<h4>Chapter 485: Boiling Blood</h4>


    Date- 29 Mar 2321


    Time- 11:27


    Location- Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Blood Rock Cave Gate Dungeon


    Old Ben''s mastery of blood rule had reached super unique tier with an understanding of super unique level. The blood rule''s meaning which he chose at the bifurcation point was Boiling Blood.


    Boiling Blood meaning of blood rule is double-edged, with the immense power thates with it, there is a huge side effect to pay for. Boiling Blood meaning can give host''s overall stats a boost of 1000%, but in that state, the host gains a madness debuff which is directly proportional to the overall stat boost. Meaning if the host gains a 500% overall stat boost, then he also gains a madness debuff with a 500% boost.


    Madness debuff is enough to turn any card apprentice into a mindless beast. If it is boosted by 1000%, the card apprentice will turn into a mindless ughtering machine who will attack anybody within their line of sight. This is the worst meaning of blood rule for one toprehend, but for old Ben, this meaning was a perfect match with the side effects of his origin card.


    Old Ben''s origin card is Emotion Olfactory Lobe which allows him to smell others'' emotions. But there is a massive side effect to it, Emotion paralysis. It is more of a safety mechanism of the origin card than a side effect as its purpose is to protect old Ben from undergoing emotion overload. And once again, thanks to this emotion paralysis, old Ben is immune to the madness debuff. Making the Boiling Blood meaning the best match for old Ben.


    In terms ofprehension of blood rule, Old Ben and Ted had gained a bargain, but Van was out of luck. Boiling Blood and Blood forge are handy forbat, but Blood elixir is not. For my army of cmity daughter gem healing ability was of no use. They all had body restructuration skills and could quickly heal any kind of mortal wound, so an additional healing skill was of no use.


    "Old Ben and Ted, congrats, the meaning that both of youprehended are good. Van, you are out of luck this time, but I won''t me you if you choose to abandon the blood rule and tryprehending other rules.


    If you still want to master this meaning, I won''t stop you but teach you a blood ritual that will allow you to embed the blood elixir created from a monster''s blood into the origin card and turn it into an elixir card. I bet TSR guild members will appreciate the blood elixir cards." I congratted the other two while I gave Van an option to abandon the blood rule or use it for itsmercial value.


    Van''s affinity to blood rule was very low. Despite the help of blood pills and the blood rock cave, he could not reach the high level of mastery in blood rule to create a basic Rune. Therefore I gave him a choice to stop wasting timeprehending blood rule and abandon it. After all, the meaning heprehended was useless, and wasting time to reach ultimate mastery in it would be stupidity. Hence I advised Van to abandon the Blood rule andprehend other rules.


    "Yes, master Wyatt. The blood rule is notpatible with me, so I will try my luck with other rules." Van chooses to heed my advice. This is the burden of the average card apprentice. Due to theirck ofpatibility with rules, if theyprehend an unrequired meaning, they have no choice but to abandon that particr rule and try toprehend a new one as they could not afford to waste timeprehending a rule''s meaning, which is of no use to them.


    "Sure, do as you see fit. You can keep the extra blood pills or share them with Sarah. Ted, Blood forge is an extraordinary ability. It will not only be of help inbat, but you can use it to create blood weapon cards. If you require more blood pills, ask me." Blood forge is a great meaning. Simr to blood elixir, it also has a very highmercial value. Ted could create blood weapons using high-rank monster blood and then embed the blood weapon rune into an origin core and morph it into cards. Higher the rank of monster blood used stronger the blood weapon made. Blood forge and Blood elixir both had a very highmercial value.


    "Thank you, Master Wyatt, but the blood pills I have on me shouldst me for quite a while. And I n to create blood weapon cards and sell them to the TSR guild, if you don''t mind." Before I reminded him, Ted already had ns to create blood weapon cards and sell them to the TSR guild.


    "What about your job as City Lord''s guard? I thought you would be going way beyond with him." Anna had banished City Lord to Way Beyond. I thought City lord would take his guards with him. So, I was confused when Ted made ns for the future with the TSR guild.


    "City Lord gave me a choice to continue working for him at ''way beyond'' or retire. Since master Wyatt is here, I nned to apply for retirement as city lord''s guard tonight." Though the daughter gems had independent thoughts, their priority was still me, so I was not surprised by Ted''s decision. But I did not need Ted here, I wanted him to go to Way beyond with City Lord and get me the information on Way Beyond that I was missing.


    "Ted, I think you should not retire yet. Go to Way Beyond with the city lord and be my eyes and ear at the Way Beyond." Since the City lord asked Ted to choose, I chose for Ted.


    ording to what I have heard from Anna and Lorenzo, Way Beyond is where all the fuss is. Since I am a part of this world, I should know what is going on in this world. And apparently, Way Beyond is the humanities frontier, and I should know what''s happening there at the earliest. Therefore, I did not hesitate to order Ted to go to Way Beyond with the city lord.


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