Chapter 139: Assion Ceremony (Part Six)

  Duke Brad floated midair once again, blood mist densing into a crimson cloak that cast shadows across the ptform.

  "Struggle, tremble!"

  "You ot escape the fate that awaits you."

  Uhe duke's and, Alger unched a storm of attacks against Medrosh.

  tless rats and bats poured ceaselessly from the darkness. Shadowy tendrils rose from the ground, and frenzied blood mist filled the air.

  "Damn vampire."

  Medrosh grabbed a longsword from the ground, its bloody glow f back the attag bats and rats. The protective light surrounding him deflected the tendrils and blood mist.

  Under Brad's trol, Medrosh was uo approach the progenies and was forced toward the passageway, helplessly watg as the vampire prepared for his assion absorption.

  Meanwhile, someone was sneaking along the battlefield's edge.

  ——It was Mantou.

  Mantou curled up in a er behind one of the stone pilrs, his body covered i-cealing potion, spying on the chaotic battle oform.

  "This crazy boss is to—Singo and Battle Maniac both got insta-killed."

  "Looks like I’m the only o."

  "But Medrosh said we o destroy the progenies, or else this monster will get even stronger?"

  Mantou sed the progeied to the pilrs, awkwardly averting his gaze when he saw the naked female tess. Finally, his eyes nded on the equally exposed Langli Baitiao.

  "Guess I’ll free LangthePig."

  Sneaking over, Mantou examihe blood-soaked s, gritted his teeth, and swung his axe.

  "g."

  The broke with a resounding noise.

  Langli Baitiao fell from the pilr.

  His body, tightly bound by the s, looked like a lifeless lump of flesh, barely ging to life.

  But with his fully vampiric physiology, Langli Baitiao's bones cracked audibly as his flesh regeed at an incredible speed. He soon recovered from his crushed and bloodied state.

  Watg this absurd dispy eion, Mantou excimed, "Damn, what are you?"

  "Why do you heal so fast?"

  Langli Baitiao smirked proudly, "It’s the vampire tempte’s 【Undying Nature】. As long as I’m not hit in my ots, I’ll regee automatically—even if my head gets chopped off!"

  "That’s insane!" Mantou excimed again.

  Remembering something, Mantou patted Langli Baitiao on the shoulder with a knowing look. "Good luck, buddy. Every gift from fate es with a hidden price tag. Since you sold your… charms…"

  "How do you know—"

  Langli Baitiao’s voice trembled, his expression t in horror.

  His reputation was ruined…

  While they versed, Duke Brad sensed something amiss. One of the progehe symbol of "envy," was missing!

  Furious, the entire underground world seemed to quake uhe duke's wrath, resonating with mournful cries.

  "Mortals, you court death!"

  "How dare you interfere with the grand assion!"

  Instantly, tless shadowy tendrils rose from the ground. The blood mist surged like boiling tides, and waves of bats and rats charged toward them.

  Mantou, trembling as he watched the overwhelming assault, stammered, "Langbro, I think we’re doomed."

  "Langbro?"

  Turning, he saw that Langli Baitiao had already transformed into a thin mist and slipped away.

  This was the vampire’s 【Mist Escape】 ability. Uhe vast blood mist Duke Brad had cultivated over turies, Langli Baitiao's weaker version only allowed him to flee.

  "LangthePig, you bastard—"

  Mantou was overwhelmed by the duke’s furious attacks. His s went bck as he watched helplessly, nearly in tears.

  Despite risking his life to free Langli Baitiao, the tter fled at the first sign of danger, living up to his reputation as a virtual sdrel.

  Duke Brad’s crimson eyes locked onto the distant thin mist.

  "I will catch you, rebel."

  "This game of cat and mouse ends now."

  Raising his right hand, the duke ahe blood oform te, f a roiling sea of blood that spread outward, dev all life it touched.

  The blood sea surged toward Medrosh, f him to retreat toward the entrahe space he could safely tread grew smaller by the moment.

  "Rebel, return to me!"

  "You are part of the grand assion!"

  Duke Brad himself rode a hurrie of blood mist, summoning waves of bats and rats to pursue Langli Baitiao's mist form.

  Although Duke Brad had once trolled Langli Baitiao effortlessly, the tter had now fully adapted to the vampire tempte, esg the magical bindings and progeny e. In his mist form, he was hard to capture.

  Despite his weak vampiric strength, Langli Baitiao’s escape abilities perfectly suited his slippery nature.

  The mist darted around the bunker, dodging and weaving. If Duke Brad had a beati, his blood pressure would surely be through the roof.

  "Boom—"

  Suddenly, ripples appeared in the bunker’s space, twisting and crag before a fiery portal materialized out of thin air.

  A bck-haired, golden-eyed Draic Sorcerer emerged from the portal.

  This time, he did not hide his identity. Red scales adorned his cheeks, bony dragon horns protruded from his head, and his golden eyes radiated authority.

  With his arrival, the air in the underground grew hot aless.

  "Looks like I’m te?"

  Cassius immediately noticed the vampire duke shrouded in blood mist.

  [Based on your abilities, you observe the following information:]

  【Blood Duke - Brad La】

  Basic Abilities: ???

  Challenge Level: 15 (13,000 XP)

  Evaluation: Brad La—formerly known as Trier, or perhaps Naxos—his true name was lost to the darkness long ago.

  Two hundred years ago, he returned from the battlefield to find his wife dead. fronted with the fragility of mortal life, he pursued immortality. Now, awakened as a vampire after two turies, he seeks to fill his endless hunger with the blood of the living.

  "Challenge level fifteen…"

  "In this form, I’m no match for him."

  Cassius frowned. In his humanoid form, he was roughly ah-level Draic Sorcerer, far weaker than the vampire duke.

  "Guess I’ll have to return to my true form."

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