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  Hmmmm so if it goes like this and pulls like that it will set a [Blood Kinesis] that draws nearby blood to it. I engrave it on a knife. When done I stab the knife into my arm. I let go of my control and the blood is pulled rapidly towards the knife point. I reassert control and remove the knife.

  “This is almost as hard to watch as when you let those spiders devour you.”

  Mags is doing her best not to use her life sight on me. To not see them still inside me.

  “My babies need me.” I stick my tongue out at her, “So mom is likely only willing to become a basic Vampire, what of you mother.” She quirks an eyebrow, I continue. “Skill went and changed all my life magic into blood magic including my core.”

  “So can you use magic to make blood again?”

  “Sure but it just increases my thirst.”

  She laughs at that, “Absurd and you wish to make me just as absurd. I think I would, to clothe myself in the slander of my lessers. Blood soaked [Priestess] indeed.”

  I give her a smile at that, it will take a long time for me to subsume her soul.

  I feel more adventurers enter the dungeon.

  “Here hoping the adventurers manage to pilfer a crown.”

  I flip the book's pages. Inflow pipes…maybe it can be as simple as that. I begin to craft a ring. Etch the runes. I place the ring against my arm. A bit of void makes a hole and I release the hold on my blood. A geyser erupts and I retake control of my blood. Perhaps half as strong.

  “So I was thinking of a ring in each inflow of my lungs to pull my blood in and rings at each extremity to draw the blood out?”

  “I feel you would need a rather strong suction at the lungs to pull your blood, how would you prevent the latest oxygenating to get past those and reach your limbs?”

  Hmmmm, “My bone marrow is inert right? Perhaps hollow bones to traverse my body. I could even carve the inscriptions straight into them.”

  “How would it get to your bones, you lack capillaries.”

  “But I still have arteries. Grow them to my bones and make a new circulation system? Could even grow the arteries through the bones to connect them.”

  She rolls her eyes, “You need to examine your body more, your bones already have blood vessels in them. Removing your marrow and expanding them into arteries sound doable. Connecting your lungs outflows to your spine. This seems very drastic.”

  An adventurer runs out of the dungeon, the only survivor of his party. He clutches a horn close to his chest.

  “I think I'm about to get a large influx of blood. Hey, can you teach me [Aura Control]?”

  -----

  I watch as Qorth battles the herd from the carcass of the previous lord of the plains. She wishes to improve and I would not feed her easy exp. I separated enough breeding pairs for her not to wipe out the herd in its entirety though. To eat and be eaten. Monsters. I look up at the stars. Cecelia comes up to me.

  “You seem rather deep in thought, sweetie.”

  I turn and smile, “Red help me come to terms with something we struggled with.”

  “Whats that, Violet?”

  I sigh, “I need to say something that will probably hurt to hear but please let me say it.” She nodded and I continued, “Red and I accepted that we were monsters when we killed Derrick, the fact that we killed him under bad assumption tortured us. Made us do more terrible things as our soul tore and our minds broke. We then made ourselves undead, our half commitment to that led to Red rotting and myself becoming a lich. I ended up devouring Red and in turn to bring her back I defined what it truly meant to be an undead blasphemy, a vampire. At the time I had demanded more from the system. I got a monster title now. This land recognizes me as their Lady. I'm a monster, mom but I can be more than that. Red pointed that out. It caused my soul to further blend the dungeon into my being. I can already feel that I can do more with it now. The efficiency of my soul mana improved.”

  She has tears in her eyes as she pulls me into a hug, “I'll stop trying to convince you otherwise than sweetie, just try to be a docile one.”

  I give her a toothy grin, “No promises.”

  She gives me a shake at that as I laugh. She joins my mirth a moment later.

  You have gained the skill [Aura Control] Basic 1

  Aura Control - the ability to manipulate auras

  Basic - You can adjust the radius of your auras

  Gain 1 exp

  Red has been busy. I pull my sovereign aura into myself. When it's inside myself I turn to Cecelia with a grin.

