After introducing the rules, the cork of the wine bottle in front of the god popped open automatically. The bottle flew up, pouring the scorching blood-red liquid into the glass. After gently shaking, the aroma of the wine gradually spread, and then He drank the wine:
"It smells good. It's the blood from the magma colony."
After saying this, he made a gesture of invitation to the five people on the other side of the long table.
"Sorry, what happens if I choose the wrong one?"
Shade asked from the other end of the long table. Now the place was almost entirely blood red, and the decoration itself was enough to make people feel extremely uncomfortable.
"Of course we can't waste it. Drink whatever you choose until you choose the right one. You are so lucky that you brought exactly six kinds of blood. If one is missing, I'm afraid one of you will not be able to leave no matter what."
God said, and Shad looked up at Him:
"So besides the blood I brought, the other bottles are from your collection?"
"Unexpected guests, do you think I'm generous? In the other bottles are some very interesting blood brews. Although they are not worthy of being collected by me, they can also bring some fun. If you want, you can drink for any of them. After all, you want to be a good person, don't you?"
God looked at Shade with great interest.
“Which ones are correct?”
Xia De asked in his heart.
I don’t know, but including the bottle of wine that has been used by the god in front of me, there are a total of twenty-nine dark wine bottles.
"So one bottle is missing?"
So he nodded, and seeing that the others were silent, he glanced at the dining table, then pointed to the bottle of wine in the ice bucket in the middle of the table:
"this."
This was not the dark wine bottle that appeared after the blood mist dissipated, but the wine bottle that had been on the table before Shade entered the banquet hall:
"Since you said that the correct blood is hidden in any bottle on the table, I think this one should count as well."
"Yes of course."
The god smiled and nodded.
The bottle flew out automatically and came to Xia De. The cork popped open and the bottle tilted over the glass to pour the liquid. The sound of the liquid was really nice.
He picked up the wine glass and shook it slightly. After the wine aroma gradually dissipated, he took a sip of the cold liquid. The bitter taste, blood, and alcohol lingered in his mouth, and he also felt a slight burning sensation.
demon.
Although this bottle of wine is very conspicuous, it is also the most dangerous of the remaining five bloods. If you find the right blood by trickery like Shade, you will have to bear the danger of the devil's blood.
"It seems that I am very lucky. It is the blood of the evil demon from the Third Age - the Devourer Sakato."
He put down the wine glass and looked at the god with his golden cracked eyes:
“I thought I didn’t have to drink it all at once, I could drink it while waiting for others to make their choices.”
"Of course, but the party won't end until we have some drinks."
The saint reminded.
Xia De nodded, looked at the middle-aged witch, and signaled her to make the choice. Apart from Xia De, the witch was the strongest of the five people at this end of the table.
Of course, she could look at what others were doing first, but after being prompted by Xia De, she nodded:
"this."
She pointed directly at the nearest bottle of wine in front of her, and Shade took another sip of his glass. Even if the devil's blood was brewed, it still tasted very bad.
The chosen bottle poured half a cup of liquid into the witch's mouth. She picked up the glass and shook it gently, then looked at Shade:
"poisonous."
"I see."
Xia De restored the small tree branch toys to real tree branches, and then reached out to the witch. The latter hesitantly held his hand, and when their palms touched, they actually trembled:
"You really are..."
"Yes, I am a man."
Before she asked the question, Xia De said lightly:
“God himself said so.”
The girl in the black dress, who was the younger twin sister, couldn't help but smile. When she saw Xia De looking at her, she timidly moved towards her sister in the white dress.
The witch didn't say anything else, but drank the cup of black and red liquid in small sips.
"The elves' detoxification technique!"
During this period, Shade continued to use spells to detoxify her. At the same time, the witch herself had the power to resist toxins, so she drank the first glass of wine she chose without any danger.
Her luck was pretty good. With a 4/27 probability of being chosen, after drinking the bottle of unknown poisonous wine, she also drank the wine containing corpse plague, the wine that forced aging of the drinkers, and the poisonous wine that would kill ordinary people who had not been exposed to supernatural powers. Then she chose the blood brew of the "Abyss Eye Dragon Squid" brought by Xia De.
After drinking the blood of the pure-blooded dragon and the offspring of the evil creatures in the warp, one will continue to dream of strange and terrifying scenes in the deep sea for the next few nights, and may even see the evil creatures at the source of the bloodline in the dream. But for this middle-aged witch, as long as she leaves this night manor, she has plenty of time to find a way to get rid of this influence.
"very nice."
The gods clapped their hands softly:
"If there hadn't been any unexpected guests, you would have been the only one who could have left this reception intact."
