Blood Assimilation

After a while of pondering over his mother's words, Randy finally opened his mouth and then said: "I see. I guess that makes sense. If that is the case, then I suppose she would become the first beast tamer in history, or she could become a mage just like mom since she also has compatibility for mana, right?"

"Ah, that's right. But that's too soon to decide such matters." Riley replied.

"…I guess. Anyway, I am going upstairs to change my clothes, mom. Be back down later for dinner." Randy suddenly said to her.

"Oh, okay. Don't bother waking your sister up. She had already eaten her dinner beforehand, so she won't be joining us today." Riley then said to him.

"Okay, I understand." Randy said as he climbed up the stairs.

"It must be hard on little Lydia if she was sleeping this early in time…" Randy commented to himself when he reached upstairs on the second floor.

After staring at the door leading to Lydia's room, which was silent without any noise coming from it, he only shook his head with a smile on his face.

Afterward, he went to his room, changed out of his school clothes, and then proceeded to take a cold shower for about 10 minutes while thinking about some things to himself.

'Before the special training outside of the city, I think I need to take a look at the skills and techniques and see if there is something that might be useful during the practical part of the training… If possible, something that would contribute to saving my life in case of an accident where some terrifying beast attack during my hunting…'

While thinking about this, he finished taking his shower, feeling refreshed and his mind also cleared of all thoughts.

And then after cleaning himself, he went to his room to change before heading downstairs again.

A few minutes later, he had dinner with his mother alone since his sister had already had her dinner and was sleeping currently.

After he was finished with his food, he took the plates to the kitchen and after washing them, he went upstairs again and then into his room.

At this moment, he was sitting on his bed with his system's display screen projected in front of his eyes.

At this point, he was looking at the skills and techniques that he had available that could be comprehended.

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⟪[[Records]]⟫

Current Recorded History:

Skill(s)

<Palm of Double Return>  [1000,000 KP]

<Shadow Mirage Barrage>  [1000,000 KP]

<Blood Ray>  [500,000 KP]

Technique(s)

<Void Rippling Punch Technique>  [1000 KP]

<Unseen Sword Art>  [100,000 KP]

<Mountain Cleaving Strike Technique>  [10,000 KP]

<Traceless Form Technique>  [50,000 KP]

<Untraceable Shallow Spear Art>  [50,000 KP]

<Destructive Demonic Spear Technique>  [30,000 KP]

<[Magic Spells Collection]>  [Varying KP per spell and technique]

<[Riley's Frost Magic Compendium]> [Varying KP per spell and technique]

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After taking a moment to glance over the skills and techniques, Randy was once again reminded about how unreasonably expensive it was to learn just a technique among all these lists of records.

But this time, he was very prepared. After all, the whole point of constantly challenging opponents in the virtual world, all of that hassle, was for this very moment.

Thinking about this, he turned his gaze and then looked at the section where his 'knowledge points' icon indicating his total accumulated points was displayed.

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⟪[[Knowledge Points: 53,600]]⟫

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While looking at the total amount of knowledge points that he had accumulated thus far, Randy was somewhat satisfied as he had a pleased smile on his face.

But after looking at the total amount of knowledge points needed for the techniques again, he deflated, and his smile also disappeared.

'Damn, just why is it so expensive! I farmed in the virtual world for two weeks straight and this is what I get after all that?' Randy complained in his mind.

And then he recalled something.

'Oh, right. I think it was thanks to those guys that I even manage to barely meet the quota.'

Randy silently thought as he recalled the events after he defeated the sunglasses man and his men.

…

[[You have decisively killed your opponent in one strike, thus obtaining a great amount of knowledge points totaling: 10,000 points]]

The system announced with a glowing line of text after Randy defeated his first opponent who was the support member among the sunglasses man's subordinates.

'H-Holy shit! 10,000 knowledge points from killing that weakling? Don't tell me the others all had this amount of knowledge points?' Randy exclaimed in his mind and then wondered.

'Although it feels disgusting thinking about this when I just took the life of a human but… Since they came after me first, there's no need for me to hesitate to kill them in order to survive this encounter!' Randy thought with conviction.

After a while of engaging in a life or death battle and succeeding in defeating the remaining opponents, the system announcement piled up in front of his eyes since he did not have the time to check during the battle.

[[You have fought and killed your opponent in battle, thus obtaining 1250 knowledge points]]

[[You engaged in a heated battle and have successfully killed your opponent after rendering their attacks useless, thus obtaining 1300 knowledge points]]

[[You have savagely killed your opponent before they could react, thus obtaining 1000 knowledge points]]

[[You have mercilessly killed your opponent that was fleeing, thus obtaining 950 knowledge points]]

While reading through these lines of texts, Randy had a delighted expression on his face despite the pile of corpses that lay in front of him at this moment.

Right now, he was genuinely thinking that this was a blessing in disguise, even if he almost died to these people.

Had he not used his dual-assimilated, the outcome of their battle, especially against the sunglasses man would have been unpredictable.

…

Back to the present.

'I really am grateful to those guys since thanks to them, I could afford at least one technique on here.' Randy silently thought to himself.

Throughout the last week and this week, he was only able to accumulate about 39,000 plus knowledge points after unceasing challenging players in the virtual world.

And so, even if he had added the previously remaining knowledge points of 7,915, he would have only managed to afford that 'Destructive Demonic Spear Technique' and nothing else.

But since he did not have a weapon or even a spear, learning weapon-type techniques would be useless to him right now.

Right now, the only technique that he could afford and learn besides the weapon-type techniques would be the 'Traceless Form Technique'.