Reborn Zombie Chapter 5: 129 - 168, a 13 tzameti fanfic

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Chapter 129 The Beginning of Chaos IV

The closer Victor got to the area with people fighting, the more the familiar scent of vampires came to his senses. By the time he got close enough, he could make out figures of vampires fighting against what was most likely the human side that had come to check out what was happening around the gate. Though, it seemed like they had been carried away by all the fighting that they did not noticed the vampires that slipped away and were murdering the humans in the city everywhere. Victor didn't know how to describe it, it was almost as though they were in a crazed state.

'It has to be them then.' Victor said in his mind as his eyes gave a light glow, and through the chaos around a vampire seemed to have caught sight of them.n0𝓋𝐞𝑙𝑈𝑆𝓫.𝑐0𝐦

Shining red eyes weren't something exclusive to vampires, but it was something very telling, and for vampires that very possibly may have come from a different world, it couldn't be said what was the norm.

Victor noticed the gaze that fell on him, but he couldn't be bothered and just vanished from the spot.

In an instant he had appeared within the vampire castle within the throne room, but this time there was no one in the room and it just was empty. On a normal day this wouldn't be much of a problem, but today was different and coincidences just don't happen without a cause.

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Victor immediately turned to his system and looked through the map of the entire castle. He noticed the positions of vampires all around wasn't a problem, but their number was. He had never seen so many of them be around the castle like this. To top things off, he found that there were a bunch of humans been held somewhere in the castle, and they were still alive. The problem came when the number of humans dots Victor could see in the map could not be counted even though they seemed to not be in a small space. This only showed how many they were.

Victor teleported elsewhere and appeared before a vampire lady, and without any time wasted, he questioned her on where he could find the vampire lord. In order not to waste any time, he used the skill domination before asking the question. The vampire started spilling all she knew before a second passed and even went on into other things she was not asked. Victor simply dropped her on the ground and went on after getting what he needed. From his map he knew exactly where to go.

"Take her body to the reserved room and we'll wait for her to wake up." The vampire lord ordered one of the elders who was female, and the vampire did so quickly.

"Athan, get your students to head to the location where that energy came from, you know their task."

"Yes." Athan answered. He was one of the elders present, and one of the strongest ones in the family too.

Right after the vampire lord gave that order though, Victor came from the large heavy stone doors that closed off the room, and to the surprise of everyone, he had gotten there without there being any sort of friction with the vampires they had stationed through the entire castle. At this moment, all they could think of was whether the other vampires were still alive, for them not to report an intruder or even fight back, because if they did, those in that room would know.

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The other thing that caught very ones attention was how a hole had appeared on the door that allowed Victor walk through. Of course, he used his skill excavate to make the clean passage, but they didn't know that of course, so it was every bit off and they dared not attack or make any rash movements.

Instead of asking questions right off the bat, Victor noticed the platform and alter, and he also noticed the huge gaping hole below the altar.

Walking straight to the hole and looking down, he immediately saw something that caught his attention. He had started reading lots of science stuff and running a few of his experiments, but that knowledge was not needed for him to figure out that what he was looking at was the cause of the huge gate that opened in the middle of city E which was now partially in ruins as far as human life was concerned.

Without looking at the vampires or the vampire lord, he kept his focus on the machine below that filled the space below, and before he asked, he activated his skill Domination before he asked, "Someone mind explaining what this is?" Victor said. Of course, he didn't get any answer from the vampires, but what was going on in their heads was totally different from what Victor would guess.

They originally made plans for the off chance that Victor would appeared unexpected, and that plan was to fight him head on altogether. They had been afraid of him this whole time, but that was simply based on impression and his show of speed the first time they met him. Who was to say he would be able to take all of them on at the same time while they hadn't tried it? Every vampire Elder was extremely strong in their own rights and were easily far stronger than the strongest humans, so they saw themselves having a chance.

But now, with the effect of Domination, Victor has really broken their will to attack. It didn't have the same effect as on the weaker vampires, but the skill proved to be more than effective.

"I will have you know that right now a gigantic gate is opened right in the heart of City E, and for some reason, there are vampires roaming and killing the humans there."" Victor continued as no one was talking.

The moment he mentioned that the gate was still open, the faces of the vampires before him changed slightly, and most of them took their eyes off him for a brief moment as they looked towards Melchior who also wore a confused expression mixed with something else. Following that was their reaction to the mention of vampires.

They did control their expression when Victor mentioned the gate, but after his mention of vampires, the faces of all the elders and even the vampire lord changed, and it was neither fear nor surprise, the closest description was something close to anger.

"Seems like you know something. Well, start spilling."

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Chapter 130 A Different Plan

Perhaps, the best thing for the vampires was the fact that Victor had no idea about the ritual they just performed, and except for the altar, nothing else was telling about it. Victor did do a quick scan around the room for any abnormal thing, but he didn't exactly knew what the room looked like to begin with, it was really not possible to tell what was amiss.

The vampires however didn't need to say or explain much, as it was pretty clear that they were the ones who created the thing that cause the gate to open. The problem came when they had to say the reason for the creation of the thing to begin with.

Victor still had his skill activated, but the vampires had started adapting a bit. His own brain was going through possible reasons why they would create such a machine. The most obvious was that they wanted to bring other vampire families to earth, probably to fight against him. Maybe they weren't the strongest, and the question of how a world with a fully functioning blood drinking society fared was also an interest.n0𝓥𝑬𝓁𝒰𝑠𝓫.𝗰0𝑀

Before Victor could get something viable though, the vampire lord managed to speak. "Please, maybe we can leave this matter for now." He said, even his undead body that didn't sweat felt a little cold in Victor's presence.

"Why so?" Victor asked, not speaking him his more lively tone.

"Our world no longer has humans, so we had to live on pigs and artificial blood. Those vampires are tasting real blood after a long time, the effects it will have on them will be very great, and we also have to make sure which family's vampires made it through." The vampire lord said, squinting his eyes a little as he said the last part, while his brows came even closer together.

Victor remained silent for a while after the vampire lord said this, but in his mind, he could see what was being attempted, therefore reinforcing his earlier believe that something was not in place. Also, there was someone missing.

As Victor was about to say something, the door opened, and one of the elders entered the room. As soon as he did, he noticed Victor was present, and that confirmed the pressure he was feeling from outside the door. The elder must have thought that something happened within some elders or even the vampire lord and an elder, but lo and behold , it was the one person they were trying to avoid.

Victor only gave a firm stare to the elder who just entered, causing the elder to freeze on the spot, before turning his eyes back to the vampire elder, and then without a word disappeared.

As soon as he left, one of the elders spoke.

"Is it only me, or does something feel different about him today?" She spoke.

"Yes… something… Familiar.."

They couldn't quite put their fingers on it, but they could really feel something was different. Of course, though Victor was a vampire in some large degree, he wasn't just any vampire, and definitely not exactly a typical vampire species.

Victor after leaving the vampires returned to base to meet with Maggie. He had come to the conclusion that the vampires had opened the gate to call for backup, but unknown to them, he had a different plan.

To him, it was a bonus for there to be more vampires. It meant that he wouldn't have to wait for the vampires to create more of their species before he could get evolution material. Already, he had a good idea of what to do.

"Maggie, how long does a gate lat before closing?" Victor asked.

"Normally, it would last two weeks and after that monsters would start pouring out, at least that is the data I could get from the previous cases." She said. Gate weren't as common as dungeons, so not much was known about them.

"But, with the amount of energy this one is emitting, I can't say if it will stay longer or if it will break before two weeks are up." She said.

"There are things from the other side that have crossed over to this side already." Victor said. On hearing what he said, Maggie stopped what she was doing for a brief moment before continuing.

"That is very strange. If so, then this is a completely different situation, and normal data might not apply in this case." She said, leaving what she was doing and turning towards Victor in full attention, in wait.

"I want to go inside the gate and check things out." Victor said. Maggie didn't react in any particular manner, but she tried to advice against it as this one behaved differently from normal gates, but it fell on deaf ears. She then tried to persuade Victor for her to accompany her, but that didn't work either, and before long he disappeared.

He had provided her with the information that the vampires were the ones responsible for the gate in the first place, and that even after the machine they used initially had broken down and was no longer in power, the gate didn't close. This information was very intriguing to some point, and it piqued Maggie's interest to some point.

Back at the sight of the gate, Victor appeared in the city at the spot he stood when he first came, and just within the few minutes he left, the vampires had made total mess of the entire place, and the city was mostly empty and quiet, like an abandoned place.

Before he attempted to enter the gate and go vampire hunting in a whole new whole, there was something he planned to do. At least when someone went to a new place, it was good to carry a guide and not try to do things and figure things alone.

Victor didn't even walk through the street for long before he came across a vampire. Unlike the ones he was used to, these ones seemed more savage and bloodthirsty. 'Guess what they said about hunger huh?' He thought to himself, really feeling blessed he didn't have to suffer this weakness.

"Strange, what are you?" The vampire asked in a deep voice. He was at least 6'5 feet tall, and was well built, though because he hunched his back a bit, he looked a bit creepy.

Without answering, Victor appeared beside the vampire and touched him on the arm. He was way faster than the vampire, so the vampire couldn't even react on time before he died as Victor had used touch of death o him. Victor then wasting no time raised him back as part of his legion and made him spill some intel about where the other vampires were in the city, if they gathered anywhere.

According to the vampire, they were supposed to gather at a particular place in some minutes time, so Victor decided to wait.

After about 20 minutes, it was time for the regrouping. Victor made sure to leave a mark on the vampire, and he also positioned himself far away in some building that gave him a view of their meeting spot. He couldn't see everything well, but it was enough. Two minutes went by, and after Victor counted thirty of them, which was their number as according to the one he was controlling, he activated his teleportation skill, and at that exact moment appeared in the midst of the vampires.

Before they could all react to the sudden appearance, Victor didn't let them and activated his skill, negative burst. To his surprise, the skill didn't kill most of them, as only around seven fell dead. Victor was really not expecting this outcome, but not giving them a chance to counter attack, he moved first.

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131 Free Food I

"Let's move." Victor said after he placed the bodies of the vampires he just killed in his system.n0𝔳ℯ𝐋𝑢𝗌𝓫.𝑐0𝚖

Eating eat one after the other would take his time, and since he could do it later, there was no need to waste his time around. He was also heavily considering the option to change his second form into something else that would make it easier for him when it came to extracting evolution material. 'Maybe a snake would suffice.' Victor thought to himself. He didn't really buy into the idea of changing himself too much into a different creature even though he could, especially now that he had some part of his emotions, it just didn't feel right and it made him a bit uncomfortable thinking about what he would look like.

Victor had left only one vampire alive, and it wasn't the one that led him to the others. He found out that the vampire wasn't the leader, so he killed him along with the others and took control of the actual leader.

The vampires were part of a vampire family, and they were sent to scout the other side of the gate, which so happened to be crawling with humans, and they ended up getting a bit carried away.

After they arrived at the gate, Victor stepped back one step and allowed the one following him to lead the way from there on out. It was more sensible to let the escort lead the way after all.

They walked through the gate, and just like any other normal gate he had entered before, the feeling was the same and nothing was off. He would think that one that was created artificially would be different.

The other side of the gate though, was quite surprising as it wasn't exactly what Victor expected, completely. He could tell that it wasn't night time, but the entire place was almost dark, not that he had any problems with seeing. The environment showed the results of the darkness, as the plants were out of sight, and those that could thrive were not higher than shrubs and grass. For now, he was yet to see any proper tree or vegetation.

The terrain was a bit rocky, and Victor needed n one to tell him the place they would be heading to would be beside a cliff.

Both Victor and the vampire leading the way were fast, and it only took both under ten minutes to cover much ground and get to their destination. As for Victor's expectation for the vampire family house, he was quite put to shame as they were more complex than he thought. Their house wasn't just beside a cliff, it covered and spanned across several cliffs looking a bit edgy in some places.

"We are here." The vampire said as they stopped some distance away from the route they would take up the cliff.

"What was your name again?" Victor asked. He had good memory, so he suspected that he had yet to ask for the vampire's name.

"Langscter Brinwood" He was cut off before he continued.

"So Brinwood is the family name?" Victor said, not as much of a question, but he still got a nod from the vampire.

Victor was actually a little concerned, not that he didn't trust in his strength, but he still didn't fancy walking into the unknown much.

For one, there were no guards or teams stationed close to the gate, which was supposed to be. Now that they were at the castle of the Brinwoods however, he could see that above a certain level of the rocky mountain, there seemed to be more than the number of guards required stationed outside the house. Not like he would know how the guards around here carried out their duties, but even he could tell they were quite much.

"What's up with all the guards?" Victor asked. He had seen how strong the vampires who fought against the hunters on earth were, and he found like to think their lord was stronger, as it should be.

"I don't know.. It wasn't like this before we left." The vampire answered, even he wasn't sure of what was going on.

"How long have your team been gone." Victor asked.

"We spent a week around the gate before getting the go ahead to breach and scout the other side." He said.

'Wait, then the time difference is quite wide… Hmm.' Thought Victor.

"Let's do this." Victor said as he took another look at the perimeters created by the large rocks.

Langscter confirmed that there was a separate team stationed around the gate, but they were no longer there when they came through. The time difference may have apart in it too, but-

It would be too suspicious if he were to follow Langscter all the way to the house, so played it the same old way and allowed Langscter to go ahead while he waited at the bottom of the rocky mountain.

'This should be enough time.' Victor thought to himself. He set a mark on Langscter that way he could teleport to him. Langscter confirmed that it would take him about a minute to climb to the top, but with the numerous vampires stationed all around, it would be delayed a bit, but his rank would also work in that favour. Victor waited five minutes, and after the five minutes were up, he activated his skill and teleported to the mark he could feel on Langscter. Another thing was he noticed he couldn't feel any other of his marks, and that just went to show how much more different this gate was from a normal one. His teleportation skill allowed him to teleport into a dungeon or gate, and that was already considered another dimension. But this time was different, as to why however, Victor did not know.

Maybe Victor should have chosen to teleport a bit later, as the moment he appeared he saw a vampire look him directly in the eye before their eyes widened, in which it was too late.

"Sorry I couldn't get in the clear earlier." Langscter said with a slight bow.

"No worries." Victor replied.

The vampire he just killed happened to be the last Langscter had to go through. They didn't need to worry about the body of the vampire as Victor took it and placed inside his inventory along with the others from earlier.

"Hmm…" Victor said as he looked at the massive buildings that were connected with smaller structures across several cliffs. 'I should have done so from the start.' He thought to himself.

Without turning to face Langscter, Victor said, "Langscter, I need you to go to the lord of this family and report first, I'll meet you when it's time." He said. With a bow, Langscter turned and left.

'I'll let the Demon Shadow handle that, now… What to do.'

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132 The Dunkans I

Victor did need some kid of army, and he selected the vampires, but they were not that subservient and that was a minus for him since he didn't have the time to oversee them and didn't necessarily want to rule through fear all the time. The fear they had was of good dose already.

Getting another family under him was just something he thought would be good, but he had to ask himself.. why?

Even with the strong members of his legion at the moment, he couldn't remember when last he had to use them as intended, to fight or carry out such tasks for him except for the Beechmon family incident.

'Is there really a need to have so many underlings?' Victor asked himself as though it was a deep question. He was one that preferred to handle things himself to begin with, and that was the major reason why the others weren't able to be useful.

For now, he just looked at the guards stationed around and disappeared from where he stood as his form faded into the shadows as though becoming one with it.

While Langscter was carrying out his given tasks, Victor was gathering evolution material little by little as he picked off the guards one after the other. The guards were positioned perfectly so that the others close by would notice if one of theirs was missing, but somehow Victor managed to pull it off and pick out all of them fast and stealthy enough in a short time.

Victor didn't bother with eating the bodies right away as he just stashed them in his inventory. Good thing his inventory was massive, as the bodies didn't stack up when placed inside. Some time after the last guard was placed inside Victor's inventory, his demon shadow returned with information, and it looked like this particular family would be of no use to him. He really wanted there to be a reason why he could just eat them all, and it presented itself.

'Heh… Having these little emotions makes things so much different.' Victor complained to himself as he walked closer to the castle.

He could sense many vampires inside, and could already tell it was going to be utter chaos very soon, so out of the three buildings positioned besides the different cliffs, Victor went straight for the one closest to where he killed the last vampire.

[MEANWHILE, on the other side of the portal]

"It's been so long, too bad all the food here have been taken. But no problem, I can smell more… HAhaHAaha." A vampire standing just outside of the portal gate said as he took in the air from the surrounding. "Well, what do we have here? The lucky deserters." He said as he brought his face forward. Before him stood one of the elders from the Emrick Vampires, the vampire family that had been on this earth for a while.

'Just our bad luck. A terrible one in fact.' The one before him thought.

"I see the pigs have kept you all alive this far." The elder said.

"Heheh, Sebastian, you don't change at all do you? I would kill someone else for speaking that way to me, but since it's you, I'll allow it." The vampire said.

'He's not joking, and what's with that strength I feel from him?' Sebastian asked himself. Being one of the most powerful vampire in the Emrick household, it was telling that he could even feel even the slightest bit of oppression of the younger vampire before him.

"What about your, father." Sebastian asked.

The young vampire before him only looked at him briefly as he wore an unimpressed look on his face.

"My father passed away, i am now the head of the family."

"I see-"

They chatted a bit longer, and after Sebastian offered fresh blood from the source, not a single one of the vampires before him refused. They could sense that no human was still alive in the city as of that moment, so they simply went with the best plan to drink some sweet blood.

'He must be confident in his strength to follow me so easily.' Sebastian thought to himself as he stole a glance at the vampire behind him, but to his surprise they were all looking at him with smiles on their faces. Even for an experienced vampire, that situation was enough to creep out, but sure enough Sebastian was able to control himself properly.

While leading the way, a transmission got to him telepathically from one of his students, Damien. He basically inquired about the current situation at the gate, and the answer his student got ended up shocking him as it was totally out of the things he expected. In his head, he couldn't help but think how they were so unlucky for the portal on the other side to open near the Dunkan family house, which was the name of the family that were following behind Sebastian at the moment.

Damien went to the vampire lord of their family immediately to report the situation.

"Let me in, it's important." Damien said as he approached the vampire lord's private room which was being guarded at that moment. The guards standing at the door did as they were told at once and allowed Damien to pass through. He had a serious look on his face, so the guards could only wonder what the trouble was at that point.

"Greetings lord." Damien said as he took a knee. "My master has encountered some unpleasant figures- Damian said before giving a little pause, but before the vampire lord spoke again, Damien completed what he was saying, it's the Dunkan family." He said.

The vampire lord after hearing this only let out a heavy sign as though already pitying himself in advance.

"It's a real problem then. They would be going crazy soon enough, for now arrange a good supply of blood for their arrival. I'm sure they are tired of pigs." The vampire lord said before dismissing Damien.

After a while had passed, Sebastian arrived with the Dunkans into the Emrick family house. "Here we are." He said. Though they were a bit confused after getting there as it was a strange structure, but they soon went down and it was so.n0𝔳ℯ𝐋𝑢𝗌𝓫.𝑐0𝚖

Sebastian took the entire group to the vampire castle where they would meet with the lord of house Emrick. As the Lord of the other house was present, it was only fitting.

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133 The Dunkans II

"It has been too long Dracula." The head of the Dunkan family said as he approached the vampire lord of house Emrick in his throne room.

"It, has. Seems you've grown a bit since last I saw you? How's your father doing these days?" Dracula asked, knowing full well about the situation, and this didn't go unnoticed by the Dunkans.

"Hahaha,it's been so long, but the first time we meet after a long time you decided to screw it, huh?" The Dunkan vampire lord asked, a bit unimpressed, but with a small smile on his face that exposed his razor sharp teeth.

"There's no hiding our relationship, why pretend? Ramkish.."

Thing is the Emricks are more like the royal family of the vampires, as they are descendants of the origin vampire directly. Back in the day, vampires could reproduce amongst themselves and give birth, but they lost that along the line, and there exist some stories as to why that happened.

Though they could no longer reproduce their own, they gained another ability, and that one helped compensate for the loss of their natural reproduction as they could now turn other non vampire races into vampires. For whatever reason though, it only worked with anatomically humanoid creatures, and even then not all of them.n0𝒱𝔢𝓁𝓊𝑠𝒷.𝗰0𝐦

However, the newly created vampire inherited every property of their creator's bloodline, so it in the end brought little drawbacks. From then on it all mattered just how much one could access the powers of that particular bloodline.

The Emricks had the power control blood and fire, granting them access to a vast arsenal of blood and fire magic, which are considered to be the strongest when it came to offense. All other vampires could use blood magic as it was like the basic thing rooted in each of them, but the real thing came with the different and other magic that they could use, which in the case of the Emricks was their fire magic.

Now, although the Emricks were the strongest amongst all other vampire families as their bloodline carried much strength and potential, it was only so in the old days when the fore fathers lived. Now of course, those they referred to as the fore fathers were dead.

Over the years as time passed by, a new family whose strength came to greatly surpass the Emricks emerged, and this family was the Dunkan family. Originally, they were the only family that didn't possess any extra magic as the others, but it was believed that in the days of the fore fathers, the original head of their family who was still alive then made a deal with some supreme being not of their world, and by so doing gained the power to command darkness to their will.

No one knew for sure, but their fore father never returned from that journey, and they speculated that he must have given his life as exchange for the power his descendants gained.

The irony came when theEmricks began to produce less and less vampires who could assess the complete abilities and power of their bloodline, and by so doing got weaker as time went by, and their bloodline itself also began to weaken, stripping them of the title they once held proudly as the strongest. Over time, all they could really brag about was that they were of the origin, and that was it. Strength was out of the picture.

Though the Emricks faced this dilemma, another family only kept getting stronger as days, years, and centuries went by, and that was none other than the Dunkans.

Their power to control darkness worked completely and absolutely independent of their natural ability to control blood and blood magic, making them an unbeatable force. To give a testament of their power, they alone single handily exterminated the werewolves and drove several other bothersome races into extinction or hiding, and they were also a huge factor that played in the extinction of humans in their world.

They became known for their strengths fair enough, and no other family dared to say a word to them, well except for the prideful Emricks, but even then, there was a limit.

Ramkish didn't waste much time lingering around the rats of Emrick and saw himself out. Most of their family members had the power to move through shadows as it was one of the most useful magic they learnt, so they didn't need to walk all the way out. It wasn't exactly battle ready, but as a transportation magic, it worked pretty well.

He needed no body to tell him that he wasn't exactly welcomed to the Emrick's castle. Unlike his father, his personal relationship with Dracula had never been smooth. Not to say his father was friends or close to Dracula, the only difference was that both men had a common respect for one another.

Dracula was unable to stop the Dunkans either way after they made themselves clear on what their intentions were. They were going to drink to their hearts' content, as they put it, before they would begin thinking of saving some for later.

The Emricks on the other hand didn't bother to inform them about a monster that lurked in the corner and was quite interested in vampires. Dracula himself could feel the strength radiating from Ramkish, and he could clearly tell that he wasn't his match. At that moment, he could only wish that Ramkish run into Victor soon enough. With Ramkish's strength though, he couldn't say who would come out victorious. Either way, one would die in the confrontation, and the other would be left weakened, and as such plans always go, it would be the perfect time to strike.

'That energy… He can't even contain it well, and even then the level I am able to see through is still higher than mine.. He just needs to be taken care of.' Dracula said in his mind, and he wasn't the only one who made this mental note. No wonder Sebastian could only bring him back, it wasn't so simple after all.

The wise will remain wise.

There was also the fact that humans' here weren't as weak as the ones back in their original world, but that didn't matter much. To the savages like the Dunkans, it wouldn't make much of a difference.

Back in the vampire Home world, the vampire house Victor was at had sent people to check the portal once more, as a different scout of theirs reported to have seen vampires from the Dunkan family heading that way. Apparently, they were only ten of them, so this guys were hoping to overpower them with numbers and deal a fatal damage. Not like they could just seat still after what the Dunkans' just did. They were really shocked to see that all the guards outside their castle had disappeared without a single sound, and which family had the ability that fit that criteria?

The Dunkans.

Victor's Demon shadow made sure to relate this information back to Victor, so he wasn't too surprised when he saw quite the number of vampires leaving the castle on the second cliff. He had to wonder though, who the Dunkan family was and why this vampires feared them so much. They had to be quite the formidable opponents.

There was no need to think about trivial things at the moment anyway, as Victor had made up his mind on what to do.

Gaining more evolution materials was more important, and was after all the primary goal of this trip.

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134 Free Food II

The entire house of vampires Victor visited first after his arrival in the vampire world had vanished as Victor made sure to kill every single one of them. He only left the one that led him there initially, as he was still useful in pointing the way to other vampires and their location.

At that moment after taking care of every vampire in that house of vampires, Victor was still a vampire noble, and since he hadn't eaten any of them, he wasn't sure if he had enough evolution materials to advance. Not that he thought he would, since the number of evolution materials needed for the next evolution into a vampire lord was really much. He was sure that more bodies would be needed.

As for eating the vampires and gaining the needed evolution materials, Victor felt it would be a tedious process to do all that, so he sought a monster or beast that would provide him the needed anatomical qualities to be able to swallow the bodies without much hassle or stress.

Of course, the guide, Langscter, was the one who took Victor to a place where he was to find the most suitable animal. Victor was thinking of a large snake at first, as it was the animal with the best quality that fit the criteria, but Langscter had a better one in mind.

