Chapter 137: Assion Ceremony (Part Four)
"The bats rejoice, the rats sing."
"The blood mist shrouds the sky, shadows overflow."
"Daylight trembles, eternal night desds."
The vampire progenies bound to the pilrs tiheir murmured ts, which gradually turned into wails over time.
Blood steadily filled the runes carved into the stoform, activating the sinister and wicked formation. Simultaneously, formations within the hundreds of iron cages in the bunker glowed red.
The bloodlight ected the progeo Duke Brad, eling streams of malevolent energy into his body.
"Assion, truly marvelous."
Duke Brad raised his arms as if embrag the immense power about to engulf him.
Slowly closing his eyes, he inhaled deeply despite his undead nature requiring no breath, sav the entig st of blood permeating the air.
His expression suddenly froze.
"Wait."
"I smell… unfamiliar blood."
"It seems my castle harbors a group of despicable, sneaky rats."
Opening his eyes, his scarlet gaze burned with boundless fury.
"e out—"
"You’re c death!"
Floating midair, Duke Brad’s cloak billowed without wind, surrounded by a thick mist of blood.
This a vampire would let no oerfere with the assion he had pnned for turies!
Realizing their cover was blown, Medrosh, the mission ander, raised his blood-stained greatsword and roared.
"Attack!"
His usually calm face was now alight with excitement, his voice trembling.
The memories of his wife and children’s tragic deaths, the sughter of thousands of his kin, and ten years of hardship—all led to this moment.
Finally, it was time to end it.
"Kill him!"
Medrosh charged forward.
At the entrahe pyers were thrown into chaos, unprepared for being discovered this way.
【Crimson Duke - Brad La】
Basic Abilities: ???
Challenge Level: ??? (Extremely Dangerous!)
A red interface symbolizing danger and hostility appeared before the pyers.
But as elite pyers, they quickly regaiheir posure, adhering to their pre-pactibsp;
"He’s found us!"
"Mage, cast your spells now!"
"On it!"
Charlotte raised her carved wooden staff, the vi its tip shimmering with magical light.
【Cloud Fog Spell】
As the spell was cast, Charlotte lost her invisibility, revealing her form, but the dense fog swiftly enveloped the vampire’s ptform.
Meanwhile, the bard pyer "Flying Guitar" drew his violin bow. As the strings vibrated, melodious music filled the air, rippling through the weave of magic. Such was the artistry of bard spellcasting.
【Witchfire Spell】
Witchfire g to the vampire, outlining his silhouette with violet light, making him visible even within the dense fog.
Windcloud, vice president of the Royal Authority guild, waved his staff.
【Tidal Surge】
A massive wave surged forth, targeting the vampire, exploiting the "water-based damage" weakness of vampires.
Simultaneously, numerous mage and warlock pyers bombarded the vampire with spells like Sleep Rune, Prismatic Spray, and Charm Monster, as though spells were free. They followed with offensive spells like Scorg Ray, Magic Missile, and Fireball. Lightning, radiance, fmes, and forergy verged olined figure in the fog.
Meanwhile, melee pyers like monks, warriors, padins, and barbarians charged into the fog, guided by the witchfire’s glow to attabsp;
Iron Frenzy summoned his newly built guardian mech, unloading a hail of bullets while raising a shield to charge the vampire.
Medrosh led the charge, his blood-stained greatswlowing with the anticipation of vengeanbsp;
But before they could reach him, a deep voice echoed through the bunker.
"Pathetits."
"Do you truly believe you challenge me?"
A wave of blood-colored energy erupted, dispersing the dense fog.
Faced with dozens of ining spells, arrows, knives, and even bullets, Duke Brad merely smirked. His body turned into a mist of blood and scattered instantly.
Lightning, radiance, and fmes crisscrossed. Projectiles rained down, but all attacks hit nothing but air.
The pyers looked around, but the vampire was o be seen.
Only a faint blood mist lingered in the air.
"Let the blood boil within His body…"
"Let us embrace the grand assion…"
The vampire progenies tinued ting, and the bloodlight still flickered.
Clearly, it wasn’t over.
Suddenly, Brad’s raspy voice echoed throughout the dark underground, seemingly ing from all dires.
"Foolish mortals."
"Your attacks are utterly ughable."
"For I am everywhere."
"I once swept the earth like divine wrath, but I gave it all up for immortality."
The voice grew louder and more powerful, filling everyoh an overwhelming dread.
"Now, I am immortality. I am darkness! I shall bee the monarch of eternal night! And you all are but fodder for my assion!"
Everyone preseheir blood boiling as if it wao escape their bodies, breaking free of its fines.
The blood mist in the air ed and swirled like turbuleer, f a massive vortex. Finally, it reformed into a humanoid shape above the stoform.
Brad La now wore a robe of interwoven red and bck. Floating high above, his glowing scarlet eyes looked down oform’s octs with cold pt.
He raised his hand slightly.
Blood mist formed into giant blood-colored hands midair.
Iron Frenzy raised his mech’s armun, firing at the hands, but the blood hand enveloped the four-meter-tall mech, crushing it and its pilot inside.
The shattered remains of the mech were casually discarded, while the pilot’s blood joihe blood mist, making it thicker and more tangible.
"Fresh blood…"
A trace of ecstasy and satisfa appeared on Duke Brad’s pale fabsp;
"Run, wail…"
"I shall thhly enjoy this moment."
Uhe vampire progenies’ ts, Duke Brad toyed with the pyers, trolling the blood mist to hunt them down. He effortlessly killed them, draining their blood, leaving the pyers scrambling.
In just a few minutes, over ten pyers had perished—elite pyers, no less!
"Damn it, the guild leader got insta-killed again!"
"How do we even fight this?"
"This boss’s damage is insane—"
" someone cast Fly? I want to try melee bat."
Medrosh swung his sword to disperse the blood mist, staring at the vampire high above, muttering, "No, he’s abs prowing even stronger."
"We must stop him."
Medrosh gnced into a shadowy er, his jet-bck eyes gleaming with determination.
FAL
