Chapter 387 Blood Binding
[You have obtained three drops of ‘Ancestor Blood’. Do you want to fuse them immediately? ]
[Note: After fusion, your Vampire Count skin will be promoted to ‘Vampire Marquis’, the previously obtained bloodline talents will be enhanced, and you will automatically comprehend a new talent ability. ]
“Yes.”
After leaving the bloodline duke’s house, Mu You took the blood drops directly back to the Rhine family, found a safe place at home, and started upgrading his bloodline.
The whole process took much less time than expected, just a few seconds.
Mu You himself did not feel anything in reality, after all, only one of his skins was upgraded.
After just a few seconds, a prompt popped up in the game.
[Promotion completed, your vampire skin is upgraded to ‘Vampire Marquis’. ]
[Vampire Marquis: The second-ranked title among the existing blood clans. When facing other blood clans with lower titles than you, your damage and defense capabilities will be greatly improved, and the native talents of low-level blood clans will not be effective against you.
Own talents:
Night King: You will become weaker during the day and stronger at night. The closer to midnight, the stronger you are, and you can get a 100% bonus to all attributes.
Giant Killer: You cause seven times the damage to creatures over three meters tall, and ten times the damage to creatures over ten meters tall.
Talent Absorption: You can fuse other unowned skins to obtain a talent of the skin and a random curse. The curse level will be one level lower than the talent obtained. When absorbing the lowest level talent, you will not get a curse.
Butcher Wolf: ...
Survival of the Fittest: ...
Water Mastery: ...
Possessing Curses: Blood Thirst, Burning Sun, Daydreaming, Death Punishment. 】
[You have obtained a new talent, 'Speed'. 】
After the upgrade, Mu You carefully reviewed the changes.
Sure enough, the level and attributes have not been improved, only the quality of the skin itself has been improved.
Of the six talents that existed before, only Giant Killer and Talent Absorption have been improved, and the rest have not changed.
The damage of 'Giant Killer' has been increased from five times to seven to ten times.
The effect of 'Talent Absorption' itself has not changed. It still gives a curse for each talent, but the curse obtained now will be automatically weakened by one level.
This has been directly reflected in the curses he obtained through this ability before. Among the curses he originally had, the two low-level curses of 'Greed' and 'Big Eater' disappeared directly, and the effects of daydreaming and death punishment were also greatly weakened.
The effect of daydreaming now is that you will continue to feel sleepy during the day, but you will no longer be forced to sleep directly.
The death punishment has been reduced from the original 'ten times the penalty when dying' to five times the penalty, which is weakened by half.
Next is the highlight of this improvement, the new talent: Speed.
[Speed: Increase all your speeds by 360 times within 3 seconds, automatically invalid when preparing to launch an attack, and automatically invalid after leaving the initial range 1000 meters. Cooldown time 54 seconds. 】
Of course, this talent was randomly selected by Mu You using his pocket watch. Fortunately, it was not a hidden talent and was not difficult to roll. It was successfully selected after a few random attempts.
As for the effect... Mu You immediately ran to the backpack space to try it out.
The moment the Godspeed was activated, Mu You suddenly felt that everything around him slowed down. The silver owl flying overhead, the unicorn playing on the grass in the distance, the splashes of water from the mermaid's tail hitting the lake by the lake... Everything around him seemed to have entered a slow-motion mode countless times, and only he remained normal.
This scene made Mu You feel very familiar. Yes, the Fool Card!
When the Fool Card was activated, a similar scene appeared outside the Fool's barrier, and the number 360 times was exactly the same as the multiple of the Fool Card.
The 360 times of Godspeed acceleration not only increased the movement speed, but also the reaction speed, dynamic vision and other speeds. This resulted in the final result, which was equivalent to his own time being accelerated by 360 times, just like the Fool Card.
However, when the Fool Card was activated, he could not move and had to stand still in the Fool's barrier. Now he can move freely. The only two restrictions are that he cannot attack and cannot walk too far in the God Speed time, otherwise it will automatically become invalid.
