The jumping experience bar
Looking at the three bottles of deep red, crystal-clear [Dragon Blood Potion] placed side by side on the table, Lu Yuan was about to reach for one of them when Oden, who had just withdrawn his consciousness from his left hand, immediately stopped him in his mind:
"Don't rush to drink it. The effects of the first bottle you drank the night before last are still lingering in your Flesh and haven't been fully digested. It would be a complete waste to immediately drink a second bottle now. I don't recommend you continue using it right away. Listen to me, take another bottle every three to five days, allowing your body to gradually absorb the full effects. Anyway, we have special sealed bottles to lock in the efficacy, and these three bottles are enough for you to use slowly for the next while."
After listening to Oden's instructions, Lu Yuan carefully sensed the still continuously heating blood and qi within his body and found it to be very reasonable. He then readily withdrew his hand and carefully stored the three well-sealed bottles of [Dragon Blood Potion] close to his body.
Before we knew it, it was the morning of the third day of the care period.
As Lu Yuan did in the previous two days, he pushed open the wooden door of the Infirmary and went to the bedside to examine the patient. The long eyelashes of the Blue Knight, who had been lying quietly on the bed, suddenly trembled slightly, and his icy blue eyes, which had been asleep for three whole days, finally slowly opened!
Just as Lu Yuan saw the Blue Knight open his eyes and refocus his gaze, the phrase below his line of sight, which had remained silent ever since he touched the knight statue when he first entered the school and which had made him feel somewhat uneasy before entering the Land of the Dead Silence, suddenly jumped forward without warning!
[Knight Academy: +1...2/?]
Seeing the line of Gray-White Text that suddenly popped up in his field of vision, Lu Yuan's heart jolted. He instantly understood that his previous certification exams and potion-making at the Academy were just peripheral activities. It wasn't until today, when he personally rescued the dying Blue Knight from the Contamination of the Land of the Dead Silence, that he truly became involved in the core events of the Knight Academy for the first time!
The Blue Knight, who had just woken up, saw that the person guarding his bedside was Lu Yuan. A gentle expression appeared on his pale face. He took the initiative to tell the medical knights on duty outside not to come in for the time being, and spoke with Lu Yuan alone in the quiet Infirmary.
Blue Knight propped herself up slightly with her pillow, took the warm water Lu Yuan handed her and sipped it. She then began to tell Lu Yuan about her experiences in the Land of the Dead Silence. She told Lu Yuan that she remembered everything clearly, including the things that happened while she was still conscious in the Land of the Dead Silence.
Whether it was being rescued by Lu Yuan in the black mist, the two traveling together through the eerie Wasteland, or the moment when she used Brunkel's full strength to lift her into the air and smash the head of the Fourth Order High Singer with a single hammer blow, every scene was as clear as yesterday in her mind.
She lost consciousness the moment she killed the High Singer and the Contamination Pathway struck her. She had no idea what happened in the Land of the Dead Silence after she fell unconscious.
Lu Yuan listened quietly, and suddenly understood. It was precisely because the Blue Knight fell into a deep coma after smashing the High Singer that she inadvertently avoided the cognitive shock of the Sea of Knowledge colliding head-on with that terrifying Taboo. That's why her memory wasn't turned into a mess like Brunkel's and Frey's.
The Blue Knight, leaning against the headboard, raised his clear, icy-blue eyes and quietly looked at Lu Yuan sitting beside the hospital bed. He felt the Pathway within his body not only completely free from the Contamination of the Land of the Dead Silence, but also more pure and stable than before his injury. He remained silent for several breaths before finally letting out a soft sigh:
"I never imagined that you would be the one to save me in the end, and with the very methods you used."
She understood everything in her heart, but she didn't ask a single question about the drug formula or the specific process of removing the Contamination. She also didn't mention any words related to the Sea of Knowledge. Her eyes, when looking at Lu Yuan, held no scrutiny or inquiry, but rather a heartfelt sense of satisfaction.
Hearing the Blue Knight's tacitly shared sentiments, Lu Yuan sat on the wooden chair beside the hospital bed and smiled gently.
He neither proactively mentioned the specific methods he used to refine the Leaf of Hope the Sea of Knowledge, nor did he reveal the thrilling incident in which the Sea of Knowledge clashed head-on with that terrifying Holy Sovereign at the last moment in the Land of the Dead Silence.
Since the Blue Knight understood everything but chose not to say anything, Lu Yuan naturally wouldn't add anything more. He then helped the Blue Knight pull the blanket up to his waist.
Then, in a calm tone, she briefly recounted the events that followed her unconsciousness, the collapse of the Land of the Dead Silence, the return of everyone's consciousness to reality, and how she was rescued in time by the Astrologer Grand Knight Commander in the Northern Territory Snow Mountain cave and escorted back to the North Campus.
The Blue Knight, leaning against the headboard, listened quietly to the events of the past few days. A look of realization crossed his pale face, and he nodded gently.
She had just escaped the deep-rooted, high-level Contamination of the Land of the Dead Silence. Although the Fourth Order Pathway in her body had been completely calmed and stabilized with the help of the [Refined Hope Potion] and the Sea of Knowledge, they were even purer than before she was injured.
However, the deficit left by the fierce battles and the backlash from the Mutation was too great, and his body was still in an extremely weak state. After speaking for only a short while, a hint of weariness was already showing between his brows.
Lu Yuan noticed her exhaustion and immediately got up to put away the warm water cup on the table. He gently told her not to think about anything for the next few days, just stay in the Infirmary and rest until she had fully recovered her lost energy.
After greeting everyone, he walked to the door, pushed open the heavy, soundproof wooden door, and left the Infirmary. He instructed the medics on duty outside to go in and take care of the patient, and then he followed the spiral stone steps of the Hanging Tower back to the two-story hut.
Lu Yuan himself was unaware that three days earlier, as he locked himself in the Infirmary to treat the Blue Knight and was desperately tearing open the tiny gap in the Sea of Knowledge in front of him, a ripple had already been stirred up in the Main Control Room deep in the lower level of the Knight Academy's Hanging Tower, which was specifically responsible for overseeing the entire academy's Protective Barrier and monitoring Formation, because of his extremely small movement.
At that time, the Main Control Room of the Formation, buried deep inside the mountain beneath the Hanging Tower, was brightly lit, and the intricate silver Inscription engraved on the surrounding stone walls and the ground were slowly flowing in a constant rhythm.
But the moment Lu Yuan activated his Authority, the huge monitoring Formation Disk in the center of the Main Control Room suddenly lit up with a blinding red alarm light without warning, and a rapid and sharp alarm buzzing sound instantly echoed throughout the empty stone hall!
The entire monitoring array immediately and keenly detected the anomaly, sensing a Taboo -level aura within the inner area of North Campus of the Academy, as well as a fleeting, extremely peculiar unknown fluctuation.
Without any need for manual operation by on-duty personnel, the core mechanism of the main control array immediately began to operate at full capacity on its own, deeply capturing and determining the origin of the faint trace remaining in the air.