I'm a proper student; I only take nine kinds of potions every day.

Chapter 218 (2 larger chapters, please vote!) Collapse! You're not a Bloodthirsty Clan!

Just as the analysis was being conducted, two more arms appeared under Ether's armpits, instantly forming elastic chains that wrapped around Ivan.

Ivan immediately began to struggle rapidly.

Just then, a silver nail, about twenty centimeters long and covered with special runes, quietly appeared from the soft hand behind Ivan.

Then, Ether, in an embracing motion, stabbed directly into Ivan from behind!

Click!

This thing was so sharp that, accompanied by the powerful force of the ether, it pierced directly through Evan's bronze-like body.

Meanwhile, Ivan also felt a sharp pain, and then a new prompt appeared on the panel.

[You have been cursed by a magical artifact and have received the debuff: Moon's Hostility, lasting 10 minutes.]

[Moon's Hostility: Your silver resistance is reduced by 20%; your lunar affinity is reduced by 20%]

Pfft!

While being attacked, the mutation effect of the Fog Brain Plague automatically launched a counterattack.

Evan could clearly feel a misty brain plague entering Aether's body, but the other party seemed unaffected.

Influence.

"What's going on? Even if they are of the same level, the Fog Brain Plague should be able to cause some kind of impact."

Just as Ivan was wondering—

boom!

Evan, along with Aether's body, crashed into the wall at the same time.

The immense impact sent the surrounding potion-mutated creatures flying, their sticky sludge splattering onto the walls and slowly trickling down.

Amidst the smoke and dust, Ivan used his powerful strength to try and quickly create distance.

But at that moment, Ether's incredibly tough yet flexible body quickly wrapped around her.

Evan immediately threw a punch, and the immense force, combined with the rocks on the ground, crushed part of Aether's body into fragments.

However, the wound that had been punched closed up instantly in the next second.

"You're not the only one with super self-healing abilities!"

Ether's triumphant voice rang out amidst the smoke and dust.

"It seems to be just as the intelligence said; he's a brute who relies entirely on physical strength!"

Along with the voice came a soft, yet terrifyingly powerful, soft fist.

The punch landed squarely on Evan's chest, the powerful impact even cracking his bronze-colored skin.

The fog-induced encephalopathy continued its automatic counterattack, but it was still ineffective.

The moment the crack healed, Ivan unceremoniously threw a punch at him.

This time it wasn't a fist, but a sharp hand chop.

In an instant, the sharp blade pierced through Aether's body, leaving a huge gash.

At the very moment the wound appeared, powerful dynamic vision allowed Ivan to see a structure resembling a skeleton.

However, the skeleton seemed to be alive, and very quickly and smoothly disappeared into another area.

"Hmm!? The structure looks like a bone snake, with blood vessel-like structures around it—it's moving very fast."

"Could it be that the outer layer is not its main body, but a shell?"

"There's another driver inside!?"

Thinking of this, a glint flashed in Evan's eyes: "No wonder the fog brain plague didn't work."

"It's blocked by its shell!"

"It seems attacking from the outside is useless; we need to find a way to lure it out of this shell!"

At this moment, his brain, enhanced by various magical potions, began to think at high speed.

"Judging from the attack just now, this guy is very familiar with my abilities and must have prepared some countermeasures."

"And these researchers have always been incredibly eager to discover the secrets and knowledge in other people's minds."

"In that case, let's feign weakness and wait for them to reveal their weakness."

"Surprise attack, defeat the enemy in one move!"

Strangely, Ether noticed that this brute showed no signs of despair.

He still wore that sunny and cheerful smile, saying some nonsensical things.

"I never expected that the 'dissolving force' technique would actually be useful!"

"Your supple body has given me quite a bit of inspiration!"

"Once my flexibility improves in the future, I can play like you too!"

Seeing this mentally unstable guy on the verge of death, still spouting incomprehensible nonsense, Ether snorted coldly.

