Wolf of the Blood Moon - Book 3 - Chapter 26 - Redacted (Patreon)

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“Where in the ever loving stars did you get the idea that charging a demon over one hundred levels above you was a good fucking idea?!” Allen shouts from the other side of the terminal as Ava quietly makes her way out of her office. “Not only was it the most reckless thing you’ve ever done, but you didn’t even have to do it! Why the fucking hell did you try that?!”

I patiently wait until I hear Ava having left our room before I gently ask, “White?” Following which a white barrier appears around us, cutting us off from anything. “Appreciated.”

Knew she was still around somewhere. I kept feeling that annoying sensation that someone was watching me all the way back to the moment I woke up.

Not to mention that Tar said she hadn’t left my side once while I was out.

Anyways, I look up at Allen now that it’s safe to talk before briefly explaining to him what Tar told me about my demonic instinct. And that alone cools down a lot of his anger.

Although I get the feeling he’s not any less stressed now. In fact, he might just be more anxious and worried now than before.

“So you’re saying it might happen again, and there’s nothing you can do about it?” he eventually asks, a tired yet still slightly hopeful look on his face that I’ll say no.

Hmm. Okay. Yeah, I can see the downside there.

Tar snorts at my thoughts.

“Yeah,” I answer Allen, unfortunately crushing the hope that I saw in his eyes.

Out of nowhere, a clone of his appears out of the terminal screen made out of nanomachines before he walks up to me and hugs me out of nowhere, pulling my face to his chest as I let out a short “Uh…” out of surprise.

“Just… just for a moment,” Allen says, so I decide to let him.

A minute or so passes in silence before he finally lets go. And I can’t help but notice that I didn’t feel as uncomfortable as I would’ve used to during that.

Probably because of Aria.

Although it could also have something to do with me considering Allen family now, but I’d say it’s probably the first.

A moment passes as Allen looks at me before he says, “I’ll tell Cynthia what you told me, and White told us that you’re done with your internship now. So you can either head back tomorrow or today. Whichever works for you.”

I nod at that with a smile before turning around and starting to make my way towards the hall, only pausing once to wave at him and call back, “Thanks! See you later!”

Now I can go ahead and shop for skills!

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As soon as I make it back to my room, I open my Skills Store except this time only having it show any new legendary skills I might have. Just to not tempt me into buying anything else when I should spend my SP on leveling my skills. Only to find a very nice surprise in there. And a very… strange… surprise along with it.

I stare at the two new skills for what feels like forever before I glance at Tar and mutter, “Huh?”

But Tar is also staring. Although not at the first one by the looks of it. Only the second.

“But… what? That shouldn’t… how?” he mutters, just for his eyes to widen as if he came to a realization. “That’s why!”

“Sooo… mind filling me in on what the heck those skills are about?” I ask, snapping him out of his little reverie.

Tar turns to me and says, “Well, it looks like the System gave you a blood and null magic skill thanks to you already having null magic etched skills. I almost completely forgot that could happen, since normally the System never does that. Not unless the achievements made by the user are so great that it decided to dedicate more of its resources just to fix the error. Otherwise the error would’ve never been fixed, and you wouldn’t have been shown the skill.”

I blink at that before glancing at the Skills Store again. Then at the tanuki. Then the store. And finally the tanuki.

“And the other thing?” I ask while pointing at the whole REDACTED thing.

Tar blinks before looking and then focusing on me as he answers, “Well, your father doesn’t want you to know who he is until you meet him. Or you figure it out on your own. So he had his information redacted by the System.”

People can do that? Redact their name from etched skills?

“Yeah,” Tar says while nodding his head.

“Then why didn’t White?” I ask out of curiosity as I focus on the skills again.

“Well,” he says, only to shrug. “Who knows. She probably didn’t think that it was very important to hide her identity.”

So my father’s identity may be more important than I expected. Good to know.

Probably someone higher up in that branch family than I was guessing. There’s also the veeeery faint possibility of him being the Demon Lord, but from the time I’ve been with White, she seems to dislike demons, not to mention the Demon Lords. So that’s out.

Then again, she never mentioned the Blood Lord. Only the others.

Hmm. I still don’t think it’s him, but it’s worth not shoving the possibility out the window at least.

Anyways, both of these skills look great.

One of them looks to be a great finisher move like I’ve been wanting for a while now, and the other is a passive and weaker version of blood retribution that is always active and doesn’t require mana.

“It also uses null magic, which might open you up to getting some more null magic skills in the future,” Tar comments, pointing out another benefit of it that I didn’t think of. “But the important thing in that skill that makes it worth so much more than blood retribution is that it can’t be defended against. It’s true damage.”

My eyes widen as that clicks in my head.

Right. Blood retribution can be defended against if someone has a skill to protect their blood or cool it or something. But this passive can’t be defended against. Not to mention that it’s a passive in the first place and will always be active.

I purse my lips while staring at the two skills before finally giving into the temptation and buying them both.

There goes my large store of SP.

“Well, you still have 99 more SP to spend,” Tar comments, sounding amused.

Well, yeah, I guess I do.

Let’s see what I want to upgrade with that.

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Skill   Name:

Achievement   requirements:

Description:

Classifications:

SP   price:

Blood of Ruin

Unlocked by being Class II or above, by   using a skill in a way unexplained by the System to create a much larger   attack, by having used blood magic to kill over one thousand beings within   half a year, by killing a demon one hundred or more levels above you without   any assistance, by killing a being of Class III while you yourself are Class   II without any assistance, and by being the child of REDACTED ON INDIVIDUAL’S   REQUEST.

This skill unleashes the power of blood   to bring ruin to the designated location.

Active   Achievement-Locked

Legendary

60

Bloody Thorns

Unlocked by killing a Class III being   while at Class II through allowing it to mutilate yourself in return for   taking damage itself without any assistance, by being Class II or above, by   using a skill in a way unexplained by the System to create a much larger   attack, by having used blood magic to kill over one thousand beings within   half a year, by killing a demon one hundred or more levels above you without   any assistance, by having blood magic, and by- by- by- ERROR.

User does not have null magic.

Searching for alternatives… alternative   found.

And by having null magic etched skills.

This skill returns a set amount of   damage to any individual who causes damage to the holder of the skill no   matter who it is regardless of their defense in the form of blood nullification.

Passive

Legendary

60

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