They had to take a detour from their journey towards the next vampires and headed into a nearby forest. Langscter had warned that the forest was home to some unusually powerful monsters, and since it had been a very long time since any one dared to enter the forest, Langscter couldn't really say much about the regular location of monsters or anything in general. All he was sure of was that they would find the animal they were looking for near or around any sizable water body, and that they needed to watch their every side at any particular time at all.

As both moved through the forest, luck seemed to be n their side as no 'powerful' monster or beast attacked them really, and they were able to visit several water bodies before they got to the one that had the monster they were looking for around it.

Funny enough, the monster was called eye liner, unlike what Langscter had told him. This was actually the first time he had encountered a monster which the people didn't know the correct name of. In the end Victor had fought some monsters that n one else had seen, and he didn't really go around discussing his hunt, so he wouldn't really know. Victor guessed the name of the monster was so because of unusually bid single eye that was positioned at the top of its head.

The monster looked like a lindworm, but way shorter, and one third of its body seemed to actually be it's mouth. Though he didn't see how it opened, he didn't need to, he could already tell just how much would be able to go through, and it definitely was a good choice.

Without causing much of a scene, Victor threw a piece of rock, more like a stone, towards the eye liner, and he of course had his mark on it. To Victor's surprise, the monster seemed to really be sensitive to sound, and in an instant moved it's tail to smash the stone.

Victor was fast enough though, and before the stone was smashed, he teleported and grabbed the monster by the tail and immediately used his skill touch of death.

After eating the monster, Victor and Langscter left the forest and found a good place for them to stay for the time as Victor had to change forms and do his thing. He didn't need his other form for the time being, and was very sure he wouldn't be needing it, so Victor discarded it and made the eye liner his new form (second).

He had to wait for 14 hours before he could change forms and all, so he used that time to feast on the vampire bodies he was keeping in his system.

In this form he couldn't see, but he could use the same method the monster used to see through vibrations, and surprisingly to him, he learnt something new that had never happened before, well except for the vampire race, but theirs was understandable.

In this form, he couldn't see and could only use the subtle vibrations happening around him to paint a mental image of the surrounding, and after the initial vibration and he painted the picture, he would be able to retain that image in his mind for a while before it started to become less and less visible and detailed. In the end he could only make sense of things that moved through fluid, but he reckoned it was more useful in water.

The interesting thing about this ability though, was that it was not in his system as a skill. Normally it would appear as a passive skill, but this ability he gained didn't. There really wasn't much he could do about it, as even the system knew not why it was so.

After some time passed, Victor transformed back to his vampire form, and well enough, he no longer had access to the ability to sense offset of vibrations moving through the air and other things that moved within a certain range. It would have been a good ability, but as he already had something similar, it was no problem.

The thing now was that even after eating an entire vampire family, he still didn't have enough material for the next evolution. Victor really began questioning how much he would need if there was a further evolution ahead. He even swallowed them whole, which meant he got more, but still. At least now he was close to the target figure.

"How many families are there in total? Those still around rather." Victor asked Langscter as he contemplated on what to do.

If the vampires would not be enough, it would be a better idea to make more vampires using humans from earth. The human race had greatly reduced, but they were still more than a billion, so that was something to take out of still, no problem. Humans were like cockroaches to begin with, so they would survive.n0𝒱𝖾𝓵𝓤𝑆𝕓.𝔠0𝓜

To Victor's question, Langscter answered, "As of the moment, there are 19 families left."

"19 huh, if all of them are as much as those guys I just finished, they might just do it."

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135 Annihilation

After Victor transformed back to his first form, he and Langscter continued their journey towards the next and closest family, once again, Langscter taking the lead.

It was good that Langscter had an idea of which family had more vampires than the other, and the trend was clear. The stronger families had less vampires, and the weaker ones had more. It was not to say that the weaker families weren't strong, but they either had few strong vampires in them, or they had strong vampires that were nothing special unlike the other vampires.

Victor also learnt from Langscter that each family had a unique power that was native to them, and that some families even had identical powers, but one was always stronger than the other. Some of these families with identical powers ended up combining and becoming ne family, coming to their different agreements. All the information was good to know, but it wasn't like it did much for Victor in the end, they were all going to become his experience points and evolution materials.

Their powers were mostly based on elements, but there were a few variations and abstract ones, like those that had the innate power to control humans like their dolls and all that. Some were creative like that.

After travelling none stop for a day and half, they reached the next vampire settlement. Victor didn't know how long the gate would last open, so he couldn't waste any time in that world. Gates normally tend to last longer open than dungeons even after they had been cleared, but this one wasn't natural to begin with, and there wasn't really any boos monster to kill. Not to say, Victor had also tested his skill and tried to teleport back into his world, and even his max levelled teleportation skill didn't work.

From what Victor could sense, the number of vampires in this vampire settlement was more than the one of the previous vampires he ate, and it seemed like not all vampires lived on the edges of cliffs, as these guys almost had the design of a small town. Give the scene a red moon and a couple of sharingan, and that would change the scene of what was happening quite fast, the only difference being that after a while of killing, the other vampires came out to fight their enemy. They weren't human and had improved senses, so the disappearance of their kind nearby was noticed soon enough.

Seeing the vampires coming together to attack, Victor was not going to damage his food, so after a long time of not using this skill, Victor decided it was time. While the vampires faired better against mind control and psychological attacks, they already showed fear towards Victor a bit, and that was all Victor needed as he released his suppression on his Undead Aura. That very moment, many vampires fell dead to the floor.

It would seem that the vampires weren't all that scared of Victor as not many of them fell dead considering their number, but the second the initial ones fell to the ground, it seemed to cause a chain effect, as an opponent who could kill without doing anything was quite terrifying, and others who showed fear fell too.

After that all he needed to do was take care of the rest, and instead of fight with all of them he simply used his skill Death Curse and was done with it. He should have thought of it sooner, as using that skill was more efficient, the only drawback being that it was MP consuming.

Victor made sure to live a few vampires alive, around fifty, and their job was to gather all the bodies in one place. After they did that, Victor no longer needed to store the bodies in his inventory for another time, he directly swallowed everything chunk after chunk and soon nothing was left.n0𝓋𝓔𝔩𝑢𝗌𝑏.𝓒0𝔪

The vampires he left alive were the strongest of them all, but he still went ahead to eliminate around 45 or so of them and left only the strongest. Amongst these 45, Ramksih was one of them. Since the other vampires knew just as much as him, and even more since the stronger ones held higher positions in their families and naturally were more knowledgeable, Langscter had lost his use. This was not an orphanage either, so there was no way he would survive.

As such, Victor continued going to other families and doing the same thing, and after that taking with him the strong ones. He even evolved all of them using the vampire essence he got from eating the other vampires (their evolution materials), and they ended up becoming even stronger. At the moment, they all had reached the level of a Vampire Lord, and that alone was a force.

After going through close to 8 families, the vampire society seemed to have noticed something amiss, and soon enough, it was clear that they were being attacked after Victor destroyed the 9th family. To Victor's expectation, the remaining families banded together to fight their enemy, and it soon became a blown out war.

Amongst the vampire army, a particular family was missing, and from what Victor learnt from his subordinates, they were the strongest family, but it didn't matter. If they were wise enough not to participate, it was alright.

It had been a week and some days since Victor entered this world, and at this point in time, Victor already had over 200 vampires under him, and all of them were Vampire Lord rank. He himself had also evolved and was now in the rank of vampire Lord. It only helped more that all of them were the strongest and most talented of each of their families, so apart from their rank, their other capabilities showed.

By the end of the second week, all the vampires had gathered and started moving towards Victor. He could have of course disrupted this arrangement, but he allowed it as it would make his life way easier of the food all came into one plate.

When the face off held, the other side said nothing to the other, but Victor could feel the gazes that the vampires directed towards their so called comrades behind Victor. Most of them couldn't help but thing they were being controlled, but that aside, it was news that the vampires had over two hundred vampire lords. Seeing what was before them, the vampires knew it was to become a tough battle, but they didn't lose confidence.

The battle started and both sides pounced on themselves. This was also going to be the first time Victor had properly utilized his legion, and he really wished the others were around.

With his skill Domain of the Dead at max level, the area of effect was pretty wide, and that was where Victor and his legion operated. The good thing was that Victor could declare an area to be the domain while he was still able to live the domain.

It was simply put, utter destruction.

[Domain of the Undead]

Declare a region of space as your domain. All undead allies within your domain receive an increase of 70% to attack and defense, and mana consumption is greatly reduced. All opponents within the domain receive a -50% to their attack and defense, while skills retain the same level of functionality.

Level: MAX

Mana cost: Varies

Another thing was that Victor could make more than a single domain at a time, and to say the least, having all the two hundred and something vampire lords in one domain was overkill, so Victor spread them across six domains, each covering a radius of 130 metres or so. Victor himself and some of the legion took care of the vampires that were outside these regions.

Without giving the vampires a chance to showcase their skills, Victor and his legion completely ravaged the other side in record time and the legion got to work gathering the bodies. Victor and instructed for the most powerful ones to be kept alive, which they were, and he simply added them to his collection after the war was finished basically.

The whole event took place in a rocky region that barely had any advantageous coverings or things like that, kind of like a typical medieval war, so no vampire was left to escape, it was not an option.

Of course, these was the entire vampire community had to offer, as it was quite obvious that they didn't take every single of their kind into the battle. They couldn't give birth to younger generation, so the usual leaving of female and children was not the case, but then…

"Let's see how much these many will get me." Victor said after looking at the mountain of bodies that was gathered before him. (Of course, it isn't an actual mountain…)

With the natural ability of the Eye Liner to completely melt anything with powerful stomach acids, Victor could worry less about what would become of the clothes he would eat and all the other extras. If not for that additional ability, he really might have to eat them naked.

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Who said war was a bad thing? Under good circumstances, it could be the best thing to happen, it all depends on which side one is affiliated with. In Victor's case, his side was the victorious one, so naturally it would be favourable. There were no celebrations or cheers after his side won the war though. His army was made of zombified vampires, so the emotions department was on strict lock down.

With the ample supply of evolution material, Victor was able to advance further in rank and advanced to the next rank which was and Ancestral Vampire. It brought with it new levels of strength and power, with this singular achievement being enough for the entire journey to be worth it.

With this rank came new abilities and possibilities. For example, Victor could now control vampires under a particular rank even though they were not of his lineage. If they were of his lineage, he was able to control those of higher rank, as high as the rank directly below his, which was vampire lord.

"It's decided then, I will grow a vampire community and army. That way I won't really need to have the need for them to be walking corpses, and they would be able to create more vampires, increasing the army.. I mean, society."

Something he g=found out earlier some time ago back on earth was that the vampires he awakened back into his legion had for some reason lost their ability to turn humans into vampires. This made him think that their race had been altered as they had now become a bit of zombies. This caused the question of the exact changes that happened to the bodies of the one he raised, and Victor made a note to check it out in future when he had the time.

Of course, as a true collector, Victor made sure to live some vampires alive after the battle that he thought were good enough. He didn't actually live them alive, but made them part of his legion. They weren't part of his lineage, so he didn't have control over them, but even though they happened to be of lower rank and he had control, he still wouldn't trust them as he couldn't say how reliable the hold he had was. Better safe than sorry.

After receiving information, Victor continued on his way to further drive the vampires into extinction. This was not his original plan and was not even in his mind, but his goal required him to do this, so eh..

After spending close to two months in this world, Victor was finally ready to leave and return to earth. Unfortunately, he had not been able to further evolve his vampire bloodline, but he got two other interesting bloodlines which he incorporated into his base form. If it wasn't because of the distance and time it took to travel from place to place, Victor would have been done with everything, but it had to be so. He may be fast, but he was not flash, even quicksilver had to take breaks.

Victor made sure to visit most of the interesting places and as much as he could, tried to acquire unique creatures. As it goes, unique isn't a common thing to come by, so Victor could only get so much.

Amongst these creatures were

A slime, which despite being of basic intelligence and acting mostly on instincts was pretty strong, and it's cutting ability was enough to break even Amadon's defence easily, if it could touch him. Other things would simply be divided into two. Victor couldn't tell exact what the limit of this was, but it was pretty reliable.

There was a werewolf who claimed to be the last of his kind, a pretty huge wyvern that was bigger than any one Victor had ever seen, not like he had seen that many, but he was sure those one was of a different kind entirely. There was another creature that looked like countless rubber thread were put together to form a pretty giant worm, though it looked pretty disgusting, Victor could see it being useful, so he added it to his collection.

After all that, they had to travel all the way back towards the gate, and Victor could only hope it was still open. He now had over 200 new legion members, and all of them were enough to cause the rank of a dungeon to be S rank, it was an amazing haul.

There were still vampires scattered around that survived, but Victor couldn't bring himself to bother about those ones. They couldn't really rebuild their community, and unless they found and raised pigs, there weren't a lot of animals they could survive on. Whatever fate lied ahead of them was none of his concern. He may have been the cause of their situation, but it was how things always went, same happened to the humans, it was only their turn. Not that he fell any sentiment though.n0𝓋𝓔𝔩𝑢𝗌𝑏.𝓒0𝔪

Victor was a bit surprised to see that the gate was still open even after a month and half had passed. To say the truth, he wasn't expecting this outcome. He had expected the gate to have done something else, like close, but 'I guess it was never a simple gate after all.' He thought to himself.

Victor travelled on the back of the Wyvern, so his journey was relatively quick, and he had to unsummon it before heading out through the gate. Of course he wouldn't parade his power so blatantly around, so every other legion member was also not out at the moment.

The pass through the gate was smooth and easy, as normal, and in an instant he was on the other side of the gate, back on earth.

As he walked through the city where the gate was situated, he could still smell the rotten flesh that littered the entire city. As it would seem, this was what became of such cities that experienced such breaks and got destroyed.

However, ignoring the flesh and all, something seemed to be off, if not a little bit. Whatever it was, Victor decided it would be a good idea to head to the Under Current base and meet with Maggie. He needed not to check on those he left at home, as he was sure they were all good, after all he could tell if they died, and he hadn't gotten any such feeling.

Finally he could move all the great distances with his teleportation skill. Victor directly teleported himself to Maggie's laboratory, but she happened not to be there. He immediately used his map to see where everyone was within the building, but then nothing seemed to be amiss like a meeting or such. Unfortunately, the mark he placed directly on her had disappeared after she broke off old skin or whatever it was she did, so he couldn't teleport directly to her location.

Victor decided to first find someone holding a good position in the organization first to get information.

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"The target has crossed the portal." A vampire said after seamlessly emerging from a shadow near a wall where another vampire stood.

They were indoors, and the vampire who had received this piece of information had a smile that formed on his face turn into a smirk as he pushed off the wall. The vampire who reported initially went on to state that they couldn't track the target's movements as he seemed to possess a teleportation ability, since he disappeared after appearing from the portal.

He gave the order to the other who had reported to him to leave, and he headed elsewhere himself.

Some minutes later, the same vampire who had received the information entered a particular room, and within the room sat just one vampire, who didn't bother to turn towards the one who just entered.

"Lord, the one you have been waiting for has crossed from the gate." The vampire reported.

The vampire seating on the chair who was called lord remained silent even after hearing this piece of information, and only after some seconds did a small wild smile bloom on his face, exposing his teeth, and he had a mouth full of them.

"Where is he at the moment?" The vampire asked.

"We don't know, as he disappeared right after emerging from the portal. He seems to have a teleportation ability." The other answered.

"Hmm, track his movements and inform me the moment you find him." The vampire seating down said.

"Yes, lord."

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Back at Under Current's base, Victor had indeed found someone of qualified rank that narrated all what had been happening. Shockingly enough for Victor, it hadn't been nearly as much as a month since he entered the portal, rather the time was relatively short.

Within those few days, he was told that many human cities had been wiped out, and that only faraway cities were left. The humans had began to assemble units and forces that would battle the crisis, and Maggie had left on a similar trip.

Unlike what first came to Victor though, they were not supporting the humans, rather they were defending themselves. It was easy enough to identify who their enemies where, vampires, and according to them the vampires had gotten rather powerful, and with this power that came, they seemed to have gotten pretty ambitious.

They had began attacking and threatening some groups for different reasons. When it came to the Under Current, it was information and personnel. Maybe the vampires just didn't see the need to learn advanced human technology and all that initially, but it seemed like they do now, and after killing all the humans in the cities and all, the ones left were those of faraway lands and the ones in the organisations left behind which were still intact.

The vampires attacked Moonless first, but seemed like their system was just so good that the vampires gave up after sometime as they couldn't really get any info from them. Because of this, they had decided to go after the much more porous Under Current.

Victor quickly pieced together that this vampires were not part of the Emrick family, as they already had plenty information if that was the case, so this was probably another family that had crossed over and still had a family. They were lucky not to be in their world really, Victor thought.

As for the time being, there was no way to contact Maggie, as both her and the team she took had gone missing from Under Current's radar and were nowhere to be found.

Markel who Victor had put in-charge was still in the base, but Deacon was not, he was in Maggie's team. Victor did try to teleport to his location, as he had a mark on him from that one time, but as expected, it didn't work as the mark was no more. Considering the fact that the guy was unable to die as his regeneration was next level, his fighting style was just as broken and Victor could imagine just how his mark disappeared.

To say the least, he couldn't really care much about what happened to them, as they could always be replaced, but for the sake of it, he sent out two of his best vampires at tracing to find them. Victor had lost interest in Maggie a while back, was she was a good and dedicated follower, so she was good to keep around. He couldn't find a way to evolve her without her addition to the legion, so she was out of the picture.

Markel was very shocked seeing someone who looked like the enemy he had been battling appear beside Victor, and since Victor hadn't said anything about summoning his vampire, it was even more of a shock than it should have been. Victor was quick enough to remove any thought Markel might have been having and they proceeded from there.

The interesting thing with the vampires he had was that they were completely active like regular vampires, retaining everything about them. They were just now a different kind of undead and no longer required some of their previous needs like drinking blood and all.

After some time had passed, the vampires were able to bring back the team with which Maggie went out with, or more precisely, the only survivor. Unsurprising enough, this survivor was Deacon, and apart from his physical condition, he was mostly fine. Being undead on top his regeneration was really a something.

During the short break when the vampires went to look for Maggie and her crew, Victor made back to his house to check things, and as expected, everything was good and unaffected. He left the vampires back there and took every other legion member with him along with the vampires he brought with him. It was easy to say that the original legion felt a bit intimidated seeing those that were much stronger than them.

That aside, Victor was back at the base, and from Deacon heard about everything they had experienced on their mission so to speak. Victor was quite interested in the ones who could make Maggie look like morning workout. If he removed himself and his legion, Maggie was very powerful and would easily be ranked amongst the top 100 the planet had to offer. For someone to be able to beat her so bad that she couldn't even fight back, it was not something that happened everyday. It was much clear that these vampires were strong, and they meant business.

Normally it wouldn't be a problem, and even at the moment it wasn't. The single fact that they were this strong was good and encouraging, since the stronger the vampire was, the richer the evolution material could be obtained from them.n0𝑣𝑬𝑙𝓊𝗌𝗯.𝑐0𝚖

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After a bit of digging, Victor's vampires were able to find a trace of them. According to the vampires, Victor learnt that the vampires they were looking for had the unique ability of shadow and darkness, so naturally they were the best when it came to stealth. Luckily, Victor knew where this place was all too well, and since he was going to go forward with his plan, he might as well start his visit from there.

Sometime later, and Victor left the base and headed towards the vampire Emricks. Just as usual, he teleported directly into their castle of a house and unlike the usual where he would be the one surprising them, this time he was the one who was to be considered surprised, as he wasn't expecting the sight that awaited him. It was as though the vampires had been laying in wait for him to arrive.

'What's going on where?' Victor asked in his mind. More importantly, he also thought how it was possible that they knew of his arrival.

Some seconds later, and the vampire lord came into view. Dracula himself had come to greet Victor as he walked through the multitude of vampires surrounding Victor, but just when Victor expected the greeting to come, Dracula scoffed at him, and without saying anything else the vampires gave way for him to walk through, leaving Victor in a bit of confusion.

It wasn't till Victor saw Dracula walking towards his throne that he noticed another figure seated on his throne instead of Dracula.

'Able to erase their presence… That's something right there.' Victor thought to himself.

He had much confidence in himself not to die to some creature, but the fact that was unable to tell that someone was on the throne was telling of their strength. He had seen it many times where the weak are unable to perceive the strength of the strong, and he really doubt that would be him.

Victor wasn't given a chance to speak however, as Dracula simply went to stand behind the person seated on the throne.

As he drew close enough, the figure spoke. "So this is the one who has been causing my people harm?" A feminine voice came through. Victor only looked up to stare the vampire in the face before he spoke.

"And who are you?" He asked.n0𝑣𝑬𝑙𝓊𝗌𝗯.𝑐0𝚖

"A worm dares to question me?" The vampire on the throne said in a calm tone.

'She best not be referring to me like so because she can only perceive that I'm only a vampire lord.' Victor thought to himself.

After a bit of silence and both parties staring at each other, the vampire on the throne spoke again, this time without the earlier arrogance and pride, but with curiosity and a bit of anger. "What are you? No, who are you?" She asked.

This time Victor took his eyes off her, as he didn't really enjoy looking up to his enemies. "How about you answer me first?" He said, in a calm and relaxed voice.

"I am Veritas of the house Emrick, the true ruler of the house Emrick." She said.

Victor couldn't tell exactly what it all meant, but he could figure that it meant she was pretty important. She would have to be anyway, considering her strength.

"I am Victor." He answered himself.

"Victor? That doesn't tell me anything." The vampire said, her anger growing.

The others around could also see this and noticed that she was getting a bit agitated for someone who is usually calm, which made them wonder what exactly the problem was.

"Stop staring like that, or else you might lose those eyes of yours." Victor said, as he could feel the stare he was getting from her intensify, and he wouldn't really say he enjoyed the attention.

With anger, the vampire on the throne, Veritas, slammed her palm hard on the throne as she spoke a bit louder than normal. "Answer me, who are you?!" She said.

Victor simply looked at her as he understood what she just tried to do. Several system messages just popped up before him, none of which he understood simple based off what was displayed, he had o join the dots to get it.

Basically stronger vampires of the same family have the ability to control those below them, and Veritas' power was that, that control she had would never weaken no matter how much stronger the vampires of her bloodline get, which is normally not the case. It wasn't even a skill, so the system message couldn't report it as such exactly.

"To be able to exert such authority, you must be something." Victor said, as his face slowly moved to face the Veritas.

In that brief moment, Veritas herself must have come to some conclusion and it seemed that she no longer needed the agitation from the Emricks to act, as she went flying towards Victor.

"You…" She said as she appeared before his face.

Just when Victor had turned his face to look at Veritas, she appeared before him, and in that slit second he managed to dodge her punch by twisting his upper body to the side. To counter, he threw a punch of his own aimed at her mid section, as the momentum she brought with her carried her forward, it would do much damage even though he was to just raise a hand. To his surprise however, she was able to react in time despite the short distance and held his hand.

Going passed Victor, Veritas threw him backwards using the hand she grabbed, using her momentum as a catalyst, ending up countering what Victor was to use as his counter attack.

Victor who was thrown backwards did some twisting in the air as his body flipped into a standing position. It would seem both of them were pretty good, and if anything evenly matched.

The vampires standing around couldn't believe their eyes, not that they had seen something completely insane. On the contrary, it was because they were unable to see what just happened. All they saw was Victor twisting through the air and standing back on his feet some distance away. Every other thing that happened wasn't even a blur to them. They simply didn't see it happen.

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Veritas immediately followed up her attack as she dashed towards Victor with a heavy left punch, layering it with a spinning right elbow after her initial attack was blocked again for the second time. However, her elbow was stopped before it made contact as Victor pulled up his left hand across to the other side to stop the attack with his palm. This was also the only time the others were able to catch a glimpse of what had just happened, but in the end to them it was all happening in mere split seconds.

At that very moment Victor stopped the attack and Veritas thought she was about to get hit since she was defenceless, she heard her opponent say something, "Not bad." This was what she heard, but unfortunately she didn't have time to think about it, as the scene around her changed that instant in the blink of an eye.

While still mid air from her attack, Victor tossed her body behind him as he pulled on her arm and flung her behind. Of course, he wouldn't kill her so easily. She pulled herself up immediately as soon as she could, but to her surprise, her entire right arm was missing from the shoulder below. She didn't even have time to scan the area, not that she had to worry. A new arm just seamlessly grew out of her shoulder, at an astonishing speed no less, and one has to say, there was nothing better for Victor, right.

Back at the vampire castle, everyone including Dracula himself were thrown completely off character as they all hurried to find where Victor and Veritas were.

Victor and Veritas on the other hand, had been fighting for a while now, and the earlier expectations Victor had were beginning to fade. The problem lied in that fact that the flesh he took off his opponent's body would just fade away and turn to fine dust particles after a few seconds, and eating it immediately fared no different.

Victor had really thought he hit the jackpot, as if he was to eat the flesh of someone so strong, the evolution material he would get out of it would be nothing compared to anyother, but sadly for him it won't be possible.

According to his system, it was something to do with Veritas being ethereal in a way, and so her physical body wasn't her actual body, she was more or less just possessing the body and exerting her strength through it. Hearing this, Victor could only wonder who she was really.

If so, there was no way she was using her actual power of when she was still alive and on about, so Victor could only imagine how much stronger she was. Well, that was only in body, her skills wer still intact and as powerful, so Victor doubted she would be too troublesome. As for himself, he was yet to fight seriously, he only had to put in some effort not to be pushed around, and he was quickly getting the upper hand in the fight.

