Mystical Journey

Garen focused more on the Blood Breed's position.

The entire Blood Breed was roughly divided into two factions or tendencies: the light party and the secret party.

Light party: Due to the fact that the Blood Breed's origin in this world was human, they regarded themselves as humans that had undergone evolution to becoming advanced humans. Therefore they should be the elite of the elites, the leader of humanity.

This faction's opinion was that they were part of the humans' society. They maintained order and dominated a large part of this world.

Secret party: This faction of Blood Breed had bloody tendencies. They regarded themselves as higher species and humans as food and livestock. Just like rearing cattle and sheep, they could eat the humans whenever they wanted. They belonged to higher species and did not consider themselves as part of the human society. This faction of Blood Breed were terrorists. They destroyed the order and were in conflict with the light party.

However, these two tendencies were only a fad, not real parties. Some Blood Breed might change their way of thinking over time and changed from light party to secret party. Some secret party Blood Breed might integrate with the humans because they fell in love with humans, changing from secret party to light party.

As long as it was not obvious conflicts, there would be no dispute between the two sides.

On the whole, apart from Blood Breeds and Witches, there were no other supernatural forces. It seemed this world was ruled together by Blood Breeds and Witches.

This made Garen feel weird but at the same time, he understood why the towns' women had higher status than men. It was because the women held mystical powers.

Excluding Witches and Blood Breeds, although the remaining humans had advanced technology, in the face of Blood Breeds and Vampires, they were too weak.

They were like predators. Even the lowest Vampires could control humans and even make them commit suicide easily.

The ability to charm humans, terrifying speed and regenerative ability. Even the top Grandmaster of Combat could barely fight against Vampires.

However, excluding a few areas, the number of Blood Breeds and Vampires were very limited. They had restrictions on their reproduction. Even the Vampires were not free of that restrictions.

This was Garen's conclusion after carefully studying the components of the Vampires' blood.

Their core was Blood Nucleus. Although the name contained 'Nucleus', unless the blood was totally dried up, it could not be found. This was the essence of Blood Breed which appeared in their heart when their blood was completely let out.

Blood Nucleus required a higher level Blood Breed to separate a trace of their own Blood Nucleus to inject into a body that was sucked dry of blood, as a foundation to turn them into a lower level Blood Breed.

At this stage, the Blood Nucleus would go through differentiation, this process consumed their own Blood Nucleus.

Blood Nucleus was their root and their source of life. As long as their Blood Nucleus was not extinguished, apart from having their head blew up, they could regenerate and recover their wounds.

When the situation of Blood Breed was roughly clear, Garen began to collect things like Black Wood Crosses.

With the help of two mercenaries, the bald-headed Kaedun and his wife Hera, two more Black Wood Crosses were gathered. Along with the one originally obtained by Garen, a total of three had been collected.

He absorbed 10 Potential points from the three crosses, which was a rather rare harvest for this world.

These 10 Potential points were placed in the Attribute Pane, and Garen was considering how the points should be distributed.

There were no uses for Secret Technique for now anyway. His safety was also guaranteed by Raffaele. In the eyes of other people, he was just a normal high school student and would not meet any situation that was outside of his present ability. Initially, he'd wanted to enhance his strength because he was worried about the Blood Breed invading but after knowing Raffaele's force, Garen was not as worried anymore.

Not to mention the faint tacit understanding between the Witches and the Blood Breeds in the town.

Sitting on the window, Garen took a look at his Attribute pane.

‘Garen Thomas.

Strength 2.4. Agility 2.5. Vitality 2.4. Intelligence 2.1. Potential 1058%. Soul Limit 30.

Seed of Soul: Northern Trident Frost-Fire True Water Evil Technique.'

Below, the previous bunch of skills was no longer there except two.

‘Black Claw of Sethe: Second level Insidious Hand. (Total four level)'

‘Violin Mastery: Second level, proficient. (Total three level)'

For other aspects such as education, Garen's opinion was that maybe his subconscious regarded them as things that were not difficult, hence they were not on his list.

His gazed at the two skills, they showed the number of potential points required for an upgrade. Black Claw of Sethe needed 5 points to upgrade a level whereas violin only needed one point to master it…the difference there was too big.

