In the underground waterway, Claire finally improved a little after half a day's rest. Although her head no longer hurt, she still felt a little dizzy. The sequelae of using gems in the country were very strange, and no matter what potion was taken, it had no effect. , we can only rely on closed thinking to wait for it to slowly subside.
"How long have I been asleep?"
"Nearly sixteen hours┉┉"
Upon hearing that she had been asleep for so long, Claire was a little disbelieving and murmured: "How could this happen!"
Although the gem was overused, Claire believed that the time of use this time was not as long as before. How could it take so long for her to recover.
"It seems that the power of the gem will exhaust your soul and body when used."
“┉┉┉┉”
Claire was silent. Although she signed a contract with the devil, Claire also knew what the other party knew about herself. The less the better.
A smile appeared on Misty's face like flowing mucus: "There is no need to hide my contractor. As a higher-dimensional being, I can feel the power contained in this gem. As a mortal, your body and soul are not enough." You cannot use this gem continuously for a long time, otherwise your body and soul will be torn apart under the impact of the power."
"Then why did I┉┉ this time?" Seeing that the other party already knew the secret, Claire said hesitantly.
"The power in gems is activated by your thoughts. It allows you mortals to use super-level spells and various special abilities. The more powerful the spells and abilities are, the more you need to activate more of the gems. The power of gems, you initially thought it was wrong to think that the length of time you use gems will determine the size of the sequelae. If you just need to learn spells and speed up meditation, the power of gems can help you do it without too much, but before The True Name Contract is a powerful spell left over from the second generation and is even closely related to the rules of the world. However, you tried to analyze the contract with the power of the gem at that time. Naturally, in that short period of time, you activated much more than you normally would. The force came out and caused extremely serious sequelae.”
"Serious!?" Claire suddenly felt that her body seemed to be particularly weak at this time. Even though her head no longer hurt, her whole body felt like she was losing strength: "What happened to my body when I fell asleep?"
Misty pointed to the basin on the side. The basin was full of hot water and almost all of it was dyed red. Even the towel hanging on the side was red.
"A large number of capillaries throughout the body were broken, and the muscle tissue was abnormally twisted. Fortunately, the internal organs and bones were not injured. And your space ring happened to contain a very pure healing medicine. I made you take one while you were sleeping. bottle, otherwise your body won’t be able to recover so quickly.”
Misty gently picked up a ring. Claire took a closer look and found that it was the ring she had stolen from the beautiful noble girl in the Silver Wing Chamber of Commerce. Before, she only knew that it was filled with all kinds of things. Gold and silver treasures, but I didn't expect that the ring also contained medicine.
"Don't touch my things!" Claire snatched the ring from Misty's hand.
If the devil had taken something else, then Claire might not mind so much, but when she thought of that girl whose temperament and appearance were unparalleled, and when she thought that the girl might be sad and lost because of the loss of the ring, Claire would always feel Feeling guilty.
Misty didn't mind Claire's actions: "You are very lucky. This bottle of healing potion is a high-purity potion that I have never seen before. It healed the damage on your body in a very short time, but the effect on the soul The weakness and fatigue cannot be cured by medicine and can only be recovered slowly with time."
"I know┉┉" Claire, who was experienced, nodded. She knew the characteristics of the sequelae best.
"The pharmacists who can prepare such high-purity medicines can be traced back almost ten thousand years ago. It is hard to imagine that there are still master-level pharmacists among mortals today."
Claire was stunned: "Ten thousand years? How is this possible!"
"I'm really curious about where you got this bottle of potion."
For a moment, Claire buried her head and muttered softly: "I stole it┉┉"
"Where did you steal it from?"
"This has nothing to do with you!"
Claire put the ring in her pocket, stood up weakly, poured some water and drank it. After she got better, she looked at the devil and said with complicated emotions: "Thank you for taking care of me when I was in a coma."
"You don't need to thank me, I'm just fulfilling my contractual obligations."
"That guy is not lovable at all." Claire shook her head helplessly and then asked, "What happened when I was in a coma?"
