The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 296: Super jealous

It took Lara, who was so focused that she totally ignored the conversation around her, only 10 minutes to reach the peak state of meditation, making her blood circulation go smoothly and evenly throughout her entire body.

Victor was surprised, Lara was more gifted than he expected. He was really curious about what result she would achieve in the ceremony… that’s if Rita managed to steal the artifact in the Von Zwei’s family palace. Getting that artifact was the reason Victor kept Rita’s card well hidden even in this turbulent time.

Victor sighed then focused on Lara again, it was about time.

She slowly opened her eyes and then carefully placed the pill in her mouth before continuing her practice.

Victor nodded as he watched while Hana and El who were standing to the side tensed up.

“Don’t worry, if anything bad happens, I can help Lara immediately!” Victor assured the little girl who nodded in response.

It didn’t take long for the pill to start working as Lara began to breathe roughly. Her depleted blood was at the moment getting replaced by a higher-ranked one. Her damaged bone marrow was getting rebuilt. And Victor knew that it was as painful as hell!

Lara didn’t speak nor make a sound as she bit her lip and continued to meditate. This was her only way to fight the pain and she instinctively knew that the moment she lost concentration, was the moment she would surely pass out.

Victor sighed as he began to carefully use his illusion skill to reduce the pain Lara was feeling. He didn’t stop it entirely as he didn’t want Lara to lose focus and this was a good chance to help her train her resolve. The pill was not harming her after all, but to rebuild something, you had to destroy the old and rotten.

“She looks like she is in pain…” Hana said in a worried voice. “I shouldn't have included the dragon scale in the formula… It is all your fault! The girl is barely hanging on!” she blamed Victor as El squeezed her little fist. A dragon? Would Lara turn into a dragon after this?

“Don’t worry…” Victor said, “The dragon scale came from our ancestor, so it is fully compatible with Lara… After this, she would be much stronger and this would help her immensely when she awakens her bloodline!” he explained. He took it from his ancestor's grave after all.

“Oh…” Hana frowned but said nothing.

Lara was not listening to Victor. She couldn't. The pain was so unbearable that she had to use every ounce of her strength to keep her focus… And she was feeling hot, burning hot!

She could feel it though, her blood, her bones, her flesh. Everything was burning as it got regenerated. She could feel the strange power that began surging through her. Slowly at first, then suddenly she felt her boiling blood turn ice cold in one swoop.

It was not easy to keep focus, but she miraculously did it. She could feel the explosive strength surge inside of her.

She wanted to tap into that power, but strangely enough, she couldn't. it was as if there was a locked door stopping her…

“Don’t worry about that for now…” She could suddenly hear Victor’s voice. He sounded shocked. “You are still too young to awaken your bloodline. Just focus on your breathing…” he said.

She wanted to ask him what he meant, but she couldn’t. She couldn’t move at all.

“Now focus… I will tell you what you want when it is time for it…” Victor who seemed to have read her mind said. “Now, the process is almost over. This last step will hurt… Be ready!” he said just as a great surge of pain assaulted Lara. Her body was no longer freezing, it was burning even hotter than before. The burning spread from the tips of her fingers and finally reached her heart. That was the last thing she felt before she passed out.

…

“Is she ok?” Hana said worriedly as she watched Victor kneel on Lara's side. Moments ago he jumped to the little girl’s side and put his hand on her back, and then she screamed and passed out.

“The stupid girl had exceeded all my expectations! She not only upgraded her bloodline, but she was also about to unlock it!” Victor said as El to the side wanted to help, but quickly hissed and drew her hand away after realizing that Lara’s body was scalding hot. If the clothes on her body were not made from a special material, they would have been burnt long ago.

“What? Upgraded? Really?” Hana was very pleased with herself, she made the pill after all. “Wait, Isn’t awakening bloodline a good thing? Why did you stop her?” Hana asked.

“She didn’t have sufficient energy, if she forced it she would have died. And by suppressing the awakening, the excess energy of the pill would be used to strengthen her body which is something she needed… And this is better too, I plan to upgrade her bloodline again using another method!” He explained with an ambitious look as he carefully carried Lara ignoring the flames around his hands, then slowly dropped her in the bathtub.

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS……

Clouds of vapor rose immediately as the little girl's temperature got forcibly lowered. It was as if a sword was getting squished.

“Don’t worry, she will be fine…” Victor told the worried El. Then sighed and took a pill and pushed it into her pouting mouth moments later.

“Ah…” she was shocked as the pill immediately melted in her mouth, moments later, the burning sensation in her hand disappeared. She had hurt herself earlier when she touched Lara.

“Next time you hurt yourself, tell me!” he scolded El then looked back at his sister whose pale skin began to cool down and turn healthy as it absorbed the precious materials in the herbal bath… Her hair had already begun to change color to another shade of more saturated purple. “The procedure was a success!” He said with a smile as he looked at Lara's status.

