Blood Crystal Condensation
Rank: False
Stage: Initial
Effect: Condensing Blood Crystals in your blood
Overview: Taking a single red blood cell as a core, and your Aspects as the medium, gather enough Oren around the cell to form a shell. Over time, as the cell becomes familiar with its shell, it will gain the ability to interact with Oren even without the aid of Aspects. At this point, you can start pouring Oren directly into the cell, and try solidifying it into a crystal with the help of the Blood Crystal Pattern. If the cell remains as a crystal even after you stop controlling Oren, it means that you have succeeded in condensing a Blood Crystal.
Process: Begin with identifying red blood cells in your blood. The easiest way to do so is by identifying iron in your blood. You can do this by asking your Aspects to guide you to choose the best cells to form a weapon of your choice. After you identify the cells, wrap one of them in your Aspects, and try to visualise carving the Blood Crystal Pattern described below directly onto the surface of the cell. The better your visualisation, the faster you will be able to familiarise the cell with Oren. Once the cell can interact directly with Oren, you can stop using your Aspects, and try to infuse the blood cells directly with Oren.
Start with carving the Blood Crystal Pattern onto the surface of the cell, and then filling up the pattern with Oren. If you find carving the pattern, or filling up the pattern with Oren hard, you can try distorting the cell into a shape that you are more familiar with. It will degrade the quality of your Blood Crystals, but at the same time, it will also make it easier for your cells to hold Oren. Only when the cells can hold Oren even after you withdraw your control from the Oren, can the Blood Cells be considered to have been condensed.
Additional hint: From experience of those who have condensed their Blood Crystals, those not experienced with carving Blood Crystal Patterns are more likely to fail in familiarising their blood cells with Oren on their first try. To not let their efforts be in vain, those condensing their Blood Crystals for the first time are advised to mark the blood cell they are working with by distorting its shape. The resultant Blood Crystal from such a distorted cell will be of a lower quality, but the cell will be easier to identify the cell for a second attempt.
Blood Crystal Pattern: Initial Stage False Rank Blood Crystal Pattern…
Levels: 1 Blood Crystal—First Level
2 to 5 Blood Crystals—Second Level
6 to 10 Blood Crystals—Third Level
11 to 100 Blood Crystals—Fourth Level
101 to 1000 Blood Crystals—Fifth Level
Note: The higher the Level of the Blood Crystal Condensation, the greater the benefits that the Blood Crystals will bring. However, the dangers that the Crystals will bring will also be correspondingly higher. There might be just a one in a hundred possibility for Wanderers to lose control of their Blood Crystals at the Third Level, but this probability increases to one in fifty at the Fourth Level, and one in five at the Fifth Level, with no one ever succeeding to push the Initial Stage False Rank Blood Condensation Style to the Sixth Level.
Warning: Blood Crystals in incomplete forms are extremely unstable and volatile. Especially since blood cells themselves have a limited life span. Blood cells in the form of incomplete Blood Crystals may explode from instability when they near the end of their lives. It is advised that Wanderers be at least one Stage higher than the Stage of the Blood Crystals they are trying to condense, and strictly follow the directions given above. Any attempts otherwise may result in death or disability of the Wanderer, and will be his or hers sole responsibility.
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Blood Crystal Evolution
Rank: False
Stage: Initial
Effect: Evolving the Blood Crystals in your blood
Overview: Using the malleability of red blood cells to temper the Blood Patterns, and evolve them to a higher grade…
Process: Begin with slowly restoring the original shape of the blood cells, while maintaining the stability of the Blood Pattern…
Grades of Blood Crystals: Incomplete… Distorted… Complete… Perfect… Transcendent…
Warning: Evolving Blood Crystals is just as dangerous as condensing them, if not more. Wanderers are advised to…
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Blood Forging
Rank: False
Stage: Initial
Effect: Using Blood Crystals to strengthen your blood and blood vessels
Overview: Using the energy contained in the Blood Crystals to constantly nourish, and temper your blood, strengthening all the…
Process: Begin with slowly releasing the Oren stored within your Blood Crystals, and letting it diffuse into your blood… Even after being strengthened though, the blood cells have a limited lifespan, so one needs to constantly keep on tempering their blood…
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Phase: The phase of the Blood Forging Style is measured according to the degree and quality of energy that a Wanderer’s blood vessels, and blood can carry…
Initiation… Adaptation… Completion… Perfection… Transcendence…
Warning: Blood Crystals can be very unstable. Especially if they are drained completely of their energy. It is advised that Wanderers be at least one Stage higher…
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Blood Muscle Forging
Rank: False
Stage: Initial
Effect: Using Blood Crystals to strengthen your muscles
Overview: Using the energy contained in the Blood Crystals to constantly nourish, and temper your muscles, strengthening all the…
Process: Begin with slowly releasing the Oren stored within your Blood Crystals, and letting it seep into your muscles… needs to constantly keep on tempering their muscles…
Phase: The phase of the Blood Muscle Forging Style is measured according to the degree and quality of energy…
Initiation… Adaptation… Completion… Perfection… Transcendence…
Warning: Blood Crystals can be very unstable. Especially if they are drained completely of their energy. It is advised that Wanderers be at least one Stage higher…
