Chen Yue had just finished reading the latest update on one of the novels he reads when he suddenly felt both hot and cold, calm and scared. Feeling as such naturally confused him greatly as he looked around to see what is going on.
As he looks around his small room, his eyes eventually fall upon a small black cube that he was certain wasn't within his room moments before, making him believe this is the cause of the sudden odd feeling he had just had.
"What on earth is this thing..." Chen Yue mumbles as he picks it up with his hand.
As he was about to look over it to see if there is something dangerous about it, his body was suddenly assaulted with an unbearable pain, causing him to fall onto the ground and flail about, unable to even scream after opening his mouth.
Due to the pain, he didn't notice that the black cube had ended up entering his body through his hand. If he noticed this, he would of been shocked and wonder if it was some sort of alien technology, but due to the pain, he sadly didn't notice it.
As he flailed around on the ground, he much wanted to faint, but for some reason he wasn't able to faint, making him have to bear with the pain without anyway to be relieved of it. Unable to completely bear with it, Chen Yue ended up smashing his head onto the floor multiple times, causing blood to splash around on the floor as his forehead was torn apart.
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Yue found he couldn't even kill himself by smashing his head against the ground, making him just sit still and hope this pain would end soon, or else he would go mad.
Thankfully, the pain finally subsided a few minutes after he stopped moving, much to his relief. He was wary of the pain coming back, but after a few more minutes the pain didn't come back at all, making him fully relieved.
"What the hell just happened..." Chen Yue confusedly says.
As he looks around for the black cube he picked up, he noticed it wasn't anywhere around the room, much to his confusion. He knows that the sudden pain he just dealt with was due to the black cube, and now the black cube was actually missing.
"Where the heck did the black cube go? It was the cause of that pain I just felt, and now it just disappears after the pain stops!" Chen Yue spat through grit teeth.
[The Black Cube had fused with your body, Host.]
"Who?!" Chen Yue yelled.
Jumping up off the ground, Chen Yue looked around for the person who just spoke, but he found nothing around, even looking outside his window nobody was there. Confused and somewhat scared, Chen Yue heard the voice again.
[Stop looking around, Host. I am the AI of the Black Cube you just fused with, so I am speaking directly into your head now.]
Chen Yue was stunned and didn't want to believe the voice saying it was in his head, but he had no choice but to believe it after looking around once again, still finding nobody around, making him forced to believe it.
"What are you?" Chen Yue asked warily.
[I am the AI of the Black Cube which is also known as the Supreme Ascension Cube. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the Supreme Ascension Cube somehow ended up in Host's room, subsequently fusing with Host after he touched it.]
Chen Yue wasn't stunned anymore, due to him forcing himself to stay calm. After all, with an unknown, and quite possibly alien technology now inside his head, he has to be calm or something might happen again.
"What can you do? I refuse to believe I went through all of the pain for nothing!" Chen Yue questioned.
[Host doesn't need to worry. The Supreme Ascension Cube is an advanced technology from the very far future, possibly billions to trillions of years in the future. There are many uses of the Supreme Ascension Cube, but Host currently only has access to one function - Status. Similar to those of Host's novels, Host would be able to bring up a screen which Host can see his life information, stats as numbers and a few other things. Once Host gets stronger, Host would unlock more functions.]
Chen Yue was stunned again, as he didn't expect something like this. He just expected it to give him some sort of weird power, not a Status like those of the novels he was reading. Heck, the chapter he just read from the novel earlier also had a Status in it.
"Right... How do I use this Status then?" Chen Yue asked with slight excitement in his tone.
[Before that, Host must choose something. As Host fused with the Supreme Ascension Cube, Host needs to give up his Humanity and become a different race altogether. Host can choose from the following races:
1- Dragonkin
2- Demonkin
3- Elf
4- Beastman
5- Skeleton(Evolving Bloodline)
6- Zombie(Evolving Bloodline)
7- Vampire
Please choose of the the mentioned races to change into, Host. This is a needed change, or else Host would be completely useless and would end up dying no matter what he does.]
