Chapter 61: Merging Bloodlines
'Shit!'
Ben could feel his left eye getting hot as the bloodline was starting to awaken. He started to absorb Natural Energy in order to make his other eye break through, he did this while supressinging the lightning running through his body, screaming to get out.
Feeling he was losing to the lightning dragon bloodline, he yelled, "Deke! Attack me with your element!"
Deke, who was standing below him on the wall, felt something was wrong and quickly asked Takon to bring him to where Ben was.
Flying towards Ben, the two of them felt powerful electricity in the air. They saw Ben grimacing in pain.
"DEKE!"
Deke immediately responded, dark mist started rolling off his body and started moving towards Ben.
"More! I need more!" Ben cried out, blood appeared in the corner of his mouth.
Deke amped out the output to his limit, sending more dark mist towards Ben.
[Darkness Seed- 99%... 100%]
Finally the dark dragon bloodline became active and immediately started to fight for supremacy in Ben's body. The two bloodlines fought against each other causing damage throughout his body.
All eyes below were watching as their City Lord seemed to be suspended in the air with Deke beside him feeding him the darkness element.
"What's happening with the City Lord?"
"I don't know. What is that other guy doing?"
"I have never seen him before."
The entire city's eyes were glued to the sky, the City Lord had just defeated the zombie army and the city was waiting to welcome him back.
Suddenly Ben coughed blood, causing the city to gasp.
The five generals returned from the battlefield and were standing on top of the wall watching Ben. When he coughed blood, the generals became agitated.
"What's wrong with him?" Shenelle asked, with worry in her voice.
"I need to go heal him." Lilith said, looking for a way to get up there.
"He is breaking through." James said, not taking his eyes off Ben.
"Breaking through?" they said, all turning towards James.
Letting out a low sigh, James explained. "His elements are only at seed level… they are breaking through to core level."
The generals looked at James in shock before slowly turning their heads back to Ben.
"How is he only at seen level?" Colton asked incredulously.
"His elements are tied to a special bloodline he received so he wasn't able to evolve them without a few special circumstances but that lightning strike seemed to have forced one of them to evolve. All we can do now is hope he pulls through." James said solemnly.
Back in the sky, Ben was in rough shape. His body felt like he was being torn in two different directions. The two dragon bloodlines refused to submit to each other. Deke had collapsed from exhaustion but his son Henry had taken his place provided Ben with darkness energy.
Ben gritted his teeth as blood flowed from his orfices, and focused on subdueing the two bloodlines raging in his body.
'They are too powerful!'
'Master! Use the Mekata bloodline!' Ava shouted into his mind.
Listening to her, Ben activated his Mekata bloodline, causing his eyes to glow gold. Inside his body, a black and bright blue energy were coiled around each other, trying to absorb each other. Suddenly, golden blood came and engulfed both of them. They tried to fight back but their resistance was futile as the golden blood absorbed both of them.
Ben let out a scream before his body started to change. It grew over 10x larger than normal, morphing into a large black dragon. The black scales had blue lightning bolt pattern that gave him a divine look. His back and tail were covered in meter long spikes that looked lethal while his mouth was filled with razor sharp teeth.
Ben let out a earth shattering roar as arcs of black lightning sparked around him and collapsed to the ground. By the time the dust settled, Ben was lying there naked in human form. Ava was the first to get to him and quickly grabbed him in her talons and take off towards the City Lord mansion.
'Takon bring that holy girl!' Ava commanded him.
Takon flew over to Lilith and asked her to climb on his back, which she did. Together they took off after Ava while the entire city was silently watching them.
"Treat the injured and burn the dead. We will have to put off our celebration until later." James told the other 4 generals.
"What about the others that were sent here?" Lance asked James.
"I have already arranged a place for them and soldiers to watch them." James replied before taking off toward the City Lord's mansion.
…
Inside the City Lord's mansion everyone was standing outside the bedroom waiting to here from Lilith. Ava, Takon and Duke had to stay outside because of their size but they were able to feel how Ben was doing through their soul link with him.
Cathy was holding onto Joe, her eyes wet while Allana was doing the same thing to Grayson. Cloey held onto Lily while the latter stroked her head.
"You heard Ava, right? Ben will be fine after some rest." she said soothingly, not only for Cloey but for everyone.
Her words seemed to work as the atmosphere got a little lighter.
Lilith soon left the room, "His injuries are healed but he is still asleep. I don't know how long he will be asleep but Ava should be able to tell you." she said, causing a wave of relief to everyone.
"Thank you Miss Lilith." Kate said, giving her a hug.
"It is my duty." she replied, returning the hug.
Everyone else also thanked her and guided her out of the mansion.
'He is in a deep sleep right now. His soul seems to be changing so he won't be waking up anytime soon.' Ava's voice appeared in their minds, telling them what she knew.
What she didn't tell them was that her, Takon and Duke were all being affected by Ben's change.
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