The Evil Lord's Wife Has Spirit Blood

Chapter 395

While Michelle slept leaning on Alexander, Alexander took a hold of her hands and looked at her palms.

Though visibly she had the worst wounds on her waist, her palms also didn’t look all that good.

The blisters there were quite nasty.

Alexander remembered the kind of training he went through when he was about Michelle’s age.

It was similar.

He still had scars all over his body from it.

Those scars couldn’t really be seen, because they were seamlessly the same color as his skin, but if touched, they could be felt.

Michelle most probably would never have scars like that because of her Spirit Soul Blood.

Unless she deliberately aimed on getting scars.

Then, it could be achieved.

But there were only very few reasons to think of that would cause someone to on purpose get scars on their body.

After checking Michelle’s palms, Alexander let her sleep against him.

In the meantime, he closed his eyes to feel the Shadow Pact.

Even before he had first made the pact with Michelle, he knew that because she was mostly calm, it could be somewhat difficult to understand through it what she was feeling.

Even when she was reacting to something, it was usually quite mild; and such mild reactions were carried by the pact very subtly.

So, Alexander realized that if he wanted to use the pact to accurately feel what Michelle was feeling, he needed to either alter the pact or (let’s say) train with it.

Basically, he would either have to make the contract in itself more sensitive to Michelle’s emotions, or he would have to become more sensitive to it himself.

Well, and Alexander decided to go with the second option.

So, the whole time Michelle was asleep, he was feeling the Shadow Pact, the goal being to notice even the most subtle of changes.

And there were changes because even while sleeping, people experienced changes of emotions; especially if they were dreaming at the moment.

Like that, Michelle and Alexander stayed until the next morning.

Then, Michelle opened her eyes and looked down at her waist.

Her Spirit Soul Blood did work wonders; the wounds were basically nearly healed.

She nearly didn’t feel any pain.

But there was still a catch to it.

Because she had the spirit remnants of her counter element within her system, though mostly painless, an extent of the wounds refused to heal.

To an uninterested observer, it would look to be the most serious parts of the wounds, because it did look quite nasty; but that was just an illusion created by the spirit remnants.

Feeling Michelle stir next to him, Alexander opened his eyes too.

"How do you feel?" he asked, seeing that her wounds were better than before.

Then, he took a hold of her hands again and checked her palms.

The blisters were gone, replaced by smooth skin.

"Barely any pain," Michelle hopped off the bed, stretching her body.

"Well, I hope that doesn’t mean you are planning to go training again today," Alexander settled back on his bed.

Michelle gave it a momentary thought, looking down at her waist.

"I was thinking about it, actually," she commented.

It would be greatly beneficial for her to build up some immunity against her counter elements, and that’s done the most efficiently in short intervals.

If she waited until the spirit remnants in her body disappeared (in other words until she recovered), the process would only be longer.

Alexander must have understood that.

Even if he wasn’t a Spirit Master but a Shadow Master, he had a good grasp about counter elements and such.

In the end, all his subordinates were monsters who used spirit energy.

When assigning them tasks (especially those where fighting would be involved), he had to be careful about not assigning together those of counter elements if they hadn’t yet been trained for that.

Otherwise, they would limit each other.

But Alexander only had to worry about that with the Head Executives and Executives since those were the ones he came into direct contact with.

And it had already been quite a while since the last Executive had been training to cooperate with counter‑element monsters.

"If you plan to train against counter elements, wouldn’t it be much better if you trained in a controlled environment? Not with someone who thinks the fire element doesn’t do much to you?" Alexander finally asked.

He quite disliked that Michelle was being trained by someone who didn’t know the full extent of the conditions that could affect her.

But at the same time, he definitely didn’t want Lucas or anyone from the Academy to know.

Michelle looked at Alexander and shook her head.

"What would be the point of pushing myself when there’s no real danger in it?"

Even though she said that, that day she didn’t go training.

Lucas had allowed her to take a single day of rest, so she would use it.

Instead, she stayed in Alexander’s courtyard, training the little snake nearly the whole day.

By the end of the day, the little snake was completely exhausted, wrapped around her ankle, looking up at her with begging eyes.

It wanted to rest.

Michelle was quite strict when it came to teaching, so the whole day, the snake had barely any rest.

The only moment was when Michelle gave it some food to eat.

As a young Skinwalker, it needed to eat much more often than someone like her.

In the evening, Alexander watched Michelle pick up the snake and let it wrap around her neck to sleep.

"Did you name it already?" he asked, leaning on the door frame.

Hearing that, Michelle shook her head.

"What if it already has a name?"

"Did you ask it?" Alexander pointed at the snake.

When Michelle shook her head again, he just chuckled.

"You forgot to ask it, didn’t you?"

Michelle didn’t comment on that.

But she did note in her mind that once the snake woke up, she would ask it if it had a name.

Until then, she had time to think about a name she could give the little one if it didn’t have one.

It was her contracted beast, so of course it couldn’t be nameless.

But there was another problem before Michelle could think about any names; she didn’t know whether the little one was a male or a female snake.

In the first place, she didn’t know what kind of snake it was a double to, so she couldn’t really make it out from its appearance, and she really didn’t feel like checking its reproductive organs.

So, while the snake was peacefully asleep, Michelle summoned Mare from her space to ask about that tiny little fact she might have forgotten.

Hearing the question, Mare stared at the snake, and shrugged.

"I don’t know with Skinwalkers, but if it works the same as with snakes, that should be a male snake," she finally said.

To confirm that, Michelle would need to ask Serith.

But that one was in the forest, training its new skeletal body to get used to missing one hind leg.

So, Michelle came to the conclusion that she would give it rest for the night.

Later, when the snake woke up, she would ask it if it had a name, and then, she could also ask if it was a male or female snake.

But she wasn’t so sure if a snake so young could know.

Well, it was still worth a shot.

Until morning, Michelle had quite a lot of free time, and she didn’t feel like sleeping.

Being a cultivator in the Monarch ranks, she didn’t need to sleep as often.

But just because she wouldn’t sleep didn’t mean she would be bored the whole night.

First of all, with Alexander around, that wouldn’t be possible.

And second, she had quite a few things she could do all the time.

And the one she thought the most urgent at the moment was the poison from Mavreth.

She was still taking it daily, but that damn poison had still to affect her in any way.

Was it really just making her blood poisonous, which caused the little snake to recoil from her when it had smelled her blood?

She highly doubted so.

Mavreth wouldn’t give her something like that amongst normal poison.

He would have at least marked it somehow so she could know not to expect any effects.

So, she had to search for the effects it was having on her body.

Maybe she would find out that because she was no longer exactly a human, it didn’t work on her properly, but she highly doubted that.

Since Mavreth’s poisons could ignore ranks, it could definitely also ignore species.

Though, there was still the possibility that Michelle had gained poison and venom immunity after absorbing the poison element Life Stone.

But, from what she knew about Alexander, she thought it safe to assume that most of his poisons could bypass basic poison and venom immunity caused solely by Life Stones and such.

So, Michelle sat down on Alexander’s bed for the night and proceeded to check her body.

And Alexander sat right next to her, continuing with feeling the Shadow Pact to get more sensitive to it.