Iri's unusual behavior not only startled all the "spectators" present, including Ainz.
Ainz, who was very familiar with Xia Jiu's skills, understood that the strange red light on Iri and her wild expression clearly indicated Xia Jiu, the Vampire True Ancestor's "Blood Frenzy"!
However, the activation condition for this skill required being bathed in fresh blood, and although he knew Iri possessed Xia Jiu's True Ancestor physique, directly ignoring the prerequisite and activating it...
Huh? What happened just now?
It seemed like she suddenly got excited. She remembered just now she was forced to use her hand to defend against the Vampire Bride's attack, and then with a swing, she sent the attacking Vampire Bride flying?
Iri, having come to her senses, also saw the large pit she had created in the Arena and the Vampire Bride who had fainted with a look of bliss. But what exactly had she done just now?
Had she unconsciously activated some skill again? But she had no memory of it... Iri was also bewildered.
"Little! ! Iri-chan! ! Ah! ! !" Before Iri could react, Xia Jiu flew over and embraced the bewildered Iri in a fierce pounce.
"As expected of my daughter, who carries my True Ancestor bloodline, she's already learned Blood Frenzy," Xia Jiu said excitedly.
Only then did Iri realize what skill she had activated just now. Blood Frenzy? Wasn't that Xia Jiu's racial skill?
The activation condition was to drink blood, wasn't it? But she hadn't drunk any blood just now, had she? Besides, the thought of drinking blood, recalling Xia Jiu's lamprey form, made Iri feel sick... let alone drinking blood.
But? Just now... she did feel a surge of excitement, an impulse, and then she subconsciously swung her hand... The feeling was like the excitement of finally getting a long-awaited novel, and then her whole being was immersed in it.
But this excitement only lasted for a few seconds, and Iri found herself again. She felt this skill was useless, and she didn't even know how she used it. Although her power directly surged when she used it, allowing her to slap away a Vampire Bride who had been chasing her, she had lost herself.
In the novel's plot, didn't Xia Jiu use this to cause so much trouble... She didn't want to learn this; exchanging sanity for combat power was just like a Berserker... She wanted to be a magic caster like Anzi Dad!
Sitting in his room, Ainz, who had witnessed all of this, saw a red light flash in his deep eye sockets and slowly said,
"Interesting..." To ignore a skill's prerequisite and only use subsequent skills... This was an unprecedented exception even in the game world of Yggdrasil. To think... he would encounter it after coming here, Ainz couldn't help but feel happy.
Iri was quite depressed, but Xia Jiu was still holding her, full of excitement. Where exactly was the problem? She couldn't use magic, but racial skills were activated subconsciously. Iri didn't understand what was going on.
Depressed as she was, learning still had to continue. She couldn't be complacent just because she unintentionally used a skill that Iri considered useless.
Since she couldn't learn magic, Iri set her sights on Xia Jiu's special skills. Yes... those were the skills Anzi Dad painstakingly tricked Xia Jiu into using when they fought.
"Shalltear Mom, can you teach me more powerful skills?" Thinking this, Iri immediately put on a well-behaved look and asked.
"More powerful? Of course! Little Yi can learn all of them!" Xia Jiu responded very happily.
All of them... Was it Xia Jiu's trump card, the Heroic Spirit Warrior, which could only be used once within a certain period?
But is it okay to learn this right away? And... if she said it directly, even the not-so-smart Xia Jiu would suspect how she knew Xia Jiu's trump card was Heroic Spirit Warrior. So she could only see what Xia Jiu was willing to teach, and then proceed step by step.
"Uh... How about this?" Shalltear put Iri down and raised her hand above her head. Iri felt a surge of secret joy in her heart when she saw Xia Jiu's movement.
"Pure Throwing Spear!" A pure white spear formed in Shalltear's hand and shot towards the Vampire Bride who had been knocked out and was lying on the side of the Arena.
As a result... the unconscious Vampire Bride was hit without reaction, her arm directly broken by the Pure Throwing Spear thrown by Xia Jiu. The Vampire Bride also woke up in pain and let out a miserable scream.
This... Xia Jiu, what are you doing! Iri was quite displeased at the sight. Although she didn't show it on her face, seeing Xia Jiu attack her own kin immediately made Iri's favorability towards Xia Jiu drop significantly.
I know you want to demonstrate the skill, but couldn't you just throw it somewhere nobody is?
Why attack your own kin! Although she did dislike those Vampire Brides who treated her like a dress-up doll, they did take good care of her when she couldn't move. But Xia Jiu, you just...
Thinking this, Iri set her sights on Xia Jiu. Well then, let her taste her own skill too!
"Huh?" By the time Xia Jiu noticed a very familiar magic circle suddenly appearing on her shoulder, it was already too late.
"Pure Throwing Spear!" The pure white spear formed in Iri's hand instantly struck Shalltear's shoulder. However, the Pure Throwing Spear thrown by Iri dissipated directly upon contact with Shalltear's Valkyrie Armor.
"Little Yi, you..." Xia Jiu looked at Iri in disbelief.
Oh no! She got carried away and targeted Xia Jiu without thinking.
How... how was she going to clean this up?
Angry as she was, directly attacking Xia Jiu seemed like a rebellion, no matter how you looked at it.
Although it didn't cause damage... she did attack her! Iri didn't even care that she could instantly use Shalltear's special skill; the key now was to find an excuse to get away with it.
"Wow... Shalltear Mom is so amazing, this couldn't even hurt you, so powerful!" The quick-witted Iri immediately thought of an excuse, pretending to be surprised while clapping for Shalltear.
"Hehe ~ It's all thanks to the armor Peroroncino-sama gave me!" Shalltear, seeing Iri praise her so much, immediately lost her bearings.
"Shalltear Mom's skill is also very powerful, but why couldn't it hurt Shalltear Mom?" Iri continued to ask, feigning an innocent look.
"It's the effect of the legendary item Valkyrie Armor bestowed upon me by Peroroncino-sama. All attacks below level 50 are nullified, and physical long-range attack damage is forcibly halved. Little Yi is only level 1, so of course, she couldn't hurt me? Hmm? Wait a minute..." Xia Jiu seemed to notice something...
"Wow... that's truly amazing ~ Shalltear Mom is so amazing!" Iri saw Xia Jiu's expression was off and continued to flatter Shalltear.
Of course!
Iri, who was carried away just now, originally wanted to make Xia Jiu suffer a bit from her own skill. Fortunately, that armor blocked it, otherwise, if she had really injured Shalltear, she wouldn't know how to explain it.
"Hehehe! I have something even more amazing! Little Yi, do you want to see it?" Shalltear, who was very pleased with Iri's flattery tactic, immediately threw the thought of why Iri attacked her out of her mind.
Of course... Iri's trick worked well against the unintelligent Xia Jiu, but it couldn't fool the other "spectators" present.