--Boom--
The sounds of a huge explosion could be heard within the Mer of black roses.
Because for a total of 50 meters, a sea of hot red blazing flames could be seen scorching the land beneath it, and spreading in every direction while exploding constantly.
"My control over it is getting better, although I still can't control the explosive power.
I said as I began to charge another attack at the fake target, which I created using blood manipulation to make humanoid target so I can use it for practicing my attacks.
Of course, this mayhem was caused by my new attack, I created when using the different abilities of blood manipulation.
Explosive blood + Blood control = Scorching blood ball
I only combine those two to create a monstrous range attack, I then place my hand forwards and look at the target made from my blood, it was at least 40 meters away from me.
My pale hand started to light almost as if a serious explosion was occurring inside it, then a weird and bright red liquid escaped my hands, eventually so much came out a giant red ball at least 1 meter in size came before the palms of my hand.
If anyone on Earth was familiar with astronomy, they would definitely mistake my scorching blood ball as miniature red giant.
And after I finished creating it, I didn't hesitate as I released upon the target, the scorching blood ball itself fired so fast, my arm actually recoils backward because of it.
It reached the target I aimed at in no time, and upon contact.
--Boom!--
A loud and large explosion presents itself before my eyes, my entire blood itself vaporizes to nothing as a large pillar that shot the sky could be seen, scorching the land and destroying the black roses that lie beneath it.
It was like a beautiful sea fire have been birth upon the land right after, the fire died down, everything beneath the ground became nothing but molten lava that was spreading at a rapid rate in every direction possible.
I look at this feat with proud eyes, reason be it should be about 10x more destructive compare to this, but after training it for two days straight this was the result.
"Haha... finally, I can control it somewhat now, but enough training this ability, I want to practice using my familiars now, since those are my most destructive abilities I currently possess."
I then created at least three more targets far away from the sea of flames which was caused by my earlier attack.
But now I was ready to test my range and my absolute limits of my physical strength, so I brough fort a new friend of mine.
"Heed my call and appear before your master Trojan."
Upon saying those words, a bright red light starts to cover my body, one might think this was some kind of aura.
But in reality, that wasn't the case, you see this was my blood leaving my body and the reason it was so bright was simply because of my blood unique trait and appearance.
What can I say I was built different, but apart from that, after a huge amount of my blood began to exit my body, it flew at least three meters in front me as it began shaping itself into something?
There was so much blood coming out of me it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it was enough to fill my entire body at least five times over without a doubt.
I watched as the huge quantity of my bright glowing crimson blood began to take a chosen form, and what came from it was a giant warhorse that was full red, even it saddles and rope was full red.
This giant war horse that presents itself in all its beauty was my first familiar that actually has life, her name is Trojan, my personal transportation I used to carry myself fort in the battlefield.
I created her to trample upon my enemies, she is strong enough to leave a huge dent in a metal wall, and fast enough to run at the speed of sound, or 767.269Mph, if I push her beyond her limits, she could travel 948.432Mph
And to make things better she can run on any liquid surface, she can even run up a wall, she can run on clouds as well, in short, she can run or throttle on any surface.
You could even call this her inherent skill that was dub as [All walk] which is basically the ability to walk on all surfaces, ignoring density and the law of physics in a whole.
She was created in such a way that her sole purpose is to reach the enemy no matter the distance or the obstacle, she is also very adaptable, and to top things all off she was bless with my hyper speed regeneration, and can use blood manipulation to turn her mane and hair into sharp blades.
I walk up to my partner Trojan as I place my right foot on the stirrup paddle, and my left foot over the saddle as I fix myself properly upon her glorious back.
And after I mounted her correctly, I grabbed the rope which was connected to her bit, and gave her a slight kick to her side as a signal to tell her to move.
"Ok girl you see those beautiful red clouds above us, I want you to take me there can you do that for me, I want to practice my long-distance archery skill using the new skill I just developed."
She let out a triumphant neigh as she began standing up on her two-hind legs, I held on tightly as she reared in excitement, and after both her front legs touched the ground.
I held on even more tightly, thankfully though I created an ability call [Blood balance] which basically makes me have absolute balance while riding Trojan or any other familiar created from my blood, so I can concentrate on battle while riding them without the fear of falling off.
