บท 77: Awakening

A shudder ran through the vampire progenitor's body as his mind awoke from its slumber. Loud beeps and noises were heard from the machines surrounding the bed that he lay upon and frantic footsteps were heard running to the room.

Kai tried to understand what was happening as his body restarted its energy circulation. When he attempted to open his eyes, he realised that he was unable to do so, his physical body had remained in a dead and mindless state for so long that it had shut down.

This caused him to feel annoyed as he was unable to see. Fortunately, he could still use the rest of his senses as he waited for his body to restart. Hearing the sounds in the room, the vampire lord created an image of the layout of the room.

He knew that he was surrounded by some sort of machine that was measuring his state according to the many lines and beeps. There was a table next to him and on top of that lay several vials of blood.

He assumed that the reason that his body hadn't become too weak was that they were feeding him enough blood to stay in a healthy state and not degenerate to an unacceptable level.

Apart from the equipment and table, he was surrounded by reinforced walls. This caused him to be on guard as he was unsure where he was held and he didn't know where he had landed.

He sped up his body's recovery to its maximum capabilities without damaging it and then heard the frantic footsteps of a woman. He used his advanced hearing to use her footsteps as a sonar to build up an image of her appearance to understand whether she was a threat.

The woman was a middle-aged woman in white medi-witch robes that held the symbol of the Dark Lords' Court on her back. He was reassured to a certain level because he knew that he was in the hands of the organization that he had created alongside Tom.

She dashed to the monitoring devices and gasped in surprise when she saw one of the screens on the monitor. She took out a communication device and spoke into it. "The patient's mental state is fully healed and is in the process of being awakened. Call the lord and report the good news."

The vampire lord's body shuddered as all of his bodily functions "rebooted" and he finally gained control of his body. His eyes opened with a boom, just that small movement had caused a gust of wind to destroy the wall opposite him.

Kai stopped his movements in fear of destroying more of the room, the long amounts of inactivity had caused him to lose control of his body and how to control his strength.

However, if necessary he would have no qualms escaping with a trail of destruction in his wake. He slowly sat up and looked at the witch, she had fainted with drool coming out of her mouth.

He understood that he had forgotten to seal his aura and because of this the witch had fainted from its entirety and the fact she was so near to the source of the aura had incapacitated the poor woman.

He immediately resealed his aura, aware that the previous subconscious action had alerted all of the residents of the facility that he was awake and showing his dominance.

The vampire lord examined the room and while doing so noticed that there was close to no furniture in the room. The walls were a hospital white and made him want to leave as soon as possible, he disdained staying in such a sickly place.

While waiting for the "Lord" to show up he picked up one of the blood-filled vials and sniffed it, wrinkling his nose at the smell. It seemed that the creature that the blood had been taken from had healing properties, however, the taste was revolting and now that Kai was healthy enough, he had no need for the nasty liquid.

While he was thinking this, he submerged himself into the blood orb, but not before creating a force field created by the law of darkness. This would successfully protect him from harm and only a powerful being's full powered strike could damage and shatter the barrier.

If it was before he was sent into the coma then the barrier would only be able to take a strike from a being that was a new transcendent without shattering. This showed that his comprehension of the law of darkness had deepened. This probably happened subconsciously when he was drifting for the incredibly long time in the darkness-filled void.

He had come to gain a deep understanding from personal experience that darkness was loneliness, pain and suffering. A never-ending cycle of mental attacks that threatened your sanity. It wasn't enough knowing this, you had experience the loneliness of the void, the vastness and how it would eat away at your sanity.

He hoped that he would never have to experience such a thing again and would make sure that Harry would never be in such a perilous situation.

He dived into the blood orb and tried to understand what had happened to the dragon of darkness. When he entered, he immediately felt a difference in the crimson coloured world.

The power residing in Dahak had created an entirely new energy that Kai theorized that would eventually turn into a less powerful version of the blood orb.

He thought to himself that it was impossible that the blood orb would be so drastically powerful, even if it had evolved many times it was impossible for it to be so powerful.

Especially when a demigod that had the power to destroy planets had his power condensed and even that was nowhere near the blood orb's power.

But the vampire progenitor didn't dwell too much on the weird way of things(A/N: Foreshadowing…) as it was unnecessary at the moment. He would study it later, but now there was no need to, as he had just woken up from his long slumber.

Apart from Dahak's power, he discovered that his soul had split off from the blood orb and was now a separate entity. The blood orb now controlled was a power source in of itself, while his soul was another matter.

Kai theorized that perhaps the next step to ascending was to have something to do with his soul. But he was unaware of the circumstances and didn't want to delve into it too much at the moment. It was another subject for study in the future.

After checking out the blood orb for more major changes, he understood that there were no more. It seemed that the [Berserk] ability had really done its damage and had appeared to have caused more changes that he had thought it had done.

But then again he didn't have the time to check out all of the changes as he was in the middle of a fight with Dahak. After settling his issues in the blood orb, he returned to reality.

He felt the aura of at least one powerful being approach him, he estimated that he was at least at the pseudo emperor level as he felt the power of law radiating off his person. This caused him to want to sense who exactly was coming and he used [Mind's Eye.]

However, there seemed to be some changes in the skill. He didn't need to infuse the blood energy into the ability to activate it and it didn't run on his mental energy, instead, he felt something ethereal inside of him activate. It had the same feeling that came with his soul aura, but it was different. The soul aura came from the blood orb while this feeling came from the source. 'It's the soul,' he realised. He felt the pull of his soul and released the [Mind's Eye] allowing him to see the beings coming to him. He was happy to see that it was Bob and Tom.

They both had vast auras, it appeared that they had only gotten stronger during his coma. This caused him to realise that his coma went on for longer than he had imagined. With this, he realised that he wouldn't have enough time to check out his soul's changes and that it would need to be delayed.