Vampire: World of Blood-Chapter 158: When One Is In Control

The portal opened with a faint ripple, the fabric of reality parting like a thin veil as Merciless extended his hand toward the shimmering surface. From within the folds of his cape, an ethereal light began to glow, steadily growing brighter until it illuminated the entire room in hues of deep neon blue.

The portal flickered with arcs of energy, crackling with quiet intensity, as if the space between dimensions itself strained at the epicenter of his cape to contain what lay beyond.

Merciless stood calm, unshaken by the sight before him, as Carmilla watched on shocked by the sight before her.

He returned Carmilla’s gaze with a compact calm and composed expression on his face as his outstretched hand urged her forward.

"Shall we?"

His voice echoed as usual, as the blue aura of aether surrounding his cape intensified for a brief moment. The fabric shimmered like liquid, a flowing river of energy leading into the unknown.

Carmilla hesitated, her eyes locked on the portal. The ethereal light reflected in her gaze, a mixture of awe and apprehension swirling within.

Nevertheless, she complied her ethereal form started to float towards the cape.

With a deep breath, she floated forward allowing herself to be pulled into the swirling gateway.

For a brief moment, she felt weightless, as if gravity itself had loosened its grip on her. The forest Merciless created, and the place she was once in dissolved into a blur of color and light.

Then, everything changed.

She found herself standing on a vast, swirling bridge of blue light.

The bridge extended in every direction, a numerous network of twisting, luminous pathways. Each one was a thread of memory, connected to countless places she recognized and many more she did not.

Her shock was evident, at the weirdness of it, but she concluded that this new power was an advanced version of Aether ring.

The scope of what she witnessed was overwhelming. The paths led to impossible landscapes, towering cities, endless oceans, and barren wastelands—everywhere Merciless had been, every memory he had absorbed, now woven into this intricate web of bridges.

And beyond that, places not of his physical experience but seen through Darwinism, memories taken from others. Or just places he has been with memory being the beacon for him to jump there regardless of the concept of distance.

As long as there were no higher planes that were governed by typical ascension conditions. Or to make it simpler, there was no dimensional barrier that prevented him from going there, and if he has the place in question logged in memory then he can go there.

This, of course, made her question as such.

"Is this... your mind or something?"

Merciless, standing beside her with his usual ease, nodded.

"In a way, yes. Every place I’ve seen, every memory I’ve absorbed, they’re all connected here. A pathway between realms of experience, both mine and those I’ve taken."

"But keep in mind that this Aether structure in my cape is just a bridge between places I have minor, subtle, or strong attachments to in memory, allowing me to make real-time spatial jumps into that place by crossing the boundaries between my recollections, you can just think of it as a bizarre wormhole."

Said Merciless, as he continued, while suddenly sucking himself into his aether bridge.

"We are not teleporting into the past, present, or future; rather, we are teleporting via aether bridges to places I have visited in memory into actual time, and unlike aether rings, which can only be stretched to twenty meters on the end, accommodating for entry for a large group, these bridges can stretch outwards to the size of a normal planet."

Merciless explained in great detail, as he left his Subjective reality.

Carmilla marveled at the Aether bridge, constantly shifting and rearranging itself, leading to places she had never imagined.

Yet despite the grandeur, there was a strange comfort in the interconnectedness of it all. Every memory, every world, anchored to the central path where she and Merciless now stood.

"It’s incredible."

She said softly, turning toward him.

"Everything you’ve ever known... right here."

Merciless gazed out into the vastness, his expression distant.

"Yes. And through it, I can traverse them at will, using what I know to my advantage."

They walked onward, the bridge ahead shifting into a new form. A circular doorway at the end of each bridge could be seen, pulsed with blue light, waiting.

"We’re almost there."

Merciless said calmly, though his tone carried a hint of anticipation.

Carmilla steeled herself, ready for whatever lay ahead in the depths of Merciless’s mind.

Merciless on the other hand watched the swirling energy around them with a calm, practiced ease. His expression remained composed as the light from his aether bridge flickered and shifted, casting deep shadows that danced across the ethereal pathways before them.

"The size of this place...