Maybe it was because of the body Veritas came into couldn't handle her power for too long if used as it was at the moment, Victor could feel her getting tired and slower physically, and her attacks no longer held as much strength as it did some moment ago.

'If there's nothing to gain from her, then I absolutely don't need her around.' Victor thought to himself.

Some moment later, Dracula and his people would appear at the area where Victor was having what seemed to be an intense battle with his opponent, but the sight that awaited them was something they would never have imagined even after a million years.

As the first vampires arrived, all they could see was Veritas, lips locked with Victor, as his hand went through her mid section. Just then, she seemed to start decaying from her head to the other parts, and after some seconds, those decayed parts would turn to dust and get blown away by the wind. (Big man took fisting too far…)

'What the fuck? Is this some kind of live action slice of life, romance anime?'

'Or is this some kind of Korean fairy tale.'

'This shit can only happen in a shitty Chinese film!'

Was what the vampires watching would have thought, if only they were more easy going with life.

As Veritas faded into dust, Victor was left thinking why she had done what she did with the kiss and all, and her words of finding him… It was certainly weird. Anyway, he was glad to see that Rot bite was still as effective as ever.

Victor turned his attention to the the vampires that stood some distance away from where he currently was, sending a chill down their spines with his stare. In an instant appeared before them, and the mere aura he was emitting caused quite a few to want to wipe the cold sweat off their backs.

"I won't ask twice.. Who was that?" Victor said.

"Crow, do you think you can control us? The royal and esteemed family of the vampire ra!-" Dracula was saying, before he was cut short suddenly as Victor placed a hand around his face, and at that same moment he went silent.

'Touch of Death.'

From his hand, Dracula's body vanished into nothingness, but of course the others were unaware he had place it in his inventory.

"Anyone else care to speak?" Victor asked again, more now his tone colder than the first time.

The vampires easily gave into the pressure and gave information about all they knew and anyother note worthy thing. Victor was sure they withheld some information, but he didn't have time to bring it out of them, nor did he care about it.

He then went on from that point in to kill every single vampire the Emricks had to offer, not leaving behind even a single one of them like he did with the rest.

The thing after all this though, was that one of them was able to escape. Though at first Victor didn't know about this, when he noticed the fact that Damien was missing from the vampires he had killed, he also caught unto the fact that his master was also missing.

Victor could only look towards the gate that led to their world and let it go for the time being, it wasn't worth it.

"For now, let's see how much these give me." He said as he looked at the massive collection of bodies in his system. Certainly, the Emricks seemed to have made more vampires in preparation for this day, too bad it all went to the drains.

On this day, the Royal blood of the vampire race were driven into extinction… Well, except for the missing two.

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After that battle, Victor eventually came in contact with the Dunkan family, but at first it was just their head, and to Victor's surprise, the vampire lord was quite the youngster.

A few moments before Victor met with the Lord of the house Dunkan, Ramkish, he was with his elders as they discussed about something. They tried their hardest to persuade him not to carry on with what he indeed, but in the end they couldn't do much. It seemed that the battle craziness of his father was passed down.

They had one of them who was staying in the shadows keeping a very good distance spying of the Emricks report back to them what had happened, around the time it started. The Dunkans, although powerful, were not unwise, unlike the Emricks. They heeded the warnings from Emrick about how powerful Victor was, and after doing a little more digging, they started preparing on their part as it was evident that he was going to come for them, whatever the reason was.

They also carried out the ritual to summon their ancestor, and as they took over one of the human cities, they had enough supply of blood and essence to speed up the process.

Before their ultimate helper was ready, Ramkish thought it was a good idea to go face off against Victor first to feel his power first hand.n0𝗏𝖊𝑙𝓤𝑠𝗯.𝒸0𝑀

In the end, he could not be persuaded not to, so he did.

Ramkish engaged with Victor in a fierce battle, and once again Victor appreciated their strength, but it was good enough that he could manage his opponent without breaking a sweat.

Victor didn't want the fight to drag out for long. Ramkish was far stronger than the vampire lord of house Emrick. He was sure to get much evolution material. Ramkish was not just a vampire lord in name, as his strength was also in the class of a vampire lord, same with Victor. If Victor didn't have other advantages to compliment his every being, then he would have been in trouble.

The darkness abilities wielded by Ramkish was what made it harder to kill him as it seemed like unlike Victor, he could control his time of disappearance and appearance. Also, it seemed he was in a completely different phase when he moved through the shadows/darkness, as skill would not work even then, if not, he would have died countless times to Negative Burst and some other skills.

Another problem was that for some reason, this one did not fear anything, not even when Victor used his skills. It was not that the skills didn't work, but that there was no fear at all. The only option was to get in contact with him and kill him with a physical strike or maybe something, as even curses did not work.

After a while, Victor simply decided to use an under handed method to get it over with. He timed it perfectly when Ramkish had appeared behind him, and at that very moment activated Domain of the dead and summoned a few vampires to assist. He didn't need them though as he was able to close the distance between easily after turning and ran his hand through Ramkish chest, before using his skill, Touch of Death. Even then, the skill took more than normal Mp, but in the end Ramkish lay dead on the floor.

This time, Victor had learned something. He had been living around weaklings for too long that he had forgotten how to fight effectively. He was clearly stronger than Ramkish overall, but his foe was a better fighter. He felt that if he had better control and timing, he would have easily finished the fight earlier. Not to mention that Ramkish was a very unnecessarily slippery foe.

p-a- n-d-a-n-0-v-e-l、 That aside, Victor approached Ramkish body that had a hole through it's chest to devour it on the spot. He was simply eager to know just how much he would gain, as he hadn't fought any vampire this strong apart from the female who managed to pull a fast one on him. But he couldn't eat her, so the experience was not there.

Unfortunately, just before Victor's hand reached the corpse, it was cut off clean by something, something he didn't even see coming.

Immediately, he jumped away from the corpse to give himself distance, and even forgot to place it in his inventory for later as he was scouting the entire area hard to find who or what had attacked him.

While he was looking and his eyes were everywhere, he got a disturbing message from the system, one he had never gotten before.

[CAUTION]

[AN ERROR HAS OCCURED]

[CAUTION]

[AN ERROR HAS OCCURED]

[CAUTION]

[AN ERROR HAS OCCURED]

[CAUTION]

[AN ERROR HAS OCCURED]

[CAUTION]

[AN ERROR HAS OCCURED]

The message just kept popping up almost blocking Victor's vision as it filled up the entire area before his eyes. He would love to know what was happening, but the system just won't respond. Good thing for his undead mind, it really shined through in times like these.

'Something is wrong.' Victor couldn't help but confirm to himself. Not only were there countless negative messages popping up in his vision, his hand had not regenerated yet. Of course, he could see it was slowly growing, but the speed at which it did was slow, very slow, insanely slow. With such speed, the arm would be back and fully grown by the next day. Not that he could wait that long.

Victor was really confused, but while all these was happening, he noticed a figure appear beside Ramkish's corpse.

He was dressed in black trousers that looked a bit old school in design, and wore a coat that reached his knees, but with nothing underneath and his chest bare. His hair was also very overgrown, just like Victor's, and the aura he was giving off was dark and muddy, but powerful nonetheless.

'Who's that?' Victor asked himself as he stared at the figure.

There was no more contemplation or searching, it was clear that the figure was responsible for Victor's arm, but how did he manage to do it?

There was only one answer really, and that was that he simply was more powerful.

For the first time in a long while, Victor felt the familiar feeling of pressure.

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Several messages appeared before Victor as he tried to use one of his skills. At this point, the none stop messages had subsided, but that was just a breather for the more serious notification.

[ERROR] [ERROR]

[Unable to access skills]

[Your skills are inaccessible at the moment]

[Something is preventing access to your skills]

[Something is interfering with the system] [System functions are being restricted]

Several similar messages kept popping up, and Victor needed not to guess that the cause of these abnormalities was related to the figure that had just appeared.

The vampire stood over Ramkish's corpse as though he was checking something or scanning for something in the body. After a short time, the vampire moved away from the body after placing his hand on Ramkish's chest for a bit.

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Perhaps, the most surprising thing was when Victor tried to see just what level the vampire before him was. The other vampires, especially the older ones seemed to have an unbalance between their levels and actual level of power, but what Victor found out was a first for him.

It was weird, but the vampire before him had no peculiar name, and the vampire's level was at one.

Without saying anything, the vampire faced Victor and dashed towards him. Victor could not keep up with the vampire's speed, and easily found himself being greatly overpowered. In just an instant, the roles were switched, and Victor had become the foe.

After being tossed around for a bit, the vampire spoke as he said, "Useless, you don't appear to be anything special. Trash." The vampire said, with a noticeable disgust in his words that Victor couldn't tell where it was coming from.

Victor instead of listening to what the vampire had to say, was going through himself checking for how he would be able to better his chances. He couldn't access any of his skills, and he had concluded that the reason was related to the enemy before him. This wasn't some kind of anime or movie where people explained what they had done and how it worked, so there was no chatting amongst themselves on how whatever was possible. The fact that he had to fight using just one arm also contributed as it messed up his balance and all.

Fortunately for Victor, although his skills had been locked and no longer had effect, he still had a chance. His Innate Abilities were still accessible. Since the abilities were actually deeply rooted in his being and nature, they were not affected by whatever it was that had been done to him.

The thought of getting the evolution materials of such a foe was really tantalizing, but the thought was pushed to the side as quickly as it came. At the moment, the saving grace for Victor was his Infernal body.

He really saw how lazy he had become facing weak opponents. The fact that he had never really used his Infernal Body was proof.

The vampire before him took a single step, exuding plenty confidence, and as soon as Victor saw that, he flared up. The lines all around his body lit up to the extent that Victor started emitting a substantial amount of light that illuminated his immediate surroundings. As always, the lines and marks on his body looked like flowing lava, and along with the light came intense heat, but to Victor there was barely any change at all.

The vampire that had stopped moving forward for a bit, observing what was going on started moving closer again. He seemed not to be affected by the heat, and after reaching a certain distance disappeared, and not even a split second later appeared before Victor. With a simple motion, he thrust his left hand towards Victor's stomach, but to his surprise, his fist was caught and a plam strike followed right after to his chest.

The strike Victor delivered didn't do much of a damage, but instead acted as a great way to distance his opponent away from himself.

Of course, there was the fact that Victor was yet to fully understand the capabilities of this form, and what he could actually do or his limits, so it was safe to say that he was not drawing out the full capabilities.n0𝑽𝗲𝓵𝓊𝚜𝐛.𝗰0𝓂

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Both broke into another round of fight, but this time it would seem that Victor could keep up with the vampire to an extent, and even managed to deal some punches and kicks from time to time, though not all did much when it came to damage done. He also realized that he could create and control flames, but the problem was still present as he had inadequate control over them, and could only do many variations of attack on the spot.

After a while of going at it, the vampire stopped attacking again before saying, "Hmm, you barely pass, but you are still too weak." He said, before spitting on the ground as though a sign of disrespect and rejection for Victor.

Victor couldn't really understand the meaning of what he was saying, but at least he was able to grab the surface meaning.

At this point, one might be asking why Victor had yet to call out his army even when the odds were stacked this badly against him, but it just wasn't possible. Victor had wanted to do this the moment he saw that his opponent was way stronger than him, but it didn't work. In the end, the skill Legion of the Dead was also a skill.

As the fight dragged on, it became clear who was on top and who was below, not that it hadn't been.

Victor even managed to outmanoeuvre the vampire and get back his arm that had been blown away because of the fight, and with the enhancement the Infernal Body provided his body, he was able to rejoin it to his body in a short time.

pa(nd)a no vel Even then, the fight didn't get any easy, and as it went on Victor had to push himself even further until he seemed to have entered a new form of his infernal body .

With this new form came some improvement, obviously. He could feel the jump in power, and the lines and marks on his body had also increased in size and were running even more ferociously than before.

This time, the heat produced from his body was simply insane, and he would dare say that at that moment, he resembled a mini sun. The air around him evaporated, and the very ground beneath his feet began melting. His every step left a mark on the ground as it burned off, and for the first time he felt that he could turn the tide of the fight.

As expected, this new form was simply something else. With every touch, he caused damage to the vampire, and even when he was simply defending from an attack, it still seemed to do damage to the vampire. The intense heat generated from his body alone seem to burn the vampire, but his last one Victor couldn't confirm exactly, as the vampire showed no sign of being hurt.

Everything looked to be going well for once as Victor was making use of every experience he had in fighting to pull various things off. Fighting with beasts and fighting with actual proper opponents was very different.

But then, the vampire distanced himself from Victor with a short burst. His body was covered in burns, a testament that Victor was no joke with the heat.

"This is enough. It's ready." The vampire said.

Victor was about to attack, as he wasn't one to wait for his opponent to transform, but then Victor noticed something strange happening around him as the darkness seemed to move on it's own towards the vampire.

But then, something unexpected happened before Victor's eyes as a hand impaled through the mid section…

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A hand had had went through the vampire's chest as he transformed, and Victor was surprised at what just happened. The vampire himself didn't even turn to look at the attacker and just went on with what he was doing. Under a few seconds, Victor was blown away by some kind of energy that looked black and felt a bit cold.

Looking at the vampire now, it seemed like he had worn some kind of cloth that was completely made of darkness itself as it materialized over his body to cover him up almost like a cloak.

Now that the short transformation, the vampire turned around to look at the one that had done the sneak attack, and Victor was also curious to know, so he didn't even take the chance to attack.

To both of their surprise, the one who attacked was actually Ramkish who still had a hole in his own mid section, and it even seemed to be healing slowly.

"You…" The vampire said but didn't complete his statement.

"Are you blind or something? Can't you feel it?" Ramkish asked, sounding a bit irritated and ticked off.

"If it's that, I can very much feel it," the vampire said in response as he turned his head a little to the side, just enough that he could look at Victor. "-but I refuse to acknowledge a weakling."

"It doesn't matter, you won't last lo-" Before Ramkish could complete his sentence, the other vampire appeared before him, and with what looked like a simple shove, he was sent flying tens of metres away, and couldn't get up after that. As it would seem, that wasn't a simple push.

Victor didn't understand what the conversation he just heard was all about and why the vampires were fighting each other, but he knew he had a bigger problem to face. He seemed to be getting the upper hand, but with his enemy's new form, he couldn't say for sure. The good thing though was that the fist that went through the vampire's chest wasn't just any attack, and it had targeted something specific that he didn't even know was there, and that thing looked like some type of core.n0𝓋𝗲𝗅𝒰𝐒𝔟.𝒞0𝕞

Normally removing something like that from a being that depended on it would mean death, but the vampire was still alive.

Victor and the vampire soon resumed their fight, and this time Victor could feel that he was being pushed back, though not as much this time. His opponent began getting serious as time elapsed, and so doing really began overpowering Victor in many cases.

For one short moment, Victor was about to get impaled by the vampire, but then he stopped just as his fingers had drawn blood from the Victor's neck. Victor could feel that his neck was about to fly off, and with the blessing of having unlimited stamina, he wasn't worn out, at least not physically. He did feel a bit off mentally.

"Damn that bastard… Unfortunately this is as far as I go.. The rest is up to you." The vampire said. It looked like he was about to say something else, but then his body began to fade and turn to dust, just like the body of a vampire he fought earlier.

After the vampire's body faded, the fire burning all over and through Victor's body went off immediately, and he returned to his base self. Unexpectedly, he fell on one knee as he could feel a bit exhausted mentally. To say the least, Victor didn't know that he could get mentally exhausted even, but he soon saw the reason to be his insanely low MP that was now below 10, which was incredible considering that he had more than enough.

As it would seem, he really didn't have control over his ability, and not only was he not used to it yet, he also was very inefficient.

His body started adapting and recovering immediately, so he would be able to move soon. After a very short time, Victor felt a burst of power rush through him, and following it were various system notifications. Basically, he could once again access his skills, titles and all that. This signified that the vampire had really died.

Following that, several vampires appeared around Victor from the shadow it looked. He was alert at first, but could feel no intent towards him coming from them, and just watched them. He could take them without skills, but their ability to move through shadow and darkness was very annoying and made them very slippery foe.

They looked around for a bit before facing Victor and bowing their head a little, all in unison.

pAnda (nov)e1 Truly, Victor was been hit with one confusing thing after another. He couldn't understand why the vampires would bow their heads to him, but he would if he knew what was in their minds.

They had been instructed to follow him if anything was to happen from their leader and after that do whatever they wished, and it seemed like that was the plan. After expressing their loyalty to him, they vanished without paying any attention to Ramkish's body, which Victor once again found strange.

He could feel that there was still life in the body, so he walked over to where it was, and to his surprise what lay there was not Ramkish, but a completely different person all together.

There seemed to be some remnants in the body's appearance as Victor studied it, but he could tell that the body was changing, and the speed at which it was doing that was also fast.

Victor couldn't tell if this one would turn to dust or not, but either way, the fact that he was still alive after what happened to him was shocking and dangerous enough, so Victor decided it was better to kill him one last time, but unfortunately for him, a disturbing system warning appeared.

[Your Hp is decreasing at an alarming rate, and you might die within some seconds]

Before Victor could even pull up his status screen to look at what was happening, he fell backwards to the ground.

[You died]

[Title True Undead taking effect]

[True Undead]

As one who has achieved something that should be impossible, DYING and resurrecting countless times, as an undead, you have shown your thirst of immortality, and have been granted it.

Effect: When you die you will be revived 24 hours later at a random location within a 200 metres radius from where you die.

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"So I ended up dying either way.." Victor said, as he woke up in a completely different place from where he was moments ago from his perspective.

It was no big deal as he hadn't lost any of his strength, which was one good trait this title granted. Normally there was a price for this kind of nature defying skill, but in his case he could bypass it. Victor actually had his own theory for this, as it would make sense if what was exchanged was his life force or something similar, but seeing as he didn't have any actual 'life force'…

With his skills back and everything back to normal for the most part, Victor opened his system panel to look at his stats, but then he was hit with an error.

'Did that fucker not die?' He thought to himself, but this time around it was different.

[System Error]

[A Force is Blocking The System From Normal Operation]

[…]

The system went silent in the middle of giving Victor a message, and that was it.

Suddenly, as if following a queue, a strange energe energy hit Victor as the wave of said energy swept by. It was exactly the way the gate that led to the vampire world hit, and this gave Victor a thought.

Currently, the vampire gate was still open, and to his knowledge the human side were yet to breach it, but then another titan of a gate had appeared. He didn't need to see it to know it's size, as the wave of energy was even stronger than the time the vampires' appeared.

He quickly teleported towards one of his marks that was close to the Under Current as for some reason he couldn't feel the ones within the massive building. On getting there, to his amusement, the entire mountain the secret base was in had vanished without trace, and there was grass growing on the land like the base was never there. Victor thought they had upped their security parameters, so he walked towards the grass, but it really was actual grass, and there was no restriction. With his system not responding, he couldn't use the map function, so he had to go off his instincts and self observation.

He went home, and there he found that it was still there, his house, and Werzelya was still around after he went looking for her, but something was strange with both his and Werzelya's house, everybody was asleep, and nothing he did could wake them up, not even burning their flesh woke them up, but the vampires still healed like normal.

From there, Victor went to the city, City G, to see the situation over there. Crow and his people took a big hit, so they were out of commission for a while. City G however was also asleep.

From then onward, unexplainable things started happening that Victor just couldn't understand, like large sections of the city disappearing before his eyes and being replaced by a river that didn't flow out after hitting the end even though the was no route for it to continue flowing, but it continued, even though that was impossible.

After a while, what seemed to be a tremor hit the earth that he stood on, and the area of effect was also large as far as the eyes could see. The force of this threw Victor into the air, but then he didn't return back to the earth and his body remained suspended in air after he must have travelled a distance upwards. It felt like his brain had been ringed, and his self stretched out of his body.

From there on, it felt to Victor like he was in a trance state and couldn't quite understand what was happening around him.

It must have felt like an eternity, but at the same time a few moments to Victor as he just existed within the world that seemed to be undergoing something completely unexplainable.

When he came to, he found himself lying down on a grass field that spread several miles apart, so much so that he couldn't make out where the end was. He also had no ability to fly, so there was that, he would have to make it out of there by foot or luckily, through teleportation.

At first, Victor couldn't quite remember something, but some moments later the memories of all that happened flowed into him, and suddenly he was on guard, for no reason really.

Firstly, he checked his system to see if it was working as normal, or it was still jammed. Surprisingly, what greeted him was a system panel he had never seen before, and to say the least, it was weird and unexpected. Also, something else apart from the way it looked had caught his attention.

Status

Name: Victor (Crow)

Race: Vampiric Infernal Undead

Evolution Material: -Poison Sandworm – 15,000…

Class: Allrounder

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […, Emissary of Death […, The Chosen […]

Blood Bank: XX

Hp: 4,500/4,500

Mp: 4,500/4,500

[Stat]

Strength: S

Agility: S

Sense: S

Vitality: D

Magic: C

Intelligence: A

Charm: D

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

[Passive: All Title, Undead Aura (S), Recovery (S), Art of Combat (A), Weapon Mastery (A), Sixth Sense (A)

[Active: Death Ark (S), Paralysis Ark (S), Infernal Ark (S), Geon Ark (S), Mental Ark (S), Blood Ark (S)

Seeing the massive change in his system and realizing that he does not understand most of what is happening, Victor could help but voice out his thoughts, "What's all this?" As he looked at the system.

Out of nowhere, he received a reply from the system that had chosen to remain quite throughout.

According to the system, he was affected by the Universal Evolution that happened, and so was the functionality of the system and many other things.

"What do you mean by evolution of the universe?" Victor asked, as his mind wondered back to the events he experienced just before he lost himself.

The system didn't seem to be able to explain the happenings either, but it had a name for it. Alas, Victor's system wasn't sentient; neither did the system have the answer to everything. He forgot the last part for a while.

Back to his system, Victor asked why his stats now read letters instead of numbers, and the explanation was simple. After the so called Universal Evolution, Victor was no longer ahead of the curve like he once was, which meant that him having 11 points in strength would be the same to others having 11 points in strength. The only thing he had that was still advantageous was his ability to evolve and incorporate different species into himself.

This is how the stats worked;

5 – 9 (F rank)

10 – 19 (E rank)

20 – 34 (D rank)

35 – 64 (C rank)

65 – 99 (B rank)

100 – 149 ( A rank)

150 – 199 (S rank)

xxx – xxx (x rank)

There were other changes, but Victor was also most interested in the new title he received, but when he opened it to see what it was about, there was nothing.

[The Chosen]

???

The system also had nothing to say about this new title, so Victor decided it was best to just leave it for the time being, as maybe it will reveal itself as time goes by.

For the skills, most of his skills have been grouped and absorbed into the other, so it now looks something like this.

Death Ark (S) [Legion of the Dead lvl-MAX, Domain of the Dead lvl-MAX, Touch of Death lvl-MAX, Negative Burst lvl-MAX, Death Curse lvl-MAX, Demon Shadow lvl-MAX, Death Gaze lvl-Max]n0𝓋𝗲𝗅𝒰𝐒𝔟.𝒞0𝕞

Geon Ark (S) [Teleport lvl-MAX, Remote Explosion lvl-MAX, Earth Stump lvl-MAX, Excavate lvl-MAX]

And so on…

After going about for a while, Victor was shocked to find some new creatures that he had never before seen whether in a dungeon or outside. Not even Maggie that liked collecting records of different creatures had any record about them, and Victor had gone through all of her research after he got into research himself.

If there was a better way to describe them, it would be aliens, but not the typical ones he knew from his original world with pear shaped heads and grey skin. This ones looked reptilian with spikes running down their backs to their tails from the top of their heads, but the only thing that made them seem alien was the fact that they had armour on. Not some medieval armour, but full on intergalactic space fighting armour.

As Victor was not trying to fight or eat anything at the moment, he chose to leave them be for the moment. He had other things to do. The gates that opened before along with the one leading to the vampire world had closed.

The first thing he did was to teleport to his house to check how everything was and whether there were any changes. Getting there, he found that Jade, Zed and Luke were nowhere to be found, they had, disappeared. This was rather strange, as they would never leave the house unless under certain danger. Then if that was the case, he should have been able to teleport to their individual location since he had his mark on them, but even that didn't work.

He quickly checked his system to see all the names he had in his legion, and to his surprise, they all weren't there.

Victor went on to do some investigating and found out that the number of humans alone that had gone missing was alarming, and the human population had been greatly reduced.

The same happened with other species that lived on the planet that were known, and it was estimated that it a phenomena that happened to all living things on earth. Will a group researched more on this, another was tasked with contacting the other new species that had appeared on the planet that seemed to be intelligent.

After some days of research, it turned out that all those that were level 50 and below had been wiped out. The scientists called it the universes way of carrying out natural selection or something like that, Victor wasn't bothered by it. There was also the fact that the earth's size had increased more than 1.5 times it's original, and of course, there were scientists working the maths and all of how the earth was going to remain in orbit.

The major problem humanity faced at the moment was manpower, as most of the humans alive were fighters and those that work in the field, not in research labs and all. At least now the motivation for even normal civilians to get powerful will be there.

Everything had suddenly been turned upside down in the world, and even as this was so, Victor had another problem to deal with, as not only did the options to choose from increase, he had also become the target of some foreign groups, and this time he wouldn't be able to simply overpower all of them.

Slowly like flowing river, time went by, and just like that several years had gone by. Victor did find the remaining vampires from the Dunkan family and he did eat them all. Veritas turned out to be the one that came back in Ramkish's body, and through whatever means morphed the entire anatomy and physiology of the body into a woman's. It wasn't a female version of the original, but her own likeness. She was only more of a milf now.

