Blood Assimilation

Moments later, Randy unexpectedly returned to the room and then informed the Society Leader about the two demons attempting to procure some sacrifices in the village.

Furthermore, he mentioned that since he ran into those demons, they couldn’t take any humans as sacrifices. He then also hinted by saying that they might’ve already done this act before and that the Society Leader needed to think about it himself.

After saying that, he immediately left the room again, leaving the Society Leader speechless.

“What a cold fellow...” The Society Leader shook his head and muttered shortly after he had left the room with a bitter smile on his face.

But he wasn’t displeased with his rejection of his suggestion or his behavior in the slightest. Mostly because he could tell that he had his own reasons for acting the way he was. Furthermore, it was because he believes that he has potential, and therefore, it was better to not nitpick about his behavior currently.

“Sacrifices, huh? Now that I am hearing this...”

The Society Leader pondered these words briefly before a sudden realization dawned on him. He then recalled the recent strange occurrences of missing villagers and the brutal attacks of magical beasts near the Meistic Forest and other places.

After the investigation was conducted, it was concluded that it was the work of magical beasts due to claws and fang marks left on the bodies that were discovered.

.....

However, what if that was what they were led to believe?

“Don’t tell me... So that was it... I absolutely need to add this to my report. The fact that they had appeared was already bad news and now this? Those demons are definitely up to something terrible if they had to risk exposure to procure human sacrifices.”

The Society Leader immediately took out a communication magical artifact and immediately began to report the current findings to the Royal Family in the Imperial City. He did this through the Main Branch of Imperial City’s Dungeon Exploration Occupation Society.

The magical artifact would only allow communication between the Society Branches and the Main Branch situated in the Imperial City. Therefore, to relay the information to the Royal Family, the only way was to send it to the Main Branch beforehand, and they would take care of the rest.

After he finished recording his report about his findings and relaying it, he frowned and then said: “To think the reason why there had been so many attacks against villages had nothing to do with the magical beasts but the demons’ schemes... How vicious.”

“As to be expected of those vile demons. They didn’t even spare the young and the elderly during their invasions.”

After saying this, he stood up and exited his room, and then left for somewhere to meet with some people.

...

Meanwhile, Randy sat on his bed as he looked at the projected screen in front of him. He hadn’t looked at the progress of the assimilated body’s attributes since his body underwent evolution.

He recalled from one of the system notifications that he had supposedly assimilated some of the temporary attributes, which added to his base attributes.

Aside from that, he wanted to determine his current growth, and also check out how much knowledge and divine points he had currently. After all, these two point system functions were very beneficial to him, especially the divine point function, which seemed universal compared to the knowledge point function.

Furthermore, he had yet to spend some divine points to learn some of the techniques he took back then. Although he could still use knowledge points, it cost a lot numerically.

After taking a few deep breaths and letting them out to calm his mind from the sheer excitement, he turned to look at the lines of words written on the blue screen in his left field of vision. This was the Challenger’s system’s user interface.

[Name: Randy]

[Species: Human]

[Title(s): Challenger(+1)]

[Occupation: None]

[Level: 55]

[Mana Points: 1,299(+110)/1,299]

[Health Points: 800(+700)/800]

[Strength: 80(+70)]

[Endurance: 80(+70)]

[Vitality: 80(+70)]

[Stamina: 79.5(+70)]

[Agility: 70(+70)]

[Perception: 140(+70)]

[Magic Limit: 129.9]

[Intelligence: 290(+70)]

Randy smiled and said: “Not bad. All my attributes increased by 40, except for Magic Limit.”

“Hmm... Wait a minute. Didn’t I increase my mana with the Nameless Meditation Technique, why is there no progress displayed on here?” Randy suddenly realized that nothing changed about his Magic Limit attribute.

[...]

“What? Not you too.”

[[The host is currently using an ancient mana training method to strengthen his body. As a result, the system used the ancient mana training method’s power system for a better understanding of your current training method]].

[[From now on, your mana capacity for each magical realm would be doubled]].

“O-Oh, is that so? But why isn’t it displayed on here, Challenger’s System?” Randy was bewildered and continued to ask.

