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Chapter 1084 - The Sword Saint's Vampire Adventure
🕑 Added 2025-02-27 12:00:23 +0000 UTCThe Sword Saint was fully aware that the Blood Legacy was far from an ordinary treasure, but perhaps he’d slightly underestimated it still. He’d assumed that while the treasure was definitely important, it wasn’t necessarily to the level where gods needed to be involved.
Perhaps that was just his own lack of understanding. Seeing as the item had come from a D-grade system event, he halfway expected to hear that there were many such Blood Legacies out there. Miyamoto had no information on how many Sanguine had created, much less if the system had stepped in and manually produced more.
Seeing the look on the Nalkar Family Patriarch’s face, it appeared that these Blood Legacies weren’t a dime a dozen. This made him question why the system had rewarded such a rare and important item as the final reward for a low-level system event, but that was a topic he was confident he could ponder on for a long time without ever finding a good answer.
After having taken his time to think a bit, the Sword Saint nodded. “Very well. If you believe it best to involve gods in this matter, I shall leave it up to your judgment.”
Fairleigh still looked a bit out of it as he kept closely studying the necklace. “Would it be acceptable if I reach out to the True Ancestor of the Nalkar Lineage? If you wish for another True Ancestor, I can try to make that happen, but-“
“As I said, I leave it up to your judgment,” Miyamoto reiterated.
Truthfully, he still lacked a lot of knowledge when it came to the vampires. He knew that there were six families part of the Order and that until recently, these families had merely been viewed as a bunch of mortals under the protection of the Order of the Malefic Viper.
However, after the Viper’s return to the universe, many vampire gods who’d been in hiding suddenly revealed themselves, including a few True Ancestors – the first gods of each vampire Lineage. There had been far more than anyone expected, showing that the vampiric race truly was outstanding, as despite being in hiding and suppressed by several major factions of the multiverse, these six vampire families had still managed to nurture over a hundred gods over the eras.
What’s more, not a single vampire had defected during the recent clash with Yip of Yore, elevating their status further due to their loyalty. Of course, out of any race, the vampires had the most incentive to stay loyal, as there was no way Yip of Yore would have shielded them against the Risen and Holy Church the same way the Malefic Viper currently did.
Needless to say, the True Ancestors, who also led each of their respective vampire families, were quite influential now. So, by having one come to check out the divine artifact left by Sanguine – someone these True Ancestors had known in person – things had gotten quite a bit more risky. If they demanded ownership, Miyamoto wasn’t confident he had any ground to stand on.
Plus, vampires were known to be emotional, heightening the risk further. Sure, the True Ancestor had to know that acting aggressive or harming him wouldn’t be looked kindly upon by his Patron nor the Malefic One, but when emotions got overly involved, logic often went out the window.
Nevertheless, he believed it was ultimately worth the risk. The Noboru clan had a lot of vampires by now, and they would have to make contact with their kin in the rest of the multiverse at one point or another. Coming to the Order would be a great opportunity for them, and if Miyamoto could facilitate an alliance between his clan and the vampires, he would gladly do so. Even if he wasn’t as involved with being the Patriarch anymore, he still held that title and felt a sense of responsibility.
After the Sword Saint had answered, Fairleigh had already gone off to the side and kneeled down in prayer. He was blessed by the True Ancestor of the Nalkar Vampires, so he had a direct connection to her. As for what level of Blessing he had, the Sword Saint didn’t know. His Identify didn’t tell him that kind of thing.
On a side note, he did find it a bit humorous to see a vampire praying considering their mythology on Earth before the system. Of course, now he knew that they didn’t fear things like crosses or garlic. Sunlight weakening them was still kind of a thing, considering that vampires were all weak to the light affinity. As for stakes through the heart... well, a good stab through the heart tended to be an effective way to deal damage to most anything.
About a minute passed as Fairleigh prayed before he finally opened his eyes and spoke. “The True Ancestor is coming.”
The Sword Saint nodded in acknowledgment. “Is there anything I should know beforehand?”
“Act as you are... as a C-grade, it may be difficult for you to be in the presence of a god of her caliber, but I hope you can retain your bearings. As someone blessed by her, I’m less affected by the True Ancestor’s aura, but even I find it difficult to be in her presence for too long at a time,” Fairleigh explained.
