Louis nodded, without expressing any refusal.

He wasn't the kind of person to be pretentious.

Just when his fingertips touched the core of the living vessel, he suddenly saw a flash of light across his body.

In Louis's shocked gaze, a blue and white intertwined dragon suddenly appeared out of nowhere and directly swallowed the Tower Spirit Core.

He didn't even have time to stop it.

The one that swallowed the Tower Spirit Core was the Sin Dragon Arsenal.

After devouring the Tower Spirit Core, Louis suddenly felt a subtle change in his body.

The blue fluorescent lines on his body gradually surfaced, accompanied by the continuous rise of light on the lines, those lines that looked like advanced tattoos began to move.

Lines gathered together to finally form an astonishing spectacle.

Louis's lines came alive!

As if possessing vitality, they wandered back and forth on his body.

If Louis looked carefully, he would find that all the lines on his body converged into a dragon.

The dragon slowly spirals around Louis's body.

Louis had a feeling, as long as he wished, he could directly "fire" this wandering power out.

With fists, with feet, with weapons...

Any kind of method could work.

Beatrice, somewhat nervously, checked Louis's body all around, and soon discovered something unusual.

"So strange... It's like infusing a weapon with vitality."

The weapon Beatrice spoke of was the Sin Dragon Arsenal.

That set of Sin Dragon Arsenal Liberation Form, like a slaughtering machine, seemed to have gained some synergy effect with its host, beyond just being a biological gear.

Not quite like real life.

More like the feeling of an AI assistant.

"The power recruitment level of the Sin Dragon Arsenal has significantly increased."

Louis said quietly.

Beatrice pondered for a moment and said:

"It was swallowed indeed; though your Sin Dragon Arsenal has a strong reaction to curses, such equipment that doesn't resemble a curse would also have 'appetite'?"

"It just seems like wanting to extract related info might be impossible."

Louis shook his head and said:

"No, I already know what's going on."

"Hmm?"

Beatrice looked at him in surprise and said:

"Does the Sin Dragon Arsenal also come with memory extraction?"

"It should be said, the living core didn't disappear within the Sin Dragon Arsenal, it just transformed into another form, helping me unify the powers of the Sin Dragon Arsenal."

Louis and Beatrice talked about the experience of the Cangqing Mechanical Corps.

101 years ago, Cangqing Mechanical Corps was ordered to hunt down the remaining forces of Mad King Rudelson and investigate the mysterious organization Love's Shadow active in the area.

However, upon arriving in this city, the person in charge, Andas, noticed something wrong with this city.

[Love], as the origin of the later Rose Doll's "Life Code", had a very strong ability to read spiritual abilities and hidden information.

If Andas were to take [Love] and raid a Mage Tower, [Love] could quietly invade the Mage Tower's defense system from the outside with its mastery over spiritual abilities and information.

It could be said that, at least 101 years ago, [Love] was still the world's leading master of information invasion.

But after entering this city, [Love] fell into a state of persistent high fever.

As a "Life Code" simulating Andas's wife's personality, naturally, it also shared part of Andas's love.

To find the cause of [Love]'s issue, Andas began investigating suspicious points in this city.

Later, he discovered that Love's Shadow seemed to have launched a large-scale sacrificial ritual in this city.

They spent a large amount of time using the entire city as a sacrificial array, and selected a special offering to sacrifice to the Love God.

That offering was called "Love."

According to common sense, such as a large-scale sacrificial ritual of a true deity wouldn't affect people's daily lives, and might even ensure favorable weather and peace at home.

But due to the twisted doctrines of Love's Shadow itself, the final result presented was that the "god's gift" of the sacrificial activity came with a hefty price.

The love and kinship of everyday things like rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea turned into the dramatic love-hate entanglements in third-rate sensational romance novels.

Lovers set traps for each other, enticing their beloved into a snare.

Even rational people started creating chaos in the city, driven by magnified emotions of "extreme love."

In the early stages of this sacrificial feedback, ordinary people wouldn't realize the underlying problem.

Because for them, this seemed like an everyday occurrence.

The aristocratic circles weren't clean, and the common folk's lives weren't that simple.

People's first impression was merely "gossip news circulated more" in the surroundings, hard to realize it was a conspiracy under the influence of extraordinary powers.

Luckily, [Love] was a master of information warfare itself.

When Andas noticed the issue, Cangqing Mechanical Corps began their rescue operations.

By then, Love's Shadow had already seized technology reports on "Abyssal Pus" from the Abyssal Church.

They began trying to create an "Shadow's Substitute" based on the Abyssal Pus bestowed by the Four Gods.

The poisonous love amplified by the sacrificial ritual provided the substitutes of Love's Shadow with terrifying "malicious love" beyond common expectations.

Thus, the embryonic Shadow's Substitute began to take root in the negative emotions of this city, growing at an unforeseen pace.

And the container chosen for the Substitute of Love's Shadow was Lady Xilin's legacy work "All My Life."

During their investigation of Love's Shadow, Andas and his team discovered a large number of records about Lady Xilin and "All My Life" in a base that had been eradicated.

Lady Xilin's early life didn't have much pleasant memories.

Those who were favored had no fear; unfortunately, she was not the favored one but the sacrificed one.

The psychological pressure accumulated over the years made Lady Xilin's mental state increasingly lethargic before she met her husband.

Like a flower that could wilt at any moment.

However, everything changed when she met her husband.

Lady Xilin's husband was a mage with a noble title and seemed to be a genius.

At that time, the suicidal Lady Xilin wanted to find a beautiful place to die alone, then traveled thousands of miles from another territory to here.

She requested her fiancé to let her stay for two months, watch the spring flowers bloom in the territory, then leave.

Or perhaps... find a place alone, paint, and proceed to the end of life.

Originally, her fiancé felt very strange about Lady Xilin's move, but being well-mannered, he wouldn't reprove a lady, especially not his fiancée.

While interacting with Lady Xilin, he inadvertently discovered Lady Xilin's "genius sickness" issue.

At first, it might have been mere affection, but in their interactions, the young mage soon fell in love with this unfortunate girl.

However, Lady Xilin, aware that her life was short, was unable to accept her husband's affection.

Her emotional dullness was like a tightly closed house; though the footsteps of love passed by her door repeatedly, she heard them.

Yet she thought those were passing footsteps, steps heading towards someone else.

Until one day, those footsteps stayed there.

The doorbell rang!

Though fearful, Lady Xilin eventually walked towards her husband.

During the last phase of her life, she spent the happiest time of her life.

It was also when she wanted to capture that person's image, not just in her heart but forever on canvas.

Although her husband tried to stop her, like a moth to flame, she still painted the artwork filled with all her love for her husband in the last year of her life.

That is "All My Life."

Far exceeding normal standards, "All My Life" should have been the supreme treasure of the art world, and a symbol commemorating her beautiful love with her husband.

However, falling into the hands of Love's Shadow, everything changed.

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