Chapter 74: Exchange (Please Collect and Recommend)

However, although the primordial water has the effect of substitution, Kai is not 100% sure. After all, no one knows what mechanism the price of the Holy Grail of Life is. Celtic magic is very strange, and it is very different from the spells Kai encountered outside. It is not the same way at all. If the Holy Grail of Life bypasses the primordial water, then Kai will really die. →

But now, Kai seems to have no other way, so he can only take a gamble!

Of course, Kai did not tell Merlin about this. Because there is no need.

Soon, Kai was ready to use the Holy Grail.

The method of using the Holy Grail is recorded on the scroll. It is not difficult. As long as you master the method, it is not troublesome to use it. Even if Kai does not know Celtic spells, he can use it.

"Tidernas!"

As the spell was chanted, the sky suddenly darkened, and then the Holy Grail in Kai's hand emitted a soft light golden light, and then a drizzle began to fall. In the drizzle and light, some transparent and shiny water slowly gathered in the golden Holy Grail.

As the water in the Holy Grail became more and more, Kai found that his vitality began to decrease rapidly, as if something was sucking his vitality. What's worse is that Kai himself has no ability to interrupt this process.

As the Holy Grail began to fill up, Kai found that not only his vitality, but even his soul seemed to be being sucked away by something!

The original water that Kai had placed high hopes on seemed like a counterfeit product at this time, without any movement!

This is really over!

This is the only thought in Kai's mind. →

Just when Kai fell into despair, a sudden pain from the depths of his soul almost made Kai faint.

Merlin on the side suddenly heard Kai's scream and was startled. He saw Kai suddenly fell to the ground with his head in his hands, and the Holy Grail seemed to be stimulated by something, shining brightly, ten times brighter than before!

Merlin wanted to pull Kai away, but before he could get close to the Holy Grail, he was bounced away by an invisible force, and hit his head on the stone pillar of Stonehenge and fainted.

So Kai could only bear the pain of tearing his soul alone.

It was unknown how long it took for the pain that penetrated his soul to slowly fade away, and Kai's sanity slowly returned. When he looked up at the Holy Grail again, the Holy Grail floating in the air had changed greatly. Many unknown reliefs and patterns appeared on the original golden cup body, and wisps of blue flames appeared on the cup body. This flame did not make people feel hot, but gave people an unusually warm feeling.

Looking at the Holy Grail that had been completely changed, Kai spread out his palm, and the original water in his hand was safe and sound.

Kai smiled bitterly.

"Hehe, is this a blessing in disguise?"

On the attribute panel in Kai's mind, the energy points originally obtained from killing the Death Knight disappeared at some point, and even the energy bar that had grown to one-sixth again was emptied.

But correspondingly, the Holy Grail of Life belonged to Kai. In every sense!

Kai thought for a long time before he made a guess. The condition for exchanging the Holy Grail was one life for one life. If you want to save Arthur, you must sacrifice one person. Kai chose himself. He originally planned to use the primordial water to carry it through, but he didn't expect that the Holy Grail would exchange for something other than souls!

Now the primordial water was helpless. Kai voluntarily offered his soul, which was almost like suicide. The primordial water would not care about suicide. Although this was not humane at all, it was reasonable.

Originally, Kai was really going to die this time, but who told Kai to have a system? Although his system was simple, it was there anyway. And the Holy Grail wanted souls. It happened that Kai's system was specifically for collecting souls, so in order to protect Kai, the host, the system took the initiative to trade its own "experience" to the Holy Grail as a price.

I don't know if this Holy Grail felt that the quality of the soul power given by Kai was too high, so it sucked it hard. In the end, it obviously exceeded the share of the transaction, so according to the principle of fairness, it regarded itself as part of the "price" and traded everything to Kai.

So now, this Holy Grail completely belongs to Kai.

This is Kai's guess. Although there is no evidence to prove it, this is the most reasonable explanation.

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When Merlin woke up again, it was already night, and he was tied to the horse by Kai. Merlin's first reaction was that he was kidnapped. But he immediately found Kai, who was riding another horse in front of him. They had left the dead forest and were rushing back.

Merlin struggled twice, but found that Kai's skills were very solid and he couldn't get away at all.

"Are you awake?" Merlin was about to call Kai, but he didn't expect Kai to find out that he had woken up in advance. "How do you feel?"

Kai asked Merlin about his condition while untying Merlin from the horse.

"It's okay... just a little headache." Merlin got off the horse weakly, and almost fell down when he stood on the ground. "And my whole body is numb."

"I'm sorry, I was afraid you would fall, so I tied you a little tight. Just move around." Kai apologized insincerely, and then took out a kettle for Merlin to drink some water.

This unfortunate child's health is really not good. He was just hit, but he was unconscious for a whole day. If Kai didn't have some medical knowledge, this child would be in big trouble. It's normal for him to feel weak all over after not eating or drinking for a day.

Merlin was indeed thirsty, so he picked up the kettle and kept drinking. After drinking a lot of water, he finally felt much better. Only then did he have the heart to care about Kai's situation.

"Are you okay? I saw you were in great pain at the time, and I was going to help you, but... I don't know what happened, I fainted."

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"Hey... Eat more meat when you go back." What else can Kai say to such a weakling? He can only pat him on the shoulder to show encouragement.

At first, Merlin didn't understand the logical relationship between them, so he just said "oh" stupidly, but his face immediately turned red. Is this despising him? Definitely despising him!

But after thinking about it, Merlin found that he seemed to have nothing to refute, because he was indeed a weakling. How could he save people like this? In the end, others saved him...

Merlin's face kept changing with the changes in his heart, and finally he lowered his head in shame.

"Okay, it's all right now. What I thought before was right. The primordial water really worked. What we need to do now is to rush back as soon as possible and heal Arthur." Kai comforted Merlin and started to make a fire and cook.

He wanted to continue on his way, but he was afraid that Merlin couldn't bear it, so he could only eat first, then take a rest and continue on his way.