88 Inheritance (2/2)

He screamed out in pain, startling the woman, who had focused all her attention on her daughter and the kitten she was forming. Turning towards him, she was shocked by the sight. Just a second ago he had looked normal, but now his veins were bulging and wriggling like something was trying to escape from them. But it didn't end there, as there was steam coming from his body, and this steam was blood red.

”What happened?”, she asked, her voice tinged with concern. She might not like him, but he was after all Janes father.

Ivan was in too much pain to answer, and even if he were able to, he too had no clue as to what happened.

Getting no response she got closer to him, but to her shock, he started to emit a crazy amount of heat. Throwing a quick look at her daughter, to check if she was ok, she then focused on observing him. But the only thing she could do was look on, as his situation once again changed.

Similarly to what happened to his daughter, the mist too started to take shape. But unlike her mist, his mist didn't circle through different shapes but directly formed the shape of a lizard. Like Janes it became deep black, while it formed, but with red patterns.

With the formation of the lizard, his body stopped giving off steam and while his veins were still unnatural, it looked like the wriggling weakened. Just when Lara, thought that his condition was getting better, suddenly he spasmed and the veins on his arms burst open, splattering blood everywhere. And a scream filled with an indescribable agony echoed through the villa.

”Shit!”, she cursed. She then pulled out her phone and hurriedly called over the family doctor as well as her uncle. She then told her housekeeper, Madam Tanner, to take Jane to the living room.

Madam Tanner had been shocked, when she saw the blood-spattered room, after bursting into the room, but she soon got a grip on herself and took the little girl on her arm to carry her out. Luckily Jane was still out of it. It seemed like condensing her pet, which was now sleeping in her arms, had taken a lot out of her. While she was oblivious to her surroundings during the process, now it was just deep exhaustion, that stopped her from registering anything around her.

Since he hadn't bled beside the initial outburst, and she didn't want to move him, before the doctor had checked him out, she could only wait. Using the time, she cast 'Clean' on herself. The skill was very useful since it could easily clean clothes, without the need to wash them. Not only did it work on clothes, but also everything else. It was just that it used a lot of mana.

After casting the skill, the room once again became clean, as the blood stains vanished. But surprisingly the red stains on her white shirt didn't completely vanish. Instead, they had changed into elegantly looking patterns, that reminded her of the runes, she had seen on equipment found in some of the higher ranked dungeons.

Wondering what this was about, and since the doctor wasn't here yet, she decided to use inspect to check it out.

<< Bloody Shirt, Grade Unique

This shirt has been stained by the blood of Ivan Hope during the first time his bloodline mutated. Mysteriously these bloodstains have formed Ancient Blood Runes on the shirt.

Can only be worn and inspected, by females with a family connection with Ivan Hope.

Effect: Chaos Shield (Passive), Self Cleaning (Passive), Self Repairing (Passive)

Energy: (70/100) Grade F

Energy is used to activate the effects and can be recharged by injecting blood into the Ancient Blood Runes. Blood has to contain the Spiritual Chaos Dragon bloodline.

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When she saw the description that popped up she was stunned. * What the hell?? * This was only a common shirt she had bought in a normal shop and now, because some blood had spattered on it, it changed into a Unique grade item?

Besides that, there were some weird things about the description. It was much more detailed than usual and it was filled with information, that she hadn't heard about before, which was unusual for the 'Inspect' skill, since it took normaly only took the knowledge one had, together with some extrapolations and then created a short and precise description. But in this case, it seemed like most of the information came from the system, which was nice, but puzzling.

Anyway, the most important thing was that it told her what had happened to Ivan. Although even with this information, she still couldn't clearly understand, what happened, and why it had happened. She had heard about bloodlines from her father, and she knew that her own family had one too. Her father hadn't told her which one, since according to the family rules, she would only be eligible to know after she had reached level 1000. She could guess that Ivan's bloodline had undergone some changes, which had most likely been triggered by Jane forming her Spirt Pet.

”Oh, right.”, she had completely forgotten about the lizard that he had formed. It now laid on his chest, deep asleep. She took a closer look at it and unlike she had first thought, it wasn't black. Its color was a dark gray, which was only interrupted by dark red. Similar to the red on her shirt, they too seemed to form runes.

”I wonder what these are.”, she wondered while tracing them. The skin of the lizard felt surprisingly comfortable to the touch, as it was warm and smooth, evoking her desire to stroke it some more.