bookpower Chapter 285 - 285: Contract
Chapter 285 - 285: Contract
Leon had to drink three or four antidotes before completely getting rid of the poison within his body.
Even he, with his elementiumized body and powerful resistance to poison, he had to stop breathing in order to not take in any more of house's air.
However, Lucy had a completely different reaction to the smell. She was standing on her toes, trying her best to take in as much of the 'heavenly smell' as she could. It was as if she was smelling the most delicious and fragrant delicacy in the world. If it wasn't for Leon holding her back, Lucy would probably already be gorging on the stew in the cauldron.
Leon took a quick look around the cottage.
Several black metal hooks were hanging down from the ceiling. All kinds of jars and bottles of various colors were hanging from the metal hooks. The containers were filled with a dark and murky liquid, with the eyeballs of various magical creatures soaking in the jars.
There were both large and small eyeballs, flat and round ones, and even some with eyeballs dragging their bloody veins behind them as they swam to and fro within their containers...
A large green jar swinging before Leon's eyes had a giant's eyeball immersed within the liquid. Leon could tell this was a giant's eye because of its sheer size. A single eye alone had taken up all the space within the one meter tall jar.
The massive eye even blinked when Leon walked forward to take a closer look!
"Beep. Detecting high-energy magical organ... initial estimates suggest the organ to be at Second Grade!"
"Are you able to tell what creature this eyeball belonged to?" Leon silently conversed with the chip.
"Beep. Data reference and examination completed. Estimates: Cyclops, 63%... Beholder, 21%... Evil Giant, 4%... the remaining matches only have a 1% compatibility. Is there a need to display the data?"
"No need!"
The Cyclops was a fearsome giant that had both powerful physical strength and tremendous control over the earth. A Cyclops might be slightly weaker and smaller than the Hill Giant that Leon saw in the Black Forest, but it had the odd ability of petrification.
This was what made it an extremely powerful Second Grade magical creature!
As Leon's vision continued to move about he noticed a wooden desk in another corner of the room. It was extremely messy and disorderly. There were plenty of ink bottles tipped over, spilling ink all over. Numerous yellowed scrolls and parchments spread across the table. A massive and unstable stack of books, so high it almost touched the ceiling, was teetering on the verge of falling....
A strange witch with messy hair was crouched upon this equally messy table. She wasn't very tall. In fact, she might have been slightly shorter than Lucy. The witch had to stand on the tall wooden stool to be seen.
She seemed to be wearing a black Mage's robe.
However, Leon couldn't even be sure of this!
The wrinkled robe she was wearing was just way too dirty and stained. There were oil stains, ink blotches, and all sorts of unknown potion stains on the robe. The original color of the robe had already been completely covered by a thick layer of dust and dirt. Only a single trace of an elegant and beautiful golden thread at the corner of her robe suggested that this was an Mage's robe.
Leon had even suspected, when he first saw her, that Witch Liana was a member of the Death Witches. After all, he had seen far too many items related to death ever since he walked into this cottage. However Lucy, who was still holding his hand, had secretly told him the truth using a mental connection. Liana was a Witch of Despair. Her area of expertise was hope and revival.
Well, it might be a little out of his expectations, but Leon had to silently accept the truth!
"Tell me your intent in coming here! You aren't the first fool to trespass into my Swamp of Darkness, but you are the first one to be able to make it here alive. If you don't have a good reason for this intrusion, kehkehkeh... " A sinister laugh slipped from the old witch's wrinkled face. Her set of yellow and missing teeth were revealed as she smiled. Still, Leon was more terrified by her eyes. They were like those of a dead fish; not budging even a single inch.
"Respected Lady Liana, I am here because I wish to purchase a bottle of Dead Soul's Water. I heard that your Mushroom Cottage was the only place in the Castle in the Sky where I could get it. This is why I had no choice but to risk your displeasure to stand before you!"
Leon could only tell the truth when placed before a crazy and powerful witch like Liana. Who knew if this hag had some disgusting spell she could use to verify the truth of his words.
"Dead Soul's Water? The one used to protect wandering and exposed souls from damage once they left their bodies?" The old witch stared at Leon with her stale dead eyes and commented coldly, "It seems you have already done your re
Gegegegege...
Slight sounds of chattering teeth rang out from behind him.
Even the reckelss and fearless Lucy was frightened now.
The subtle tremors in the air started to become more and more frequent. Perhaps with only one more second, Lucy would be able to open a spatial rift large enough for both of them to escape.
Sadly, there was no such thing as 'perhaps' when you were confronted with a Second Grade witch!
The spatial rift disappeared the instant it appeared.
Psst. The spatial rift hadn't even stabilized before it disappeared in a cloud of green smoke, leaving a bright green mark glowing in the air.
"Now you think of escaping? Kehkehkeh... too late!" The old witch extended a finger, and a ghostly face made of gray smoke instantly appeared beside Leon. The apparition laughed sinisterly as it dove into Leon's body.
The next second, Leon froze. He could feel his intimate connection with the fire elementium being completely cut off. As if... as if he had suddenly been placed in an anti-magic barrier, and there was no longer any fire elementium around him.
Leon's tall body stumbled, almost falling to the ground.
Having completed the elementiumization of his body, there was no difference between himself and fire elementium. He was fire elementium, and the fire elementium was himself. Now that his Spiritual connection with fire elementium had been cut, Leon didn't even have the energy to support his own weight.
Dammit, there was such a flaw to body elementiumization? Why have I never heard of this in any of the books I read? Is this the ability of high-grade Mages? The ability to cut off the connection of lower-grade Mages to their elementium particles?
Leon lost a lot of strength now that his connection to the fire elementium was severed. He pressed his arm against the twisted pillar to support himself. This was the only reason he didn't collapse to the ground.
Hissssss...
An odd sound came from beneath as a massive black Python thicker than his leg crawled up the pillar and found its way around Leon's arm. The black python rose its head high, slowly closing in on Leon's face.
Leon could even feel the pungent breath brushing against his face when the python hissed.
The old witch's voice rang out once more.
"Last chance to make your decision! Hand over the contract, or...
"Die!"
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