A short while after I rasped on the rock a bunch of bats began to swarm out of the cave silently. There was only 10 of them but still... Unlike regular bats actual vampires seldom screeched. Only the leaders of a vampire community ever take up human form either. So you can tell a vampire from a bat simply by the fact the vampire is silent. Also the eyes... A bat would usually have regular eyes... Vampires have eyes that are literally the color of their clan. As I snuck up behind the bats that have hung upon a small tree I managed to pick off three or four before falling back and going into stealth. With the fact that they have small bat bodies they don't have a ton of health so most people can one shot them. The issue with the bat vampires is they swarm you. Unless it's a crimson clan member... Those guys don't swarm and almost all of them are human in appearance.
Sneaking around with double stealth/sneak combo I picked off the other vampires smoothly then collected their bodies. I got vampire bloodline, vampire teeth and vampire skin... All pretty useless to me... I don't know what bloodline would be suit me but it would have to do with swords... or using all magics... After the whole group of vampires has been picked off another group of vampires is set out to investigate why the others didn't come back with 50 members I became harder to sneak attack them all but I still managed to slowly whittle their nobles down one bat at a time before dropping back into stealth and when only one bat was left searching the woods for what caused the disappearances I sliced down from behind it and it hit the ground hard. Yet... I didn't get a notification. Looking at the bat it slowly turned into a pool of blood that reformed into a lady. More accurately a crimson eyed naked Elf...
Our eyes met and we stared for awhile before she smiled playfully and charged at me. Unsure of why a crimson was hiding amongst a group of blood vampires I don't know what to do at first but seeing as she is still attacking I begin to fight back eventually coming out on top but she escapes... Or more accurately she vanishes... She's gone... Looking around everywhere she's just gone... Shrugging I move on to the corpses and slowly put them all away getting fifty more pairs of fangs and skin along with the bloodlines before waiting for the next group to come out.
Many hours of farming later I've gotten a total of 1000 vials of vampire bloodline and got a system prompt.
*Fuse 1000 Vials Vampire Bloodline into five Vials of True Vampire Bloodline
Accept? Refuse?*
Shrugging I hit accept and my full stack of vampire bloodline turns into a not full stack of a higher quality bloodline... Still worthless though...
It took 3 full days of killing the swarmers before the lazy fuckers stopped sending them out and I decided to lure out a bigger fish so I gently rasped my sword against the same stone repeatedly until eventually a shadow left the canyon... Staying in stealth I prepared for it before it eventually stopped before me... I expected a vampire in human form but no... It's a ghost... More specifically a ghost with a demon on a chain. The demon had a femanine figure but it's face is disfigured by acid or something. Thinking about it this is exactly what I need... I sneak up on the ghost and sneak attack it from behind. Most physical attacks wouldn't effect a ghost but the sword heart negates that... The energy my sword is manifested from has tons of uses I don't even know about... Anyways I manage to hit the ghost three or four times before it gets a chance to hit me back it's demented eyes gazing at me with haunting bloodlust as it retched it's mouth open like a snake and attempted to swallow my head whole. I of course side step the horrifyingly disgusting fate as continue to cut away at the ghost and before he can attempt to eat me again he dies. The chained demoness smiles seeing it's capturer has died then happily attacks me... Despite me setting it free I'm still food to her... So after one hard fought battle I had to fight another. I took a few blows but managed to down the demoness before I died then I looked the ghost and happily found the ghost blood I needed. Turning around I froze... The little elf with the crimson eyes is munching on the demoness corpse... Being caught in the act she smiles like a naughty little girl who had her hand caught in the cookie jar... Before I know it the little crimson elf has rushed towards me and vanished yet again... Looking around she's still mia... I gotta figure out how she does that... Shrugging I collect the corpse and a smile gets plastered across my face as I find another ingredient of my quest. A scorn demoness' broken heart... Questionable... As for the demons other drops... I got a letter... And underwear for a woman... So... Trash? I read the letter and it's a love letter to someone named Bjorn... Never sent... Never opened... Weird... I got a quest when I read it to investigate the man who stole the demons heart.
I set up to lure more bats but it was a day on making a ruckus before anything happened... they just sent more swarmers. Granted it's a couple hundred... or so... So gonna be difficult. Slowly but surely I get back to killing the swarmers and by the time I've made a hundred sets of true vampire bloodline my inventory was full of fangs and skin so I backed away and started fusing those together too... unlike the bloodline the fangs and skin are crafting materials the drop at different qualities based on the victim and fusing them together makes them raise in quality... Higher quality material means better potential for the gear. After fusing thousands of skins and teeth together I wind up with a hundred epic grade teeth and fangs. Then I get a prompt...
*Fuse one hundred vials True Vampire Bloodline into one vial of Ancient Vampire Bloodline
Accept? Decline?*
Accepting it I go on with hunting the swarmers eventually they will stop coming and the small fries will be cleared out. You'd think that the smarter vampires would be an issue but they are deeply
lazy and will just keep sending the swarmers till the adult swarmers are all dead and the children are all that left then they will just wait for the person hunting them to come inside. After all the swarmers are stopping me from making noises that was their point the whole time. So they just kept coming for a whole week straight before they stopped. I ended up with a whole new kind of vampire bloodline after all my grinding called Primal Vampire Bloodline after fusing together hundreds of thousands of vampire skins and fangs I wond up with tons of peak legendary grade fangs and skin... However no matter how much I fuse together they will not go into the unique grade without a catalyst and a unique trait... As I only continued fusing them to keep my inventory clean... Primal Vampire Bloodline can be considered a legendary bloodline. However it is also not a unique grade bloodline... Unique grade can never be obtained purely through grinding all the things I have that managed to reach that grade were obtained as a reward from the growth quest results not from my grinding. Unique is meant to be achieved through expirmenetation. Which is why a catalyst is needed to reach the unique grade. Anything can be a catalyst but the quality of a unique grade object isn't dictated purely by it's grade a unique grade item can be weaker then the trashiest common either if the wrong catalyst is used... so I have been thinking of the perfect catalyst to vampire attributes... My first thought would be to acquire the peak legendary grade of the devourer demon bloodline, the blood demon bloodline, and the incubus bloodline... which is a lot of effort... For something I'm not even gonna use... But those traits would fit perfectly with the peak legendary vampire bloodline... Fusing all those creatures skins and well probably not teeth... I'd likely need the blood demons nails the devourers fangs and the incubus' horns... no you pervert the actual horns from their heads... Fusing all those things together would make for a rather interesting armor and bloodline... Probably be mostly life steal... After debating it for awhile I figure I'd at the very least need to make some armor out of it... Just to see it's stats... As for the bloodline... None of the vampires traits match my own play style or personality so I can't exactly use it... Even if I make a unique grade bloodline it wouldn't exactly be the best for me... Also you can only get one bloodline... Sure you can fuse tons of bloodlines together to make your perfect bloodline when it's still in a vial... But after you drink it your stuck with that trying to fuse another bloodline with it internally would kill you instantly. Unless the bloodline is way higher grade at which point it can overwrite and consume your preview bloodline but you'd be abandoning your old bloodline not fusing the two... so the bloodline you drink is a very important question... Idk why Ela drank the trashy succubus bloodline the moment she got her hands on it...