Chapter 3998: Blood Feast Blessing

"This time we won't take a long rest. After praying, we must be prepared to welcome difficult battles."

Lady Gustav made a decision quickly. Like Xia De, she had a premonition that extremely dangerous enemies would likely appear after this kind of reward-type room.

"According to the previous notes, everyone can only choose one holy emblem to pray to in this room, and one holy emblem can only be prayed to once. Go pray first, and then discuss the plan to meet the enemy."

There are not only holy emblems of evil gods here, but Lady Gustav immediately saw the holy emblem belonging to 【Lady of Creation】. Because it was relatively safe, the four people dispersed temporarily. The old witch prayed to the True God, and the halfling girl quickly found the holy emblem of her own race's god, 【Lord of the Hearth Fire】.

And Xia De also saw some "old friends" here, such as the 【Innocent Creator】 who had always given him a lot of help. This one is also a god of the 【Creation】 lineage.

However, Xia De did not choose to pray to Him, but said to Gina who was following her:

"Can you find a god you are familiar with here?"

Gina shook her head:

"Most of the great ones I am familiar with are related to dragons."

Xia De then recommended to her:

"Then try praying to this one—【Innocent Creator】, also known as the 'Guardian God of Children'. Although you are not a child, the work you have been doing has always been taking care of children, whether you were in the tribe or in the academy. So, try praying to this great one; He should be very happy to help a girl like you."

He then remembered that in the current era, the story of "Hope Town" had long ended, and this god had already left. But he thought of the help the gift box had provided him several times, so he still recommended Gina to pray to this god.

Gina originally had no idea. Since Xia De recommended it, she nodded and stayed here.

Xia De continued to search forward. There were too many holy emblems here that he could not recognize, and his goal was to find the holy emblem of the Old God 【Lord of Flesh Aberration】 directly related to this mission. He had already learned about the holy emblem of this evil god in the Sixth Era.

But in the process of constantly moving forward, Xia De never saw the holy emblem pattern he wanted to see. Until he walked to the door on the other side of the room, the holy emblem of the god directly related to the mission still did not appear.

Xia De would not walk a second time; he believed he would not miss it.

At this moment, looking back at the direction he came from, the three witches had already begun to pray. Gina was praying with her hands clasped together and her head lowered; the devout Lady Gustav was praying on one knee; and Miss Bladevi was praying with her right hand on her left shoulder and her head lowered. This is a unique way of praying for halflings.

【Then what about you?】

"She" asked with a smile. Of course, there could not be a holy emblem of a god related to the moon here, so Xia De went to find another "old friend" of his.

"God of Gluttony - Lord of the Blood Feast."

Staring at the holy emblem composed of eyes and a blood-colored holy grail, Xia De took a deep breath, did not make any prayer posture, and just closed his eyes. Different churches have different prayer terms. Xia De is not interested in how evil cultists usually pray; he just whispered in his heart:

"Then, please respond to me one more time."

At first, nothing happened, but soon Xia De felt a sense of hunger emerge. In just a few seconds, this hunger made Xia De regret immensely that he hadn't eaten breakfast before setting off.

The hunger first burned his stomach, then his whole body, and then made his soul crave it. So the spell "Life Tempering" taught by Adele of the past automatically started, and the soul resonated with the world to extract life force to satisfy the craving.

This spell can even extract normal life force in the doomsday era, and of course, it can also do so in this world.

Perhaps because of the particularity of the 【Filthy Blood Factory】, the efficiency of the spell was very high. Dense blood-colored light spots appeared around Xia De and were absorbed by his body on their own. But even so, the slight satisfaction was not enough to offset the huge craving generated at this moment, and the soul and body were still issuing a "Not enough~" wail—

Craving more, hoping to devour more to satisfy that endless hunger and emptiness.