But still, I have always been afraid of hikes, so the instinct to hold on tight to something was just my body reacting as such, but thankfully with the great healing factor I now possess my phobia of heights dimming a little.
But nevertheless, I hold tightly on Trojan ropes, because as soon as her front legs touch the ground all hell breaks loose, as she began to canter across the field of black roses at a fast pace, her speed has long surpassed the normal canter speed of a normal war horse could possess.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she was probably travelling at 90Mph by cantering alone, and after running someway and maintained this one speed.
Trojan began to increase her speed and started galloping across the field at an alarming pace, instantly the wind blowing against my face began to feel very uncomfortable, my eyes began to close as it felt like something pointy was stabbing it.
I wasted no time and summon fort a traditional knight helmet or what many would call a pot helm, as the blood I used to create my items or weapons wrapped itself around my head, creating a normal looking pot helm to protect me from the wind turbulent ever so slightly.
"Honestly some wind resistance would be good as well, maybe if I can get a better understanding of wind source I can acquire some wind resistant, I simply need to learn it and continuously upgrade it with [plot progression] to better it in order to take advantage of its fundamental uses."
But as I was thinking this, Trojan knocked me out of my thoughts as she took a great jump into the air, but what she did next could only be labelled as impossible from where I come from, as she began to gallop on the air, and run up to the cloud I pointed at earlier.
She began to increase her speed to around 345.389 Mph, we began to run up to the cloud which altitude was about 14,000 feet up, calculate the distance then it should be over 2 miles or so.
We reached the cloud relatively quickly; it was fluffy but had a rather iron-like smell if anything it smelled like blood, if anything it was really potent, but I didn't make it bother me, after all, as a scarlet ghoul I come to love blood in more ways than one.
The reason is that the scarlet ghoul diet consists of blood, according to the story teller a scarlet ghoul should consume at least a pint of blood to satiate its hunger, at least once a month.
Although they don't die if they don't get any in their system in time, but their attitude seems to get more violent and miserable the longer they go without it, eventually once starve enough they will go into frenzy and kill everything in its path, devouring friends or foe without remorse.
And once in a hungered state all stats doubled to make hunting more proficient, when I first read this, it kind of worried me, if I ever get like that and accidently kill a coworker of mine things could get troublesome for me.
"Sigh I only wish I could get a self-sustainability skill; it would definitely have come in handy, but at least after I get my armor from Shalva and enter the Doom box, enough monsters should me inside for me to consume when the time arise."
I control Trojan to walk near the edge of the cloud as I look towards the direction of the target I made for this practice, I try with my all to see if I could see them clearly, and even as a scarlet ghoul a race with enhanced senses, vision been one of them.
I could only see the targets I laid out as nothing more than blurry humanoid figure the size of a small ball, I was at least two to three miles away from my target but this as far as my enhanced vision goes.
Without a doubt my vision far surpasses that of what a human being is capable of, but it slightly worse; or is on par with that of an eagle's visual prowess.
But nevertheless, I wanted to test two things out, the first been the absolute current limits of my physical strength and the ability of my new familiars.
So, I removed both my feet from Trojan stirrup paddles, as I began to stand up on her back using her saddle to brace my feet.
I then clapped both my hands together tightly without moving them from joint connection, as I began to use the incantation to summon fort my next familiar.
"Heed my call O'great spear of the huntsman Orion, and manifest the blessing of your creator wrath in thy mithril blood more durable than iron, your name is Aschente."
Upon saying those words, a bright red light started to escape my close joint hands, as I slowly moved them apart from one another revealing a rather ominous looking giant spear that was full red in color, it looks like the combination of pointy lance and long spear.
And After I pulled it out from both my hands, a giant lance spear hybrid weapon reveals itself before me, if anything it look like a menacing javelin.
It was at least 8'9 in size, so picking it up in a throwing like angle would prove to be difficult, but before I threw it towards my target, I gave it one last look as I spoke.
"This spear is called divine killing spear Aschente, the spear that can pierce even the gods, and honestly speaking I don't know if this was the work of the Author or just the effects of my [Plot progression] skill, but this spear believes it or not, is my third familiar name Aschente."
"You see every time I create a new familiar using my blood it will always inherit one or two of my abilities I have, and unlock a new ability unique to its purpose, and when I first created Aschente it inherited my explosive blood properties, meaning I will detonate upon impact or if it was stop."
