?Lathel: ??!!
At this moment, Lathel was really startled. He looked around, but there was no one here, and he thought to himself: ‘Could it be… the Blood King is talking to me?’
‘Impossible! Can he really see me? But… The system said that no one will be able to see me while I’m in this state.’
Lathel frowned. He decided to stay silent and not move, as if he didn’t exist.
However, the Blood King’s eyes were actually staring at him as if he could actually see him.
“No answer?” The Blood King smiled while sitting down on the ground, his hands covering his chest, as blood continuously flowed from his nose and mouth: “Even if I can no longer fight, don’t you dare to appear?”
Lathel frowned; now he realised that the Blood King could really see him.
“Are you scared, worried, or… you can’t answer?” The Blood King suddenly asked: “It seems… you really can’t answer.”
“You also find it strange that I can sense you, right?”
Hearing that, Lathel continued to listen silently. He really felt that it was very strange. After all, the system had promised that no one would see him, but the Blood King could see him, which made him a little worried.
“Hahahaha…” Blood King laughed loudly: “I don’t know why… I have a very familiar feeling towards you. I don’t know who you are, but I can feel that familiar feeling in you.”
“It is as if… that feeling comes from the Blood Queen. But I can’t be sure; it’s like you’re both the Blood Queen, but you’re also not.”
“Also…”
The Blood King reached out towards Lathel as if wanting to touch him. The Blood King’s hand trembled and suddenly stopped, as if it wanted to touch him but also didn’t want to.
Finally, the Blood King retracted his hand, sighed, and said: “Okay, I don’t want to make things difficult for you. You give me a feeling… like you come from another era.”
“Hahahahahaha… How interesting… I didn’t expect to be able to sense the vampire race in another era. That means… the vampire race still exists.”
“That’s good… very good… I don’t know who you are, but… I feel like I can trust you.”
“Hopefully, my last bit of energy can help my people continue to survive in this cruel world…”
Hearing that, Lathel felt that his intelligence was not enough to comprehend the situation: ‘Strange, how could the Blood King know that I came from another era? Wait, he said he felt a familiar feeling coming from him… just like the Blood Queen.’
Lathel remembered the time when he was bitten by Charlotte. At that time, he was in the energy space and saw a giant blood bat.
That bat called itself the ‘Blood Queen’, but at that time he didn’t pay too much attention to that detail.
However… it seemed that the blood bat was destroyed by Viva, turning into a pile of blood mud in Lathel’s body.
Lathel panicked: ‘If the Blood King knows that the Blood Queen has become a pile of mush at the bottom of his energy pool, I wonder how he would feel?’
Of course, Lathel didn’t say that either, and he couldn’t say anything either.
After speaking, the Blood King let out a sigh of relief: “I don’t know who you are, but… I really feel that… I can trust you.”
“That is why the crystallisation of my soul and power is left to you. If you have the chance, take it; don’t let anyone else have this.”
While Lathel was still feeling confused, the Blood King lay on the ground, breathing his last breath.
The blood sword hovering above him turned into a cloud of blood mist and surrounded his body.
The blood mist slowly condensed and turned into a cocoon of blood, covering the Blood King’s entire body.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Countless chains suddenly appeared from below the ground, tightly bound that blood cocoon, and then pulled it below the ground.
Everything happened so fast that Lathel didn’t even have time to realise what was happening. But… a blood-coloured mark appeared on the ground. The mark had the shape of a bat, but it only flashed like a flash of lightning and then disappeared.
Everything returned to normal, as if nothing had ever happened. The ground where the blood cocoon was pulled down also returned to normal, without any traces left behind.
“Ack!” Suddenly, Lathel cried out in pain, as he felt like his head was being hit with a hammer.
Blurred images immediately appeared in front of Lathel. Those images seemed to be fast-forwarding time, startling him.
Time quickly passed; the grass also grew taller, and the trees also grew better, then withered. Countless events occurred: active volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, rain, wind, lightning, etc.
It seemed like tens of thousands of years were passing quickly before him.
However, time suddenly stopped, there was a flash of light, and a small girl appeared.