And it was in this increasingly extreme desire, in that terrifying wail that sounded like the evil god personally sighed "Not enough~" in Xia De's ear, that the holy emblem in the shrine lit up with blood-colored light—

【Outsider, you have accepted the blessing from the Old God "Lord of the Blood Feast", and the endless blood feast has once again sent you an invitation.】

【Outsider, your spell "Life Tempering" has sublimated, and you have obtained the miracle "Life Tempering": greatly increasing the life force recovery efficiency when casting spells; currently, the miracle recovery efficiency has exceeded the natural recovery efficiency; in a state of hunger, the effect of this miracle can be further improved. Corresponds to the 【Gluttony】 spiritual rune.】

【Outsider, the effect of your miracle "Dragon Feast" has been improved. When performing the Dragon Feast ritual, you can obtain more power derived from dragons.】

【Outsider, your miracle "Chain of Sins" senses the improvement of the "Gluttony" original sin, adding a new characteristic 2 Life Plunder: You can use the Chain of Sins to extract "Life Spark".】

【Outsider, you have obtained a new blessing: Blessing of the Blood Feast: When performing activities related to devouring and plundering, the efficiency is greatly improved—the blood-colored feast is always waiting for you to take your seat.】

The hunger gradually subsided, but when Xia De opened his eyes and exited the prayer state, he still felt very hungry and wanted to return home to taste the breakfast Winnie made.

This prayer was very effective. The spell was sublimated into a miracle, the two miracles already mastered were improved, and a permanent blessing was obtained, and Xia De was not asked for any price by the evil god for this.

He didn't know if this was the reward after the god benefited during the "Battle of Moon Bay", or if the evil god simply didn't look down on this little bit of power.

But the 【Lord of the Blood Feast】 did help him. Xia De looked at the holy emblem with complicated feelings... and he was really hungry.

He did bring supplies for the witches, including a lot of food. But thinking that the witches could only eat some normal food when he arrived, Xia De suppressed this hunger and decided to wait patiently to go home for dinner after the mission was over.

"However, since the chain can extract the life spark, I don't need to touch those disgusting things with my own hands. This is good news; and, my life force, mental power, and spirit can be converted into each other. Improving the life force recovery effect of 【Life Tempering】 is equivalent to indirectly improving the recovery efficiency of my spirit, which is a good thing."

"That..."

Just as Xia De was staring at the ordinary holy emblem, Miss Bladevi, who had finished praying first, walked over.

At this time, Lady Gustav and Gina were still praying. The old witch was overflowing with the golden light of miracle elements, and Gina was wrapped in a transparent eggshell that looked like a dragon egg.

The halfling girl was a little embarrassed:

"That, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lied."

Xia De shook his head. Although he knew that the other party's age was much older than his own, he always subconsciously regarded this witch as a child:

"It doesn't matter; that involved your promise to your sister after all. And, if you apologize, shouldn't you apologize to everyone? You don't need to apologize to me alone."

But the short witch said:

"Gina and the lady don't need me to apologize; they are both witches, powerful existences. Although you are also powerful, you are a man. I have been educated since I was a child that after becoming a witch, I must be polite to men who are polite, and even if I hate them very much, I cannot show it."

"You are very polite and have helped us so much, so I need to apologize to you alone."

Xia De, who did not understand the situation of ordinary men in the witch society of the Fifth Era, did not expect her to say this. After being stunned for a moment, he laughed again:

"Okay, Miss Bladevi, then I accept your formal apology. This is just a small matter. I was originally worried that you were deliberately planning to enter here and had your own strange purpose. As long as it's not like that, it doesn't matter."

"I have no purpose; I really just came to this flesh-and-blood factory because I came into contact with that strange letter my sister received."

She looked back at the two companions who were still praying, her eyes shining, and said to Xia De again:

"Then Mr. Hamilton, you are really not a witch, right?"

"Of course not, I am just an ordinary ring warlock."

"Then this shouldn't count as breaking the promise to my sister. My sister just said, don't let me teach this to other witches, but you are not a witch, so it doesn't matter."

She pulled a piece of paper from her sleeve, on which was the content just written down:

"This is for you, as a gift for the apology... If one day others find out you can do this, don't say I taught you. And, you cannot teach this to others."

She stuffed the paper to Xia De, and then flew away from his side quickly. Xia De looked at the thing in his hand in surprise; it recorded a secret technique that looked very basic—

【Sharp Eye Technique】: Cast spells through gestures to enhance the effects of magic eyes and eye-related abilities one possesses.

The specific casting gesture is to put the palms together with the palms facing inward in front of the eyes, and then open the gap between the index finger and the middle finger as wide as possible to expose the eyes forward.

The learning of this secret technique does not require faith, and among the materials required for the learning ritual, besides the eye tissue fluid of the exotic creature "Beholder", the others are also easy to get. It seems that this kind of secret technique is very basic, but this kind of enhancement of relics and spell effects regardless of any conditions is the most terrifying.

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