All Chapters of Realm X: Ascending Through The Arcane Tower : Chapter 41
- Chapter 50
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Chapter 41: The Eastern Wall Breach
Dawn on the vampire planet looked like the sky was bleeding—which, Erwin had come to understand after proper scrutiny. Also, the day is Tuesday here. It was a surprise that these vampires used some familiar naming system like back on Earth. The twin moons still hung at the horizon, gold and silver—the same ones he'd been staring at through Vance's window two nights ago when the Sovereign had told him about Godhood Rituals and centuries of planning and the inevitability of war. He stood on the eastern wall of the Fourth Castle, sixty feet above the approach roads, and watched thousands of vampires approaching. They moved like a tide. Not the disorganized rush of the soldiers he had trained against for the last two days. He didn't need anyone to tell him that these ones were different, but as far as they weren't as strong as the Sovereign, he'd be fine. "How many are they?" he muttered. "Twelve thousand," Vance said from beside him, his mismatched eyes calm as always, his silver h
Chapter 42: The Cost For Survival
"Fall back!" Malachai's voice boomed with authority from atop the wall parapet. "First and second cohort hold the courtyard. Third and fourth to the—" Vance, who was thirty meters away along the wall, raised his hands to signal for Malachai to stop. "I'll take it from here." Vance added as his eyes began go gleam red, activating his blood anomaly. *SLAY YOUR ALLIES* Vance ordered using Blood Decree, and instantly it took effect. The five hundred vampires from the Sixth Castle that were charging through the breached wall suddenly froze, losing control of their bodies for one moment. When their bodies gained control the next, it wasn't in accordance to their will again, but rather to the will of Vance. The bloodbath began. "Vance." Malachai's voice mattered in a low tone, staring at him. "Release them." Vance didn't turn around and responded with a single flat word. "No." "They are fighting their allies, Vance. They are dying by their own hands. This is not the way of vampire
Chapter 43: Herria's Appearance
The servant passages beneath the Fourth Castle were narrow and dark and old in a way that the castle's upper levels weren't bad that was no surprise. No one would expect an underground to be bright. Up above, the architecture was deliberately excessive—high ceilings, chandelier bones, crystallized blood orbs mounted into the wall like trophies and so on—because Vance had built the upper levels to be looked at. Down here, the architecture was just stone cut to allow passage and nothing else. Erwin moved fast, Pattern Reading extended in every direction, mapping the passage system through the dimensional skeleton of the stone around him. Malachai's ring got him through two locked junctions earlier, acting as a key to doors that practically didn't exist until discovered. Whoever had designed this system had designed it for someone who needed to hide something precious. "Three levels down," Einstein said beside his ear. "I know. Tell me something I don't know, you dumb bird." Erwin
Chapter 44: Failing On Last Resort
Herria's fists flared with pure essence energy as she lowered into a fighting stance.She and Erwin were locked in gaze, no one making a move yet, but now Erwin was also taking a stance, staying on high alert."Herria, I don't know what has gotten into you, but you need to stop. I was warned to destroy the ritual chamber and prevent anyone from ascending, and lastly, this Haemagogi thing! You need to—"She was already moving again.[Dimensional Creation Activated]Erwin wasted no time as fifteen dimensional swords materialized simultaneously in a spread formation, launching toward her from different angles and heights.Not to kill. Not aimed at anything vital, but at positions that required her to deal with them instead of striking him.'Damn! He's cornered me!' Herria's jaw tightened in realization as her eyeballs frantically darted around the swords coming at her.'My Impact requires me to strike a particular
Chapter 45: Haemagogi
Herria's fists flared with pure essence energy as she lowered into a fighting stance.She and Erwin were locked in gaze, no one making a move yet, but now Erwin was also taking a stance, staying on high alert."Herria, I don't know what has gotten into you, but you need to stop. I was warned to destroy the ritual chamber and prevent anyone from ascending, and lastly, this Haemagogi thing! You need to—"She was already moving again.[Dimensional Creation Activated]Erwin wasted no time as fifteen dimensional swords materialized simultaneously in a spread formation, launching toward her from different angles and heights.Not to kill. Not aimed at anything vital, but at positions that required her to deal with them instead of striking him.'Damn! He's cornered me!' Herria's jaw tightened in realization as her eyeballs frantically darted around the swords coming at her.'My Impact requires me to strike a particular object and make the impact manifest elsewhere. I can't strike all these sw
