After turning 5, Lucien reached 99% if control over his Rank 0 stats. If got much harder towards the end, as perfection is always an uphill battle.
'I probably wouldn't be able to even go over 80%, if not for the 5.00 Soul.'
'And this is only external control, I probably can't even begin internal control for a while.'
At this point he had another 1000 points, as that is about how much he gathers over an year at his current speed. Even if there was a bit more, since the next milestone was too far for the current him, he exchanged for information that could be useful in the future.
'I guess purchasing a third path and keep going for perfect balance is the way, after I can leave the palace, I can definitely speed up the gathering of point by a lot.'
'I want to exchange, All Existence.'
With just a thought, the now connected to reality All Existence responded.
-State your desire-
"I want the Vampire Path."
-Integration of the Vampire Path beginning-
-External Features already nearly match the path, no external change needed-
-Internal alteration beginning-
'It's not much different from the Ghoul Path integration, some pain and my internal structure is changed.'
'What is fascinating it actually didn't have problem merging Ghoul and Vampire Paths in the same internal body.'
'I really wonder what is it changing on the inside of my body.'
While Lucien was leading his monologue, he didn't realize his pupils changed for an instant. His originally crimson pupils that resembled blood moons, were compressed into vertical slits. Dangerous aura projected, as if a predator was unleashed. As it lasted only an instant, nobody realized anything, not even Lucien himself.
-Internal alteration finished-
-Lucien BloodMoon-
-Age: 5 years-
-Race: Human-
-Paths:
Iron Ghoul(Rank 0)
Darkness(Rank 0)
Vampire Baron(Rank 0)-
-Strength: 5.00-
-Agility: 4.00-
-Vitality: 5.00-
-Soul: 5.00-
-Control over external body: 99%-
-Control over internal body: 0%-
-Adjustment over new stats: 0%-
-Adjustment would progress depending on control over body-
-At 0% control adjustment doesn't progress-
-At 50% a couple of days to a week is required-
-At 100% an instant is enough-
-Furthermore to control vitality stat, internal control is required-
The Vampires were always considered almost impossible to destroy, by normal means. Of course in this world as long as someone was higher ranked, a vampire was nothing much.
As Lucien expected it focused on Vitality as it brought it max of level 0, and additional Agility boost bringing it to 4.00.
'I guess investing a 200 existence points and bringing everything into balance is not a bad idea at this point.'
'Investing time into body control was worth it, I'll need 10 minutes at most to finish adjusting to the new Agility.'
It took him only 5 minutes in reality to adjust to 2x more speed. It would be unbelievable 2 years ago, but it was within the expectations now.
After that Lucien started walking back to his room with the wooden spear in his hand.
For the first time in his current life, he was other people than the maid and his mother, it was three boys, looking 7-8 years old.
'Hmm this might be interesting, I mean sneaking in here is ok, they can always pretend to be innocent and say they got lost.'
'I wonder if they really just got lost or someone is trying something, through them.'
'All Existence, how much would it cost me to check if someone is watching.'
-1 existence point/meter-
'Ok, check 20 meters.'
'Better the see even beyond the corridor they were currently in, just in case.'
'No life detected outside current field of vision.'
'Hmm let's see how this plays out.'
Lucien just continued walking, the 5-10 meters, shrank gradually.
One of the boys, who seemed as the leader of the group, all of a sudden seemed to notice Lucien and his eyes.
'So he is the third prince, I wonder why did that person send us to find him trouble, he just lives here not going out at all.'
'Even through I'm not much into this kind of stuff, the conditions he gave me were worth offending a 5 year old prince.'
'Let's start the show.'
"Oh God, look at his eyes guys, who is this guy?"
"Alex, do you think we met a ghost or something?"
"Boss, maybe we should run, hahah."
Lucien obviously noticed they were mocking him, and were not scared at all.
He looked at them pretending to be angry.
'Hmm, it really seems like someone is trying to test me.'
'On the other hand they look like 30ish kilograms.'
'Other than their souls I can absorb everything else, it would bring me some trouble if I do so, since people don't disappear all of a sudden, not in the imperial palace anyway.'
'Phew, 180 points wasted, that is a three months worth of gathering.'
Since for common human meat, for some reason the points were more than common animal meat.
-Human meat is x2 the same rank animal meat-
-Human blood is x2 the same rank animal meat-
He felt it would be much more worthwhile going after humans than animals just due to this point.
Lucien decided to as All Existence why was it like this, since they are comparable in strength.
-This world is controlled by humans, so the world will is supporting humans at this point and society is made from humans, even through there are beast, they are there to keep balance, since the world will wouldn't let humans be the only creatures, it would endanger it-
-You as a human can't live with beast, so if you hunt humans, you might find yourself as an outcast, criminal hunted, by existences much more powerful than you.-
-All existence takes all kinds of factors into consideration while calculation exchange rates-
-Rates vary from world to world-
So it was around 180 points points for 90 kilograms of meat and blood of common humans.
'Well let's end this, I don't have time to play around with retards.'
While looking angry, and just as the other boys were about to make their own remarks, Lucien stabbed out 3 times in a fraction of a second.
The boys only saw a blur, they might have managed to evade once, if they were prepared, by why would a kid, who has enough status to enter the imperial palace, be on his guard.
Lucien aimed with precision for non-vital spots, just knocking them out.
All it took was an instant.