He said, "I kept thinking of what would happen if the vampire escaped. What kind of punishment do you think the Yggdrasil civilization will give me? Do you think being the paragon will help?"
Wrath didn't care about that. She said, "Forget about the dead vampire. Tell me about the new ability. Did it work like you thought it would?"
He nodded and replied, "It did."
Then he became silent.
She rolled her eyes and asked, "Are you going to tell me or not?"
He smiled. Then he said, "I didn't get the Bat Escape ability. I got an ability called the Blood Core. The Blood Core is the foundation of the ability of vampires. It is probably why the vampire died when I took it."
"The blood core granted me the Bat Escape ability and Infrared Invasion. It also fused with the Life Steal ability like I thought."
"It cost just 10 game points to fuse. Then the ability changed to Life Core. This caused some unexpected changes in that I can now see life force in things, not just sense it vaguely like I used to do with my Life Steal ability."
Wrath sighed in relief. "That's good. Looks like we were worried for nothing. You can indeed steal the destiny of the other races."
He nodded. "I missed on some things, though. I could tell when I absorbed the ability. It tried to conform to my body, so it lost some things."
Wrath asked hurriedly, "Like what?"
He considered what to say before replying. "I'm not sure what its name is. But I got the impression that it would help me grow stronger by feeding on blood. There's another one that I didn't get much of an impression of before I lost it."
She said, "It is probably the blood sense ability or the echolocation ability. I guess the echolocation ability is dependent on its physique, not its blood core. But the blood sense should be depended on its blood core."
He nodded. "You're probably right."
Then he stood up and turned his attention to the other cases. He said, "Anyways. I still have a lot of work to do. I better get to it, seeing as no one else is going to do it. I guess I have to do everything around here."
She said, "You don't look like you're about to do work you don't want to do. In fact, you look like you're looking forward to it."
He asked, "What makes you say that?"
"The smile on your face."
He denied it. "My smile isn't real. I'm only pretending that I am happy to do all the work so that you won't feel bad about making me do all of it."
She chuckled and urged him, "Just get onto it and let's leave this place."
She laughed it off, but she felt a little guilty because he was right. He is indeed doing all the work to gain abilities that will belong to the two of them.
She thought with a little panic, "He is joking about it now, but he will be cross when he finds out that he was right about doing all the work for both of us."
Kelvin didn't know what she was thinking about. Not that he bothered to consider what she was thinking about. He was too excited about absorbing abilities that will make him and only him stronger for him to consider what was going through her mind.
He absorbed the ability of the blood tick next. The fist-sized arachnid glowed with golden light as he tried to steal its destiny.
There was no resistance compared to when he was dealing with the lesser vampire. But there was an adverse reaction in the tick. It was shaking in distress despite being unconscious.
When the light of his ability died, the tick also died. It lost its life as soon as it lost its ability. But it didn't turn into stone like the lesser vampire did. It became soft and squishy. Its form was visibly distorting as if it was butter under heat.
He said to Wrath, "I think stealing their destiny is fatal to non-humans."
She hummed and said, "Unfortunately, there isn't a third one for us to confirm."
He shrugged and moved on to the two humans. The process went about as he thought it would. Danger Sense and Power Identify didn't fuse with any of his other abilities. But they fused together in a new slot and cost him 170 game points.
He said to Wrath, "I got Blood Hook. It fused with Life Core. The two created Life Hook. It cost me 20 game points."
She urged him, "Spare me the logistics. Tell me what it is capable of doing now."
He nodded and showed her his hand. His hand turned soft, and his fingers became tentacles. One of the tentacles detached from his hand fell to the ground.
The tentacle looked like a black worm. It was also wiggling on the ground like a worm. But after a while, it stopped moving and disintegrated.
Wrath said, "Well, that was creepy."
Kelvin explained, "That's the life hook. I can put it in someone's body. It will latch onto their life force and will supply me with life force regardless of the distance."
Wrath was happy to hear that. She said, "That's good. Your survivability has increased now that you have it."
He nodded and said, "Yeah. Plus the fusion of Danger Sense and Power Identify gave me Extraordinary Perception. I can sense the incursion zombies below even though they don't have life force. They make me itch. It is weird."
Wrath encouraged him, "You will get used to it. The good news is that you're ready for the foreign battlefield now."
"Yeah. All it cost me was 200 game points, 150 million dollars, and 80 energy stones."
"Forget about dollars. The real things you lost are game points and energy stones. You will be able to get a lot of them on the foreign battlefield."