Chapter 32 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi_Bo_Studio  Editor: Nyoi_Bo_Studio

Thinking was indeed a mentally tiring activity. Zhuge Liang, a Chinese politician in the Three Kingdoms Period, always thought too much, even about trivial things like a soldier being beaten due to the violation of his discipline. He died of thinking too much in the end.

Suddenly, Palin’s face became pale, and his physical abilities were degenerating rather quickly. He was becoming what a dead person was supposed to look like.

Sui Xiong felt that there was something wrong with Palin, and he immediately instilled his magic energy into Palin’s body to replenished him with vitality.

“Your Majesty, what is wrong with brother Palin?” Gerrard asked Sui Xiong through telepathy.

Sui Xiong was silent for a while, then he honestly told Gerrard about Palin’s situation.

“What!? His soul has left his body and he moves by relying on the vitality that supported his body and mind? But in my view, he looks perfectly normal!”

“I do not know the reason either,” Sui Xiong laid his tentacles on the ground, showing his helplessness. “I only know that once he loses the supply from outside and runs out of his vitality, he will immediately die. So as you see, we have to constantly supply him with the vitality.”

“But this cannot go on for too long, can’t we supply him with a great amount of vitality?”

“He is too weak to absorb a great amount of vitality… You may not be able to understand this, but his body cannot absorb a great amount of vitality at one time and trying to do so will do him no good,” Sui Xiong said, and suddenly a bright idea occurred to him.

There was a cold cure called “Sustained Release Capsules.” It’s mechanism sealed the drug into small packages that dissolve at varying speeds inside a human’s body so one capsule could last for twelve hours. If this was real or not, Sui Xiong was not sure, but maybe it was. Based on this idea, Sui Xiong made something similar for Palin!

He tried to concentrate a great amount of vitality into a ball, and made a thin shell with the dissolvable substance. The ball’s diameter was about one centimeter. In each section of the structure, there was a one-time use of vitality, and the thickness of each section varied.

Of course, it was just a trial product which needed further testing to make sure it was safe. So, Sui Xiong did not instantly give it to Palin, but instead he made a digestive system similar to the human’s intestines and stomach inside his body. Sui Xiong performed the clinical experiment and saw the result.

But this was not important now, what was more important was dealing with the spoils of war.

Sui Xiong had defeated the God of Conspiracy, and the God’s four-faced beast became Sui Xiong’s reward. This peculiar creature had great power and was at the master level of sorcery. Sui Xiong swallowed, carefully digested and analyzed it, and felt that he had learned a lot in this process, which he hadn’t expected.

As the oracle of the God of Conspiracy, the soul of the four-faced beast contained some of his magic power.

The main priesthood of the God of Conspiracy was scheming, deception and illusion, along with many other secondary priesthoods: wickedness, disorder, darkness, and impurity.

Compared with Wu Mian, the gatekeeper of the Night Gods, who could do nothing apart from his priesthood— shadow, guarding and death— the God of Conspiracy was as versatile as a magician who performed in the street.

Sui Xiong had already done this before, mastering all the power of a certain God and imitating it by analyzing its magic power. Compared with the magic power that was left inside the Baldacchino, the magic power contained in the four-faced beast was far superior both in its quality and quantity. It was pure and magnificent. Though there was not much of it, it was as strong as 80 percent of Sui Xiong’s power. If the four-faced beast had exerted its strength fully, Sui Xiong would not have been able to catch it that easily.

Analyzing the magic power of a certain God required both time and technique. Sui Xiong was not in a hurry and could just take his time.

When he was enhancing his abilities in seclusion in the ice trench, he had no idea how long he had been there. Actually, he did mark the time, a year or two years, according to the changes of the four seasons, but later he got confused and became too lazy to bother anymore.

Compared with those long and boring years, the time that was spent analyzing the magic power of the God of Conspiracy was basically nothing.

Besides, his two subordinates did not have a strong sense of time either. Before Gerrard used to think carefully about how to cultivate many followers for his own God. Now he usually went to sleep when he was full. He had become too lazy to even think since he now had a smart peer: Palin. Palin was totally different; he did not need to sleep. Since a body without a soul could function with enough vitality, he spent all of his time reading and thinking, and anyone who saw his hard work would feel ashamed.

Sometimes, Sui Xiong wished the two would build a balanced character instead of going to extremes.

Day after day, the huge jellyfish floating in the sky did not need to eat, while the two in the cave could use magic to make food. This life was fine.

But for Ryan, things were rather difficult. Since he had had a setback last time, the God of Conspiracy was not willing to have anything to do with the area Ryan was in anymore. Ryan was hoping the God of Conspiracy would reply to his prayer. For him, every day was a year long. He could feel that he was aging on a daily basis and dying, and he could not see any hope of going to the Holy Kingdom. This was driving him crazy. Now he could not sleep without taking drugs, and even though he took a dose of sleeping drugs that would make an ox fall asleep, he would still suddenly wake up at midnight, shouting and crying like a child abandoned by his parents.

He was desperate. He was thinking hard on why he had not gotten a reply, and thought maybe it was because his plan did not succeed. The Cloudkill Scroll was not activated, and the bone bracelet that the giant had with him could not only practice Restoration, but also the Dismissal… Then he found that there were too many holes in his plan, and thought it was not strange at all that he failed.