Chapter 140: Assion Ceremony (Part Seven)
"Roar—"
Faint magical glimmers flickered around the Draic Sorcerer’s body as it swelled rapidly.
White smoke billowed outwards, its sulfur and niter st overp evehick stench of blood. It felt like standing at the edge of a volo. As the smoke cleared, an 18-meter-long red dragon emerged in the underground cavern.
Duke Brad ceased his pursuit of Langli Baitia at the red dragon with fury in his crimson eyes.
"It’s you, after all."
"Damn lizard."
"Why? Why do you keep obstrug me!"
For the first time, the vampire duke set aside his arrogaaking his oppo seriously. After all, standing before him was a genuine dragon.
Ierial Pne, no one dared uimate a dragon, especially not a red dragoorious favorite of Tiamat and leader of atic dragons.
Cassius said nothing, unleashing a fiery breath.
"Boom!"
Scorg fmes shot toward the vampire.
Duke Brad moved like an agile bat, twisting and turning in midair to dodge.
Under his trol, Alger charged the red dragon, his eyes vat as he swung the Ever-Burning Greatsword at his current master.
"Dominate Human?"
Cassius instantly reized the spell.
"Roar—"
The red drago out a low growl, emanating invisible authority from its massive frame. The sheer pressure of its bloodline made Alger’s body and soul tremble.
【Leader’s Aura】
In an instant, crity returo Alger’s eyes.
Cassius ighe momentarily disoriented Alger, fpping his wings and charging forward with an intimidating roar, carrying an unstoppable momentum.
"Damn lizard."
Watg the approag red dragon, Duke Brad ched his teeth, fury burning in his crimson eyes.
"I’ll show you what death means!"
For turies, no one had dared defy him like this. He had spent two hundred years preparing for this assion.
Duke Brad raised his arms with all his might. The darkness seemed to wail as tless shadowy tendrils erupted from the ground, crimson blood mist filled the sky, and thousands of bats swarmed like rolling clouds. Blood surged like a tidal wave.
The vampire’s power, accumuted over a tury, erupted in full force, transf the surroundings into a bloody hellscape.
At this moment, he was the king of this realm!
However, the red dragon’s scales suddenly turned a dazzling gold-red. Shards of energy floated around its body like tless tiny satellites, and lightning crackled around its form, emitting a tinuous sizzling sound.
As the red dragon charged into the torrent of blood mist, shadows, and bats, a blinding light erupted, dispelling the encroag darkness.
Bats fell from the sky in droves, turo charred remains by the crag lightning. Shadows dissolved effortlessly upon tact with the energy fragments, and the blood mist evaporated before it could even approabsp;
"I never deliberately obstructed you."
"You just happeo be in my way, old bat."
The red dragon spewed a sea of fmes, iing everything in its path and sending the firestorm hurtling toward the vampire.
"Even dragoheir end!"
"And I will be the eternal sn!"
Duke Brad’s pale face twisted into a mrotesque expression. The power of the inal sins he had absorbed made his nature even more ed.
"You should bow before me!"
A vast sea of blood, like a massive crimson curtain, shielded the vampire from the ining fmes. The blood sea surged wildly, crashing toward the red dragon.
"Frightening only mortals with such tricks."
"Who gave you the audacity to use such crude methods against a dragon?"
Cassius charged into the blood sea without hesitation.
He slightly opened his jaws, eling the fiery energy from his bloodstream into his lungs. The fire elements gathered in his lungs and throat, making his chest glow like molten va. Even the gaps in his scales glimmered faintly with fiery light.
The sulfur and niter st intensified. His massive dragon form was like an immi volic eruption.
【Empowered Fme Breath】
"Boom!"
A bzing white-hot n of fire shot from the red dragon’s mouth, pierg through the blood sea instantly.
The fmes sizzled as they moved, evaporating the viscous blood water long before it could approach. Fmes ed everything, filling the air with dense blood mist.
Cassius tilted his head slightly, direg the fire n toward the vampire.
For the first time, fear flickered in Duke Brad’s crimson eyes.
Such devastating fmes—if they struck directly, even with his undying nature, it would be nearly impossible to recover.
Yet, Duke Brad still grinned maniacally, shouting wildly, "It’s useless, lizard."
"I am everywhere! I am an immortal being!"
He dissolved into blood mist, merging with the rolling blood sea to evade Cassius’s direct attabsp;
"Annoying creature."
"If you’re so good at esg, don’t bme me for killing your family."
Cassius thought to himself.
Without hesitatiourned his attention to the progenies bound helplessly to the stone pilrs.
Instantly, the vampiric progenies, uo move, were engulfed in the indest fmes. When the fire subsided, only molten rock remained, releasing deeam and dripping with red-hot magma.
Even the s binding the progenies melted into glowing molteal, flowing slowly.
Once again, it roven that the so-called "undying" nature of the vampire progenies had clear limits.
Duke Brad’s sed soiri La, the symbol of wrath, was utterly destroyed.
A formidable berserker, he was meant to provide "strength" for Duke Brad’s assio, he didn’t even have time to scream or struggle, reduced to ashes ireme fmes.
"No—"
"My children…"
Duke Brad reformed into his humanoid form in the air, letting out a heart-wreng wail, teetering on the edge of insanity.
Over years of self-hypnosis, Duke Brad had e to "love" these children from the bottom of his heart. To him, abs them pletely was the ultimate expression of love, fulfilling their lives to perfe.
Etiri’s destru.
Meant the failure of his assion.
Seeing the red dragon turn toward the progeny, the symbol ance—his most cherished daughter, Alexia—Duke Brad could endure no more.
His crimson eyes burned with boundless fury as he trolled the endless blood mist, surging from the sky toward the red dragon.
"Lizard, I will kill you!"
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