The mana pressure spread like a tsunami, its intense pulse even cracking the barrier in an instant.
But it didn’t end there.
“W-What is that?!”
After that shout from the stands, everyone turned to look beside the girl in the training ground.
A staff was flying out of a magic circle that had appeared out of nowhere, shooting into Elena’s hand.
This staff was the one Elena had obtained from her mother’s Place of Rest.
The moment Elena gripped it tightly, another wave of mana pressure erupted.
Like the roar of a black dragon, this time the pressure blasted a huge hole in the barrier!
In the stunned silence, the scene was like a legendary demon sword descending to destroy the world.
“I’ll kill you in one blow!”
Countless magic circles, like stars across the sky, spread out behind Elena.
…
After Ai’er let out a shriek.
That perverted doctor wanted her blood?!
“W-What do you need my blood for?”
Even though she had screamed just now…
Now, the silver-haired girl suppressed the twitching of her facial muscles and tried her best to appear calm.
Stay calm, stay steady…
In a situation like this, only negotiation could find a way out.
“Don’t be nervous, Miss Ai’er. I have no intention of harming you. I just want to take a single tube of blood from your body.”
Watching the doctor pull out a syringe, catching the gleam of the silver needle, Ai’er took another step back.
But this step was the last she could take.
Any further back meant the locked door.
“System, can I use Fire Magic?”
[Beginner Fire Magic is ready.]
If it came to it, she would burn through the door and escape!
“You seem to be thinking of a way to flee? How about this—if this syringe scares you, Miss Ai’er, I’ll put it away first.
Then, can we talk? I’ll tell you my purpose, and I ask that you not be too extreme. How about it?”
The doctor smiled warmly as he spoke.
As if he thought his proposal was excellent and the silver-haired girl before him had no reason to refuse.
But—
Why should she talk to him? What was the point of chatting?
There was none! What screw was loose in his head to think this was a good idea O.o?!
“Talk to nothing! Goodbye—Huh?!”
The instant she evoked Fire Magic, the moment the flames appeared, a strange, sharp pain struck Ai’er’s palm.
The small magic circle that had just formed shattered from the pain.
[Warning: Beginner Magic has been neutralized.]
As the system notification sounded, a girl materialized beside the doctor, who had remained still.
The barrier of Invisibility Magic gradually peeled away from the girl, revealing a tiny gray-white magic circle in Ai’er’s sight.
“Impressive, Miss Lize. You can already use the Anti-Magic passed down through generations of the Count.”
Lize?
Ai’er felt she had heard that name somewhere… Ah, she remembered!
“You’re Vice President Lize?”
“…Miss Fairy, could you please cooperate with my brother? I assure you, he won’t do anything to you.”
Even though she seemed hesitant, as if finding it hard to speak, the magic circle Lize had deployed was still aimed at Ai’er.
[Note: Currently suppressed by a restraining spell. Intermediate and Beginner Magic cannot be used.]
Tch…
It seemed she had no choice but to try negotiating.
“I want you to tell me what you need my blood for—Again QAQ?!”
Before she finished, another magic circle unfolded in the room.
Why was it so crowded today QAQ?!
The circle emitted pure white light, and at the sight of it, both Lize and the doctor furrowed their brows.
This wasn’t ordinary Teleportation Magic.
It was the White God Holy Church’s Teleportation Magic.
“What is everyone doing here? Why not let me join in the fun?”
“Christina… the Saintess of the Holy Church gracing this place—what brings you here?”
The brown-haired Saintess who had appeared out of nowhere simply smiled, then grabbed Ai’er’s wrist and pulled her into her embrace.
“Miss Fairy still hasn’t returned my library card~ I came today to get it back from her.”
The moment those words fell, deathly silence filled the room.
The air seemed to solidify, making it hard for Ai’er to breathe.
Like a scene from a Western cowboy movie, both sides were locked in a standoff, where the slightest move would ignite the gunpowder.
Suddenly, Ai’er thought back to what the doctor had said earlier—
If this doctor needed her blood, and if he really had seen her a year ago as he claimed, why hadn’t he taken it then?
Drawing blood for tests was basic, wasn’t it?
But more importantly…
“W-What do you need my blood for?”
For what?
The doctor seemed surprised that Ai’er would suddenly ask that now. He laughed, then gave Ai’er a formal bow.
“You are a member of the Blood Clan, so you should know that your blood is an excellent medium for magic, right?”
What the heck O.o?
Blood Clan? Me??
“Oh? So that’s it~ No wonder Miss Fairy’s mana looks pitch black to me. So Miss Fairy isn’t human?”
Huh? Pitch black QAQ?!
If anyone else had said that, she might not believe it, but Tina behind her was the Saintess of the Holy Church…
And she seemed to have the Black God dwelling within her…
Miss Tina, maybe you should let go? I feel the doctor’s side might be safer 〒▽〒.
“Although I don’t know how you escaped from the Blood Clan’s territory, nowadays all descriptions of the Blood Clan exist only in history books. Humanity hasn’t seen a Blood Clan member in centuries, let alone…
someone like you.”
The doctor paused deliberately, looking at Tina, then at Ai’er’s golden eyes.
“My purpose is very simple—I need your blood for research.
According to historical records, Blood Clan blood has an excellent ability to absorb mana from the outside. Even after leaving the host, the absorbed mana can still be transmitted back to the host.”
Ai’er froze.
Not because she seemed to be some kind of Blood Clan, but because of what the doctor mentioned—
Blood.
“If I can obtain Miss Ai’er’s blood, I can create the first magical device in history that naturally absorbs mana from the atmosphere. In this way—”
“My, are you saying this in front of the Saintess of the Holy Church without any fear of the Church’s punishment?”
Tina dropped her smile, her eyes fixed on the doctor.
For the Holy Church, all evil beings that were not monsters were objects of redemption.
And using such beings for experiments was a blasphemy against the entire Church’s doctrine!
“Are you ready to be purged as a heretic?”
The moment those words fell, the surrounding mana instantly grew agitated, like a storm about to break.
But—
“Wait!”
The silver-haired girl, who had been silent, interrupted Tina’s spell.
The Beginner Magic Stone Ring she had given Elena had already been destroyed during the earlier Blizzard.
If everything the doctor said was true, if her blood could really be used to create a device that could absorb mana—
“I can give you my blood, but I have a condition—
Within fifteen days at most, give me the device you mentioned.”
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