Chapter 54 : Chapter 47: Blood of the Burning Flame
Igter’s expression was caught by Verafia, and she immediately guessed most of his thoughts.
Verafia found his thoughts somewhat amusing, and a gentle smile appeared on her youthful little face.
However, the young girl still pretended to be angry.
“Hmph, I’ve already told you, how can little humans like you compare to this young lady! Moreover, the effect of this magic potion is not to help Dou Qi cultivation, but to temper the physique.”
“Temper the physique?” Igter raised his head.
“Of course.”
The girl glared at him with her big eyes, crossed her slender arms in front of her chest, and pouted before saying.
“This young lady has already told you, this is a magic potion called Fafnir’s Blood from Lothel’s memory, isn’t that its effect?”
“Fafnir’s Blood?”
Igter’s expression obviously changed. He had clearly heard of this legendary potion.
Fafnir, the greedy dragon in the epic of the gods, was killed by a divinely appointed warrior with a sword in a dragon’s hoard filled with gold.
Legend has it that after slaying the demonic dragon, the warrior drank the dragon’s blood wine and bathed his entire body in dragon blood, becoming invulnerable thereafter. Even the turmoil of the gods’ war did not cause him to fall.
Although it was only a legend, its effects were remarkable. As for the magic potion named “Fafnir’s Blood” that Verafia mentioned, even he had only chanced upon it in his family’s ancient texts… He never expected to hear this name from the girl’s voice.
Igter suddenly raised his head and asked.
“Miss Verafia, you mentioned earlier that this magic potion came from Lord Lothel’s memory. Do you mean that he also refined and consumed this magic potion?”
“Of course, otherwise, do you think someone as strong as him wouldn’t go and slay some evil dragons and drink their blood?”
Verafia slightly raised her face and saw Igter’s suddenly excited expression again. Her bright golden eyes rolled in helplessness, thinking that she absolutely could not reveal her identity to this fanatical junior.
If it weren’t for the fact that she would be ruined, just her current self would eventually be pestered to death by this young man.
Verafia brushed back her hair with her slender fingers and said.
“In short, this young lady’s ‘Blood of the Burning Flame’ is a super-weakened version based on the recipe of this magic potion. Although I don’t know its full effects, it should have a good effect on your little Bronze-level body.”
“En, that’s all for now. Igter, do you want to try this young lady’s results? If there are any problems, we can improve it.”
Igter looked at the potion waving in the girl’s pure white slender hand, and his thoughts were immediately pulled back to reality. His emotions, which had been filled with other things just moments ago, now made him feel guilty again.
Undoubtedly, the energy fluctuations emanating from the magic potion in the girl’s hand were at least Platinum level. And who knows if there were any flaws in this little phoenix’s experimental product?
“Young Lady, aren’t you afraid of accidentally burning me to death if something goes wrong?”
However, since Verafia had said it to this extent, Igter naturally did not dare to refuse her kindness anymore. He could only pray in his heart that if something unexpected happened, this little phoenix would not deliberately toy with him.
Igter followed Verafia to the spring, took the potion from the girl’s hand, and the fiery red liquid appeared like flames in his eyes.
“Young Lady, does this magic potion require any preparation before use, or can I just take it directly?”
“Of course, you can take it directly, and in fact, this is one way to use it. And if you do it this way, it can also greatly increase your body’s strength for a period of time!”
Sitting on a huge stone, Verafia propped up her snow-white chin with her jade-like slender fingers. Suddenly, as if she thought of something, she smiled wickedly at Igter.
“However, if you do it this way, with your small physique, once the medicinal effect wears off, I estimate you’ll turn into a complete inanimate object!”
Igter also nodded. Just by the raging power that could be felt from the potion bottle alone, Igter was obviously not so arrogant as to drink it directly by himself.
“Then, Young Lady, how should I use it?”
“It’s simple!”
Verafia turned her head and chuckled. She pulled her skirt and jumped down from the large stone to the ground.
She snatched back the potion she had just handed to Igter, unscrewed the cap, and squatted by the spring again, pouring the entire test tube of potion into the water with a “plop.”
In an instant, the clear spring water was dyed a scarlet color, and its faintly glowing luster revealed immense power.
Verafia tilted her little face and thought.
“According to my estimation, the magical power of these potions should last for more than an hour. Igter, you just jump in and absorb and cultivate!”
Igter nodded in response. However, when Igter saw the scarlet-dyed spring water, which emanated a scorching, raging energy just by looking at it, and the ominous premonition he had felt earlier, he couldn’t help but hesitate again.
“Young Lady, are there any side effects to this magic potion?”
“How could there be! Igter, when have I ever harmed you?”
Verafia patted her chest with her slender hand and vowed with all sincerity.
Igter thought about how true that was, so he relaxed and jumped into the spring water that seemed to be burning like a raging flame.
“However… it might hurt a bit? Does that count as a side effect?”
As soon as the girl’s voice fell, it was drowned out by Igter’s excruciating screams, startling all the birds in the forest and even making a few foraging magical beasts show expressions of surprise.
…
The scarlet color in the spring water, like scorching, venomous flames, licked the young man’s body, like tens of thousands of sharp, burning fiery knives, brutally slicing through his body, piercing countless wounds, and then smearing the scorching flames on his nerve endings.
The seeping blood made the flame-like spring water even more scarlet.
Even Igter, who believed his will to be firm enough, almost gritted his teeth in pain, clenched his fists with all his might, and veins bulged on his forehead, but he could not stop his body’s instinctive reaction to pain.
Even… Igter couldn’t help but recall the scene a few days ago when he was almost beaten to death by the mercenary trio.
“It doesn’t seem like it just hurts a bit?”
Looking at the young man’s agonizing state, which seemed like he was being tortured by a thousand cuts, Verafia turned her head away, unable to bear to look, and thought guiltily.
Although the Dragon Crystal Flame Burst Tree’s crown blood was far inferior to dragon blood, even without materials like the branches and leaves of the Elven Tree…
Looking at it this way, her last drop of blood seemed to have a good effect?
A light of excitement lit up in the girl’s eyes. The slight sense of guilt in her heart was quickly thrown to the back of her mind.
