Bloodlines Online

After the forced logout Lucretia was confused, she did not know how her new mate had been teleported from her embrace.

She could only ask the goddess that had appeared.

”Divine one! The gods told our people about the otherworlders that would help our world grow stronger in mana density but I beg of you, tell me where the otherworlder that was here just vanished to!”

This being that had fought against a titan was now bowing prostrate before this great being who had forced them away with a simple motion.

She turned to face the queen with a blank expression.

”The otherworlders have been forced back to their own world while I resolve the disrespect that was shown today.”

Lucretia sighed in relief but then she asked another question.

”When will he return? I wish to properly introduce myself since I had to protect my city rather than speaking as I wanted to.”

The floating woman seemed to consider it before nodding.

”The otherworlders will be allowed to return tomorrow but that does not mean he will be back, he will return when he wishes to.”

As the goddes spoke these final words she vanished.

The queen sat herself on the ground and called for Leya while the mana burn skill still shrouded her.

”Leya would you please go get another dress from my room? I rather not wait for him naked... though I doubt he would mind.”

Instead of instantly leaving to obey the request Leya did something that most would not expect from a warrior looking at their ruler.

She sat beside the queen.

”Lucy you can’t treat Belial the way other women treat their males here, I’ve been around him and I’ve seen that he doesn’t react to it well.”

The queen grumbled and curled up with her knees to her chest.

”I don’t want to lose my chance, a male devil that has a shadow affinity? You know how long I’ve been searching, how can I just risk losing him when a male would die so quickly without help?”

Leya sighed loudly and gave her queen a rough push.

”That’s what i’m talking about, that right there. If he hears you dismissing him just because our males are weaker then he will never accept you, he can’t stand being around Kira you know.”

She looked up with astonishment.

”How?! What did she do!”

The demoness just chuckled and stood up.

”You’ll have to find out when she gets back, she really pissed him off though.”

She left in the direction of the castle looming in the distance and after a moment she began to run to get there quickly, leaving Lucretia alone by the teleportation gate.

~

When Ezekiel left his pod he was slightly disoriented and had to sit down, he checked the time and it was almost midnight si he simply went to his bed to collapse into slumber.

In his restful state he began to dream about the monstrously large being that had seemingly rescued him in the game world.

He saw the titan floating beside what appeared to be a much more terrifying form of titan that was shrouded in darkness.

The two titans fighting side by side were wiping away swarms of astral beasts and even defeating groups of astral titans.

He could feel something was about to occur and he had no idea what it was but as he saw the two turn to face something the dream ended.

He woke up to the sun shining through his window and he got up to start his day, he had work to do after all.

~

On his way to work he recieved a message from an unknown account on Wonderland, he frowned before he saw that it was apparently Layla adding him to a group chat.

He was invited to a call with them and since he was still heading in he accepted the call while he continued.

”Hey everyone, headed to work right now but I’m free to chat what’s up?”

He saw that everyone was ready to speak but Hope seemed to be texting rather than speaking which seemed odd but he didn’t ask about it.

”That’s fine B. we were just discussing possible reasons for the server shutting down early, it said there was an emergency log out. Think something happened with the server?”

He was about to speak up then decided against it, something told him that if he revealed that information it might cause problems.

”No idea on my end, I’m almost at work though so I’ll talk to you guys later ok?”

He said his goodbyes and left the call to begin his shift at the Chateau.

~

James was currently freaking out.

’It’s the same Zeke! Oh I can’t ever face him, dammit I can’t even speak in chat now!’

The poor young man was pacing with their arms wrapped around themselves.

’God what am I gonna do? He knows me and he would know that hope isn’t the short, sweet bunny girl they know but a skinny boy freak!’

He sat down and began hyperventilating until he felt something off.

His arms felt strangely... soft.

He was so confused by it that it was actually able to force him out of his panic attack so he rushed to the bathroom.

He hated seeing himself without his shirt because of how wrong it felt to see such a skinny boy in his place but strangely enough he saw that his body had developed a little bit of plumpness to it, like he had begun to gain weight.

Not only was he apparently gaining a bit of weight but he seemed to be developing softer skin.

Even some of the old scars were gone.

He felt like he was imagining it but after taking a picture he saw that it was true and for the first time he began to cry tears of genuine joy instead of pain.

~

As the day drew on people went about their lives but in the background there was always the occasional interview with the Yggdrasil Corporation.

A very large number of people were upset by the forced logout and they were on damage control, the primary interviews everyone saw involved the CEO Mr. Jeremy White.

”So Mr. White what can you tell us about this incident? Many people wish to know why they had to end their time early.”

He gave a very charming smile, the man appeared tall with a fairly normal appearance like a computer technician that had been given control of the company rather than being the man who built it from the ground up.

”Well for all of our wonderful players I have incredible news, the forced logout was due to a patch we planned to release that had to be put out early! Because of this patch we had to close the servers so that the AI known as Gaia could properly implement it.”

The host seemed surprised and began to question him further.

”Would you be willing to give us a sneak peak at what we can expect from this patch then? I’m sure our viewers would be so grateful and so very excited to hear it.”

She smiled wide and looked at the camera with a happy expression.

”Of course! For starters stats will have an additional effect, strength will now affect your body’s defense as a healthy body benefits from the strength it has grown!”

He then turned to the camera as well.

”Vitality will increase your natural health, stamina and mana regeneration. Vitality affected health regeneration before but now the effect is much stronger.”

The host nodded along and seemed to be writing notes down now.

”Agility will now increase your damage against critical points, it also makes you much faster than before.”

Then he had a smug look on his face.

”We heard all the mage complaints and we saw that many of you finally learned why you couldn’t use your spell often but we still added another affect to wisdom anyway, wisdom will now increase your total mana pool.”

Then he leaned back with a smug expression.

”Intelligence is already an incredibly strong statistic so we gave it a minor increase, we made it so intelligence has a higher effect on experience gain.”

He then turned to the host who still had that wide grin.

She turned to the camera and began to speak about the success of the game as well as beginning to show all of the recent achievements of the most recent day of the server being open.

On the screen were various achievements like the dungeon completions, and region discoveries.

The largest achievement was the defeat of the nightmare difficulty of a dungeon and then right below it was the first discovery of a t4 territory.

”What is a t4 territory Mr. White?”

As she asked that question the man seemed uncomfortable and he began to chuckle.

”Oh that, a t4 territory is quite the interesting thing...”