Chapter 63: Treating the Mature Centauress

Faced with Fulade's inquiry, the two centaur girls were first bewildered for a moment, and only after seeing Fulade's meaningful gaze did they suddenly understand.

Ailu's expression appeared quite conflicted, while her younger sister Leiya, after a bout of angry staring, was the first to nod in agreement.

However, the wariness in her eyes remained very apparent, even growing several degrees stronger.

Ailu did not hesitate for long either; when she noticed her mother's brows constantly furrowing from pain, she could no longer care about so much.

Having obtained the two sisters' consent, Fulade hesitated not at all — it could be seen that the woman's physical condition could no longer afford any delay.

"Let me make this clear first: no matter what happens later, you are not allowed to disturb me."

Fulade instructed the two girls as he untied the cloth strips.

"This is for the sake of your mother's life."

After warning the two, Fulade untied the cloth strips across the woman's chest.

As the two pale, full mounds lost their bindings, waves immediately rippled before Fulade's eyes.

At the same time, a heavy herbal scent, mixed with a pungent, acrid stench, grew even stronger.

Looking at the woman's rolled-open wound right beside her full chest and abdomen, covered by a dense black haze, the surrounding tissue had all turned to a state of black, rotting necrosis.

Fulade frowned at everything before him. To be honest, he was not entirely sure whether he could force these toxins out by manipulating blood.

But if he did not try, given the woman's current condition, she could lose her life at any moment.

Thinking of this, Fulade no longer hesitated.

He immediately manipulated Lu'anna's blood, quietly sensing the state within her body, and began driving out the toxins.

It could be seen that during this process, the pain Lu'anna endured was by no means small.

Beneath Lu'anna's skin, tiny blood vessels that had turned black and purple suddenly swelled, constantly rising and falling.

As though savage beasts existed within her body, rampaging about inside her.

Behind him, the two centaur sisters, seeing this, could not help but clench their fists, yet they gritted their teeth tightly and dared not speak up to ask.

Because they saw that at their mother's wound, along with black, foul-smelling blood, streams of black gas continuously dissipated, and the black haze covering her face had also faded considerably.

Time passed bit by bit.

This time, manipulating blood was different from before.

Healing was delicate work; the mental energy and focus required made even Fulade, with his powerful mental state, feel slightly strained.

Especially given that this magical toxin had already eroded more than half of the heart, he dared not be the slightest bit careless.

This was also why he had instructed the two sisters not to disturb him.

As Fulade manipulated the toxin-laden black blood, continuously expelling it from the body.

Lu'anna, bearing the appearance of a mature woman, gradually began to relax in expression as well.

Seeing the full mounds that had already regained their pale, fair luster, Fulade could not help but silently nod, then pulled out a dagger from his waist and was about to make a downward cut.

When she noticed Fulade's action, Leiya, who had been forcibly holding back from disturbing him, could not help but become greatly on guard.

She was just about to act, but was promptly stopped by her older sister Ailu at her side.

When she saw her sister shake her head and remind her to observe carefully, only then did Leiya suppress the impatience and unease in her heart.

Only when she saw that Fulade was using the dagger to clear away the necrotic muscle tissue around the wound did Leiya finally set her raised heart at ease.

"Alright, bandage your mother up."

After Fulade stopped Lu'anna's bleeding and cast a blood-type healing magic of accelerated recovery on her, he instructed the two sisters behind him.

"Is my mother already better?" Ailu hesitated for a moment, then asked with slight trepidation.

"Your mother is already out of life-threatening danger now."

"However, tomorrow I will still need to do another cleansing for your mother, otherwise the toxins will continue to spread."

Hearing Fulade's explanation, Ailu finally felt at ease, and wept with joy as she nodded and thanked Fulade. On the other side, Leiya, seeing her mother's complexion become much rosier, also relaxed her taut nerves.

After seeing her older sister continuously expressing gratitude to Fulade, Leiya hesitated for a long while, then walked over with a somewhat bashful expression, lightly bowed to Fulade, and expressed her thanks.

"Now you believe I'm not a bad person, right?" Fulade smiled slightly and said with raised brows.

"Moreover, I should clarify one point — I am actually not human either."

"You're not human~!" the two sisters exclaimed in surprise.

"But there's no difference between you and a human," Ailu said curiously.

Looking at the two sisters' skeptical gazes, Fulade bared his vampiric fangs, proving to them the fact that he was not human.

At the same time, Fulade also curiously observed the two sisters through the Mysterious Light Orb, and discovered that within their bodies, surprisingly, no small amount of fortune was brewing.

"Their fortune is surprisingly considerable; it seems that so-called fortune is indeed not limited to characters who appeared in movies or television dramas."

"It's just that their fortune is not the slightest bit inferior to heroines like Wailali and Sainren — that's a bit abnormal."

"Unless."

Fulade could not help but scrutinize the sleeping, unconscious Lu'anna, and found that although fortune also existed within her body, it was much sparser.

At most, it was only comparable to Amelia's.

If fortune were also divided into tiers, the first tier should be the likes of protagonists in television dramas.

The second tier would be important supporting characters.

And Lu'anna belonged to the third tier — the neither-here-nor-there sort.

But why were Ailu and Leiya's fortunes so intense? Looking at the two girls' smooth legs, so different from their mother's.

Fulade already had some judgment in his heart.

Looking at Leiya, who had actually become enthusiastic after learning he was not human, Fulade could not help but be a bit speechless — did this little girl really treat people differently based on their species?

He had saved her mother, and had not seen her this enthusiastic.

As the barrier between Fulade and the two sisters was completely eliminated.

The two sisters began to talk to Fulade about everything. After a round of conversation, Fulade only then learned that within this secret realm, there were actually still quite a few centaur tribes.

It's just because of the food shortage that everyone built houses near the fields they themselves reclaimed.

Likewise, because the centaurs' appetites are several times that of ordinary humans, the food provided by the secret realm can no longer meet their needs as their population grows.

So sometimes they go out to look for food.

In the past, it was always Mother Lu'anna who went out to hunt and bring back food, but after Mother was injured, older sister Ailu took over.

But with no experience, how could Ailu, a centaur who rarely ventures into the human world, expect to fare well?

Especially since the various jungles near the secret realm have already been swept clean by the centaurs several times over, there is simply no way to hunt enough food.

Ailu, who dared not go too far, had no choice but to try her luck at a nearby human village, only to be discovered by the humans and driven out as a monster.

That is how she later encountered Fulade.

Hearing this, Fulade's heart stirred, and he asked the two sisters:

"I see you have a large forest in your secret realm; why don't you go there?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Fulade mentioned the forest in the secret realm, the two girls' faces panicked.

"That place is a forbidden zone! You can't go in, and besides, nothing can survive there."

"A forbidden zone? What do you mean by that?" Fulade's eyes narrowed as he asked the two sisters.

Ailu fell silent for a moment, then said to Fulade, "Everything there has changed since three years ago."

Seeing a flicker of fear in Ailu's eyes and Leiya suddenly falling silent, Fulade grew even more curious.

(End of chapter)