood?"
The small bucket currently contains a large amount of flesh and blood, and only a quarter of it is used in the final furnace. No one is going to take these things out; leaving them in a corner of the room might cause trouble later. Therefore, after consulting everyone, Shad extracted all the life force from the flesh and blood tissue and stored it in the spark source.
These flesh and blood tissues with their bright red glow were indeed special. Each piece contained an exaggerated amount of life force. After the life force was absorbed, the life energy contained in the source of fire had reached a level that Xia De could not describe.
However, just to be on the safe side, Shad didn't completely "kill" the unnecessary flesh and blood; he merely suppressed their activity to the greatest extent possible. Otherwise, it would be rather ridiculous if, after igniting the furnace, altars or doors appeared that required sacrificial flesh and blood to open.
The frozen withering crystals were eventually hidden in the kidneys, and then the twelve flesh and blood organs were enveloped by bubbles exhaled by Gina and flew into the dodecahedron in the air.
When the organs touched the runes on the dodecahedron, they merged directly into the metal. The metal was thus given life; a light representing fire appeared on its surface, and the baby's cries became clearer until they could be heard by everyone.
"The sound is much clearer than when we lit the first furnace."
Mrs. Gustav said this, then took the [Blood Essence of All Things] to the blood pool under the furnace and threw it in:
"The fuel is ready; the final step is to ignite it with the flame of life."
She spoke to Shad, handing him the small piece of the Philosopher's Stone she had obtained previously, to prepare for the upcoming battle. Previously, the witches had used their own fresh blood to ignite the Blood Pool, but after Miss Felianana attempted to guide the life force within the AllSpark, they realized that blood was merely a vessel, and the energy within it was the most crucial element.
"Life Rays"
As the crimson rays emanating from Shad's fingertips entered the blood pool, the rising crimson flames quickly licked the bottom of the metal dodecahedron, and then the entire massive metal dodecahedron began to burn.
The raging flames forced everyone to retreat to the wall; those flames were not normal fire, but a surging, vibrant fire of life.
The flames burned silently, their surging life force even making the old witch's silver hair seem to turn back to black, but the increasingly intense cries made everyone dizzy. Amid the cries, a giant hammer slammed down, a steam whistle roared, bells echoed, swords clashed, gears turned, pistons pushed—all sorts of strange sounds mixed together, creating a bizarre symphony that resembled a song.
The blinding flames had already caused real damage to everyone's eyes. Even the twelfth-level Mrs. Gustav had already closed her eyes. Only the curious Shad stared wide-eyed as the metal dodecahedron in the center of the room broke free from the metal pipes connecting the top and bottom and began to rotate in the flames.
The runes on the metal surface left afterimages, and the firelight transformed them into a spinning fireball. Within that fireball, Shad clearly saw a curled-up figure trying to spread its arms and legs.
Thick blood mist suddenly spewed out from the gaps in the metal dodecahedron, nearly engulfing the entire room within seconds. But the flame of life was so bright that even the thickest blood mist could not obstruct Shad's gaze in that direction.
Then he vaguely saw the metal dodecahedron slowly unfold like flower petals, with blood-red flames condensing in the center of the "petals," and energy outlining a curled-up figure. The blood vessels, organs, and bones inside that figure were reflected in Shad's eyes, and the method of life creation was presented to him in the most ancient way. The outsider thought he understood something.
She whispered a reminder:
[Outsider, your extraordinary technique "Life Ray" has undergone a second transformation: the life energy you unleash can temporarily materialize.]
"Energy transforming into a physical form?"
The life force that unconsciously appeared in his right palm was manipulated by his mental power to transform into the shape of a flower. Then, the flickering flame solidified into a crimson crystal, and the edges of the crystal quickly became rounded until a bright red flower truly appeared in Xia De's hand.
"This"
The flower quickly disintegrated into sparks, clearly indicating that such an energy-formed entity could not sustain itself for long. When Xia De focused his gaze on the fireball within the blood mist, the metallic dodecahedron remained unchanged, showing no sign of opening or shrinking.
A rumbling sound came from beneath their feet, followed by a violent tremor in the ground, but these were not included in the witches' descriptions of the ignition of the Forge of Life.
The four people immediately huddled together, and amidst the tremors, the crimson furnace that had been transforming in the air slowly descended until it plunged into the blood pool below. Accompanied by the gurgling sound of boiling blood, an increasingly thick blood mist continued to spread throughout the room.
The blood mist carried heat and contained an even more terrifying power of flesh-mutation. The cloaked witches even had to use the "false life skin" taught by Miss Felianana to protect themselves, and the doll on Shad's shoulder also shimmered with a faint red light.
Perception was severely impaired at this moment, and their field of vision was reduced to less than three meters. The tremors on the ground quickly stopped, followed by the gurgling sound of water coming from the center of the room, which was out of sight. Soon, the blood overflowing from the blood pool had reached the corner of the wall, but none of the four people moved, waiting for whatever might be in the blood mist to make the first move.
But they received nothing in return.
"what happened?"
Even Xia De didn't know what was happening in the center of the room, but seeing that the blood overflowing from the pool had already reached their ankles, the four of them cautiously approached the center of the room together.
But there was nothing there, only cries that were even louder and more piercing than before.
The dodecahedron that seemed to have sunk into the blood pool has vanished without a trace, and only a faint outline of the blood pool remains visible beneath the surface.
"Has what we ultimately created become invisible?"
The halfling girl, holding her small shield, looked around warily, while Shad and Mrs. Gustav simultaneously considered a possibility:
"It escaped! There's a passage beneath the blood pool, which is why the blood keeps overflowing!"
"Powerful spatial perception!"
The severely limited spatial perception made it impossible to detect what was beneath the blood, but upon closer listening, the increasingly loud cries clearly came from beneath the blood pool.
Gina then exhaled several fist-sized bubbles that flew into the blood pool, and after a moment she gave her answer:
"There's no bottom below, so my bubble burst before it even reached the bottom."
"I'm afraid that thing wants to go to a more suitable place to complete its final birth."
Mrs. Gustave addressed everyone:
"We must catch up."
The conclusion is correct; the problem lies in the fact that prolonged contact with the blood mist will cause bodily deformities, let alone the liquid within the blood pool. However, there is no time to delay any longer, and Miss Feliananna immediately gave the order:
“Use that coffin. All four of you curl up inside, then seal all the gaps with bubbles as much as possible, and cast a protective spell on the coffin. If the coffin does break, remember to use the secret method I taught you to protect yourselves.”
While everyone else remained hidden inside the coffin, I cast a spell to control it, guiding it towards the sound. This journey was bound to be extremely dangerous, but we had to find it before the new life was born, or at least before it adapted to its newborn body.
"Ok!"
Shad then released the coffin, and everyone jumped inside. But the coffin was large enough for a girl of Miss Bradley's size to curl up with her legs drawn up, and there was no way for anyone else to hide inside except to lie down.
Finally, Shad lay down on his side with Gina at the bottom, with the halfling girl and the old witch on top of them. The space left by Miss Bradway was used to store Gina's large tail, and only then could the coffin lid be barely closed.
Gina knew she was taking up a lot of space, and blushing in the darkness, she argued that her tail wasn't fat at all, while the halfling girl squeezed next to her tail wanted to express a different opinion.
This coffin, which never saw its owner, probably never imagined that one day so many people would lie inside it at the same time.
PS1: Not taking a second coffin earlier wasn't being overly cautious, since nobody wants to be separated into two coffins and end up scattered.
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