[Match starting...]
The familiar arena materialized around Yuki. No nerves, only cold calculus. This was her moment—a Royal Vampire bloodline, an upper-server treasure, had somehow strayed into this low-level pond. Let the entire upper-server hunt her; she needed that blood. In her past life, a mere Baron's strain had given her a taste of sanguine control, an addiction she never shook. This was a gamble with fate itself, and she was all-in.
[Stakes Registered.]
[Your Loss: -1 Random Talent, -1 Current Bloodline.]
[Your Victory: +1 Royal Vampire Bloodline (Upper-Server Limited.)]
She had no talents or bloodlines to spare. But the odds? A limited upper-server prize here was rarer than her own [Returner] skills activation ! Why hesitate? Risk it all !
[Teleportation complete. Combat begins in 3 minutes.]
Time for the gamblers to place their bets. Yuki didn't wait. She funneled every last coin she had onto her own name. To see was to doubt. To risk everything was to believe absolutely.
Her opponent—the girl with blood-red hair and moon-pupil eyes—stood across the arena. Her face was a masterpiece of unwilling shock and simmering rage. She'd accepted a routine duel, not a predator's gambit. Who in their right mind wagered a bloodline, a family heritage, in a low-level server? And who backed themselves with their only talent and bloodline as collateral?
A maniac. That's who.
For a fleeting second, Yuki's appearance—the waterfall of white silk hair, the bottomless dark eyes—had charmed her. The illusion shattered. This was the enemy.
The red-haired girl steadied herself. Of course there's a difference between servers, she thought, clinging to logic. At level ten, with her SSS-tier talents, she wielded over 10,000 stat points, optimized to perfection. Who in this backwater could stand against that? A sliver of confidence returned, curving her lips into a smirk.
She didn't see the calculations flashing behind Yuki's obsidian gaze.
[Global Gambling Update: Odds for 'Shadow of Past' have shifted to 1:784]
A mental note, filed away. Yuki almost smiled. Thank you, gamblers. Her victory today would fund her entire ascent through the middle servers. The upper server? That was a nest of ancient families and soul-bound legacies... A thought sparked, sharp and clear. Soul heritage. She recalled a dungeon, the tomb of a fallen god—an upper-realm deity who had dared challenge the Creator Goddess herself. She made another note, this one etched not in ink, but in ambition.
The three-minute timer flickered in the center of the arena.
[Combat begins in 10... 9...]
[3.....]
[2....]
[1...]
The nanosecond the arena's freeze lifted, Yuki exploded forward. No flourish, no war cry just the silent, deadly intent of a predator closing the gap. A vampire excels at range and control. Let her set the tempo, and I lose. Her sword, the growable katana, was a pale blur in her grip.
She crossed half the distance before her opponent vampire girl even finished blinking away her post-teleport disorientation. Yuki's first slash was a horizontal arc aimed to bisect the girl at the waist. A killing blow, delivered with the casual brutality of her past life.
But an upper-server noble wasn't so easily erased. girl's instincts screamed. She didn't parry; she flowed backward, a crimson afterimage left in her wake. Surprise morphed into outrage on her face. "You dare?!" she spat.
Seeing enemy is near vampire directly hand snapped up. Not towards Yuki, but towards the air between them. she directly used her medium range skill : [Scarlet Whip]
From her palm, a torrent of condensed blood erupted, solidifying into a vicious, crackling lash that snaked towards Yuki's throat. It moved with a life of its own, hissing through the air.
Yuki didn't block. She aborted her forward momentum, her boots skidding on the stone as she threw herself to the side. The whip cracked where her head had been, leaving a smoking fissure in the arena floor. The smell of ozone and copper filled the air.
Too slow to close. The thought was a cold spike in her mind. Her reaction speed is inferior, but her arts have range mine can't match.
Retreat wasn't surrender. It was reassessment. As Luna drew back her arm for another whip-strike, a glint of steel spun through the air.
It wasn't her katana. It was a plain, "trashy" iron dagger, a loot from some forgotten goblin that Yuki had palmed from her inventory during her feint. No skill, no magic. Just a piece of thrown metal.
Girl's moon-pupil eyes widened in contemptuous surprise. She flicked her wrist, and a shield of congealed blood bloomed before her. The dagger shattered against it harmlessly.
