Blood Assimilation

Without hesitation, Randy relentlessly rained down punches at the immobile blonde man's head, until eventually, something snapped, making an audible 'crack' sound. Then soon after, the blonde man started bleeding from all of the orifices on his head— Eyes, Nose, Mouth, and Ears.

'Was that sound just now the sound of an artifact breaking?' Randy wondered to himself when he heard the cracking noise just now, and he immediately stopped punching the blonde man's head. 

'Well, no matter. I think he is dead with that many attacks on his head.' 

"Arghhhh!! ##$% #$^&"

However, the next moment, the blonde man started moving, startling Randy greatly, and he instinctively reacted by throwing out more energy-infused punches at the defenseless blonde man's head until he was certain it was enough.

At this point, Randy realized that they were most likely dead this time seeing as how there was now a deep crack in the blonde man's head, and he was bleeding all over his face. 

'What the hell was that? He was still able to move despite his head smashed in? More importantly, he somehow escaped my skill's influence momentarily just now…' Randy deeply frowned and thought in caution as he looked at the immobile blonde man who was not moving while under his skill's influence.

He proceeded to wait a little more just in case, and after confirming that there were no changes after a few moments, he then let out a sigh of relief.

With that, he finally released his skill's influence, and then immediately, the notification flashed across his vision, startling him a little. But he soon calmed down as he recalled that he could gain knowledge points right after killing an intelligent life form.

[You have successfully killed an intelligent living being without showing any mercy, and thus you have obtained 1800 knowledge points]

'Oh, that's a lot for my first kill in this world. I wonder if I can get more knowledge points simply because of the difference in the world or something else? This blonde man was not particularly that strong and could be compared to that sunglasses man at most in terms of the density of his energy he released just now. But the sunglasses man only gave me 1300 knowledge points.' Randy held his chin and pondered, but another notification caused him to look up once again in puzzlement. 

[You have killed an opponent who was slightly powerful than you in terms of combat power level, you have successfully harvested 3200 divine points from their soul]

'Divine points?' Randy wondered with raised eyebrows. 

"Ah!" 

Randy suddenly recalled seeing these words right after he had defeated that chimera monster, but at the time, he was too exhausted after the fight to bother looking at the changes that the system had mentioned. 

However, now was still not the time to check these things, as he first needed to get out of this forest and then find a place to stay if possible. Afterward, he could then check out all the notifications left by his system with peace of mind. 

After thinking about that, he turned his gaze to face down as he looked at the now lifeless body of the blonde man with a pondering expression.

'Even so, this guy was too tough. Was it really just because of his artifact that he managed to endure my attacks? Just now, I had to hit him a couple more times to kill him. Does he happen to have a strong body or something? Anyway, that was scary just now. I thought he was about to use some unknown skill when he shouted something just now.' Randy sighed and then shook his head to get rid of these thoughts as he focused his mind on what was important. 

'Now, let me take his blood and see what abilities he can offer me. I need to fit into this world. After all, using my abilities which might appear strange to the natives of this world may bring unwanted attention toward me. In the end, it's better if I disguise myself as a native of this world. The only way to do that was to assimilate with a human's blood and then use their abilities instead of mine.'

'But I am curious, was that holy mana just now? Does that mean he was a holy knight or something like that?'

As Randy thought of all these, he had already used a dagger that he grabbed from his storage bracelet and then bent down to poke the skin of the dead blonde man.

He quickly found out that it was hard to pierce through the blonde man's skin on his first try with the dagger. 

After pondering for a bit, he skillfully manifested energy around the dagger using his Energy Manifestation Skill and successfully poked the blonde man's skin and then drained his blood until he was sure it was enough before stopping.

Randy found an interesting discovery when he tried to drain the blonde man's blood just now. Just now, he realized that he did not need the system to aid him in activating the Blood Authority Skill. 

Just for a moment, he was able to control the blood within the blonde man's body. However, his control was sloppy as he was used to the system aiding him to control his skills up until now, so he ended up activating the skill with the system's help before continuing. 

But this situation made him believe that perhaps in this Ancestral Form which enhanced his blood-related abilities, he might eventually learn to control his blood-related abilities faster even if he did not have the help of the system. 

After all, using the skill mechanism of the system only allowed one to use their awakened abilities as if they were skills, and therefore one needed to activate them with the help of the system. 

But after discovering this, he surmised that perhaps everyone in his world would eventually stop depending on the system as they get stronger and become used to their awakened abilities.

At this moment, Randy was refining the blood that he took from the blonde man's body as he condensed it into a blob of the red sphere in the air. He needed to make sure that there were no harmful substances in the blood just in case. 

However, after checking for a while, he found nothing wrong with the blood, and thus, he proceeded to solidify the blood by condensing the 6 inches sphere of liquid red blood, shrinking it into 2 inches of solid red blood with a sheen reflecting off of it.

Without caring about his environment, out of habit, Randy was about to toss the solid blood into his mouth, but he quickly stopped himself a moment later and then looked forward at the tied young girl beside the tree in front of him. 

'Ah, I almost forgot about her existence. Why didn't she say anything all this time…?' Randy realized, and he approached the young girl. 

At this point, although she was just saved a moment ago by the young man, the subsequent events made her look at this young man with blood-red hair in front of her with a gawking expression and gaping mouth, seemingly in shock.