16 What?! (1/2)

Looking at the starry sky, Su Min kneeled onto the drenched floor with fatigue. Numerous corpses sprang around him, wafting with a nauseous stench that would make anyone gag.

Su Min observed the beast for a while until, without warning, his pupils suddenly constricted with an intense shudder. A trembling glow rumbled on the blurry symbol on his chest as an intense lifeforce revealed itself in the beast.

Gasping, Su Min's eyes quivered even more as streams of flakey blood rose and began to string together above the beast. The flakes assembled at an extreme rate and swished with viscosity whilst becoming denser and denser.

A surreal and beautiful sphere of blood formed above the beast. It seemed dense enough to form a liquid and wobbled in a strange fashion, emitting a fragrant smell.

Su Min eyes shuddered as a remarkable call welled out from the blurred symbol when the refreshing fragrance hit it, and with no hesitation, he shot forward and grasped at the dense lifeforce.

”GUH!”

An invigorating and strange feeling welled up inside of him as that blood seeped right into his skin and churned into the symbol. It was as if someone had grasped at his veins and had started to tug at them with a gentle but exhilarating clutch.

As this happened a golden light shrouded his chest and enveloped the blurred symbol, humming in roiling waves of a bizarre ancientness across Su Min's body. Su Min found that all the lifeforce had gathered in his chest, but he wasn't able to control the lifeforce at all. Instead, it seemed that the symbol had a mind of its own as a mystical sound started to reverberate through every inch of bone and muscle in his body.

A distinct crackling sound echoed from every joint and every muscle as his flesh convulsed in a peculiar fashion, beating in rhythm with his heart. However, a strange scene occurred as those convulsing muscles started to shrink at an alarming rate. They wriggled and churned in a monstrous demeanour that thrashed into Su Min's mind, waking him from his reverie.

His expression turned to shock as a situation that was unknown to him occurred, yet he could do nothing about it even if he wanted to.

His body continued to squirm for an unknown amount of time until his once oversized and lofty muscles had condensed to a degree that they halved in volume!

Nonetheless, instead of becoming less distinct, a terrifying set of muscles that looked inhuman replaced them. Although they were now averagely sized, they were somehow so clearly defined that anyone would have to rub their eyes in disbelief to comprehend it.

It wasn't just this, though, as a new ancient vitality started to emanate from them that seemed strangely noble. In fact, although it was faint, the ground beneath Su Min had unknowingly crackled for a split second.

The symbol on his chest flashed as if it had finished and released a burst of this aura in concentration. The aura didn't seem to conform to reality as the colour around Su Min flashed golden, distorting the air in a peculiar fashion.It was just a flash, but it seemed to cause the world to shiver for just a moment.

”Uh?”

Su Min looked confused as he inspected his body with a strange expression. He found that neither his muscles fibres nor his bones were remotely golden, even with all that lifeforce disappearing. Instead, they seemed to have changed their structure as Su Min discovered that each of his fibres and bones carried a new faint and blurry symbol!

Su Min pondered until he decided to focus on one of the symbols in his right arm. However, when he tried to rouse the symbol it just proceeded to sit there with no response. He didn't feel anything remotely unique about them, in fact, they seemed to be as plain as daylight.

'I don't remember this being in the technique. I guess I really need to get the complete inheritance...'

It seemed that no matter how much he tried he wouldn't get an answer, so he sighed and rose back up with a swift motion. He patted his jacket to shed some of the blood only to find that it had none. He blinked before checking underneath the jacket, and found that no blood was there as well!

'It absorbs blood? Pretty convenient.'