Draconic Vampire: Curse of the Blood

Miss. Cryel felt Deryn's gaze but chose to ignore him. He won't listen to her so it was pointless trying to change him.

Deryn was from a prominent summoner family so she didn't want to escalate the situation further, at least she didn't want to directly get involved. If someone else were to challenge him, that would be for the best.

After the five students introduced themselves, she stood up and put her rune card on the table.

"Listen to what I say very carefully. Today I will teach you how you can send a wisp of your blood-qi to your tamed summon."

The wall behind her showed many symbols in sequential order.

"These are the sequential order of the steps you need to take in order to create a wisp strong and delicate enough to enter the summon's body successfully without killing it.

" I will explain the procedure to those who need time to process the symbols."

At first glance, Keith could tell what was written on the walls. It was the ancient tongue in which all blood-qi techniques are documented. 

As he made sense of the text, a smile appeared on his face. It was a very simple yet tricky technique that needed a different type of insight, unlike warrior frame techniques.

" The blood-qi is the life energy of the blood with your attribute. When you use blood-qi projection, it only covers a few inches from your body.

In this technique, you will be able to extend a small part of your blood-qi projection and enter the summon's body."

She extended her aura and her blood-qi surrounded her body. 

"In the demonstration, it looked easy to just create a blood-qi wisp, but in reality, it is extremely hard. 

"This technique is not like esper technique where you separate your blood-qi. Instead, you focus on a single point in your body and extend that part.

These parts of your body will be the pathways that communicate with the summons and extend your influence. So you should focus on a couple of spots instead of spreading it all around your body." 

She shook her hand to show that she chose the palm. The blood-qi above the palm stretched and turned into a cone-like shape. A thin thread came out of the pointy end.

"You have to focus incredibly hard and practice this posture for a time to make the blood-qi behave like this. 

Then, from the end of the point focus on the edge, try to visualize a thread coming out. The more you focus the thread will come out eventually." Miss. Cryel created a small thread that came out of her palm.

It was so thin and transparent that anyone could barely perceive it.

" Let me tell you, I made this wisp thread thick enough for all to see. Master blood summoners can make these threads so thin, even vampires at the high level can't perceive it." 

Everyone hearing this tried to imagine the blood-qi threads that the high-level blood summoners use. One student couldn't control his curiosity and asked Miss. Cryel.

" How high are you talking about? The level of those high stage vampires."

" Dean Jesper could make threads even Dukes couldn't detect. The only way to detect these threats is to have an extremely high sense of blood-qi equal to the king." She explained.

" I will end the class here. Try to practice the technique as much as you can. I want to see who can create blood-qi threads first. Now remember this sequence and try to memorize it." She pointed to the wall behind her.

Three students stated to imitate the technique described by Miss. Cryel.

Deryn was still mad at her and only glanced at the blood-qi technique and didn't try to implement it

Keith on the other hand was analyzing the symbols and the technique shown by Miss. Cryel.

[ The symbols are pretty straightforward, but it doesn't show an accurate picture. After seeing her do this, I've copied the technique to its tiniest details.]

The system declared proudly.

'Can you replicate the method? Right now?' Keith asked with anticipation.

[ If you want to bamboozle these vampires, then sure.] The system replied.

'Just make a small thread and don't take out the purple tendrils accidentally.'

The purple tendrils that absorbed energy also resembled a summoning wisp, but they were nothing alike. 

The purple tendrils were like a black hole sucking any type of life energy thrown at it. Only Keith could decide which energy it would absorb.

The blood summer wisps are extensions of his blood-qi and not independent. They were primarily used to tame the summon's soul and bond with it.

As the system gave Keith an understanding of the wisps, Keith grasped the technique easily. It was also because of the purple tendrils that made it easier to implement this technique.

Keith extended his arm and created a small cone-like shape made of blood-qi.

Miss. Cryel was so surprised after seeing him casually create the shape after observing her do this.

" Did you learn this technique beforehand? " She questioned with a doubtful face.

" No Miss, I just saw you do this. I merely followed your lead. You are such a wonderful teacher. I could do this on the first try." Keith laughed it off.

This time Deryn was also astonished. He was from a blood summoner family so he knew what it took to learn this technique. Seeing Keith learn it and implement it so quickly made him mad with jealousy and denial.

He kept denying it until he snapped.

"This is nothing special. I can do it too." He created a similar wisp but his ring shined softly that implying he used his artifact to create this.

" Deryn! You are not allowed to use artifacts in the class. I'm afraid I'll have to abstain you from entering the next class.

" Why can't we use artifacts.? They are part of us and act like extra limbs. I think it is an advantage if someone has a better artifact than others." Deryn defended himself.

"That applies to only the blood ritualists. If you love artifacts so much, why don't you transfer to the blood ritualist department?

Miss. Cryel was losing her patience with his unreasonable blabbering.

" Right, you haven't been selected for the department. So shut up and follow the rules, or else I will ask the dean to see you personally " She glared at Deryn.

Hearing dean Jesper's name Deryn calmed down considerably. It was well known within the faculty that dean Jesper and Duke Arji were classmates. They were at the same stage and shared a healthy rivalry.

Deryn wasn't afraid of anyone even if they were faculty, but dean Jesper was very close to his father. He could effectively punish him without an issue and his father won't interfere.

Seeing that Deryn went back to being calm, she went back to her seat. She glanced at Keith and asked with an eager face.

" I can see you have great talent in blood-qi manipulation of any discipline. I would like to personally train you. How would you like that?" Miss. Cryel asked with expectant eyes.

'This is a good opportunity. I can scan all the techniques perfectly and implement them relatively quickly.'

" That would be an honor, Miss." Keith bowed his head.

"But I must tell you, these personal lessons will be during the usual class, I can't give you extra time, as it will hinder other's learning.

" I understand. I will make the best of those times."

' And copy all the techniques you will show me.' Keith inwardly rejoiced.

After that, Miss. Cryel dismissed the class and the five students left the classroom.

When they came out, the other students struggling with the wild animals glanced at them with envy. 

They were upset about not learning the blood-qi technique in their first class. Still, they couldn't just get out of this situation. 

They had to subjugate the beasts first in order to learn the blood-qi technique. The rest of the students went back to subjugating the beasts.

Keith didn't bother to stay inside and left the blood summoning department. It was still afternoon, so he went to the blood warrior training facility to practice his warrior frame.

There he met up with Garion and Sen who were happy to see him again. 

"Did you choose the blood warrior department?" Garion asked Keith.

The last date for the final decision was yesterday and he was here. Garion guessed that Keith had joined the blood warrior department.

"I've joined the blood summoning department. I have an agreement with Mr. Visit and the dean of the blood warrior department so I can still come here despite joining another department.

This way, I can learn two disciplines at once. Isn't that amazing?" Keith replied with a proud face.

"How did you do this?" Sen asked in disbelief.

"I am a genius after all. All of the departments are fighting against themselves to make me join." 

Garion laughed out loud after hearing Keith's boast.

"It was a good decision afterall, to follow you. I knew it. You are not some ordinary genius."

Keith joined in with the laughter and Sen looked more determine as ever. The trio looked like they were getting along. 

"It was a good decision afterall, to follow you. I knew it. You are not some ordinary genius."

Keith joined in with the laughter and Sen looked more determine as ever. The trio looked like they were getting along.