CHAPTER 440: CHAPTER 361 RIGARDAGA_2

A beating heart materialized in his palm.

This is what the Horror Divine Office looks like when materialized.

With each contraction and relaxation, it seemed capable of influencing the beating of living hearts.

Lin Suo’s lips parted slightly as he gently exhaled a breeze.

The breeze, passing through the heart materialized by the Horror Divine Office, transformed into the black Wind of Suffering that could awaken the most terrifying memories and fears from the depths of people’s hearts.

"Horror Divine Skill·Wind of Suffering!"

The next moment.

Witch Rigardaga, nailed to the Void, suddenly started to twitch, showing signs of aging all over her body.

The thing she feared most was perfectly replicated on her by the influence of Lin Suo’s power.

Witch Rigardaga, who had been treated as a monster and cursed from birth, was undoubtedly most afraid of aging, often having nightmares about aging overnight.

At a young age, merely in her mid-teens, yet appearing like a woman in her thirties or forties, was something she simply could not accept.

Hence.

In such a state, her most terrifying inner fear overlaid her painful memories, in the instant Lin Suo withdrew his power.

A rare look of confusion crossed her face.

Lin Suo felt certain in his heart.

Knowing that the third method had taken effect, he seized the moment to strike while the iron was hot, Divine Power Amplification·Wind of Suffering!

An upgraded version emerged again.

Witch Rigardaga quickly became exceedingly old, indistinguishable from an elderly grandmother.

After a period of torment, he withdrew his power.

The aged appearance was restored, and Witch Rigardaga woke up from the surprise of regaining what was lost. Those painful memories seemed not so dark anymore; the present was what truly deserved celebration.

Just as she formed this thought, a sharp pain wracking her body caused her to cry out in agony.

"Ah ah...!"

"Recovered?!"

Lin Suo raised his eyebrows and waved his hand to retract the Treasure·Light and Dark Sealing Sword, and let Witch Rigardaga down from mid-air, casting Life Witchcraft·Perfect Healing.

In the blink of an eye, she was restored to normal, all injuries gone.

But her complexion was still deathly pale, probably due to overuse of her Talent and too much energy consumption.

Despite the abundant elemental time here, the spread of the Ruined Mist hardly consumed any of Witch Rigardaga’s energy, but the activation of the seed must have taken its toll.

Maintaining this scale of Ruined Mist was bearable in an irrational state, but now that her senses were restored, the feeling of being drained was not pleasant.

Lin Suo had a deep understanding of this.

After all, he would occasionally make himself so weakened that he seemed as if he could be blown over by a gust of wind - utterly ridiculous.

The principle of equivalence and the law of energy conservation must also be followed by Wizards; Talents abilities are no exception.

At this moment, Witch Rigardaga was like Lin Suo after each over-level Synthesis, terribly frail.

Fortunately, her mental fluctuations had stabilized.

It meant she had regained her sanity and was no longer the previously Ruined Witch.

Under the dual healing of Life Witchcraft + Spiritual Witchcraft, Lin Suo took out some Death Holy Water to replenish the consumption of her soul.

Triple recovery.

In just a few minutes, she woke up.

"Ugh... what happened..."

Clutching her lower abdomen, the residual bloodstains, the pierced clothing, and the occasional muscle spasms all indicated that not long ago, this area was not as intact as it is now.

Even if healed, the throbbing pain lingered.

"Rigardaga."

Hearing the call, she looked up, somewhat surprised.

"Rhein tutor? How could you..."

Seeing Rhein, Witch Rigardaga remembered a time in Padolon when she and Iris were played for fools by Lin Suo, and the perverted pig-headed man nearly became her psychological shadow.

Since then, she never dared to tease Lin Suo again.

A student facing a tutor, especially in such a disheveled state, felt very embarrassed; even more so for her, the Royal Princess, it was exceedingly awkward.

She wished she could find a hole to crawl into.

Lin Suo, now back to normal but still pale-faced as if devoid of blood, was actually still in recovery. The consumption from crafting Immortal Level artifacts couldn’t be restored in a short while.

