The Primal Hunter

Jake was absolutely certain of one thing: two identical Bloodlines could not exist. Even if someone with a Bloodline had a child, the child would have their own Bloodline with its own unique signature. One would be able to feel the difference between two family members even if the effects of their Bloodlines were identical.

But the old man had the exact same Bloodline as Villy. Jake was completely zoned out of the vision where the two discussed as he tried to figure out how the hell this was possible. It was impossible for the Viper to somehow be the kid of this old man, and one could not give their Bloodlines to others as the Bloodline resided in the Truesoul. Only the system could give a Bloodline, the Viper had said to himself. So Jake saw only one explanation.

The Viper had gained this old man’s Bloodline sometime after he had died. Assuming the Viper had been truthful when he said he got his Bloodline after reaching godhood, then it had to be a lot of time afterward. However, this also raised some questions. Had the Viper requested this Bloodline? If he had, then it had to be a powerful Bloodline, and if it was a powerful Bloodline, then why was the old man stuck at peak C-grade and talking about his time soon being up? Maybe it was just Jake being biased, but he assumed anyone with a truly powerful Bloodline should at least be able to break through to B-grade.

I will definitely have an interesting talk with Villy after this, Jake confirmed to himself as he began to actually focus on the vision at hand.

It was just the Viper explaining what he was doing, and what he was doing was trying to make a healing poison using his blood. The Viper talked about how it was hard to fully isolate the vital energies in the blood both before he put it in the cauldron and when it was in there.

Jake listened in attentively and quickly got the gist of it as he had been struggling with the same thing during the last few days. His issue was that the Blood of the Malefic Viper infused blood was so tied to him it was difficult to make it more untied. This was not a problem with poison usually, as it was just a catalyst and got infused into all the other materials, but in this case, he wanted it to be a primary ingredient.

As for why he wanted it? He wanted to make a “better” health potion that acted faster and maybe didn’t even trigger the potion cooldown. One that could help him heal a wound incredibly fast and resonate with his Blood of the Malefic Viper. He also just wanted to see if he could upgrade Blood to allow him to heal faster in general.

The health potion was more a representation of what he wanted and a way to practice isolating and controlling the vital energy in his blood, not the primary objective. The Viper said the same as he explained how he wanted to better control his vital energies and blood in general.

“Heh,” the old man chuckled. “I find it interesting how you try to create a health potion when that is not truly what you want to make. Controlling your blood better is only one piece of the puzzle, and you will never be able to infuse enough vital energies into the blood to heal fast enough for what you want. If you want that, you need to heal yourself in the ethereal realm – heal your Soulshape – and not your physical body. But we both know the inefficiency in that… so what you truly want is a way for your body to do what you want it to and for more vital energy to work at once. A healing potion does supercharge you with vital energy, true, but what is the biggest obstacle when trying to infuse your blood to heal you faster?”

“Time,” the Viper instantly said. “But a health potion fixes that; I just need it to-“

“Why does it need to be a health potion, and why do you need to infuse your blood every time?” the old man asked pointedly.

“I am not sure I get it,” the Viper said. “I need a health potion for it to heal… I have tried making toxins that heal me, but it never works. And I need to infuse my blood every time for the vital energy to be properly carried in it.”

“Is that because your blood is bad at carrying energy?”

at carrying energy, but only toxic energies… but… I think I understand what you are getting at. You want me to attune my blood to better carry vital energy, but won’t that just be a step backward after

cannot be a healing potion and a healing potion cannot

then into stamina, and back into vital energy again. With a swipe of his hand, the vital energy suddenly spread out throughout the room and hit the

to work with all of them. Your body is your temple, and you decide the design. Your blood is a part of your body, just like any other element. If you can control

the hell he had done what he did. Jake could also change mana into vital energy and vice-versa, but that

shone with enlightenment. Jake then felt himself truly merge with the Viper and instantly noticed some differences. Jake’s blood was not toxic by default but infused with heavy doses of vital energy, while the Viper’s blood primarily had poison in it. He naturally healed from vitality-based

did now was more or less to prime the blood. Make it far more malleable to other energies, using the system’s assistance to make it all possible. This instantly made the level of toxicity in his blood rise, and Jake did not hesitate to join in as he mimicked the

the Viper did. Yet he also felt like all poison made from it would be more potent. What Jake did when he infused Blood of the Malefic Viper with mana and turned it toxic was just to use the mana as a catalyst to change the vital

at carrying energy than before. It did come with the cost of each drop of blood being more valuable, and hence Jake or the Viper losing more health points upon wounded and bleeding… but the tradeoff was worth it, and it wasn’t a one-to-one increase either. Because Jake also felt that

the total capacity of the blood changed as it was ready to

hour passed before the Viper opened his eyes, smiling from success. Jake was still not there and was about to curse as time rewound till

old man chatted as Jake just listened in, still feeling the changes

asking where he had gone this time. Without further ado, he

carrying traces of the True Blood of the Malefic One within. The blood can be used as an ingredient in alchemy or as a deadly weapon against your foes. The nature of the poison is determined based on the Records of the Alchemist. Allows your blood to carry more energy than usual, including vital energy, passively speeding up regeneration. This effect is further amplified when consuming a health potion or other sources of beneficial vital energy. The blood’s toxicity level is based primarily on Vitality and Wisdom but receives an increase from all physical stats. Increase in natural regeneration based on total health pool. Passively provides 3 Vitality per level in Heretic-Chosen Alchemist of the

reached level 189

the Malefic Viper] has reached level 190 - Stat

reached level 192 - Stat

most part. The two levels were a nice surprise, as Jake had only expected a single one. For the skill itself, a bit of the wording had changed here and there, but the big takeaways were that it specified the blood now carried more energy than before, and that effect was further amplified when using a healing potion. But, it still specified that what Jake did

more vital energy, it increased his natural regeneration. He could feel it wasn’t by much, but it was there. The big thing was that this effect was amplified after using a healing potion, and the entire increase in regeneration was

an increase in Vitality for each level. Considering Jake was towards the end of D-grade, the instant influx of stats was huge, especially considering Vitality was the stat in which he had the second-best percentage amplifier due to the Bloodline Patriarch

faster than before, no doubt about it, but it wasn’t like it just suddenly popped out. He would estimate about twenty-five percent faster, with the vital energy consumption about ten percent

it off again and then drank a potion. This time around, the

bones, and his hand reformed. The entire process took only thirty to forty seconds, and

about transforming his blood but also about how to use it. To make full use of it. One of the objectives had been to make a healing potion, after