42 Blood essence (1/2)

The most obvious gain was of course the corpse of the Steelback Bear but after the fight he had heard the notification that he had gained something from the fight. It was just that he hadn't had the time to check them out yet.

He opened up the first notification which had sounded during the fight.

<< Congratulation you have unlocked blood essence. >>

<< Blood Essence is the essence of living beings with blood. After their death you are now able to condense it into crystal form which can then be used with the right skills.

Unlock conditions:

Get familiar with the use of blood by killing and getting killed by a vampire type being.

Get bathed with the blood of a being strong enough to have condensed blood essence.

Remark:

Are you sure you are still a human?

>>

Once again the remark wasn't all that friendly and he couldn't help but wonder if he did something to the system since he hadn't heard of anyone else who got such remarks.

After reading the unlock conditions he was sure that there weren't many others who could fulfill them since he hadn't found any mention of a skill like his 'Resurrection' skill in the Alliance library and without it he was sure that the first condition would be hard to fulfill.

What he didn't quite understand was the second condition as it implied that the dungeon creatures didn't have any blood essence which he found weird. After all the description of Blood Essence had mentioned that living beings with blood have it and since the dungeon creatures he had slain had blood they too should have it.

A daring thought came to him. Could it be that the creatures in the dungeon weren't really alive but jut constructs by the system?

Deciding that he would be unable to find an answer to this question he choose to continue on with checking out his spoils.

Next up were the information for two skills he had gained. These skills were ways of using the blood essence.

<< Congratulation you have unlocked the skill 'Blood is Power' >>

<< Skill: Blood is Power, Rank S, Level 1

Mana cost: 200

Channeling time: 5h

Recharge time: 24h

Use up one blood essence crystal to permanently gain some of its stats in form of shadow stats.

You will get 0.01 stat per blood crystal stat.

>>

This skill looked really useful since it could help him to permanently increase his strength by slaying enemies and since it scaled with the stats of the blood crystals he was sure that it would scale well with the strength of his foes. The question was only how much stats these crystals had because getting only 1 percent of its stats wouldn't be much if the amount was low.

The second on the other hand was a temporary increase of strength which he was sure could be very useful in a dire situation.