"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Poof!Poof!Poof!
Three Shadow Clones appeared on command.
You thought that was it?
Transformation Jutsu x3.
Poof!Poof!Poof!
The Shadow Clones simultaneously transformed into Anna's likeness. Under Anna's dumbfounded gaze, they walked out of the alley and went in different directions.
"..."
Anna looked like someone who had never seen the world, pointing in the directions the clones left and muttering to the original Shane who remained, "Wh... what is this?"
"Shadow Clone and Transformation Jutsu. Little tricks to confuse the enemy and draw Camille's attention away from you." Since Shane dared to boast about guaranteeing her safety, he naturally had countermeasures in mind.
The fact that those two vampires could intercept Anna here so precisely meant Camille had definitely pinpointed Anna's residence or locked onto her area of activity. Sending the Shadow Clones out separately should attract vampires nearby and in other districts, creating chaos. By the time they realized these "Annas" were all fakes, finding the real Anna again wouldn't be so easy.
"Come here."
Shane beckoned to Anna, then performed Earth Style: Underground Voyage, grabbing her shoulder and diving directly underground.
Poor Anna, without any psychological preparation, fulfilled her duty as a guinea pig, helping Shane verify whether Earth Style: Underground Voyage could carry passengers underground.
Vampires had no heartbeat, didn't need to breathe, didn't fear darkness, and wouldn't die easily. Deep diving underground had no negative effect on them; in fact, it was closely related to them.
Most types of vampires couldn't be turned without being buried.
In Shadowhunters, if a human was bitten or had vampire blood in their system, there were only two outcomes: buried in the earth to turn into a vampire, or pierced through the heart with a stake to be killed completely.
In True Blood, it was the same. To become a vampire, one had to be drained of all blood, injected with vampire blood, and then buried in the ground to wait for resurrection.
For vampires, the method of "birth" was basically identical, but the way they "died" varied.
"Death" here didn't refer to the method of killing them, but their state after death.
The two vampires Shane killed earlier belonged to the Shadowhunters universe; they turned to ash after death, leaving nothing behind. Vampires in True Blood turned into a puddle of blood and goo, extremely disgusting. Vampires like Anna from The Vampire Diaries were relatively normal—they didn't turn to ash or goo, but simply desiccated into a grey, stone-like state, at least leaving a whole corpse.
Vulture Hotel, back alley.
Shane grabbed Anna and surfaced from the ground. Back on solid ground, Anna subconsciously looked down at where she stood, even stomping her feet hard.
Shane asked curiously, "How did it feel?"
"It felt like being in water. The surrounding earth turned into water. As we moved, the earth in front... no, the earth all around us changed. I've been buried in dirt before, but swimming through it? That's a first!" Anna exclaimed, looking at Shane with amazement.
Could this method be used to sneak into the old tomb and bring her mother out?
Anna wanted to ask, but ultimately kept silent.
The seal on the old tomb didn't just trap her mother underground. If diving underground was enough to rescue people, she would have gone back and dug up the tomb long ago.
"What are we doing here?" Anna asked.
"I live here." Shane pointed to a window on a certain floor of the hotel building. "Can you get up there?"
Anna gauged it for a moment and nodded. "Should be able to."
"I'll go up first, you follow."
Shane nodded and ran toward the building. Then, stepping onto the wall with both feet, he ran vertically up to the window of a certain floor as if walking on flat ground—in a completely unscientific manner. He formed seals and used Earth Style: Underground Voyageagain to phase through the wall and into the room.
Click.
Shane opened the window and waved to Anna, whose mouth was wide open below.
Newton's coffin lid was about to fly off!
"I've seen more surprising things. Running up a wall and phasing into a room... no big deal." Anna mumbled to comfort herself, went to the corner of the wall, and leaped. Jumping high, she used her hands to push off the wall, bounding up leap by leap.
How to put it... this way of climbing walls was somewhat image-ruining.
Vampires were usually spokespersons for mystery and elegance, appearing and disappearing like ghosts. Yet she climbed the building like this? Come to think of it, most vampires in American TV shows couldn't fly; at most, they were faster and jumped higher.
Speaking of flying, Shane thought of the sealing jutsu he knew.
Not the Evil Sealing Method, but Super Beast Scroll: Lions, or more accurately, Super Beast Scroll.
This ninjutsu could be considered the Naruto version of "Ma Liang's Magic Brush." Sai, the user of this technique, commonly drew animals like kylins, snakes, birds, eagles, lions, and rats. Leaving power aside, its utility was very high.
Waving a brush to draw an eagle, having the eagle burst out of the scroll and carry you into the sky—how cool would that scene be?
Unfortunately, he couldn't use any jutsu he hadn't drawn from the lottery. Shane had tried using Fire Style or Earth Style hand seals to cast other jutsu of those elements, but it was useless. His chakra was special—it was essentially "Omni-Chakra" or "Neutral Chakra." He didn't have specific chakra natures, nor did he need to mold specific elemental chakra to cast different jutsu. The chakra converted automatically; he just formed the seals and fired.
Although this reduced the difficulty of casting jutsu, it also limited the possibility of Shane learning jutsu on his own.
If he didn't draw the jutsu, don't even think about using it. Want to draw jutsu?
Work hard to spend money.
Yep, very consistent with the system's style.
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