(EXTRA CHAPTER FOR 100 POWERSTONES!! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!)
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Dungeons.
As explained before, they were pocket dimensions that connected to an unknown space filled with ghoul beasts.
They were widely raided throughout the whole human continent.
Some did it to get used to ghoul beasts while others did it only for the rewards they would acquire from clearing it.
Amon looked forward, seeing a large crimson forest in front of him, filled with sharp palm trees that reached high into the sky.
With his guard raised, he headed inside the forest.
Typically, for a 1 leaf dungeon like this, the first phase would only be filled with 10 ghoul beasts.
One of the minor reasons he had chosen blood back at the assimilation was precisely because of this reason.
The sea of blood around him and the constant blood puddles he saw on the ground took the main problem away of finding blood.
[Raise your guard, I can see some movement around you.] Zephyra warned in his head.
He rooted himself to the spot where he was standing and quickly sharpened his senses.
And in the next moment.
[Behind you!] Zephyra warned and he quickly took a sharp turn backward.
A sharp bolt of lightning left his palms, striking a creature in the next moment.
It's shriek resounded in the next moment filled with pain as it died down slowly, marking it dead.
"SHREEEEK!"
Looking back, Amon saw two more pounce out of the bushes facing him.
Now that he was finally able to get a better view, he was able to analyze their structure.
Standing at a knee-high height, these four-legged creatures resembled a strange combination of a bat and a wolf.
Their bodies were slim and agile as if built for stealth.
The most striking feature about them was their phosphorescent green eyes, glowing like orbs in the uncanny darkness as if they were helping them to navigate.
Their long bat-like ears stretched out vertically, twitching at the slightest rustle of wind or noise.
Four pincers protruded out of their jaw filled with jagged razor-sharp teeth.
These were ghoul beasts. At least one of their type.
Taking a quick glance at the dead ghoul beast's body near the beasts, he saw pitch black blood gushing out of its brain.
He had succeeded in killing one of them.
The other beasts glared at him with rage flickering in their eyes like a raging storm.
Silently, with minor movement, Amon tried to see if he could manipulate the blood of the beast.
Fortunately, he could but unfortunately, the beast was a further distance away from him so it took a lot of concentration to try to move it.
The ghoul beasts howled in anger at him, ready to pounce at any moment.
With full concentration on the blood, he tried to move it to his will, shaping it.
The practice of mana release came rushing to his brain, teaching him how to shape it.
The pouring blood on the grass wavered before a thin line of blood extending from the puddle.
He could finally manipulate the line to his own free will now.
And so, he moved to the next step.
He moved the blood further outwards, making the grass rustle.
As soon as the rustling sound entered their ears, their bodies perked up in alertness.
Without wasting a single moment, Amon raised one of his palms and shot a bolt of lightning at the beast more distant to the puddle.
It wasn't able to react and the bolt impacted its body, making it shudder with shock and blood pouring out of two legs.
They were charred now.
"SHREEK!!" The beast shrieked in pain and its companion instantly pounced at Amon, ready to tear it apart.
Fortunately, he was prepared.
In the next moment, the thin line of blood turned into a sharp long thick blood thread that cut through the air and pierced the nape of the beast.
"SHREEK!" The beast also screeched in pain and crashed onto the ground.
Without wasting a moment, Amon sent another bolt to the charred beast, killing it as the bolt impacted on the head, blowing its brain.
Meanwhile, using the thick thread, he dug it deep into the skull of the monster, ending its life as well.
He had killed three ghoul beasts now.
Suddenly, he got a notification.
[Your [Blood] element has leveled up!]
He felt a new influx of information about the blood element bombard his brain, teaching him new ways of using it and also advancing his control over the element.
In a few seconds, he was finally done with the influx.
But his control had advanced significantly as he felt that he would now create that previous thread easily in a second.
Walking up to the three bodies of the beasts, Amon gathered them around.
He had now found a new way of using blood.
Using the blood puddle nearby him, he formed a large blob of it in a minute.
And then, he pushed his hand into the blob, making it like a large ball surrounding his fist.
Slowly and steadily, he thinned out the blob, making it like a gauntlet around his fist.
It was like he was coating his fist in a sheet of blood.
And finally after some minutes, half of his arm now was coated in a sheet of blood.
Wanting to try its power, he tried to punch the pincer of a beast with his full power.
A large thud resounded as his fist connected, making cracks spread out on the pincer but still not breaking it
THUD!
Next, he took a new pincer and punched it rock hard with his blood coated first.
And to his surprise, the pincer broke instantly, separating itself from the body.
CRACK!
Feeling his mana being constantly drained with the use of blood, he let go and the blood splashed onto the ground back in the form of liquid.
SPLASH!
Grabbing the pincer, he cleanly cut a large gash in all three of the bodies.
In the next hour, he opened all of their bodies, not missing a single droplet of blood.
And then, he put on his spatial ring on his finger and raised his hand, willing for it to store all the blood.
And instantly, the ring shone with a blue sheen.
SHEEN!
All the blood around him, down to the last droplet, disintegrated into blue motes of light, leaving the area flawlessly clean.
Except the gory bodies that is.
Quickly, he opened the window description of his storage ring.
Artifact Capacity: [12L/10000L]
"Nice."
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