Chapter 1445 Rage


    Ryu''s rampage raged on and he didn''t even realize what was happening to him. It wasn''t because he had lost his mind or that his Bloodlines had altered his thoughts, it was rather that this was simply the side effect of having such a small part of his mind left to his control. Just the activation of his Bloodline Phenomena had resulted in his mind being completely focused on the signals it was sending him and how to act.


    He had no idea how much time passed, but when the fusion with the Diamond Protector Spirit finally came to a stop and he could finally use his Spiritual Sense once again, he spread them out just in time to find his Phenomena slowly fading away one by one.


    Ryu''s eyes opened in slight shock, but before he could even understand that view, what he saw around him left him speechless.


    He looked down at his hands to find them marred by flesh and blood. The space beneath his nails was clumped with skin and bone he had ripped apart and his body was completely drenched.


    It wasn''t like Ryu was a saint, so he didn''t really care about how many he had killed. The main problem was that he didn''t remember enough of it, and the moment he regained his lucidity, all that strength had vanished.


    Well, a part of it had. The main reason he was able to kill so many wasn''t just because of his Bloodline Phenomena, but mostly because of the Diamond Protector Spirit. It was just so much more powerful than the Golden Protector Spirits that even absorbing a small smidgen of it had made it so that his strength output was far beyond everyone else.


    In fact, the longer he fought, and the more he assimilated with it, the greater strength he absorbed and the more helpless the battle had become for everyone else.


    Of course, realizing that it was helpless, many had run, and most of them had escaped. They could just consider themselves lucky that Ryu didn''t have a Spatial Bloodline, or else there was simply no way they could have succeeded. He would have definitely killed everyone.


    The reality was that with his mind occupied the way it had been, he couldn''t use his Soul Nature properly, and this was doubly so since most of his battle instincts had been controlled by his Bloodlines just now.


    Ryu took a breath. What a joke.


    Ryu never really thought about it before, but what did the Rage Flame truly represent? How was it possible for a flame to get stronger just because of your emotion? Was emotion more physical than he thought? What was he missing?


    But then it clicked. The Seven Corporeal Souls, they didn''t just symbolize his inner organs, but didn''t they also represent various emotions and emotional states as well?


    There was Fear, Aggression, Affection, Mood, Joy and Pleasure, Desire, and finally, Melancholy.


    But when were things ever so simple? This was just one translation and the true manifestation of these words represented something much higher.


    For example, what was "Mood" and how was it different from just about everything else? And what was the difference between Joy and Pleasure versus Desire?


    There was something deeper here and it was something that Ryu had neglected...


    What about Aggression? If he thought through the possible translations he could get anything from a fearsome will to protect, to insecurity and retaliation, and then finally there was...


    Rage.


    In that state, when he had suppressed everything else and began to feel frustration and unwillingness, he had tapped into something extremely primal, something beasts could do naturally and yet he couldn''t do as easily as a human.


    Ryu understood then that the clue to controlling his Bloodlines and his Bloodlines Phenomena actually resided in his Seven Corporeal Souls.