“I understand,” the Sword Saint nodded. He didn’t take the warning lightly either. He wasn’t Jake, who seemingly had a total immunity to presences. As a Transcendent, he had higher presence resistance than others, but Miyamoto still wasn’t sure how strong his resistance was at this point. He hoped that his status as a Transcendent and the passive improvements from being around Jake would be enough to not lose all dignity in front of the god.
As expected, it didn’t take long before the True Ancestor arrived. The Sword Saint felt the powerful presence descend before any physical form appeared, and he had to stabilize himself and calm his mind as it happened.
In the next second, in a swirl of blood, a woman appeared. She wore a black and white dress with a very conservative design that showed little skin. It reminded him a bit of what noble women usually wore in old period pieces. Her aura was also quite terrifying, and the Sword Saint could faintly smell the scent of blood simply from her presence there.
Despite the pressure, the Sword Saint managed to remain calm. He could recognize her power, and while he couldn’t properly assess just how powerful she was, he assumed she had to be at least a Godqueen, and if not, at least very close.
It was odd, but while his logical mind told him just how terrifying she was, his body remained stable. At that moment, he realized that he’d likely underestimated the effects of spending the better part of fifty years in Nevermore around Jake. Because, despite everything, a small thought couldn’t help but creep into his mind as he stood before the True Ancestor.
I’ve felt worse.
Usually, to a normal mortal, any god was too much. Be they a newly ascended weak god or a Primordial, before a mortal, it barely mattered. Yet to the Sword Saint, he remained able to not only stand tall but evaluate the woman who stood before him.
The mere fact I can even consider her a woman and not simply a vastly superior being is also a sign, he further reminded himself.
His lack of reaction also clearly surprised the True Ancestor, but not as much as the necklace that floated in the middle of the room. She entirely ignored Fairleigh and Miyamoto as she teleported over and reached out toward it, barely stopping herself before touching it.
“You got this through a system event?” the vampire asked rhetorically after a few seconds. “Yalsten, you said. I remember that it was lost... the entrance severed from the multiverse. It appears the system chose to recycle it and allow what was left by His Lordship to emerge once more.”
The Sword Saint remained silent as she spoke, clearly reminiscing on some very old memories. After a few seconds, she finally turned to look at him. “You are the human who calls himself the Sword Saint, correct?”
“I am the one who chose such an arrogant title for myself, yes,” Miyamoto bowed toward the god. “And as you said, the Blood Legacy stems from Yalsten. From my understanding, the system chose to freeze the time of the world at some point, only to restart it once it was used for the system event.”
“I see,” she muttered, evaluating Miyamoto with her eyes. “You are quite a unique figure... perhaps one worthy of having taken such an arrogant title as you so accurately pointed it out to be.”
“If you want to reach a goal, you must set one in your mind first. I do not call myself that because I believe myself qualified right now, but because I strive to one day be worthy,” the Sword Saint answered honestly.
The vampire evaluated him for a few moments more before smiling. “You are an interesting mortal. My name is Katherine, the True Ancestor of the Nalkar Lineage and one of the leaders of the vampiric race. Now, please, do tell me everything you know about this artifact. I’ve not seen one like it for... I don’t even know how many eras.”
“I believe there is someone more qualified than I to speak on it,” the Sword Saint said as he reached out and touched the necklace. He infused some energy into it with the intent of waking up the soul slumbering within.
His goal was to summon Iskar, who was effectively the steward of Sanguine’s Blood Legacy. He had been less active in recent years, and while he could still speak relatively frequently, manifesting himself outside of the Blood Legacy had become harder the more the Sword Saint grew in power.
The Sword Saint knew that part of the reason why it had gotten harder was Iskar’s attempt to strengthen his own soul. The former Monarch of Blood wanted to become more than a soul bound to an item, and even if he couldn’t free himself, he at least wanted more autonomy with how often he could manifest his own body.
