The last thing I rembered was staying up until 3 AM, furiously typing complaints in the comnt section of "The Academy's Fallen Hero".
A web novel that had just betrayed every reader's expectations with its terrible pacing and events. The initial plot and idea were amazing, but the author was clearly an amateur and ruined it.
"This is garbage! The protagonist is an idiot, the plot makes no sense, and don't even get started on how they massacred the side characters!" I had typed, my fingers flying across the keyboard in anger.
As I typed, I felt pain in my chest. A frown appeared on my face involuntarily, and my teeth clenched uncontrollably.
I was losing my body's strength, and my left side was slowly losing control.
Then... darkness suddenly engulfed .
When my consciousness returned, I found myself staring at a ceiling decorated with golden chandeliers. The bed beneath was far too soft, far too luxurious for my studio apartnt.
I started to panic. I was pretty sure I had suffered from a heart attack, imdiately I bolted upright, taking in the room around , expensive looking furniture, silk curtains, and oil paintings that didn't seem familiar.
"What the hell—"
[DING!]
A translucent blue screen flashed before my eyes, causing to stumble backwards in shock.
[Welco to the Daily Reward System!]
[Host: Adrian Blackwood]
[Current Status: An Extra. You have no benefit except becoming a stepping stone for the Mc.]
[Daily Login Available!]
[Would you like to claim your first daily reward?]
My blood ran cold. "Adrian Blackwood...This na is familiar...too familiar to my liking."
It belonged to a minor character in "The Academy's Fallen Hero," a novel I'd just finished reading. More specifically, it belonged to a disposable extra who died in Chapter 47 during the first major academy crisis.
"No way... this can't be real," I muttered, but the system screen remained stubbornly present.
I stumbled to the mirror across the room, and the reflection confird my worst fears. Gone was my average face and unkempt hair. Instead, I saw a handso young man with a sharp jawline, silver hair and deep blue eyes, exactly as Adrian Blackwood had been described in the novel.
My mind raced. It seed like I had died and transmigrated into that damn novel as soone who could only be described as an extra to be disposed of quickly.
Luckily, I hadn't transmigrated alone. I was bound to a system which would help escape my fate of being the protagonist's stepping stone.
"If I'm stuck in this world, I might as well see what this system offers. Claim daily reward."
[First Daily Reward Claid!]
[Congratulations! You have received the Supre Vampire Bloodline.]
Eh?
[Initiating your transformation to becoming a vampire!]
Before I could process the absurd notification I had just read, pain erupted across my entire body, making my eyes dilate.
The pain hit like a sledgehamr crushing very bone in my body. My muscles contracted uncontrollably as sothing began changing within . It felt like fire was being pumped through my veins, rewriting my very DNA with each agonising pulse.
"ARGHHH!" I scread, collapsing onto the luxurious carpet as waves of pain wracked my body.
My vision went white-hot, then blood-red, then darker than the deepest night. I could hear my heartbeat slowing, becoming more powerful. Each beat sent another surge of change through my system. My canine teeth elongated slightly, my nails grew sharper, and my senses exploded with intensity!
The scent of everything in the room beca overwhelming. But underneath it all was sothing else... sothing that made my throat burn with sudden, inexplicable thirst.
After what felt like hours but was probably only minutes, the transformation finally subsided. I lay there gasping, my entire body trembling from the ordeal.
When I finally managed to drag myself back to the mirror, the change was imdiately apparent. My skin had taken on a pale, almost snow-like quality. My features had sharpened slightly. My silver hair now had an almost ethereal quality to it, and my blue eyes had gained flecks of crimson that seed to swirl in the depths.
I looked like a vampire.
"Supre Vampire Bloodline...I don't know much about vampires in the Chapters I've read, all I know is that they are a very mysterious race, and extrely powerful," I whispered, still in shock. "The protagonist Kyle had a Supre Phoenix Bloodline in the novel. Supre bloodlines are supposed to be the pinnacle!"
