[Blood Tower] (Divine, Damaged)
Storage (Passive): Store inanimate items within the 60 Floors. Because of the damage done to the tower, only beings with a spirit link to Valiant Heart may enter the tower.
Size Change (Passive): Change the size of the tower at will, from a ten centimeters tall tower to a thousand meters tall tower.
Resistance (Passive): Resistance to all elements +25% for the owner of the tower, also receives 10% less damage from any attack.
Bloody Onslaught (Active): +50% damage to all allies within ten kilometers, and -20% Agility to all enemies for 10 minutes. Cooldown: 1 day.
Heightened Flight (Passive): 500% flight speed.
Adam already expected something good since this was a Divine Artifact, even though it was damaged. But this was beyond any of his expectations, truly worthy of a Divine Rank Artifact. To think such a thing was his…
Now that it was his, Adam could perfectly feel everything within the tower, as well as outside. He could see the thousands of Vampires waiting outside, looking anxiously at the tower. This made him chuckle, he shouldn't tarry too much or some of them might awaken their heart for a second, only to suffer from a heart attack.
Through his link to the tower, he knew one more thing it could do, and that was storing the tower inside his mind. Normally, one of this tower's greatest uses was to protect the user from mind and soul attacks by placing the tower in their mind.
However, the arrays in charge of forming those protections were gone, as well as multiple other ones, because Ardrith had destroyed them with himself as he died.
Among those functions were those that would allow him to store any living being within the tower, and create illusory monsters. Others might think it was a coincidence the functions he needed the most for his guild were the ones destroyed, but Adam knew it wasn't one.
Now, he was sure Ardrith was capable of seeing everything happening outside of the tower, meaning he knew what the vampires would talk about everyday.
And recently, Adam had made people talk about him a lot, and it wouldn't be a surprise if a few vampires talked about his situation with the dragons in front of the tower. As such, Ardrith took away what would have allowed him to make his guild safe, as well as one of the main functions of the tower.
Adam didn't really know if Ardrith had said the truth about his story or not, or what was true in it and what wasn't. He wouldn't trust anything he said anyway.
And even though the ghost of the Undead Emperor made him lose a lot, the tower was still incredible, and Adam would even be receiving additional rewards from the Holy Temple.
Adam only had to think about it for the tower to start rapidly shrinking, and in under a second it disappear in his mind, leaving Adam standing in mid air, in the middle of the Vampire City.
The Enhanced Flight from his tower allowed him to float even though he hadn't been promoted yet. Flight could be achieved in two ways. First, reach the Gold Rank and force the space around one's body to carry them. The second way would be to understand 1% of the Spatial Concept.
One of the hidden boosts of the Blood Tower was from Heightened Flight as it had automatically gave him an initial grasp of the Sovereign Concept of Space, which could grow into one of the most powerful and useful Essences, or even Law.
There was even a reason for him obtaining this concept. To use Heightened Flight, the tower would actually boost his body with the elements of space coming from the 60th Floor. When one first entered the 60th Floor, like Adam they would think it was a Demonic Floor made to understand the Demonic Concept, but that was a misconception.
The Great Devil, or Evil God, who set up this tower had simply decided to use demons as the strongest monsters, and so he put them on the top floor. But that floor, although it looked like hell, it was only a part of that floor.
Anyway, flooding his body with such a concentrated wave of space elements had allowed him to understand 0.01% of the Sovereign Concept of Space.
Adam felt a little helpless he had once again understood another Sovereign Concept, he was already at his 6th one, it was more than time to stop. Others would already feel understanding a single Sovereign Concept would take them their entire life, so understanding six of them at the same time was going to be tenuous. Fortunately, he could use the Blood Tower to train faster.
Anyway, using his meager understanding of Space, Adam slowly floated down toward the Vampire King. Thankfully his flying speed was boosted by 500%, or else he would be flying at the speed of a crawl.
After a few seconds, he landed in front of the stupefied king, and he took out [Xarnin's Blood]. He showed it to the Vampire King and said "Here you go."
Vald looked at the vial with wide eyes, and took it with shaking hands. As he confirmed it was what he thought it was, he gulped, and the potion disappeared in his inventory. He then looked at Adam, and suddenly took him in a fierce hug.
Adam was stupefied as he didn't expect this from one of the most dignified and powerful beings in the entire Mortal Plane, moreover any human from Earth would avoid being hugged by a vampire… they had sharp teeth.
But of course, he didn't move away, and instead patted his back and said "There's no need to be so emotional."
Vald moved away, but Adam could see… tears? However, Vald wasn't sad, he was crying in happiness. He tried to wipe away the tears, but seeing he couldn't stop crying, he simply let out a chocked laugh and said "My people! WE ARE FREE!"
Adam looked around, and noticed that Vald wasn't the only one crying. Almost everyone was. They had all lived through terrible times, when they first transformed and became ostracized, when they found a new family in the vampires, when their new family was hunted to near extinction, and all this while, they could only feel pleasure in the pain of others…
Before he could react, Adam saw himself get lifted by the vampires as they began celebrating in a mix of laughter and tears.
As he saw them in this state, Adam saw even King Slayer was tearing up a little. This went on for half an hour before they somehow calmed down, and Vald brought Adam away.
At the same time, Vald had started the preparations to spread the cure to everyone, their alchemists had been preparing for millions of years now to distill [Xarnin's Blood] to everyone in the shortest time possible, and today, the vampire alchemists would get the privilege to be the ones who would distill that legendary potion.
While the alchemists immediately started working, Vald brought Adam and King Slayer to the vault of the entire race, and said "I said earlier we would owe you one if you managed to get the cure, but honestly… you can take everything in the vault and no one would care!"
Adam smiled but shook his head and said "I, would feel bad. There's only a few things inside that would be of interest to me, and they are of no use to you too."
Vald nodded, he was true to his words, he really wouldn't mind if Adam took everything inside. On the side, King Slayer said "I don't yearn for anything inside either. I have already made my request."
Vald nodded once again and said "No problem, you were the one who brought our savior here, transforming you using Royal Blood is nothing. As a Sovereign, you even have the chance to become an Imperial Vampire. To boost your chances, the best time for your change would be during your promotion to Silver Rank. Come find me when you have reached Level 50."
King Slayer nodded, and Adam couldn't help but feel a little envious. King Slayer was a Sovereign like him, but he didn't have to go through a Promotion Quest. Adam had to do so much to become a Silver Rank though.
Of course, Adam wasn't really jealous in the end, as it was those challenges and hurdles that allowed him to become much stronger than any other Sovereign and gain so much.