Chapter 7: Hybrid - Blood Frenzy

A resounding beat echoed through the dark room. Nikolai's heart released a low thud each time it pumped the two bloodlines through his body.

The once-open window was now tightly closed, and all his clothes were neatly folded on his chair. There were no signs of Nikita ever entering his room, only a lingering scent of her body and the marks on his neck.

[Bloodline Assimilation 3%...]

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[Bloodline Assimilation 5%...]

[First-tier synergy achieved, stopping fusion ritual.]

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In the dark room, the moonlight faintly shines before the rise of the sun greets the world. Nikolai's body reached a state that no monster had reached in their millennia of existence. He was a complete hybrid, even though his bloodlines only reached the first tier.

This was a moment of history because normally, this level of fusion would tear apart the hybrid and leave the room covered in flesh and organs.

"Ugh... what?!"

Nikolai's eyes snapped open, his hands rubbing his face, trying to remove a strange, itchy sensation, his movements causing pieces of dried skin to drop onto his pillow, revealing a glossy, youthful layer of skin without dirt or blemishes.

"How much dry skin does I... Why the hell is my voice different? Ahem, ahem! Hello, h-hello I am Nikolai Volkov! Huh? Did my voice break for the second time?"

He held his throat, squeezing it several times. Nikolai felt a strange sensation as if something was lodged in his throat, rubbing his fingers along his protruding Adam's apple.

'Somehow my voice became like those strange metubers who make boyfriend experience videos with anime avatars... Could I sing a Larry Black 1song with this voice?'

"Forget it; what time is it?"

Nikolai rolled off his bed with a loud crack while rubbing away the sore sensation from his eyes and the rest of the 'dry skin' from his face. "Hm? What was that sound? Um... do people normally shed their skin like this? Ugh..."

His head felt strange—the moment he moved his eyes, the world spun, as if he lived in fast forward, forced to squat for a moment, rubbing and pressing against his soft fleshy eyes, trying to remove the unbearable feeling.

His eyes narrowed, their vision much better than before able to see a cracked dark shell that carried the same shape as his body.

Though for this much dry skin, he began to worry he might have some strange condition, quickly reaching out to his phone and tapping the keypad on the


"I look like the goddamn armoured giant who broke the gates of the wall, Wario! So ridiculous and over the top... look at that bicep bulge... Everything about me received a significant size up! Heh, now I'm bigger than Dad!"

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It seemed the trauma of his dad calling him the little mushroom prince growing up caused significant mental damage even now.

Nikolai twisted his body, posing in the mirror while examining his changes, noticing that his scars, blemishes and marks from the past twenty-five years vanished overnight! 'Even the wounds from that battle are gone...'

It was at that moment he noticed his brilliant white teeth, and the sharp canines and other teeth seemed slightly different.

He slipped his fingertips over his gums, feeling a tight sensation over the top row. The slightly hard and bumpy sensation felt like another set, or something hid beneath his gums.

"....Am I a vampire now?"

[Half]

'What do you mean?'

[Let me show you, please, put on some pants. Though you can be proud as a male, learn some manners and decency as the heir of the Báthory Clan!]

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[Name: Nikolai Báthory Volkov]

[Heritage: Vampire (Progenitor 5% Awakened), Werewolf (Origin 5% Awakened), Lupus Diabolus (??? 5% Awakened)]

[Clan: Báthory, Volkov, ???]

[Racial Level: 0]

[Bloodline: Hybrid]

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[Physical: 21]

-[Strength: 18]

-[Endurance: 25]

-[Dexterity: 18]

-[Agility: 22]

[Mental: 19]

-[Intellect: 14]

-[Wisdom: 25]

-[Charisma: 18]

[Blood Frenzy: 99/100]

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[Abilities: Devil Wolf Form (Claw)]

[Blood Arts: Blood Aura(F-)]

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While reading his attributes, he wore a pair of simple pants and his black shirt. "W-What the hell does all this mean, and why is Blood Frenzy so high!?"

However, before the necklace could answer his words, there was an intense pain in his abdomen, as if his stomach and organs were squeezed in someone's hands... "Guh...?!" Then a hunger... like he hadn't eaten for a year, a thirst as if he had lived in the desert for a decade...

"I..."

[Warnig Host Entered Blood Frenzy!]

That instant, his eyes started glowing dark red, and his extra teeth began to descend two rows of sharp teeth as his figure lunged towards the window, sniffing the air.

"Blood..."

The scent of blood flowed from a distant alleyway, over five hundred metres away from him, as his body flung from the window, falling with his arms and legs spread before crashing into the ground below with a bang!

However, he vanished, running faster than an Olympic sprinter on all fours, a pitch-black aura flowing around his body.