He then quickly took control of his soft body structure, firmly fixing the arm that Evan had stabbed into his body.

Then the liquid artifact hidden within his body, Sun Gaze, wrapped itself around Ivan's arm and activated instantly.

In an instant, a strange, extraordinary energy emanated from Aether's body.

Ivan immediately felt a burning, stinging pain in his arm.

[You have been cursed by a magical artifact, gaining the debuff: Cracked Earth, lasting 20 minutes.]

[Cracked Earth: Your solar affinity is reduced by 70%.]

Upon seeing this notification on the panel, Ivan couldn't help but grin inwardly.

"As expected! This young man came prepared!"

"It seems that young people nowadays aren't practicing brute force anymore, they're starting to practice neutralizing force."

"In that case, I, Teacher Yi, will pretend to have been knocked out by you!"

"And then at the crucial moment—"

"Sneak attack!"

As Evan's mind wandered, he suddenly felt a rush of wind behind him.

The speed was so fast that Iven instinctively wanted to crush the Lion Potion hidden in his rectum.

But the next second, he stopped that instinct.

"It's not the right time yet; this thing poses no fatal threat to me!"

Potions cannot be consumed continuously, which makes Ivan's burst of power extremely terrifying, but his endurance is not long.

These crucial potions should naturally be used at the most critical moments.

Just as he was hesitating, Ivan felt a sharp pain in his back.

A subtle electric current sensation throbbed in the wound.

—0.5% silver resistance, which poses no threat whatsoever.

"There was no poison involved, just a simple attack with silver!"

Thinking of this, Ivan immediately pretended to let out a series of extremely painful growls.

"Ugh ugh ugh ————"

He now has many backup plans that can directly resolve this ether issue.

However, the future is uncertain, and those crucial backup plans will have to wait until the most critical moment.

Seeing Evan's body convulsing, Ether revealed a smug sneer.

"A brute is a brute; he has absolutely no fighting wisdom whatsoever!"

Immediately afterwards, as if by magic, it flicked out several more silver spikes from its back hand, which first pierced Evan's chest and back.

Then several more silver spikes pierced Ivan's arms and hands.

With seven silver nails driven into him, Evan seemed to have completely lost the ability to move, his whole body trembling as if in a muscle spasm.

"Even if you increase your resistance to silverware with potions, that resistance will only barely allow you to move around normally."

"Once these things are reduced to a certain extent, they will be fatal to you!"

At this moment, Ether's voice carried a sense of composure and elegance.

Although Richard and his group in the distance had basically cleared out the mutated potions, they were now studying how to sabotage the facilities here.

But Ether doesn't care; it's hoping the process will slow down and cause more problems so it can reap the benefits.

After confirming that Evan was completely under control, Ether's body began to move gradually.

Then, from its chest, a bony monster resembling a snake emerged.

The monster resembled a human spine, but it had numerous tiny tentacles around its body, and at the very top were a pair of jet-black eyes and a pair of fangs.

It possesses a very strong extraordinary aura, and it appears to be the essence of ether.

At this moment, Ivan gritted his teeth and asked, "This is your true form!?"

The next second, Ivan tried to struggle to get up, but as if he had been electrocuted, he stumbled and knelt back down on the ground.

Ether here was quite confident in his methods: "You activated the full Bloodthirsty Species characteristics in such a short time, and the flaws in that are terrifying."

"Give up the resistance, and you'll feel a little better!"

The sound came from the monster's mouth, and then the monster quickly attached itself to Evan's head.

The tentacles, resembling blood vessels, were about to pierce through Evan's eyes and ears.

"Now, all the secrets in your head belong to me!"

But in that very instant—

Then Ivan suddenly raised his head, and his body, which had been completely restricted, suddenly burst open.

He instantly grasped the skeletal monster in his palm, and was about to crush it.

However, Ivan was surprised to find that this thing actually had a transparent protective shell around its perimeter!

