Chapter 751

After surprise and astonishment, Fu Lanke pondered carefully.

This line of thinking doesn't seem impossible...

Wasn't I wanting to become an "Iron-Blooded Knight" from the beginning?

But the problem lies with Yu Jianna...

Seeing Fu Lanke silent without speaking, Lu Mian laughed pointedly:

"No need to take some things too seriously; we are all people who have used 'Lie,' having been in different appearances, and didn't we adapt quite well? I even turned into a dog before, and didn't I leave any psychological shadow? As long as it's not permanent and can be changed back, occasionally changing appearance and state is actually quite interesting.

"Remember, you are just acting."

Lu Mian knew Yu Jianna had long known that the "Witch" pathway leads to male-to-female, and the "Hunter" pathway is the opposite, just with one node at Sequence 7 "Witch," and one at Sequence 4 "Iron-Blooded Knight."

Similarly, Lu Mian also knew Fu Lanke suspected Yu Jianna already knew these things.

But since this "Pleasure Witch" still wanted to continue deceiving herself, he didn't mind helping a bit, making the words a bit vague.

"Temporary... as long as the 'Unaging Witch's' ritual isn't evil, one can switch back... 'Unaging Witch' sounds not that evil..." Yu Jianna muttered to herself for a few sentences before saying, "I think Lu Mian's proposal can be considered."

Fu Lanke nodded, wanting to speak but stopping.

Speaking of this, Yu Jianna laughed at herself:

"I'm only Sequence 7, only a 'Witch,' why should I consider the matter of becoming a demigod and switching back and forth?

"Fuck, I seem to have returned to when I first became a 'Flamboyant Woman'; although I was saving money to pay off debts every day, it didn't hinder me from imagining how I would spend money when I became a well-known theater actor and earned thousands or tens of thousands of gold pounds a year..."

"Me too, me too." Fu Lanke echoed twice, trying to explore the feasibility, "If we switch, how should the 'Iron-Blooded Knight's' thirty-person team ritual be completed?"

Lu Mian made a "tsk" sound:

"Pray that I have already become an 'Iron-Blooded Knight' by then.

"An 'Iron-Blooded Knight' as your team member can effectively reduce the number requirement.

"And, our coordination is already very tacit."

"This also works?" Fu Lanke first subconsciously felt there was a problem, then muttered to herself, "A ritual is just a ritual; after the ritual ends, there's indeed no need to maintain the previous state. That is to say, the captain and team members should be able to swap positions with each other and form a team again. What is this called? This is called recycling and sustainable development!"

Fu Lanke became more excited as she thought about it:

"Once I also become an 'Iron-Blooded Knight,' Yu Jianna can have two demigod team members, plus Ma Ding and Lu Jianuo; she shouldn't need to find anyone else.

"If, if Ludwig hasn't broken free from the seal by then and is still following us, things will be even simpler; we can be his godmothers!"

We be Ludwig's godmothers, and Lu Mian is Ludwig's godfather... Although this doesn't count as anything, there are many similar examples, but it's still... Yu Jianna looked at Fu Lanke, wanting to remind her, but finally gave up.

These details become more awkward the more they are spoken; ignoring them is the best choice.

Having a line of thinking to bypass the "Despair Witch" ritual, Fu Lanke and Yu Jianna's moods improved significantly.

The former said to Lu Mian:

"There will be that mysticism gathering in two days; you contact 'Professor' and the others, probe them, and see if there are any members of the 'Rose School of Thought' among them. This doesn't need to be too urgent; Ms. 'Judgment' told me that the 'Tarot Club' has an informant inside the 'Rose School of Thought' who can provide us with necessary intelligence, but what I'm not sure about is whether that informant belongs to the Trier area and whether they understand the situation here, while 'Mirror Person' Griffith is obviously in Trier."

Lu Mian nodded:

"Lu Jianuo's 'Priest of Harvest' potion formula and corresponding materials also need to be asked about; improving the strength of teammates helps us complete the ritual later."

Yu Jianna listened quietly for a while and took the initiative to interject:

"Can you help me sell that 'Dream Stealer' Beyonder characteristic? The mysticism gatherings I attend aren't of a high enough level; no one can afford things of this sequence."

She was thinking that the "Pleasure Witch" potion materials would soon be obtained from the Church of the "Eternal Blazing Sun," and Fu Lanke's "Pleasure" would soon be digested; always owing money to this female companion wasn't too good, and anyway, she couldn't use the "Dream Stealer" Beyonder characteristic.

Lu Mian could roughly guess Yu Jianna's thoughts and deliberately pointed to his "Traveler's Bag" with a very small movement.

He meant, you've already looked at my "Iron-Blooded Knight" and "Despair Witch" potion formulas, why didn't you think about owing me a huge debt?

Lu Mian hoped to let Yu Jianna not care too much about owing money through this method; it would be better to borrow a bit more and find a "Craftsman" to turn the "Dream Stealer" Beyonder characteristic into a sealed artifact to use.

The stronger one's own strength, the stronger one's ability to pay back money!

