A week passed quietly.
At the edge of Nagoya's northwestern city center near the vampire's sphere of influence, Lü Ji quickly tore the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in front of him into two pieces, violently using only his five-fingered slender hands. Casually shaking off the foul-smelling blood stains that stained his hands, Lü Ji removed his white gloves that had long since been dyed red. He immediately exchanged two bags of fresh blood from the Group Master Store.
"Squeak …"
Only after the 800 ml of fresh blood was thoroughly drunk did he sigh a long sigh of relief.
During this week's time, he had tried to rely on ordinary food to maintain his physiological needs and finally came to the conclusion that:
Ordinary human food was able to maintain the minimum requirements for bodily functions. Still, it wouldn't allow him to perform his vampire abilities as he wished unless one ingested the food requirements of an ordinary person for several days or even a week.
In short, he wouldn't go into shock without relying on human blood, but his body would weaken.
But the current circumstances clearly did not allow him to do so.
During this week, Lü Ji was unwilling to leave the two-kilometre radius of the abandoned building he was in. This was because, after testing his abilities, he did not have the strength to wander far away.
It was essential to know that in Seraph of the End, vampires' strength could be roughly categorized into the following levels: guards, noble escorts, bottom commanders, captains of escorts, originators, and upper originators.
According to his analysis of the original, he should only be between the "guards" and "noble guards," the cannon fodder without a face in the original.
During this time, he encountered both vampires and Humans from the Moon Demon Company alone. He also witnessed skirmishes between the two races but was very self-conscious and chose to watch from a distance.
With such an unsatisfactory start, that... was clearly his wisest choice.
"I wonder how much contribution value has accumulated these days?"
Lü Ji lightly clicked on the group system panel to find a somewhat clean place to sit. However, when he looked at the contribution value balance, his entire body froze, as if he had suddenly received a lightning strike at the soul level.
"10,000... 24,345!!!"
Cries of shock rang out as Lü Ji rubbed his eyes in disbelief. When he looked again, the number still showed 24,345 contribution points!
"This... this..."
The contribution value far exceeded his expectations, shocking him so much that he didn't know what to say. After all, a week ago, the contribution value had only been 118 points, just outside the triple digits. Now, the contribution value had just jumped to five digits!
It was essential to know that his original expectation was that it would be two or three thousand at the most! After all, every hundred talks only gained ten points of contribution value, and two to three thousand contribution value was equivalent to twenty to thirty thousand talks!
After the initial shock, what followed was an incomparable ecstasy, like winning a multimillion-dollar lottery.
Taking advantage of this surprise, which hadn't cooled down yet, Lü Ji immediately tapped into the Group Master Storage, desperately wanting to increase his hard power. Even though the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roaming the city posed no threat to him, the helplessness of retreating from every vampire and Imp moon Demon demon Soldier he had encountered in the past week had struck him inwardly.
So much so that, without realizing it, Lü Ji had planted the seed in his heart to become more decisive.
Flipping through the system store, he directly sifted through the items with less than 24,000 contribution value. He immediately tapped on the item with a pair of eyes icon.
[Name: Petrifying Magic Eyes
Source: Fate
Introduction: Launch a petrification effect on the judged target. If the judgment succeeds, the target can be petrified directly. If the judgment fails, the petrification effect of the magic eye fails to launch.
Requirements: The holder must have a certain level of magic power.
Required Contribution: 14,000 points.]
"This is Medusa's inherent skill in FATE."
After reading the item's description, Lü Ji knew its origin and decisively clicked the return button. Magic Eye, which could petrify enemies, was undoubtedly good. Still, the prerequisite was that one needed to possess a certain level of magic power. Otherwise, this skill was quite flawed. Because once you meet an enemy whose magic power is higher than yours, this thing is no different from a pupil and has no effect to speak of.
Furthermore, the cost-effectiveness is not high. After all, the limitations of this kind of magic eye are too high. If there were no other abilities, an ordinary sniper rifle could perhaps kill the owner of the Petrified Magic Eyes by surprise.
Lü Ji kept searching through the items, but he couldn't find one that suited him. Either the item had too many limitations or restrictions, or it wasn't strong enough—nothing was good enough for him.
After thinking momentarily, Lü Ji took a practical approach and directly input the "Suitable for Vampire" ability. Luckily, the Group Master's Store was so powerful that it immediately re-screened new items based on key information. Basically, all of them were related to vampires.
He saw the Fourth True Ancestor Bloodline Inheritance among them, but a 24,000 Contribution Value could only buy a fragmented inheritance.
In addition to that, there were also special abilities that vampires could control, such as mind-reading, batization, and even vampire-related magic eyes.
Even though Lü Ji had narrowed down his search, there were still many items to choose from, and the choices were still dazzling. However, the good thing was that he was more interested in physical enhancement than those fancy abilities and thus finally locked onto an item called Blood Marquis.
[Name: Marquis of Blood
Source: Space and Space World
Description: The owner of this title will inherit all the strength of a deceased Blood Marquis.
There are restrictions on use: the user needs to be a Vampire or a blood-sucking species.
Required Contribution Value: 20,000 points.]
Tapping the system backpack space, Lü Ji couldn't wait to take out this item worth 20,000 contributions. To his surprise, the so-called 'Marquis of Blood' was not a dead bat, fang, or anything. Instead, it was a small, delicate golden pocket watch and instruction manual.
[Instructions for use: Wear it with you to obtain the title of Marquis, and it can't be destroyed or lost if you take it off unintentionally.]
"This… is really a bit surprising…"
Opening the pocket watch and looking at the beating hands on the dial, Lü Ji did not feel anything unusual.
"Pe…wear?"
The result remained unchanged when he shouted out a roar inwardly, holding an uncertain attempt. But right after, he suspiciously flung down the pocket watch in his hand…
"Boom!"
The loud noise made him want to close his eyes, and the smoke and dust made it hard to see. Lü Ji opened his eyes and saw that everything was calm. The ground, covered in dust at first, was now clean. Even the blood flowing from the bodies of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had stopped. Instead, his hand's path in the air was still clearly visible on the ground, about half an inch deep.