Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1118 The truth about 'drinking blood'
After returning to Black Moon City, Zhou Xu arranged the construction projects of the border fortress and the railway, and then turned his attention to the pile of work in front of him.

He was not away for long this time. He led his troops to war in the early spring. Now that he had returned to Black Moon City, it was not yet officially summer, so the pile of work was not much and he finished it quickly.

It was a new day. Except for those important documents that he needed to review personally, Zhou Xu basically handed over the processing of other documents to Huo Qubing and Li Bowen.

After all, he has more important things to do in the next period of time, which is to study the enchantment of the Bloodthirsty Sword!
At present, he is the only one who can do this job. Comparatively speaking, Huo Qubing can actually handle all the work documents. Zhou Xu knows this better than anyone else. It's just that some things involve too many things and he has to make the decision.

In this way, Zhou Xu quickly adjusted his work mode and generously gave the handling authority to Huo Qubing.

Behind this move lies great trust.

Huo Qubing, who was aware of this, was flattered. Taking into account the kindness of Huo Qubing in his early years, Huo Qubing's loyalty has now reached 95 points, making him a die-hard fan. This also made Zhou Xu completely relieved of his worries.

As for Li Bowen, as a three-star-level and outstanding internal affairs talent with matching talents, his position in the Qinzheng Hall from the very beginning was to help Huo Qubing share the work pressure, and he was mainly responsible for handling some relatively simple documents.

Don't think this job is easy. In fact, among the documents delivered every day, less than 10% are really difficult to handle, or even only a few. If Li Bowen hadn't helped Huo Qubing share the work pressure, according to Huo Qubing's physique and the influence of his talent, once he was overworked, his physical fitness would take a sharp turn for the worse and he would soon collapse from exhaustion.

Taking this into consideration, Zhou Xu also attaches great importance to Li Bowen.

Fortunately, Li Bowen did not disappoint him over the years. Now, his loyalty has slowly reached 85 points, which has completely earned him Zhou Xu's trust.

After arranging all these things, Zhou Xu quickly started researching the Blood-Drinking Sword.

Unlike the original 'Basic Weapon Blessing' that could be spread at will and allowed to be 'copied', the level of this enchantment mantra is obviously higher, so it also has a defense mechanism.

This forced Zhou Xu to sort out the knowledge reserves in his mind. This part of content was included in the inherited wisdom he had obtained before.

At that time, he was busy improving the triggering problem of the fire enchantment, so he just glanced at the other contents.

After that, he was busy with the war in Northeast China. He was far from digesting such a huge amount of knowledge.

【I'd like to take this opportunity to digest all the knowledge about 'programming'. 】

The whole process took longer than Zhou Xu had expected.

This knowledge is equivalent to a book as thick as a dictionary. If you want to read it carefully, you will need to spend a lot of time.

The only thing to be thankful for during this period was that all this knowledge was organized in an extremely easy-to-understand manner, so it was not difficult for Zhou Xu to understand it now.

But even so, it took Zhou Xu almost half a month to finally digest this part of the content.

Leaning on the recliner in his bedroom, Zhou Xu felt throbbing pains on both sides of his temples due to obvious brain overuse!

This forced him to rest for another day before he could formally begin his research on the Blood-Drinking Sword.

The research had just begun, but Zhou Xu couldn't help but admire that his efforts in the previous half month had not been in vain.

At this moment, he only took a rough look at it, and then compared it with the knowledge in his mind, and he could basically determine that the defense mechanism of this mantra was not sophisticated and was a relatively crude means.

This also made it easy for him to crack it. After easily solving the obstacles of the defense mechanism, a complete enchanted structure suddenly appeared before his eyes.

Its complexity did not exceed his initial expectations and was within his current capabilities, which made Zhou Xu breathe a sigh of relief.

Thanks to the digestion and absorption of that knowledge, Zhou Xu was now able to analyze these enchanting mantras with twice the result with half the effort.

In the process, he quickly discovered that there were many mantra combinations that he was familiar with among the mantras that made up this enchantment.

For example, 'slow absorption of natural energy', 'toughness', and 'sharpness' are all blessing effects included in the 'basic weapon blessing'.

Of course, these three effects are applicable to any weapon and are very versatile.

Now that he discovered these three effects in the enchantment of this blood-drinking sword, Zhou Xu was not surprised at all.

Taking "Basic Weapon Blessing" as the most basic weapon enchantment effect, any other weapon enchantment may be an improved and upgraded version of this enchantment.

It is just like the fire enchantment he had improved based on this enchantment effect.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for Zhou Xu. These familiar mantra structures can save him a lot of time and energy, and he can quickly focus his attention on the new mantra combination "Drinking Blood".

This is different from the situation when I originally added 'Fire Attack' to the 'Basic Weapon Blessing'.

If you describe the operations you have done before as simple addition and subtraction, then in this enchantment mantra, the relationship between the effect of "Drinking Blood" and the effects of other mantras is equivalent to multiplication and division.

In this enchantment mantra, 'drinking blood' has its own independent mechanism.

This mechanism is independent of other enchantment effects, but at the same time maintains a smooth cycle connection with the entire enchantment mantra, ensuring that the effects do not interfere with each other while working at the same time.

Similar examples have been mentioned in those knowledge, so Zhou Xu is not completely unfamiliar with this structure.

However, compared to simple written knowledge, this first actual operation was obviously not as simple as it sounded. It took Zhou Xu a lot of effort to figure out that part of the mantra.

[I see, the so-called 'drinking blood' is actually absorbing the energy contained in the target's blood through a special mantra...]

Everything in this world carries energy, even a blade of grass on the roadside has energy. Naturally, it also exists in the human body. The main difference lies in the amount of energy.

These energies are distributed throughout the body and are of course contained in the blood.

During an attack, when the blade encounters blood, it will absorb the energy contained in the opponent's blood. This is the truth of "drinking blood".

In essence, this is actually somewhat similar to the 'Energy Drain' of the Wood Elf Mage.

It’s just that ‘energy absorption’ has a wider scope of application, while this mantra is limited to absorbing the energy contained in the blood, which is why it is called ‘drinking blood’.

(End of this chapter)