Upon a brief thought, Mu You understood. This was likely another curse obtained when the former Vampire Earl had absorbed a certain ability.
Nonetheless, he had unexpectedly met the actual body’s owner who hadn’t seen through his Fool identity, instead mistaking him as the original skin host. On top of that, the original vampire was afflicted with a curse of amnesia...
This could actually be carried on!
[You choose to seize the opportunity and admit that after awakening this time, you indeed forgot many things. You only remember you’re from the Ryan Family, and you have no recollection of specific family members. You hope the other person can explain to you what happened in the past.]
[Ryan May responded with a face of understanding, narrating to you her older brother’s history.]
[The Ryan Family was once a large family in the distant past, but because of a long-term lack of experts within their ranks, it declined. Their numbers dwindled as time passed, until the birth of Ryan Liston, who is the original host of your skin.]
[Apart from properties originating from the body level in a blood clan’s power composition, the most important is the family’s talent.
Each blood clan family has its own unique talent tree. Some are powerful, some are common, acquiring some powerful talents is sufficient to support a blood clan to fight above their level.
However, these talents can only be potentially obtained when the blood clan’s rank is upgraded. There is a 50% chance to obtain a talent each when one is promoted to Baron and Viscount. Afterward, 100% chance to awaken a new talent upon promotion to Earl, Marquis, and Duke. Therefore, even the highest-ranking Vampire Dukes can only receive a maximum of five blood clan talents.]
[Ryan Liston awakened a long-lost hidden talent called ’Talent Absorption’ when he was a Baron. The more noteworthy the talent power, the stronger the curse it comes with. That is to say, as the number of powers increases, the weaknesses become more conspicuous.
Every blood clan member who has awakened this talent in history has, without exception, all died from the recoil brought by the stacking curses. Therefore, this talent is seen by ancestors in the family as a malignant talent where those who receive it would eventually walk towards self-destruction.]
[And Liston was no exception. The rapid inflation of strength brought him all sorts of limitations. Each time he gained new power was like taking a gamble. If he could stop in time, there might be room for maneuver. However, Liston was so obsessed with the thirst for power that he got himself stuck in it just like a gambler, continuously collecting various abilities until he ultimately drove himself to a dead end, forcing himself to go into hibernation, disappearing from the blood clan’s view...]
Mu You was astounded, he didn’t expect that his predecessor had devoured hundreds of abilities!
He himself has time-travel, which allows him to backtrack to filter out curses. Still, even so, after several curses were stacked together, he already felt many inconveniences. It’s easy to see what sort of limitation would be imposed on a person after one hundred different curses are stacked, even if one is lucky enough not to encounter contradictions in curses.
However, even after gaining so many abilities, his predecessor was not satisfied, and thus his fate was sealed.
Mu You was full of sighs.
That being said, even though his predecessor had mastered more than 100 talents, he only inherited three when he received the skin. It seems that extracting the skin only inherits a very limited number of abilities possessed by the deceased.
[Ryan May tells you that to avoid attracting others’ attention, the place where her brother lies in sleep has never been revealed to outsiders. Only a few intimate family members know about it. She is one of the insiders. As for this time’s millennium clan meeting, the family was warned by the duke because they couldn’t submit the Heart of Foggy Mountain. She doesn’t intend to go to Foggy Mountain and search for the Heart of Foggy Mountain herself because it’s very likely that other blood clans with ulterior motives would follow her lead to find her elder brother and thus destroy the grand plan of her elder brother’s revival. She believes that even if they are driven out of the clan now, as long as her brother revives in the future, the family will have a chance of resurgence.]
[After saying that, Ryan May hesitates for a moment then asks about the blood servant "Rodney" you sent out earlier, wondering if you came across him.]
Mu You raises an eyebrow, indeed this question ultimately couldn’t be avoided.
After some thought, he decides to answer truthfully as lying in these matters could be easily exposed.
[You apologize to May and tell her that you met Rodney before, but he tried to steal treasures from the tomb and you killed him casually.]
[Upon hearing this, May doesn’t blame you at all. On the contrary, she repeatedly tells you not to worry. She knows about Rodney’s greed too. He must have angered the elder Lord. A mere blood servant is not worth grieving for, as long as her elder brother is safe!]