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Chapter 501: Is This the Price of Loading the DIO Template?
Between Cheng Tian and Bazett, this master-servant pair, in addition to sharing the recovery effects of their Command Spells, could also provide each other with HP recovery and MP recovery effects.
As the Master, Cheng Tian could share his MP-related recovery effects with Bazett, including the excessive MP recovery rate he gained earlier when resisting the Chief Maid's throwing knives with his Guardian Barrier.
Bazett, on the other hand, could feed her HP-related recovery effects back to Cheng Tian, and this included the "Dominator's Heart" necklace she was currently wearing.
When the wearer's heart is damaged, the Dominator's Heart necklace will sustain the body's functions in place of the damaged heart, and by expending durability, it will increase the user's HP recovery rate.
Cheng Tian has now become a 'will die without a necklace' person!
It must be said, this outcome was indeed tragic, yet it was unavoidable.
Gungnir, the Divine Spear, was destined to pierce Cheng Tian's heart even before it was launched. At least at his current stage, Cheng Tian truly had no way to stop it; even using Time Stop would have been meaningless.
And the Sword of Reversal, which possesses the effect of reversing causality, also failed to achieve its final reversal and erase the piercing damage Cheng Tian himself suffered, because it didn't successfully instantly kill Remilia.
Just like Bazett and Cu Chulainn in the original *Fate* series, who used the Sword of Reversal and Gae Bolg to harm each other.
Similarly, Cheng Tian was just a hair's breadth away from being sent to the Infant Incubation Tank for the resurrection process... Due to item restrictions, the Golden Knight Statue Cheng Tian carried also couldn't automatically trigger. Otherwise, how could it be called a high-difficulty challenge?
However, because Irene had already forcibly given the sole usage right of the "Infant Incubation Tank" to Cheng Tian early on, even if he truly died, he would still have one chance to start over.
Regarding the matter of giving the precious life-saving item she found to Cheng Tian, Irene wasn't actually acting on emotion; it should be said that this was a decision made after rational consideration.
Based on her interactions with and understanding of Cheng Tian, if their team unfortunately suffered a total wipeout one day, as long as Cheng Tian could start over, the probability of him finding a way to resurrect her was extremely high.
But if she were the only one to survive, Irene had absolutely no confidence in finding clues to resurrect Cheng Tian from other dungeons.
Regarding this decision, Irene even felt that she was so rational she wasn't like a woman, and wanted to give herself a thumbs up.
At that time, Cheng Tian naturally didn't over-dramatize and quickly accepted the transfer and use of the item.
"Cough... good thing I didn't sell the usage rights for the Gene Repair Tank."
Cheng, who had used his materialized psychic power to plug the holes in his chest and back, coughed up another mouthful of blood and muttered weakly.
Just a mere fatal wound~
The effect of the Dominator's Heart necklace could only temporarily replace the missing heart function. To completely restore the missing heart, he could only use the Gene Repair Tank, which had been kept in Hammond's laboratory.
At this moment, Remilia, who had mostly recovered due to the blood-draining ability provided by the field effect, had silently arrived beside Cheng Tian and was looking at him with an expression like he was a strange person.
Behind her, her small wings were, in a very vampiric manner, covering the part of her chest that had been exposed when her dress was shattered by the Sword of Reversal—
Though there wasn't much to cover anyway.
...Am I smiling?
Cheng Tian couldn't help but touch his face, and indeed, he felt that the corners of his mouth were turned up.
This moment, the closest he had ever been to true death in his life, did not destroy Cheng Tian's mentality of playing life like a game in Heaven's Chosen Space.
The upturned corners of his mouth were enough to prove that he enjoyed all of this.
You lunatic.
Remilia was somewhat speechless.
In the fate lines she had seen before, Cheng Tian did not use such an extreme countermeasure as he was currently employing, but rather a gentler and safer method.
Remilia saw Cheng Tian turn into a flaming skeleton.
However, being able to see fate does not mean being able to control it. She merely made minor adjustments based on his strategy in the fate lines she saw, releasing a blood mist early as a field magic to heal herself. She hadn't expected it to directly lead to such an extreme change in outcome.
This guy actually took Gungnir with his body!
Although she also suffered two equally terrifying heart-piercing attacks because of it, a vampire's physique is different from a human's. Her five-hundred-year-old vampire self truly had the right to say lines like "just a mere fatal wound," but for a human to survive the same kind of damage, he was already an existence beyond specification.
This state probably won't last too long, will it?
Considering that Cheng Tian had clearly shown signs of holding back during his previous consecutive battles against the Chief Maid and the Gatekeeper, Remilia, on the other hand, felt a little guilty.
"Um... do you need me to give you the Embrace?"
Biting her lower lip lightly, Remilia spoke to Cheng Tian as if she had made a great decision.
The Embrace, the unique method of developing new members specific to the bloodline.
At the same time, the Embrace is not only an act of developing new members, but also a declaration to other kin of the ownership of the one being embraced, who is both prey and the embraced, marking them with one's exclusive sign. If other blood kin try to taint this prey, they will be locked in an endless conflict.
For five hundred years, Remilia had never used the Embrace on anyone, not even her most trusted Chief Maid.
Of course, for the Chief Maid, it actually involved another issue of lifespan. As a top-tier time user, she already had infinite lifespan, and if Remilia were to turn her into a vampire, it would, in a way, transform her infinite lifespan into a finite one.
Although Remilia could imagine that Izayoi Sakuya would very gladly accept her Embrace, she herself did not want to so selfishly deprive the Chief Maid of her infinite time.
When it came to developing new members, Remilia was naturally very picky, let alone developing a man.
But at this moment, the guilt in her heart had indeed gained the upper hand; even a vampire could not escape the biological instinct of acting on emotion for a while.
"The Embrace... is that the vampire transformation ritual?"
On Cheng Tian's weak, pale face, almost devoid of blood, a considerable degree of curiosity appeared.
"Yes, once the transformation is complete, this level of injury will no longer be fatal. As long as there is enough fresh blood, recovery is only a matter of time."
Having spoken, she certainly wouldn't take her words back, full of majesty, and a smug expression appeared on her face.
...Is this the hidden cost of loading the Dio Brando template?
Cheng Tian muttered to himself with a strange expression, then sat up straight, looking directly into Remilia's eyes with a serious and solemn expression.
Having been a human for nearly thirty years, Cheng Tian was quite curious about what it was like to be a vampire.
"Then, I'll leave it to you."
Hearing Cheng Tian accept her suggestion, Remilia also showed a relieved smile.
When the blood mist covering the entire arena dissipated, the contestants and audience saw such a scene.
Cheng Tian was holding Remilia's right index finger in his mouth... What exactly are you two doing!?
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