SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God-Chapter 700: New Skills

Other than those two skills, he had also obtained a couple more interesting and questionable skills.

[Crimson Edict: Allows the user to issue a blood-bound command to all beings with active blood circulation within range. Targets of lower blood purity or weaker will instinctively obey, experiencing overwhelming pressure to comply. Stronger targets suffer hesitation, mana disruption, or forced blood agitation. The skill scales with bloodline dominance.]

This was a mass mind control skill that could come in handy in some situations. At worst, he could use it to stun or disrupt stronger foes. The fact that the skill was able to scale with his bloodline was a good bonus.

Damon then gazed at the next skill.

[Blood Rebirth: If slain within a blood-rich environment, the user may reconstruct their body from ambient blood mist once. The skill restores body and bloodline integrity. The resurrection causes severe stat and soul penalties.]

This was another skill Damon was quite excited about. With a lot of stronger beings behind him, he needed a skill like this for unexpected surprises. Technically, he also had his blood clone, which he could use in the situation. But this would give him two ultimate escape skills.

More importantly, he could combine these skills with the next new skill he obtained.

[Blood shapeshift: Allows the user to freely restructure their physical form using blood essence as the medium. The body may be reshaped, compressed, dispersed, or reconfigured into alternate biological or semi-biological forms while retaining core abilities and bloodline authority. The user may imitate creatures they have consumed blood from or design adaptive forms on the fly.]

While changing his physical body wouldn’t give him that much advantage in a fight, it gave him a lot of strategic options. He could essentially wear the face of anyone he had consumed until now. As long as he hid his aura, he could even infiltrate the light faction camps and spy on the super guilds.

However, the most important benefit would be to shapeshift into a trivial creature. As long as he used Blood Rebirth or substituted his body with his blood clone, he could always shapeshift into something trivial and make his opponent believe that he had truly perished.

Though Damon did not plan anyone or anything to push him to such an extent, it was still a scenario that might very well come true. Finally, there was also another skill he had gained.

[Blood Thrall: Allows the user to bind a target through blood, branding them as a blood-bound thrall. Thralls retain their original personality and intelligence but instinctively recognize the user as their absolute superior and god. The strength of control scales with bloodline dominance.]

The skill didn’t overwrite the mind outright, nor did it turn the target into a mindless puppet. Instead, it rewired hierarchy, placing Damon at the very top of the thrall’s instincts, somewhere deeper than loyalty.

As long as his soul and bloodline could bear the load, Damon could create multiple thralls. He could create powerful ones, commanders, and spies embedded deep within enemy factions. Even if a thrall was killed, the memories and impressions carried through the bond would return to him before the connection snapped.

The only drawback was that there was a small chance that the thrall could betray him if they secretly developed stronger mental strength. But as long as his mental strength kept increasing, he wouldn’t have to worry about a problem like this, especially if he created weaker thralls.

"...That explains a lot about ancient vampire empires," Damon muttered. The skill was very questionable indeed, but Damon did not necessarily care about something like that.

None of these skills was meant for fair fights. They were meant for dominance, control, and survival in hostile worlds, the kind of tools forged by beings who expected betrayal, extinction-level wars, and gods as enemies.

In a fight against fucking gods everything was fair!

Damon closed his eyes and started examining himself some more. Apart from these new skills, he had also gained a lot of upgrades on his existing blood skills.

Thanks to this, he felt as if he was almost close to figuring out how to salvage his attribute points. If he could somehow work this out before the Golden Throne event, it might give him a big advantage.

Damon worked on it for some time, but it was useless. He still needed more experience with blood manipulation. Trying to achieve this in the next few hours was a fool’s errand. He gave up on it and quietly pondered how best to use the last few hours before the event.

He pulled up his system panel to check once. Not so surprisingly, the number of territories under his control was still the same. The B rank, who had chased after him, apparently couldn’t be bothered to do something about the poisoned lands.

There was no way these lands would be permanently under his control, but at least for the next few days, they should still be safe and remain his even without any of his men present in the territory.

Since this was secure, he wondered what he should be focusing on at the moment for maximum benefit. He could once more head back into the wilderness and this time target some other camp, like the demon camp or the human camp, to grind and improve the power level of more of his skills.

This would definitely give tangible benefits and significantly impact his performance in the event. At the same time, he could also gather some more information about the event itself, information which other people might already know and he wasn’t aware of yet.

In fact, it was not just regarding this event. He needed more information in general about everything happening around him. Not only were monsters hunting him in the game world, but there were also monsters waiting in hibernation to hunt him down in the real world.

Sylvara’s grandfather, Artimius, had given him some insight into this, but there were potentially many things even the old man wasn’t aware of. It was best to do some intel gathering on his own.

His new skills definitely gave him the ability to do this. The only problem was his aura. Damon then suddenly remembered an item he hadn’t touched until now.