The System Awakens: Rise of the Champion-Chapter 167: Breaking The Vampires - 1

The spherical prison, made from the blood of millions of vampires, the blood the Night King had devoured, compressed more and more, trying to crush the being it had trapped inside.

It sought to break him under the immense pressure before devouring his soul, body, and blood. But the being inside…

He was just too strong.

His skin was too tough, as if he were a man of steel. And to the shock of the will of the Blood of the Night King, the being it had trapped inside began to resist.

For some reason, Damian, within his prison of blood, was somehow beginning to break free from the constraints of its domain.

He was starting to break the rule.

Inside Damian's mind, now released from the endless void where the Blood of the Night King had tried to shatter him, the darkness was failing.

Damian was breaking free. And to make things worse for it, he was beginning to escape the very prison that had held him.

"Trying to crush me, huh? Do you honestly think this will work?" Damian narrowed his eyes as he physically felt the blood of millions of vampires, devoured by the Night King, encasing him in a spherical prison formed by the will of the blood itself.

"You can't escape…"

"Be devoured…"

"Kill… kill…"

"Give up…"

Damian could hear the voices of millions of vampires screaming in pain, ugly, tormented wails clawing at his ears.

He could feel their presence, as if they were standing right beside him.

The purple aura covering Damian like a veil, protecting him from the Blood of the Night King, suddenly grew more intense by the second.

It began to push back the aura of the Night King's blood, shifting from defense to offense.

[Your Talent [Rule Breaker] is taking effect]

[You are no longer under the influence of the Domain of the Blood of the Night King. All constraints of the domain have been completely released.]

In the next instant, Damian felt his connection return to all his powers, abilities, forms, transformations, techniques, everything.

And in the following second, golden lightning began to crackle around his arms before engulfing his entire body.

He transformed into a being made of pure lightning, burning away all the blood that continued to fall on him.

Outside the prison of blood, it seemed as if it was still trying to crush its prisoner.

But then, suddenly, the spherical blood prison began to shake violently.

In the next instant, something inside exploded.

The already forming cracks of the blood prison spread in all directions before it burst apart completely.

From its core, hundreds of thousands of massive strands of golden lightning erupted in every direction.

It was as if a highly compressed lightning sphere had exploded from within.

Chains of lightning spread outward, destroying the prison and continuing to annihilate everything within the domain of the Blood of the Night King.

The thunderous noise of hundreds upon hundreds of lightning strikes resounded across the land, leaving thousands upon thousands of noble vampires shocked by the overwhelming power.

When the lightning storm subsided, a single figure stood at the center of the destruction, radiating golden lightning, as if he was lightning itself.

Then, in the next moment, the golden light began to fade, revealing a young, tall, godly beautiful male vampire, his eyes glowing with a golden hue.

In the following second, the golden hue shifted to a deep, menacing purple.

The aura surrounding him intensified, and the ground beneath his feet began to shake, warning of something monstrous about to descend into the land of the living.

Even noble vampires standing dozens of meters away could feel it, this presence. It made them tremble.

They could sense how powerful this aura was. It was like staring into the eyes of an absolute predator.

The Blood of the Night King, even after the devastating explosion that Damian had unleashed, was still alive.

But it could feel the power within Damian surging, rising higher and higher, as if there were no ceiling to his strength.

More terrifying still, the Blood of the Night King realized something:

Its domain…

No longer had any effect on him.

The constraints of its rule could no longer bind Damian.

Damian was at full power, and he could not be controlled.

The Blood of the Night King began to gather itself once more.

The thousands of shattered pieces of the blood prison started moving, not toward Damian, but away from him.

As if they were afraid.

As if they were fleeing from the being now standing cloaked in an overwhelming aura.

"Trying to flee? Yeah... bad move," Damian muttered.

[Devourer: Unique Ability Activated]

[As a result of your exponential growth, the effects of your Unique Ability [Devourer] have grown significantly stronger.]

In the next second, the purple aura surrounding Damian began to spread in every direction, rising even into the sky like an umbrella.

Within moments, it had expanded to cover a radius of more than two hundred and fifty meters.

The vampires standing too close to the edge could feel it, like a veil creeping over their skin.

And in the next instant, the purple aura came crashing down, enveloping the entire land.

It transformed into the gaping mouth of a fanged monster, closing over everything.

The sentient fragments of the Blood of the Night King were caught and pulled inward, as the monstrous mouth shrank rapidly, trapping all of them.

Then, all of it, every last piece, was drawn into Damian's hand, disappearing into his body without leaving a single trace.

In the next instant, the domain the Blood of the Night King had created…

Vanished, as if it had never existed.

And as Damian's devouring completed, his presence began to surge, growing stronger and stronger by the second.

Something incredible was beginning to awaken inside him.

The purple aura around Damian began to transform, gently and very slowly turning blood red, as if he were being surrounded by blood.

It grew more and more intensely mountainous.

[You have completely devoured the blood of the Night King]

[The progress of refinement has begun]

[All the impurities contained within the blood of the Night King have been purified]

[The sentient will developed by the blood of the Night King has been purified]

[All the unwanted, unnecessary, and foreign essences of the blood of the Night King and all the beings it had devoured have been completely purified]

[Beginning the process of Assimilation...]

"Something is different about him..." Countess Akira Kaminari muttered, an uneasy expression on her face as she watched Damian's presence rapidly change.

The atmosphere itself seemed to respond, as if the world of Nightingale could feel what was happening.

Everything grew erratic from the wind to the temperature as it got colder and colder.

"...What did he do? What happened to the blood of the Night King? What did he do to it?…" Countess Amaya Kuroyami muttered.

"I don't know… but it looked like… he absorbed it? But how is that even possible?" Lillian Brenlith said, mouth wide open.

Hundreds of kilometers away from where Damian stood, two figures were alone.

One was none other than the Administrator of the System, Eden.

The other was a woman with thick, reddish hair and dark black eyes, an undeniably godly beautiful woman.

Her name was Reiya, another World Tree, known as the World Tree of Cold Worlds, because all of her worlds were generally much colder.

She was also the World Tree responsible for keeping the worlds of vampires, Nightingale, and werewolves, Vargheim, alive and stable, providing them with the energy they needed for life to continue.

"He is finally here," Reiya said.

"Yep," Eden replied proudly.

"And you told Thea before you told me?" Reiya said, narrowing her eyes at Eden, making her smile uncomfortably.

"Well… she just happened to find out, that's all. We haven't even told anyone else in the family. I left that part of the job to the family head," Eden explained.

"The twins and Elizabeth?" Reiya asked.

"Yes… we haven't told them. They might not react well…" Eden replied as she clicked her fingers.

"What is happening to him… I can sense something very powerful in him. I mean, it still seems to be in its early stages, but it's very powerful." Then Reiya's eyes widened.

"Don't tell me… is he… is he free?"

"We don't know. But this is different. He is awakening his talents one after another. According to my calculations and predictions, he hasn't even scratched the surface of his true potential," Eden said, stars sparkling in her reddish eyes.

"Why haven't you just revealed his true nature to him yet? Want me to do it? I'd be more than happy to," Reiya asked as her eyes glowed with a slight light.

"No, you can't. And the reason why I don't want anyone messing with his progress is because evolution has to take its time, even for him. He has to reach his true form on his own. It will bring out the most benefits."

"And you know too well how protective I can be when it comes to him and his growth, right?" Eden's eyes glowed menacingly for a few seconds.

"Fine, I won't tell him anything. But don't think you can stop me from making contact with him after you let Thea make contact with him," Raiya said, crossing her arms with an equally cold expression.

"Anyway, what is happening to him now?"