"What exactly is this medicine?"
"The new medicine of the Life School can greatly enhance the strength and physique of your soldiers, making them fearless and eager to kill. Even if they are fatally wounded, they can recover quickly."
"What is the price? Although I don't understand you extraordinary people, this kind of drug that can bring people power must also have a corresponding price... Otherwise, your life school would have unified the world long ago."
"Your Excellency, please understand. In fact, the effect of this drug is to stimulate the potential within the human body and greatly enhance its physical strength. The price is to absorb vitality from the outside world."
"vitality?"
"Normally, all you need to do is increase your daily diet. If you are seriously injured on the battlefield and need a lot of vitality in a short period of time, you can only resort to the method of devouring and plundering."
"Please continue."
"Eating living things is a relatively simple method. For example, flowers, plants, trees, cattle, sheep, livestock, and even prisoners of war can all be used as a source of vitality."
"That sounds a bit blasphemous..."
"Of course, sir. If power were something so easy to obtain, your opponent would have already used it."
"What you said does make some sense. However, let's do the experiment on some people first. I have a few death row prisoners in the dungeon under my castle..."
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On Hearth Island, Ask took the last bottle of "Tactics II" and carefully poured it into his mouth.
The girls around were also ready to fight, as they were about to witness the birth of the first Lv.10 in the team.
After taking the medicine, Ask threw the bottle away quickly and shouted, "Nora!"
Nora quickly put her hands on his back and realized that Ask's body was in great chaos.
His life force seemed to be burning, and the almost boiling vitality was swaying wildly above his head, creating an almost visible tangible flame; his spirit body seemed to be melting, and was slowly undergoing some strange, unknown transformation.
As instructed and practiced beforehand, Nora activated the abilities of "life" and "spirit" at the same time to help Ask maintain the stability of cell tissue in his body, gather vitality, and accelerate the transformation process of the spirit.
As the potion continued to digest, the girls held their breath, because Ask began to grow noticeably taller, his muscles slowly expanded and became more streamlined, and his skin began to wrinkle and shed a translucent gelatinous layer, just like a snake shedding its skin.
Nora, who helped Ask maintain his physical and spiritual stability, was observing more carefully and meticulously at this time, and was also horrified.
The lower part of his spine was getting denser, his esophagus and trachea were separating, his appendix was degenerating, his retina was flipping over, his laryngeal nerves were disintegrating and reconnecting along the aortic arch, and his bones were thickening at his temples... In Ask's body, a large number of organs and tissues that originally belonged to humans were rapidly undergoing some mysterious and strange changes.
"Completing the bloodline path means officially becoming a non-human." The words once again emerged from Nora's mind, and now, for the first time, she had a deep and intuitive understanding of this sentence.