As the boiling crimson liquid pours into his mouth, he experiences the searing heat and the heart-wrenching pain in his throat. The searing heat flows down to his stomach, making him burst into tears instinctively.
"Ahh...!" Saze cries out in pain with a hoarse tone because of the pain in the throat making him even more painful while he shouts.
With that, Saze's body starts to twitch and his body's heat increases rapidly. He shakes his head with his hands scratching frantically and leaves many red scratches.
Suddenly, the red blood vessels all over Saze's body bulge out, with thin and thick crimson lines spreading across his skin, giving him a terrifying appearance like a devil rising from hell, it also gives him a lot of pain.
"AHH!!" Saze shouts again, feeling that he would faint at any second.
"If I had known it would be so painful, I wouldn't have drank it! It hurts like hell! I might as well just kill myself! Ahh!!" Saze scolds in his mind.
But soon, those blood vessels return before Saze collapses, once the blood vessels return to his body, his pain, his heat, and his desperate situation vanish at the same time. He put his hands on the stone table, lowered his head, and gasped heavily. After thinking that everything had passed, Moty says a desperate fact.
"There is a total of three of that effect, so two more to go." Moty says.
"WHAT?! AHH!" Saze's eyes widened.
Saze lets out another desperate scream, his blood vessels bulging out again, and this time the vessels are clear, crystal clear, Moty can even see the blood flowing quickly in his vessels.
Moty stands aside and observes Saze rolling on the ground, seeing two kinds of blood slowly merging while flowing rapidly. One kind of blood is Saze's own, and the other is the blood of the blood arcane potion.
As the blood vessels bulge out a second time, the pain and heat become stronger and higher, almost killing Saze. He opens his mouth wide but can't make any sound. Tears flow down his cheeks. Moty looks at his painful appearance and clenches his hands tightly.
"Hold the pain! You can do it!" Moty encourages him.
Saze's physical pain is still increasing, and his clothes have already been soaked with cold sweat and blood. By now, if he hadn't been blessed by the silver necklace, he would have died long ago.
"Ah!" Saze shouts and that vessel returns again.
"Finally... ha... ha... ha..." Saze breathes heavily.
"Don't be too happy, there's still one last time." Moty says, with a tone that mixes with happy and worry.
"Okay, you say you can save me, right? I hope you can really do it, because I think the third time will go over my limit..." Saze gulps, his body trembling lightly as he realizes there is a third time.
"Yes, don't worry." Moty promises with a confident smile.
"But I'm worrying about that..." Moty was going to say more but was cut off by Saze.
"Oh shoot! Here it comes!" Saze gasps as he feels the surge in his abdomen and it is very powerful and grand. It seems that as soon as it comes out, it might burst Saze's body.
As expected, the vessels bulge again, but something strange happens. The pain doesn't go too strong, but instead, it goes weak, barely feel it. However, those red vessels that appear across his skin still make him look terrifying.
"Ugh... is this normal? The pain is... so weak? And I don't feel the heat." Saze asks carefully with a racing heart, he knows something might go wrong.
"Hmm? Maybe..." Moty starts thinking with a deep frown as she sees this abnormal situation.
Dong!
With Saze's heart suddenly beating hard, Saze is stunned for a moment and then begins to vomit blood crazily.
"Gah..." Saze vomits, the blood isn't the normal red, instead, it's a dark color with a smelly odor.
"Alright, this normal now, when the vessels appear the third time it is going to purify your blood, removing the poison, viruses, and... metabolite waste..." Moty hisses and covers her mouth with her hand.
"Metabolite... waste...?! Fu-" Saze scolds but vomits more black blood.
"It's okay, at least you are almost done, the pain and heat are no more because they finished cleaning your body, and now it just excretes it..." Moty steps backward to avoid the black blood splash on her.
"B-But why I still feel there is something in my abdomen... Ah!" Saze shouts with black blood in his mouth and hands covering his eyes painfully.
"Saze! Are you okay?! What happens?!" Moty quickly walks towards Saze and crouches.
"Ah! My eyes!" Saze shouts painfully and crimson blood goes out from his eyes and hands.
"The anomaly happens... should I...?" Moty thinks deeply with a hand on her chin.
Moty didn't dare to think for too long, so she could only stop taking the potion. She was very unwilling. After all, Saze is almost finished, but something abnormal happens. Moty had no choice but to give up all her and Saze's efforts.
"Is it still too risky? Never mind, let him change to another arcane later." Moty murmurs and places her hand on Saze's head.
"W-Wait! I feel... better... now..." Saze stops Moty and slowly uncovers his eyes with bloody hands.
