NOVEL WEB Chapter 35: Absorbing The Raid Bosses
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The giant Raid Bosses, the wolf, and the bat were the only ones from which they could extract any life force and blood energy. The third Raid Boss, the Unending Crimson’s Vessel, ended up being a monstrosity similar to the undead, so it was not possible to drain anything out of its corpse, which ended up being a bunch of crystals and burnt monster corpses merged together.
The more Paul analyzed that thing, the more he realized how desperate that Outer One must have been back then. They didn’t want to lose yet, and gathered any other monster they could find to combine them into that monstrosity.
Although its composition was weak, it was so powerful and big that it didn’t really matter, and it ended up becoming a threat that would have burned Elderbridge completely off the map if Chris hadn’t been there and hadn’t used his Trait to defeat it.
He felt thankful Chris was shy about his Trait’s Transformation, this way, the incubus was able to save it until the very last moment. If they had used it a minute earlier, everything might have ended in a much different way.
FLUOSH!
“Ooohhh!”
Chris screamed in surprise as he felt an enormous quantity of leftover Life Force from the corpse of the wolf, and then the bat surged through his entire petite body, creating an aura with a faint color of white, which slowly became clear pink and then purple, with a few faint sparkles of black and red.
The womb tattoo right below his belly glowed with pink and then purple color, suddenly changing its design and slightly expanding, creating a pair of beautiful red roses at each end, resembling a female reproductive system, despite him being a male.
Paul and Chris had yet to truly understand what these Lust Stigmas truly were and why, despite Chris being a male, he had one in the shape of a female reproductive organ. In fact, why would he even have his Lust Stigma in the place of a “womb” when he, as a male, had none to begin with?
Luxuria, the Evil Goddess of Lust, wouldn’t have just done this as some sort of prank to spite him; there must have been a deeper meaning to this other than... Well, looking sexy and lewd.
“What the hell! I feel so strong! Look, this damn tattoo got bigger too! It means I Ranked Up! I got a lot more power; this is nice~”
Chris stretched his arms as he felt Arcana and other demonic energies flow out of his hands seamlessly and naturally. He felt much more connected with his demonic side than ever before. Although that also worried Paul a bit, if Chris became too demonic, he might eventually lose his spiritual abilities.
They had to get that Spirit as quickly as they could, so he planned to go look for it as soon as possible, perhaps after taking down a few criminals. If he could lure them to the outskirts, it would also be easier to kill them.
Yeah, Paul was quite the schemer, even in this moment where the two of them should just be relaxing.
“Check out my status, dude!” Chris said. “You’ll be surprised at what little old me has become!”
“Hahah, you’re awfully cheerful; sure, let me see,” Paul giggled, looking at his status.
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[Player Name]: [Alitheus Lilithie]
[Titles]: [Troublemaking Brat]
[Lust Stigma]: [Energy Vampirism Realm (Tier 4: Rank 1)]
[Heavenly Core]: [Healing Holy Core Realm (Tier 2: Rank 1)]
[Race]: [Half-Incubus (Fairy)]
[Class]: [Mischievous Demon: ★]
[Subclass]: [None]
[Sin Power]: [8.500]
[Light Ki]: [3.000]
[Strength]: [3.040]
[Vitality]: [5.500]
[Dexterity]: [5.400]
[Charm]: [7.850]
[Arcana]: [4.500]
[Character Background Traits]: [Fairy Spirit Heart (Legendary Grade)] [Heavenly Emperor’s Soul (Legendary Grade)]
[Character Background Flaws]: [Insatiable (Legendary Grade)] [The Lonely Emperor’s Last Wish (Legendary Grade)]
[Racial Skills (5/6)]
[Flight (B): Lv6] [Dream Eater (A): Lv3] [Charming Aura (B): Lv5] [Lifeforce Stealing Attack (B): Lv5] [Lustful Empowerment (B): Lv1]
[Class Skills (4/6)]
[Illusionist (B): Lv4] [Shenanigans (C): Lv6] [Prank (C): Lv3] [Jester (B): Lv1]
[Subclass Skills (4/6)]
[Detailed Observation (D): Lv4] [Magic Archery (C): Lv5] [Holy Light (D): Lv3] [Healing Hands (C): Lv4]
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Paul couldn’t help but feel amused by how different Chris entire build was compared to his own. He also had a lot of interesting Skills he had not seen before.
