Bloodline is Everything - Chapter 114

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【Bloodline is a Thug Chapter 114】

114. The Sanchez Family (4)

【An inferior Bloodline stands against you! The true Bloodline rages fiercely!】
From the moment Kwon Han-ul spotted Maria Sanchez, my Bloodline reacted.
【The ability ‘Hierarchy’ manifests!】
【Temporarily weakens the abilities of inferior Bloodlines within range!】
【When fighting an inferior Bloodline, your strength reaches SS-rank!】
【Warning! Your strength is far too high compared to other stats!】
【Caution! Excessive strength is damaging your body!】
【Notification! Strength is being temporarily limited!】
Limited though it was, I still possessed SS-rank strength. I caught Maria Sanchez’s fist effortlessly. I even crushed her hand with my grip.
“We can discuss the details later.”
A superior Bloodline cannot kill an inferior one anyway.
“For now, let’s handle this.”
I reached for Maria Sanchez’s head.
To brainwash her using the Bloodline of Servants, I needed direct contact.
Just before I could grab her, Maria Sanchez seized my wrist instead.
“What exactly are you trying to do to me?”
Since I was going to dominate her anyway, there was no need to explain.
I exerted force in my hand, intent on forcibly seizing her head.
But it wouldn’t budge.
My hand—
“You have no intention of answering my question, do you?”
Maria Sanchez was resisting with all her strength.
It was an unbelievable sight.
Maria Sanchez’s abilities were weakened by the Hierarchy ability.
Moreover, my current strength was SS-rank.
Though the power was so immense it had to be limited, there was no way I should be losing to Maria Sanchez.
“Did you steal some miracle drug somewhere? I never thought the Heukcheon Bloodline could match me in raw strength.”
Maria Sanchez’s arm strength grew increasingly intense. An ominous aura erupted from her.
“But that still won’t work against me!”
Suddenly, Maria Sanchez tilted her head back.
With a roar, she drove her forehead into my skull. My body was sent flying backward.
A headbutt.
It may look ridiculous as a technique, but it is anything but.
The human skull is among the hardest bones in the body. And Maria Sanchez’s physique was reinforced by her Bloodline.
He drove that skull forward with the overwhelming force of an SS-rank strength suppression.
“He’s not dead, right?”
Maria Sanchez asked, looking down at Kwon Han-ul sprawled on the ground. Her tone sounded remarkably delighted.
“I’m nowhere near done repaying the humiliation I suffered. He can’t collapse already.”
Maria Sanchez’s momentum exploded violently stronger. Her skin flushed an even deeper red.
It was evidence that the enhancer she had consumed was growing increasingly potent.
Then, Kwon Han-ul pushed himself up.
Remarkably, despite taking such a brutish headbutt, Kwon Han-ul was unscathed. At most, his nose had turned slightly red.
“My, why is he fine?”
Her brief moment of confusion quickly gave way to delight as Maria Sanchez realized the opportunity before her.
This was perfect. She could beat him senseless for hours without holding back.
“Marcos Sanchez, please look after Ha-yeon over there.”
Kwon Han-ul said, touching his nose. Marcos Sanchez immediately obeyed the command.
Maria Sanchez stared at Marcos Sanchez with an expression of disbelief.
“You… when you return to the family, I won’t let this slide.”
She wanted nothing more than to beat him half to death right now, but she restrained herself.
There was someone else she needed to deal with first.
“Ugh, it tingles.”
Kwon Han-ul was still touching his nose.
Maria Sanchez didn’t wait for him. She immediately kicked off the ground.
The moment her foot scraped the earth, the ground erupted.
She swung her fist at Kwon Han-ul. There was no special technique—just raw power channeled toward obliterating the target before her.
But before she could fully extend her arm, Kwon Han-ul’s hand moved. He raised his elbow and struck upward against Maria Sanchez’s forearm.
Mystical Dragon Ascension Art – Basic Form
Guardian Strike Form – Claw Angle
Guardian Strike Form – Claw Angle was a technique that used sharp points like elbows and knees to deflect an enemy’s attacks.
Maria Sanchez’s fist was repelled with almost pathetic ease.
“Impressive!”
