Chapter 561: Magic Blood
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Agatha breathed a sigh of relief after Roland and the mortal woman left.
Was she too harsh just now? Perhaps she should be kinder to this lord from four hundred years in the future, even if he was a mortal. Though she thought so, she still didn't like people other than witches entering the laboratory where the rune would soon be made, and she didn't want His Majesty to know the method of making the rune.
Of course, the latter point would soon be impossible to hide.
Agatha turned around, arranged the six wooden boxes prepared in the morning, and placed the God's Stone of Retaliation collected by His Majesty into them.
These were the templates for making the base of the rune.
She needed to make four Listening Runes, one Screaming Rune, and one Insight Rune.
Just as she expected, His Majesty did not choose weapon-type runes, but chose more basic auxiliary runes based on the captured magic stones. In the Seekers, using high-quality magic stones left by Devil Hunters for Screaming and Insight Runes would be a complete waste.
Now that Roland possessed powerful firearms, his need for weapon runes was naturally not as strong.
Not to mention, the more powerful the rune, the higher the demand for magic power.
At this moment, a knock on the shed door sounded again.
It seemed that in addition to needing an independent research tower, she also needed a few servants. Agatha helplessly put down the magic stone and opened the wooden door.
"What is it, Your Majesty? Is there anything else—"
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Agatha xiaojie."
"Hmm, do you need me to heal devils again?"
This time, Anna and Nana were the ones who came in… they were also the assistants she had requested from Roland.
"No… cough cough," she corrected herself, "You've come at the right time. I've just finished the screening work. Put the remaining materials in the box, and we can officially start making it."
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When the blue blood flowed into the wooden box along the coated soft tube, the God's Stone underwent a wonderful change.
The two merged together and bubbles emerged in strings. The hard stone was like a burning candle, and the angular parts flowed down as a viscous liquid, followed by the God's Stone itself.
The devil seemed to realize what they were doing and struggled desperately with its last strength, but to no avail under the firm shackles of the iron chains.
Soon, the six boxes were filled with the blood of the Mad Demon, and the box into which the blood was first poured seemed to be boiling, with the surging liquid mixing fine sand, mercury, and God's Stone together, looking viscous and turbid.
Anna carefully observed their changes, "Is the quality of the rune related to the raw materials?"
"That's right, it mainly depends on the God's Stone of Retaliation and the magic blood. The Seekers believe that the transformation of magic power to the body is all-round. The physical fitness of high-level witches is significantly better than that of ordinary witches, and the transcendent ones have reached the limit in this regard. In order to improve the rune effect, good runes will try to choose the blood of powerful devils and the best quality God's Stone to combine... for example, the God's Stone of Retaliation Rune of Lord Akalys was completed using the dying Devil Hunter on the battlefield."
"Will the fusion of a witch's blood and God's Stone also be like this?"
"It's not the same. The God's Stone won't melt like wax, and the reaction isn't as intense. The formed liquid is as clear as water and can flow freely. The devil's blood will eventually solidify and become as hard as a stone." As Agatha spoke, she placed a partition panel into the wooden box, "Therefore, the production process of the rune is similar to smelting metal. The magic stone must be put in before it completely solidifies, and the most important step must be completed - connecting the magic meridians."
"Meridians?" Anna asked curiously, "Like plants?"
Agatha nodded, "Remember what I said before? The Seekers believe that only life can carry magic power. If this step is lacking, the rune is just a dead thing. The magic stone is still a separate individual and will not unite to produce incredible abilities."
"Can the devil's blood give these
ordinary substances... life?" she asked in surprise.
"Devils alone can't do it," Agatha said calmly, "You also need witches."
Nana covered her mouth in fright.
"The Seekers also discovered this secret by chance. The mixture of witch and devil blood can produce a peculiar effect, which keeps the melted God's Stone in a 'fresh' state, just like a plant. Even if it's left for a long time, the meridians will not lose the favor of magic power... I don't know how to describe it, but you will understand when you see it."
The liquid in the first box had calmed down and had a layer of gray light, looking like condensed blue wax.
Agatha took out the partition panel, leaving two hemispherical grooves and a shallow strip groove in the box. Then she picked up the small knife on the table and cut her wrist - bright red blood gushed out instantly. After half a glass was filled, she gestured to the little girl, "Help me heal the wound."
This was Agatha's purpose in choosing the two.
Anna was the most outstanding witch in the Union in terms of learning ability and was suitable as the successor to this skill. Nana could effectively reduce her pain - in Taqila, healing witches were the main force in frontline combat, and it was impossible to arrange them for the Seekers. After draining blood in the laboratory, most of the time, only herbs could be used for treatment.
If Roland.Wimbledon had not shown her the hope of defeating the devils and had no prejudice against witches, she would rather bury the method of making runes completely. Even in the Union, the fact that witch blood can perfectly blend with devils was unacceptable to most people. Even she herself had doubts about the origin of witches after coming into contact with this matter. This kind of confusion was very detrimental to the Divine Will Battle, so the production of runes was one of the secrets that Seekers members had to strictly guard.
She didn't want His Majesty to participate in the observation for this reason.
Especially in this era when there were rumors that witches were the devils' pawns of seduction and depravity.
Even if he would know sooner or later, Agatha hoped that this time could be a little later.
Perhaps this was also a kind of self-deception, she sighed inwardly.
When the mixture was half-hard, Agatha forcefully embedded the magic stone into the groove and poured down warm blood. The red blood flowed in the shallow groove, and the surrounding blue blood clots wriggled, and the edges of the two gradually blurred, forming a form of mutual penetration.
Then she infused the rune with magic power.
In an instant, the red bloodline burst out with a faint light, and countless light spots flowed on the meridians, and accompanied by the surrounding wriggling, it expanded and contracted rhythmically, as if breathing.
Anna and Nana understood what Agatha meant at the same time.
Now, the rune was "alive."