With his Bloodline depleted and his body severely weakened, Leo, with limited ability to protect himself, hid in the palace of the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard, seeking refuge nowhere else.
The wizards contacted through the crystal ball either didn't reply or refused to meet, and all requests from the command center were ignored.
His status is what it is; who can do anything to him?
Anyway, I know what the Undying Body and Beast Blood Boiling are plotting, and I'm part of their plan too, so there's nothing to be ashamed of. Who wouldn't take advantage of a freebie?
Since Leo took up residence there, the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard has rarely returned. When he does return, he only says a few words before hurriedly leaving, and it's unclear what he's been busy with.
It gave Leo the illusion that an Undying Body was avoiding him, as if it was extremely afraid of hearing anything from Leo about his relationship with the Beast Blood Boiling.
As for Yaoyao, he's still the same as always, only coming back once every ten days or so. Leo already knows what he's been up to: spending all his time with a group of witches. According to Leo's observation, he gets along best with Litasha, the Level-Two Elemental Wizard whom Leo rescued back then.
On the contrary, he became somewhat estranged from Amanda and Amy, whom he had known for a long time. In Yaoyao Yao's own words, Litasha was a smart person, and he was very happy to be with her. He did not like to be with women who were not emotionally intelligent.
He even chose to be a soulmate!!
When Leo was bored, he made a malicious guess that Yaoyao Yao was only separated from wizards by race, otherwise, given his personality, he would have had countless children.
Fortunately, he was a semi-phantom being, so he didn't have to worry about promiscuity. Otherwise, if one day a bunch of pregnant women or female creatures came knocking on his door, would Leo accept them or not?
This palace was specially prepared for those with Undying Body. There were some normal rooms, but Leo just randomly picked one. He spent his days either sleeping or reading, using his mouth whenever possible and avoiding physical contact whenever possible.
The new generation of young people are so lazy that they seem to think they can stay home forever just by relying on their phones!
Suddenly feeling a weight on his shoulder, Leo knew without his cloudy eyes that it was Yaoyao returning from playing.
How's the battle going lately?
Leo closed his eyes and asked Yaoyao, "One reason why you let him play so recklessly is to gather intelligence, which is Yaoyao's old profession."
Although Leo has real-time updated intelligence on the information platform, and sometimes the Undying Body will reveal information that low-level wizards would not know, these intelligences will produce different results when put into practice.
"That's just how it is. Black Skull and his men have an army of hundreds of billions of modified slaves. Not every wizard can be like you. They can't kill them all no matter how hard they try."
Yaoyao picked at her teeth with her little paws, as if she had just finished a big meal.
"Oh,"
Leo frowned slightly. The battle was still at a stalemate, which meant that the wizards had no plans to counterattack, and his return home seemed a long way off.
Three years have passed since the Soul-Splitting Secret Technique was handed over. This technique is not difficult; even if every wizard learned it, it would only take a few months.
According to Leo's estimate, not all wizards need to learn it; as long as one million, or 10% of the wizard army, learn it, it will be enough to turn the tide of the stalemate.
Unfortunately, he has not yet witnessed the widespread adoption of this soul-binding technique. The battle situation remains exactly the same as before, with no changes whatsoever. The wizard army is in a passive defensive posture, struggling to maintain its riddled defenses.
I don't know what that person was thinking, why they let the battle situation become so passive.
Leo opened his eyes and looked at Yaoyao. The two runes under his eyes had disappeared. In the past three years, he had been able to completely control these two runes, unlike before when he couldn't control them and needed to seal his eyes to prevent the secret technique from being revealed.
"Could you use your shadow to repair the Godslaying Wizard Robe?"
"... Me?"
Yaoyao looked at Leo, who had asked her the question, with surprise, as if she had never imagined that she would be so valued.
"Yes, I know you have the ability to control and manipulate shadows. Now that your wizard robes are so badly damaged, can you use shadows to repair them?"
The significant reduction in his strength has been Leo's biggest headache over the past three years. There's no way to recover from the depletion of his Bloodline; it can only be done gradually over time, and it's estimated to take 300 to 500 years.
The two Godslaying Set directly caused Leo to completely lose his domain system and amplification system, and he had to find a way to solve this problem.
He has already figured out a way to repair the Godslaying Staff; he can begin working on it as soon as he returns to the Wizard World.
The only Godslaying Wizard Robe; he had no clue what to do with it. If it was just a matter of patching it up, he could recover about 70% of the Goddess of Darkness's skin by mending it, since his Shadow Space still retained some of it. But that wasn't what Leo wanted.
He wanted at least a 100% recovery, and even hoped to use this serious injury as an opportunity to enhance the abilities of his wizard robes.
