MTL NOVEL Chapter 4: Itch
"Heheheh. I didn't know you had such a sharp tongue. But if you already know the truth, then you should just die obediently. Let your death be your first and only contribution to the clan." Rick Bloodbane smiled coldly.
"I see." Damien Bloodbane said softly. He didn't want to believe it. But there it was.
His own grandfather chose face over his life.
"So he would rather kill his own grandson than let him live and continue to bring him shame. What a good General Bloodbane." Damien's bitterness rose to the heavens. He thought he had distanced himself from the world, and shielded his heart entirely from whatever the rest of the world could say or do.
But his grandfather's betrayal hurt him very deeply.
"You betrayed him first." Rick Bloodbane said quietly.
"Did I?" Damien Bloodbane couldn't help but sneer and ask as he heard Rick's ridiculous claim.
"You betrayed him the moment you awakened to E Rank, the first and only such low powered trash in the whole world. You took a vast amount of the Clan's resources. All of our best warriors and specialists were pulled back from the war to train you. All of our rare medicines were given to you.
For twelve years our clan was in constant decline, all of our younger generations were weaker than their competitors and many of them died while tempering themselves… Because the General went all in on you!
And how did you repay the clan? Instead of becoming strong and carrying the weight of our future on your shoulders, you became trash!" Rick Bloodbane spat venomously.
It was as though he was expressing many years worth of indignance.
And he wasn't done.
"E Rank! You're TRASH! You understand? It'll take you years just to catch up to your juniors! And by becoming trash after taking all of our clan's resources, you've betrayed us! You are a traitor!" Rick Bloodbane shouted angrily.
D rank was considered weak, and after so many years, the weakest awakened were D rank.
D rankers would take a long time to power up to C rank, which was considered the functional rank. Most of the productive awakened were C rank.
B rank, though rare, was slowly becoming more mainstream as the top tiered C rankers slowly powered up and entered B rank.
A rank was the creme of the crop, and only the top 0.001% of society were A rankers.
In a world of 10 billion people, there were only 100,000 were A rankers.
As for S rank, there were only slightly more than 100 of them recorded in the world.
Thus, one could see just how weak and looked down upon an E ranker was!
"Hahahaha!" Damien Bloodbane laughed out of sheer bitterness.
"The heavens granted me the privilege of being born in the Bloodbane family, but they didn't grant me the strength to survive, even after being expelled from it!
If this is your idea of life, then I DON'T WANT IT!"
Damien Bloodbane exploded forward in a massive burst of speed, taking Rick Bloodbane completely by surprise.
"This bastard. Even with just an E Rank's mana augmentation, his speed had reached such an incredible level? It is such a shame that he didn't awaken stronger! Shame!" Rick Bloodbane was filled with regret over what he was about to do, but there was no other way.
Damien Bloodbane was a stain on the Bloodbane Family Honor.
He must die.
Booom!!!
A wave of scorching hot fire blast radiated outwards from his outstretched hand and slammed into Damien Bloodbane before his dagger could reach Rick Bloodbane's neck.
He was flung like a ragdoll and smashed into a pile of rubble several meters away. To make things worse for him, a strange bluish shard was sticking out of the pile of rubble, and it pierced into his body!
Crack! Jleb!
Several of his bones shattered in the crash and it was all he could do to maintain his consciousness as an excruciating wave of pain blistered through his body.
Strangely, the blue shard suddenly broke apart into tiny particles upon contact with his blood, and disappeared into his body without a trace!
Uhuk uhuk!
He coughed out several mouthfuls of blood and all of his strength quickly drained from his body.
No amount of physical training and mental fortitude could protect him from a direct, full bodied attack from an Awakened, even if the Awakened was merely at the C rank like the man in front of him.
That was the insurmountable gap between a miserable E Rank Awakened, and the still miserable but vastly stronger than him C Rank Awakened.
Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.
Rick Bloodbane's heavy military boots stepped down heavily as he walked up to Damien Bloodbane's broken body and looked down on him with pity in his eyes.
"You were supposed to be the sharp spear leading the Bloodbane Clan back into glory. You betrayed the hopes of the Clan. In the name of the Bloodbane Clan, I will send you to meet your parents. In hell." Rick Bloodbane said softly and drew his sword to manually finish him off.
However, unbeknownst to him, the barely conscious Damien Bloodbane was not even paying attention to his words.
His razor sharp focus was drawn completely inwards in his mind at that moment.
[Death Energy Detected… Absorbed]
[Death Sovereign Legacy, Activated]
[Welcome, Damian Bloodbane, Sovereign of Death]
[You may select your class]
[Available Classes:]
[Death Necromancer]
[Death Knight]
[Death Assassin]
Along with the strange words appearing in his mindspace, a surge of incredibly potent energy ripped through his body at that moment, triggering a multi directional chain reaction in every single one of his cells!
SPLAT!!
"ARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!"
Black blood and bits of pungent flesh exploded violently out of Damien Bloodbane's body, spraying the ground in a grotesque display of gore. A horrifying scream of extreme pain tore from his throat, reverberating through the air like a dying animal's last cry.
The impurities in his body had been forcibly expelled with violent force, and they took the most direct way out of his body, straight through his flesh.
[Extremely contaminated body detected]
[Stage one body cleansing initiated]
[Brace for pain]
"BRACE FOR PAIN? NOW YOU SAY THAT?! FUCK YOU AND YOU WHOLE FAMILY!!!"
The usually stoic and incredibly self-controlled Damien Bloodbane had just suffered a mental blow when he discovered that his own grandfather wanted him dead.
With such an irritating system appearing in his mind all of a sudden and unleashing a hellish amount of pain in his body without any warning whatsoever UNTIL the pain had already started, he lost his cool completely and started to curse it with all of his might!
What a bastard! Telling him to brace for pain AFTER every inch of his skin had exploded?
Bastard! Bastard!!!