Chapter 54 Veilborn Shroud
"Ah... Damn it!"
Along with the high absorption came unbearable pain that Ian couldn't withstand.
"What the heck is happening?"
Ian endured for some time, but his consciousness began to blur with extreme pain, making him immobile.
From the outside, the blood energy from the entire zone was already absorbed by Ian, making him look like a giant blood cocoon.
As Ian was being stuffed outrageously and about to reach his limit, the cocoon inside his consciousness suddenly beat once, seemingly by mistake, and went silent.
It was so abrupt that even Ian wouldn't be able to know if he was looking directly at it.
However, this seemingly inadvertent act abruptly stabilized the absorption, and Ian was saved from exploding.
[Ding!]
[Your ??? Bloodline has been awakened.]
[??? Bloodline Realm: Initiation]
[Bloodline Passive: Veilborn Shroud]
[You consumed your chance to awaken your bloodline. You are returning to the material world.]
With the announcement from the System, Ian disappeared from the center of the pond just as he had appeared before.
However, he had already fainted from pain and didn't know anything about it.
"Swoshh!"
Just when his body disappeared, a surge of strong mental energy swept across the entire lake Ian had been in, making large waves like a tsunami.
"Weird. There is no one here. What happened to the Vermilion Well?"
After searching and finding nothing, the surge of mental power slowly disappeared, calming the waves on the pond with its return.
...
On the outskirts of Bridgeport city, inside an artificial cave just dug out, Ian's body suddenly appeared.
"Thud!"
"Ugh.."
After coming out of that weird dimension, he finally came to his senses.
"Damn!"
"Cough... Cough..."
He coughed irregularly, trying to calm his body down. This experience was very sudden and painful for him.
If his mental power wasn't strong, he thought he would never return.
"Hah..."
Ian breathed heavily a few more times and slowly stood up, a little shakily.
"That was dangerous."
He thought, remembering the last moment before he lost consciousness. At that time, he felt how it would feel to literally explode from overeating.
"Fortunately, everything is worth it."
Ian sat down on the futon again, calming his breathing, and looked at the prompt in his mind.
[Your ??? Bloodline has been awakened.]
[??? Bloodline Realm: Initiation]
[Bloodline Passive: Veilborn Shroud]
'Really, I still can't see the name of the bloodline.'
Ian didn't delve into this matter much and paid attention to the realm.
'Even after absorbing that much substance, I am still only in the Initiation realm. How hard is it to awaken the bloodline?'
He thought in exasperation. Before he lost consciousness, he remembered absorbing the entire pond in a minute, yet the result was this.
'And I only got one bloodline passive?'
[Veilborn Shroud: A passive bloodline ability that allows the user to sense the ethereal world and space along with increased speed and perception.
Effect: Enhances user mobility and perception, the ability to perceive distortions in space or time, instinctively senses dimensional rifts, magical anomalies, and incoming threats from unseen planes.]
'Well, it seems awesome?'
Ian thought in a good mood. As long as he got something good in return, everything was worth it.
Moreover, he still hadn't checked its effect on his body. Ian immediately did what he thought and scanned his body with his mental power.
'I reached the peak of the High Knight Realm and my body is twice as strong as before.'
After just a preliminary check, he immediately found out that his realm and strength had increased qualitatively.
If before, he had to use Spellblade with his Life Energy and mental power, now he felt that he could kill that old man just with the normal strike of his sword.
'Damn! That's awesome.'
Ian felt such a strong surge in his power that he felt uncomfortable without venting it out.
"Life Seed is also doubled in size. Eh? What is this...?"
Suddenly, Ian saw his Life Seed in the dantian doubled in size, occupying the entire area.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
However, what shocked him more was that there was a tinge of blue at the corner of it, just like the one he absorbed before.
"What is its use?"
Ian tried to mobilize that part and used his mental power to stimulate it, but nothing happened as if it were just decorations.
After trying everything and finding nothing, he could only stop.
"Still, it is now time to attack the Grand Knight Realm."
After awakening his bloodline, Ian had changed from inside and out. Except for his Wizard realm, where he was still a First Class Wizard apprentice, his overall strength had increased multiple times.
...
[Mistwood Province-Woodhaven City]
In a forest filled with tall trees, chirping birds, and the sound of gurgling rivers, a girl wearing a flowing emerald-green robe covered with beautiful golden embroidery resembling twisting vines, the thin fabric catching the light as if enchanted, and a silver clasp around her waist shaped like a budding flower, was floating around, laughing.
"Hehe... this is so much fun. See, Luna, I can also do it like you."
Sylvia said, her voice filled with excitement.
"See, how fun this is? Unfortunately, you cannot use too much power in this barren place."
Suddenly a small elf the size of a palm flew around, landing perfectly on Sylvia's shoulder.
"So, what do you think? This place is really not good. Come with me if you want to be powerful. You can always return for him if you miss him too much."
"Who is missing whom?"
Sylvia said, flustered.
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"Um? But didn't you say you don't want to leave because of him?"
Luna tilted her cute head, showing a curious expression. She couldn't understand why Sylvia was denying it now.
When she asked her to leave with her, Sylvia said she wanted to meet some guy first.
"Okay, okay. Don't think too much. Your brain is so small, you will explode if you think too much. Hehe..."
Sylvia giggled and began to play with Luna. As her companion, she felt very close to her.
Moreover, Luna was so cute that Sylvia never got tired of her.
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