Victor decided to keep her around because of her power. With the people that were after him on his tail every time it seemed, he needed not only his legion. His legion had also become more than important than he ever thought, and he was really grateful he had the skill.

The power scaling of the world had been thrown off completely. And as though being the unluckiest, he happened to attract the attention of one of the two most powerful forces, which were among the four after him. They were a kind of religious fanatical bunch that wanted him dead as they placed him at the top of their list to take hi down, along with any other creature they deemed evil by their god.

Initially after the world changed, there were no gates or dungeons, so the creatures on earth went to war with one another in the name of levelling up. No body knew when the next reset was going to happen, so they wanted to at least meet the threshold. The world became a very brutal and unsafe place fast, and the conflicts started once wild beasts no longer served much.

These times were the golden ages of Under Current which Victor was glad he had under him, and through these times he was able to build quite the reputation around his name, which ultimately brought unwanted attention as it happened.

Six years went by, and once again, dungeons started springing up left and right, so did some small gates. With the appearance of dungeons, earth was brought into an era of peace in a way, as there was no longer a need to hunt one another for the sake of levelling. The dungeon and gates didn't provide friendly monsters and challenges either, so everything was balanced.

Of course, enemies that had been made remained so, while some were able to reconcile. It was also around this time that those wanting Victor's head got even more serious.

Through out the dark years, he had made various enemies with even strong people, the only thing he had going for him was his power that could not be disputed by mere creatures and beings. To go against him, the others needed to also bring their strong, and to say that, it wasn't easy as Victor had really not calmed down when it came to eating other creatures and gaining their abilities. Through his own means, he was able to create more vampire evolution materials, and after some years, during the dark years, he rose to the pinnacle of the vampire evolution tree, The Origin.n0𝑣𝓔𝗅𝓤𝑠𝒷.𝒸0𝓶

This alone put him ahead of every race and creatures. The only ones who could contend were the fanatics, as they had a couple who could be said to have neared godhood.

Ten years after the first universal reset, another one happened, and just like before, those below level fifty all were erased out of existence.

Changes happened on earth, and more opportunities were presented. Same as before, everyone's level was reset. New adventures and troubles came like always, and every creature had to survive in the new world.

Unlike the first, this time dungeons started just a year after.

Elsewhere, somewhere in a different plane of dimension, three beings could be seen around a blue and red orb that radiated a kind of energy properly contained in it. They seemed to be discussing something serious, and their topic was… Victor-

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"Seriously, Firstly, I didn't even get to enjoy my stay in this damn world long enough after escaping bondage, and was thrown into shit situations… now this shit." Victor said to himself, while standing on top of a building in the middle of the city.

It was safe to say that he was no longer an emotionless being as he once was, at least to some extent.

From the spot where he stood, he looked at the beautiful city below, observing the night life while leaning on the metal bars on the edge of the roof of the story building.

'Heh.. I've got shit to do.' He said to himself just before he was about to teleport away, but then the skill didn't activate. "Great, now I've got you to babysit." Victor said.

"I thought I told you not to step into my city? Did you think I would not find out?" The voice asked as a man walked out of the shadows nearby.

"You are getting better huh? I couldn't even sense you approaching." Victor said. Before the other could respond however, he continued, cutting the man off in a rather rude manner. "Don't waste your time now, I don't feel like listening to an old self righteous baby. Move along now, and stop your skill's effect." Victor said.

For a short while, some seconds, both men just stared at each other for a while, and then, without saying another word, Victor teleported away.

Seeing the empty space before him, the man showed a spoilt expression on his face as the words escaped his mouth, "Damn bastard.. Just a little more."

The man who had just confronted Victor is called Orvion Baxter, someone who, for Victor that has many skills in his arsenal, is a big red flag. His ability is to block the activation of skills, and when this skill of his is active, even he can't use his other skills. The good part is that he is a physical oriented hunter, so the situation is for the most part advantageous for him.

His only problem is that Victor is still too much for him, as Victor's physique alone is far beyond superhuman in many ways.

Victor appeared at his destination after teleporting. He was now at Under Current's HQ where he spent most of his time.

The world after the second RESET, as they termed it, had become even bigger. How earth was still able to maintain it's position in the solar system was a mystery on it's own that many scientists were driven to study.

For those not too fascinated by science though, this expansion of the earth only meant there was more political battles and whatnot to handle.

There were different factions all around, each with their own ideologies and visions, and even Victor's Under Current (I will most likely refer to it as UC from now on) was no longer just a hidden organization, they had become more of an organization shrouded in mystery, but their existence was vastly known all round, even at the opposite side of the world, and everyone knew not to mess with them.

Amongst all the factions and different groups around the world, the ones that stood out the most were the fanatical group that worshiped a certain god, and the group that was more interested in science and interstellar expanse.

Of course, there were other groups that had different views and focus other than these two, but they were nowhere close to them in terms of anything.

Normally, the existence of these two groups shouldn't be any problem, but the thing was that they both wanted the entire world to follow along with them, willingly or not. The problem Victor faced was the singular fact that he was trapped in between both groups in a way.

While the fanatics of the Razhin faith were against Victor, calling him impure and wanted nothing more than to send him into nothingness, the VIM CORP, which was the group focused on interstellar travel and space believed Victor could be of great help to them.

Victor however, while also against the fanatics, wanted nothing to do with the scientists. His spies had already feed him the information on what the VIM CORP really wanted, and it was just like he suspected. They wanted to cut him open and experiment on him, as even now, there was no one who could use as many skills as he could.

That aside, when it came to the scientists, there was a split as a particular faction in the organization wanted to sincerely partner with Victor, while the majority wanted nothing more than to open him up and study him.

…

"Welcome, I have processed the request from earlier and sent people to handle it. How was your stroll?" A feminine voice asked Victor, as he walked into a certain room where many people seemed to be at work.

Of course, this female who spoke was Veritas.

After taking over Ramkish's body, the boy's anatomy slowly morphed into hers, and it even gave her the perk of growing past her former appearance into somewhat of a milf now. Though she didn't have her original power back at the time, Victor took her in as she requested since he knew that her loss in power was only temporary.

Unexpectedly, her loyalty towards him only increased, and all his preparations in case she was too betray him never were used.

In addition to wanting to be under him, she sort more than just to be his tool, as she referred to herself, she wanted to birth his children… Which is unreasonable, considering the fact that it was extremely difficult, and the chances of a successful birth was almost zero.

Though vampires can't give birth, it is different for an ancient vampire like herself. The only problem was that the stronger you were, the harder it was to conceive or even impregnate, and her strength was nothing to scoff at, neither was Victor's.

She was a Progenitor, and Victor had even taken it a step further and was the Origin when it came to vampire evolution, which is as high as it could get. This was also the major reason why the fanatics of the Razhin faith hated him as impure being. He was something like the embodiment of evil to a large extent in their eyes.

"Ver, it was good, and.. good job." Victor said as he swiftly maneuvered his way away from her. She had the habit of playing seductive games in public much to the sight of others, and he wasn't in for that.

She followed him to his private office where they would get the most privacy as she had something to tell him. Victor read her signal and headed there.

When they reached, Victor went into the room and sat on the couch positioned by the side of the room before his desk.

"Good new?" He asked Veritas, who remained standing before him.

"Not exactly, but we have found a possible lead."

FOR THE SAKE OF MEMORY [Vampire power system, from weakest to strongest]

Fledgling

Blood Sucker

Blooded Vampire

Vampire Noble

Vampire Lord

Ancestral Vampire

Progenitor

The Origin

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"Really? Heh.."

"You weren't hoping for it to be this fast, right?" Veritas asked.

"Yes… Hand me the details, I'll head out immediately." Victor said as he stretched out his hand to receive the documents she had in her hand. She seemed to hesitate for a brief moment, but then handed them over to him.

Victor collected the documents and went through everything in seconds.

"Seems we are in luck. They just so happen to be moving it at this time. " Victor said before placing the documents on his table as he stood up.

The documents contained information on the job Under Current had received some time ago from the VIM CORP. Even though this was a matter of top secret, everyone trusted Under Current to keep info on jobs private.

Apparently, the technology the VIM CORP has been trying so hard to create was created the week prior to this by some small time organization. They could very much just partner with this organization, but the VIM CORP would rather take all for themselves than form any such partnership. The original request was to steal the technology and terminate everyone related to it, but Victor personally rejected the other part of the request.

Victor left in an instant after dropping the documents as he teleported himself away. He was going to bring himself as close as possible to the site where this technology was. Since it was to be transported that night, he would just hijack it from the transportation vehicle without causing a ruckus.

…

Just as planned, before the morning came, the VIM CORP had their piece of technology in hand.

"The VIM CORP sends their regards." Veritas said, as she walked closer to Victor.

"Hm.."

"You seem to be worrying about something lately. What is on your mind master?" Veritas asked.

'This sly…' "Enough with the master talk…"n0𝑽𝑬𝐋𝒰𝗌𝑏.𝒸0𝗆

To put it plainly, Victor had been thinking lately. He was among the most powerful all around the earth. Though it was something he didn't really want to acknowledge, he had become so powerful that little was above him. Living around had little meaning these days. He could think of some recreational activity to indulge himself in, but even then, he already knew how he would feel.

Originally it was about survival, then survival, and survival. It was all he had ever known in this new world. Now that he needed not invest much effort, it had all become dull. Maybe all he was looking for now was some kind of stimulant, who knows.

There were those that were at least as powerful as him, and one of them was the leader of the fanatics that were so obsessed with worshiping their gods. Victor was sure that such a person would have no problem, as he could really be preoccupied with worshiping their gods for eternity.

"I need a kind of cause. I literally have it all. Now, it has become so empty and dull. I feel the need for some kind of purpose. So, I've been thinking of something engaging to do, like finding out what the cause of the RESET is or anything related to that." Victor said to Veritas, as he looked away from her.

There was no particular excitement in Victor's voice as he spoke these words, but the need for them could be felt to some extent.

"I understand your plight." Veritas said. Though she was a vampire and they were built to live for a long time and would not be affected by living for a long time, she could understand Victor as they shared a connection.

"But I'm a vampire and all, I know what you are thinking. The thing is, I am not exactly the same as you." Victor said. Though the majority of his genes were vampire, there were still missing parts.

"I'll be going out for a work." Victor said, but Veritas could feel it in his words this time.

"You won't be coming back this huh?"

"You should also take a break and relax.. I'll be back soon." Veritas didn't bother responding, as just like she expected, Victor teleported the next moment.

There were some believe concerning the cause of the reset. Some believed it was some form of natural selection or something related, but at a universal level, while others like the science faction discredited that notion and believed there was something else at play. This was also the motivation they needed to start focusing aggressively on interstellar expanse.

The fanatics however believed that it was the doing of their gods and that the cause or reason behind it needed not be known by men. They also picked great offence with science faction concerning this particular notion. Being the kind of people they are, the only thing stopping them from matching for the destruction of all science related organization was the fact that the science faction wielded great power in machinery and weaponry. If the one at the top, the leader of the Razhin faith was to move, the science faction would probably not stand a chance using just weaponry, but he hadn't.

Victor however, had some thought concerning the matter, as anyone would. For him, there are two possibilities, the universe was either at play, or some kind of higher power or civilization was behind it.

Being influenced from his former life, he was more inclined to believe in the supernatural and paranormal. If there was one thing he realized after crossing over, it was that this new world focused more and heavily on science and technology. That didn't seem to be much of religion and any other supernatural activity or knowledge around, and that furthered the case with the introduction of awakeners.

Victor immediately went on some kind of search around the place. He didn't have any particular destination in mind, but he was sure that where ever the Razhin people had restraints on would be interesting.

The first two yielded no results, and the last one also didn't.

It had already been close to a week since he set out in his search. "To think they would have nothing.. hypocrites." Though he didn't find anything of value to him, he did find out something interesting. Even the Razhin faith were researching technology. Victor couldn't say if it was shameful or innovative, it just wasn't expected.

He did capture one of the people there however, and using one of his skills, pried out information from the man before letting him return to his duty without any knowledge of what happened.

The new destination had been determined, and unfortunately, Victor didn't have a mark around that side of the earth. He teleported himself as close as possible to the location, but that was it. The journey from there on was on foot.

This gave Victor the opportunity to experience actual travelling, after a very long time of just teleporting around the place. He hadn't expected that there would be some settlements far out from the cities, but there were.

Like a true adventurer, he stopped around some of the cities, solved some problems, slept around a bit, then took off. If Veritas was to find out about what he had been doing, she would definitely be mad, as he had her at home but never agrees to touch her. Victor had a very low chance of impregnating anyone, so he wasn't the least bit afraid of leaving behind loose ends.

Like so, time was spent slowly, day by day, until a whole month passed. The location Victor learned about wasn't anything special either. It was some kind of dungeon that had existed since the first world before the resets and never disappeared. It was only recently found and the location was been protected by the fanatics, probably because they planned to explore it, or were in the process of doing so. All these information, Victor got by further prying into the minds of those that were kept to guide the place. Even they weren't too sure of what was going on with the place, they only knew the general information. Nevertheless, Victor deemed it was irrelevant and continued his journey that he had begun to enjoy. He left a mark behind though, just in case.

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The following month after Victor left for his supposed adventure, he came to a certain settlement where the inhabitants there behaved less civilized, or in better terms, not as technologically civilized as the rest of the world. They didn't even seem to know that the world was different.

Victor, of course, did a bit of research, and what he found was definitely worth calling shocking, not that he was.

There was a certain cave close to this settlement, and the moment Victor got close to the cave, he received a system message that something was interfering with the system's functionalities, and also something was blocking the usage of his skills.

This discovery was certainly interesting. Victor went back to the village had to get more information as to what the cave was.

The villagers themselves didn't know what it was, all they knew was that it was a no go area for anybody, and were even shocked to see Victor return alive.

None of the villagers had any sort of power or skill. To put it plainly, they were not awakened, or so it seemed. Victor believed their powers were being suppressed by the effects of the cave that also seemed to be strong. Maybe weaker awakeners felt more of the effect than stronger awakeners like himself.

As he couldn't get anything from the villagers, he headed inside himself. Though his skills were blocked, he still had his abilities and natural physique, and being an Origin vampire, it was no joke.

Entering the cave, Victor could make out little details around, but there was no light source, so he had to rely on his natural night vision.

The initial entrance was just a very long and bent passage way that kept extending inwards. It had several markings on the wall, which Victor couldn't make sense of. The entire structure was tiles with fine blocks and slabs, and the interior was spacious enough to accommodate two people walking side by side with no problem. The ceiling also had some distance from Victor's head.

Victor still had no need to be too vigilant consciously as his senses were still sharp, even without some of his passive skills. Despite that, the way through the passage was completely straight and continued like that even after he had been walking for hours. He got so deep that he could no longer see anything and the darkness completely engulfed everything. At this point, Victor's other senses kicked in and helped paint a mental image for him to know his surroundings.

After walking steadily for almost a day, Victor finally came to an opening where he could feel that the material was different, wood. There were five such signals he was getting from his senses, and he was sure these were wooden doors.

Though Victor had been on guard, just in case any monster popped out, it never happened.

Standing before the five doors, Victor couldn't help but think that these may have been placed there in the form of trials or something similar.

'I'll have to go door to door then.' He said to himself in his head.

The entire place was still completely pitch black and he couldn't see anything, but that changed as soon as he pushed open the first door.n0𝔳𝑒𝐋𝑢𝓢𝑩.𝓬0𝓂

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In the end, after spending time within the cave, Victor came out of the cave back to the surface. The experience inside the cave was very unexpected, but never the less it was a bit fun. The think though, was that it didn't provide any clue what so ever concerning anything.

Victor went towards the village to speak with the people there, and after a brief talk with the village head, he left.

He had been away for a while, so it was time for him to return, at least to check up on his people and organization.

Instead of straight up teleporting away, Victor decided it was better to go on foot, not like anything important was happening at the moment. After Victor reached a certain city however, he changed his mind about just travelling by foot.

The entire settlement he just walked into was completely destroyed with signs of battle here and there. He immediately teleported back to Under Current's HQ where he would spend most of his time, so will Veritas.

From thin air, Victor appeared surprisingly as this visit was very unexpected. However, Veritas wasn't inside the room, so Victor left the room by himself to ask what the matter was.

"Where is Veritas?" He asked randomly, directing the question to those around him after he stepped out of his office.

"Umm, Sir…" A voice spoke up as they came closer to him.

The man who answered Victor quickly filled him in as fast as he could about the situation at the moment. Apparently, while Victor was away, the earth had been attacked by monsters, and rumor has it that these monsters came from the seas and oceans.

Victor found his way to the information department of Under Current immediately to get better information on what was going on.

When he got there, he was greeted as procedure required, and from then on the head there personally filled him in on what was happening.

Some time ago, while he was away, various parts close to large water bodies were attacked by monsters that came out of the waters. It all happened almost simultaneously at first which almost felt like something that was staged, but then there were other possibilities.

There was the possibility of a dungeon opening under water that had not been discovered, and due to that fact broke. This was the best possibility, with the worst case scenario being that it wasn't a dungeon but a gate. That would mean even more monsters.

All the monsters seemed to be related to the aquatic habitat, so it made sense to suspect such a dungeon would open under water.

At the moment, humans had to fight the monsters that had made it unto land first before they head into the waters.

So far, majority of the monsters on land had been taken care of, and some places had even started heading into water.

During this time, Under Current received a request to help out one of the cities located close to the ocean, and Veritas went along to see the situation for herself.

Hearing all this, Victor wasn't worried in the least. From his personal conclusions, if the monsters were that many, it was either a gate that broke, or multiple dungeons that were unattended to.

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In time, the monsters all around the shores and cities close to the large bodies of water were dealt with, and the battle was taken into waters. Quite frankly, humans were put in a disadvantageous position once they stepped foot into the waters.

They quickly found that the monsters they had been fighting had never been operating at their full capacity while on land. Now that they were in water, even the weakest of monsters was much more stronger than they would be in land.

Veritas returned some time later after the request they received had been completed. Once she returned, she gave a report to Victor of how the entire experience was, as a first hand witness. That wasn't the only account being requested though.

Even as she was a subordinate of Victor and could not stand or oppose him in strength, she could never hold back her feelings after finding out that Victor had been sleeping around when he left and had yet to do much to her.n0𝔳𝑒𝐋𝑢𝓢𝑩.𝓬0𝓂

Sure, she had insinuated some things before, but they never got far and Victor would pull back or they would get disturbed. That day though, she felt it would be a different story.

'No matter what, I have to get him to take action!' Thought Veritas.

It was like some kind of power, she could always sniff it out of him if he had been with another female prior, even if the time interval was far apart. 'She's like some kind of witch.. really.' Thought Victor as he watched Veritas walk out of the room.

Because he invested much of his time in Under Current, it was more of his house than his actual home, and he even had an entire section of the building to himself as his private quarters. Today however, will be different.

The fact that Victor was returning home lifted Veritas's spirt even more, as it meant he wanted his privacy. Victor loved his privacy, so him going back home that day was telling.

Of course, no one knew where his house was located. It had become something of a mystery around the work place, as no matter what, no one could find or trace where the location was, and they've tried, well. The only way known there was by Victor teleporting you there himself, but even then he hadn't taken many.

"Are you ready?" Victor asked as he came closer to Veritas.

"Yes." She responded, with an obvious smile on her face that couldn't be hidden.

"The place has changed since the last time you visited, so brace yourself."

Victor said, just before the scenery before them changed, in an instant.

They had just shifted through space to a different side of the planet, and the scene that awaited Veritas was truly marvelous.

"Wow… You really went crazy with the place." Said Veritas, in amazement at what was before her.

"I changed the style a bit, like it?" Said Victor, as he led her in.

If anything, the mere fact that the environment of the house gave no evidence as to where they were, was something fascinating.

The house itself had a style of some type of modern day castle, with vast lands and flowery that would be pleasing to even the eyes of dictators.

That day, Veritas was touched… They touched themselves all over.

Of course, like any horny soul that has been deprived for a long time, Veritas wasn't satisfied with just a single go. They also had enough stamina and vitality to spare, so they went at it all throughout the night. Maybe it was a good thing that Victor was able to control sexual desire to a certain extent, maybe not. Since they are vampires and are of a high rank, normally, sex drive in these strong vampires is very low. It hardly is there and only come once in a while, and unlike most would think, it goes away as fast as it comes, mostly after the first hour or so after acted upon.

It was no different with Veritas, but her longing may have encouraged Victor to act a little bit.

In the end, they spent more than just a night there and only left after they had completely satisfied themselves.

By the time they were back at Under Current HQ, the war against the sea monsters had only worsened, as expected.

"During the three days you were away sir, the battle has only worsened, and now the rankers have officially been requested to assist in the fight."

"A meeting will be held in two days at the Orleon ball house in Orleon. You have been invited Sir." Another man came forward to present the invitation to Victor.

Not surprising, his invitation was not as one of those who will be fighting, it was more as a necessary guest to appear. Though not very liked, his strength couldn't be ignored, and he had yet to do anything that would cause him to be persecuted in anyway. If anything, Victor and Under Current had helped humanity time and again throughout the ages, they deserved the respect.

"Orleon huh? Not bad."

Victor could wait that long, but he instead deployed some of his people to go see the situation around the water body closest to them.

Victor had long since incorporated Crow's organization into his own, and now even expanded the capabilities and work they could carry out. Of course, after the first reset, only Crow and a few of his men were left, so they easily joined him under the same banner. No matter how it looked, humans still aged, and presently also, Crow was getting older. He was still in charge of the spy and assassination sections, but more like a grandmaster now.

One thing Victor did was place the vampires under him into all major positions in the organization, that way he could ensure that it ran well and without any hiccups. There were other intelligent beings he had under his legion, and he also made use of them. If nothing, Under Current was the only organization with the presence of many races all working together.

On a large scale, humans were still not all comfortable with the other races at large, just a few of them, and only on international levels.

The squad Victor sent for the recon was under the assassination team, which meant they were under Crow.

These days, as he got older, Crow had become more sentimental and soft. He had even begun to regret some of his mistakes, or the things he saw as mistakes. Like not agreeing to Victor turning him into a vampire in the past.

Now he wanted it, but Victor wouldn't agree, as his time had already passed. Not that other vampire subordinates could do what they wanted either, and Veritas could care less about one human dying.

In the end, it didn't matter. Maybe death was a blessing and not a curse for mortals.

"I better prepare for the others that will be going with me. I know well that many will want to take this opportunity to do something stupid." Said Victor, as he walked out of the section where he had just been, giving the order to the assassins.

He liked to use his legs if he could these days. Teleporting everywhere was just too lazy.

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"The Orleon Ball House. Never Imagined I'd be coming to such a place.." Victor said, as he arrived at the Orleon ball house, the destination for the meeting with the rankers.

This place is more famous for being a playhouse for the rich than anything, not that it was public information what really went down in there, but being the ones with the most secretive information, Victor would know, besides, he is acquainted with the owner of the place.

"Let's head in, the others will join us." Victor said to the person standing close to him before both of them walked in.

Under Current alone had many who could be considered as strong as rankers, but due to the fact that they hide most of their power, only a few of them are known to the world, and they were the ones with him at Orleon. They too were invited after all.

Inside the Ball House, Victor could see a lot of people were already present, and it was like a full blown party already. Everyone was making connections and talking, while others simply enjoyed their time by eating and drinking, nothing too much though.

Victor and the one with him found a spot to wait, as the others with him were yet to enter the building. Once they did however, Victor urged them to mingle around while he disappeared into the numbers like he wasn't there.

Not many knew him by appearance. Even though his name was very popular, and even children knew his name and some of his works, his exact physicality was vague for the most part, only a couple of people have ever seen him. Well technically many have, they just didn't live to tell the tale.

Out of all who had seen him however, the leader of the Razhin faith was one of them. Though Victor was not sure if he would be attending, as he most likely treasure worshiping his gods than attending a dull gathering and would most likely send an envoy, one could never truly know.

'Even though he prefers to kiss ass all day, he might come to this one.' Victor said in his mind.

It was not like he was afraid of the man or anything, he was more afraid of what the man would do. Victor liked his privacy, and having your name screamed out in such a gathering wasn't really his thing.

Even though the leader of the Razhin faith claims to be a holy man, there was always one person who pissed him off just by thinking of their existence.

'I mean, what did I really do to deserve this?'

Instead of lingering around creating opportunities, Victor snuck into the more secret and hidden part of the building to meet a friend, as he would call her.

'I'm sure she'll be very happy to see me.' Victor thought to himself with an innocent smile on his face as he walked the passage ways.n0𝑣𝑒𝑙𝗎𝓈𝒃.𝓬0𝐌

After a minute or two, Victor arrived before a light door that had two guards stationed outside, both were women, young girls that just passed their teenage years.

Without exchanging words, the girls allowed him through the door like his arrival was expected. Victor walked into the room behind the doors.

"Garetha, certainly is nice to see me again isn't it?" Victor said with a soft smile of his face that looked innocent.

Though Victor was in a good mood, Garetha wasn't exactly happy to see him, or so it seemed. She certainly wasn't angry either.

The way things were, Garetha liked women, and it was to the extent that her entire business is ran and carried out by women. Her story, though not entirely clear, was not one where she was wronged by some man during her younger years. She simply has always liked her same gender right from time.

Of course, she had also tried sex with men over her lifetime, but the feeling just wasn't there.

"So you came? I thought you'd also get someone to represent you here." She said, as Victor took a seat.

