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Murphy had dared to offer his heart to Triss to prevent the worst from happening because he knew that, with the special ancestral power of "Immortality," he wouldn't die from losing his heart.
After all, that fact had already been proven with Triss.
The Scarlet Witch had survived for over a century in a weakened state after losing her heart, proving just how potent this ancestral power was. Of course, the fact that the seed watered with her heart later turned into the young lady Femis was another story.
However, Triss hadn't told him that using another heart to fill the hollow in his chest would also involve a "risk"—the exact same process Triss had undergone when she used that unruly heart taken from Salokdar.
It was an unnatural process of passive acceptance and transformation that violated the rules of midnight, and it was filled with pain. Triss was a Golden One, after all. Just because she could endure it didn't mean Murphy could.
Even while unconscious, Murphy could feel the restless, powerful heart "beating" in his chest.
It wasn't proclaiming its existence in the life-giving way a heart should. Instead, it was like a vicious, irritable rat, trying to tear at the vampire's body and break all the "bonds" it had placed upon it with each powerful thump.
This was probably a one-of-a-kind experience in the entire world!
After all, even a leader-level vampire like Lord Paine would suffer eternal death if his heart were ripped out.
The undying body granted by Madblood infection could restore a vampire even if he were chopped into mincemeat, but Luna had entered the fading process after the witch ripped out her heart. That proved that the "heart-ripping" tactic was just as