Location- Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Blood Rock Cave Gate Dungeon
'Blood spirits' hearing the ability of the meaning that Cortney had comprehended, I could not help but feel dread as this meaning was equally gruesome as the meaning I had comprehended. It also required a blood sacrifice for the ability to work. And the blood spirits extracted from the corpse of the victim could be turned into cards by performing blood rituals. That is to implant the rune of the extracted blood spirit into an origin core and then morph it into a card.
Cortney generously shared the info of the ultra rune she forged using Blood rule's meaning Blood spirit, with Bloodette and me. She did not seem to mind sharing the details of her meaning and rune she forged with me.
[Rune Name: Blood Spirits
Rune Info: Blood spirits is an ultimate tier rune forged from the blood rule, and it's meaning Blood spirit.
Blood spirit gives the host the ability to turn their victims into Blood spirits by blood sacrificing the victim. The Blood spirit carries the memories and abilities of past selves.
Requirements: Blood Ritual, Blood Sacrifice
Restriction: The authority of the rune's ability is restricted to the highest realm of the host's grimoire grade. Also, the host should hunt the victim personally.]
"Wow, that sounds like an extraordinary ability, Cortney." Bloodette enthusiastically cheered for Cortney's success in forging one great rune.
"Blood spirits, it seems to be a handy ability. Congrats on forming a ultimate rune." Hiding my dread for the meaning comprehended by Cortney, I congratulate her for successfully forging an ultimate rune.
"Thank you, But I think the meaning I comprehended is a little terrible. Killing is not new for me as it's part of a natural order but raising the dead back to fight this doesn't seem right" Cortney did not seem to be thrilled about the meaning she comprehended. If it is Cortney, I can rest assured that she would not use the Blood spirit ultimate rune recklessly.
"What's terrible about it? You can make so many friends using that ability, how I envy you. If I had that ability, I would make so many friends." Bloodette seems to think otherwise. Contrary to Cortney, who felt raising the dead as blood spirits were wrong Bloodette thought she could make many friends of her kind.
"Bloodette, to make friends that way, you will have to kill your friend candidate first and then raise them as Blood spirit. That's the opposite of what friendship means." I reminded Bloodette that to create her so-called 'friends' of her, she would have to kill them first and raise them as blood spirits.
"No" Understanding how creating blood spirit works, the idea of making friends using the rune Blood spirit became less desirable to Bloodette.
" Cortney, cheer up. You comprehended the meaning to the competition. I bet you already started comprehending the second meaning of the blood rule. Tell me more about the second one." Cortney's blood spirit rune was of ultimate level, which can only be achieved by complete mastery of the Blood rule's meaning. This also meant that Cortney could now comprehend the second meaning in blood rule.
The rule affinity seems to be a more powerful boost than I had thought it to be because I, who had a near-perfect grade ego gem, was still stuck at a bottleneck in comprehending my first rule's meaning to completion. I think the enlightenment that Cortney received should be more potent than mine. There is no way a person could comprehend a rule's meaning to completion in a single night of comprehension without the help of enlightenment.
"Yes, I did. The second blood rule's meaning that I comprehended is called Blood sanctuary. My understanding of this rune is still shallow. So, I could only forge a unique tier rune using my second rune. But combining my understanding of the two meanings of blood rule, I forged a hybrid rune that Emperor Luna and Anna talked about. " Cortney detonated a bomb with her words. Not only did she comprehend a rule's meaning to completion, but she also mastered a second rule's meaning and forged a rune of unique tier called Blood sanctuary rune.
If it were just that, then maybe I could still resist the charm of a rule affinity, but to my dismay, the two meanings Cortney comprehended were compatible with each other, allowing cortney to fuse them and forge a hybrid rune. The hybrid rune that many top powerhouses try to achieve was actually forged by a rookie card student in a single night.
"…" Cortney's achievements in comprehension of blood rule had left me without words. Here I was with an almost perfect synchronization rate, and yet still, I was not able to master a single rule's meaning to completion. I did not know if this was due to rule affinity or the secret base used by Cortney to comprehend the rule, but Corntey had achieved what took others a lifetime in a single night.
"My innate blood rune 'Blood Supreme' not only did it have the ability to help me fuse with Bloodette but also seems to give a huge boost to my blood rule comprehension. Thanks to that, I was able to choose a second rule's meaning which is compatible with the first rule's purpose I had comprehended.
If not for that, I would not have entered an enlightenment state for such a long period." Cortney explained that her rule affinity was not the only one behind her current achievement, but her innate blood rune, 'Blood Supreme,' was equally responsible for it.
"What is your hybrid rune called?" Bloodette, unlike me, was genuinely happy for Cortney's achievements. I was also pleased with Cortney and her achievements. But as a human, I could not help but compare my achievements in Blood rule with Cortney's achievement. Leading to my current dismay.. Seeing the accomplishments of Cortney in blood rule, I could not help but get enticed by Rule affinity despite Anna repeatedly warning me to give up on rule affinity.