Chapter 682: Fate's Gift, Enhancement Begins, Hogg's Unique Use

—Oracle: Every gift from Fate has long been marked with a hidden price.

Staring at the Fate Oracle that appeared on the virtual light screen.

Yu Yuan's heart was pounding wildly.

Finally!

His speculation had been correct.

Because of her previous involvement with the Debauchery card, Mona had already established a connection with him and the Fate Cards.

An event involving evolution like this really would attract the attention of the Fate Cards.

And Mona's current Life Level was Bronze-tier.

Which meant this evolution would most likely produce a Silver-tier Fate Card.

Three options had already appeared on the virtual light screen.

The first option was to upgrade the Rabbit Ring.

The second option was a land, sea, and air triphibious spacecraft with stealth, camouflage, deep-diving, and flight capabilities.

The third option was the one related to Mona.

—Upgrade [Dark High Priestess → Unknown]

Function: The Dark High Priestess undergoes advancement. Current advancement success rate is 63%, mutation rate is 74%. Related items can be added to increase the advancement success rate.

Yu Yuan was stunned.

"What? Only 63%?"

This was something Yu Yuan hadn't anticipated.

And what the hell was that mutation rate supposed to be?!

When Mie Mie had advanced before, there hadn't been any of this messy nonsense.

But Yu Yuan quickly realized, last time Mie Mie's advancement had used an achievement reward—the [Upgrade Enhancement Permission].

It was a direct reward from the Civilization Ladder, the safest advancement method with no side effects.

But this time, Mona was attempting a blood enhancement through the Blood Duke's spiritual imprint.

The two weren't even on the same scale.

No matter how impressive the Blood Duke was, he couldn't possibly surpass the Civilization Ladder.

Not to mention this was essentially spiritual pollution.

"The only option now is to find the so-called related item to boost Mona's advancement success rate. Related item... related item..."

Of course, there was another option, and that was to directly release the psychic ability [Diagnosis: Amnesia] on Mona.

But now that Mona had finally obtained a chance for advancement, this opportunity couldn't simply be passed up.

"Wait. Related item!"

Yu Yuan thought of one.

—Hogg.

Hogg's body carried Lilith's bloodline, and Lilith was the child of the Blood Duke and Absinthe.

Hiss—

This... in a sense, Hogg could practically be considered the Blood Duke's direct blood relative.

He immediately contacted Hogg to ask about his location.

Soon Hogg's reply came through, he was at the Civilization Relic laboratory of Mortarian.

Cooperating with Miller on the final stages of research.

So what was he waiting for?

Under the astonished gazes of Carmen and the others, Yu Yuan teleported to Mortarian's Civilization Relic.

Hogg, having received Yu Yuan's message, had already left the laboratory and was sprinting toward him.

"Hurry!"

Before Yu Yuan even finished speaking, Hogg had already charged into the motor lodge, and with the door opening and closing.

The two returned to the Altar of Life.

Mona had already begun establishing a connection with the Bloodline River overhead.

The Bloodline River began to tremble slightly, and along with it, Mona's condition started to change.

Her originally deep purple hair was transforming into a wine-red hue.

These were all fine, but her skin had begun to squirm slightly, undulating up and down like waves.

Yu Yuan handed several Epic-tier [Biological Enhancement Agents] and Epic-tier Blood Brew to Hogg.

"Hogg, I need your blood."

Hogg had unconsciously widened his eyes the moment he saw that Bloodline River.

"Master, I have a very peculiar feeling about this river."

"Feeling something is exactly right! No time for talk, blood..."

Only then did Hogg snap back to reality.

Understanding the urgency, his finger moved like a blade and sliced straight across his radial artery.

Shhk—

Blood sprayed outward frantically, but the moment it left Hogg's body, it all coalesced and hovered in midair.

Tiny points of silver light within the blood began to gleam, resonating with the Bloodline River in the sky.

On the virtual light screen, the number for Mona's advancement success rate began to jump the instant the blood appeared.

64%... 67%...

It worked.

Yu Yuan watched Hogg's blood continuously gathering in the air, an uncontrollable smile spreading across his face.

"I knew it, I knew it would work."

Beside him, Hogg remained silent, tossing aside the just-injected Biological Enhancement Agent and grabbing a bottle of Epic-tier Blood Brew, chugging it down with loud gulps.

His deathly pale complexion finally began to recover, but within a few seconds, it started turning pale again.

He had no choice but to repeat the process.

A tragic overworked wage slave, no doubt about it.

A true portrayal of someone who not only works hard but also risks his life.

Yu Yuan watched Hogg's actions and immediately walked over to his side, picking up the Epic-tier Blood Brew and feeding it to his mouth.

"Hogg, hang in there, this will be over soon!"

Feeding him while smiling.

Combined with Hogg's formidable regeneration ability, every few seconds he had to tear the wound open again.

The whole scene gave off the distinct impression of a villain at work.

This spectacle left Carmen and Alpha, who had been watching from afar, exchanging bewildered glances.

Suddenly.

They no longer envied Hogg's strength.

This was truly terrifying.

When the blood hovering in the air had accumulated enough that a faint layer of silver light began to shimmer across its surface.

The success rate number on the virtual light screen had finally reached 98.1%.

But it was that final 1.9% that refused to budge.

Yu Yuan knew it wouldn't increase any further.

He fed Hogg the last bottle of Blood Brew.

"No need to tear the wound open anymore."

Hearing this, Hogg channeled his regeneration ability at full force, and the wound visibly healed before their eyes.

Within seconds, the wound had already scabbed over.

By this point, Hogg's complexion had turned deathly pale.

The mass of blood in the air was equivalent to twice the total blood volume in his body.

If not for the remarkable effects of the Epic-tier Blood Brew and Epic-tier Biological Enhancement Agents.

Hogg would likely have turned into a dried corpse by now.

Even so, Hogg's strength had been somewhat affected.

He would need a period of rest to recover.

Yu Yuan looked at Mona, who had now fully completed resonance with the Bloodline River.

He no longer hesitated and immediately made his choice.

—Upgrade [Dark High Priestess → Unknown]

The silver light on the floating blood radiated brilliance, surging into the resonance connection between Mona and the Bloodline River.

BOOM—RUSH RUSH RUSH

The Bloodline River trembled, and to everyone's astonishment, a thin tributary split off from the main river, merging with the silver-glowing blood, then following the resonance connection, flowed into Mona's body.

"Who!" A voice seemingly from an age long past echoed from the depths of the Bloodline River.

Yu Yuan immediately looked at Carmen and Alpha, his voice urgent:

"Everyone out except Knight and Hogg, now!"

Carmen and Alpha immediately sprinted outside.

Knight and Hogg then looked at Yu Yuan.

"Knight, release your Molten aura. Hogg, bare your fangs and release Blood Energy, disguise yourselves as Blood Clan..."

And Yu Yuan had already begun releasing the aura of his Ice Faith.

ROOOAR—

Crimson-glowing molten patterns appeared on Knight's charred black skin.

Molten aura began to rise.

Hogg, meanwhile, channeled his Blood Energy at full power, the four fangs at the corners of his mouth growing increasingly sharp. With his pale visage, plus the Blood Energy aura radiating from his body.

Without undergoing Werewolf Transformation, he could almost pass for a Blood Clan member.

Everything was completed in an instant.

And at that very moment, at the position of the Source of the Bloodline River, a vivid red palm slowly emerged.