The System Awakens: Rise of the Champion-Chapter 280: The Greek Pantheon - 2

"We're getting a lot of attention, darling," Tiana said, hugging her husband's arm.

"It's our appearance, our clothes, race, and features. We're completely different from them," Grace added.

"This is my first time coming to the Greek Pantheon," Grace continued.

"I'm surprised you didn't," Freya said.

"Well, official matters with foreign forces are mostly handled by Elizabeth and the twins, while I mainly manage matters of our kingdom," Grace explained with a smile. "I remember that after Damian was born, Mother and Aunt Valentine became so protective of him that they wouldn't let him go past the castle. Most of the time, Elizabeth and the twins would be away on official duties, so I ended up carrying him around everywhere I went…"

Grace suddenly hugged Damian tightly. "I'm so unbelievably happy that you're back with me, and that you accepted me as your wife."

"I'm glad you've become mine as well, Big Sister Grace," Damian said with a smile, returning the hug.

"Now that I think about it, you still haven't shown us your Celestial Phoenix form," Grace said, rubbing his chest.

As soon as Grace asked, Damian's appearance began to change from his Vampire Progenitor base form to his Celestial Phoenix base form, as if switching slots.

His hair turned silvery white, similar to his mother's and aunt's, but his eyes remained dark red.

"Only your hair color changed," Grace said, confused. Other than his hair, she couldn't find any discernible changes.

"Well, only my progenitor base forms undergo significant appearance changes. If I evolve into a Progenitor Phoenix, then my appearance will change drastically to bring out the maximum efficiency of the progenitor abilities that come with that race," Damian explained.

The next second, his appearance began to change once again.

This time, his hair shifted to a greenish-brown color, and his eyes changed from blood red to lightning blue. Thick arcs of lightning streaked from the rings of his irises into the abyss of his pupils. His height and muscle tone, however, remained the same as in his Vampire Progenitor base form.

"Whoa, your hair and eyes look just like Avanora's," Freya said in surprise.

"During the time we spent in the hot spring hall, I drank the blood of all of you, including Avanora's," Damian said, observing his hand as thick blue lightning danced around it. "From her blood, I extracted the essence of the Lightning Qilin and used it to become one."

Another important event that took place in the hot spring hall was that Damian transformed all his wives into superior races by granting them the racial essences of every race he had dominated as a progenitor, except for the celestial races, since he could not alter their racial structures without becoming their progenitor as well.

All his wives, whose racial structures had been altered, experienced significant development of their new racial traits during the four years spent in the hot spring hall.

Four years, combined with drinking blood directly from a Primordial Progenitor on an hourly basis, was more than enough for all of them to fully awaken the traits of their altered racial structures.

For example, Yuki, before the start of the orgy, had only developed a single pair of vampire wings, vampiric regeneration, the ability to drink blood, and the power to form werewolf-like claws on her hands. But after four years of drinking his blood daily, the traits of the other races became increasingly prominent, and her body itself grew and matured.

She grew a few inches taller, her breasts became larger, and her skin took on a more vampiric quality. Demon-like horns sprouted from her forehead along with a tail, and she developed two additional pairs of wings. Her wings also changed in nature, shifting from bat-like vampire wings into more angelic, pigeon-like wings. They were pure red and still shaped like vampire wings, but with sharp, demonic edges.

As for the werewolf traits within her, she developed another pair of longer, retractable fangs, along with a much stronger physical body and instincts similar to those of a werewolf.

There were also signs that she was developing a racial transformation of her own, similar to the vampires' [Ancestral Transformation] or the werewolves' [Wolf Transformation]. She had not fully developed it yet, but she was getting close.

The same applied to all the other wives. Depending on their base race, they also developed the traits of the other races quite strongly, and their overall strength increased dramatically.

As they continued talking, the group strolled through the city for a few more minutes.

"Where are the gods? I can't imagine the gods living among mortals…" Grace asked, confused.

