Kael Cor: A Vampire’s Awakening - Chapter 357 13 Years III

I didn’tget what I was seeing, or maybe the proper phrase would be I didn’t recognize it. Ethernalia Leonis had grown way beyond the scope and scale I had envisioned for it, and it was just one of 10 mega cities on Spero, which brought me the next and probably the biggest shock of them all. In the thirteen years that I’ve been healing, Spero became to big to be hidden in a secluded dimension, and even though it was currently right on the fringes of the universe, it was still an honest to God planet, in space!

It was densely populated, having a combined number of 20 billion souls, not to mention the beats, monsters and animals around. And there was still land left unexplored. The vampires amounted to just 1% of the planet’s population, humans were a whooping 37%, but that’s t be expected and understood. The world I woke up in, was very different from what I left behind.

Ethernalia Leonis still remained the capital, but it was now a sprawling mega city, and a technological and magical marvel of epic proportions. I could still see the world tree in the distance, in thirteen years it has grown so big that’s it’s size was more or less comparable to the city it guards, and it’s height literally reaches out into space. This was the home of hundreds of millions of people, and each and everyone had their place within it, as for me I don’t think I have one.

It’s been thirteen years since these people have had a king, I don’t think they need one anymore. Not with how much they’ve grown, so how in this new world that I’m seeing, this new home….where was my place in all of this. Sure I still had responsibilities as a dragon king, but aside from that, as a father and as a king where was my place here, everyone had grown and moved forwards with their life, I’m the only one who w as left behind, heck even my body grew and left my soul behind.

NAME: HIGH KING KAEL COR

• AGE: 234

• RACE: DEMI-GOD: VAMPIRE/ DRAGON/HUMAN

• CLASS: DEMI-GOD: DOMAINS: (RUNE KING/SOUL KING)

• REALM: RUNE GOD(1stCIRCLE)/MIND(7THCIRCLE)

• FAITH POINTS:

• STRENGTH: 9(91%) : DEMI-GOD GRADE A

• AGILITY: 8(12%) : DEMI-GOD GRADE B

• PHYSIQUE: 8(66%) : DEMI-GOD GRADE B

• MIND: 973: TIER 9

• SOUL: 5(29%) : DEMI-GOD GRADE D

SKILLS: PASSIVE

• [AURA MANIPULATION: LEVEL 7] MASTER

• [IMMORTAL AUTHORITY: LEVEL 1] BASIC

• [SOUL GOD: LEVEL 0] BASIC

• [SOUL GOD: LEVEL 1] BASIC

SKILLS: ACTIVE

• [RUNE CRAFT: LEVEL 6] MASTER

• [BLOOD CRYSTAL: ] MASTER

• [IMMORTAL AVATAR: LEVEL 1] ADVANCED

• [COMBINE SKILL: LEVEL N/A] MASTERED

BLOODLINE SKILLS:

• DRACONIC RUNE CRAFT

• SOUL KING

• NATURE KING

RACIAL SKILLS:

• BLOOD MANIPULATION

• IMMORTAL AURA

• DARK ELEMENT

• LIGHT ELEMENT

• SOUL FLAME

• RUNE SPEECH

GOD RUNES:

• [BREAK/SHIELD/PUSH/PULL/HEAL/DREAM/CREATE/TRACE/SUMMON/COMPEL]

BLOODLINE CREST:

• [COMMUNICATION/SOUL SENSE/GRAND TELEPORTATION/RUNE CRAFT]

I lost the ability to use magic, though I don’t think that was any fault of mine. I was no longer in the body of a mortal, even if what I am is a demigod, the gods a and goddesses of magic won’t let me tap into their domains, because that would just be me taking power from them and giving nothing back in return.

This was the price paid for me to wake up, I had to have a body strong enough to completely bring my still healing soul and spirit together. Somehow they had aged my body, and considering how insane my growth to power was, it surprised quite a few of them that I wasn’t a god myself, however it’s not that easy to become a god. You have to truly become the very essence of what you embody as a god, if it’s fire, you have to become fire, if it’s a soul or a rune, you have to become a rune.

