Rein thought for a moment, then gave up on the idea of pursuit and instead bent down to pick up the black crystal from the severed arm.
Indeed, a system prompt followed:
[Ding! Detected a Divine Power Crystal capable of enhancing the quality of spiritual power. Accelerate absorption? (Note: System absorption can eliminate impurities and absorb everything at once.)]
Without hesitation, Rein immediately chose "Yes!"
In an instant, he felt a vast, majestic, and evil energy emanating from the black crystal. However, after being refined by the system, the pure energy surged from his arm all the way up, rushing into his mind.
The spiritual power particles in his mind began to swell further!
A few seconds later, Rein checked the attribute panel:
Spirit: 282 (Quality 70%)
The increase in total spiritual power was due to the continuous points gained during previous battles, bined with the reward from transitioning to the Goblin Engineer (Legendary).
"The quality level increased by 9%, not bad!"
This increase may not seem large, but Rein wasn’t disappointed at all, as this was well within his expectations.
This wasn’t Rein’s first time acquiring a Divine Power Crystal.
Though during stages of liquification and crystalization, the Divine Power Crystal could enhance by at least twenty to thirty percent, for a Fourth Level Dawn Wizard like him, the enhancement would be much smaller.
Unless it was a large chunk of Divine Power Crystal, it might significantly increase.
But this was already quite powerful, because if he relied on Advanced Meditation Method for enhancement, even Rein would need several years, while other Dawn Wizards might need ten years or longer.
When Rein returned to the space within the Molten Lava Lake, he found Menia talking with the Red Dragon Fermo. It was apparent that Menia had proactively stepped out.
It seemed Menia was worried Rein might act recklessly.
"Beautiful human lady, I seem to smell that ancient and unique aura on you. Are you a descendant of Dragon Blood?"
"Honorable Lord Fermo, Menia Dragon extends sincere greetings to you!" Menia slightly bowed, saluting the extremely old dragon before her.
"Ah? I sense you seem quite injured. Is this... deploying the Dragon Blood Sacrifice?" Fermo’s gigantic dragon eyes revealed a look of surprise.
It glanced at Menia, then at Rein, exclaiming, "Young and powerful human Wizard, I truly envy you for having a panion willing to perform Dragon Blood Sacrifice for you."
"And beautiful lady, your panion can actually prevent the Dragon Blood Sacrifice. Such formidable strength is rare among humans."
Fermo’s courteous words left Rein at a loss for words.
However, to Rein’s surprise, the other took on the task, saying: "The Blood Essence of the ’Smoldering Electric Eel’ has an extraordinary ability to heal bloodline wounds, surpassing mon Dragon Blood Essence."
"If you both are willing, as a token of gratitude, I’m willing to help the beautiful lady recover her injuries for free."
Menia glanced at Rein, smiled, and then slightly bowed to the Ancient Red Dragon Fermo, saying, "Of course, we’re willing. Thank you, Lord Fermo."
Fermo nodded, grabbed the two segments of ’Smoldering Electric Eel’ Glasers’ remains, and began murmuring Dragon Language.
Soon, purple Blood Essence began to emerge from Glasers’ remains and quickly coalesced into a blood cluster in mid-air.
As the Blood Essence was extracted, Glasers’ once shiny remains visibly shrank at an eye-popping speed, and those purple stripes on the back lost their luster.
"Roar!!"
When Glasers’ Blood Essence was nearly depleted, Fermo directed a hot conical Dragon Breath at the purple blood cluster!
With the fiery Breath charring it, some impurities steamed off the purple blood cluster, and its diameter quickly shrank from the size of a carriage to that of a millstone, undergoing further refinement.
Moments later, as the blood cluster shrank further, it turned purplish-red, dazzling like a gemstone, acpanied by a tempting fragrance.
"Beautiful lady, please prepare for the meditation process!"
As the purple-red blood cluster swiftly moved in front of Menia, strands of Blood Essence began to permeate into Menia’s body, who was entering deep meditation.
Rein could sense Menia’s aura steadily strengthening, or more accurately, recovering.
This naturally lifted his spirits.
Once Menia had pletely absorbed the Bloodline Essence of ’Smoldering Electric Eel’ Glasers, the Ancient Red Dragon Fermo exhaled a long sigh, leaned toward Rein, and whispered:
"Lord Rein, you both have given much for each other; this truly admirable sincere feeling. However, it’s clear that this beautiful lady has yet to take the last step with you."
"The Essence Blood of fierce species like eels has a special stimulating power. I can only help you to this point now."
"Your lady is about to awaken; I think I should leave first. I’ll take this opportunity to see what’s changed in the outside world!"
After Fermo’s words, Rein’s eyes widened for a while before realizing what the ’stimulating’ power meant and what ’a little spontaneous’ meant.
"Ang!!!"
At that moment, the somewhat impudent Red Dragon Fermo leaped out of the magma, flapped its massive wings, and flew toward a hole above.
Watching the departing Red Dragon Fermo, Rein couldn’t help but focus his gaze on the increasingly stable Menia.
Seeing her beautiful face, two clouds of red unknowingly drifted across her cheeks, adding to Menia’s already noble aura, making her even more charming and alluring.
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