Bai Yue was curled up amid a bizarre patch of flowers, the Runes inscribed on her body already overheating.
Damn it... What was wrong with this High Elf city...?
Bai Yue glanced at Hai Lan, who had collapsed unconscious in the grass beside her.
Her orders were to bring Hai Lan back to the Underground Ruins to undergo the Sublimation Ritual, a sacred ceremony every one of them had to accept.
But Hai Lan had refused. Not only had he refused, he had also fled their home with a Sublimated One.
That left Bai Yue no choice but to return to this wretched flesh-and-blood body and come to the surface to bring the runaway back.
After undergoing the Sublimation Ritual, the magic power in Bai Yue's body had been completely drained. If she wanted to continue using magic through a physical body, she had to inscribe it with these Runes that gathered magic power.
The Ancient People had found a way to convert human emotions into magic power and applied it to Magic Automatons. Bai Yue had modified her own body using the same Rune circuits, turning it into something between a Magic Automaton and a human.
The modifications had been remarkably effective. Bai Yue had gained physical abilities and magical control beyond those of humans, but the price was that this body would likely last only a month or two.
That had nothing to do with Bai Yue... As a Sublimated One, she was immortal. To her, a physical body was nothing more than a shackle.
But Hai Lan... had rejected this gift.
"Did everyone in this city take some kind of excitement drug?"
Bai Yue clutched her chest. She could hear her source of power—her heart—pounding at two hundred beats per minute.
A human would have collapsed under