Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?
Chapter 444 - 59 Maybe this is Hanging On by a Thread

Chapter 444: Chapter 59 Maybe this is Hanging On by a Thread

"This is the second skill."

Peggy pointed at the mouse in the cage, her slender finger hooking slightly.

"And then?" Seeing that the mouse did not move at all, Nora asked curiously.

"It’s called ’Forbidden Death,’" Peggy said, "I’ve deprived it of its death."

She opened the cage, took the squeaking mouse in her hand, and twisted its head off in a single motion.

Despite being decapitated, the mouse’s headless body still writhed, and the other half of its head continued to squeak... as if completely unaffected, causing the two onlooking girls to shiver instantaneously.

Nora took the mouse’s body and carefully examined the wound, noticing that the heart was still beating and blood was flowing slowly from the cut. Logically, the mouse should have succumbed to death within a minute.

But it did not.

She tried to activate her Life Ability, aligning the mouse’s head with its body, then healed them back together. The latter slowly crawled up from the table, its movements seemingly a bit dizzy.

Probably due to excessive blood loss.

"Interesting," Thira commented, "So you mean it will not die no matter the severity of the injury? What if the body is destroyed?"

"It will not die," Peggy replied, "However, maintaining the state of Death Deprivation requires the consumption of my Spirituality every second. Once the state ends, it will return to normal."

"Ah, I see," Nora clapped her hands and smiled, "For instance, if the Squad Leader is pierced through the chest from behind and his heart is punctured. As long as you, Peggy, apply a Forbidden Death status on him, and I promptly heal his wounds and replenish the lost blood, then we can save him, right?"

Aske: ......

Sure enough, you’ve read my mind about last night’s events!

"That’s correct," Peggy said, "But my skill can only last for six to seven minutes. If he isn’t saved before Forbidden Death ends, he will still die; and if the target is already dead, using this skill on them won’t work."

Her expression turned somewhat somber, as if recalling something, and she silently breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

Thank goodness the Squad Leader isn’t dead... Regardless of the reasons for his resurrection, the important thing is he isn’t dead.

"Understood, it’s quite a valuable skill for rescuing," Nora commented, with Thira nodding in agreement. "Is there more?"

"The third skill is called ’Apoptosis,’" Peggy replied, "I can make any inanimate object ’die’ in the concept of humans."

She pointed at the wooden table holding the cage and, as if made of sand, the table collapsed into black soil.

"This is..." Thira pinched a bit of the black soil and squeezed it, "Is this the decayed state of the table?"

"Yes," Peggy said softly, "As long as it’s an object with a ’lifespan,’ I can draw out its ’death’ result ahead of time."

"This skill can turn any object into its final state of decay. Usually, they turn to dust."

"Different objects require different amounts of Spirituality to decay. Living things are the most difficult, followed by firearms, then swords, and buildings like concrete are the simplest."

Apparently, Peggy had only tried these four types of objects, but that was enough to leave both Nora and Thira agape in disbelief.

So it means, you kill people when encountered, destroy firearms when found. Even if someone hides in a bunker, you can level it... Is that the idea?

"Okay then." Aske, who had been the quickest to accept the fact that Peggy was "cheating," said. After all, the professional esports scene has always produced cheaters, and it’s hard to make it without some twisted trait, "So..."

"The fourth skill, I don’t know what to call it," Peggy said, looking down. "I can command these tadpoles to dive deep into the Subconscious Ocean, salvaging the consciousness or memories of the dead."

What! There’s a fourth skill?

"What are these tadpoles you mentioned?" asked Aske in amazement.

"This." Peggy opened her palm, and a black tadpole emerged from the center, its tail flicking playfully.

However, for some reason, when Nora and Thira saw this tadpole, a kind of immense natural fear arose from the depths of their hearts, prompting them to stay as far away from this "tadpole" as possible.

So it was you who caused the tadpole last night! Aske suddenly realized. It was you who tried to salvage me!

"This is Law Embodiment," he said with a complex expression, "You really have some nerve, Peggy!"

"Ehehe." Peggy giggled sheepishly, her face showing "I’ve been praised."

"Alright," Aske said, "I have a rough understanding of your Law now."

"Go back outside and kneel."

Peggy: ???

She felt a bit wronged as she knelt down again outside the arena, in front of the main entrance steps of the manor, continuing her punishment of being "displayed in public." It was at this time that Thira asked:

"Four Law Skills, as well as Law Embodiment, does that mean Peggy has reached Lv.15? She just condensed the Death Law and immediately soared to Lv.15?"

"Yes." Aske didn’t know how to comment on this matter, "Maybe this is what you call ’hacking’."

"Hacking?"

"It means abnormal," Aske said, "Having abnormal talent in certain respects."

"So Aske, how many Law Skills do you have now?" Nora asked curiously.

"Just this one," Aske said glumly, "Conceptual Weapon."

"So you’re only Lv.11 now?" Thira asked in disbelief, her expression as if to say "Are you kidding me? Peggy is at Lv.15, shouldn’t you at least be Lv.20?"

Aske: .......

Wait a minute, being able to master a Skill right after condensing a Law, starting at Lv.11 on the Path of Law, that’s already in the realm of genius! More than 99% of players have to wait a very long time between condensing their own Law and mastering a Law Skill!

Of course, Peggy’s case is clearly an abnormal hacking phenomenon, which should not be used to measure the difficulty of leveling. A normal person would need to go through a long period of study and training to level up just once on the Path of Law, and also need a bit of luck.

If the Bloodline Path is the transformation of the body, then the Path of Law is the sublimation of the spirit. In a sense, the "inspiration" needed for the Path of Law is more difficult to achieve in leveling up compared to the Bloodline Path’s "drinking Magic Potion".

.....

Aske sighed. These two haven’t even reached Lv.10 yet, and they had witnessed Peggy leap from Lv.10 straight to Lv.15; would they now become impractical in their aspirations and refuse to keep their feet on the ground?

Right, Eleanor hasn’t condensed a Law yet, right? Let them spend some time with Eleanor and they’ll understand.

Just as Aske began to ponder the feasibility of dividing the team into "fast track" and "slow track" based on leveling speed, he saw Eleanor suddenly teleport in.

The girl had attended some internal meeting of the Weisbach family last night and probably hadn’t slept well all night. Now with dark circles under her eyes, she hurriedly scanned her surroundings.

"Aske!" Her brows were furrowed, her tone urgent, "His Majesty wants to see you!"

"You mean Emperor Otto?" Aske was a bit surprised.

"Yes! Where’s Peggy?" Eleanor quickly turned her head, "Verona City is gone! Just last night! His Majesty’s scouts say it was done by The Azure Longsword, Peggy was witnessed assaulting Verona City last night, killing all the Temple Knights!"

She quickly saw Peggy kneeling at the doorway and hurried over, "Peggy! What on earth happened? They said you..."

Then Eleanor saw the sign on her chest and involuntarily read out loud:

I am a dummy who broke team discipline.

Eleanor: ???