Chapter 268: Young Men Who Took the Wrong Path
Owen injected Vanessa with a tube of potion. This was a healing potion mixed with high-energy nutrient solution, capable of repairing most damage to the flesh, but it couldn’t regenerate severed limbs. This was because it not only involved the issue of cell regeneration, but the slightest error could lead to deformities.
Although there were some limitations, it had to be said that Owen’s specialized healing potion was indeed effective. After a while, Vanessa regained some color, and her heartbeat became much stronger.
The rapid recovery of her body awakened Vanessa from the death-feigning state she had entered through some method. She opened her blue eyes and calmly looked at Owen, seemingly unconcerned about her own state or the surrounding environment. However, Owen, with his keen perception, could sense the incredibly suppressed vengeful fire within her. This was a woman who held grudges and would definitely seek revenge.
“Let’s make a deal,” Owen said to Vanessa, smiling as he played with the potion in his hand.
“Do I have a choice right now? Or rather, do I still have the value to make a deal?” Vanessa tilted her head and asked playfully.
“Of course, talent is talent no matter the circumstances. What’s more, now I can completely confirm that you have this value,” Owen sighed and said.
Putting himself in her shoes, if he were chopped into a human stick and hung in a coffin, then auctioned off as a slave, he would probably be left with nothing but despair after a bout of impotent rage, and then just want to die. This was clearly the escapist mentality of the weak.
But Vanessa, regardless of the anger in her heart, the pain and mutilation of her body, her expression management remained impeccable, her intelligence was still online, and she used all means to make the other party lower their guard. The most important thing was that she never gave up hope. This was the point Owen valued most.
“I’ll help you get revenge, and you swear allegiance to me. It’s fair, isn’t it?” Owen tilted his head and said. He was beginning to enjoy the feeling of collecting talent.
“Yes, it’s fair,” Vanessa said with a smile, but what was going on in her mind, perhaps no one knew.
Owen continued to inject her with the potion, repairing the damage to her body and replenishing the lost blood, but the effect was getting worse and worse.
Legends weren’t that simple. Breaking the sound barrier with a flesh and blood body, was that something a normal person could do?
Like Vanessa, after her limbs were severed and she was hung in a coffin with iron chains, just the issue of blood loss and oxygen deprivation could kill a normal person eighteen times over.
But even when Vanessa lost consciousness, she still relied on instinct to contract the muscles around her wounds, squeezing the blood vessels to reduce blood loss, while suppressing her heartbeat and entering a state similar to suspended animation to reduce the loss of vitality. This was practically breaking the limits of the physical body with willpower, creating the impossible.
Under this terrifying willpower, coupled with inhuman training, a Legend’s physical body also evolved, becoming stronger, faster, and smarter. Therefore, ordinary treatment methods were not as fast as a Legend’s self-healing ability.
But conversely, once they suffered an unrecoverable serious injury, especially if it was inflicted by a fellow Legend, it wasn’t so easy to recover.
The healing potion in Owen’s hand could make an ordinary person who had just undergone a major open-heart surgery immediately get up and run three laps, but for Vanessa, it could only prevent her condition from further deteriorating.
“Your injuries are really a headache,” Owen said somewhat helplessly. The wounds inflicted by a Legend weren’t as simple as he had imagined. It wasn’t just pure physical damage, but also contained a level of spiritual and conscious power.
For example, Vanessa’s wounds, the healing effect brought by the healing potion was actually being nullified at the severed limbs?!
It was simply unexplainable by science. Owen tried several methods, but none of them worked.
Just as Owen was about to conduct further examination, the auction ended.
Four Black Knights lifted the coffin and followed Owen out of the castle, but unexpectedly, there was still a good show to watch before leaving.
Two people were hanging from the castle gate. Although the secret auction house had preserved their last bit of dignity and hadn’t removed their masks, after taking off their black robes, the clothes on their bodies and the foolishly unremoved badges all proved that these two were direct descendants of some noble family.
Many guests who walked out of the auction were pointing at the two of them, mocking their stupidity.
At this moment, a noble couple rushed over with livid faces, paid the ransom, and then took the two young men away. It was estimated that even if their legs weren’t broken when they got back, they wouldn’t be able to get out of bed for ten days or half a month.
Count Dekla, who had finished watching the show, came over and recounted the incident to Owen.
These two young men were the sons of a certain local viscount. While hunting in the mountains, they accidentally bumped into a High Elf bathing in the lake, quite a poetic scene.
The two sides thus became acquainted, and then for some reason, the two fell hopelessly in love with this High Elf, and something happened. Therefore, after learning that she had been captured and would be auctioned off tonight, the two mustered their courage, stole their parents’ invitations, and brought weapons to rescue her.
“I remember there was only one High Elf being auctioned tonight,” Owen said, his tone a bit strange.
“You guessed right, it’s just as you think. But who hasn’t been young?” Count Dekla shrugged and said understandingly, his eyes filled with reminiscence, as if he was missing his lost youth.
Holy shit!
Owen suddenly seemed to understand something and forced himself not to move away from the other party, but he had a deeper understanding of the bottom line of nobles.
Just didn’t expect that you, Count Dekla, with your thick eyebrows, big eyes, and charming middle-aged man aura, would also have such a history.
At the same time, Owen also understood that the nobles who were just mocking the two young men weren’t mocking them for falling in love with a High Elf who had been bought by a rich woman, but mocking them for being caught so easily, and for not knowing how to hide their identities after causing trouble.
There was no way around it, the moral values of ordinary people were simply fleeting clouds to the nobles because they were the law, they were the rules. Therefore, apart from the rules that maintained their rule, other aspects, especially private life, were not subject to any restrictions. Theoretically, as long as it caught their eye, gender, race, even beauty or ugliness didn’t matter. The important thing was that it could bring them pleasure.
Well, Owen suddenly felt that his gradually collapsing worldview and morals, compared to theirs, were actually still above standard?
He might even have a lot in common with Shuliya, his student, in this regard.
Damn it, Owen smiled on the surface, but inwardly he was cursing, not sure whether he was cursing the shamelessness of those nobles or mocking his own depravity.
Anyway, this matter was just a small episode. Apart from circulating among the local nobles for decades and causing huge psychological shadows to the two impulsive young men who had taken the wrong path, it wouldn’t make much difference to most ordinary people.
Not concerned about the mental and physical health of the two young men, Owen and Count Dekla boarded the carriage and returned. However, halfway there, Count Dekla suddenly looked up at Owen, and Owen just nodded.
This wasn’t the two suddenly having a telepathic connection, but realizing that someone was following them outside.
Obviously, the magic restriction on the carriage wasn’t very reliable. Whether it was Owen or Count Dekla, they both had ways to bypass the restriction and still maintain communication with the outside world.
