1. Did I die and become Damien Nightshade?

“Good Morning Master” a womanly voice entered his ears.  ‘Are the nurses here already? Did I fall asleep playing VR again? I really need to stop pulling all nighters, although there's not much to do while trapped in this hospital.’

“M-master, wake up!” the voice said with a hint of terror as if waking him up could be the last thing she does. ‘Master? Since when did the nurses call me master… and why does she sound scared?’

“Master it's time to feed, please wake up”, ‘Alright fine I'll wake up, what's with the urgency?’

Damien opened his eyes and stared at the woman's face, her ocean blue eyes stared straight back into his. Her eyes were trembling in fear from his gaze so Damien instead drifted his sight to her slender neck.

The women's long black hair was flowing over her exposed shoulder blade, the hair was damp and water droplets could still be seen on the skin.

Damien felt a weird primal urge to bite her neck? He could also smell the blood pumping just below the surface of that delicate skin. Damien felt a pain in his mouth as two fangs elongated and pierced his bottom lip causing some blood to fill his mouth.

Blood

Oh, how delicious it tastes!

Before Damien could even stop himself, his body lunged towards the woman and his two fangs bit deeply into her flesh. She cried out in pain but quickly shut up and just silently sobbed as if used to her master's treatment.

After a minute Damien felt the woman go limp in his arms and the sudden weight pressing against him broke his trance.

‘WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING?’ He cried out in his mind. He had never even felt the touch of another woman's neck, let alone bit into it!

He quickly brought his head away from the woman and he felt his fangs retract into his mouth. He easily pushed the woman off himself, too easily, was he always this strong? With his newfound strength, he carefully laid her onto the bed beside him.

Looking at the woman's neck, two small holes were left behind as scarlet red blood slowly oozed out, dying the white sheets below. Damien subconsciously swallowed his saliva at the sight. He felt both disgusted and hungry from the sight.

She was deathly pale and breathing shallowly but seemed alive, just passed out. Despite the evidence that the woman had just showered he still felt disgusted from touching her so he pulled out a white handkerchief and gracefully dusted off his shoulder where she had been leaning moments earlier.

Feeling oddly satisfied from performing this action, Damien then surveyed the rest of the room. He was sitting on a massive king sized bed, decorations covered the bedroom’s white walls but they didn’t seem too fancy. The room has noble vibes from medieval europe. Apart from the bed, there was a desk in the corner with some papers stacked on it and a pen to write with.

But what caught his attention was a beautifully crafted pocket watch. The problem was Damien knew this pocket watch all too well, it was a personal item of his favorite villain from a VR game called Throne and Awakening.

Concentrating with his mind on the pocket watch he managed to make it wobble slightly on the desk. After a few tries, he finally got it to float in the air. Moving his hand he beckoned the watch to come towards him.

To his surprise, it slowly wobbled through the air towards him and then fell into his open and gloved hand.

Damien stared at it for a moment and then let out a tired sigh and snapped open the watch. On its cover was a small mirror and Damien could see his reflection.

Blood red eyes, a pale face, and short straight white hair fell over his eyes.

Damien took a harder look in the mirror and suddenly a set of text appeared on the mirror's surface.

[Damien Nightshade]

[Noble Vampire]

Skills:

Psychokinesis [D]

Pyrokinesis [E]

Blood Magic [F]

Mana Control [F]

Traits:

[Germaphobe] (Unable to learn melee skills / 100% Increased control over ranged spells)

[Control Freak](Increased affinity to control skills by 10%)

[Lazy](Increased mana regeneration while resting by 20% / Increased exp to learn new spells by 10%)

[Concentration](Increased affinity with mental spells by 5%)

[Noble Aura](Intimidation increased)

Damien on Earth had been bedridden due to illness for the last 14 years of his life. His family was wealthy so he was well taken care of but since he couldn’t leave his bed his only escape from his sad reality was through video games and anime.

Five years ago an immersive VR game called Throne and Awakening had been released. It was a game set in the middle ages where monsters and magic ruled supreme.

The game had a storyline and the player could pick from any character in the entire game and then proceed to do anything they wanted. They could stop the disasters or encourage them, become the villain or the hero. Acquire vast wealth and then lose it all! Anything was possible and that's what made this game so popular amongst its fans.

Damien had played the game religiously for the last 5 years and knew the storyline better than the back of his own hand.

“Did I die and become Damien Nightshade? The game was never this immersive and it used to have a game-like interface that I can’t see anymore without the help of this mirror…”

Damien's face became even paler than the woman lying beside him who was barely conscious.

“Playing as Damien in the game was fun because he was seen as a ‘very hard’ mode character. He's pitifully weak at the start and has death flags around every corner. To become a true master of the game a player should complete the game as Damien without dying.”

Looking at his pocket watch it displayed the time and date: 9:10 am January 1st, 1520

“From what I can remember… the game’s storyline officially starts in one year's time.”

A sense of urgency flooded Damiens mind but was quickly suppressed by his trait [Lazy], he suddenly felt everything would be fine and he should just sleep…

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This is a novel I have been wanting to write for a long time, still don't have a name decided for it yet, what do you guys think?