Chapter 1035 Vendome's Destined Death

"...a curse in the blood?"

Aiwass frowned.

Why do other people's treatments not work? Why does your own treatment work?

The only answer he could think of was "priority".

There are actually two types of treatment - "injury" and "disease".

If a person's arm is cut off by a steel knife, no matter whether the person doing it is a mortal, a third-level assassin, or a fifth-level warrior, the mana spent to heal the wound or join the limb is fixed. , and even the weakest transcendent can do this.

Pure physical damage can ignore most resistances caused by energy level differences, but similarly - wounds caused by physical damage can also be easily healed by the most basic means.

But there's another situation here... and that's spell damage.

For example, the classic ritual spell "Spell Baby". This powerful ritual spell, which requires a cursed dead baby as a ritual material, only requires a second-level transcendent to activate. Its power can even kill a third-level transcendent in an instant - the cause of death is heartbreak.

The subject's heart will be frozen and chewed to pieces by the cursed infant, resulting in sudden death within a short period of time.

——So, if the injured person is accompanied by a healer, can he extend the other person's life or restore his heart before death?

If the caster is of the second level, then a priest of at least the third level is required to do this.

Because after the spell causes damage, the power of the path involved does not dissipate immediately, but becomes entangled in the body. So if you want to treat it, you either need to wait for the power to completely dissipate, or you need to fight against this part of the power. And this part of the power itself will resist treatment.

Although the second-level priest can also offset the spell damage, the death caused by a broken heart is too quick. Even if it only takes three minutes to dissolve the powerful dark energy lingering in the heart, it is already too late to reshape the heart - if a second-level priest wants to reshape an organ, he will need at least ten units of mana, and Approximately ten minutes of casting time. Even if the heart recovers, other organs are basically dead.

Only a third-level priest can instantly dissolve the spell through the energy level suppression of the healing spell, and quickly reshape the heart within two minutes, and it is possible to save him.

——It is also a fatal injury. Severe anemia caused by multiple wounds is extremely easy to treat. Even a second-level priest can easily cure it. However, it is difficult to recover from being pierced through the heart or cut in half. Even if you recover, you may still be able to recover. The sequelae; and if someone is burned to death by a mage, they may not even be able to get treatment... That's the truth.

For example, Bishop Mathers back then was able to constantly eliminate the damage to body organs caused by Yulia's persistent high fever while in the Phantom Egg state, but he was unable to relieve this high fever. Because that is the power that the Butterfly of Flames keeps leaking. As a high-level phantom demon, the Paraflame Butterfly was already at least the fourth level when Yulia was still a child... Mathers' magical power was simply unable to resist this power.

The priest can easily heal "wounds", but cannot cure all "diseases".

This "curse" that the Vendôme family endured most likely came from the fifth energy level. So if you want to cure it, other fifth-level people have to take action.

If a priest reaches the fifth level, he is 100% a cardinal. As a human noble, I'm afraid I won't even see him.

But... it is indeed difficult to find a fifth-level priest, but isn't it still difficult to find a fifth-level curse master?

"Have you ever tried to let a fifth-level curse master lift the curse?"

Aiwass asked.

"Of course I tried."

Old Argon shook his head slowly: "But he said... this is not a curse. With his strength, he can't tell that there is a curse lingering on us."

"Maybe it's not his problem."

Aiwass added: "I actually didn't see it either."

His right eye is still in a state of sacrifice, and he does not have normal vision...but a special vision that can directly see the power of the path. If it was a curse, he should be able to clearly see the presence of black energy on them... It was the power of the path used by the curse to maintain itself from being dispelled or dissipated, and was equivalent to a "self-powered battery".

But he did not see the curse on the two of them, otherwise Aiwass would have dispelled the curse directly when he saw Annie.

but……

"Why do you say it's a blessing?"

Aiwass asked doubtfully.

Even if the possibility of a curse has been ruled out, this abnormality is said by the old Duke to be "a curse or a blessing." This is very abnormal in itself.

"Because it gives us a possibility..."

The old Duke said slowly: "So far...

"——All the 'Vendomes' of each generation are all extraordinary beings."

"……all?"

Aiwass was surprised: "Even the nobles of Herasl can't do this... Although the tendency and impulse of the path can be inherited, it does not mean that the children of the strong will definitely become Strong."

"Not just children," the old Duke denied.

