Chapter 99 Blood Curse
Chapter 100 Blood Curse
The next second, a black lightning flashed through the blood-colored phantom and pierced through the snow-white neck of the short girl Brandi. It was Richard's steel arrow. Brandi covered her neck tightly, but her body tilted and fell to the ground.
But the blood-colored phantom seemed to be completely unaffected by physical attacks. Richard's arrow seemed to be shot at the air, without any blocking effect.
When Ophelia turned around, she saw the blood-colored phantom rushing towards her with a horrified face.
"Blood Curse!"
Suddenly, a strange green light burst out from Ophelia's chest, blocking the blood-colored human-shaped mist outside.
As time passed, the power of the blood-colored human-shaped mist became weaker and weaker, and the originally lifelike, ferocious face of the short girl Brandi gradually became blurred. After a few seconds, the blood-colored human-shaped mist could not enter Ophelia's body and finally slowly dissipated into the air.
Ophelia breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the necklace on her chest. She thought she was going to be cursed by the other party's blood grudge, but fortunately the protective necklace given by her mother played a protective role.
Richard saw it and finally let go of his hanging heart. He thought Ophelia would be in trouble like Andrea. Looking at the strange appearance of this blood-colored humanoid mist, if it was contaminated, something very bad would definitely happen.
"Ophelia, are you okay?" Richard stepped forward to comfort her.
"I'm fine. Fortunately, I have the protective necklace my mother gave me. Otherwise, I would definitely be cursed by Brandi's blood grudge just now, and it would be troublesome at that time." Ophelia shook her head and signaled Richard not to worry about her.
Blood grudge curse, Richard heard it and knew why Ophelia said it was troublesome just now.
Generally speaking, when it comes to curses, none of them can be easily eliminated, especially the short girl's, which is released before death, and it is even more fused with her own blood and part of the soul, which is extremely difficult to resist.
It seems that Ophelia's protective necklace should be among the witchcraft props, and it is also a top-level existence. It may be a low-level magic weapon, otherwise it would not spontaneously open the green light to protect the wearer. In this case, Ophelia's origin is not simple.
Maybe she is the offspring of a wizard family.
"By the way, let's take a look at Andrea."
Thinking of Andrea who was injured before, Richard hurriedly called Ophelia who had not yet recovered and came to Andrea's side.
The two saw that Andrea's mental state was not bad, but her body was attacked by severe cold air. Her face was still purple, and the whole person was faintly emitting visible wisps of cold air.
"What... What's wrong, I'm fine!" Andrea was shivering with cold, shaking all over, and it took her a long time to finish a sentence.
"Don't talk first, let Ophelia treat you and try." Richard patted Andrea's shoulder, but the surface temperature of the heavy knight's shoulder armor was extremely low, and Richard's palm almost stuck to it.
This is similar to the fact that in the extremely cold weather in the north in the previous life, iron products would stick to the tongue if licked.
Ophelia immediately used the healing of plants and trees to treat it. Green light spots gathered from the surroundings in Ophelia's white palms. After a while, they condensed into a whole ball of mist emitting green light.
Ophelia gently placed the ball of mist emitting green light on Andrea's head.
As the green mist seeped into Andrea's body, he seemed to be much better.
His face was no longer so livid, and there was a little bit of blood, but the effect was not as good as Richard expected, and Andrea was directly alive.
"The injury is quite serious. Even if I treat it three times a day, Andrea will probably need at least three days to recover his combat effectiveness." Ophelia said with a sad face.
Richard fell into deep thought when he heard this. There were three of them in his group, and Andrea had lost her fighting power. If he wanted to continue to earn points, it would be very difficult, because some scattered fishmen warriors, cryptmen, etc., had too few points, and Richard looked down on them.
But if they encountered a large group of fishmen, or a relatively powerful monster like a petrified lizard, it would be quite dangerous for Richard and Ophelia alone.
Moreover, as the underground races were almost cleared, the probability of encountering opponents from other academies later also increased rapidly. If a conflict occurred, Richard did not think that he and Ophelia could beat the opponent's team of four or five people, such as the purple-haired boy, and the third-level wizard apprentices who had not appeared.
In addition, another important reason was that he was vaguely worried about the sequelae of killing the red-haired girl Jenna, because at present, it was clear that there should be at least one official wizard behind Jenna who valued her more.