"Nah, these things can be interesting some times, you know…"

"Whatever…"

"Did you polish your scales or something? You seem extra shinny today." Victor said, not really looking at Garetha though.

Garetha was a medusa kind of creature, at least she was. She had also lived for a long time, at least a thousand years. Around some point in time, she must have evolved and her appearance changed from half snake and half human to fully humanoid in features.

She had a darker shade of skin with scales covering parts of her arms, face, and other parts. Her hair was like something out of a fairy tale, and her skin was also smooth and almost slippery to the sight. The curves and gifts of nature she didn't lack either, her body was devilish. Something to make a man sin.

She had always had a certain effect over men, but to think there would be one that was completely unaffected by her charming form…

The worst part, she was the one who was being charmed. Victor seemed to have that effect on females.

Some time ago, Garetha tried to seduce Victor, but one deep squeeze into her groin was all it took to neutralize her. What happened that day was worth going within her top lists of euphoric moments she had ever experienced, and to think it happened after only a touch, it certainly was embarrassing.

"Come on, you look shy for an old woman like yourself, lighten up.. Let the past be the past." Victor said, with a smile on his face.

'…OLD WOMAN…'

Officially, the gathering started, and everyone got straight into why they had come there and started discussing the details and everything.

Though Victor had been invited to this gathering, he didn't really bother showing himself and just relaxed with Garetha while they watched from afar. He was known to be very evasive and many believed he could hide in plain sight by standing right before you and you wouldn't notice, even those in Under Current, so it worked well for him.

The meeting was concluded without Victor having to make an official appearance, not even once. Just so people know he was there, he returned to the meeting towards the end and allowed some people to see him, and even received greetings from some.

After all was done and decided, he returned back to base with the four that went with him.

Whatever had been decided in the meeting didn't really affect his moving forward, it was all a formality to be present at the gathering.

"Welcome back, master. How was it?"

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Ultimately, it was decided that all the rankers would moving out in a few days as one giant attack force to fight in the waters in order to finish off the sea monsters.

Days went by, and the day for the attack force soon came. They all moved out and began their duty at once without wasting much time. This time, Victor didn't follow along as there was no need for him to. He trusted his people not to die, even though they later can't handle the monsters.

"They have left, a few minutes ago." A young man reported to Victor as he sat in his office chair.

"Good. We will keep in touch with them and stay updated. You may leave now." Victor said before reclining into his chair.

He had been thinking of going back into the cave in the secluded village, but he kept having this feeling that something worth his time would come up, so he stayed. At least, for the moment, he will check things personally.

Two days went by, and the report Under Current was getting from their people was quite unexpected. Victor already knew of the situation to an extent since he had sent out a recon team before the expedition began, but the members of Under Current that joined the attack force were reporting more information.

Firstly, the monsters were way stronger than they were on land, which was what everyone knew, but the interesting part was next. The sea monsters might not actually be monsters from some dungeon or gate, as they bore plenty similarities to normal earthly aquatic life.

The monsters looked more like mutated sea creatures than monsters from dungeons. This singular discovery, was very important.

It would seem that not only animals on land changed, even the ones in the seas had evolved. Humanity really is ignorant. They spend all their time trying to understand the secrets of the skies and cosmos while they have yet to even understand their own backyard.

This information quickly spread amongst the top organizations and hunter guilds. The job was no longer to find and eradicate a dungeon outbreak, it had changed.

Seeing that the aquatic life had changed so much, everyone really wondered just how much it had changed. For all they knew, they were still around the surface of the ocean, and as sea life went, it only got scarier the deeper one goes.

Another thing at that moment, was what exactly was causing the agitation of the sea life. It was more like they were being pushed or influenced by some external force than anything, or the evolution just messed with their normal behavior. The human scientists also thought of this, but the fact that they not done anything unusual up until that moment, suggested that there was something else at play.

"We have to check all around. Maybe someone dropped some kind of waste product that could have such an effect on the sea creatures." One of the scientists said, as many gathered around a large meeting table. Around this table sat different top leading powers in the world at that moment, though not all.

For example, Victor wasn't there.

The scientists did their searches, but didn't find any such material traceable in the waters.

The fanatics of the Razhin faith were requested help from, but they believed the sea monsters to be evil, so they never agreed to help except it was fighting the monsters, which they took no break from.

Back when this whole thing started, they refused to join in, and left the science faction to take care of everything, until they must have gotten confirmation from one of their gods, after which they branded the monsters to be evil and began their assault.

The battle went on for some time with no progress even after rankers around the globe banded together.

The more the war raged, the stronger the creatures got, but that wasn't the case for the humans, they only tired.

Sharks bigger than the rumored Megalodon began appearing, and sea monsters even scarier than Crakens also appeared. The entire fight was simply a losing one.

Ultimately, the humans gave up, and they completely abandoned the oceans and seas. All they could do was station some people close to the shores to stop the occasional intrusions. The oceans and seas and even other big water bodies became a no go area for anyone and everyone., and things stayed like this for another two whole months.

After that time, something very unexpected happened, something that no one would expect. A humanoid sea creature, though it would be an understatement to call it a mere creature, came out of the waters, and spoke human language to the understanding of those who had been kept to watch over the shores.n0𝗏𝓮𝐋𝗎𝑠𝚋.𝗰0𝑀

This creature called itself Smilrah and labelled itself an envoy of the underwater ruler. He didn't exactly say it like so, but that was basically it.

It invited the leaders of the world above to come to their residence, where they shall agree with each other a way to resolve the current crisis, if not, the land and those on it shall suffer.

Those were in line with what the envoy said, and the manner in which he did showed some form of arrogance. Though so, the smart ones will not think that is how all the sea creatures wilt intelligence behave.

Either way, the humans agreed to the meeting. As the race with over 96 percent of people on earth at the moment, humans took it upon themselves to represent the earth's surface.

During the time of all these happenings, Victor had left for the cave he found some time earlier. The second time around he came more prepared and went deep enough that he eventually ran into a person.

Both had a conversation, but the other would frequently make fun of Victor for being weak. If Victor tried to argue, it would be futile since he couldn't use his skills.

Throughout that entire experience, there was one thing that stuck with Victor, and that was the fact that, when it came to strength, he still had a long way to go. Be it physical or mental, he was bested no stress.

"You dare to call yourself strong with such level of skill.. That's really arrogant don't you think?'

"What do you mean? Just because you beat me a couple of times doesn't mean you will be better when the restraints are off." Said Victor.

'Don't worry yourself, the moment you see it, you will know.' Victor remembered what he was told that day before he never saw the man again.

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A/N: Reborn:Zombie is fully back now and I will be updating every two days. That's one day interval between each update. This is for consistency sake, but at least that's for now.

Time came for the humans to go to this under water city.

"Atlantis, really? Never thought I would experience this." Victor said to Veritas as they got ready to leave.

They were going to take just themselves for this journey, as more people simply weren't needed. Veritas however, speculated this to be a trap, but really, who didn't?

The idiots that agreed to follow a stranger and potential enemy into their own territory were to blame for the developments. They could easily have called to meet on common grounds, but no.

Victor and Veritas arrived at the predestined meeting location close to the shores in one of the cities that was close to the sea. They were neither early nor late, so they lingered around for a while as they waited.

Though times had changed and everything wasn't the way it used to be, anyone who truly knew Victor as The Crow, knew the terrible side of him that had been forgotten by the new world. The old heads there knew not to mess with him in anyway or form, so even to say hi was better left undone.

Of course, someone was taking note of all these behaviors.

"Does this thing seek death?" Veritas said in a quiet voice that only Victor could hear.

"Relax, he won't get much anyway." Victor responded in similar manner.

The envoy that had been doing a good job observing the people had been showing too much interest in Victor and Veritas, maybe because they weren't exactly 'human'.

The trip begun, and they all were carried inside some sort of ship that at least looked to be a form of technology. It was nothing outside of what humanity could do, so it wasn't alarming.

As they descended, everyone on board kept seeing various interesting creatures and creatures that would very much end their band of awakeners in matter of minutes. Of course, it would be a different story of the truly powerful were to make a move, but of course, they wouldn't just like that. For some reason, it seemed like the ones who were truly powerful could care less about the wellbeing of the planet, Victor included.

After around 15 minutes, they finally arrived at the underwater terminal that lead to the underwater city. As the sea creature explained, the entire city was covered by protective barriers, so using the terminal was the only way in.

No matter how Victor looked at it, this scene before him looked all too familiar.

The underwater city was simply fantastic, and just as Victor thought, its name was Atlantis.

…

The vehicle they were in, the same one that brought them there, made sure to pass through all the beautiful places as they headed to their final destination, and it was mostly sickening to Victor. He couldn't exactly say what it was they were planning, but he couldn't even begin to think that they wanted to entice and steal some of earth's people.

They finally got to the king's palace, which was where they were headed all along, and to say the least, it was astonishing. The fashion of these water people was certainly not the one every one from earth was used to, and their sense of art was different, but unlike food, it was something everyone could agree to be good.

The issue now, was how they were going to move about while outside the vehicle, as that was certainly mandatory. For that however, the envoy walked around and used some kind of skill on everyone. It was simple, it would enable them to breath and move under water with ease. Here, people didn't walk, they swam. The humans would be the exception however.

'Something is definitely wrong with this… And I can see what their plan is now.' Victor said to himself.

As soon as the envoy cast his magic on Victor, or whether it was a skill, his system displayed a warning message. Seeing this, Victor knew for certain that their coming to the underwater kingdom was not just for some peace talks.

"We will meet the king now." The envoy said before leading the entire group elsewhere.

They all transversed the palace like it was some kind of labyrinth, and after about four or five minutes, they got to where they would be meeting with the king.

'There's no king here.' Victor said in his mind. That was for sure the same thought that went through everybody's minds, but they all kept to themselves.

"Please, be patient. The king will be here in a moment." The envoy said, before leaving the place.

'This throne room.. Extravagant.' Everyone thought.

Time slowly passed as the group of humans waited in the throne room of the king, waiting for the king's arrival.

"Who still uses this kind of tactics? Huh?" One of the humans spoke. He was the head of the second largest tech company.

'This sort of power play.' Veritas said to Victor through their mental link.

'Let's wait and see. Stay on guard and don't underestimate anyone. They are planning something.' Victor replied.

The fact that Veritas was yet to say anything concerning the trap placed on her was telling, and Victor himself would not have known if it wasn't for the system. What this meant was that, despite how the envoy looked, he was very capable.

'And he is just an envoy who doesn't seem to hold a high position even.' Thought Victor, as he further analyzed the situation.

The humans were left to wait even more, and now, those who couldn't control their temper begun their acts.

"What is the meaning of this?!" "Where is the king? You bring us here, and this is the hospitality we are subjected to?" Some began querying.n0𝔳𝑒𝐋𝑢𝓢𝑩.𝓬0𝓂

"The king has arrived!" A very audible voice proclaimed, as following his words, a figure appeared from a different part of the throne room that wasn't the door the others entered from.

He walked in his own pace until he reached his throne, and then proceeded to seat in a majestic manner, all in his own time.

p .

Without saying a word, he simply stared at the humans before his throne for a brief moment.

"The king welcomes the humans."

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"The king welcomes the humans." A voice said from beside the king in an audible tone.

The humans seemed very skeptical about this, as the atmosphere at the moment didn't give any form of friendliness. At that moment, there was only one possible outcome everyone there thought of. It was definitely a ploy from the very beginning to not work any peace out between both sides.

These humans were not the bottom feeders. Each was a leader in his/her respective group, so they were no stranger to manipulation tactics, and they also knew quite well what the look they were getting meant.n0𝐕𝐄𝑙𝑢𝐬𝕓.𝒸0𝓜

For the first time after entering the room, the supposed king spoke. "Hmm." He certainly seemed comfortable on his throne, clearly not afraid of the humans before him.

"They do not meet the standard, just as expected. They are useless." The king said, audible and blatantly, without any fear or respect for the human subjects.

Hearing the king say this, one of those who stood close to the throne walked before the king's throne some distance away, and after a slight bow, "Shall we then proceed to phase two?" The other asked.

"Yes, just as planned." The king answered, sternly.

The king looked well aged and experienced. By well aged, I mean not that he was old, he just looked better than most his age would look, according to human standards. He looked to be in his forties, and his smooth silky skin was still not of an old man, nor was his physique. Just like every other creature from the sea, he had two legs and physiology similar to humans, with some differences here and there.

"Wait.. Just hold on. Certainly, you don't include me in whatever it is you fish heads are planning, right?" Victor said, as he stood from the little chair he sat in and took some steps forward.

The guards in the room seemed to not like his movements and words, though. They were just about to make a move when the advisor to the king, or the position this one seemed to play, gave them a visual signal not to react.

"Not everyone here is under your foot." Victor said.

Before he finished his sentence however, Orvion Baxter Ran passed him at full speed aiming at the king. It sure was contradictory, and made it look as though it was a plan from the very beginning. Victor might have thought about moving to stop him, but the death of the king didn't sound like much of a problem to himself in anyway.

It was obvious what the plan was, and truth be told, he suspected it the moment he saw that Orvion was also on the trip.

'All high and mighty talking crap, probably didn't thing this would happen.' Orvion thought to himself, and so did the rest with similar voices in their heads. Even Victor was impressed that the humans actually dared to fight someone in the enemy's home ground, where the enemy had the advantage. Perhaps, they had gotten too confident.

'Well…'

It was certainly not expected, as the guards dashed forward to intersect Orvion and stop him, they were very surprised to realize that their skills were no longer effective. Orvion easily tore through them, dropping them dead in one single move before continuing towards the king.

The rest of the water dwellers were pretty much surprised, but managed to move on impulse to protect the king, but fell to the hands of one of the scientists who seemed to have come prepared with a weapon in hand for the occasion.

With the guards and those around the king down, Orvion moved in, not for the kill, but perhaps to take the king hostage. As it was, they were now in enemy territory, and needed a safe ticket out.

Stops in mid air *Fvrrrm

"Impudent." Said the king, under his breath.

Orvion's body stopped mid air just as he closed in on the king after leaping. For the first time since he got out of the vehicle that brought them to Atlantis, Orvion felt like he was under water. The only thing now was that this water didn't just surround him, it pushed in on him from all directions, and held him in place.

"What's going on!" The other who ran forward after Orvion moved shouted towards Orvion, but the answer for him came from a different source, and it was definitely not what he was hoping to hear. Just like with Orvion, the water around him moved and constricted him before slamming him to the ground several times.

Orvion's skill was still activated, as he wasn't down yet, and refused to give up. He turned his attention to the one he believed would be able to do something, Victor.

Following his gaze, the king turned to Victor, and he understood the gaze Orvion had at the moment.

"You.." The king said, just as the water around Victor also started attempting to squeeze him. The only difference however, was that Victor wasn't like the other two.

"I was going to suggest a friendlier option, but seeing as you had no plan to let us go from the start, I too will not be complying." Victor said.

At the moment, not only Orvion's, but everybody's mouths dropped. Even the king who had been maintaining a calm composure now had a small frown on his face. "Have you?… No, It's not possible. That has to be something else." He said.

All round Victor, the water started boiling with small fizzles first, then everything liquid around him went completely out of control as the temperature from Victor's body constantly disrupted the water around.

p "So you can control water? I'm guessing that's your innate ability?" Victor said.

He could always use his ability whenever Orvion used his ability on him, Victor just never showed this card as it was not needed.

"Innate ability? What are you talking about?… I see.. I panicked for nothing." The king said.

Though it seemed like Victor had countered the king perfectly, what happened next changed everyone's view.

The king, while still seated on his throne, grabbed onto the side arms of the throne a bit tighter, and in matter of seconds, the water within and around the room began acting funny and swirling. It was but a wave of controlled water in the throne room, but the people outside had a different story to tell.

The people of Atlantis, knew their king was angry.

From above the surface of the ocean, in mere matter of seconds, a whirlpool, bigger than anything humans had ever seen before appeared upon the ocean and began sucking everything in. The strength and size of the whirlpool was so strong that from above it looked like the earth was giving way to hell.

Under 7 to 10 seconds, the whirlpool reached Atlantis, and suddenly whatever Victor was doing became useless.

Feeling what was to come, he could only say a few words.

"no, shit."

Just a moment later, the entire palace was caught in a ragging vortex of water that went all the way to the top of the ocean. Somehow, the king had controlled it so that it did no harm to his people and surroundings, just the palace. The giant hole was small at the bottom and enormous at the top of the ocean.

Not only did the force of the spinning water suck and carry everything into it, it also kept them in.

After however long it took for all to be above the ocean, the king emerged from the waters and stood above it, almost.

Victor, at this point was a bit disorientated and had to get back his bearings first. He soon did however, and with a place of his hand above the water, it turned into ice and he stood on top.

After the vortex, Orvion's power remained deactivated, and he was nowhere to be seen at the moment even. 'He better stay down.' Victor thought to himself.

The king had faced him, and Victor couldn't disagree more that he might have been mistaken as the leader of the humans that came, even though he clearly wasn't.

"You are an interesting one." The king said, as he grazed the waters with his toes like he skated over them and came closer to Victor who maintained his cool on his block of ice he stood on. He certainly hadn't fought against the king before, so he may not know about his physical capabilities, but as long as he had access to his skills, he was not afraid of a confrontation, as he had counters against the water control the king had shown.

"What do you want from the humans." Victor asked.

"The humans.. You speak as though you are not one of them. Are you not?" Asked the king.

"Can't you tell?"

"Well, it doesn't really matter to me." The king said as he charged at Victor from a close range. Victor quickly found himself at a bit of a disadvantage, as the king was definitely just some millisecond faster than him. Victor could clearly see the attacks, but managing them was the problem.

The throw of hands only lasted briefly before both men engaged using skills. Though Victor was pushed back when it came to physicality, He had enough skills to skill instantly, the king. Perhaps he chose not to do so at the moment, he had his reasons.

Seeing that there was no significant advantage in a hand to hand combat, the king distanced himself a bit from Victor, and as he did so, the water beneath Victor immediately burst out all round him like jaws ready to eat him whole. Victor responded, and the water all around froze completely into concert ice.

Before The king could react himself, Victor smashed his foot on the ice and kicked a few pieces towards the king, which he dodged cleanly without being grazed.

Their fight continued, and as it did, Victor kept countering the king's moves and attacks by turning the to ice. It was the only power he had shown to possess before the king while choosing not to show his other cards. He could keep up in speed and skill, so there was no need to overexpose himself. Instead, what Victor had succeeded in doing was study the enemy and understand the king's power.

He still didn't know whether it was a kind of innate ability, but one thing was certain, his control remained only in water. He clearly could not control or manipulate ice, and that was it. All he had was water, which was a good thing, to an extent. The bad thing though, was that the entire surrounding was not just covered in water, but was water. The advantage was much. The only thing Victor had going for him was that he could freeze up that water, and his range was plenty. Whenever he wanted, he could freeze up to a hundred metres around him, maybe a little bit more.

"I see you can only control the water?" Said Victor, as he stared at the king who was doing the same.

"Maybe so, but unlike you, I have no limit." The king said.

Victor was a bit not understanding of these words, but what followed next exclaimed itself. To put it plainly, it was like the entire sea had risen to it's feet and covered the sky. The amount the king could control was certainly mind blowing, and that was not all, as another one bigger than the first came from the opposite direction.

In a matter of seconds, the gigantic walls of water collapsed on the area where their fight was happening.

Of course, it did Victor no harm, and he came out unfazed. The others however, they were totally ragged around my the fight between Victor and the king.

The fight continued for a longer than necessary time, and that was when Victor's tenacity and stamina started showing, as he had yet to even breath hard, not once.

Strategically, the king retreated and returned back to the depts of the ocean.

From this encounter, one thing was clear, and that was that there was another power so strong that it could affect such a large area and quantity of water, of anything. This was something Victor had been looking for, and finally he felt like he had just connected dots to something.

The humans started regaining themselves again and slowly gathered close to Victor as he was on his ice slab that floated. The all had exceptionally failed at their own game of manipulation and all, they just met their equal.n0𝐕𝐄𝑙𝑢𝐬𝕓.𝒸0𝓜

Seeing as Victor seemed to be enjoying the fight, Veritas stayed out of it in all ways she could and just observe from a distance.

As soon as they all returned back to land through a ride on an ice slab, Everybody went their own way right after deciding on a meeting that they scheduled the very next day due to urgency.

'After this meeting, I'm going back there."

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Victor soon returned to the village where the cave he found last time was located, and he was very surprised to see the changes that had happened on the village. People were happier and energetic than he remembered, though even then they still seemed like the chill bunch, but he could see the changes. Perhaps, the most surprise came when everyone who saw him stopped to bow their heads as he made his way through. To say the least, it was unexpected.

The statue of him at the village centre was just another surprise. Though that's by the way.

Back at the cave, Victor continued heading down to the deepest point he had reached last time, where he found the one who spoke some things to him.

Times in this cave just showed him how much usefulness his skills had, or maybe he had been depending on them too much for everything. He could have simply teleported to the depth he he reached last time with his skills, but he had to walk the whole way because the cave blocked skills. The journey was more tedious than it could ever be tiring.

Some moments ago, Victor had been in a meeting with the rest of the others that went on the underwater trip to meet the king of Atlantis. With everything that happened, they never got his name, though not important as what was at hand.

Humans and all creatures above the sea received a threat from Atlantis that unless they surrendered, the waters would start rising day by day until the entire world was consumed in waves, and then the monsters of the seas would be unleashed on whoever survived. What they requested was for the surface to come under them as servants basically and live for the will of the king of Atlantis.

Of course, the response was quite obvious, as none of the prideful leaders of the earth would want to bow down to an enemy that had made it clear from day one that they were an opposition.

"Even in something as important as this, those bastards refuse to show their face." One of the leaders of the science faction, more precisely, the VIM CORPS, said. The one he was referring to was the leader of the Razhin faith. For some reason, they suddenly kept quiet and did not involve themselves any further than they already had, and with no explanation as to why. Some had even started saying the fanatics had to have made some kind of deal with these water creatures.

'Not that it concerns me too much, but I can't not support humanity in such a situation. I live here after all.' Victor said. His nonchalant attitude might actually be a ceiling for him, but at least it didn't matter for the time being.

The meeting took place in the morning hours, and Victor went to the village settlement with the cave around afternoon. With the time that had passed since he entered the cave, it was well to assume that the outside had entered night time already.

Finally, Victor got to the level he reached, and where he encountered the mysterious person. Surprisingly, the man was still there and didn't even seem to be bothered about Victor's arrival.

The entire way there was filled with just descending stairs that continued endlessly downwards, with occasional rooms and spacious areas from time to time. This particular room where this man was however, was the largest out of all the rooms, and was probably might be as big as an acre of land. There were pillars all around with about 10 metres of space from each other, and the visibility was also low, such that Victor could not see the end of the room from where he would stand.

"You are still here, huh?" Victor said, as he walked around for a bit until he found the man.

Surprisingly, the man was still seating in the same place and the same exact position as when Victor found him last time. It really made Victor think if he had not moved since then or even before he found him. It was a bit fascinating of a thought.

"You have come again. Hmm… So you've experienced it, the power that lies beyond what you know." The man said. He wasn't really so much as asking, it was more like he made a statement.

"Yes, what was it? It didn't seem to be a skill either." Victor said, this time being a bit curious as it showed in his voice.

"To explain it would be complicated for your mortal mind, so let's go with the simplest way to see it. Frankly, it is what lies beyond the power those in your world, including you, possess at the moment." The man said, not really paying attention to Victor's presence.

One thing Victor quickly picked on was his wordings, 'mortal'. It was certainly telling.

The man did nothing as he sat on crossed leg in a lotus position on top a small mound that had no particular fanciness to it, as was quite low. He had on attire that covered him from the neck section to his very feet, not even his hands were exposed, and his entire head was covered from sight with a hat that had cloth falling from all sides blocking any eyes from catching a glimpse of his face or even the back of his head.

Though Victor had thought of it before, he decided to disregard it at the moment, as he truly felt that the one before him was not someone he would be able to beat even with all his skills. With the use of the word mortal however, Victor had resurfaced the thoughts.

"Hmm… You seem bothered? Do you seek this power?" The man said.

"Can it be thought?"

"Not exactly, but I can show you the way to unlocking it." The man said calmly, and immediately, Victor became interested.

While Victor was happy that he had just like that gotten the opportunity to learn something completely amazing, there was the looming question of why this person would be so generous as to teach him something like this without any demands or request. It all seemed too good, and as the saying goes, if it's too good to be true, it's probably is.

'But then again, he had already predicted that I would make contact with such a power, and with the mortal thing…' Victor's thoughts were pacing in his head as different possibilities came into his head.n0𝑽𝔢𝐥𝓤𝔰𝐁.𝑐0𝚖

"Why don't we begin immediately then?" said the man, who had still not moved an inch.

The settlement, village, where the cave was located, had been saved by Victor the time he came initially, and since then they held a certain level of respect for him, and probably because of the skills and strength he showcased, they treated him almost like a mini god. What was left was to begin praying to him and worshiping him.

Victor made them a promise that he would bring them out of the village and grant them power. They were obviously very overjoyed to hear this, and prayed for his safe return from the cave. To whom they prayed to at the moment however, he couldn't say, but he just hoped it stayed that way.

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155 War I

Happy New Year

Victor was told to take a position on the floor, just in front of the man. He also sat crossed legged. Good thing he was a bit used to sitting this way as he tries to see if he can meditate from time to time, not that he ever found a way to do actual meditation.

