บท 79: Chapter 79: New Spells
Chapter 79: New Spells
"Y-YOU-" Before Tadeo could even speak, Raven made a swirling stance as he jumped up and slashed the spear tip at his neck.
If he hadn't been affected by the 'Blood Control' spell, Tadeo would've managed to avoid the attack and survived. But he couldn't even see the attack due to the strange dizziness and was instantly injured.
Blood gushed out from the sliced area as Tadeo gripped his neck with both hands and tried to stop the blood.
"F-F*ck! I killed him!" Raven cursed as his hands and legs trembled.
[Don't hesitate. Kill this Wizard before he uses some strange potion to recover.] Zera spoke in his mind.
Raven nodded stiffly, took two steps back, and directly thrust the aura-coated spear into his chest, stabbing his heart.
[No. Decapitate him.]
"A-Aren't you being too cautious?" Raven asked while keeping himself steady.
But as he received no response, he could only smile forcefully and make another slash at his neck.
The next second, Tadeo's head was completely detached from the body, flew up while spraying blood everywhere, and rolled on the road.
Meanwhile, the headless body staggered for a moment and fell back while twitching.
Raven couldn't hold the nauseous feeling and vomited.
A feeling of guilt and anxiousness appeared on his face.
"I-I killed a person!"
[No time to cry, lad. The battle isn't over yet.] Zera's words snapped him out.
At the same time, a gunshot came at 2 o'clock, followed by a painful shout of a man.
He nodded while standing with the support of the spear and soon moved towards the twitching body.
He then grabbed the pouch, Tadeo's ring, bracelet, and vial and stored them in the inventory.
"Jacob might need my help," Raven said after calming down his heart. Although a peak Radiant Walker, he wasn't strong enough to take on two Radiant Walkers alone.
[Even if you go there, you won't be of any help to him. Instead, you should divert their attention and hide somewhere.] Zera spoke.
'Raven instantly understood her meaning and walked closer to the carriage. Then, he lit up the carriage and started running towards the abandoned building on the right side.
He quickly went to the first floor and then moved towards the balcony.
After safely hiding himself, he turned his gaze towards where the carriage was burning fiercely and observed quietly.
A few minutes later, two people came from the opposite building yard and looked at Tadeo's headless body in shock.
'It's that man with the cane. What's his name again? Preston, right?'
Raven also heard them shouting at each other but couldn't understand what they were saying. But he was sure that those two were the Radiant Walkers who went to search for Jacob!
One looked injured and relied on the other person's support to walk.
'Did they kill him?' He grew anxious.
BANG!
A gunshot came from the same direction, causing the two Radiant Walkers to roll on the ground to take cover.
They soon hid behind a broken compound wall and tried to keep their heads low.
After that, the duo quietly crawled toward the next building and started running away.
A few minutes later, another figure in a black suit walked towards the almost burnt carriage and looked around cautiously.
Raven watched the whole scenario from above and was impressed. Although he hadn't participated much in the battle and managed to kill the Acolyte Wizard using schemes, he learned one thing.
'Wizards are scary!' Even though Tadeo was only an Acolyte Wizard, his strange spells were as dangerous as an attack of a Radiant Walker.
[The ones from the academy should be far more powerful than this guy, lad. Did you learn what you lack most?] Zera asked.
'I need a movement-type spell and an attack spell.'
While muttering, Raven raised his hand and shouted.
"Jacob! I'm here!"
Soon, he went downstairs and moved towards the direction where Jacob was.
"I didn't expect you to kill an Acolyte Wizard, My Lord," Jacob said with a smile and bowed his head.
"I'm sorry for putting your life in danger. If Selene had come with us instead of staying at the inn, you wouldn't have ended up in such a risky situation." After all, it was the job of his mercenary squad to protect him, but they failed.
Meanwhile, Raven waved his hand and spoke.
"You are not at fault. Also, this battle gave me a good experience." In truth, Raven had long known Mia's identity thanks to his monocle. But he stayed quiet until the last moment to gauge Jacob's skill and loyalty.
'If it were other mercenaries, they would either give up on the mission or stay by his side to protect him until their death. But no one would be bold enough to throw their employer as bait to solve such a matter. Either he had long realized they were not to kill me but to kidnap or made a gamble with my life.' It was scary if things had gone a bit wrong earlier.
'At the end of the day, I need to become stronger. Or else, similar things might happen.' He might be lucky this time, but not always.
"Can you wait here for a few more minutes, Mr. Jacob? I need some private time alone." Raven asked as he looked at the abandoned building ahead.
"Just hold on for a while, My Lord. We can find an Inn if we walk for 10 minutes to the east." Jacob seemed to have misunderstood on his own and suggested.
"No. It's not for that. Just stay here for a while. I'll be right back." Raven didn't even turn around to show his embarrassed face, so he hurried towards the abandoned building he had hidden earlier.
He entered the building in a minute and arrived at a large hall full of construction equipment and sandbags. The whole surrounding appeared utterly dark, but Raven had no difficulty seeing in the dark.
"This place should be enough." Raven nodded quietly and touched the spatial ring.
A second later, a one-meter-long blackish worm filled with thousands of creepy eyes fell on the floor with a thud.
Raven then touched the creepy worn and activated the 'Bloodline Devouring Ability.'
A second later, an invisible power came out of nowhere, extracted all the blood within the creepy worm, and condensed it into the size of a fist-sized orb.
The next second, the fist-sized blood orb directly absorbed into his palm and started assimilating into his body.
At the same time, a row of information appeared before his eyes.
