Infinite Blood Core - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Addiction of Life and Death

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

In the dark.

Inside the deep darkness, the young man’s mind gradually recovered.

Where am I?

What is this place?

Where am I?

No one answered him, the darkness full of silence.

Who am I?

Why… Am I trapped here?

What should I do?

The young man became anxious. He felt as if he had forgotten something extremely important.

He tried his best to remember something, but got nothing.

He began to struggle, trying to break free of this dark prison.

Then, an unreal glow appeared before his eyes.

The tiny light was noticeable in the dark.

As the light flickered, the boy’s memory suddenly recovered.

He seemed to have returned to the tavern, where he, as a member of the Templars, rejoiced after victory. He was listening to the lessons of the old Grand Master.

The light in the darkness was like the dim candlelight in the tavern.

The young man felt warm and groggy, he was about to fall asleep.

But suddenly, he heard a beast roar.

The lights and shadows suddenly became detailed, the boy was disappointed to find out that he had not returned to the tavern, instead he was inside a burning hot cave.

The endless pain kept coming, like waves hitting the shore.

Aupin felt like a small row boat, he could be destroyed by the wind and waves at any moment.

In addition to the pain, there was also the unbearable heat and intense dizziness.

Aupin was no stranger to these sensations.

The Fire Venom is breaking out again! he thought.

The claws of the brown bear were stuck in his waist and abdomen, it was difficult to get up. The young man tried his best to lift his head slightly.

Then, he saw the bear corpse and a familiar figure leaning beside the bear corpse.

It was Violette, she was collecting the bear blood.

She wiped the corners of her eyes from time to time with an anxious look on her face.

Aupin suddenly relaxed, when he heard a beast roar in the darkness, he thought there was another beast attacking. However, seeing that Violette was safe and sound, he was relieved. He lifted his head weakly, then slammed the back of his head on the ground.

Violette was startled by this sound. When she saw Aupin regain consciousness, she cried out in surprise, “My Sir?! Aupin, you are awake!”

She immediately rushed to Aupin.

Aupin saw the girl’s red and swollen eyes, tear streaks down her cheeks.

Aupin wanted to speak, but couldn’t.

His throat and tongue were swollen, making it difficult for him to enunciate, he could only smile wryly.

The young man realized that if another beast attacked him, with his current state, he would not have the strength to protect his fiancée.

“My Sir, the Fire Venom is back, and the previous potion is no longer effective. I am preparing a new potion, I will succeed! Believe me, you must not give up!”

“I will be able to save you!”

Violette’s words of comfort to Aupin were lies to herself, increasing her self-confidence.

Aupin nodded, but this extremely slight movement caused him to fall into a coma again.

After a while in the darkness, he heard a beast roar again and was able to wake up.

Aupin didn’t see any beasts around, he thought in his heart, Is it just a hallucination? How long had I passed out this time?

He looked around and saw that Violette was beside him.

But this time, the girl was not collecting bear blood. She cut open Aupin’s arm, drawing out his blood.

Half of the glass bottle had been filled with blood.

The young man’s blood was dark red, it was boiling hot.

After seeing the young man awake again, Violette immediately said, “Sir, I am curing you! I will draw your poisonous blood out to dilute the Fire Venom in your body.”

The young man remained silent.

Strangely, this time, he didn’t feel any pain.

This was definitely not a good thing.

Feeling pain was a normal perception of the human body, which was the perfect warning mechanism to remind the human body to protect itself.

Aupin knew that his condition at the moment was extremely grim. Not only did the Fire Venom effects reappear, but he also fought with the brown bear and was seriously injured. Feeling no pain meant that the nerves in his entire body had been desensitized!

There was still a strong sense of dizziness in his head.

The young man did not dare to move easily.

Because once he moved slightly, he would blackout again.

Aupin could only stare at the ceiling of the cave.

Whether it was the wound or his blood being drawn, he couldn’t feel anything… His hearing was also gone.

The young man felt a strange sense of peace and quiet at this moment.

Immediately afterwards, this peace faded in his heart, replaced by a fear that spread like wildfire.

Yes, fear.

He was scared!

He knew that death was coming, this was the fear of death.

In fact, when facing the brown bear, he was also facing death. But back then, he did not have the luxury to experience this feeling.

The feeling of death coming slowly was not comfortable at all!

The young man felt that his life was passing by, quietly, without a trace of sound.

At the deepest part of the young man’s heart, he wanted to survive. But his soul felt like water between his fingers, no matter how hard he tried, the water flowed down his fingers, eventually disappearing completely.

He felt like he was a lamb about to be slaughtered and he could only quietly wait for the sickle of death that would take his life.

Aupin thought that he was brave, but at this moment, he felt his own fear and his own weakness.

This kind of fear was so real and so strong, Aupin realized that even if he received more hardship and training, he could never completely face this fear calmly.

He clearly realized that this kind of fear was the most primitive fear of any life form, it was the survival instinct of all life.

Like a fog, the fear covered his entire heart.

At the same time, there were feelings of helplessness, despair, panic, anger, also derived from the fear.

Aupin began to pray.

Great God, Supreme Emperor…

He was a Templar knight, the god he believed in was the Emperor Holy Brilliance.

Humanity and religion unified. Emperor Holy Brilliance was the leader of the human race, his power was beyond the legendary level, he was a god who walked the world!

Aupin confessed to Emperor Holy Brilliance.

He tried to confess his past mistakes, but awkwardly discovered that because he had lost his memory, he couldn’t remember any mistakes at all.

Therefore, he had to pray to Emperor Holy Brilliance, begging him for mercy, and begging him to protect Violette from this extremely dangerous island after his death.

However, the young man’s prayers to the god he served for his entire life did not receive a response.

Not even the slightest response.

Every Templar knight is under the watchful eyes of Emperor Holy Brilliance. Maybe this island blocks him from his believers?

Aupin fell into the darkness again.

Just like before, a beast roar that shook the world woke him up again.

After waking up this time, Aupin frowned.

He felt the intense pain again!

Unlike the pain he had before, this time, he seemed to be pierced with needles all over his body. Every inch of skin, every inch of muscle, every inch of bone, inside and outside of the body, felt like it had been stabbed countless times with needles.

Not just that, but the burning sensation of the Fire Venom became more intense.

The teenager felt like he was being roasted in a bonfire!

“It’s effective, it works!” Violette’s cry resonated in his ear, the girl looked extremely excited.

Aupin shifted his gaze, when he saw her movements, his heart was shocked.

The girl was not collecting bear blood, nor drawing his own blood, she was sprinkling blood on his wounds.

This must be the bear’s blood!

Aupin was in terrible shape, especially the wound on his waist and abdomen.

But now, the brown bear’s claws that pierced through his abdomen had disappeared.

Violette seemed to have splashed a ton of potions on the wound. The potion splashes looked like a colorful painting prepared by a poor artist.

A steady stream of bear blood poured into the “painting” and was quickly absorbed.

Aupin’s body was like a piece of soil in an extreme drought. No matter how much bear blood was poured by Violette, he quickly absorbed the blood completely.

What kind of treatment is this? Will it really work? Aupin couldn’t help but wonder when he saw himself like this.

The more bear blood he absorbed, and stronger the pain became, but at the same time, his heart felt stronger.

His heart was beating faster and faster.

The young man almost felt that if his heart was beating any faster, it would jump out of his chest!

This worry didn’t last long as he passed out again.

The pain had increased by several magnitudes, it was unbearable, far beyond the limit of the normal human body.