His Stats had also risen quite considerably; the last time he had seen his Stats he was only Tier 1: Rank 4, but now that he had reached Tier 4, he was like a completely different person altogether!
There were also some unique Stats for Chris, such as his Sin Power, which most Demons possessed, which empowered their demonic skills based on the Sin their bloodline carries.
And then there was Light Ki, probably a unique stat of his Heavenly Core that affected all of his Light-Attribute Magic or Techniques, and probably also what made his healing so strong.
Compared to other players and even him, Chris’ Strength stat was still considerably lower than the average, but his Arcana stat was very good, surprisingly so, and even more so than the rest of his stats.
With his Magic Archery Skill, it's not as if he really needed physical strength when firing magical arrows—just enough to get things done but nothing too serious. All of Chris' abilities were mostly magic-based or used another supernatural energy such as Sin Power or Light Ki.
“Interesting, but what with these Skills…? Prank? Jester?” Paul raised an eyebrow.
“Heheh, they let me trick people and stuff,” laughed Chris. “Also good for fighting and fooling monsters with tricks more easily; my Charm is what increases their power and effects too, so the higher it is, the more I can trick others.”
“Huh… That sounds quite mischievous,” said Paul, nodding. “Also… Did you think I wasn’t going to ask about this Skill? [Lustful Empowerment]? Hm?”
“W-What’s with that Skill?!” Chris asked angrily, blushing. “I-It’s totally normal for an incubus; after all, I am a demon of sex and stuff… Maybe I should fuck a guy to get stronger now, eh? I’ll go look for a hot male prostitute…”
“Are you seriously saying that when I’m right in front of you?” Paul felt slightly heartbroken.
“I-I was joking! Come on, I’m never using that weird skill…” Chris looked elsewhere in embarrassment. “Anyways, aren’t you going to drink the blood too?”
“Right…” Paul nodded; he had gotten too distracted by Chris' cute belly after he finished looking at his status.
Those clothes were simply superb; his belly looked so squishable, he wanted to grab them.
“Um…”
“What?”
“Can I touch your belly?”
“Eh?! Why are you asking something so specific?”
“But it’s so cute, I can’t resist!”
“Seriously… Fine, sure, do whatever you want, dude…”
Chris sighed, looking elsewhere.
“Belly!”
Paul grabbed Chris' cute belly and squished it with his fingers.
It was slightly warm and soft, superb.
He wanted to kiss it now.
“W-Wait a second, Paul, you’re squishing it too much! I’m not that fat!”
Paul continued squeezing Chris' cute little belly, putting himself on his knees in front of the incubus.
If any noble vampire were to see this display of humiliation, they would behead Vlad on the spot for offending their family of prideful warriors.
“But it’s so cute! How can you be this cute for a boy, Chris?!”
“Uwaah!”
Paul ended up pushing Chris to the floor as he started rubbing his face on his cute belly.
“Hey! Don’t you think you’re getting a bit too ahead of yourself? You virgin! Stop it! Jesus!”
Chris reprimanded Paul, hitting his head with his cute hands; they barely hurt him because of such a low strength stat.
“I can’t stop it; you’re too cute... Mooch.”
Paul ended doing the unthinkable and kissed Chris belly!
“Y-You…!”
Chris wasn’t exactly stopping him forcefully; although he pretended to be annoyed, he was liking it, to the point that his Lust Stigma was suddenly glowing brightly.
“Huh? What’s going on- AAHH!”
Paul groaned in pain as a blinding light hit his eyes. Getting blinded, he stepped back.
“Hahaha! Happens for being a perv- Huh?”
Chris looked at his own Lust Stigma, realizing a sudden Aura of Power surged through his body at the same time as he felt… his small boner poking at his shorts.
“Ungh?! T-This is…! Woah! So this is Lustful Empowerment- Wait, no! Why am I having this when this perv touched my belly?!”
“I see, so that’s how it triggers, hmm?” Paul had gone back to his serious, analytic expression a second later. “Interesting. Maybe we should do this once in a while so you can practice this new power.”
“M-Maybe! I mean… It does give me a good increase in power…”
Chris looked at the system notification.
Ding!
[You have temporarily activated [Lustful Empowerment]!]
