966 You Vampires are a bunch of Masochists!
"Alright, this should be enough for now, you can rest now,"
Orpheus spoke with an emotionless look on his face as he turned away and disappeared.
"Haaaahhhh!!"
Once he left, Nux, who was barely standing, fell on the ground with his arms and legs wide open.
"Haahh… Haahh… Haaahh…"
His chest moved up and down as he breathed heavily, his entire body was drenched in sweat and was bruised to the point where his handsome face couldn't even recognize anymore.
Nux didn't know whether it was because Orpheus was petty, or he was just strict by nature, but that man didn't pull his punches.
Honestly, Nux wanted nothing more than to return to his wives, however, right now, he didn't even have the power to open the [Core] and drag himself into it.
He could only lie on the ground and breath heavily.
"Oh my, darling really didn't hold back, did he?" Suddenly, Nux heard a voice.
However, even though he heard it and knew who and where it came from, he didn't react and glanced at her. That was a waste of energy, that woman would walk towards him anyways.
And just as Nux expected, Ambrosia soon appeared in his vision, with her usual charming smile on her face.
"You look like a mess. I am sure my daughter wouldn't like to see you like this." Ambrosia commented.
"Y-You Vampires are a bunch of masochists…"
Nux replied in a hoarse voice.
"Hmm? What could you possibly mean by that?" Ambrosia tilted her head with a slight smile on her face.
It was as if she knew why Nux was saying all that, however, she still decided to ask him.
"Blood Mist and Regeneration… what a bunch of stupidly absurd abilities where one needs to torture themselves to learn then…
Attacking themselves in a way where even severing limbs would look like child's play, torturing your body and mind just to increase your pain tolerance and continue fighting even in the worse conditions while abusing your [Regeneration].
That man made me spar with him even when I had lost my right leg and left arm! Then he even proceeded to cut off my other arm and ordered me to use spells while ignoring all that pain!
Absurd! Absolutely absurd!
If it wasn't for [Absolute Step] I wouldn't even be standing in that condition and he made me fire spells until my limbs are regenerated again.
The other time, he directly cut through my torso, slicing my body into two parts, and told me to use my arms to move!
And that's just [Regeneration]!
Don't even get me started on the [Blood Mist]!
Blood Mist is without a doubt the worse ability a being can have!
Turning your entire body into White Mist!
Then dividing that Mist into many parts and moving each of those parts in different directions and have complete awareness of where each of those parts are.
Regeneration was still fine, at the very least, just my body had to go through torture and it was getting better as more and more time passed, but Blood Mist! That ability directly harms the brain!
How is a normal brain supposed to process 'visions' from 20 to 30 different 'parts' of your body, and still keep the awareness of where part 16 or 21 is?
As time passes and my mind gets a little used to this, that man forces me to increase the number of 'parts' and increases the load on my head. I feel like one of these days, my head would simply burst apart!
This is how you Vampire train, by harming yourselves! If this is not masochist, then what is it!?"
Nux spoke out loud, he didn't have any energy in his body, however, when it came to complaining, he, who was filled with frustration, poured it all out.
And Ambrosia, who saw him acting like that, couldn't help but chuckle, "Well, those Body Cultivators are like that, I agree with you on that matter." She could sympathize with Nux.
However,
"What the hell are you talking about!? You aren't any different from that man!
[Charm] isn't even supposed to be an ability where one had to torture themselves to learn it, it was simply supposed to be something where you use your Mana to influence other's thoughts, sometimes, even outright brainwash them where everything depended on the amount of Mana a being had!
But you came up with yet another torturous training method of keeping [Charm] on at all times while not activating it. This strange state of incompletely activating the [Charm], just achieving it took me so many days, it is fine at first, however, keeping it active all this time seriously affects your mind, not just that, it starts with slight discomfort but as the time passes, it turns into a strange migraine and the pain only continues to increase the longer you stay in that state!
And you have forced me to stay in that state even when I spar with that man and have taught me nothing since then!
Mother-in-law, I won't lie, you may not look like it, but you are even worse than your husband!"
"Hahaha~" Hearing Nux's words, Ambrosia couldn't hold back and just laughed out loud.
Then, she glanced at Nux's red eyes that were shining and,
"You complain so much, yet you still follow everything we say obediently, even now, you still have [Charm] active.
If you feel so much pain then why not just deactivate it? It has been 8 hours already, so you should be turning back into Human soon enough, no?"
Yes, with the blank points he earned this time, Nux used 500 of them to increase his Human Bloodline level to Exceptional Level. Now, he could stay in Vampire Form for 8 hours and that is when he is fully using his Vampire Abilities.
As for just staying in his Vampire form without using any ability, he could do that all day without any setbacks.
"I need strength…"
Nux replied as he looked away.
"No matter how absurd your methods are, they are working, the rate at which my strength is increasing is much faster than it ever had. So I will just follow your words, though I won't go back on what I said,
You Vampires are a bunch of Masochists!"
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