As a reminder, the Blood Legacy was not a Soulbound item. In many ways, its only real owner was Iskar, meaning Iskar was also the one who decided who could use the divine artifact. He’d gone along with Jake and the Sword Saint’s bet during the Treasure Hunt, forming a connection with Miyamoto, allowing him to control the Blood Legacy for the most part. However, that didn’t mean the item couldn’t change owners if Iskar willed it to.
This was another reason why visiting these vampires – and especially interacting with a True Ancestor – was incredibly risky. If Iskar decided that it was best to stay with them, the Sword Saint had little recourse.
Even so, if that was what Iskar decided on, he could only accept it. The ancient vampire had already helped Miyamoto and the Noboru clan a lot, and the Sword Saint even considered him somewhat of a friend so he would respect Iskar’s decision.
About a second passed after the Sword Saint had infused his energy into the artifact before the soul within stirred to life. The True Ancestor and Fairleigh both looked on with keen interest as the mostly illusory figure of Iskar manifested.
Opening his eyes, Iskar was definitely also surprised, and he stared at Katherine for several seconds before he spoke. “You... no, this is impossible; you cannot be the True Ancestor of the Nalkar...”
The Sword Saint had not expected Iskar to recognize her, but in retrospect, perhaps he should have. If she was a True Ancestor, it meant she had likely been alive and even a god during the time Yalsten was isolated from the rest of the universe. As one of the most important figures of the entire vampire race, it wasn’t odd if Iskar had at least seen a picture of her.
“Iskar of Yalsten,” Katherine spoke. “Or perhaps it’s more fitting to call you Iskar of the Blood Legacy now...”
“Are you truly the...?” the former Monarch of Blood asked, unsure as the Sword Saint confirmed it.
“She is,” he nodded. “To bring you up to speed, we are currently within the Order of the Malefic Viper, more accurately, in a residence owned by the Nalkar Family. I have come here hoping to establish a connection between my Noboru clan and the vampires of the Order.”
That final explanation for his presence was as much for Iskar as it was for Katherine, as he wasn’t sure if Fairleigh had relayed the reason for his visit.
“I... it’s an honor to meet the True Ancestor,” Iskar bowed deeply.
“So is it an honor to meet one entrusted with such an important task,” Katherine returned his polite bow. “I hope to learn more from you about what exactly the purpose of this Blood Legacy is.”
“Oh, naturally,” Iskar answered enthusiastically. “My purpose is to allow the continued proliferation of the vampiric race in the multiverse. Despite the death of the True Ancestor of all vampires, he didn’t wish to see his life’s work fall to ruin, so he made certain contingencies. I am one of those contingencies. That’s also why my soul resides within, so I can guide newly born vampires early on in their Path.”
Iskar continued to explain a while longer, and Katherine and Fairleigh silently listened. The Sword Saint also kept quiet, already knowing all of what was said. The reason why he had Iskar explain everything wasn’t out of laziness but for legitimacy. The words of an ancient vampire soul had to hold more value in the eyes of other vampires.
After he was done speaking, the Sword Saint decided to chime in, though. “I myself have wondered why this artifact was even placed in a system event for the newly integrated universe. Especially seeing as it happened so long after the original fall of your True Ancestor. Moreover, it appears that while all the newly initiated enlightened got their own Treasure Hunts, I’ve yet to hear of anyone else with one related to vampires. I seriously doubt it was a coincidence that the one system event with vampires in it also happened to be the one where the Chosen of the Malefic Viper took part. Especially not with it happening in the same era when the Malefic One returned to the multiverse.”
“Yes... we already spoke of this prior, and the two of us believe that the Blood Legacy’s appearance is evidence of the system’s intent to help the vampire race,” Iskar added. “Everything simply points to that being the case.”
Katherine nodded slowly. “I agree. For the system to effectively create a new source of vampires like this also indicates that it can do so again in the future, even if all other vampires were wiped out.”
The Sword Saint nodded along, also agreeing with that assessment. “Considering the Records that bled into our universe even before the integration, vampires are far from forgotten by the system.”
“I have heard reports that there was knowledge of our kind already among many newly integrated,” Katherine muttered. After a few seconds, she turned away from the Blood Legacy and toward the Sword Saint.
