Otaku Translation: The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life Chapter 373

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Chapter 373: Dark Demon Mixing a Hodgepodge of Things 2 in 1

Faced with such a strong statement from Leah, Dark simply asked nonchalantly, "Why is that?"

Leah shook her head. "Lolo Tree Frogs are a specialty of the demon race's vampire territory, vampires often use their skins to make grimoires about Blood Magic. Blood Magic is very dangerous. It would be best for people who aren't innately gifted with Blood Magic not to come into contact with it."

"Blood Magic?"

The gears in Dark's mind turned—there was a hint of something else in his eyes as he looked at Leah.

Of course he knew about Blood Magic.

Blood Magic belonged to the category of high-level innate magic. Like astrology, it required innate talent as a foundation.

Basically, vampires as well as lower-level vampiric creatures were born with the ability to master Blood Magic.

Aside from vampires, there were also some rare races that possessed the innate talent for Blood Magic.

But among humans, only "the Blood Race" could master Blood Magic.

They were dubbed as the nemesis of vampires.

But nowadays, on the surface, the sole survivor of the Blood Race was the "Blood Princess" whose life or death was unknown—Ophelia Bullard!

Through some information, Dark and the professors had inferred the possibility of the Blood Princess' survival and "superimposed" her with Olivia Copernicus, an escapee from Bastille Prison.

So when it came to Blood Magic, Dark would naturally think of "Blood Princess" Ophelia Bullard.

"Leah… Ophelia?"

Dark deliberately mumbled out.

Yet Leah Goethe's expression didn't change at all. It was still just as warm and gentle, just like... a fake face!

As this thought popped up, Dark could no longer control the gaze with which he looked at Leah's face.

Seemingly aware of his gaze, Leah Goethe softly said, "It is prudent to retreat and think twice upon learning of danger. But of course, this is just my personal opinion. If you're determined to touch upon it, you must be extra careful."

After saying that, she winked at Dark, eyes as vermilion as her hair showing a hint of mischief.

Then she walked to the side to look at other books.

Dark slightly loosened his grip on《Blood Sacrifice》 and softly sucked in a breath.

Although he had an intuition that Leah Goethe was connected to Ophelia Bullard, in actuality, the other party showed no signs of being related to the Blood Princess.

Besides, the reason why he thought that the Blood Princess might be in the academy was because of Robert's divination.

But now, it had been confirmed that Robert's divination was due to the existence of Vlad, which overturned his previous hypothesis.

There was no longer any grounds to support the conjecture of the Blood Princess being in the academy.

Furthermore, no matter whether or not his intuition was accurate, it wasn't advisable to investigate it too straightforwardly.

Dark was not arrogant enough to think that he could contend with a wartime hero.

He lowered his head and glanced at 《Blood Sacrifice》, pursed his lips, and then looked in the direction of Leah Goethe, wondering if he should continue to observe or follow her.

But during the time it took him to lower and then raise up his head, the gentle lady who was standing in front of the bookshelf while flipping through the books actually disappeared without any warning!

As Dark's eyes flashed, he immediately took a few steps forward and then quickly rushed out. Yet when he looked left and right, he realized that Miss Leah Goethe was truly gone.

"Who on earth is she?"

Dark couldn't help but halt his steps, his expression slightly changing.

……

Dark ultimately bought the book 《Blood Sacrifice》.

On the way back to the castle, he recalled Leah Goethe's appearance.

The long vermilion hair was different from both the hair colors in Blood Princess's past portrait and Olivia's mugshot when she turned herself in.

The contours of their faces were somewhat similar, but there were countless people who looked similar in this world.

Their facial features were obviously different.

"Is it a disguise effect created by the use of magic?"

As Dark reached up to tap the skin above his temple, the wisp that was the Blessing of the Wind Spirit wrapped around his finger, bringing with it a hint of cooling breeze.

It was a pity that he didn't have the corresponding innate talent, otherwise he could've used this wisp of breeze to send a message to Professor Silver.

"I think I should still inform her."

Dark put 《Blood Sacrifice》 into his schoolbag and quickly made his way to Professor Silver's office.

Although it was Saturday, tomorrow was the Easter Duel Festival. He guessed that Professor Silver must be busy in the office.

The result was as expected.

After knocking on the door and entering the office, Dark immediately told Professor Silver about his encounter with Leah Goethe and also relayed Professor Medea's "reminder", hoping that Professor Silver would be on the alert.