I’m not complaining about it though, who wouldn’t want to go to sleep and wake up half a god. I just wish I didn’t feel like such a stranger in my own body, or maybe the problem was not with the body, just with the mind and heart that inhabits it. Waking up should be a happy occasion, and right now the news of my awakening was spreading across the entire continent, or at least the places that have been inhabited. But I obviously wasn’t happy, I just felt guilty and I missed Xaseah and Asha.

I could feel them both, Xaseah coming up the stairs of the building I’m in, and Asha galaxies away with an army, chasing after the bastard that took our son’s eyes away from him. An enemy that’s currently hidden behind enemy lines, and protected by an army Asha even with her godly abilities couldn’t go through. She should be here, I don’t think finding Cornelius would be hard for me right now, all I need to do is call him here.

I was dragged out of my thoughts as I felt an arm encircle me from behind and a head fall on my back as soft tears fell from her eyes. I should turn around, but I was scared to, I was afraid of looking at her eyes, if seeing how much have changed, of seeing how much pain my absence caused her.

“You’re doing it again aren’t you?” I heard her ask. I couldn’t help the smile that came over my face as I asked her.

“doing what?” she turned me around to face and said

“blaming yourself and carrying the weight of the universe on your shoulders. Let me stop you now, there are 8 other dragon kings who can do that even more better than you, and their spouses have their hands full trying to get them to calm down and stop blaming themselves for every little thing that goes wrong. I know it must be hard for you, but I’m not having it! It’s been thirteen years, you can brood and be Emo later, for now just kiss me please!” I happily wanted to fulfill her request, but then.

“Please, I rather throw myself off a building than see that, it’s just too weird and strange!”

I raised an eyebrow in surprise and turned to face the five feet tall girl in front of me. Her eyes were blazing red, like fire had come and made it’s home within the confines of her skull. Her hair though was still a silvery white like her brother’s, with streaks of black, and blue, however she had dyed the blue red. That hurt, because obviously the blue in her hair came from me, my hair was blue, a really dark blue that’s almost black.

“I’m sure you would like an explanation for such a comment, well then Mr. Kael I’ll tell you. First of all I’ve lost count of how many men and women my mother locked up, disemboweled, decapitated, eviscerated, and completely destroyed just because they made a pass at her, seeing her about to kiss you is just plain unnatural, so please spare me any more childhood trauma, you’ve done enough as it is.”

So her words were cold, and quite sharp. If I needed any confirmation that my daughter hated me, then I just got it. However the dominative words, her finesse with speech just seemed to prove that I was looking at a younger and female version of me, however the question I asked was.

“How long have you been hanging out with Teluna? Because he’s the only idiot with the guts to talk to me like that, well the only idiot with the permission to do so. I owe you a lot, I get that, you hate me, I get that. But I made you, well partly anyway, and I love you, not to mention I am the KING!And you’re my child! I will not tolerate such disrespect!” so maybe her words hurt a little more than I expected, and even though I felt a whole lot more in control of my emotions, I still felt like smashing something.

“Who do you think you are! You’re not my dad! You never were! You can’t just come back into our lives and decide to take control, take a look around! The world has grown quite well on its own since you decided to take a power nap, by saving a woman you didn’t need to save! We don’t need you and your rule your Majesty! No one needs you, I don’t need you!”

“Would you shut it! Your bloody voice is completely messing up my sense of direction, plus that’s our father you’re talking to Cassiel, I don’t think our mothers would like that. And if you were not so stupid and blind, you would know that mother is really pissed right now, you’re in trouble you twelve year old monster!”

Michael’s lazy voice drawled out as he seemed to suddenly materialized out of thin air with another boy in tow, and right behind them was Baeki, Joshua and his four year old daughter Kaia, and very beautiful woman with massive butterfly wings that were sparkling…..weird.

“Of course you would side with him, you’re both the same! He could have been more careful, or at the very least more patient or sent someone else on that mission, but no! He had to go an be the hero, look at him high king Kael the hero. And you! You’re the most useless person I’ve ever met! You have talent in spades, responsibilities to your people and your family, but all you wanted to do was wander around with your bloody instruments and make stupid noises you call music. Because of your intense lack of strength, you got hurt! What are you now? Hunh! You’re no better than a beggar on the street, now you look the part you’ve been playing your entire life…nothing but a useless piece of crap!”

