Chapter 677: Blood Shadow Weakness
The Flaw in the ability was in the realization of the person. From this ability, Chiron now knew of a certain that a person was not just a person because of their body, but because of who they were foundationally. meaning that their experiences, decisions, biology and evenb genes made up a some total of their existence, and having to experience the world through the person's eyes was a near literal death sentence as it meant that he could be empathic with the person's motives.
Also, there was something else. Just now, it felt as if he had just killed himself when he killed the man.
This was just a man in his thirties. Chiron did not know what would happen if he had to face a person that was over a hundred years of age. And he truth, he really was not sure that he wanted to find out.
Such a person would have far stronger will than this one. And if he faced those Demi gods or the like that were thousands of years old, then theitr will would swallow his own, and it was safe to say that he would be completely taken over and become such a person.
What he needed was a kind of balancer. He needed something that could extract the emotions from the experiences so that he only needed to absorb the useful bits and could discard the parts that he considered to be useless or at least make it easier for him to absorb without in turn changing.
That would be something he would work on later. Chiron wa ssure that if he searched the system when it was done, he could find something that would be of use to him.
It was time for him to try out the second ability. According to the Curse Blood, he could promote Hemophage as time went on, but Chiron with his incredible mind could already see similarities with the runes and made a quick modification. Such that he could at least make clones of lesser beings than himself.
*Blood Shadow*
The ability was activated, and instantly, some of the blood from the man's body morphed and twisted in the air, changing until it suddenly became a splitting image of the man.
The man stood before him in the nude. At first, there was surprise on his face as he looked at his arms... "I... I am alive. I am alive! Thank you cultivator... for sparing my life." The man thanked chiron with a lot of fervor, but then the moment he bowed his head, he was shocked to his dead body on the ground with a gapping hole in his chest.
He panicked as he stepped back, falling on his ass.
"Interesting..." Chiron massaged his jaw. "It would seem like the Blood shadow retains the knowledge and experiences of the dead, but not the act of dying." He nodded at this as he read through the Cursed blood book.
According to what he read, the curse was in such a manner that the victim was unaware that they were even dead in the first place and as such went back to their normal activity.
However, all their actions and the like could be influenced as desired and they would think that the decision was their own.
In fact, they could still feel pain, smile, cry, engage in sexual intercourse, and eat. But they were dead as could be without knowing it.
Meaning that even if the enemy suspected something, they would not be able to do a thing about it.
Chiron could not help but had a devilish smile at the thought of it all.
But he was not done. he wanted to experiment more and see how far he could go.
And so while the man fell on the ground, in fear and shock, chiron waved his hand and Devil's Touch rushed out like a spider web in many directions. Soon many people that were still in hiding were brought forward. All of them were raised high in the air as they screamed and begged.
Chiron brought a little girl before his face. This one, he did not kill her. Instead, he made a cut on her wrist, and then he did the spell again.
Just like he had thought, he was able to make yet another clone.
the clone was just as terrified. But the moment Chiron gave the order for it to keep quiet with his mind, it shut up.
He took note of this.
And then he willed again and this time around, many of them were slayed by Devil's touch, their blood falling like broken pipes all around him. But he did not mind the gushing of blood.
Chiron wanted to see the limit of usage of this ability.
He wanted to know if he could in turn make an army of them. Also, he wante dto know what was the criteria for their destruction.
And so he made quite a lot. About fifty of them, but he discovered that he could still make more.
Chiron could tell that that the amount of clones he could make were not judged based on cultivation level, but instead on the initial will to resist is control within the blood he was using.
Now, he could not wait to try it on more powerful cultivators. After all, chiron did not think that his will was so weak. He could already see a future were he did this right and had an entire army of gold rank cultivators or even demi gods.
Unfortunately, he could not make more than one of each person. If he wanted to make more blood clones, then he would need to have more people, or at least increase his mastery of the technique.
Then again, Chiron was still bothered by the fact that he could absorb Manu's memories without repercussions, but those with the hemophage were going to be problematic.
At such a time, he heard the alert that he had been waiting for all this while.
<ALERT: Fate Change System Upgrade Completed>