Paro is already in the middle and late stages of worm disease. The worms have even merged into the depths of his magic power, slowly eroding his life essence. He needs to use magic dialysis to be treated.
The extraordinary level of control over strength enabled Noita to complete the operation.
About two hours later, the long magic dialysis ended, and an eyeless worm lay weakly in Noita's hand, gasping for breath, trying to absorb magic power.
[A weak worm: a horrible creature whose nutrition had been violently deprived, its body bearing marks of burns and freezing, evidence of being burned by flames and frozen by winter's power.]
But the magic power in this sterile room is too thin, and no matter how hard it tries, it cannot gain any strength.
The blockade of silence is like a mountain that breaks the camel's back, and its death is imminent.
After fiddling with the worm for a while and finding it unresponsive, Noita put it in his pocket and shifted his gaze to the tiny gaps within Paro's flesh and bones, which were filled with a layer of activated, flexible shadow. This was the life of Paro's contract, its true form. The shadow spikes that had previously stabbed Noita were only derivatives of its power.
In the past, he had been in a stalemate with the worms and the remnants of Typhon to maintain Paro's life.
After seeing the original body, the log marked its species.
[Shadow Kui: A producer who wanders within the reflection of the world, coexists with Paro, and gains intellect by chance.]
A shadow sunflower with high intelligence is rare.
It was much bigger than the one Noita had.
Paro had pleaded for it, so Noita let it go. His perfect physique manipulated his senses to deepen, switching to a state where he could perceive souls. His spiritual vision was activated, and Noita immediately saw the residual heat of Typhon's remaining fire.
These are just some sparks, but they are terrifyingly hot.
Even if there was only eye contact, there was a heat that followed the gaze, trying to ignite Noita's soul.
This was a completely different experience from observing the Fire of Typhon while being protected by Luhua.
This bit of heat has almost no divine power, and it can't even penetrate Noita's magic resistance before it goes out, but its characteristics are very difficult to deal with. As long as you keep an eye on it, there will be a constant flow of heat.
Noita tried to extinguish it with Silence, but after a brief dimming, it would come back again, igniting a flame that was different from the previous one.
Even though he had been injected with muscle relaxants and anesthetics, the pain of his soul repeatedly switching between hot and cold made Paro tense several times.
In order to prevent Paro from suffering a bitter defeat, Noita had to give up and try using the level 1 silence spell.
Well, after achieving extraordinary success, the first level of silence is indeed a bit behind the pace.
Noita was determined to upgrade the Silence Technique.
Two hundred thousand experience points were burned, and the Silence spell reached level 2.
The landscape of the fields after the snowfall covered the diary. Pale clouds, as if frozen, reflected the light from the sky. Everything was white, windless and snowless. The most complete silence embraced everything. The silent dead floated on the snow, their pale bones and souls even paler than nature itself. They faced one direction, lonely yet crowded forward.
At the end of the pilgrimage of the dead, the outline of the White City, sketched with just a few strokes, lies in the snow.
[Your understanding of the imagery of winter increases, your power of finality and forbidden power increase, and your winter skills can now be effective against divine power.]
【Bai Xue is watching you.】
[Winter Path Resonance Increases↑]
Snow, the ruling deity of the winter path, is the god of gentle sleep, the god of purity, and the god of the final resting place of the dead.
He is the patron saint of all those who yearn for eternal peace. Forensic doctors, gravekeepers, and undertakers are his believers. Legend has it that there is a city of snow, which is the final resting place of the souls of the dead. All satisfied souls will come to this city and enjoy eternal peace under the guarantee of the snow.
Now, Bai Xue's sight fell on Noita, an apprentice of the Silent Arts with a heart as fiery as fire.
Bai Xue's gaze brought no benefit or harm to Noita. It was just a glance as light as falling snow, and it quickly moved away, leaving only a trace similar to a glimpse in a dream.
This little episode did not disrupt Noita's actions.
Closing the log, Noita placed her fingertips on Paro's skull and activated the enhanced Silence spell, extinguishing the remaining fire of Typhon without harming his soul, and extinguishing that insignificant divine power as well.
All the major hidden dangers in Paro's body have been eliminated. All he needs to do next is to recuperate his battered body and he will be able to be full of life again.
She gave a signal indicating that the operation was completed, and the sealed door of the sterile room opened. The doctors who had been waiting outside for a long time and wanted to perform in front of Noita entered in an orderly manner and took care of the aftermath.
