Chapter 495 Darkness and Hope
Oberen shook his head speechlessly, feeling a little amused about his fate as a stallion. Judging from the several ninth-level magic abilities shown by Elena, she is completely a humanoid storm! Even under Bebraz, Elena's ability can definitely rank among the top three. However, with such terrifying strength, she acts beyond everyone's expectations. Even if she doesn't look at her abilities, only her figure and appearance, Elena is definitely a big beauty, perhaps not as good as Persephine and Medielli, but she is not much different. After a woman's appearance reaches a certain level, it is actually determined by her temperament characteristics. Elena, who has a unique personality and distinctive appearance characteristics, can be compared with anyone.
Maybe, this is a good thing?
A blood foam surged in Oberen's throat, and his consciousness gradually became blurred. His slow thinking could not understand why Elena wanted to come to him. If it was just for the optimization of genes, Oberen never thought he was the best choice. Those old guys who had proved themselves, such as Deck Aveda of Crimson Castle and Westwood of the Speaker, were more suitable choices, and that Su looked good.
With confusion and thought, Oberen finally fell asleep.
He stared at Oberen with a scrutiny for a while. A strange expression appeared on Elena's face, and then he untied his clothes and began to treat his injuries. Elena's treatment methods were so simple that it could even be said to be crude. When expelling the energy running around in Oberen's body, it added a lot of damage to him. In the end, it was only with a top-level battlefield first aid potion that stabilized his injuries.
During the treatment process, Elena gradually became familiar with Oberen's body. This is a young and energetic body, which is excellent in all aspects. Although there is no particularly outstanding place, it is balanced and stable. This means Oberen can be competent for most combat situations, but lacks explosive power. Judging from the internal structure of the body, he is already very outstanding and meets Elena's standards, but it is not very consistent with the combat power he showed. This is something that makes Elena a little puzzled. However, she did not worry too much about this. She knew that her biochemical knowledge was very poor, and she was not able to understand the problem from a gene or even a more subtle level. Genes are the first step in interpreting ability.
"It's a little regretful, but it's also qualified." Elena muttered to herself.
She resisted Oberen's body, found a stream, washed away the dust and blood from his body, and then put the clothes back on him. Of course, she moved a little bit of her hands and feet, which made Oberen unconscious throughout the process.
After finishing all this in a hurry, Elena breathed a sigh of relief. For her, who could not do any housework, killing an eighth-level strongman was much easier than doing these. Elena took Oberen and identified the direction, and ran away.
Half an hour later, Elena stood in a clearing in the forest and began to look up and down at Aaron who was lying on the ground.
The open space was in a mess, a battlefield cleaned by the wild energy. Aron's alloy heavy shield had long been distorted, embedded in a giant tree dozens of meters away, and the alloy armor was completely damaged and fragments were sprinkled everywhere. If he hadn't had the seventh-level physical strength, defense and strength at the same time, his body was even stronger than the alloy, and would have been torn apart. Seeing Aron still alive, and even his body tissue was slowly recovering, even Elena was a little impressed by this vitality that was stronger than cockroaches. She knew very well the power of her spell-like attacks.
"Get up!" Elena kicked Aaron under the ribs, and energy surged in, driving away the energy that was still raging and destruction in Aaron's body.
Aaron screamed and bounced from the ground, and his body immediately bowed like a Boston lobster with only water. Elena's power had a strong destructive attribute, like a steel whip with countless barbs. Even if it was used for treatment, it would bring great pain to the treated person.
Elena woke Oberen up, threw him beside Allen, and said, "Tell me clearly, I'll wait for you for five minutes." After that, she left.
Five minutes passed quickly, and even with Oberen's concise and efficient way of speaking, five minutes were still too short to say everything and arrange the future.
"... Then, that's how it is. Go back and wait for me first, and I'll come back later." Oberen said, and then walked towards Elena who reappeared.
Looking at Elena and Oberen standing together, Allen's expressions became a little weird. But he, who was used to obedience, just shrugged and dragged his traumatized body away.