Chen Yue didn't expect he needed to actually change his race, becoming something not human. Looking at all the races on the list he can choose, he frowns and decides to choose the one closest to being a human - Vampire.
"I'll choose Vampire then, since it is the closest possible to a human." Chen Yue said.
[Host has chosen the Vampire Bloodline... Please bear with the slight pain of purging and swapping of Bloodlines!]
Chen Yue was suddenly assaulted by pain once again, but this pain was not even 1/4th of the pain he had felt earlier, so he only frowned with some sweat dripping down his forehead from it, not even falling to the ground from it.
The pain only lasted about 20 minutes before it stopped, and he then felt a cool energy enter his body and surround his heart, making him surprised and interested in what it was, because even he could feel it was helping him.
[Host has successfully swapped his Bloodline to that of a Vampire... Host has obtained the Vampire Bloodline abilities... Host can see the changes in his Status by saying Status or thinking it.]
"Status." Chen Yue said.
[Name: Chen Yue
-Gender: Male
-Race: Vampire(0/10)
-Age: 21
-Strength: 10/1000(Mortal)
-Agility: 10/1000(Mortal)
-Dexterity: 10/1000(Mortal)
-Endurance: 10/1000(Mortal)
-Vitality: 10/1000(Mortal)
-Intelligence: 10/1000(Mortal)
-Charm: 10/1000(Mortal)
-Luck: 10/1000(Mortal)
-Soul: Mortal
-Servants: 0
-Points: 0
-World Points: 0
-Energy Points: 0
-Perks: Immortal(P)
-Abilities: Blood Siphoning(1/10), Bat Transformation(1/10), Blood Burst(1/10), Cellular Destruction(1/10)]
Chen Yue looked at his Status and was surprised by the information on it, but he was more interested in the abilities he has and that Immortal Perk, he was wondering how Immortal he was now.
"Can you tell me what my Abilities and the Perk do? Also, why is there a 0/10 beside my race?" Chen Yue asked.
[Host can evolve his Bloodline by the amount of Servants he has. At 10 Servants, Host becomes a Baron ranked Vampire, at 100 Servants Host becomes a Earl rank Vampire, at 1000 Servants Host becomes a Viscount rank Vampire, at 10000 Servants Host becomes a Count rank Vampire and at 100000 Servants Host becomes a Primogenitor Vampire.
Immortal Perk: You are a True Immortal, and the only way for you to be killed is by being sealed by certain ways. Even then you are not truly dead and will be able to live once again after the seal deteriorates or you get freed from it.
Blood Siphoning: Absorb blood from any living target to increase your Stats. The amount increased determines on the strength of the target.
Bat Transformation: Transform into a bat that can freely fly around and have night vision. You can also partially transform and obtain bat wings on your back.
Blood Burst: Using blood as your weapon, you can cause it to explode and deal damage to your targets.
Cellular Destruction: Any Servants you have under you, if they do something you do not like, you can use this Ability on them and destroy them from the inside, causing them immense pain.]
Chen Yue had his mouth wide open at the Abilities he just got. He can tell that they are all very overpowered, but the fact that he got them right at the start means that they aren't actually that strong, but they are strong for a low vampire like him.
What really surprised him was the fact that his Vampire Bloodline can evolve by the amount of Servants he as, and the fact that he can increase his Stats by absorbing the blood of living targets, which he somewhat expected.
[Host should sleep now as the strain on his body from the fusing of the Supreme Ascension Cube and the change in his Bloodline is not something Host can bear with without any rest.]
Agreeing with the AI, Chen Yue listens to it and jumps onto his bed to sleep. He can clearly feel the mental strain he has had for a while now, and since he can get rid of it by sleeping, he decided to sleep for now and ask further questions in the future.