After all, the incision on Paro's head has not been sutured yet.
Noita walked out of the workshop and came to the outside world. Snow particles knocked on the window, attracting Noita's attention.
"Snowing."
The improvement of the art of silence triggered changes in celestial phenomena.
Chapter 264 I want to win!
Environmental control scholars were thrown into chaos by the sudden change in celestial phenomena. The techniques they had used in the past to modify celestial phenomena were ineffective against this heavy snow. It was like an avalanche pressing down on them, overwhelmingly destroying all efforts to stop the snow.
The spellcasters were helpless.
Oh, an order came down from above.
"Never mind it."
After receiving the order, the spellcasters stopped correcting the celestial phenomena and let the snowflakes fall like catkins in the sky, dyeing the sky and the earth pure white.
Where the snow fell, the bodies of the adventurers who died in the nest began to move against common sense. They dug a path out of the snow, climbed onto the ice, and staggered in the direction of the flying snow.
Noita on the Silver Peak sensed this abnormality. After calming down for a while to identify it, he found that this was still the influence of the Silence Spell.
The art of silence she learned did not record any knowledge related to the dead, but the power of the great art to advance and trigger the manifestation of visions on the path will not be restricted by the direction people have learned.
It’s triggering across the board.
"You caused trouble, so you have to deal with it yourself."
A voice, not without jealousy, flew from the other side of Silver Peak. The owner of the voice was Luhua's old friend, the shaman who was obsessed with the Lighthouse Project and was schemed against by Luhua.
His name is Gu Yan. He walks on the path of stone and is an extraordinary person who specializes in battlefield training.
"Ma'am, don't worry. This is just a minor disturbance. Once this winter snow subsides, the dead will return to peace. I have sent people to wait nearby and will wait for an opportunity to collect their bodies and bury them properly."
"Hmph, you have more conscience than Luhua. Don't become like her." Gu Yan reminded him coldly and stopped transmitting his message.
The Lone Rock Shaman has been busy with a major project recently. Luhua's insider revealed that she was invited to participate in the design and construction of the Central Lighthouse.
Anmos's ability alone proved too great for realizing the Central Lighthouse's design. Even with Noita's guidance and basic design, his team felt overwhelmed. Therefore, the association invited numerous scholars to brainstorm, further adding to the existing design and expanding its functionality, ultimately finalizing the Central Lighthouse's blueprint.
According to conservative estimates, at least six extraordinary beings will be born on the day the central lighthouse lands.
If it can really illuminate God's dream, it would not be surprising to give birth to a role model with this great achievement.
Unfortunately, Noita was not invited to the follow-up research. At that time, she was happily hunting vampires in the Wild Dream City, and no one informed her about the lighthouse.
However, the Central Lighthouse was born based on the theory she provided, and she was indispensable in rewarding people for their contributions.
After dealing with Gu Yan, Noita once again pondered how to learn the art of stealing fire.
While studying, she also devoted some of her attention to making a psychic incarnation in the shape of a pigeon and threw it outside Silver Peak. The pure white pigeon hopped all the way out of the Silver Peak nest and teleported to Adele's shoulder.
At that time, Adele was dealing with association matters and was startled by Noita falling from the sky.
"It's me."
Noita nudged Adele's neck, causing her to stop swinging her sword.
"You scared me again." Adele put Noita on the table with a complaint, "Don't be so elusive. What if you accidentally hurt Nono one day?"
"You can't hurt me." Noita said firmly, "If you ever hurt me, it can only mean one thing: that person wasn't me, but a goblin or a shapeshifter."
"I understand."
"That's all. Go get busy." Noita flew onto Adele's shoulder, steadying herself like a pendant, watching her as she handled her business. Adele processed her work with remarkable speed, running through many figures in her mind once to arrive at the answer. Her mental calculations matched the precise results obtained by others using tools.
What's most rare is that Adele can handle problems in multiple threads. She can think about what to eat tonight and prepare it while writing comments on a document, and she can also think about community building while practicing sword in the underground training ground.
She was born with this ability, unlike Noita who had to force herself to develop this skill in order to control her psychic avatar in the game.
But multithreading also has some flaws.
When Adele was stabbing a wooden stake with her sword, Noita stopped her.
At this time they were in the underground training ground.
After the federation's funds were running smoothly, Adele built a separate room on the side of the original underground training ground, and purchased training poles and other fitness equipment to train herself.
Whenever she has time off, she comes here to practice swordsmanship.
Adele was confused: "What's wrong?"
