"oh!"
Xia De was walking through the fog in the forest. After he suddenly fell, he was unable to get up again.
The black and white cat struggled to get out from under his body, and then saw the thin, straight wound on Shade's back. His clothes were torn, and there were long, thin bloodstains on his skin.
Although the injury looked like a cut from a sharp silver table knife, she knew what it meant.
Her transformation time was not over yet. She called out to Shade a few times but he didn't respond. She tried to get closer to his neck and feel his pulse. The woman's voice was filled with panic and sadness:
"John Watson, wake up, you must not..."
"oh!"
Xia De suddenly raised his head, startling the black and white cat. However, his eyes widened and he breathed heavily, which undoubtedly proved that he was not dead yet:
"The false state of immortality has been revealed!"
The pain in his back made Xia De's voice tremble:
"As expected of the Thirteenth Ring. If we weren't on this island, we wouldn't be able to escape. Miss Pharmacist, is it you or I who are unlucky? We encountered accidents both times when we landed on the island. Last time it was a monster from some unknown dimension, and this time it was the Thirteenth Ring. I can't imagine what it will be next time."
He tried hard to support his body and wanted to stand up, but in the end he could only move his body weakly, sitting up and leaning against the tree beside him.
"Let's not talk about that for now. How are you now? I have a healing potion in my bag!"
The cat transformed by the pharmacist asked anxiously. She could see that Shade was almost breathing his last breath.
"You shouldn't have been there just now. You hid very well. I can get out of this by myself."
"Ma'am, you are like this now. I am worried that you will lose control in the next second. Are you talking about a method that means you will completely lose control and attack everyone indiscriminately? You shouldn't use the power of a high-level sorcerer."
Xia De said in a low voice, took out the pharmacist's bag from his pocket, and found the blood-red potion for treatment under the command of the cat.
"Drink one third of it, and I'll apply the rest to your wound."
She said anxiously, feeling that Xia De's vitality was getting weaker and weaker, but in fact, Xia De felt that his powerful self-healing ability was taking effect.
He first used healing magic to stabilize his condition, and then drank the potion according to the cat's instructions. The blood oozing from the wound on his back had dyed his clothes red, so in order to facilitate treatment, he simply took off his coat and shirt as the cat requested.
She was worried about Shade's condition and didn't care about the badge on his chest. The cat held the small bottle in its mouth and stepped on Shade's shoulder, then tilted the bottle and let the blood-red potion slide along his back skin to the wound. She was a little uncomfortable with the man's temperature, but Shade's risky action to save her just now made her feel indescribable.
The slowly flowing liquid made Xia De feel his wound itchy. When the cat finished pouring the medicine, he dropped the test tube and said worriedly:
"This is a wound left by the spatial power of the Thirteenth Ring Warlock. The tear in space will keep the wound alive. I'm afraid it won't be that easy to heal. Let's go back to the city now. You come with me. I will heal you no matter what."
"No need to bother."
Xia De shook his head and put his hand on his chest:
"Space tear, right? Space stabilization aura."
This time, the magic was used directly on himself, and the force that split the space deep into his internal organs was expelled in an instant. It was not that the magic of the "Hidden Mirror Man" was not powerful, but that Xia De had a high resistance to the power of space, and this was only residual power after all.
After doing all this, Shade tried to stand up again by holding onto the tree. The cat worriedly asked him to rest for a while before moving again. Shade, who had already emerged from the false state of immortality, shook his head:
"No need, we have to leave here as soon as possible. If we are caught up by the Thirteenth Ring Warlock again, we will really be unable to escape."
Unlike the "Bloodweeper" Helmons he had seen before, this thirteenth-ring warlock of the Mirror Association was truly in his prime.
He motioned the cat to look at the wound on his back, and the pharmacist discovered that the thin crack was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few seconds, only a faint scar remained. In the blink of an eye, even the scar disappeared.
"Your potion really works."
Shade praised, and went to get his clothes and put them on again. The sorceress in cat form didn't know how to explain that no matter how powerful her potion was, it didn't have this effect:
"Are you a pure-blooded human?"
As she spoke, she looked at Shade's upper body, which was gradually covered by the white shirt. She was right next to Shade and was very sure that there was no illusion on his body. Judging from the bone and muscle features, this body was undoubtedly a male.
