Vampire Cultivation System in a Hidden World of Monsters

Chapter 49 Becoming the Beast

I poured myself another cup of coffee and started sipping on it. I looked around the kitchen to see if Bader was down here and just being quiet like Aldous always ways, but no one was around.

I drank my coffee in silence for twenty minutes while I played with more and more complex blood constructs. I was rotating a tesseract when Bader came down in a gray robe.

"Already up, are we?" He said, sitting next to me at the breakfast bar. Whoever designed Bader's house clearly also designed Ravenkin's house and they really liked breakfast bars. "I see you helped yourself to my coffee."

"You didn't say no," I said.

"I was asleep." He said.

"What difference does that make?" I said.

"Ugh. Never mind all that. Time to get training. Chop chop!" He said.

"Mm, yeah not feeling it," I said.

"Not feeling it?" He said.

"Yeah, I don't think I can train today. I need to do something else. I've been meaning to get a contract going to light up the vampire territories. Maybe I'll do that. Or another portal dungeon. Or both.

But I can't train," I said. "I'm sorry."

"Huh. You are probably the weirdest and least obedient trainee I've ever had. But I'm glad to hear you have other productive things on your mind. Ok. Have the day off. Or two.

Whatever you need to do," he said.

"Ultimately, you're the one who's pushing yourself so hard to get stronger to fight the dragons. Most cultivators never reach where you are right now, let alone in a week."

"Thanks," I said. "I'll be back." I left Bader's mansion and walked over to Ravenkin's mansion, with my undead soul trailing behind. I knocked on the door and Ravenkin opened the door.

"Yes?" Ravenkin said.

"I want to show you something," I said, walking inside.

"Well, by all means, let yourself inside," he said, laughing genuinely.

"See, that's the difference between you and Bader. He gets annoyed by my direct get-to-the-point attitude, but you're amused by it," I said. "I had to get out of there today, clear my mind of his negativity."

"Bader isn't that bad," Ravenkin said, closing the door. "He just thinks he knows what's best so he get frustrated when people don't take the 'best' actions."

"I can understand that, but I still needed a day, or two, to decompress," I said.

I walked over in to the kitchen and started looking in his fridge. "Do you have eggs and bacon? I want to make us breakfast," I said.

"I do. Help yourself. Or help us I guess," he said. "So what did you want to show me?"

The soul beast was sitting right next to Ravenkin on the ground near the breakfast bar. It was looking at him expectantly. Probably to pet it, but Ravenkin didn't seem to notice its presence.

"You can't see it, can you?" I said, as I cracked eggs into a bowl.

"See what?" He said.

"My undead soul. I finished my undead soul formation yesterday with Bader and I wanted to show it to you," I said.

"No. Can't see it. I think you have to be at the Night Spirit Formation stage or higher even to see other people's undead souls," he said.

"Oh. Well is there a way I can make you see it? Like manifest it in the real world?" I said.

"Yes. There's a quick way and a longer way. They both happen during the Night Spirit Formation stage but one happens sooner than the other. The first stage is learning how to create a domain. A domain is a boundary usually represented by a sphere that a cultivator can manifest around themselves to affect the environment, people, and things within it," he said.

"Once you learn how to create your domain, it should be easy to manifest your soul beast within it. Your soul beast has a natural synergy with your soul domain, because they both originate from the same place, your soul."

"Ok, how do I manifest a domain?" I said, pouring the egg mixture into the pan.

"I don't know. I know the results of the steps, but not the process to creating the results. For the process, you'd have to go to Master Bader, but you don't want that," he said.

"Right. Well, then I'll figure it out myself," I said, frying the bacon. I looked at the soul beast that was next to me now since Ravenkin was ignoring it. "What do you think boy? How do I create a domain?"

The soul beast looked confused and seemed to think for a while. I used the time to finish cooking and serve breakfast for me and Ravenkin. When I was finished eating, the soul beast finally seemed to reach a conclusion.

"What is it? What do you think we should do?" I said.

The soul beast squinted its eyes and then bit my foot. Well it didn't 'bite' my foot. It didn't dig in with its teeth. It just sort of put my foot in its mouth. Then all its eyes looked at my other foot, and it started opening its mouth wider.

I realized what it wanted, but I was incredibly confused as to why. But I did like it wanted and put my other foot in its mouth. Once it had both my feet in its mouth, it smiled. Then it proceeded to swallow more and more of my body until I slipped all the way through and into it.

Everything went black for a moment, and then when I opened my eyes, I could see a 360 degree view of the room. I was inside the soul beast. Or I was the soul beast. Or most likely, I was currently one with the soul beast.

"Where'd you go?" Ravenkin said. He must not have seen me disappear and was just now noticing I was gone. I saw him look down at me and say, "Whoa! Where did you come from? Dylan? Is this what you wanted to show me?"

"Yes," I tried to say, but all that came out was a, "Woof!" of approval.

"Is that you Dylan? Are you inside this beast thing?" He said.

"Yes," I tried to say again, but again all that came out was, "Woof!"

"Well, you've showed it to me, so you can come out now," Ravenkin said.

I shook my head no. Well, I didn't have a head so I kind of moved my shoulders left and right. I could feel the soul beast in here as well and it wanted to do something with me, but I couldn't tell what.