88 A Voice inside (1/2)
While Vorden continued to search the arena for some type of secret exit, Quinn was pretending to look for one as well while walking around. Instead, he wanted to inspect the ability book he had received earlier from the metal container.
As soon as he thought about his inventory, a screen appeared in front of him. Then when just thinking about the item, the system would come up with a message.
[Would you like to take out the Level 6 Shadow ability book?]
This time rather than a monotone robotic voice the system usually played in his head. It was the annoying energetic blonde man's voice.
[Inspect]
[Level 6 shadow book, can only be learnt by those that have been Blooded]
As Quinn used his inspect skill, a weird word had been added at the end. Blooded? Was that another name for Vampires perhaps? When Quinn tried the other ability books, he wasn't able to learn any of them.
It started to make Quinn ask more questions about the book. Why did the military keep such a high-level book locked away? Was it because everyone had died or were they planning to sell it off for the future? Either way, he had never heard of someone possessing a shadow ability before.
Just then, the annoying voice was heard again.
”So it looks like you want to learn more about the book, huh? well, I can tell you if you want, do you want to know?”
The AI system seemed to be just as annoying as the man himself.
”Please?” Quinn said while gritting his teeth.
”Your guess is correct, blooded refers to those that have been blessed or cursed whichever way you want to look at it, with Vampire blood. It doesn't matter if there, a halfling, a vampire lord, or even a ghoul. As long as they possess some of the vampire's blood, they are able to learn these abilities.”
”Do you know why the book was here?”
”I have no clue.”
The AI system had surprisingly answered in great detail. It was like the blonde man said. While the inspect skill was able to tell him information about items, his system would clarify things to him related to the system.
Quinn was still unsure about whether to learn it or not as he still needed more information, and it seemed like the AI was the perfect person to ask.
”Is this the only ability book Vampires can learn? And can Vampires learn more than one ability?”
”Just like humans, Vampires are only able to learn one ability. Whether or not there are other ability books out there like this, who knows, there may be some stronger, they may be some weaker.”
The AI system was only an AI system after all. Even though the man sounded intelligent with a stupid voice, it was limited to what it could answer.
The problem was if this truly was another ability that Quinn was unable to use in the outside world, he didn't want it. Another ability that the world didn't know about meant he would be targeted. However, the question remained if there even was an ability that vampires could use as well as Humans.
Quinn had asked the AI more questions hoping to get an answer it had no clue and would just reply back with sarcastic answers.
With that being said, there was one person in the room that was knowledgeable about these things, and he might just know about the shadow ability. Vorden. Although the system stated blooded were the only ones that could learn it, maybe there were other Vampires out there that had used the ability before.