Chapter 46: Gideon True Might
Moments earlier. The dust settled slowly as Vance stood at the broken edge of the parapet, staring down at the narrow gap in the wall where the passage opened into the castle's lower underground floor levels. To no surprise, the passage was empty and Erwin was gone by the time the last of the rising dust thinned out and dissipated into nothing. "That boy had the ring." His mismatched eyes—crimson left, gold right—stayed fixed on the gap for a long moment. "I need to take care of him before Xed arrives, or he might truly prevent the ritual." He stepped over the rubble calmly and dropped into the gap and— Swoosh. Vance's eyes widened as something flashed towards him. Not from below, but from beside the passage entrance, where a figure had been waiting patiently for a surprise attack. Gideon. That was right. Selene and Malachai had been the ones keeping an eye on him, but they were no more. The champion of the Sixth Castle stood with his crystal blade extended, point leveled at
Chapter 47: Xed
Vance's eyes widened as something flashed towards him. Not from below, but from beside the passage entrance, where a figure had been waiting patiently for a surprise attack. Gideon. That was right. Selene and Malachai had been the ones keeping an eye on him, but they were no more. The champion of the Sixth Castle stood with his crystal blade extended, point leveled at Vance's throat that had narrowly escaped being sliced, and his scarred face carried exactly no expression at all. "The Sovereign of the Fourth Castle," Gideon said, "is not going down that passage." Vance looked at the blade, then at Gideon, then at the blade again. "Move," Vance said. So that's how it is then. Wham! Vance threw a punch at Gideon with his full might, but the warrior wasn't a pushover. He raised his crystallized blade at the right moment, absorbing the impact, then blurred away and appeared behind Vance with both blades coming at Vance's neck. STOP. Blood Decree hit Gideon instantly, causing
Chapter 48: Vance vs Xed
The Blood Explosion hit Vance point-blank. BOOOOOOOOOM! The shockwave tore across the open ground, hurling debris and dust violently into the air. Even the parapet wall fractured at the base. When the smoke cleared, Vance was still standing. Just barely. He had thrown up a hand at the last instant, and blood essence energy that had started burning around his palm countered a direct hit. That unfortunately didn't stop him from being blasted away and rolling on the ground to a halt. "If you want to be all righteous, why don't you fight without the stolen blood explosion?" He exhaled slowly, and the red faded from his mismatched eyes. "I got the blood explosion through a worthy battle, not will manipulation." Xed lowered into a stance again, his legs glowing red, ready to blast forward with greater s
Chapter 49: Vance vs Xed
"I got the blood explosion through a worthy battle, not will manipulation." Xed lowered into a stance again, his legs glowing red, ready to blast forward with greater speed than his already terrifying quickness. "The blood anomaly allowed me to take down a sovereign, didn't it?" Vance got back to his feet and signaled for Xed to come forth. "I'll take you down too. No matter what, I alone shall rule this vampire race as the strongest." "I alone, the sovereign of the fourth castle, will be the sovereign of all vampires with no partner." ...Silence stretched. Xed didn't make a face about it, nor did he say anything more. He just let Vance finish all he had to say, then gave him a short moment to rethink his life choices, and then he closed the distance. Swoosh. He crossed fifteen feet in a fraction of a second, his right hand opening, and his blood anomaly activated mid-stride. BOOM. The explosion detonated, but Vance had sidestepped half a step, allowing the main force
Chapter 50: Haemagogi The Incomplete Transcendant
It began when the godhood ascension ritual was introduced into the vampire world over a thousand years ago. It is common knowledge that vampires are creatures that take pride in strength. War was normalized in the vampire world, but the moment the ritual became known, the war rate skyrocketed and intensified. With the uncontrollable urge to be the strongest, all the vampires wanted to perform the ritual and ascend above their peers. Unfortunately, however, the ritual had a major restriction. It needed the blood of all six blood anomaly possessors. And blood anomaly, unfortunately, was not something all vampires possessed because it cannot be learned, only passed down from the previous owner. Due to the fact that a blood anomaly is not learned but inherited in the vampire world, there were only six anomaly possessors at a time. The six total blood anomalies in the entire vampire world were owned only by the sovereigns of the first to sixth castles, respectively: the instant telepo