The reason for Ast's uneasiness was the availability of blood-related skills twice in two days.
Generally when awakening one's talent, the talent of an individual skews towards something that the said individual is adept in or shows potential in. For example, a person having proficiency or potential in fire-related talents is more likely to obtain talent of a similar kind during awakening.
Similar is the situation if someone is from a family of say warriors with strong physical abilities through generations, then that person's talent would more likely be a physical talent or something to assist in frontal combat.
Now talking about the talents related to blood, these talents were predominantly awakened by creatures known as vampires. Vampires have both potential and bloodline for the said talent hence more often than not the people from the 'blood clan' awaken talent related to blood.
Yesterday when Ast got the 'blood manipulation' talent, although he was aware that its existence indicates that the said person might be from a blood clan. But he thought it might have been a coincidence, as a human with a high affinity towards blood might be able to awaken a blood talent, though the probability is quite low.
But now he has got another blood-related talent on his hand and that too an SS-grade talent. Which he was 100% sure belongs to a vampire. Because no human could have such high proficiency towards blood.
Ast was still in the zero dimension, and now he was feeling a bit weak because copying an SS-grade talent had consumed quite a lot of his soul power. At first, he tried to locate the person/creature from whom he had copied this talent. With difficulty, he found out that the host of this talent was buried underground but was still alive.
This discovery of his made him more fearful. Various runes around this region, a very strong vampire lying underground. This all indicated that there was something major going on around and Ast doesn't want any part of it. Not yet anyway.
While Ast was contemplating his next move, he suddenly felt a strong pain in his head as if someone was banging inside his head and this pain was slowly travelling down his body.
This was an indication of low soul power. Ast quickly moved towards the node, so that he could exit the zero dimension.
It took him around 10 mins to come back and right now he was sweating profusely as this was a close call. He was very close to fainting and he didn't know what would happen if he was unconscious inside the zero dimension.
Ast decided it was better to first rest before going back to the village. These past two days have been eventful for him and going by the flow, the coming days were going to be the same. He called the blood devil back and asked him to protect him while he meditates.
After an hour of rest and meditation, Ast was feeling much better and he decided to head back home. Ast came to his hut and directed his attention back to his talent panel.
Ast had made up his mind, the 'Blood monarch' talent was super strong and he didn't want to lose out on it, so he had decided to go along with it even if there was a danger of his race changing.
[Installing 'Blood monarch' talent will take 10 hours of transformation. The host is advised to be in a safe space as he would be unconscious throughout the process]
It was just the start of the evening and Ast decided to initiate the process. But before starting he asked the blood devil to stand guard.
As soon as he gave his consent for the start of the process, Ast felt horrible pain bombarding him, but before even he could register the level of pain he lost his consciousness.
Ast was lying on the floor and the blood all over his body was boiling. The colour of his skin was slowly darkening and weird energy was surrounding his body.
After an hour the energy surrounding his body started to solidify and started forming a cocoon around him. A blood red colour cocoon covered with gold and purple runes.