Wrapped in the blood-red mist, Shinji stepped forward, sweeping away rafters, broken branches and wood wherever he passed.
Feeling threatened, the "True Red Fruit" pulled out blood vessel-like silk threads and tried to escape, but the previous "Wanzhuang Guizong" had already blocked all the surrounding roads. The fruit of blood essence itself did not have the ability to force a way through. It could only wait, wait for the arrival of the human who had destroyed it once.
Any further trembling and struggling was meaningless. From the moment it chose to devour its own children and exposed itself to Elquet and Shinji, its fate was doomed. Both Fuhailin and Anashu must be destroyed.
The young man who continuously released scarlet waves moved forward. His speed could only be described as ordinary, and was not as swift as when he was fighting with the shadow warrior. However, no one dared to underestimate the power and oppression he released, including Elquet, the provider of the blood-sucking impulse. That was an extremely destructive force standing at the top of the mysterious world.
This destructive power, combined with the previous "Ten Thousand Shots Fired Simultaneously", is enough to silence everyone's doubts and push Shinji to the level of the Twenty-Seventh Ancestor. Strength is always a more powerful expression than any words!
Of course, this is only a secondary purpose. The main purpose is to consume Elquet's blood-sucking urge as much as possible. The less blood-sucking urge, the less mental power is needed to suppress it, and the more can be allocated to "fantasy materialization". The True Ancestor who is not troubled by the blood-sucking urge is the real living God, not the current state of the tip of the iceberg - the iceberg is not covered by anything else, but the sea of blood.
When the wave of blood-sucking impulse began to subside significantly, and when he could clearly feel the relaxed emotion conveyed by Elquet, Shinji knew that it was almost time. If he continued, he would deplete Elquet's own mental strength, which would not be worth the loss.
He deliberately gathered his outward strength, condensing the remaining blood-sucking impulse into a big hand, and grabbed the True Red Fruit that was struggling in vain through the air, holding it tightly in the palm of his hand, not giving any chance for external interference.
The captured True Red Fruit seemed to be aware of its own fate and struggled even harder. Its attitude seemed to be saying - I can't live, and I won't let you have an easy life either.
Shinji was also very single. He returned to Elquet as quickly as possible and threw the fruit directly into her hands, asking her to suppress this restless thing:
"How do you use this thing? Just swallow it?"
"You can't swallow it. It's better to drink my blood than swallow this disgusting thing. They will all become vampires. I think my blood is better."
"Is there no other use for it? The legendary fruit of immortality has only this use, so I can only sell it to Her Majesty the Queen or Miss Rojian over there."
Shinji scratched his cheek helplessly. Even though he had heard Mei Lian say it once, it was still a little hard to accept when he actually got it.
The two people who were named had different reactions. Lorelaia bit her index finger subconsciously, calculating the pros and cons, while Rojian agreed immediately:
"Okay, okay. I've always been interested in the True Red Fruit. Sell it to me, and I won't let you suffer any loss."
Elquite placed the fruit in front of his eyes and observed it carefully with his golden eyes. After a while, he said, "It does have other uses. The fruit stores powerful vitality, which can be used as a magic furnace to build a temple, or it can be used to guide the vitality out to improve human physique."
"Improve your physical condition?"
Shinji's eyes lit up. A few days ago, he was still talking about strengthening Waver's body to prevent him from overwork and following in his master's footsteps and dying young. He didn't expect to get it a few days later.
"How do I do it? Is it difficult?"
"It's easy, just like this—"
As he spoke, Elquet stretched out his finger and scratched a hole on the surface of the fruit. A drop of thick red liquid oozed out. Then, he lightly touched the drop with his finger, and the drop quickly evaporated, leaving only a colorless mist lingering around.
Her Royal Highness the Princess snapped her fingers, and the mist touched Shinji's body and disappeared instantly.
Shinji looked at the place where the mist disappeared, and scanned his body with his mental power again, and asked in confusion: "Is this the end?"
"It's over."
"Why don't I feel any changes?" That's right, Shinji didn't feel any strengthening of his body at all.
"Of course there is no change." Her Royal Highness the Princess said as a matter of course, "Any enhancement has its limits, and your body has been enhanced to the limit you can reach. Unless you give up being a human, no matter how much you enhance it, it will be useless."
The answer is reasonable. Humans have their limits, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who want to stop being human. In this land of Europe, most of the powerful heroes have mixed blood with non-humans, so they can break through the limits of human beings. (This is why Hector, who was born as a mortal, could never beat Achilles)
Although Shinji has the inheritance of Scathach and the improvement of the golden apple, his essence is still human, without any extra-human factors (he refused the opportunity to become extra-human - the blood of Elquit), and it is already very remarkable that he can strengthen his body to the current level. Breaking through further is the sublimation of the essence of life, which is not impossible, but the difficulty is not much lower than becoming a magician - just like the human hero Hector could only run away when he met the demigod Achilles. Throughout history, how many people have broken the limit with a pure human body
"I see. I don't need to strengthen him."
The person Shinji pointed at was naturally Waver.
"Wait—me?"
Weber was stunned, and before he could react, Elquet had already pulled out a large ball of vitality and threw it in his face.
The True Red Fruit, which had been "bled" in large quantities, also shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its struggles became much weaker. Correspondingly, Waver's complexion improved a lot due to his hard work over the past few days. The essence of countless flesh and blood condensed by Fu Hailin was so magical.
Shinji looked at his old friend with a ruddy face and nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad, now it looks much better. Wearing red clothes and black-framed glasses, you still look so bad, you really bring shame to our magician world."
"I don't know what you're talking about, but - thank you."
Weber was deeply moved when he felt the power filling his body. A good body is the foundation of everything, and everyone knows what this gift means.
Shinji smiled slightly and said to Elquito: "Can he be strengthened further?"
"No." Elquet shook his head. "Strengthening also depends on one's foundation. His foundation is too poor, so he can only go this far."
"I see."
Shinji calculated the consumption of Weber and compared it with the remaining volume of the fruit, the smile on his face growing wider.
"Too many people want this thing. It's not safe to hold it in your hands. It's better to use it all at once. Anyone want to strengthen their body? The number of places is limited. First come, first served. If you miss this opportunity, it will be gone forever."
In an instant, almost everyone's breathing became heavy.
PS: The limit we are talking about here is not the technical level of Master Li, but the sublimation of the true essence of life. Maybe this is how immortals in the Type-Moon world are achieved - of course, it's hard to say. Considering that there were evil gods rampant in China in the past, maybe the essence of immortals is the followers of Cthulhu