Chapter 233 233: Caleb's Strength
Caleb looked at his sword and at the blood wave. He knew it wouldn't suffice. So he hardened it first. The blade of the sword visibly blackened and a thick pressure surrounded the edges. Then sword aura erupted in his entire body and he controlled the aura to flow on his blade. A white aura, the signifies the sword aura, envelope the blade. With a grin, he also enhanced it with his taboo energy! Purple energy fused with the white aura. The sword trembled due to the combination of the two. Fortunately, the hardening had increased its durability, which enable it to endure the combined sword aura and taboo energy.
'It's a pity that I don't have access to blood energy. If so, the attack power would surely reach another level...' Caleb shook his head with regret.
If the finger earlier was already so lethal and deadly. What about the sword? Still, he didn't know the full extend of the power of blood wave so he threw a shadow phantom in a random direction. Just in case that something goes wrong, he would be able to escape immediately.
Albert snorted in derision as he saw through Caleb's intention to resist the blood wave with a mere sword. The B-rank blood spell is one of the top offensive spells in B-rank, along with the dark lightning and heavenly blood annihilation.
Spells are ranked from F rank to SSS-rank. Tier 9 vampires learn and cast F to E rank blood spells. What matters the most for vampires is their comprehension. Ascencion from Tier to Tier actually increases their comprehension, which enables them to study the complex spells. After all, the higher the rank of spells, the more complex it is. Thus, harder to learn.
Tier 9 vampires once ascended to Tier 8. Their comprehension would double. However, even between vampires. There are geniuses or talented... Some vampire's comprehension would be boosted not just double, but four-fold on their comprehension with a just advance on Tier 9 to Tier 8. This lets them learn more spells at a faster rate and even learn spells higher than their tier! For examples, a Tier 9 vampire isn't supposed to wield D-rank spell.
However, there are a few geniuses that could do that, like the three commanders and Draco, etc... Of course, even if one learns the spell. Without enough blood energy to fuel the spell. They won't be able to activate it.
The only way to increase blood energy in one body was a through advancement in one's rank. Once again, some experience normal rate of increase while some geniuses experience ten fold or even twenty fold of increase. In terms of this, Draco was said to had to undergo a tenfold increase when he ascended from Tier 9 to 8. And it continued like that...
The heaven and earth aren't fair. There's always disparity. In the world, good people and bad people exist. But there's also those different from the rest, which were the 'geniuses'. They are also sometimes called the son of heavens...
At this moment, the sword and the wave finally collided. Caleb felt the strong force slow down his speed a little and his momentum was affected. But that's it. The sword continued its pace and cut the wave into the middle like a pie.
'Damn wave. Didn't expect it to be this hot!'n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Although his defense was high-tier when the hardening was activated. He could still feel the heat on his hardened skin. The tingling feeling was comparable to a hot water being poured directly on one bare skin. Imagine, just a slight touch of hot water was already agonizing. What about a direct long contact?
That's how painful the temperature of the blood wave transmitted to his black metallic skin. He might not be suffering damage. But the pain was enough to make one nuts. Fortunately, he was quite tolerant to pain after experiencing a hundred methods of death which train his psyche to endure pain to a certain extent.
'This? How is this possible!?'
Albert quickly canceled the blood wave. In panic, he threw his body forcefully, tumbled backward, successfully dodging the sword. However, the blade drew into a silver arc in the air and its direction shifted to his neck.
'Damn it! What kind of move is that?!'
Urging his blood manipulation, blood coagulated on his left arm and transformed into a shield. With the sharpness of the blade, he knew that it won't be enough.. So he also condensed blood bullets. Due to the threat of death, he managed to do produced the shields and fifty bullets simultaneously, which was quite difficult to do in usual circumstance. He didn't doubt that he won't be able to replicate such a feat anytime soon.
Caleb clicked his tongue as he saw this. On his other available hand, he created a thin purple screen made of gum gum rubber.
Alfred took a deep breath. His enemy this time has a lot of strange methods and it confused him! He could feel that his opponent was one tier lower than him, so how was he able to fight back!?
'I must dig his secret no matter what! Or eat him... My strength would surely increase.' Greed took over his heart at this moment.
No matter secret his opponent had. He would take it! He would interrogate him and torture him until his enemy gives in!
Just like that, Albert's greedy turned confused, then sifted to astonishment and fear... The blood bullets he cast hit the purple screen. It apparelled him how such a thin substance was durable and elastic enough to bear the brunt of blood bullets cast by Tier 7!?
Yes, blood bullets produced by Tier 7 were far stronger than blood bullets made by Tier 9. The stronger the blood energy. The stronger the effectiveness of spells. That's why an F-rank spells cast by Tier 8 would be 10x stronger than Tier 9. While an F-rank spell used by Tier 7 vampires would be 100x stronger than F-rank spell hurled by a Tier 9.