"The f.u.c.k did you say?!"As if surprising me was this world"s way of keeping my life interesting, rather than being happy to have a chance at meeting her step-sibling, Celleria instantly turned her energy to its full-throttle.
While the forceful breakthrough that I made just moments ago along with all those points obtained from helping Eve out allowed me to instantly push all my stats by nearly fifty percent, it didn"t mean I instantly jumped on this opportunity.
As such, with Celleria now in her full battle-mode, I actually had to turn cautious, as I never had the chance to go through those visions of mine in order to a.s.similate the knowledge necessary to understand just how the heck did her aurbased cultivation worked!
"What is wrong with you?"
Even though her power was still way too low to actually pose any threat to me, having Eve on my side who just went from being a mere top-tier mortal all the way to the first stage of the sage realm meant that rather than protecting myself in the potential fight, I would have to protect her just as well!
"The h.e.l.l are you even asking? Didn"t you promise to bring me back to the continent?!"
Flaring up as if I was just mocking her with my words, Celeria furiously drove her cultivation, instantly pus.h.i.+ng her aura to form into a thin barrier that covered her entire body.
"Yeah, I did. What about it?"
Confused more than I was worried when I realised that she might"ve entered my precious lower dimension, I lowered my guard a bit while tilting my head to the side. Just what the h.e.l.l did that la.s.s spoke about?
"Wait…"
Seeing how confused by her outburst I was, along with how Eve only started at her with nothing but a sad surprise written on her face, Celleria finally managed to calm down a little, backing out a few steps and at least not launching her desperate attack for now.
"Do you meant to say that you have no idea about the immortal blood?"
While her words by themselves made sense when I attempted to understand what she meant by putting them together, all the reason behind her sentence disappeared.
Immortal blood? Yeah, Eve was a daughter of some kind of immortal. It was something that she told me herself relatively soon after meeting with me for the first time, yet to this day, I never considered it as something more important than just a girl sharing her past with someone she had feelings for. Yet seeing how stunned Celleria was by the lack of understanding of just what the h.e.l.l she was speaking about, I started suspecting that this story actually had a deeper meaning.
"Wait a moment, immortal blood you said?"
Only when I focused on this part of her sentence did I manage to connect her words with something strange that recently happened to me and Eve. Back when we were fighting for our lives, there was this instance when her blood entered my own body right as she was going through consecutive breakthroughs, suddenly filling my system with free attribute points to the brim!
While I initially couldn"t even formulate a guess where the heck did those strange bouts of energy came from, with my attention directed towards right aspect of Eve"s past, I finally managed to connect the dots.
"Eve, come here for a second…"
Turning my head back to my beloved, I could see in her eyes that she caught on as well. Without even a single word more, she reached forward with her hand, opening a small hole on her wrists.
With just a tiny little bit of my energy, I gathered a few droplets before healing Eve"s injury up. But rather than ingesting it in order to see whether the same event from before could be replicated, I simply gathered it all in a form of a tiny ball of red liquid, before inspecting it with my own vision.
Yet just as expected, there was nothing there for me to find. Or at least, anything that could be potentially hiding within her blood, was simply either too small or hidden too well for me to find it out with something as silly as this vision of mine!
Considering how I barely managed to step inside the realm of sages, it was no wonder that I couldn"t uncover the secrets of the possible inheritance that Eve could receive from her father of the immortal level!
Yet while I couldn"t find anything with normal means, no one said I wouldn"t succeed with the methods that proved to be efficient so far!
Instead of trying to condense the blood even further in hopes of this strange, energetical element creating some kind of clumps, I simply covered the droplet of blood with entropy, before erasing the clean energy that was holding it in air.
boBoBOOM!
Rather than exploding instantly, it felt as if my entropy, by erasing the medium in which this strange element was existing, forced more and more of it to release it"s stored energy in the simplest way possible, that humanity on earth quickly learned to take advantage off.
The faster the process of erasing the liquid was, the harder it became for me to absorb the energy into the entropy and dissolve it safely into nothing more but a gust of wind.
In the end, while barely, I still managed to protect everyone and my tower from being shattered by the violent outcry of this energy, that was safely stored in just a small droplet of Eve"s blood!
As it turned out, she was a d.a.m.ned walking nuke!
"Mind explaining what is the meaning of this?"
While my question mind sounds polite, the look that I sent to Celleria was clear in its meaning, that I wouldn"t take a no as an option.
"So you really didn"t know… I"m sorry for my outburst then. It"s just that, this burden left on us by this b.a.s.t.a.r.d of a father forced me to hide my lineage and act like some random, abandoned orphan!"