บท 725: A wealth of power

Reima breathes a sigh of relief as he takes a closer look at the vial containing the distilled flesh of Alucard... He hadn't forgotten to acquire some before the revival of Akasha, the stories of Alucard devouring huge populations of monsters and adding their strength to his own had him almost salivating at the thought of obtaining a similar ability...

Of course, something of such power also carries significant risks, which is why he was performing more intensive tests on these particular samples...

Inside the vial sits a bit of black flesh that twitches and writhes as if it was still alive... He taps the side of the vessel which causes the flesh to lunge towards his finger, banging against the glass for its attempt...

Clearly, this wasn't your usual Mutagen... He'd already distilled it for twice the duration you'd need for a regular sample, but it still reacted like a living being... Perhaps the heat wasn't enough?

He places the sample back in the machine yet again, applying the Catalytic Quickener and applying Chaos Flames instead of the usual used in this process...

The changes were slow, even with the Quickener, but, gradually the black flesh melted into some kind of black mass... No longer moving but still looking ominous.

Reima "Right, now for my own cells." he mutters, splitting the mass into separate vials and applying his own organic materials, blood, skin, muscle, hair, semen, all of it was tested to prevent something catastrophic from happening.

Reima "Damn." he says haplessly, watching as the black masses lunge at his organic samples and absorb them... Each seeming to tremble in pain before going dormant while strange changes keep occurring...

The black masses grow scales that turn into tentacles which then have eyes appear at the ends of them... The mutations cancel themselves out before occurring again in a loop, not seeming to be slowing anytime soon.

Reima had a few guesses as to what this is, Alucard's body had turned into an insane beastlike entity due to absorbing so many monsters. So, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that any mutagen created from his flesh would contain the genes of every monster he'd ever absorbed, making it incredibly unstable.

Reima sighs and rubs his face, "I'll save this and see if I can get something stable from it eventually... The potential is too much to simply trash." he says, storing it in his Folded Space.

He drops into a nearby chair and thinks about Nerissa's new abilities that she'd absorbed from the monster, as well as the changes her body was gradually going through...

Nerissa had ended up absorbing a number of genes from separate vampires, Gyokuro, Alucard, Akasha, and even Moka... This wasn't bad, but it made it difficult to tell which new ability was from who, Gyokuro's genes probably contributed the least due to her not being a "Shinso Vampire", the most powerful kind and purported to be the "Most" powerful kind of monster within that world... Seeing Alucard, Reima didn't think it was a stretch.

Nerissa had gained incredible regenerative abilities, to such an extent that destroying her head, heart, or any other vital organs didn't really matter... Only putting her out of the fight for a while, having her head destroyed functioning as being knocked out.

Her strength and speed had also seen a large boost, Moka was stronger that Nerissa in the past without even being able to access her Shinso Vampire abilities. But now Nerissa was incredibly fast, Reima would place her strength and speed slightly lower than Solaire, which shouldn't be scoffed at considering he was a god.

Its unfortunate Nerissa didn't manage to absorb the separate monster abilities within Alucard, only getting the empowered Shinso blood due to its interaction and merging with Akasha and Alucard's own.

Though, even if she didn't get those other abilities, Nerissa still obtained "Creation" and "Wealth of Power". The former is the ability to create a black metal-like substance, something only Shinso vampire are capable of doing, it's a powerful ability with huge potential... Aditionally it seemed to have merged with Nerissa's other abilities, allowing her to use it in conjunction with her black mist and animal transformation.

Wealth of Power is the ability to morph the users body into whatever form they wish, bat, wolf, mist, or even grow bodyparts like wings. There isn't really a limit to what this can be used to achieve, most don't even know this ability exists, Akasha says it's due to vampire pride and wishing to retain an Aesthetically pleasing form. Nerissa isn't like those arrogant and narcissistic guys those, almost immediately displaying use it in by making herself slightly taller after being teased by Reima.

Fortunately Nerissa isn't affected by any of the weaknesses plaguing the other worlds vampires, water and crosses not affecting her even after gaining their abilities.

Aside from the new vampiric abilities she'd gotten, the thing that worried and interested Reima the most was the introduction of the Elder Blood to her... She'd complain able the aching pain within her body often, the tiny spatial rifts causing her discomfort despite not being deadly anymore.

There wasn't really anything they could do about that, but, that was the only negative they'd discovered thus far... Nerissa had experimented and tried to use some of the abilities she'd seen Reima use, but apparently wasn't able to.

However, there was one dramatic change to Nerissa from the Elder Blood... She was now able to use magic... It was surprising to both the vampiress and Reima, but Nerissa now had magic running through her veins. It seems that while the Elder Blood hadn't given her any physical abilities, it'd somehow modified her soul and allowed it to produce magic like most regular beings.

It was funny to see the usually stoic girl excitedly trying to perform magic she'd seen taught at Hogwarts, he could've sworn he'd heard her squeal when a bolt of red light shot from a wand Luna had lent her.