Chapter 798: Follow-up
Leo's words made the demon stunned for a moment, although he didn't think that anyone could violate the law of the abyss in his heart, but for some reason he felt a wave of fear, feeling that Leo could really do it.
In a panic, the demon was carried by Leo to a clearing in the garden, and then threw it directly on the ground.
Then, he saw that Leo didn't know when there was an extra dagger in his hand, this dagger had a strange shape, it looked like some kind of bone, and it would shatter if he touched it casually, but he could feel a very terrifying power on the dagger, and this terrifying power was not even much worse than the terrifying existence in the depths of the abyss.
Before he could react, the bone knife had already been inserted into his chest, and in an instant his body was burned to ashes, and his soul was sucked away by a force so strong that he couldn't resist, and even the body in the abyss was pulled out of the abyss because of the connection of his soul and entered an unknown place.
In the eyes of the others, they only saw Leo take out a dagger and stick it in the demon's chest, and the demon that did not die after several days of torture turned into ashes in an instant, and at the same time, a powerful force descended out of thin air, in the manor, everyone except Leo fainted, and those monsters who had not escaped and died also died instantly.
And Leo couldn't feel the outside world at the moment, his consciousness entered the void universe again, and saw the Lord of Turbidity and Lightness in the form of countless bubbles, and saw that there was a complete world in each bubble.
In front of the Lord of Turbidity and Lightness, Leo was as small as a wisp of dust, and should not have attracted the attention of this cosmic higher being, but for some reason, Leo felt a attention on his body for a moment, that moment may only be a ten-thousandth of a second, but it was enough to make Leo feel as if his soul was torn apart.
Then a light fell on him, and he returned to the swampy manor, and the tearing feeling in his soul disappeared, replaced by a comfortable feeling that could not be described in words, and at this moment, the power of the original sin in his body quickly dissipated, and his eyes quickly returned to normal.
At this time, he saw Sylvia and the others lying on the ground, and thought that something had happened, so he immediately went to check on them, and found that they were only asleep, so he did not wake them up, but carried them to the house one by one to rest.
After that, he looked at the monster corpses in the manor, thought about it for a while, and then found the tools used to dissect the monsters and collect materials from Geralt, and quickly cleaned up the monsters in the manor that could collect materials, and while cleaning up, the monsters were piled up together and set on fire.
Leo's hands and feet were fast, and in less than two hours, all the monsters had been disposed of by him, all the valuable materials had been harvested by him, and the remaining corpses had formed four fires that were burning violently.
In order to prevent the fire from being extinguished, Leo specially demolished some houses in the manor, selected wood from it that was not very damp, and piled it up in the fire.
After doing this, Leo began to check his health.
Although Leo was calm with Sylvia just now, it was not a big deal to give people the impression that being infiltrated and infected by the power of the original sin of the abyss, and he could easily remove it.
But in fact, the situation is not as good as he appears, in fact, there is only one way for Leo to clean up this power of original sin, which is to rely on the eyeballs of the Abyss Serpent to absorb and devour the power of original sin.
However, there is also a limit to the abyss serpent's eyeballs to absorb the power of original sin, and according to his estimates, it will take more than a month to absorb and devour all the power of original sin on his body. During this time, Leo had to listen to the whispers of Sin, which contained inexplicable powers that could affect the minds of others and make them insane.
At that time, he had already heard the whispers of Sin, and he was not absolutely able to survive this mental devastation, unless he still maintained the mechanical mind of the cyborg, he would definitely be affected.
However, now that all the power of original sin in his body had disappeared, it was not correct to say that it was gone, it should be considered digested, because he could feel that the total amount of his psionic energy seemed to have increased a lot, and it seemed that this should be the benefit he received from the Lord of Turbidity and Light Spirit after sacrificing to the demon.
It's just that this benefit is not a very good thing for Leo, because with the improvement of psionic energy, his life level is also changing, and the difficulty of developing and controlling the potential of his body has also increased, and the biggest problem is that he has already felt the barrier from a sixth-level psionic to a seventh-level psionic.
Every three psionic levels are a life evolution, and the third-level psionic to the fourth-level psionic is this kind of evolution, if according to the normal procedure, Leo should start to develop and control the body in an orderly manner when the fourth-level psionic is at the time, until he reaches the top of the sixth-level psionic energy, he only needs the psionic energy to accumulate the energy required for evolution, and he can smoothly enter another life form.
But now Leo's psionic energy has touched the ceiling of evolution, and the control and development of his body is still between the fourth and fifth levels of psionic ability, at this time, if he suddenly starts to break through the psionic level, then what awaits him will be a disaster.
Leo knew very well what the problem he was facing, but he didn't have a good way to solve it, so he could only continue to develop and control the potential of his body, praying that until he developed the potential of his body to the same level as psionic energy, psionic energy would not continue to grow and break through the psionic level.
In addition to the large increase in psionic energy, the biggest change was the black ring flame in the crystallized serpent's eyeball.
After absorbing a large amount of the power of original sin, Leo felt that the black ring flame had begun to turn from virtual to real, and it seemed that a fire of sin karma had been generated, but he could not control this flame, and at the same time, he could also feel that this flame contained extremely terrifying energy, and if he touched it closely, he was afraid that he would hurt himself.
Leo then checked his body several more times, and after noticing any unusual changes, he shifted his consciousness back to reality, got up and threw some wood into the fire, and then sat against the wall of the house with his eyes closed.
At the same time, his consciousness began to build several layers of defense in the memory bank, sealing all the knowledge about the abyss in the deepest part of his memory, and he was not ready to turn this memory out until he was able to resist the erosion of the abyss.
