Chapter 238: The New Ratman

Spirit Seed?

What a coincidence.

Rod had kept two or three spare on his person.

But he had no intention of using them on this so-called New Ratman.

Hating the house and the crow, he even intended to destroy this thing, or perhaps see if anything valuable could be sold off and be done with it.

After waiting a while.

The elf Kali and the banshee Chris arrived.

No big problem; neither of them had suffered any injury.

Kali first checked on the situation of the orc Amy.

The appearance of Lycanthropy has been around for a long time; combined with its contagious nature and the special characteristic of being incurable, modern magic has long possessed a complete spell system capable of fully testing for infection.

One check reveals whether there is infection or not.

After obtaining the result, Kali did not state it immediately; her expression was serious, and she pondered for a moment.

Although the elf's expression was always sour.

But Rod had spent a long time with her and could discern something to some degree; his heart suddenly gave a thud.

"Infected?"

The elf hesitated for a long while, then nodded.

Rod sighed.

He looked at Amy, who was standing in the corner with no heart or conscience; she was currently drawing in the dust on the ground with her toes, staring blankly.

In an instant, he thought of many things.

Amy, like Pan Ni, was a captive.

The difference was that she was a simple orc, one could even say she had no ill intentions; previously coming to attack Shi Ying Town was purely for the opportunity to fight.

The brief time spent together was pleasant, but if you were to say the bond was deep, that was not the case.

Rod had always exercised control over his own emotions.

He had held back with all four of Amy, Pan Ni, Selena, and Chris.

So now.

Facing a seventh-rank promotion, an orc race known for physical strength and infected with Lycanthropy, a hidden bomb.

Ice crystals on Rod's hand climbed up his palm.

Rest assured, Amy.

I will not let you die; before I find a method to cure Lycanthropy, I will have to trouble you to sleep for a while.

"But it is a bit strange; the Lycanthropy blood has been suppressed."

Kali spoke again.

She approached the orc and drew a tube of blood from Amy, who was baring her teeth.

Then she arranged a small spell ritual on the ground.

"Indeed, the Lycanthropy blood has been suppressed; its activity is extremely low, all concentrated together, and it has not even infected the host's own blood."

"Does that mean her blood will not spread? Nor will it erupt?"

"One could say that."

You should have said so earlier.

Rod breathed a sigh of relief.

I almost took action.

"As for the reason... hmm, it has nothing to do with the body, nor with Spiritual Arts... perhaps some special item has brought about this suppression effect."

Rod immediately recalled Amy's crystal great cleaver.

This was an extraterrestrial meteorite capable of cutting through magic and Spiritual Arts.

He handed it back to Kali.

Kali examined it closely and used many spells to inspect it.

She could not help but show surprise.

"An interesting material; I saw her use it before, but I never paid it any mind. Inside the blade is a strange spiritual energy. Spiritual energy has always been a weak point in the modern spell system; I need to study it for a period before I can explain why it can suppress the Lycanthropy blood."

"Then what about Amy?"

"Continuing to wear this blade long-term will be fine; after that, come to me weekly for blood tests. At least currently, I see no effect of Lycanthropy on her... hmm, it might even provide some benefit."

Rod smiled:

"As long as she has no problems, that is good."

Kali's focused and curious expression cooled down and became sour again.

"You care about her quite a bit... The Lycanthropy blood possesses the negative effect of 【Frenzy】; this is the main reason for their madness. 【Frenzy】 might provide a certain boost to her 【Rage】."

"It can be like that?"

"Anyway, she does not need a brain when using 【Rage】; isn't that about the same as when she is in Lycanthropy form? However, this still depends on her own comprehension and whether her understanding of Spiritual Arts can reach this level."

Hearing this, Rod laughed.

Comprehension and understanding?

In this regard, Amy is a thorough primalist; she has no understanding, only feelings.

But my Spirit Seed can absolutely pile up her feelings until she can understand!

While patting Amy's head, Rod handed the crystal cleaver back to her.

Amy was overjoyed and hugged the cleaver.

At the same time, seeing that their master was no longer angry, it leaned over, wanting to learn from Tally how to kiss.

But the elf cast 【Mage Hand】 to push it away.

She kept a cold face: "Before concrete verification is complete, physical contact with her is forbidden, mainly to avoid the spread of the beastification disease."

"Ah—"

Amy wailed.

The cat-fairy Little Orange on the side looked at her sister: "Little Kali, did you eat..."

"Shut up!"

"Okay~"

The interlude ended.

Everyone began to clean up the battlefield.

After processing the corpse of the rat-folk Lady Ruike, Rod took out her spell satchel.

There was truly a lot of money.

It was estimated to be the payment intended for the Plague Mage Amel, a full 80,000 Jin Along.

There were also several green Dimensional Stones, and some spell notes regarding the creation of new rat-folk and the use of Dimensional Stones.

When Lady Kali heard that the Plague Mage Amel had placed a memory core on his disciple Mickey, she could not help but frown.

Clearly, she also understood that things like memory cores and clone backups could not exist as a single instance.

While looking at the spell notes on the creation of new rat-folk, she said:

"No need to worry too much; a memory core cannot synchronize memories with the original body. At the very least, the memory cores do not know who killed their original body."

"Then wouldn't the Arcane Mages be immortal forever? There are even spells like cloning and memory cores."

Rod frowned.

Perhaps because this is a world of mages, the power level is truly beyond the curriculum.

Various spells emerge endlessly; even if the soul is annihilated, memory cores still exist.

"It is not that the Arcane Mages are too strong, but that Amel's attainment is too advanced. Many of his spells do not seem like they could be cast within the current continent's spell system. It is not hard to see from those two 【Ke Yin】 that he made a deal with cosmic beings from another dimension to acquire many extraordinary pieces of knowledge."

Lady Kali snapped the notes shut.

She looked at the green, massive follicle.

"I intend to hatch this new rat-folk to make up for the lack of a powerful frontline fighter I possess."

"Am I not one?"

The cat-fairy Little Orange interrupted, dissatisfied.

Lady Kali ignored her and turned to Rod: "Human, this is your spoils of war. I can buy it with money; you name the price."

Rod was somewhat curious.

Elves are always proud; even she was tempted by this, so one can imagine the strength of this so-called new rat-folk is indeed considerable.

But he was not very interested in it.

Rat-folk are smelly and ugly.

Even the pile of Jin Along in the spell satchel, like a small mountain, constantly emitted a foul stench.

Besides.

In the forest, there are powerful frontline fighters like him and Amy, plus Pan Ni's necromancy army; there is absolutely no shortage.

"Don't say that; it is everyone's contribution. If you like it, just take it."

He said generously.

(End of this chapter)