'Shut it, Yera. He attacked me, my dormmates, and my parents. I wasn't going to let him do it again.' Aaron replied, keeping his cool. 'Although, I do find it strange that blood tastes sweet rather than metallic. I felt a strange impulse to drink it, yet I don't know why. System, could you explain it to me?'
[Certainly. Basically, your body has been altered since you have been Corrupted, but you already know that. This means that some changes happened on the inside aswell. I made it so that your body was essentially "perfect", but, of course, nothing can truly be perfect, or else it would simply fail, so, I had to add one little change, which actually turns out to be a buff for you. If you drink the blood of humans, and only humans, you can gain a power boost. This just makes it so that it is never TRULY perfect, or else you would simply just cease to exist. It's the only way to make you, yourself, powerful.]
[These boosts come in the form of 'Stat Points' which then allow you to upgrade whatever you want about yourself. You can be a glass cannon, a tank, a speedster faster than light...really anything, as long as it revolves around the stats in your status menu. Like a game.]
'You really like to make everything related to a game for me, huh? Well, it does make sense. I am familiar with game layouts, so it just makes things easier for me when it's like this.' Aaron thought to the system, knowing that Yera would be able to hear them both aswell. 'Oh yeah, Where's the Stat Points from consuming Jacob's blood?'
[Hold on for a second. They are on their way. I just had them delayed so that I could explain this to you.]
{Stat Points Obtained: 47}
'47?! For that small amount?!' Aaron yelled out in his mind. He didn't know that such a small amount of blood could cause such a large reaction.
[Well, he was a really powerful person, if we go by this universe's power scale. I would say he's a bit more powerful than that person you fought in the SLAVAL. You might want to get started on consuming more of his blood if you want to get more of those boosts.]
With not another word spoken, Aaron went and grabbed the still-leaking head of Jacob, and lifted off his mask completely, dropping it to the floor. He held the head with both hands, as he it by the neck, and lifted his own head upwards, bringing the head with him. He squeezed on the neck, as the blood that was still left in the severed head began to rush out, like what happens if you squeeze an orange, or a carton of juice.
He had his mouth open, and blood began to into it, and the taste he was experiencing was akin to a child drinking syrup, but with a more watery texture. It wasn't unpleasant, however, and, to him, tasted super sweet. Sweet enough to be enjoyable, but not too much to make it disgusting.
The stream of blood began to slow down rapidly, so Aaron dropped the head, and began to do something he never thought he'd be doing before. He used his Boundless Telekinesis to pick up all of the blood that was laying on the floor, and condense it into a form of ball. It almost looked like a ruby, but then, he began to lick it. The blood was now like a gobstopper, which, if you don't know, is basically just a giant ball of sugar.
"Heh. Even like this, blood tastes nice." Aaron commented, as he held the blood-stopper™ in his right hand, and began to pick up his mask with his left hand. He didn't know how to get rid of Jacob's body, because, after all, someone was going to find it eventually, so it would just make a whole group of people gather together, and, that way, he could get a large amount of blood at one time.
{Stat Points Gained from Drinking: 492}
{Stat Points Gained from Licking: 67.....68.....69.....}
'System, would it be possible to gain the blood without killing people?' Aaron asked, simply curious.
[Well, yeah, but you would only get really small amount of Stat Points, and, at some point, you might stop getting any at all.]
'Well, I guess the best way is to simply kill them, and wait for their blood to spill out, and then just drink it. Seems reasonable enough, and, plus, we still don't know what other people live here. We need to be prepared.'
'Yera, I'm going to disagree with you there. In my limited time there, the only time monsters fought with humans was when blood had been spilled or they had been attacked first. Humans were the ones to start it, and, even though I didn't bother attacking them, they went right ahead and attacked me, with a bolt of magic. They continually start it, and then they play the victim. It was the same on Earth, but with humans against other humans. It's a never ending cycle.'
[Oh, Aaron, I found something in your status that might shock you. I only found this out now, so this may be the reason as to why you got so many status points.]
'Wait, something was causing that? Now I feel even more lucky! What is it?'
[Well, it's a skill I though we had left behind on Eratonia, and it appears to have been altered for this world.]
Aaron opened up his status, and a message flashed infront of his face.
{Forgotten Skill Acquired!}
{None Shall Surpass The Corrupted One}
{Only to be obtained once previous holder [Aaron Stone] becomes Corrupted. It grants an unknown multiplication factor upon any experience, status point, or other variable that is received.}
'How the hell...what's this doing here?!'