[As long as you’re feeling a strong feeling of lust towards someone close to you, All Stats +50% and your Health Regeneration Speed increases by 100%.]
“Not bad, fifty percent more stats and a hundred percent more health regeneration, so wounds heal rapidly!” said Chris with a smile, although his excitement was slowly receding already, so the buff was weakening. “Ah, I’m growing weaker already?! This is not fair…!”
“I could volunteer to expand the timing for you,” Paul said with a serious expression, filled with decisiveness.
"No, thank you! I-It’s enough with this!” Chris sighed. “Anyways, just drink your blood already, you dumb bloodsucker!”
“Fine…” The young vampire quickly extracted the blood of both corpses.
It was an enormous quantity of it, yet his small body drank several hundred liters of blood like nothing. It was as if Vampires were bottomless pits when it came to drinking blood.
His stomach absorbed and digested it incredibly quickly, converting it all into Blood Energy which he used to reinforce his Blood Core. Although drinking blood with his real body would be kind of disgusting, right now he felt it was a delicious, sweet delicacy.
“Hmm, that was delicious! And it had a slightly smoky flavor to it… Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever drank something so incredibly tasty. I’m shocked…”
“Um, okaaay? Did you get stronger or not?”
“A bit, yes…”
Even with his curse weakening his stats by 90%, Vlad’s Blood Aura overflowed from his body, resembling a gigantic cloud of crimson semi-transparent ethereal essence.
[You have consumed a tremendous quantity of high-quality blood.]
[You gained +100.000 Blood Energy.]
[Your Blood Core is being refined at a higher speed!]
[Rank Up!]
[Rank Up!]
[Rank Up!]
[Rank Up!]
[Rank Up!]
[Rank Up!]
[Rank Up!]
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[Your [Blood Core]: [Blood Strengthening Realm (Tier 3: Rank 1)] has Ranked Up to Tier 4: Rank 4!]
[Your Blood Core has attained the Blood Empowering Realm!]
[Your Blood Power has increased by +4.400.]
[Your Strength, Vitality, and Dexterity have increased by +3.700.]
[Your Arcana has increased by +3.200.]
[All of your Racial Skills have Leveled Up.]
[You have absorbed the Bloodline Fragments of the two Wolf and Bat beasts whose Blood you’ve consumed.]
[Your Bloodline is compatible with the Fragments; they have been automatically absorbed.]
[Your own Bloodline: [Strong-Blooded Dhampir Bloodline (Tier 2: Rank 1)] has absorbed all fragments and Ranked Up to Tier 3: Rank 1!]
[You gained +2.500 Blood Power]
[You gained +2.000 Arcana.]
[Your Bloodline has evolved into a [Lesser Vampire Chimera Bloodline (Tier 3: Rank 1)]!]
[You learned the Racial Skill: [Chimeric Body (A): Lv1]!]
“Chimeric Body?!”
Vlad was left speechless the moment he saw the results of his growth.
Not only did he rank up his Core to Tier 4 Rank 4, but even his Bloodline became Tier 3!
Aside from all the bonus stats making him a bit stronger, there was a new Skill based on his new bloodline.
Chimeric Body.
He didn’t even hesitate to use it out of curiosity, and he was greatly shocked by what he was seeing.
There was a screen in front of him, showing him images of the beasts or people he had consumed using Gluttony or whose Bloodlines he had absorbed.
“What is this…?”
He pressed one of the creatures being shown—a tall werewolf, a thug he had killed when he tried to kidnap his sister.
FLASH!
And out of nowhere, part of his body began to change; his musculature became taller, his eyes turned canine, his sharp ears became wolf-like, and he obtained a silvery-white-colored wolf tail, sharp claws, and fur.
It wasn’t a total werewolf form, as they were anthropomorphic beings with no human features, but it was something in between.
Ding!
[You have used the [Chimeric Body] Skill!]
[Your body has undergone a special change, gaining the characteristics of the [Werewolf] you once consumed, giving you 50% of their body capabilities for 10 Minutes.]
“What the hell…?!”
Chris was shocked when he saw Vlad attain a fluffier appearance.
“What with this tail?! It’s so fluffy, haha!”
“Ouch! Don’t pull my tail! Chris, stop it! AAGH!”
Paul was finally learning the pain Chris experienced when he pulled his tail before.
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