Vampire: World of Blood-Chapter 164: Full Power Merciless I

"Swell... and burst!"

A sinister smile spread across his face as he uttered the final words, the sheer force of his power crackling in the air.

"Crimson Dawn: Genetic Singularity."

Merciless said, announcing the name of his new ability.

With those words said, the world around him seemed to fracture from both within this dimension and the outside world as well.

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As Merciless uttered those chilling words, the two Aristaeus warriors hovering in the sky suddenly felt an overwhelming surge of energy.

Chi, corruption, and something far more insidious began to swell and converge into a single force, shaking the very air around them, and the ground below as the scarlet star began to swell and grow at an uncontrollable rate.

However, being of the Almighty lineage—a species whose ancestral roots traced back to the 5th Originator, "The Almighty"—these two Spawnlings were no strangers to such immense power. Their lineage had deep ties to the primordial aspects of energy, making them keenly attuned to the gathering storm.

They quickly recognized the third energy—an aura, the unmistakable signature of a powerful being. And that aura as simple as it may be, given that everyone had it, but it was one of the hardest energy types to use, that energy type was Aura, the inner energy within oneself at their core.

Aura was more than just raw ki, everyone had it, well every being that had a shred of awareness at least, even being semi-conscious can allow one to have it; for it was the manifestation of one’s very existence, the essence of awareness.

Possessing an aura that one can manipulate is mastering the core of one’s existence. Aura is the energy’s self-representation, and each user, similar to the power of that Lanca of their own kind, can use ki to awaken a power unique to them.

This ki manifests in a way that aligns with their nature, granting them abilities that function like an extra limb; something they can control with complete mastery.

And what they sensed now was exactly that, the opponent, was about to use their ki on them, although they sensed other energy at play as here as well, ki was the most dominant in the upcoming attack with chi being generated in quantity, and corruption flowing within both.

But there was nothing the two Aristaeus could do at this instance, the attack had already begun, and with the power of his Ki, Merciless began to do one of the most unhinged things yet.

It was a multi-phase attack, a sequence of different abilities seamlessly woven together to create a single, monstrous chimera-like technique.

Merciless had always crafted chimera-like attacks in battle, merging abilities to create something devastating. But this time, it was different. The power emerging now wasn’t a new creation; it was a variant of an old technique; one that was undeniably more powerful and refined than its predecessor.

One that would prove to be vastly more devasting than any other he personally made to date.

The red sun, now towering in the sky at the size of a mountain, cast a vast crimson light that blanketed reality itself. The light spread like a flood, pouring out in all directions, omnipresent and unstoppable.

As it radiated outward, the sun began to shrink, its size compressing with an unnatural intensity. What once loomed as large as a mountain soon condensed to the size of a whale, but as it grew smaller, the light became brighter, more intense, as if the very essence of destruction was being concentrated within that miniature red giant.

It now burned with an unstoppable brilliance, consuming the entire surrounding area—no, the entire planet—in its ominous glow.

However, Crimson Dawn, which usually spread far beyond its reach in this instance, did not expand this time. Instead, it sacrificed range for concentrated power. The attack halted just past the planet’s surface, ensnaring the entire world but nothing beyond it.

The energy coiled tightly around the planet, focusing its destructive force with lethal precision, ensuring that everything within its grasp would face the full brunt of its devastating might.

In that instant, Merciless began to reveal the true nature of his ki. Though simple on the surface, this ability held a devastating potential—both now and in the future. His power was the ability to traverse genetic memories.

With this power, Merciless could delve into the ancestral memories encoded within the genetic strands of any being. He could trace their lineage, their history, and their experiences; stretching all the way back to antiquity if his strength was sufficient.

At this moment, however, the power came with a limitation. Merciless could only infiltrate the genetic memories of those weaker than himself, but that was about to change.

By invoking the ancient vampire art of contract—a mystical practice where one could offer up a restriction to gain a greater reward; Merciless placed a self-imposed limitation on his abilities, for this one ability or this variant of Crimson Dawn alone.

The contract was simple: he restricted the range of his power to a single planetary body. In return, he gained the ability to intrude upon the genetic memories of beings far stronger than himself—creatures whose strength far surpassed his own current level.

For this moment, the contract allowed Merciless to break through the barriers of power that separated him from his prey. The two Aristaeus warriors, hovering in the sky, were lower-level beings of the Spawn race for sure, just like vampires, as all spawnlings are inferior to the likes of a true spawn.

Using vampire terminology to gauge power he could more or less tell how strong these two were. The female one was in the lower spectrum of Level Five, and the other, that being the male Aristaeus, was in the range of mid-Level Five.

