Chapter 9: A chaotic awakening
Damon had expected some surprises to pop out because he was using a superior awakening resource, but he did not expect this. He had a bloodline? Two affinities, blood and darkness? What was the third one with the question mark?
In his last life, he only had blood affinity and no bloodline. All of this was new. Before he could make sense of the system prompt, something even more shocking happened. Water exploded from the small puddle he was standing on.
Without giving him a chance to react, the water completely surrounded him on all sides, fully encasing him in a sphere of liquid that shimmered like mercury laced with blood. It moved like it had a mind of its own, swirling and tightening around him. He was now submerged in it.
[Ding! Fragmented Ancestral Bloodline Detected. Attempting Awakening]
The runes on the floor ignited, their glow no longer steady but wild and erratic. Tiny vortices started forming on Damn's body, millions and millions of them. These vortices started sucking the liquid inside.
Pain rippled across his body. Whatever was happening, this was not heading anywhere good. "This is not good. There is not a lot of water. I am going to suffer a backlash." Damon screamed and shouted in pain. The runes glowed brighter, and water kept coming and coming.
The puddle beneath him, once shallow enough to barely wet his ankles, now seemed endless. The chamber trembled. The stone tiles cracked. From beneath the cathedral, from some water surged upward, as if summoned by the awakening ritual. Everything was spiraling out of control.
More liquid, more blood-tinged mercury flooded the chamber, yet none of it spilled outward. Everything obeyed the same silent command, drawn into the sphere that wrapped tighter around Damon. His body hung weightless inside it, but his mind was far from calm.
[Ding! Awakening Initiated]
"What the hell is this?" Damon gritted his teeth. He had never heard of anything like this happening during a first awakening. Most people sat in the pool for thirty seconds, watched a few runes flicker, and boom, class selection.
He had researched a lot about the awakening process in the city's library, and not one book mentioned anything like this. This was something else entirely.