Vampire System- The Last Mystic Swordsman
Chapter 123 The Next Step Forward

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[Parasitic Armor!]

[Bonded Warrior: ???]

[Current Grade: Super Grade!]

Rarity: Rare

- Defense: 5,600

- Durability: 13,000/13,000

[Mystic Effect: Super Shield Defense!]

[When activated and supplied with enough mystic energy, the armor will manifest a circular blue shield that can defend against most attacks of the Super Grade for 10 minutes.]

[Mystic Effect: Lone Berserker!]

[When activated and supplied with enough mystic energy, depending on the parasite that the user is bonded with, the parasite can fuse with the armor thereby allowing the armor to replicate the abilities of the said parasite in an amplified form.]

[Mystic Effect: Parasite Power!]

[When activated, your parasite will receive power amplification that can randomly fluctuate from 2-10× more power!]

[When 10× is triggered, the Parasite enters Super Mystic mode!]

[In the Super Mystic mode, the bond between the parasite and host becomes stronger than ever before, allowing them to harness more power from each other.]

[Remark: This is an armor best used by hosts and their parasites!]

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After going through the stats of this Super Grade mystic armor, Rex finally understood why Pain was so horrifying to go up against in battle.

After killing Pain, of course, Rex took the armor for himself. His teammates in that mission knew this but no one bugged him about it. Before the mission commenced, they already made an agreement concerning situations like this.

This armor was the most overpowered mystic armor that Rex had ever seen.

Due to his lacking mystic energy, Pain could not make use of the first 2 mystic effects but the only one that he could use was enough to make him so strong.

With the Parasite Power mystic effect, Pain was like a fish in water, he and his 6 Poison Parasite were literally unkillable by most Intermediate Mystic Warriors.

Though his luck meant that he never amplified his parasite by 10 times its base power to get the Super Mystic mode effect, Pain definitely enjoyed his fair share of amplification as it was the main reason for his reign of terror.

Rex finally understood Pain's greatest and most notorious achievement which was killing 3 Intermediate Mystic bounty hunters in a fair 3-on-1 battle.

He must have triggered such a great amplification to his Parasite that both of them probably became Semi-Advanced mystic warriors to their opponents.

Thinking of it now, he was fortunate that Pain never got to trigger this horrifying ability during their battle. It probably had a cooldown time.

Apart from the mystic effects, the base durability and defense of the armor were also pretty ridiculous.

The main reasons why Pain died in the first place were because he could not make full use of the armor and also because he was ready to die.

By now, Rex already knew the basic classifications of armors to the Super Grade. Basic Grade Armors had 10-100 Defense, Intermediate Grade Armors had 200- 1000 Defense, while Advanced Grade Armors had 1000-5000 Defense.

As for Super Grade Armors, all Rex knew was that the least defense for them was 5000 but he had no idea what the capping was for them.

In literal terms, the Parasitic Armor had basic defense for a Super Grade Armor but this was normal since the armor was not really made to amplify defense but to amplify the powers of a Host's parasite.

After showing the armor to Aragorn, Aragorn advised that he keep it till they get to the Gundam Shelter where he could sell it for a good price.

After a full month of being separated, Rex met Grey again just when he was about to go back to the Great Forest of Elias to go look for him.

Of course, he was left ecstatic and Grey did not feel any less.

After they expressed their love for each other, Rex was surprised to discover that after meeting Grey again, they suddenly developed a telepathic ability that enabled them to communicate through their minds.

At first, Rex was fascinated by this ability until someone had a reaction and protested in his mind after feeling the presence of the intruder.

"Shing!" "Shing!"

"Hiss!"

Rex instantly felt a headache coming. Now, he no longer had just Berserker to worry about in his mind but freaking Grey too.

"Damn, I'm screwed".

To serve as punishment for abandoning him in the wild, Rex had no choice but to let Grey start narrating all his adventures during his 1 month in the wild.

Rex was originally prepared to die from boredom but he was soon captivated as Grey narrated his blockbuster-level adventure in the Great Forest of Elias.

As Grey narrated, Rex and Aragorn continued their journey through the Great Forest of Elias as they were determined to get to the Gundam Shelter soon.

Even with their determination to get to their destination, they never forgot the real reason why they took this route.

They sought power and though the Gundam Shelter was a better location, the Great Forest of Elias was a great short-term solution.

From the first day that they set foot in the forest again and started their long journey, both of them started a rampage as they hunted the mystic beasts that ruled this wild ecosystem.

As Rex killed rampantly, he made use of this opportunity to train with Berserker. Despite having spent 6 months together already, Berserker never let go of its demands for daily training which it claimed was its food.

Another joy that Rex had while leaving Dragon Horn village was that he finally could put his days of traveling with blood bags behind him.

After experiencing it once, Aragorn now endorsed it as he prompted Rex to suck his blood instead of drinking from blood bags anything that he felt thirsty.

Apparently, his blood-sucking could make Aragorn relax like he was soaking in a hot spring or he was in his girlfriend's bosom chilling out.

At first, Rex was spooked by it but it soon became natural to him.

After an eventful day in the forest, Rex and Aragorn finally settled to rest in the night under the reassuring shade of a massive tree's roots. Rex sucked on Aragorn's blood who fell asleep during the process.

Once Aragorn fell asleep, Rex sat cross-legged on the forest floor as his eyes shone brightly in the night. It was finally time to think of the next step forward.

After his recent sprout growth, Rex wanted to evaluate himself and determine the best direction for him to channel his energy to grow stronger.

By now, he already recognized most of the ways to increase his strength which was another boon from his system that no other mystic warrior enjoyed.

Upgrading his constitution, upgrading his blood rank, becoming older, upgrading his sword proficiency, mastering his skills, and the age-old method of training to increase mystic energy were the ways to increase the strength that he already recognized.

To upgrade his constitution again, he needed 500 constitution points and it was only after upgrading his constitution that the requirements to upgrade his blood rank would be displayed by his system.

As for getting older to become a Vampire Ancillae, this was something that Rex could not rush. As for his swordsmanship, according to Master Fixten, this was probably the hardest way for him to get stronger.

Master Fixten despite his knowledge on swords still being only a Sword Domain practitioner said a lot about the difficulty of increasing through the ranks.

According to Master Fixten, to achieve Mystic Sword Domain which was superior to Sword Domain, he needed to discover inner peace.

The problem was that Rex had no idea what inner peace was. Well, he had to search for the answer himself, every mystic warrior had a unique growth path.

Rex was already working hard on mastering his new skills, and his mystic energy limits were already extremely close to the limit of the Intermediate Grade. Rex wondered if his next breakthrough would be as straightforward as his first.

After evaluating all his options, Rex discovered that there was no easy way to grow stronger again, he needed to take all of them slow and steady this time.

His chances of triggering another mission in the forest were not too high since they were now his best way to grow stronger.

With no other choice, Rex settled to take it slow and steady. He closed his eyes as he focused on a cultivation technique that he learned.

[You have used Cultivation Technique: Fortified Soul!]

[Your Soul Power has increased!]

[Cultivation Opportunities: 8/40.]