Misty shook her head: "I'm sorry, my power is first in this small space. At most, it can only be limited to an area near this waterway. It is temporarily unable to detect further outside. Unless you can further Expand the space.”
Continue to expand space? This is obviously impossible for Claire. Her head is still a little groggy now. She has experienced such severe sequelae. If she continues to use gems, it may kill her. Now she must take a rest and try to recover as much as possible. In the body, if something happens to him in this weak condition, he will be in trouble. Ignoring the devil around him, Claire took out some brown bread she had just bought, spread some on it and ate the remaining butter and meat jerky.
Claire was indeed a little hungry after sleeping for such a long time, so she managed to finish two large slices of bread and a bag of dried meat in a few clicks.
Looking at the devil sitting beside him, Claire held the butcher in his hand and asked, "Do you want to eat?"
"No, I don't need to eat mortal food. For me, human negative emotions and fallen souls are what is necessary to maintain my existence."
Claire glared at the devil and took back her hand to eat by herself: "Hmm~ It seems that being a devil is not a good thing."
"What do you mean by good things?"
"Have you ever tasted the delicious food?"
"I don't need to eat mortal food, but I can eat it, but it doesn't mean anything to me after eating it."
"Are you going to be hungry?"
"We don't have that feeling. Appetite is a mortal desire, and our desires are more reflected in the deeper desires in our hearts, and most of them are negative and sinful desires for mortals. ”
Claire took a sip of water and swallowed the food before asking, "For example?"
"For example, I long to devour more fallen souls and become stronger, I long for all the mortals in this city to believe in me, and I long for the moral depravity of mortals and to go to the extreme side┉┉"
Listening to Misty's story, Claire couldn't help but asked with confusion: "No wonder the world calls you demons. But is there any meaning in doing this? Or is it just because you need to do it?" , as you said, a fallen soul is needed to maintain one’s existence.”
"Part of it is because of the need to maintain my existence, and the other part is because of my desire."
"Is it really just for lust!?"
Misty said without hesitation: "Satisfying your own desires is proof of your own existence for us demons. For us, nothing is more important than satisfying our desires┉┉"
Misty suddenly paused mid-sentence.
"What's wrong?" Claire asked doubtfully.
Misty's body flowed like mucus and slid towards the door of the room: "Someone has entered the waterway, there are many of them, and a few of them have magic fluctuations and are mages!"
I was discovered here!
Claire was suddenly startled and got busy activating the protective magic circle arranged outside, but found nothing. Apparently, the magic circle had been dismantled. After confirming that the magic circle was invalid, Claire had no time to think about how the other party found her here. Now Claire's first thought was to run away quickly.
Even after getting this magical gem, Claire still knew that she was just a low-level mage with a magic level that barely reached level 7. It was okay to hide in a dark place and sneak attack others, but face a few mages and a group of people in a head-on battle. A well-trained guard has absolutely no chance of winning! Not to mention that there are also extremely terrifying monsters in this city. Even a powerful warrior like Longga, with the help of the power of gems, still lost to the competitive warrior named Gerkate. Field champion.
"Get out of here quickly. Can you sense the location of these people?"
"absolutely okay."
Claire quickly packed it up and put some magic books that she had not yet had time to read and learn into the space ring, including the skull of the orc Longa placed aside. Claire quickly cast an 'invisibility spell' on herself and 'Night Vision' ran to the door quietly and watched quietly. There was still no one in the dark waterway and it was quiet without any footsteps. It seemed that no one came in at all.
"Please keep letting the gems break a small part of the space blockade, otherwise I will have to return to the abyss under the pressure of the law of the interface."
"I know, I'll do my best."
Originally, Claire did not want to continue to use the power of the gem at this time, but considering that the devil's induction was much stronger than her own, Claire did not care so much and tried to activate the minimum power of the gem to break through the so-called... space blockade. The body of the demon following Claire suddenly twisted and shrank and hovered around Claire's arm, turning into a black bracelet as if it violated the principles of matter.