When the plot-skips players into the game world

"— It's a curse."

Aiwass's expression turned solemn as he quickly identified the type of curse, "It's the Blood Contamination Curse."

This agonizing curse was concocted using venomous scorpions, snakes, and living poisonous toads as materials, with menstrual blood as the medium. It could make one experience triple the pain of menstrual cramps continually, and depending on resistance to the curse, it could torment a person from half an hour to six hours.

Sherlock's countenance became grave, and deep blue radiance burst forth from his eyes in an instant.

The cold, rational, and mysterious light reflected from the depths of his eyes as he extended his left pinky and drew a rune in the air that resembled a walking stick.

"Water overcomes blood, just as the pure will always triumph over the impure."

He murmured softly as he picked up the bottle of pure water from the table.

Sherlock flipped it over directly, but the water did not fall to the ground. Instead, it filled the rune above.

When it was full, it suddenly contracted into a sphere of water and then shot forward, striking Lulu's face.

As water splashed, the pure water that splattered from her face turned into foul blood, dripping to the ground.

Lulu's pained low whimpers ceased at once. Yet, she was still vomiting, continuously spewing out blood.

Aiwass reached out to check and found that her neck and chest were abnormally cold.

He furrowed his brows, "You didn't completely remove it, only half."

Sherlock glanced over and deduced from Lulu's symptoms, "This curse is a bit complex. It seems her esophagus and stomach are being corroded by the curse. The medium should be more than just menstrual blood. This is a composite curse; better you handle it... let the professional do what they do best."

"Hmm, I'll do it."

"Is your mana still sufficient?"

"At least enough to heal her."

Aiwass answered.

He propped Lulu up, allowing her to sit halfway with her face down to prevent the filthy blood she coughed up from causing suffocation.

Next, Aiwass stretched out his left hand, his fingers buried in "his wife's" thick and dense platinum hair, holding her somewhat cold neck with the heel of his hand, and placing the tip of his left middle finger on the back of her head.

His expression was grave and solemn, and a blazing light like the setting sun ignited in his deep blue eyes.

The light that radiated from his resonance with the Path was a deep red with a hint of gold, symbolizing an excess of the fire element of the Path of Devotion.

— This was the most evident healing reaction from Aiwass's "Art of Illumination."

Jet-black smoke hissed and surged continually from the back of Lulu's head, even dulling her platinum hair. Her body convulsed violently, shuddering at an extremely high frequency. Yet, she clenched her teeth without making a sound, worried about waking up Little Aiwass... but still, there were irresistible groans coming through.

"We have visitors, and they are not friendly."

Sherlock spoke eerily, "Leave it to me, you continue with the healing."

He flung the bottle of sulfuric acid from the table directly, letting it hit the wall.

But the moment the bottle shattered, he extended his right hand to form a fist and threw a punch through the air towards the sulfuric acid bottle.

Instead of spraying out, the clear oily sulfuric acid filled with a sort of dark green gas, causing it to bulge slightly... like a clenched fist or a beating heart. It was thicker than sulfuric acid, and its volume had increased significantly.

The next moment, Sherlock's right hand opened into a claw, grasping at the space not far from where the sulfuric acid bottle landed in the corner.

There was an unnaturally dark shadow there, becoming increasingly visible and reddening.

Long-range instant teleportation required manifestation time. Ever since Lulu had been cursed, Sherlock had been constantly observing his surroundings.

"Fox" had chosen a good spot. In this closed factory, the brightness should've been uniform.

If any area suddenly became darker or brighter, that was the precursor of the Hook Demon teleporting in!

The hovering mass of oily green liquid also simultaneously formed into claws, striking at that spot!

The sound that emanated was like a baby's cry or an old cat in heat. A piercingly sharp noise... it was a high-pitched sound that made one feel as if something was buzzing in their ears.

But even so, the sleeping Little Aiwass was not awakened. He just struggled painfully as if having a nightmare.

"I hate impolite kids."

Sherlock muttered darkly, "Especially the loud ones..." Experience the adventure on m|vl_em|p_yr

His spell had caused very effective damage and control—

A small demon barely as tall as a shank, entirely red, bipedal but with four arms... with a head resembling a bald, chubby man or a ferocious baby, was caught by the sulfuric acid claw just as it appeared and couldn't break free!

The hissing of burning flesh sounded as it struggled in vain.

The sulfuric acid claw seemed to have a solid entity within, holding it firmly in place and continuing to scorch it!

— While the situation seemed excellent, Sherlock showed no joy.

For he could clearly feel his water and earth mana burning away rapidly as he guided and maintained the spell.

He had used a bit of his water mana to purify the curse from his own body earlier, and was left with only two points of water mana.

Even if he forced his earth mana, which he had in abundance, to substitute for water mana in activating that bottle of sulfuric acid and constructing the "Aqua Demon Hand," and to bear the subsequent maintenance mana cost, the spell still required at least half of the water mana to sustain.

Two points of water mana, along with two points of earth mana, were only enough to maintain this spell for forty seconds.

For a human being of flesh and blood, this was more than enough.

An activated sulfuric acid claw, capable of reaching speeds of up to twenty meters per second, could easily eliminate a small team of ordinary people. The Aqua Demon Hand, constructed of pure water, could briefly melt and permeate the inside of armor; whereas the Aqua Demon Hand he built with earth mana could easily crush large trees and shred leather armor.