“Now listen here Daranda, this is now your new home.” Isaac backed a few steps from the door, spun his wrist and a gust of wind turned the knob.

A breeze of hot air blew out from the smithery; Isaac endured the heat, gotta stay put…

A short silent moment later, “Ah… not as big as I thought with that presentation.” Daranda played with her saliva for a few seconds, “Well, I guess I should heed your call boss. What do you want me to make?”.

It has plagued me with these weird “Guardians” One was first said to have depression, and this one is supposed to be arrogant… I really don’t trust this system.

“If you would enter the smithy, I haven’t gone inside and looked if there were any materials, it is my highest responsibility to provide materials, but sadly I lack a lot of them.”

“Then I should enter!” She raised her hands up in the sky. Though there should have been a description that she was boyish.

Isaac looked to his sides. While he endured the heat that was emitting from the smithy, with a small wave of his magic, that heat could all be prevented, but that wasn’t like that for the others.

“Too. Hot.”

“No. In.”

The goblins, which included Goby, all stood close to the pillars. “You guys go do your own thing, you don’t always have to follow me.”

The throne room was small, well it wasn’t for the normal standards of a room, but it was like a simple park, everyone was always visible.

“Yes, Master.”

Hearing the “boss”, it’s so much more comfortable than “master”. Isaac shivered and groaned.

“You good boss?”

“Don’t worry about me.”

The room was finally clear to Isaac, when he first saw it, his only instinct was to run away from it, though he did close it after he got his brain back.

With a furnace to the left, an anvil close to it, a desk to the left that cover half the room, some shelves at the back made with some stone, and some more extra bits that Isaac had never really understood.

If there was one thing I regret not learning, it’s definitely smithery.

“There’s some iron!” Daranda yelled and raised it in the air.

“Good, now with that, how many swords- no, how many knives can you make?”

“Well, there really ain’t any wood to make handles or scabbards though… so… none?”

Isaac blinked a few times, then he flew out of the room.

“Boss!?”

Fucking shit System, I don’t even fucking know if I’m missing some type of shit or this really is just that hard to make a living!

Isaac flew to the Alchemy room and barged inside as the goblins had fun in the room. “Sorry, but you won’t use these shelves right?” he asked.

“Uh… well, yes I won’t master, why?” Goby answered.

“Don’t worry about it.”

With his magic, Isaac sliced a piece of the shelf from the back off that just fitted right to the door. He moved it up to the air and dragged it into the smithery.

“Here.” Isaac threw the wooden shelf to the ground as hard as he could, and it broke as it hit the floor.

“Whoah! Boss! Chill!”

There were already some wooden boards in the room, but that might be something useful he didn’t want to disturb on, but the doors could also just have been an option, but doors are really important when Isaac remembered his grand plans about the goblin breeder.

“Now, how many can you make?”

“Well, first can I ask something?”

“Okay, what is it?” Isaac hurried as his anger slowly dispersed with a long sigh afterward.

“Where did you get the wood from? It looks like a shelf…”

“From the alchemy room.” Isaac blurted out immediately.

“Oh…” Daranda paused and looked behind her for a few seconds.

“I could make you at least 50 boss.” She said with a grin on her face.

Isaac immediately understood what that grin meant and it calmed him down for a little. If Goby was an obedient servant, this Daranda may be small but she was one hell of a freak, and Isaac loved that.

“Okay, well don’t make 50, that’s a waste, just make me 15, that’s good enough,” Isaac ordered and lastly, he flew down to the ground and walked backward to the door.

“Will do, boss!” She fisted her chest hard.

“I will go now, have fun, give it to me in 2 days, is that good?”

“It will be done in 1!”

“I like the enthusiasm!” My eternal slave… Isaac slammed the door and flew back to his throne.

Well, that was a lot of work, also I have gained a lot of new things too, first and foremost, the thing I have been neglecting the most…

[Evolution Path]

[True Demon]

[Vampire]

[Witch]

[Soul]

Well, this all looks really interesting… is there a description for all of them…

[True Demon]

[Brace your kind and become a true demon! Earn enormous strength and sacrifice your magic for indestructible power!]

So I basically lose my magic? No! No! I will not once again! Go on a path of magicless, not again! Isaac smashed his armchair a few times and broke his bones with blood flowing out of his fist.

[Vampire]

[Enhance your regenerative abilities and live with blood for the rest of your life. Your magic abilities will be reduced significantly with the benefit of blood magic.]

Wait… what does that do? Can’t I already control blood though, I mean I can control water… but I guess I wasn’t really able to manipulate this marbled room… Isaac looked to his side, with his blooded hand that slowly dragged the blood back inside his body, he tried his best to control the blood, yet it never moved.

