Chapter 158: Deep Blood Feud

Lycaon moved very fast. Although he was supporting Xiao Fen, Xiao Fen’s body weight was no problem at all for Lycaon. The two walked a distance in the blood pool. Xiao Fen, whose breathing was already extremely difficult, felt that his feet no longer had the sensation of stepping in gel.

He weakly opened his eyes and glanced around. Lycaon had already brought him to a rockery.

At the top of the rockery, in a pavilion, a figure was vaguely lying there, life or death unknown.

Xiao Fen glanced over, coughed violently twice, took a few deep breaths, and asked in a hoarse voice, “Your sister?”

Lycaon looked up in the direction of Xiao Fen’s gaze. A rare tenderness revealed in the eyes protected by heavy armor. The tall Trialist nodded and said, “That’s right, my only sister, and my last relative in this world.”

“How is she? If she’s seriously injured, I still have two bottles of Healing Potion here. Don’t be polite. I still have plenty of Keys.”

Lycaon was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Xiao Fen, and said, “Healing Potions are very precious.”

Xiao Fen shrugged and said, “Of course, but I think some people’s lives are more precious. Potions can be obtained again, but life cannot be repeated. Especially a unique relative; once lost, there is no chance to turn back.”

Lycaon nodded and said, “When I went back just now, I originally wanted to ask you for a bottle of Healing Potion. If possible, I was willing to transfer the 2 Skill Points I currently retain to you. But you are more selfless than I imagined.”

Xiao Fen laughed, but this laughter eventually turned into violent coughing. He squatted down while taking out the Healing Potion from his backpack and handing it to Lycaon. After a long while, he said in a hoarse voice, “Go treat your sister first. We can talk about the comment on selflessness later.”

Lycaon nodded, stopped supporting Xiao Fen, took the Healing Potion, and strode toward the top of the rockery, leaving Xiao Fen alone leaning against the jagged rockery rocks, constantly coughing. After a few minutes, just when Xiao Fen felt his entire lungs were about to be coughed to pieces, Lycaon walked down and asked, “How do you feel?”

Xiao Fen looked up with effort at the strong man before him and said, “Ah, I feel that having lower spirit is actually a blessing.”

Lycaon smiled slightly. The surface of his body began to unlock the armor in a chain reaction. The metal armor layer turned into colorful particles and gradually disappeared into the air. As for the bone armor, it rapidly softened and vanished. Finally, even the leather-like scales on his body surface completely disappeared, and an incredibly strong man reappeared before Xiao Fen’s eyes.

Of course, it would have been even better if Lycaon wasn’t completely naked at this moment.

“We’re both males, you shouldn’t mind that much, right?”

Lycaon methodically took out fitting clothes from a ring on his hand and put them on, asking casually.

Xiao Fen glanced at Lycaon’s strong chest muscles, sensed himself, and the excellent mindset of feeling his body was more fit than before after exercising vanished completely. He smiled bitterly and answered, “It looks like you need to prepare a lot of clothes.”

Lycaon nodded and said, “Of course, having many clothes has its benefits. At least I can easily adapt to different occasions. Whether it’s a banquet or a walk on the beach, I can always find the most suitable outfit.”

Hearing the relaxed tone from Lycaon, Xiao Fen nodded and asked, “Is your sister okay now?”

“No problem. Our body recovery ability is very good. She was punished by Yggdrasil before because she didn’t complete the mission. All her equipment was deducted, and her poison resistance to those Hell Creatures was also reduced a lot, so she couldn’t self-heal. If we hadn’t come now, she wouldn’t have survived tonight.”

Xiao Fen nodded. Lycaon’s relaxation influenced him, so much so that when talking about now, he suddenly realized that the previous dryness and tearing sensation in his chest had reduced a lot. At least speaking wasn’t that painful now.

“Did you know she came to this place? Or did you see the marks she left outside the courtyard?”

Lycaon turned his head to look at the pavilion again and said with a complex expression, “She didn’t leave any marks, but my sense of smell is much higher than my Mental Attribute. As long as I reach around this courtyard, I can smell her.”

Xiao Fen frowned, thought for a moment, and said, “It sounds like your sister was intentionally seeking death.”

“You could understand it that way. Her squad teammates all died in this Trial World before, including her lover.”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “Losing a lover is indeed a huge pain. If I guess correctly, at the Trialist’s Auction House, maybe I once passed by your sister.”

Lycaon stopped, looked at Xiao Fen, thought for a moment, and said, “No, that won’t do. I should say, Palin, you want to use a relationship to help my sister heal her original emotional trauma. The motive is very good, but frankly, you are not in my sister’s eyes. My sister has her own criteria for choosing. Your idea has no practical significance.”

Xiao Fen smiled bitterly and said, “I doubt how much Mental Attribute you have left. I have no intentions towards your sister, understand? Passing by does not mean I want to do something to your sister. If you can’t even understand this, have all those philosophical knowledge of yours been fed to the dogs?”

“Don’t insult dogs. A dog’s philosophical knowledge has progressed much more than my brother’s. At least dogs have learned a lot of human hypocrisy, deceit, and duplicity, but we can never learn these.”

A low voice suddenly rang from above the two people’s heads. Accompanied by this voice, a very weak-looking woman jumped down from above and landed in front of Xiao Fen.

It was indeed the female Trialist Xiao Fen met at the Auction House before. Her face was full of exhaustion and melancholy, making her look very weak. There was also a large amount of dried blood on her pale face. These bloodstains covered most of her true appearance, looking like a simple blood-colored mask, preventing Xiao Fen from seeing the female Trialist’s real look now.

Looking at Xiao Fen, the female Trialist said in a low voice, “Thank you for your potion. Although I wanted to die right there, my brother was not willing. Just like he only has me as a relative, I only have him as a relative. If I died before he found the other half suitable for him, I cannot imagine how lonely he would be.”

Xiao Fen rubbed his eyebrows, turned his head to look in another direction, and asked, “May I ask, why did you choose here?”

The female Trialist also cast her gaze toward that blood pool, was quiet for a while, and said, “The others in the squad, including the person I loved, all died in this courtyard last time. If he hadn’t pushed me before he died, I wouldn’t have lived until now.”