BXBX NOVEL Chapter 2: -2- Divine Bloodline System
Chapter 2: -2- Divine Bloodline System
\'I somehow reincarnated,\' Silas thought in frustration.
\'How am I going to get back to Lilian?\' Silas began to think frantically.
After thinking back to the night of his wedding and the wonderful night he had spent with Lilian, Silas was brought back to the present when his father walked over to him with a baby raven in his hands.
"Silas, I know you can\'t understand me yet, but this will be your big brother from now on. You two will grow up together, and I expect you to look after each other," his father said as he placed the baby raven next to him.
"Alexander, it will be more than enough if he considers him a brother," Silas watched Rey, the raven on his father\'s shoulder, transform into a tall, slender man with black hair. He then reached down and patted Silas on the head.
Silas began to think about what all this could possibly mean.
\'Does this mean in this life I\'ve reincarnated into the family of cultivators?\' At this thought, Silas was giddy with excitement. In his previous life, he had been just a normal person from a small and weak village that was always under the threat of being wiped out by any cultivator or beast that happened to cross their path. But in this life, maybe he had the chance to be a cultivator himself.
Soon, the day went by, and Silas found himself lying in his crib next to his new brother, the baby raven, thinking about his glorious future to be. That\'s when something that would change his life forever and set him on the path of the immortals entered his life.
[System finished loading...]
[Divine Bloodline System activated]
\'Divine Bloodline System?\' Silas was confused. He wasn\'t from a modern world with novels of reincarnations and transmigrators, so this was something he couldn\'t even comprehend.
[Unlocking Divine Bloodline... would you like to start your random draw?]
\'Random draw? Does this mean I can become a dragon or a phoenix?\' While he didn\'t know what a system was, he could assume what was happening, and even in his previous life inside his small village, he had heard tales of mystical beasts like dragons and phoenixes.
\'Yes,\' he said, interacting with the system.
[Starting random draw...]
He watched as a wheel appeared in his mind\'s eye that was filled with question marks.
[Spin the wheel?]
He once again interacted with the system, and the wheel began to spin.
\'Please be a dragon, please be a dragon,\' the coolest creature he had ever heard of was a dragon, so that would be his favorite pick.
The wheel started fast, but it quickly slowed down, eventually crawling to a stop.
[Ding!]
[You have been granted the Grim Reaper King bloodline. Congratulations on becoming the 2nd Grim Reaper King in existence.]
\'Grim Reaper King?\' Silas had no idea what this was, but he was a little disappointed that he wasn\'t going to be a dragon. That was until the system sent him the details of his new bloodline as well as some inherited memories.
He first learned what a Divine Beast was. A Divine Beast was the rarest, most powerful, and talented being in the universe, with each Divine Beast only ever being birthed by the universe a handful of times in the large expanse of the multiverse.
\'I\'m the second-ever Grim Reaper King, so that has to mean my bloodline is extremely rare, which likely means it\'s extremely powerful as well,\' Silas thought.
The Grim Reaper King bloodline was centered around its innate talent and divine ability, the [Grim Reaper\'s Eye]. It was the core of its power. This eye allowed the Grim Reaper King to directly attack the souls of its enemies. It could deliver fatal strikes to those at the same level of power, instantly killing them, and it could even heavily injure those at a higher level of power. Also, when the [Grim Reaper\'s Eye] was used to kill an opponent, every clone of the enemy would also be killed.
The Grim Reaper King, unlike many Divine Beasts, had no fixed form, allowing it to alter its appearance at will and even change its size within reason.
After learning of this ability, Silas knew that he would change his appearance to that of his previous life as he grew up.
\'I was a little disappointed at first, but this sounds too good to be true,\' Silas thought as he began to think of all the enemies he would be able to kill with his [Grim Reaper\'s Eye].
After reading through all the information, another system prompt popped up.
[As a gift, you will also be given a Divine Beast companion... would you like to start the random draw?]
\'Another draw?\' Silas began to get more excited.
\'This time will I end up with a dragon as a beast companion?\'
\'Yes,\' he quickly interacted with the system.
[Starting random draw...]