“You came here with the hopes of creating a bond between the vampire families and your clan, correct? Allow me to make clear now you have succeeded in that,” she said, looking over to Fairleigh. “Have a delegation ready for when the new universe begins to open up. I will also discuss with the other True Ancestors to make sure the ones going can place a teleportation circle, allowing those of your clan to visit us here at the Order, too.”
“Thank you,” the Sword Saint nodded.
“As for the Blood Legacy, while it’s an invaluable artifact, I believe you have it for a reason,” she sighed. “If we kept it here, while we could use it to create more vampires, it’s likely for the best to allow it to influence the new universe. Bring some truly new blood into the fold.”
“I agree it best to keep it with the Sword Saint,” Iskar also agreed, slightly surprising Miyamoto.
Katherine nodded. “That said, I do have one concern... you carry Sanguine’s Blood Legacy, is the Patriatch of a clan which now has many vampires within it, and I sense no hostility toward our kind. Which begs the question: why are you not one of us?”
Comments
Dave
Great chapter
Trumangolorian
Tyftc
Trumangolorian
Man Jake giving the multiversity all sorts of new beginnings. Though I'm sure many already had that thought for a while.
vio
That would be really funny lol but I don't remember if it mentioned the name of that vampire, also curious now
Chloe
Tyftc
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
HoresKnight
Is….Katherine the one vampire from the Treasure hunt where she was dressed in spicy clothes? I could swear Jake stole art work of her, unless I’m thinking of something else
Kevin Bennett
Thank you!!
Tristan
I'm honestly kind of happy he's not a vampire It doesn't fit I know the trope of like the samurai vampire Warrior painter hidden predator stick is a whole genre It just doesn't fit with the sword sink
patrick__starz
I think Jake could do it with any vampire blood. Just like he did for Varidias egg
Brian Mcglinchey
"I do have one concern... You carry sanguine's bond, is the patriarch..." Should be 'are' the patriarch. Thanks for the chapter!
Jordan Rogers
Jake would murder hobo sparkly vampires for sure
Jordan Rogers
Zogarth I dont actually want you to do it. Just so you know… do you though.
Rewdan
Thanks Zogarth this is another great start to the week
Jose Reyna
TFTC!!!
SqrlyGrly
“If we kept it here, while we could use it to creature more vampires..." Think you meant create...
Phil Ritter
SS needs to hire his resident Harbinger of Primeval Origin for that Vampire upgrade
Phil Ritter
I don’t think it’s realistic since he is way too much like Jake in that aspect but then again blood samurai sounds sick
Phil Ritter
Not out of the question. The bigger problem would be to get your hands on blood of someone who died over 85 eras ago
Phil Ritter
I don’t think age is the real problem. I think that if he chose to stay old he would since the system acknowledges free will to a high degree. I’d say it’s more about resources and don’t they have only a profession or class? At least I thought they did and who knows how it would work if SS had only blood energy. It would probably still work. Most of all tho he probably just wants to stay human so he won’t change without much deeper meaning
Pekka Kohonen
Miyamoto Musashi, founder of Aikido, was a very accomplished calligrapher. Sho and Bu are seen as complementary pursuits for Japanese martial artists.
Pekka Kohonen
Painting has deep significance to the Japanese. And it was an honorable thing for samurai to do. There is a ton of calligraphy related stuff in the Chinese wuxia and xianxia literature too. So I think it is definitely part of his identity and Path.
MacMahon Wenzl
Jake's going to show up and find Miyamoto shmuzing it up with God Queens like he has smhuzing up those demons on that one level in Nevermore...
Pekka Kohonen
Jake can’t be a vampire or any other race because his bloodline would not allow it. If he tried it would probably eat or destroy the invader.
Pekka Kohonen
Why can’t the SS be a vampire. Obviously not part of his Path but why? For one his seasons based transcendent skill is related to changing his age, and probably requires that he is “old” most of the time. But vampires are eternally young, even as “mortals”, so he probably could not change his age the same way.
Tim Schillinger
Crazy idea: SS has water magic. Water is thinner than blood. Whole seasons transcendence let him be younger - his blood gets a refresher. Maybe vampire SS is not that far fetched as it seems. And you can say there can be paintings done in/with blood...
