Blue Sword

The waiter guided everyone to the door of the room, knocked on the door with his fingers, and then left in a hurry.

After a while, the door opened.

"Eleanor?" The person who opened the door was a young woman, about in her early twenties, with soft and fluffy flaxen hair, a pure and pretty face, and she was obviously a beauty.

Hey, why do I say "again"? Ask wondered.

"These two are..." She prolonged her voice, her eyes falling on Aske and Paige.

"This is the master I told you about!" Eleanor said excitedly, "He recruited me to join his team!"

"Really?" Nora also showed a surprised expression, "That is indeed worthy of a celebration. I'm going to open the champagne, you guys come in first."

When everyone walked into the room, they saw Nora's luxurious hotel room, which was almost the size of a commercial room for normal people to live in. It was divided into two floors with an area of ​​nearly 200 square meters. The upper floor is the bedroom where guests live, and the lower floor is the living room, with ancient Solomon-style sofas, tables and chairs, and the walls are decorated with stone carvings, oil paintings and dragon-painted tapestries. There is also a small bar in the center of the living room. The wine cabinet is neatly displayed with dark green bottles with various exquisite labels on them.

Nora took out a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet, shook it vigorously a few times, then aimed at Eleanor and opened the lid:

"Champagne attack!" she yelled mischievously.

Eleanor quickly drew out the shield on her back and blocked the spray of wine.

"It's so boring." Nora threw the bottle in the trash can. "Your reactions are getting faster and faster, Ellie."

"I've been beaten to a pulp these past few days, okay?" Eleanor put away her shield, "What if I don't react quickly?"

"So, this is the master who beats you black and blue every day?" Nora turned her eyes and looked at Aske with a smile.

"Introduce yourself." Ask stretched out his hand to shake her hand, "I, Ask Lepios Achilles, am planning to form his own team."

"Nora Valenius Licinius." Nora also introduced herself and gave the name of an ancient Solomon.

"I heard that you graduated from Santa Maria Seminary in Solomon City?" Asker got straight to the point, "Military nun?"

"That's right." The other party specifically emphasized that "a team is being formed." Nora still couldn't guess the other party's intention, and said with a smile, "The technology of treating Ellie should be able to prove my professional ability."

"Therapeutic needle? Or extraordinary ability?" Ask asked.

"Therapeutic needle." Nora was stunned for a moment, then replied, "Ellie's injuries are basically tissue contusions and bruises caused by internal blood vessel rupture, so they were repaired with biological peptides + platelet preparations + hemostatic gel. 75 hours before injection %alcohol disinfection."

"What to do if it's a fracture?" Asik quickly entered interviewer mode and continued to test her.

"First use a sonic speculum to check the bone fracture." Nora said fluently. "If it is a comminuted fracture, emergency surgery is needed to remove the small fragments. Otherwise, it is fixed with a plaster board and then treated with injections. The specific location and dosage will depend on the injured area. It depends.”

"What if the damage was caused by extraordinary power?" Ask asked the final question.

This question was obviously a bit difficult. Nora frowned and thought for a while, then said:

"First of all, we must confirm whether there is residual power in the body. If so, we must try to remove it. After removal, treat according to the symptoms."

"In addition to treatment, military nuns should also have courses in mechanical maintenance." Ask was noncommittal and continued to ask, "Do you know how to repair firearms and vehicles?"

"Yes." Nora nodded.

"That's it," Asik said, "You passed my interview, Miss Nora."

Eleanor clapped nearby.

"Thank you for your appreciation, Mr. Asker." Nora said with a smile, "It's my turn to make my appeal next."

"As you can see, we are still an entrepreneurial team." Asker said seriously. "Although I personally invested a thousand pounds in the team, the salary cannot be too high. What I can guarantee is that in the future My team will not exceed 10 people, and everyone will get paid the same, so..."

"You misunderstood, Mr. Asker." Nora shook her head, "What I care about is not salary. As you can see, because of the generous support of my parents, my life is not lacking in money."

"Then what do you need?" Asked.

"I want to become a transcendent." Nora said seriously.

There was silence in the room for a moment. Eleanor's breathing seemed to be faster, and Paige behind her crossed her arms and said nothing. Ask looked at her for a while and asked:

"Why do you want to become a transcendent?"

"Because extraordinary beings are very powerful." Nora said bluntly, "I have had a dream since I was a child, hoping to understand more mysteries of this world. So I first set a small goal, that is, to travel around the world... "

"Do your parents support you doing this?" Ask asked in surprise. Isn’t this Bai Fumei young lady’s personality a bit different? Are you the type like Columbus who loved exploring since childhood?

"Of course." Nora said without hesitation, "I am the youngest daughter in the family, so it is not my turn to manage the family business."

I see. Ask nodded. It is common in this world for the eldest son to inherit the family business and the second or youngest son to go on adventures.

"So the reason you want to become a transcendent is to be able to cope with the dangers you encounter while traveling around the world." Asker concluded, "To be on the safe side, let me confirm again. Do you really understand what it means to become a transcendent?"

"It means I have to take a special potion." Nora replied, "My father once brought me the Holy See's gene preparation, but it can only greatly increase physical strength or mental strength, and cannot bring about the extraordinary characteristics itself. It’s a qualitative change, so I still prefer the potion route.”

"However, this also means changing in a non-human direction." Ask reminded her.

"Inhuman?" Nora showed a puzzled expression. It was obvious that she only had a partial understanding of extraordinary beings, and Paige remembered what Asker once said, that Octavian turned into a dragon after his death. The legend of being carried out by 40 knights.

