Name: Kyle
Title: Blood Lord
Class: Ancestral Vampire
Skills: [Drain, After Dark (Passive), Blood Manipulation, Blood Lust, Primordial Terror, Geolocation, Aura Punch, Wind Barrier, Muscle Augmentation, Grand Sire, Electrification, Hardening, Brainwashing, Fierce Wings.]
Summons: Cyno (General Mahamatra)
Level: 25
Quests: Nil
Strength: 140
Agility: 100
Perception: 99
Energy: 88
Defense: 57
Defense against Wood: –40
[Bloodline Stability: 100%]
Unassigned points: 15
Hunger level: Low
[Sires]
Nil
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As Kyle exited the room, he took a moment to look through his stats.
Before he left, he decided to make a quick stop at the blood-stained room to 'visit' the pro heroes he had defeated.
And because of this, he acquired one new quirk as well…
But when he was about to extract Eraser Head's quirk, Kyle received a very upsetting notification.
[Error! Cannot extract quirk at this moment!]
Kyle cocked a brow.
"Why?"
[The host's body is nearing its limit. To extract more quirks, the host must once again ascend.]
"Ascend? Like I did last time?"
[Correct]
"But my bloodline stability is 100%…"
Last time there was a clear way to ascend, and Kyle had even gotten a mission to boost his bloodline stability.
Since he had gotten no new mission, Kyle had thought he was at the final stage of his bloodline stability.
'It seems I was wrong…'
"Why didn't I get a notification? How do I ascend?"
[For a bloodrat to ascend he must stabilize his unstable bloodline…]
[But the host is now a Blood Lord. What is a lord without his subjects? What is authority without an army?]
Ding!
『New Quest!』
Title: The Lord's Crown
[Quest details: Further ascend your bloodline by creating five sires]
[Special condition: Sires must be people important to the plot]
↺ Duration: Two years
✪ Rewards: Bloodline ascension
✘ Failure: Fated demise
Kyle read through the screen, and then his eyes settled on the last part. 'Fated demise…'
'System, what do you mean by fated demise?'
This time the system took a few seconds to answer, which Kyle saw as strange.
[Fated Demise]
[Destined Death]
[Timeline readjustment]
Kyle cocked a brow at the system's choice of words. He could already guess where this was going, and he did not like it one bit.
[You are an anomaly in this world, and because of your influence, things are beginning to advance at a rapid pace.]
[The timeline has been ruptured.]
Kyle allowed the words to sink in. The system was right; there were a lot of things wrong with the current world.
One example was the heroes and villains… they were undoubtedly getting far stronger than they were originally meant to be.
Initially, it was the Nomu and villain league's influence that caused the rapid growth, but now, a greater force had become a catalyst for their growth.
Subconsciously, everyone was getting stronger, just so that they could rival him…
'Even my battle with Hawks was strange.'
Hawks was normally more of a supportive/rescue-type hero, but now he had shown skills that were meant to be above his current level.
[In order to adjust the timeline back to the main plot, the universe will have to adjust… and force your erasure.]
Kyle's gaze darkened.
[To prevent this, you must ascend to 'Dark Sovereign' and become an anomaly, someone invisible to the overseer.]
[Or else…]
[Word #^|*+{'&@]
Just as Kyle was about to read the last part, the words glitched, blurring into nothing.
"System?"
[…]
[Rebooting….]
Name: Kyle
Title: Blood Lord
Class: Ancestral Vampire
Skills: [Drain, After Dark (Passive), Blood Manipulation, Blood Lust, Primordial Terror, Geolocation, Aura Punch, Wind Barrier, Muscle Augmentation, Grand Sire, Electrification, Hardening, Brainwashing, Fierce Wings.]
Summons: Cyno (General Mahamatra)
Level: 25
Kyle stared wide-eyed as the system went on to outline every single piece of information… information that he had never asked for.
"I didn't ask for this. What were you about to say? Did you just crash?"
[•••]
[Scanning database…]
[Last conversation found…]
『New Quest!』
Title: The Lord's Crown
[Quest details: Further ascend your bloodline by creating five sires]
[Special condition: Sires must be people important to the plot]
↺ Duration: Five years
✪ Rewards: Bloodline ascension
✘ Failure: —70 random stat points
"No, no! This isn't our last—"
Kyle froze when he read the last part of the notification.
✘ Failure: —70 random stat points
'What the hell?'
If their whole conversation had not been based on the consequence of failure, Kyle would have thought he saw wrong.
After all… the system was never wrong.
But how is it that the failure punishment has changed? And wasn't the time duration 2 years??
'Something isn't right.'
Kyle's eyes sharpened as he watched the system.
'Fated demise… that was the punishment, and yet now it was something else.'
Someone had gone out of their way to manipulate the system to make it seem as though nothing was wrong.
Someone, or something, didn't want him to read the system's final words.
[•••]
[Detecting abnormal heart rate. Is there a problem, host?]
Kyle remained silent. Right now, he was not even sure it was his system or if someone was now manipulating it.
[•••]
[Analyzing heart rate and pattern…]
[Conclusion reached]
[The host detects abnormalities in the system's functions.]
[Suggestion… contact the system engineer, Epiloch 073.]
Kyle breathed out an annoyed sigh and ran his hand through his hair. "Who is Epiloch 073?"
He was already thinking of summoning Daisy, but if the system had a dedicated engineer, then it would be—
[The one referred to as Daisy.]
'Wait, she's the engineer?'
Kyle had always wondered what her purpose was since she seemed rather… 'Unneeded,' and now he finally knew why.
He mentally summoned her, and she appeared on his shoulder, golden sparks forming as she materialized from thin air.
She had a piece of popcorn in her mouth and angrily glared at Kyle while she chewed. "What?"
Kyle went on to tell her everything that had happened in the past few minutes, leaving nothing out.
Daisy looked surprised and even boasted about how impossible it was. But when she summoned her own maintenance tab and scrolled through it, her mouth hung open.
"How is this possible?" Her hand began rapidly typing on transparent keys that Kyle could not make sense of.
Then she froze and took her hands off the keyboard. "The system isn't being controlled, but someone did try to hijack it."
"Someone very powerful…"
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