"I don't know about this, but it's probably not the case."
Xia De shook his head, not wanting to talk about this issue any more. After he put on his clothes, he skillfully picked up the cat and held it in his arms:
"I'm fine for now, but what about you? You can still control yourself in your current transformed state, but after the transformation is over, will your human body really not be affected by your chaotic mental state?"
He took out a small bottle of pink essence from his pocket and took a big sip, then made a hissing sound to calm the burning sensation in his body caused by the large amount of spirit entering his body. The cat also smelled the liquid and felt his body temperature rise a little.
After confirming that the cat was in good condition, Shade cast an illusion to hide his figure, and then moved towards the dock in the forest in the night and fog. Of course, while moving forward, he did not forget to put his hand on the cat's head and cast "Silver Moon Gift of Sindia", a magic that specializes in treating mental damage. However, when using magic, one must restrain the urge to touch the cat's head. Shade's hands on Mia have almost become instinctive.
Although she wanted to say that she was fine, the cat in Shade's arms remained silent. She and Shade had been in danger several times, and it was Shade who saved her. This time, he even took the risk to face a thirteen-ring warlock:
"Why did you save me just now?"
The cat suddenly said.
"What answer do you want? Do I care about you? Or do I think you are important to me? Ma'am, I saved you, there is no reason, I just wanted to do it."
Xia De answered softly, relying on his memory and "her" help to find the way to the dock. They had been on the island for too long, and there were rules on the island that prohibited staying for too long.
"Don't feel any mental burden because of this. Think about repaying me. I think if you had recovered all your strength, you would have saved me today."
The cat nodded, and then the loose fingers came back and pressed on her little head.
The man and the cat were silent for a while, with only the sound of Shade's light footsteps echoing in the forest. When he finally saw the shadow of Green Town Lake Cemetery in the night in the thick fog not far away, the pharmacist suddenly asked:
"Are you really a man?"
"Yes, of course."
Shade said, knowing that this was the witch making the final confirmation.
He felt the cat's soft paw press hard on his chest, but he didn't point it out:
"What a strange question. What are you doubting? My illusion is very powerful, but we are so close now. With your eleventh ring level, you shouldn't be able to tell my gender, right?"
The sorceress who transformed into a cat was glad that she was still in cat form and could hide the expression on her face:
"If you are really a man, then you are really amazing. Although all kinds of strange people appear in every era in the material world, you... you have a big problem. When I recover in a while, I will protect you... to thank you for saving me again this time. Some groups may not be very friendly to people like you, and you need my protection."
Xia De kept a straight face and said nothing, but "she" smiled gently in Xia De's ear.
The sorceress seemed to have adapted to the cat form a little bit, and squirmed in Shade's arms:
"I know you don't trust me very much yet, but when things here are over, if you're willing, I... we'll talk about the future later."
"From the way you're talking now, it's obvious that your mental state is still not very good."
Shade joked as he walked through the forest and came to the path connecting the town and the dock. The sorceress did not speak again because she thought of her two followers.
Fortunately, as Shade approached the dock, they saw that the ship was still parked there. According to the agreed signal, two of the three weak lanterns for lighting were placed on the left side of the deck and one on the right side.
"It seems that those people from the Mirror Association did not land on the island from here."
Xia De also breathed a sigh of relief. It was the best outcome that no one died.
He was still using illusion to hide himself, so the two sorceresses on the ship did not notice him. The pharmacist stopped Shade and asked him to stop for a while:
"I don't want them to see me like this."
In fact, she didn't want her followers to see her curled up in the arms of a "man".
"The effect of the potion will end in five minutes. Wait a moment."
She said softly, and Shade did not continue walking towards the pier, but turned left and went to the beach not far away.
He held the cat in his arms and sat down on the beach. The air was humid, and he could hear the sound of the lake tide, but the lake surface was covered by fog in the dark night, and looking to the left, he could vaguely see the shadow of the pier and the three not very bright lights.
The atmosphere was like a scene from a horror novel about the ocean. Thinking of this, Shade told the cat in his arms about how he encountered a water ghost in the lake and picked up a pile of "garbage".
The pharmacist listened carefully and tried to lie on Shad's legs, while Shad subconsciously reached out and stroked the hair on her back. After a few strokes, he realized that this action was inappropriate, but the cat did not refuse Shad to do so.