"I can help you become a transcendent." Asker said slowly, "But as John Milton said, you can never know the horror of hell until you really fall into the depths of hell. I can tell the truth. You, but only after you sign a contract with me and join us.”

"Okay." Nora hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement. The yearning for the transcendent overcame the fear of the unknown described by Asker.

Ask took out four pieces of parchment from the bag and placed them in front of everyone. Nora and Eleanor picked it up and looked at it. They were all standard labor employment contracts in the mercenary industry. The only difference was that it stipulated that the team's salary should be paid uniformly, and everyone's salary was the same.

This also means that Askew's team will always remain small, because once the number of people increases, there will be management needs, and management talents obviously cannot accept the same salary as the bottom. In other words, Askew said that the team's positioning is "small but fine", and he obviously means it.

Eleanor signed her name generously, in duplicate. Nora hesitated for a moment, because the contract did not stipulate that he would help her become a transcendent. However, considering that the Eastern and Western churches have an unusually consistent defensive attitude towards extraordinary beings, even if such a contract is signed, there will be no official endorsement of its mandatory binding force.

So she thought over and over again and finally signed her name.

"Very good." Asker put away the contract, "Now we can be honest. Paige?"

Paige cursed in her mind, this guy really wanted me to come out and reveal my identity. She hummed without saltiness, took off her mask, and took off her hood, revealing her small head and pale face under her black hair.

"I am an extraordinary person." Paige said coldly, "The extraordinary trait I currently possess is Flesh and Blood I."

"Are you a transcendent?" Nora asked in surprise. In her eyes, this little man who always wore a mask and a black robe was probably Asker's attendant or servant or something. He was far from the domineering and majestic transcendent in her fantasy.

But what shocked her was yet to come. Peggy pulled out the dagger from the outside of her thigh and cut her neck without armor protection cleanly, leaving a bloody gash. Nora couldn't help but scream in shock. Eleanor Then he stood up suddenly.

The larynx and trachea were cut open, revealing the terrifying red flesh and blood. However, Paige did not fall down like a dying person, but stood upright on the spot. The skin and flesh on both sides of the wound on the neck suddenly seemed to be alive. Countless small and surging flesh sprouts grew, squirming and quickly bonding together. In the blink of an eye, the neck returned to its original state.

"You! This is really... really..." Eleanor's mind was completely blank, and she couldn't think of any suitable adjectives for a while. Nora was stunned for a moment, then simply picked up the trash can next to her, covered her throat and vomited in disgust. This cruel and weird scene still stimulated her spirit too much.

"Flesh I, has the ability to heal quickly, and most of the fatal parts will disappear." Asik introduced lightly, "Flesh II, all fatal parts will disappear, and I will become extremely difficult to kill. At the same time, the flesh and blood of the body can be used at will. Transform into a sharp weapon or a hard shield."

"I know of two extraordinary bloodline routes based on the flesh and blood sequence." Asik turned to look at Peggy and continued, "Route I, continue to take soul, life stealing, shadow, and hallucination potions, and finally fuse He is of the bloodline 'Blood Moon Hunter'. This extraordinary person is close to the image of a vampire currently circulating in the mainland. He can control the hearts and minds of others, steal the vitality of any creature, has the ability to become invisible and control shadows, and can also freely change his appearance and body surface. feature."

"Route II, continue to take potions of life stealing, rats, night bats, plague, and poison, and finally merge into the bloodline 'Lord of Filth'. This extraordinary person is closer to the characteristics of the legendary ancient vampire, and can transform into or control rats. species or bats that spread plague and toxins.”

"No matter which route you take, reaching the end means transforming into a non-human being. The higher the level of extraordinary beings, the lower the possibility of intermarrying with humans and producing children. Reaching level 10 means becoming a non-human being. Human beings are completely reproductively isolated and it is impossible to give birth to children."

"That doesn't mean..." Nora lost her voice, her face full of incredible shock. "Doesn't that mean that becoming a transcendent will gradually lose normal fertility?"

"There is only one exception." Asker said, "Supernatural beings above level 10 can freely control their bloodline. After suppressing their bloodline ability to the minimum, they can give birth to children with another level 10 transcendent who also suppresses their bloodline ability. Newborns. The two bloodlines in the body will conflict and annihilate each other, so it will not have any extraordinary abilities after birth, it will be just an ordinary human being with a very poor physique, and it will be very easy to die early."

"In the final analysis, the process of becoming a transcendent is a process of dehumanization, just like adding other bloodlines to the pure human bloodline. Can the final life entity still be regarded as a human being? Gu Xiris has a question This occult book is called "The Ship of Theseus", and it specifically discusses the secret knowledge of extraordinary bloodline. I will find it for you to read when I have the opportunity."

Asker added one last sentence, which was the end of this introductory course on mysticism. Nora quickly took out a pen and paper from her breast pocket and tremblingly wrote down the words "Ship of Theseus".

"Is it an inhumane path?" Eleanor whispered to herself, with a complicated expression on her face.

"I have said everything I can say at this stage. If you decide after thinking about it that you still want to become a transcendent, then come to me at this address." Asker handed over a note, which was written on his ancestral home. address, "Paige, let's go."

Reason for adding an update: I explained the settings of the Bloodline Road, which feels like a bit of a cheat on the word count (although it’s not on the shelves, so there’s no need to cheat on the word count), so I might as well post one more chapter.