Even after I gripped it with my terrifying strength, the guy didn't budge an inch!

"Telekinesis!?" Ivan immediately considered the possibility.

Faced with Evan's sudden outburst, Ether showed a hint of surprise, then snorted coldly.

"Since you're courting death, don't blame me for being impolite!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ether's body produced the red sunstone.

It is because of this Sunstone that Ether dares to so recklessly reveal its true form.

"This is—" Evan was taken aback when he saw the sunstone.

Then, as the sunstone was activated, an incredibly hot and dazzling light burst forth in an instant.

The light was so terrifying, so intense, that it instantly illuminated this dark, putrid void as bright as day.

Under the sunlight, Ivan suddenly let out an extremely miserable scream.

"Aaaaaah~!"

Ether knew that Evan, who had just been cursed by the sun, wouldn't survive more than a few seconds under such sunlight.

Its main body then swiftly moved forward, attempting to grab Evan's head.

"Unfortunately, there's no way to study this guy's bizarre body structure now!"

Just as Ether was filled with regret, he suddenly sensed that something was amiss—

It discovered that the hand gripping its body did not weaken during the process; instead, it grew stronger.

The screams that had just been heard had now turned into a strange laugh.

"not good!"

Just as the eerie, potion-like shell of Aether was about to launch its attack—

It heard a strange cry.

"Give it to me!"

Finally, the terrifying force tore its skeletal body directly out of the potion's shell.

"No!!!"

Confident in his own backup plan and wanting to uncover the secrets in Ivan's mind, this body, which was about 1.5 meters tall, had just extended to over 1.2 meters.

The remaining connection between the tail and the potion's shell was already quite fragile.

Meanwhile, Evan grabbed Aether's skeletal body with one hand, and with the other hand, he grabbed his lower back, and a Colt revolver appeared out of thin air.

With the final shot, the pre-made poisoned bullets were fired.

Splat!

The shattered copper bullet fragments, along with the poisonous blood, entered the ethereal potion's body.

In an instant, the magical potion's body, which had just been in a rather strange and strong posture, was covered with a large number of purple spots.

These spots spread rapidly outwards, soon turning into pools of black, foul-smelling, viscous organic matter that collapsed onto the ground.

"You!! You!!!"

At this moment, the ether was filled with indescribable shock and terror.

The sunstone had already burned out, but Ivan, with seven silver spikes driven into his body, looked...

They weren't hurt at all!

Even his bronzed skin had a luminous quality.

It's as if it absorbs the sun's energy and converts it into its own nutrients!

Ivan grinned, "You know, it's really the big organizations like yours that get their stuff so pure!"

"This intense, compressed sunlight feels so good on my skin!"

!!!

Looking at Evan's innocent, sunny, and even somewhat foolish smile, Ether's previously confident spirit was plunged into deep self-doubt.

"I—lost to someone like this!?"

"My meticulously prepared backup plan—is completely useless!?"

Thinking of this, Ether began to scream hysterically.

"No! Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

"I've definitely lowered your silver resistance! Why are these silver nails having no effect on you at all!"

The 1.5-meter-long monster, resembling a bone snake, which was being held in Ivan's hand, struggled desperately.

However, once detached from that powerful potion shell, the aether no longer posed any real threat!

"And why aren't you afraid of the sun! Damn it! Why aren't you afraid of the sun?!"

At this moment, Aether was completely breached and even went mad, its roars becoming distorted.

"You are clearly under the sun's curse! You are clearly under the sun's curse!"

Ether's roar at this moment had lost all logic; it was merely an outpouring of fear and anger.

Ivan, holding its simulated original form, chuckled, "So you young people are useless at practicing Transformation Force. I'm the one who practiced Transformation Force."

"You young people should train with all your might!"