The man had started explaining to Victor what he was to expect from all this, and the things that could happen. From his explanation, he told Victor that whatever power he was going to form would come from the skills he had at the moment. For example, since the king of Atlantis whom Victor fought could control water, his skills prior to getting his new power were centered around water attributes.

Victor got the gist of it, and immediately, the thought came to him. What would happen to someone like him who had many skills scattered around different classes? The thought sure was tantalizing enough that Victor had to ask the man who was teaching him at the moment.

"What if someone has more than one kind of skill? Like a fire type and water type?" Asked Victor, not sounding too into the question.

"Well, the person would develop one that will lean towards the type he is more attuned with. There are cases where someone might awaken more than one type, but it was extremely rare and almost impossible." The man answered.

...

Victor remained quiet as though analyzing what the man just said.

"Remember, you are sacrificing all other skills for the sake of gaining profound and absolute control over one. This, is what an authority is." The man said.

"I understand." Replied Victor before they continued.

The curiosity of what would happen to his other skills had made Victor ask the question, and the answer he got was satisfactory. It wasn't necessary that all his skills be sacrificed, and it was common for one to retain at least one of their skills.

With all said, and Victor coached on what was required of him, at least, in the beginning stages, they started the process fully.

Time passed slowly, and within the short period of time, Victor had learned how to actually meditate, though it was not the important thing. Maybe, four or five days had gone by, and though Victor thought he may have been progressing too slowly, the man assured him that his progress was good and not to worry so much about it.

The training itself wasn't a straight forward one for Victor in the least. For someone who had no idea what exactly he was doing, he had to find or sense what he was to do, and which direction he was to advance in. This was where the meditation part came in, but even after several days, he was yet to get any results. It was a bit frustrating that he had seen no breakthrough yet, and perhaps, the fact that his one single advantage, the system, was useless in the situation.

Victor had to look within himself to see where he belonged to, which attribute and skill he was more attuned with, and from there draw that out and focus on it. The problem was, no matter how much he looked, he saw nothing.

After a week and a half, approximately, Victor was sure that there was no progress made at all, and had to turn to the man who had been guiding him.

"I just can't do it. You know, you have yet to tell me what your name is." Victor said while looking at the man's form.

"That is because, I have no name. Even then, do not choose to call me whatever you want." Said the man.

It was a bit unusual, but nothing that was bothering. This world he was now in had a lot of strange things, so some nameless person would not shock anyone.

"That being said, you seem to not be able to link yourself with anything." Said the man, and Victor nodded.

Victor his own thoughts as to why this was happening, but even then he still couldn't trust the man completely to tell him too many of things concerning him.

From Victor's conclusion, the fact that he had so many skills that were all max level may have contributed much. Since the skills were at max level, it meant that he was proficient in all of them, which meant that he was attuned to all almost equally. Since he needs to sacrifice other skills in other to get the authority over another, needed to first make out which he was most attuned with.

'If then, shouldn't I sense that I am attuned with all or many of my skills? Right now, I can't even sense them at all to begin with.' He thought to himself.

There really was no other way he saw it. He would just have to continue until he made a breakthrough.

'After all, they say if you do one thing over and over again, you will eventually find results. Perhaps, the only question now is how many times and how long?' Thought Victor in his mind, as he closed his eyes once again to begin.

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"Do whatever it takes to make them see the importance of this. This is pure madness! Madness!! Do they think it won't affect them? Or have they betrayed us?" A man said with rage as he sent someone out.

This was VIM CORPS HQ, and the man just then was one of the directors in their many sections and departments.

Apparently, while Victor was away finding new power, the surface was in turmoil as the king of Atlantis had declared war officially on those of the surface and their lands. Not only that, but the war had started fully, and it was not looking pretty for those on the surface at all, not even in future prospects.

Apparently, the fact that the earth was covered with more water than land was eventually going to sting. All that needed to be done was raise the sea levels, and those on earth helpless.

Little by little, inch by inch, the water levels rose by the minute, and wherever the water covered, was as good as gone. Even the smallest of sea monsters were in patrol, also, the humans confirmed their suspicions. The monsters were all under Atlantis command, even the terrifying ones that lurked the deeper parts of the waters.

To put it simply, those above the surface were on the losing end of the war that had only begun.

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156 Unexpected Visit

"This is insane." Bernard said. He was one of the heads of the many sections of the VIM CORP, and currently, he had been put in charge of heading the units that were involved in fighting back the sea monsters.

Earlier, he sent an envoy to Under Current to get their assistance, as they shared a common enemy, but the response he received was nothing of what he expected. They refused. They didn't do it directly, the fact was that they did.

Bernard had run short of what to do next regarding the situation they were in at the moment. Maybe the worst thing was the knowledge that he was deciding the fate of many with every action he took.

There was no reason for him to send people into the sea, knowing full well that they would all get killed, so constantly he brainstormed on different ways to hold off the enemy without the number of casualties on his side being high.

With the reset of the world, it was clear how strong every hunter was, the problem however, was that just as they were strong, so were the mundane monsters that swan the seas and waters. To say the least, it was illogical.

For the time being, the rankers were stationed close to the shores where the water met with land in the cities. They were more than enough to hold back the advancement of the sea monsters unto land and keeping them in the waters. Each ranker had a team under them that they commanded, and on no account did they enter into the waters. It was the best way to go about it at the moment.

Atlantis.

"Sire, this might be the wrong way of going about this. It certainly is." A voice said while the figure bowed to the throne where the king was seated.

...

"I agree with him on this Lord. If we end up killing all of them, then we will definitely die in the end too." Another voice spoke.

Before them sat the king as he listened to their concerns. He didn't seem too pleased with words and line of reasoning.

"This is the only way. Do not forget, Atlantis now possess the power to fight back, and we will definitely overcome." Said the king, as he looked at both men before him with finality in his words. Seeing the king so, none of them dared say anymore.

Later on, after they had both left the king's presence, both of them had a brief discussion on the prospects of their kingdom, and none was satisfied. After a bit, both of them bid farewell to each other before going their separate way.

'This won't work.. I have to do something about it, fast.' Thought, one of the men as he headed away.

Back at the surface, Veritas, who was now the acting head of Under Current, had ordered for all to remain in the base unless given further instructions.

Right at the moment, it had been two days after the first week since war was declared upon them, and there really was no way forwards at the moment. She had decided to leave things be for the current time until she saw a good opportunity, or until it was necessary to act.

Veritas herself wondered where Victor might have gone to at such a time, but he believed in him, so she juts hoped for him to return quickly. Though the Under Current base was very far away from the seas and waters, and would certainly be the last places for the water to reach, they couldn't just seat back and let the earth be destroyed by water, not when they could do something about it.

While she was lost in thoughts, she was brought out of it when a message came to her through thought transmission.

"Sorry to bother the queen, but something very important just came up, and it would be best for you to be here in person." The voice said.

Veritas needed not figure out who it was, as there weren't many who could use this skills, and amongst them only one was a vampire, hence referring to her as queen.

Veritas grudgingly left was she was doing to go see what was important enough to need her supervision. The vampires at Under Current except for herself were all under Victor as his legion, but they still retained most of their individuality. They were all loyal subordinates of Victor, and since she was basically the one under him in leadership or vampire hierarchy, they also followed her in his absence.

After a while, Veritas arrived at the scene where she that a small crowd had gathered. Now, it was most interesting to see what would make any crowd at all gather outside of work and other things within the Under Current main base. As she made her way to the scene, those around noticed her presence and gave way for her to pass. Seeing what was before her, she was genuinely surprised.

"How did a fish get here?" She asked, and not at all in a joking manner.

Before her, was someone she could only identify as someone from Atlantis. They all seemed to have a tint of blue to their skin, and their figure was mostly slender and taller than normal humans, but perhaps the most distinguishing feature were the set of gills on both sides of their necks. n0𝑽𝔢𝐥𝓤𝔰𝐁.𝑐0𝚖

"Please, please, listen to me before you decide to do anything.." The figure spoke, it was male.

"Well, the fish can speak our language, sure makes things easier." Veritas said.

The one on the ground felt a bit insulted, or at least something similar, as it showed on his face, but he ignored it.

"I am not with the king and have come to propose a way for us to end all this and prepare for the real threat that is to come." He said.

Veritas didn't really care much for the first half, but her interest was piqued towards the end.

'What is to come..' Thought, Veritas, as she looked at the one who sat on the ground before her. "Bring him in. Take him to sector 54."

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"He is inside like you ordered." Someone said to Veritas, as she approached a room guarded by three guards as it seemed. Without much of a response, she continued towards the door that slide open as he reached before it. The door opened up to reveal the person inside who was sat in a chair facing the door in the simple looking room.

"Start talking, how did you find us?" Veritas questioned, as she sat in the chair provided for her before the one she was questioning.

"That, it was through the spell that was placed on you from when you visited our kingdom." He said.

'He sure is doing his best staying calm.' Veritas said in her mind. Though the other party seemed to be calm and focused, Veritas could clearly see his fidgeting and nervousness. He was anything but calm.

She indeed remembered the skill that was activated on them, but that it would remain in effect even after so much time, she never would have expected it.

"How many people did you encounter on your way here, and why did you choose to come here of all places?" She asked. Truth be told, she could really care less about all that was happening, and preferred if they weren't involved. It wasn't like Victor was either, so all the more reason for her not to. Now, the fish before her had come to them instead of the others. "First, start with your name."

As Avin gave his name, he continued on to explain the entire situation and how it happened, and Veritas surely bombarded him with questions, luckily these questions he had answers to.

"That is the reason he sent me to make contact with one of you humans so that we might face the real danger after getting passed this hurdle." He said.

"Humans.. Look me well fish, do I look human to you?" Veritas asked. Certainly, being compared to a human was like an insult to a vampire, even those that weren't arrogant and prideful. She might have just leaked a bit of her aura in the process, but that tiny bit was enough to do the trick, and Avin would be sure never to refer to her as human. That said, he didn't have the liver to ask what she was if she wasn't human. In the end, it wasn't important.

...

According to Avin, the actual enemy and why the king of Atlantis was this adamant in subduing the surface is because there are beings from a different solar system coming, and these guys are no joke. Avin ended up explaining to everyone present what the power the king used was, to the best of his ability and knowledge.

Apparently, the ones coming have more than just a single person amongst them who can use this sort of power, and they were completely destructive.

Hearing all this, Veritas was faced with the severity of the issue, as it would definitely affect them, and by them she was thinking of her and Victor.

After everything, she had decided it best for them to join hands and do something about the current situation.

"We will continue this tomorrow, go rest up for now." Veritas said, as she stood up to leave.

Fighting all that warned him not to, Avin gathered the courage to ask, "Uhmm, do you guys by a-any chance, have a place with w-water?" He asked.

"Be thankful you are getting a nice place to even lay your head." Veritas responded without looking at Avin before leaving the room.

"The information is credible. Though we don't know where exactly it is located, we know the general area." Someone said. He was giving Bernard a report that seemed to be urgent concerning the current situation of things.

"And this thing passed our people?" Bernard asked.

"Yes sir, that is how we were able to discern where he was headed."

From the report, the one which they spoke of was definitely Avin, and perhaps the good thing was that he had killed no one but only rendered them unable to work for the time being. He certainly was strong enough for that. However, the problem was where he went after confrontation with people of the CORP, as they recognized it io be the direction where Under Current was located.

No one knew the exact location where Under Current had their HQ in, but some knew the general area of it's location.

"Is it possible that they have betrayed us and partnered with those monsters?" Bernard asked himself, not really expecting an answer, but he got one either way.

The person who brought the report must have thought that the question was being directed at him, so he spoke without much restraint, he wasn't a mere guard after all. "Well, it is very unlikely, sir." The man said, almost forgetting to add the honorific as he was speaking to his superior.

"And why so?" Asked Bernard.

"Well, their leader has been one of the major forces whenever humanity faced danger several times in the past, and though he would normally listen to the highest bidder, he does help out in major ways." The man hadn't said any major thing, as he didn't know how it would be taken if he started praising someone their CORP had their fangs on. Certainly something a spy would do?

"You don't to say more, I understand. But…" Bernard was about to say something, but he reserved his comment. Even he was being a bit conscious of his words, especially when he was at work.

"You are dismissed. Leave the rest of the reports on the table, and inform Luke to appear before me in an hour." He said, while sending the man off.

Back at Under Current.

"So, there was a place with water after all??" Asked Avin, as one of the people there brought him to a pool area.

"Well, I guess you can make yourself comfortable here. This place is rarely used these days, so it should be ok if you crash here for the time being." Said, the female who brought him there.

"Oh, thank you very much. You see, I am a kind that can't do long without water or I risk severe dehydration, which could cause major troubles for my skin, outward appearance and overall health, somet…" He went on blabbing things no one asked to know, maybe out of tension?

"Shut the fuck up already. No one wants to know shit about you or your well being. If the water's good for ya, then jump in and make yourself home!" The female exclaimed a bit paranoid as she turned back and walked away while talking to herself. "Put me on such duties to babysit some fish man.. Ahhh, when is he gonna come back?? This is pure torture. I should have never volunteered for this crap, ever!"n0𝐕𝐄𝑙𝑢𝐬𝕓.𝒸0𝓜

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Two days later after Avin arrived, Veritas decided they would be going to the VIM CORP to inform them about the entire situation.

They prepared their crafts and set off.

While on their way, Veritas went through a few things to make sure she had all the details correct, and just as she suspected, she did, there was no mistake.

They had gone to the HQ of VIM CORP, and even without permission or a heads up that they would be coming, so naturally there was a bit of commission at the landing area. In time, seeing that it was the Under Current, they were treated differently and soon their identities were verified and Veritas immediately asked to see their head.

"Uhmm, w-which of them-"

"Anyone. Get me someone in a nice position." She said.

Luckily for someone else, they were close to the scene, though they had no idea what was going on, they were the first to be informed. "Mr. Bernard, someone from Under Current is here, and they are requesting a meeting with a superior." The lady said after a light bow before Bernard.

'Under Current? What are they doing here?' "Alright, lead the way." Without much questioning and time wasting, Bernard followed the female guard as she led the way.

From his own knowledge of what Under Current had been up to recently, he didn't like the outcome of what he was walking into, but so was the way fate operated.

...

Veritas and her crew were no longer in the ducking area. After their identities were confirmed, they were moved to a sort of waiting area where they waited to be received.

"Hello, my name is Bernard, I am-" Said Bernard, as he walked towards the group he was told was from Under Current, but then he stopped dead in his tracks. 'Ahh!!! It's this demon! What is this demon doing here!'

"Great to meet you Bernard, let's go. Lead the way." Veritas said, as she and some of her crew members stepped forward towards Bernard.

Seeing the way the stranger behaved, those at VIM CORP were a bit annoyed as she had no respect, but unlike the others, Bernard knew better and simply obeyed instructions and matched ahead while leading them to a place where they could talk in private.

Though he was getting older by the day, the scene of when he first encountered Veritas was still fresh in his mind, and he would do anything to not reenact it. Though, it would seem like she did not remember him at all.

"Please, this way. Come inside." He said, as he made his way into a room that had seating arrangement like a meeting area.

"I'll get straight to the point." Said, Veritas, while she dragged forwards Avin who was amidst those following her.

"That's for the better." Said Bernard.

"This one here is called Avin, he is from Atlantis.." Said Veritas.

Hearing that Avin was from Atlantis quickly cleared Bernard from whatever daze he was in as his interest was piqued immediately. His eyes went all over Avin as he examined the body of the blue looking human. He certainly had a different look to him as Bernard saw. Since some humans experience physiological changes due to their powers, no one who was yet to see the Atlantians would think much of it.

Veritas went on to explain to Bernard everything she had heard from Avin.

"So, in a nutshell, the reason for all this is to get us under their control so they can defend themselves properly against the aliens that will invade earth, and he's here to inform us so that we find a way to change the king's mind for us to join forces?" Said Bernard, as he rubbed his china and looked to the floor.

"Correct."

The information was definitely nothing he would have expected to hear, but it made sense.

"I will have to inform the rest and if possible, get the different leaders and representatives of other factions to hold a meeting as soon as possible." Said Bernard. n0𝓋𝓮𝓵𝔲𝓈𝗯.𝔠0𝓂

"That will take too long, just get your boss or whatever you call him to come here."

"You mean the head of VIM CORP? But-"

"Tell him the Queen of Vampires Orders." Hearing her say that with such lax in her voice, it didn't matter, it made Bernard swallow a heavy ball of saliva.

One thing he was curious about was why the Atlantian went to Under Current of all other places, even as it was probably the most difficult place to find. They knew that some fish person that attacked their people went in that direction, so he had his doubts about the entire story and all. 'But they have nothing to gain if they do that… Or do they?'

Veritas knew he implication of the question, but still couldn't answer it herself because it was annoying, so she pushed forward Avin to explain himself. This also gave Bernard the opportunity to ask him other things.

'These humans are fearful.' Avin immediately jerked after saying that as he looked to see if Veritas heard him, but then, it was his thoughts.

..45 minutes later..

After waiting for what seemed like an eternity, even for Veritas, the head of VIM CORP finally arrived. Normally, he would be at the HQ doing several tasks, but it seemed like this time he was away.

"Sorry for the wait, I was away for an important meeting." The man said as he walked into the room in a hurry.

"Took you long enough old man." Said Veritas.

No matter what, being a scientist who even specializes in extraterrestrial exploration, hearing that aliens were going to attack earth in the near future was too exciting to him, and under such circumstances, someone like that would tend to lose all leadership qualities.

"You said aliens would be visiting earth? Give me more details… Where is the fish boy?? Where is he." Asked the old man, mirroring a lunatic.

whispers*

"Who's that?"

"I don't know. Looks like some lunatic."

"Yeah, looks like a crazy janitor playing scientist."

'At least, act like you head this entire organization.. ah.' Thought Bernard, as any respect they had was now drained deep through the gutter.

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"So, what you are saying is that these aliens will be attacking earth? I see." The old man said. He had reason to believe them, as they recently they had detected an unidentified object entering the earth's solar system.

The old man's report of the strange object entering the solar system further cemented and gave everyone assurance that Avin was indeed telling the truth.

"I'll take it from here and call for a meeting with everyone else. They definitely listen to me more than they would to you." The old man said to Bernard, "And I suppose you wouldn't want to trouble yourself."

"Yes, feel free." Said, Veritas, in response.

Like that, the old man led the way why Veritas followed behind as they left for a different location.

While all this was happening at the surface, Victor was wrapped in his own problems trying to develop his new power that seemed to be proving difficult, more than he imagined it would.

Even now, he was still unable to properly feel necessary changes, but at least he now had a little more control. n0𝗏𝐞𝗅𝔲𝒮𝒃.𝑐0𝑀

...

He remained in the same position and tried to be as calm as possible, which wasn't difficult for him. Perhaps the difficult part came when he had to reach within himself to feel some sort of power within.

Since he needed to feel and create some kind of power from what he understood, Victor thought it would be better to simply ask the system to fuse his skills and make a different one, maybe that would provide the power he sort, and finally grant him the control over an authority, but that was impossible.

For one, the system couldn't fuse different skills nor separate them, and then there was the fact that the system did not understand this concept of authority, at least it seemed so.

Nevertheless, Victor kept on trying, as he felt he was at the verge of achieving something.

Back on the surface, the meeting with the rest of the world leaders basically, had started, and things were not looking pretty.

Though many suggested for them not to partner or work with the Atlantians who wished tp go against their king, the news from VIM CORP about the appearance of a strange object was not optimistic by any means.

It was a straight forward thing. It was either they all agreed to side with the Atlantian faction agaist the king and hopefully made adequate preparations against their coming enemy, or they fight amongst themselves and ultimately get what's coming to them.

The entire gathering of leaders seemed to be going the wrong way for a bit, but then the head of the Razhin faith appeared on the scene. Though he was invited and informed of the meeting, he seemed to have paid it no mind, as usual, so it was started without him being present. As for Victor, no one ever saw him, so they were satisfied with the attendance of his second in command and only hoped he was close by seeing all that was happening and making decisions in secret.

The leader of the Razhin faith did not only arrive at the scene, but he did in style, or rather, an unusual way.

The entrance was definitely behind all the seats present at the congress hall, and it certainly faced the podium where the one talking would stand, in this case, the old man from VIM CORP, as he was giving all the necessary presentations depicting the situation.

Despite this, the leader of the Razhin faith entered through the stage where the podium was. There was no destruction, he just came through the very walls, and as soon as his feet touched ground, he headed for the mic.

Seeing him draw closer, the old man hurriedly gave way for him to pass, but it seemed that wasn't it. Instead of making his way down the stage, he walked up to the mic, and after looking through everyone present, he spoke.

"We will side with the Atlantian faction against their king and make adequate preparations for the war to come." After saying this, he looked to the side where he appeared from, where the other who came with him was still standing, and seeing his look the other came.

As soon as the man who came with the head of the Razhin faith got close to where he stood before, the head left and disappeared back into the wall.

The entire thing happened within a single minute, even before it was up, but no body dared to say a word against his decision. They all remained silent, and the one who came with him headed off stage and took a seat for himself.

"Well, we all have heard from Lord Majek, anyone who disagrees is free to raise their hand and give their reason." Said the old man, and as expected, no one dared raise a hand.

With that, it was decided, and without staying behind to waste any time, most of the scientist organizations left the place while following behind the old man. No matter how much they would want to disagree, it was a fact that the old man was just that much better. Perhaps, if it wasn't the singular fact that he was under VIM CORP, they would all abandon their works to work under him.

Time Skip – 15 days since the meeting.

During this time, Avin was sent back with good news to his master that the people of the surface had agreed to what they proposed, and then found a way to arrange a secret meeting with those of the surface.

The representatives of this meeting included all the people that had been to Atlantis during the last meeting except for Victor whose where about was still unknown.

After much talk, they formulated a plan on how they would go about things, and necessary information was traded. Both sides haven't really built any trust with the other, so their relationship wasn't the best. But, considering the fact that what they were doing dictated their lives, none of them would mind.

The plan was simple. The current king was supposed to be changed soon due to age, even though he still looked mid aged. It wasn't so much about age, but more that he could no longer contain the power within him, as was the fate of all Atlantian kings. The next king has been in the prep chamber for the adequate number of years, and the time for him to inherit the king's legacy as they referred to it was in a couple years, but now it would be brought forwards.

Once the new king is made, every other thing will carry on from there.

With that, those from the surface got ready for the war to come in a few days, and soon the day came for them to battle it out.

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160 War II

"So you have chosen to go against me Mistol." Asked, the king. He surely was disappointed at the decision one of his trusted had made, but that was the case as is, it was already made, and too late to change. The humans were on their way as they spoke.

The king was not so blinded by power and his own goals that he could not realize the reason behind his subordinate's decision. It was a simple reasoning.

In their former world where they were, their original world, several years after awakeners started appearing, the aliens attacked them also. In that world, the people of Atlantis were not like those of the surface, the humans, for their people knew of the existence of supernatural powers beyond mortal understanding. They already had different powers bestowed unto them by their gods before the coming of awakeners. When this period came, it only bolstered their power as a whole, and those who were powerful already became even more powerful as they were already quite supernatural in the base selves.

During that period of time was when the first of theirs obtained a power that was beyond the regular skill everyone was accustomed to, though it wasn't an authority.

Even with all that power, the people and most importantly, the king of Atlantis chose to form an alliance with the humans instead of making them serve under him, and together they fought against the foreign beings that invaded their planet. n0𝓋𝓮𝓵𝔲𝓈𝗯.𝔠0𝓂

Ultimately, it was a complete defeat, and they all were finally sent into hiding. Luckily for them, a great phenomenon happened, and just like so, the foreign invaders were no more, but their world had changed. The humans blamed them, and soon after began hunting and killing their kind. It almost endangered their kind, but luckily for them, the people of Atlantis were really like fish, and their reproductive capacity was not one to be taken lightly.

The day came once again, after much preparation had been made, the only difference being that the humans were now slaves of Atlantis. Another major change, was the new power the heir to the throne had obtained, the complete authority over water. It was how they were able to so suppress the humans.

In the end, the battle was lost, and their new king who was the former prince was on the verge of death, and so passed his power unto his elder brother. He was meant to pass it on to his eldest child, but the child was still young and would not be able to control the power, might just get overpowered by it instead.

The elder brother, now wielding this power vowed to complete what his brother could not, but after a year of battling with these foreign invaders and ending up the same way as the last, they were once again saved by the same phenomenon that happened last time.

...

Now, they were at their current time, and as they calculated it, the time for those invaders to come was near. They had expected them to show up sooner, since they did show up sooner on their second coming, but it seemed this time was different. So, they expected them to come anytime at the moment. Though, through the information Mistol provided, which he got from the humans, it seemed they still had a little bit of time.

The Atlantians saw the great reset as their gods saving them and giving them another chance. They always were left with a few few people, all who met the criteria, so they never knew of the fact that the weak would die during this reset. At the moment, the king and all the elders and some others were all from the first and original world. Excluding the prince who was now in hibernation of course. Perhaps, since he also didn't get eliminated, it was part of the reason they suspected nothing.

"The humans are here." Said, the king.

He stood from his seat and like a torpedo, shot through his very own roof and skewed through the waters until he emerged at the top, which took less than thirty seconds, showing his speed underwater, since he could control the currents and how it affected and worked round him.

Looking around him, all he could see were human fleet, though not as many as he expected. Without saying much or waiting to hear what the humans had to say, be attacked.

The fight went on for some time, but the king started noticing that the humans didn't seem too intent on harming him weirdly, as he was yet to receive any dangerous attack, which he knew for sure they would have. It wasn't like none of the humans possessed an offensive skill.

