CHAPTER 294: SIN-PUNISHMENT DOMAIN

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First dark mist layer, vast ice plains.

Carlos’s prayers kept echoing across the ice plains.

"Wonder when this will end."

The retainer fusion ritual was sucking up spiritual energy faster and faster, but showed no signs of wrapping up.

Suddenly,

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom that had been missing for hours finally showed back up!

Its size had doubled from before vanishing. Liquid sloshing sounds were clearly audible, mixed with extremely painful roaring:

"Damn! What are you doing!!!"

"..."

"No... don’t... release me!"

"No! My sin-punishment essence!"

"No! My blood pool essence!"

"..."

The voices gradually faded until they disappeared...

With each wail, Carlos’s pupils got wider.

"It’s the Blood Mother!"

His heart surged with excitement as his chanting sped up. The retainer fusion ritual reopened for the remaining fusion...

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"**!@##*!"

Accompanied by indescribable sounds, this retainer fusion ritual finally ended.

The mysterious vessel phantom slowly faded as a female-formed Silver Blood Knight appeared at the ritual’s center.

Clad in silver armor seemingly wrapped in blood, the Silver Sword Orchid patterns across its body gained bewitching beauty. Even the silver lightning wrapping around its form showed traces of crimson.

Two strange chains coiled around it, intertwining then suddenly separating, their ends disappearing into void where a massive blood domain flickered in and out of view. Just the slightest leaked aura nearly stained half the sky.

Suddenly, the Silver Blood Knight woke up. Extremely terrible momentum shot skyward as the massive blood domain descended, the entire sky seemingly becoming a blood sea.

Silver chains and blood chains filled the sky, sealing all space. Time seemed frozen as all sound vanished.

"Truly incredible power."

Under Ginya’s domain protection, Carlos moved freely, looking up in amazement at the frozen sky where even howling cold winds were suspended.

"Moo?"

Suddenly, cold winds howled again. The Silver Blood Knight moved, joyfully sensing its incredibly terrifying power far exceeding its former self.

"Blood Silver, come here."

Carlos beckoned.

"Moo!"

The newly born Silver Blood Knight instinctively wanted to dive into mommy’s embrace.

"Moo?"

But approaching, it suddenly discovered mommy had become much shorter—no way to hold it.

"Moo moo!"

Blood Silver freaked out. How could it enjoy mommy’s warm embrace in the future?

"Be good, quiet."

Carlos gestured for Blood Silver to crouch down, soothing it before eagerly checking out the new retainer’s attributes.

[Blood Silver·Black Knight·Retainer]

[A strange creature born from the super-fusion of Silver Sword Orchid Black Knight, Super Alchemical Life Form, and Blood Mother, miraculously inheriting abilities from all three]

"It really is the Blood Mother!"

Carlos was stoked.

This meant the future blood disaster’s source no longer existed. Even if someone successfully performed rituals, they could never summon the Blood Mother again, and the endless blood pool had no possibility of connecting to the Material Realm.

Carlos kept reading:

[Health: 700 (Constitution x50)]

[Strength: 30]

[Constitution: 14]

[Speed: 5 (foot combat state)/40 (cavalry state)]

[Skills: Silver Sword Orchid Enhanced, Silver Sword Orchid Cavalry Tactics (1+3) Level, Moon-Devouring Power, Sin-Punishment Domain, Tenth Blood Domain]

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"The attributes aren’t weaker than other retainers."

Judging by stats alone, like other retainers, it had reached Controller level.

"Moo!"

Blood Silver shook its head, making comfortable purring sounds, momentarily forgetting certain things.

Carlos quickly scanned the front skills—the important ones were the last two, inherited from the Blood Mother.

[Sin-Punishment Domain·Variant:

The powerful domain built into the Blood Mother born from the endless blood pool. After fusing with strange essence, seemingly went through even more amazing changes.

(1) Chains of Sin: Sin authority condensed from extracting creatures’ guilt, commonly manifesting as silver chains with extremely strong binding power. The heavier a creature’s guilt, the stronger the binding.

(2) Chains of Punishment: Punishment chains desired by creatures before death against the unjust, commonly manifesting as blood-colored chains. Can easily strip and seal the ’blood’ within creatures—not narrow blood, but broader essence blood.

(3) Sin and Punishment: When Chains of Sin and Chains of Punishment resonate, powerful authority interweaves and sublimes, producing distortion force capable of stopping spacetime.]

"Sin and Punishment!

The weird ability Blood Silver displayed when it first awakened!"

In his memory, the reason the original timeline’s Blood Mother was never taken down was precisely this terrible ability.

Those unable to resist this distortion force could only get slaughtered by the Blood Mother once caught—almost no one could counter it.

Ultimately, even at terrible cost, they only drove the Blood Mother from the Material Realm without seriously hurting it.

Now this amazing power belonged to his own retainer. Carlos couldn’t help smiling as he kept reading:

[Tenth Blood Domain: One of the strange blood domains in the endless blood pool, capable of providing endless power to the blood domain’s master. As long as the blood domain doesn’t dry up, the blood domain master won’t die.]

"Holy shit!"

Carlos was amazed—this was a miniature blood pool.

According to records, why did the Blood Mother struggle to open passages between the endless blood pool and Material Realm? The goal was endless power supply.

Now a blood domain had actually become Blood Silver’s ability, one of its essences. This was too incredible.

You should know that even the Blood Mother would lose connection to blood pool power when leaving the endless blood pool.

"Incredible that retainer fusion rituals could pull this off."

Carlos thought of the ritual phantom. What kind of massive power was this, actually plundering a ’rare fragment’ from the endless blood pool’s ultra-high dimension?

With Tenth Blood Domain’s enhancement, Blood Silver essentially had an immortal body.

Speaking of immortal bodies, Carlos instantly thought of another retainer Red Spirit’s infinite resurrection ability.

[Red Spirit - Child of Spirit Realm (Fire):

(1) When in the Spirit Realm, automatically gains Spirit Realm fire essence enhancement, massively improving fire spirit body abilities.

(2) Fire elements immortal, fire spirit body eternal.

When dying, will return to Spirit Realm source ocean to resurrect again, unlimited.]

Comparatively, Blood Silver’s immortal body was more obvious in combat since Red Spirit could only return to the Spirit Realm after combat death, unable to keep fighting.

However, for exploring dangerous areas, Red Spirit would give Carlos more peace of mind since though Blood Silver couldn’t die, it couldn’t bail either.

Speaking of Red Spirit, Carlos’s thoughts wandered.

"Red Spirit and Purple Vortex should get back soon... the plan..."