Xia Ya looked at Merlin... This old witch's eyes seemed to have some malicious intentions!
pain? !
Such words came out of Merlin's mouth, and Xia's heart suddenly burst into a strong unease!
"Pain?" Xia Ya asked again.
"Yes, it hurts." Merlin's answer was clear and crisp, and after thinking for a moment, she slowly said, "Very, very intense pain."
"Thank goodness, you at least told the truth." Xia Ya rolled her eyes.
Merlin smiled sinisterly: "Even if I told you 'it's just a little pain', would you believe it?"
Xia Ya shook her head very firmly.
"That's fine." Merlin curled her lips, and then she put away her smile and said solemnly, "Pain can cause great stimulation to you, and as long as you use these stimulations skillfully and find the right focus, then these pains will be eliminated. It can break the natural cycle of the small world in your body and channel the power inside.”
"...Will it be dangerous?" This is the question that Char Ya is most concerned about.
"It's dangerous, probably a little bit." Merlin rolled his eyes and looked at the sky: "Don't worry, my old man will never let you have any real accident."
Xia Ya glared at Merlin: "Why don't you dare to look at me when you say this?"
Merlin coughed and said fiercely with a stern face: "Do you really want to practice? Give me a clear sentence!"
"...Can I refuse?" Xia asked cautiously.
"Yes." Merlin's answer was very happy: "But I said just now, if you can't break that Garin's leg, I will break your leg and turn you into a frog. So you have the right to reject… "
"You too have the right to turn me into a lame frog - am I right?"
"Completely correct!"
Xia Ya took a deep breath and spit it out slowly, looking into Merlin's eyes with a sincere expression: "You are fair and strict, I am truly convinced and admired - since that's the case, let's start practicing Bar."
"...Why do I think your words are a little insincere?" Merlin narrowed his eyes.
"Where!" Xia Ya said with a stern look: "I praise you from the bottom of my heart."
"I think you must be scolding me in your stomach."
Char: "Your wisdom can really light up the whole world..."
Merlin ignored Xia Ya's sour words and said solemnly, "Since you have no opinion, let's start practicing."
She looked up at the sun: "It's still a while before lunch. If you learn fast, you should be able to comprehend it a little bit. Before lunch, you can go to that Garin to have a try."
With that said, Merlin looked around: "Not here, let's go to the woods."
Merlin turned around and walked into the woods, with Char following behind, with the expression on his face as if he were on the execution ground.
At this time, Adeline was standing in the distance looking at Xia Ya. She saw her fiancé walking behind Merlin into the house with a "tragic" expression. She couldn't help but be a little puzzled. I only got a "nostalgic" look from Xia Ya...
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A slightly larger clearing in the woods.
"It's not bad here, no one will disturb my old man to teach you the exercises." Merlin looked around with satisfaction: "Let's start now."
With a look of dying and struggling, Xia Ya puffed out her cheeks and said, "Okay... The environment here is really good, even if I die here, it won't be a loss... Let's do it!"
Merlin ignored Char's strange words, and slowly took out something from his right sleeve.
This is a long iron box. After Merlin took it out, his expression immediately became very serious, and his eyes became solemn.
The box was opened, but there was a row of slender bottles in the shape of human fingers, five bottles in total.
Merlin stretched out two fingers and twisted the first bottle, lifted the cap with his fingernails, and handed it to Xia: "Drink it."
"… what?"
"Drink as much as you want." Merlin frowned, "Will I still harm you?"
(Good question... This is a difficult question to say.)
Xia murmured in her heart, and could only take the bottle with a sigh. She couldn't refuse anyway, so Xia sighed in her heart, closed her eyes, raised her neck, snorted, and poured the contents of the bottle down her throat.
Hmm... A liquid that is neither bitter nor sour, I don't know what it tastes like, so strange.
However, it doesn't seem to be as unpleasant as expected.
"Second bottle." Merlin picked up another bottle and handed it to Char.
Xia Ya swallowed it as usual.
Afterwards, Merlin let Xi Ya drink the five bottles in the box and each potion.
Xia Ya drank it all in one breath, and then let out a sigh of relief. She felt that her tongue was a little numb, and she couldn't help but spit it out and scratched it with her fingers, frowning: "What the hell is it... why is it so numb?"
Merlin stood aside, looked at Xiaya with a smile, and then slowly said: "Okay, this is a special magic potion that I made by myself. As for the formula... I won't tell you. The name of this potion, I Named the 'Sense Deprivation Magic Potion'."
The name immediately made Xia Ya's legs go soft!
Deprived of five senses? And... also his mother's magic potion? !
It's not a good thing to hear that name!
"Five senses... Deprivation?!" Xia almost jumped up.
"Don't be so impulsive." Merlin said slowly: "There's still a little time before the medicine strikes, I'll explain it to you... Because you need to use pain to stimulate you to burst out the power of your body - and it takes great pain to work! But you may not know that there is a limit to a person's ability to feel! In order for you to feel the most full, delicate and maximum amount of pain, I must first 'close' your other senses for a period of time. That way you can focus all your senses on what pain is like! According to my research, when a person temporarily 'turns off' one sense, the other senses become more acute. You may have experienced this This experience: For example, if you usually close your eyes, do you feel that your hearing is more sensitive than usual? This is exactly what confirms my theory. So, in order to make you more sensitive to pain, I The potion you drink will temporarily shut down your other five senses!"
Xia Ya opened his mouth wide: "..."
It wasn't that he was stunned, but that he suddenly found himself speechless!
