Overgeared

A direct descendant—it referred to the 10 children of Shizo Beriache, and as owners of a lineage of purity and integrity, they were called nobles and reigned over the vampires. It was the Blood King who was qualified to lead such a direct line. There was only one condition to becoming the Blood King—by force.

Unlike the direct descendants, it wasn’t based on lineage. The strongest being who defeated the direct descendants would be qualified to be the Blood King, regardless of lineage.

Braham once explained the reason why—“There is no future for the vampires as long as there is the Curse of Sloth. My mother knew this as well so she made rules for outsiders.”

The reason that the rule gave outsiders the chance to become the Blood King was simple—the vampires couldn’t move forward with just their own power. As long as there was the Curse of Sloth, the vampires couldn’t try hard and couldn’t develop. Since they couldn’t develop, they didn’t have the strength to defeat great demons. Vampires alone couldn’t achieve Beriache’s wish. Of course, the story would be different if Marie Rose became the Blood King, but Beriache didn’t have confidence that Marie Rose could overcome the Curse of Sloth, so she made sure there was insurance.

[The condition has been met and the first blood magic will bloom.]

Along with the rising notification window, Grid felt a dizzying pain from his left shoulder. It was pain beyond the level of a sting. It was sharp pain, like he was cut by a knife. The perplexed Grid took off his armor and looked at his left shoulder. The power of blood magic was erupting from his left shoulder and a pattern—reminiscent of blood droplets—was being engraved there.

“Keuk...!” Grid dropped to the ground as a strange feeling wrapped around his left shoulder. He vividly felt the process of his magic power being changed by an energy he had never experienced before.

[Your mana is strengthened by the blood magic blooming effect.]

[The maximum mana amount has increased by 1.5 times.]

[Mana recovery speed has doubled.]

[In the case of lifestealing, mana is restored along with health. The mana recovered at this time is classified as ‘blood magic’ and the damage when using blood magic is increased by 1.2 times.]

“......!!”

The unexpected additional effects thrilled Grid. His left arm turned red before soon returning to normal.

[New blood magic ‘Extreme Blood Transfusion’ has been acquired.]

[Extreme Blood Transfusion Lv. 1]

[Deals damage equal to twice your maximum mana value to the target while absorbing 100% of the damage. If your health is at the maximum, the lifesteal will be reversed and additional damage will be dealt to the target as vampiric energy. The additional damage isn’t affected by the target’s magic resistance and attributes resistance.

Mana Consumption: 10,000

Cooldown Time: 24 hours.]

Hit others and absorb health. If full, convert the amount of health absorbed into damage...

The effect of Extreme Blood Transfusion was very simple. The problem was the damage calculation—Grid’s maximum mana after the blood magic blooming effect was 140,000, and double that was 280,000. This meant that even a ranked player could be killed instantly in one blow. Of course, the damage would be deducted according to the target’s magic resistance. However, if Grid used it in his full state then there was a high probability of instant death no matter how high the other person’s magic resistance.

‘If I use Elfin Stone’s Ring to absorb health and accumulate up to 10,000 blood magic power, the damage will be higher...’

1.2 times 480,000 was a bit less than 580,000. It was difficult to expect a high destructive power against monsters. However, he must not forget that the essence of Extreme Blood Transfusion was lifestealing. Grid gained approximately 240,000 additional health.

‘Good...’

Tankers were divided into two main categories—tankers who invested more in defense than health, and tankers who invested more in health than defense. There were pros and cons to each one. Tankers with high defense were vulnerable to true damage since they focused on greatly reducing damage instead of reducing health consumption. Meanwhile, tankers with high health were the complete opposite. As a result, most guilds raised both types of tankers. Depending on the situation, there were times when a tanker with high health (a meat shield) was put on the front lines, while other times a tanker with high defense was put on the front lines.

It was safe to say that with 400,000 health, Grid currently had the highest health across all players. He also couldn’t be distinguished from a meat shield because his defense and resistance were as high as his health. He also possessed all types of shields and recovery skills. Grid confirmed that it would be hard for him to die while fighting in the future.

Then a few days ago, Grid realized that he was still lacking. Putting

to

greedy Grid, who was eager for greater power, and slowly opened her mouth, “Runes

“Huh?”

runes as artifacts with infinite potential, but they are

“......?”

How ominous.

“Your rune has too much power. Sooner or later, the capacity will be

when I will have to choose to abandon

received divine intervention, so it has a greater capacity than normal runes. The powers you have absorbed are so vast that the limits

“Around when?”

more strength could be absorbed in the future? What power should he give up at

deeply troubled Grid, “If it continues like this,

“...Ah, yes.”

be a fleeting moment for Betty, but it was a time span that felt

so far. Then there should be approximately

Elfin Stone that returned to the ring. For a while, he was going to focus

able to hunt indefinitely if I had

just that he would have to lower the level of the hunting ground in order

have to quickly gain the Demon God’s

raiding him? Grid was making plans with a confused mind when he expressed the question he had been curious about, “Betty, what is

even Baal didn’t have it? Perhaps Betty, being Baal’s Contractor, would know? Grid’s guess was correct. Betty naturally knew about Sitri. “A monster created by the

“Soul of chaos?”

has a magnetism that attracts the souls who

“......”

souls roaming in hell have been absorbed by Sitri’s soul over the years and Sitri’s soul has become infinitely

“......!”

was something strange. “It seems he isn’t a god. It is safer to

too many thoughts mixed in and he couldn’t maintain

he isn’t worshipped as

of the god worshipped by the demons. Evil God Yatan—all beings in hell served Yatan. He had never seen anyone who worshipped Sitri as a god. It

think of Sitri as an imitation of a god. He

stronger than

like that. He is probably weaker than most single-digit demons. No matter how strong, there are limits

why are the great demons

Now the soul of a dead great demon was roaming hell. There is a risk that reincarnation will

remaining. It is so to say that there is no chance of

just Braham who could move his soul according to his

chance of an accident in hell. From the standpoint of the great

as he recalled Sitri’s eye staring at the human world through a crack in hell. He was troubled

premature to target the heart of the

his next step once he had grown. Grid decided on his route and bowed politely to Betty. “Thank you for your help

“Yes.”

surely punish

this point, he hadn’t found it yet. Betty smiled