Chapter 380 Mu You's Blood Talent
Amnesia?
Mu You understood after a moment's thought. This was probably a curse that the vampire Count had acquired when he absorbed a certain ability.
In any case, when he met the real owner, the other party did not see through his foolishness. Instead, he regarded him as the original owner of the skin. Moreover, the original vampire also happened to have a curse of amnesia...
This matter seems to be able to continue to be rounded up!
[You choose to take advantage of the situation and admit that you have indeed forgotten many things after waking up this time. You only remember that you are from the Rhine family, but you have no impression of any specific family members. You hope that the other party will explain to you what happened in the past. ]
[Rhine Mai has an expression on her face that is just as expected, and tells you about her brother's experience. ]
[The Rhine family was also a large family a long time ago, but it gradually declined due to the long-term lack of masters in the family. As time went by, the population gradually withered until the birth of Rhine Liston, the predecessor of your skin. ]
[The power composition of the blood clan, in addition to the level attributes of the body, the most important thing is the family talent.
Each blood clan family has its own unique talent tree, some powerful, some ordinary, and some powerful talents are enough to support the blood clan to complete cross-level battles.
However, these talents can only be obtained randomly when the blood clan's title is upgraded. The title has nothing to do with the level system. There is a 50% chance of obtaining a talent when promoted to baron and viscount. After that, the promotion to earl, marquis, and duke will awaken a new talent 100%. Therefore, even the highest-ranking blood clan duke can only obtain 5 blood clan talents at most. 】
【And Rhine Liston awakened a hidden talent that had been lost for many years during the baron period, "Talent Absorption". The special feature of this talent is that it can break through the upper limit of the number of talents and obtain unlimited abilities of the clan and even foreigners, thereby continuously enhancing its own strength.
Liston carried the hopes of the Rhine family. In order to help the family revive and improve its strength as much as possible, he constantly devoured and absorbed various creatures, and collected nearly a hundred kinds of abilities, strong or weak. Finally, as an earl, he overwhelmed many marquises and grew into one of the best masters in the family at that time. He also made the Rhine family leap into one of the top ten blood families and restored the glory of the ancestors! 】
【However, at the same time, the ability of talent absorption also has a huge weakness, that is, every time a new ability is obtained, a random curse will be obtained at the same time. The stronger the ability, the stronger the curse will be. In other words, as the abilities increase, his weaknesses will become more and more obvious.
In history, the blood clans who awakened this talent, without exception, all died in the backlash caused by the superposition of curses. Therefore, this talent is also regarded as an ominous talent by the ancestors of the family. Those who get it will always go to self-destruction in the end. 】
【Liston is also the same. His rapidly expanding strength brings him all kinds of restrictions. Every time he acquires a new ability, it is equivalent to a gamble. If he can stop in time, there may be room for maneuver. However, Liston has been deeply trapped in the desire for strength and cannot extricate himself. Like a gambler, he continues to collect various new abilities, and finally forces himself into a dead end. He can only be forced to enter hibernation and disappear from the sight of the vampires...】
Mu You was shocked. He didn't expect that his predecessor had swallowed hundreds of abilities!
He himself has backtracking, and can filter curses through backtracking. Even so, after multiple curses are superimposed, he has begun to feel a lot of inconvenience. More than one hundred curses are superimposed in a row. Even if he is lucky and never encounters the contradictory curse, it is conceivable to what extent the restrictions on himself will be.
After acquiring so many abilities, the predecessor is still greedy, and the final outcome is doomed.
Mu You sighed, but then again, the predecessor mastered more than one hundred talents, and when he got the skin, there were only three left. It seems that extracting the skin can only inherit the very limited abilities of the deceased before his death.