As the hands slowly descend, a pair of scarlet eyes appears and gaze at Moty. Saze's once brown pupils have turned to scarlet red, like a vampire, but eyes gleaming with confusion, purity, and ignorance.
"Ugh... Saze, can you see how many fingers is this?" Moty asks and holds out three fingers.
"Three fingers, I still can see it clearly and even... clearly than before." Saze replies instantly.
"Phew, well then, fortunately, the anomaly goes positive way." Moty breaths of sigh of relief.
"Anomaly? You mean about my eyes? What happens to my eyes now, does it change?" Saze asks several questions.
"Yes, there have been changes. This should be caused by you using this necklace to withstand the pain." Moty replies lightly.
"B-But the pain is still strong even when I wore the necklace..." Saze says and slowly removes the necklace and passes it to Moty.
"Ah yes, this is because blood arcane wasn't for a first stage arcanist, because the pain might just kill them." Moty says with a smile.
"Then why you..." Saze's corner of the lips twitches a bit.
"Because you want it, and also I can save you." Moty grins.
"Alright, go try your new ability, blood arcane now. Try to feel it in your mind, just like what you do when you obtained wind arcane." Moty adds.
Saze listens, closes his eyes obediently, and begins to sense the power of the blood arcane. In the darkness, a trace of blood floats up, climbing through the air like a snake. When he tries to focus on the blood, letting it come here, the traces of blood immediately follow his mind and move.
Saze slowly opens his eyes and looks at the blood on the ground, he stretches out an arm, with a thought in mind, and casts a little mana, the blood floats to his palm and forms a blood ball.
"This is my second arcane... blood arcane...!" Saze gazes at the blood ball on his palm and says with excitement.
His hands trembling with excitement, and then he carefully hold the blood ball with both hands as if protecting a precious treasure. Suddenly, he raises his hand with the blood ball over his head.
"Ahaha! I did it! I got my new arcane! Ahaha!" Saze cheers.
"Alright, stop laughing, go break the limit, and step into the second stage." Moty says lightly, but her eyes are also gleaming with joy.
"I-I can step into the second stage now?!" Saze stammers in excitement.
Just obtain a powerful arcane and can step into the next stage instantly, this is the dream of every arcanist. After all, getting a powerful arcane needs to make a potion that requires many valuable ingredients and the most important is to stay hold the pain and not die when the potion starts working in the body.
Moty smiles and says nothing, while Saze scatters the blood balls and sits on the ground, preparing to step to the second stage. He closes his eyes once again and feels that there are six chains that chain on his torso in the darkness of mind.
There was the limit that Moty says, this is also the arcanist's limit, breaking one chain to steps to the next stage but it requires a lot of effort. The chains work like a lock, sealing everybody's potential and power.
Right now, Saze has six chains on his torso, which means that he is in the first stage, if he breaks one and five chains left then it means he is in the second stage. Now, there was a chain that was already dilapidated, almost broken, seems it was the power of the potion.
"Seems the potion also helped me break the chains." Saze murmurs in his mind.
With that, he forms a fantasy body, which looks the exactly same appearance with himself on Earth. There is already a slight difference between his appearance when he lives in this world and his appearance when he lived on Earth before.
"Ah... Falkmar, I almost forgot my name..." Saze sighs.
With that, Saze raises his hand gathers mana, and forms two different arcane which are wind arcane and blood arcane. Without any hesitation, wind arcane forms many cyclone needles, and blood arcane forms many blood balls and attacks the dilapidated chain.
Saze's continuous attacks, regardless of the consumption of mana, finally break the chain. When the chain breaks, an extremely powerful mana rushes into his body. Saze also immediately feels that the capacity of the mana increases as if his capacity is transformed from a small room into a large villa.
"Whoa... the changes are really huge." Saze whispers and opens his eyes, leaving the darkness of mind.
"Done? I feel the mana is coming out of your body." Moty asks as she sees Saze opens his eyes.
"Hehe, yeah! I just reached to second stage! I feel I'm so powerful, haha!" Saze grins widely exposing his white teeth.
"Well then... hm?" Moty's face from happy turns to a frown and raises her head.
"What's wrong? Moty?" Saze asks, he was going to check other benefits from the second stage but seeing Moty's face, a sense of danger spread in his mind.
Bong!
A huge golden fireball breaks through the sky draws a beautiful arc and hits the tower where Moty and Saze stay, the tower immediately collapses, and the dust flies in all directions, leaving nothing but a ruined.
At the same time, before those spiders could realize what was happening. A sharp laughter sounded.
"Ahahaha! We found them! Kill the aberrant first before we solve our territory dispute."
"Alright, we agree."