Siphon

A gust of wind blew through the gloomy atmosphere on the battlefield. Dozens of corpses were strewn around, however, all of them had been drained out of blood and had shriveled up.

Sean slowly made his way towards the Blood Path Transcendents who had come from Nadir. His face was pale and his steps, unsteady. After having used the gauntlet artifact, a large portion of his life essence had vanished.

As Sean stumbled towards the Rank 2 corpses, he wondered, 'So if I use the artifact to steal something from others, I will end up having my life essence stolen by the artifact… How vicious!'

He looked at the black gauntlet in his hand with lingering fear. If he wasn't a Blood Path Transcendent, he would have surely died after using the artifact only a couple of times.

Blood Path was the only Path that could take other's life essence and use it for themselves. Well, that and Theft Path! Except, Transcendents of the Theft Path didn't 'take' anything, they stole it.