Though powerful, they were no match for Merciless. Even at his current mid-Level Four, he could easily dominate creatures at the peak of Level Five if he goes all out in his mastered state, his chance increasing by a great amount if he manages to pull them into his Subjective reality.

But if they reached the threshold going past the peak of Level Five, and reach Level Six, his power would be ineffective.

Regardless, every being on the planet that possessed a genetic code began to feel a strange pull—a surge as their memories flushed into Merciless’ mind. It wasn’t just the memories of the Aristaeus enemies he was facing but of every creature that lived and died on this planet. The overwhelming flood of experiences—countless lives and their vast array of experiences—flowed into him like an unrelenting river.

It was as if time itself unraveled before Merciless’ eyes, stretching backward through the eons. He witnessed ancient wars and battles that scarred planets and extinguished stars.

He saw powers so unimaginable they could warp entire galaxies, felt the downfall of civilizations that once ruled the cosmos the Aristaeus race inhabited, and the agony of beings as their worlds crumbled into nothingness. Every emotion, every fleeting thought, every triumph and failure became his.

As the genetic memories traveled further and further back in time, through the vast cosmic history of the Aristaeus race, he found her; their queen.

She was ancient, her existence stretching back to the dawn of her species. Merciless could see her clearly now, using the memories of the two warriors as conduits to traverse back through the genetic code to their source.

The Queen, a being born from the chaos and strength of another, had lived a life of survival, clawing her way to the top of her species through brutal reproduction and ruthless cunning.

Her origin lay within the Greater Spawn known as Tithonus, also called the Lord of the Swarm. Tithonus, a Level Four entity who ascended through the realms of power, had reached the 12th Realm before his life was ended by the mother of whores herself; Echidna, and one of the Great Old Ones; for daring to devour her offspring in the Primix Dimension.

Merciless watched through the Queen’s eyes as she witnessed her creator’s demise. Echidna, a terrifying figure of unmatched power, had torn through Tithonus with savage fury, consuming him whole in front of the Aristaeus queen.

The queen had felt fear that day; a deep, primal fear that stayed with her for millennia to come. Though she was one of the oldest of the Aristaeus queens, she was far from the first.

Like all queens, she was merely the product of another queen’s lineage. With Tithonus, their progenitor, devoured, the Aristaeus scattered, their once-united swarm fracturing. Their presence in the Primix Dimension, once dominant, no longer held the same weight it once had during their peak.

Without their king, they became divided, fighting for nothing but their own survival.

This was the backstory of the queen of this nest, he saw her memories played out, and through these two; the imprinted memory of the entire nest endeavors from birth to death of each Aristaeus with them traversing the multiverse damning countless planets in their wake, using the lifeblood of those worlds to lay and hatch their youngling into existence.

And the process continued anew, this queen had given birth to countless more, and so did they, but these beings were extremely powerful, there was no way Merciless could take them all at once, but through the memories, he marked them each, vowing to come back to dominate the entire race under his rule.

No nest would be left untouched; after all his mark has branded them all.

For now, he would gather his strength and let the little ones grow, and the older ones refine themselves even more, and when they mature beyond the initial, he too shall return to reap the benefits when his summit goes beyond theirs.

But since he had already marked this queen, he planned to deal with her first. Purposefully, he brought her strongest warriors to him, intending to take them all on and absorb their abilities for himself. To defeat an Aristaeus wasn’t just about seizing their genetic code to gain their Lanca; one also needed to grasp their understanding; both in mind and body.

Unlike vampires, where he could absorb their powers, but get them in a weakened state and cultivate them through a different evolutionary path, the Aristaeus was different, since the power of the Lanca and its entirety was subjected to condition of power gain via understanding, and understanding alone.

By simply absorbing both their understanding and body simultaneously, he could claim the full power of their Lanca as his own—instantly and perfectly.

Since he had access to the queen’s real-time memories, Merciless began summoning her by forcefully teleporting her using Aether. Having already glimpsed the queen and her elites, he pulled them into his presence, expending a significant amount of energy from his Aether reserves. However, with his energy being rapidly replenished both internally and externally, it was as if he hadn’t lost any power at all.

The queen, hidden somewhere within the vast expanse of the multiverse, resided in a separate nest far from this "Nest Gate," as they called it.

These trees held the fibers that reach into other universes or dimensions together, and each tree contained countless energy threads. Every thread goes into a spatial crack above the tree, which was a portal leading to a random universe in the multiverse, in different composite universes, or as they are also called composite bubbles.