This was beyond his expectations! He truly didn’t expect Lara’s bloodline to upgrade! This only had a 0.0001% chance of happening as the blood pill was not that amazing… except if…

"Hana… did anything strange happen while you were preparing the pill?" Victor asked.

"Ahh...Well… Theta, who was helping me, added some of the rust blood you gave me to research instead of the dragon sand…. It was just a minuscule amount, so I didn't think it would affect the pill… it shouldn't react with it…"

"What!" Victor was shocked. Theta was truly his lucky charm! " It was probably effective… " he said as he looked at his sister.

"Really?" Hana asked in surprise.

"Seems like it..." Victor replied then paused "Wait..!!!"

He gasped all of a sudden as he watched Lara. Slowly another text began to appear in her status.

Why were there two bloodlines now?

When did Lara get another one? Did she get it from the pill? No... The pill would never have that effect… and it would have appeared immediately after taking the pill if that was the case. This was something that was growing from inside Lara herself!

This hidden bloodline must have been stimulated by the pill to show itself.

Did he also have it? Was it from his mother's side or from his father's? What the f*ck was going on?

Victor was not sure what it was, so he swiftly took out the blood book then softly held Lara’s hand, and carefully using a fine surgical needle he poked at her finger… The needle broke.

WHAT?

Victor frowned and tried another needle, more carefully this time, but it also bent and then broke.

"Oh…" Victor was surprised.

Victor took a sharp wooden splinter from his ring and then tried again with it. It was one of the splinters he could take from one of the damaged wooden doors.

This time Lara’s skin was punctured. A single drop of Purplish Pink blood fell on the book’s cover before Lara’s hand healed itself.

Interesting…

Victor looked at the book.

Wow... It was a real upgrade over the Elder Dragon!

Noble dragons were a very strong race that differs from elder dragons by having much longer lifespans and stronger magical affinity.

The most interesting skill they got was Mana Heart, which allowed them to have a near-infinite amount of Mana… Well, getting it when awakening the bloodline was another matter by itself.

Victor didn't expect the blood pill to be this effective…Now to see, the problem at hand, h looked at the other bloodline.

No data?

What’s wrong with that ID? Could it be a demonic bloodline? Not necessarily as these symbols simply could mean there was some incompatibility with the system or that the blood couldn’t be identified.

Wait. It was now at 2%

It was growing! When will it stop and What kind of bloodline was it? Victor had no idea.

The main issue was to make sure that this thing was not doing anything bad to his sister.

Probably not. If he guessed correctly, this bloodline was the one responsible for Lara’s emerging regeneration ability. The dragon regeneration powers would not be this prominent before awakening! And Lara was not even a player yet.

Victor was really hesitant about what to do at the moment. He could ask the book of knowledge about it, but that thing was still in cooldown.

Damn it…

Now there was another problem. Whether to tell his father… He would never do that! He didn't, that would make him reveal too much!

Victor sighed as he looked at his unconscious sister. Wait! Did she just grow a little taller? The tight training suit she was wearing was perfectly tailored to fit her perfectly from the materials extracted from a certain boss loli Lamia. Now it seemed to be a little shorter around the ankles.

SHIT!

Closely inspecting his sister, he noticed that all of the wounds and defects on her body were getting corrected. Even the marks and scars on her hands left from training with martial weapons for years were now being healed at an accelerated rate!

This bloodline was not bad for her at all.

Victor quickly took a pill from his ring and fed it to Lara. This Pill was something he got when the Nutcracker enjoyed himself in the skeleton dungeon. He got many cheap things like this from the poor players who paid tributes to save their nuts.

“Stop, that healing pill is of a very low quality!” Hana warned but it was too late. The pill had already dissolved in Lara’s mouth.

“I know,” Victor said, “This pill is so bad, it has a side effect of slowing metabolism a little for a few months… I can’t have Lara grow three inches in a couple of days!” he said as carefully made sure that stopped growing. She had always been shorter than others her age, but she was now catching up.

“Oh…” Hana didn’t really get it.

“The blood pill was more effective than I anticipated, we can’t reveal a thing!” Victor said after some thinking. “I will let my father believe that Lara’s growth was because of his supervision!” He explained with an evil smile that made El who was looking at him with admiration nod. That’s how one fools people’s eyes. She was a fool to attempt to scam him when they first met. She must learn to be more like him!

Victor, totally oblivious to the little girl's thoughts, carefully watched over Lara while kneeling at her side in silence for the next half hour, making sure she was fine.

“Hana…” he suddenly said as he stood up and turned back to look at Hana who was waiting in silence for him to ask. “Prepare another blood pill like this for me… And let Theta help you...” he added with a complex look. He didn’t want to confess it, but he was feeling super jealous of his little sister at the moment.

“Oh… I will do my best…” Hana said. Now she was feeling that Victor is not that bad. “Will you take Lara to her room now?”

“Yeah, she will probably sleep till the morning… I will let her finish the herbal bath first though… “ he said then looked at El, “Go grab a towel for Lara then call Hilda here... Ask her to bring her sewing set, we have a dress to fix!”