SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God-Chapter 154: VIP access

Damon looked at Sylvara for answers but the woman simply ignored him and continued to chat with the cityfolk, no doubt trying to curry favor for some quests from her side. Every player in the feast was pretty much doing the same thing, trying to squeeze out a quest or two.

Soon, the familiar countdown began and the warning about system shut down notification arrived in front of his eyes.

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Damon closed and opened his eyes. Yup, he was still standing inside the game world, the city folk partying it up alongside him.

"What the fuck? This is actually a thing?!" Damon couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He looked around and then realized he was in for another shock.

He was still inside the game alright and he was the only one still inside the game!

All around him every single player had completely disappeared including Sylvara and all the others from the Frozen Throne guild. Damon was pretty sure that those guys all had their own tattoos and yet they were gone from the game just like ordinary players.

He then remembered something and quickly hurried to check for Kate and Mark. Weirdly enough those two had also been chucked out. So it was just him right now in the entire game world? No other player was there?

What if players who had received a special legacy or god’s blessings were exceptions? He quickly opened up his friend’s list and checked for Ghost. That dude has Umbra’s legacy, one of old forgotten gods. Sure enough, he was also greyed out which meant he was also out of the game right now.

"Blood Reign, do you know what is happening?" Damon asked the weapon spirit.

"Hmmm... Maybe my Lord is able to access the game world because you have a stronger soul than the others."

"Huh? When did this happen?" Damon was surprised to hear something like this.

"My Lord, you have travelled back in time. It would be impossible to do something like that without a strong soul. To jumpstart our future, I had to expend quite a bit of my energy to strengthen your soul before sending us back in time."

"One’s soul needs a bit of time to get used to mana, my Lord. Your entire world’s population would have been exterminated on day 1 if they had received more than 12 hours of continuous mana exposure."

"The key is to condition the body, soul and mind every single day until it becomes acceptable to transition to a complete world filled with mana. This is the very reason this game exists in the first place."

Damon nodded. He did not fully understand everything but he could somewhat guess what was happening. The half day game time was probably just the system letting the humanbeings getting used to mana.

As for how exactly it worked and how much soul strength or body conditioning was required, he did not have all the answers. In his last life, only in the middle of third year, the game time was fully unlocked and the game was accessible 24-7.

Something basic and fundamental like this wouldn’t probably change even in this life time no matter how much he fucked around with the timeline or the critical events of the timeline. Or at least that’s what he could assume right now.

"Alright. No need to think too much. Right now I have the VIP pass and it is freaking awesome!" Damon grinned. Now he knew why Sylvara had looked at him like an idiot when he had asked her about this before. She never bothered with a reply. Guess she did not know the answer after all.

Damon laughed and shook his hips a little more as he danced happily in the celebrations. Why not dance like no one was watching?

He laughed once again and decided to enjoy himself for a little while. He did not even decline the two earl’s daughters who tried to attach themselves to him to win him over. He danced with the two women thoroughly enjoying the show and only after a few heavenly minutes, he finally logged out.

He wanted to doublecheck a couple of things. The last time around he was kind of stuck inside the game despite being log out hours because of the special body tempering ritual. Damon chalked it upto special circumstance and did not think much about it.

However, this time it was different. If he could really walk in and out of the game world whenever he wanted that would be game changing

Damon closed his eyes and pressed the tattoo in his hand. The next second he found himself in a deserted long corridor of the frozen dome, the base of the Frozen Throne guild.

Then he took a deep breath and again did the same. Voila! He was back inside the game world without missing a beat!

This really confirmed everything! Not only was he not forced out of the world because of the shut down but he was able to access the world whenever he wanted!

Theoretically, he never needed to get out of the game world and could permanently stay hidden inside away from the influence of all the powerful figures outside.

In the real world there were governments, military, nuclear missiles, things he wasn’t sure yet how he would be able to handle. But inside the game world, here he had the confidence to survive no matter what.

Damon grinned. This was huge! This gave him an edge he had never thought was possible!

Artimius might be playing some cat and mouse game with him but one thing was for sure. Knowingly or unknowingly that old man had helped him out quite a bit and for that, he would genuinely owe him one.

"I need to figure out how exactly this works. If I could bring my entire family inside, then I wouldn’t have to worry about many things." A plan started forming in Damon’s head.

While it was well and good that currently everyone was staying under the protection of Artimius, someone who at least seemed powerful, Damon would be a fool to believe that this was the best case scenario.

At the end of the day, his family was still in danger and they could still be used as a hostage against him.

"Soul strengthening huh... I need to look into this." Damon muttered to himself. He then logged out anyways to take a short break.

He was completely spent after pushing himself every single second both with the black pool and the evolution. His mental exhaustion had already piled up quite a bit. It was better that he rested well before starting again.

Then, with a final press of his tattoo, he logged out to rest and dream of the chaos to come.

Back in the outside world, Damon found an attendant soon enough who showed him where his living quarters were. His parents and his brother’s family were right next to him. There were also Kate and Mark in adjacent rooms.

Damon did not bother to visit anyone. He simply went inside his room and collapsed on the surprisingly comfortable bed.

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Golden Ticket Mass Release 5~