Chapter 317: Taking Action

The mirror was black, and there was nothing in it. However, the voice from the mirror said to the witch in a flattering way, "Eudora, you've always been the most beautiful woman in the world."

Feeling satisfied, the old witch put down the mirror, "Good, very good, Trius. You're the most honest mirror in this world, not like those I've destroyed before... They were all liars."

The mirror started to sing joyfully, "Ah... Eudora's hair is as glossy and shiny as the sun; her eyes are as green as the jade-like lake; Her red lips were like rose petals...."

The old witch's voice was also damaged by the curse and sounded very harsh, "Good boy, Trius. After we leave this bloody place, I'll decorate you with all the most precious gems you like."

Laughing hard, the witch put down the mirror and turned to Lucien. Then, she started to scream. Her voice was so sharp that it even gave Lucien a headache. Lucien took a few steps backward due to the dizziness.

"Close your eyes! Close your bloody eyes!" screamed the witch.

Lucien had no idea what was going on here. But he knew that he had better follow the witch's command. He heard the witch walking back and forth and cursed, "Are you bloody blind? You damned blind bastard! In your eyes, I look so ugly... I'm gonna cut out your..."

Lucien did not let the witch finish her words, "Ms. Eudora, you were looking for me, right?"

Lucien would not give the witch the chance of making up her mind to cut out his eyes! Dealing with a lunatic could be very dangerous!

Eudora was distracted by Lucien's question, "... I need your blood... to mix with the blood of the girl."

Lucien was a bit relieved, feeling lucky that the witch could still calm down a bit when talking about her experiments. Then, he asked a bit confusedly, "She's a level two knight, and her Blessing is no inferior to mine. Why do you want to mix our blood together?"

Simply mixing two kinds of blood together was not like giving birth to a baby, so the baby that inherited two top Blessings could have some even greater power, such as what Natasha's family did.

Talking about the specific experiment, Eudora became passionate, "When you passed out, I got some of your blood. It turns out that your Moonlight Blessing is more powerful than it should be at your level, and it seems that this improvement comes from the power of a senior-rank vampire. The power can also help overcome the rejection reaction when two Blessings are mixed. Hopefully, this level two knight can get your lovely self-healing power, so she would have this honor to be my new body!"

The level two knight, Ophelia, who was right now tied to the dissecting table, felt beyond desperate. All her tears had been drained.

Although Lucien totally understood Ophelia's feeling, right now there was nothing really he could do for her. So he could only walk submissively to the other dissecting table and lay down.

The metal shackles kept Lucien in place on the table, and then a thick needle like a venomous snake's fang stuck into Lucien's skin. The sharp pain seized Lucien's nerves instantly, and then the needle started to draw his blood. The blood went directly into the body of Ophelia drop by drop through the tube.

Her body was entangled with many thin tubes like tentacles. The blood that went into her body had been mixed with assorted gem powders and magic plant powders.

Ophelia's lifeless eyes now had great pain in them. The blue veins in her neck stood out like they were going to explode at any time.

The old witch pointed at Ophelia with her black, snake-like staff, and the magic circles underneath Ophelia's body started to shine in six different colors: blue, gold, silvery-white, dark green, black and red. The two types of blood started to blend.

The pain and suffering were intolerable to Ophelia. She wished that she could die right now.

When the six kinds of colors started to join together into a weird hexagram, Ophelia's bulgy veins suddenly sucked in and her skin was covered with a layer of silver moonlight.

"Is it working?" The old witch's voice sounded very excited.

However, at this time, the veins in Ophelia's body exploded. Her blood spread everywhere, like a blood rain.

The last second before Ophelia was gone, there was a peaceful smile on her face. Finally, she did not have to suffer anymore.

Lucien was shocked, and he could never forget this moment. He saw a living life being tortured to death because of a person's greed and desire.

Lucien finally realized that it was an irresistible trend that most of the ancient sorcerers had been washed away by the progress of the time. He had to admit that he once sympathized with the ancient sorcerers, but now he understood why the ancient magic empire completely collapsed within such a short period of time. Those ancient sorcerers who refused to follow the path of arcana but stuck to conducting this kind of cruel experiments should be erased by history, as they did not deserve to be saved.

"No!" The old witch screamed. She hurriedly rushed to a magic circle placed with lots of gems and led great energy from the tower to the magic circle.

The magic circle started to burst out milk-white light, as pure as life.

At the same time, the last magic circle under Ophelia's body was also activated. However, it was pure black.

Gradually, the milk-white light was infused into the black.

Lucien believed that it was a great chance for him to kill the old witch. He tried his best to get rid of the shackles, however, unfortunately, he failed, despite the fact that both of his wrists were now bleeding from his attempt.

