Six Years

Lucien returned to his room and immediately opened the bottle with the blood essence of that strong demon his grandfather gave him. It had a weird, somewhat sweet fragrance, and there was a hint of slaughter aura.

He gulped it all in a second and started to refine the blood essence. When the blood essence was in his body, his RC Cells began to multiply at an alarming rate. They were more and more of them as every second passed.

Lucien could feel that his RC Level was increasing rapidly, already hitting the line of 2,000 required for activation of Kakuja Version 1. This process took around one hour before the entire blood essence was refined and transformed into the RC Cells.

Now the only thing which remained was his Kakuja. Lucien was very eager to see what his Kakuja would look like. He knew that every one of these families had similar Kakuja in all their versions.

Only the weapon would be different, but the rest would be the same.

Lucien turned his Kakugan on, his iris turned red and sclera black, and he invoked his Kakuja. It was basically only body armor around his left hand.

Only his hand was covered in kakuja armor and in his right hand was congealed katana from kakuja.

Even though it was very different from the kakujas of other ghouls, Lucien liked it very much. He could use body armor on his left hand as a shield to block attacks and his right hand to attack.

After he was done examining his kakuja, he looked at his record to see his kakuja on it.

[Name: Lucien Etras die Aeon

Race: Noble Ghoul

RC Type: Rinkaku

RC Level: 3,597

Unique State: N/A

Star Rank: 0

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Abilities: Telekinesis]

Lucien was surprised that his RC Level skyrocketed from 1,798 to an astonishing 3,597. He was almost at the threshold of Kakuja V2, which required an RC Level of 4,000. But he knew that he would need some time to stabilize his new RC Level as he gained a considerable increase, and his body might not be able to handle another increase in RC Level.

Lucien laid down on his huge bed and started to think about the future.

***

Time flowed like water, and many years passed.

Many things happened over these six years.

One most notable was that Washuu Clan had sent several S-Rated people to sneak into the island, but they were found by one 4th-Star Ghoul, who fought them after some time.

What was weird was that they were found several kilometers away from the spatial rift leading to hell.

The Battle went well until some of them chose to detonate some explosives at the entrance to hell. What was terrible at that was the fact that the energy created by that explosion was all devoured by the rift, and in return, the rift became even bigger, and more and more demons were coming out.

The entire Aeon House already decided, as leaders of Ghouls, that Washuu Clan must be annihilated because this was a pure declaration of war. But as nobody could leave this island, many demons escaped to the island after that considerable explosion and expansion of the spatial rift.

Many of them were very even of Greater Demon with strength comparable to the S-Rated or SS-Rated Ghoul, so the situation was still poor.

But this didn't change the fact that Lucien must go attempt his Hell Trials in that place. Because that explosion didn't manage to damage the caves where that rift was located, his trails couldn't be shifted to another location. This was the tradition.

After Lucien completed his trials, he would be sent to Tokyo to hunt for Washuu clan members as revenge, or at least this was what was told to him.

During these six years, Lucien grew from a little body to a handsome man. He had now around 1.8 meters, and his white hair was already reaching his waist almost. His eyes were still beautifully light blue, and it even looked like they were shining a little. His gaze had become sharper, and the entire aura around him was now mature, composed, noble, and calm.

Now he was currently in the training field practicing kenjutsu alone. He wasn't wearing any shirt, and his well-sculpted muscular body was showing its beauty. Every woman who was going around would at least look at him with sparkling eyes.

After some practice with the sword, he turned on his kakugan and activated his kakuja V2, which was entire body armor with katana. When he reached RC Level over 4,000, he was able to activate the second version of his kakuja. In this version, he had entire body armor except for a mask that was missing. The weapon was still the same katana as before.

He already reached 3rd-Star and was pretty strong even among the A-Rated Ghouls. Mainly thanks to his grandfather, who often gave him something to speed up his RC Level.

Now to reach the 4th-Star, he would need an RC Level of 30,000, which was a lot as the gap between A-Rated Ghoul and S-Rated was huge.

But he knew he could fight S-Rated Ghoul, who didn't undergo Star Evolution to a standstill.

"Your Highness. His highness Dante Dracul II Tepes has come to see you."

Suddenly he heard the voice of the maid who was accompanying in case he needed something. Dante Dracul II Tepes was like him, heir of Dracul Tepes House of Vampire Race. He was the only friend he had made in all these years.

They had a lot of things in common, as both of them were obsessed with cultivation and fighting.

Dante was a genius when it came to researching evolution and magic. He came up with the method of how to use large quantities of blood to do body refinement. So now, even Vampire Race was much stronger than before.

After several seconds, a young man in his teens came. He looked around the same age as Lucien. He had short blond hair and bright red eyes. Clothed in a bloody red suit, he looked like a vampire nobility.

"Lucien, I heard that you would be leaving for your Hell Trails; my Blood Trials would be after you complete yours, so I came to wish you lots of luck."

Said Dante with a smile as he wished his friend luck in trials. He, like Lucien, didn't have any friends except for him. Both of them were darlings of their Houses and races and were like most precious treasures.

They met around four years ago at a banquet, which was a celebration of something which Lucien didn't even remember.

"Thank you, Dante. I think it would be around a year at most to complete my trials. Then it was decided for me to go to Tokyo and hunt for some Washuu's. They had done too much damage this time."

Said Lucien with hatred in his voice. During these six years, he had grown much stronger. He was already an A-Rated Noble Ghoul who had undergone Star Fusion Evolution. Without the usage of his Kakuja, he could fight and kill some weaker S-Rated ordinary ghouls.

His telekinesis ability and psionic energy capacity were still the same.

"I wanted to go with you, but I have started many experiments. So even after three years, most of them won't be finished. Shame, I wanted to see the outside world."

Regretted Dante. Just like Lucien, he didn't see the outside world and only was on Blood Island.

"Come, my friend. My grandpa brought the blood of 4th-Star demon and said we could drink one small glass of it."

Said Lucien, and Dante's eyes brightened like those of little children during Christmas. For Vampires, blood was a source of cultivation, strength, and pleasure.

They loved to drink the blood of powerful creatures because it would make them strong and it gave them pleasure.