He has asked her about the connection between them before. She said she doesn't know exactly what it is or its nature. The only thing she knows is that she is part of the ring, and the ring is part of his Power Shifting Omega ability.
He can see her and can hear her, but he can't hear her in a loud environment, which suggests that he needs his ears to hear her, not his mind. That was confirmed by the fact that he can't sense her mind at all with his mental ability.
But if he needs his ears to hear her, does that mean she is communicating with him through physical sound? If it means that, why can't other people hear her when she speaks?
Then again, his inability to pinpoint her existence or the connection between them might be because of her mental immunity and stealth abilities. So she might actually be connected to him mentally but he can't find out. It is all confusing.
He sighed and said, "I guess I'll just have to wait until I trust her. Maybe things will become clearer then."
So he gave up on searching for abilities to build and he moved on to abilities that will make him stronger and improve his chances of surviving on the foreign battlefield.
He has had a certain amount of confidence in himself ever since he gained the Life Steal Omega ability. After all, if the Count can survive there with such an ability, he can surely do better.
But he wants to be sure of his chances of survival, so he wants to shore up his power. It would have been great if he had gotten Rewind's ability. With it, he will be confident of survival as long as he is not killed instantly.
Unfortunately, things don't always go the way he wants. He didn't get Rewind's escaping ability, and he can't get the Gemini's ability to escape, so he has to get something else.
He took one last look at the Gemini twins again and read their information. Their ability makes each other their symbiote. If one of them encounters something good and grows stronger, the one will also grow stronger.
The same is true if one of them encounters something bad. They can share their life force, which will help a wounded twin heal faster. And in the case where they are allowed to grow up, they can even resurrect each other.
Unfortunately, as powerful as this ability is, it wasn't enough to prevent them from being captured and enslaved. In fact, one twin can be used to damage the other no matter where the second twin is.
Now that they have been captured, their ability makes them good slaves because they won't die easily.
He shook his head in wonder and said, "This is exactly what I want to avoid. I must be able to escape, or my immortality can turn me into a high-priced slave."
He went through the list and searched for escape abilities. He didn't find any, which didn't surprise him. But he did find something that will make it difficult for him to be killed or captured.
This ability belonged to a race called a lesser vampire. It was an ugly thing that looked like a giant muscular black bat. It had rippling muscles like that of a pit bull. Even its head was similar to one.
It also had a lot of sharp teeth in its mouth. This indicated that it was some kind of predator, which the information about it confirmed.
The lesser vampire is a blood feeder. It is nocturnal and sleeps during the day. It can't see well during the day, so it likes to hunt at night. The day doesn't have any other effect on it apart from that.
It doesn't have more power than brute strength and speed. It only has two abilities. One is an infrared vision, which it uses to find prey at night, and the other is the ability to collapse into several smaller portions of itself as a means of presentation.
In situations of extreme danger, it would create these smaller portions out of its blood and life force. They would then scatter in different directions. Each portion will have a small amount of its strength, and each one that dies is a loss to its life force.
This ability called Bat Escape trades power for survivability. The more life force a lesser vampire possesses, the more lesser portions of themselves they can create.
If they are lucky, they recover most of their life force by absorbing the lesser portions of themselves that escape. But they must do this quickly, or the lesser portions will begin to die.
The lesser portions can't live on their own. They must combine and try to return to their singular form soon after using this ability. But as long as one of them survives, the vampire will be able to escape successfully.
He liked the ability as it would work well with his life steal ability and help him escape most dangerous situations. And since he has a way to replenish his life force, the smaller portion he divides into will be able to last longer, and he will be able to use the ability in quick succession.
He became curious about other types of vampires since this was the lesser version. He did find the high vampire. It was still a giant bat, but it was white, slender, and more pleasing to the eye.
These high vampires, despite being smaller than lesser vampires, are actually stronger and faster. They also have charming and illusion abilities in addition to the infrared sight and bat escape ability.
They use this charming ability to hypnotize and enslave both lesser vampires and other races. It makes them the nobles of their race.
Above high vampires were primordial vampires who were similar in shape and size to high vampires, but they were red in color.
They were also stronger than high vampires. But what sets them apart from high vampires is their ability to control blood and convert other races into vampires.