A few hours later, Sylvia and the others woke up from their coma one after another, and they tacitly did not ask about the power that appeared when they killed the demon, because in their opinion, that power could only be possessed by gods, although they did not know what gods Leo had summoned to deal with demons, but they all knew that it was better to ask less about the gods, and know less.
Leo took out the materials he harvested last night, and said that he would make these materials into potions and distribute them to everyone, and everyone was naturally very willing, after all, compared to simple materials, the wizard potions made by Leo were more valuable.
Fringilla and Aalto also added a fire to the corpse fire to make the corpse burn faster, they didn't want to stay in this bloody place any longer, and wanted to go back to their quarters as soon as possible to freshen up and rest, but they couldn't leave until the monster corpse was completely burned, otherwise if the monster's corpse was not completely burned, it might cause some unnecessary trouble.
The vision that appeared in the sky and the four huge fires in the manor easily aroused the idea of Bowland, and the duchess was one of the most concerned.
Frigila had mentioned to the Duchess that they were doing something in the swamp manor, but the Duchess just thought that their so-called business was just cleaning up some monsters, but she didn't expect to make such a big noise, especially the vision in the sky had caused a commotion among the people, and the fire that appeared in the swamp later made things even more confusing.
Although the ordinary people were curious about the swamp, no one dared to approach it, because there were a large number of monsters inhabiting the swamp, and ordinary people ran to that side just to kill themselves.
So many people gathered outside the Bowland Palace and asked the duchess to send someone to investigate what had been said.
Faced with this situation, the Duchess complained to Frigila and the others, and at the same time instructed her maid and the captain of the guard to lead a team of Duke Bowland to check on the situation in the swamp.
The group soon crossed the Sansredo River in a boat and came to the Sansredo swamp, and then looked for the fire in the direction of the manor, they did not travel fast in the swamp, except because the road in the swamp is difficult to walk, and they should always be careful to step into the swamp quagmire, but also to guard against the monsters that live in the swamp.
However, to the surprise of this group, they almost crossed the swamp, but did not encounter a single monster, and just when they were puzzled, they came to the abandoned manor, and saw Frigila and the four fires that were burning, and then they understood why they did not encounter monsters.
Looking at the corpses of the monsters piled up like four hills and the blood stains on the ground, and smelling the thick smell of blood around them, some imagination quickly appeared in the minds of these Dukes' guards, and the eyes that looked at the Leo Six became extremely awe-inspiring, after all, everything in front of them was too shocking.
At this time, the maid did not forget the duchess's order, so she asked what had happened to Frigila.
Fringira was also very clever, and did not tell the maid that it was some side effects caused by their interrogation and dissection of demons, but said that they wanted to solve the problem of the Taucente monster in a short time, so they found a way to attract monsters, and then used this method in the Sansredo Swamp, which has the largest number of monsters, attracting almost all the monsters in the swamp area to gather here, and they also used this to solve these monsters.
If this team of dukes' guards came to the manor by beating other routes, even if they saw these four piles of small mountain monster corpses, they would still have some doubts about the authenticity of Frigila's words, but they came here through the swamp, and they didn't encounter any monsters along the way, which was equivalent to proving Frigila's words in disguise, so they all looked at Leo and the others with respect, thinking that they had done such a great good deed for Taussaint without any compensation, and they were definitely heroes.
After ascertaining the situation, the duke's maid and the duke's guard did not stay in the manor any longer, and immediately left and went back to report the situation to the duke.
Late in the evening, the Duke's maid and the Duke's guard returned to the Bowland Palace and reported the situation.
After hearing this, the duchess felt a little puzzled, because among those people there was Sylvia, and she had just received a report from the front just a moment ago, Sylvia had led the knights to completely destroy Belhaven's territory except for Belhaven's castle, and was now escorting the spoils of war and returning to the border of Tousent, and she would be able to return to Bowland by tomorrow evening.
Sylvia, who is now the manager, did not sit in the army, but appeared in the manor of Sansredo Marsh, which really puzzled her.
However, the duchess did not doubt the authenticity of the battle report, because the battle report sent was not only the Knights of Light, but also other knights, and the nobles who accompanied the army, almost all of them praised Sylvia's ability, and also said that in every battle, Sylvia led the Knights of Light to the front, so Sylvia was divided into two places.
Soon the Duchess thought of her cousin and advisor, and guessed that she must have used a spell to bring Sylvia here, and she was also a little unhappy with Friengira.
With the advent of the Knights of Light, Sylvia has become her confidant, because Sylvia can not only give good advice in political matters, but also help a lot in military affairs, such as the military operation against Belhaven.
The news of this little war has now spread throughout Tousent, Sylvia's reputation among the people has increased significantly, and the reputation of the duchess among the people, although it cannot be compared with Sylvia, has improved among the nobility, the most obvious thing is that several policies she proposed have been successfully passed, and no nobles oppose it, which is something that has never happened before.
The last thing the Duchess wanted was to see Sylvia get hurt or something else happen, so she had some ideas in her mind and decided to put Sylvia in a more relaxed and safe position, rather than hunting monsters like she had done before.
While considering how to settle Sylvia, the duchess also let the palace herald announce the battle report she had just received and what happened in the Sansredo swamp to the people outside the court, but what happened in the Sansredo swamp was slightly modified, and it was changed to Sylvia After defeating the army led by Belhavin, she returned to Toussaint non-stop to lead the court advisors and witchers to clean up the monsters in the swamp for the people, and shaped Sylvia into the protagonist of the swamp monster war.