Another thing he noticed was that the one who he fought the last time was not amongst them. He figured that he must have been hiding and waiting for a chance to attack, but after laying several bait that caught nothing, he was a bit confused.

Finally, however, the humans managed to calm the king down to talk to him about their plan, as they had not come with the intention fighting and up front battle to begin with.

They reversed a place on one of the crafts for them to have a discussion, which soon fell apart as the king refused to form any sort of alliance with the humans.

Another fight broke out, and they resumed the battle, only that this time, the humans were attacking seriously, though they could not get to the king as his water had something similar to an automatic defense mechanism that blocked certain attacks as long as they were long ranged, and most of the attacks were, since no one could get close to him.

"You are too arrogant! To come face us alone. Do you think we are weak?" One of the rankers said. He was from Under Current, and it would seem as though his pride was much, but it wasn't. Veritas was yet to join the fight.

They had to plead with her not to join in for as long as possible, because she really didn't have much friendly techniques or skills. Pretty much all of her skills were meant for killing and all that could lead to death.

Even then, the whole thing seemed to have gone one for long enough.

"It's not like we have that much time to spare."

Even when they engaged the king, the waters kept rising, and even worse seemed to be doing just so even faster than before.

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161 Climax

Veritas had finally reached the boiling point where she could no longer take it and was just about to attack, but just in time, the space close to the scene broke open, causing everyone on the scene to stop and observe.

Some of the humans currently at the scene seemed to have a different expression from the rest though, like they recognized the happenings before them. Veritas also caught wind of what was happening after a brief moment.

From the portal that just opened came floating out the leader of the Razhin faith, Lord Majek. He wore clothing like monks in a hindu temple, but more like one of their teachers or senior monks. Below he wore a baggy trouser beneath and had a heavy looking and baggy cloth go round it in a rather rough fashion. As for his top, two pieces of fabric went round from one should to the waist, and that was it. His beards reached his chest, and his hair was receding and not too long.

With one arm behind his back and one in front of him holding his heavy and majestic looking staff, Majek spoke almost softly. "Stop this nonsense at once." He said, his voice caring authority despite its softness, one might say. n0𝗏𝐞𝗅𝔲𝒮𝒃.𝑐0𝑀

The entire battle became quite and only the ocean provided a natural harmony to the listening of all. Amidst this quiet however, there was only one who dared to brake it, and it was none other than Veritas.

With an annoyed expression, she swung her arm to the side with a bit of furry, causing the ocean to split into two sides deep enough to fit an entire ship in, and travelled far.

Perhaps it was the show of strength from Veritas who seemed to have not been trying even, or it was the mysterious figure that had just appeared before him, but the king of Atlantis was speechless for a moment not knowing how to think of the situation.

Seeing Veritas's show of strength, he was sure that would have driven him into a corner for sure, if not down completely, and seeing Majek who had just appeared with all the mysterious and divine aura surrounding him, he was out of it.

"I see, one filthy creature is also here. Where is your master?" Said, Majek, as he saw Veritas. He had utter disdain towards Victor and his people, especially the vampires and others that were not exactly human. Normally, an unstoppable fight will break up after meeting each other, but at the time they faced more demanding matters.

...

"You don't deserve to know of his presence, let alone see him, dog." Said Veritas, without paying much attention to Majek.

Though Majek was strong, he wasn't strong enough to make light of Veritas. He would surely come out victorious if they were to fight seriously, as Majek is after all, the avatar of the gods. It was just that the gods needed nothing of the earth or from it, so they had no reason to descend, not that their vessel was in danger or anything. In a serious fight though, Majek would have to call upon his gods for assistance, but now at such a moment, there was no need for such confrontations. Nevertheless, after all is settled, both sides will surely return to their previous relationship.

"Do your job old man, lets get it over with." Said Veritas.

The king had dared not speak a word yet. Though he had the authority over water, the power is not in the hands of the right person, so it's true power was not being unleashed. There was something different about the person before him that his very body ordered him to obey, but as a king, he fought this suppressing feeling.

"And who are you?" Said the king. Sounding tough.

Without words, Majek appeared beside the king without any sound made and the king not even knowing when, even his automatic defense did not react and Majek placed his hand on the king's shoulder.

Of course, someone like Veritas could follow Majek's movements, though not completely. To her, it was more of a blur, but she could still follow it like so.

"Why don't you calm down now that I'm asking nicely." Said Majek, before slowly raising his hand and once again creating a portal just behind the king and then asking him to follow along.

'He calls that asking? He never spoke to me did he?'

Seeing the king follow behind, the humans simply waited and followed one after the other with the leaders first followed by the remaining. Unfortunately, the moment the last relatively important person step tooth in the portal and through, it closed. The rest were to fend for themselves.

Good thing was, the water levels seemed to have slowed down to a stop, almost.

Lord Majek took them all to his temple, which doesn't happen everyday certainly. The view within the temple was truly worthy of being within a temple, and was nothing anyone would thing a temple to be, but Veritas called bullshit nonetheless.

After leading all to a suitable talking spot, he had them all seat and then the discussion began.

There, the situation was explained in detail and not in a hurry so everyone understood, and the king also got to tell his side of the story.

To say the least, he was quite shocked to know what the reset was actually, and that it wasn't the doing of their god to help them get their revenge against their enemy.

That said, it completely changed everything for the king, and even helped lift some on his burdens. Since many and the majority would have died regardless since only the strong are left, he could forgive himself for many deaths as they would have been erased either way.

Now, the question was why these foreign beings were so adamant in invading and destroying lifeforms. The scientists were curious to know what these aliens were like, whether they were some civilization of Artificial Intelligence, maybe a giant robot race, but that wasn't it. According to the king of Atlantis, they looked just like humans in every way, except that they behaved differently and were obviously more advanced.

This new discovery, made everything tricky.

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162 Breakthrough

"Exercise patience. From how it is looking, you will, breakthrough soon now." Said a voice to Victor. Of course, this voice belonged to the man who had been guiding him ever since he came to that chamber in the mysterious cave.

'I can feel it now, soon enough.' Said Victor, in his mind.

Since he had to constantly push through the wall blocking him from progressing, it was a rigorous and straining process. His only saving grace was that he had no issue with tiredness, as it did not apply to him, if not-

It had been more than two weeks as far as Victor was concerned. He had lost track of time trying to achieve positive results in what he was doing that he had no idea what the time was, and at some point his system became none responsive. Not even the system panel would open when he willed it.

Though it was weird and actually gave Victor cause to worry, nothing happened afterwards, and as if sensing that something wasn't right with him, the man assured him that everything was fine and for him not to be worried.

Hearing this was suspicious, but Victor wouldn't be surprised if the man before him knew of him having the system, though nothing was said.

Through continuous guidance, Victor was finally able to achieve his goal, he got an authority, but the authority he had just gotten was surely weird and unexpected, even for the man guiding him.

The way it worked was that some skills would end up being sacrificed to get an authority in the end. So, when Victor noticed the skills that were disappearing, he was surely concerned as to what kind of authority he would get. n0𝗏𝐞𝗅𝔲𝒮𝒃.𝑐0𝑀

...

"Hmm, this is surely something I have never seen before. Not in my years of existence." Said the man, still seated in the same position and place, not a single motion from him showing surprise as he relayed.

"I felt it was a bit strange too, but if even you are surprised…" Victor said, as he stood from his sitting position, probably to test his new power. 'Not to talk about the number of skills was sacrificed… So painful. This better be some god level authority, if not…'

"Test it out, I am also curious to see how it is. But be careful, as this is the first time for you to use such power. I tell you, it is not like what you are used to." Said the man.

Victor nodded and took some steps away from the man towards a more spacious part of the room. Using just his thoughts, Victor chose a random spot on the ground and used his authority, and immediately, just like thousands of boulders were placed on that single spot, a serious dent appeared on it.

Victor looked at it a bit, and could see the effect of his skill. It certainly was something. Now, of his entire force, he didn't use up to fifty percent, from what he felt he could do. That said, he wasn't too impressed. Even he could crumble that entire floor if he placed a nice punch with some power behind it. The authority didn't seem to be so authoritative. Also, seeing that the man was still calm, he could tell that it wasn't really impressive, though it was rare.

'And to think I had to sacrifice so many skills… more like it ate up..' Thought Victor, as he walked back to the man. Surely, disappointed at the end result.

"They say rare artefacts are the most brilliant in luster." Said, the man, in an unusual tone Victor had never heard before from him. If Victor wasn't mistaken, the man seemed to sound a bit more elated, excited.

"What are you talking about?" Asked Victor, unsure of what the man was getting at.

The man simply laughed it off seeing that Victor was yet to get it. "Try punching the floor as training first before you get the answer to that question. Do just five." Said, the man.

Victor was feeling a bit reluctant to follow this one, as he knew quite well that he did not get this strong by doing physical training. But then again…

DOOOMMM

The sound travelled through the room, as Victor's fist met the hard ground. Victor was very much surprised to see the ground intact and unharmed.

Seeing such a thing was quite rare for him, so this time he actually tried and put in more force and power in his punch, but then-

The same result. Nothing. The room floor was still intact and neat like nothing had happened.

Victor couldn't understand how something could be so tough, and was now starting to realize it himself. For the last time, he put everything he could give into the final punch in attempt to leave a mark on the floor, but nothing. It was simply insane.

"I think you realize what this means?" Said, the man, as Victor walked back towards him.

For the single fact that he had not even used up to fifty percent of what he could dish out, Victor completely retracted his previous statements.

"Yeah.."

"The Authority over Force." Said the man.

They continued to converse, and both of them had thought it would be more like gravity, and in truth, it was more like gravity that anyother. This bore another question.

"How does this work? Most of the skills taken were not gravity related or even close." Asked, Victor, trying to get an answer from the man.

"As long as the main ingredient is present, the rest are spices and side ingredients to make up the dish." Said the man in response. Victor of course understood this easily, who wouldn't.

'Hmm, I was trying to see if there was a way I could guide the process to get what result I want. Though I was lucky this time and got something so powerful, what are the chances that it's happen so the second time?'

"Is there a way to direct the result of the authority one receives?" Asked, Victor, to which the man responded with a simple no, and explained pretty much what he had already said to Victor countless times at that point about letting it flow, blah blah blah.

"What is the guarantee exactly that the authority one gets will be a formidable one?" Asked, Victor. He was really trying to figure something out, as that could go better for him.

"Well…"

163 Surprises

"Well, there isn't one in particular." Said the man.

'What did I expect.. Heh..' Thought Victor with a defeated expression in his mind, certainly, exaggerating everything.

"But…"

'Ohh…'

"The stronger and rarer the skills sacrificed, the more distinguished of an Authority." Said the man.

'Why does it sound weird?? But..' "That makes sense I guess." Said, Victor.

"How many skills did you have to sacrifice?" Asked, the man.

'Hehhh.. Ah.' "Around twenty something, but not more than twenty five." Said Victor.

'TWENTY FIVE??? WHO HAS TWENTY FIVE SKILLS ON THEM??? EVEN I DON'T HAVE THAT MANY. IS-IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?'

... n0𝑽𝐞𝔩𝚞𝓈𝔅.𝗰0𝔪

"Tw-Twenty Five.. You are a special one I see. I don't think I've ever heard of someone having so many skills."

'Huh? Even you?' "Really?'

"Yes. That must mean you have really exhausted all your skills. Well, don't fret, I can guarantee you, it was worth it, completely." Said, the man, in attempts to console Victor.

"Oh no, I didn't use up all my skills…" Said Victor, not sure if he should have said that anyway.

'STILL HAS SOME LEFT? Calm, Calm down. I was told that he was special, so I should have expected this, but nooooo, this is too exaggerated!!' Thought, the man, in total amazement. If his image could displayed on his covered face, Victor would find that he resembled a curious chiwawa at that moment.

"I will try again, with the theory I have come to, this will be a good day."

'Huh? Is he crazy?' "Try again? Don't, if you try to do this again to get another authority, it will cause irreversible damage to your body and soul, as the strain will be too much. Though you can't feel it, your soul also suffers as the body does." Said, the man.

'Fuck. Good thing he's here. I would have ended myself for nothing.' "So, how's my soul doing now?" Asked, Victor.

He assumed the man could see his soul since he ushered out such warnings, but Victor just couldn't be more accurate about his assumptions.

"Well, I can't see your soul. I just gave the warning." Said, the man.

'Well, if then…'

Victor ignored the warning and just started immediately, to get another authority. He did have the undead mind after all, and he was putting his luck on that. If it was all paranormal and spiritual, then his mind should be the same as his soul, or at the very least both should be tangled. That should provide a shield for his mind, and so was ok. From his understanding at least.

"What are you doing?! That will destroy you!" Said, the man.

Victor just ignored it and told the man not to worry. "After all, if you really wanted to stop me, you could have moved to do so. Seeing as you haven't moved a single bit, I am guessing it isn't all that dangerous." Said, Victor. The man did not respond to that, so Victor took it as him being right this time and went on.

Also, the man had been more humane in his words these past few minutes, Victor was starting to feel as though a valuable relationship was being formed. It was good for him.

Normally he would be more cautious, but the fact that even the man had not really moved to do anything to stop him, it was assurance that it would be alright.

From then onward, Victor went on to get two other authorities before deciding It was enough, not because he chose to, but because he ran out of skills to sacrifice.

'What-what a monstrous mortal.. Is he even mortal anymore? I was told that he was special, but isn't this too special? Even my own master can't achieve this, not even that bastard can… Ah.. Life.. My existence is worthless…' The man sobbed in his mind, witnessing all that was happening before him. If he wasn't there to see it for himself and someone came to tell him that there was a mortal that could achieve three realm breaking Authorities in a day, he would send for that person to be tortured for nine hundred and ninety nine days for trying to pull such a prank on his seniors.

"This is just wonderful, to get all this in a single day." Said, Victor.

'How can he be so nonchalant?' Thought, the man.

Though Victor could not access his system at the moment, he could still feel the power within him after getting these authorities, and it was simply compelling, if he thought of his former self.

'With these, that fish of a leader will be just what he is, a fish. Not that he already wasn't.' Thought, Victor.

Back then when he fought with the king of Atlantis above the sea, he could have easily killed the king if he wished to, he just didn't, considering the future. 'One use of excavate and he'll be gone. Whatever.'

Now, though he had gained these new found powers, he had also lost his versatility and numerous deadly skills. One of his authorities specifically, took too many skills, though, it seemed to be worth it.

When the man guiding him spoke of the skills having to be strong and possibly rare, Victor knew he would hit a jack pot, as every one of his skills were MAX levelled, and many were rare skills you won't find just anywhere.

Anyway, that aside…

It had come, the time for Victor to leave a it was. He would have loved to stay there a bit longer, but the man said the time was up. Victor did find a stairway that continued downwards, and the man informed him that he could not go there, as he was not ready for that yet, and though Victor tried to be stubborn and proceed either way, he really could not. It was like some kind of force kept him at bay.

When he tried to go there was the first time he had seen the man physically move, but though it was only a slight turn and nudge.

"Listen to me now. As you leave this place, remember the power you now hold. Don't be careless." Said, the man.

Victor responded and told him not to worry, before living. Another thing he needed to know was that after he left, he would have to return back to the cave if he wanted to do anything relating to getting another authority. Not that the man believed he would actually be able to get another one, it wasn't like skills fell from the sky for everybody to take after all.

As Victor walked towards the doorway that lead to the top, he turned to look at the man, 'I never got your…. Name..' Said Victor, but behind him was empty space, the man was nowhere to be found.

Surely, he was only speaking with the man some moments ago, just Victor returned to look for the man, as this room was a certain level of mystery to it after all, so maybe that was what happened. But, even after searching for more than 10 minutes, he couldn't find the man. That was when he decided it was best he just gave up and head out. He had been down too long.

"That child is something else. I had to use up all of my power just to maintain the space, and still ended up using my entire sea. Well… Master never choses wrong I guess." Said, a voice similar to that of the man that had just been with Victor moments ago. Surely, it was him, only that this time, he was moving on his feet.

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164 Outside Changes

Victor did not need to climb all the way to the top of the cave like previous times, giving the kind of authority he had.

After getting to the top, the first thing he checked was his system, and sure enough, it had started booting already, and was active in matter of seconds.

He got some notifications from the system indicating the new changes within his system, and immediately, Victor checked it out to see for himself.

Amongst these system messages that he got;

[Emissary of Death has now changed to Ruler of death]

[Some information about Title, The Chosen, has been revealed]

[You have transcended the bounds of mortal and stepped into the realm of god, partial]

Status

...

Name: Victor (Crow)

Race: Vampiric Infernal Undead

Evolution Material: Land Synxe – 1000…

Class: Allrounder

Title: True Undead [..., One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' [..., Emissary of Death […, The Chosen […]

Blood Bank: XX

Hp: 6,000/6,000

Mp: 9,100/9,100

[Stat]

Strength: S

Agility: S

Sense: Z

Vitality: B

Magic: A

Intelligence: A

Charm: S

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Authority]

Authority over Force, Authority over Space, Authority over Death

[Skill tab]

[Passive: All Title, Art of Combat (A), Weapon Mastery (A)

[Active: Paralysis Ark (S), Infernal Ark (S), Mental Ark (S), Blood Ark (SS), Destruction Ark (S), Creation Ark (B)…

Looking at his stats, Victor was surprised to see a Z rating. It was something he had never once seen or heard of before. Along with his vampire evolution, he reached a new level in rank of SS, which was above S, but Z was something else entirely. There was also a message about stepping into realm of gods, so Victor imagined it was either related to this new rank he got, or it had to do with his authority.

The authorities now were another aspect he was very interested in checking out. He instinctually knew what the authorities he got were and how to use them at basic level, but apart from that, he knew nothing else of them. Looking at them from the system was sure to solve some of his questions concerning the authorities and maybe how to properly work them.

Victor wasted no time in checking what his new powers granted him, and to say the least, he was impressed to see what was written under each authority.

To summarize all, the Authority over Force gave him the ability to manipulate the different forces and fields around him. This meant he could not fly, use a kind of telekinesis, but at a stronger form, and basically anything of that nature.

The Authority over Space gave Victor the ability to move between space seamlessly no matter the distance. It basically override his teleportation ability, more like that was the main ingredient in getting the authority, as it was sacrificed. This meant all the marks he had left around the entire planet were now useless.

The last and most interesting one, the authority over death. Victor was a bit shocked to see what he got from this, as he never even thought it possible. Apart from ruling over the dead, which comes with a separate domain and even power to assign underlings, basically making him the Supreme Yama, this authority granted him immortality as he had now overcame death and ruled over it. This meant that he now had acquired immortality on top of the immortality he already had. Victor remembered about a mythical being who was known to have several immortalities on top the ones he already had. Meaning that killing him was virtually impossible.

'Maybe I should focus on learning escape techniques, as that is how the unkillable always end up, being sealed.'

Victor had a fleeting thought, but soon abandoned it as fast as it came. Since he could only make use of those that are dead in his domain, living beings were useless to him for any goal concerning that.

He left towards the village settlement he had promised to lord over and take away from their current location, and with the use of his new authority, he was going to moved them all in an instant… Or so he thought.

Turns out, things didn't work as easy as they seemed. At the moment, he could only affect himself and maybe two others with his space authority. When it came to the strength of the authority, concerning distance and proportion, it was well over, but the number of people he could use it on was limited for the time being.

Perhaps, the most sluggish movement the system could pull was that his authorities weren't upgradeable like his skills. He had to figure it out himself.

To solve the problem, he brought out all the giant animals and monsters from his legion and had them carry the people of the village all the way-

Back at Atlantis, the talk was done, and the battle between Atlantis and earth was concluded with no clear winners, but one thing was clear, the king of Atlantis remained well behaved and subservient the entire time he spent before Majek.

From what the scientists had calculated, the invaders were to appear on earth in approximately two and a half weeks. Their speed of travel was faster than anything humanity had ever seen. This also corresponded with what Majek said, so it was a set date. n0𝗏𝖾𝑳𝓊𝓈𝒷.𝑐0𝔪

When Victor came back, all these had already happen, and he was glad not to have been around during such periods of unnecessary stress.

Also, in the kingdom of Atlantis, those that plotted against the king were persecuted, but one along with his subordinates was pardoned after it was revealed that he harbored only the best intentions. The other, however, was properly persecuted, and killed at the end of it.

Following this, the current king stepped down from the throne, but not immediately. If the new king was to ascend the throne, he would be unable to fare well in the war to come, so It was to remain as so for the time being.

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Soon, the invaders arrived on earth and the war began in full.

Perhaps, the most disorientating thing was the fact that the invaders looked just like humans with absolutely no difference. There were some that had different and unnatural skin colours and quirks, but that was the most of it. n0𝑽𝐞𝔩𝚞𝓈𝔅.𝗰0𝔪

Those that invaded couldn't really be referred to as aliens,

He gets exp, but it doesn't add automatically. He has to allow the system to use the exp to level up before it can. Later on, he unlocks a system feature which gives him the option to select seven creatures(could be people or whatever.) These seven, he can customize through the system and give them things like abilities if the person has a slot, and also share some exp with them, though there's a limit.

With war progressing as it did over the course of 17 or so days, it was even more of a surprise that the earthlings could hold up for so long. Though they divided themselves, to their enemies, it mattered not who was not human and who was. All they wanted was to eradicate the humans, and that was what they did, to the best of their ability.

The invaders kept pouring in through the earth's atmosphere like bugs, as their enormous ship hung over the skies like a judge of what was going on.

All together, the invaders that fell to the hands of the earthlings were nothing less than 10,000. Maybe it was only after this much fell that the actual power houses started showing themselves. Also, perhaps, one of these invading space ships would not be able to carry so many people, as that was the logical conclusion. As it would seem, earth's technology really isn't advanced enough at the point, as two of the enemy's ships were able to infiltrate in the earth's skies without being detected.

In the end, it took about 22 days in total for the invasion to be over, and earth being victorious in the end.

The survivors from the enemy side that were normal soldiers, or had no special role in the fleet were killed and cleared out, while the ones holding high positions and those that seemed to play important roles were kept alive under someone's skill. The skill would prevent them from attempting suicide, as it places them under a certain level of control and influence, not enough to brainwash or make them spill out info, though.

...

Their ships and other technological parts were also confiscated, and nobody argued when the science faction requested to keep them. They were the ones well versed in such things, so it was best to leave it to them. Other smaller science organizations that were not part of VIM CORP or their faction have all entered into partnership with them. Things were progressing in a positive direction for once in a long time.

As for the captives, there was only one organization that could handle them best, and better than any other, and that was Under Current. In their case, they were pleaded with to take the captives with them, as Victor was a bit reluctant to do so in the first place, but conceded in the end.

Picking into people's memories or getting them to talk was no easy matter, even for skill pumped humans that had the power to destroy mountains. Their skills did provide destructive power, but it wasn't a common thing to come across skills that were focused on other things outside battle these days. Maybe back before the reset, it would be more common to find low rank miscellaneous skills, but not anymore.

After the battle field had been cleaned out and everything was pseudo back to normal, everyone got back to business as usual, handling different things, and with the new developments, there was work to be done.

The efforts of the science faction almost went unnoticed, as many began seeking out the Razhin faith temple to join them. The prophecy that their god gave to his people about a coming danger overshadowed the fact that the science faction had detected something in the solar system prior, and since people were more likely to believe supernatural things, they were easily captivated by the power of the god those of the Razhin faith serve.

Back at under current, Victor once again left the job of interrogation to his subordinates, as he himself had better things to do. After all, there were many capable of the job. It wasn't like they needed some scary looking dude to pose as some inquisitor or anything, all they had to do was get someone with the appropriate skill to handle the matter, and that was what happened precisely.

Someone who could charm others was amongst the many in under current, so it was easy from there. There was no violence or anything, just simple questioning. Four of the captives resisted the skill. They seemed to be strong enough to do so. For them, their memories were peaked into by one of Victor's vampires that were part of his legion. The process this time was not as painless and without side effects like the previous one, so it was clear that those ones could not be made further use of after that. They were discarded in the end. Though, Victor brought them back to life and made them part of his legion. They were quite strong, so it was clear that they will be useful in future, and if not, he could always just throw them away. There was no harm done.

From then on, the world kept progressing forward, and the temporary brotherhood shared by the higher powers gradually faded and things returned to how they were over time. No surprise there.

Victor focused fully on unlocking more of these authorities, but unfortunately, when he went back to the cave to seek the man who thought him, he found that it had collapsed, so he had to find other means to achieve this goal.

Maybe there would be similar caves in other places, as the man mentioned that the cave was special, and it would be almost impossible to get an authority while not under the environment's effects.

With that, Victor set out on another journey. There were two targets in mind, a place that restricted the usage of skills, or a place where skills worked stronger than the rest. It was the logical thing to do, so he went with that, to see where it would lead him. He was already immortal, so time was not a factor for him at the moment.

Somewhere else in the universe, a group could be seen discoursing some sort of serious issue, and within their midst was the figure and likeness of a man, a familiar one.

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166 Monster Appears

The beings that discussed some sort of plan seemed to mention a particular name that they kept referencing, and the picture that showed before them was Victors. At a glance, they all looked like beings not of that world, and their features weren't completely human, except for one.

"It's gotten too chaotic, I only hope we get enough time." One of them said. He looked like some kind of reptilian creature with a humanoid form. His body was black and cameral in colour and was roughly scaled, and he almost resembled a giant as his height would be anything above 10 feet.