When the light slowly disappeared, all the wounds on Ophelia's body had already healed. Her veins had all recovered from the power. Now, her skin had this healthy glow.

Ophelia started to cast the spell to free herself from the table. Jumping down from the table swiftly like a young deer, she hurriedly picked up the mirror and asked, "Mirror, mirror, tell me now—who in this land is fairest of all?"

"It's you, Eudora!" The mirror answered directly. It was not completely black anymore, instead, this time, the mirror showed the witch Ophelia's beautiful face.

Touching her blond hair, the old witch was very satisfied with her new look.

Lucien felt it very creepy when he heard the conversation again.

The witch could not lay the mirror down, as she was so obsessed with her new look—the blond hair, the nice-curved eyebrows, the straight and delicate nose, the fair skin and red lips... Her heart was filled with ecstasy.

However, all of a sudden, her skin lost the gloss and her green eyes quickly became cloudy. Wrinkles soon covered her entire face.

Within a minute, the old witch had returned to her original look. Her straight back bent forward again.

The witch's bitter scream broke the glass tubes in the lab one by one, and there was even a crack in the magic mirror.

Lucien's head buzzed again. He felt that the witch's scream was like the real Banshee's howling.

After a long time, the old witch finally calmed down. She looked at Lucien in a very cold way, as if she was planning on something. Then, she removed the shackles on Lucien and let the servant bring Lucien back to his cell.

The witch did not leave Lucien any chances to lure her with arcana to bring her youth back. She drove away Lucien like whisking the flies off.

After Lucien left, the old witch murmured, "... I can't rebuild and use his body... He's for the soul-dividing experiment..."

...

On his way back to the cell, Lucien silently paid special attention to the several flesh-golems holding huge axes and swords again. The wounds on his wrists, although had already started to recover, made Lucien frown. He knew that he had to find a way to get out of this place as soon as possible, as no one knew what a crazy person would do next!

That night, when the rest of the prisoners were sent to the patio, as usual, they all got the horrible news that Ophelia had been killed by the old witch. It took Ophelia's teammates quite a long time to accept the fact. They even talked to each other during the breakfast time!

This was not a night for conversation. All the prisoners remained silent for most of the night.

Getting back to his cell, Lucien knocked at the wall on the right.

"Mr. Lucien?" asked Carina. Her voice sounded weak.

Lucien pulled out the brick in the wall and asked, "You wanna leave this place, Carina?"

"What?" Carina suddenly kneeled down and looked into Lucien's eyes through the hole in the wall, "Mr. Lucien, you've got any plans? I don't want to stay here for even a second longer!"

Ophelia's death was a great shock to her.

Lucien said to her seriously, "It's risky but better than we just sit here waiting to die. If you want to follow me to leave this place, I need you to do one thing for me. But it's gonna be very painful. Are you okay with it?"

Seeing Lucien's attitude, Carina took some time to consider. After a while, she nodded firmly, "Yes, Mr. Lucien. As long as we can get out of this place, I'm willing to do anything."

"Bring your neck closer, then." Lucien said to her in a gentle voice, to comfort her.

Carina did as Lucien asked, and then she realized what Lucien was trying to do, "Are you trying to analyze the collar preventing us from using magic?"

"That's right. I cannot see mine," answered Lucien honestly. "Hang in there."

"I will." Carina nodded.

Lucien reached out his right hand through the hole and touched the collar on Carina's neck. Based on his understanding, Lucien turned a special part of the collar. At the same, he knocked on the wall with the other hand to create some unique vibration of a certain frequency, which sounded like a weird spell.

Under turning and vibrating, the collar started to burst out electric sparks, underneath which there were flowing magic symbols and runes.

Carina's body started to tremble from the electric shock. She bit her lips hard without letting out a single groan.

Although the capability of calculation in Lucien's soul was still there, without the help of his Blessing, Lucien could not control the vibration frequency very well.

So Lucien had to take it slowly. The vibration frequency could help to reduce the efficiency of the collar to some degree, so Carina could hang in there longer. Or the collar could very possibly directly damage Carina's vertebra, as she was just a junior-rank sorcerer with no Blessing power.

After the first try, Lucien left Carina with some time to recover. At the same time, he made sure that he remembered the runes and symbols that he saw.

"Can we do it again, Carina?" asked Lucien.

"Yes... I can!" answered Carina decisively. Although it was very painful, the pain brought her hope!

"Good for you," said Lucien sincerely.

It took Lucien a week to completely figure out the complete structure of the collar. Now, they were waiting for the end of the month.

...

Lucien did not take any actions until the last day of the month. He slept well and ate well, in order to make sure that his physical and mental condition were the best.

On the night of the last day of the month, the dim silver moon was fully covered by the clouds.

Lucien suddenly sat up in bed.