269 Blood Pill and Berserk Pill

"Yes, Young Master. After all, I am still considered as one of the mercenaries. If I am suddenly absent on the next day, they will suspect me. For the time being, I will continue being with them." Leoz answered.

"Alright. I will summon you again if I need your help."

"Yes." Leoz then disappeared.

Alex then turned to Anna. He didn't get the answer earlier, "Anna."

Anna knew that Alex wanted an explanation. She asked Alex to sit since it would be a bit long. "As you know, we are spirits. For high ranking spirits, or you can say UR spirits. We have two forms, which are our humanoid form and our spirit form.

"Take me as an example. I am Dark Butterfly Spirit. My spirit form is just like now with the wings. And there is one privilege for high ranking spirits. It is the True Spirit Body.

"It is the only skill that could utilize our latent potential and our spirit body. Each high ranking spirit body has their own True Spirit Body."

"Like Jeanne and Fabio?" Alex asked.

"Yeah," she affirmed. She continued, "Jeanne is Lightning Spirit. Her True Spirit Body is Ethereal Lightning Body. It makes her body become the lightning itself.

"As for Fabio, he is the Ifrit Spirit. His True Spirit Body is Myth Fire Body. In that form, his fire would be comparable to a full-grown phoenix. Just say that Kyle's grown-up form. Kyle's fire will be more ferocious after he enters the adult phase."

"What about the others, like Greg, Vera, or even Leoz?" Alex asked again.

"Vera is Ice Phoenix Spirit. Well, you can classify her as an ice version of a phoenix. Her True Spirit Body is Ice Phoenix Form, and she will grow a pair of wings like me.

"Greg is Alloy Spirit. He could change his body and armor into one type of metal. His True Spirit Body, Union Body, allows him to combine all metal together, making the hardest metal that could exist. Basically, he will be impregnable.

"Leoz is Thunder Berserker Spirit. As a berserker, the moment he activates his True Spirit Body, Berserk, his power will increase beyond your imagination. Now, he is a 4-Star Martial Lord. He could kill 8-Star or even 9-Star Martial Lord in his Berserk Form.

"But his True Spirit Body is a bit more special. The longer he uses his Berserk Form, the more he loses his mind. He won't be able to recognize his friends or foes anymore. That's why Leoz usually doesn't use it if not for the last struggle.

"As for Nelson, he is a Shadow Spirit. He controls the shadow. As for his power... Just say that if you want to assassinate, or even massacre an entire family in a single night without anyone knowing it. He would be able to do it. But the difference couldn't be more than 5-Star." Anna explained.

"..." Alex thought for a while. Basically, True Spirit Body was their last trump card. They could get a boost of power, but they couldn't use it in a prolonged battle or a big battle like this where they couldn't kill their enemies within a day.

"How about the rest?"

"Anya, my twin sister, is a Light Butterfly Spirit. Jean is Pure Water Spirit that even her sister's electricity is not effective against him. As for Artur, he is a Heroic Spirit. Just say that he is a righteous bastard that wants to help others in need. Not a Hero that was made up by 'H' and 'Ero' like you said back then."

Alex made a wry smile when he heard that. He recalled where he called John a Hero that was made up of 'H' and 'Ero.' He was right, though.

"As for their power, I think you should ask them yourself, or I will explain it to you after you can summon them."

"Alright." Alex nodded. Even knowing them now wouldn't have any use as they weren't here.

"That's right. I almost forgot. It is about the blood pill."

Alex immediately frowned when he heard that.

"In my Dark Butterfly Form, I become a mind-based Spirit. When I tried to attack their mind with my butterfly, surprisingly, it could go through smoothly.

"At that time, I felt more than a hundred presences in their mind. The presences were thin, and the soldiers might not feel it. But I could feel it. Those presences held resentment against the soldiers and helped my attack.

"This is my assumption. The ingredient for the Blood Pill is human blood. After recalling your battle with the evil cult, one of them suddenly makes a blood pill to get stronger, right?"

Alex nodded.

"I assume there might be two types of Blood Pill. One of them is to enhance their cultivation speed, and the other one is to boost their cultivation for a certain period. Oh, that's right. We have a Martial Lord here. We should inspect his Space Ring."

Anna said that and rose from her seat. She then approached the Martial Lord that Alex killed previously. Alex followed her.

She took his Space Ring before she pried open the Space Ring. She took out every single red pill out of the Space Ring.

Alex tried to activate his Spirit Eyes. There was a single pill that stood out the most. The red like energy inside the pill was far higher from the rest. Alex grabbed the pill. The pill color was also redder than the others.

"This pill has a far higher energy than the rest."

Anna then said, "I assume, this pill is the latter pill which increases their cultivation like when they fought Leoz. Other than 'that pill' is a pill for cultivation purposes."

"Yes. There are indeed two pills." Anna nodded. "The pill for their cultivation didn't have much blood energy."