He began, his voice soft but resonating with authority

"It may appear limitless, but it is no larger than the forest I have made; yet, there is a special Aether mix with my top speed without Hector’s powers. And the light at the edge of this spatial expanse is extending this construct in my cape at a rate 250 times faster than the speed of light, and the edge of this boundary space is in an omnidirectional state."

Merciless said as he began to chuckle.

"But you want to hear the funny part."

He looked at Carmilla, a wide smile spreading across his face.

’I don’t like that smile... Why do I feel even more uneasy than before?!’

Carmilla thought to herself, her heart racing as Merciless began to manipulate the air around him. He shaped a ball of flesh from his own body, infusing it with the durability of multiple solar systems in advance.

Its structure was reinforced to such a degree, that friction would have no immediate effect, and disintegrate the ball if thrown.

With a swift motion, he threw the ball into the void, the sphere hurtling through the expanse of countless planet-sized bridges that surrounded them. When it was far enough, he teleported the ball to the edge of this wormhole world of memories, the energy crackling in anticipation as he began to explain.

"So basically, once you cross that light, one might think they are safe—that they’ve escaped. But trust me when I say that is not the case. Watch closely. As the ball reaches beyond the expanse, going beyond the light, they do not escape; rather...

Merciless explained, his voice steady as the flesh ball approached the radiant light, and going past it at the speed it was going. And if on timing, he extended his hand, opening his cape wide. To Carmilla’s shock, the speeding ball came right through Merciless’s cape and flew back into the void.

"Explain!!!"

She exclaimed, confusion knitting her brow. She couldn’t put her finger on what she had just witnessed.

"Well, this world exists within my cape—a sort of twisted pocket dimension you can call it."

Merciless elaborated his expression a blend of amusement and pride.

"Going beyond that eternal, ever-expanding light means you’re crossing the edge of my cape. As such, you just exist in my cape from where I am, which makes escaping impossible once I am inside this place."

Carmilla nodded her head, as she added.

"So basically an eternal loop, once you’re inside your cape, and that blue light is a representation of your cape edge."

"Yeah."

Merciless said.

He stepped closer, his presence almost overwhelming amidst the swirling energies.

"Once I am inside this place with an enemy, they are trapped. But let’s say I just yeet them in here while I remain outside. If they manage to cross that expanse, then they will escape."

"But if I’m with them inside...

He leaned in, his voice dropping to a conspiratorial whisper.

"They are trapped here with me with no way out.... unless they have some form of spatial manipulation of course, and are better than me with it."

Merciless explained.

The weight of his words settled heavily in the air, the vivid imagery of entrapment sending chills down Carmilla’s spine.

She glanced at the swirling pathways, each pulsing with the weight of Merciless’s power, realizing the true extent of his control over this dimension. It wasn’t just a display of strength; it was a harrowing reminder of the depths of his mastery, a dark revelation of what it meant to confront him here.

But then and again this was basically the mastery that came with his Valkos awakening.

As such she had to Look at Merciless one more time and asked.

"By the way, I can feel, see, and understand information about you because I am the embodiment of your vampirism concept, but I had no idea you had this power, only your energy-switching cape, with some info on it, and that arsenal assimilation power you obtained with your Vadkos... you know, the power that allows you to absorb any weapon tied to the concept of arsenal into your armor during equipping of the Vadkos, if it is part of an arsenal. claiming that weapon power is your own so long as it is part of an arsenal."

Carmilla explains.

"Ohhh I have been practicing my control over vampirism, so you see what I want you to see in terms of my abilities with Valkos, and im glad to see it is working, I am getting real good with this."

"Sigh... of course you can, Valkos is just too op I swear."

Said Carmilla.

"Of course, it is... mastered state, in amazing, I can’t even put into words just how weird it feels."

Replied Merciless.

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Especially with my Arsenal assimilation.

Merciless said as he summoned all his from his dimensional stomach, and absorbed them into himself, or rather his Valkos equipping all of them in one instance.

"But more of that on a later date, I can see Ana and Sub are ready for the intrusion."

He said as both he and Carmilla reached the cavern existing his cape, which was miasma base upon reaching once more.

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