Even death could not stop the head from betraying the body...
Watching the bloody scene, Angel sighed inwardly and withdrew her straight sword.
At her feet, blood kept pouring from the neck of the Trick Sorcerer's headless corpse, merging with the flowing waters of the Fountain of Youth and disappearing almost instantly. The spring remained clear, just like the endless life it bestowed on humans.
It seemed the Fountain of Youth's greatest function was to allow the lives immersed in it to continue almost without loss, but...
Right before Angel's eyes, the dead Trick Sorcerer's once smooth, delicate skin rapidly wrinkled. The skin on her chest, thighs, and other fatty areas sagged, developing obvious age spots. Her long, bright golden hair turned gray and white in an instant, making her look like a centenarian.
...Once you leave the water, the extra "life" returns to the Fountain of Youth. No wonder she only left when the battle threatened her own safety... And a dead Trick Sorcerer can't maintain her Faceless abilities... Thinking this over, Angel quickly stepped out of the strange pool, afraid she might age in the next second too, truly experiencing the mismatch between age and mentality described in the Unaging Demoness's Promotion Ritual.
Of course, she did not forget to pull the Trick Sorcerer's severed head and body out of the water with invisible threads and place them on the grass nearby. This was partly out of respect for her opponent, and partly because she feared the Fountain of Youth would eventually swallow the corpse, taking the Beyonder characteristic within it as well.
Without wasting any time, she quickly circled the enormous rock in the middle of the grass, then returned to the Fountain of Youth concealed beneath it. She snapped dead branches from several withered trees and