The gray-haired old man had no expression on his face, and the twin girls were very worried.
"So, what is your wish?"
"God, I want to gain more power. I don't dare to ask for too much power, I just want to break through my current level."
"The blood of the Star Sea Whale you brought is very interesting, so this wish can be granted."
He pointed at the witch, and golden stairs automatically appeared behind the witch, one by one. There were eight steps in total, representing her power as an eighth-level witch.
After the complete staircase was revealed, the blood-red light from God's fingertips infected the golden staircase that should not have been affected by any force.
The ninth red step is connected to the top eight steps, making the stairs even higher.
"Thanks."
An abnormal flush appeared on the middle-aged witch's face. This was not a normal reaction after her strength increased.
"If you use my power, you will have to pay the price. Before you fully master the power of the Ninth Stage and transform it into your own stage, you will be infected with blood thirst. Before the transformation is complete, if you fail to resist this addiction even once, the Ninth Stage will collapse."
This is not to say that the power of the gods cannot increase her strength without cost, but that this evil god deliberately set up such a test:
"Thank you again for your generosity, protector of the great blood-sucking race!"
The door behind Shade creaked open, revealing the corridor behind it, which meant the witch could leave.
"Sir, please allow me to express my gratitude once again. If I could remember, I would go find Miss Mana Felena."
The witch thanked Shade, then took out a pen and paper from her body and handed a note to the twin girl in the black dress:
"Girls, if you are interested in becoming my students, you can find me at this address later."
After accepting the sisters' thanks, she bowed to the saint again, then walked quickly to the door and officially left.
Compared to the witch who took five attempts to find the correct blood brew, the gray-haired old man in armor was much luckier.
The first bottle of wine he chose was called "sick wine" by the saint. After drinking it, he would get one of the 36 diseases at random. The old man got sepsis, which sounds terrible, but this disease without mysterious nature can be cured as long as he finds a witch willing to help and pays the price.
He found the right wine for his second bottle, which was the blood brewed from the blood of the Rhine demon that Shade brought. This demon's blood also had a very slight curse, but the old man didn't care:
"I don't have any relatives or friends anymore, and I don't plan to have any in the future, so this blood has no effect on me."
In order to attend the evil god's drinking party, he brought the blood of ice crystal butterflies hunted from the northern continent. After considering the old man's performance at the table, the god did not directly fulfill his wish of "finding and killing his friend, the poet von Klitzing", but instead gave him a blood-red metal ring full of blasphemous elements:
"The Vampire Ring, chant the spell 'The replacement of blood and flesh is the sublimation of the flesh and soul', which can transform you into a Vampire conceptually. Your appearance remains unchanged, but you already have weakened Vampire power, which can help you find the murderer you are looking for. Using the ring will make you infected with blood thirst. After taking off the ring and turning back into a human, the blood thirst will still exist, but the degree will be reduced. Once you can no longer bear the desire to drink blood in the human state, or use the ring for more than 24 hours continuously, you will complete the complete transformation into a Vampire."
"I understand, thank you for your generosity."
This ring is not a relic in the Fifth Age, but a relatively powerful divine item, but it is indeed very useful to this old man. Most alchemical items also require spirits to activate, and in the Fifth Age where men cannot use extraordinary powers, this ring seems to be a rare extraordinary item that can be used by ordinary people.
Before leaving, the old man expressed his gratitude to Shade again. In addition, he did not forget that the twin girls helped him with the medicine box of the relic addict. Perhaps because he was concerned about the demon hunting ring's ability to actively attract demons, he did not give the ring to the girls, but also gave his address:
"Girls, if you need anything, you can find me at this address. Although I am just an ordinary person, I think I can still be of some use."
After saying this, he bowed slightly to the god at the end of the long table and left.
But Shade didn't think that the twin girls would ever go looking for the old man whose name was still unknown. After all, they were almost on the verge of awakening to become witches. Once they became witches, the extraordinary people who hated men would never look for an ordinary person for help.
"However, can these notes really retain the information when we leave Night Manor?"
After the old man left, Xia De asked, "If words can be recorded, then the disappearance of memory is meaningless."
"Of course not, all records will disappear. But, they don't know this rule."
The saint smiled and said:
"That witch may remember some things, but the man who won't live long will definitely not remember anything about the party except the information I gave him about the ring."
“What a pity.”
Xia De shook his head, but he also knew that these past events had already happened, and the people he met in the past were ultimately just passing guests to him.
He sighed, and finally looked at the twin girls in black and white dresses. There were still twenty-one bottles of blood brew left on the table, and there were only two correct choices left for the girls.