Marvel: Hunter

Chapter 359: Revival

The Rejuvenation Potion was indeed worthy of its price. Even the faint wisps of scent it released were absorbed by the people around it, showing visible signs of renewed youth. The effect was truly terrifying.

Only now did Blaine realize that the system's description of "regenerating flesh and restoring bones to the dead" was by no means an exaggerated metaphor.

[Actually, in this situation,]

[Only one drop of the [Rejuvenation Potion] would have been enough for the host.]

Just as Blaine was marveling at the potion's incredible effects, the system's voice sounded again at the perfect—or rather, worst—moment.

"Aha, my fault."

"Damn it."

One second he was moved, the next Blaine felt as if he had swallowed a dead fly.

Now Blaine had every reason to suspect that the system was doing this on purpose—retaliating because he hadn't fallen for the trick and refused to buy the weakened version of the Time Gem Ring.

Clearly, one drop would have sufficed, yet the system waited until Blaine had poured out the entire bottle before reminding him. That wasn't a scam at all—absolutely not. Fifty billion, poured out just like that. Blaine's heart ached fiercely.

Who would have thought that Blaine, who was notorious for tricking others, would end up in this situation? Who would have thought that the one who always deceived others would be repeatedly played by the system?

There was no helping it now. He had already bought it and poured it out—he could only see how it turned out.

Blaine looked down at the ashes beneath his feet. At this moment, the ground was no longer scorched. It had turned green—not because the land itself had transformed, but because all the ashes of the heart-shaped grass had gathered together, forming a large black sphere.

The ground exposed beneath the ashes was now soaked in the Rejuvenation Potion, clearly nourishing the soil and making it suitable for growth. That entire bottle of potion was probably enough to keep Wakanda from ever needing to water or fertilize the heart-shaped grass again for thousands of years.

As for the black sphere, its surface was also coated in the potion Blaine had poured out. The Rejuvenation Potion quickly enveloped it, turning the black sphere green. The liquid on its surface flowed continuously, and the green sphere began to shrink at a rate visible to the naked eye. In a short time, it had shrunk to the size of a fingernail.

The sphere also became increasingly irregular, as if it were taking shape. Soon, it clearly resembled a seed.

Blaine casually pinched it. The seed had turned red, no longer green, and now truly looked like a heart.

As for how the Rejuvenation Potion had turned ashes back into a seed, Blaine didn't understand the principle. In short, the potion was simply outrageous.

All the onlookers were stunned, their minds blank. Even if they lived in a world where curing cancer was routine, facing this scene left them unable to express their feelings with words.

What shocked them even more was what came next. As soon as the heart-shaped grass seed finished forming, Blaine squatted down, carefully buried it in the soil, and covered it with a handful of green earth.

Just after he finished, before Blaine could even stand up, the small mound of soil began to loosen. Seeing this, everyone—including Blaine—held their breath, eyes fixed on the spot.

The small patch of soil responded as if on cue. It shifted a few times, and at a certain moment, it felt as though something clicked in everyone's hearts. The next second, a green sprout burst through the soil, like a chick breaking out of its shell. Under everyone's gaze, it began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In a short while, it reached the height of Blaine's feet. Then, the first leaf slowly unfurled from the top of the sprout. With the first leaf came the second, then the third, fourth, and fifth in quick succession. The growth didn't stop there. The stem continued to rise until it reached Blaine's calf, then halted—not growing taller, but spreading outward instead.

As Blaine stepped away from the plot of land, he turned back and saw that the sprout had already grown into a small tree. Soon after, a purple flower bud bloomed on its branches.

The flower opened, revealing red stamens inside. Before Blaine could get a closer look at the heart-shaped grass's blossoms, the flower suddenly withered.

Blaine's heart tightened, thinking something had gone wrong. But when he looked at the Wakandan tribespeople beside him, they seemed even more excited.

When Blaine turned back to look again, he finally relaxed. Where the flower had withered, a new bud had already sprouted from the ground.

'Still too slow,'

'Let me help you.'

Muttering to himself, Blaine suddenly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, two rotating pentagrams had appeared in his pupils.

The next moment, with a light wave of his hand, another beam of green radiance scattered across the land where the heart-shaped grass was growing. Instantly, the growth rate of the plants surged severalfold. In what felt like only a few breaths, a dense jungle of heart-shaped grass appeared before everyone's eyes. The land was once again completely covered.

Perhaps because the heart-shaped grass was a special plant, after using the Rejuvenation Potion, Blaine's follow-up healing technique accelerated its formation even further. One had to know that the plants in the backyard of Blaine's villa—under his care as a healer—could easily gain the equivalent of several years or even decades of growth in a short time.

While everyone was still in a daze, Blaine stepped into the jungle of heart-shaped grass. He did so for no other reason than to take a closer look at the mysterious energy within this plant—energy that allowed every generation of Wakanda's Black Panther to gain Superman-like speed, acuity, strength, and endurance, while also greatly enhancing the user's senses and physical traits.

Through the system's scan, Blaine gained a partial understanding of the plant.

The heart-shaped grass had been born more than ten thousand years ago, when a Vibranium meteorite fell to Earth. Under the influence of radiation and the passage of time, the nearby flora and fauna had undergone mutations.

Over tens of thousands of years, through natural selection and the survival of the fittest, those mutated animals and plants gradually went extinct. In the end, only the heart-shaped grass remained.

Of course, within such a vast primitive jungle behind Wakanda, there might still be other hidden species. But after countless rounds of selection and experimentation, the people of Wakanda had ultimately discovered the extraordinary value of the heart-shaped grass.

"Tsk, tsk,"

"Who would have thought such a small plant would be a primordial life-form?"

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