Mu You summoned the clone to try it out, and found that the judgment of attack was quite strict. As long as he raised his weapon to the clone, even before he condensed the magic, and only had the intention to attack, the acceleration effect would automatically end.
In other words, this ability cannot be used for attack, and it is difficult to use it for running away, but other things can be done at will. A short three seconds is equivalent to 18 minutes for him!
Combined with the replay of the pocket watch, he can have a very high degree of freedom during the replay, so that he can change more things.
Of course, it does not mean that this ability is completely equal to the superiority of the Fool Card. After all, God Speed can only accelerate itself, and other things are still in a slow state. For example, the potion materials thrown into the crucible will only fall and merge slowly. For example, the game text events in the mobile phone will not speed up the process because of your acceleration.
The Fool Card speeds up all objects within the Fool's barrier, so he can cast spells and attack normally in the barrier, as well as refine potions, etc., which are all impossible to do with the Speed Speed.
In general, these two abilities do not conflict with each other, but complement each other and have their own advantages.
After testing his abilities, Mu You took his phone.
In the game, the speed at which text popped up was still the same as before, one every few seconds, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and occasionally a long text description would pop up, after all, the other side of the world was not accelerated.
The difference is that in the current speed mode, Mu You has plenty of time to browse all the information and type replies.
[You walked out of the retreat room. ]
[The family surrounded you, feeling the more powerful aura of the superior on you, all showing excited expressions. ]
[Mai and several children looked at you in admiration, while uncle Jonas and aunt Elsa were full of relief: "With the blessing of our ancestors, our Rhine family has finally returned to the Marquis family after thousands of years!"]
...
The text was still slowly displayed, and Mu You clicked on the personal panel. At this moment, in the interaction of the vampire skin, there was an additional option of "extracting heart blood".
[Heart Blood: The essence of the life of the vampires. Each time you advance your rank, you can extract up to three drops of Heart Blood and feed them to other creatures. The creature that takes your Heart Blood will have a ‘blood bond’ with you. If the one who takes your Heart Blood is your blood relative and his rank is at least two ranks lower than yours, the other party will automatically be promoted by one rank.
Each time you extract Heart Blood, your upper limit of life will be permanently reduced by 1,000 points, and you will need a year to recover before you can extract it again. You can instantly refresh the recovery period by taking the heart of other vampires. ]
[Blood Bond: When a creature swallows the Heart Blood of a vampire, it will have a supernatural connection of loyalty and attachment to the vampire that shares the blood, and thus become the blood servant of the vampire.
Blood Bond is one of the most powerful tools of the vampire clan. It can use the effect of Blood Bond to fascinate almost everyone. The obedience of the blood servant depends on the willpower. Creatures with strong enough willpower have a chance to break the effect of Blood Bond, but generally have little effect. For those with weak willpower, blood binding will produce a lasting and extremely blind worship effect. 】
After reading the two paragraphs of the explanation, Mu You suddenly realized that this is how blood servants are made!
Each time a vampire is promoted to a noble rank, he can only extract three drops of heart blood, and can be promoted up to five times. In other words, a blood clan can only create fifteen blood servants in his lifetime!
Of course, the heart blood is generally reserved for other blood relatives in the family to be promoted. In fact, each family can not cultivate too many blood servants.
Having said that, the explanation did not mention that vampires can be immune to the effect of blood binding. In other words, the heart blood provided for the promotion of blood relatives is actually still the process of making blood servants. However, the superiors generally do not have a slave mentality for their blood relatives, so they are not considered servants.
But we have to admit that it is precisely because of the existence of this blood binding connection that the connection within each family of the blood clan is particularly close, and the head of the family almost has absolute say in the family.
