Chapter 11: Innate Ability

At the moment, Tristan felt his entire body churn, as if it was undergoing a reboot.

[Blood Elf Monarch Innate Ability Activated]

[Stage One Skill - Blood Extraction]

Currently, Tristan couldn't believe what was happening in his surroundings. He saw with his own two eyes that the blood of the human and orc corpses several meters around him was slowly flowing closer to him, as if something pulled them over.

Glancing down at his body, Tristan noticed that his entire body was absorbing the nearby blood on the ground. In addition, blobs of blood began coming out from the slowly approaching corpses, and floated towards him before his body absorbed them.

The phenomenon continued for a while and Tristan saw a notification in his head.

[3000...]

[4000...]

[5000…]

[A mix of 5000 low quality blood cells were found]

[Extracting and filtering the blood cells...]

[2000 Blood Essence gained]

[Tristan Crimson - 21 years old]

[Battle Power - 100]

[Spirit Aptitude - S]

[Spirit force - Non Existence]

[New source of power was found - Blood Essence]

[Blood Elf Monarch - First Stage - 0/1000]

[Blood Essence - 2000]

[500 Blood Essence would be used for automatic health restoration]

Multiple notifications barraged into Tristan's mind, utterly overwhelming him. Each notification caused more questions to appear inside his head. Having no answer, Tristan decided to focus on what was going on with his body.

Just like what he had seen in the movies, Tristan could see and feel his snapped bones being reattached, severe wounds all over his body closed up, and his missing limbs regenerated.

In the end, all the fatigue, wounds, and exhaustion Tristan felt was gone, replaced by a powerful deluge of energy coursing through his body.

[Health fully restored!]

[Blood Essence - 1500]

Tristan slowly awakened from his half-conscious state, still in disbelief as he scanned his entire body. He realized that his previously battered body was already returned to its normal state, perfectly fine as if nothing was happening.

Unlike before, this time, as Tristan tried to feel his healed body, he unexpectedly found out that he had complete control over each of its tiny movements. Feeling the fingers curling on his command, Tristan let out a small smile inwardly.

Alas, Tristan's glee was destroyed as he heard the annoying sound coming from the white haired goblin, "Kekekekeke…"

"You are all now doomed!!"

Unconsciously, Tristan proceeded to pick the heavy claymore lying on the ground. He then walked towards the remaining space knights and orcs, while dragging the massive sword behind. At the moment, Tristan's demeanor truly looked intimidating.

Without a doubt, Captain Siegfried was extremely shocked to see the elf manage to get up and walk in his direction. After all, there was no way that elf could move from the beatings he received. Even if the elf didn't die by his previous ferocious blows, Captain Siegfried was sure that he would at least be crippled.

However, the sight before him was real and couldn't possibly fake. The elf, who was walking towards him, was completely healed. If its body wasn't completely covered by blood, Captain Siegfried would believe that the elf unscathed by his attacks.

"Blood Elf! My champion! Kill all those humans!" The goblin screeched as it pointed its finger towards Captain Siegfried and his men.

Other than Captain Siegfried, there were only 2 more space knights who were fit to fight and could be deployed. The other two were heavily wounded by Tristan's previous attacks. Currently, they were being treated by the female space knights who wore lean power armor.

Seeing Tristan was walking closer to him, Captain Siegfried gripped his hammer tightly. "If the first time was not enough to end you, I am ready to smash you the second time!" said Captain Siegfried as he dashed towards Tristan.

When the distance between the two of them was only a few meters, Captain Siegfried quickly leaped to the air while raising his hammer over his head. Swinging his hammer downward, electric sparks materialized over the hammer as Captain Siegfried delivered a heavy blow augmented by the force of gravity.

Noticing the descending meteor-like hammer, Tristan swiftly positioned the claymore above his head to block the blow.

BAAANNGG!!!

The momentum the hammer carried was so immense that it made Tristan knelt on the ground. In addition, the ground beneath his feet was cracked by the impact received from the attack.

While Tristan was feeling pain on his shoulder, courtesy of the hammer strike, another notification suddenly appeared in his mind.

[You have 1500 Blood Essence]

[Enough amount to advance into the second stage of Blood Elf Monarch]

[Will you proceed?]

While blocking another strike coming from his right, Tristan shouted in his mind, "Yes!"

[1000 Blood Essence was used]

[Blood Elf Monarch advancing to its second stage]

[....]

[Advancement completed]

[Received Blood Elf Monarch second stage's Innate Skill]

[Stage Two Innate Skill - Blood Seal]

[Advancement affected the host's physical body]

[Battle Power increased significantly!]

[Tristan Crimson - 21 years old]

[Battle Power - 150]

[Blood Elf Monarch - Second Stage - 0/2000]

[Blood Essence - 500]

Leaving the news about the second skill aside, Tristan was shocked to see his battle power was increased by half of his previous amount. Even though he didn't know how strong he was now, Tristan could refer to how much strength he gained from his previous prowess. And clearly, the fifty percent increase was massive.

While he was still shocked by the number, Tristan felt his whole body contracting before a refreshing sensation flowing through his body. Surprisingly, Tristan began to feel the hammer strokes were lighter compared to before.

Simultaneously, as Tristan finished his advancement, the two other space knights were also already near him, launching their attacks towards him. Tristan suddenly let go of the claymore and immediately proceeded to grab the hammer with both of his hands.

Next, Tristan channeled the strength in his body to swing the hammer around. As a result, Captain Siegfried whose hands tightly gripped the hammer hilt was pulled and yanked off the ground.

Captain Siegfried suddenly turned into Tristan's shield and weapon, as his body was flying on the trajectory of the incoming attacks.

BRACKK!!

All three space knights were flung back and knocked down to the ground. Tristan swiftly grabbed the Claymore again, and dashed forward. Not towards the collapsed space knights, but towards Cursaac.

Thanks to the advancement, Tristan ran at breakneck speed, and was already in front of the white haired goblin within a few seconds.

The goblin was startled, before it began to lash out, "You?! Why did you come here? Kill those bastards!"

However, looking closely at Tristan's eyes and expression, Cursaac realized that his champion no longer followed his command. As he knew the real strength of the blood elf, he was immediately shaking in fear.

Tristan swiftly grabbed Cursaac's neck, and lifted the goblin to the air.

"Y-Your sister!! Yes, your sister!!"

As if it was the right password, Tristan instantly released his grasp over the goblin the moment he heard that.

Inhaling the air roughly, Cursaac continued his words, "Your sister and everyone else is with me. If you don't follow my command again, my orcs will kill them all with a mere gesture from me. Kekekeke."

"What do you want?!" Tristan said sternly as he heard the goblin threaten his sister again.

"Are you deaf? Those space knights! Kill them all and you can have your sister back."