It seemed that the tongue was completely numb in his mouth, and he couldn't even feel the existence of his tongue!
Immediately, he felt that his throat was completely blocked by something, and he could no longer utter a single word.
"It looks like it's starting to work." Merlin smiled slightly: "Then... your hearing will gradually disappear... and then..."
Then Xia Ya really couldn't hear it! He only watched Merlin's lips move, but he couldn't hear a single sound.
Merlin looked at Xia Ya's expression, smiled slightly, and suddenly stretched out his finger and poked at Xia Ya's forehead and eyebrows!
Just when Xia Ya was puzzled, a voice suddenly sounded deep in her heart!
"Now, let's continue what we just said..."
"Merlin?!" Xia suddenly exclaimed in his heart - if it wasn't for his inability to speak, he would have already screamed.
"It's a big fuss." Merlin's voice still sounded directly in his heart: "As the greatest magician of our time, do you think I can't even read minds?"
Xia: "…"
"Okay, let me remind you: I'm talking to you using telepathy... This is more advanced magic than mind-reading, hum... By the way, I can tell you by the way that if you scold me in your heart, I can pass the mind-reading technique. Hear it clearly!"
Xia Ya's face turned pale!
this woman! Does she actually know? ! This crazy woman!
I usually scold her a lot in my heart!
Isn't this crazy woman taking the opportunity to take revenge on herself today? !
"And by the way... I don't like being called 'crazy woman.'"
Just when Xia Ya was thinking about it, Merlin's voice sounded in his heart again! He was so frightened that he couldn't even think about it any longer.
"If you had to give me a fearful and slanderous nickname, you could call me a 'great mad woman' in your heart, hum."
Merlin glared at Xia Ya fiercely, then took out something from his sleeve and stuffed it into Xia Ya's mouth: "Swallow it!"
"What is it?"
"It's nothing precious this time, it's just an ordinary medicine to soothe the nerves and refresh the mind." Merlin glanced at his mouth: "Boy, do you know how precious its formula is for the five sense deprivation magic potion just now! How many precious ingredients I have prepared... Humph!"
After that, Xiaya didn't dare to make trouble with Merlin anymore. He obediently sat down under the guidance of Merlin.
And then, his eyes began to get dark... and his ears began to quiet down.
At the end, there is darkness before the eyes - vision disappears.
The wind and birdsong in the woods are no longer in my ears - hearing is gone!
Between heaven and earth, it seems that it has become silent in an instant!
With Merlin's guidance, Xia Ya's heart was quickly immersed. Then he immediately felt... This kind of taste is indeed somewhat magical!
Can't hear any sound, can't see anything, can't smell any smell, can't make any sound...
It was as if all the senses had disappeared.
As if this world fell into a state of absolute silence at once!
quiet!
Indescribable "quiet"!
This kind of stillness is not the kind of stillness in the usual sense, but the whole person, from the outside to the inside, to the depths of the body and mind, seems to have fallen into a state of tranquility and clarity!
"... Now, you relax slowly, all the distracting thoughts in your mind are emptied, don't think wildly, just settle down, experience, experience this taste, this feeling." Merlin's voice also became gentler, slowly Said: "Next, I'm going to the second step."
Then, Xia Ya felt Merlin's hand on the top of his head, his palm was soft, as if stroking his head, but soon, a warm current flowed down Merlin's hand and poured into his body...
"This is my 'Heart Binding Mantra', and I will use this method to help you stay awake." Merlin's voice was calm: "Because, as I said, people's ability to sense is limited. Pain induction, if it exceeds the limit people can bear, people will make an instinctive self-protection - coma. If you are in a coma, you can avoid pain. But you can't. The pain you are about to endure will exceed what your body can bear. Limit! But you can't pass out, or our efforts will fail. My heart-binding spell can keep you awake... which means..."
"That is to say, I will die in pain later, and I don't even want to pass out, I can only suffer, right?" Xia Ya asked in his heart.
"… bingo."
Although Merlin's words were a bit terrifying, Xiaya had to admit that the warmth that Merlin injected into his body really made people feel very comfortable!
He just felt as if he was immersed in warm water all over his body - as if he was in a hot bath! It seems that every pore in the body is stretched and opened, and everything is clearly felt...
wide awake!
I feel a kind of "awake" that I have never had before! As if everything in my body was fully awakened!
In this "quiet" state, Xiaya seems to be able to clearly feel his heartbeat, the contraction or relaxation of every muscle in his body, the breathing of every pore, and even... the flow of blood!
Clear! It's so clear! !
"Next, I'm going to stimulate you." Merlin's voice interrupted Xi Ya's reverie: "According to my research, there are thirteen parts of the human body that are most vulnerable and most likely to cause great pain... Hmm, interesting numbers, right? But don't worry—hey! I'm not going to gouge your eyes or kick your crotch... boy! Don't think about it! I can hear it better than forgetting what you're thinking! The physical pain is just superficial That's it, the real pain is the direct stimulation of your consciousness and your mind - in short, your soul!"
I don't know why... The word "soul" came out of the mouth of someone like Merlin, which is really creepy!
Merlin's voice suddenly stopped...
Xia Ya just felt quiet and was in doubt...
suddenly! A wave of shock nearly knocked him down!
Two icy things like sharp needles seemed to have penetrated his eyes suddenly, and pierced deeply into his mind directly from the eyes!
This sudden and intense pain made Xia Ya's whole body suddenly tense, and the huge pain suddenly made him open his mouth and let go of his throat, and subconsciously made a roaring gesture...
"!!!!!!"