[Now, you can separate a drop of heart blood to let your family members advance. Do you want to extract it immediately? ]
[The extraction was successful, and your health limit was reduced by 1,000 points. You obtained 'Liston's Heart Blood'*1. The remaining recovery time for the next drop of heart blood is: 8,760 hours. ]
[Who do you choose to give this drop of heart blood to? ]
Ten options popped up below, which were the names of the ten members of the Rhine family besides him.
The recovery period of heart blood is very long, so this first drop should of course be given to his sister first. After all, even in the same family, there are relatives and strangers, and Mai is undoubtedly the person closest to him now.
[You give the heart blood you just extracted to Mai. Mai excitedly and carefully took the blood drop in the envious eyes of other children. ]
[The blood drop exudes a deadly fragrance, which successfully arouses the blood-hungry nature of the vampires present. Mai licked his lips, and when he was about to take the blood drop, he suddenly remembered something and turned his head to look at his uncle Jonas beside him, with a hesitant expression. ]
[Jonas saw her thoughts, waved his hand and smiled, "Don't worry about me. I'm poisoned by wolfsbane and haven't recovered yet. Taking it now may affect the effect of the heart blood. Of course, it's best to give it to you. In addition, after you advance later, Mai, don't rush to condense the heart blood for others. Wait until you are fully adapted to the improvement of strength before condensing the heart blood, so that the best effect can be achieved."]
[After hearing this, Mai nodded and took the blood drop. ]
[Mai took your heart blood and produced a layer of blood binding. The kinship between you and Mai is closer! ]
[Pure energy flows in Mai's body. In just a few seconds, she was successfully promoted from Viscount to Earl. The existing blood clan talent was upgraded, and she comprehended a new talent: atomization. ]
...
"Huh?"
Mu You was stunned. It was not that there was any accident in the promotion, but that his game text actually directly reported Mai's promotion process, and at the same time, a Mai attribute interface appeared on his panel interface!
[Name: Rhine Mai.
Level: Level 20, not evolved.
Identity: Vampire Count.
Unlocked family talents: Super sense, atomization.
…】
Although it is a very simple panel, at least it is displayed. Apart from the contracted familiar, Mu You has never seen such a situation.
Could it be that this is also the effect of blood binding?
Mu You thought, it seems that in the game's judgment, blood binding and contract belong to the same thing.
However, if this is true, then can't he help Mai Yi brush up his talents?
Mu You immediately thought of this and hurriedly took out his pocket watch and pressed it.
[Time flies, Mai swallowed your heart blood...]
[... Mai realized a new talent: Charm. ]
"Backtrack."
[... Mai realized a new talent: Iron. ]
"Backtrack."
...
Finding that he could really switch her talents by backtracking, Mu You simply decided to give her the rarest "Talent Absorption". With the pocket watch, Mai can also choose to swallow the curse brought by the talent with his help in the future, so that she has the opportunity to cultivate her into another super talent monster.
However, it turned out that Mu You still underestimated the rarity of "Talent Absorption".
After backtracking for more than 1,900 times, he finally got this ability for the first time.
You know, there are only nine options in total, and it took nearly 2,000 times to get it, which shows how low the rate of this ability is.
【“Ah…” After the promotion, Mai checked herself and subconsciously exclaimed, looking at others with some surprise: “I, I seem to have comprehended talent absorption, just like my elder brother!”】
【Jonas and Elsa were both quite unbelievable when they heard this. Talent absorption is an extremely rare hidden talent, and you brothers and sisters actually comprehended this talent one after another. How low is the probability?】
【After coming to their senses, the family smiled at each other and were quite fortunate. Although talent absorption is considered a ‘cursed talent’, no one dares to deny its power.】
【“Not bad.” In Mai’s expectant eyes, you praised her generously, and then asked: “But don’t swallow talents casually in the future. Be sure to tell me before swallowing.”】
In order to prevent her from messing around and getting any troublesome curses, Mu You specifically reminded her.
【“Yes, elder brother.” Mai nodded hurriedly, looking at you with burning eyes, full of respect and a hint of… fanaticism.】
“Fanatical…”
Mu You raised his eyebrows. Is this the effect of blood binding? This thing seems to work much faster than expected...
