The Broken Halo

Chapter 185: Bloodlines & Chaos Flame

There was a reason why every demon placed immense importance on one’s bloodline and its grade.

A demon with a Lesser Bloodline can never become an Archfiend in a natural manner because of the size of their chaos flame.

When one goes through their Coming of Age Rite, they awaken their bloodline and chaos flame.

The first heart rank is called a Flickering Heart because the awakened chaos flame is usually in the form of a flickering flame.

However, the size and density of the flickering flame is usually dependent on the demon’s bloodline.

A demon with a Lesser Bloodline awakens a flickering chaos flame that was comparable to the size of a candle wick.

A demon with a Common Bloodline awakens a flickering chaos flame comparable to the size of a thumb-sized flame.

A demon with a Noble Bloodline awakens a flickering chaos flame that was comparable to the size of a palm sized flame.

And a demon with a Royal Bloodline would awaken a flickering chaos flame that was comparable to the size of a fist sized flame.

Also, the sub-grade of the bloodline would also determine the size of the demon’s chaos flame.

A demon with a Minor Royal Bloodline would have a smaller and less dense fist-sized flickering chaos flame compared to a demon with a Supreme Royal Bloodline.

The bigger and denser a demon’s chaos flame, the more demonic energy the demon would be able to store, the more techniques a demon would be able to use before exhaustion, and the stronger their raw attacks enhanced with demonic energy at the same heart rank.

It was not only the size of a demon’s chaos flame that was influenced by their bloodline. The density and stability of the chaos flame was also influenced by a demon’s chaos flame.

The higher the grade of a demon’s bloodline, the denser and more stable their chaos flame.

Whenever a demon refined their chaos flame, what they are doing is increasing the size and density of their chaos flame.

However, the starting point of the awakened flickering chaos flame mattered a lot.

Even if a Lesser Demon with a Lesser Bloodline refines their candle wick sized chaos flame by 100%, the chaos flame would not reach the size of a palm sized flame.

No matter how much demonic energy the demon absorbs and how much they try to refine their chaos flame even after refining it by more than 100%, there would be no increase in their chaos flame and demonic energy capacity.

Every bloodline had a maximum expansion limit.

It can grow...

But only to a certain diameter.

After that, it stagnates.

Noble and Royal chaos flames have higher expansion thresholds, and this was one of the major reasons why bloodline mattered in the demon realm.

Bloodline was extremely tied with a demon’s talent.

Demons with lesser bloodlines could never become Archfiends without external help or extremely precious and rare resources.

Why?

Because the size and density of their chaos flame even after refining it by 100% was not enough to advance to an Internal Heart from a Burning Heart.

However, it would be barely enough to advance from a Flickering Heart to a Burning Heart.

This was why Simon hoped to awaken a Common Bloodline instead of a Lesser Bloodline.

In his current situation, having to look for or obtain extremely rare resources from the clan that could help him advance to an Archfiend was going to be extremely difficult for him.

However, there was a difference when it came to the size and density of his chaos flame compared to other Lesser Demons with a Supreme Common Bloodline.

His flickering chaos flame was not the size of a thumb, but was the size of an adult’s fist.

It was comparable to the size of a demon with a Supreme Royal Bloodline!

This made him to have far more demonic energy than his peers at his rank, and the density also made his demonic energy to be far more powerful than his peers at his rank.

It was one of the reasons why his physical attacks were a lot more powerful whenever he enhanced them with his demonic energy.

This change occurred when he was baptized by the Chaos Flames of his the Chaos Plane through his Chaos Wraps.

With his current chaos flame and the demonic energy he could contain, along with the Miser’s Ring and the Chaos Blade, he would rarely run out of demonic energy.

However, this also made it that he required far more demonic energy to refine his chaos flame.

It was the main reason why he was worried that the demonic energy in the Alpha would not be enough to advance to the next rank.

His chaos flame required more demonic energy to be refined, and the closer one got to 100% refinement, the more difficult it was to refine and the higher the quantity of demonic energy that would be required.

’85%. 15% left.’

Simon thought as he used his Will and mental fortitude to destroy the remnant Will of the Alpha in its demonic energy, then he used what was left to refine his demonic energy.

Destroy the Alpha’s Will.

Circulate the demonic energy using the innate cultivation technique he gained after evolving his bloodline to a Daemon’s bloodline.

Then add the demonic energy into his chaos flame.

The demonic energy was like fuel being added into the chaos flame, and with the size and density of his chaos flame, he needed a lot more fuel than normal.

But aside from pouring the demonic energy into his chaos flame, he needed to ensure that his chaos flame did not go out of control as he refined it.

This was highly essential because if he was not careful in controlling his chaos flame, he could cause injuries to himself.

Simon did this repeatedly for exactly forty seven (47) minutes, then he stopped.

The demonic energy of the Three-Tailed Alpha Shadow Wolf had been used up, and...

’96%.’ Simon furrowed his brows behind his mask slightly.