[??? is reacting to a strange energy...]
My bloodline was starting to act up again. It had happened again in the span of a few weeks at most. Once when I had my fight in the Lix Estate and now, when a strange voice was calling out to .
’Still, it says energy...’
I frowned. The voice I was hearing was definitely from a human or so kind of living thing. It couldn’t be energy.
I continued to walk deeper into the forest as I closed my eyes and began focusing on the strange energy flow that seed to form a path in the forest.
The voice no longer spoke to as it seed to understand that I was heading in its direction.
Ever since I could rember, I had tried to find a hint about my bloodline, and finally, I was about to... I might even talk to soone with the sa bloodline as .
’To think that I would find out on my own and without the camp’s "help"...’
I had shivers run down my spine just thinking of all the tests they had put through over the years, all without the slightest hope of success. I had even begun to believe they would run those tests just to see suffer and to keep reminding that I was theirs...
The trail of the red, mysterious energy suddenly ca to an end as I was now in front of a tall cliff. I tried to look if there might be a hidden hole inside the cliff, but no matter how hard I tried... I couldn’t find anything. I also couldn’t sense the presence of any living being.
’Was it really just energy?’ I thought to myself with a frown, disappointed.
"Here... boy."
That voice—it was definitely close.
"Where are you?" I carefully called out, speaking in a normal tone, not trying to alert any monster or creature that might be nearby.
After all, I was deep inside the forest. I had gone in without even thinking; I might have even reached the area where A-Rank monsters and above resided.
"Walk... in front of you..."
I frowned at those words.
In front of was a cliff; there was nothing else. However, I had nothing to lose... I had already given up on coming back in ti so that the professor wouldn’t notice I had disappeared. I would be doing everything in my power to find out what this... thing was.
I walked closer to the cliff when I noticed sothing strange with the stone before . It seed to be moving ever so slightly. One might have missed it; however, with the years of observation training that I had... I noticed it instantly.
I brought my arm forward and tried to press against the moving stone. However, instead of touching sothing solid... I passed right through it.
There was a hidden hole inside this cliff. However, it had been carefully concealed behind an illusion. An illusion that had been powerful enough to almost fool my keen senses.
Whoever had made this was no joke at all.
I finally walked through the illusion, where I was t with a horrid sight.
Only a few steps away from , a man was on his last breath. He seed to be in an even worse state than I was when Alia had found . I could tell at a glance that there was no longer any hope for him. Even if the strongest healer were in my place, they wouldn’t be able to save him.
"You... what are you?" the dying man suddenly asked.
"What am I?" I replied, confused.
"H-How were you able to hear my voice?"
I didn’t reply. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, it’s simply that I had no idea why I had heard his voice in the first place.
"Do you know what you are?"
I beca even more confused by the second.
Was this the rambling of a dying person?
I couldn’t be sure just yet.
"I don’t. Can you tell ?"
He slowly shook his head as his eyes began closing on their own.
"I can’t... not right now. However, I will be able to if you allow to recuperate inside of your body."
I blinked a few tis.
That had been the last thing I had expected to hear.
"Recuperate inside of my body?"
"I don’t have the ti to explain, just get closer to ," the dying man said as he lifted his right arm, wanting to touch my body.
’What is he trying to do? Does he want to take over my body?’
I couldn’t trust this dangerous man. There was no doubt that he was extrely dangerous and powerful. I couldn’t take on the risk of letting him inside of . Who knew what his plan was?
I wanted to find out more about my bloodline, but... this wasn’t the way.
The dying man instantly noticed that I wasn’t moving a single step and bit his lower lip in annoyance.
"I swear on my Mana Core that I will never try to hurt you..." he muttered under his breath. "So, please..."
Swearing on one’s Mana Core might seem ridiculous. However, it had great consequences. If he were to break the promise he had just made, his Mana Core would shatter and he would die in the process.
That man really wasn’t trying to hurt .
Only then did I walk forward, allowing him to touch my body.
Almost instantly, his human form began changing into small particles as he seed to be sucked inside of my body, more precisely right next to my Mana Core, where another small sphere began forming.
’How is that possible?’ I said to myself as I felt a new, dormant Mana Core inside of my body.
However, the new Mana Core wasn’t completely dormant. It was taking small bits of Mana from my Mana Core to fuel itself. However, it wasn’t just absorbing my Mana, it seed to be transforming it into sothing else...
Sothing that I had never seen before.
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