Date- 28 Mar 2321
Time- 15:07
Location- Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Blood Rock Cave Gate Dungeon
“Is that all?” Asked Bloodette after hearing my explanation on the method to create blood candies.
“Yes. Unfortunately, we do not have fresh monster blood for you to create blood candies.” I taught Bloodette how to create blood candies, but there isn’t any monster blood for her to gain some practical experience.
“Blood? There is always blood in here.” Saying that, Bloodette focused her gaze in the air and soon conjured a basketball-size ball of blood out of thin air. Using the conjured blood as ingredient Bloodette applied the blood candy method that I had just taught to her.
When Bloodette applied the blood candy method on the blood she conjured, I noticed that she did not extract any waste from blood like the black waste that Blood swordsman extracted from the F-rank monster’s blood. I am not saying that Bloodette missed a step. Instead, It would be more accurate to say that no waste was produced by the blood that Bloodette had conjured from thin air.
“Done” Bloodette yelled as she condensed the conjured blood into 25 Blood candies. Having created the blood candies, Bloodette opened her mouth wide and threw all 25 of the blood candies in her mouth. Technically she wasn’t breaking the promise she made with Cortney, as the promise she made was conditional and applied only to the blood candies in the carton box that I had presented to her.
“What’s wrong with it? It’s so bland. Why is it tasteless? Did I do something wrong? But I followed that method step by step!” Bloodette complained as the blood candy she made was not sweet and as flavorful as the ones I gifted to her. They tasted bland and nothing like the blood candies she had recently fallen in love with.
“What happened?” Watching Bloodette frantically contemplate herself, Cortney could not help but ask in concern.
“The Blood candies I made are not as sweet and flavourful as these candies. Hmmm, yummy.” Bloodette shared her problem with Cortney as she ate one of the blood candies from the carton box. She could not help but moan in satisfaction as she sucked on it.
“Are you sure you did not skip any step? Did you follow all the steps in the exact same order as taught to you by Wyatt?” Cortney asked as she noticed a difference between Bloodette and Wyatt’s creating blood candy. Cortney remembers seeing Wyatt extract a mass of black waste from the blood and discard it.
“Yes, I did. Yet my blood candies are bland and flavorless. Ah! So sweet.” Bloodette answered Cortney as she popped yet another candy into her mouth.
“Why don’t you try again? This time do slowly as Wyatt guides you.” Cortney thought that the fault lay in how Bloodette created the blood candies. According to her, Bloodette must have skipped a few steps in haste to develop the blood candies resulting in the bland blood candies.
“Yes, why don’t you try creating blood candies again? Don’t gulp all the candies at once. Leave a few for me to taste what went wrong.” I have watched Bloodette’s creation of blood candies, and I do not think the fault lies there. Even though hasty, Bloodette did not skip a single step and followed the order exactly as I explained to her. Bloodette’s blood manipulation skill was higher than my ego elemental’s skill, so she was much faster, and no mistake was made there. I think the problem lay in the blood that Bloodette conjured, as it did not yield any waste during the refining step. Therefore I asked blood to leave some candies for me to taste after she developed the second batch. So, I could check what actually went wrong.
“Done, here you go.” This time Bloodette did not hurriedly eat the blood candies she prepared. Rather, she did not even take one and handed all 25 of the blood candies to me. She is a picky eater.
“What am I supposed to do with these many? One is enough.” Taking one candy, I placed the other on a nearby wooden table.
Surprisingly, once I placed the candy in my mouth, I felt this unfathomable energy gush into my body as the candy slowly dissolved in my mouth. This power was rule power! Blood rule power, to be exact.
I hurriedly sat down in the lotus position and closed my eyes in order to deal with the blood rule power that was filling in my body. Before the rule power ran rampant in my body, I hurriedly activated my calamity soul gem and swallowed all the Blood rule power that I gained with the blood candy dissolving in my mouth.
“What is happening? You didn’t poison him, did you?” Cortney could not help but ask, seeing Wyatt hurriedly sit in the lotus position and enter the meditative state.
“…” Bloodette was speechless and Thought, ‘I don’t think so. I ate it too and am still okay. But he is a weak human..’
Soon the blood rule power appeared in my calamity soul. I could just leave it there or use it to increase the comprehension of my blood rule or forge a blood rune or give it to Blood Swordsman to heal itself. For now, I decide to leave the rule power to my ego elemental to mend its broken rune.
“How are you? Why were you acting weird after eating the candy?” Having seen me act strangely after eating her blood candies, Bloodette asked me why so, when I finally opened my eyes and stood up.
“..” Cortney looked at me with concern. She was apprehensive that Bloodette’s cooking might have poisoned me.
“I am fine. And I know why your blood candies are so bland and flavorless.” Saying that, I picked up the remaining 24 blood candies I had previously placed on the wooden table. They are too precious now that I know what they actually are.
“Why?” Asked Bloodette eagerly.
“Because the blood you conjure as an ingredient is not just any blood. It is the condensed form of Blood rule itself.”
