Chapter 294: The Third Threshold of Blood III
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The newly made lesser vampire, meanwhile, remained exactly where Sekhmet had left him. Fresh creation obedience was strong, but still worth observing. The prisoner he had defeated had crawled back into the line with the help of two others and now refused to look directly at the transformed man.
Dickon, however, looked as if his mind had broken in more directions than before.
His stare moved from Sekhmet to the lesser vampire to Lily’s sphere and back again in a pattern that said his thoughts were no longer coherent enough to form one clean fear. Too many possibilities had already outrun him. That was useful too.
Sekhmet finally decided to call up the full status window.
Not the old one. Not fragments. Everything at once.
All the gains from the last few Chapters. All the shifts. All the hidden lines he now carried.
The system answered immediately.
[SYSTEM Notification: Full Status Window available.]
The panel opened before his sight, clearer and more complete than the older versions had been.
[Status Window
Host: Sekhmet Dawn
Race: Human
Location: Void Land (Hidden Domain)
Overall Battle Power: 32000
System Note: Host has removed training suppression. The host’s combat power is active.
Chaos Energy: 16000
Chaos Body: 16000
Chaos Energy Purity: 14%
Blood Awakening: 5%
Blood Proficiency: 0/100
Skills-
Blood Control Lv2
Blood Sword Lv1 (Can transform blood into a sword for now)
Blood Eye Lv2 (Appraise items and beings. Can now see more detailed information and low-rank god status)
Blood Summon Lv2 (Summon blood minions using blood. Stronger blood = stronger summon. Minimum summon battle power: 1000. Rare summons can evolve into Harpies)
Blood Puppet Lv2 (Slots 1/3. Cannot betray master. Forced conversion if target battle power is not more than 2x host. Stronger targets require willing acceptance)
Vampire Creation Lv3 (True Vampire Slots 3/10. Eligible Targets: Female only. Loyalty: Absolute. Growth: Blood feeding. Can turn any female into a true vampire if target is not more than 2x stronger than host. Same and lower rank targets can gain up to 3-rank push. Rank 4 targets gain up to 1-rank push)
Brood Line Authority (Unlocked under Vampire Creation Lv3: Each true vampire created by host may create up to 10 lesser vampires. Lesser vampires obey their direct creator and host Sekhmet as superior bloodline master)
Blood Eye Level 2: Active
Vampire Creation Shared Slot Restriction: Removed
Blood Regeneration Lv1 (As long as host’s brain and heart remain intact, host can regenerate body parts using Chaos Energy. Speed and scale depend on wound severity and skill level)
Active Bloodline Notes-
True Vampires Under Host:
Vera
Vela
Lily [Transformation in progress: Cruoraphim]
Lesser Vampires Created:
First Lesser Vampire [Chaos Rank 3 male captive]
Ghouls: 04
Transformation Notes: Lily is undergoing non-standard hybrid ascension due to angel bloodline interaction.]
Sekhmet read every line slowly.
Good. Very good.
The older versions of his status had felt like beginnings. Sharp, useful beginnings, yes, but beginnings all the same. This one looked different. Not complete. Far from complete. But structured. The sort of window that no longer described a single strange young man with blood powers and instead began to outline something larger.
A blood hierarchy. A hidden domain. A growing house of monsters still wearing names and loyalties.
He let the status fade after a few moments and stood in the dark, thinking.
Vampire Creation Lv3.
Ten true vampires total.
One hundred different kinds of lesser vampires if the upper line filled completely.
Lily’s line alone was worth studying later.
Vera and Vela already existed as separate blood categories in his mind, though he or the system had not yet named them formally.
And then the obvious future thought returned. Raka. Raka and his men.
He looked over the holding line again.
A few moments later...
Sekhmet remained still for several more breaths after the status window faded, letting the last of the information settle into the sharper, colder part of his mind where useful things stayed.
And right now, standing under the dark sky of the Void Land with a blood-red womb hanging in the distance and too many living complications under his authority, the most immediate truth was embarrassingly simple.
He was getting tired.
Not ordinary tired. Not the kind sleep alone solved. The strain in his system had reached the point where he could feel the cost of remaining here for too long. Maintaining too many active lines of thought, too many blood-bond presences, too many bodies and dangers within range, and the lingering energetic weight of Lily’s transformation had all started to press against his chaos energy.
The system confirmed it before he had to ask.
[Ding! SYSTEM Notification: Host Chaos Energy consumption remains elevated.
Recommendation: withdraw from Void Land temporarily and allow regeneration. Before coming back.]
Sekhmet let out a slow breath through his nose.
"Of course."
It was useful advice. But the timing was irritating.
He looked first to Lily’s sphere.
Still pulsing. Still whole.
Still wrong enough to make his body want to remain nearby until she emerged, but no system warning had changed since the last one. Stable. Transforming. Time required.
Then he let his gaze pass over everything else one final time.
Vera and Vela holding the line. Auri watching Lily. Bat Bat pretending not to watch Lily while very obviously watching Lily.
Sofia and Natasha under pressure.
The first lesser vampire is where he commanded.
The other captives were too frightened to breathe incorrectly.
Everything remained in place.
That would have to be enough for now.
He walked back toward the central area. Auri looked up immediately. The twins did the same. Bat Bat floated behind him, as if she had somehow sensed that movement meant travel and travel meant she might be left out of something important.
Sekhmet stopped before the little circle of loyalty and danger that now defined his hidden life.
"My chaos energy is running low," he said. "I am going out for now. The rest of the orders remain the same."
That was enough.