Vampire Cultivation System in a Hidden World of Monsters

I sucked Johnny's blood and then bit my own wrist and forced him to swallow my blood. He tried to spit it out, but I held his nose closed until he swallowed it.

"Ptuh! What did you just do?" Johnny said.

"I turned you into a vampire. Duh," I said.

"Oh, is that all?" He said.

Dark red veins started to make their way up out of his shirt collar and onto his face. His eyes rolled back and he started shuddering.

"Oh, come on! It's not that bad!" I said.

Johnny started muttering, "Dylan. No, don't go. Dylan!" He sat bolt upright and looked at me. "Oh fuck, what was that? I was in love with you, and this shitty asshole had stabbed me because I wanted out of the business. That was weird. Wait, I'm the shitty asshole. Fuck. What's going on?"

'System. What's happening to him?'

[Analyzing… He had accidentally swallowed a small amount of Mel's blood when he was getting rid of the body, and his vampire body retroactively activated the blood memory of her death in his mind]

'What does that mean?'

[It means you may not have to punish him after all. He's been turned into a Trauma Vampire]

'What's a trauma vampire?'

[It's more of a curse than an ability, but a trauma vampire is a vampire that feeds through blood only, but whenever they do, their body automatically activates blood memories, but instead of knowing a person's memories, they experience them as if they were their own. Trauma memories are the most vivid, so they experience those memories more intensely than others]

'Wait so they experience their victims' traumas? That sounds awful, but also exactly what Johnny deserves.'

[Such is the power of an omni-vampire. All of the vampires they turn change into something based on their personalities and the will of the omni-vampire themselves]

'Wait, I did this?'

[Somewhat, yes]

'Oh. Well. It is what I wanted, so I can't complain. Can you check his loyalty rating? I kind of need him to have high loyalty before I can trust him as a subordinate.'

[His loyalty rating is infatuated]

'What? He's infatuated with me now? How does that help me?'

[Infatuation can lead people to be more willing to do what the person they are infatuated with wants from them. However, I don't think it's a permanent effect. I think it is just a temporary side effect of him experiencing Mel's memories]

'Oh. Well, that's a relief. I kind of don't want him infatuated with me forever. But just for a little while is fine. At least as long as it takes for me to enthrall him.'

[Yes, that will indeed make it easier to enthrall him]

'Good.'

"Johnny, look me in the eyes and say 'I Johnny Calabrese will do whatever Dylan tells me to do, whenever he tells me to do it.'"

"Why would I do that. It's not like I like you or anything," he said, but he looked me in the eyes.

As I stared into his eyes, something strange happened. I started to get tunnel vision as everything except Johnny's face got darker and darker until my vision went black.

When it came back I was in a familiar place. There was blood up to my ankles as far as I could see in any direction. This was the place I met Evil Dylan.

I could see some blood red clouds over head. They started to rain down droplets of blood. Johnny was here with me, but he was a lot more confused than I was.

"What's going on? Where are we?" Johnny said.

"We're inside my mind," I said.

"It's pretty bleak in here. You'd think you'd liven up the place a little. Maybe with some furniture or something," he said.

'System. What do I have to do here? Am I supposed to kill him?'

[No. That would wipe his personality clean and he would just become a mindless drone that did whatever you told him to do. You must make him submit to your will]

'Ok. Here goes.'

"Say 'I Johnny submit to Dylan's will above my own and to the exclusion of all else.'" I said.

"No. That sounds weird," he said.

I walked over to him, grabbed him by the collar, lifted him up and said, "Submit!"

"I won't do it!" He said.

"Well, I guess I'm going to have to push a little harder." I punched him in the face, then kicked him in the balls, and then I punched him in the chest so hard he flew fifteen feet away before landing and splashing in the pool of blood.

He got up and put his hands up. "I don't want to hurt you Dylan, but I will. I'm warning you!"

"I'd like to see you try. I own you in here," I said. I pulled blood from the pool using my blood manipulation and made a huge blood fist around my fist. Then I uppercut him with it. He flew up in the air and I punched him up again when he fell back down.

Then, this time when he fell down I caught him and then slammed him into the ground as hard as I could. I heard his bones shatter. He couldn't get up anymore.

I grabbed him by the collar again and said, "Submit!"

"I don't want to. I'm afraid of what will happen if I do," he said.

"That you'll become subservient to me? That you'll have to do what I say? That you'll become an incredibly strong vampire who nobody can fuck with? That you'll be a soldier in my army?" I said.

"That actually doesn't sound that bad," he said.

"Then, submit!" I said.

"I can't!" He said.

I slapped him. Then I slapped him again from the other side. And again and again and again. His face was starting to swell up when he put his hands up and said, "Ok, ok! I submit!"

A bolt of red lightning came down from the rain clouds and struck him. It didn't transfer into me somehow. It just zapped him. He shook from the electrocution, but his wounds began healing before my eyes.

The lightning stopped and he said, "I have submitted to you. May I get up now?"

"Yes, you may." I said, hesitantly. I got up off of him and offered him a hand up which he took.

Once he was standing, he put his hand out to shake mine. I shook it. A smile made its way onto his face and he said, "I think it will be a pleasure working for you, Dylan. I hope we have a better relationship going forward."

"Yeah, me too," I said. It weirded me out a little.

'System? What's going on?'

[He submitted. That means he will follow any command you give him. His loyalty doesn't matter anymore because he cannot take any action against you. He will retain his original personality except for when it conflicts with your needs]

[His personality will change drastically over time as he accumulates more and more trauma from his victims and he develops a deeper empathy for the pain of others]

'Ok. Thank you. I think I'm going to speed up that process by making him feed on his henchmen.' Your journey continues with empire

[Very well]