Book 5: Chapter 51: Skill Update
<strong>Scarlet</strong>
After judging several more matches, I decide to do something productive with this time and open my status to check on the skills Ive gained since my leveling spree began.
<strong>Name: Scarlet Art Asger de Archeron</strong><strong>Species: Human/Blood Lycan Warden</strong><strong>Magic: Blood, N/u**ll</strong> <strong>Titles:</strong><strong>The Apex Predator, Bane of Corruption, Warden of the Red gue</strong> <strong>Age: 21</strong><strong>Level: 1871</strong><strong>SP: 6</strong> <strong>Stats:</strong> <strong>Physical: 10,008</strong><strong>Mental: 10,007</strong><strong>Magical: 10,007</strong> <strong>Physical/Level: 5</strong><strong>Mental/Level: 4</strong><strong>Magical/Level: 5</strong> <strong>Free Points: 0</strong><strong>Mana: 350,490,171/ 350,490,171</strong><strong>Free Points/Level: 10</strong> <strong>Active Skills:</strong> <strong>Bloodborne Apocalypse</strong>
<strong>Skill Level: 9</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Pain Diffusion</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Null Magic Field</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood of Ruin</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Metallicized Blood</strong><strong>Skill Level: 29</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Power Drain</strong><strong>Skill Level: 28</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Nullification</strong><strong>Skill Level: 27</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Rain of Blood</strong><strong>Skill Level: 26</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Transformation</strong><strong>Skill Level: 21</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Healing Reversal</strong><strong>Skill Level: 16</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Control</strong><strong>Skill Level: 15</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Beast Transformation</strong><strong>Skill Level: Static</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Partial Shift</strong><strong>Skill Level: Static</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Swarm</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Bane of Corruption</strong><strong>Skill Level: 15</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood gue</strong><strong>Skill Level: 35</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Crimson Overdrive</strong><strong>Skill Level: 35</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Vampire Ascendancy</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Scarlet Aegis</strong><strong>Skill Level: 20</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Eldritch Blood</strong><strong>Skill Level: 20</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Bond</strong><strong>Skill Level: 5</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Shadow</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Retribution</strong><strong>Skill Level: 20</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Passive Skills:</strong> <strong>Lycan''s Regeneration</strong><strong>Skill Level: 11</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Warden of the Red gue</strong><strong>Skill Level: Static</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Maniption</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Lesser Blood Runes</strong><strong>Skill Level: 1</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Nullification Resistance</strong><strong>Skill Level: 1</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Life</strong><strong>Skill Level: Static</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Princess''s Decree</strong><strong>Skill Level: Static</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Apex Predator</strong>
<strong>Skill Level: Static</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Bloodwell Keep</strong><strong>Skill Level: Static</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Blood Thirst</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong> <strong>Bloody Thorns</strong><strong>Skill Level: 30</strong><strong>Description</strong>
As the match down below is going on, I open the descriptions of each of my new skills.
<strong>{Nullification Resistance The user bes resistant to the effects of magic-nullifying or dispelling powers, ensuring their own magical powers remain intact even within null magic zones.}</strong>
<strong>{Blood Life The user gains a pseudo immortality, making it so that as long as they have blood within a five hundred kilometer radius around them, they will always be able to reform their body.}</strong>
<strong>{Lesser Blood Runes Allows the user to form and learn the lesser Blood Runes from the Runic Alphabet.}</strong>
<strong>{Blood Bond Allows the user to establish a blood bond between individuals by exchanging blood, granting them shared strength, senses, and even the ability to share pain or injuries.}</strong>
I tap my chin while reading through the descriptions and asionally ncing down at the fighting below.
Theyre all very good, even if I havent exactly been able to test them out much.
The Red gue kind of just makes my other skills a moot point right now, since it eats everything. Except really powerful beings, that is. Apparently, ording to the Fae King, if I tried to devour a Knight of Humanity or a Demon Lord, or Gramps for example, it would basically just work as an incredibly dangerous attack that would damage their reality and potential future. But it wouldnt kill them or devour them right away. Especially Gramps. It might not even work on him at all beyond some pain.
For now at least.
Im not nning on testing it, though. So this theorizing doesnt matter.
The match in the arena ends, so I quickly call out the winner, send the twobatants out of the arena, let the next two in, and pick a random arena that ends up being a field of flowers. Which is a little awkward considering the two ghouls fighting each other, but I dont really care. I just focus on my skills descriptions again.
Lesser Blood Runes is an achievement-locked skill I got from Leonidas, the lesser version of Blood Runes. And Blood Life is the achievement-locked skill that I got from Gramps, the lesser version of his Blood Immortal Title-Bearing Mythic skill.
That said, Lesser Blood Runes is a little useless at the moment since all I know is a tiny spark of inspiration on how to figure out a rune. Since this skill works differently from any other skill Ive had thus far. Just like those people who have Rune Magic.
Not something I can just activate because I want to.
So a pain.
And I cant test out Blood Life without dying. And dying probably isnt fun.
Tar snorts at that but doesnt say anything.
Its too bad that I dont get SP from devouring things with the Red gue. Makes for a waste, if Im being honest.
Although I do still get the SP from achievements at least.
I dont get as many achievements though, which is also a waste. Since the Red gue is so powerful, theres not really many grand achievements that I can get through it.
The System just doesnt work that way.
Giving me a bunch of really good achievements for that would basically just be giving away free stuff to a powerful person for being powerful. Especially since Im not really doing much to level up right now. Just kinda sitting back and letting the Red gue eat stuff.
As for Blood Bond and Nullification Resistance yeah, I cant really use those. The only person I know with null magic aside from me is Amelia. So the only use for Nullification Resistance is that I wont have to worry about my own use of null magic affecting me as much anymore. Which is a plus at least.
But for Blood Bond, I cant use that. Or rather, I cant use it on me. Because I cant exactly swap my blood with someone else.
Not unless they want to catch the Red gue, that is.
And I doubt they do.
I can use it on other people though. But I havent had a chance to try yet.
Also, since Bane of Corruption is ironically a little useless for me right now, considering my immunity to corruption, I started focusing my Skill Points on Crimson Overdrive. Since its my best purchasedbat skill.
Once again, not that Ive had a chance to test it out since the Red gue.
<strong>You almost sound like youreining about the Red gue, </strong>Tarments from myp.
I tilt my head with a slight yawn.
Hmm, well, it definitely has its uses, but it is also rather annoying. Imagine having something writhing around under your skin from time to time. Its just in ufortable.
Tar doesnt say anything for a few seconds before muttering, <strong>Yeah, I can see that.</strong>
A loud bell rings across the artificially created universe, following which I find myself suddenly appearing in the middle of the bleachers. And when I raise my head to look above the arenas, I find a different set ofpetitors overlooking them.
Cool. My jobs done here.
I turn around, only to be faced with a bunch of fans.
Tar
<strong>You still cant punch him, </strong>Tar says before I can even ask.
Darn.