Scarlet

I only spend another hour at the party before floating away from the castle to go test out my new transcendent skill. And I can’t help but think that floating like this is rather fun.

Before when I tried floating using a mixture of Blood Manipulation and Blood Transformation, I always felt rather uncomfortable. Kind of like I was very lightly tugging on my own blood. And even when I used Warden of the Red Plague it felt like my own blood was fighting me. Because it was. Since it was the Red Plague.

But now? Now I have absolute control over all of the blood in my body and can easily control it so that it’s perfectly comfortable.

Which in and of itself is a really good benefit.

Once I get far enough away from the castle, to the point that I can only barely see it from where I’m at, I go ahead and begin trying to create as much regular blood as I possibly can beneath me. Only for waaaaay too much to appear right away as if trying to make a damned river in seconds. So I cut it off almost immediately before awkwardly watching as the blood river begins flowing down in the direction of the ocean, quite literally forming a river.

Hmm. Well, that’s awkward.

I’m just… uh… gonna go over somewhere else.

Yeah.

Good idea.

I quickly fly for a few minutes until I’m far from the river of blood that absolutely has nothing to do with me.

Tar snorts in my mind, having apparently left the party himself to check on me.

But I ignore him.

Then I focus upwards instead of downwards and begin to repeat that same process of making blood. But this time it’ll go up into space instead.

So, with that in mind, I go all out.

And immediately regret it when a damned ocean’s worth of blood shoots straight up in a massive fucking geyser the diameter of Gramp’s freaking castle. Something that is bound to be… rather noticeable from the castle.

Or, rather, from possibly anywhere on the planet.

This side of the planet at least.

Out of curiosity though, since it can’t really get much worse than it already is, I continue pushing to see just how much I can create.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

And pushing.

And pushing some more.

But it never stops as the sky begins to grow dyed red from the blood just kinda filling space outside of the planet.

“You should probably stop,” Tar suggests, and I agree.

So I stop.

By now though, space is already filled with several oceans of blood. Real, unmanifested, blood.

Hmm.

You think I can act like I don’t know what happened?

“Nope,” Tar answers right away. “You can try erasing the blood though.”

Oh, right. Forgot I could do that.

So I float upwards before closing my eyes and focusing on the blood I created. Then I just will it to be erased and open my eyes again to a clear sky.

Right. So now do you think I can act like I don’t know what happened?

Tar doesn’t answer.

Rude.

Anyways, I quickly change locations again. Before any of the people I sense heading there can catch me.

And after arriving at another new spot, I go ahead and try my next little experiment. On some low level, non-sapient demons this time.

An experiment that works perfectly well, to my surprise.

But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, considering that I took control of everyone in the stadium to keep them from moving.

This time though I’m fully controlling every movement this little Class I demon is making. As if I’m controlling a puppet or something.

I have it dance around for a little bit before letting it go and finding a Class II non-sapient demon to do it to. And it works just as well with the Class II.

So I go find a Class III non-sapient demon and it works on them as well.

It takes a bit longer to find a Class IV non-sapient demon though since those are far rarer. And in the end I have to head to the North-eastern continent to find undead at that Class.

But it works.

Unfortunately there aren’t any Class V non-sapient demons to test it on.

So I make my way to a random secluded location to continue testing other things. Like creating things out of blood and controlling them to move. Whether it’s little animal shaped blobs of blood, sharpened weapons of blood, sharpened weapons of blood I turn into blood metal, or anything I can think of at this moment.

Everything works.

This skill really does just make me an absolute ruler of blood, doesn’t it? Like some sort of god of blood.

That’s cool.

I proceed to do quite a few more tests ranging from directly ripping the blood out of non-sapient demons before putting it back into them, compressing the blood to form something akin to a high pressure water spray for blood. Very high pressure. To the point that it tears a hole straight through metal with ease. And even creating thousands of weapons made of blood metal in the air that I swing around like crazy.

My last test though is what’s most interesting.

Healing people with the skill.

Just creating blood in their body or outside of their body to replace the lost cells in an injured creature.

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if this one skill lets me do anything any blood related magic skill can do. Almost at least. There are still some that aren’t directly manipulating blood after all.

Like Bloody Thorns and Blood Thirst for example.

And speaking of those skills, I go ahead and begin upgrading my most used legendary and mythic purchased skills to their max level of fifty using the massive stockpile of skill points I have built up.

A wide grin splits across my face at the thought of what’ll happen now at Bloody Thorns’ level fifty version when someone hits me.

Or how powerful I’ll be with Crimson Overdrive.

I raise my fist before looking at it, then at the ground, then at my fist again.

Well, no time like the present to try it out.