-Parlor tricks ?
vampire laughed with a high and clear voice.
-All you can do this ?
Yuki stood silent, her expression unreadable. But behind those obsidian eyes, calculations were spinning at lightning speed.
Close range: denied.
Projectiles: useless against her shields.
My sword is a key without a lock... unless...
Her gaze drifted to the system screen only she could see. The list of skills.[Devour (Special): You can devour any creature and gain a boost from items.]
The description was vague, gloriously so. "Any creature." In her past life, she hasn't has this skill because she hasn't a talent stealing talent for herself but seeing words in it she slowly try to find a loophole... A creature's blood was part of the creature. The magic animating that blood the [Blood Art] was energy, a form of "essence." Was it not? she doesn't know but this was her best chance in this game while she didn't know. thinking this,
A slow, predatory smile finally touched Yuki's lips. It wasn't a smile of humor, but of discovery. Of finding a crack in the enemy's perfect defense.
-Disappointed?
Yuki's voice was a low, soft contrast to Luna's shrill mockery. It was the first time she'd spoken. "Let's change that."
She didn't charge this time. She walked. A deliberate, steady advance, her katana held loosely at her side. It was an invitation, a provocation.
She doesn't need to talk vampire directly used a blood arrow, at the time spell chant finish, yuki slowly used devour on her sword like while fighting azreal.
This was a little chaotic skill so she doesn't need to to much care she directly take all of blood arrow in her sword, seeing this her smile deepened. She fastened her steps,
Seeing her counter her attack vampire directly used her ultimate attack without a thought,
[Blood chain]
A control skill that can give damage while controlling enemy, but the best part of skill is doesn't need to a blood. without thinking used it.
A blood red chain appeared in her floor seeing this yuki didn't gamble she doesn't need it.
[Death seal]
Directly used a skill that can triggered if you are unlucky and entered azreal with more than 100 player, a ultimate skill of 75. floor guardian.
Skill casted without a problem, a cause and effect line appeared and disappeared, her mana slowly drained away by skill but looking at slowly coming red chain she only wait who will die first, thanks to her death armor she can play like this but if other players try this with low stats. Without thinking she know they die. she was sure this vampire girl doesn't have to much stats as she has be cause of her first attack. Her mana slowly finished, Hp bar slowly start to disappeared..
..At the same time, the vampire girl's HP bar was already on the edge. Seeing this, a cold smile appeared on Yuki's delicate lips.
[Victory! Rewarding Bloodline: Royal Vampire (Upper-Server Limited.)]
A mad laugh bubbled up in her throat, but it was cut short strangled by a sudden, violent tremor in her veins.
-Hahah.
The sound died as a cascade of system messages, red and urgent, flooded her vision.
[WARNING: Bloodline incompatibility detected!]
[Current Bloodline: Angelic God (Ex-Tier).]
[Incoming Bloodline: Royal Vampire (Upper-Server Limited).]
[ERROR: Two Supreme-Tier Divine/Eldritch bloodlines cannot coexist within a single vessel. Stability at 12%... 11%...]
[ERROR: Stability dropped bellow 10% trying to find a new path]
[Initiating Forced Override Protocol. Deletion of one bloodline in 3...]
-Deletion? Override?
Yuki's thoughts were ice cold. The system was going to choose for her. To delete a part of her, prize she had just bled for, based on its own sterile logic.
The arrogance of it sparked a fury deeper than any she had felt in the arena. This wasn't a game rule anymore; it was a violation on her principle.
-No,
she whispered, the word a promise of violence.
-You don't get to choose. Sacrifice devour! I decide what's mine !
She didn't target the incoming Royal Vampire bloodline. That was her prize. She targeted the one already inside her The Angelic God lineage, the source of divine light and holy essence that had always felt like a foreign, ill-fitting skin. A demon can heal people ? No!
[Overusing Skill: Devour (Special).]
[Target Selected: Angelic God Bloodline (Status: Internal Hostile Entity).]
[CONFIRM? Consuming a core part of your Soul Matrix may cause: Soul Fracture and permeant Identity Dissolution.]
The system's warning was a desperate plea for sanity. Yuki ignored it. She doesn't even listen her sister, system ? who cares. Confirm ? No !
