Rise of the Blood Sovereign

[ Blood Knight, Ignition ]

[ Warning, the system has detected changes to the host's body, the bloodline has evolved, and the skill is not applicable anymore, initiating the evolution of the skill. ]

Ding!

[ [ Blood Knight, Ignition ] has evolved and two transformations have been created. ]

[ Blood Lord, Awakening ]

[ Lord of the Dark, Awakening ]

[ The following transformations each have their own advantages and disadvantages, the effects are the following: ]

[ Blood Lord, Awakening ] – The host taps into his class and becomes a true lord of blood for a short period of time. During this state, the ability to control blood is empowered multifold while the host's stats receive a moderate increase. The host will be unable to use any weapons or attacks that do use blood.

[ Lord of the Dark, Awakening ] – The host taps deep into his bloodline and turns into a true vampire lord for a short period of time. The host's ability to control darkness will receive a great boost while the stats of the host will be increased multifold as well. If the host still does not have the ability to control darkness, then the overall stats will increase even more while the ability to control the dark will be partially available to the host. The ability to manipulate blood will, however, be locked during the transformation.

[ Does the host wish to activate one of the two skills right now? ]

Two skills, each one a transformation.

Lyle stared at the two incredible skills he had acquired. He never thought that the skill he didn't use because he had no idea if it would even work would give birth to such two powerful ones.

He quickly skimmed through the notifications before choosing the second one.

The blood lord transformation was definitely good, but his ability to control blood was abysmally weak right now, and no amount of boosting would make it strong enough to allow him to contend against the bear that was gaining on him.

The second one not only gave him more boost when it came to his stats but also unlocked the ability to control darkness, albeit partly.

As Lyle activated the transformation, a change occurred.

His aura flared up before an incredibly powerful sense of suppression hit the bear. It wasn't only the bear, most of the forest was able to feel the aura that was coming from Lyle at this moment as he wasn't trying to hide it at all, on the contrary, he was using everything he had in order to make the aura more powerful.

His killing intent exploded, the bloodlust he had gained flared up and his bloodline was fully activated.

A black suit appeared on Lyle as his hair turned pitch-black, as did his eyes. They looked more like two small black holes than eyes at this point.

He grew a bit taller and his skin became white. The calluses he had on his hands suddenly disappeared while his nails grew a bit longer.

The suit that was on him was pitch black, with some silver on it.

There was a silver formal shirt underneath the suit jacket, and the pants he now had on him were pitch black as well, as were the shoes.

He looked like he came straight out of an average vampire movie where all the vampires acted like aristocracy and loved to dress up.

His long hair swayed in the wind as he stared at the bear with hostility.

The bear stopped, its eyes constricted as he stared at Lyle. It could feel the incredible power coming from the person in front of it, and fear slowly crept up on it as it didn't know whether it should flee or simply lie down and prepare for death.

Lyle stared at the monster before snapping his fingers.

A curtain of darkness appeared in front of him, blocking the sight of the bear completely.

As soon as Lyle did that, he quickly turned around and ran with all of his might. His speed was now almost triple what it was before, but he was still not as fast as the bear and if the latter started running after him, he would be caught.

The show of force that Lyle previously did was simply to trick the bear into thinking that Lyle was now the stronger one and that continuing to pursue him would lead to death. He knew that something like that wouldn't last for long so he bailed out.

The bear stared at the curtain of darkness without even blinking. It wondered what just happened, why did the weak human suddenly become so powerful, and why did he suddenly put darkness in front of him?

The bear curiously looked at the curtain before it slowly started disappearing. In a matter of moments, it was gone and the bear could see everything in front of it.

There was nobody there, there was not even a shadow of Lyle that previously stood in front of the bear.

The bear stared before sniffing the air. There was no scent, it was completely gone.

It stared ahead before slowly turning around and going back to its nest.

It had no idea what just happened or why the powerful being spared it, but it wouldn't linger around to find out.

When the bear was about half the way to his nest, something else happened.

A small creature the size of a human appeared. The only difference between the creature and a human was the small horns it had on its head.

The bear roared at the creature before charging at it, only to suddenly stop after the creature appeared on its back.

Before the bear could do anything, the creature landed a powerful punch to its back, breaking it.

It then appeared in front of the bear before putting a hand to its head and whispering something. It closed its eyes for a couple of seconds before opening them again, as for the bear, it didn't move at all, its heart had stopped and its brain was destroyed. 𝒃𝒆𝙙𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝙡．𝙤𝒓𝙜

The creature in front of the bear was a demon.

Demons could be found in Corleon, but they were rare and extremely powerful.

Demons such as this one didn't exist on the planet, however.

The demon had used an ability that was common for its race, memory reading.

It was only able to see a couple of minutes from the bear's memory. It looked through the memory in reverse, it started with the bear staring at it, whilst ending at the bear staring at Lyle who had already turned to his vampire lord form.

Upon seeing what had happened, the demon opened its eyes wide in shock before hurrying back to the depths of the forest, atop the highest mountain.

Lyle was unaware of this, but his transformation had caused such a ruckus that even the people inside the city had felt his aura when he first transformed. The aura would only appear once like this, without any control, and that was when it was first used.

Even back when Lyle first used his [ Blood Knight, Ignition ] it had caused a great scene as his aura flaring up was felt about a kilometer around him.

Compared to this, however, it was nothing as everything in a radius of a couple of miles around Lyle was able to sense it.

The powerful monsters of the forest had all lied down on the floor and trembled, the demons that made their home on the mountain stared at the place where Lyle was with great fear while the commander and the powerful soldiers in the city all stared in shock at the forest, their eyes filled with fear.

The aura of a Vampire Lord was something that only Tier VI creatures could stand up against, and in the whole empire, there were no such powerful beings.

The commander trembled slightly upon sensing such a powerful aura before closing his eyes.

He had once felt the aura of the man that the empire praised as the god of war, and even he was nothing compared to this.

There was no need to panic, if the person whose aura they just felt wanted to kill them, the whole city would be pulverized before anyone could realize what had happened.

As for the demons?

After the one that had read the bear's memory returned and told them of what had happened, they all panicked.

Whatever plans they had would now have to be put to a stop.

They quickly put everything they needed before fleeing the mountain and heading in a different direction.

This would hurt them a lot, but they would all rather have their plans hindered for some time and not get killed.

If they stayed on the mountain and the being who they felt decided to come up, then all of them would die, that much was absolute.

Lyle had unknowingly put a stop to the plan the demon had and potentially saved the city of Olswan and perhaps the whole area from demonic attacks.

As for the person that had just put the fear of god into the hearts of all beings nearby?

He was at the edge of the forest and was panting heavily as his transformation had ended.