Bai En sidestepped Goth's punch, the flickering campfire light reflecting faintly on the blood-red arm, a blend of dark and red, like a gilded art piece.
"Magic Conversion!"
A black iron sword flew out from the luminous white grimoire, its swift blade like a man-eating phantom, drawing a dark line that instantly pierced through the two blood-red arms Goth had formed with magic.
The blood-arms shattered, and the scattered blood bloomed, forming a falling curtain of blood. The 'Zhan Yan' (Severing Beauty) cut horizontally through it, making the falling blood curtain split open for an instant like a beaded curtain. A sharp, luminous white arc slashed towards Goth.
A blood-red grimoire shot out from behind Goth, its pages flipping rapidly, and a "clink" sound rang out.
A flicker of surprise crossed Bai En's eyes, 'This guy...?!'
Goth directly bit down on Bai En's Zhan Yan with his teeth.
The character 'Jie' (Unbind) burst forth on the Zhan Yan's blade. His teeth were not shattered by the slash; instead, a series of metallic clanging sounds echoed.
'What strong teeth he has.'
"Blood Creation Magic, Blood Demon Jieluo's Body."
Strange blood-colored patterns emerged on Goth's cheeks, and his entire body underwent a massive transformation. The whites of his eyes turned black, his pupils became blood-colored, and his teeth grew, becoming sharp and glowing with a bloody light.
His arms also reformed, though significantly different from before. They were no longer blood-red but displayed the same cracked, pure-red earth color as his body.
The two moved almost simultaneously the next second!
Goth swung his palm, his black fingernails carving dark claw marks that flew out like slashes. Due to the very short distance, the claw marks instantly magnified infinitely in Bai En's eyes.
With Zhan Yan clamped by Goth's teeth, Bai En couldn't swing it immediately. Magic Conversion, receiving its instruction, excitedly straightened its body like a swimming fish, instantly blocking the claw marks. The three dark-red claw marks dissipated instantly.
A small sword wreathed in eerie light appeared above their heads. Overwhelming gravity pressed down from the sword's body. Within a 5-meter radius, both people and the ground sunken downwards.
Goth, who had been tightly biting Zhan Yan, released his grip. His tall figure squatted on the ground, his face incredibly ferocious, as if he was in a predicament where he was trying to stand up, pushing upwards, but was constantly unable to do so.
The kitchenware, re-forged with Mithril by the Dwarf Clan, had improved in all aspects of its performance. Even with Goth employing body-strengthening magic, he appeared very weak within the General's gravity domain.
Bai En glanced at Goth, not stopping. The Zhan Yan in his hand flew out, a luminous white line passing through Goth's chest, then returning to Bai En's hand.
Goth froze for an instant, his eyes catching sight of the hole in his chest. With a rumble, he fell to the ground like a small mountain, blood continuously gushing from his chest, irrigating the soil beneath him.
Bai En, ending the battle and emerging from the crater, searched for the "blood cup" that had fallen earlier during the fight. But the empty space he scanned was devoid of anything. There was no trace of its emitted magic either, as if it had never appeared.
Wait... when did the magic aura from that cup disappear?
No, that's not right.
The blood cup's magic was almost identical to Goth's!
That guy took the cup in an unconventional way during the battle, creating an illusion that made him mistakenly believe the cup was still there. But why did he go to such lengths to take that blood cup?
Could that thing have other uses besides enhancing one's magic and granting new magic attributes?
Bai En used his magic perception to sense almost all the magic fluctuations around him. The bandits fighting Fragil and Luck were almost cleared out.
This was within his expectations, because although the bandits had undergone the Holy Grail's baptism, and their magic and spell power had increased, compared to Luck, Magna, and Fragil, they were not impressive.
Whether it was combat experience or the use and coordination of magic, they were not just a little bit worse.
Snow, Flame, and Lightning Magic, fighting together for the first time, cleverly formed a stable and powerful combat style: Snow Magic for restraint and defense, Lightning Magic for agile offense, and Flame Magic for fire support, sweeping away the encircling bandits.
It was also at this moment that Bai En noticed a trace of magic that, though it should have completely dissipated within the crater, still lingered.
Looking back, Goth, lying on the blood-colored soil, had still not exited his magically enhanced monstrous body. The General's gravity domain had not been lifted.
'Is he playing dead?'
The Zhan Yan blade glowed, flying out with a domineering force, arcing towards Goth's head.
"Tsk."
Blood-red magic condensed into a spherical barrier enveloping Goth, also blocking the Zhan Yan's blade. "Sizzling" sparks erupted from the friction between the blade tip and the barrier.
"Boom!"
Zhan Yan was flung back, circling a few times in the air like a child throwing a tantrum before returning to Bai En's hand.
Looking at the blood-red barrier, an astonishing surge of magic poured forth from within. The blood-red light continuously brightened. Goth slowly rose from the ground. It was then that Bai En noticed the vanished blood cup was actually one with his blood!
The General's gravity domain expanded outwards, from its original five-meter radius to twenty meters. Magic Conversion struck towards the blood-red barrier from mid-air, a strange black magic overflowing three meters around its blade.
The sword shadow struck, and in an instant, the blood-red barrier shattered like glass. Magic Conversion's trajectory remained unchanged.
The surging magic countered the crushing downward gravity, forcefully creating a free space for movement.
Goth swung his fist at Magic Conversion. When Magic Conversion and his fist collided, it was sent flying, and at the same time, the 'Blood Demon Jieluo's Body' that had made contact with the black iron sword began to dissipate.
Bai En came with his blade.
He instantly flashed to Goth's side. A dazzling white light flashed before Goth's eyes, and the world spun upside down. In a daze, Goth saw a headless corpse dodging.
That familiar figure, wasn't it himself?
"How can this be?"
"I was clearly in the final step of merging with the Blood Holy Grail, and the accumulated magic from the blood illusion was about to become my own, but why... why did it suddenly stop?!"
"That sword! It's that strange sword!"
"Not only does it dissipate magic that touches its blade, but it can also, like that sword that can cut open a gravity domain, unfold a special ability space. Why did I encounter such a guy?"
"I'm so unwilling~"
Goth's eyes were wide open, but he was already powerless to think or speak. This time, he had completely lost his life.
The Holy Grail, integrated into his blood, emerged in the air. After losing Goth as its host, it fell into Bai En's hand, and a blood-red glow began to bloom in his palm.
A sensation of bloodlust and greed expanded infinitely in an instant.
A strange thought surfaced in Bai En's mind: as long as he gave the Holy Grail blood, it would reciprocate, making him even stronger, until... he became the strongest.
Magic Conversion gently flew over.
The black sword shadow passed through the dark-red Holy Grail, and the Blood Holy Grail shattered.
At the same time, in the wasteland several miles from Eldos Village, a massive hollow rock emerged. Within the hollow rock, scattered hollows like doors were visible...
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