【Rhine Mai tells you that in order to avoid others coveting it, the place where her brother is sleeping has never been revealed to outsiders. Only a few close relatives in the family know about it, and she is also one of the insiders. In this millennium clan meeting, the family was warned by the Grand Duke because they could not produce the Heart of Mist. She did not intend to go to the Misty Mountain to find the Heart of Mist in person, because it is very likely that other clan members with ulterior motives will follow the clues to find her brother's location, thus destroying her brother's resurrection plan. She believes that even if she is removed from the family now, as long as her brother is resurrected in the future, the family will still have a chance to revive. 】
【Rhine Mai hesitated for a moment after speaking, and then asked if you had seen the blood servant "Rodney" you sent out before? 】
Mu You raised his eyebrows. Sure enough, this question could not be avoided after all.
After thinking about it, he decided to answer truthfully. It is too easy to be exposed if you lie in this matter.
【You apologized to Mai and told him that you had seen Rodney before, but because he tried to steal the treasures in the tomb, you killed him casually. 】
【Mai Yi didn't blame you after hearing this. Instead, she said that you don't need to care. She also knew that Rodney was greedy for money. He must have angered his elder brother. He is just a blood servant. It's not a pity to die. As long as elder brother is safe, it's fine! 】
Mu You looked strange. He didn't expect that the matter of the blood servant would be so easily overturned... It seems that the status of these blood servants in the blood clan is even lower than imagined.
[After the greetings, Mai Yi strongly invites you to come home for a small gathering. Your brothers and sisters miss you very much. She will ask the family to prepare a banquet to welcome you. You choose...]
There are two options below: [Accept the invitation] and [Leave with an excuse].
Originally, Mu You planned to leave the Heart of Mist behind, but the current situation made him change his mind.
If you can integrate into the vampire clan through the family of the original owner of the skin, it will also be a good choice.
[You choose to accept the invitation.]
[Mai Yi is very happy and immediately takes you to the forest. At the same time, he takes out the communication props and informs your family of your return.]
[After a while, you come to a two-story building deep in the dark forest.]
[Entering the house, the banquet has been set up in the living room, and the family is gathered here.]
[The first thing that appears in front of you is seven vampire children, four boys and three girls. The oldest looks like a human of fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest looks only five or six years old. They all gather at the door and look at you like curious babies. ]
[Behind the children, there are two middle-aged vampires, one male and one female, who look like a couple. They look at you with kind eyes and greet you with a smile. The middle-aged male vampire seems to be ill and coughs repeatedly when he speaks. ]
[Behind them are three vampire servants, who look at you with awe and bow their heads to you. ]
[Mai introduces them to you one by one. The two middle-aged people are your uncle and aunt, and the seven children are their children. As for the other elders of the Rhine family, they have all died in the battle with werewolves in recent years. These are all the current members of the Rhine family. ]
Mu You was stunned. There are only seven children in total, three adults, and three blood servants to make up the numbers. The population of this family is even rarer than imagined...
Mu You clicked on the information of the two middle-aged people and took a look.
[Rhine Jonas (level 20, not evolved) (severely injured): Vampire Viscount, poisoned by wolfsbane, unable to fight for the time being. Unlocked family talent: Giant Strength, possessing the strength of a giant. ]
[Rhine Elsa (level 15, not evolved): Vampire Baron, unlocked family talent: Charm, can make the opposite sex creatures in heat. ]
Two middle-aged people, only level 15 and level 20, the level 20 one is still seriously injured, which means that the strongest person in this family is actually his cheap sister...