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Blood Bone Forging
Rank: False
Stage: Initial
Effect: Using Blood Crystals to strengthen your bones
Overview: Using the energy contained in the Blood Crystals to constantly nourish, and temper your bones, strengthening all the…
Process: Begin with slowly releasing the Oren stored within your Blood Crystals, and wrap it around your bones, digging into the very core… needs to constantly keep on tempering their bones…
Phase: The phase of the Blood Bone Forging Style is measured according to the degree and quality of energy…
Initiation… Adaptation… Completion… Perfection… Transcendence…
Warning: Blood Crystals can be very unstable. Especially if they are drained completely of their energy. It is advised that Wanderers be at least one Stage higher…
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Blood Organ Forging
Rank: False
Stage: Initial
Effect: Using Blood Crystals to strengthen your muscles
Overview: Using the energy contained in the Blood Crystals to constantly nourish, and temper your organs, strengthening all the…
Process: Begin with slowly releasing the Oren stored within your Blood Crystals, and letting it nurture your organs from the inside out… needs to constantly keep on tempering their organs…
Phase: The phase of the Blood Organ Forging Style is measured according to the degree and quality of energy…
Initiation… Adaptation… Completion… Perfection… Transcendence…
Warning: Blood Crystals can be very unstable. Especially if they are drained completely of their energy. It is advised that Wanderers be at least one Stage higher…
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Blood Crystal Detonation…
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Blood Manipulation…
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Blood Crystal Resonance…
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...As he read through the information in his head, Alnea finally understood why Vestia was so upset with him. These Blood Martial Styles of the Lost City… they were certainly unique. In fact, they were so unique that most of them could not even be counted as Martial Styles. At least not in the popular system of Martial Style, be it classic or modern. Rather than focussing on Aspects, they focussed more on Oren.
No wonder Vestia and Zain had said that these Martial Styles could only be considered as Lowest Grade at best. Though they were not completely right. Most probably because they never thought about raising the Blood Crystal Condensation to beyond the Third Level. Or raising the Grade of the Blood Crystals to beyond the Complete or Perfect Grade. After all, just how much Oren could one Blood Crystal contain?
All the Blood Crystal Martial Styles depended on the amount of Oren that one could store in their Blood. Unless one could condense around a hundred Blood Crystals, and evolve them at least to their Perfection, they would not be able to practise the other Blood Crystal Styles to a higher level.
Considering the additional danger of the Blood Crystals’ instability, as well as the difficulty of practising these Martial Styles, it was a wonder that they were not treated as a Failed Grade Martial Style. Especially since they did not involve the usage of Aspects. Technically though, they were still Martial Styles. And he had to master all of them in a week.
Condensing Blood Crystals, upgrading those Blood Crystals, tempering his blood, muscles, bones, organs, and then learning how to detonate those Blood Crystals safely, while also learning how to use the Blood Crystals to manipulate his blood, and achieve a certain level of resonance between the different Blood Crystals… The more that Alnea came to understand what he had to do to master the nine Blood Martial Styles, the worse his headache became.
No wonder Vestia had been so confident in herself while making the bet. Though from what he had seen in her eyes, she probably would not mind even if she lost the bet. The trust she had shown him for a moment… She knew that he would not hurt her. At least not until she broke his trust first. Besides, even if he wished to, the city would not allow him to hurt his teammate, intentionally or unintentionally. And the same was true for Vestia.
In such a case, where they both knew each other’s thoughts, the bet was nothing more than a joke. The only thing that it could achieve was a greater depth of trust between. And maybe let them have the power to order the loser to run some errands, and do some trivial tasks…
Such an obvious trap… He did not know about Cecilia, but Alnea was sure that Yuri could surely see through the trap. He could not explain why she did not stop him from making the bet otherwise. She did not even try to dissuade him. And neither did she warn him. She just said that she believed in him… Well, he believed in her too. He believed that she was just playing along with Vestia.
But then again, was she not afraid that that Vestia would gain his trust? From how he had seen Cecilia and Yuri act, they surely did not want him to get closer to the blue robed woman from the Erwein Forests. So, the question was, why had they not stopped her? Just because they wanted to embarrass Vestia? Or did they want to see her embarrass herself? Maybe the even hoped that he would allow them to order her around…
He hoped that his thoughts about the two crazy girls were wrong. In any case, whether she won or lost, Vestia would only end up gaining from the bet. And so would Alnea. But no one liked losing. The bet that she had made… It was only after he had gone through all the nine Blood Martial Styles that he understood how difficult it was to master them.
Yet, it was also because of how difficult the bet was that Alnea became excited. Especially since the bet was about Martial Styles, even if unconventional ones. Besides, he could not disappoint all the people believing in him, could he? Taking deep breaths, Alnea adjusted his Heart to its best state, before plunging himself to practising the Blood Martial Styles.