Free Web NovelChapter 520: Chapter 521 Parting in Life and Death_1
Aiden felt his vision had completely blurred.
The rules of the Wordless Code were struggling to maintain his body’s skills, allowing his body to recover, but the damage caused by the double-edged sword of revenge was like a curse determined to drag him into the abyss of death and pain. freewebnøvel.com
Being half-dead was the worst possible state under these circumstances; the resurrection power bestowed by Abigail seemed to activate at the moment of death, its passive effects at other times only slightly strengthening his healing ability while also making his blood exceptionally unpalatable to vampires. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
Lack of oxygen made his consciousness sink into the darkness, and a bunch of fragmented, inconsequential memories inconveniently surfaced at this time, flashing through his consciousness like a slideshow.
There was no proper order, nor any categorization; memories from after his arrival in this world, memories from the previous owner of this body, Aiden Galahad, and even his own memories from his past world mixed together, flashing before his eyes.
Is this... the legendary life-flashing-before-eyes?
But at this moment, he had no interest in reminiscing about his life; pain throughout his body made it difficult to think straight.
A scene flashed by, catching his attention slightly.
In that scene, he saw himself—Aiden Galahad’s face, but it wasn’t in a mirror.
More unfamiliar scenes appeared in the life-flash, causing him to be somewhat unable to keep up.
Where do these memories come from? Why don’t I have any recollection of them?
The pain continued to pull at his attention, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t remember when or where these memory scenes were from.
Or should I say, whose memories are these?
At that moment, Lamia wrapped her arms under his armpits from behind and gently lifted him. Aiden felt her body temperature.
Then, Lamia bit down on Aiden’s neck and injected him with the drug she had stored in her body.
Aiden suddenly felt much of the pain subside and snapped back to reality, with the slideshow-like images immediately clearing from his mind.
Vision returned.
Were those just hallucinations that surfaced because my brain was unclear when I was dying?
"Time to wake up from mommy’s arms, you little unweaned brat!" Lamia said, holding him and shaking him, "Don’t die so easily!"
Lamia’s Magic Potion made Aiden feel a bit better, but his throat was still severely injured; he opened his mouth to find he still couldn’t make a sound.
The bleeding stopped, but the pain from the lack of oxygen still lingered.
The vengeful goddess suddenly spoke in his mind, "Kid, what exactly was that just now?"
"What did you say?" Aiden didn’t understand what she was questioning.
Then he and Lamia heard Professor Dodge’s screams.
Following the sound, they saw Professor Dodge convulsing on the ground.
Just seconds ago, when the pain struck, Professor Dodge suddenly felt as if all the blood in his body had gone cold.
In an instant, his vision turned a vivid red, and then his body completely lost sensation.
Tony stood frozen in place, watching as his father collapsed to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut, his arms severed from his body in a blink.
Professor Dodge lay twitching on the ground, the two strikes following Mr. Blood’s initial attack had severed his arms, the first piercing straight through his skull.
"This is the easiest way," Mr. Blood said as he pulled out his twin blades of revenge and playfully twirled them, "Sorry for the stealth attack, truly incautious of you to hide yourself with divine words instead of using ’Obliteration Hand’ in my presence. That you were caught by this hatred is due to the sins you’ve committed yourself, can’t blame anyone else."
Aiden and the two Great Witches were all shocked, especially Aiden; he was well aware that the twin blades of revenge needed to sense the presence of the opponent before they could be used. Mr. Blood could use them against him because his "revenge" ability allowed him to sense Aiden as his enemy; the deeper the hatred, the higher the level of the ability, and the more accurate the sensing.
All but Aiden were supposed to be completely safe using the "Invisibility" ability to hide themselves.
Only the goddess of revenge understood the reason instantly: "It’s the substitute body..."
"What?" Aiden struggled to keep his consciousness from fading.
"That substitute body... it harbored hatred for Harrison Dodge! That damned maggot inherited everything from that body, including its vengeance!" the goddess of revenge explained.
It took Aiden two seconds to realize that the original owner of the body Mr. Blood had taken over, that young refugee, around the same age as Professor Dodge’s son, was probably one of the refugees kidnapped during the final phase of experimentations.
He was a follower of Mr. Blood, and it was likely Mr. Blood had instilled hatred for Harrison Dodge in him beforehand—Professor Dodge had personally orchestrated the kidnapping of many refugees similar in age to his son during the final stage, some of whom could include relatives or friends of the boy, conditions ripe for developing profound hatred.
So as long as this boy had come into contact with Professor Dodge within this research facility, the conditions for generating revenge sensing would be satisfied.
Mr. Blood, upon being resurrected using the boy’s sacrifice, inherited his memories and also his hatred. The revenge sensing would be effective against Professor Dodge, it was all calculated—from the moment the boy was brought in, Mr. Blood had already calculated the ultimate measure against Professor Dodge.
Had Professor Dodge concealed himself with the power of ’Obliteration Hand’ rather than the power of divine words, perhaps Mr. Blood would not have found him. Conversely, once Mr. Blood realised he could sense the other, it was time when the twin blades of revenge could strike down the opponent in a second.
"Dad!!" Tony threw himself onto his father, screaming in heart-wrenching agony.
Immediately, he reached for his father’s right arm stump, trying to parasitize onto his father’s body; the parasitic act of a parasitic demon could heal disabilities and wounds, and the efficiency was highest through an open wound.
But Professor Dodge, who should have lost consciousness already, suddenly moved his severed arm to avoid his son’s hand.
"Don’t... touch..." he issued a faint warning, "Escape..."
"Not dead yet?" Mr. Blood wasted no time and delivered another strike.
Professor Dodge’s body stiffened abruptly, his pupils dilating instantly; this was truly the fatal blow. If Tony had parasitized onto him just now, there was no doubt he would have suffered this fatal strike as well.
Witnessing his father’s death with his own eyes, Tony kept his reaching posture, standing as if his mind had been hollowed out.
"Phoenix!" Aiden, witnessing this scene, tried hard to maintain his fading consciousness, calling out desperately to the goddess of revenge.
"What’s up, kid?" The goddess of revenge’s response was calm, the sorrow of the father and son beside her doing little to move her. As the goddess of revenge, she had seen many such separations by death before, a fair number of which were indirectly or directly caused by her hand.
"Could you try to transfer the wounds from Mr. Blood’s blades to Lamia?"
