[Three-step heaven-defying slash]
Second moved swiftly and each time he set down his feet, he launched a lightning-fast slash on a HORNED WOLF.
[Level up]
User: Second(Quasi vampire)
lvl: 7
Job: Avenger
Ability: Blood manipulation/Light
HP: - / -
Grudge: 670/1000
Mana: 230/230
Strength: 31 Agility: 25
Intelligence: 24 Sense: 21
Stamina: 21
Remaining points: 0
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[Three-step heaven-defying slash]
Tier 4 Martial skill(24% Familiarity)
20% Move around the enemy swiftly and unleash 3 fast slashes in a few seconds. Drains a high amount of stamina.
50% Speed of the movement and slashes is greatly increased. Drains a moderate amount of stamina.
80% Move around the enemy and unleash 3 slashes in a second. Drains a low amount of stamina when used
100% Not moving an inch, unleash multiple slashes of speed not visible to man.
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"It took you 3 days just to comprehend the skill and one to learn the basics... pathetic" Scion said. "Consider yourself lucky to even be able to learn such high-level martial skills... I shall demonstrate it just one".
"Pay attention and try to increase your understanding of the skill as much as you can"
It was still night time so both of them ventured out in the middle of nowhere until Scion finally found a giant boulder to demonstrate the skill on.
Second handed her the sword he had been using. "I don't need the thing".
***
[You have witnessed the display of the martial skill- Three-step heaven-defying slash; by an expert]
[Your familiarity with the skill has greatly increased- 48% Familiarity]
The giant boulder had been reduced to tiny pebbles in the matter of a second.
"Uwaah... it'll take me weeks to get to that level... even more maybe"
"You still have 3 more techniques you need to learn, my servant. Master the basics at least, only then can we leave this area... you need to get stronger if you want to survive this ridiculous death game"
DEATH... GAME?
"Come. With my guidance, you shall learn the other 2 martial skills and a skill unique to my descendants within 3 days at least"
"The skills that you will be learning are FOOTWORK, a skill that uses KI, and a special blood manipulation skill
-The footwork skill that you will be learning is THE DEMONIC DOMINATING STRIDE. Whilst moving swiftly, almost creating a mirage of yourself, you shall strike your feet on the ground with immense strength to disrupt your enemy's movement and stagger them
-As for the skill that uses Ki... I guess I need to explain to you what Ki is before you get to practicing these skills so that you can use your Ki instead of draining yourself of stamina.
Ki is an energy that is all around you. Even inside of you, internal Ki. A person can only have a certain amount of internal Ki to use techniques on a higher level with. I shall teach you how to gather Ki and store it. In case of emergencies, like not having enough Ki to use a skill, you can use the universal Ki around you to cast the technique, but this also drains stamina".
'This... is a lot to take in... I'm going to forget most of the things that I heard here after this"
"As for the blood manipulation skill that I will be teaching you, will be rather special and no one other than vampires of my lineage can learn it.
"The technique is an absorption skill that allows you to absorb your opponent's energy rapidly just by touch. With that ring you have, and the system that it curses you with, I feel like you can absorb the opponent's powers too..."
LIKE THE STAT POINTS OF THE ENEMIES THAT I KILL?
***
"You shall first learn the Blood manipulation skill: DRAIN TOUCH. I will transfer my knowledge of the skill to you" Scion explained.
She placed her hand on Second's forehead.
***
[Drains touch has been learned via knowledge transfer]
[Drain touch] Lvl max
Drain your opponent's energy and stat points with a simple touch. Does not work on dead bodies.
Cost- None
"That felt sooo damn weird... we don't need to use it to learn the rest of the skills... right?"
...
RIGHT...?
"This will be the main method of you learning my skills... whether martial or blood manipulation skills"
...
"Don't waste any more time and come here! Time to learn the next technique. The footwork: Demonic dominating stride.
There will be 2 steps in this technique...
-Plain footwork to dodge attacks or confuse enemies.
-Using raw strength to move around and destroy the earth below your feet to cause shock-waves and stagger your enemy"
'Ahh shit... here we go again'
***
['Demonic dominating stride has been learned via knowledge transfer]
[Demonic dominating stride]
Tier 3 Martial skill(20% Familiarity)
"Now then... since you have learned the most important skills, you shall now practice blood control and acquire new skills. I would like to see how you use that puny brain of yours" Scion said as she sunk into Second's shadow.
"In about 2 days, we shall leave this place"
"What about the skill that uses Ki? Weren't you gonna teach me that too?"
"It is still too early for that. Go and increase your control over blood first, then I shall teach you how to gather Ki on our way out of this place"
***
Second cut open his palm. As blood poured out, he coagulated it with his blood control and shaped it into an arc.
[The passive skill: 'Blood hardening' Lvl 1 has been learned]
['Blood arc' Lvl 1 has been learned]
He launched the arc at a dried-up tree. It barely went halfway through the bark of the tree.
"...It's not strong enough. I will need to level the skill up for it to be useful... as of now, I doubt it will be able to penetrate the body of even these wolves" Second thought as he shot another one at the same tree.
As he continued to shoot blood arcs at the tree, a thought came to him: 'Will all of the... RING BEARERS try to kill me when they find out that I am also one?'
As his muscles tensed, Scion came out of his shadow.
"What is the matter? Why did you stop"
...
"Yes. They will try and kill you after they find out that you too are a divine candidate" she said, "Unless, of course, your opponent is a naive idiot".
"Of course, I will not let you die so easily. Even if you're 10 levels under your opponent, you will be able to compete with them. With the techniques that I will be teaching you, even defeat them"
"Vampires are stronger than humans, dwarves, and elves. Werewolves on the other hand... are quite tough enemies, they are extremely tenacious and have a unique ability exclusive to them called
SOUL RELEASE
"They can very easily blend into humans or vampires. They are dangerous, so be wary of them"
"There was another race called SHADOWS too right? What about them" Second asked.
"Ha! Don't even get me started. All of them are just monsters... even their above-average warriors are almost as strong as me. I can't even imagine how strong their first king was"
"When I was still in my prime, I was dumb enough to try and enter Nowhere to challenge the king... this story is from way before. About a hundred millenia or much, much more."
'How do you know that it's been that long...'
"The third king was strong... too strong. He had conquered an element that even I couldn't govern... TIME itself. In the shadow community, if one does not disappear after reaching a thousand years of age, they are promoted to the elder's position with the wisdom one possesses.
"When a shadow had lived more than a thousand years and has arcane wisdom, they may choose to become a candidate for the position of king"
"So the third king had complete control over time before he reached a 1000 years of age?" Second asked. "Probably... when I visited Nowhere again after a few hundred years to challenge him again, the knights said that he was nowhere to be seen and the fourth king was selected already"
HOW COULD HE DISAPPEAR WHEN HE HAS CONTROL OVER TIME ITSELF?
***
['Blood shot' Lvl 1 has been learned]
['Blood arc' has leveled up to Lvl 2]
['Blood whip' Lvl 1 has been learned]