Yeslek Nnamhctits
The sword saint has the painter profession, it seems to be an important part of his Path. I'm glad he won't be a vampire, the human sword saint, painter, patriarch of the mixed human/vanpire noboru clan, blessed by aeon clock, that's his path. It's my hope that he's going to nurture a better relationship between the two races with his clan having a coexistence between the two from the start.
Tommy S
I just thought of this, but couldn't Jake create a vampire variant if he got ahold of some of Sanguines blood?
Grant Anderson
Thank you for this chapter Zogarth. I find this exploration of the SS and his clans connection with Vampires rather interesting and I'm glad you decided to explore it more!
Tom C
“You are an interesting mortal. My name is Katherine” BOM CHICKA WOW WOW! Prepare to be wooed by the “sword” Saint! Lolllllllllllll TFTC!
Hotep Saxis
He for sure does, cause if we have questions so do readers who aren’t here.
Hotep Saxis
I don’t see it either. On the other hand, he said no to getting a patron too for a while.
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
JJB4345_80_815
Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth!
Rob Lyon
He would lose the painting profession vampires only have a class or a profession not both so he would have to give one up and lose those skills
James Faulkner
Tftc!
Rob Lyon
But then he would have to drop swordsmanship because vampires only have a class or a profession not both
Rob Lyon
I think for most people as they evolve they get closer to their preferred physical appearance. I do sort of suspect to see these sword saying sort of deage as he goes through the ranks. If nothing else if he hits Godhood I could see him changing to look like his younger self
Rob Lyon
It would be funny if there was a vampire who was a light mage before they transformed and they got some kind of ability that made them to sparkle. Even if it was special skill for resistance to light or to use light it would be a funny little nod. But I would make an entire species
Rob Lyon
I don't see it Plus it has been mentioned before that he and iscar have disgusted several times and he continuously says no
Rob Lyon
Typo it should be Race not Face. As one of the most important figures of the entire vampire face, it wasn’t odd if Iskar had at least seen a picture of her.
brjenness
not an arc yet, just a squiggle so far
Quinn
A new variant that carries SS records allowing him to be one with his blade in some weird soul blood way
brjenness
reaction to vampire origin project would be the same as technoids reaction to wasps... oh you'll work with us too if we have something interesting...I guess it's okay this time
Kevin Watson
i’m strongly in the pro vamp SS camp, it hits the rule of cool for me
Johnsmith
Please no
fruit dragon
Welcome to the multiverse
lamp
Thanks for the chapter! I believe "you carry Sanguine’s Blood Legacy, is the Patriatch of a clan which now has many vampires within it" should be "are the Patriarch of" (is -> are, Patriarch typo)
Zizawah
Find the index page for chapter listing of primal hunter and then look up title of chapter and guess the book number and find that in the book index. So yeah not trivial. But with chapter number you can do it.
Max
Tftc!! “You are an interesting mortal. My name is Katherine, the True Ancestor the of the The true ancestor (the) of the (The) Is a word to much but the brain filters IT Out:D
SinCinnamon
Awesome! He had to learn the lore the hard way. I can’t wait for the Nalkars to arrive and be swamped by fangirls. It would make such a great scene!
Trevor Mergen
Thanks!
SinCinnamon
TWILIGHT! Has to, for shit and giggles. Or call it dusk vampires…
SinCinnamon
Unless stuck. It could be a great way to infuse momentum and records to someone at a bottleneck.
SinCinnamon
There NEEDS to be a new special twilight vampire species from earth. One more resistant to light, sparkly skin optional.
Paulo Furlaneto
Tftc
Kt-x
Thanks for the chapter 🙂
Specter
Thank you! Potentially: If we kept it here, while we could use it to creature more vampires -> create
Justus Saucedo
How long did that take you to find hahah
Phasmatic7
Thankies
Cody
Yeah it was the fact that the ss had died and been reborn. Villy and Aeon spoke of this when first scouting him together.
Xander
Can't do that. Vampires can have a class or profession not both. So no swords for the sword saint if he goes that route
Alexander C Hyde
As one of the most important figures of the entire vampire (race)face, it wasn’t odd if Iskar had at least seen a picture of her.