Ether, who already couldn't understand Evan's ramblings, felt even more strongly that the other person was mocking him as he was now on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Although its skeletal body was enveloped in a layer of telekinesis, it no longer possessed any combat capabilities.

His body writhed as he roared, "Who the hell are you?!"

"You're definitely not a bloodthirsty race!"

"Who the hell is a Bloodthirsty Seed, who, despite being inherently vulnerable to the sun and cursed by a magical artifact, can still..."

It easily withstood the baptism of the sunstone!

"You're not a witcher! You're a knight! You're a demon! You're a prophet!"

With a roar, Ivan could tell that this aberrant potion called Aether had gone completely insane.

What had just happened completely shattered its understanding of this extraordinary world.

After all, who would have thought that Evan, with his extraordinary bloodthirsty traits, would have 19.5% silver resistance and 178% solar affinity?

Under normal circumstances, the Bloodthirsty race has no resistance to silver and the sun.

Even through special rituals and related methods, the defects can only be barely smoothed over.

To enable them to live relatively normal lives, so that they don't suddenly die in their daily lives.

If this situation is further exacerbated by a reduction in related resistance, the damage from attacks from the nemesis will be even more severe due to the double effect.

This is the basis for Ether's confidence.

This is also why the current ether is so distorted and insane.

It was well prepared, and the timing of its use of the relevant methods was perfect.

It can be said that even a master-level Bloodthirsty Seed has almost no ability to resist when facing Aether.

Unfortunately, today Ether encountered Evan.

A pure numerical monster!

At this moment, Evan was too lazy to argue with this guy. After a thick fog of brain plague rushed over, Ether was immediately stunned.

Although this guy possesses strength that is almost on par with a master, he is still an expert in terms of status.

This allows Ivan's foggy brain disease to work easily.

As Aether ceased thinking, the almost instinctive telekinetic protective layer on its body also disappeared.

After a moment's thought, Evan crushed Aether's head, then shoved the rest of his body into his lower back and vanished instantly.

"Unfortunately, the Silver Key can only be used once a week to steal memories."

I just used the Silver Key to steal the mind of the burrowing worm yesterday.

Evan had just considered that consuming live aether directly might yield some good results.

But at this stage, we are in the midst of a major war, and Ivan doesn't know what will happen in the future.

The previous burrowing bug has already taken up two slots of Nine Dragons Power. What if it eats up Ether and takes up two more slots?

Any attribute improvements can only be made after the current crisis has passed.

He also considered using fog-induced encephalopathy to control it.

However, while the Fog Plague can suppress apprentices and mortals for a long time, its effect is greatly reduced on ethereal beings of the same rank.

The storage space contained many important things, including gold.

At a time when he needed to be fully focused at all times, he didn't have the energy to keep an eye on a landmine in his storage space that could explode at any moment.

As for Ether's living body, Evan felt a deep sense of regret, even heartache.

This body was truly ingenious, but he simply couldn't take it with him.

Not to mention that this body is too large, and my storage space can't hold it at all.

Even if he wanted to eat, his stomach couldn't hold it all.

At the same time, it would also violate the concerns above: if he were to occupy more of the Nine Dragons Power slots, it would affect the subsequent battle situation.

Because Evan had no idea what he was going to face next, he was even prepared to take a second and third round of potions.

Therefore, try to leave as many grids as possible.

Finally, and most importantly, he wasn't sure if anyone was secretly watching.

There are explanations for all the extraordinary characteristics he possesses now, but the reversal effect of the Nine Dragons Power is his most crucial ability.

Such a hasty act of eating the monster would inevitably arouse suspicion.

Turning his head to look at the potion shell, which had now completely turned into a pile of black, twisted organic matter, Evan sighed with heartache.

boom!

Just then, an explosion was heard in the distance, followed by David's strange cry.

"Hahaha! Great art is an explosion! Look at these magnificent fireworks!"

Hearing the sound, Evan turned his head and saw that Richard, David, and Erlon had already finished cleaning up and destroying the area.

