Thinking is a very tiring thing. In the past, Zhuge Kongming, his predecessor, thought too much. Even when soldiers violated military disciplines, he personally intervened and finally died of exhaustion.
Unknowingly, Palin's face began to turn pale again, and the vitality in his body decreased rapidly, turning toward the dead at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Sui Xiong noticed something strange about him and hurriedly used magic power to replenish his vitality.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with brother Palin?" Gerald asked with his mind.
Sui Xiong was silent for a moment and honestly told him about Palin's situation.
"What?! His soul has long since left his body, and now he only relies on his life force to move his body and residual thoughts? But I think everything seems normal to him, and there is no problem at all!"
"I don't know what's going on." Sui Xiong spread his tentacles in a helpless posture, "I only know that once he loses external supply and the remaining vitality in his body is used up, he will die immediately. So you also see Here, we often need to replenish his vitality."
"But this isn't a long-term solution. Can't we replenish a lot at once?"
"It's not enough to replenish the deficiency... You don't understand this. In short, his body cannot absorb a lot of vitality at one time, and replenishing it too much is harmful and useless." Sui Xiong said, and suddenly he had an idea and thought of a way.
There is a kind of cold medicine on earth called "sustained-release capsules". By sealing the medicine in some small packages with different dissolving speeds, one capsule can last for twelve hours (he is not sure whether this is the case specifically, Maybe), according to this idea, he can do the same!
Just as he thought of it, he tried to condense a large amount of life force into a ball, and made a honeycomb shell with soluble colloid. Each small grid contained the amount required to replenish Palin's life force. The shells of each grid have different thicknesses... The last thing is a small round ball about one centimeter in diameter.
Of course, this thing is just a trial product and needs to be fully tested to ensure its safety. So Sui Xiong was not in a hurry to give Palin this thing that could be regarded as a pill, but instead built a structure similar to the human intestines in his body.
Let’s do clinical trials first.
But this matter is not urgent, the immediate priority is to deal with the loot.
After defeating the God of Conspiracy, its envoy, the Four-faced Monster, became Sui Xiong's trophy. This strange creature contains powerful power and is a master in illusion. Sui Xiong swallowed it in one gulp, analyzed it carefully, and felt that he had gained a lot, and even received an unexpected surprise.
As the envoy of the God of Conspiracy, the soul of this four-faced monster actually contains some of the God of Conspiracy's divine power.
The main functions of the God of Conspiracy are conspiracy, deception and illusion, and there are many more secondary ones, such as evil, chaos, darkness, uncleanness... there are so many pieces that I can't analyze them all at once. Generally speaking, compared to the priest whose duties are shadow, protection and death, and almost nothing else, the strong and simple gatekeeper of the dark night god system, the god of sleepless nights, this god of conspiracy can be said to be versatile and as flashy as the street. A wandering magician who performs tricks.
By analyzing divine power, understanding and mastering the power possessed by this god, and then learning to imitate it, this is something Sui Xiong has done once before. However, compared to the remaining divine power in the shrine last time, the divine power this time is far superior in both quality and quantity. It was pure and majestic. Although it was only a little bit, it was at least as good as a blow with 80% of Sui Xiong's power. If the four-faced monster could really unleash its divine power, Sui Xiong would never be able to capture it so easily.
Analyzing divine power is a technical job that cannot be completed in a short time. Sui Xiong wasn't in a hurry, he would just take his time if he couldn't finish it. Anyway, time is really meaningless to him.
When he was practicing in the Ice Trench, God knows how many years had passed. At the beginning, he would write down one or two years according to the changes in cold and heat. Later, he couldn't remember clearly, and he simply didn't bother to remember.
Compared with those long and boring years, the time it takes to analyze divine power is simply not worth mentioning.
And his two subordinates didn't have much concept of time. Gerald was the type who went to bed when he was full. He used to think hard about how to promote his own gods' beliefs. Since he had a smart colleague like Palin, He is too lazy to even think, and his level of laziness is simply outrageous; while Palin is the complete opposite of him. As long as his soulless body has enough vitality, he does not need to sleep at all. All he can do is read and think all day long. He is so diligent that it is embarrassing. .
Sometimes Sui Xiong also thinks, it would be nice if these two people were equal...
The days passed like this. The giant jellyfish floating in the sky didn't need food. The two people in the treasure cave could use magic to make food, so they didn't feel uncomfortable at all.
