Chapter 866
There’s No Regret Medicine in the World
Grey couldn’t help but step closer and asked cautiously, “Can I… touch you?” For her, this scene was too profoundly shocking. This was a posture very close to that of a Candlemaster and a Heavenly Candlemaster Envoy.
“Please do,” Alain said gently, lowering his head slightly. Aside from the Pope’s Robes, his upper body was only clad in a thin white shirt. Currently, his expanding body strained the shirt to its limit. The buttons on his chest were undone, revealing the black patterns on his abdomen.
“Forgive my rudeness,” Grey apologized as she unhesitatingly reached out and gently touched Alain’s antlers. The antlers felt as smooth and warm as jade, with a warmth that seeped into the bone. Just touching them felt like drinking a cup of perfectly warm tea on a winter’s day.
“…Is this Illuminate Spell? And Fire Worship Magic?” As the Eternal Saintess, Grey was naturally very proficient in illumination and fire worship techniques. The moment she touched the antlers, she keenly sensed the power of these two techniques mixed together. It wasn’t activated by mana but was a natural sacred trait. Even if these antlers were detached and cut off, they could likely maintain this sacred trait—contact with them could rapidly heal any injuries or illnesses; just wearing them would be enough to grant eternal youth, constant vitality, and vigor. Even without any further processing, these were “Divine Artifact” level materials. In myths and legends, they could become a hero’s prized possession.
Next, Grey touched the black patterns on Alain’s body. Unlike the smooth, glowing white fur that felt warm and soft, those patterns were sunken. Grey cautiously touched one, and her fingertip met a surprisingly familiar sensation. She looked up, asking uncertainly, “Does it hurt?”
“…Yes?” Alain was also somewhat doubtful. After all, this was his first time transforming into this mythical creature called a “Sin Eater Beast,” and he knew nothing about it either. It looked like some kind of half-deer, half-human monster… or perhaps a “pure deer-human.” When Grey touched those black patterns, Alain clearly felt pain. It felt like someone was touching and pressing on a fresh, bleeding wound.
Soon, the black pattern Grey had touched suddenly began to bleed. “So, these are like… [wounds]…” Alain suddenly realized. His heart stirred, and with intense pain like flesh being torn apart, threads of sin thorns grew from those black patterns. Blood dripped from the vivid thorns onto the ground, immediately burning with a fine flame. These thorns entwined around Alain’s body, appearing somewhat similar to those of a Candlemaster!
As Alain willed it, these sin thorns intertwined, forming two wings; then they unraveled, transforming into a half-body set of thorn armor; and then they became spikes pointing outwards like a hedgehog’s shell. …So this is the ability to “freely manipulate sin thorns”? As Alain thought, they bloomed into holy white flowers. Just like the flowers that had grown in Alain’s eyes when he ascended to the Fourth Tier. However, this time the flowers did not wither and turn into dates but remained in full bloom.
Immediately after, a peculiar aroma wafted from Alain’s body—Grey felt her spirit instantly become tranquil, her troubles, worries, and all distracting thoughts dissipating simultaneously. “This is… Worry-free Lily!” Grey finally recognized the source of the aroma. “So they grow on the sin thorns…” Hearing this name after a long time, Alain also reacted. It was a rare flower that only bloomed in a few areas where the Dream Realm and the Material Realm merged. When made into essential oil, this flower could be used to create the Witch’s legendary potion, “Forgetfulness Potion.” Unlike an “Love Potion,” this potion could make someone forget their love for others. However, compared to the specific “Love Potion,” “Forgetfulness Potion” was more brutal—it couldn’t precisely make someone forget their feelings for a specific person but directly cleared all feelings for everyone. Although the person would still retain past memories, they couldn’t associate those memories with themselves—they couldn’t “empathize.” The Witch’s personality was “what I want, I will get,” more malicious than those Fairies. Therefore, if the person they loved already had another lover and they couldn’t break them up, they would directly use this precious potion to erase the target’s “love.”
However, Alain knew about this because it had another use. —Worry-free Lily was the main ingredient in “Reset Potions”! Alain had thought that this World didn’t have Reset Potions. After all, the output of Worry-free Lily was completely controlled—a special event called “Dream Realm Erosion Phenomenon” would occur right when a new version began, and it would also be suddenly opened once in the middle of the version. But he had never heard of such a thing. It was an event dungeon, lasting a week. Each day, players had one chance to enter a rift and fight some elite monsters, obtaining a certain amount of Worry-free Lily daily. Thirty-three flowers could be combined to synthesize a Reset Potion. Each event could yield approximately three and a half free potions, enough to remove three unwanted Path Traits and exactly one Profession. After all most Professions advanced once every three Tiers. Drinking three bottles at the Fourth Tier would revert one back to the First Tier and could even directly remove a basic profession, as First Tier class changes didn’t require potion. Drinking two bottles at the Fifth Tier could also revert one to the Third Tier to reselect a class change. If one couldn’t get the desired Path Trait after these three attempts, they’d have to buy it from the shop. But the price would be expensive… Nameless God Studio was truly greedy, selling one flower for one dollar. However, because the free output was also very large, the value of the necessary products obtained for free each version was hundreds of dollars, and generally sufficient. Many players even spoke in favor of the official…
If there’s anyone who might have heard of a Reset Potion, it would probably be Grey.
“—Have you heard of [Regret Medicine]?” Alain asked Grey, “A divine medicine made from Worry-free Lily.”
“That’s a medicine invented by Akropolis. A medicine that can reverse time, allowing people to partially return to the past. It was quite common before humans were born, but for some reason, it was suddenly lost,” Grey replied. As expected, Grey did know a little. “Does that medicine also require Worry-free Lily? That wouldn’t be strange… After all, since the third sun rose, the Dream Realm and the Material Realm have been completely separated. Now, there is no Worry-free Lily in the Material Realm, so how could the inheritance of Regret Medicine still exist…” This also meant that “Reset Potions” did indeed exist in this World.
“…Then do you know where Akropolis’s prescription might be?”
“Anxi. If there’s anywhere with Akropolis’s prescription, Anxi would certainly have it,” Grey said, looking at Alain. “Your Majesty the Pope, are you looking for Regret Medicine? If you are, the Church can also do its utmost to find it for you… There should still be some unused Regret Medicine from two or three thousand years ago…”
“No need for now,” Alain shook his head. “It’s not urgent…” For him, whether it was the Vessel traits chosen in the past or the current golden trait of Illusory Blood… they were of no use anymore. He could still use Illusory Blood to transform into the Child of the Moon’s form, but he had to wait half a month for the cooldown of this Path Trait after the mirror shattered. …However, that always reminded him of Alistair. He could no longer feign Alistair without restraint as he did before. When “Alistair” was no longer a joke but a real person… the nature of this matter changed. But Alain believed that even if he removed this Path Trait, the Twin would never be angry. After all, the Twin had already seen everything it wanted to see—the false mirror image had completely come alive from the mirror and entered the real world.
Anxi… Alain’s heart stirred, remembering the story Cardinal Belisarius told him by Cardinal Dominic. After he created Alistair and solved the problem of the Fallen Heavenly Envoy… he should indeed go there. Coincidentally, the Abyss Heavenly Envoy could also serve as nourishment for the Water Attribute Great Beast!
(End of Chapter)
