In the kingdom of swords and knights, deep inside an old underground prison, there was a room hidden in its darkest corner. Lying on a cold bed was a young man with silky white hair, porcelain skin, and a lean but well-defined body. His crystal-clear blood-red eyes stared around the room, filled with confusion.
This young man was the body Tayler had taken over.
Still disoriented, he kept looking around, which only made things worse. Then the memories hit him all at once:
"I was in that cave… I went exploring… found that weird stone… and it swallowed me? So I died? Seriously?! Unreal…"
A sudden, piercing pain shot through his head, followed by a flood of memories.
Tayler screamed, his voice echoing through the dark hallways and startling the criminals imprisoned nearby—especially since no guard ever stepped into that abandoned room. Luckily, the guards were on their lunch break, so only the inmates heard him.
When he finally recovered, Tayler realized he was in a world completely different from Earth. A world filled with creatures that, back home, existed only in fantasy stories. Here, every being had its own system, even if it only showed a basic status screen. And he… he had taken over the body of a vampire. But not just any vampire—the progenitor.
From the memories drifting through his mind, he learned the original owner of this body had been named Mikael, a former human who had found a mysterious stone—smaller, but clearly of the same origin as the one Tayler touched. That stone had turned him into the new vampire progenitor, and Mikael had a single ambition: to build a powerful empire. And he succeeded.
Mikael protected that empire for an entire century. But his rule, marked by cruelty, greed, and arrogance, eventually led to disaster. A newborn vampire—an accident—escaped and reached the neighboring kingdom known as the Kingdom of Knights.
That was the beginning of the end.
A level-50 mage, seeking the progenitor's blood, invaded the empire. The battle was devastating. Mikael was mortally wounded and forced to flee, all while fighting off several level-40 mages who accompanied the main sorcerer. Thousands of members of his family were wiped out.
He planned to gather the survivors using an ability tied to the progenitor system, but instead he fell into another trap: a group of level-40 knights. He could have handled one… but five? He was defeated, killed, and sealed away. The knights attempted to experiment on his corpse at the request of the mage court, but when they found nothing useful, they abandoned his body in that forgotten room.
What no one expected was that, six months later, a soul from another world would enter that dead body—restoring and rebuilding it completely, bringing it back to its former peak, even if slightly weakened.
Seeing the memories of the body's original owner, Tayler felt excitement bubble inside him. He had always loved kingdom-building games. And now, with a powerful race at his disposal, he swore to fulfill Mikael's old dream: to create the greatest vampire empire ever known—this time following his own ideals.
And so, he accepted his new name:
"Mikael."
"Ding."
[Conditions accepted…]
{Conditions}
[Ambitious: verified / Accepted: verified]
[Receiving auxiliary system: Vampire Emperor]
[Synchronizing]
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