Chapter 104: The Power of a God, the Power of the Bloodline

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Character: Jonathan Byers (Lin Xiao)
Level: LV10 (106/100)
Source Power: 106
SP Points: 0
HP: 794 ------- MP: 870
Strength: 60 ------- Intelligence: 60
Stamina: 70 ------- Spirit: 62
Physical Attack: 70 -- Magical Attack: 60
Physical Defense: 166 - Magical Defense: 97
Physical Critical: +6% --- Magical Critical: +5.5%
Attack Speed: +6% --- Casting Speed: +5.5%
Class: Exorcist
Title: Demon Hound Slayer
System Quest: Story Destroyer (9/10)
Common Skills (LV1 Beginner): Basic Mastery, Exorcist Mastery, Armor Mastery, Throw Mastery, Backstep, Leap
Mystic Skill (LV1 Beginner): Shadow Traverse
Basic Skills (LV1 Beginner): Angelic Blessing, Slow Heal, Uppercut
... (LV2 Mastered): Demon Hand, Weapon Guard, Thunder-Talisman Spell, Dash Slash, Purification, Tiger Assault
... (LV3 Outstanding): Holy Light
Advancement Skill (LV1 Beginner): Chakra Holy Light
Passives: Mana Spring, Blood Surge
Weapon: Star-Destroying Axe of Annihilation (Damaged)
Equipment: Adventurer's Cotton Cloth Set, Shining Platinum Star, Crimson Earl of Blood
Card: Scarlet Embrace
Materials: Blood Crystal of the Blood Clan Marquis, Viral Essence of the Blood Clan Marquis
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Looking at his status panel, Lin Xiao felt his confidence surge. His HP was nearing eight hundred, his MP almost nine hundred; added to the LV3 outstanding Holy Light and the advancement skill Chakra Holy Light, he was more than capable of fighting the mind flayer head-on.

Still, the mind flayer had the advantage in numbers, and storming the place would not be easy. Right then, a thought flashed through him: the spoils of war he had just taken, the Bloodshadow Mirror, a sacred relic of the blood clan, was not precisely a weapon made for mass combat?

At that, he picked up the mirror and poured mana into it, but it gave no response at all, lying still and useless.

"Don't waste your effort. This mirror is a sacred relic of our blood clan, imbued with a bloodline cipher set by a great lord of the blood clan. Only our kind can use it. Human transcendents cannot."

Having buried Leistat's corpse, Stefan came over and said, and Lin Xiao could not tell whether he meant to help him or was only waiting to see what would become of him.

Lin Xiao glanced at him, then gave up on pouring in mana. They were about to face the mind flayer; not a shred of mana could be wasted.

After advancing in class, his mana recovery had increased considerably. At this rate, it would be fully restored in an hour.

"Is that so? Then don't forget, we have a blood-clan member on our side too. Michael, why don't you try using this Bloodshadow Mirror?"

Michael had already awakened from his coma, though he was still weak beyond measure.

Lin Xiao handed him the mirror. Michael weakly reached out, almost unable to keep hold of it, let alone use it.

"He can't. He has only just taken in the power of two races, and his body has suffered severe damage. Without a long period of rest and recuperation, not to mention the Bloodshadow Mirror, he cannot even draw on the slightest trace of blood-clan energy."

Stefan came up beside them to explain, his feelings in utter turmoil. Dament was slain by Lin Xiao, and Leistat as well; two people he knew had died at this man's hands. Should he seek revenge, or lay his hatred down?

"Oh? Conveniently, I happen to have a way to restore Michael's power."

Lin Xiao stepped forward, took the Star-Destroying Axe of Annihilation from his inventory, told Michael to open his mouth, then cut his left wrist and began dripping blood into it.

With every swallow, Michael's aura grew stronger, effortlessly crossing the threshold of a blood-clan baron and still pressing upward without cease.

Stefan was horrified to discover that the little fellow's presence was becoming more and more formidable, soon approaching the rank of blood-clan viscount, and still showing no sign of stopping.

