Blood Assimilation

196 Returning To The City

“...”

Randy was silence for a short while as he pondered what happened just now.

‘The speed of my counterattack was indeed surprising even for me. Was my attack that deadly enough to cause him to run away as if his life was threatened? I thought he would be like all vampires with high self-healing ability. Not to mention, I didn’t even exert my full influence on those spikes that seemed to be made out of his blood. Then, what is the cause of that tremendous speed?’

Randy wondered to himself regarding the reason why his influence over the vampire man’s attack was unnaturally easy and it even took him less effort to send his attacks back at him.

Earlier, when he noticed the approaching attacks, upon recognizing the true form of the attacks, he instinctively used his Blood Authority Skill to halt the incoming projectiles before they reached him. That was because he somehow figured that his skill would work on the other party’s attack, which was made out of blood.

However, when he did so, he realized a moment later that he did not even need the assistance of the system to activate his skill, and also, it was quite easy to stop the enemy’s attacks in their tracks.

As it felt like rather than stopping the attacks, he instead used his ethereal and invisible energy from his Blood Authority Skill to wrap around the blood spikes and thus halted them from moving further forward while also keeping their momentum at the same time.

Furthermore, when he sent the now fully controlled blood spikes back at the vampire man, it felt like the attack speed of the blood spikes had abruptly increased triple times their original attack speed.

And the strange part was that he did not even use his full influence on those blood spikes as he was not in his ancestral form the whole time, thus his control should have been much weaker without the system.

.....

At this point, Randy wondered if the reason for the sudden increase in the attack speed had something to do with the fact that the attack was originally not his attack and since it belonged to that vampire man, that was the reason why he could easily control it?

But he immediately discarded this reason because it should have been the opposite instead. After all, the attacks should be more influenced by the one who initiated it and not the one who intercepted the attacks with a similar ability or skill.

A few moments of pondering later, Randy suddenly realized something important, and he immediately tried to hover the spikes that are made out of blood towards himself, but then all of sudden, the blood spikes all let out a resounding ‘crack’ sound as one by one, they disintegrated within a short moment later.

Crack! Crack! Crack...!

Randy calmly watched as they unexpected situation unfold in front of his very eyes.

‘Did they break because the user of the spell was no longer in sight? Well, no matter. At least, I can now definitely assume that he ran away rather than went to call for his allies. But even so, it’s a pity... But it can’t be helped.’ Randy silently thought with slight regret in his heart.

Although he felt very regretful that he could not obtain the other party’s blood to assimilate, he also did not want to chase after them either, as there was a possibility that the escaped vampire man could have his allies lying in wait in that forest.

In other words, if he had chased after him a while ago, the possibility that he might have been ambushed with numbers was very high, and he might even end up losing his life if not badly injured in the process if that were to happen. Furthermore, he was not someone who would underestimate his enemies and thus, he chose not to pursue the other party.

Not to mention, he needed to return to the city quickly to report his completion of his rank mission as soon as possible.

With that in mind, Randy firmly decided not to give chase and proceeded to ignore the escaped vampire man, turned around and then walked away in a certain direction away from the dungeon’s entrance.

As he walked away, he wondered why there was a vampire near the entrance of the dungeon of beasts.

‘I wonder... Why was I attacked by that vampire just now...? Is that a normal occurrence in this world? That aside, I’ve discovered something more interesting through this encounter. First of all, my blood authority skill seems to work on that blood manipulation skill of that vampire man, and secondly, his blood manipulation seemed to be infused with his mana, meaning it might be a spell and his innate skill mixed together. But the control seemed to be weaker than I expected, or maybe that vampire was simply too weak, so his blood manipulation skill was not that great? Then again, it was way too easy to control his blood even though it was normally hard for me to control blood that easily with my blood authority.’

Randy pondered for a while and yet he could not come to a proper conclusion, but he still found this discovery very helpful to him.

As he also had a blood manipulation skill, but there was no one else he knew that could do the same thing that he could, except for maybe his father who was not home all the time due to work and thus he could not ask him for pointers in that regard.

If things end up going according to how it should be, then he would most likely be able to learn how to control his abilities when he attends university in the future but that was when he does attend university.

However, Randy wanted to quickly learn how to control his own abilities without relying on the system too much.

After all, too much dependence would lead to more reliance on the thing that one depended on. In this case, it was his system, and he cannot foretell the future and be certain that he might not lose his system someday due to some circumstance?

With that thought in mind, upon witnessing the prowess of the vampire species in this world, he now planned on catching some of the vampires while in this world and either forcing them to teach him their blood spells or assimilating with their blood to learn their skills directly.

Assimilating with their blood of a vampire was the quickest method to get all their skills that he needed without wasting more time.

On the other hand, the first choice would require him to negotiate with other parties during their encounter, not to mention, they might even attack him without for no reason.

But Randy does not plan on doing something that dangerous and stupid like negotiating with the vampires. He would rather kill them and forcefully take their blood afterward than negotiate with them. After all, he was a human and thus killing a vampire in this world was not that strange or evil per se.

Even though he could solve all his problems by changing his class to blood magician, that would only give him the blood spells and not the innate blood manipulation skill of the vampires.

Most importantly, Randy truly wanted their blood manipulation skill in order to compare and contrast it with his own skill, Blood Authority and see the difference and how he could use that as a reference to control his skill.

At this point, Randy shook his head to put these thoughts aside and immediately picked up the pace as he made his way to Alpheotus city, which was only about a three to four hours away in foot but if he used his newly acquired movement skill, Wind Sailing, he could reach the city in less than that amount of time.

That was the perk of having such an active and convenient skill that could be activated instantly without having to go through extra steps, and also, he could easily avoid any attention to himself even if someone were to see him performing this skill with his appearance.

That was because, unlike his ‘Gale Riding Skill’, which allowed him to move very swiftly but required him to be in his assimilated state, the newly acquired ‘Wind Sailing Skill’ did not require him to alter his appearance, and therefore, he could simply use it as many times he wanted.

A smile gradually appeared on Randy’s face as he felt very pleased with his harvest this time in the dungeon of beasts.

Besides the items that he got his hands on after conquering the dungeon, the supposed innate skills that he awakened with the help of the challenger’s system would undoubtedly aid him tremendously as he stays in this world from now on.

Without further ado, Randy activated the skill, followed by a notification from the challenger’s system.

[Wind Sailing Skill Activated]

Whoosh~ Whoosh~ Whoosh~

Randy had practiced this skill back in the dungeon of beasts as he hunted the dungeon beasts, so he could confidently say that he was now adept at using it without any difficulty or discomfort when executing and applying his very own set of leg movements.