A large amount of the residue from mutated potions was piled in the middle, along with the core of the entire formation, which was ignited by David.

The special explosives went up into the sky.

At this moment, as the formation was destroyed, the pulsating, blood vessel-like pipes in the ground and walls also stopped supplying fluids.

The entire area was like a factory that had suddenly lost power, becoming deathly silent, with only the dripping sound of the remaining soft mud slowly flowing down.

"Are you alright?!" After fixing the formation, Richard and the other two quickly surrounded them.

Ivan shook his head: "It's nothing."

As he spoke, he easily pulled out the long silver nails from his body.

No blood was shed during the entire process, and the wound healed completely in less than a second.

Erlong exclaimed in amazement, "Junior Brother, your unique abilities are truly terrifying!"

David asked curiously, "Are we just going to wait here? We haven't taken our new medicine yet."

These three people haven't taken the protective potion yet.

David had eaten it before, but Richard and Erlong hadn't tried it yet, and were now eager to give it a go.

After a moment's thought, Ivan said, "We need to be more careful with this. This drug can not only enhance our combat capabilities but also protect us."

"I have a feeling that there may be a wide-ranging impact, and we need to prepare for the worst."

Richard hummed in agreement: "Junior Brother, you need to be careful too."

"You should be able to sense that the entire special operations team gives off a feeling of going through the motions without putting in any real effort."

"The situation here is far more complicated than what we've encountered before."

"I know you are very capable, but don't stand out too much at this time."

"Otherwise, we'll get caught up in some unnecessary disputes."

Evan hummed in agreement: "I know, I'll handle things carefully when they arise."

The group then quickly cleaned the area, carefully checking for any traps, mechanisms, or missing potion variants.

Subsequently, under Erlong's direction, they set up a set of protective barriers and perception arrays here.

Just then, accompanied by a green light, Mr. Puck suddenly appeared beside the group.

After Mr. Puck appeared, he looked around at the clean and tidy surroundings and was somewhat bewildered: "I don't think I've come to the wrong place, have I?"

"I remember this place should belong to the Twisted Creature Guardian of that Institute of Excellence."

Evan nodded, then pointed to the pool of filthy black organic matter in the corner and said, "This must be it, right? After I crushed it, it triggered some kind of toxin in my body."

"And then it turned out like this."

"ah!?"

Upon hearing this, Puker was immediately stunned and speechless.

He recognized every single word just said, but when put together, he couldn't quite process it.

"Dried up—you—you dried up the ether!?"

Ivan nodded knowingly: "So this guy's name is Ether, huh? I guess so!"

"This guy has pretty good physical strength, but he's a bit too arrogant."

Then Ivan smiled and said, "I specially saved this lump of stuff for you, Mr. Puck."

"I wonder if the compensation we discussed before is still valid."

After squatting down and touching it a few times, Puk sighed, "It's not worth recycling anymore."

"This toxin corrodes almost everything useful."

After finishing his own business, Puk clapped his hands and said, "Oh right! I came to ask for help!"

"Your neighboring Bronze Armored Fanatics have met their match; they're almost wiped out!"

"We're requesting backup. I came over to ask if you have any spare manpower!"

Hearing this, Ivan remembered that Ryan was still over there and immediately shouted, "No way! You're a god too!"

"We've got things sorted out here, take me there quickly!"

As he spoke, Ivan looked at Richard and said, "I have a good classmate on the other side of the team. I'm going to go and lend him a hand."

"I'll be back as soon as things are settled over there!"

Richard nodded: "Go ahead, we'll take care of things here!"

Then Mr. Puck grabbed Ivan's shoulder and asked, "I'm leaving. Ready?!"

Ivan gave a thumbs-up: "Ready!"

Meanwhile, on the other side, in a spacious cave, one could see the corpses of dozens or even hundreds of ghouls.

