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A wider bloodline. A true brood structure. A real hierarchy. And if that was true, the sooner he understood it, the better.
"Upgrade Vampire Creation to level three."
The response came with immediate force.
[Ding! SYSTEM Notification: Vampire Creation Lv2 -> Vampire Creation Lv3
Upgrade in progress….]
The change was not like Blood Eye. Not like Blood Regeneration either. Not the blood control. Or any other skills.
This one struck through his bloodline itself.
Sekhmet's body went completely still as the architecture of creation shifted somewhere far beneath skin and thought. He did not flinch outwardly, but the sensation was immense. It felt as though an old locked gate inside his blood had just opened into a wider chamber. Which got more room. More lineages. More paths. The force of it spread through his chest, down his spine, through the pulse in his arms, and into the very places where his blood remembered itself as command.
