Mixed Blessing System

When Viktoria activated her bloodline ability for the first time, her tree-shaped sculpture froze much of the surroundings.

Such a thing even caught the attention of Ice, who was beginning to sleep outside that house.

The moment the walls there began to freeze, this white-haired creature opened its eyes and jumped toward the room Lothur was in.

'What is that?' It wondered as it stopped beside the wall separating the training area's interior from the property's backyard.

But as it probed that sensation briefly, Ice realized that Viktoria had worked out a way to awaken a powerful source of ice within herself, something quite powerful.

There were several types of bloodlines and Physiques and their classifications. For example, Lothur had a support-type Physique ability, which 'only' gave him bonus powers after he took physical damage. But despite its amazing ability, he could not use it in a fight to defeat an opponent.

After all, this was only an auxiliary ability.

But Viktoria's bloodline skill, as unimpressive as the one from Lothur's Physique, was more useful in combat because it was an offensive skill.

Ice realized this when it noticed that on the first activation, Viktoria had managed to practically freeze that training room completely, while the ice sculpture seemed ready to do more.

Lothur noticed this too and sighed in relief that they were in a training room made for this kind of situation beyond the ordinary.

At the same time, Aiken had taken Annaliese out of that place to keep her from suffering from the intense cold generated by the coniferous tree sculpture in front of Viktoria.

But he was feeling it all and even more than Lothur was, smiling in happiness at seeing his daughter's ability activated.

'That must be the Frozen Conifer!' He thought about it as he wrapped Annaliese in a special blanket.

He had never personally seen his family's bloodline being activated. But Aiken knew its name and a few attributes of this powerful bloodline that had made his family powerful in the past.

Anyway, the Frozen Conifer was one of the condensations of powers coming from the ice element, which could be used in many ways.

Each element had some form of condensation, a level higher than ordinary elemental control. That is, someone capable of using an element could only use normal techniques and activate the element from their own body and soul when in battle. But someone capable of condensing power into a special form could use the element ice from the surroundings without having to expend their own strength.

Because of this, someone capable of displaying one of the forms of elemental condensation could use a much wider variety of actions with their innate skill!

In Viktoria's case, even without using any skills from her bloodline, just by showing it to the world, she was able to attract so much of the ice element to her that it froze the room she was in!

That could already be considered so strong that even Annaliese, at her level 12, had not withstood the temperature of the training room!

At the same time, Lothur felt his resistance to the ice element goes up by 2%!

'Unbelievable!' Lothur thought, seeing that blue and white sculpture glowing. 'The possibilities of that ability must be immense!'

On the other hand, Viktoria was wide-eyed, looking at the sculpture in front of her chest, feeling a pleasing sensation in her body.

'A bloodline related to the ice element... I always thought my innate ability would be water related, like the family techniques...' She was thinking, but suddenly her eyes widened.

In that instant, she thought about the possibility that her techniques would be useful in combination with her bloodline.

With that in mind, she activated one of her techniques, one that she could condense water into the atmosphere and throw it in powerful jets.

She then danced to activate her technique while that ice sculpture accompanied her.

In the blink of an eye, when AIken had just returned to Lothur's side, Viktoria created a large ice stone instead of gathering pockets of water in her surroundings.

But this ice stone was different. It could easily be manipulated by Viktoria, almost as if it were not ice but a malleable jelly.

However, as soon as she used some of this mass of frozen water to direct it with her hands towards one of the walls there, she and her watchers were surprised.

When it hit the wall, the stone made a hole the size of its body and went through that, heading towards the pool at the back of Lothur's house.

The rest of the wall began to freeze from that hole, slowly cracking and beginning to fall away.

Meanwhile, the pool in Lothur's house froze entirely to the point where the grass in the surrounding area froze, turning into countless small pointed blades.

"That..." Aiken walked towards that already half-fallen wall, seeing what had happened outside this house.

'This technique should at most cause damage by hitting its target. But now Vicky has managed to destroy the wall and affect the whole thing...' He wondered what would have happened if Viktoria's target had been a living being instead of a wall.

'Even if a person survived her shot, that victim would freeze to death!'

Viktoria and Lothur realized this as well, while Ice's fur stood on end. If it had not deflected the frost projectile thrown by that woman in time, this beast would have met its end!

'As expected from a condensation of the ice element!' That creature looked at Viktoria, seeing that woman's eyes glowing in a bluish hue due to her bloodline.

But after this display of power that destroyed part of her house, Viktoria took a deep breath, concentrating on deactivating her bloodline ability.

She was thrilled with her awakening but knew she could not train something so powerful in her home. So she soon retracted her aura and focused on training this in another location, where she could keep her abilities secret without destroying her surroundings.

'I'll have to go to the Cultivation House in the next few days...' Viktoria thought before finally turning her attention to her father and Lothur, especially her husband, who had given her this opportunity.

"Thank you, Lothur!" She walked over to him and hugged him.

Lothur hugged her, congratulating this woman on her achievement.

"Congratulations, Vicky, soon you will be able to replace me and lessen the strain on the family." Aiken said, smiling as he placed one of his hands on her left shoulder.

Viktoria nodded to her father, knowing that she had responsibilities to fulfill and would have to report her findings about her bloodline to the family later.

Aiken knew the name of his family's bloodline and some of its characteristics. But that was only the basics. He had nothing that could help him awaken the bloodline of other family members.

So any information Viktoria could get about her bloodline could help the family awaken more of its members!