"Something broke into the academy. I'm going to take a look." Evangeline yawned lazily. She really couldn't muster any energy during the day. "What an annoying curse... And I'm not going to acknowledge that thing you made as a vampire."
"Come on... don't be so discouraging." Jiu Ming shrugged helplessly. Looking at the Shadow Clone standing before him, he shook his head. Painting a tiger's hide was easy, but painting its bones was hard. No matter how much he refined it, this "bloodline" lacked any real sense of being a vampire.
Only now did he vaguely realize that so-called bloodlines were probably products formed by combining multiple abilities, like an all-in-one package. Taken separately, they were individual abilities, but combined together, they formed a whole skill tree system... Well, bloodlines were something like that anyway.
Like Evangeline's—even if one only obtained the initial power at first and had no abilities whatsoever, it didn't matter. As long as the bloodline existed, the abilities belonging to that bloodline could quickly be unearthed.
Jiu Ming's original understanding had been somewhat mistaken.
"How does it feel?"
"So-so." The Shadow Clone waved a hand. "Calling it a vampire is only enough to fool those ignorant idiots. It basically lacks the actual core. You understand that yourself."
As it spoke, the Shadow Clone dispersed into a cloud of white mist and vanished from where it stood.
Jiu Ming simultaneously received the Shadow Clone's memories. The conclusion made him shrug. It really was an all-in-one package of multiple abilities. Probably because it had been connected to blood when it was first fused together, it had been categorized under vampires.
According to Evangeline, a vampire's power lay in blood. What Jiu Ming had created could only be called a monster with bloodsucking abilities. Its bloodsucking merely restored itself,