Nameless King

Nicole clutched the blade tightly in her hand and headed toward Wain with an excited expression. The closer she came, the crazier her gaze became as well as the wider her smirk, it seemed like she'd been waiting for this moment for a long, too long time.

'Damn... If I didn't know how special Nicole was, I'd think she was actually going to kill me.' Wain grinned inwardly, holding his palm open as he glanced at Edena, "Hey, you don't have much time. If you don't want to lose my blood, get the flasks ready."

"Right!" Edena nodded and hurriedly brought out five flasks, enough to make quite a few potions and conduct various experiments.

'Hmm... Wain is on the Absolute Stage now, but technically he's on the Transcendence Stage, he's a Nameless King after all, so even a single drop of his blood could be a real treasure in our hands.' Edena muttered internally with a complicated expression as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"I hope you're ready." Nicole smirked before he swung his blade.

Wain didn't resist, so the dark blade sliced his skin with ease, leaving a long cut on his palm from which dark blood immediately flowed.

Edena quickly took the flask in her hands, bent down, and began to fill it with the most valuable liquid that she could possibly have. The blood of weak creatures was useless since there was too low energy in it, but if it was the blood of someone from the Fifth Chronicle, things changed considerably.

'Damn... The best I had was Frigus' blood... When he reached the Demigod Stage I was incredibly happy since I could make some incredible potions with his blood, but this... Wain's blood is on a completely different level.' Edena said to herself, staring intently at the blood flowing into the flask.

Gradually the whole room was filled with the strong smell of blood that made everyone feel the power that this liquid contained. Everyone here except Edena and Lui Bu were in the Fifth Chronicle, so they could feel exactly how deep the energy was and understood that in Wain's blood, it was enormous.

Everyone had about the same reaction as their eyes went wide with shock, but Nicole's face was different, she looked at Wain's blood with hungry eyes as she licked her lips as if she saw something very tasty.

Whoooooooooosh.

When three of the five flasks were filled with dark blood, Nicole couldn't hold back any longer and pounce on Wain. She acted like a wild animal, throwing the blade aside with both hands grabbing Wain's palm, and sinking her teeth right into his flesh to get as much blood as possible.

"What the hell..." Elegan muttered with a tremble as his eyes went wide.

"I don't know... Has that girl gone mad?" Frigus was puzzled, then he gripped the hilt of his sword tightly and his aura increased considerably. He stepped forward, ready to pull Nicole away from Wain, as even for her it was too rude to their leader.

However, Wain stopped him with a gesture, while slowly shaking his head with a slight smile.

'What...? But, why?' Frigus asked with his dazed look as he couldn't understand why Wain was so calm.

Nicole continued to drink his blood as her eyes grew crazier and crazier, gradually turning red, it seemed that a little more and she would start tearing pieces of flesh from Wain to satisfy her hunger.

Wain sighed, put his palm on Nicole's head, and began petting her, lightly ruffling her hair as if she were a small child.

"You got us in a pretty awkward situation, but... it's not a problem. You can drink my blood as much as you want until you quench your thirst, or is it hunger?" Wain said calmly in a deep voice, seemingly not at all angry about what Nicole had done.

In time Nicole began to calm down, her eyes no longer fierce and she began to drink blood more slowly as if she knew that no one was going to stop her.

Wain smiled, looked at Edena, and murmured softly, so that only she could hear him, "Get the blood recovery potions..."

Edena could hardly hear him, but she quickly complied with his request, arriving a moment later with three scarlet potions. Wain drank them as his slightly pale face returned to normal and he felt much better. Such potions had a limited effect since otherwise, Edena could get an infinite amount of Wain's blood, but it was enough for this situation.

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

Nicole's aura suddenly began to increase as well as her energy. She had no control over it since she was still focused on Wain's blood, so destructive darkness began to flow out of her.

"Ouch!" Edena exclaimed in pain as the particles of darkness left a small wound on her skin, as if from acid.

Though Nicole had no control over it, her energy was powerful enough to hurt someone or even destroy the room they were in.

"Well... Looks like I won't be able to just watch..." Elegan sighed, shaking his head before swinging his hand.

Several purple magical circles appeared around Wain and Nicole which completely blocked the darkness from penetrating outside.

"Hey... will Wain be okay? I mean... that energy seems to be pretty dangerous." Lui Bu asked with a worried expression.

"Hah, don't be ridiculous." Reto smirked, "Maybe this darkness could hurt any of us, but not Wain. The darkness is his closest ally, so I'm sure to him it's nothing more than a pleasant flow of wind, nothing more."

"I agree." Sarras nodded, "Just watch, I can feel this girl getting stronger. It might be a strange way to go, but Nicole is definitely no ordinary person."

'Well done...' Wain muttered inwardly, petting Nicole, 'I didn't expect this, but my blood can actually make you stronger so fast. Are you better than others at absorbing energy, or does it only work with me? Well, it doesn't matter.'