Katrina Lucas
Tftc, A few typos.. tho' True Ancestor (the) of the Nalkar Lineage And Payr Patriarch spelling error in the last paragraph
Numbzy
I would get guess it's a little like everyone else. Every evolution you can slightly change your physical appearance turning yourself into your idea form.
Zizawah
Book 7 chapter 14
Niels Valkenborgh
"Why are you not one of us?" Lets think of a few reasons. - He likes to paint outside in the sun. - Vampires suck (heh) - He is a huge fan of Turkish cuisine.
Kevin Bennett
Can you translate that into published book/chapter?
Daniel Hamilton
I believe this is also the reason that Drew the time primordials attention and gave the SS a blessing
AfroMocha
I find after meeting the First Sage there is more nuance in skills and how they work. I like to think of it like the Inherentance series of magic. it’s explained by the main characters teacher at one point that a magicians sufficiently knowledgable about the world around them and concepts of nature and states of material that one could take a sphere of water and change it into a diamond gemstone. where one matter or material is not related to the other, but the person casting the spell or in this case, using a skill understands how the one is connected to the other. With that being said, as I mentioned before the sword scenes transcendent skill could change it’s based on season spot that knowledge and perspective of what seasons are it can be changed toward the sort saying to himself . For example, the sword saint could recognize his humanity as a past season and his vampirism has the current season. like I posted in the last chapter away the sword states power could change is being able to actively change from human to vampire and be able to swap in between the two. It would make the character a lot more unique kind give them a a boost in a different way than Jake, but still kind of giving him a breakthrough and that pushes him forward. That all being said, I feel like the sword saying is just against becoming a vampire for reasons that we will get in tomorrow’s chapter . Will those reasons hold through the next week or the future who knows?
Rocotrap
Primordial is a title given by the system to the 12 who managed to ascend before the end of the first Era
AfroMocha
I hope when Jake fights villy in their battle we can get a couple flash back chapters of villy ranking up through god hood. How hard it was for him to break through thousands of times
PJ
All the top tier factions, really all factions in general, grow by their very nature. Stagnation is death in the system.
Fall’s Kiss🍂
Are these the type of changes vampires who age to their prime or are stuck at whatever age they are changed?
Scion
Unless the entire vampire legacy has to do with painting...
Samuel Nelson
Nah, keep it as is. Much funnier 😂
Antonio
what novel is wttmv?
Lynderyn
I think they are more like the Dao Sect and cultivate power allowing members to choose who to clash with personally or target whoever/whatever MV has beef with atm
Ty Cooper
Tftc. Ha was pretty surprised Katherine held her herself so well. Thought she would go crazy over it like Fairleigh's reaction to the table set and hanger.
Nick
Assuming that primordial is a specific title for power levels after empyrean.
D
It’s like the malefic order has someone to antagonize all the major powers. An order based on agent of change that all the primordials need to grow. Grow why? To fight something else? Some hidden enemy? Another system like WTTMV?
Tr0LLach
If anyone wants to revisit the 1st time we met Katherine, you can find her talk with Villy in chapter 444
Arieh Sochaczevski
10 levels to Godhood, then Godking/Godqueen. After that no specific details, but there are “steps”. We know Yip wasn’t sure if there was anything after that.
Mohammed Sheekh
Been explained in the fight with villy and Yip of Yore Godhood ranks 1-10 10 being the rank of god Kings and Queens Then there is the empyrean steps, what I would like to call "ascendant gods" Yip was able to go to empyrean step 2, villy said he broke the limit thousands of times so...