After thinking, Garen still moved his gaze to Black Claw of Sethe. This Secret Technique's origin was not clear. To ascend from the second level to the third level was unusually difficult, and he'd originally thought he needed only a few years to break through. Unfortunately, there had been no sign of breaking through until now, which made him wonder if he needed external stimulus.

Fortunately, Second level Insidious Hand's power was comparable to a fully mastered Mammoth Secret Technique's highest damage from Secret Technique World. The aura also astonishingly covered an area of more than 10 meters.

Finally, he chose to rely on external stimulus to break through.

Garen sighed, watching his potential points drop by 5 points. Then, the Black Claw of Sethe blurred for a moment before clearing up. The whole label of the Secret Technique was faintly covered in black.

‘Slaughtering hand: Third level: Bloodshed. (Can be upgraded to higher level)

This skill originated from Bloody King, Black Sethe's terrifying killing technique. Only after reaching the third level would it truly revealed the information within. One of the Ancient Ender's 42 Demon Kings, Black Sethe had an unspeakable talent for killing. With a glance, souls would be extinguished and legend spoke of his hands that could send anything to the abyss whether dead or alive…

"Gee…I knew it was no common item." Garen's mood lightened. This was the first time he had ever heard that Ancient Ender had 42 Demon Kings.

Black Claw of Sethe was originally something that had been dug out from ancient ruins. From the look of it, the Secret Techniques from the Secret Technique World that Garen had collected, especially those that Garen could not even see through, must have come from Ancient Ender's different level of powerful existences.

Less than two minutes after the Secret Technique was upgraded, Garen felt something cool gushing out from his brain and spreading throughout his body.

In that instant, both his hands became hot and he vaguely heard some kind of raging roar.

In a trance, Garen felt as though he could see a human-shaped murky dark smoke in front of him.

"I wiisll kam!! Wiisll kam!!!"

The human-shaped smoke had a pair of eyes that exuded endless light. It roared furiously and then under Garen's gaze, it crumbled and turned into black dust entering his body through his nose, mouth, and ears.

"Ancient Ender's language?" Garen sat on a window, wobbly.

From other people's perspective, he had been sitting on a windowsill quietly from the start to the end.

Yet, if someone got close to him, they would realize that in the white of his eyes, black smoke was swirling.

The black smoke quickly flowed into Garen's pupils and disappeared.

He did not know what that thing was talking about.

It seemed like Ancient Ender's words but that combination of words made no sense to him.

If he did not guess wrong, that figure should be Ancient Ender's Demon King, Black Sethe but why was he so furious? The secret must be connected to the mysterious disappearance of the Ancient Ender's civilization.

Ancient Ender's civilization was closely related to powerful warlocks. They worshipped death and yearned for death. As one of the 42 Demon Kings, Black Sethe must be among the top. So, what kind of things would make this kind of powerful existence furious to this extent?

Garen snapped back to attention. He felt some changes in his Attribute pane and looked at it.

What he saw shocked him.

The previous human-shaped smoke turned into a shadow with a pair of white eyes in the Attribute pane and charged at the name Garen Thomas.

As the shadow got nearer, Garen felt a chill in his body as though something dangerous was threatening his safety.

"It's trying to possess me?" Garen's gaze turned cold. The Seed of Soul inside his body burst into a bright blue humanoid and pounced on the shadow.

The blue figure was holding an icy blue halberd, his face looking exactly the same as the Garen of his past life.

With his gaze cold, he waved the halberd to fight with the shadow.

Two tiny humanoids were fighting each other furiously on the Attribute pane. It looked like two kids fighting but Garen knew this involved his life's safety.

The shadow was powerful beyond words. Initially, Garen was beaten without any chance to fight back but as time went by, Little Garen who had the continuous support from Seed of Soul finally managed to suppress the shadow.

In the end, with a roar, the shadow collapsed, turning into smoke and was absorbed by the Slaughtering Hand in the Attribute pane.

Everything became calm again.

Garen came back from his trance. Just now he focused his attention on the Seed of Soul and fought a death match with the shadow. Even with Northern Trident Frost-Fire True Water Evil Technique, he still got beaten black and blue.

That shadow was obviously not in its prime but with some strange techniques, it managed to suppress an Evil Technique with not a tenth of its strength. Fighting it with its strength fully recovered could truly be very dangerous…

"The Seed of Soul was the condensation of all my power in Totem World. At the soul level, it has the same strength as me at my prime in Totem World, yet it could not even hold a candle to this shadow."