Genshin Impact: Rise of the Desert

Sylhind was a scholar who didn't exercise much, but he was still a grown man and had the strength to drag Ivan.

Ivan's shirt, soaked in seawater, had become very flimsy due to the coarse linen, and after being slashed in the chest by Yuanzhong's sword, it was basically just a few tattered pieces of cloth hanging on his body.

With a drag from Silhind, several rags remained on the ground, his flesh pressed against the floor tiles as he was pulled roughly.

Ivan was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, while Sirhind was overjoyed to have an experimental subject there and completely disregarded these minor matters.

They dragged him all the way to the platform, where Silhind jumped onto it, grabbed Ivan, and pulled him up.

After pulling Ivan onto the platform, Silhind was already covered in sweat. Without bothering to wipe it off, he disassembled the exoskeleton armor.

Ivan shifted his body slightly, feeling a burning pain on his skin where it had been in contact with the floor tiles.

I was about to yell at someone when I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder.

Turn around and look.

Silhind had already removed the shoulder armor from the exoskeleton armor and aimed the long silver needles at Ivan's pores, then plunged them in.

Silhind frowned: "No, you've stabbed the wrong thing, it didn't go in."

He then pulled out the shoulder armor, aligned it with the approximate position, and reinserted it.

This time, the needle was inserted in the right place. The long silver needle pierced Ivan's bone, and as if it had a life of its own, it began to wriggle.

Ivan could clearly feel the silver needles starting to grow, penetrating his bones!

Those silver needles that didn't touch the bone split open, growing outwards like tree branches, firmly fixing the flesh and blood in place.

Ivan gritted his teeth, enduring the excruciating pain, and cursed, "You son of a bitch, Silhind! If this can't be cured, I'll haunt you even in death!"

"Okay, let me experiment on you after I become a ghost."

As time went by, Ivan endured an unknown period of agony until all the skeletal armor was inserted into his body by Sirhind.

It's worth mentioning that the enormous jackal head had two silver needles piercing the tear glands in its eyes.

As the silver needle inserted into the tear gland began to grow outward, Ivan could clearly feel that the clarity of his vision had improved significantly.

Some of the silver needles were inserted into his brain, and as they grew, Ivan felt that his control over his body and his thinking became smoother and smoother.

However, his internal injuries prevented him from carrying out large-scale operations.

There were seven holes in the back of the exoskeleton. Sylhind picked up a glass jar from the platform and inserted it into the holes.

"Damn, the elements in this jar have been sitting for who knows how many centuries, it's so unique," Ivan said weakly.

After having his exoskeleton armor installed, Ivan no longer had the energy to curse.

As Silhind attached the can to his back, he said, "Don't worry, elements don't have an expiration date."

"The Crimson King controls rock, lightning, and fire; the Flower Goddess controls ice, wind, and water; and the Great Tree King controls grass. This exoskeleton armor can help humans adapt to these elements."

"This kind of physical modification is only suitable for the descendants of the Red King, but you are a gilded one. Although you are married into the Golden Family, the Borjigin family has been practicing inbreeding for countless years, resulting in generations of disabilities... Good luck!"

With that, Silhind successfully installed the last glass jar and gave Ivan's exposed belly a hard pat.

"Stop staring blankly, feel the elements within, and heal your wounds!" Silhind exclaimed in surprise, "This is the first human experiment I've conducted on a descendant of the Crimson King, so please don't..."

Ivan carefully closed his eyes, trying to feel the glass jar connected to his back.

As a descendant of the Red King, he could sometimes sense some elements active, but he couldn't sense those that were too faint.

At this moment, Ivan felt his body was very hot, and he could clearly sense the strange power in his blood.

This armor is helping him develop his bloodline!

Silhind could clearly see the golden light shimmering in Ivan's eyes—the color of the Red King's pupils, the color of a god.

"It took me quite a while to figure out how to use this armor. After hundreds of years, the silver needles inside the armor have deviated from their original course. I reset them so that it could be used properly!" Silhind looked at Ivan greedily, as if he were looking at a work of art.

Ivan then noticed that Silhind's palms had many tiny holes that had stopped bleeding, but the vigorous movement while installing the exoskeleton armor caused them to bleed again.

Silhind didn't feel any pain, only an itch, and scratched vigorously: "How does it feel? Can you move?"

Ivan waved his hand lightly, and the exoskeleton armor attached to his body made a "crunching" sound, and he didn't feel any pain where he exerted force.

The armor seemed to have become one with him.

Looking at the stone platform supporting him, Ivan waved his hand and gripped the edge of the platform with his wolf claws. With just a little force, he crushed the stone, leaving his hand covered in stone chips.

However, Ivan was still injured internally and unable to get up.

Close your eyes and carefully observe the flow of elements: ice, water, wind, thunder, fire, grass, and rock—seven elements in total—are clustered on your back.

Thinking about the characters in Genshin Impact, there are the most water-elemental healers, and the human body is mostly water.

"It can't get any worse."

After thinking it over, Ivan wanted to tell Silhind to infuse his body with water.

Just as Ivan had the idea of ​​"infusing water elements into his body," he suddenly heard a sound from behind.

"throat!"

With a loud bang, Ivan clearly felt the part of his armor that was holding the water elemental glass jar loosen. Then Ivan felt a cool sensation on his back—the armor that was holding the water elemental glass jar open, followed by another loud bang.

"Gurgle—" That was the sound of water element being injected into Ivan's body.

"Clang—" That was the sound of the glass jar falling to the ground.

"Hissing—" This was the sound coming from Ivan's body.

The armor on his back had been restored to its original state, but Ivan was in even greater pain.

With the aid of the armor, Ivan's [Golden Bloodline] can now exert abilities equivalent to the [Golden Bloodline], and they are preventing water elements from entering his body.

The body heats up rapidly, causing some of the water to evaporate and release a large amount of water vapor.

The abilities of [Gold Plating] and [Gold] are derived from bloodlines, the most important aspect of which is the increase in body temperature, bringing heat to the body.

Since the human body is mostly water, every time the Crimson King's descendant uses the power of his bloodline, it causes an "evaporation" reaction within his body, resulting in extreme pain.

A large amount of water element was rampaging through his body, and although it was repairing his wounds, the method was extremely brutal.

One of the water elements grabbed the broken sternum, forcibly aligned it, then cut off the misaligned excess part and filled the missing part with itself.

The same methods were used to treat Ivan's internal organs as they were to treat his bones.

However, the vast majority of the water element enters the bloodstream, integrates into it, and replenishes Ivan's missing blood.

This hurts so much, it hurts like my mother is dying.

Ivan opened his mouth wide, stared wide-eyed, and couldn't utter a single word as steam gushed from his body completely enveloped him.

Silhind scratched his palm excitedly: "Sure enough, I guessed right! Only the descendants of the Crimson King can fully use this armor; other bloodlines will only be harmed."

If you look closely, the scabs on Sirhind's hand, which was injured by the silver needles, are actually healing from the inside out.

This means that even if Silhind's wound heals, a pit will still appear.