This network was very old, and ancient, it showed just how far the Aristaeus species had managed to invade.

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Each thread is connected to a different planet within galaxies scattered across the lowest realms, accessible dimensions, or planes of existence of these universes within their respective composite universe.

Upon arrival, one would encounter something Merciless and his servants had dubbed the "Energy Wall," or as the Aristaeus race calls them "Storm Casket’s," which was basically a colossal energy wall blocking entry to this place, for the Aristaeus species this was something similar to the spatial bridge were they can travel to other nests in different composite universes.

But for any other, this was a literal casket, as the storm or energy within them would vaporize them if they didn’t have immunity to certain energy types or a body strong enough to take on the shared amount of energy within that could shred galaxy clusters apart.

What was strange about these Caskets, however, was that they were a unique ability possessed by each queen. With just a single thought, a queen could create one, and the energy within it never depleted as far as any Aristaeus queen knew.

The storm of energy inside, known as the "Rage," was constant and unrelenting, maintaining its destructive power indefinitely without ever weakening.

The process of their creation was fascinating. While the energy contained within each wall differed, the end result remained consistent. To construct a Casket, one required a deep understanding of various energy types, and Aristaeus queens were exceptionally adept at comprehending energy dynamics.

This innate ability allowed them to manipulate and weave together disparate energy sources into a cohesive and formidable barrier that they created with mere thought.

Each Casket was constructed from an energy source or type that the queen understood from various universes, woven together into deadly storms that disrupted and confused other energy types.

This characteristic made the use of foreign energies within the Caskets nearly impossible. Only the Aristaeus, with their exceptional ability to sense energy flows, could navigate this intricate web. They could pinpoint the exact coordinates of each thread, recognizing the corruption imbued by the queen that enveloped each strand.

By following this corrupted energy source as a guide, they could successfully traverse between nests at the ends of the threads, exploiting the unique properties of the Caskets to navigate the vast expanse of the multiverse, within different composite universes.

However, the barrier wasn’t unbreakable. If one had Aether they could easily intrude, with its unique properties, one could bypass these energy storms, forcibly tearing through the pathways to reach the "Land of Coordinates"—a domain any Aristaeus queen could create.

They wouldn’t arrive at a nest; instead, they would reach the source from which the breach occurred. Since Ana failed to breach or sense the corruption, she didn’t find herself in one of the countless nests scattered throughout.

Instead, she breached the spatial wall that each energy Casket possesses as they manifest alongside the creation since it was an ability that created them that was possessed solely by a queen. This wall directs any being permitted to pass through it to the main sources of these threads, which in this case was the forest itself Merciless found himself in.

Only elite and Arch Aristaeus can typically traverse past the spatial walls formed by these Caskets, a supernatural passive ability inherent to them. As such with Aether Ana broke a spatial hole in the wall, and her core managed to hold the break in place after it was made, long enough for Merciless and the rest of the team to enter before it fixed itself.

Nevertheless, the complexity of these nests only grew with each new world they conquered with each universe they randomly intruded upon, reinforcing the vastness of their reach and the intricacy of their domain.

Merciless wasn’t playing her game; the queen sensed Merciless and sensed he could indeed be a threat to them as such she wasted no time and sent two of her seven elite to deal with him and his team.

He had come to kill, and that’s exactly what he intended to do.

In an instant, the queen, her two warriors, and the five elite Aristaeus were yanked from their respective places, which was one of the planets they were currently breeding upon, as Aether Merciless teleported them here.

At this moment, Merciless, in his mastered state, only needs to glimpse a person—whether face-to-face or through memories—to warp them directly before him. This ability comes at the expense of a finite amount of Aether stored within his cells, allowing him to traverse any distance effortlessly.

In this case, he was bringing instead of going, but nevertheless, it worked, the queen and her elites manifested before Merciless. The warriors, bewildered and disoriented, barely had time to comprehend what had happened.

But before they could even begin to fathom their predicament, the second phase of Merciless’ power activated. The singularity began.

Crimson Dawn wasn’t just an energy attack—it was a chimera force, a unique fusion of chi, corruption, and ki. The cape Merciless wore, imbued with its own power as a result of Valkos Awakening, treated the combination as a unique energy to be assimilated, granting this energy type in the cape when transformed into this state the ability to condense genetic material into a single point, for as far the light touches.

That point was now the pea-sized red sun hovering in the sky.

The queen, her elite warriors, and the two Aristaeus were sucked into the tiny red sphere, their very existence being pulled apart and drawn into Merciless’ subjective reality.

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