SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God novel Chapter 97

Chapter 97: Getting in the upgrades

Damon quickly dipped into the blood archive to refill his health and continued exchanging blows with the berserker.

Handling the footwork to avoid the molten fire spillage, constantly maintaining the mana supply to regenerate his health from blood energy, and also circulating blood energy, mana, and keeping his innate strength active at the same time.

Doing all these things at the same time was mentally taxing, but Damon kept at it. The physical damage resistance of the berserkers was also quite impressive. In the end, it took him ten blows to bring down the health of the monster.

At the last 5%, another surprise was waiting. The berserker started spewing out magma randomly, but Damon was already prepared for it. He simply activated a mana shield and focused on the second one, starting to get its health down as well.

The entire fight became a bloody brawl rumble, and after a whole five minutes, Damon successfully dealt with the problematic trio. At a weaker state, they were barely able to move, wobbling around, and he easily absorbed their blood energy.

The result was well worth the trouble.

[Ding! Your Fire Resistance has been upgraded.]

[Ding! Your Fire Resistance has been upgraded.]

[Ding! Your Fire Resistance has been upgraded.]

[Ding! You have gained +1 Fire Affinity.]

[Ding! You have gained +1 Fire Affinity.]

[Ding! You have gained +1 Fire Affinity.]

All three fireborn berserkers had given him both a bump in fire resistance and fire affinity. Damon grinned and continued going.

After the three elites, he met two more packs of magma hounds, which once again gave him plenty of upgrades.

The flames still licking at the cracked stone tiles around him seemed less intense now, as if the dungeon’s inferno no longer bit quite as hard. Damon exhaled slowly, steam rising off his skin, his blood energy stabilizing into a warm pulse beneath his flesh. The upgrades were kicking in fast.

[Fire Resistance: C-Rank (Passive)]

[Effect: Reduces fire-based damage by 15%. Duration: Permanent. Can evolve with continued exposure.]

[Fire Affinity: +6]

[Effect: Slight increase in effectiveness of fire-based spells. Enables learning of intermediate-tier fire magic.]

Damon wiped the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand and cracked his neck. "Not bad at all." The dungeon’s oppressive heat had become more bearable. He was evolving and adapting. And this was just the start.

His movement was a blur, fluid, violent, precise. The moment he landed, he swept his arm in a wide arc, [Blood Lance] tearing through four magma hounds in a single swing. Their molten blood sprayed like a miniature eruption, but Damon was already on the move.

[Shadowstep]. He vanished from the snapping jaws of the nearest beast and reappeared behind another, driving the lance straight through its back and into the throat of a second that had lunged for him. Both howled and dissolved into puddles of scorched gore, but not before Damon made a quick work of absorbing their blood essence.

[Ding! Your Fire Resistance has been upgraded.]

[Ding! You have gained +1 Fire Affinity.] _{frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓}

[Ding! Your Fire Resistance has been upgraded.]

[Ding! You have gained +1 Fire Affinity.]

The alerts came one after another, but Damon didn’t even glance at them. The courtyard had become a crimson and gold slaughterhouse, the smell of burning fur and superheated blood thick in the air.

The hounds began to respond. They circled tighter, faster, trying to cut off his angles. A dozen at once pounced. It made no difference to Damon at all.

With the evasive manneurs of a rogue, build of a tank and a huge reservoir of mana at his disposal, his figure appeared and disappeared at will as he took down more and more of the magma hounds, quickly absorbing every single one’s blood essence.

Damon did not even let go of a single hound and thoroughly cleaned every one of them of their blood essence.