Fantastic Creatures’ Travelogue Chapter 24

Chapter 24 The useless blood magic

Vivian couldn’t believe it. She squeezed another drop of blood and dropped it onto Hao Ren’s hand. Then the two of them stared to see what would happen – Lilly also watched it curiously. The drop of blood was tinged with a golden-reddish glow. It moved on Hao Ren’s skin for quite a while, and after a few seconds, it shrunk rapidly, like a drop of water touching a soldering iron, and disappeared in front of their eyes.

“Seems like it’s absorbed,” Hao Ren curiously scratched the back of his hand. Honestly speaking, seeing the drop of blood creeping on his skin like a living thing was really shocking. If he hadn’t known that Vivian held no malice towards him, he would have wanted to get rid of that stuff without a second thought. And although he didn’t pay attention the disappearing the first time, this time he clearly saw the scary process. “I have no much feeling, though it was a little cold and ticklish at the beginning.”

“We Blood Tribe’s body temperature is a little lower than you humans’, so that’s normal,” Vivian hesitantly looked at her finger, while the wound she’d bit open had healed to a dot which was almost invisible, and then she clenched her teeth as if making a difficult decision, before she squeezed out a final drop, “Well… This is the last try. If this still doesn’t work, I will just give up; I don’t want to waste anymore.”

Lily took the opportunity to taunt her and replied, “Look at your stingy appearance, it’s just a drop of blood.”

“It doesn’t matter even if it’s just one drop a blood! One drop of blood is also blood!” Vivian was outraged, “Back when I still hadn’t adapted to human food, I still fed on blood. And I was so unfortunate that almost every time I preyed, I would be watched by witchers, and I didn’t have the money to afford raising my own blood servant. During my poorest period, I was reluctant to let out a single drop in my ‘periods’, and you know, you have not experienced storms and rains, and when the dire straits come…”

Hao Ren really couldn’t bear to listen to her pathetic past experiences, and smoothed things over before things got out of control: “Well, well, let’s stop talking about the past, and Vivian you should pay attention — this novel is in CERO-A 1 — and you shouldn’t detail your miserable life, I have a kind heart and I can’t bear to keep listening…”

Lily suddenly cheered up: “Then, landlord, could you spare me one month’s rent?”

“…… I’m talking to Vivian, what does it have to do with you..?”

After the conversation, at least Vivian still remembered to get down to business: She started the test again, but this time she muttered an old spell in a strange tone as she spread her blood on Hao Ren’s hand. Hao Ren felt the cold air and smelled the scent of blood again, but the blood on his hand behaved the same as before, as it only moved for a few seconds before disappearing within the blink of an eye.

“My contact with the blood was also interrupted,” Vivian frowned, “Never before has such a situation occurred, as there is a fixed link between the Blood Tribe and their own blood. Unless we ‘abandon’ the part of our blood of our own accord, the link should not be interrupted.”