Bloed spent the rest of the day in his laboratory.
It did not take him long to upgrade his pets. After all, he had already been preparing for it for a long time.
When he was done, his three mechanical pets had gone through a big power-up.
Leto remained almost the same. However, Bloed increased the amount of electricity that it could release. Moreover, Bloed remodeled its metallic sand, making it three times heavier than before.
Now, just the weight of the wolf alone was enough to kill a D-Rank practitioner!
After the upgrades, Leto's combat strength increased greatly. Now, it was comparable to an average A-Rank practitioner.
Next was Tito. For it, Bloed focused on enhancing its supportive abilities. Now, Bloed was thirty percent faster when wearing Tito's armor.
Don't underestimate this thirty percent. Before, Bloed could reach seven hundred km/h (434 Millas/h) when he moved at his fastest speed. But now, his speed surpassed the 900 km/h (560 Millas/H)!
This speed was barely the standard of an A-Rank practitioner! Moreover, it would likely increase after he used the Body Enhancing Virus.
At that speed, it was possible to avoid bullets. He was so fast that he needed less than half a second to run one hundred meters.
Of course, that was just Bloed's highest speed. During a battle, Bloed generally moved at a third of that speed.
After all, if he ran used his highest speed, he would become tired in less than one minute.
The last mechanical pet that Bloed upgraded was Oculus.
For this pet, Bloed added several changes. Firstly, he increased the power of the plasma ray that it could shot. Right now, it was strong enough to be threatening to a Peak A-Rank practitioner.
Of course, a Peak A-Rank practitioner could avoid it easily, but if Leto managed to slow down his movements long enough for Oculus to shoot its plasma ray, then that Peak A-Rank practitioner would suffer a lot.
Bloed also increased the power of Oculus's suppression fire. He made it strong enough to be deadly to B-Rank practitioners, and even A-Rank practitioners could not take it easily.
However, besides strengthening its previous abilities, Bloed also added a completely new ability to Oculus.
In fact, this was the main change that Bloed made to the floating eye this time.
Bloed called it, [Suppressive Gravity Field].
Using the knowledge about magic runes that Bloed learned from Headmistress Wave recently, Bloed gave Oculus the ability to project a suppressive field where gravity was increased two-fold.
Bloed designed this function to use it together with [King's Aura] and [Imaginary Slash]. This way, Imaginary Slash would become much harder to avoid. It made Bloed's trump card even deadlier than before.
Unfortunately, increasing gravity, even on a small scale, was not easy. Right now, Oculus could only use [Suppressive Gravity Field] for ten seconds before using up all its energy.
But well, the purpose of this technique was to use it as a trump card. Thus, although the limited time was regrettable, Bloed did not mind it too much.
Once he was done with the upgrades, Bloed finally left the laboratory.
When Bloed left the laboratory, it was already night. Regina was waiting for him outside, and as soon as she saw him, she gave him some documents that she was holding in her hands.
"This is?"
"The thing that you asked me to investigate, master."
Bloed raised an eyebrow before nodding. "I see. The information about [Wings of Liberty], huh."
Regina nodded.
A few days ago, Gina told Bloed that the leader of Wings of Liberty was the person behind several attempts to damage Machine Revolutio.
The reason behind it was that the leader of Wings of Liberty, Nathan Sigel, wanted revenge after Bloed's sister, Eres Skysword, left Wings of Liberty to join Machine Revolutio.
Eres explained to Bloed that her act of leaving Wings of Liberty brought a lot of trouble to that club. After all, she was the Princess of the biggest human kingdom; thus, when she left Wings of Liberty, it could make many people question the legitimacy of Wings of Liberty as Academy City's main human club.
After learning about all of that, Bloed asked Regina and Prince Calisto to investigate Wings of Liberty.
It was not his style to endure quietly when someone attacked him. Now that he knew who was behind the attacks against Machine Revolutio, he planned to retaliate.
Bloed read the documents that Regina brought and raised an eyebrow.
"This is… Woah, fifteen people left Wings of Liberty in the last ten days. And eight of them were people of the Kingdom of Alterna… I think I can understand why the leader of Wings of Liberty is so angry."
Fifteen people were more than a tenth of the club. Obviously, Eres's actions had a great impact.
Bloed smiled wryly. But then, he furrowed his brows.
One second later, his eyes lit up.
"I think I already know what to do. Mmm… Yes, this is a good idea."
"Master?"
"… However, it's not easy to implement this plan. Right now, my connections in Academy City are not enough to do it. If I try to implement this plan by myself, the result will not be as good as I want."
Bloed frowned deeply. But a few seconds later, his eyes lit up again.
"Right, I just need to ask someone for help… Yes, and I have the perfect candidate. Regina, let's go!"
"Master? I still don't know what you are planning to do."
Bloed put on a mysterious expression and grinned.
"Well, he is afraid of the members of his club leaving, right? Then, we will make them leave."
Regina was confused.
But just then, Bloed sent an image of his plan to her mind.
Immediately, Regina's golden eyes lit up.
Then, she looked at Bloed with a strange expression.
"Master, you are so evil... But I like it."