Yu Jianna, sitting on the sofa, turned sideways to Fu Lanke and made a "heh" expression at Lu Mian.

She meant, when I need to use those two potion formulas to advance, I will give you a reward!

"I will keep an eye out for you." Fu Lanke didn't notice the voiceless dialogue between Lu Mian and Yu Jianna.

She turned to say:

"We can start collecting some of the auxiliary materials for 'Iron-Blooded Knight' and 'Despair Witch' now, like the soil permeated with soldiers' blood from a large battlefield and the blood of seven plague victims, so we don't run out of time later. Hmm, by that time, maybe there will be other ways to bypass the plague ritual; let's prepare first."

Hearing about the preparation for the potion, Lu Mian first nodded, then remembered one thing.

He stood up, walked to the full-length mirror in the room, and pressed his right hand onto it.

He then activated the contract ability from "Bloody Jack" and sensed the Mirror Image Mark left before.

Soon, Lu Mian discovered two marks in the distance with the help of the mirror and the Mirror World, one clear and one blurry.

The clear one belonged to the full-length mirror in Moran Avigny's study, while the blurry one changed itself and changed position from time to time, making it hard to grasp.

"Can sense it... This should be the mark on the mirror in the treasure vault of the 'Blue Avenger'... With the connection between the mark and myself, no matter how blurry it is, no matter how it changes, I can 'Teleport' there directly. Of course, the premise is that I can walk into the mirror..." Lu Mian pondered for a while and didn't borrow the "Mirror Buckle" from Fu Lanke to do experiments.

This was because his spiritual intuition and the warning from fate were both telling him that if he "Teleported" to that mark location now, he would never be able to return, or the one returning would be Alista Tudor.

Retracting his palm, Lu Mian told Fu Lanke and Yu Jianna the results of the attempt.

Afterward, Yu Jianna went out, planning to go around the morgues of various hospitals, which was both looking for an opportunity to act as a "Witch" and wanting to see if there were any corpses that died of severe infectious diseases.

—Under the situation where the "Rose School of Thought" and "Disease Sect" hadn't been uprooted in Trier, people who died of plague certainly existed, but there wouldn't be many, and it couldn't spread widely.

Lu Mian, standing by the window, saw Yu Jianna appear on the street before turning his body and saying to Fu Lanke:

"You might have to become a 'Despair Witch'; you can think more about how to find a substitute for that ritual in your spare time."

"Me, why do I have to?" Fu Lanke looked stunned.

Lu Mian laughed:

"Didn't you notice that the high-level members of the Witch Sect are all 'Witches'?

"Is it because they can't get the 'Iron-Blooded Knight' potion formula and Beyonder characteristic?"

"But the Witch Sect didn't forbid 'Witches' from switching to the 'Hunter' pathway..." Fu Lanke frowned.

"This is indeed very contradictory." Lu Mian made a speculation, "I think it's that those 'Witches' at the Angel level can't find higher-sequence 'Hunter' pathway Beyonder characteristics to turn back into men, so they don't like to see their subordinates able to find themselves. This has already become an unwritten rule. Hehe, you know, the vast majority of high-level members of the 'Witch' pathway have twisted minds and are mentally pathological, liking to see others in pain and unable to stand seeing others happy."

—According to the intelligence Lu Mian and Fu Lanke obtained from Ms. 'Magician' and Ms. 'Judgment,' starting from Sequence 4, "Hunter" and "Witch" can switch to each other, with gender determined by the highest sequence, while taking different potions of adjacent pathways of the same sequence to improve strength will have big problems.

Fu Lanke was silent for a long time:

"If I finish digesting the 'Pain' potion and haven't found a substitute for the Despair ritual, I will apply to Ms. 'Judgment' to end the Witch Sect mission; she should be able to understand me and won't allow me to do that kind of thing of spreading terrifying plague."

After finishing these words, Fu Lanke became relaxed and started muttering:

"And, if Yu Jianna becomes an 'Iron-Blooded Knight' by then, but I am still a Witch, wouldn't that be very strange?"

"Life is short, why not try?" Lu Mian joked.

Then, before Fu Lanke could react, he took a step with both legs, jumped directly over the sofa, opened the door, and left.

A few black fires penetrated the wooden door and flew in pursuit of Lu Mian's back, but they gradually deviated from the target, failed to hit, and dissipated in mid-air.

Fu Lanke's scolding still echoed crisply in Lu Mian's ears:

"If you have the ability, come and try!"

Lu Mian walked onto the street with a smile.

Returning to his rented apartment, Lu Mian's smile settled down.

Looking at Ludwig, who was eating, he pulled out a chair, sat opposite, and asked as if casually:

"What ingredients or seasonings are needed to cook that umbilical cord remains in the third way?"

Ma Ding, who was beside him, was stunned:

"What umbilical cord remains?"

Lu Mian revealed a smile:

"The umbilical cord remains of the divine child that Father Montserrat was pregnant with."

Ma Ding's expression froze instantly.

ps: Ask for double monthly tickets at the beginning of the month~

ps2: Thanks to friend Zhu Junyu for rewarding two Silver Alliances!

(End of chapter)