Blood frenzy

Immediately the barrel opened Devan's eyes flashed with a crimson light and he could see the particles if crimson coloured Mana in the air without even concentrating.

Looking inside he saw a large amount of blood in the barrel all and it was releasing an enticing smell which made Devan salivate and start losing control.

His fangs elongated slightly more looking ready for a meal and his finger nails hardened and grew into dark purple claws about 4 cm long then unable to control himself any more he grabbed the whole barrel and started gulping down the blood not even wasting a drop.

As he drank the blood and the crimson coloured Mana in the air as well Devan suddenly found himself sitted on a throne and before him kneeling were a dozen men dressed in crimson armour.

Unsure of where he was Devan looked around but couldn't recognise the place at all then suddenly he stood from the chair against his will reaching one of the gaurds and grabbing him tore the helmet off his head revealing him to be a human with blonde hair right before Devan bit into his neck draining him of all his blood.

When the human was a corpse Devan turned to the other guards still not in control of his body and in a deep commanding voice said "The next time a human slips Into your ranks you will all share his fate now leave."

Immediately the armoured men left with the corpse a rush of information begun entering Devan's head , he was currently watching the memories of an ancient Vampire Emporer from a distant world who was apparently the owner of the blood Devan had just consumed.

A few minutes after the armoured men left another armoured man entered the throne room but this one was more regal and seemed of higher rank but when he reached he also knelt "My lord the Shadow Monarch has completed the tome you asked for."

Smiling involuntarily Devan answers in the same deep commanding voice as before "Bring it to me along with the 3 pillars and the Dark blade of apophis."

According to the orders a pitch black floating book encased in a glass frame was brought to him along with three other books all equally dark and with menacing auras , next to them a long sword was placed with veins all over it and a sharp dark green blade.

Devan watched from the emperor's own eyes as he performed some kind of ritual and fused the books together before absorbing the now single book with an overflowing aura of dark power.

When he absorbed it the book entered his blood and scattered itself within before settling in it's fragmented form though the emperor didn't notice and performed another ritual on the sword causing chains made out of his own blood to wrap around the sword absorbing it also into his blood.

After finishing his rituals he sat in a mediation pose only to start floating before an aura of pure darkness radiated off his body with an unmatched darkness thick enough to be cut by a blade.

The aura was very powerful and radiated all over the empire causing two armoured men to rush into the room and on seeing the emperor cultivating quietly walked back out to continue their gaurd duties.

After about three days to he aura begun retracting and when it finally finished retracting the emperor laughed and called to his gaurds telling them to organise the trrops and get him his armour.

After that the next four hundred years was all about the Emperor conquering the whole continent he lived in until finally he died in battle when Lord Alucard visited the battlefield and was disrespected by the Emperor.

When the vision ended Devan was just finishing the Barrel of blood and let it go sitting to immediately begin his cultivation , the cultivation technique of the bloodline involved using the blood Mana to create blood runes within the soul which then circulate the blood Mana and multiply it while enhancing it's properties with the pure Shadow essence then sending it back into the body to strengthen it and evolve it leaving the runes empty but those are easily filled by drinking more Mana enriched blood.

Focusing on the mana Devan begun carving out blood runes within the empty space of his soul using the crimson Mana and leaving it there to get absorbed until he had made a circle of runes only to realise he still had an abundance of blood Mana so he begun carving out a new circle of Mana inside the first one.

The runes where already ingrained in his mind and he instinctively knew which order to carve them in for which effects so he followed it making a total of three circles of runes one from the inner most one to the outer third one.

When he finished carving them he allowed them to absorb the remaining Mana which they did until they were saturated but suprisingly they continued gaining a dark purple tint as they absorbed all the crimson Mana.

Leaving his soul space which was also where his divine realm was located Devan opened his eyes on the ground but before he could move pain assaulted his body as he had just finished cultivating and had advanced through three ranks directly becoming an Dark Blood elf alcoyte.

The changed were mostly internal as the Mana ran rampant in body destroying and rebuilding it stronger than before until it was done but suprisingly the runes were still full of Mana hence Decan had not emptied his Mana to advance through the realms and had enough to use techniques which he still had to learn.

On getting up he noticed the sun was setting so he sheathed his sabre and organising his clothes begun to walk back to the manor of the elven Noble who took care of Devan in exchange for the use of his innate skill.

This noble was an elven Duke of a small elven town in the Forest of Euphora and he didn't trust anyone so he had Devan use his innate skill to see if there were any traitors among his family , friends and servants.

Suprisingly they were there and some even planned to kill the Duke but with their schemes revealed by Devan's skill they were imprisoned and Devan was kept around by the Duke incase his skill was needed again which was from time to time.

Regardless of his slightly useful skill Devan had horrible magic talent which made him useless in the elven community hence his previous pursuit of strength but now that he had the strength and the means to increase it he had decided to leave the elven forest to journey in the outside world like his fellow young elves.