Vampire Cultivation System in a Hidden World of Monsters

The man who turned out to not be going to the bathroom in the plants, unless he was going to the bathroom fully clothed, leapt at me baring his fingers and teeth. I kicked him in the face.

He slid past me on the floor on his back, admittedly rather stunned from my kick to his face. I turned around and aimed my sword at his face, but he bit it. That didn't really do much since his teeth weren't strong enough to damage the blade.

I just pulled the blade back. He got up off the ground and went to jump at me again and I was tempted to say something, but it seemed pointless. This guy was going to keep attacking me until I killed him.

So I readied my sword, waited for him to jump, and then cut his head off mid air. His head flew into the plants. His body flopped to the ground. Nothing special happened after that.

I looked around for food or something useful but there really was nothing to be had. A few more people jumped out of the bushes at me and I took them out quickly and easily. Discover exclusive tales on empire

I was within sight of the back door of the room, when another dude popped out at me but he had a knife and he was swinging from a vine. I ducked under the knife and cut him in half as he swung away. There was so much carnage in this room of plant life and vegetation.

Next, was the engineering section which was all pipes and steam. A few people jumped out at me, but I just used my sheathed sword to beat them to death. It wasn't a particularly challenging area.

After that was the gravity generator room. It was a spherical room that contained a large geometric object in the center that spun and rotated. The room itself had no gravity.

So I had to crawl and jump my way through space to get to the other side.

[Madness Progress = 27%]

The madness was encroaching on my mind. I could feel an unbearable mindless rage building inside me, trying to get out. But I would beat it. I would find a cure or beat it some other way. I had to.

There were pirates gathered on the spinning geometric object in the center of the room. They aimed guns at me and shot at me as I pushed and floated my way through the room.

They hit me in the back, the shoulder, the legs. They hurt but it wasn't the damage that was bothering me. It was annoying that they kept pestering me. This was the fourth room that pirates just kept chipping away at my patience and I couldn't take it anymore.

I drew my sword and activated Blood Draw. I extended the sword's length and swung at the mass of pirates in the center of the room. I struck and sliced through the pirate mass.

As the severed pirates fell away from the mass, I saw the gravity generator underneath. I had forgotten about it. I knew it was there just a second ago, but this madness made me blind to the danger of my actions. The generator grew brighter and brighter until it exploded.

Pieces of the generator flew towards me. I dodged them, but they hit the wall around me, causing smaller explosions that separated the portion of wall I was on from the rest of the ship.

I started to float away into the darkness of space. I was lucky I had a space suit on or I'd be toast. Thinking quickly, I gathered Vi into my hands and released it, blasting me back towards the ship.

I continued to use Vi blasts to rocket myself back to the ship and into the gravity generator room again. I made my way to the door on the other side of the room. I pressed the button to open the airlock.

Once inside I closed it. I floated there for a minute and just breathed. I almost got lost in space. I knew this was a game but I had a feeling it was one of those die in the game, die in real life situations. And I did not look forward to dying. Again.

I opened the inner airlock door and collapsed into the medical bay. I felt someone help me up. It wasn't really helping me up since there was no gravity. It was more like being looked over by someone. Once I got a good look at the person moving my body around, I was staring into the face of Lara, the president's daughter from a different dungeon.

"Lara? What are you doing here?" I said.

"I'm rich, remember? Thanks to you." She said. "So I bought a trip aboard this spaceship to get to the Mars colony, but then we got hijacked by pirates. Pirates that were carrying a deadly disease."

"I know," I said. "I got infected."

"Me too," she said, looking down. "There's only one cure left in the med bay. There's more at the helm of the ship, but who knows if we'll be able to make it in time. Who do you think should take the cure?"

"You, obviously," I said. I needed that cure, but I wasn't going to sacrifice someone else's life to get it.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"But you're stronger in a fight. We need someone strong to retake control of the ship, or the pirates will kill us all," she said, hesitating.

"No. You take it. I'll manage until we get to the helm," I said.

"Ok," Lara said, as she pulled out a syringe. She stabbed it into her leg and injected it. She started to convulse and her eyes rolled into the back of her head.

"Lara! Are you ok," I said.

The convulsions subsided and her eyes went back to normal. "Yeah, I'm fine. It's you I'm worried about," she said as she stared into my eyes. Her pupils dilated until the entire surface of her eyes was black.

[Madness progress = 54%]

I didn't know if her eyes had actually turned black or if this was just the progression of my madness. I needed to fix this and I needed to fix it soon.