Vampire Cultivation System in a Hidden World of Monsters

"Did you sleep well?" He said.

"Yes. At least it feels like I did," I said.

"Good. Are you ready to finish your training for the day?" He said.

"Yes," I said.

"Ok, now all you have to do is manifest your soul beast physically outside of your domain," he said.

"I have a question. Since my domain is less battle focused, it feels like I should have it up during everyday interactions, but if I did that, wouldn't people assume I'm trying to attack them? How do I get around that?" I said.

"Yes, most people would assume a domain activation means battle. So there is a more advanced technique called a domain aura that you can use that will still have most of the benefits of a domain activation, except you can't prevent other people from activating their domain and you don't have the walls to contain people in, so you can't prevent them from leaving," he said.

"I don't care about those things. I just want to be able to use my advanced social skills powers in everyday life," I said.

"Advanced social skills powers?" He said, with confused look on his face.

"Oh, that's right. I didn't tell you the domain's powers before passing out," I said.

"So my domain's extra features all have to do with social interactions or money. I can see money through objects and barriers and it increases my charisma and gives me other advantages when interacting with people," I said.

"What kinds of other advantages?" He said, crossing his arms.

"Like it tells me about a person. What they value, some of the things they like, and little snippets about the person. Like I know you have a lucky penny that Bader gave to you. It told me that," I said.

"It told you that? That is powerful. Especially if it can tell you people's secrets or things they don't want you to know about them. I can see why you'd want to use a domain aura in everyday interactions with those abilities. I'll tell you how domain aura's work after you manifest your soul beast," he said.

"Ok, let's manifest this soul beast," I said.

I concentrated on the location of the soul beast. It was sitting on the ground next to me. I concentrated on it's existence and poured more Vi and life essence into it until I felt it becoming solid. Then I made it exude Vi like a light bulb exudes light and it appeared.

"Holy crap! You made that look easy!" He said.

"It was," I said.

"You really are a genius among geniuses. No, you are the genius of cultivation," He said.

"I appreciate that, but I'm not that amazing. I'm just really good at one thing. What's so special about that?" I said.

"That's like saying what's so special about professional athletes or what's so special about Albert Einstein?" He said.

"Ok, I guess that's fair. Alright I'm amazing. Cool. Now what's next?" I said.

"This is the last thing I'm going to teach you for today. The domain aura. Basically, you take your domain, you make it pretty small. Small enough to put in your pocket, and you turn it inside out, so the walls face outward instead of inward," he said.

"Ok, does the exact size matter?" I said.

"To a certain extent. The larger it is, the farther out the aura extends. I only suggest making it pocket size so people can't see that you're using it. And you would just put it in your pocket. But if you need to effect a larger area, you can make it bigger. Marble size will give you about ten feet around you in all directions.

Large marble size will give you twenty five feet, and fist size will give you about two hundred fifty feet," he said.

"Ok," I said.

I summoned a small fist sized domain in my hand. Then I concentrated on turning it inside out. It was a lot harder than I expected it to be. I stood for about twenty minutes before the inside burst to the outside.

A golden aura was emitted by the domain. Then all the effects that happened last time, happened again. The prices, the mouths, the seeing money through solid objects. The works.

"Can you see that?" I asked.

"I don't see anything different than normal other than the domain in your hand," he said.

"Good," I said as I put the domain in my pocket like it was a large rock. It made a small bulge in my jacket but nothing that would make anyone think twice about it.

I looked around at all the distracting effects in my vision and listened to the mouths talking and said, "Excellent."

I walked to the front door of Ravenkin's mansion and said back to him, "Good luck on your date!"

"Thanks!" He said and waved bye to me.

I waved back and closed the door. Ok, I knew what I wanted to do next and it wasn't going to another portal dungeon. I was going to meet foreman Blackhammer.

I opened the system menu and selected Quests. There was a long list of tasks or "objectives" as the system liked to call them, most of which were related to adding more tabs to the system menu.

There was another objective that seemed like it would end up being a forever task.

[Objective: Gain favor with Shikasa and access higher tiers of blessings]

That wasn't what I was in the Quest menu for though. I highlighted the objective, "Meet foreman Blackhammer." Then I tried to click it. It clicked in and permanently highlighted.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

When I pulled out of the system menu the objective was in the upper center of my vision or heads up display also known as a HUD in games. There was a translucent arrow pointing me in the direction I needed to go to get to my objective.

This was what I was looking for when I opened the Quests menu. A directional heading. At first when I saw this objective in the System section of the Shop menu, I thought how am I supposed to meet him? It's not like I can look him up on the internet.

But then I remembered the mechanic in games that showed you where to go to complete your objective. And now I was set. I hopped down two floors in the elevator and caught a ride on the train.

I wished I had a fast travel mechanic in this system. The ability to choose where I wanted to go and then just appearing there without having to wait to get there. Maybe I would get it later, but since this would be my first time visiting this Blackhammer fellow, I had to take the long way to get there.