‘Why is my system the one responding?’ Randy wondered to himself.

[[...]]

[...]

“W-What’s going on? Why did you not respond this time?” Randy felt like something was not quite right with his systems.

At some unknown point, his main system was interfering with the other system.

Unbeknownst to him, the two systems are having telepathic communication with each other at this moment.

Moments later, the Challenger’s System’s screen flashed with the latest update on his Attribute Screen.

Randy immediately noticed the change and looked at the screen unconsciously.

The next moment, he discovered the parenthesis that appeared next to the Magic Limit had a different number within it. Evidently, this was the change to his Attribute Screen.

[Magic Limit: 129.9(239.9)]

Looking at this, Randy immediately understood that the number in the parenthesis was his total Magic Limit Attribute. This meant that his actual mana points is 2,399 instead of 1,299.

However, since his magical realm capacity was altered, he needed 2,598 mana points to reach the peak of the Fourth Cycle of Magical Realm.

Moments later, Randy said: “Can you just get rid of the first number? It would be confusing if the temporary attributes are added next to that section later on.”

[Affirmative]

The Challenger’s System’s screen flashed again with the changes made to the Magic Limit Section.

[Magic Limit: 239.9]

After this was done, Randy turned his attention to the golden screen on his right- this was his main system’s Status Screen.

After checking his Status Screen, Randy found out the changes on his main system screen were proportional to the ones on the Challenger’s System’s Attribute Screen.

The only difference between the two systems was that the Status Screen’s basic statistics had zero at the end. For example, if his body’s attribute or statistic on the Challenger’s System was 80, then it would be 800 on his main system’s display.

That aside, Randy looked at the divine points function and the knowledge points function.

However, he ignored the knowledge points for now and looked at the total divine points. The smile on his face grew wider as he counted the number of digits.

[[Divine Points: 643,090]]

‘More than half a million points!’ Randy inwardly exclaimed in excitement.

With this amount of divine points, he could finally learn some of his techniques and even absorb some ability stones. However, there were more pressing matters, such as healing his incarnation and acquiring elemental essence crystals to create a foolproof and genuine incarnation with a fully functional body.

With that in mind, Randy dialed down his excitement and came out of his room and walked to the front of the building and then to Zophia’s counter. He wanted to ask the only person he knew around here that was knowledgeable about various things.

Moments later, he stood in front of Zophia and asked: “Zophia, where can I get my hands on elemental essence crystals?”

“Elemental essence crystals?” Zophia raised her eyebrows at his sudden question.

“Yes, or do you not know what it is?”

“No, I know what it is. I was just surprised to hear you ask about something that only a handful of magicians demand when creating artifacts.” Zophia said.

“Oh, so they can use them for artifacts?” Randy was somewhat surprised to hear this information even though he already knew that blacksmiths, craftsmen, and weapon refiners could create weapons using beast cores back in his world.

Zophia nodded: “Yes. But you can either get elemental essence crystals from the lower floor of the Dungeon of Beasts, but their quality might be low, or... Wait! Didn’t you clear the Dungeon of Beasts by yourself? Did you not get any elemental mana cores from the Elemental Beasts that you hunted in the dungeon?”

Randy confirmed: “I did, but as you said, the quality is not that high since they came from the dungeon beasts, I think.”

And he then asked: “I need ones of better quality, so where can I get them? Do they sell high-quality ones at the market?”

“No, they don’t normally sell higher quality ones at the market.” Zophia said and then paused briefly before asking: “Why do you need them if you don’t mind me asking? Do you need them to create an artifact or to make a weapon?”

Randy shook his head: “None of that. I only need it for my tech... spell.”

‘Tech spell? What is that? Is it a type of magic spell? Anyway, it’s none of my business.’ Zophia quietly thought to herself.

“Oh, I see. But if you want higher quality elemental essence crystals, other than the ones from the dungeons, there are only two other ways to procure them.” Zophia suddenly said to him.

.....

“Oh?” Randy’s eyes lit up and he immediately asked: “What are they?”