Though Witch Rigardaga had no memory of her berserk period, she clearly remembered being captured alive with Theresa by an Undead Lich who seemed to covet the Curse on her body, subjecting her to various terrible experiments.

When she woke up again, it felt like she had been in a nightmare.

She was lost in thought for a moment before suddenly coming to her senses.

"Theresa, Teacher Theresa was also captured by the mad Lich. Rhein, have you encountered her?"

"She was rescued before you."

Lin Suo nodded and began to describe to Rigardaga the events that had unfolded after her rampage.

Listening, Rigardaga was dumbstruck and incredulous.

"A Curse is a Talent? Power of Ruin?..."

She murmured softly.

After sensing for a while, Rigardaga said with a pale face,

"Teacher, it seems I cannot control this power."

The Ruined Mist that enveloped the entire Space-Time Illusion Realm had clearly gone out of control. It was perfectly normal for Rigardaga, who had never experienced such a thing, to be unable to manipulate it.

Lin Suo’s Talent techniques were simpler, and he also lacked such experience, so he could only start from other aspects.

"Controlling Talent isn’t urgent, take this."

In the palm of Lin Suo’s outstretched hand, a ring lay quietly, etched with mysterious symbols on its band.

It was the ring of member number eight from the Absurd Travel Group.

This item was obtained from Shadow Number One, just like when Black Emperor Number Six recruited Lin Suo, Witch Rigardaga was undoubtedly a Talent in the Wizard Universe.

Favored by fate.

And Lin Suo, if you counted strictly, should be considered the only Talent from Blue Star Space-Time—his physical body had traveled here, fundamentally different from the native creatures of the Wizard Universe.

This could be seen from the difference in stature.

The average height of Padolon humans exceeded two meters. Lin Suo, upon his arrival, was only one meter seventy-eight, a significant disparity.

This was the result of intentionally controlling his body’s development.

He was not accustomed to looking up at others’ nostrils while speaking, which was too strange.

"This is..."

"The ring of the Travel Group, you don’t need it for now. When the residency time in the Space-Time Illusion Realm runs out, I will take you to find your kind."

"My kind... Teacher, what do you mean?"

"That’s right, there are many others like you, born bearing the ’Curse.’ It is actually a Talent, and each universe will only give birth to one Talent. You are the Child of the World, there’s no need to worry over small setbacks.

Eventually, you too will have the chance to ascend to true Immortality..."

"Immortality..."

Rigardaga was lost in a trance, as for the past several decades, she had been cultivating hard for the sake of her own life, her greatest hope was to reach Legendary status, and if lucky, to become a Holy Spirit would be even better.

But she had never dared to entertain the idea of Immortality; that was the realm of true Eternals.

To attain eternal life, one naturally does not have to fret about lifespan.

The minor drawbacks of the Power of Ruin were not an issue at all.

"Then, Teacher, you are also?"

"That’s right."

"There are eight people in the Absurd Travel Group, including you, from various universes. The first five are Immortals, and the sixth is also breaking through. Only you and I have the lowest strength."

"But there’s no rush in that, we can eventually catch up."

"With the environment to your advantage, you can first use the Ruined Mist here to condense your own Legendary Domain. Opportunities like this are rare."

"Legendary..."

Rigardaga was about to say something when she realized that she had truly broken through to Legendary status, even completing the difficult Ring Fusion, missing only the final step.

Absorbing a large amount of compatible energy, invoking the Universe’s Starlight Power, condensing her own Domain, and completing the Ascension of life’s hierarchy.

This was a qualitative change.

Previously without reason, she could only be considered an incomplete Legendary Wizard, naturally powerless against a monster like Lin Suo.

Regaining normalcy, the first thing to do was to make up for her weaknesses, as delaying for too long could lead to being stuck here forever, ending up an incomplete Legendary Wizard.

A situation nobody could stand.

Under his guidance, Rigardaga began to absorb the Power of Ruin around her, condensing her ’Ruined Domain.’

Lin Suo stood by as her protector.

His Soul Perception had spread out, observing the state of the Ruined Mist, mainly monitoring the boundaries of the Space-Time Illusion Realm, to see if the Ruined Mist had spread to the present world.