After what he learned from Céline, Roderick left her a small blood token she could use to contact him as he headed back to the capital. He may have used his power to achieve a high position in this kingdom, but this didn't mean it was wise to keep things the way it was, he had to make friends with the other clans in his work so he could learn more about the present situation in the world.
"Nomad? Good to see you here." Roderick was walking the Wadwan Garden, enjoying nature when he saw the Wolf King and a few others standing on a stone circle while staring at the sky.
"Huh?
There is something happening?" Finding strange this many beasts staring at the sky, he followed their gaze and saw several shock waves coming from within the clouds.
"It's King White and King Drake, those two are always fighting." The wolf king then told him, both King White and King Drake were kings from the same clan, but those two hated each other to the bone and would pick a fight with the other every time they met.
With a bird's shriek, A burst of air cleaned all the clouds in the sky as a huge wind spear was shot at what looked like a green serpent.
'Elemental Art: Green Ice Wall!' The serpent's eyes shone and a huge wall of ice formed between the spear and took most of the impact. The elemental powers gathered at them both, the skies darkened as both sides gathered their strongest attacks.
"You two should stop." The Wolf King vanished in thin air and appeared inside the battlefield, blocking both sides, his paws smashed down and two wind fists smashed them on the ground, they tried to resist, but the two were incapable of resisting.
Returning to the stone circle, the Wolf King walked back, his hands pointing to the two miserable figures that lay on the ground. "These two are kings White and Drake. I'm always saying they should act more like kings, but these brats..."
From his tone, Roderick could already imagine the wolf king wiping the sweat off his forehead as he mentioned the two kings.
For the next three days. Roderick spent time training and he slowly got used to his body's power. On the third day, the Wolf King appeared with a man with a pair of golden colored horns that really stand out from the others.
"Brother Wolf, is good to see you today. Aunt Lorel, can you bring tea for me and my guests." Taking both of them to his office, it was only a few moments later when Lorel arrived and served tea for the three of them.
"Brother Nomad, the reason I came all the way here today is because there is somebody I wanted to introduce to you." The Wolf King replied calmly as he licked the tea from the cup, similar to how a dog would do which made the entire scene quite funny.
"Introduce somebody?" Hearing it, I sent a stare at the man beside him. From his looks, he surely wasn't any sort of beasts he knew, no, he was more like a demon.
"Yes, the man by my side is one of the Demon Institute leaders. He's a demon king sent here by the institute to sightseeing the kingdom of Espar, he will be here just for a few days, so I thought to introduce him to you as you both share something."
Before Roderick even had the chance to ask anything, the man bowed down as his lips raised. "Nice to meet you king Nomad, you can refer me as Ying, I'm a divergent just like you."
"Oh, nice to meet you." Not much surprised with the answer as he could already guess what it was about, Roderick shook the man's hand as they returned to their seat.
"Brother Nomad, this little friend Ying here is a Metal-element Divergent Master. Basically, it is similar to earth-element, but much more resistant and dense than any rock. I called him because I thought he would be a good sparring partner to test your capabilities, and when I told him about the power of your blood, he was also interested and wanted to come here meet you."
"Good, I'm really interested in brother Ying's power too." Since that, the Wolf King headed to his Auction House.
"Wait, shouldn't we be going to the arena?"
"No need, I have something better." Inside the auction house, they headed to the wolf king's office where he pressed something that revealed a passage leading to underground.
Walking down the stairs that seemed to extend endlessly towards the planet's core, the three of them saw a huge battlefield. With several great ruins of a building that seemed to be from the previous era, this place was really surprising.
"This is my particular arena. Only me and a few others know. Here you both can fight without any restrains."
With Ying tanding on the north of the Arena, he stood on the south. Not being sure how powerful this man was, Roderick wasn't that confident in winning in his wolf form.
"Fight!"
As soon as his voice sounded, both sides clashed in the middle of the arena, causing waves of wind to smash some of the ruins. After the first clash of blows, they continued exchanging blows at a extremely fast speed, each time Roderick fist hit Ying, he could clearly feel how hard it was. His skin was so hard that just body strength wasn't enough to break his defense.
Pa! Between the fast blows they exchanged, a thin metal blade extended from Ying's palm only to be met by a crimson crystal spear.
Clang! The spear and blade clashed with one another sending out countless sparks.
"Not bad!" Ying praised, he really seemed to be surprised by how hard was the crystal made with Roderick's blood, but the latter felt the same.
"You are not bad as well." Just from that single metal blade he could feel its huge concentrated power. In his previous life there were gods that could unleash attacks capable of blowing up whole galaxies, but they would end up loosing when fighting an opponent that could apply the same level of power in a lower range of effect.
Grabbing his spear, he could see numerous cracks spreading over its structure. Clearly his spear won't be able to handle another clash with the blade.
"Let me try something that I've been working on." Roderick's wolf body ignited in a bunch of crimson red flames in the shape of lotus petals, these flames became brighter and brighter, reaching the point where Roderick was covered half in crimson petals of made with a warm light while the other half was made of ice crystal petals.
'This is something I thought when I saw Liam's attack that day, using my blood to simulate that same reaction. I want to see how powerful it is' Closing his hands, all the petals flowed to the inside his hands, this time the heat and cold meld muck quicker and easier than when he saw Liam doing it.
"Elemental Art: Blood Lotus Bomb!" A scary energy took over the whole battlefield as a mysterious heat-cold aura spread from Roderick's position.
Using his blood in two inverse forms, heat and cold, he managed to create a stable blood red seed that rested on top of his hands that using both positive and negative states of his blood, he could unleash a amazing explosion.
"It looks similar to the Martial Arts of cultivators, not something a god should be using to fight, but it will do the trick. Go, Blood Lotus Bomb!" The seed in his hand was shot forward at full speed, piecing thought the air like a bullet.
"He could do even that?!" Both the Wolf King and Ying were scared about Roderick's nonchalant action. The power concentrated in that thin seed was so great that it left both of them in deep shock.
"God! We must stop that thing!" Forgetting it was just a spar, the wolf king bend the wind around the seed in order to decrease its speed and froze it on the air while Ying used his power to condense dozens of metal plates, forming a twenty layered shell over the seed moments before it exploded.
Booooooom!
The first ten layers of metal made to resist the explosion melt in no time at the surface of the metal slowly grew red as it started to become one with the seed. Instead of blocking the explosion, the blood seed began to integrate the metal shell with its power, making the entire metal sphere into a huge blood seed.
Stop! Before the entire thing blew up, Roderick jumped on the metal sphere and sent strings of his blood into the seed, making it melt into his blood together with all the metal it corrupted.
'My blood can both imitate as well as assimilate any element in contact with it.' He had seen it once when the blood creature used its power to assimilate a whole lake and use it to form a massive body.
Soon, Ying walked over to him with a smile on his face. "Oh.. You really scared me brother Nomad. I didn't know you had such a trump card."
"No, no. This is just an experimental art, not even I have much control over it. But when it is perfected, I think it will really be a good weapon." Later, when they left the arena, Roderick couldn't explain, but he felt his throat was really dry and he felt the intense need to absorb a little of blood.
Taking a bottle he carried with him, with the blood of the magma wolves. He opened the bottles and shoved in his mouth, the moment the blood entered contact with his tongue it was like he was in heaven, that warm blood was really tasty he also use it to recover the blood he consumed in that little spar.
He was just a few meters away from home when he received a message.
"Rick, your friend has woken up. Return quickly."