Bab 32: Awaken Bloodline
- 278 AC -
(Robert Baratheon POV)
The day is finally here. The day my bloodline has awakened. I turned 16 today and am lying in bed as I feel like shit. Ironically, thinking about what just happened and what monster I will turn into now that it has finally happened.
I awoke a few hours ago when my bloodline started to awaken fully. It was a painful moment for me and almost made me scream out loud for hours. It felt like riding a psychotic horse through a burning stable, it couldn't get any more stressful. My mood went up and down, following the waves of pain and euphoria. But now it is finally over. The bloodline I designed for myself all those years ago ... well 16 to be exact ... not even that long.
So what is my bloodline?
As a man of culture, I read comics and mangas and watched anime as I should. As such, I knew about many bloodlines and had ideas of what I could create from scratch. But in the end, I decided to combine things to create something slightly unique with the properties I could use in a treacherous world like this one. And looking back, I am more than glad about it.
I wanted my bloodline to give me two things.
#1 I wanted to have some assurances of loyalty. I wanted to have a way to make sure someone was truly 100% loyal to me. In a world where people scheme and plot to kill their family, just for some ugly thorne, I wanted to surround myself with people I knew would be loyal to me.
That's where the idea of the blood came from. Everyone who drank my blood, pure, would be loyal to me and be physically incapable of betraying me. This includes my descendants. When I chose the next Heir to House Baratheon I didn't want to care about infighting. My wish would have to be respected since it was my blood. This little boon can be passed on to my heir, no matter male or female. The heir I chose, will have the same boon of not having to worry about being betrayed by his own kind. This will go on and can only be overruled by me. As I am the originator of the bloodline.
That way I will ensure that House Baratheon will be united in the future generations. A good idea, truly.
#2 The second thing I wanted was the potential to grow powerful. I knew that I could become a Kryptonian, a Saiyan, a Mutant from the Richards family or Grey, a Cultivator or any other stuff like that. But it wasn't really what I wanted. I still wanted to train and get rewarded for my hard work. I wanted to fight and really get my fists bloody.
And for that reason, I thought of two people. Yuujirou Hanma and Mark Greyson the Invincible. The Hanma bloodline was an amazingly OP bloodline if you look at it from the perspective of the Baki universe. The laws of that universe didn't allow Yuujirou to truly shine, but it showed just what sort of monster he was. Imagine Yuujirou in a world like Dragon Ball or One Punch Man. He would become grossly overpowered.
Next Mark Greyson. Naturally, the Viltrumites were far too overpowered of a race to enjoy myself in this world and I knew that. But I also knew that they had far too good abilities to just pass up on it. And so I had a better idea. Instead of combining the Hanma bloodline with the Viltrumite one, I would take what I wanted from both of them and create something special.
I took the martial talent, the love for fighting and training and the potential from the Hanma bloodline. And from the Viltrumites, I took only one thing. The Smart Atoms.
Smart Atoms "remember" their states in relation to both their users and their environment but can also grant capable of extraordinary self-encoding feats at atomic levels to react to any changes in that as much as they can enhance users' physical capabilities to extreme extents that go beyond their normal state.
For instance, atoms in a muscle can ensure that the molecules behave normally even under extreme forces. Or atoms in the air can be forced to maintain their relative positions, thus acting like an impenetrable wall. These atoms are also able to extract "Background energy" or "vacuum energy" as their source of energy.
It is thanks to the Smart Atoms that Viltrumites can heal from usually fatal wounds and can grow stronger when fighting or reaching near-death states. It is also thanks to the Smart Atoms that they continue to age slower the older they get.
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So with those things made up, I added my two points #1 and #2 together and created the current bloodline. What is important to note is that I am neither a Hanma nor am I a Viltrumite. I am still a human being with a new bloodline. I am not as strong as a Viltrumite. In fact, my strength hasn't increased at all since yesterday. I will simply have to train to grow stronger.
That's what I wanted. To be a really powerful human with the potential to wreak havoc on the battlefield as well as heal from otherwise fatal injuries. Another thing that I can now finally do is not care about potential STDs or other diseases. Most of them are far too weak to kill me now. I can still die, but that is the thrill of life. Being immortal is boring and not something I was hoping for.
There is also a special additional boon, that I'll see when I finally impregnate my future woman. The woman whom I decided to wed will experience something ... special during the nights of love-making. But we'll see that when it comes to that.
I stand up from the bed and look at myself in the mirror. I can feel the new power inside me. Not strength, but the sheer potential is impressive. My muscles are already impressive but they will now reach the levels of Yuujirou Hanma. I can't wait to make ladies swoon when I take off my shirt and just flex my upper body. Haha, that will be fun.
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6 months have passed since I went to Braavos with Elia. I used the time well to get to know her better and find out about her. Taking a dornish wife is basically guessing whether your child is your own or where your wife was last night when she didn't return. Not really something I want for myself. But Elia seemed different and I wanted to make sure before I decided on anything.
I wasn't planning on using my blood to make my wife loyal to me. If I had reasons to believe I would have to do that, I rather just get myself another wife. I value different things in a woman compared to other men. Beauty is what gets your dick hard, but it's not what keeps the relationship stable. With my bloodline, I know that I will be able to please my wife in and out of bed thoroughly and theoretically she wouldn't have to get it somewhere else, but this is a damned world. Everything that is terrible is possible. And if shit can happen, it will.
