CHAPTER 84: BLOOD LOCK

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[Blood Lock]

(Skill Description):A Death Sentence. Once you draw or touch even the smallest amount of blood from your opponent, he would be marked by Blood Lock. From that moment onward, with each passing minute, 0.5% of his combat power would be reduced until the effect is broken or the opponent is dead.

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Both Yasmine and Vritra were surprised by this skill. Even though drawing out a fight when facing someone stronger is difficult, still, there was no mention of distance or time limit.

If he could just run away after Blood Lock is activated, then wouldn’t the opponent just end up dying as long as he couldn’t break free from it?

Forbid plus Blood Lock plus Fourth Dimension— wasn’t that such a dangerous combination? Vritra chuckled, already imagining lots of ways to use these skills. He had gained more than he could have imagined.

"I want to try this out so bad but... forget it, I will try it later in the tomb. Three million points for these cute skills, they couldn’t have been spent any better." Vritra mumbled. In a fight, his opponent would constantly get weaker even if they were just standing there and talking.

"I wonder what is that Divine Sin exactly..." Yasmine wondered to herself.

Vritra was also quite curious about all that— like this wheel, the system windows everyone sees— whoever is the one controlling everything from behind.

But he didn’t think too much about it. What was the benefit of thinking about any of it when there was no way of finding any answers?

"Let’s see what we have got next." Vritra’s smile widened as he looked at the final reward— it was the Third Eye.

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[Nether Eye]

(Description):Omnipresent. The eye that allows you to look at everything from a new perspective within a range of ten kilometres around you. In accordance with the Intelligence attribute, you could penetrate through the mental barriers of the opponent and deal mental damage.

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"Oh, isn’t this just too perfect? It is great to avoid all kinds of ambushes, and I can always be in control of my surroundings with this. Not to mention, the damage to mind. Hmm... first Forbid and now this, these skills are more dependent on my Intelligence stat. Looks like I need to invest more in it." Vritra pondered. But that was all for later; first, he decided to give the skill a try.

[Nether Eye Activated.]

Just as the skill activated, a third eye opened on his forehead. It was vertical and present in the centre of his forehead, though no pupil was visible... there was only darkness.

Vritra’s mind was instantly filled with the information of his surroundings. It was like a spherical boundary with a radius of 10 kilometres had formed around him.

He could clearly see anything within that range just by focusing— even insects that were several kilometres away, or the bugs crawling deep within the ground, birds flying high in the sky.

It was so clear as if he was watching it in the best resolution possible. The effect of the Third Eye was great.

Vritra closed the Nether Eye as it disappeared from his forehead. He did feel a slight headache after using it for a couple of minutes, but without a doubt, he would get used to it soon.

"All three things are extremely good, thousands of times better than my expectations. They will certainly be of great help in my next adventure." Vritra mumbled. Finally, he focused on the glistening white stone that appeared in his palm with just a thought.

"The only skill this stone can be used on is Dust Manipulation, which is currently at level 5 and rank B. It had evolved not too long ago, and even if I continue to use it all the time, I can feel that it would take several months or even more than a year to evolve to the next grade." Vritra spoke to himself.

Without a doubt, using this stone would give him more benefit once it had levelled up to rank 6. Then he could instantly upgrade it—but he would have to wait a long time for such a thing, and he needed to increase his strength as soon as possible for the Divine Tomb.

After several moments of pondering, Vritra finally made his decision.

"Upgrade Dust Manipulation to the next grade."

[Innate Skill Upgrade Stone used on Dust Manipulation.]

[Dust Manipulation is evolving to Rank A.]

[Evolution of the body has started...]

Just as he commanded, the stone glowed with a bright colour and then it was absorbed into his body. A strange but soothing energy flowed inside his body and gathered in his chest area. Vritra closed his eyes as he allowed the changes to occur in his body.

Dust began to swirl around him. This time the changes seemed to be several times more monumental than before—even his body seemed to be undergoing some sort of transformation—as more and more dust was absorbed into his body.

A strong storm began to rise in the capital around Vritra, making all the people confused by the strange occurrence.

Several minutes passed. Vritra had started to feel a headache since he was still in the Fourth Dimension and needed to leave soon, but he just focused on the evolution for now.

After more than twenty minutes had passed, the changes had finally completed, and his surroundings began to return to normal—even his body had returned to its peak state.

Several more messages popped in front of him.

[Evolution complete.]

[Dust Manipulation has levelled up to level 6.]

[Elemental Transmutation has transformed into Body of Dust.]

Vritra looked around, then at his own body. The capital had gone through a short but heavy storm, and everything was covered in dust. His own body looked a bit dirty—though with just a thought, all the dust disappeared from his body.

He had a feeling that he had become even closer with the dust. Without much thought, he directly opened the skill description, only focusing on the new part.

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[Body of Dust]

(Description): Becoming one with the dust, getting closer to the path of the Dust Lord. Your control over the dust has increased.

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"Hmm... Not much info is given there, but I have a feeling I can do this." Vritra raised his right hand slightly and stared at his palm while concentrating, as he used Dust Manipulation.

In the next moment, his hand turned into dust, which then crumbled and the dust swirled in the air. There was no blood or any pain—Vritra was surprised, even though he had expected this.

{Sin Point Gained: Intrigued +1}

"So your body can transform into dust now? It is already so terrifying at rank A. It even increases your defences to a great level, not to mention all kinds of other ways it could be used in." Yasmine exclaimed. She kept getting shocked again and again.

His hand returned to normal in the next second with a thought. Now he was completely prepared for his adventure.

He needed some practice to be able to perfectly integrate all his skills together in a battle—otherwise, even such great skills won’t bring victory to him.

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