klisemfg Chapter 337 Bloodstone Fragments
Chapter 337 Bloodstone Fragments
The other person's gender was indiscernible; their petite figure, blurry head, and fragility were as fragile as paper.
He pulled a tattered cloth from the old bed and wiped away the unknown sticky substance... Lorraine suppressed his discomfort and carefully observed the interior of the room. It was a two-story dormitory, not exactly drafty, but dilapidated. The candlelight only illuminated a small area, and if it weren't for the open side door, this cold and dark room would be almost completely dark.
Dark clouds outside obscured the blood moon, and the house was cold and damp... Perhaps due to drafts from the floorboards, the air gap beneath the wooden structure could be vaguely seen.
There were fragments under the hole. Lorraine estimated that there was just enough space for one person to fit under the house. If he had known this, he should have crawled in from under the house.
Risking alerting the enemy, he entered directly from the side and encountered what appeared to be a female undead... Before she could make a sound, he pierced her throat with one hand and smashed her ugly head to pieces.
Surprised by her own terrifying strength, Lorraine quickly checked the items around the other person.
It was clear that this was the only person on the first floor of the old dormitory at the very back of the shelter... No, she wasn't human. She was a Forsaken researcher who had escaped from Undercity.
Lorraine used the candlelight to see the items on the table.
We will pursue the stolen goods to the death!
What are the stolen goods?
Archmage Vodien mentioned that four traitors had each hidden different parts of the Bloodstone. The living Bloodstone possessed unique abilities, and the four researchers seemed to have received unknown benefits. The Bloodstone fragments they kept had altered their personalities, and they seemed to be delirious.
The items on the table are part of the Bloodstone Necklace that Lorraine was looking for—Bloodstone fragments.
The reason for this certainty is that Lorraine found a research log on the traitor she had killed with a single blow.
Signed "Olina," the document detailed her research into the Bloodstone fragments over several months. The last page contained only one sentence: "The Ancient Gods bestowed wisdom upon me..."
The traitor Olina, whom Lorraine killed, seemed to lack intelligence; her head was already blown apart. When they first encountered her, she was kneeling on the floor, dazed and worshipping the bloodstone fragments—hardly the image of someone with any intelligence...
Not only do they lack wisdom, but they are also extremely fragile.
If all the Forsaken were as weak as Olina, Lorraine suddenly felt that the decaying, immortal Forsaken might not be able to withstand the armored might of humanity.
Just as he was carefully reviewing his research log, the mangled body of Olina, whom he had annihilated in a single blow, began to tremble on the dark, cold dormitory floor. Lorraine only remembered a chilling breeze on the back of his neck, then abruptly turned his head and saw a pale blue, transparent phantom biting into the back of his neck.
Since becoming a forgotten person, an unprecedented, bone-deep pain has come.
He attacked the ghostly creature immediately, but physical attacks seemed ineffective against it. When Lorraine tried to grab it, it was like touching solid ice—extremely slippery—and a chunk of his neck was ripped off...
Lorraine was injured after being ambushed...
He felt an icy chill on his neck, a cold, deathly aura spreading throughout his body, freezing his blood. As an undead, his already weak heartbeat stopped instantly, his fragile life force teetering on the brink of collapse, and for the first time, his undead body experienced dizziness and sluggishness.
"What kind of trick is this?"
“Foolish apprentice, this is a curse... a common technique of shadow magic and ghosts... You are a mage, quickly use the magic to remove the curse.”
"Break the curse? Have I ever learned that?"
Lorraine couldn't remember if she had learned how to remove curses. Her teacher had indeed mentioned that it was a mage's secret technique, especially effective against curses cast by strange undead creatures.
The underlying principle is roughly to use arcane magic to deconstruct projections from abyssal magic...
However, curses tend to be associated with witchcraft... Some curses can be dispelled by druids using natural magic purification spells.
The situation was urgent, and Lorraine wanted to use magic, but she was afraid of making too much of a commotion.
Punches and kicks couldn't even scratch its opponent; the ghost's attacks were swift and ruthless. Despite its transparent body, its claws struck with the real sharpness of blades. After taking several blows, Lorraine felt pain all over his body. Only then did he realize just how powerful the banshee he had successfully transformed into truly was.
Is this ghostly banshee transformed from Olina, whom I just killed?
That must be it! The opponent seemed irrational, attacking him viciously. They appeared right where Olina had fallen... In his anxiety, Lorraine seemed to remember something...
Can't hit her?
Immunity to physical attacks?
Why not just send something similar to her to attack her?
Lorraine used Flash to create distance, then abruptly slapped his runic right eye, having not used its power for a long time. Mainly, both master and apprentice were still shaken; the vengeful spirit that had possessed them earlier had left them in a less than ideal state.
The teacher said that one should never lose one's rationality.
But true wisdom lies in using one's talents wisely and not wasting them!
This time, Lorraine actively used the ghosts of her rune right eye for the first time in many days. The ghosts she had previously scattered were just for surveillance, but this time she was actively driving the vengeful spirits to attack.
Countless dark shadows began to emerge from his right eye. They started as wisps of smoke, but suddenly they rapidly expanded...
Ghosts fight ghosts!
The teacher's strategy, using their own methods against them... I wonder if it will work.
Driven by both anticipation and tension, more than ten evil spirits surged forth like a whirlwind towards the banshee ghost that was chasing Lorraine... The ghost seemed undaunted, floating gracefully and charging forward with a relentless, predatory look.
The two sides met face to face and exchanged blows. After a few moves, the evil spirit was quickly torn apart by the banshee's claws. It seemed that Lorraine's ten vengeful spirits were no match for them, but in the next second, those spirits had firmly bound the ghost that Olina had transformed into and suddenly bit down.
Just like the female ghost's attack on Lorraine, the dozen or so vengeful spirits devoured her with incredible speed, tearing her apart and consuming her in an instant... Then, satisfied, they instantly shrank back into Lorraine's right eye...
It seems these vengeful spirits can't stray too far from Lorraine's runic right eye...
The whole process came quickly and ended even faster.
Everything returned to calm; nothing happened except for a cool breeze blowing through the old house...
All that remained at the scene was a flickering candlestick and a few faintly shimmering fragments of bloodstone.
As Lorraine and his apprentice were momentarily stunned, a faint voice of praise seemed to emanate from within the bloodstone fragment... "The power of runes... does not belong here." The pain in his neck and the indistinct whisper simultaneously alerted Lorraine.
He realized that he couldn't underestimate the enemy; the blood-red fragments could even speak.
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