“ENOUGH!!!”

I’ve had enough, my yell was powerful enough to blast the windows of the skyscraper I was in, all 86 floors of it. These were my children, my family, and here they were bickering like rats. In all honesty this was not what I expected when they were born, I thought we would be happy, but yet look how they turned out. No different than me when I was their age, broken! And just like me, it was all the fault of a father, my fault.

“I’m not useless, I just wanted to wait for him to wake up, then he would have been the one to teach me how to be strong. I just wanted my dad, and I never lost hope, even when I lost my eyes, I believed he was going to come back. He’s our father after all.” Michael said as tears poured from his eyes.

“What a cry baby, you should grow up! You’re a prince! This is disgusting!”

“Cassiel Castitas Cor! Your father just asked you to shut it!”

An immense pressure fell on everyone here, it was mostly focused on Cassiel so only the young girl was brought to her knees with sweat on her brows and her bones creaking so loudly I could hear it from here. It was at this point I understood the role both Xaseah and Asha played in both their lives. Xaseah was the good cop, the soft mother, which was why she had kept silent, and left me to handle the situation, didn’t turn out as expected obviously.But the bad cop, the hard mother was Asha, and she was here. However I’m not the good cop and I’m not the bad cop, one thing I knew is that I don’t like seeing my daughter on her knees.

“Asha that’s enough!”

The pressure disappeared almost immediately, and Cassiel had her eyes opened wide as she looked from Asha to me, completely surprised that the hard mother she was a little scared of, would actually listen to me. I looked at Asha and gave her a soft smile, then I turned to Cassiel and said one sentence, a sentence I knew without a doubt would bring her close to me, though she would probably hate me even more for it.

“I don’t care what your problems are, at least not at the moment. However as a princess you’ve disgraced the people you represent, as a child of this family, you’ve disgraced the Cor name with your attitude and character, and as a daughter, I’m completely disappointed in you. I thought you were stronger than me, I thought you were capable of going above and beyond heartache and pain, but In that regard I’m disappointed in you Cassiel….and you too Michael.”

“What!”

Michael was surprised, and so was Cassiel, who even though she had flames dancing in her eyes, was shocked that I was aloe going to scold Michael. But I had no choice, well maybe I did, but the only other choice was to be s bad father, and I’m not going to go down that route. To be honest I really wish there was some sort of instruction manual that I could use to maneuver this whole parenting situation, but I just had to wing it.

“The both of you are the best of me and your mothers, you’re supposed to be better than we were. However you just kept on making our mistakes, learning nothing from our story. Cassiel you moved on with your life, completely gave up hope that I, your own father would ever wake up. Your mother and your brother needed you to keep that hope alive, buy you selfishly chose not to, because you felt it was a waste of your time. You moved forward, but you left your family behind, and you didn’t care to even look back, that makes you selfish.

Michael! You’re a marvel, a boy with a good heart in a world that’s bloody and ruthless. And even when you lost parts of you of immense value, your heart never changed, still and calm just like the wind. You chose not to move forward, because you were afraid of turning out like your sister. To be cold and unfeeling to the people she loved, to completely forget your own father like he never existed. I understand, but in this family we’re never afraid of moving forward, in fact that’s what we do! We’re always moving forward and breaking boundaries.

You’re not weak my boy, and your sister is the blind one for not noticing it, however you’restrong either, you’re twelve years old and you gave up a chance of living your life, while your sister chose to live her life wrongly. That ends today. I have a lot to make up for, that much I understand and I agree. So I will start by teaching you a very important lesson that you would need to truly survive in the world that’s still to come.

“And what lesson will that be?” Cassiel asked me with her arms folded.

“I’m going to teach you the consequences of messing with my children.” Cassiel and Michael looked confused, but Asha shook her head, her feet soundless as she literally floated towards me and said to them.

“Children, what your father is saying is that, he’s going to teach you two how to kill a man!”