A surge of rich, potent energy flooded into Ethan's body, wrapping him in a wave of comfort so intense it was almost euphoric. Then, something inside him shifted—again. A crimson aura of blood energy erupted from him like a geyser, shooting straight into the sky.
All at once, his entire body cracked and popped with a sound like shattering glass. It was as if some invisible barrier had just exploded.
He'd done it. He'd broken through the threshold—he was now SSS-rank.
Blood energy swirled around him like a living flame, wild and untamed. He felt stronger than ever before.
And with that breakthrough came something new—a power called Blood Rite.
It had been lying dormant inside him ever since he hunted down the "Perfect Team," a seed planted deep within his body. Now, with his evolution to SSS, it had finally awakened.
Blood Rite allowed him to burn his own blood essence for a massive, short-term boost in power.
