Mahdi’s situation is really bad.
The Blood River Armament now only consists of the belt and some remnants on the legs, with the silver spirit substance constantly regenerating, but there is still a long way to go before it’s fully restored.
The Knight’s body is in worse condition; his right arm only has dark silver metal bones left, and his body is barely intact thanks to the protection of the dragon skin vest, while most other parts are covered in charcoal layers, with only occasionally visible blood-colored writhing flesh accelerating its healing.
Taking a direct hit from a Fourth Level map attack without dying is unprecedented among all Third Level individuals in Terra, an unparalleled miracle, yet all miracles come at a cost, and with a body , forget fighting, even moving might make him pass out at any time.
But now, things are different.
In the incredulous eyes of all, the black-haired knight thrust his longsword into his own chest.
That should have been the position of the heart, yet it was completely pierced through... and to everyone’s surprise, no blood or any bodily fluid flowed out.
From the ’wound’ pierced by the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword, only ashes drifted out.
At this moment, Anfa saw this scene and couldn’t help but frown solemnly. She silently recalled the words and then said very seriously: "This is self-repair!"
"What?!" When the young talents beside her heard this, they were shocked. Even with their knowledge, it was hard to imagine someone calling thrusting a sword into their own heart ’self-repair’—they didn’t know Mahdi no longer had a heart, so now there was a bit of absurdity about why The Unyielding Fortress would commit suicide.
"Look, The Unyielding Fortress’s bones!" The elf dragon maiden pointed to Mahdi’s right hand: "The Pure Rock Crystal Bone itself is the result of metal-based modification, and usually, The Unyielding Fortress needs to ingest some food containing special metal minerals to maintain his immortal body, and now he has suffered severe trauma, he definitely needs to supplement a large amount of precious metals!"
Beside her, ’Ian’ also explained very seriously. He looked in Mahdi’s direction: "Now, relying solely on potions is not enough; The Unyielding Fortress needs more Sublimated Metals and rare materials to recover!"
From another perspective, Ian’s true body.
He is wholeheartedly absorbing the Heavy Abyss Iron from the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword and using the sublimated longsword, which has been saturated with his Prime Matter for nearly a decade, as his ’Demi-Magic Potion’ material to construct his Third Level Domain of Extremes.
Ian had always been pondering how his Domain of Extremes should be chosen; should it be like most Earth Ascenders, choosing ’silicon’ or ’aluminum’ as the element to control, or the less common yet not rare ’carbon’ and ’calcium’?
In addition to those, there are many other options... but in general, each has its advantages.
But now, he has made his choice.
He chose the raw material of the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword, ’iron’ and ’tungsten’.
Heavy Abyss Iron is iron in its Origin Quality state, alloyed with tungsten-titanium, with it at the core, forming the ’Abyssal Iron Core’, Ian can exert his power over iron as Fae do over water.
Iron is the most abundant metallic element in the universe. Although most of it exists in outer space, even in the earth’s interior, there’s a huge quantity of iron, part of the ’core’... knowing the essence of the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword, Ian had often wondered whether it could count as one of his magic potion ingredients. This idea arose several times but was set aside because it was Teacher Hiliard’s ’legacy’.
At least, wait until there’s no choice and facing a dangerous moment. That was Ian’s thought at the time.
The dangerous moment has arrived.
Ripping open his vest, Mahdi laughed heartily as he thrust the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword into his body—instantly, beneath the surface of his body, streaks of red-silver electromagnetic sparks shone, the pitch-black layers of carbon constantly thinning and dispersing, even transforming into scattered sparks in the rotating strong magnetic field.
As the sparks spread, light marks resembling ribs spread across the black-haired knight’s chest, and radiating from the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword at the center, streaks of light emerged in the distributed gaps, lighting up with flickering lightning.
The power of the Flash Electric Electrode and the Prime Matter Furnace is continuously devouring the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword’s materials and, at the fastest speed, turning this weapon forged with countless rare materials into part of his power!
"Let me transform this sword into my strength!"
The Prime Matter Furnace roared and operated, with the crimson-gold metal flow accompanying the peristalsis of muscles all over the body, spreading countless red-gold veins to every corner of the body.
"Merge with me!" The knight shouted, he pushed the final piece of the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword completely into the electromagnetic rotating furnace formed by the Flash Silver Skeleton, urging this surging power to regenerate his vitality.
At this moment, the high-temperature sublimated metal solution within Mahdi’s body was hotter than lava, yet rapidly cooled in the rising white mist, solidifying into the body structure he needed.
For a moment, vaguely visible, mountain patterns like continuous mountain ranges emerged on the knight’s body, and although the right hand, which originally only had bones, now had a layer of iron membrane covering it, it was still emaciated but regained vitality!
In an instant, his momentum returned to eighty percent of its former peak!