"Mount Olympus is separated into three dimensions," Damian explained. "This is the mortal dimension, which is directly connected to the divine dimension, the home of the gods, and the underworld dimension, the hell of the Greek pantheon."

"Why did you open the gate directly to the divine dimension, darling?" Tiana asked.

"I wanted to walk with you all for a few minutes," Damian replied with a smile as he raised his hand. In the next instant, another gate manifested in front of him.

"Let's go greet the Greek gods, shall we?"

The women smiled and followed their husband into the gate. On the other side, they emerged onto a green mountain covered in a thick forest.

"That's the Great Hall of the Gods, the place where the Greek gods gather when a matter of importance requires their presence," Damian said, pointing toward a massive structure. At its center stood a grand white hall surrounded by towering white pillars.

This hall looked far more beautiful and majestic than any structure they had seen in the city within the mortal dimension of the Greek pantheon.

"Let's go there," Damian said as he revealed his phoenix wings. Seven pairs of wings made of silvery flames manifested from his back as he descended from the mountaintop toward the Great Hall of the Gods.

Following him, Grace also unveiled her phoenix wings, though her flames flowed in a deep crimson, and she possessed only five pairs of wings. Then Kathryne and Tiana revealed their wings as well. Their wings had also undergone changes. They now had three pairs of vampire wings that resembled feathered angel wings, with sharp, demonic ends and talons, all blood-red in color.

Vampires traditionally possessed only a single pair of massive wings, but due to the influence of angelic race essence and demonic race essence, they now had three pairs.

Lilith, on the other hand, retained her four pairs of demonic wings, though they were now clad in black feathers.

It was a good time to mention that Damian had also altered the racial structure of the goddesses, such as Freya. Their base race was now human, similar to Yuki, Maria, Ana, and Shiru, and as a result, they developed traits identical to those four.

Freya unveiled her wings a few seconds after the others. They crossed several kilometers and soon arrived at the Great Hall of the Gods.

"The gods of the Greek pantheon each have their own divine halls where they reside. We can't go around to each of them now, can we?" Damian smiled as he looked at his wives. He retracted his wings and levitated into the sky, stopping once he rose a few meters above the Great Hall of the Gods, a faint smile on his lips.

"I know what you're thinking, brother."

The woman smiled, fully understanding what their husband was about to do.

In simple terms, he was going to open his floodgates.

"I wonder which progenitor presence I should use…" Damian took a deep breath as he made his decision. In the next second, a predatory aura began to seep from his figure. His hair turned deep black and grew rapidly, reaching his shoulders. One of his eyes turned a stark blue, his body became more muscular and bestial, and a surge of blue and white energy exploded from his form.

In the next instant, the entire sky darkened as if light itself had been devoured. Damian's beastly aura painted the forest and the grand hall in a thick blue hue, his presence erupting like a volcano and spreading like a tsunami.

Wind pressure, unlike anything this world had ever witnessed, tore through the land, destroying parts of the forest and even causing cracks to appear in the grand hall, which had been forged from divine material.

The space around Damian began to fracture, unable to withstand his monstrous presence, which continued to rise in overwhelming leaps and bounds.

Damian's eyes snapped open, his irises expanding until a blue hue consumed his entire gaze.

His fist clenched, and in the next moment, he opened his mouth and released a thunderous roar.

"RRRAAAAKKHH!!"

The roar was like a second explosion, amplifying the devastation caused by his released presence many times over. The area where he floated transformed into an apocalyptic core, and everything in the vicinity was instantly annihilated. Even the grand hall, which had stood firm until now, began to break apart piece by piece. All animals and wildlife had long since fled in every direction, desperate to escape becoming victims of the monstrous power of the Alpha of Alphas, the true predator, the progenitor of werewolves.

This only lasted a few seconds before everything went quiet.

Pin-drop silence.

Damian's figure slowly descended to the ground. Still in his Werewolf Progenitor base form, he landed calmly.

"That should be enough to attract their attention," the Beast King muttered, a predatory grin spreading across his face.