"Anna is right." Suddenly Jeanne joined their conversation.

Alex and Anna were startled by her sudden appearance.

"You have finished, Jeanne?" Anna asked.

"Yep, I have tried my best. He didn't hold for long before blabbering everything he knows." Jeanne said with a smile.

"Care to explain it to us?"

"Sure. Firstly, they called these two pills, 'Blood Pill' and 'Berserk Pill.' As you might have guessed, the blood pill is for cultivation purposes, and the berserk pill is to raise their strength in a period of time.

"Blood Pill might be able to increase their cultivation faster than average. But this comes with a side effect. Because their energy is not pure enough if they consume the blood pill, they are weaker than ordinary cultivators.

"To counter this side effect, they increased all of their soldiers' power levels. After all, quantity could defeat quality in a certain case. That's what they did.

"But, in case quantity couldn't defeat quality. They have this Berserk Pill. The purpose of this Berserk Pill is to increase their power once again and make them stronger than the average cultivator at the same level for five minutes.

"After that, it will depend on their body state before the Berserk Pill's effect wears off. If their condition is alright, although they will be crippled after taking the pill, they will still be alive.

"If their condition is bad, then they will die the moment the pill's effect wears off. As for how the pill was made, he didn't know anything about it. So, I couldn't find anything from him about that. But, I'm sure it is like you expected, Anna."

Anna narrowed her eyes, "They are made by blood. But considering the difference between the pills, I assume that the Berserk Pill is a concentrated form of a Blood Pill. Then the purpose of this war..."

"!!!" Alex was finally enlightened.

Anna looked at Alex's expression. She nodded. "Yeah. The Southern Kingdom is known for their wealth. But, they can just conquer the capital with that high number of Martial Lords and soldiers.

"The reason why they split their troops... I assume they will massacre all people inside those cities and use them to make the pills. After they conquered the Southern Kingdom, they got everything they needed, whether this kingdom's wealth or pills."

"Two birds in one stone."

"Alex, what are you going to do?" Anna asked.

Alex pondered for a moment. Before coming up with a plan, Alex decided to ask Jeanne first, "Do you find anything from him?"

"Oh, it is about the war situation. He said that their main reinforcement would come to this place in three days. He doesn't know their number, but their powers are far stronger than the soldiers on the battlefield now. I only found that as he didn't know anything other than that."

"Three days..."

"Master, you said you are not going to join the battle tomorrow... I mean, it has passed midnight so today. Oh, that's right. They should have ten Martial Lords, but because of the battlefield's condition. Five of them need to stay on the battlefield to lead the troops." Jeanne said.

"With the addition of five Martial Lords, Zhou Kingdom's soldiers should be energetic again. If we don't help them tomorrow, they won't lose more than five thousand of their soldiers since their purpose is to hold on before the main army comes." Anna advised.

"No, it is better to stop for today. If we appear today, they might think that we escape from these two thousand people. But if we appear tomorrow. They will think we have dealt with these soldiers.

"I think we will have more impact on them. I am not hoping to kill all of them. But, if they only have around ten thousand soldiers left, they might retreat." Alex said.

"Alright. We will do what you said."

There were too many factors for consideration. He had informed Putri with what he knew about the enemy troops. He wanted to see what the Southern Kingdom would do with that information.

He also wanted to investigate the cities that were conquered by the Zhou Kingdom on their way here. He wanted to know if they had massacred them or not to see if their speculation was right or wrong.

He thought about sending Ngina or Njomo to investigate there. But they were crucial for him at the moment. Ngina was watching Zhou Soldier's side while Njomo was watching the Southern Kingdom's side.

He decided to wait and see first for today.

After this war, he thought about informing the sect with this information. Of course, he might not tell them about the blood pill as he didn't know what they would do with that information.

They might even exploit the blood pills. So, after they were starting to suspect the Zhou Kingdom after a series of investigations. Alex would tell them about the blood pill.

"For the time being, you two can rest first. Thank you for your hard work."

...

When the morning came, Leoz had come back into the mercenary camp. He didn't do much yesterday as Anna, Fabio, and Jeanne used their True Spirit Body.

He had spare energy for today. But surprisingly, he didn't see Putri everywhere. Before the war, Alex told him to protect her. But she was nowhere to be seen.

"Young Master, I don't see that green hair girl anywhere," Leoz said.

Alex was notified by the system that Leoz wanted to talk to him, so he took out Leoz's card. When he heard that, he didn't think much, "Yesterday, I told her about the enemy number. She should still be occupied by that information and do her job. You didn't need to protect her for the time being. And they should have another 5 Martial Lords, so be careful."

"Oh, alright." Leoz didn't have any problem with that. Since he can throw that mission from his mind, for the time being, he could focus on killing the enemy first.

Of course, he needed to consider the enemy's Martial Lords. Not long after that, the fight started again.

Unbeknownst to him, there was an old man, looking upon the battlefield curiously.