…
[Bloodline Devouring Ability is activated!]
[Mind Worm's bloodline has been found!]
[Analyzing the purity of the bloodline….]
[Calculating…]
[The corpse has 94% purity of Rank-1 Mind Worm's bloodline Essence!]
[It is possible to extract the Mind Worm's bloodline Essence and one of its bloodline spells!]
[Would you like to use the 'Bloodline Devouring Ability'? Yes/No.]
"Yes." Raven didn't waste any time and clicked the notification.
…
[Bloodline Devouring Ability is on commence!]
[Randomizing the Bloodline Ability Extraction!]
[The system has found two eye skills from the Host's body and is proceeding to select Mind Worm's 'Mind Eye' Bloodline Spell!]
[Rank-1 Mind Worm's 'Mind Eye' bloodline spell has been selected!]
[Spiritual Scan and Night Vision skills have been fused with the Mind Eye spell!]
[Host has obtained Rank-1'Mind Eye' Bloodline Spell!]
…
[Host has absorbed a part of Mind Worm's Bloodline Essence!]
[Host's spirit power has been increased by 2.8!]
[Host's vitality power has been increased by 1.0!]
[Host's strength power has increased by 0.5!]
[Host's agility power has been increased by 0.5!]
[Host's body is undergoing a mutation!]
[The mutation will take 5 minutes 35 seconds to complete!]
[Please stand by!]
…
As the notifications appeared, Raven felt a familiar sensation of tearing pain all over his body.
But compared to before, it wasn't much difficult for him to endure.
No, Raven soon realized something was happening to his eyes. It was like when he consumed the 'Night Vision Potion.' He felt a pricking sensation at first. But that sensation soon turned into countless needles stabbing inside and outside. He wanted to scream but endured. Even though this mutation process lasted only for around 5 minutes and 30 seconds, Raven felt like he had been enduring the tearing pain in his eyes for an hour.
"Urgh! F*ck!" He cursed out loud as he finally realized the painful sensation was slowing down and sat down.
At the same time, a unique hexagonal spell model appeared in his Mind Space.
"This is insanely painful!" He slowly opened his eyes and noticed a big difference. Unlike before, Raven noticed everything in the surrounding five meters appeared very detailed.
'It's like the fusion of spiritual scan and night vision ability. But is that it?' At that moment, a unique form of information appeared in his mind. If it had been before, he wouldn't have understood the meaning hidden in it. But after learning the rune language, he noticed he could clearly understand all the information.
While comprehending the information, he saw a fly a few feet away and tried to focus his attention on it.
Suddenly, Raven noticed that time seemed to slow down, and everything around him began moving slowly. He could see each flap of a fly's wings and was astounded.
The slowed time accelerated as he withdrew his focus from the fly and returned to normal.
"T-This is insane. I had thought I could gain the ability to control others or read others' thoughts, but this looks so good!"
[More like this spell allows you to accelerate your thought process and perceive the surroundings more clearly. Now, take out the other corpse and continue.] Zera said in his mind.
Raven nodded and took out the Ice Wyrm's corpse. It was as tall as two meters and also appeared around 5 meters long. It was a lizard-like monster with bluish scales all over its body. It had six legs, gigantic crystalline horns, and a sharp tail made of pure ice.
"Its head does resemble a dragon's head from the mythologies," Raven muttered in shock, moved closer to the corpse, and placed his hand over its forehead.
"I wonder what type of ability I will get." Muttering, he activated the [Bloodline Devouring Ability].
At the same time, a row of information appeared before his eyes.
…
[Bloodline Devouring Ability is activated!]
[Ice Wyrm's bloodline has been found!]
[Analyzing the purity of the bloodline….]
[Calculating…]
[The corpse has 80% purity of Rank-1 Ice Wyrm's bloodline Essence!]
[It is possible to extract the Ice Wyrm's bloodline Essence and one of its bloodline spells!]
[Would you like to use the 'Bloodline Devouring Ability'? Yes/No.]
"Yes." Raven nodded quietly and clicked the notification.
…
[Bloodline Devouring Ability is on commence!]
[Randomizing the Bloodline Ability Extraction!]
[Rank-1 Ice Wyrm's 'Cold Breath' bloodline spell has been selected!]
[Host has obtained a Rank-1 'Cold Breath' Bloodline Spell!]
…
[Host has absorbed a part of Ice Wyrm's Bloodline Essence!]
[Host's vitality power has been increased by 1.0!]
[Host's strength power has increased by 1.0!]
[Host's agility power has been increased by 1.0!]
[Host's body is undergoing a mutation!]
[It will take 3 minutes for the mutation to complete!]
…
Raven went through a similar painful mutation process but managed to remain clear-headed. Three minutes later, a unique bluish hexagonal spell model appeared right next to the 'Mind Eye' spell model.
At the same time, he also received a basic understanding of how this spell works in the form of information and was surprised.
'It's more like a particular memory of how this Ice Wyrm used its 'Cold Breath' spell!'
"Upon casting this spell, I can exhale a stream of cold air capable of freezing anything in my path up to five to seven meters ahead. Theoretically, it would take more than 2 hours to freeze a living body at -20°C. But the Ice Wyrm always used its dense Ice elemental energy in its Magical Beast Core to freeze the opponent in seconds. It's not entirely freezing the opponent but using the ice elemental energy to cover the opponent's body in a thin layer of ice, making them look like they are sealed in ice. If they exert enough force, they can break free from this ice. It should be useful against people with high mobility." Although Raven wanted to try it out, he refrained himself.
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