-Devour !
The command was absolute.
Inside her, a war erupted.
From her left side, a brilliant, agonizing golden light erupted. The last scream of the divine essence being torn apart. From her right, a hungry, voracious void-black and blood-crimson aura surged forward. The manifestation of her Devour skill and her demonic nature.
It wasn't a clean deletion. It was a cannibalization. The Angelic God bloodline didn't vanish; it was violently dismantled, its pure, structured divine energy ripped apart and consumed by the chaotic, all-devouring hunger of her will.
[ERROR! ERROR! Forced Override Protocol interrupted!]
[External Skill interference detected: 'Devour'.]
[Bloodline Matrix... COLLAPSING!]
[Soul Signature... UNREADABLE!]
[Rebuilding from consumed data...]
The pain was beyond physical. It was her soul being remade. She felt the "goodness," the "purity," the "sacrificial nature" of the angelic essence being chewed, swallowed, and digested by the monstrous appetite of her true self. It was blasphemy. It was glorious, the true self as always but there was a little holiness remain this was her charm.
When the light and darkness receded, Yuki was on her knees, panting, her body crackling with unstable energy. A new, singular message glowed calmly before her.
[ERROR: Because of overuse Skill: Devour has been consumed.]
[Bloodline Evolution Complete. Unique Path Forged.]
[New Bloodline: Only Vampire (Primordial)]
[Description: The light has been consumed. The divine template has been used as fuel. You are no longer a creature of heaven or hell, but a being of pure Hunger that walks in the shape of a vampire. You have devoured the concept of 'God' to define your own 'Vampire'.]
[Effects:
[You can sense, command, and devour any form of vital energy (Blood, Life Force, Soul Essence, Divine Energy) within a radius of (Level x 100) meters.]
[Stats per level: +25000 (Consumed Divine Template Bonus Has Been Used.).]
[Bloodline Skill - Essence Plunder: By consuming the blood or vital energy of a being, you have a 2.5% chance to permanently steal one of their Skills or Talents. (No racial or tier restrictions.]]
Yuki stared at the description. A slow, wide, truly unhinged smile spread across her face.
-Hah... hahaha... HAHAHAHA!
She laughed until her stolen, divine-tainted blood ran from the corners of her eyes like crimson tears. She hadn't just won a bloodline. She hadn't just broken a system rule.
She had eaten a god to become a better monster.
The system's final, almost petulant message flickered:
[Bloodline purity has been detected to have reached maximum conceptual singularity. Further evolution requires... new definitions.]
[The System has no further data in this bloodline. Please try new things.]
-New things?
Yuki murmured, licking the blood-tears from her lips, tasting the paradoxical flavor of sanctity and starvation.
-Oh, I will. I have so many things left to taste. Isn't ?
Seeing silent void she was sure the transform isn't happen in the game but reality. This must be a little do with that high level server.. Thinking players of other servers she probably taken as thorn in back and try to eliminate her, magic god was a good result isn't that old thing run for rapport what happen ? what happen ? I don't care. This has nothing to do with her, middle and upper servers will probably try illegal entry but that not important. game will send them back and punish them very harshly she was saw a mid server player to get punished.. same as trying to take back time, revoke of rights.
without thinking she exit from game.
She quickly try her power in realty, slowly trying is more correct if you look at it, she directly opened status.
[Yuki - Shadow of past]
[Strength: 1000]
[Agility: 1000]
[Defense: 1000]
[Int: 1000]
[Mana: 1000]
[Soul: 1000]
[Hidden stats:
Luck: 10 Charm: 10
Crit chance: %35
Soul: %97.8]
seeing soul has take nearly %2 damage a fear come forward but quickly dismiss it even if soul destroy to %90 people will not die. thinking this she remain calm.
at the time she looked at her gold.
[230,415 Gold 88 Silver 12 Copper coin]
seeing her net worth she wear a genuine smile she was sure this fight make those gambler hate her to root but who care ? if they dare to come i dare to kill.
Yuki slowly looked at her bed and room a villa room classic and simple design she looked towards other end of bed, her sister was playing with phone, she saw her sister playing with a helmet but she didn't ask about it. If something good her sister will give it to her.. thinking her big brother becoming a big sister she really enjoy a little more and more as more time passed. Seeing her sister looking at her, she slowly control her character a safe zone and thrown phone to bed and she hug her sister.
