SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9: A chaotic awakening

Damon had expected some surprises to pop out because he was using a superior awakening resource, but he did not expect this. He had a bloodline? Two affinities, blood and darkness? What was the third one with the question mark?

In his last life, he only had blood affinity and no bloodline. All of this was new. Before he could make sense of the system prompt, something even more shocking happened. Water exploded from the small puddle he was standing on.

Without giving him a chance to react, the water completely surrounded him on all sides, fully encasing him in a sphere of liquid that shimmered like mercury laced with blood. It moved like it had a mind of its own, swirling and tightening around him. He was now submerged in it.

[Ding! Fragmented Ancestral Bloodline Detected. Attempting Awakening]

The runes on the floor ignited, their glow no longer steady but wild and erratic. Tiny vortices started forming on Damn's body, millions and millions of them. These vortices started sucking the liquid inside.

Pain rippled across his body. Whatever was happening, this was not heading anywhere good. "This is not good. There is not a lot of water. I am going to suffer a backlash." Damon screamed and shouted in pain. The runes glowed brighter, and water kept coming and coming.

The puddle beneath him, once shallow enough to barely wet his ankles, now seemed endless. The chamber trembled. The stone tiles cracked. From beneath the cathedral, from some water surged upward, as if summoned by the awakening ritual. Everything was spiraling out of control.

More liquid, more blood-tinged mercury flooded the chamber, yet none of it spilled outward. Everything obeyed the same silent command, drawn into the sphere that wrapped tighter around Damon. His body hung weightless inside it, but his mind was far from calm.

[Ding! Awakening Initiated]

"What the hell is this?" Damon gritted his teeth. He had never heard of anything like this happening during a first awakening. Most people sat in the pool for thirty seconds, watched a few runes flicker, and boom, class selection.

He had researched a lot about the awakening process in the city's library, and not one book mentioned anything like this. This was something else entirely.

Suddenly, pain shot through his spine, pure, white-hot agony that lanced into his skull like a branding iron. Damon bit his tongue and tasted blood. The water reacted instantly, glowing brighter as if excited by the presence of his blood.

[Ding! Bloodline Awakening in Progress...]

[5%... 9%... 12%...]

His arms convulsed. His fingers curled inward. His eyes rolled back, and visions assaulted his mind. Fangs tearing through empires. Crimson thrones carved from bone. A king who drank the blood of stars. And then... a name.

Vael'Tharan.

The name echoed like a scream across eternity. He knew that name. Or rather, something inside him did.

[Ding! You are undergoing a Primordial Awakening.]

[Ding! You are no longer eligible for the standard class path.]

More and more system prompts kept flashing in front of Damon, each one more ridiculous than the last. But his brain was still stuck on that single name he had heard.

Vael'Tharan... wasn't that a name that appeared in the bloodreign's quest?

Damon tried his best to remember and he just couldn't place it. Then it came to him. Vael'Tharan was the name of the blacksmith's son, the blood blacksmith who had forged Bloodreign. But how was that guy's son related to his awakening? What was happening?

[Ding! Bloodline Awakening Paused]