[You have obtained three drops of ’Ancestor’s Blood’. Would you like to merge them immediately?]
[Note: After merging, your Vampire Earl skin will be upgraded to ’Vampire Marquis’, the previously obtained Blood Clan talents will be enhanced, and you will automatically comprehend a new talent ability.]
Upon leaving the Vampire Duke’s residence, Mu You returned directly to the Ryan Family with the blood drop. He found a safe spot within the house and began the bloodline upgrade.
The entire process took much less time than he had imagined, mere seconds.
Mu You didn’t feel anything in reality, for he was only upgrading one of his skins.
A few seconds later, a prompt popped up in the game.
[The upgrade is completed, your vampire skin has been advanced to ’Vampire Marquis’.]
[Vampire Marquis: The second highest rank in the existing Blood Clan. When facing other Blood Clan members of lower rank, your damage and defense abilities will greatly increase, and the inborn talents of lower-ranked Blood Clan will not take effect when faced with you.
Night King: You become weak during the day and stronger at night. The closer to midnight, the stronger you are. You can get a 100% bonus to all attributes at most.
Titan Slayer: You inflict seven times the damage on creatures over three meters tall, and ten times the damage on creatures over ten meters tall.
Talent Absorption: Can merge with other ownerless skins to obtain one talent of that skin and randomly obtain one curse. The level of curse will be one level lower than the gained talent. When you absorb the lowest-level talent, you will not receive any curse.
Survival of the Fittest: ...
Aquatic Proficiency: ...
You possess the curses: Blood Thirst, Scorching Sun, Daydreaming, Death Penalty.]
[You have obtained a new talent ’Lightning Speed’.]
After the upgrade, Mu You carefully reviewed the changes.
As expected, neither his level nor attributes increased. Only the quality of his skin was improved.
Among the six talents he had before, only Titan Slayer and Talent Absorption were enhanced; the rest remained unchanged.
The damage induced by ’Titan Slayer’ increased from five times to seven to ten times.
As for ’Talent Absorption,’ the effect itself did not change; it was still "consume a talent to get a curse", but now, the obtained curse would automatically weaken by one level.
This fact was directly reflected in the curses he had previously obtained using that ability. The low-level curses ’Greed’ and ’Glutton’ he was affected by had disappeared completely. The effects of Daydreaming and Death Penalty significantly weakened.
The effect of Daydreaming now is feeling drowsy all day, but it no longer forces him into deep sleep.
The Death Penalty, on the other hand, was reduced from a ’penalty of ten times upon death’ to ’five times penalty’, weakening by half.
Next came the highlight of this upgrade, the new talent: Lightning Speed.
[Lightning Speed: Increases all your speeds by 360 times within 3 seconds; it is automatically disabled when you prepare to attack and leaves the initial range of 1,000 meters. The cooldown time is 54 seconds.]
This talent was, of course, randomly generated by Mu You using the Pocket Watch. Luckily, it wasn’t a hidden talent, making it easy to roll out after a few simple randomisations.
As for its effect, Mu You instantly checked it out in the storage space.
The moment Lightning Speed was activated, Mu You felt everything around him slow down. The Silver Owl that flew over his head, the unicorns playing in the distant meadow, the little mermaid splashing water on the lake shore... Everything around him seemed to enter a slow motion mode. He alone remained at normal speed.
This scene felt familiar to Mu You; yes, it was like the Fool’s Card!
It was just scenario when activating the Fool’s Card, and the 360 times speed of the Lightning Speed was also the same multiplier as the Fool’s Card.
The 360 times speed from Lightning Speed did not just apply to movement speed, but also to reaction speed, dynamic visual acuity and all other speeds. This meant the apparent outcome was as if his own time was accelerated by 360 times, just like the Fool’s Card.
However, he couldn’t move while activating the Fool’s Card and had to stay within the Fool’s Boundary. Now, he could move freely. The only two restrictions were that he couldn’t attack, and he couldn’t go too far during the Lightning Speed time; otherwise, it would automatically deactivate.
Mu You summoned a clone to try it out and found the judging to be very strict. As soon as he raised a weapon toward the clone, or even just condensing the magic, the moment he showed an intention of attack, the accelerated effect ended automatically.
In other words, this ability could not be used to attack and was difficult to use for escaping, but he could do anything else in those three seconds, as they amounted to as much as 18 minutes for him!
Combined with the Pocket Watch’s ability to go back in time, it granted him high freedom during that period to change even more things.
Of course, it’s not to say this ability is superior to the Fool’s Card. After all, Lightning Speed can only speed up itself. Everything else, even if held in his hand, is still in slow motion.
On the other hand, the Fool’s Card accelerates everything within the Fool’s Boundary. He could cast spells and attack normally, and even concoct Magic Potion, etc., within the boundary. These were things Lightning Speed couldn’t achieve.
Overall, these two abilities do not conflict but complement each other, each having its own benefits.
After testing out the ability, Mu You picked up his phone.
In the game, the speed at which text popped up was still at the same pace, a few seconds each, sometimes faster or slower. If a longer text instruction popped up, it was because the world on the other side hadn’t accelerated.