Vampire Cultivation System in a Hidden World of Monsters

I looked around and saw what appeared to be Tommy working on something. "Hey, bro. How are you settling in?" I said awkwardly, still not entirely sure how I got here.

"Oh sweet! You came!" Tommy stood up and hugged me. He still had those really bright purple LED like eye lights, but other than that, he looked exactly the same as he always did.

"I've actually been working on some stuff I wanted to show you," he said.

"What do you mean?" I said. "It's been a day since the pit fight."

"Right!" He said. "Well, they did a magic ritual on me to implant memories of how alchemy and magic works into my brain, so I could start working for them and helping them right away."

"I should do something like that," I said. "Learning about this alchemy and magic stuff sounds cool!"

"Well, first thing, it's only used on liches because they don't care what happens to their body. If it blows up, they can just create a new one. As long as their phylactery is safe of course," he said.

"Ah, yeah I'd rather my body not blow up. I can recover from a lot, but even for me, blowing up might be stretching it," I said.

"Hey, don't worry about it man. I learned all the alchemy and magic stuff so you don't have to. Cuz that's just the kind of guy I am," he said, smiling.

"Sometimes I can't tell if you're the most sincere or sarcastic person I've ever met," I said.

"Why not both?" He said.

"I don't think you can be both sincere and sarcastic at the same time," I said, giving him a confused look.

"Oh. Well never mind all that. I have some stuff I want to show you," he said.

We walked over to a vial of dark red pills. He grabbed one and showed it to me. He said, "This is a concentrated life essence pill. This can give you 100 life essence instantly. I've only been able to make common grade or what you vampires would call mortal grade ones so far.

While they downloaded knowledge into my brain, they didn't download skill and technique, so I still have to start at the beginning skill wise."

"I know that vampire cultivators use life essence from blood to break through major and minor realms, but its so inefficient. Even the way you've said you do it, by taking all the life essence of a living being is wasteful. What if you could get a ton of life essence all at once, without having to harm a fly? That's what I'm offering you with this."

"That sounds incredible but where do you get the life essence to make the pills without hurting anyone?" I said.

"Blood banks," he said.

"But don't people need that blood?" I said.

"Not the stale stuff. We take blood that's about to be thrown out and we buy it in bulk to do experiments and rituals with. I learned how to extract the life essence from the blood into a pill form," he said.

"Ok, that's amazing, but you said you had stuff to show me as in more than one thing," I said. "What else do you have?"

"Ok, this next one is cool," he said. "It's literally cold." He picked up a light blue pill out of another vial and dropped it in my hand.

It really was cold. Very cold. I dropped it on the table because it was hurting my hand. "What does it do?" I said.

"So, I figured out that you can infuse vampire's blood with different elements so that when they use blood manipulation techniques, it not only has the properties of blood, but it also has the properties of that element. Only downside is you can only use one at a time mostly or you risk the chance of exploding," he said.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"A lot of things seem to risk that here," I said. "So what element is that?"

"Ice," he said, grinning.

"Ice isn't an element. It's a state of matter," I said.

"Try not to think logically about it," he said. "Things like logic and reason don't matter as much down here, especially when it comes to alchemy and magic. The only thing that really matters down here is the rule of cool."

"What's the rule of cool?" I said, unfamiliar with the phrase.

"It's doesn't matter if something doesn't make sense, as long as it's awesome," he said. "If you think too hard about it, alchemy and magic stops working as well and then you can risk—"

"Exploding." I said.

"Exploding." He said, at the same time. "Hey, how did you know I was going to say that?"

"Just a guess," I said, shrugging my shoulders.

"Whatever. As I was saying, there are a lot of things I've learned you can do with alchemy and magic that could help you when you fight the wicked bad monster dudes," he said.

"I can tell this is leading somewhere, but I don't want to say it for you. Not to be rude, but what is it you're trying to say?" I said.

"If you're interested, I can open a shop just for you where you can buy cool stuff from me," he said. "You'd be my only customer though."

"That actually sounds really cool. I'd like that," I said.

"And maybe if you ever end up taking on any disciples, you can send them my way," he said.

"I can definitely do that," I said. "So how much do I owe you for these pills?"

"It's ten gold giblets per pill and a hundred if you want me to give you a new bloodline," he said.

"Holy sh*t, Tommy! That's expensive!" I said.

"I'm sorry man but the material cost is coming out of my butt. Blood and alchemy materials are really expensive. That's just for mortal grade pills. It gets more expensive the higher you go up in grade," he said. "Did you know it costs six hundred dollars to get a blood transfusion? It's a good thing we buy old blood or the expense of making one life essence pill would be over five thousand dollars."

"Holy f*ck! Ok, you must not be charging me full price then," I said.

"No, I am, but if you and me become better friends, I'll give you a discount," he said, his purple eye lights shining.

"Aren't we like best friends?" I said.

"No. Dan and I are best friends. You and me are more like good friends," he said.

"Ouch. I'm wounded. Not even close friends?" I said.

"We can become close friends if you keep buying cool stuff from me," he said.

"For sure," I said, rolling my eyes. "Oh and what did you say about giving me a new bloodline?" I said.

"I figured out since you're an omni-vampire, that I can give you the benefits of bloodlines from other monsters. There was a bunch of information on omni-vampires in some old lich text I was reading. Apparently, omni-vampires are way over powered. They're supposed to be direct descendants of vampire gods, but I don't know how true that is, considering your parents were human," Tommy said.

"Wow that sounds incredible. I'll be sure to try that out at some point. What do you need for me to do that?" I said.

"Just a vial of the monster's blood that you want the bloodline of," he said.

"Because I just carry vials around with me wherever I go," I said.

"You do now," he said handing me four small pouches. I opened one and it had empty glass vials encased in foam in it.

"Ok, that's cool. I was just imagining me carrying around loose vials and having them clink against each other all the time," I said.

"That's for amateurs. We're professionals," he said, winking at me.

"Professional what, is the question," I said. "I'll buy a hundred life essence pills, and ten of whatever else you got."

"Can you afford that?" He said, his eyebrows raised.

"I'm a billionaire now. Haven't you heard?" I said.

"What? When did that happen?" He said.

"The last portal dungeon I did had a mini-game that determined my rewards and I killed it," I said.

"Huh. No kidding," he said, bundling up my pills into a box.

'System, transfer the money to Tommy.'

[Done]

A pile of gold giblets appeared on the table we were standing by. "That's for you," I said, grabbing the box of pills.

'System, end hang out.'

[Okay]

Everything went black for a moment and then I was back in the vampire territories, holding a box of pills.

I checked the system menu and the alchemy tab was available to be unlocked, so I did it. I went back to the system menu and the tab was there. When I opened it, a hole opened in space in front of me.

It looked like an alchemy shop, because that's what it was. There were bottles of pills everywhere on different shelves and spilling onto the counter.

"Oh you're back!" Tommy said, completely oblivious to the fact that a hole had opened in space that we were viewing each other through.

There was a display overlay that showed what was available for purchase and I could hit a button that increased the amount of different things I was getting. A total of what I owed showed up in the right corner.

"Yeah, I just wanted to check out how this worked," I said.

"Okay," he said.

I navigated out of the alchemy tab and the hole closed back up and again I was alone in the dark vampire territories standing next to a locked portal. That was a trip.