Kyler
Feel like he’s gonna become one and suddenly is skills are gonna get a “bloody” moniker to them. “Blood rain” “bloody Canvas”
Leonardo Krieck
Says the guy who literally cut his enemies high in the sky and blend the blood in the rain 🤣
Xander
TFTC :) SS loves his painting. No chance he changes for blood, especially when he wasnt enamoured with the vampire thing during the Yalsten event. Swashbuckling vampire swordsmasters visiting Earth to train the clan would be awesome though. Hell they could set up a whole academy. Suggested edits: "managed to nurture *over* a hundred gods *over* the eras." repetition. maybe "more than" "As one of the most important figures of the entire vampire *face*," should be "race" " of our kind already among many ** newly integrated,” missing words "of the" "while we could use it to *creature* more vampires," should be "create" "is the *Patriatch* of a clan" should be "patriarch" also "is" should be "are"
Almer Reyhan
ONE OF US ONE OF US
Jordan Rogers
Maybe if we all act like there is no way the saint becomes a vampire maybe zogarth will do it to screw with us…🤞 but as far as being sure of one’s path nearing the peak of C grade is probably a bad time/late for that kind of drastic change
dash w
Thanks for the chappy
Biggy smalls
Maybe Jake could Juice up Iskar for SS? Perhaps it would turn him into another true ancestor? Maybe something even closer to Sanguine than that? I would Love to see how the Church and Risen factions would react. Jake could maybe get some more great alchemy stuff from the Vampire faction for doing it? Another free necklace upgrade from that jeweler at B grade?
Kyle Jackson
Has there been a proper explanation (or maybe ranking) of the various stages of godhood yet?
Abriel Blauer
Sword Saint's Transcendence is based on the passage of the season. From spring to summer, to fall and finally winter. Vampires have an undertone of immortality and unchanging This sounds somewhat opposed to the concept of his Transcendence
Matthias
Tftc
Blackbriar
This is a great chapter. I like how you're digging more into this when you could have just let it progress through small mentions here and there. Fantastic job!
Signspace
Always good when you get to repeat a banger line like that.
Roy
"if we kept it here, while we could use it to creature more vampires—" I'm not sure if that's an auto correct typo, but I assume you meant create. Third paragraph from the end. ty4c Zogarth, as always 🙏
Harbby
" As one of the most important figures of the entire vampire face.." face --> race
Toonin
Harbinger of primval origin So true vampire progenitor kind of make the connection no ?
Reyhulko
ohh, but if we want to see something really interesting, we could imagine a ritual with Jake Juice ™ + new vampire, no?
Clint
It’s a really good question. Jake refused Malefic Dragonkin (and later Vampire) because it felt contrary to his Path and because he’s getting great things from both his Class and his Profession. Even with its great utility, SS’s painting still feels a bit tacked on. I’d love to see a chapter of discussion on what his profession means to him — because I could see him founding an entirely new vampire family related to the concept of time or eternity or ancientness.
Unwillingmainer
He just like swords and painting too much. Can't do both as a vampire.
Arieh Sochaczevski
Thanks for the chapter!
John Durrett
Tyftc
Kris Piskorski
These types of chapters are some of my favorite, also as much as I would like to see Sword saint become a vampire I know thats unfortunately not going to happen :(
Jennifer Leigh
Wrong word: could use it to creature more vampires->create
Daniel Brian
I don't need he wants the weakness of needing blood. That and wanting to become a true kensei in his own power.
C0bra$
Thank you for the story
Cory Sauls
TFTC!
Noname
Tyftc
Darshar Griffonmane
I feel the powerful need for the Sword Saint to simply answer "I'm too old to worry about sparkling." And then just leave it at that. tyftc!
brjenness
I sometimes wonder if Zoggy makes small additions to the story to answer our more interesting questions or if we are just in tune enough with the story to know what the important questions are. In this case, should the SS become a vampire. One of the more interesting debates yesterday becoming part of the story the next couple days.
Zizawah
Didn’t think about the coincidence before how the treasure hunt had vampires due to system taking an interest in Jake. Thank you for another delightful chapter!!
Seen Death
Haha here comes an interesting answer
Rick Delallata
What an interesting chapter
Jack Frasier
Thank you for the chapter!
ABTelford
Oh my just the chpt title has me excited!
A Flashy BR
Tyftc
Arrogant Savant
"I know my path and it isn't one where the rain is red" Sword Saint soon after the treasure hunt
Keldra
Love the vampire arc
Naotsugu97
Good chappie! Cheers!
Liam
Tffc
Beemoss
Tftc
Jaroslav Zapadlo
Zorg if you read this I will give you a membership in one of my gyms
Ricky Keenum
Not quite first. But I’m here!
BNiz
We really pounced on this like fresh prey… TFTC
Xarroworth
Tftc
BumAssBumAss
Thanks for the chapter
Connor
Thanks for the chapter