“Dorothy?” Lathel was startled when he saw that the girl was Dorothy: “Could it be that… she got to this place thanks to the ordeal inside the stone pillar?”
As if Dorothy knew what she needed to do, she quickly went to the spot where the Blood King was buried. Then she sat down, placing her hands on the ground.
The Blood King’s spirit appeared; however, Dorothy seemed unafraid. She said something to the Blood King, and the Blood King also said something to her.
Lathel did not know specifically what their conversation was about. In the end, the Blood King gave a blood-coloured gem to Dorothy. Then his soul also slowly disappeared.
However, before disappearing, the Blood King’s soul suddenly looked towards him and smiled, his mouth moving.
Although Lathel couldn’t hear what the Blood King was saying, he could guess what the Blood King had just said based on his mouth.
“Finally… I know who you are. Please take good care of the vampire race. Thank you.”
The Blood King’s soul completely disappeared. Dorothy held the blood stone in her hand, looked in the direction where the Blood King’s soul had just looked, and frowned in confusion.
She stared towards Lathel, but she couldn’t seem to see what the Blood King saw. 𝖋𝔯𝖜𝖇𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔩.𝖈𝖔𝖒
Finally, she sighed and left with the blood stone.
The vision ended, and Lathel could no longer see future images.
He frowned and began to connect the events together: Finally, she sighed and left with the blood stone.
The vision ended, and Lathel could no longer see future images.
‘Strange… that means… the Blood King knew of my presence, so he left that bloodstone for me.’
‘Then…Dorothy ‘accidentally’ found where the Blood King was buried, so the Blood King decided to let Dorothy give me the bloodstone?’
Lathel sighed and shook his head. He didn’t understand why the Blood King trusted him so much.
He also felt that what he had just thought was very reasonable: ‘Maybe that’s the reason why, when I saw that blood stone, the bloodlust in my body arose again.’
Lathel felt frustrated. He had the feeling that the past and future were targeting him.
He shook his head, then left. He wanted to see if there was anything else going on that had anything to do with him.
…
In another place, more than 10,000 kilometres from the battlefield.
This place was a church with an extremely magnificent and majestic building. Inside the room reserved for the Pope, a beautiful girl was sitting next to the window, looking into the distance as if waiting for something.
Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and then a ball of light appeared in front of her.
The girl was startled when she saw that orb: “That’s… Lumiere’s life light?!”
“Lumiana!” Suddenly, Lumiere’s voice rang out from inside the ball of light.
“Lumiere… you…” Lumiana trembled; her eyes were wet as if she were about to cry: “You… you said you would return… why?”
“Lumiana, listen clearly to what I am about to say.” Lumiere’s voice was filled with sadness and anger: “I and the other popes went to kill the Blood King. After all, after the battle with the Darkness King, the Blood King’s strength and life have been greatly reduced.”
“However, I and everyone else misjudged his strength. The Darkness King ran away while fighting, so the Blood King still had enough power to kill all the popes and me.”
“What?! Are you… Are you really dead?” Lumiana could not control her emotions, as tears continuously flowed like two streams.
“That’s right, the Blood King is too strong. I wanted to kill him to bring peace to this world.”
“Lumiana, you also know how powerful the Blood King is. He constantly threatened other kingdoms to pay tribute to him and took countless women to satisfy his pleasure.”
“Even if I die, if I can bring peace to everyone, I will not regret it.”
Lumiana cried and said: “Lumiere, you are truly a good Pope. Everyone will praise your name, and you will keep the fire of the church alive forever.”
“Thank you, Lumiana, however… I hope you can help me with something.”
“What do you mean…”
“That’s right. Kill the entire vampire race.”
“Sorry, but I can’t do that.” Lumiana bowed her head and said.
“Why? Lumiana, have you betrayed me too?” Lumiere shouted angrily.
“I cannot kill everyone else because of the Blood King’s mistake. Lumiere…” Lumiana said sadly: “You also said that our church should give love to everyone, right?”
“Damn it!” Lumiere seemed to lose control and shouted: “What the hell is love? Lumiana, I was killed by the Blood King, I need you to avenge me. Do you understand?”
“I do not f*cking care about love or anything like that, understand? I need you to avenge me!”