  “Your horns just shrank to nothing and…your title is missing.”

  Huh didn't even feel the change. I let my aura out again. My lateral eye swiveled up to watch as my horn crown began to reshape itself.

  “And the title is back.”

  “Well, I won't have to use blood to change them at least.”

  “I mean mithril silver is okay as a color, o Queen of the monsters.”

  I give her an annoyed look which is greeted with a laugh.

  -----

  So many came, the lake filled. Few succeed but that only spurred the influx. I laugh, the dungeon did too.

  “Sara…”

  “Sorry, our soul has blurred more with the dungeon now.” I take a sigh, “Time to be more, mother.”

  I held my body and removed my inert bone marrow. I left it there for so long, a part of me that hoped I could return to how things were, went with it. My blood passives hook to my entire skeletal structure. I drink deeply from my lakes, thirsty work. Mother watches the entire time. Trying her best to ignore the various things crawling my viscera.

  “Well that's step one.”

  My blood passives released, it defined it so quickly. It was inert after all, unneeded. Next step, the blood vessels in the bones expand into arteries, filling the voids I created. My lung outflow connects to my arteries leading to my spine. The blood passive far greater are required now. Drinking seems inefficient, I create a shallow bath of blood and climb in, willing my skin to only take as needed. After all, this is a process.

  “Now I'm not sure which of us is the blood soaked priestess, how does your manual control work?”

  “Different but I feel I am managing to oxygenate my cells. This will take a while to solidify.”

  My hydra baby joins me by jumping onto me. I boop her on the nose for her impertinence. I enlarged my blood bath to accommodate us both.

  “You truly do seem more at ease with this now.”

  “Being a monster doesn't mean I need to prey on people. I can be more than that.”

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  She smiles and nods, “Well then, hurry up and get me some more legs, daughter.”

  I roll my eyes, “Sure, two hundred levels by tomorrow.”

  She laughs.

  “I could just make you the way I did with Xena and the rest.”

  She shakes her head, “The current path is fine Sara, it lets me grab other major boons.”

  I scowl, “Don't talk to me about boons. I spent forever going through my notifications after gaining five hundred in stats.”

  “Ever try ignoring them.”

  “I had five years of daily notifications to go through when my status screen unlocked. Besides, how can I exasperate you if I don't know my changes?”

  “A daily occurrence, I am set to live a long time and yet I found a grey hair today.”

  I laugh.

  Soul raised to 900

  A supplicant has tied themselves further to you

  Remaining Soul 69

  Seems mom got a level. My title grants me more soul then I provide.

  -----

  5 28 Tibyder Adventurer, Basic Mage, Vampire

  “I'm so happy for you, Qorth.”

  I skitter around her excited.

  “Aye, ‘Showing her age for once’ it was a good hunt indeed.”

  Cecelia laughs at that. She had also leveled. Our walk through the predawn forest is calming. I had felt my thirst shift but it seems my sister is taking care of it. Guess mana based thirst is shared between us. Qorth studies me.

  “You seem to have not grown at all despite your victory.”

  I stop at that. Huh, strange. I look at [Fastidious Soul Eater].

  Fastidious Soul Eater - to she who both offered and devoured her own soul

  Basic - You now can choose which souls you wish to eat

  Soul eater - you are a monster but more

  Basic - you gain more Soul from the Souls you devour

  Apprentice - you subconsciously soul etch any desirable traits from the souls you devour

  Competent - any slaying exp you gain you will devour

  Intermediate - your soul constructs will devour souls for you

  Advanced - your blood and soul volume grows as you devour

  I smile, the system is not yelling at me anymore. I calm myself and speak again.

  “Seems it's the amount of blood that grows now, not my size. Though I can only condense my blood by so much. I will adjust myself in the evening.”

