ALL NOVEL Chapter 157: Blood Runes
"You are weak. What you will do is lure him into a fake sense of impending victory and hold out till I am done with my opponent and come defeat him."
This had been Blake's words to Kail when he had sent him to battle Ezriel and he wasn't the least bit surprised by his next actions after all he was an eternal servant, not an eternal slave. Kail's loyalty was absolute but his obedience, well that was all on Blake to manage.
Bound and being mocked by Ciara, Blake kept his eyes staring down at her for several seconds and then he spoke.
"Nice boobs"
Blake's words had Ciara blinking as she realized that all this while he had been staring at her exposed cleavage and she could only watch bewilderment as his gaze left her to stare at Ezriel in the distance.
Ciara fumed, angered by the blatant disregard from Blake but before she could tut her horn, she also snapped her head to stare at Ezriel's shock on her face.
"He shouldn't be needing to transform to defeat his opponent, especially so soon, what is happening."
"Seems one of your guys is already in a pinch," Blake said.
"You shut up I have you captured and as long as I have you, this battle is won."
"That wasn't the deal"
Hearing Blake talk about their deal, Ciara looked at him with a raised brows.
"Surely you didn't think that would hold"
"I know rune masters are people of integrity and honour, I thought you were one ."
Unable to control herself a conflicted look came upon Ciara's face as she ruminated Blake's words doing a retrospect on herself to see if she had made any promises but Blake's laugh broke her out of her trance.
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"Your mind has gotten slow, you should really rethink your strategies and decisions."
Ciara perfectly heard Blake's words but for some reason, she found her brain slow to process it and could only take a step back as she tried to understand what was going on with her.
"Why was I having a moral dilemma about capturing him."
Blake watched the woman for a few seconds and then with a bit of struggle he shattered the runes that had wrapped around him, ignoring Ciara who was looking him up and down with a horrified expression.
"You have divine blood" Ciara muttered.
"You figured that out fast" Blake said not correcting Ciara's mistake.
Ciara turned away from Blake and ran towards the boundary of the barrier, a flurry of red runes rising from her body and wrapping around it, embedding themselves in her armour and even leaving symbols on her face.
With this Ciara's aura took an entire qualitative change becoming so heavy that Blake began circulating his blood through his body to upset the pressure of her presence and keep his mana steadily flowing.
"Bang"
"Bang"
"Knowledge is power, " Blake thought to himself not even daring to gulp as he watched Ciara release punches on the wall of the dome he had trapped them in, each of her punches sending the earth quaking and reminding Blake of the sacrifices he would need to make to match that strength.
The Truth was that with the kind of strength Ciara was outputting at the moment, was she to attack Blake their confrontation would go into a fierce battle whose winner would only be decided at its end.
Ciara had no idea that her conception of Blake was wrong and that she was losing to him only because she was using the wrong means.
"I need to up my strength, I need to make sin points"
The importance of Blake having divine blood in his confrontation with Ciara came with the fact that the dome he had locked the both of them in stripped her of the numerous runes which had been built into the grounds of this estate and were at her command.
Ciara had the option to create and use other runes but as Blake had proven earlier when they first met, her runes were not a threat to him and with his mighty soul essence he solidified that fact, after all, rune creation and manipulation at Ciara's level was fueled by one's soul might.
Ciara not agreeing to give up had decided to go the extra mile and use a sinister ability, one which Blake would guess should be her blood rune technique.
Unlike the other runes which came from mana, this rune came from Ciara's blood, and they were rooted in her blood essence. Blake doubted even Lena had known about them and could only sigh in appreciation of his semi-divine blood and will which had been the keys to him silently overcoming her runes and then infecting her.
Ciara calling out Blake on having divine blood was because she had picked up on the fact that he was trying to infect her by letting her absorb his blood and in essence her vitality.
Believing that she had picked up on Blake's scheme before it came to fruition, Ciara in complete fear had now gone to attack the barrier, desperately seeking to escape, unaware that at the moment, her body was Blake's temple.
[Lust Aura]
Corrupting the atmosphere within the dome with all his might and intent, Blake put his gaze on the terrifying creature Ezriel had become, his eyes narrowing at the new stats he now possessed.
"His transformation has increased his strength but still it hasn't given him the foundation he needs to tackle Kail, his strength right now is just artistic."
[Name: Ezriel Thorne]
[Species: Demonic Draken]
[Rank: Fourth order]
[Title: Soldier of Lust]
[Soul essence:309]
[Strength: 1900 / Agility:1480 / Stamina:750 / Vitality:1423 / Intelligence: 471/ Mana: 1934 / Charisma: 523 / Will: 879]
[Abilities/Skills: error...???]
[Touched by sin]
Hearing Blake's words, Ciara stopped her attacks on the dome and stared at him, she frowned at his calmness and then looked to Ezriel who was letting out a powerful roar, the power he was releasing being easy for her to feel and be impressed.
"This Kail, what level of comprehension has he reached"
"Surely you don't expect me to tell you that"
"You shouldn't but I will really like to know"
"Well last I talked to him, he told me something about beginning to touch the edges of the fourth level."
Ciara pursed her lips at this, her face covered in doubts and contemplation and when Blake began walking toward her, rather than move away, she stood still and warily watched him.
To Ciara's surprise, Blake covered the whole distance between the two of them his body touching her and then he turned her around so her back was to his chest.'
"Let's watch the battle " Blake whispered his hand going around her waist and pressing her body to his.