"Ryan, are you alright? I just saw death. When everything was back to its original state, Hermione lunged over and looked nervously at Ryan. In her narrative, the Grim Reaper is a hooded man who can't see his face. When he suddenly appeared, he was asked by her to tell her how to leave.

"Oh, you idiot, why didn't you just leave?" Ryan said angrily, looking at the meteorite talisman around Hermione's neck that had disappeared to ward off a death curse. "At least two people can get out of one of them, and it's better than if we're both stuck here now-"

As soon as she said this, Hermione hugged Ryan and gagged Ryan with her mouth for several minutes, until both of them turned red and did not separate.

"I said that I would never want you to be alone in the face of danger. Hermione said with a dashing shake of her hair. "And thank you Death, you don't want to get rid of me now. ”

Ryan could clearly feel that the girl in front of him had connected his soul with his. Most importantly, the dedication was one-sided, demonstrating Hermione's extreme trust in Ryan.

The system also told Ryan at this time that after Hermione entrusted her soul to him, she became similar to a part of Ryan's soul to the system, that is, similar to the Rose Crystal. There is no need for additional offset points to travel to other worlds in the future.

"Thank you!" Ryan had a thousand words in his heart at this time, but in the end it only turned into a pale and weak word.

After gathering his thoughts, Ryan began the process of crafting an item that contained the rules of life. Just as the Grim Reaper had promised, all the tools he needed would appear around him just by thinking about it, and the power of death that filled the entire space around him was the best raw material for him.

With the support of the unquenchable fire, the two of them were able to do without eating, drinking, or sleeping, so they devoted all their time and energy to the refining of Our Lady of the Rose. I have to admit that Hermione's intelligence helped Ryan a lot in the experiment, and with her help, Ryan felt that his research speed was 1/3 faster than that of independent research.

In her free time refining the Rose Lady, Ryan worked hard to help Hermione solve the effects of the rules of death on her body. Thankfully, after the two souls merge together, Ryan can channel the energy in Hermione's body as if he were manipulating the energy in his own body. With Ryan's help, Hermione mastered some of the powers of life and death, which freed her from the danger of death.

But in this way, the power of life and death will leave a permanent mark on Hermione's body. Fortunately, no matter what, the crisis of her directly turning into a lich was solved.

The complexity of the production of the Virgin of Roses has far surpassed the refining of ordinary alchemical items. It can even be said that the production of items at this level is that the maker embodies his understanding of the rules into some kind of substance. For Ryan, if he could make something like this, it would prove that he knew the rules at the same level as Dumbledore, Voldemort, Nicolame or Grindelwald.

This is not an easy task, even if Ryan has an advantage that all wizards in this world do not have: an alchemist who has mastered the rules will help him, and he will not need to make a little trial and error and fumble on his own. But even if that's the case, it's one thing to know what to do, but it's another thing to do it.

For the long time that followed, Ryan and Hermione spent time in constant making, failing, remaking, and continuing to fail. The excessive consumption of the spirit made the two of them physically show obvious weakness, but if they could see the soul, they would find that their soul flame was burning more and more vigorously, and it was becoming more and more condensed. In particular, Ryan's soul fire is transforming and sublimating towards an unprecedented realm.

Finally, through trial and error, Ryan felt as if he had broken through some barrier that he had never seen before, like a chick hatching out of an eggshell, and like the first golden rays of sunlight tearing through the darkness in the wee hours of the morning.

"I see. Ryan said to Hermione, who was also tired and mechanically cooperating with his work, and Hermione came back to her senses and gave Ryan an encouraging smile.

Then he waved his arms again. Countless blood-red runes once again flowed out of Ryan's hands like flowing water, and various precious materials were also generated from the void. This time was different from any of the previous ones, there was no mistake in the middle of the process that caused the energy in his hand to explode into fireworks, and there was no lack of follow-up that caused the energy to be unable to further condense and gradually dissipate. This time, all the runes and the precious materials finally coalesced together to form an extremely tiny point, and then the surrounding death aura poured into this point like a tidal wave.

The influx of death brought everything around him, and for the first time in this dead silence, there was wind, or something like wind. The breath of death passed past the two men, and they hunted with their clothes.

Some of the power of death was condensed repeatedly, forming some heavy black liquid with some of the material. The other part of the death force was converted into a concentrated life force, which fused with the remaining materials into an extremely fine golden powder.

"Life and death are interchangeable, this is the embodiment of the power to be able to grasp the rules of change. Ryan looked at the scene in front of him and muttered, "This is the legendary fifth element, the Lady of the Rose, or the Alchemy Stone." It is also a reflection of the entire universe. ”

At this time, the surrounding death force continued to transform into two substances, and at the same time, the two converted substances began to rotate rapidly and merge together. Ryan could feel the constant change in front of him, and all kinds of transformations were happening within it all the time. But at the same time, it gradually tends to be stationary, and begins to have its own stable structure, from which a force of life and creation slowly grows little by little.

Ancient European philosophers divided everything in the world into four parts according to their nature: dry, wet, cold and hot, and now the production of Our Lady of the Rose is a synthesis of all this. Legend has it that mercury and sulfur are the two main elements of the Philosopher's Stone. But in fact, this is just a metaphor, mercury represents the clammy and cold substances of the world, and sulfur represents the dry and hot substances of the world. Their union symbolizes the integration of all things in the world into one, becoming a microcosm of the whole world, a mirror image.

As the energy was compressed beyond a certain limit, the first drops of red liquid appeared in front of Ryan. After that, drops of the same liquid continue to gush out, slowly coalescing together with the first drop of liquid as the core, and solidifying little by little.

Eventually, a palm-sized, translucent red stone appeared in mid-air, revealing the breath of life that was out of step with its surroundings, and Ryan reached out to catch it.

"It's a pity to be in this single, incomplete environment. The resulting Madonna of Rosary is only a secondary version of the real Madonna of Rosary. It's a pity for those precious materials. Ryan shook his head with some regret after sensing the contents in his hand. "But it's enough to get out of here. ”

"We-did this succeed?" Hermione asked, looking at the stone in Ryan's hand, her gaze seemingly drawn to it. It's no wonder that after a long stay in such a death-filled and gray place, something that exudes the breath of life naturally attracts attention.

"Yes, we're going to—" Ryan opened his mouth in astonishment before he could finish his words. When he turned his head to look at Hermione, he noticed the girl beside him. It was completely different from before: there was no blood on his face, and it was horribly pale. The hair also turned lifeless grayish-white.

"What's wrong with you?" Ryan asked nervously as he grabbed Hermione's shoulder, but when his hand touched Hermione's shoulder, he felt his heart beat violently, because there was no body temperature at all within reach, as if he was touching a corpse.

"Oh, sorry! I forgot just now. Hermione looked at Ryan's stunned eyes and folded her hands on her chin in an apologetic motion. "This is my new ability under your guidance, and I'm sorry to scare you in order to better adapt to my surroundings. ”

After saying that, Hermione closed her eyes, and soon her whole person returned to her normal appearance, and even looked healthier than before.