  “Before you would just grow.” Qorth notes.

  “My body has become static, I have to use my magic to change it.”

  “So you could be an adult if you wanted to.”

  “Having the body would not make her an adult.” Cecelia mocks.

  I roll my eyes at mom's protective slander. I feel my reserves of blood, “I'd be light headed to grow that large but I think eleven years old is feasible.”

  “You grew more from less.”

  “Dividing my gains three ways now.”

  “Three? You haven't added another sister have you?” Cecelia was rather quick to ask.

  I shake my head, “Just me and Red, but I felt my dungeon expand as well.”

  -----

  “You are looking pleased Violet, did the drake hunt go well?”

  “The drake was killed by the Lord of the Plains.”

  “That beast?” Delores huffs a sigh, “He prevents my fathers and the Queendom expansion to the south. Paying an adventurer to slay the thing is rather cost prohibitive. Being an oversized Axen just doesn't really draw the adventurers to keep slaying it.”

  “Keep slaying it, mistress?”

  “Something about monsters with titles, they just revive over time unless another monster kills it, which just takes on the title itself. If you kill it enough times, the time it takes to revive stretches out long enough to establish a barrier fountain. Thus pushing back the beast.”

  The title I hide thrums further cementing my truth. Would I revive? I chuckle, don't I already. Weird I never saw large monsters prowling near any of the barriers though.

  “For someone who was denied her prey you seem quite happy.”

  “The lord was quite a delicious consolation prize, ma'am.”

  “Truly, you slew it. Do you think you could do it again?”

  I direct my a thought to her.

  Mistress, a Lady of the Plains was born. Please don't ask me to slay myself.

  She looks at me wide eyed.

  “What color would you like your flower today, mistress?”

  -----

  “You appear to be drinking quite often from your skin there [Priestess]. I cannae see how there could be anything left.”

  “Dame Hacnae, I'm the dungeon. I am simply refilling it as I drink.”

  “Ah, well. This is all rather new to me. First I heard of a dungeon being a person, but I guess they had ta come from somewhere.”

  “I must admit my initial transformation was rather harrowing.”

  She nods at that. “Well I shan't keep ya, would you like a model or shoul’ I describe it to ya.”

  “If you have the reserves, simply build the outline and I will replace it with my constructs.”

  The dirt mage gnome nods at that and we begin forming the coliseum. It was slow work, we got the basic stage and ground work settled. She ran out of mana before I did. But it was closer than I expected, my stat tyranny only slightly besting her skill and efficiency. I will need to ensure I do not become conceited.

  I walk back to the entrance with her. I only squirm a little from my hidden babies.

  “Will you be creating furniture as well?”

  “I could but it would be rather generic and further burdening, is it possible for the knights to at least furbish the nobility sections?”

  “O when I came here the entrance to your dungeon was quite ornate. I had thought you had an eye for the fancy.”

  It changed?

  “I actually don't set how the entrance looks, has it truly become a set of ornate doors like at the citadel?”

  “It was when I passed through ‘em. But if you didn't do it ye’ self then its best the knights handle the fancy for the uppers. I will put in a requisition. Thank ya [Priestess], I was rather sore you snatched my star pupil from me but she must of kno’ to attach herself to somethin’ bigga. I see ya in two days, got to rest my mana.”

  “Til then Dame Hacnae.”

  I return to my blood bath. Motioning my hydra for her meal.

  -----

  “Why are you bathing in blood?"

  “What Violet, I'm allowed to be dramatic too o former vine throne sitter, while in the awkward sitting form of a Tibyder.”

  I huffed out my annoyance, “I couldn't change my body and I grew bored.”

  She smiles, “Actually I'm cementing body changes for a new circulation system. Should it work, you will get to have a bath too.”

  I quirk an eyebrow, “How will that work when we change.”

  “Well seeing as it's mostly biological, you would shift your changes to each new form. Failing that, we could just have a sleeping form.”