Richard was a little unsure about how much the other party valued Jenna. If he only cared about her, then the matter would basically pass. But if he was serious, he would continue to investigate the matter, which would be troublesome.
First of all, even if he sent the marked sword and shield skeleton back to the undead world, so that the other party could not sense the location of the mark, if the other party came in person, or looked for a formal wizard of the prophecy department, he could find him through the clues at the scene.
After all, the methods of formal wizards are strange and unpredictable. For example, if the witching time is reversed, you can see the images that happened here in a certain period of time before. For example, the prophecy wizard can predict Jenna's murderer through a certain inconspicuous item here.
If Richard left obvious items such as blood, hair or skin fragments, the prophecy wizard can even easily lock Richard directly.
Secondly, the living people here, besides him, are Ophelia and Andrea.
Even if Richard himself can keep it secret, if the other party finds out about Ophelia and Andrea, will these two people keep the secret tightly under pressure?
For such a test of human nature, Richard thinks he should not have too much hope.
So based on the above two points, Richard is still quite uneasy in his heart, which makes him want to retreat. After returning, he can ask mentor Ceres indirectly to see if there is any way to remove the mark or avoid being found by the prophecy wizard.
After all, he won the freshman chief and showed his alchemical talent, all for the protection of the mentor and the school in this situation.
As long as the other party can't produce substantial evidence, nothing will happen to him.
"Why don't we return now!" Richard thought about it and made a decision.
"Ah? You don't have to give up the mission organized by the three major colleges for me. This is really a rare opportunity!" When Andrea heard this, she thought that Richard gave up the mission of clearing up because of him, and was immediately moved to tears.
As the Duke's illegitimate son, although the housekeepers and maids always respected him very much, other noble heirs of his age often talked about and slandered him behind his back, especially some of them who were close to the Duke's direct line, so Andrea had few friends since he was a child.
This is why he agreed to team up with Ram, who was much weaker than him, and also rejected the invitation to team up with the second-level wizard apprentice who was obviously much stronger than Ram, because he thought Ram was his friend.
Ophelia on the side also stared at Richard blankly, as if she had not expected that Richard was such a kind and righteous person. In order to escort Andrea back to the school, he was willing to give up the opportunity to continue earning points and exchange for rare potions and top-level witchcraft props!
If this is really the case, Ophelia feels that she really has to look at Richard with a new eye!
Richard was stunned when he heard it. He did not expect Andrea to be so moved. However, he immediately understood the reason and smiled faintly: "What are you thinking about? If it weren't for the possibility that people from Jenna would come to my door, I would definitely choose to continue the clearing mission."
Although Richard said so, Andrea was still very moved, and Ophelia obviously did not believe it.
In the minds of the two, such a thought actually popped up at the same time. Although Richard was a bit insidious and cunning, as a friend, he was still very considerate!
If Richard knew that his truthful explanation would cause such an effect, he didn't know what he would feel.
"Richard, don't worry. If anyone asks me about the situation, I will never reveal a single thing!" Andrea said with a serious expression.
"Me too, Richard, I will never tell anyone." Ophelia said.
Richard's heart warmed up instantly when he heard it, but he clearly knew that even if the two of them had the intention, sometimes they might not have the strength.
The abilities of wizards are strange and complicated. Even for formal wizards, it is very simple to use mental power to violently search the memory of an ordinary person's brain. Apprentices just need to spend a little more effort.
And there are many witchcrafts similar to truth-telling as far as Richard knows.
So, Richard smiled and said nothing.
However, since he decided to withdraw to the school's residence, Richard planned to hurry up and pack up the spoils.
According to Ophelia, the three people killed in the Ring of North were all masters among the freshmen of the other academy in the past one or two years, especially the red-haired girl Jenna. After entering the Ring of North last year, it is said that she was promoted to the second-level wizard apprentice in just ten months. She is an absolute genius.
Thinking this way, the genius must have a lot of good things, so Richard started to search Jenna.
After searching, in addition to hundreds of magic stones, a bag of unknown dark crystals, and a large number of fishman eyeballs, dorsal fins and other raw materials collected before, Jenna also had a thick dark red cover book, which instantly attracted Richard's attention.