Wolf of the Blood Moon: A Blood Magic
Book 5: Chapter 51: Skill Update

Scarlet

After judging several more matches, I decide to do something productive with this time and open my status to check on the skills I’ve gained since my leveling spree began.

Name: Scarlet Art Asger de ArcheronSpecies: Human/Blood Lycan WardenMagic: Blood, N/u**ll Titles:The Apex Predator, Bane of Corruption, Warden of the Red Plague Age: 21Level: 1871SP: 6 Stats: Physical: 10,008Mental: 10,007Magical: 10,007 Physical/Level: 5Mental/Level: 4Magical/Level: 5 Free Points: 0Mana: 350,490,171/ 350,490,171Free Points/Level: 10 Active Skills: Bloodborne Apocalypse

Skill Level: 9Description Pain DiffusionSkill Level: 30Description Null Magic FieldSkill Level: 30Description Blood of RuinSkill Level: 30Description Metallicized BloodSkill Level: 29Description Power DrainSkill Level: 28Description Blood NullificationSkill Level: 27Description Rain of BloodSkill Level: 26Description Blood TransformationSkill Level: 21Description Healing ReversalSkill Level: 16Description Blood ControlSkill Level: 15Description Beast TransformationSkill Level: StaticDescription Partial ShiftSkill Level: StaticDescription Blood SwarmSkill Level: 30Description Bane of CorruptionSkill Level: 15Description Blood PlagueSkill Level: 35Description Crimson OverdriveSkill Level: 35Description Vampire AscendancySkill Level: 30Description Scarlet AegisSkill Level: 20Description Eldritch BloodSkill Level: 20Description Blood BondSkill Level: 5Description Blood ShadowSkill Level: 30Description Blood RetributionSkill Level: 20Description Passive Skills: Lycan's RegenerationSkill Level: 11Description Warden of the Red PlagueSkill Level: StaticDescription Blood ManipulationSkill Level: 30Description Lesser Blood RunesSkill Level: 1Description Nullification ResistanceSkill Level: 1Description Blood LifeSkill Level: StaticDescription Princess's DecreeSkill Level: StaticDescription Apex Predator

Skill Level: StaticDescription Bloodwell KeepSkill Level: StaticDescription Blood ThirstSkill Level: 30Description Bloody ThornsSkill Level: 30Description

As the match down below is going on, I open the descriptions of each of my new skills.

{Nullification Resistance – The user becomes resistant to the effects of magic-nullifying or dispelling powers, ensuring their own magical powers remain intact even within null magic zones.}

{Blood Life – The user gains a pseudo immortality, making it so that as long as they have blood within a five hundred kilometer radius around them, they will always be able to reform their body.}

{Lesser Blood Runes – Allows the user to form and learn the lesser Blood Runes from the Runic Alphabet.}

{Blood Bond – Allows the user to establish a blood bond between individuals by exchanging blood, granting them shared strength, senses, and even the ability to share pain or injuries.}

I tap my chin while reading through the descriptions and occasionally glancing down at the fighting below.

They’re all very good, even if I haven’t exactly been able to test them out much.

The Red Plague kind of just makes my other skills a moot point right now, since it eats everything. Except really powerful beings, that is. Apparently, according to the Fae King, if I tried to devour a Knight of Humanity or a Demon Lord, or Gramps for example, it would basically just work as an incredibly dangerous attack that would damage their reality and potential future. But it wouldn’t kill them or devour them right away. Especially Gramps. It might not even work on him at all beyond some pain.

For now at least.

I’m not planning on testing it, though. So this theorizing doesn’t matter.

The match in the arena ends, so I quickly call out the winner, send the two combatants out of the arena, let the next two in, and pick a random arena that ends up being a field of flowers. Which is a little awkward considering the two ghouls fighting each other, but I don’t really care. I just focus on my skills descriptions again.

Lesser Blood Runes is an achievement-locked skill I got from Leonidas, the lesser version of Blood Runes. And Blood Life is the achievement-locked skill that I got from Gramps, the lesser version of his Blood Immortal Title-Bearing Mythic skill.

That said, Lesser Blood Runes is a little useless at the moment since all I know is a tiny spark of inspiration on how to figure out a rune. Since this skill works differently from any other skill I’ve had thus far. Just like those people who have Rune Magic.

Not something I can just activate because I want to.

So a pain.

And I can’t test out Blood Life without dying. And dying probably isn’t fun.

Tar snorts at that but doesn’t say anything.

It’s too bad that I don’t get SP from devouring things with the Red Plague. Makes for a waste, if I’m being honest.

Although I do still get the SP from achievements at least.

I don’t get as many achievements though, which is also a waste. Since the Red Plague is so powerful, there’s not really many grand achievements that I can get through it.

The System just doesn’t work that way.

Giving me a bunch of really good achievements for that would basically just be giving away free stuff to a powerful person for being powerful. Especially since I’m not really doing much to level up right now. Just kinda sitting back and letting the Red Plague eat stuff.

As for Blood Bond and Nullification Resistance… yeah, I can’t really use those. The only person I know with null magic aside from me is Amelia. So the only use for Nullification Resistance is that I won’t have to worry about my own use of null magic affecting me as much anymore. Which is a plus at least.

But for Blood Bond, I can’t use that. Or rather, I can’t use it on me. Because I can’t exactly swap my blood with someone else.

Not unless they want to catch the Red Plague, that is.

And I doubt they do.

I can use it on other people though. But I haven’t had a chance to try yet.

Also, since Bane of Corruption is ironically a little useless for me right now, considering my immunity to corruption, I started focusing my Skill Points on Crimson Overdrive. Since it’s my best purchased combat skill.

Once again, not that I’ve had a chance to test it out since the Red Plague.

“You almost sound like you’re complaining about the Red Plague,” Tar comments from my lap.

I tilt my head with a slight yawn.

Hmm, well, it definitely has it’s uses, but it is also rather annoying. Imagine having something writhing around under your skin from time to time. It’s just plain uncomfortable.

Tar doesn’t say anything for a few seconds before muttering, “Yeah, I can see that.”

A loud bell rings across the artificially created universe, following which I find myself suddenly appearing in the middle of the bleachers. And when I raise my head to look above the arenas, I find a different set of competitors overlooking them.

Cool. My job’s done here.

I turn around, only to be faced with a bunch of fans.

Tar…

“You still can’t punch him,” Tar says before I can even ask.

Darn.