But these days are very difficult for Renn. Ever since he suffered a loss at the hands of Sui Xiong last time, the God of Conspiracy no longer wants to pay attention to this area, and Renn, who has been looking forward to the gods answering his prayers, Naturally, every day is like a year. He can now feel that he is aging almost every day and is slowly but surely heading towards death, but he has no hope of going to the Kingdom of God. This desperate life drove him almost crazy. In the end, he could only rely on medicine to fall asleep. But even if he took enough sleeping pills to knock down a cow, he would suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, crying and shouting. He stood there, terrified like a child abandoned by his parents.
In despair, he thought hard and felt that the reason why the God of Conspiracy did not answer his prayers might be that his plan was not completely successful—for example, there might be something wrong with the Death Cloud Scroll and it was not activated smoothly. Another example is that the giant's bone bracelet can not only cast restoration spells, but also dispel spells... If you think about it carefully, there are actually many flaws in his plan, and it is not surprising that something unexpected happened.
"My plan must have failed, but I was bragging to His Majesty, and His Majesty got angry!" Thinking about it, Ren was sweating profusely, and he was all frightened. "The only chance to save now is to go there again and save him." Things are done!”
Even so, his legs felt weak at the thought of confronting the angry giant.
After persisting for about a month, Ren finally couldn't bear this kind of life anymore. So he made up his mind, took the few remaining subordinates in the Thieves Guild who were loyal to him, and found a good mage to help. The whole group rushed towards Ruhl's treasure.
"Are we going to deal with a giant?" the mage asked while camping on the road.
"Yes, a giant."
"What are its specialties?" the mage asked.
"Very powerful, very strong, very fast. And very rare, not stupid," Lane said.
The mage pondered for a while and asked: "Does it have any other abilities worth mentioning? Or is it special equipment?"
"There is a suspected high-level magic item, a bone bracelet, which is known to be able to provide restoration skills." Renn said, "I guess there may be a god's will residing in it."
"This is impossible!" The mage immediately rejected this guess. "Giants do not have their own gods, and I can't think of any god who would tolerate his sacred object falling into the hands of a giant without sending a paladin to retrieve it. . That should just be the ancestral spirit of their tribe. These barbaric races often believe in their ancestors, and magic items similar to this kind of ancestral spirit are often found."
When it comes to magic, of course professionals are more authoritative. So Renn no longer insisted on his opinion and asked the mage how to deal with the giant.
"The best way to deal with giants is to use illusions to induce them to fall off the cliff. But according to what you said, it is a sealed cave that can only be entered and exited with teleportation magic, so it is impossible to do this..." The mage After pondering for a while, he asked, "How high is that cave? Is the place spacious?"
"It's not very high." Ren replied truthfully. "The place is also a bit narrow. The giant needs to bend down a little to stand in it."
The mage's eyes lit up, and he suddenly had an idea.
"In that case, it's easy." He said with a smile, "I have many ways to deal with such a big guy in a narrow terrain. If I cast a spell, it will be guaranteed to have a bloody head, broken tendons, and fractures, or it may die directly. possible."
Ren was overjoyed immediately, but then he thought about it and felt a little worried: "What if it doesn't get stuck?"
"Then I can definitely trap it completely and prevent it from moving." The mage said confidently, "I will use another spell then -"
Having said this, he thought for a moment and asked, "Do you mind if the bone bracelet is lost?"
"Of course I don't mind!" Ren said decisively, "There is such a big treasure behind!"
"That's enough, leave it to me, it's very easy." The mage stood up, patted the dust on his clothes, and went straight back to the tent to sleep.
As a mage who fights with his brain rather than his brawn, he doesn't need to attend the vigil. On the contrary, allowing him to get sufficient rest so that he can cast spells stably is an important reason why Renn came with a large group of men.
After all... Facing that terrifying giant, neither bows, arrows nor swords may have much power. What can really determine the outcome of this battle is magic.
After watching the mage go to rest, Ren sat beside the campfire, looking at the blazing flames and lost in thought.
If the giant is really not dead yet, if it is actually powerful enough to withstand the Death Cloud Technique, if the will of a god really resides in that bracelet...
He sighed deeply, his face looking haggard.
In the corner of the camp, the vice-president, who had been silent since the departure, watched all of this quietly with twinkling eyes.
"The old man is really dying." A thought that he had never had before slowly sprouted in his mind, "Maybe... I should make some plans for myself... "