"You're slow to react."
"Have it?"
"About 0.1 seconds. Are you thinking about anything else? Besides eating, infrastructure construction, and buying a cake for your parents to celebrate, what else are you thinking about?"
Noita could praise Adele for her multitasking skills, but she couldn't accept that Adele was distracted by irrelevant things while fighting.
Professionals who have not reached the extraordinary level have high offense but weak defense, and they may suffer a disastrous defeat if they make a wrong decision.
She absolutely didn't want Adele to end up with her head and body separated because of her habit of being distracted by battle.
Adele covered her chest and said awkwardly, "Can you hear me?"
"Yes, I have psychic powers and can read minds."
This is a lie. Noita's psychic power has been continuously purified. She has abandoned abilities such as mind reading and telekinesis, and has focused on combat.
However, the great art of insect music, which can communicate with all things, allows her to read intentions from the slightest changes in the human body. Combined with the emotional skills she stole from Lilitu, she can also achieve the achievement of mind reading.
"You heard it all, why are you asking me?"
"Because you hid your new ideas so deep that I couldn't read them. And precisely because you hid them so deeply and deliberately, your actions were slow."
Adele lowered her arms and stammered out her thoughts like a child who had done something wrong: "You look like a dove now. I was just thinking about tonight... Don't be angry. It just came to my mind suddenly. I hadn't thought of it when I was working."
The girl lowered her head, her earlobes flushed red.
At this moment, a pair of cold fingers hooked the hair by the girl's ear. The girl glanced sideways and saw her lover looking at her with a smile.
"I can transform at any time."
Adele was delighted, but before she could have any delusions, Noita's smile faded and she said something cruel in a light voice: "But I said this morning that the reward time is over. Adele should still remember this."
Adele nodded reluctantly.
Noita walked around her, pushed the training stake aside, stretched out her right hand, and the training sword on the weapon rack flew into her hand under the power of telekinesis.
"But I thought it would be too cruel to cancel the reward just like that. So I've prepared a reward mechanism. From now on, I will accompany you in sword training. As long as you can touch me with your sword, I will reward you with a chance to bully me. How about it?"
Noita pointed the tip of her sword at Adele provocatively.
Adele gripped her training sword tightly, her eyes determined, as if she was fully focused.
I want to win!
Noita sneered and made the opening move of the Legion Swordsmanship - the Legion Swordsmanship is known for its calmness and is best at foresight and defense. She can stand still so that Adele cannot touch her.
If she doesn't get rid of Adele's bad habit of being indecisive in battle, she will take Adele's last name.
Chapter 265 Land Claim
Even though Adele could master combat skills by holding the contract weapon, and she had been practicing swordsmanship tirelessly these days, the gap between her and Noita's swordsmanship was still too far. After an hour, she was not able to touch Noita, but was hit hard on the head several times.
By the end of the fight, Adele's eyes were visibly red, and the anger and unwillingness accumulated in her eyes and swordsmanship, interfering with her rationality and making her sword moves gradually disordered.
Then she was hit again.
Noita nimbly jumped out of Adele's sword range and preached, "Don't be indecisive. You're getting impatient again."
Adele blushed a little more, tightened her grip on the sword, shifted two-thirds of her thinking to the battle, and adjusted her mindset.
"Good eyesight. Are you ready? I'm going to attack again."
Noita's question came, Adele nodded, and then stabbed with the sword. At this moment, she thought of many solutions and predicted Noita's possible changes of moves. However, she was still thinking too much, so her blocking action was half a beat slow, and she was hit again.
At this time, Noita also saw her shortcomings.
Even when using threads in battle, she was thinking too much, so much so that there were imperceptible pauses. This was a bad habit developed from thinking too quickly, and it was not something that could be changed overnight.
However, this way of thinking is suitable for a spellcaster and fits her profession.
Noita threw the training sword with her right hand, and it fell back to its original position. She said gently, "That's all for today. I'll test your spellcasting ability later."
The words announcing the end of training did not make Adele happy, but made her even more disappointed. Before the training, she used a training sword. After she couldn't beat Noita, Noita allowed her to change to a contract weapon. In the end, she still couldn't beat Noita, which hit her hard.
Noita teleported over and took Adele's arm, comforting her: "It's okay, Adele has tried very hard. Bad habits can be gradually changed. As long as you know your mistakes and correct them, you will always have the opportunity to be rewarded again."
Adele's hope was rekindled: "Tonight?"
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