Chapter 138: Chapter 132 – Mistakes were Made

True Dhampir

[Your primary living bloodline is your Base Form, Dragon. Which of your undead bloodlines is primary?]

Sage Draugr

Paramount Lich

Daywalker Vampire

Paramount Lich

[True Dhampirs may be Crossblooded. Do you accept your other Heritages?]

Serenity hadn’t expected that. If he said no, did that mean they’d go away?

As much as he’d like to get rid of the Vampire one, he had to admit it hadn’t actually been a problem - and there was no way he was willing to give up whatever humanity he had left by throwing away that “heritage”. He didn’t want to throw away his past, even the parts he didn’t like.

Yes, they’re a part of me.

[Noticed]

[Evolution initiated. The True Dhampir Path will become active when you complete Evoker]

[True Dhampir Path skills: Living Dead, DeathLife Breath, Deathgaze, Dhampir’s Transformation, Truth from Falsity]

[Connecting Vitality to both Life and Death Affinities]

[Death Affinity does not exist, using Death Incarnate]

[Life Concept initiated]

[Death Resistance increased to Immune]

[Life Resistance Increased]

[Mind Resistance increased]

[Sleep Resistance increased]

[Cold, Darkness, and Pain Resistance Inactive (undead) merged with Active amounts]

[Life Affinity overwhelmed by Death Incarnate]

[Life Affinity destroyed]

[True Dhampir Path corrupted]

[Vitality Damaged]

[Alternate Vitality support required]

[Examining Primary bloodlines: Highest remaining affinity is Essence]

[Examining Primordial Lich for complementary / opposing Affinity]

[Affinity found: Mana (Arcane)]

[Connecting Vitality to both Essence and Mana Affinities]

[Affinity model inaccurate, reclassifying Essence and Mana as Vital Forces]

[Essence Pool found]

[Arcane Aspect initiated]

[Providing Arcane energy to balance Aspect initiation]

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[Vitality Restored]

[Dhampir’s Default Activated]

Serenity felt pain as his body was reforged in the lack of a place that was the Voice’s.

It reminded him of his study of the Void. It was closer to Liminal space than most of the other definitions.

[Liminal (Void) Affinity Increased]

Other Concepts flashed by him and he tried to grasp what he could, but the pain was all-encompassing.

It seemed like forever before the Voice put him to sleep.

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Serenity woke up in his room in the Tutorial. He was in his dragonling form, but it felt different. He examined as much of himself as he could see, but nothing looked different.

Some of the messages he remembered from before he passed out sounded bad, so he pulled up his status. Everything looked fine, other than a couple of missing Affinities, but he’d expected that from the messages; the missing Arcane Affinity probably wasn’t a problem and if he now used something other than Life as his vital affinity, losing that didn’t seem too bad … wait. He had an Essence pool now, but more importantly, why were it and his Mana pool nearly twice as large as his Mana pool was before?

Was the error actually going to be useful?

Serenity directed his thoughts at the Voice. What happened. Why is my mana pool so large?

[An unexpected error. Your Death and Life affinities were disparate enough that when they attempted to combine, your Death Incarnate destroyed your Life Affinity]

[Most Dhampir are born, not made. This has never been seen before]

[An evolution with those consequences should not have been offered]

That sounded like an apology, but it still didn’t answer the question. Serenity didn’t need an apology; he needed to know what it meant for the future. It’d hurt, but that was over.

So what happened?

[The evolution was too far along to be halted or changed to an alternate Species, but the subchoice could be altered, especially as you picked True rather than one of the subchoices linked to living/undead]

[It was done quickly and with the fastest tools available to prevent additional degradation. Once a matching complementary/opposing pair was identified, you were spliced with Elemental material to aid the fusion]

[The only obvious effect is enlarged Mana and Essence pools, but it is likely that there will be negative effects if you drain either pool too far. It is possible that there will be negative effects if they are sufficiently unbalanced]

[While this has the effect of two additional Evolutions, they were incorporated into your Core’s Tier 2 Evolution and have not increased your Core Tier]

[Your Evolution-based Path True Dhampir was damaged by the changes. It will be repaired when you complete your current Path]

[Additional changes may manifest with time due to the emergency nature of the repairs]

So … an apology, an excuse, a power he needed to be careful about using too much, and a mysterious warning.

It sounded pretty normal, really. Serenity had expected worse.

He shifted back into his chimera form and found that - other than still feeling different somehow - the only noticeable difference was that he seemed to be alive again, instead of mostly undead. The Heart was gone.

It was nice to be able to feel things again.

Waitaminute. The Quest was to take a Death-based Evolution. Does this mean I failed the Quest? Did I go through that for nothing?

[That Quest was complete as soon as you selected to Evolve. You will not be presented with Death-based Evolutions in the future. The active Quests you have are Tutorial Instruction, Restore the Lost, your Path Quest, Home is Where the Heart is? (Path Choice, Branching, Step 4), and Final Relics]

Serenity pulled his armor on and laid back to take a nap before the end of the Tutorial - he had to remember to set a timer to wake up before the transition, but that was easy enough.

[Tutorials Completed as Instructor: 43/180]

 

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General - Major Changes: Core Progression and Tier, Path Level, Mana and Essence