But Maria Sanchez immediately counterattacked. She spun her body and delivered a devastating spinning back kick aimed at Kwon Han-ul’s head.
It was a lethal strike that exploited his opening. Maria Sanchez had no doubt that Kwon Han-ul’s head would shatter.
But.
“Remarkable.”
Kwon Han-ul’s head was fine. Maria Sanchez’s foot had stopped before it could destroy his head.
“That was close.”
Something was wrong. It shouldn’t have been close—it should have succeeded.
“How…?”
“I used a technique.”
Mystical Dragon Ascension Art – Basic Form
Guardian Strike Form – Iron Wood
A technique for receiving an enemy’s attack while standing still.
The defensive spell itself lagged behind other techniques in raw power, but it excelled when deployed in desperate moments.
“That’s absurd…”
Maria Sanchez muttered those words as a final thought.
Right now, her abilities had surged dramatically under the effects of the special enhancement agent.
To think she could withstand a full-force attack unleashed in that state with her bare body?
Impossible.
It couldn’t be possible.
Something was wrong here.
“By the way, how much longer are you planning to keep that foot in my face?”
Kwon Han-ul gestured toward Maria Sanchez’s leg as he spoke.
“You’re going to catch a punch if you keep that up.”
Maria Sanchez quickly withdrew her leg. In that instant, Kwon Han-ul moved.
His hands flashed with speed, unleashing a barrage of strikes toward Maria Sanchez.
“Care to test your luck against me head-on?”
Maria Sanchez immediately countered, attacking with the ferocity of one intent on destruction.
Countless strikes tangled in the air between them.
Both possessed strength rivaling that of an SS-rank powerhouse.
Each collision of fists sent shockwaves erupting outward. The air itself trembled.
Kwon Han-ul’s fist connected hard against her jaw.
“You’ve got some skill. This is fun!”
Maria Sanchez, exhilarated, rushed forward again.
The moment her foot touched the ground, Kwon Han-ul swept at her shin.
Her balance shattered. Seizing the opening, he swept at her head.
She was driven backward, touching her temple where the kick had landed. “You certainly know how to exploit openings,” Maria Sanchez said.
“…You’re quite skilled at finding gaps, aren’t you?”
Maria Sanchez struck the ground again. The two collided once more.
For a time, they exchanged strikes relentlessly.
Suddenly, Maria Sanchez understood something.
She couldn’t overwhelm him.
In strength, agility, mana, and every other stat—even experience and technique—Maria Sanchez held the advantage.
Yet she couldn’t overwhelm him.
Kwon Han-ul moved as though he read her intentions beforehand, deflecting her attacks and countering before she could land a blow.
“Surely not….”
She was losing the exchange.
She, a member of Pandemonium, was being outmatched by this nameless hunter.
As proof, her hands couldn’t even touch his body, while she had allowed him countless openings to strike her.
“…Don’t mock me!”
That realization ignited her fury.
Maria Sanchez roared and clenched her fists.
In that moment, a white giant materialized behind her back.
The giant clenched his fist just like Maria Sanchez.
It was partial gigantification, one of the superhuman bloodline’s powers.
“How dare you defy me, you insignificant wretch!”
The giant’s form grew increasingly distinct.
Kwon Han-ul spoke quietly as he observed the towering figure.
“I can’t dodge that.”
The giant was far too massive to evade.
Then meeting it head-on was the better choice.
Kwon Han-ul clenched his fist, and dragon-horse energy surged throughout his entire body.
That giant represented a superior power of the superhuman bloodline.
It could be called the very essence of superhuman bloodline techniques.
To face such a thing, I couldn’t rely on ordinary techniques.
“Haaah….”
The dragon-horse energy intensified further, swelling around me until I was completely obscured within its vortex.
“Now die!”
Maria Sanchez thrust her fist forward. The white giant mirrored the motion, swinging its massive arm.
Just before the fist could strike me, I launched my own punch to meet it.
Mysterious Dragon Ascension Technique, Superior Form
Energy Strike Style Rising Dragon Fist
The dragon-horse energy erupted. A black dragon opened its maw wide.
In the next instant, the giant’s arm was torn away.
The black dragon consumed not just the giant’s arm, but its entire upper body.