[After a welcome, you were surrounded by everyone and sat at the head of the table, and other family members sat around you. ]
[The servants brought up all kinds of finely cooked delicacies and fine wines, and of course the highlight of the blood clan banquet: a glass of blood was placed in front of each person in the best wine glass. According to Mai Yi, this is fresh and pure blood just produced from young humans, one of the best quality supplements for blood clans. ]
[The bloody smell fell into your nose, sweet and fragrant, you couldn't help but take a sip, the pure blood flowed in your body, you were in a good mood, your strength was restored, and your attack power was temporarily increased by 10%. ]
[Others also tasted the blood in front of them. ]
[Blood races get their power from blood, and the time to replenish blood every day is sacred to them. No one spoke to disturb the atmosphere. ]
[At this time, you noticed that a little girl sitting on your right secretly watched you taste the blood. She swallowed her saliva and a trace of desire flashed in her eyes, but then she was glared at by Mai on the other side of you. The little girl hurriedly looked straight ahead and covered her face with her own blood cup. ]
[Mai noticed your gaze and looked at you apologetically: "Sorry, brother, children don't know the rules." ]
[Looking at the performance of everyone, you have realized something, and suddenly picked up Mai's cup and tasted it. The blood did not feel sweet, but a strong sour taste - it was just a cup of tomato juice. ]
[You looked at the others, and the whole family looked at you awkwardly. Obviously, they drank all tomato juice, and the only cup of real blood was left for you. 】
Mu You was also a little surprised when he read the text. A family of vampires should have always had fresh blood, but there was only this much blood in stock at home?
【“Is fresh blood hard to come by in Undercity?” You looked at Mai and asked. 】
【“It wasn’t hard to come by. I could easily get blood by going out hunting every night. Even if I didn’t go hunting, there were often fresh blood bags for sale on the black market. It wasn’t hard to find blood. But since those werewolves were united into a tribe a year ago, they have been targeting low-level vampires. Every day, the werewolves disguise themselves as ordinary humans and move back and forth in the places where vampires like to hunt the most, deliberately tempting the vampires to attack. Once the vampires attack, they will face a crazy counterattack from the werewolves.” Mai said. 】
【“The werewolves have developed a special ‘fang’ to restrain vampires. Vampires bitten by these fangs cannot recover from their wounds through ordinary means, and cannot be resurrected when they die. This has caused vampires with ordinary combat power to be afraid to go out and hunt casually. At the same time, the werewolves have monopolized the sale of blood on the black market, causing a large number of vampires to lose their most important source of blood.
So over the past year, many vampires in the Undercity have been in a state of ‘blood starvation’ for a long time, and their combat power is weak. They were no match for the werewolves in several battles without light, which led to a large number of casualties in the tribe.”】
“The wounds bitten by werewolves cannot be recovered?”
Mu You was stunned. He had fought a werewolf before, but the werewolves at that time did not have this kind of means to restrain vampires. It seems that the so-called "fangs" should be the exclusive ability of the werewolves in the Undercity.
['Uncle' Jonas looked at you and Mai apologetically: "I am incompetent. I was bitten by a werewolf some time ago and lost my ability to hunt, so the burden of hunting fell on Mai."]
["But now that Liston is back, it's good. You are the backbone of the family. It is right that you drink the only blood. Drinking blood will give you the strength to hunt." 'Aunt' Elsa looked at you with relief and said. ]
[Mai also urged you to drink the blood as soon as possible. You choose...]
[Drink the blood. As the person with the highest title in the family, it is only natural that you enjoy the best things. ]
[Sharing the difficulties together. Divide the blood equally among everyone. ]
[Use the convenience of the fool to find better quality blood so that everyone can drink enough. ]
Of the three options, Mu You decisively chose the second one.
Are you kidding? Where can he find blood in the middle of the night?
But as the options say, it is not a problem to raise a few vampires for the convenience of the fool.
The reason why the werewolves can monopolize the blood selling market in the Undercity is mainly because the vampires are isolated from the news and have no other channels to buy blood. There are billions of people on the earth. If they can get in touch with the players, how can they have the trouble of lack of blood?
[Ignoring the opposition of others, you divide the blood in the cup equally among the family members, and say that with you, the family will no longer lack blood in the future, and no one will be hungry again. ]
[Several children tasted the fresh blood as they wished, and heard your promise. They all cheered and looked at you with admiration. ]
[Most of these new generation children have only heard the legend of the family's "Dark Night Earl", but have no real feeling. Now that you have come back to help the family solve the food problem, they immediately have a heartfelt respect and trust for you. ]
[Just as the atmosphere of the family banquet was harmonious, you suddenly heard a hissing sound of bats coming from outside the door. ]
[A red-eyed bat landed outside the windowsill, put down the letter in its claws, and flew away. ]
[Jonas went to retrieve the letter, opened it and read it. There were special dense characters on it that only the vampires could understand. ]
["It was a message from the Duke of the vampires, announcing that a clan meeting would be held at 7 o'clock tonight. The meeting place was the 'Abandoned Dark Church'. Each family would arrange two people to go there. Two topics would be discussed at that time: 1. The future planning of the vampires. 2. The distribution of ten drops of 'blood of the ancestors'."]
