Chapter 442: New Status
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Sekhmet looked at them for one more moment. Blood still covered the underground stone around their clawed feet. The air was still thick with the smell of torn flesh, opened throats, and hot iron. The surviving lesser fighters were breathing hard.
Raka was still standing only because anger had not yet agreed to leave his body. The twins remained alert. Sofia and Natasha watched with the calm attention of people who understood exactly how valuable a new bloodline branch could become.
Then Sekhmet used his skill Blood Eye.
His gaze moved over the six newly evolved bat harpies first. The system reacted immediately.
[Ding! SYSTEM Notification: Appraisal successful.]
The first window opened in his sight.
[Target Status-
Race: Rare Bat Harpy
Current Rank: Chaos Rank Three
Overall Battle Power: 31000]
Then the second.
[Target Status-
Race: Rare Bat Harpy
Current Rank: Chaos Rank Three
Overall Battle Power: 31500]
Then the third.
[Target Status-
Race: Rare Bat Harpy
Current Rank: Chaos Rank Three
Overall Battle Power: 32000]
Then the fourth.
[Target Status-
Race: Rare Bat Harpy
Current Rank: Chaos Rank Three
Overall Battle Power: 32500]
Then the fifth.
[Target Status-
Race: Rare Bat Harpy
Current Rank: Chaos Rank Three
Overall Battle Power: 33000]
Then the sixth.
[Target Status-
Race: Rare Bat Harpy
Current Rank: Chaos Rank Three
Overall Battle Power: 33200]
Sekhmet’s eyes narrowed slightly.
They are strong.
Very strong for creatures that had only just been born into this form. Not one of them had fallen below thirty one thousand. The weakest of the six could already tear through most ordinary fighters in Slik City without effort. The strongest was already pushing above thirty three thousand. And that was before training, before refinement, and before their instincts settled into proper battle order.
Then the system shifted again before he could think further.
[Ding! SYSTEM Notification: Host battle power has increased.]
That pulled his attention inward at once.
"Interesting."
He had expected growth from the bloodline eventually, but not this quickly. The six rare bat harpies had not only become stronger creatures under him. Their evolution had fed directly back into his own line.
Before opening the new status, Sekhmet brought up the older one in his mind. He wanted the difference clearly.
The older window rose before him.
[Old Status Window-
Host: Sekhmet Dawn
Race: Human
Location: Slik City.
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: 11/100
Skills-
Blood Eye Level 2: Active
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 0/3. 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 the target is not more than 2x stronger than the 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 the host may create up to 10 lesser vampires. Lesser vampires obey their direct creator and host Sekhmet as superior bloodline master)
Vampire Creation Shared Slot Restriction: Removed
Blood Regeneration Lv1 (As long as the host’s brain and heart remain intact, the 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
Chaos Rank: Theee
Vela
Chaos Rank: Theee
Lily (Transform in Cruoraphim)
Chaos Rank: Four
Mira (Transform in Crimson Gorgan)
Chaos Rank: Theee
Leaf (Transform in Sangufey)
Chaos Rank: Theee
Lesser Vampires:
Raka (Chaos rank 3) and 101 people.
Ghouls: 04
Bats: 50+
Bat harpies: 01
Rare: 12
Normal bats: 38+]
Then that older window faded.
The updated one rose in its place.
[New Status Window-
Host: Sekhmet Dawn
Race: Human
Location: Slik City.
Overall Battle Power: 37000
System Note: Host has removed training suppression. The host’s combat power is active.
Chaos Energy: 21000
Chaos Body: 16000
Chaos Energy Purity: 14%
Blood Awakening: 5%
Blood Proficiency: 11/100
Skills-
Blood Eye Level 2: Active
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 0/3. 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 the target is not more than 2x stronger than the 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 the host may create up to 10 lesser vampires. Lesser vampires obey their direct creator and host Sekhmet as superior bloodline master)
Vampire Creation Shared Slot Restriction: Removed
Blood Regeneration Lv1 (As long as the host’s brain and heart remain intact, the 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
Chaos Rank: Theee
Vela
Chaos Rank: Theee
Lily (Transform in Cruoraphim)
Chaos Rank: Four
Mira (Transform in Crimson Gorgan)
Chaos Rank: Theee
Leaf (Transform in Sangufey)
Chaos Rank: Theee
Lesser Vampires:
Raka (Chaos rank 3) and 80+ people.
Ghouls: 04
Bats: 50+
Bat harpies: 07
Rare: 12
Normal bats: 38+]
So that was the gain. Five thousand. All in chaos energy.
Not in Chaos’ body. Not in purity. Not in awakening. Only raw chaos energy. That alone pushed his overall battle power to thirty seven thousand. The rise was clean enough that he understood the meaning immediately. The bloodline under him had grown in a real way, and the system had fed that growth back into the foundation of his own power.
He looked up from the status window at last.
In between all that he didn’t notice that twenty plus lesser vampires had died. His lesser vampires were 101 before now only 80 of them left.
The six new harpies were still waiting. That is why he didn’t focus on that part.
Then he made another decision. Auri needed to see this.
More than that, the six needed someone of their own line above them, someone who was already on the path first and who could begin shaping them before they became six separate problems with claws. Auri was the first bat harpy. That alone made her the natural answer.
Sekhmet opened the Void Land again.
The dark gate tore itself open beside the blood-covered wall, and cold blackness spilled into the underground chamber. Everyone nearby looked toward it at once. Raka’s surviving men had already seen too many impossible things tonight, but even then the sight still pulled at their eyes.
Sekhmet reached through the gate with blood and authority together.
Then Auri came out of the Void Land.
She landed lightly, dark wings spreading once before folding back. Her mature beauty looked almost unnatural under the underground bloodlight, and her eyes went first to Sekhmet, then to the six harpies, then to the torn bodies being eaten by the rare bats.
She understood the important part immediately.
"So they evolved," she said, "Master."
"Yes." Sekhmet replied.
Auri stepped closer to the six. They reacted at once. It was not by attacking. It was not by lowering toward her as they had lowered toward Sekhmet. Their eyes fixed on her with a different kind of attention. It was Recognition, Instinct, Bloodline connection.
They knew she was first.
Auri looked over them one by one, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, then turned back toward Sekhmet.
"Master, You brought me here for them."
"Yes," he said. "You will look after them."
That pleased her more than she showed.
She glanced back at the six again. "They will need training."
Sekhmet said, "Yes."
She added, "They will also need new rules."
Raka laughed once through exhaustion. "Then start with biting only the correct people."
Auri ignored him. Her attention remained on the six harpies. "They are strong, but still fresh. Their instincts are ahead of their discipline."
Sekhmet nodded once. "That is why they are your responsibility."
That line landed properly.
Auri accepted it the same way she accepted most real things, without noise.
"Yes, Master." She replied.
Then she stepped in front of the six harpies and let her wings open slightly behind her in excitement.