Yuki opened her arms and Uri flew into the hug. But this time... something was different. A faint, coppery scent beneath Uri's usual sweetness. Blood. Her new senses were leaking into reality. She understood her transformation wasn't confined to the game.
The knowledge settled like a cold stone, but she didn't dwell. If she followed that thread, she'd have to confront the System's growing hold. Not for now…
She pulled back, and asked with deliberately soft voice.
-You're Level 10?
Level 10 was the threshold. Party functions unlocked. Guilds could form. Strangers could invade your instance. This was where the real game began where alliances turned to betrayal, and her past-life self had first learned to fight for scraps. Back then, he was just a clueless boy, farming inefficiently, unaware of the apocalypse in his headphones.
A memory surfaced, bitter and sharp. At this same time in her past life, she'd been at a soul-crushing job, working like a slave while news channels occasionally featured some "crazy" player claiming god-like powers. Who believed them? No one. She hadn't believed it either, not until the helmets hit the market and she finally quit everything. Now, staring at Uri's expectant face, her thoughts didn't spiral into madness, but sharpened into a single, piercing question. Ahead? There was only one direction.
-Yes! I'm the third player to hit Level 10!
Uri beamed, pulling up her character screen with pride.
-Wow. Come to the villa district, coordinates... here. I'll send a party invite.
[Shadow of Past has invited you to a party!]
-Okay, I'm in the same party now. I'm opening my experience pack. Be ready.
[You have a unopened experience pack you want to open ? ]
-Yes!
The notifications erupted in a silent cascade.
[+82,000 EXP Gained.]
[Level Up! 11... 12... 13...]
The numbers blurred together.
[...20! Total Stat Points Gained: 22,500.]
[Class Promotion Quest Available: Magic God I - Slay the Guardian of Floor 100, Hydra.]
Uri's character,
[LittleSister! - Level 16 - Elemental Lord]
Shimmered with new power. Of course Yuki had helped guiding her toward a Rare Arcane Bloodline during character creation, one that synergized perfectly with elemental magic, boosting spell potency by 40%. The 'Elemental Lord' class was a natural fit, a god-tier path for a dedicated mage. Yet, seeing Uri now, a twinge of doubt crept in. Should I have steered her toward something more aggressive? No. A mage was fine. Survivable.
Then her eyes landed on Uri's gear. The Death Set robe. Like all high-level female armor, it was less protection and more... suggestion. Just a robe. What kind of set is this? Irritation, familiar and cold, flared. With practiced efficiency, Yuki opened the Level 10 Armor Customization menu her one reward that respected a player's dignity and began layering practical, full coverage visuals over the scandalous stats. The 'Miko' outfit or other 'cosplay' armors start at Level 90 was they at least decent, thinking this..
She had to be her sister's personal armorer for now…
Her own promotion quest glared back.
([Promotion 1 Quest ]:
[Slay the Hydra, Guardian of Floor 100.])
The Tower again. Thinking boss she didn't recall looking again she see a detail… The low-level server's soft cap was Level 99. Reaching it normally took a year, plus ascension time, time her world might not have. But my promotion quest need to be floor 100…
A year. She didn't have a year. She didn't have a season.
Without another word, Yuki directed her character toward the Tower's ominous silhouette. Her pace wasn't hurried; it was inevitable. She had eaten a god to become a monster. Now, she would devour every obstacle between her and the power to make this world and the sister in her arms untouchable, this was her first target.
At the character moving in real life she slowly asked about Uri's promotion quest, As I hear I a little confused.. my Promotion need a floor 100 Guardian while her.. find an elf and ask her how to master elements? of course this was a good thing, I directly give him forest of elf's coordinates… who care? if she kills all of them or how she come ?
and I give a advise,
-If they don't do quest just slowly start killing before quest completely finished.
this was my last advise to uri for now, I need to enter game with helmet, and conquest tower.. Thinking about 100 floor a little confused but not much there's some things I can try.. if I get rules as blood.. I can control them ? no I tried it. How do you want to do this ? 75 to 99 total 3 guardian maybe some skills and she get there.. thinking this she put on helmet, and entered game.