Invincible Blood Sorceror

Chapter 243: Blood and soil fusion – 1

It lunged with speed that would have surprised most opponents. Its blades swung in precise arcs, aiming for vital points, executing attacks that suggested extensive combat training and experience.

Jorghan caught both blades with his bare hands.

Blood essence coated his palms, turning his skin harder than the weapons striking it. He squeezed, and the blades shattered, fragments falling to the ground with sounds like breaking glass.

The Scavenatore leader’s amber eyes widened with something that might have been the first fear it had felt in years.

“My turn,” Jorghan said quietly.

Then he began the systematic slaughter of every Scavenatore in the dome, starting with the leader who’d sat on a throne made from the bones of faery kind.

The violence that followed would be remembered in faery legends for centuries.

*

Jorghan stood in the center of the dome, surrounded by six elite Scavenetores who moved with coordinated precision that marked them as the leader’s personal guard. These weren’t the standard hunters he’d killed outside; these were enhanced, augmented with technology that made their armor thicker, their weapons deadlier, and their movements faster.

The leader watched from behind his guards, amber eyes calculating, waiting to see what this intruder could actually do against trained killers rather than surprised patrols.

He didn’t want to take a risk against Jorghan, as he could sense that he wasn’t just a simple man who just strolled in here.

Jorghan’s blood essence swirled around him in familiar crimson patterns, but this time something else manifested alongside it.

The soil essence, drawn from the ground beneath his feet, channeled through principles, combined with his natural bloodline abilities in ways he’d been experimenting with privately.

The two essences began to merge.

Blood essence carried iron; hemoglobin in organic beings relied on iron molecules to transport oxygen. That iron could be extracted, concentrated, and manipulated separately from the liquid components. And soil essence could control minerals, metals, and the solid matter that made up stone and soil.

Where the two essences overlapped, something new formed.

Ferrofluid constructs—magnetic liquid metal that responded to both blood manipulation and soil control simultaneously. The substance looked like living mercury, flowing and reforming with liquid grace but capable of solidifying into shapes harder than steel when Jorghan willed it.

The six guards attacked as one, their coordination suggesting they’d fought together for years. Three came from the front with plasma weapons blazing, two flanked from the sides with bladed weapons extended, and one leaped from above with what looked like a spear designed to pierce through defensive barriers.

Jorghan raised both hands, and the ferrofluid responded.

[Technique: Crimson Chrysalis]

The liquid metal erupted from the ground in a sphere around Jorghan, encasing him completely in a shell that was simultaneously blood essence and earth-based metal. The plasma fire struck the sphere and was absorbed, the heat was converted into energy that reinforced the structure. The bladed weapons made contact and skittered off without penetrating, unable to find purchase on a surface that shifted between liquid and solid faster than they could adapt.

Jorghan’s palms glowed with orange-colored sigils as he controlled the liquid metal.

His sorcery had advanced a lot more after his bloodline progression.

The spear from above struck with enough force to crater normal shields, but the Crimson Chrysalis simply flowed around the impact point, redirecting kinetic energy harmlessly away while maintaining structural integrity.

Then the sphere exploded outward.

Not with force, but with extension.

BOOMM!!!

The ferrofluid stretched into dozens of tendrils, each one seeking a target with predatory intelligence. The tendrils were only as thick as fingers but moved with the speed of striking serpents.

One tendril wrapped around a guard’s weapon arm, and Jorghan activated the magnetic properties inherent in the iron content. The tendril polarized, creating a powerful magnetic field that either attracted or repelled depending on its target’s composition. The guard’s mechanical armor contained ferromagnetic materials; they had no choice, given that most advanced equipment relied on metal components.

The magnetic field inverted with thought-speed, going from attractive to repulsive with force calculated to overcome the guard’s mass and momentum. The Scavenatore was flung backward, slammed into the dome’s wall with enough impact to crack both armor and the structure behind it.

[Technique: Hemorrhagic Resonance]

While the other guards tried to adapt to the tendrils, Jorghan activated a technique that combined blood manipulation with earth essence’s ability to transmit vibrations through solid matter.

He created a resonance frequency specifically tuned to the Scavenetores’ circulatory systems. Their blood—or whatever fluid served that function in their biology. Their blood could be excited through the right frequency of vibration.

Jorghan channeled earth essence into the ground, creating waves that pulsed through solid matter with precision that could shatter glass or crack stone depending on the frequency. But instead of targeting structures, he targeted the Scavenetores themselves.

The vibrations entered their bodies through their feet, traveled through bone and tissue, and resonated specifically with the mineral content in their blood. The liquid inside their veins began vibrating at frequencies that organic tissue couldn’t tolerate.

Blood vessels ruptured from the inside out.

Not from pressure, but from the shearing forces created when liquid vibrated at frequencies that solid tissue couldn’t match.

It was the principle of ultrasonic cleaning applied to biology—high-frequency vibrations creating microscopic cavitation that tore tissue at the cellular level.

Two guards collapsed immediately, their enhanced armor providing no protection against an attack that came from within their own bodies. They convulsed, their mandibles clicking in agony, as their circulatory systems destroyed themselves through harmonic resonance they couldn’t escape or resist.

[Technique: Golem Synthesis]

The remaining four guards adapted with impressive speed. They activated some kind of defensive system that damped vibrations, protecting them from the resonance attack. Their armor shifted, becoming less rigid and more flexible, apparently designed to absorb kinetic energy rather than resist it directly.

Jorghan responded by combining blood and earth essence in a different configuration.

He pulled iron from his own blood, just enough to use without significantly impacting his oxygen transport, maybe a gram total extracted from the four to five grams an adult male body contained. Simultaneously, he drew metal pieces from the ground around him.