"But the most devastating attribute of Aschente destructive capabilities, is the skill it was born with or you can also call it his inherent skill, which is called [Orion's will], which is basically the ability of absolute piercing, with this ability I could ignore and pierce entities with absolute defense."
"Combine this with my explosive blood properties, you got an attack that can fatally injured even someone of the divine being's class."
"But with the aid of my explosive blood it can also cook them and anyone within its range with a series of multiple explosions, and the heat of my blood could measure up to 3,200° F which is way hotter than lava itself, so the destructive properties of Aschente is nothing to scoff at."
So, I look at the target still unable to see it clearly, so as way to fix this problem I hold Aschente in my right hand and place my left hand on my left eyes, as I began doing another familiar chant.
"Heed my call eyes of the sleepy one, and manifest in the world in the form of a monocle, aid me in thy blindness, to see what cannot be seen, come fort and show me the way, Morpheus monocle."
Upon saying this chant, a series of floating monocles appear on my left eyes, to be honest there were three monocles, all layered out ahead of each other, each bigger than the next.
"With Morpheus monocles I can manipulate any and all form of blood within its sight, but the inherent ability it was born with which is called [Trifold vision] and ability that increase sight."
"The first layer increased my sight by 10x and the second monocles increased my sight by 100x and the last monocle increased my sight by 1000x."
"But what makes it even more dangerous is the fact that once all monocles are activated the multipliers will increase and multiply every multiplier to the last, giving me a scary visual prowess."
I breath in slightly as I began to hold on to Aschente with a firm grip, my feet anchored down on Trojan back as I went into a throwing position.
And with the help of my visual type familiar Morpheus monocle, I now have a good view of the target, so missing it would be impossible thank to it other inherent skill known as [Blood track].
Which is basically a skill that makes me position myself exactly to align myself with the targets current position, so my attack will catch it, of course enough kinetic energy has to be put into the attack in order for it to reach it in the first place.
With that said I tighten my muscles, and with all my strength I throw Aschente so hard with the intention of killing the target.
And then a loud sound could be heard, because upon releasing Aschente, I broke the sound barrier with the mighty throw, which was all of my physical strength I could muster up.
--Boom!--
"Nice with that much power it's definitely going to hit, and with the aid of Morpheus monocle my aim has a one hundred percent chance of hitting."
I watch as Aschente was firing at an alarming rate, moments away from hitting the target at the center of its head, but just when I was getting excited to see the explosive result after release.
I notice an all too familiar skeleton portal opens up before my eyes as an all too familiar primordial goddess of death came out of it.
Normally I would greet Shalva, but there was one problem she was right in front of Aschente attack range.
With all my might I began to shout, to tell her to move the hell out of the way.
"Shalva get the hell out of the way!"
I shouted with everything I had, with all my might, with all my heart, and it appears she heard it because upon hearing me she looked in my direction.
But it was already too late, because upon hearing my voice, and turning around to mee it, Aschente was already one inch away from her face.
And the next thing I saw could only be described as catastrophic as a loud explosion went off and the last thing, I saw was a bright light that lit up the area, then a giant fire ball that was spreading at an alarming rate, but there was another problem the fire ball itself was coming my way despite my distance.
It was obvious I misjudge my own destructive capabilities, maybe I should have gone further I thought myself.
In fear of my new acquired life, only two words left my mouth, as a last resort skill I can depend on when it comes to situations like these.
I place my hand forward, my mind clear of everything because at that moment the world became silent as my concentration was pushed to its very limits.
I refused to die by own attack despite the fact that the author will just resurrect me, a black and red like ring left my ring finger upon saying three words.
"Open Ouroboros gate."
The ring instantly came fort and opened before me and a giant two-meter circular gate came into existence.
It looks like a full black demonic snake statue with two red horns going backwards, it had two ruby-like eyes, but at the center of the gate was a mysterious red like substance most likely Ophis poison.
It was set in such a way, the gate itself looks like an ominous giant bubble wand without the rod, and the poison at the center was the bubble itself.
Sadly, though I couldn't observe it any further than that as the giant fire ball caused by the explosion had already reached me.
I could only hope and pray that Ouroboros gate can save my carless ass.
But on the other hand, I was very worried about Shalva, but then and again there was no way I could have predicted that she would suddenly appear the same time I released Aschente.
"Sigh I can't believe I nuke the primordial goddess of death."