The most important enhancement of the Godslaying Set is the amplification of shadow abilities, which originates from the Goddess of Darkness's abilities on the shadow side.
Leo devised several repair and enhancement plans, but none of them were approved in the end, because if other materials were added, it would likely weaken the amplification of the Godslaying Wizard Robe on the Shadow Talent and add some abilities that Leo would not need.
Leo only had a superficial understanding of the Shadow Talent and dared not recklessly repair the Godslaying Wizard Robe. If he completely ruined it, he would be in deep trouble.
Yaoyao is an expert on shadows, which is why Leo sought her advice; it was the best solution Leo could think of.
"Well... this..."
Yaoyao rested her chin on her paw, looking deep in thought.
Just as Leo was filled with anticipation, believing that Yaoyao knew how to repair the Godslaying Wizard Robe, Yaoyao spread her paws, her eyes darting around, and said, "I don't know."
Are you sure you don't know?
On Leo's aged, wrinkled face, every wrinkle was filled with disbelief.
"I'm just not sure. If you could give me some materials and some energy crystals, maybe I can think of a way."
Leo knew from Yaoyao Yao's winking that the little girl had been faking it all, just to get something for herself.
"Give me a list,"
Since it concerned his own wizard robes, Leo didn't have any good options; he could only accept the monopoly on the business.
"Okay."
Yaoyao chuckled to herself, then stretched out her little paw and pulled out a long, pre-written note, more than a meter long, from who-knows-where, and handed it to Leo.
"Hehe"
Looking at the list of materials that was over a meter long, Leo couldn't help but laugh in exasperation. This little guy had already prepared everything, just waiting for him to ask first. Maybe if he just held back from asking for his help for a few more years, he would finally be able to resist asking first.
Upon picking up the list, Leo's face instantly darkened. The list included the last remaining fragment of the Goddess of Darkness's corpse from the Shadow Space, which was perfectly acceptable. The three shadows were also expected, and even a few more would be fine.
But what's the point of those low-level potions, low-level materials, and some useless Wizard Coin? These materials are clearly not useful for repairing wizard robes.
"Can you explain this?" Leo pointed at the list with a dark face, like an angry Bao Gong (a famous judge in Chinese history).
"What's there to explain? I said these things are useful. Whether you believe me or not is your business. If you don't give them to me, I can't guarantee that I can successfully fix it in the end."
Yaoyao was confident and assertive; if Leo dared to question his expertise, then it was better not to do this business.
"Alright, alright, as long as the repairs are successful, you can take whatever you want from the Shadow Space."
Leo finally understood what monopoly and hegemony meant. It was true that even if you knew the other party was asking for more, you were powerless to refute it.
"Thanks!"
Yaoyao vanished instantly, along with a large amount of supplies and the tattered Godslaying Wizard Robe from the Shadow Space.
Leo originally thought that it was enough for Yaoyao to take so many supplies, but he didn't expect that she would take some more every month or two, and she would take them openly right under Leo's nose.
They showed absolutely no regard for Leo's feelings.
After emptying half of the items in the Shadow Space, Yaoyao seemed to realize that she had gone a bit too far, and only then did she stop emptying the Shadow Space.
Two years had passed since Leo had Yaoyao Godslaying Wizard Robe!
In other words, five years have passed since Leo handed over the Soul-Splitting Secret Technique.
How is the recovery going?
"Still the same old story. Your body is too weak. Your level of Indestructible Body is still a bit low. If you were at my level, this minor injury would heal in a few breaths."
On this day, the Undying Body returned to the palace and chatted idly with Leo in a good mood.
"Yes, yes, sir, you're absolutely right."
Leo chuckled ingratiatingly. If the Indestructible Body truly reached the level of Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard, it could kill any number of Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard. So how could it be injured? And without injury, how could it possibly recover?
"My lord, how exactly has the Wizard World classified this rebellion? Why hasn't it been quelled yet?"
Leo was getting anxious. Five years had passed. With the current strength of the wizards and the secret techniques he had handed over, it should have been enough time to defeat the Black Skull twice. Why were they still locked in a stalemate?
It's not that these wizards aren't powerful; it's clear that there's a force behind them hindering the suppression of the rebellion.
"I'm not too sure about that either, but it should be soon."
The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard wasn't very good at lying; Leo could tell at a glance that he was deceiving him.
"By the way, I haven't had any questions. What request did you make to that person?"
The Undying Body seemed afraid of Leo continuing to ask questions, and stiffly changed the subject.
"I want to bring that official's wife back to life, but he says there are rules against raising the dead, and it's impossible."
"That's right."
Undying Body nods; the dead cannot be resurrected.