Blood Energy!

Time seemed to stretch on forever as Oliver hovered on the edge of consciousness, the pain almost unbearable. Yet, amid the agony, he could feel something extraordinary happening inside his body. Next to his mana core, just by his heart, a smaller, nascent core was slowly forming. At first glance, it resembled a mana core, but the energy it pulsed with was entirely different. This wasn’t elemental power—it was raw, primal energy. It was a War Core, pulsing with the life force of a knight—Blood Energy.

Oliver had always been strong, but his strength had been purely physical. It had been far from the refined power of a true knight. A knight’s Blood Energy allowed them to unleash powerful bursts of strength and perform incredible combat techniques. Now, for the first time, Oliver had unlocked that same power within himself.