[You have reached an appropriate level to unlock your Unique skill]
Seeing this notification, I was a little confused.
After all, you can't gain a unique skill out of nothing, and I haven't done anything.
"Show me what the system is talking about Lena," I just asked Lena.
[Yes, Master]
[Your sealed teleportation skill is now unlocked and it is available to use]
Seeing this, I was like 'oh'.
It took me a few seconds to remember where did this skill come from.
It came from my bloodline.
More specifically the Ashrend bloodline.
Like I said before each one of the 8 main families has a special ability that is engraved in their bloodline that is different from the other main houses.
This ability is what placed each house in different positions and helped assign their houses with a direction to control and grow into if the skill is taken to the extreme.
Let's leave the other family and their specialties for now, as their time would come later.
The Ashrend family's main specialty is teleportation. But if it is normal teleportation, then no one would have bothered, after all, when cultivators reach a high level in Mana System, they can use the spell teleportation.
For magicians to weave Mana spells, they need three things. They need to know what they want to achieve, and they have to make a lot of calculations.
Those calculations are what make the difference between magicians out there.
After all, if you have a good head on your shoulder, then that means you can make faster calculations and can bring the skill faster to fruition.
As for the third thing in weaving spells.
It is imagination, hard to believe right?
Right.
After all, having to depend on imagination and making calculations at the same time doesn't some real to anyone.
Let's just take a moment and think about it.
If you want to make a fire spell.
The weakest one.
You will first have to make calculations in your head, that their speed will depend on your own talent, and then you will have to imagine what this spell looks like.
A ball?
A rectangle?
A triangle?
The imagination for the shape of the spell.
Then what about the calculations?
It is for the trajectory of the spell, for the amount of Mana injected into the spell, and finally the timing of the spell.
All of those things require from the magicians a sharp mind, discipline, and talent.
The more a magician advance in rank, the easier it would be for them to cast lower-ranked spells, as with the increase in Mana, there is also an increase in their other status.
Anyway, back to the newly unlock unique skill.
"Let's see, what this is all about," murmured Max to himself.
A new crimson screen appeared before my eyes.
[Skill Name: Special Teleportation
Skill Type: Unique Skill
Skill Description: The Teleportation skill allows you to instantly transport yourself and anyone you touch to any location you have visited before, bypassing any obstructions such as barriers or formations. The effectiveness of this skill is dependent on the purity of your bloodline, and the purer it is, the further and more precisely you can teleport. The usage of this skill requires no calculation from the user, only energy corresponding to the distance the user wants to teleport from their current position. This skill can be used even in the direst situations, allowing you to escape danger at a moment's notice.
Skill Cost: The energy used as a resource for teleportation is going to be Sanguimancy energy, as for its exact costs, it depends on the distance needed to teleport.]
"Oh, Shit"
I knew it was overpowered, but not to this degree.
How come?
Look.
One of the most difficult and obstruct laws in the Universe are the space and time laws.
Even I who is not knowledgeable about magic other than the basic stuff, know this kind of thing.
Having this skill as a bloodline ability is what allowed our family to be ranked second, not only for its usage but also for what it represents.
After all, if you have such an ability that can teleport you without making any calculations in your mind, or having any obstructions from any formations, the only thing that can stop you is the amount of energy reserves you have and the degree of bloodline purity.
All of this can open a huge door for the most difficult law to study in the Universe, the Space laws.
Of course, for me, I guess the maximum range I can go to is the university here next door.
Then what is it that prevents me from going right next to my mother?
The answer is easy, it is the amount of Mana I have.
What about formations and barriers that are cast as defensive measures around the house?
All of those are useless.
But of course, this ability has its disadvantages, after all, if it was this easy and a whole house could use it, then House Ashrend would have taken control over the other 7 main houses and became the sole leader of the vampire race.
Such a thing is a pipe dream.
The presence of House Circuitblood ended such fantasies before they could even be implanted.
House Circuitblood is like us, one of the 8 Main families of the vampire race, but their development is different from the other houses, as they have a different inherent ability.
House Circuitblood isn't ranked in terms of power among the 8 Main families, but if we ranked it in the technological advancement rank, then without doubt they would take the first place.
After all their inherited power is,
Technopathy
It is the ability to control or communicate with technology.
For some people, such an ability may not sound impressive.
But when you mix this technology with all kinds of magic spells to come up with different kinds of new advanced technology, then you would get our attention.
Unfortunately or maybe fortunately, house Circuitblood doesn't care about political powers or the struggle between the other 7 houses for supremacy of the vampire race.
Did that mean they are weaker than them?
Of course not, they have a lot of technologies that would allow them to contend with the strongest being out there and they even have strong cultivators.
After all, to better use their inherited ability, they have to advance in Mana system ranking and evolve their bloodline, not easy but possible.
Anyway, what does house Circuitblood has to do with the failure of house Ashrend to being the ruler of the vampire race?
The answer is simple but at the same time complicated.
They devised a strange device that can lock space completely to people who are unauthorized to be in this place, but of course, at the time such a thing wasn't possible.
You have to know something about teleportation in general, whoever you are, the moment you teleport into any place, space would always twist and the Mana concentration in the area would change, but such details are very hard to catch unless the person teleporting is very amateur in using space laws,
Or the person that caught it, is someone who is very proficient in space laws, just like how Will caught the silent disturbances in space outside Earth when Mary and Hayley just teleported even though Mary is a dragon who specializes in space laws,
Or person's sensitivity to Mana is very high to the point that he can catch the slightest changes in its concentration in the area.
Of course, all of this is built on the premise that the person doing the thing is strong enough to notice such things.
Anyway, back to what house Circuitblood has done.
They created a space-sealing artifact but not a normal one, the Circuitbloods added a mechanism of sensing Mana of the atmosphere with the ability to perceive space.
Of course, doing all of those three points in the same device is easier said than done, after all, you will need someone with those three abilities at a very high level to be able to make this device.
As for how the hell did they do this kind of thing?
None of the families know, but they didn't care as long as they can use it.
And that's how they made a stop to the Ashrends by selling this device to the other Main houses, as for its name?
They named it something unimpressive, Warp Pulse Detector
Now enough history.
Back to Max, of course, Max only knows some information regarding the above but not all.
Now Max is getting ready since it is going to be morning soon, to go to the university, before he can go back to visit his mother.