Blood Assimilation

As Randy was baffled by what he had glimpsed on the other side of the battlefield, his system suddenly projected a new screen with a notification, as lines of text displayed in his field of vision.

Seeing this, Randy immediately stared into the void of space.

[[You have fought a deadly battle against a pseudo-transcendent existence with considerable strength that wielded an infallible ability that transcends your current capabilities]]

[[As the opponent had borrowed external forces to achieve their current strength, they couldn't unleash the full might of a true transcendent as they were still a mortal, thus you were able to manage to kill them and earned yourself an abundance of divine points that exceeded the mortal soul limit]]

[[You have earned 120,000 divine points]]

120,000 divine points!

Just killing this demon alone earn him so many divine points? And what was that pseudo-transcendent his system was talking about? Does it have something to do with why their divine points were more abundant?

'Thinking back, when I defeated the chimera monster, the system also said that it was due to its body being tempered with.'

Randy tried to recall the system's notification at the time by going through his mind.

As someone who had more mental energy than most people at his level of strength, his current memory storage and recollection were now beyond human.

Although it wasn't too exaggerated to the point where he had a photographic memory, it was still close enough.

…

After he barely managed to kill the chimera monster at that time, this was what his system showed him.

[[You have killed an enemy that was stronger than your current strength and power level]]

[[You have successfully harvested 100,000 divine points within the soul of the enemy]]

[[The total amount of divine points harvested far surpassed the total amount possible with the power level of the enemy, but since this is a special case that stemmed from the enemy's body being modified beforehand, all the harvested divine points would be kept for the host]]

…

Based on the way his system had phrased it, it would appear the abundance of divine points within the chimera monster, who was a tempered human, and this demon, who also wielded the same dark energy as the chimera monster, are related to their 'modification'.

However, the black-horned demon did not appear to be modified.

Unlike the black-horned demon, the chimera monster was most likely experimented on by some wicked people in his world, which turned him into a monster with animal parts.

So what's the true reason behind their abundance of soul power? The unearthly and sinister dark energy or their modifications? Or maybe both, since transformation could be referred to as body modification in certain respects.

Regardless of the truth, the definite and indisputable fact was that if he defeated people who used this dark energy in the future, he might be able to harvest more divine points for his benefit.

Despite the risk involved, it would be worth it. Moreover, if he made it a habit to prepare for every fight beforehand, the risks involved would be lessened.

After all, he found out through his previous experience that divine points were most likely even more precious than knowledge points, but just like knowledge points, they were not abundant in nature.

Furthermore, just like knowledge points, which he needed to harvest from the creatures of intelligence that he killed, he needed to kill his opponents before he could harvest their soul power in a form of divine points.

Wait a second!

Why didn't he receive any knowledge points?!

He noticed this before when he fought the chimera monster, but at the time, he was so out of it after the battle with it coupled with the subsequent events that he didn't recall such details afterward.

Randy was curious about this because he remembered that when he defeated that Holy Knight Captain on their first encounter, he received knowledge points and divine points, respectively. If he received both points, then why didn't he receive anything when he fought against the chimera monster and this demon? Is it a coincidence? Not likely. Is there a connection? Most definitely.

With such a deduction, he quickly asked: "System, why didn't I receive any knowledge points?"

[[Although the opponent you defeated was only a pseudo-transcendent, their power level is beyond the current world's laws. In other words, it is unrestrained in this world and could easily kill beings that are below the true transcendent level of power. However, the demon you fought was only considered a weakling in comparison to a truly strong demon in this world. Furthermore, your survival could only be attributed to your luck.]]

"What?!" Randy was shocked, and then he said: "If all the demons wielded such powers, wouldn't they become invincible in this world?"

[[Indeed, such existences such as the pseudo-transcendents are unfathomable and beyond the comprehension of mortals who hadn't reached the true transcendent stage, and due to that, their mental and psionic energy levels are too chaotic for you to absorb since they're borrowing high-level power while they're still mortal]]

'How can that be allowed to happen, though? Doesn't this world have gods or something? Or are the gods the ones providing them with the power? Is that why?'

Randy recalled when the world's laws were putting pressure on him a while ago simply because he tried casting a spell that almost went against this world's laws.

And yet this black-horned demon could wield power beyond the current world's laws? How absurd is that? What is the world's law doing?

Furthermore, there did not seem to be any side effects when the black-horned demon used that dark energy. Why is that? What is that dark energy in the first place?

According to his system, the dark energy did not belong to his world or any other world for that matter, and yet he came across it not only once but twice.'

'That reminds me, earlier that demon said something about divine blessing and baptism of their god…'

Randy pondered for a moment and then realized something that he hadn't bothered to ask until now.

"System, before that, can you tell what is a pseudo-transcendent?" Randy asked this because he had no idea what that term meant. He did not remember such a term used in the academy, or more like, his system kept on using terminologies that he had never heard of before, so everything he learned was useless.

The system did not hide anything from him and explained briefly.

[[A pseudo-transcendent is any being that borrows a high-level power from an exalted being— A respectable god in this world. Such borrowed powers usually come with a price like exchanging the lifespan or the soul power of the borrower]]

[[In the worst extreme case, the more they use the borrowed powers, the more their lifespans would be reduced as a price, eventually losing their lives. And in the least extreme case, they would only be deranged and gradually become intoxicated with their borrowed powers, eventually losing their minds]]