Shaking his head, Mu You looked back at the game.
The promotion is over. Next, it's time to deal with the problem of the inner ghost.
He had discussed the problem of the inner ghost with Brand before.
Brand obviously knew that there was an inner ghost in the clan, but he was not sure who it was.
However, after the clan meeting a few days ago, he also had a suspect, that is, Tai Di who introduced the Bloody Dawn at that time. Of course, he had no evidence and could not take action. For a race like the blood clan with a blood system, it is a taboo to take action against the clan members casually.
But Mu You didn't have so many concerns. Since it was not easy to take action within the blood clan, he, an outsider, would take action.
[You came to an abandoned magic stone processing factory in the northwest outside the Dark City. ]
[You hid in the corridor on the second floor of the factory. ]
[The inside of the factory was pitch black. Except for insects and some mice, there were no other biological activities. The scene was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. ]
[At a certain moment, you suddenly heard a slight sound of footsteps outside the door. ]
[After a while, a figure in a black robe pushed the door open cautiously. Walking into the empty factory, the figure looked around vigilantly, and when he found that there were no other figures, he called out in a low voice: "Duke Brand, are you there?"]
[Through the perspective of night vision, you can see the face under the other person's cloak clearly. It is the Bruchtidi you met at the clan meeting before. You choose...]
[You suddenly appeared, jumped down from the second floor, and blocked the door. ]
[Bruchtidi saw the figure appear and subconsciously ran towards you, but he reacted after just one step, and hurriedly stopped, looking at you in doubt: "Liston? How could it be you?! Where is the Duke?"]
["The Duke is not here, there is only me here. And now you have to address me as the Marquis!" You answered. 】
【"You have been promoted to Marquis? How is that possible?" Teddy looked at you in disbelief, and soon thought of something: "Could it be that the Duke has already given you the blood drop?"】
【As soon as he asked, Teddy quickly realized the crisis: the Duke called him here, saying that he needed to discuss the matter of the Blood Dawn Alliance. He ran here excitedly, but it turned out that you were waiting here...】
【"You and Duke Brand have teamed up! Do you want to kill me?" Teddy looked at you with gritted teeth. 】
【"Yes, the Duke thinks you are a traitor. You helped the werewolves to make poisonous blood to harm our tribe. You are guilty of a heinous crime, so let me deal with you." Vampire claws popped out of your hands. 】
【"Ridiculous! What poisonous blood? I don't know anything! I haven't done anything yet! Besides, what evidence do you have to prove that I am a traitor?" Teddy said as he retreated in panic. 】
【"There is no evidence, but in fact, I don't need evidence. I said you are a traitor, and you are. Even if you are not, it doesn't hurt me." You answered. 】
【"You!" Your rogue words made Tai Di so angry that he almost vomited blood. 】
【Taidi saw that he couldn't reason with him, so he decisively jumped back and fled, trying to escape through the window on the other side of the factory. 】
【You activated the speed and appeared behind the other party at lightning speed. At the moment when Tai Di couldn't react in time, your two claws pierced his chest. 】
【Teddy was severely injured by your blow and fell to the ground, spitting blood, but he didn't dare to resist at all. Facing the suppression of the title within the blood clan, he knew that he had no chance of winning a battle with a marquis, so he turned around and looked at you, warning you fiercely: "You, you can't kill me. It is strictly forbidden to kill each other within the blood clan. Even the duke has the power to execute his compatriots only after a public trial by the whole clan. If you kill me, you will be marked as a murderer of your compatriots, and you will be incompatible with the entire blood clan from now on!"】
【"Thank you for the reminder, but who said I want to kill you as a blood clan member?" Facing the threat from the other party, your body suddenly grew larger, and in the blink of an eye, you turned into a moon wolf. 】
【"Remember, the one who killed you was a werewolf... Don't worry, as a blood clan hero who died in the line of duty, you will be remembered by the clan."】