After sailing to Braavos, I spent a lot of time with Elia. I learned about her likes and dislikes. What made her tick and what pissed her off. She was far too frail of a woman for a world in the current time. I am sure that she would die during childbirth and if it's me, probably during sex. But thankfully, I had thought of that when I created my bloodline. Again, more on that later.
As I learned more about Elia, she learned more about me as well. We dropped decorum and pretences rather quickly and talked like good friends. Good friends that you might have in the modern times, not the fake good friends of these times. She has a good heart, Elia Martell, but she's not a naive or stupid woman. She understands the need for cruelty and ruthlessness if you want to survive in this world. She knows that I have just as much potential for violence and death, if not more, than any other successful man in this world.
I came to appreciate the time I spent with her and we grew close. For the first time, I let myself go a bit. I admit it took a full moon for that to happen, but it happened. We hadn't 'consummated' our relationship yet. I didn't want to catch some disease before my failsafe set in. Which it has right now, thankfully. The sexual tension is killing me, to be honest, and she has been getting more and more forward with her advances. I mean she told me that she wants to fuck after all this time and if we don't finally do it on my 16th name day, which is today, she will just rape me.
She has no shame ... Death by Snu Snu... not a bad way to go. But with her physical condition that is a pipe dream.
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After getting to Braavos and securing a lucrative business deal with a powerful owner of a shipyard ... I spied on him, found out where he lived, beat the shit out of him and then forced him to drink my blood to make him loyal *cough* ... I went back to Dorne and dropped Elia off in Sunspear. I promised her to come again and that we would spend time together.
That has been happening for 2 moons until the Defiance of Duskendale finally ended. 'Miraculously', King Aerys was saved by Ser Barristan the Bold and the siege ended. But since then, the realm has changed. It is no longer the same I knew before and many things had to change considerably.
King Aery's vengeance was terrible, just like predicted. Though Lord Denys Darklyn begged for mercy, the king demanded the deaths of Denys and his immediate family, as well as his uncles, aunts, and distant House Darklyn kinsmen living in Duskendale.
House Hollard, Lord Denys's Goodkin, was also attainted and executed. Ser Jon Hollard, who had been married to Denys's sister, went missing without his wife and young son. Robin Hollard, the son of Ser Jon, the squire who pulled Aerys's beard and danced around him when he had first been seized, died upon the rack. The reports were detailed and brutal, showing me that my secretive approach to this situation was the right one. And that my plans had bore fruit. I used this Defiance well.
Denys's wife, Lady Serala, had her tongue and womanly parts torn out, after which she was burned alive. It was a terrible description of what they did to her. Thankfully and strangely a stray arrow pierced her heart when they were going at it and killed the poor woman. It is said that the king screamed maniacly when his revenge was taken from him.
Despite what happened, the people of Duskendale still loved Lord Denys. They blamed his foreign wife, Serala, and half of them still feel that the punishment Aerys gave her was too kind by half and they were very upset when that arrow killed her, saving her from excessive suffering.
The lands and incomes of Duskendale were granted to House Rykker, who has a very close relationship with one of the guild branch leaders, while the lands of House Hollard were taken away, their villages burned, and their castle torn down. The men and women mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again.
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Following his half-year of captivity at Duskendale, Aerys II was forever a changed man. From Thomas' reports and the ravens sent by the guilds, he has lost it and his paranoia will only grow further. This will destabilize the realm as far as I can tell, making him the greatest danger to my plans in the future.
If the rumours are to be believed, the king no longer allows others to touch him, and as a result, his hair and fingernails grow longer and longer. No blades are allowed near him, except for the swords of his Kingsguard, and his judgments become more severe and crueller. From the end of the Defiance in 277 AC, until now 278 AC, Aerys refused to leave the Red Keep.
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Another important thing that happened is that the King finally decided to wed his son, Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. He has sent Father to Volantis to find a bride "of noble birth from an old Valyrian bloodline" for Prince Rhaegar. But that doesn't seem to be going well, from the ravens Father sends Stannis and me.
But I hope that he does find one so that the king doesn't do anything stupid. My gut is telling me of a storm that is approaching and that it might be better to kill the king right now and let his son take over. But doing so would result in another different storm. Maybe this is what I was told about ... being King, taking things into my own hands. I never thought about it anymore and just concerned myself with Storm's End and the Stormlands.
But now ... let's hope Rhaegar Targaryen gets a good bride and that the old cunt dies soon.
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A/N So it finally happened. Robert awakened his full bloodline. He is not a full Hanma or a Viltrumite. He is himself but has gotten some of the advantages both their bloodlines grant them for himself. He has given himself potential. Potential for growth, something I enjoy much more than an instant powerup or full Kryptonian ... He will never learn to fly or something like that, so don't worry about him becoming outrageously OP.
Now he needs to train and fight his ass off to truly grow into it. His 'stats' look like this currently.
Current height: ~6'3''
Current strength: ~the same strength as Gregor Clegane at his peak and growing
Status Power Mingguan
-- Peringkat
Power 
-- Power
stone