177 Blood Binding (1/2)

”I… I don't understand what you are talking about!”

After Lin Yun said the true name, Syudos, the Flame Spirit's voice became more flustered. And not only was it more flustered, but it quickly began to feel endless fear and despair. ”No… No! Fuck! What do you think you are doing? Stop, now!”

Unfortunately, no one could stop the Blood Binding once it started...

Lin Yun slightly cut his left wrist, letting blood drip on the hallway's floor as he chanted a long incantation in Nesser in a deep and hoarse voice. It sounded like an ancient ritual.

”Impossible… How could you know my true name!” The Flame Spirit's voice wasn't as arrogant as before. He had already stopped caring about the battle against the Frost Elementals, only keeping up a few basic defensive spells as they swarmed over him.

Because these Frost Elementals were no longer his most threatening opponent.

Even if they drowned him, he would only have to return to the sealed array. There was no difference between a millennium or ten thousand years to an immortal Flame Spirit. But if the Blood Binding was successful, he would have no opportunity to get free.

As he recalled the effects of a Blood Binding, the Flame Spirit started struggling frantically.

With an explosion, Dylan's silhouette disappeared, turning into a clump of raging flames. Blazing mana fluctuations spread out and a few Frost Elementals around him instantly evaporated, transforming into a white mist. It felt like lava was flowing down the entire hallway as the flames spread everywhere, sharply elevating the temperature.

Facing the threat of the Blood Binding, the Flame Spirit almost burst with full power, rousing the fire elements to a boil, making it seem like even the air was burning.

Unfortunately, half of the Blood Binding had already been completed.

The dripping blood on the floor had turned into a scarlet mist, outlining some sort of complicated mana pattern in the air. As Lin Yun's incantation progressed, that mist turned into blood-colored chains, coiling around Syudos one after the other...

”How could I know your true name? Simple... I guessed.”

”...” Syudos, who had already returned into his Flame Spirit Incarnation form, nearly fell down when he heard that.

'Guessed… Guessed…'

Fortunately, Syudos was already a Flame Spirit Incarnation, or else he might have spat blood. Dylan spent decades, three people from the council spent a few hundred years, Rudolph spent a thousand years, but none of them managed to find out his true name... but the person before him had guessed it!

'Is there any fairness in the world?' he thought.

”This is impossible, this is impossible!” Syudos was completely unable to accept such a cruel reality. He frantically struggled amidst the Frost Elementals and the blood chains, but unfortunately, no matter how much he struggled or roared, it was all for naught. It was like he was stuck in quicksand; the more he struggled and roared, the faster he would sink.

”I guessed right.” Lin Yun smiled, not explaining. He only urged the blood shackles to tighten around Syudos.

Lin Yun wasn't toying with him.

He really had been guessing what Syudos' true name was.

Syudos couldn't believe it because he still didn't know. 20,000 years later, Noscent would progressively suffer from mana exhaustion, and at that time, even the Upper Rank Elemental Spirits would be unable to keep surviving on their own. They had no other choice but to attach themselves to a master, hoping that their master would supply them with the mana they needed to keep existing.

Lin Yun clearly remembered that in Noscent's history, there had been about 500 Upper Elemental Spirits with known true names. Out of those spirits, about four hundred appeared during that period.

The appearance of a large amount of Upper Rank Elemental Spirits gave the mages an opportunity they had never dared to think of before: studying the Upper Rank Elemental Spirits' system. Thus, one true name after the other had been analyzed. The distinctive traits, the abilities, the timeframe, and what matched with the Upper Elemental Spirits' true names. And in the end, they completed an – Upper Rank Elemental Spirits Compendium –, greatly simplifying the capture of Elemental Spirits.

Naturally, this book was stored in the decaying library.

Why was Lin Yun talking so much to Syudos?