Great, now I have to make 75 familiars while hunting vampires. I need to start now.
Time to send crow no. 01 and 02 to get me some dead crows.
I need to draw spirit gates first. I will need this, that one too. Ah, I should make them capable of creating mystic fields and basic spellcraft. It is one of the requirements to become a level 4 spiritualist after all. I am level 3 now, as I can give supernatural attributes to my familiars and enhance them too. I should be able to become level 5 in two or three years. I heard that level 6 spiritualists can keep up with historic spirits and undead Caesars with their familiars alone. Each of their familiars is as strong and filled with hax as mid-level historic manifestations. Flow is a level 4 spiritualist. While I was pondering about that my familiars brought me the bodies. My familiars are alive familiars, usually, mages use dead ones. Ina literal sense all familiars are dead. The reason they are called alive familiar is that their circuits or whatever they have are still capable of drawing mana and restoring and storing prana. They don't choose alive familiars because it's harder to use them. On the other hand, you don't have to constantly supply them with spiritual energy. Without further ado, I should start the process. Out of the five bodies, only three became familiars. I guess I am improving from the last time. I need to upgrade Crow no. 01 and 02. Now, I have a grand total of 5 familiars who can be used to create mystic fields and do spells along with mental interference.
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It's 3:30 pm. I need to leave for Manchester with Yuuki. I grabbed the two suitcases, one filled with all my charms and craft codes. The other is just normal stuff. Yuuki arrived in a van. He said,
"Get in".
"We are gonna go in a van?"
"Yes".
"It's gonna take six hours."
"No, eight".
"Haah, can't we just take the train?"
"No, we have too much stuff."
The van started. I wonder what vampires are like. I read about them and saw pictures. But never actually met them. Who is the guy we are hunting, anyway? All Yuuki told me is that it is an undead priest.
"Who is it?"
"He is a 300-year-old vampire who became an undead priest 50 years ago. His name is Elias Schmidt. He killed hundreds and made them his servant. He has killed three betas. All of them were valuable servants of Von Woods. They are the ones who put the bounty on his head".
" You expect me to fight this guy alone?"
"No, a few of the enforcers will come too. Though don't count on them. They don't think of you as someone to particularly keep alive."
" How is that any better?"
"It is. At least now, you don't have to worry about lacking firepower."
I sighed and looked outside the window.
"Think about what you would do".
The van actually has some tools along with some sensory craft codes behind the back. I went into the back and asked him, "what else do you know about him?"
"There's a file in there, also there's a vile with the blood of one of his servant vampires."
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I opened my suitcase of craft codes and took out one of my 'scanning' blocking craft codes. I put a drop of blood from the vile. I can't normally scan them because the blood contains a reversal curse that's on the level of an 'authority' even if that vampire couldn't use it. So, trying to use my scanning spell on it would only make my head hurt as the curse is beyond my capabilities. I read in one book that vampires are supernatural creatures, as such their entire body gets traces of the spell craft or the psychic ability they use. Basically, anything that uses spiritual energy gets recorded. And I have a hypothesis that vampires also get the spiritual imprint when they take the blood of their master. So, in theory, if I can somehow separate the traces of the natural spiritual energy of both the master vampire and the servant from the ones that follow some form of the pattern I could learn the spirit code of the spell from those patterns. Granted, it will be only the spells the master vampire regularly uses. I scanned the blood. Then to process the data, I used the aloris spells. I will become paralyzed for some time, so it will be better to sit in a secure place to not fall down and hurt myself.