A Bloodthirsty Species Smiled at Me While Drenched in Holy Water!?

Evan followed beside Eldin, carefully studying her methods. He soon formed a rough theory.

These traps are hidden well beyond what an ordinary Beyonder could sense!

You'd never spot them with your eyes or natural senses alone!

But Eldin can pinpoint them so precisely. Given her profession...

She must be sensing the blood inside those little animals to identify the traps!

And once she finds a target, she must use a special Beyonder Characteristic to control the blood in its body and disarm the trap!

The thought made Evan's heart tighten. If she can really control blood, that's an absurdly powerful ability!

There must be plenty of limits, though. Size, species, status, blood quality, and so on.

Then inspiration struck.

Eldin's ability could work beautifully with the toxic blood in my body!

In fact, my toxic blood might be the only thing that could bring out its full destructive potential!

Anyone who touched Evan's toxic blood died, but Eldin could control it from a distance!

And judging by how she had turned those two rats into puppets...

Eldin seemed capable of sending blood into another creature's body from afar.

After all, the core of the Vampire Race's puppet control was command over their own blood.

To turn a target into a puppet, they first had to inject their blood into its body.

And if they could inject their own blood, surely they could inject someone else's!

Evan grinned. Looks like Eldin and I need to have a long, in-depth talk sometime!

While Evan and Eldin disarmed traps and advanced cautiously, deep in the dense forest stood a camp.

It was no temporary campsite. Four buildings, along with fences and walls, surrounded a huge central bonfire.

A two-story building stood to the southeast, while a broad wooden warehouse stood to the