"No need to worry about safety." Professor Silver nodded with some caution and said, "The professors will be patrolling all around the place tomorrow."

The professors of Saint Marian were indubitably a guarantee of safety.

Feeling rather relieved, Dark then said, "Although it's just a guess, I have an intuition that she's the Blood Princess. Even though she may be in disguise, the gentle temperament she radiates is very consistent with your previous description. Let's assume that she needs to disguise herself for some reason—if I were in her shoes, I would definitely not risk exposing myself to warn a student I don’t even know."

Professor Silver's serious expression slightly softened. As if reminiscing, she looked up and said, "Bullard is such a person. She's gentle and kind, making people find it difficult to believe that she's actually a member of the Blood Race. If it's really her, then there'll be no need to worry. She won't do anything that will harm the students."

"I hope so." Dark clasped his hands and weighed his words, "But everyone has two sides. Even more so someone who has escaped after more than ten years of suffering in prison."

Upon hearing this, Professor Silver noticeably became rather prickly.

She knocked on the table and said, "I've always believed in her, she must have her own reasons."

Dark raised his eyebrows and said, "Professor, I still have something else to do, I'll take my leave first."

Professor Silver nodded: "See you tomorrow, may you perform well."

Dark smiled: "The goal is to pass the preliminary round."

……

Indeed, with the preliminary battle royale mode, the possibility of unexpected failure was really not small.

It was fortunate that the preliminary battle royale was separated into upper and lower groups, otherwise, he would truly have no chance at all.

After he returned to the dormitory, Dark promptly put the Blood Princess incident behind him for the time being and turned to studying the book 《Blood Sacrifice》.

It wasn't that he didn’t believe Leah Goethe’s words, but even though he didn’t have the innate talent for Blood Magic, he did have an expert of it in his family.

Moreover, he had already bought it, so how could he be willing not to check out what exactly the thing was?

"According to what Miss Goethe said, just soaking it in water will do."

After greeting the magical spirits, Dark picked a basin of suitable size and placed it under the faucet to collect water.

While waiting for the water to fill, he picked up the book again and shook it vigorously. Upon confirming that there was nothing stuck inside, he turned off the faucet and slowly put the book into the basin.

Almost as soon as it went into the water, there was a clear indication of the pages beginning to absorb moisture.

The originally light and thin paper slowly gained some texture.

And on top of the pages, fine texts were also gradually appearing.

This kind of concealment measure was actually relatively rudimentary, far less advanced than the secret ancient script《Into the Abyss》.

After a certain extent, the paper no longer continued to absorb water.

Dark directly opened the book inside the water and started reading from the first page onwards.

The book looked quite thick, but it had surprisingly little text.

It didn't take long for Dark to get the general idea.

Then he let out a sigh, picked up the book from the basin, and hung it on a nearby shelf.

It wasn't that this book wasn't good.

It was just that it was simply useless to him.

……

Just as the title implied, 《Blood Sacrifice》 was a book about a method of "blood sacrifice".

It used animal blood, monster blood, human blood—all sorts of blood as fuel to be transformed into formidable power through Blood Magic, which could then be used to cast spells, do summoning... and even forge weapons!

The bloodthirsty giant ax Dark seized from the two-headed demonic being was probably forged using this method of blood sacrifice.

"Blood sacrifice" didn't fall under magic technology. It belonged to the category of Blood Magic.

Not only was it inapplicable in crafting the [Bloodthirsty Great Ax] into a magic card, it also had no other use for Dark.

If DemiDevimon or Gatomon could master this method, after merging and evolving into Bastemon, it would be able to wield the absorbed blood energy more efficiently.

But in the current situation where Gatomon had only learned how to perceive and release magic energy, this book could only be shelved for the time being.

Thinking of this, Dark looked at 《Blood Sacrifice》 with a trace of regret in his eyes.

"Wait a minute…"

But soon, he abruptly had a flash of inspiration.

"Looking at it another way, all the pages of this book are made of Lolo Tree Frog skin... Although it has been processed to a certain extent, it clearly still retains the properties of Lolo Tree Frog skin. Can this thing be used for crafting?"

"Speaking of which… just what kind of monster is this Lolo Tree Frog?"

With this thought in mind, Dark immediately pulled out 《The Secret Record of Bird & Beast-type Magical Spirits - Unknown Strange Ecology

》 from the bookshelf, and then carefully looked through it.

Frogs were amphibians, not reptile-type.

