At that moment, one of the many Beasts of the Pact sleeping inside Luo Zhen quietly awakened.
It was the Sphinx Scorpion, wrapped in Purple Flame. Number Eight of the Beasts of the Pact—"Shaula Viola"—could produce toxins or antitoxic serum, and even steal the magical power of an enemy's Beast of the Pact.
Although Luo Zhen did not summon this Beast of the Pact, he borrowed a portion of its power.
As the masters of Beasts of the Pact, vampires could use more or less of the abilities of the Beasts they had tamed. Even though it was not something that could be done casually and was only possible for high-ranking vampires, it was naturally no difficult feat for Luo Zhen, who had obtained the absolute obedience of the Beasts of the Pact.
Now, Luo Zhen was using this ability to steal Ishtar's magical power with Shaula Viola's strength.
This was something he had only become capable of doing recently.
"Before this, the condition of my Magic Circuits wasn't very good. If I rashly absorbed magical power from outside, it might have placed a new burden on my Magic Circuits."
Just as when he had used the magical power of the "Holy Grail" to complete the magic of the "Holy Purge," the unprocessed and unrefined magical power of the "Holy Grail" had surged directly into Luo Zhen's Magic Circuits. When he used it to refine incomplete Outer Realm Mana, it had increased the burden on his Magic Circuits, becoming one of the reasons problems had later appeared in them.
Therefore, when he had suffered a severe loss of magical power before, Luo Zhen had already thought of using Shaula Viola's power to steal external magical power and replenish his own. In the end, however, he had abandoned the idea because