Beyond the Bloodline-Chapter 180: Blood and Chaos

"I’m the one who’s gonna watch it all BURN!"

"MY ASSS!!!!!!!!!"

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Jamie burst into laughter at the words that followed up his pyromaniac statement as he watched the man who was screaming while trying to put out the azure flames engulfing his behind.

While still laughing, Jamie slapped his thigh and detonated the flames, blasting the man’s torso and lower body to oblivion.

At that moment, someone tried to attack Jamie from behind, but Miranda’s food descended from above, stomping on the back of their head and slamming their face into the ground.

Before they could even do anything else, she transformed her right arm to its wolf form and punched down on their back, destroying the attacker’s spine and ribcage in a single full-powered punch.

She then turned towards Jamie with half-lidded eyes and spoke.

"Be serious, Jay."

"Okay."

Jamie’s demeanour instantly changed at Miranda’s words, and he teleported into the air and grabbed one of the flying mages who attacked them.

With his left hand on the man’s neck and right hand on the man’s shoulder, Jamie ripped his body in two halves faster than the man could even think, spilling his intestines and other internal organs onto the floor in a gruesome display that made someone barf.

Ignoring this, Jamie commanded.

"Blood Manipulation: Blood Nails."

The blood spilling from the man’s body paused mid-air, before rapidly condensing into nail-shaped constructs loaded with Jamie’s magic.

"SHIT!! HE’S A VAMPIRE?!"

"NO ONE TOLD ME I’D NEED TO FACE A BLOOD SUCKER!"

The nails shot forward at hypersonic speed, piercing through the bodies of many of their attackers, over and over again, filling them up with holes all around.

"Exploding Blood."

The nails glowed at Jamie’s command, a hint of azure flames lighting up at their heads as they shot through the air, phasing through the defences of the attackers and piercing into their bodies before erupting.

As many headless and limbless corpses dropped to the floor, one of the attackers flapped his black demon wings and shot towards Jamie in the air, thrusting his sword with all his might, however, the Hybrid simply raised his right hand and caught the Demon Merc’s blade with ease.

In that same instant, he broke the blade of the sword and flipped it around to reverse his grip on it, before stabbing it right into the forehead of its owner.

The broken sword pierced the demon’s brain and burst out from the other end of his skull, killing him instantly.

Jamie then pulled the body forward, looking at the dead man’s neck and opening his mouth to reveal his fangs.

The Hybrid’s mouth clamped down on the man’s neck, sucking his blood for a bit before taking his mouth off and spitting out the blood he sucked.

"Disgusting. But I needed that."

Jamie moved his left hand and touched the bite wound, before raising his hand and drawing out the blood in the Demon’s body from that opening.

He drew out all 6 litres of blood in the man’s body, leaving the demon’s corpse as nothing but a husk of dried-out flesh. Next, he condensed the blood at multiple points to form tiny spiked orbs that floated in the air.

"Blood Hail."

The hail of spiked blood orbs descended with fierce intensity, pummelling the bodies of the attackers with ease.

What’s more, Jamie’s blood hail ignored his Allies, phasing through them and only hitting the enemy mercenaries and assassins.

This was a combination of Blood and Spatial Manipulation to achieve Selective Destruction.

Even the ones who tried to use defeated Argeryan family guards as meat shields had their bodies pelted with holes by the blood hailstones that phased through their would-be meat shields.

**BZZTT!!

Suddenly, something ’yellow’ flashed in Jamie’s vision, and in a second, a lightning-clad blade loaded with lethal magic power pierced right towards his forehead. Jamie’s hand moved up instinctively, catching the blade and diverting its trajectory, however, the blade’s power depleted Jamie’s durability and pierced through his palm, spilling his blood on his face.

"Oh...that’s strong."

The Hybrid gave such a comment as he slid his palm down the blade like a hanger on a clothesline, grabbing onto the hand of its wielder before dragging it forward.

"?!"

**BAAAMMM!!!

What followed was an uppercut with his left hand that connected with the attacker’s jaw, with omnidirectional shockwaves that rippled for kilometres in distance.

The lights in the man’s brain went out, but since Jamie had a grip on his left hand, his body didn’t lurch into the horizon because of the strike’s force.

After the uppercut, Jamie pulled him closer and then sunk his fangs into the man’s neck, sucking out his magic power via blood before tossing his corpse onto the floor.

Jamie wiped his lips with his fingers and then flicked the blood away, turning that little blood into a small nail that pierced through the eye of one of the assassins about to slit the throat of an Argeryan guard.

While that one was screaming in pain, Jamie looked down on his right palm and pulled out the lighting blade, causing blood to drip out.

"Well, since I already have blood outside."

As he spoke with a shrug, the blood from his wound floated up into the air and seeing this one of the enemy Mercs had his face pale.

"Not good!"

A Vampire using Blood Manipulation with an enemy’s blood was Dangerous, but a Vampire using Blood Manipulation with their own blood, was Deadly.

Infusing magic power onto his tongue, Jamie commanded the Law of Blood to do his bidding.

[Blood Nova.]

Blood erupted from Jamie’s wound and swirled in the air, forming a small orb that hovered lightly in front of his face.

The blood within the orb was so condensed that it caused the air around it to ripple and distort, before slowly descending to the ground under Jamie.

The moment the orb touched the ground, it detonated with a force that shook the earth. A crimson explosion burst forth, spreading outwards in a shockwave that painted the world in red for a brief, blinding second.

The blood splashed violently across the battlefield, drenching Jamie’s enemies in the viscous liquid while phasing harmlessly through the bodies of his allies.

As they were still reeling from the blast, Jamie’s voice cut through the chaos.

[Poison Blood.]

The blood that coated the enemies began to shimmer and darken, turning into a deadly, corrosive substance. Screams of agony filled the air as the blood transformed into a potent acid, seeping through armour, cloth, and flesh alike.

It melted everything it touched, leaving the unfortunate victims writhing in excruciating pain.

"Aaaargh! It burns! Make it stop!"

"Help! I’m melting! It’s eating through my skin!"

"No! Noooo! Please, someone save me!"

Unbothered by their screams of agony, Jamie raised his hand and placed his left index finger atop his thumb. Seeing him do this, one of the assassins nearly cried out as they recognized that gesture.

[Exploding Blood.]

The blood on the bodies of the enemies began to pulsate ominously before detonating in a series of violent explosions. Those below Level 800 were obliterated in an instant, their bodies torn apart by the explosive force.

Those above Level 800 were left in a state of severe injury, their forms mangled and half-dead, unable to withstand the brutal assault.

It wasn’t surprising that there were survivors, as Jamie’s techniques had limited range and some of them were Transcendents.

As Level 900s could survive continent-busting attacks, Jamie’s Exploding Blood which did not have that amount of power imbued into it couldn’t kill them.

But it could provide the perfect opening which another Hybrid didn’t hesitate to take advantage of.

Miranda in her half-wolf form blitzed through the air, swinging her flaming sledgehammer to uppercut someone’s jaw, removing their head from their neck with the force.

As the person’s blood showered down, Miranda moved on to use a pickaxe to pierce through the skull of another.

Since Jamie’s poison and exploding blood had already burned their skin and flesh, there was no durability left to stop her pickaxe from flowing through with ease.

The Hybrid tossed that one aside and jumped onto the next, stabbing two crowbars into the back of his skull and front of his chest respectively.

She pulled them out and used the falling corpse as a boost to reach a third, using the bent claw of the tool to hook their nostrils and rip their face right off their head.