"Not just..."

Aiwass repeated, inadvertently looking at Sherlock aside, and looking at Yassen as if he had thought of something.

He opened his eyes wide: "You mean...?"

"Whether you are married or married into a child, as long as you are named 'Vendôme', for up to eight years... ordinary people will become extraordinary and suffer from this strange disease. And if you are an extraordinary... then You can resist for a while longer. If it’s the path of beauty, you can resist for a while longer.”

The old man sighed: "People in Iris thought that our family would only choose extraordinary people on the path of beauty to 'marry' and recruit all the artists in Iris... But they didn't know that this was the only choice we could make.

“All the artworks you saw on the way here were not purchased by us. They were accumulated by generations of families.

"These masters of art were either directly born in Vendôme; or they eventually changed their surname to Vendôme."

"...Then, what if you get married?"

Hearing this, Aiwass couldn't help blurting out.

Hearing this, Annie's expression on the side became complicated and dark. She was silent and said nothing.

Seeing Anne's expression, Aiwass thought of his mother again.

He thought of "Swamp People" - could this be one of the reasons why Annie replicated herself?

Generally speaking, if people know that they have such a perfect copy... people may be afraid or disgusted. But most of them would be kept secret... but Anne obviously told her father everything. It was precisely because of this that the old Duke could so easily accept the fact that Aiwass also had the blood of Vendôme flowing through his veins.

"Then it's not just a cold illness," the old Duke replied. "There is only one result of giving up the surname 'Vendôme' - that is death. Whether it is marriage...or divorce."

"divorce?"

"Yes, if you have acquired the surname Vendôme through marriage, regardless of whether you have a cold disease or not, you will die soon after losing the protection of your surname. This is how people who gave up the name Vendôme in history died very quickly. The cause of death...people think of it as 'family pursuit', but they don't know that it is a kind of sadness."

"How did you die?"

Aiwass couldn't help but ask: "Did he die of illness? Or... anything is possible?"

"They all die from exhaustion of Qi and blood and weakness. First they are tired and weak, then they suffer from insomnia and loss of appetite. The strength of their limbs gradually weakens... and in the end they even become paralyzed in bed. It's like the whole person is gradually frozen. Also. It is precisely because of this kind of living toward death that so many... masters of art have been born among us."

The old man glanced at Yasen, who was so frightened that Yasen dared not say a word.

"The desire to create is born from a chaotic impulse, which comes from many human experiences."

He then continued: "The birth of art itself is the death of an experience, which means that it has reached its end. At the same time, it also means the reproduction of this experience...it will continue to sail into the future.

"The death of all things is the inevitable result of their destiny. People are born to die one day... No matter how a person's life deviates, he is always moving towards the only end point - death. Therefore, no matter how confused a person is, And there’s always an answer.”

The old Duke's words contained an air of death that could not be eliminated.

People usually only feel the impending death when they are terminally ill.

But if death can be touched day and night...

Hearing this, Aiwass suddenly had a question in his mind.

Seeing Aiwass's expression, Argon smiled before he asked, and asked proactively: "Do you want to ask...if any Vendôme people have become children of the moon?"

"……Yes."

Aiwass nodded slowly and admitted: "Since life is so painful... I also wonder if there are people who can't stand the temptation. Of course, I am not saying that becoming a child of the moon is right..."

"—No, not one."

The old man raised his head slightly, and his words were as calm as ice but filled with undisguised pride: "So far... every 'Vendome' has welcomed his or her destined death calmly. No one has tried to become a child of the moon or... Werewolves come to extend life, and no one has ever set foot on the forbidden twilight road.

"Because that's the wrong way... the wrong path is not feasible."

Hearing this, Aiwass was speechless for a moment and did not dare to speak.

He himself actually has an incarnation in the form of a moon child...

…Wait, that’s it!

Thinking of this, Aiwass suddenly opened his eyes.

Aiwass suddenly realized why the twin mirror gave him this form.

The shadow demon Bayard's form at that time was Aiwass's "disguised self"; and now "No. 14" as Aleister's carrier is Aiwass's "dream self".

That son of the moon, Aiwass, is not the mirror image of Aiwass Moriarty at all!

But the mirror image of Aivas de Vendôme!

He means "impossible self"!

——They are all a kind of mirror.

It symbolizes the opposite that Aiwass cannot reach and will never become.