Chapter 320: Selene Finally Shows Why Emperor Bloodlines Are Terrifying!

Because the day Brynessa awakened her innate ability, he knew that she could become an insane prodigy, perhaps something this world had never seen before.

And such a prodigy could become one of the keys he needed to return to Valtharion.

Sadly, Brynessa knew nothing of that plan. She knew nothing about what Iveron truly wanted.

All she knew was revenge.

Yet now, standing before Selene and watching another prodigy awaken her Emperor bloodline’s hidden inheritance at early B-rank, Brynessa felt all those old wounds opening again.

The humiliation, rejection... and the loneliness.

The feeling that everyone else was moving forward while she remained behind. All of it came rushing back at once.

Her eyes slowly narrowed as the crimson blood continued merging into Selene’s body.

And for the first time since entering the arena, the hatred in Brynessa’s eyes was no longer directed solely at heroes.

It was directed at the unfairness of the world itself.

At that moment, Selene’s transformation finally came to an end, and another set of words escaped her lips, but unlike her usual playful tone, her voice carried a regal authority that made it sound as though the figure standing before everyone was no longer a mere mortal, but a sovereign who had descended upon the battlefield.

"Blood Sovereign."

"WHAT?!"

The instant those words reached everyone’s ears, even Zeyr lost his balance and nearly fell from his seat, while the same stunned reaction spread through the rest of the spectators, because everyone who understood the implications of those two words, especially the members of the Empyrean Academy, knew exactly what Selene’s declaration meant.

Even Brynessa felt a deep sense of fear upon hearing that title.

After Emperor came Sovereign, and only beings who had reached that level were capable of carrying the title of Sovereign.

"A Demi-God!"

The words almost escaped everyone’s mouths at the same time, and the shock surrounding the arena became so intense that even Luke, who had been slumped in his chair like a man whose soul had already abandoned his body, finally lifted his head.

’Demi-God?’

Confusion appeared in his eyes, but before he could even process what that meant, another explanation reached his ears.

"She awakened an innate ability inherited from an ancestor who was a Demi-God."

Alia covered her mouth with both hands as she stared at Selene in disbelief, because even for someone as knowledgeable as her, this development was absurd.

Normally, when an Emperor’s child awakened their innate ability, the inheritance that manifested would belong to an Emperor-level ancestor, meaning an inheritance equivalent to a Saint-level power, but whenever someone managed to awaken an innate ability inherited from a Sovereign, the result had always been completely different.

"They ended up becoming Demi-Gods."

The moment those words were spoken, even Luke became completely flabbergasted.

This meant that Selene now had a significantly higher possibility of eventually becoming a Demi-God compared with the other children of Emperors, because she had awakened an inheritance that had already reached the Sovereign level.

As that thought entered Luke’s mind, the familiar System screen once again appeared before him.

[Tch! She isn’t a Demi-God right now, you know, or else you’d already have a sugar mommy, and after that you could probably sleep with any woman in Valtharion because no one would dare stop you.]

’Yeah, because my Demi-God wife would probably kill me herself before anyone else even got the chance.’

Luke gave the System screen a completely speechless look, wondering where the hell it kept coming up with these terrible ideas, considering that every single one of them seemed specifically designed to shorten his lifespan.

[...]

For a moment, the System remained silent, but then it immediately changed the subject.

[Luke, look! Your wife’s Sovereign form is finally ready!]

The System instantly shifted his attention back toward the arena before disappearing from view.

’Tch.’

Luke clicked his tongue lightly, but his eyes nevertheless returned to Selene, whose Blood Sovereign form had now fully manifested.

Her new body stood one hundred feet tall and resembled a gigantic version of Selene herself, except that her entire form had been created from condensed blood and the immense power contained within her Origin.

Every part of her body carried the deep crimson color of blood, yet unlike ordinary blood, the substance forming her Sovereign body possessed an extraordinary density, giving the entire figure a strange sense of solidity despite its origin.

Looking at that gigantic version of his wife, which was almost identical to her normal appearance except for its scale and supernatural nature, an absurd thought somehow surfaced inside Luke’s mind.

’Some of my Titan forms are also around one hundred feet tall, so does that mean we could actually—’

Before he could finish the thought, the System had already appeared with another comment.

[For your dragon wife, you’d have to fck her in her dragon form, because dragons don’t mate in their humanoid forms, and some of them can be over a hundred meters long.]

"..."

Luke fell completely silent.

So the system was suggesting he got a titan origin ability, so he was able to f*ck all of his wives successfully.

He honestly didn’t know what kind of response such an idea deserved, so he simply decided that remaining silent was the safest possible choice.

And chose not to discuss any further on the topic of *f*ck!!!*

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Down in the arena, Selene’s transformation into the Blood Sovereign had changed more than just her body.

The crimson throne behind her, which had previously been large enough for her ordinary body to sit upon, suddenly began expanding along with her transformation, its structure stretching outward until it had become large enough to accommodate her one-hundred-foot Blood Sovereign form.

"Hmm."

Selene gave a quiet hum as she settled onto the throne, resting one arm casually against its armrest before turning her gaze toward the floating Brynessa, whose thousand-foot-long serpent body still occupied a significant portion of the arena.

"I am ready."

The moment those words escaped Selene’s mouth, however, something about her Blood Sovereign body changed.

The streams of blood that had previously flowed visibly across her form suddenly stopped moving.

Her entire body paused for an instant before the condensed blood completely solidified, leaving her appearance almost identical to that of a living being made from flesh rather than a figure formed from blood.

Brynessa’s eyes narrowed as she carefully observed the transformation.

’Her control over blood has increased.’

She immediately understood what had happened, realizing that Selene’s Origin Skill and newly awakened innate ability were naturally forming a powerful synergy.

That was bad news.