"What did you say?"
Looking at the gloomy-faced Leon in front of him, the red-haired chief remained silent for a moment, then spoke with an unusually strained expression:
"I was gone for just ten minutes, sending little Vernon and the others to rest, and you managed to make the snake-man disappear?"
"Well, not completely gone..."
Feeling the Crimson Heart nestled in his own heart, refusing to come out no matter what, Leon explained somewhat sheepishly:
"The snake-man director was merely absorbed by the Crimson Heart and integrated into my heart. He can't come out temporarily, but he's still safe. In fact, because of the dual enhancements from the Crimson Heart and me, the progress of the blood exchange ritual has increased several times... If you don't believe me, look at my hair."
"..."
It really did speed up quite a bit...