"OMG, are you a devil?"

He shrieked, gaping in disbelief at what he was seeing.

In the end, Michael's aura surged all the way to that of a blood-clan earl, matching Stefan and the dead Dament.

Stefan felt as though he were having a heart attack. Heaven help him, he and Dament had toiled for more than a hundred years to reach the rank of blood-clan earl, yet this little fellow had become one after drinking only a few hundred cc of blood.

Allow me to cry for a while. Baby is hurting inside.

Seeing Michael regain his strength, Lin Xiao stopped bleeding and cast Purification to heal his wounds. After a moment's thought, he quickly guessed the reason.

The reason his rank had risen by leaps and bounds was not solely due to his blood. More likely, it was the high-order power lying dormant within him.

His blood had merely been a catalyst, accelerating that power's awakening, which was why Michael had so quickly broken into the rank of blood-clan earl.

More than that, he keenly sensed that the reason Michael's rank had stopped here was not that he could no longer advance, but because his body was temporarily unable to contain such overwhelming power.

Once his body grew stronger and adapted to that force, he would likely be able to step into the realm of blood-clan marquis with scarcely any effort, becoming an existence comparable to Leistat, perhaps even stronger.

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There was nothing for it; the other side was a whale of a spender, while they were just weary grinders. The gap was simply that vast.

Michael rose from the ground, feverishly patting himself all over, then closed his eyes slightly. With a soft burst, a pair of enormous brown-black wings unfurled from his back, their span reaching a full six meters, blotting out sky and daylight alike.

No. 11 watched her little boyfriend with delight. She did not care what Michael became; after all, she was a witch too. A vampire and a witch—well, that was a proper match.

Love, after all, is so utterly unreasonable.

"All right, Michael, try once more and see whether you can use this Bloodshadow Mirror."

Lin Xiao handed the mirror over again. Michael took it, and with uncanny instinct, a stream of blood light burst from his hand and flowed into the Bloodshadow Mirror.

Boom!

A towering pillar of blood-red light shot from the mirror's surface, like a searchlight over the ocean, piercing the boundless sea and the night sky to guide the ships home.

Under the crimson radiance, the clouds overhead, even the moon hanging high beyond the heavens, seemed dyed in scarlet, exuding a spellbinding and seductive glow.

A blood surge to the heavens!
A crimson moon!

This blood-colored pillar of light was several times more terrifying than the spectacle produced when Leistat had used it. It seemed Leistat had only drawn upon part of its power, whereas Michael had truly awakened this blood-clan sacred relic.

Though his power was not as vast as Leistat's, the level of that power was wholly beyond it. One was ordinary blood-clan strength; the other was divine power that transcended blood-clan strength and stood above it.

"This is... this is the legendary Bloodsource Power, the supreme power that only a lord of the blood clan can use. How is this possible? How can it be possible for someone who has only just become a vampire to wield Bloodsource Power?"

Stefan roared, his expression twisting drastically, the blood within him instinctively recognizing the power being unleashed by the other.

That was the origin power of their blood clan, the supreme force only the Blood Ancestor could use. Even his own father, the great blood-clan duke, Count Kalen, did not possess such power.

No, not only his father lacked it; perhaps even the legendary Three Grand Princes did not have such a thing.

Their blood-clan power was indeed formidable, but only in quantity was it immense and in quality somewhat higher; there was no fundamental difference.

But this power was no longer ordinary blood-clan strength. Its essence had already changed, making the two incomparable, like earth and diamond.

One was so lowly as to be trodden beneathfoot, while the other stood high above, coveted by millions and treasured as a priceless gem. The difference between them was that vast.

"Bloodsource Power? So this power is called Bloodsource Power."

Lin Xiao mused thoughtfully. This Bloodsource Power was likely the divine power one could only wield after stepping into the realm of gods.

As for himself, he suspected it was the kind of higher-order force he could only master after a second awakening into the True Dragon Star Sovereign, a divine power stronger than mana.

The realm of gods!