My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Vickers pressed the red button again, pouring in a clear liquid.

A brief silence fell over the room.

Apart from Simpson, who was guarding the door, everyone else was staring intently at the culture tank.

After about 20 minutes, the rate at which bubbles appeared in the can slowed down.

"At most 5 minutes left."

Vickers reached out and placed his hand on an ice-blue button.

The rate of bubble decay is accelerated.

Several minutes passed quickly.

The moment the bubble completely disappeared, Xia Zuo received the message from the cheat system in his mind.

"Dispel the spell immediately," Vickers said quickly, constantly monitoring the condition of the culture tank.

Almost simultaneously, the three curse marks disappeared from the bloodstone.

Vickers immediately pressed the ice-blue button in front of him.

The four octahedral crystals surrounding the culture vessel vibrated slightly, and the projected beam of light turned ice blue.

White frost appeared on the tank and chains and quickly spread throughout the culture tank.

About 3 minutes later.

The inside of the glass partition transformed into a scene of ice and snow.

Everything was covered with a thick layer of snow.

The culture tank and chains were transformed into an ice sculpture, and the medicine inside the tank was frozen into a crystalline ice-blue color.

Vickers walked to the glass partition and pressed his face against the glass to examine the bloodstone in the jar closely.

After confirming that the bloodstone was light red, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but was still somewhat uncertain, and looked at Rexor to ask:

"Master, have we succeeded?"

Rexor's pupils changed, and his vertical pupils dilated.

"Yes, it worked."

The bald man and the cold-faced man exchanged a glance. "Let's go, buddy. Let's go see a high-level blood demon. It's been so many years, the Federation finally has some fun."

“That’s exactly what I was thinking, Letho.” Serites sneered.

"Vicks, this is yours."

Rexol picked up the metal box from the ground and said as he walked out:

"Perhaps when we return, we'll be bringing back a high-level Blood Demon. Prepare the seventh basement level; it will welcome our first guest."

Simpson opened the door, let the two Witcher Masters leave, and then locked the door. "Supervisor, should the 10th Operations Team go?"

Vickers walked to his seat, sat down, thought for a moment, and said:

"Leave it to the Demon Hunter and the Temple Guards. That high-level Blood Demon is trapped by the garrison mage, but it's still beyond the capabilities of us regular mages."

"Xia Zuo, you should rest too."

Vickers glanced at his watch. "It'll be dawn in four hours. I'll have someone else replace you then."

"Yes, supervisor."

Xia Zuo found a seat and sat down, propping his head up on the table as he looked through the information about the cheat system.

"Successfully used the Curse of Decay to destroy the Blood Demon. Due to [Spell Training] and [Curse Mastery], a total of 780 experience points were gained."

The amount of experience gained this time was less than Xia Zuo had expected.

This indicates that when calculating experience, the cheat code estimates the proportion of damage caused by the host to the total kill contribution.

However, it's already quite good to gain experience.

It was as easy as paddling water from start to finish.

It feels like someone is helping you level up...

Hehe... and it's the kind that doesn't cost any money.

Xia Zuo continued to read the information in his mind.

This time, I also acquired a new skill.

...

[Special Skill Name] Bloodline Language - Incomplete

[Special Skills Description]

This special ability is incomplete, and the recorded bloodline language is severely lacking.

[Special Effects]

You have gained knowledge about blood patterns (but it is severely lacking).

You will gain more information when you observe things related to blood.

You can also activate this ability to view all the bloodline languages ​​you have mastered.

...

[Special Ability Name] Bloodline Sensing - Incomplete

[Special Skills Description]

Added the bloodline mark of the Blood Demon Quarovich.

...

The second skill isn't exactly a completely new talent.

It simply adds a new bloodline imprint to [Bloodline Sensing].

Xia Zuo activated [Bloodline Sensing] and chose the mark of Blood Demon No. 13, Kualouqi, to receive bloodline information.

There was no sound in my ears for the time being.

He calmed himself down and read the knowledge about blood patterns recorded in the [Blood Pattern Language].

The book records many types of blood patterns, including those of ordinary poultry, commoners, and monsters, totaling more than 50 types. It even includes the blood patterns of shapeshifters and Quarovich himself.

As he watched, Xia Zuo realized something:

Why do Transformers, who can advance to Blood Addicts simply by devouring living creatures of similar size, still devour their former kind?

This is related to the quality of blood vessels contained in each type of blood.

simply put.

High-intelligence creatures possess significantly more high-quality blood patterns than low-intelligence creatures.

For Blood Mages

High-quality blood runes equate to intelligence and rationality, to thinking ability and language ability, directly determining the spell strength of blood magic, and are also the raw materials for condensing the blood demon's body.

During the Transformer stage, one can only devour 108 living beings.

If they do not devour humans with high-quality blood patterns, they will quickly lose their sense of self and become inferior transmuters driven purely by a thirst for flesh and blood.

This will lower the average intelligence of blood demons, thus affecting the advancement of high-level blood demons to blood witches.

In order to avoid becoming a fool among blood mages, the blood demon will urge the converts to target their former kind, using bodily fluids as markers to search for prey among humans whose constitutions match their own.

After becoming blood addicts, they gained a certain ability to engage in direct combat, and deep down they craved more high-quality blood runes.

While human blood patterns are of high quality, their quantity is somewhat limited, and indiscriminately devouring humans will attract the attention of the stronghold's guardians.

At this point, the blood addict will target highly intelligent monsters as their prey.

As for what blood streaks are...

The "Bloodline Language" section doesn't offer much explanation.

It only mentions that everyone has their own unique bloodline characteristics depending on the strength of their vitality.

Chapter 54 Blood Arrow

"Kua... Luo Wu... Qi." A strange voice suddenly rang in my ears.

Xia Zuo shuddered, rubbing his face to cover up his abnormality, realizing that it was a high-level blood demon talking.

"Ku...Luo...Wuqi." The high-ranking blood demon's voice was somewhat intermittent.

"Damn witchers! Damn temple guards! Damn garrison mages! Ah!!"

The high-ranking blood demon roared in my ear as if venting its anger.

Xia Zuo lay on the table, pretending to sleep, while frowning as he listened to the other person howling.

"Ah! Our promotion! Everything is over!"

The high-ranking blood demon spoke at length about advancement, howled for a while, and then his voice became low and deep:

“There is another way, Kaluo Wuqi! We will sacrifice all our servants... and a portion of our own bloodline. You, prepare.”

A sacrifice!?

Xia Zuo buried his face in his arms, his expression suddenly changing.

Could the "servants" mentioned by the high-ranking blood demon be referring to the shapeshifters in Poseidon City?

Xia Zuo felt a deep sense of unease.

He had a premonition...

Something's going to happen in the underground lab of the Birmingham Building!

"Ring ring ring ring!"

A piercing alarm sounded in the corridor.