Born in Blood Chapter 67 Meeting

It was a long night, but yet to be finished.

Liam headed back towards the ravine to test out his new abilities.

He morized the cultivation technique and sat cross-legged, manipulating 'Ora' just like it instructed.

Before long, dark colored 'Ora' gathered around Liam's abdon and entered through his core.

His entire body felt nourished and invigorated.

Liam realized he had been fighting with one hand behind his back for the whole ti. The core was an extrely important organ, and the quality of 'Ora' would improve each ti it advanced.

After a whole two hours, he felt like he couldn't absorb more.

'Too much cultivation isn't good either, since it could strain the core. I've just awakened, so it'll probably increase in ti.'

Heaving a satisfied sigh, Liam stretched out his hand.

A wisp of darkness grew around his palm, dancing with the wind like a dark fla.

There were basically no limits to how much he could control, but his raw elent was weak without any form or utilization. Not to ntion, it rapidly expended 'Ora'.

'What about my other elent?'

Liam shifted his focus to the other essence inside his core. It wasn't unstable like with the snake scale, but it stubbornly refused.

'Just what is this damn thing?'

Shaking his head, Liam learned the Purgatory Night arts next.

Rogan had made him a pair of blades from a Rank 3 Plague Rat – which was much easier to subdue with his forging technique.

The weapons were black, sleek and lethal.

Liam gripped the blades tightly in his hand, swinging them a couple tis before practicing his martial art.

Purgatory Night consisted of snappy movents and fatal swings, forcing Liam to maximize his speed and strength.

His katana and wakizashi cut through the air in a series of swift moves, and Liam started using 'Ora' alongside his art.

A layer of dark smoke covered the edges of Liam's blade's, dangerous to everything but him – a person's elent was incapable of harming its user.

He could maintain that state for as long as he wished, since it used a minute amount of 'Ora'... so long as his core isn't empty, of course.

Pairing that ability with Lethality Mantle made it even deadlier.

Sheathing his blades, Liam shifted his focus to Corroding Touch.

There wasn't a target for him to use it on, but there didn't need to be.

Activating the spell, his ntal waves turned dark and violent.

Nodding to himself in satisfaction, Liam grinned.

'My prowess probably tripled. I can't imagine what I can do if I get into the higher ranks.'

Before long, the Jade in his pocket rang…

It was David.

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Liam arrived at the guild.

Lloyd, David and Ophis were there already. The two guild mbers were staring at him with looks of awe and shock.

"I would give you one of my hugs, but I doubt you'd accept," Ophis scoffed.

"I won't," Liam replied with a glare, and Lloyd suppressed a laugh.

David began speaking, shushing them both.

"The Royce family has called a eting with you, young man," he said, a joyous smile on his lips. "It'll take place tomorrow night at their quarters. I won't ask you of where you've been. Your teacher has already explained most of the details."

Those 'details' were already discussed between Liam and Lloyd beforehand... a tight-knit cover story.

Liam nodded firmly. One couldn't deny an invitation from a governing family, but he didn't plan to.

"Anything else I should know?"

David shook his head.

"Just make sure you bring a standard Echorian robe."

Liam nodded, and the two guild mbers left him and Lloyd alone.

"You sure you'll be alright?" Lloyd asked worriedly.

"I've planned for this. If it goes well, you won't be seeing for a while, old man," Liam said solemnly.

Lloyd laughed, putting a hand on the boy's shoulder and squeezing. "You were never ant to stay here, kid."

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Liam instantly headed underground… for three things precisely.

There was one more thing Liam kept hidden from his teachers.

From Kirk's ring, Liam found a strange pill.

It was completely white, but was shaped to a blank face with an open mouth. It had no sll whatsoever, even though Liam used his ntal waves to assess it.

Bringing the pill to Rudolph's shop, the man took nearly half an hour to identify it.

"It's a Face & Body imitation pill," Rudolph said with a shocked look. "It can allow the user to change into another's appearance, as long as they have at least ten drops of blood from said person."

"These kinds of pills are banned to sell, and only one family in Ucladd produces them. Where'd you get these?"

Liam's response ca instantly.

"A friend gifted them to ," he said, before taking 700 'Ora' Stones out from his ring and giving it to the shopkeeper. "For your troubles."

Rudolph was experienced enough to catch the hidden threat.

'Why do I feel like he'll torture before he kills ?' Rudolph gulped, nodding in return.

As Liam left the store, he grinned ear-to-ear.

'My escape is possible!'

Other than that, he searched for a luxurious clothing store to buy a robe – black was the color he was most comfortable with, and he decided to buy the most expensive one he could find.

Finally, there was one last stop for Liam to go through, before preparing for his eting tomorrow.

He arrived at Rogan's forgery with an eager glimr in his eyes, which caused the blacksmith to smile in response.

"You ready?" asked Rogan.

Liam nodded. He already knew how to form, forge and shape a blade. The only thing he hadn't done was begin the Primordial Forging thod.

The blacksmith took out a fresh Rank 1 Albino Snake corpse.

"Crush the core and absorb the 'Ora' within it into your ntal sphere."

Liam complied.

As soon as he did what was instructed, he entered his ntal sphere.

The magical beast's 'Ora' he absorbed was much more wild and untad, enveloping his mind with pressure.

From within his sea of consciousness, blobs of his ntal energy converged in the middle, growing larger to take the shape of a giant Albino Snake.

An angry, angry snake.

'Why is it so much bigger?!'

With a thunderous hiss, it shot to his ntal sphere walls, thrashing it and violently attempting to escape.

Liam used thicken before the collision, but still felt like a nail hamred the inside of his head.

Instantly, he manipulated his ntal energy to envelop the roaring snake. Covering and seeping into its figure, gradually weakening the beast.