Oh… interesting… I thought I surpassed the limit of elemental magic just because I could see the magic particles, but I guess if I could do anything that would really be far too powerful. Now this vampire one could be it.

[Witch]

[Abandon the brute strength of a demon. Embrace your wings and control the world with anomalies. Bring your magic to the highest power it possibly could and conquer this world.]

So basically the evolution that improves magic, though it doesn’t say exactly what it improves, I have my doubts… it’s magic-focused… but it’s lacking.

[Soul]

[Abandon everything and merge with the world. You are a soul-like being, what’s wrong with going back to your true self? Endure the hardships of a fledgling and grow to be a God.]

Okay, okay, now that lost sentence, especially that last word is very interesting, it’s so tempting that my hand almost clicked it. But there is one problem, it couldn’t be that easy to be God, can’t it? At the same time, I can’t really trust that the System would allow me to become a God.

Isaac pondered hard upon the three choices, of course, the first one was immediately thrown out.

One allowed him a unique magic ability with the cost of most of his magic, another one was something that completely matched him; yet lacked anything special, and lastly was something that was far too unbelievable to be true.

I have no choice, there’s only one option.

[You Have Picked An Evolution]

[You Have Become A Vampire]

[You Have Acquired The Skill “Blood Magic”]

[The Skill “Magic Permanence” Is Being Absorbed Into Another Skill.]

[You Have Acquired The Skill “Regeneration”]

Well, that’s finished, I should probably test it. Isaac sliced his skin with the wind. I don’t feel any lack of power in my magic… yet… Blood started to drip from his wrist. Isaac stared and moved the blood like water. His smile grew bigger and bigger, he turned the blood into a sharp shard and threw it to the Orcs on the ground.

Isaac flew to the Orcs and used his blood magic, with a wave of his hand a blad of magic came out of the Orc’s severed leg. Its mouth opened and tried to scream from the pain, yet none came out.

That was amazing! Isaac grinned and couldn’t help but try his new powers to the Souls Dome, an area that had basically just been a farm in its truest nature.

Isaac went back to the summoning room and checked one thing.

[Summon Gaurdian][7,725 Soul Points]

[10000 Soul Points]

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So it has increased… well if it hadn’t that would have been too powerful, and as much as I like it… it really feels suspicious, I don’t know if I’m powerful or everyone is just too weak… He paused for a few seconds after hearing those words then his body shivered and he growled.

Isaac went back to the throne and rested down. He laid on the chair and slept as he headed for the next day. It feels so short yet also feels so long… ah…

…

[You Have Survived Day 3]

[Souls Dome Have Been Upgraded]

[Shop Has Been Temporarily Installed]

***

[Welcome To The Souls Dome]

[Will You Start The First Wave?]

Isaac grinned and raised his eyebrows. After the time he had destroyed the Souls Dome and it became an easy and buggy contraption, it seemed like the next just had to be changed.

Instead of the previous white box that looked exactly like the basic floor designs of the tower, Isaac was spawned on a plain grass field on top of a small hill.

On the outskirts of the field was a magic barrier that separated any possible trees inside the “Souls Dome”.

After Isaac grasped everything in the room, “Yes,” he started.

[Wave 1 Starting]

[10 Hobgoblins]

Small houses were slowly formed on the grass plains by a weird holographic motion. Five houses appeared around the small hill Isaac stood and immediately two goblins ran out of each of them. Hobgoblins? What’s the difference?

Isaac entered his combat mode and smiled like a crazy madman, he flew straight to the two houses that were separated from the uneven spread. Of course, that question was a joke! He said, though no one would really ever get his jokes.

Isaac flipped his body and flew to the goblins with his tail tucked out like his head. He aimed fast at a goblin that held a sword behind his back. He took his sword and sliced the black stick, Isaac then flipped his body and smashed the goblin’s head to the ground. Lost a tail, but no problem!

With his leg smashed into the goblin's chest, he plucked the head out and threw it to the goblin that it came out with. Along with the head, he plunged it and smashed the face of the other.

Isaac hurried and turned against the next two goblins. Wait, I’ve been looking so stupid! His hand turned into a fist and he stretched it outward. He opened his hands at a rapid pace; spikes of small blood came out of one of the goblins.

Another! He raised his other hand and did the same.

He flew up to the sky and dragged the four dead goblins, not with wind magic, but with blood magic. Isaac looked into his mana and not a single noticeable difference had been made. This is so majestic!

With Isaac’s hand raised up in the sky along with the four bodies, he threw his hand down and blood escaped from the open wounds of the goblins. Multiple spikes of blood rained down on the other five goblins. Now before I kill that last one.

Isaac collected the big ball of blood that came from the 9 goblins. Shouldn’t I get any sort of blood bag? Cause like, I don’t want any of this to disappear… and my body is too small to fit a sphere ten times my size.