Looking at Aaron's figure, Elena said: "It's rough and thick-skinned, loyal and obedient. It's a good meat shield, which complements your abilities, but that's it. His ability path is biased, and his single combat power is too poor. And your current combat power is just reasonable, but your body is even worse than combat power!"
After hearing such a rude comment, Oberen just smiled and said nothing. In addition to combat power, his talent in management and command cannot be ignored. The Arthur family's strength expanded rapidly during his management period. Although the foundation of development was much weaker than when Persephine was mastered, it just happened to meet the needs of the war period. The changes in strategic focus were due to luck and guidance from the elders of the family, Oberen's own accurate judgment was also essential. Having a strategic vision also requires practical training to make progress. This kind of training requires a high position and consuming a lot of resources to be obtained, so people who truly have leadership skills are actually much scarce and much more important than those with high ability.
But all Elena needs is a male stallion, so Oberen's greatest value is naturally ignored, which can only be said to be his tragedy.
"Okay, let's catch Passephine now!" Elena announced her next move loudly.
"Catch my sister?" Oberen stared at Elena.
"Of course! If you don't catch her back, how far do you think she can run with the child in her belly? This is the territory of the Holy Cross, and we are almost approaching their core interests. If Persephine breaks into the core area, they will definitely not let it go. At that time, she might meet the Dark Grey Knight." Elena said.
"Dark Grey Knight?" Oberen frowned. He had never heard of the word Dark Grey Knight. He only knew that the great knights in the Holy Ray Crusade. The great knights generally had the ability of the sixth to seventh level, and a very few might have the ability of the eighth level, which basically did not pose a threat to the generals of the Dark Dragon Knight.
Elena quickly answered Oberen's doubts: "The Dark Grey Knight is a great knight born specifically for combat. They have undergone special and cruel training and their combat effectiveness is far greater than that of ordinary great knights. This is the secret of the highest level of the Bloody Parliament, and it is normal for you to not know. Pasther Phenni will be born soon. When the child is born, her ability may deteriorate to about the sixth level. At that time, she may still be able to deal with the Great Knight. If she meets the Dark Grey Knight, she may not be able to escape. Do you want her to be caught by the enemy? I heard that she has killed many great knights of the Holy Lightning Cross in the past year!"
If Persephine was caught by the Holy Cross, what would happen would be something that could be thought of. So Oberen stopped insisting and followed Elena away.
Three days passed in a hurry.
In the mountains far north, Persephine was lying in a cave where she could temporarily shelter from the wind and snow, gasping forever, her face pale as paper. Her long gray hair was wet with sweat, and strands were pressed against her face and forehead.
She lay half lying on her back, her breathing getting heavier and heavier, holding her abdomen with both hands, constantly exerting force.
The cave was already above the snow line. The cold wind kept whistling outside the cave, and blew in through the gaps between the rocks that sealed the entrance of the cave. A bonfire was burning in the cave, but it was not enough to drive away the chill in the cave.
Persephine stroked her high bulge with her hands, and said with a gentle face, "Little baby, it's time to come out. I know you can come out now. Listen to your mother's words and come out obediently. Otherwise, you will be in danger!"
As a strong man who once reached the holy level, Persephine clearly felt the movements and consciousness of the small life in his abdomen. He liked this warm and safe environment very much and was not willing to leave at all. Persephine could already feel that it was constantly absorbing its own genetic power, and the previous deterioration of its abilities also came from this. Persephine could not stop it, but could control this process to a limited extent.
But whenever the little life in her belly absorbs nutrition and genetic power, warm happiness always surges in her heart. Passephine is still very young, and she has always been self-centered at the young age. In the past, she never thought that one day she would contribute to her children, but she just felt that the children were a burden and trouble. Having Su's child was just an accident.
However, after knowing that she had a small life in her belly, she realized what her mother meant.
What made her proud was that before her birth, the little life began to show its extraordinaryness: the genetic power it absorbed from Persephine was converted into its own power with almost no loss. Persephine remembered that Helen said that this was an important feature of super life. If Elena had not been chasing her closely, Persephine would have been willing to spend more time with Little Life. But now, she knew that Elena was following her and there was not much time left for her. So Persephine had to give birth to the child in advance.
Chapter completed!