In this world, they were classified under "Bird & Beast-type".

The 《The Secret Record of Bird & Beast-type Magical Spirits - Unknown Strange Ecology

》 given to him by Claire contained an enormous number of birds and beasts. Dark had only read a small part of it.

"Sure enough, monsters with special uses like Lolo Tree Frogs are indeed recorded in this book."

Ten minutes later, Dark finally found the name "Lolo Tree Frog" within the dense table of contents.

When he turned to the corresponding page number, the first thing that caught his eye was the colored image of the Lolo Tree Frogs.

Slightly different from the "tree frogs" in Dark's imagination, the skin of these "Lolo Tree Frogs" was white with a hint of gray. Overall, it looked very similar to ordinary tree frogs, without even a trace of markings on the skin.

It could absorb moisture and store it in its skin, keeping it moisturized even under the scorching sun.

There was a small bump on top of its head, and that, in fact, was a tree seed.

When a Lolo Tree Frog died, the tree seed that absorbed its essence would take root and sprout on its corpse, growing into a swamp tree called "Lolo".

Lolo Tree Frogs usually dwelled in the holes of Lolo trees, living in coexistence with Lolo trees.

All in all, they were a rather rare type of tree frog.

But when it came to monster levels… it was obviously subpar.

This meant that if he used it as a core material to craft a magical spirit, it would probably only amount to a one or two-star little cutie.

The crafting might even fail because the material had already been processed.

But after all, 《Blood Sacrifice》 didn't have much value for Dark. He also merely used less than 100 points when purchasing it, so he wouldn't be too heartbroken even if it was scrapped.

So he thought he might as well give it a try.

But before the experiment, he needed to transcribe the contents of 《Blood Sacrifice》.

Each page of 《Blood Sacrifice》 was one-sided and had no more than a hundred words. The total word count was only a few thousand.

Dark simply dismantled the book into pages and asked the magical spirits to help him copy it.

In this way, it took only half an hour to completely transcribe the text of 《Blood Sacrifice》.

At last, he kept the page depicting the blood sacrifice magic circle before starting out on the crafting.

The crafting method used this time was the most common basic(random) crafting method. The materials used were basically the Lolo Tree Frog skin paper as the core, supplemented by the remaining materials obtained from the dungeon.

In short, he was practically mixing a hodgepodge of things, casually crafting it.

When he first learned the basic crafting method, Dark did it just as casually and ended up crafting his first golden card——[Shuckle]!

The subsequent [Hawlucha] and [Popplio] were also crafted in this way.

Although these two magical spirits weren't particularly strong, they had future potential.

"Tree frog—let me think about it, is there any magical spirit with similar attributes or species to tree frogs?"

"Grass-type, water-type, frogs..."

"Bulbasaur or Poliwag?"

"Bulbasaur is a grass-type + poison-type. Poliwag is a pure water-type. The Politoed that evolved from Poliwag especially looked quite similar to Lolo Tree Frogs."

"If it's Digimon, Gekomon? ShogunGekomon? What else is there..."

"Or maybe it'll be a Yu-Gi-Oh monster of the frog archetype?"

"Doesn't matter!"

Dark picked up a glass of Shuckle-brand apple juice and drank it up in one go, instantly feeling refreshed.

Nowadays, he didn't need to personally make the apple juice. The warm-hearted Shuckle would do it on its own and prepare a cup of apple juice for him every night.

Dark glanced at the clock on the wall.

It was 8:45 pm. There was still plenty of time.

He straight away began to prepare and finished all the preparations for the experiment in just half an hour.

Thereupon, he took another half an hour to complete a semi-finished magic card.

After drawing and activating the crafting magic circle no. 1, he could then start to put materials into the crafting magic circle!

Dark had always thought that the greatest joy in the crafting process of a magical spirit was putting the materials into the crafting magic circle.

It was just like cooking—different ingredients and seasonings could produce different flavors.

And the process of cutting the light cocoon was like drawing a lottery.

Even the weirdest materials had the probability of culminating into a powerful magical spirit, making people never tire of it.

This time, in addition to putting in the grass-type materials obtained from the dungeon, he also didn't forget to add in the usual catalyst—saliva.

In the end, except for the page he kept, he even sedulously re-binded all the other pages of 《Blood Sacrifice》 and tossed it together into the crafting magic circle.

But after putting in so many materials, the brightness of the crafting magic circle had yet to reach its limit.

And thus he continued to put some more, and put even more…

……

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