Ordinary people can donate blood seven tis a month; they are powerful knights, and donating blood ten tis a month is no challenge.
Those ten blood brothers can help Su Li forge a substantial clan emblem.
Once Su Li arranged everything, Marshal Oerstein took the last erald green pearl from the marching bag and handed it to Su Li, saying: "This is the Holy Relic of Glory we found in the Dragon’s Nest, the only strategic-level secret treasure the Green Dragon was willing to hand over."
Su Li imdiately took this treasure from Oerstein’s hand and examined it closely. The erald pearl was like a Thorn Crown cast with obsidian and star iron, with luminescent liquid flowing in the middle, made of green blood and ancient tree sap.
Holding it, it seed as if the whole pearl was pulsating like a heart, constantly condensing green mist droplets on its surface.
"The Holy Relic of Glory? Which divine spirit bestowed this treasure?"
Oerstein explained: "According to the Green Dragon, this relic, in the most ancient tis, was offered to the God of Nature, Kunos, by the Green Dragon and the Wood Elf Eternal Queen of the Aisloron Forest, as the spoils from slaying the Great Nagash Demon."
"Legend has it that Kunos forged this pearl from the toxic blood spilled by the Beastn’s betrayal and the wounds of Aisloron Forest corrupted by Nagash, as evidence for eternal revenge against Chaos. The holder must periodically offer Chaos heads to the forest; otherwise, the relic will backfire, turning the host’s flesh into the decaying soil nurturing poison vines."
"Thus, among many races, this treasure’s reputation has spread. The Elves and Green Dragons call it the ’Tears of Aisloron’ to commorate the eternal curse and gift of the forest. The Beastn are more blunt, calling it the ’Rot Slayer’; the Vampires refer to it as the ’Corrosive Blood Holy Coffin’, while Chaos Followers, due to their deep hatred, na it ’Nagash’s Needle.’
Nagash’s Needle? That’s quite a prestigious na.
However, if it has the ability to purify and detoxify, Su Li would prefer to give it a more fitting na: Antitoxic Pearl.
Kunos’s revenge has nothing to do with Su Li; that is the divine spirit of the Elves. What Su Li is more concerned about is: "What does this Nagash’s Needle do?"
"Its effects are sowhat indescribable. The undeniable benefit is its ability to detoxify, allowing soldiers to march in forests and plague areas while remaining immune to corrosion; no miasma or plague can cause significant casualties."
"Even before battle, mixing the mist droplets on the pearl with healing potions can increase resistance to Chaos-infused toxins such as Nagash pustules and plague clouds by over seventy percent, and can completely immunize against conventional poison arrows and snake venom."
"When actively activated, it can trigger the ’Jade Calamity’ effect, reversing all poison domains on the battlefield. With the relic at the center, within ten miles, all toxic attributes are inverted. Nagash plague clouds transform into healing miasma, while allies’ healing potions boil into corrosive acid. Chaos Egg’s regenerative flesh will self-purify into deadwood, and Empire wounded soldiers’ blood mutates into flammable toxic sludge."
"But this also causes those long exposed to these toxins and their subordinates to gradually ’forestize’, have skin with bark-like patterns, bones developing poison spikes, and ultimately beco a living pedestal under the relic on the day of victory."
Upon hearing this, Su Li decisively threw the pearl to Dietrich; it’s better to let the dical Knight Order handle this.
They can determine when to use it to treat soldiers’ plagues and counteract the miasma on the march.
Dietrich had no qualms about this treasure; rubbing the rough Thorn Crown on the pearl’s surface with his iron gloves, he said: "Don’t be deceived by the na of purification; Kunos never acts benevolently — it rely reclaid the scepter of destruction from Chaos and handed it to the forest. With this pearl, holding onto the forest’s scepter will be even more advantageous for us."
The Holy Relic of Glory from Kunos is relatively limited in aiding the Hesse Territory. Even its ’Jade Calamity’ effect, activating once a month, requires careful timing. At least with Su Li’s current level, he hasn’t thought of circumstances where using this Holy Relic would be particularly appropriate.
This is also a typical feature of Holy Relics of Glory; since they hail from different divine spirits and their effects clearly target the traits of certain races, sotis not every Holy Relic of Glory suits human territories.
Many powerful territories and lords will store Holy Relics of Glory in their treasuries, only deploying so particularly peculiar ones against specific races and special battle situations.
These things are never too many; when facing the followers and troops of the Plague Father Nagash, it is indeed capable of exerting spectacular effects. Nagash’s Needle is well-nad for a reason.
Su Li naturally hopes for more and more Holy Relics of Glory, even if not used, adorning the various display racks in the treasury, symbolizing wealth and being a delight to the eyes.
And right now, there is indeed another opportunity to acquire a Holy Relic of Glory again!
In this battle, Su Li, unafraid of strong enemies, confronted the massive Green Dragon Legion head-on, mobilizing nearly 5000 elite troops to face tens of thousands of the Monster Legion.
This was a typical asymtrical warfare; the scale of the armies on both sides reached nearly ten to one, with the combat power disparity as high as four to five tis.
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