  “Which would burn our blood but perhaps that is better than dying which burns a lot of our blood. What's the not biological part?”

  “I can only really engrave my bones. I'll need to install these rings into my lungs to pull blood into them.”

  “That's going to hurt, Red.”

  “O very much so, I suspect I'll die.” I giggle at her words.

  “We seem to have gotten rather accepting of that.”

  She returns my giggle. I check the lakes and find them better than expected for Red to be bathing herself in it. I shrug and disrobe. She quirks an eyebrow as I shift my form to its true self. I then grew to a plausible eleven year old size. In most places. I joined my sister in her blood pool. No longer a bath.

  “Kinda makes me wish I had waited.” She stands, “Need one of you to come out. Come here baby, meal time.”

  I watch as a horned Maknor spiderling rips out of Red's torso. It goes to her hand which she then promptly puts in her mouth and starts chewing. The hydra waddles over at which point she spews the prechewed slurry down its throat. Delightful. I laugh at the absurdity of it all.

  “Ahhh that's a good baby.”

  “Surpised it doesn't award exp.”

  “They return faster if the dungeon doesn't have to resupply the soul value.”

  “Ah.”

  -----

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  The blood passives release. I get out of the pool. Bones or lungs.

  Violet, I could use some assistance.

  She appears next to me, her eight legs make me wistful.

  “Could you assume your attendant form, I like to at least match in height.”

  “Sure, Red.”

  She is now a head taller version of me with a full C cup and a one point five waist. I match her height, become a D cup and grow annoyed at my waist.

  “Bloody system, the geas is when we are fully grown. But we never stop growing.”

  “Or Red we no longer grow at all and thus are always fully grown.”

  So true. A matter of perspective. From a certain point of view. The geas dissolves, free to be 2.0 once again. I stop before I begin. Babies I need you to occupy my chest for a moment. The creeping cascade of legs slowly traverses my body.

  “Oh system, that's sensitive.”

  “How is it not mind numbingly painful.”

  I give Violet a toothy grin, “Who said it isn't?”

  She rolls her eyes as I begin to pull in my waist. The ribs constrict but not as much as before, my forty-four inch hips providing room for my acute exaggeration. My sister matches me. We sigh as we produce our perfect pour. She gets ready to enter the pool when I stop her.

  “I actually could use your help. I want to install my rings.”

  She nods and I show her where to place them and in which direction. I will my babies back into my legs and smaller torso. I then bind the rings to my soul. Violet has a questioning look.

  “Just in case I need to remove them I can pull them into my soul space.”

  “Makes sense, you know perhaps you shouldn't have stacked yourself so much if you were wanting me to borrow through you.”

  I roll my eyes and clear the left lung of blood. She forms a void construct and plunges it through my ribs obliterating the mithril. I tilt my head back and scream. My lucidity comes back after she places the ring into the inflow orifice. I fill a nip as it expands and embeds itself into the soft tissue. She closes the wound with blood mana, the both of us growing thirstier.

  You have gained the skill [Resist Void] Basic 1

  Resist Void - who does impromptu surgery with void

  Basic - you do

  Gain 1 exp

  “Do you want to test it first?”

  I nod and release the blood while activating the ring, I fill the lung and I take a breath. A bigger breath increases the volume, oxygenating more blood. I pull the blood through my bones simulating what my later work will need to do. The blood keeps pulling to the lung and circulates. I nod. Gritting myself for the other lung. It goes much the same as the first.

  Violet unceremoniously tosses me into the pool when she is done. Not bothering to seal the wound first. The blood fills it and regrows the flesh. The lakes are getting lower. Hopefully more adventurers will be foolish.

  “Surpised you didn't try to best me in the chest department.”

  “It would not do to excessively best the mistress.”

  “She is barely a B.”

  “I did say excessively.”

  I laugh and match my sister, she is right. It just wouldn't be proper.