"Two are gone, six of us remain..." Another said. He was closer to regular size for humans, at somewhere between 7 feet. His form was also not exactly human, and his body spotted a golden kind of shade to it.

"If we all couldn't kill that bastard, there's no way the remaining can, we have to go with plan B." The first said.

They both looked towards the third amongst them who was the most human looking with a normal fair skin tone and looks, they seemed to want him to decide. "We will be going with plan B, there's no other way." He said.

"SO now we can only wait for death, huh?" The second said.

They continued discussing on as Victor's image had longed disappeared from their presence.

...

Back in the world, the events that kept happening didn't calm down, rather, they got more unexplainable and random.

The reset had also brought demons to the world instead of through dungeons, and Victor was glad to add them to his evolution path. Truly, these times were the golden period for him, as more and more strong species kept appearing. If only he could absorb them all and add to his evolution, it would have been a game changer, and he would long be the pinnacle.

The thing was that, as with everything, there exist an advantage and a disadvantage. For example, he was able to bypass the negative attributes of being a vampire since he was a zombie lord prior to that and had the undead body, it was the same with some species.

Some species had something good to add to Victor's strength, but their other traits brought them out of the list of possible evolution paths Victor envisioned. Also, because he was always being cautious, he might have been unnecessarily wary about some.

As years went by, decades came and gone, and the event of universal reset happened a couple more times even. Victor had really grown in strength so much that at that current time, no one could dare stand against him as an opponent. Of course there still lay some danger here and there, but he needed not to worry about them, as he was sure to have no one move against him.

After all this time time had passed, Victor and successfully turn to be the sole Overlord of the entire planet.

As it would happen, there were some attacks from other life forms that were not from earth, but against earth's might, it was simply a case of a cub fighting it's ancestor. The battle was too easy and Victor alongside other powerful individuals and beings on earth didn't have to move themselves.

If someone was to see the current state of the world, they would ask when the strong would be ascending into some other realm, but that was not happening unfortunately.

At this point, Victor's system became very beefy:

Status

Name: Victor (Overlord)

Race: Vampiric Infernal Undead

Evolution Material: Land Synxe – 1000…

Class: Allrounder

Title: True Undead [..., One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' [..., Emissary of Death […, The Chosen […]

Blood Bank: XX

Hp: – – –

Mp: 47,700/47,700

[Stat]

Strength: Z

Agility: Z

Sense: Z

Vitality: Z

Magic: SS

Intelligence: S

Charm: S

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Authority]

Authority over Force, Authority over Space, Authority over Death

[Skill tab]

[Passive: All Title, Art of Combat (A), Weapon Mastery (A)

[Active: Paralysis Ark (S), Infernal Ark (S), Mental Ark (S), Blood Ark (SS), Destruction Ark (S), Creation Ark (B)…

...

After passing the barrier of S rank, Victor found that he could advance further into other ranks, SS, MAX, Z.

When it came to skills, he had to feed some preferred skills to other skills in order to advance the rank of the chosen skill, and though that came unexpected, he was glad he had all those skills he collected from all the evolutions he underwent. He couldn't do this though until the Fifth reset when the function of upgrading and increasing skill level returned. Too bad he couldn't use coins to achieve an increase above S rank, if not it would have been a different story all together.

As for his stats, he couldn't exactly achieve a rise in rank above SS with just level ups, and since extra stat points were no more, there really wasn't that option. All he could do was use evolutions.

At the moment, he was at the peak of each evolution path. Be it, Zombie, Vampire, Demon, Dragon, Shade, everything was at it's peak.

Everything seemed to be going well, and by now the world had gotten used to the resets that happened from time to time. The only thing was that they couldn't predict when it would happen, as they happened at different intervals, some sooner than others, and some farther. The telling sign though, was the sudden appearance of giant gates and prior to that mass uncontrolled dungeon breaks that would happen simultaneously.

At this point in time, these signs had all happened, and now the world was at the stage where giant portals and gates would start opening. Already, there was one gate that opened above the sky, just before exiting earth's stratosphere, and this one was the biggest to ever appear in history. The odd thing however, was that even after so long after it opened, no other gate followed, which made everyone wonder. Little did they know, something was about to emerge from the gate instead.

...

Over the following days, the gate kept expanding little by little until it grew to an even more unimaginable size. It easily covered an entire city at this point, and different powers from different parts of the world made haste and came to the city where this gate had appeared. Victor also seem to have a residence close to this city, and that was where he was staying at the time, also awaiting the gate.

Taking everyone off guard, the gate that no one could pass through began emitting a strong static current and unusual magical energy that raged like a storm. There were a series of lightening running rampant all over the gate, and because of it's size, those lightening shots and streams reached the earth's surface, destroying some parts of the city.

"It's already causing me trouble even before it breaks? Ah, just what kind of area did I inherit? Just one problem to another!" The mayor of the city cried to himself as he witnessed by himself the destruction of the building just next to his. Normally he would stare from his window with a drink in his hand to admire the city he had worked so hard to kill his father and inherit, but lately it wasn't that anymore.

Whatever it was with the mayor, he was not the main focus at the moment, as he himself brought the problems to his hands. The thing that had everyone's attention, even Victor who was far away, was the being that had just come out of the humongous gate that hung on the sky, casting a think shadow over the city.

It would not be too much to say the beast that emerged was even bigger than the gate, maybe it was just optical illusion and it was actually same size.

"What the fuck is that monster!?" "WE ARE DOOMED!"

"Hahaha, I should have taken the shit when I felt like it came, now I shit myself."

"Just kill me... Oh.. This is the end of my city..."

All over the place, people were terrified, while others just couldn't believe the situation before them and would really believe that it was all a dream that they could wake from at anytime. n0𝗏𝓔𝓁𝑈𝑠𝒷.𝐜0𝑚

The beast seemed to have been dropped from the gat, and when it touched ground it stood just a couple of distance away from the gate. The impact alone after it landed uprooted the buildings surrounding it and formed a crater, and for a while there it remained in the same position without moving, like some dead body.

Dust and particles covered the entire area, and it's form could not be clearly made out. Suddenly, it's glowing purple eyes opened wide, and with one fierce roar the beast let out, it was enough to uproot hundreds of buildings, and bring complete destruction to the entire environment. The people close didn't fare well either, and most of them even fell dead or were crushed by flying constructions. If the sound didn't kill them and make their ears bleed, the debris did.

The destruction was imminent as what just happened was just the beginning. Many who had gathered could not even stand to put up a fight as they struggled to survive the massive destruction of the entire area surrounding the beast. At the moment, the time of the day was currently mid afternoon, so as soon as the gate above disappeared, sunlight pierced through the atmosphere and struck the ground beneath that had seen no light for days.

The dust covering it's form also cleared, and before the world stood a monster that could only be referenced to a dinosaur. It stood on eight legs, and had four arms in the air as it actually seemed to be standing upright. It's head could almost touch the clouds, and in place of the gate, it's gigantic form simulated the same effect to the ground below as it blocked out sun light for most of the parts.

Seeing such a strong beast, most who could still help it didn't think twice before turning the opposite direction and fleeing for their lives. Even as every being ran for their safety, there were still those that believed in their strength and did the opposite of what others where doing.

Though people could escape now, the situation wasn't that of simply buying time. After several resets, the earth was now several times bigger than it's original self, at least 30 times bigger than the normal earth, so it would really take much time for even a monster as big as that to travel across and everywhere on its surface.

Like that, the path of destruction was opened, and as if the beast was inspired by a famous monster that used to be known on earth, it embodied the name 'Walking nuclear Mass.'

When it started moving from where it landed, something really strange began happening. At least, 5 kilo metres around its position completely disappeared as though it eaten or engulfed by something strange, and in the place of the earth in that area, the entire place would slowly eaten away as it crumbles to nothingness.

Many who came to fight against it tried their best, but little seemed to work. The monster was simply unmovable and unstoppable. The best weapons used by hunters could do nothing to it's extremely though scales, and all it had to do was just lift and drop one of it's legs to cause a disaster. So far, that was the only thing it had done.

Victor who was watching the monster walk towards his location was readying to go meet the beast to see what he could do to it. He had a set of armour with him that he got from the system after he unlocked a shop function sometime back and discovered the first piece. After that the system started giving some weird missions, which was also the first time his system had given him any mission. After gathering the complete set of the nameless armour, he didn't even wear it as he was already strong enough without it. Now though, the time seemed to have come. Many wouldn't be able to tell, but the nature of the mana emitted by that monster was really weird and discomforting.

Just as Victor finished wearing the set of armour, a system task appeared before him from nowhere, and as though sending him on a suicide mission, the system just had to ask him to kill the monster, the name though, explained it all.

[Eater of Worlds, Vargbond the Destroyer]

[System Mission]

Objective: Kill the Eater of Worlds, Vargbond the Destroyer.

Reward: Unknown

Penalty: Annihilation

"Well, if I can't kill it, it's going t eventually kill everything on this planet, and I can't say whether I will be able to survive or not." Victor said to himself as his servant helped him with his staff.

Victor had on a set of armour that seemed like light leather armour the way it fit him without looking bulky, like it was some tailor made clothes. 'Did this thing have the ability to adjust to size?'

The colours were a brilliant and well done mix of Coal black and red, with a dash of pine green. As for the staff, it was something Victor acquired as a reward from the system. It could expand to a certain extent and extend, also to a certain extent. When he got it, he couldn't help but think that it was too similar to a certain someone's legendary weapon, not to mention that his armour had a certain aesthetic to it...

"This always feels unoriginal.. No matter." Victor said, as he looked out his window for a second or four before jumping out through it unannounced, making his servant reach out to pull him back too late.

...

Victor, set off.

167 End Times

The fight against Vargbond began, and everyone threw themselves into it without much of a care for their lives. There were ones that feared for their lives when faced with such a monster and naturally ran away, but for the majority, they had the guts to keep fighting. Naturally, those that ran never really made it out as they were caught up in the chaos.

After a long battle between the creature that came out of the gate and the inhabitants of earth, the battle came to an end, and of course earth won. They did not have all the major power houses for no reason.

Victor had in fact turn out to be somewhat of a figure head throughout the whole ordeal. He who normally would never be approached by any other person out of fear or other reasons was being cheered for. It was truly a scene.

Whilst fighting against the creature, Victor continuously ate from its flesh in order to evolve himself. Even though the fight took wo whole days of constant fighting with no breaks to end, it was only enough time for Victor to evolve only once even after all the evolution material he got from the creature. It was a strange one indeed.

The cheering and celebration carried on, but then, just when nobody expected it, a different much more smaller gate, or as it was, more like a portal, appeared behind Victor, maybe a couple of feet away.

No one even noticed it, not even those whose specialties was tracking could sense any fluctuations in the energy around. Before anyone could respond, a gush of wind blew into the portal, and magically only Victor was pulled in.

Although Victor also noticed nothing before and after the portal behind him appeared, he could feel the change in pressure as the wind suddenly formed before him. He tried to move out of the way, but his body wouldn't move, causing him to be sucked, or rather pushed into the portal, and easily too.

On the other side of the portal was something, similar to a garden, the only difference was that there were no plants, instead several metallic looking materials stuck out and filled the entire place.

Victor froze for a split moment as he quickly took in and studied his new surroundings. The entire place looked quite peaceful and calm, so it really got him thinking of the reason why he was brought to the place.

...

Like out of a dream, a man appeared from nonexistence right before Victor's eyes some distance away.

To describe the feeling, it was as though the man who just appeared had always been there, but at the same time he wasn't and just made his way there.

'This… I can't call him a man.. What is this person looking creature?' Victor thought to himself.

"You must have a lot of thoughts going through your head." The man said.

It was even a bit wrong to call the man a man, or human. He was at least something of a giant than a man, maybe half bred. From his gold, sapphire and white coloured majestic attire, one could tell that this was no ordinary man. From his clothes, style, and the presence he commanded, Victor could make out the fact that he was as strong as he himself thought.

Victor didn't exactly respond, but even his normally stoic expression couldn't remain so as in that split second, he felt something eerie like he had never felt before which caused a light frown to appear on his face. A slit second later, the man who stood some distance away from him appeared beside Victor and gently placed a hand on Victor's shoulder, all too fast for even him to see, talk less of reacting to.

Victor felt the urge that ran through his entire body to react and evade danger, but his body wouldn't move or respond to his will. 'What is going on?' Victor thought to himself. He was an undead, so it was impossible for him to feel fear, talk less of feeling it to the point where he is paralyzed by it, there had to be something else.

Then, for the second time, the man now beside him spoke, "you need not worry, this is my doing. It will be better like this so that we can converse smoother." The man said.

Victor wasn't impressed, it only showed how much weaker he was to the one beside him, and this also brought the question of who the man was exactly. It had been a very long time since he was so out classed, and he wasn't delusional enough to doubt his opponent's capabilities.

"Now that you are calm, why don't we sit and converse?" The man said.

Like something he had never seen before, the space around them warped in a weird and fast way, but still natural, and they both were sitting on some kind of dining table that seemed exceptionally long. n0𝒱𝓮𝓛𝓊𝗌𝒷.𝓒0𝑚

"I do apologies for the late introductory, you may call me the 8th Ruler." The man said before a brief pause ensued. Seeing as Victor had nothing to say, the man continued…

"I am the guardian and ruler of the 8th world…" He continued, as he explained on different things.

After confirming up to a satisfactory extent, Victor began asking questions as he listened to the man.

After a long while would have passed, the 8th ruler, as he introduced himself, was done with everything he needed Victor to know at the moment.

From what Victor was just told, there were nine worlds, and each one had a separate ruler guarding it, just like the one he was in at the moment had the 8th. These rulers are there to guard the different worlds, and under normal circumstances would never interfere with the happenings in the world, but obviously, as it always happens, something went wrong.

The 1st Ruler, according to the 8th ruler is the one behind all the instability happening all around the 9 worlds.

The reason for Dungeons and all appearing in the first place was to enable the rulers find the particular key they had been in search for, especially, the 1st. Most of the other worlds had fallen, and after they did so, collapsed and merged with the 8th realm.

Now, after all that has happened, the key they had been looking for had finally appeared, and luckily it appeared in the 8th realm and chose Victor, or so he was told.

"As the 1st has chosen this part, it's only right for us to purge him." The 8th said.

"There's still a lot of details left out, I don't completely understand." Victor said.

"Worry not, you don't need to at the moment, everything will open up as you go." The 8th said.

Victor, deep down had prepared himself for anything that could happen. Gods don't normally rely on humans, mortals, to do their works. There was only one possible reason then. It was totally possible that whatever power it was had chosen Victor, and this ruler just wanted to take it away from him.

But before he could express his mind, Victor got a response.

"I know what you may be thinking, and allow me to say you are wrong." The 8th ruler said.

"What do you mean?" Asked Victor.

"If I really wanted the key, I wouldn't be going through this process right now, or do you believe you can do anything against me?" The 8th said in a relaxed manner, although the last parts of his sentence sounded a bit threatening.

"Then…"

"It's straight forward, a ruler cannot possess or use the key, it is literally impossible."

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The 8th being went on with his explanation as he poured knowledge on Victor at a pace that was almost too fast for him to keep track of. At the end of it all, the monster that appeared didn't just happen out of coincidence, as Victor learnt that the 8th being was the one who let it there in order for Victor to kill and get a certain skill.

"So, you mean this new devour skill is the key?" Victor asked. Still, maintaining his stoic expression despite all the happenings and baffling knowledge opened up to him was another mystery.

"Not exactly, but it is an important part."

After the 8th being was done with all he needed to let Victor know, he began activating some kind of skill or power that caused the gravity around that space to increase to an unbearable degree. Victor thought it affected only him initially, but when he saw the 8th being struggling to walk a bit himself, he knew it was all over. Just what kind of skill caused such effects though, Victor did not know. He would ask, but under such pressure, he couldn't even talk.

The moment the 8th being reached some distance away from Victor and stretched out his hand pointing to Victor with his palm, it was as though the thing creating the effect of gravity was moved closer and closer to Victor until he was just barely able to hold on to his consciousness, then the effects of gravity all around disappeared.

Victor who had been weakened by the feat only managed to raise his head towards the 8th being, but before he could ask his question the 8th being moved closer to Victor's lying body and placed a hand on his head before altering some words, and just like that burst slowly into little balls of light.

Victor was left in surprise at what just happened, and in an instant felt an overload through his entire body. Just like that, Victor didn't even know when he lost consciousness and fainted on the spot.

Though he was in a subconscious state, Victor could feel the energy in his body, and a bit of his surroundings. It was more like he still had a bit of his consciousness but couldn't interact with his surroundings.

For how long he had been out, Victor was unsure himself. It took some time before he regained himself, but once he did, he was very shocked to notice the changes.

Back in the world, while Victor was busy being unconscious, the world was undergoing an unforetold event, something more like an apocalypse, but with no monsters or demons taking over and roaming the earth and the inhabitants being forced to survive. No, they were facing one where they couldn't do anything against.

Out of the heavens as it seemed, countless white chains extended unto the earth and began piercing the bodies of every living creature. There was no way to defend against it at all. Strong or weak, all were affected by this chain and hunted down no matter how much they planned to run from it. If they managed to escape one, another would get them shortly after.

The scene itself looked horrifying to watch, and no one had time to be a hero as they were all trying to save themselves.

Even the strongest people on earth could defend themselves against it. Veritas was quickly pierced by this chain before she could even fight back. It was probably because she overestimated herself and thought she would be able to defend against it. Unfortunately, that opportunity was not presented as once the chain touched her body and pierced it, that was the end. She fell to the ground with the chain through her mid section.

Lord Majek who was in the temple where he worshiped the statues of the gods praying was interrupted when a white chain came through his ceiling and went for his body. Unfortunately, he too was naÃve and trusted too much in his strength, and did not care to move aside or attempt to avoid the chains. He soon fell to the ground after putting up some resistance for about five seconds. As his consciousness faded, all he could think of was the warning the gods gave him, maybe this was what they were talking about and not the invasion of other worldly people. There was no way to know for sure though, as he soon lost consciousness and that was it.

The same thing repeated itself all over the planet until every living thing was affected, monster or whatever. Dungeons also began closing at an astonishing rate all by themselves, and if someone was inside a dungeon, it would spit he or she out.

When the entire population of earth was taken by these mysterious chains, out of the oceans emerged even greater chains that spread all around the surface of the earth like great snakes and completely trapped the earth under them, so that if one was to look from space, they would see only a planet of white and strange terrains.

The world remained like this indefinitely, with no one to witness this phenomenon.

Back at an unknown place, with no knowledge of how long time had passed, Victor woke up from his slumber, as it seemed. Beside him however, was sitting a man, or more accurately, the figure of a man. Victor was confused for a moment, but he soon regained himself fully. He could only question who the man sitting next to his lying body was. As though sensing his thoughts, the man spoke up as he stood to his feet before helping Victor up to his feet also.

"I am the first being." The man who stood more than 7 feet tall said."

Victor was stuned for sure and really didn't know how to take this information, but he was soon comforted and provided a stool to sit.

The first being went on to explain a lot of things to him about his current situation and the question everyone who reincarnates have. Why he was reincarnated.

Turned out it was all the first beings doing, even the system. As for a short version of the entire story, it was like so.

They who lived in this universe had always been there as long as they knew and remembered, that was until some other beings developed themselves out of nothing, which the beings found to be some kind of evolution that took place and living beings made of flesh and blood were born. The process was not so fast, it took thousands and millions of years, but they slowly watched these creatures advance through nothing to a great civilization.

Soon after, the beings, or more importantly, the first being, who was the first to form amongst all the great beings came upon a discovery. The fact that they were living inside a separate and independent universe while they were in theirs was something that when he found out about took him some time to fully comprehend and draw his conclusion.

With this information, he shared it with the rest of the great beings, and they all decided they would explore a way to see what lay beyond. The problem was, no matter how much they tried, there seemed to be no way for them to break through this universe they had found themselves in. Seeing this, and after trying for a million years, they all gave up, all but the first being.

Later, through vigorous research, the first being came to discover that there were actually other worlds apart from theirs that they could access, and these worlds corresponded to the number of great beings. Soon, they all decided to take each, one of these worlds (more like realms and universes).

However, the first being was not one to simply believe blindly in coincidence, so he continued probing. To him, it made no sense for them to be formed out of nothing in an already existing universe and exist in such unnatural ways and form. He had studied the race of creatures that had developed themselves until they became the major powers on their small planet, and that was proof enough for him.

Nothing could come out of nothing or by mere coincidence. Those creatures would not now claim that they were the ones who created the planet now, would they?

Through his digging, the first being found at last, the answer he had always wanted to see. Truly, there was a world that exists outside of the one they knew. The other worlds ruled by all the other great beings all existed with this other world.

With this knowledge, the first beings went to the other great beings to share his finding, but to his greatest surprise, the other beings rejected him and his knowledge. It was as though they had been corrupted. They had attached too much to the mini world they now had under them, and some even started to harbor thoughts of taking the worlds of their brothers.

Seeing this and after more failed attempts, the first being decided to give up on this. There was only one who was still sensible to him, and that was the 8th being. Seeing this, the first shared his thoughts with the eight, to which he agreed.

That was a plan for them to break out of this universe they had been trapped in, for the first truly believed that there was a higher power controlling this.

This plan however, was to collapse all the 9 world into each other and make them into one, then they would use a unique power to collapse the force keeping them in the universe they presently were in.

The plan was good, the only problem was that, immediately after collapsing the first world, the first being quickly found out that it would not be possible.

As though a supreme being had for seen this plan of his, they who were the supreme beings could not wield this power needed for them to break free from their cage, nor did the inhabitants of their worlds, this he knew after thorough checks.

Using the small window of opportunity after collapsing the first world, the first being was able to drag the essence of a being that lived outside the universe in the one he was trying so much to enter.

This was Victor.

Naturally, he was a great being and had precedence over this world, so he was also the one who created the system and gave it to Victor. He had calculated almost everything that would happen with Victor, from what dungeon to drop him in and what race to bring him back as and everything from there. There were some unforeseen things that happened, but ultimately it all was fine and fell in line with his plans.

Everything went on from there.

Victor, after hearing all this was a bit uncomfortable as he was merely a tool the entire time, but the first being still ensured him not to worry. He would retain autonomy of his actions and will. In fact, he was the one who would gain the most, as he would replace the great beings and become that itself, the greatest being. To sum it up, he would be the summation of all the great beings.

Victor felt that he had not much of a choice in the matter, so he naturally did not oppose this idea. It had come so far already, so there was no reason not to follow along.

'And here I thought I came from the 4th world originally. Gullible.'

With that, the first being dissipated and entered Victor's glabella (the spot between the eyes in the forehead).

Following this was an incredible feeling. Victor was not sure how much time passed, but he could tell the changes in his body.

When Victor came back to himself, the first being was no more. He was left standing in a totally white environment. Looking around, the system sounded in his head.

[THE ULTIMATE GOAL HAS BEEN MET]n0𝒱𝓮𝓛𝓊𝗌𝒷.𝓒0𝑚

[THE SYSTEM HAS NO MORE PURPOSE TO STAY IN EXISTENCE]

[–Absolute Order–

Whatever you speak is the order the universe follows. Everything bends to your will. Your words are absolute.

Rank: XXX]

After this, the system faded away. It's use had finished.

Seeing this skill, Victor understood.

The first being and all other beings lived forever in him, so they would also experience the new world with him naturally. He wasn't sure how himself, but he also understood.

When he returned to earth after all that was done, the world was no longer the one he knew. Everything was now the same as how he remembered his original earth to be, without no powers or awakened.

Quickly, a year went by and Victor decided that the time had come.

"I'll be back in a while." Victor said, as he put his arms into the coat that was held for him to wear.

"Your servant will wait for you." Said Veritas.

Though she no longer had her powers and memories, she was still a vampire. The others that were under Victor's legion all disappeared along with all under his legion.

Her personality had also changed a bit. She had become a bit more serious and not easily flattered or moved. Victor was ok with this, it made the nights even more fun, as he had to work the appetite. Even though Veritas liked to act as his made, the kind of relationship they had was clear.

"Before I officially begin, I will need some kind of army, but then again, they will do just fine." Said, Victor.

At the same time, a portal opened somewhere in the desert. From it, came a vampire, Damien.

Sebastian and Damien returned to the vampire world to escape their fate. While there, the portal connecting both worlds eventually collapsed, and after many years, they found a way to create artificially, vampires, and these ones were able to birth new life, as they weren't quite the same with real and original vampires. Sebastian died mysteriously after some hundreds of years, nearing a millennium, and Damien became the supreme ruler of the vampires. These new vampires no longer require blood, but they aren't as strong as the originals, and their potential is also limited. Naturally, with the kind of being Victor had become, he could easily fix this.

After making the vampires into a suitable army, he was ready.

Victor brought himself to a desolate area in the south pole, where the end of the world is believed to be.

Then, he took out a golden key from thin air and held it in his hand. The key weighed easily several million tons, but to him, it was nothing. It was easy to say it weighed as much as a dying star. The key it self was around the height of a 12 year old child.

After the death of each being, a key drops, the reason there was no key when the eight died was because he wasn't truly alive to begin with. Using the key and the skill Absolute Order, Victor ordered for a portal to open that lead to the gate of Glamelanesiansac, which was the gate of origin, the way the first being explained it.

Standing before the gate, Victor had to release his actual form AND WEILD HIS FULL POWER. Unleashing it, he visibly and quickly grew up to 8 feet.

Then he looked at the gate before him that had the only writing on it at the top

-ADONAI-

"Time to open the gate to a new world."

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