Wolf of the Blood Moon - Book 3 - Chapter 54 - Reaching the Peak of Class II (Patreon)

Scarlet

“Scarlet,” Grandpa’s voice snaps me out of it, bringing my attention to him to find the man smiling. “That’s all for today. You’re free to do whatever you want.”

My eyes widen with glee before I give him a quick salute and rush straight to the balcony, jumping off of it without a hint of fear into a roll on the ground far below. Then I simply sprint straight towards the gate, passing through it in a flash.

Please let me get to the island before my bodyguards catch up to me!

“Your Highness,” I hear one of them state, making me glance to the side to find them easily running alongside me.

Shit. That didn’t work as planned.

“I mean, what did you expect?” Tar says with a snort, sounding more than a little amused.

True. Doesn’t mean I can’t still dream, can’t I?

“I’m going hunting,” I tell him without pausing in my run or slowing down in the slightest. “I swear I’ll reach Class III by the end of the night!”

A proud smile makes its way on the guard’s face. One that I completely ignore.

“As you wish, Your Highness,” he says, somehow bowing while running at my top speed. Something that kind of makes me want to punch him because of how fluidly he did it, making me look slow by comparison.

Then again, that might just be my pride talking.

Anyways, the man vanishes to his blood realm as I continue running straight towards the bridge.

Time to fight the other demons on that island!

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After ten straight hours of nonstop hunting in the forest, something I wouldn’t have been able to do on Earth, my System Messages suddenly play through by themselves the moment I finish off another bicorn.

{Level 242 Bicorn defeated. A small EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature over ten levels above your level.}

…

{Level 252 Cerberus defeated. A large EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature over twenty levels above your level.}

{Level 232 Blood Bear defeated.}

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{Level 271 Blood Bear defeated. A significant EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature over thirty levels above your level.}

{Level 230 Wendigo defeated. A small EXP penalty is extracted for killing a creature below your level.}

…

{Level 249 Wendigo defeated. A medium EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature over fifteen levels above your level.}

{Level 242 Blood Revenant defeated.}

…

{Level 271 Blood Revenant defeated. A significant EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature over twenty levels above your level.}

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.} x57

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 232. Three Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

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{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 250. Three Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

{Congrats, you have leveled up to- Level up canceled due to you being at the cap of Class II. Please ascend to Class III. To do so you must find and absorb two Class II catalysts.}

[Skill ‘Blood of Ruin’ has leveled up to level 6.]

[Skill ‘Null Magic Field’ has leveled up to level 15.]

[Skill ‘Blood Pull’ has leveled up to level 17.]

[Skill ‘Pain Diffusion’ has leveled up to level 13.]

[Skill ‘Blood Regeneration’ has leveled up to level 14.]

{You have earned the rare inherent skill, ‘Life Sense’.}

My eyes widen in shock at the new inherent skill.

Now that’s a skill I know about. It’s a rather rare skill but a well-known one on Earth.

The skill lets you sense anything living within a radius around you depending on the skill’s level. It should also let you see the exact amount of mana someone has even if they’re hiding it simply by looking at them. At least, at the higher levels of the skill it gives that.

“One of the skills you learned about at the university, right?” Tar comments as I take a moment to sit down on a tree stump.

Yeah.

I close my eyes, focusing on my senses before slowly gaining a sense of awareness of five presences surrounding me, but when I open my eyes, I don’t find anyone there. Meaning they’re probably the guards.

So I close my eyes again and focus once more until I find the presence of a demon approaching the clearing we’re on.

I open my eyes and turn to look at it, finding a blood revenant – an undead creature made mostly of blood and bone – whose mana I can see clear as day.

It’ll take a bit to get used to though, since it’s kind of bizarre to see a blue aura around everything. And since it’s a passive skill, I can’t exactly turn it off.

The only real downside to the skill.

I’ll also have to figure out how to determine something’s level from their exact amount of mana, if that’s possible.

Although the fact that I only got two inherent skills in my entire time as Class II is disappointing, not including the one I got for reaching Class II in the first place. Even if I know it’s due to the inherent skills I got being higher rarity.

Something that tends to happen for people with a lot of difficult achievements.

Anyways, I quickly distribute my free points before getting up and stretching a bit. Then I state out loud, “Let’s head back to the palace. I’ve reached level 250 and just need the catalysts now.”

“Of course, Your Highness,” the guards all state, each of them appearing for a moment before vanishing again from my physical sight, but not from my life sense anymore.

At least I can tell where they are now. That’s a plus.

Didn’t realize life sense could see into a blood realm though. Not that I actually knew what a blood realm was before yesterday, but still.

Now I just have to figure out where I can get the catalysts. Although Grandpa might just offer them to me for free.

I kind of doubt he will though. It’s just not the blood lycan way of doing things.

So with that thought in mind, I make the crest reappear on my armor and begin heading back towards the castle again, only to pause after just three steps when a cloud of miasma suddenly appears in front of me, following which the guards all immediately surround me with their arms partially shifted.

Then The Reaper appears out of the miasma, his eyes locked on mine.

What’s he doing here?

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