Chapter One-Hundred-and-Sixty-Two
When they left the church and Adam expanded his perception to the entire city, he could immediately tell that there were less melodies overall. He still wasn’t able to finely sort through them when he had his blood sense spread this broadly, but he was steadily gaining more and more clarity when he wasn’t limiting his range.
For now, he pulled it back to only encompass the Pious district. Along with some new strong bloodfiend melodies dotted around, he also noticed an altogether different type of melody. It was one that didn’t emanate any emotions, and it seemed to fall between human and animal in terms of the one-track tone that flowed through it.
Maybe those are ghouls, he considered.
There were at least a dozen in just the Pious district alone, which did not bode well for the rest of Moonport. Ghouls were basically zombies, and while they shared all the weaknesses of bloodfiends, they only gained a moderate boost in physical power and were completely enslaved to whichever vampire had made them.
The ones that were close enough to pinpoint seemed to be hidden inside buildings and basements, but they would become shock troopers at night, so trimming their numbers was important. Especially since they could no longer hide in the church, because Father Mathias and his holy relic were both gone.
The others followed Adam as he went over to harvest the bloodfiend that he’d killed during the night using his sculpted eye. Adam’s new shirt immediately sucked up all of the blood from the dead vampire, and he was glad to discover that it worked exactly like he’d hoped, allowing him to pull the blood out and manipulate it. The moment he spilled any blood on the ground or walls, his shirt hoovered it up, which was extremely useful.
After gathering the vampire’s materials, he’d collected another pair of fangs, putting him at 4 mature, and 24 lesser ones, which was already a good amount of Points, but would also allow him to complete Migraine’s quest without trouble.
But I should probably split these with everyone else at the end. They’re easy enough to collect, so we should have quite a lot by the time we’re done with Moonport.
Adam’s crimson shirt already had about five litres of blood inside, which put his Defence back to where it’d been with the Cloud Skimmer Jacket, on top of giving him 50% more Speed, which was immediately noticeable.