Chapter 185 - A Puzzling Discovery

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Upon hearing the challenger's system's response, Randy thought about it for a brief moment and finally understood the challenger's system's reason, so he did not bother to ask any more questions since it was already self-explanatory based on the information he received just now.

With that thought out of the way, he proceeded to check his attribute screen only for him to see that the empty skill section was now filled with two skills, just like the challenger's system had stated.

[Skill(s): Beginner Swordsmanship ( LV. MAX), Intermediate Swordsmanship (LV. 1)]

With that confirmed, he put that aside and immediately resumed what he was about to do before the challenger's system suddenly announced these changes to him.

Although he was somewhat surprised by these changes, he could not afford to be shocked by everything every single time, so he decided to focus on the important matters and make the most out of his time.

'Now, I can finally focus and try out my theory.'

At this moment, Randy was sitting on the floor of the white room in a comfortable position to prevent any discomfort during his little experiment which was very peculiar. Without further ado, he turned his gaze to look on his original system's screen, on a specific skill at the skill section, and then he concentrated on activating that specific intently.

Very soon, the system notified him of the activation of that specific skill.

[[Ancestral Regression Skill Activated]]

With the activation of this skill came the irresistible dizziness and delirious state of mind as Randy felt his vision blur for a second, and then suddenly the whole world receded from his vision.

There was total and complete darkness everywhere.

Shortly after, he suddenly found his consciousness in some space with colorful balls of lights of different colors shining in the distance.

Upon closer observation, these balls of colorful lights range from red, blue, yellow, and many other faint colors. But with a single thought, Randy was able to traverse the distance between the colorful balls of lights and him.

When Randy approached the colorful balls of lights, he closely observed these different balls of lights with a mystified expression. Although he was now in something akin to a spiritual form, he could still move the limps on his spiritual body just fine. Though, he was now hovering in this dark space instead of actually standing on a platform.

At this moment, as Randy saw the many colorful balls of lights hovering in front of him, he started to wonder if these colorful balls of lights are the depictions of the types of blood that he had assimilated with.

At the same, while recalling what the system explained to him about his Blood Retain Skill, he suddenly felt enlightened when he observed these colorful balls of lights for a while.

'So this place is the blood space that the system was talking about? But where is this located? Is it truly inside my body? Since it said blood space then this should be within my blood? But how can something like this be in my blood?' Randy thought in wonderment.

Although Randy would like to ponder about this for a while longer, he did not have time to waste as he did not know how much has passed in the real world.

He remembered the first he entered this place when he entered the virtual duel system for the first time, and it only took him a few seconds for his consciousness to come out of that place.

In truth, he felt like time did not pass at all when he came out of this space back then.

That aside, he needed to find that blonde man's blood amongst all of these types of blood that are depicted as these colorful balls of lights.

Randy glanced through a few of the colorful balls of light and a short while later, he discovered that two particular colorful balls of lights were shining more brightly compared to the others.

One of these bright balls of light was the blood-red light that he had been using all this time to transition into his ancestral form, which turns his hair color from his regular blonde hair to crimson red and his eyes also turn from grey to amber-golden.

Randy always found it strange why that was the case, but he never questioned it too much at those times when he transitioned into his ancestral form using his Ancestral Regression Skill and simply went with the flow while the subtle changes in his looks and appearance. However, that did not mean that he was not curious about the reason for such a change in his appearance.

The second ball of light that shone brightly alongside the blood-red light was starry blue light and just like the blood-red ball of light, Randy could feel an inexplicable and yet familiar feeling resonating from the starry blue light.

'Just who are the sources of these bright colorful balls of lights? Are those my parents' blood that existed inside me in all this time since they're part of my bloodline? If that is the case, then I suppose it makes sense since my father's ability was blood manipulation, and my mother's ability was frost or ice manipulation, and so, in that sense, the blood-red light and the starry blue light represent them both, respectively.' Randy thought in conclusion.

After concluding his thoughts to be the case, Randy ignored these balls of light for now and turned his attention to the remaining colorful balls of light.

However, when he glanced through them, he surprisingly found two more balls of light that shone brighter than the remaining colorful balls of lights, but they were not comparable to his parents' balls of lights.

Furthermore, these colorful balls of light had almost the exact same color as his parents' colorful balls of lights. The only discernible difference was that their color was dimmer and lighter than his parents' colorful balls of lights. Otherwise, they would have been identical to each other.

When Randy compared the four colorful balls of lights, he was instantly left bewildered by this discovery, and he wondered whose bloods those balls of light belong to, as from them, he could feel the same sense of familiarity as he did from his parents' colorful balls of lights just now.

This was a very puzzling discovery to him because he could not understand why there were four colorful balls of lights that he could somehow tell or know who they might belong to, but at the same time, he had no idea who they truly belong to specifically.

So far, he had only guessed that the brighter colorful balls of light belonged to his parents but now that he saw these two balls of lights that were slightly identical to the ones that he thought were his parents' blood and also that he felt almost the exact sense of familiarity from them as well, he was bewildered and could not understand why that was the case. 

'I truly have no idea what's going on. No matter how much I think about this, I can't come to a proper conclusion.. Is this perhaps related to the secrets that my parents were keeping from me? Then, did they know about my ability before I even awakened or something?' Randy sighed and wondered.