The bodies had been completely smashed, with broken tissues and bodily fluids mixed together and smeared everywhere.

Interspersed among these ghoul corpses were a large number of zombies with brass-like skin.

These zombies were almost completely dismembered and had lost their ability to move.

Among these zombies were a large number of young people wearing tattered black priest robes.

These young people are generally around twenty years old, and most of them are missing limbs.

Some had their limbs cut off, and some had half their heads bitten off.

It's clear that these young people haven't fully grasped the extraordinary properties of copper transformation.

Only the bronzed body remained in place, while the flesh and blood of normal humans had been completely devoured.

Even so, these young people were in a state of combat before they died, and even when their bodies were being eaten, they did not feel much pain or fear.

They seemed to have fallen into a state of fanaticism and numbness, ultimately perishing together with the enemy.

Ahh!

A blinding flash of electricity passed by, and the two charging brass clergymen were instantly electrocuted.

Beneath the towering statue in the distance, a woman wearing a somewhat worn-out trench coat and a black ram's head mask stood there.

The woman was also somewhat disheveled at this point, with a barely healed wound on the left side of her neck.

One of the horns on the mask's head was broken off, and the hem and cuffs of the women's trench coat had many burn marks.

Strangely, all the wounds on the woman's body were burns, not slashes from cold weapons.

It seems that the wounds on her body were not caused by these clergy members.

"Damn it!" At this moment, Father Jasker's usually stiff face was filled with helplessness and anger.

The two giant ghouls that were guarding this place just now led a large number of ordinary ghouls and bronze zombies.

This level of combat power is not a significant threat to Father Jasker's bronze-armored fanatics.

He led his men step by step, clearing out the monsters in the area, and the whole process went quite smoothly.

But just as they had defeated a giant ghoul, the situation took a turn for the worse.

With a violent fluctuation in space, the other party made adjustments.

The giant ghoul disappeared, and in its place appeared a disheveled woman wearing a goat mask.

Judging from the intense aura of extraordinary power emanating from this person, this woman must have just fought with Black, and was completely overwhelmed by him.

However, for Jaske and his men, it was the beginning of a nightmare.

Because this woman's specialty is lightning, which is their insurmountable weakness.

In less than five minutes, the once well-organized Bronze Armor Fanatics suffered heavy losses.

Of the original twenty people, only three remain. Of the twenty who were brought in later, only five remain.

Left with no other option, Jasker had to ask Vic for help.

"Father Jasker—whoosh—are you alright?"

A hoarse voice, accompanied by heavy breathing, rang out. Jasker, who was barely supporting himself with his weapon, turned his head to look.

Then he saw Ryan, who was blind in one eye, missing an arm, covered in burn marks, and with his skin turned black, struggling to stand behind him.

Despite such severe injuries, Ryan felt little pain; his remaining eye still burned with fierce fighting spirit.

"Our great Heavenly Father is watching over us, isn't he?"

"I asked in a hoarse voice."

Jasker struggled to his feet, took a deep breath, and spoke with a tone full of fanaticism and determination.

Yes! Our great Heavenly Father is watching over our sacrifice!

"Everyone's sacrifice was meaningful!"

As the two were talking, the woman opposite them let out a sneer.

"What a bunch of completely brain-dead idiots!"

"Your Heavenly Father is nothing but a corpse, and your so-called healing is nothing but self-deception!"

"When the great Holy Spirit descends, you will discover the truth that those high-ranking church officials have been deceiving you!"

As the woman spoke, the arc of electricity in her hand began to spin rapidly, eventually forming a lightning spear that was instantly projected towards them.

The previous series of electric shocks had rendered these severely electrically deficient fanatics incapable of moving.

At this critical moment, Ryan did not hesitate at all, struggling to take a step forward and activating his extraordinary ability.

His small body rapidly expanded, quickly transforming into a muscular, bronze-clad man standing two and a half meters tall.

He firmly believed that he would be saved!

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