Chapter 164: Bloodline Magic: Absolute Boundary
[Storing the magic book inside your system inventory, you haven’t learned it yet. After all, you planned to do it after you awakened your Bloodline Magic.]
[After seeing the treasures inside Bloodthorne Clan’s treasury, you ignored some of them that were suited for vampires. Rummaging through it for several seconds, you finally found at least thirty Bloodline Magic Awakening Scrolls.]
[Not only that, beside those Bloodline Magic Awakening Scrolls, there was a magic book that gave detailed instructions on how to produce Bloodline Magic Awakening Scrolls.]
[’According to that magic book, it seems that Bloodline Magic Awakening is a Six Circle Magic Spell. However, its difficulty is comparable to a Seven Circle Magic Spell.’]
[’And since it requires the mage to be specialized in blood-attributed magic and even master spell scroll inscription, it’s even more difficult than the average Seven Circle Magic Spells.’]
[’Due to its strict requirements, only two of the Bloodthorne Clan Elders knew this craft. And that was due to the blood lineage of those two Bloodthorne Clan Elders, specifically learning and mastering this craft.’]
[’Otherwise, if a vampire lineage didn’t specifically learn this craft and just naturally waited until someone in their clan took an interest in learning and specializing in it, it would take who knows how many centuries before a new Spell Scroll Inscriber Master appeared in their clan.’]
[Due to that, the royal vampire clans created a branch in their royal vampire lineage that required its descendants to specifically master that craft, like it’s their job. Only by becoming qualified to learn it would they become Clan Elders.]
[The interesting part about it was that compared to the average Clan Elders, they were more respected despite having lower combat power than the average Clan Elder.]
[Moreover, becoming a Clan Elder through that method didn’t have a strict requirement on one’s power rank or even combat power.]
[Theoretically, as long as one becomes a Spell Scroll Inscriber capable of producing Bloodline Magic Awakening Scrolls, then even a Gold rank Vampire Noble could become Clan Elder.]
[After all, not only did a mage need to know the Bloodline Magic Awakening spell, they even needed to learn how to inscribe it in a spell scroll. The difficulty of it discouraged most mages from even specializing in that craft.]
[As for you, just reading the magic book detailing the Bloodline Magic Awakening Spell, you couldn’t help but realize, ’Huh, it’s a lot easier than I expected.’]
[’If the Bloodline Magic Awakening Spell and inscribing it into a spell scroll has a combined difficulty comparable to learning abstract algebra from scratch without learning previous mathematics branches, then for me, it’s like learning basic algebra.’]
[’It might not be a cakewalk like arithmetics, but it’s not as difficult as trigonometry and calculus. Either those vampires are dumb as a race, or they are inferior to the comprehension and talent of an Arch Human.’]
[You were willing to believe it was the latter. After all, your Arch Human talent and comprehension already had a track record of easily learning magic knowledge, concepts, and spells.]
[After spending several minutes, you managed to learn the Bloodline Magic Awakening Spell.]
[Since you already knew how to inscribe spells into spell scrolls, you could mass-produce Bloodline Magic Awakening Scrolls now.]
[Without any hesitation, you used the Bloodline Magic Awakening Scroll that you created on yourself, tearing it and using your mana signatures to let the spell scroll’s effects target you.]
[After it locked onto you, the inscribed magic spell, which was Bloodline Magic Awakening, was instantly triggered and was used on you.]
[When it was used, you felt your blood boil as if something was awakening within your bloodline.]
[That sensation lasted for half an hour. After that sensation ended, you immediately obtained innate knowledge of what Bloodline Magic you had awakened.]
[The Bloodline Magic you awakened was called ’Bloodline Magic: Absolute Boundary’.]
[As its name suggested, it allowed you to use magic to manipulate boundaries.]
[That ability to manipulate boundaries made you recall a certain purple old hag who was famous for such an ability.]
[’The ability to manipulate boundaries... It seems that I can look forward to bringing this to a higher level, not having to worry about it being irrelevant when I become stronger in the future.’]
[Compared to space manipulation, boundary manipulation was more abstract and conceptual.]
[With Absolute Boundary, you could finally be immune to Jade’s time stops. It’s as easy as creating a boundary between you and time so that it won’t affect you while someone is manipulating time.]
[Aside from creating boundaries, you could also weaken, strengthen, erase, or invert boundaries.]
[Weakening the boundary between life and death allows someone who’s about to die to prolong their life for as long as that boundary exists. Erasing the boundary between here and there allowed you to achieve instant movement.]
[’Boundaries, in essence, are a line that separates one thing from another. In other words, it manipulates the distinction of something.’]
[’For example, if I were to create a line that separates safety from danger, then enemies crossing that line will get harmed.’]
[’And if I were to strengthen boundary... strengthening the boundary between wound and healing makes it more difficult for someone to heal from their injuries.’]
[’The same went for strengthening the boundary between mana and the enemy, making it so that the enemy can hardly use mana or not be able to use it at all, depending on how much I strengthened that boundary.’]
[If creating boundaries were to establish a separation that didn’t previously exist, strengthening boundaries was to make an existing separation harder to cross.]
[As for weakening boundaries, it’s to reduce distinction.]
[For example, if you were to weaken the boundary between near and far, then a distant target becomes reachable.]
[It might resemble space manipulation, but it’s conceptually different.]
[Another example was to weaken the boundary between injury health. The result would be that healing becomes easier.]
[’The possibilities for using my Bloodline Magic: Absolute Boundary, are near limitless. For now, I should familiarize myself with it so I can apply it in combat.’]