The wheel once again appeared.
[Spin the wheel?]
He then spun the wheel.
[Ding!]
[You have been given the beast companion Godeater Rat. Congratulations on becoming the companion of the 2nd Godeater Rat in existence.]
\'A Godeater Rat?\' Silas began to think. Once again, he was a little disappointed that it wasn\'t a dragon or a phoenix, but then again, a Godeater anything sounded cool, so he decided not to judge too quickly.
He then looked at the abilities of a Godeater Rat, and once again, he wasn\'t let down. It looked like regardless of what kind of Divine Beast it was, a Divine Beast would be OP regardless.
The Godeater Rat, much like the Grim Reaper King, was able to attack the very soul of its opponent and could instantly kill a being that was of the same power level and could also heavily injure those that were higher ranked.
[Would you like to create the Godeater Rat now or wait for later?]
\'Wait for later,\' Silas didn\'t know how his parents would react to a rat suddenly showing up next to their baby, so he decided to wait until he was old enough to protect it before summoning it.
He waited for another gift, but he soon figured that was the last one.
He messed around with his system a little more and soon discovered his status.
Name: Silas Armstrong
Race: Grim Reaper King (Divine Beast)
Innate Talent: Grim Reaper\'s Eye
Qi Cultivation: Early Mortal
Body Cultivation: Early Mortal
\'So I wasn\'t born as a Transcendent lifeform in this life,\' Silas thought, a little disappointed.
Silas knew some of the ranks from his previous life and from his newly inherited memories, and once again, he was born as a normal human.
The ranks he knew from his previous life were:
Mortal.
Transcendent.
And the ranks he new from his inherited memories were:
Revolving Core.
Golden Core.
Sage.
He also knew that as he grew, he would unlock more of his inherited memories, but this was as far as his current inherited memories went.
All humans were born as Mortal lifeforms, but Silas, in this life being a Divine Beast in the Grim Reaper King, thought that maybe he would be a Transcendent lifeform instead.
Transcendent lifeforms were birthed by the heavens and the earth. There were some beasts that were naturally born as Transcendent lifeforms, and then there were, of course, Fiendgods that were all born by the heavens and the earth and were at least born as Transcendent lifeforms, if not higher.
But that was about the extent of Silas\'s knowledge on cultivation and higher lifeforms.
He then started to look around, and soon his focus was brought to the raven sitting beside him.
[Raven (Beast) - Qi Cultivation: Early Mortal - Body Cultivation: Early Mortal]
\'So my beast companion is also just a Mortal lifeform and a regular beast.\' Silas had hoped that since Rey, the father of this beast, was already at least a Transcendent lifeform since it could transform into human form, that the baby raven would also be a Transcendent lifeform and possibly even a king beast. But it was just a normal beast.
Soon, Silas was too tired to keep his eyes open, so he fell asleep, and the next day came.
That morning, Silas was woken up by his parents, who he learned were named Alexander Armstrong and Clara Armstrong.
Both of his parents were powerful Transcendent lifeforms as well.
[Human - Qi Cultivation: Early Transcendent - Body Cultivation: Early Mortal]
(If their body cultivation is Early Mortal, that means they are either really young and haven\'t started cultivating yet or they are purely Qi refiners and not body refiners.)
[Human - Qi Cultivation: Mid Transcendent (Crippled) - Body Cultivation: Early Transcendent]
He was then taken to a family event where he was shown off to his relatives.
While at the family event, he met several relatives and learned many things.
One of which was that the Armstrong clan was a powerful clan that was in control of four prefectures. And not only that, but he was in the direct lineage of the prefect lord of the north prefecture.
His father\'s grandfather, his great-grandfather, was the Lord Prefect. His name was Charles Armstrong, and he was a Peak Transcendent lifeform.
[Human - Qi Cultivation: Peak Transcendent - Body Cultivation: Peak Transcendent]
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(Beast Ranks:
1. Beast
2. Fierce Beast
3. King Beast
4. Emperor Beast
5. Desolate Beast
6. Primal Beast
7. Ancient Beast
8. Primordial Beast
9. Chaos Beast
10. Divine Beast)