Chapter 269: A Legend Should Not Be Underestimated
Although they were being followed, the other party showed no signs of making a move. According to Shinobi’s report, their attention was mostly focused on the coffin behind them. They were obviously Vanessa’s enemies, because in her current state, she had no other value. Besides her enemies, no one would care about or try to snatch a Legendary Assassin who could only move her mouth.
Owen was already mentally prepared for this. Compared to nobles who wouldn’t lift a finger without profit, for those with supernatural powers, mere profit was not enough to completely control their actions. In other words, they didn’t abide by the law, so it wouldn’t be surprising for them to do anything, such as attacking nobles.
The strange thing was that the other party didn’t make a move. Instead, the person hiding in the shadows was more concerned about Vanessa’s treatment.
“Interesting. To break someone’s spirit is worse than killing them. They’re afraid Vanessa might have a good life.” Owen immediately understood the other party’s intention. What a deep hatred and resentment this must be. Unfortunately, he had no intention of doing as they wished.
After getting out of the carriage, Count Dekla glanced at the coffin and tactfully took his leave.
His goal had been achieved. Compared to before going to the secret auction, Owen’s relationship with him was obviously closer, and that was enough. He also understood the principle of “too much is as bad as too little.” Moreover, being overly proactive would be detrimental to their future relationship, so it was equally important to grasp the appropriate degree of interaction.
Four Teutonic Knights, like steel cans, took the coffin from the Black Knights, which startled the four Black Knights.
The Black Knights were enforcers carefully cultivated by the secret auction. Each of them was a master who had awakened Battle Qi. With their refined armor and weapons, each of them was comparable to an army of one hundred.
However, when facing the Teutonic Knights, who were nearly two heads taller than them, they were like puppies encountering tigers, their bodies trembling uncontrollably. This was their survival instinct sending out a warning.
Fortunately, the Teutonic Knights were not interested in them. They carried the coffin into the tent step by step.
Owen smiled at the Black Knights, paid them a tip, and entered the tent.
This tent was from the world of Hogwarts. The space inside was unimaginably large. The four Teutonic Knights who carried the coffin in did not take up much space.
“Charle, take her out. Remember to be gentle,” Owen said to Charle as he organized his workbench.
The taciturn Charle nodded. She opened the coffin with one hand, and under Vanessa’s surprised gaze, she cut the iron chains with the halberd in her hand. During the whole process, her speed was so fast and her strength so precise that the iron chains didn’t even vibrate slightly. It was evident how strong her control was.
“Legendary Warrior?!” Vanessa noticed Charle’s maid outfit and looked at Owen with even more respect.
Let’s not talk about whether it was perverted or not to make a beautiful but burly Legendary Warrior wear a maid outfit. There were only a few people who could do this. Therefore, Vanessa’s confidence in Owen’s promise increased by three points.
However, it was only three points, because her injuries were too severe. Just erasing the Legendary-level will and Battle Qi from her wounds was not something that could be easily accomplished. Moreover, Legendary-level repair and regeneration was not an easy task either. The price alone was enough to create a Legendary-level combat power. She didn’t think the other party was willing to pay that price.
After Vanessa was placed on the workbench by Charle, Owen also put on a white coat and a mask.
“Warm Baby, start scanning.” As soon as Owen gave the order, Warm Baby, who was waiting by the side, immediately activated, floating in mid-air and repeatedly scanning Vanessa meticulously.
From a certain perspective, Legendary powerhouses could be considered radioactive sources. Ordinary methods couldn’t scan them deeply at all. The technology in Owen’s hands was still perfected with the help of Emily.
As the frequency was constantly adjusted, the powerful scan, which was strong enough to burn ordinary people, gradually deepened. Vanessa’s body data was slowly perfected and displayed in front of Owen in the form of a 3D projection.
The large areas of red made Owen’s face grow increasingly grim. He still underestimated Vanessa’s injuries.
Just severing her limbs wouldn’t have put a Legendary in a dying state. That would be underestimating a Legendary’s vitality.
If the severed limbs had been attached to the wounds at that time, Vanessa could even use Battle Qi to reattach the severed muscle fibers. She wouldn’t dare to say that she would have fully recovered, but with her Legendary-level vitality and self-healing ability, it wouldn’t have been a problem to regain mobility at least for a short time. If she could receive timely and effective treatment afterwards, she would be able to retain 80% of her combat power after recovery.
Unfortunately, Vanessa’s limbs were severed after she was severely injured, causing her injuries to worsen and leading to her current state.
“Your bones are too shattered. I thought a spider web had fallen on them. And your internal organs are even missing.” Owen kept zooming in on the wounds, frowning as he looked. This was beyond his ability to handle.
Owen originally wanted to enhance Vanessa’s self-healing ability with the T-Virus first, and then carry out mechanical modifications. The problem was that he just discovered that the T-Virus had almost no effect on Legendaries. In other words, it had never defeated a Legendary powerhouse’s immune system. Even though Vanessa was so weak, the T-Virus was still defeated. This was unreasonable.
Under these circumstances, the success rate of mechanical modification on Vanessa was too low. Moreover, through scanning her data, Owen discovered that with his current technology, it was difficult to fully restore her strength.
Owen was unwilling to admit defeat just like that, because this only meant that the conventional methods he had mastered were ineffective, not that there was no way at all.
Anyway, this guy wasn’t really one of his own yet. After a moment of hesitation, Owen decided to go all out and formulated a super bold modification plan, attempting to create a perfect living weapon, a warm one at that.
Although she didn’t know what Owen was doing, his perverted expression and his perverted laughter made Vanessa feel regretful. She even suddenly had the thought of letting him just give her a clean death.
However, the flames of revenge in her heart were still burning fiercely. In the end, Vanessa simply closed her eyes, out of sight, out of mind. Anyway, she had no room to resist now. Her only hope of revenge was in his hands.
Owen took out the portable Universal Furnace, which had been improved many times, and began to make complex adjustments.
Because the workload was too large, Owen even connected with Emily and Bryan. With the computing power support of Flame Empress, he finally perfected this modification plan.
After Vanessa was placed in the Universal Furnace, Warm Baby was directly embedded into the slot specially reserved for it on the Universal Furnace for data connection. While strengthening the scanning, it also projected the more intuitive and complete data model in front of Owen, which was very convenient for the following operations. How considerate.
Unsure about the following experiment, Owen simply unfolded his Domain, using its reality-warping ability to interfere with the experiment. In other words, he wasn’t pretending anymore. He was going to cheat.
