Chương 24: The Foreign Magical Energy

After Kai had gotten his decision to leave Britain, he did as he planned and left the large island of Britain. While he was running through Austria he felt a sudden surge of magical energy coming from his right.

Kai stopped immediately. He tried to sense it with his newly developed long-distance magic [All Seeing Eyes]. The spell allowed him to see everything in the direction he was looking at, of course, there was a crucial limit to the spell: the large amount of ME that was required to look at the normally unseeable location.

Due to Kai being able to see ME in his surroundings he could use the spell as a medium to see ME as well. Kai slowly poured his ME into the spell while activating his runic eyes at the same time.

In the beginning, his runic eyes could only be used when he poured magical energy into his eyes. However, when Kai had managed to hunt a random A class magical beast he had found in the Scottish Highlands, the blood orb that had been so quiet for such a long time awoke.

The orb actively absorbed the blood while creating a huge stir inside of Kai. He had blanked out and then fainted while the orb had transcended its original limits and created a phenomenon that would shake the current reality.

Kai was happy to finally be able to dream and sleep. Even though he didn't know that he was dreaming in his dream he still felt instinctually that what was happening inside the dream was indeed not real.

The dream that Kai had dreamt about was being with his family and enjoying a camping trip that he had once done in his teens. He himself had hated the experience, but now that he looked back he was glad that he had done so.

After the orb had finished its evolution, Kai woke up. The first thing he heard when he awoke was Harry's voice that was filled with sadness and nervousness, that kept incessantly asking Tom when Kai would wake up.

Kai later found out from Tom that he was enveloped in a large cocoon made of hardened blood-like liquid. After Kai examined the orb, he later found out that the orb had changed in a drastic way.

In the beginning, the orb had looked like a small red glass marble, but now the orb had grown to twice its size and in addition, it had deep red coloured liquid moving inside of it in a wavy motion like a small sea.

Kai learnt that the orb could release the red liquid inside of it in the shape of thin lines. With these lines that Kai had named blood strands, he learnt that he could use the strands to substitute the ME that he had so he had an extra source of energy.

The downside was that there were only an extremely limited amount of strings provided by the orb. However, Kai learnt that the strings had a 10x the concentration of energy that ME had.

However, Kai had learned from the dream that deep down inside of himself the subconscious desire that he had hidden from himself, was in fact that he wanted to return to his family on earth. Even with all these pleasures and interests such as magic and power, Kai knew that he couldn't lie to himself and knew that even with all the power in the world, if there was no one to share his joy with, there would be no point in having such an existence.

Back to the present. Kai tried to see what was inside the large surge of ME. But Kai was shocked at what he saw. Inside the magical energy, there was a writhing mass of blood coloured ME.

The red ME had a dark and sinister light to it making it appear demonic and savage. Kai had never seen such an occurrence throughout his entire time on the HP world.

Kai tried to reach out to it with his own ME to try and understand what the mysterious ME was. As Kai approached the ME, he broke past the layers of ME that were barricading it.

The closer he moved towards the red ME the more resistance he felt until he reached the last layer of pure ME. There he reached a stop Kai couldn't advance any further without using at least 20% of his power.

But as he got closer he could see the red demonic ME wasn't in the form of the normal ME. It had its own basic shape compared to the regular formless ME that was found in the surroundings.

The form of the blood coloured ME was that of a gaseous sinister looking western dragon. Kai was shocked at the true form of the different ME, it actually had the characteristics of an actual dragon. But it was common sense that dragons couldn't use magic.

So how could a dragon create ME that could turn into his own form? Kai was shocked and distraught he thought back to the time when he met Bathilda and remembered that there are creatures that are much more powerful than he himself is.

He then recalled that Bathilda never came afterwards, he wondered what she was doing now. But back to the draconic ME, he had to find out what was causing it and how to either harness the energy for himself or destroy it so that it wouldn't create any problems for him in the future.

Especially now that Kai had discovered his new goal in life: to return to his parents. Now if a normal person was to hear his heartfelt wish, they might scoff at his goal. Because why would a vampire progenitor want to meet his own mortal family now that he had power and authority.

He could be called a demon, a monster that wouldn't hesitate to slaughter anything that would stand in his path. And although Kai had been hardened after 4 years of hunting magical beasts and he wouldn't hesitate to destroy anything that stood in his way he still craved parental love and affection.

Kai returned to the present from his thoughts and tried to break the last protective layer that stood in the way of him and the draconic ME. Kai slowly applied more pressure to the layer causing gradual cracks to appear.

The ME that was no longer a gaseous state, but a partial liquid had shattered into countless wisps of gaseous ME that left the area.

Kai no longer had anything barring him from the draconic ME and extended his hand in the direction of the draconic ME. But the draconic ME had realised that it no longer had anything trapping it and instantly sprang forwards at speeds that only Kai could reach.

Usually Kai would be able to react to beings that moved at these supersonic speeds, however, this happened to be the first time that Kai actually met a being that could move at supersonic speeds. Because of his surprise, the draconic ME drilled into his body and started to devour his own ME!

Kai didn't know how to react at first but then instinctually caused his ME to fight against the invading force. But unfortunately, Kai's ME couldn't fight against the opponent and was devoured.

Afterwards, it tried to find more energy to devour and found a blood strand that was trying to return to the blood orb. It then started to follow the strand, racing towards it all while Kai couldn't do anything to stop it!