Wolf of the Blood Moon: A Blood Magic - Book 3: Chapter 59.1: Skill Management and a Talk Part I

Scarlet

I wake up feeling more than a little groggy as I sit up in my bed rubbing my eyes. And it takes me just a few seconds to realize that I’m in my bed and not the bath, where I last remember being awake.

Did someone-

“No, you woke up and left the bath to get changed, only to pass out afterwards,” Tar says, interrupting my thoughts and making me relax again.

Okay. Mind telling me what happened then? I don’t remember anything.

“Well, you checked your System Messages after getting changed, and that was basically it,” Tar explains. “In the messages, three skills were offered to evolve and are still awaiting your answer, while you also got an epic inherent skill called Metallicized Blood. Which I think you can probably guess what does.”

Oh, that’s nice.

I stretch for a moment before his words actually register and I turn to stare at the tanuki who I find sitting next to me.

Wait, an epic inherent skill?

He snorts at how long it took to register.

Actually, which of my skills were offered evolutions?

“The three lower rarity inherent skills you use the most,” Tar answers. “Metallicized Blood Claws, Life Drain, and Partial Shift.”

Ah, right. Yeah, I’ll evolve all three of those.

{Uncommon rarity inherent skill ‘Metallicized Blood Claws’ has now evolved into the rare rarity inherent skill ‘Metallicized Blood Claws’ while retaining any previous effects it may have had at the cost of losing three levels.}

{Uncommon rarity inherent skill ‘Partial Shift’ has now evolved into the rare rarity inherent skill ‘Partial Shift’ while retaining any previous effects it may have had at no price.}

{Uncommon rarity inherent skill ‘Life Drain’ has now evolved into the rare rarity inherent skill ‘Life Drain’ while retaining any previous effects it may have had at the cost of losing three levels.}

That was all, right?

“You also got two hundred Skill Points,” Tar points out, making my eyes widen slightly.

That’s a lot.

I open up my status to find that they really are there, along with the new skill. So I go ahead and focus on the description of the new skill.

{Metallicized Blood – Allows the user to have a limited amount of control over their own blood once it leaves their body and allows the user to metallicize their blood, turning it into blood metal.}

Now that has me fully waking up as I grin.

I move my hand outwards before trying to use the skill, and almost immediately, I transform a small amount of the blood in my forearm to metal while also pulling on it, ripping it through my arm and out of my body. Then I gradually shift it into the form of a rather shabby looking sword and reach out to grab it.

“Now this skill could come in handy,” I comment, my grin turning into a full-blown smile.

“Remember to spend your Skill Points,” Tar comments, following which I realize I don’t have anywhere to put the sword. So I just toss it off the bed, making it clatter to the floor as I focus on my skills. “And check the store just in case.”

I check the store, only to not find anything new there.

Although Blood Plague is still there, so I go ahead and buy that legendary skill. Just because it’s legendary and looks like it could be quite useful in some ways. Particularly due to it being another skill like blood boil and life drain. A passive damaging one. Except this one lets the passive damage spread to others as well. But only those I want it to spread to.

And looking at my skills list again after buying the new skill, I decide to spend thirty of my one hundred and ninety-four points on getting blood armor to level ten, which makes the last purchased skill for me to bring to level ten. With the exception of the two legendary skills I bought recently that are both at level one.

So I spend sixty-four Skill Points right away to raise both legendary skills to level five at the least. Then I look at my remaining points, which total to exactly one hundred points on the dot.

“That’s a clean number,” Tar comments, and I can’t help but nod my head in agreement.

Then I go and check the descriptions of the two legendary skills.

{Blood Plague – This skill allows the user to infect every being in sight that they choose to infect with one of five different viruses, each of which will spread through physical contact or contact with bodily fluids to anyone the user wishes it to spread to.}

{Gradual Corruption Nullification – This skill allows the user to slowly nullify any sort of corruption in their body over the course of nine minutes. The nine minutes does not have to go uninterrupted, however, the user may not use any other skills during this time. Usage of this skill requires a steady stream of mana.}

Looks like two more different types of viruses were added to Blood Plague, and the amount of time I have to use Gradual Corruption Nullification has been reduced from ten minutes to nine. Both good changes.

I run some math in my head to figure out how I can spend the rest of the Skill Points before deciding to bring one of the two legendary skills to level ten and the other to level six. Which should use up all of my remaining points but three.

But the question is, which should I bring to level ten?

“Is there even a question about it?” Tar asks, and I shake my head.

Not really.

I bring Gradual Corruption Nullification to level ten and Blood Plague to level six, simply because I’ll need the corruption nullification to be as high a level as possible if I ever want it to evolve.

Still gonna bring Blood Plague to level ten later though. When I get the points.

And with that done, I sit back to look at my status.