As the single hobgoblin ran to his house in fear, Isaac spent a considerable amount of time to find a way to store his blood in someplace. This is why I need a dimensional bag so much! Fuck! I need some materials soon.

Isaac separated a small ball of blood from the giant clump that floated above the air. He dragged it close to him and drank it.

“...!” He threw up immediately. Despite being a vampire the taste of blood was disgusting. Maybe it was just because the blood came from a goblin, but either way, Isaac never wanted to drink any blood ever again.

Ah curse it, I can’t find a way. Isaac looked down and found no one on the ground. Hmm… he scratched his chin for a bit and raised both his hands and made it touch; which was much harder than you think… babies kind of have short arms…

He brought down his arms on separate sides and destroyed all the houses.

[You Have Gained 15 Soul Points]

[Wave 2 Starting]

[20 Goblins]

[20 Hobgoblins]

Well, this has certainly become much harder or just more complicated. Eh… just more complicated.

The destroyed houses regenerated themselves and soon five more appeared. The corpses of the hobgoblins disappeared along with the ponds of blood formed on the ground. I knew it.

Isaac stood above the main hill. Two hobgoblins ran out of the houses and 20 normal goblins just randomly spawned without any special structure.

As soon as the hobgoblins came into view, their body exploded into blades of blood. The goblins freaked out and tried their best to come back inside but before they could even move one step, they died.

[Wave 3 Starting]

[10 Kobolds]

Oh, not these smarty pants again. The kobolds all died instantly.

[Wave 4 Starting]

[10 Gargoyles]

Now these are new. The gargoyles spawned in the air. Isaac immediately headed down, created a blade of magic, and sliced his flesh.

Gargoyles are not as simple as the other creatures, as they were first, immune to fire, but not only that, they weren’t even alive, which meant that they had no blood.

Isaac constantly flew and dodged the gargoyles. They had two forks in their hands which they threw one and kept the other.

As he flew around nonstop, he aimed his small sharp blade of blood around the air; destroying their heads one by one. A fork came down at a fast rate, Isaac spun to the side and his blade entered that one’s skull.

[You Have Gained 50 Soul Points]

Isaac dodged and struck.

[Wave 5 Starting]

[20 Gargoyles]

Fuck I’m tired of flying! Fuck fine! If you want me to fight gargoyles then let me fight my way!

The gargoyles all spawned at the same time and as soon as they arrived their necks cracked and their entire body crumbled to pieces. Ah… that was half my mana… earth magic is expensive and I can finally see what being a vampire means… my mana usage was far too big.

[Wave 6 Starting]

[5 Imps]

Isaac shook his head and wiped his sweats off. Imps? Fuck I already have no more mana. Small spots of golden patches appeared on the ground along with a single imp above them.

They immediately flapped their giant batwings. They raised their arms and released fire magic. As soon as the fire separated from their hands, their body exploded into a pin cushion of blood pins.

Isaac flew up and dodged the fireballs, his fatigue had made his attacks slower. He stopped his wings and slowly glided to the ground.

[Wave 6 Starting]

[10 Imps]

Isaac surrounded himself with a sphere of air that spun perpetually. He sat on the ground and ten imps spawned. As they flew high up above the blind spot of Isaac, their body exploded before the fire even escaped their hands.

My System! Whoah whoaho! Half of your magic immediately disappearing is really painful.

[Wave 6 Starting]

[20 Gargoyles]

[20 Imps]

Oh shit. Isaac slapped his face and stabbed his leg with a small blade of magic. He removed the unnecessary protective barrier and waited for the imps to spawn. He flew just a few meters off the ground; squished between the gargoyles above and the imps below.

He jabbed his arms to the side and struggled for a few seconds as a piece of stone fork sliced his wings off. Isaac plunged to the ground as he raised his arms and aimed the twenty pillars of blood that sprouted from the imp's mouth and eyes.

Gargoyles cracked and fell to the ground. Isaac ran fast and picked up his wings as he dodged the only surviving gargoyle. Shit! Isaac slapped his face again, reached behind his back, and directed the small hole from the sliced wing.

[Wave 7 Starting]

[10 Orcs]

Isaac took his wing off the ground and attached it behind his back. As he waited for it to heal completely, he immediately killed the Orcs. He struck their brains directly and exploded their hearts from the inside.

He was still hurt from the sudden burst of his mana from the gargoyles. It took a really long time, he snapped his fingers out and flapped his wings for a test.

[Wave 8 Starting]

[5 Ogres]

[1 Cyclops]

Ughh… Isaac groaned and he flew back up to the air. Why the fuck is a Cyclops here! His lips bled from his bite. The five orcs immediately died but as he had expected the Cyclops didn’t even react.