Battle of the Two Cities: Begins with the Mage

Looking at Orianna's disappearing back, Katerina, who was standing behind Ryan, suddenly said:

"Your Excellency, I don't think she has any value for you to take action."

Ryan could see Katerina's dissatisfied expression, and he understood her psychology very well. The girl named Orianna might not be older than her, he asked with a smile:

"Katrina, what do you think is the most important thing for a machine to soar?"

"Excellent knowledge, tenacious will." Katerina blurted out.

A few days ago, she witnessed Victor implanting the Hex gem into his body. The energy shock from the gem would destroy the opponent's flesh and blood, and stimulated Victor's shimmering potion to resist.

The flesh and blood were constantly being destroyed, revealing the bones inside. But it was quickly reshaped under the adjustment of shimmer.

Destroy, reshape...

Constantly destroying, constantly reshaping.

Until the last remake, Viktor's flesh even lost its bright red, and the shimmering purple and the blue of the Hexite replaced flesh.

With purple flesh and blue blood vessels, it doesn't look like a human at all.

Katerina couldn't imagine the pain Viktor endured during the process. During the whole ceremony, the other party kept smiling, there was no wailing in pain, not even the slightest pain on his face, only the strong expectation.

She admired Victor's calmness alone.

After the ceremony, the strength of the other party leapt beyond her, but she rarely did not have the slightest jealousy, only full of recognition.

Ryan had warned before the ceremony that if he could not maintain consciousness, the flesh would not recover after being destroyed. This was a contest of will and hex gems.

In the end, Victor succeeded, becoming the only human to use the Hexite to reshape his body.

"You don't think that girl has such qualities?"

Ryan stood up and walked over to the device that took the form of a hex weapon.

A gentle stream of water pulled the covered prosthetic limbs and dolls away, revealing the buried mechanical iron ball.

"Her knowledge is much worse than Viktor's. Viktor can find a way to complete the heart transplant operation without using any gems. In terms of will, I don't see anything special."

Katerina said bluntly that she saw the other party's intention to save her father, but she did not see the corresponding ability.

Orianna is a gambler on the verge of collapse, putting herself at the table as a bargaining chip, eager for a way to save her father by gambling.

"You've only seen half of it. Orianna put her consciousness and knowledge here. She actually made a choice long ago."

Ryan's hand brushed the mechanical iron ball, and hundreds of water droplets fell into the air and drilled into the gap of the iron ball.

A thin water mirror stretched out in front of him, showing the inside of the iron ball.

At the center of the iron ball, azure blue radiance enveloped a mass of beating flesh. And that group of beating flesh and blood is a living heart.

"This is!?"

Katarina's eyes narrowed, showing a look of surprise.

"Orianna's heart."

Her heart is here... so that means...

Katarina only felt a shudder all over her body, and her eyes subconsciously looked in the direction Orianna left.

That little girl... has long since replaced her heart with a hex crystal?

And... it worked! ?

"What are you kidding? Did someone help her?"

She still remembered Ryan's questioning, and the other party's answer was that she did it alone, but she really couldn't believe it was true.

"There are only traces of her operation. In Rune Land, some people are born with talents that are different from ordinary people."

Ryan said, raising his hands slightly, and countless water droplets spurted out of his palms, flowing through the chaotic prosthetics and puppets in the ground, lifting them up one after another.

Soon, a simple operating table surrounded by several dolls appeared in the center, and several prosthetic hands were hung in the air by thin threads, and countless silk threads connected them.

"This is... an operation site? Instead of using the knife herself, she used a puppet to replace a heart for herself?"

Katerina quickly saw the clue, and a trace of horror flashed in her eyes.

Thousands of silk threads were pulled up in the sky and tightly tied to the prosthetic hand holding the scalpel, but most of them were broken, and they were just forcibly left in the air by the water flow controlled by Ryan.

Looking at the scene in front of her, she only felt cold all over, and she could fully relate to the scene at that time.

Orianna lay peacefully on the operating table. After injecting herself with anesthesia, she cut the silk thread at hand at the last second of unconsciousness.

The silk thread connected with Sky's prosthetic hand, and the first prosthetic hand with a scalpel cut open her chest. At the same time, the silk thread drove several other prosthetic hands down one after another. Perfectly took out her heart and replaced it with a hex crystal.

The next few thousand silk threads controlled the prosthetic hand to sew her chest, and the last few hundred silk threads controlled the doll to keep the heart in the device.

Using tens of thousands of silk threads to precisely control the movement trajectories of several prosthetic hands, accurate to every step and every detail.

Relying only on himself, he completed the operation to replace Hex's heart.

A slight movement can lead to death on the spot. But the other party counted every step, restrained all the physiological reactions that he might have when changing the heart, and completed this great operation.

Such success is nothing short of miraculous...

Katarina withdrew the contempt in her eyes, and there was only deep admiration in her eyes.

Someone who can do this is not only far better than her, but perhaps even more amazing than Victor.

"She was born with a lot of emotion, but she's also a perfect machine."

Ryan gave his own comment, he leaned down slightly, put his hand on the operating table, and the magic blue light wrapped his palm.

hum! ! !

Suddenly, the water flow on the ground condensed into one piece, slowly climbed onto the operating table, condensed into a special symbol, and then rose up.

"What is this?" Katerina asked curiously.

"Rune!"

Ryan spit out two words lightly, and his black and white eyes took the special symbol into his eyes, and the magic repeated it in his mind countless times.

He still can't exactly understand the meaning of this rune, but as long as it is perfectly recorded, sooner or later, he will understand it one day.

Or maybe Orianna will be the key to understanding this rune.

"Your Majesty's magic is always amazing." Katerina sincerely admired.

Water should be the weakest attribute in nature, but in Ryan's hands it seems to be able to transform into everything, omnipotent.

"It doesn't belong to me, I just used magic to draw it out, which confirms one of my guesses."

His eyes flashed a magical blue light, and the rune gradually approached him, and finally merged into his body:

"I had the honor to discuss the mystery of runes with a great mage. We agreed that runes are a continuation of magic. Only by understanding more runes can we go further on the path of mage. Every rune They all represent a whole new kind of magic, and learning them brings us closer to the origin of magic."