Parallel Vol. 5

Chapter 29: Greed

The noble vampire race had ingested blood ever since their creation several millennia past. In their early days, vampires could only drink blood directly from their prey. This was both inefficient, and severely lacking in elegance for the proud race. To combat this inefficiency, several old vampires performed various research until they created the [Dawn Pelmut] skill. This skill solely served to absorb large amounts of blood from their prey.

While it would have been more efficient to harvest blood directly from living creatures, the conscious lifeforce prevented them from seizing control. Hence, vampires could only control either the blood of the deceased or blood separated from its original owner.

[Dawn Pelmut], this basic skill, soon became the foundation of all future Blood Arts.

However, although Dawn Pelmut seemed simple, that was only on a small scale. Vampires were the most feared creatures on large battlefields for a reason. Their lethality was akin to a snowball tumbling down the mountainside.

Once the ball started rolling, it could no longer be stopped. A tiny snowball would inevitably balloon into a giant unstoppable ball.

"I-Impossible!" At the moment, the Primate facing Syèl finally understood a vampire's true terror!

Tens of thousands of dead clones exploded in unison, causing a torrent of bloody rain to fall from the sky. Shockingly, those millions of droplets paused midway, and then rapidly coagulated to form hundreds of three-meter spheres.

Syèl looked at the hundreds of floating spheres with a snarky grin. Normally, he would never be able to control this much blood, but the Greed floor boosted his control over blood to insane levels in an attempt to satisfy his insatiable 'greed.'

Syèl only admired his handiwork for a brief second before he flicked his finger downward. Following this benign action, the blood spheres shot down towards the Primate's clone army with blinding speed.

The Primate's clones did not sit idly by. They quickly launched all sorts of attacks at the blood spheres. Ki-blades, elemental attacks and more shot towards the incoming projectiles. The spheres may be fast, but they fell on a straight line. The Primate strongly believed he could destroy or at least weaken a vast majority before they fell.

Unfortunately, he could not have been any more wrong!

Whoosh! The Primate stared in shock as the blood spheres suddenly performed evasive maneuvers, dodging the opposing projectiles with shocking ease. The Primate stared at the distant Syèl with fear and shock in his eyes. He could tell that the vampire was a manually controlling the spheres – but that was impossible!

No hume should be able to independently control so many things at the same time!

How could the Primate have known that Syèl's brain was far from normal. The augmented young man could control dozens of gladiator mechs to engage in combat. Compared to the gladiators' complex visual, auditory and sensory overload, controlling a bunch of balls to dodge left and right was like rocket engineering to basic addition and subtraction.

Syèl faced no difficulties at all!

Realizing this, the Primate wanted to order a portion of his clones to charge at the vampire. Unfortunately, due to the vast distance between them, the clones would never make it in time. The Primate's timewasting tactics firmly bit him in the butt!

Syèl, oblivious to the Primates' frustrations, grinned when the spheres finally fell in the clones' midst. Due to the spheres' liquid nature, there was no massive explosion or crater. In fact, only a few dozen unlucky clones died on impact from being swallowed by the spheres.