Chapter 108: Vitality Burst

"Shut up! Keep your voice down!"

Jess shouted at him.

He flipped through Gargim's casting condition notes and reconfirmed the gestures because he was sure that he had recited the spell correctly.

The sheep had become so excited that its movements and sounds were distorted. It seemed that there was something more terrifying than death chasing after it. This sudden distortion of normal things made Jess, who was used to all kinds of terrifying monsters, feel a bit flustered.

Few warlock magics are not evil. Animals have a purer perception of nature, and it is normal for them to have a sensitive reaction to those dark and negative magics.

If Jess wants to continue on this path, he can't be surprised by these things anymore.

Thinking this way, he silently recited a spell and walked in front of the sheep again.

The sheep looked at him, and its eyes had already begun to tremble continuously. As soon as Jess raised his hand, the sheep was frightened again and struggled desperately. Jess felt that the rope tying it was about to be broken.

"Eraman Xilliondor..." This time his voice was much lower, but his concentration was stronger.

Concentration... Just as Marin said, one must maintain concentration. After finishing chanting, he suddenly felt a warm current surge out from his heart and gradually fill his whole body. He faintly felt that there was a thread of connection with a strange touch between himself and this animal, but he couldn't see the real existence of this connection.

That is to say, Jess felt that the life drain took effect, but there was no green traction line as shown in the game.

The sheep's screams gradually turned into whimpers, and its crazy movements became slower and slower. Jess saw that it was getting weaker and weaker. The previous struggles were now only weak tremors as it rubbed against the big tree.

But Jess felt hotter and hotter all over his body, his skin was swollen, his eyes were itchy, and his heart was beating faster and faster, as if there was a little person in his chest constantly punching his ribs.

A violent wave of nausea suddenly disrupted Jess's rhythm. He bent down, his right hand still maintaining the spellcasting, but it was getting more and more difficult to concentrate.

Suddenly, a bright yellow light flashed between his finger and the sheep for a moment and then quickly dissipated, leaving only a little gradually dimming green light.

Jess was shocked by the suddenly appearing energy glow, and the guiding drain magic was also cut off...

Is that the color of life? Or... fel energy?

No, this magic is shadow magic. Those light yellow and light green things must be the life force drawn out by shadow, the vitality from the sheep.

The sheep had lost its previous vigor. Its wool had just been sheared, and the new wool on its body was not yet long. But just as Gargim said, the remaining short wool also withered and fell off, and the remaining body skin was wrinkled and grayish, losing its blood color.

Jess walked over to check on the sheep and found that it could no longer stand on its own. It was so thin that it didn't look like a sheep but rather a skinny wild dog rummaging for food in a garbage dump.

Its life vitality... has been drained by himself?

Jess looked at his flushed hands and felt extremely hot all over his body. His head was buzzing and his tinnitus was sometimes weak and sometimes strong.

Another wave of nausea surged up his throat. He vomited a mouthful of blood. He wiped it with his hand and saw that his nose and mouth were bleeding.

Looking at the bright red blood on the ground, he was a little panicked.

"Saerno! Saerno!"

The imp ran to him in a flash. Jess pointed to the blood on his hand and asked, "What's going on?"

"I guess you drained too hard!" said the imp. "Your body is already very energetic and can't bear the strong vitality of this sheep anymore!"

At this moment, the sheep seemed to have a flash of recovery. It struggled to get up and limped and ran away into the distance. Surprisingly, the rope was suddenly freed because the sheep had lost so much weight!

Jess could no longer care about it. He felt extremely thirsty, his lips were dry and peeling, and his vision was blurred. He had to drink some water quickly.

Crystal Lake is just to the northeast. Realizing this, he picked up his luggage and turned around and ran. After an unknown amount of time and vomiting an unknown amount of blood, he finally reached a small stream from nowhere. He lay down in the water and washed his face. Only then did he see that his eyes were already full of blood vessels.

He frantically washed his hands and face until all the bloodstains were wiped off, until he stopped vomiting blood and coughing up blood... After his body felt almost normal and his brain was no longer dizzy, he stopped.

Jess took a few big gulps of water and sat on a round stone beside the stream to rest for a while. Only then did the imp catch up with the package in hand.

He wiped off the water stains on his mouth but felt that something was wrong.

Looking at the back of his hand... the scar on it had actually lessened!

Those still faintly painful burn marks now only had some faint imprints of uneven skin left!

Is this the effect of life drain?

Did those life energies repair his own wounds and then overflow excessively, causing the blood vessels in his body to rupture?

But in fact, although he had lost a lot of blood, Jess didn't feel very severe pain or weakness.

On the contrary, what surprised him the most was that he had extracted such strong life energy in such a short time. This was much stronger than what Gargim described about those Dark Iron dwarves.

Is this because the spell is more standard, or is there some other inside story? Jess sat on the stone and quietly felt the changes in his heart. After all, every time he used shadow magic before, he had experienced very serious emotional outbursts, whether it was becoming more crazy, more excited, more bloodthirsty...

But this time he didn't feel too many negative emotions. He guessed that perhaps it was because the life force of the sheep had repaired the damage caused by shadow. This spell might be used as a healing ability.

Of course, it's not without problems. The biggest drawback is that after calming down from the shock of the spell's effect just now, he felt extremely tired.

Even if he tried his best to be focused and as standard as possible, he still inevitably consumed a lot of mental energy. And before, whether it was fear spell, light spell, etc., it was not so exhausting.

Jess could roughly guess that this life steal magic is probably a relatively high-level magic and has touched the upper limit of his energy.

But just one attempt had achieved very good results. He wanted to go back to Stormwind City immediately. If he walked faster, he could still reach the city gate at night, so there was no need for more attempts.

He must go find a doctor or priest or something to check on his body. After all, he had just vomited blood and couldn't ignore it.

As for that sheep... There are plenty of sheep wandering around in Elwynn Forest. It doesn't matter if there is one less. Just give it freedom as compensation for enduring a set of fatal spells from him.