"Senior...?"
Mash squeezed out such a sound from her white lips.
"Are you awake? Matthew?"
Luo Zhen continued to hold Mashu's hand, injecting magic power into the runes carved on his arm to provide Mashu with vitality, while involuntarily lowering his voice.
"how do you feel?"
Luo Zhen showed a gentle smile to Ma Xiu, which made Ma Xiu's expression more relaxed and reassured.
"I...what's wrong?"
Matthew asked blankly, as if he didn't understand his current situation.
"You fell."
Luo Zhen didn't hide anything and answered directly.
With just such a sentence, Ma Xiu roughly understood his situation.
"Yeah... ?"
Matthew lowered his eyes and fell silent.
Seeing this, Luo Zhen sighed and made some reproachful noises.
"You have known about your physical condition for a long time, but you have always concealed it, right?"
Luo Zhen asked this question with great certainty.
Come to think of it, Mashu's body was abnormal as early as when he was in the singularity, but he kept concealing it, which led to him returning to Chaldea, completely relaxing his body and mind, and then collapsed.
"My body is obviously abnormal and you still force yourself to fight. Do you really think I won't be angry?"
Luo Zhen looked at Ma Xiu and sighed repeatedly.
This made Matthew lower his head and make a sound like a child who had done something wrong.
"I'm sorry, senior."
Matthew apologized like this.
only...
"Hey, senior." Mashu asked softly, "Can I last until we finish saving humanity with you?"
Matthew actually asked such a question.
As expected, Ma Xiu knew the best about his physical condition.
But this girl had neither fear nor pain, she just asked Luo Zhen as if looking forward to it.
This made Luo Zhen feel a pain in his heart and closed his eyes.
There is no doubt that Matthew has already accepted his fate.
The only thing this girl hopes for in the end is to fight with Luo Zhen until the end and save humanity.
That way, he can leave with peace of mind.
This fool must have thought so, right
The girl wanted to use her remaining years to save the future of mankind and save a world where Luo Zhen could continue to live.
As for herself, she is no longer within the girl's consideration.
"Although senior now has a more reliable servant, I still want to fight with senior."
The girl who was once extremely afraid of battle actually took the initiative to say this, and even prayed for it.
As long as she can do this, the girl will be satisfied and think that her life with less than a year left has meaning.
This made Luo Zhen hold Ma Xiu's hand and subconsciously prepared to use force, but he desperately relaxed because he was afraid of hurting this fragile girl.
In fact, if you just want Mashu to survive, there are still many ways to do it based on Luozhen's knowledge reserves.
For example, Luo Zhen can use the soul spell headed by "Taishan Fujun Sacrifice" to extract Mashu's soul from his depleted body, and then replace it with a new body that matches his soul. In this way, Ma Xiu can Restoration work.
For example, Luo Zhen can also use Huayuzhai's secret technique to make a jingliu equivalent to artificial cells to replace the cells that have lost vitality for Mashu and make him regain his vitality.
For another example, Luo Zhen can also use runes, which contain magic that can resurrect people and is equivalent to the level of a noble phantom.
What's more, Luo Zhen can even form an absolute contract with Ma Xiu, turn Ma Xiu into a pure record, and carve it into her soul. In this way, she can become immortal.
In other words, Luo Zhen can do things that even the may not be able to do, allowing Mashu to continue to live.
However, all of these methods have their drawbacks.
Needless to say, using the "Taishanfujunji", this spell ritual is originally classified as a forbidden spell. Whether it can be used successfully is a question. Even if Luo Zhen can use it successfully, he wants to find a new one that can match Mashu. It's not easy on the body, not to mention that if anything goes wrong with the ritual, it may cause damage to Mashu's soul. Therefore, Luo Zhen doesn't want to use it unless there is nothing he can do.
Replacing cells all over the body with Jingliu is equivalent to transforming Mashu's whole body. By then, Mashu may no longer be considered a human, or he may become a living automaton like Ye Ye, Iruri and Xiao Zi. Dolls, or simply turn into unknown monsters, Luo Zhen naturally would not want to use such a method.
Not to mention the resurrected rune magic. If you want to use it, there are many restrictions. Not only do you need to carve the runes on the user's body in advance, but it can only be activated at the moment the heart stops beating. It can resurrect people, but it is just resurrection. There is no way to extend Mashu's lifespan. Even if he survives, he will die immediately. Therefore, this magic cannot be used on dead people. It requires a lot of preparation, and it cannot be used on dead people. It only affects objects with too much physical damage. If only the heart is penetrated, there is still a way to repair it, but if the head is blown away, it is completely hopeless, let alone the situation where the life span has reached its limit.
As for forming an absolute contract with Mashu, that is the best way.
Needless to say, Ma Xiu's feelings for Luo Zhen now go without saying. As long as Luo Zhen wants to conclude an absolute contract with her, he can succeed in every minute.
But, it’s still the same problem mentioned before.
To maintain the existence of the familiar, Luo Zhen must consume a lot of magic power, otherwise he can only let Mashu sleep in his body.
Although Luo Zhen's ability is now much stronger than in the past, and he can even use the magic power of the Great Source, using magic power to fight is another matter. The magic power to maintain the existence of the familiar is directly absorbed from Luo Zhen through the contract.
And Mashu is now a servant of the highest familiar level. Even if he is not at the strategic level, he still has the power of the tactical level.
If you want to maintain the existence of such a familiar for two or three days, Luo Zhen can still do it. You can also maintain it for a long time by using the and other methods. But once you encounter a battle or use magic power, This time will be shortened, and the magic power required to summon the servant will be increased. This has been explained clearly before.
Fortunately, Attila's summons relies on the magic power provided by the Holy Grail. Luo Zhen only needs to maintain its existence now, so there is no problem for a short time.
However, as time passed, Atila could only return to Luo Zhen's soul, waiting for Luo Zhen to summon him again.
But if you want to summon it again, the magic power that needs to be consumed will have to be borne by Luo Zhen himself. I don’t know if it can be done without using the two trump cards in his hand. In addition, it is necessary to maintain its existence and fight. It’s easy to understand after just a little thought. , as long as Luo Zhen does not solve the magic problem, perhaps, in the future, Atila will have to sleep in Luo Zhen's soul for a long time.
Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit do not have this shortcoming.
The magic consumption of these two gods is definitely higher than that of Attila and Mashu now, but they appear in the world by relying on the magic tools. They do not directly use their power, but only let them transform. As a spell tool, when worn on the body to assist oneself, not only is the consumption of magic power not high at all, it can even feed back to Luo Zhen, allowing Luo Zhen to accelerate consumption and recovery.
Therefore, as long as they are not allowed to fight directly with their own bodies, there is no need to worry about consumption issues.
Servants like Attila and Mashu have no choice.
In view of this, before solving the magic problem or being absolutely sure of saving Masu, Luo Zhen could only watch Masu become so weak, and only resorted to these methods until there was no other way.
In this situation...
"Don't worry, trust me."
Luo Zhen showed a relaxed smile to Ma Xiu.
"No matter what, I will definitely save you."
This is the only and absolute promise given by Luo Zhen.