[Jonas interpreted the contents of the letter, then looked at you and Mai and said, "This time, you brothers and sisters will go to the clan meeting. With Liston here, I can rest assured."]
Mu You looked at the two topics mentioned in the text and tried to click on 'blood of the ancestors'.
[Blood of the ancestors: After the ancestor of the vampires died more than two thousand years ago, his body was preserved. After that, every hundred years, a drop of blood of the ancestors would be born. The blood clan that absorbed the blood of the ancestor will have the opportunity to be promoted to a noble title. The higher the noble title, the more blood of the ancestor is needed for promotion. 】
So this so-called clan meeting is to provide blood clans with the opportunity to be promoted to a noble title?
Mu You looked at the description of the "noble title" again.
[Noble title: The noble titles are divided into duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron. The high-level noble title has a strong suppressive effect on the low-level noble title in battle (only within the blood clan).
The noble title can be improved in two ways: 1. Take the blood of the ancestor. 2. A high-ranking person can give a drop of heart blood to other blood clans in the same family with a lower title by at least two levels, so that they can be promoted to a higher title. A maximum of three drops of heart blood can be distributed for each promotion.
After the blood clan's title is promoted, the level and attributes will not be improved, but the existing family talents will be upgraded, and a new family talent can be randomly comprehended. 】
The "noble title" here is not directly linked to strength, but more of a symbol of the status of the blood clan.
The biggest practical benefit of the promotion of the title is probably that you can get a new "family talent". Family talent is the real strength of the vampire family!
[Family talent: The blood family is divided into 13 clans, each clan has three exclusive talents and abilities. The clans intermarry to form a family. The talents and abilities possessed by these clans will also be brought into the genes of the descendants of this family and become family talents.
The ancestors of the Rhine family were formed by the intermarriage of three clans. There are nine possible family talents: super speed, super sense, charm, talent absorption, giant killer, giant force, deflection, atomization, and iron block. ]
In other words, there are only nine talent trees in the Rhine family, and Mu You already has "talent absorption" and "giant killer".
For the remaining seven, Mu You read the descriptions one by one and found that many of them are literal.
For example, super sense is "super sense". After lighting up, you can gain the ability to perceive danger far beyond ordinary people. In addition, there is a certain "perspective" effect, which can clearly sense people and things behind obstacles.
Others, such as atomization, can automatically turn into mist to escape when attacked. Iron block, the whole body becomes as hard as iron, invulnerable to swords and guns, etc.
After looking at the seven abilities, Mu You is most interested in the two abilities of "super speed" and "deflection".
Super speed, before the battle begins, the vampire bursts into the battlefield at an extraordinary speed, which lasts for up to three seconds and automatically becomes invalid after the first attack.
This ability only lasts for three seconds and will become ineffective when the battle begins, which seems to be useless.
The reason why Mu You is interested in it is that this ability can be used in conjunction with backtracking, allowing him to have the same speed as the Flash during the backtracking period, so that he can do and change more things.
Another "deflection" is: allow the vampire to deflect the attack that he sees and understands the form, with a cooldown time of 10 seconds.
To put it bluntly, for an attack coming from the front, the vampire can directly deflect its direction with his mind, thereby exempting its effect, which is equivalent to being invincible once every ten seconds.
After seeing his family talent, Mu You suddenly became very interested in this clan. With the pocket watch, the talent that appears randomly when the title is promoted is fixed for him. This is an opportunity to accurately upgrade the vampire skin!