Wolf of the Blood Moon - Book 2 - Chapter 24 - Risk and Reward (Patreon)

                                                               Scarlet

Is it possible to get the System to show all of my messages since the start of that battle?

“Uh, yes,” Tar answers, sounding a little confused. “Why?”

Because I want to see it all at once.

You wouldn’t understand.

Tar grumbles something in my mind that I can’t quiet make out, but whatever he’s doing while grumbling seems to do the trick as the System messages flood in before he even finishes grumbling.

{Level 106 Demon Fomorian defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 105 Demon Fomorian defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 105 Demon Fomorian defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 107 Demon Fomorian defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 126 Demon Acolyte defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 76. Two Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

…

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 85. Two Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

{Thirty Skill Points are awarded for killing a being at a higher class than yourself without any assistance ten or more times.}

{Ten Skill Points are awarded for surviving having your heart cut in two.}

{Five Skill Points are awarded for killing a Demon Acolyte for the first time.}

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.} x5

[Skill ‘Blood Claws’ has leveled up to level 11.]

[Skill ‘Blood Diffusion’ has leveled up to level 2.]

[Skill ‘Blood Diffusion’ has leveled up to level 3.]

I smile at the results before quickly opening my status and distributing my free points.

Alright. Very good progress in my skills and levels. A lot more than I was expecting.

Maybe coming to this interview wasn’t such a terrible thing after all?

I quickly bring up the descriptions for the leveled skills, only to find nothing new in any of them.

Well, that’s unfortunate.

Also, judging by my remaining mana, I think I wouldn’t have survived that battle if I hadn’t leveled up blood retribution… since its level 5 upgrade reduced its price from twenty percent of my total mana to about seventeen point five percent.

Overall, it looks like the acolyte gave me a lot more EXP than the others, since the fomorians at that level had at some point started only giving me about a level to a level and a half’s worth of EXP after bringing my level high enough.

“You say only, but…” Tar mutters, but my eyes quickly focus on my SP as I begin trying to figure out what skill I should spend it on.

Right now, I’m getting close to the amount of SP I need to bring blood thirst to level ten where it should get a nice upgrade, but at the same time, what’s the point right now? I’m barely even using blood thirst in a Class II Fracture…

Blood bank on the other hand isn’t really being of too much use outside of prolonged battle as well, since only half of my skills even let me use the blood in it for them, and even then, it only lets me supplicate my mana or blood by about half using the blood in there.

“I will admit that it’s a much better skill for higher levels, where you already have your other skills at a high enough level to be able to benefit more off blood bank,” Tar agrees with my line of thought.

And I just brought blood sacrifice to level ten, so that’s out too. After all, I don’t want to push any of my skills too far ahead of the others.

Well, unless it’s just a really useful high rarity skill, that is.

Hmm… the decision goes down to blood boil, blood shadow, blood manifestation, and blood retribution. But since blood retribution is a last ditch skill that I’d rather avoid using if I don’t have to, whereas the others are active combat skills that I use quite frequently, I’ll take retribution out of that list.

Which leaves boil, shadow, and manifestation.

Of course, I could also go and buy a rare defensive skill like some sort of blood shield. Although I’m pretty sure that would be taking the blood directly from me, so is it really much of a shield if it drains me of blood?

“It doesn’t hurt to take a look,” Tar says, and I shrug in response before opening up and then browsing the skills store, pointedly ignoring the two new epic skills that show up on the list from my new achievements since they don’t add anything to my current skill set.

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After a few minutes of searching, I find a rare defensive skill that is good enough for me to purchase. So I do so before opening up the description again just to sooth my nerves about spending my SP on another new skill. Because it took a lot of willpower to not just blow all my SP on leveling skills instead.

{Blood Armor – Allows the user to create an armor purely out of congealed and hardened blood with mana. This skill may only create two plates of armor at one time. Each plate of armor created removes a small portion of the user’s mana pool until the skill is dispelled or the armor plating is shattered.}

You are sure this armor plating is going to be hard enough to actually stop an attack, right?

“You worry too much,” Tar answers. “It’s not as hard as congealed blood is. It’s much harder, more akin to the durability of stone instead at level 1.”

And you’re telling me you learned about it from a past blood magic user your previous contractor met?

Tar nods his head without saying anything.

Well, alright then. I still have 36 more SP to spend.

But before that, why aren’t any more demons entering the floor? It’s been at least ten minutes since the fight, but nothing has entered.

That’s just not normal.

And I don’t hear anything guarding the stairs.

Tar doesn’t say anything.

I let out a huff before glancing at the kid still sleeping on my lap and then going through my skills to see which to level.

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Name: Scarlet Asger

Human/Blood Lycan Hybrid

Magic: Blood

Age: 19

Level: 85

SP: 56

Stats:

Physical: 209

Mental: 206

Magical: 206

Physical/Level: 2

Mental/Level: 1

Magical/Level: 2

Free Points: 0

Mana: 1001/21218

Free Points/Level: 2

Active Skills:

Blood Claws

Skill Level: 11

Description

Blood Siphon

Skill Level: 10

Description

Life Drain

Skill Level: 11

Description

Partial Shift

Skill Level: Static

Description

Blood Diffusion

Skill Level: 3

Description

Blood Shadow

Skill Level: 5

Description

Blood Retribution

Skill Level: 5

Description

Blood Manifestation

Skill Level: 5

Description

Blood Sacrifice

Skill Level: 10

Description

Blood Boil

Skill Level: 6

Description

Blood Bank

Skill Level: 5

Description

Clean

Skill Level: Static

Description

Repair

Skill Level: Static

Description

Recharge

Skill Level: Static

Description

Passive Skills:

Blood Regeneration

Skill Level: 6

Description

Blood Thirst

Skill Level: 6

Description

Predator V

Skill Level: Static

Description