Dimensional Block #100

Damien feels his body screaming in pain as he reforms himself inside of a Dimensional Block far away from Dimensional Block #108. A place he happened to store some of his blood just in case the battle against the Reaper somehow turned out poorly.

He didn’t actually expect to be using that failsafe. And especially not so early on like this.

The mere fact that he felt fear after she cut off his legs infuriates him to no end. But he can’t do anything. Not as he is now.

And that only infuriates him even more.

After fully reforming himself, finding his body to have lost a good portion of his blood in the process, he lets out a loud roar of anger. One that echoes throughout the large, floating blocks of Dimensional Block #100.

A roar filled with all of his rage, his sorrow, and his shattered pride.

But his roar is cut off when he loses his own control of his mouth, and it slams shut. Then he senses a familiar repulsive yet alluring at the same time presence nearby.

He can’t move his head to search for the source, though, just like the last time he felt this presence.

It’s the being who gave him his chance to reach Class S.

The being who gave him the substance that may have made him into a target for the Quantum Reaper.

No matter how much Damien wants to shout at the being, he can’t move a single muscle in his body. Leaving him completely at the mercy of the being. Even moreso than how much he was at the mercy of the Quantum Reaper.

“Lord of Vampires, do you desire the power to fight the Reaper?” the being asks, his voice sounding just as repulsive and alluring as his presence as it resounds throughout the block. “Do you want to kill the source of your rage?”

Damien’s anger at the being slowly begins to turn towards the Quantum Reaper instead due to a strange sensation that fills him. Almost like the being in question is directly using his powers to manipulate his mind or something.

But Damien can’t bring himself to turn his anger back towards the being for some reason.

“You want to kill the Reaper, don’t you?” the being asks, his voice sounding male but sometimes sounding female. Sounding angry, but sometimes sounding kind and gentle. Constantly warping to sound one way and then another.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.

Meanwhile reality around Damien appears to warp as well. Making it nearly impossible for Damien to tell what’s going on around him.

Damien grows more and more confused as the being’s voice fills his head, gradually turning his mindset towards accepting the being’s help. Despite knowing he shouldn’t.

But feeling his connection beginning to snap with his own turned vampires pushes him over the edge.

And the moment he decides to accept his help, he feels a strange substance entering his body.

Then his consciousness vanishes in an instant, leaving the strange being to vanish along with it.

As if the being was never there as Damien’s body begins to twist and glitch out.

Until he vanishes entirely.

Alexia

I try to search through the area for the runaway Lord of Vampires, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t find him. Even his own subordinates, or rather, servants, considering how I’m pretty sure a lot of them aren’t willingly serving him, can’t seem to find him.

They just keep attacking me with little to no point to their attacks. What with them not doing anything.

Especially with a lot of their magical attacks being completely useless due to either my Living Singularity skill or due to Quantum Adaptation, since I’ve grown my adaptations to a rather large degree at this point.

Just too bad it was useless against the Tier 4 dungeon. Since I hadn’t fought against any of those types of attacks before.

But these vampires are all just regular people in the universe, and most of them have rather common magics that I have already adapted to.

That said, though, they’re annoying.

I glance at a countdown in the corner of my vision. Something that appeared after the Lord of Vampires vanished.

Probably because he is too far away to be considered a nearby target for me to hunt or something.

I let out a sigh as the vampires and thralls continue attacking me.

Eventually, though, they start to get on my nerves. Enough that I turn around and glare at them, only to blink when I notice something strange.

What’s that strange thread?

There’s just a strange, red thread sticking out of them heading somewhere.

I tilt my head for a second before realizing what it could be.

So after closing my eyes and following it with my senses, finding it to be leading towards Dimensional Block #100, I go ahead and open my eyes. Then cut straight through the thread with my scythe.

And as soon as I do that, the vampires and thralls all stop trying to attack me.

Nice.

“Leave,” I state, my voice echoing out at them all. And without missing a beat, all of them flee straight through the portal they came from.

Good.

Now that they’re gone, I send a message to Alara about what happened and is happening, then I head straight towards where I sensed the thread heading in Dimensional Block #100. But when I arrive, I don’t find the Lord of Vampires.

My eyes narrow as I look around the area.

Why do I sense… quantum energy here?

A strange quantum energy at that.

Not normal.

It feels… wrong.

I continue searching the area for a bit, only to eventually give up when my countdown is about to end. Wanting to use the last of my transformation to return to Dimensional Block #108 in a flash.

Damned Lord of Vampires.

Gonna have to wait till we’re teleported together for that duel to finish him off.

Until then, though, I’ll ask the Architect about this energy.