quicksilver blood

Chapter 288
The magic knife wizards with blue bird medals hanging on their chests pushed "Orlando" into the underground storage room of the second tower with proud expressions, and then locked the door from the outside.Two treacherous knife wizards were left standing at the door, while the remaining treacherous knife wizards were responsible for driving out the ordinary people who came in.

All they had to do was wait for Lord Scott to come over.With Master Scott sitting on the second floor, these crafty knife wizards are not at all worried that Orlando will be able to escape from here.

To take a step back, it would be the same even without Scott.All kinds of witchcraft to detect vitality and soul vitality showed that Orlando's physical strength and vitality were as weak as a candle and were still fading.

Let alone escaped, if the execution was delayed for a while, I'm afraid Orlando himself would die inside.

"Elucard, help me take off the blindfold."

After everyone left, Roland immediately called out in a weak voice.

After about three or four seconds, Roland felt two jade-like cold and warm arms stretched out from behind, gently caressing Roland's cheeks.

Roland didn't speak, just kept breathing weakly in the dark space, leaned the center of his body backwards, and leaned against Elcardo's arms.

The unprecedented weakness made Roland unable to clenched his hands tightly, and he didn't even dare to sit down.

With Roland's current physical condition, if he sat down, he might not be able to stand up at all.

The effect of reducing blood sugar is much more effective than Roland imagined.Even though his physique had already exceeded ten points, under the erosion of blood sugar, Roland, who had suffered severe blood loss, was already on the verge of death.

As long as he fell asleep, he probably wouldn't wake up again—similarly, Edward, who was trapped in Roland's body, had completely lost his vitality, and was torn apart and swallowed by Roland's plague lair.

But again, the toxicity from septin remains in the blood.

Now there are large areas of blue-purple blood vessel lines on Roland's skin, spreading from fingertips to armpits, from toes to knees, and there are also large areas of spider web-like lines on his waist and back.

Roland panted heavily, and looked a little better after resting for a while.

So he repeated again: "Take off my blindfold."

Seeing Roland's weakness at the moment, Elcardo only felt his heart being tightly clenched.

Elcardo sighed deeply, followed Roland's order and took off the blindfold.

However, even after the blindfold was taken off, Roland's vision was still pitch black.

It might not be quite accurate to say that it was pitch black—Roland could still vaguely see some dim candlelight flickering at the edge of his field of vision, but his pupils couldn't capture the image of anything.

"...Elucardo, I finally understand... It turns out that this is what it feels like when a person is about to die."

Roland smiled lightly, gradually using his body to force himself to stand up.

His eyes blurred and his lips trembled.His body trembled with cold, his blood rotted, and his bones rotted away.

Roland has never been so close to death for a moment.There was never a moment when Roland could understand death so concretely.

"That's not cool stuff, it's not cool at all."

Roland spoke in a dry and hoarse voice at an extremely slow pace: "Death is not an art, a gift, a tribute, or a prank...it is not anything beautiful."

"Death is death, and to be dead is to be nothing. There is only pain and endless cold. A sense of powerlessness... a shrinking inward, a sense of nothingness in which the reason for being is denied and life's creativity and heights are cut off .”

Roland's pupils dilated feebly, but his eyes were unexpectedly clear, as if there was light shining inside.

His voice was weak and steady: "But, I still want to praise death."

"Elucardo, let me ask you... what do you think the value of death is?"

Facing Roland's sudden inquiry, Elcardo couldn't help but startled.

After thinking for a while, she tentatively answered: "Because...you can give those people who live in miserable lives the right to change?"

"Oh... maybe."

Roland chuckled, noncommittal.

Breaking free from Elcardo's embrace, Roland groped and moved forward slowly.Seeing this, Elcardo hurried over, lifted Roland's shackles, and helped Roland to the spiraling stairs.

Roland didn't let the crafty knife wizard at the door lift himself up to the second floor.

Before he received his execution notice, he walked towards the execution ground, stepping on the stairs with slow and heavy steps.

Every time he took a step, Roland felt his bones tremble, his nerves ached, and his muscles trembled feebly, as if they were about to fall off his bones.

With such weak but firm steps, Roland climbed firmly towards the second floor.There were only dozens of steps, but Roland walked up for more than ten minutes.

Elcardo did not return to the shadows.She just followed Roland silently like this, holding the heavy shackles and following Roland up step by step.

With the last half hour before the execution time, Roland finally climbed up the 33 steps and reached the second floor.

Even though it was too dark to see the way ahead, Roland still judged that there was a door in front of him based on his own experience.

As long as he pushed open the wooden door, he would only be 20 meters away from his execution ground.

Regardless of the fact that Roland's hands are being shackled behind him at this moment—even if Roland's body can still move, under the influence of the dual states of "severe blood loss" and "weakness", it is impossible for Roland to still have the strength to push the heavy door open. the gate.

However, there are always exceptions.

"Elucardo, come back."

At the same time as Roland spoke, his own HP also dropped to 0/296 in his field of vision.The "severe blood loss" in the status bar was blurred and jumped one space to the right.And in its original position, the "near-death" state suddenly jumped out.

【warn!Your health has reached zero!Taking damage again will result in instant death! 】

【warn!You are in a near-death state. If you do not receive effective treatment in time, you will die naturally in 10 minutes! 】

At the same time, in Roland's field of vision, the "Mobile Natural Disaster" in the feature bar flashed for a moment, and then lit up instantly.

Mobile Disaster (Personal Trait)
Effect: The more serious your injury, the faster your recovery speed; at the same time, you can still cause full damage when you get an injury above the critical injury level.

——Wherever you go, you will die wherever you go. This sentence must be talking about you, but please rest assured that villains and mad dogs generally live longer.

In the effect description of this feature, the injuries above the serious injury level refer to the two states of "fatal injury" and "near death".

But Roland was seriously injured and had no injuries on his body, so the former would naturally not occur.

However, no matter what the cause of the loss of life is, if the life value returns to zero and is not injured again, it will fall into a near-death state, and any form of healing effect will be reduced by 90%.But if he could bring his health back to more than six in time at this time, he would still be able to climb back from the brink of death.At the same time, you can also get the characteristics of "near-death experience".

At the same time as the "Mobile Natural Disaster" was triggered, a pale flame gradually ignited in Roland's eyes.

As if returning to the light, Roland's vision gradually became clear, and his ears stopped humming.

Feeling an inexplicable power gushing out from the depths of his extremely weak soul, Roland smiled, and with both hands, he directly broke the shackles behind him.

With the sound of the shackles falling to the ground, Roland could hear the noisy crowd outside falling into dead silence for a moment.

The next second, the sound of the downstairs door opening sounded, and Roland heard the sound of hurriedly going upstairs.

Ignoring those things, Roland reached out and pushed open the heavy wooden door.The blood-red sunset that poured in at that instant made Roland's pupils shrink.

"Good evening, everybody."

Under the horrified and stunned eyes of everyone, Roland smiled lightly and stepped out of the warehouse door on the second floor, stepping into his own execution ground.

At the same time, an old man in a platinum and bright pope's robe stopped his steps, stood outside the big barrier of the fourth ring area of ​​the White Tower, squinted his eyes and looked towards the direction of the second tower that seemed to go straight to the sky .

Behind him, the entire fifth and sixth rings were engulfed in a sea of ​​golden flames, burning silently.

(End of this chapter)