Chapter 19: Elders
"Are you guys amazed?" After Ian examined himself, he flashed a toothy grin to his teammates, his vampire fangs showing. 'Although I don't have ways to improve my bloodline quality as a vampire, at least, I can grow stronger by customizing my entire body.' he thought to himself.
This body he got was so mediocre that it didn't have the necessary conditions to evolve to a Higher Vampire faster, or even at the very least, a True Vampire. Due to this body not having a blood root, the source of every vampire's potential.
In his understanding, Blood Root was like those Spiritual Roots or Dantian that he had read in Cultivation Novels in his past life.
Blood Root allows vampires to drink the blood of various creatures, whether dark races or not and use the blood devoured as nourishment to enhance their bloodline purity in order to ascend to higher states like True Vampire or Higher Vampire!
It was quite unfortunate for him to not have one. However, he wasn't alone. To have a blood root, although not absolute, one should have noble blood.
What is Noble Blood? It's the pure blood that vampires had inherited from their ancestor, Xenos, the Progenitor of Vampire, who was known to be on the Upper Realm, still alive. After all, once Xenos dies, every vampire that was in the Higher Vampire Realm and above would receive a vision.
The purer one's blood, the higher their potential and the closer their origin is to the Vampire Ancestor Xenos. Obviously, as the progenitor of the vampire race, Xenos is the strongest vampire and also the oldest there is.
What determines a vampire's strength? It is only the quality of their blood or bloodroot? No... Blood roots determine one's talent while the quality of blood determines one's realm. The most reliable way to measure a vampire's strength is by their age. The older a vampire is, the stronger it becomes. As for the reason? No one knows. Many tried to research the cause or investigate why, but the answer remains elusive.
So there are two ways for vampires to enhance their strength... First, through devouring the blood of creatures. The stronger the creature, the more effective their blood becomes for vampires to enhance their blood purity.
A 100-year-old vampire is certain to become a true vampire without drinking the blood of creatures. 400 years old to become a higher vampire and 1,000 years old to become an Elder. Vampires only need to survive long enough to naturally increase the purity of their blood. Unfortunately, just waiting was a very slow process. After all, who knows if you can survive for how long? The world is cruel, it won't wait for you to become stronger.