Liam snapped his neck only to see a motorcycle a few meters away from him and with its speed, there was no way an ordinary human like him could avoid it.
Suddenly he heard a sigh and everything paused, the crowd all paused with wide mouths some with over enlarged eyes as they watched the scene, their saliva floated mid air and even the air stilled.
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>Completed...
>Current situation... Danger!
>Cause... Stupidity!!
>Unlock memories... Unavailable..
>First awakening... Failed..
>Second awakening.. Failed..
Immediate Override..
Liam trembled as he felt an electric jolt run through his spine, his femur strengthened, the tiny hairs on his body all stood and he bolted, like a smoke he vanished.
Everything came back to normal, and the rider sped into the road as police vehicles chased after him, it turns out it was a criminal trying to escape from the authorities. The crowd continued their activities as what just happened seemed too hazy for them to understand, their memories became blurred but one person frowned and it was the beautiful woman.
She squinted her eyes as she stared at the broken skateboard at the alley, something was wrong, wasn't someone just there..
Like a blur, Liam left after images as he ran through the alley, jumping over garbages and other blockages, after a while he stopped, his eyes regained their light and he looked around, how on Earth did he appear here, he couldn't think much as he fell to the ground, he body was trembling and black blood poured spurted Continuously out of his mouth.
He supported his body with his arms and stared the the blood aghast, was he dying, this has never happened before, his thoughts halted as he raised he head, facing the bright sky which only had a little part showing as he was in between two tall buildings, their shadows darkened the area making it hard for anyone to spot him.
His eyes bulged and a gut wrenching scream reverberated loudly or so he thought, not a sound left his mouth, his voice seemed to be blocked by a barrier.
Suddenly he stopped screaming and stood up, his entire aura changed, although the reckless aura was still there, his childlike innocence was gone, what replaced it was a dark, arrogant and prideful aura.
"Welcome back, Host"
He looked around perplexed, who was talking to him.
"Host, your reckless act has broken my previous calculations and punishments must be carried out!"
The cold voice continued, Liam figured out whatever was talking to him was in his head, but when he heard punishment, he scowled.
"Do you know who you speak to, I am the night lord, ruler of one of the greatest vamp... Arrgghh!!" he felt his head splitting and screamed while holding his head, he knelt on the hard ground, anger filled his heart, how dare whatever was in his head mess with him, thousands tremble before his name.
He raised his hand and threw a punch to the ground. "I'll advise against that" he heard that hateful voice, although it wasn't cold this time, still he snickered inwardly, no one could advise him against what he wanted, his fist collided with the hard paved ground.
"Arrgghh!!" Loud cracking sounds echoed and Liam issued another scream, he gazed at his fist which was mangled, his bones were like brittle glass, his fingers were now in different positions.
Liam was aghast, what happened to his body that could destroy bricks with just a small squeeze, what was going on, or was this pavement made with dark Ash, no that's impossible, even dark Ash can't cause such devastation to his body.
He continued pondering about different possibilities when he suddenly stopped, he leaned on the walls of a building behind him and stared ahead with hollow eyes
>Memories fully unlocked... 100%.
Pain filled his heart, his lover, they had been together for more than two hundred years yet she got rid of him for a small useless artifact.
His painful memories were abruptly halted by an emotionless voice "that artifact wasn't useless, and you have just thirty minutes before you die".
"What!" This was the worst way to present bad news, he just recovered his memories and he was going to die, how sad.
>Urgent mission: consume five packs of O type blood.... Deadline: 00:20:00.
>Failure: death.
"Last I remembered the blood bank is more than a mile away and I'm supposed to get there in twenty minutes, when I can't even walk, I give up!.
It's morning, how am I supposed to sneak in, snatch blood and escape without a crowd gathering outside to laugh at the fool who mistakenly mistook a blood bank for an actual bank"
"Then it's been nice knowing you Host"
"Wait, I've read a lot of books about this, what's the reward, I'm thinking women, money?.. na.. just beautiful girls and look at my body.. it's horrible, I also need muscles, looking good is the key to the ladies"
"Hey did you hear me!" I've laid out my options!" Liam yelled aloud.
"Host, you can communicate with me through your inner voice, do not also forget that your stupidity and lust for women got you killed in your past life and almost got you killed again if I hadn't intervened... There will be no reward other than, upgrading your identity from host to Liam"
This was good news for the prideful Liam, he smiled.
"Deal!" He yelled instantly and raised his hands for a handshake, his face turned red and he pretended to scratch his hair while looking around.
"Whew! Nobody saw that!"
"I did and it was foolish!"
Liam's lips twitched 'other systems don't talk like you, they're usually cool, cold and robotic.. yes they're totally robotic!'.
"Need I remind you that this is not a fantasy, your time has begun and hurry, an ancient has caught a whiff of your scent"
"An ancient?" Liam muttered with puzzlement written over his face.
But when he heard the serious alarm from his 'other voice' he bolted towards the direction of the blood bank, he was amazed by his speed as the cool air swooshed against his face and his white canvas made light sounds in the silent alleyway.
He remembered something very famous in the novels he loved reading and muttered inwardly.
'STATUS'.