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The giant’s upper body scattered into nothingness and vanished.
Maria Sanchez stared at the sight in a daze.
“Thank you.”
Kwon Han-ul suddenly spoke to Maria Sanchez.
“Thanks to you, I’ve mastered the Ascending Form.”
Ascending Form
The most powerful technique among the three forms of the Celestial Dragon Ascension Art.
Mastering the Ascending Form was extraordinarily difficult precisely because of this. One had to perfectly master both the Introductory Form and the Basic Form beneath it.
Until now, Kwon Han-ul had been unable to properly utilize the Ascending Form.
This was because he hadn’t fully mastered the Roaring Stance, one of the Basic Forms.
Paradoxically, the cause lay in Kwon Han-ul being far too powerful.
The overwhelming ability to read situations, obtained by combining other bloodlines.
Countless powers capable of reversing circumstances at a moment’s notice.
There had been neither opportunity nor reason to use the Roaring Stance as a defensive technique, so his proficiency with it remained low.
But this time, traveling alongside Kwon Myung-woo and engaging in combat with the Sanchez Family bloodline members, I finally succeeded in mastering the Roaring Stance.
“Especially you—you were incredibly helpful. There were many attacks that would have been dangerous if you hadn’t blocked them.”
The moment I grasped the principles of the Roaring Stance, the Celestial Dragon Ascension Art was restructured within my mind.
The foundation for using the Ascending Form had been established.
“…Always spouting nonsense, drivel, and rubbish.”
With each word he spoke, Maria Sanchez’s face gradually contorted.
“But one thing is clear to me. You… you must die here, without fail.”
Maria Sanchez’s instinct, her experience, told her this.
If she didn’t kill this man, Kwon Han-ul, right here and now, there was no other way.
While he was still weak, in this moment, she had to kill him.
The instant she made that resolve, Maria Sanchez’s momentum intensified.
If before it had been a campfire, now it was as though oil had been poured upon it.
It was explosive and fierce enough to create such an illusion.
“…I never thought I’d have to go this far.”
The special enhancement agent she had consumed possessed one distinctive characteristic.
Without taking an antidote, its potency would grow progressively stronger.
As the potency strengthened, so did the user’s power. But the side effects grew proportionally worse.
That’s why Maria Sanchez had intended to consume the antidote immediately after resolving the situation.
“But since things have come to this, I have no choice.”
Maria Sanchez’s momentum grew ever stronger. It was so tremendous that even Kwon Han-ul’s expression hardened.
“This… I’ll need to draw on my reserves as well.”
At those words, Maria Sanchez let out a scoff.
Reserves?
Whatever he drew upon would make no difference.
With the enhancement agent’s effects pushed to their absolute limit, Maria Sanchez was invincible.
Power obtained by consuming life force—of course it would be this formidable.
That thought vanished entirely in the next instant.
A golden aura engulfed Kwon Han-ul’s entire body.
“…Gold?”
At first, it was so faint that one had to look closely to discern it. But as time passed, the golden hue deepened.
Soon it transformed into something so brilliantly intense it was blinding—as if he wore a halo upon his back.
It was a phenomenon I had never witnessed before. Yet the aura felt familiar.
Maria Sanchez found herself murmuring without thinking.
“…Guardian’s Essence?”
It was absurd.
Guardian’s Essence was a power that only those possessing superhuman bloodlines could wield.
It was an authority that protected the user’s body in any circumstance, at any moment.
How could that man—a member of the Heukcheon Bloodline—be using it?
No, more importantly, why was Guardian’s Essence golden in color…?
In that moment, a single word surfaced in Maria Sanchez’s mind.
A phrase the elders often spoke.
An expression frequently encountered in the family’s archives.
“…True Blood?”

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