I knew the bloodline hierarchy from the novel: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary, Mythical, and Supre. The protagonist's Supre Phoenix Bloodline was what made him so overpowered, giving him limitless potential and accelerated growth. But having a Supre bloodline didn't make you instantly invincible.
It was all about your rank and the traits you awakened.
Panic set in as I rembered vampire weaknesses from every movie I'd ever seen. Bloodlines didn't just give you powers, they also had weaknesses. The stronger the bloodline the more powerful the weakness is.
In the case of the protagonist, I still rember it very well. It had been an infuriating weakness. Of course, with that damn plot armor the author had given him, the weakness wasn't actually a weakness.
With his phoenix bloodline, the protagonist had been given regeneration traits, and various other traits and his weakness?
It was that death was permanent.
The author was stupid. He had tried to create so sort of phoenixes revive from the ashes scenario but then used that as a weakness.
I still don't get it to this day.
Shaking my head, I worried about my own weakness, unlike the protagonist I didn't have the plot Armour halo on my head.
Vampires...they had a few weaknesses I can think of.
Sunlight, garlic, running water...
I had to try them out. I needed to understand my body
I looked around the room and spotted an open window. The sunlight filtering through it wasn't in my direction.
With fear of being confined to the shadows in my heart, I moved towards the open window and cautiously extended my finger toward the morning sunlight streaming through. My pale skin touched the golden rays and... nothing happened. No burning, no pain, not even discomfort.
"Thank god," I sighed in relief. "At least I won't be confined to the shadows."
I spent the next few minutes testing other supposed vampire weaknesses. I found a small mirror.
My reflection was still there, just paler. I touched the silver picture fras, but there was no burning.
Whatever kind of vampire I'd beco, it wasn't bound by the traditional folklore limitations.
"Status," I said aloud, and the system responded imdiately.
The reason I was able to check my status was because everyone in this world could. It wasn't limited only to .
[Host: Adrian Blackwood]
[Bloodline: Supre Vampire - 10%]
[Rank: Noble]
[Traits: Blood Control (2nd Order, Lvl.1), Supernatural Physique (1st Order, Lvl.1)]
[Aspect: None]
[Echo: None]
My rank was exactly as I'd expected, Noble, the lowest rank. But it was understandable, I had just awakened my bloodline after all.
The ranking went Noble, Elite, Transcendent, Commander, Royal, and King. In the novel, Kyle had reached Royal rank by the second year, which was considered impossible by historical standards. That was where I'd stopped reading before my untily death.
"Damn it," I cursed myself ntally. "If I hadn't been so busy complaining about every Chapter, I might have read further and known more about what cos next."
But then I cald down, realising I still possessed knowledge of the crucial early tiline events that could save my life.
I focused on examining my traits more closely.
[Blood Control]
[Order: 2]
[Level: 1]
[Details: Grants the ability to manipulate blood both within your body and external sources. Can form blood into weapons, enhance physical capabilities by accelerating blood flow, and influence the blood of others within range. Effectiveness scales with the user's rank and the target's resistance. Current range: 3 ters.]
[Supernatural Physique]
[Order: 1]
[Level: 1]
[Details: Your body has been fundantally enhanced beyond human. Grants significantly increased physical strength, speed, agility, durability, and regenerative capabilities. Your stamina is vastly improved, and your reaction ti is superhuman. All bonus attributes continue to grow stronger with rank advancent.]
Both traits were good, especially for soone who was supposed to be a disposable extra character. Blood Control was a second-order trait, which ant it had incredible growth potential. Most students at the academy were lucky to awaken even a first-order trait.
Naturally, I'm still not comparable to the MC who has a third-order skill before he even enters the academy, but then again, I'm not the MC, so it doesn't matter.
As for the second trait. Whilst it was a first-order trait, it was incredibly powerful. It was most definitely at the pinnacle of that order.
The Aspect and Echo didn't bother at 'None'. I needed to kill a beast to get those, and that wasn't an issue.
The thirst in my throat reminded that I'd probably need to figure out feeding soon, but that was a problem for later.
A gentle knock at the door interrupted my analysis.
"Young master, may I co in?" Ca a soft voice from behind the door.
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