Chapter 140: Ascension Ceremony (Part Seven)
"Roar—"
Faint magical glimrs flickered around the Draconic Sorcerer’s body as it swelled rapidly.
White smoke billowed outwards, its sulfur and niter scent overpowering even the thick stench of blood. It felt like standing at the edge of a volcano. As the smoke cleared, an 18-ter-long red dragon erged in the underground cavern.
Duke Brad ceased his pursuit of Langli Baitiao, glaring at the red dragon with fury in his crimson eyes.
"It’s you, after all."
"Damn lizard."
"Why? Why do you keep obstructing !"
For the first ti, the vampire duke set aside his arrogance, taking his opponent seriously. After all, standing before him was a genuine dragon.
In the Material Plane, no one dared underestimate a dragon, especially not a red dragon—the notorious favorite of Tiamat and leader of chromatic dragons.
Cassius said nothing, unleashing a fiery breath.
"Boom!"
Scorching flas shot toward the vampire.
Duke Brad moved like an agile bat, twisting and turning in midair to dodge.
Under his control, Alger charged the red dragon, his eyes vacant as he swung the Ever-Burning Greatsword at his current master.
"Dominate Human?"
Cassius instantly recognized the spell.
"Roar—"
The red dragon let out a low growl, emanating invisible authority from its massive fra. The sheer pressure of its bloodline made Alger’s body and soul tremble.
【Leader’s Aura】
In an instant, clarity returned to Alger’s eyes.
Cassius ignored the montarily disoriented Alger, flapping his wings and charging forward with an intimidating roar, carrying an unstoppable montum.
"Damn lizard."
Watching the approaching red dragon, Duke Brad clenched his teeth, fury burning in his crimson eyes.
"I’ll show you what death ans!"
For centuries, no one had dared defy him like this. He had spent two hundred years preparing for this ascension.
Duke Brad raised his arms with all his might. The darkness seed to wail as countless shadowy tendrils erupted from the ground, crimson blood mist filled the sky, and thousands of bats sward like rolling clouds. Blood surged like a tidal wave.
The vampire’s power, accumulated over a century, erupted in full force, transforming the surroundings into a bloody hellscape.
At this mont, 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 countless tiny satellites, and lightning crackled around its form, emitting a continuous sizzling sound.
As the red dragon charged into the torrent of blood mist, shadows, and bats, a blinding light erupted, dispelling the encroaching darkness.
Bats fell from the sky in droves, turned to charred remains by the crackling lightning. Shadows dissolved effortlessly upon contact with the energy fragnts, and the blood mist evaporated before it could even approach.
"I never deliberately obstructed you."
"You just happened to be in my way, old bat."
The red dragon spewed a sea of flas, incinerating everything in its path and sending the firestorm hurtling toward the vampire.
"Even dragons et their end!"
"And I will be the eternal sovereign!"
Duke Brad’s pale face twisted into a more grotesque expression. The power of the original sins he had absorbed made his nature even more warped.
"You should bow before !"
A vast sea of blood, like a massive crimson curtain, shielded the vampire from the incoming flas. 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 thods against a dragon?"
Cassius charged into the blood sea without hesitation.
He slightly opened his jaws, channeling the fiery energy from his bloodstream into his lungs. The fire elents gathered in his lungs and throat, making his chest glow like molten lava. Even the gaps in his scales glimred faintly with fiery light.
The sulfur and niter scent intensified. His massive dragon form was like an imminent volcanic eruption.
【Empowered Fla Breath】
"Boom!"
A blazing white-hot column of fire shot from the red dragon’s mouth, piercing through the blood sea instantly.
The flas sizzled as they moved, evaporating the viscous blood water long before it could approach. Flas consud everything, filling the air with dense blood mist.
Cassius tilted his head slightly, directing the fire column toward the vampire.
For the first ti, fear flickered in Duke Brad’s crimson eyes.
Such devastating flas—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, rging with the rolling blood sea to evade Cassius’s direct attack.
"Annoying creature."
"If you’re so good at escaping, don’t bla
for killing your family."
Cassius thought to himself.
Without hesitation, he turned his attention to the progenies bound helplessly to the stone pillars.
Instantly, the vampiric progenies, unable to move, were engulfed in the incandescent flas. When the fire subsided, only molten rock remained, releasing dense steam and dripping with red-hot magma.
Even the chains binding the progenies lted into glowing molten tal, flowing slowly.
Once again, it was proven that the so-called "undying" nature of the vampire progenies had clear limits.
Duke Brad’s second son, Etiri Lackman, the symbol of wrath, was utterly destroyed.
A formidable berserker, he was ant to provide "strength" for Duke Brad’s ascension. Yet, he didn’t even have ti to scream or struggle, reduced to ashes in the extre flas.
"No—"
"My children…"
Duke Brad reford into his humanoid form in the air, letting out a heart-wrenching wail, teetering on the edge of insanity.
Over years of self-hypnosis, Duke Brad had co to "love" these children from the bottom of his heart. To him, absorbing them completely was the ultimate expression of love, fulfilling their lives to perfection.
Etiri’s destruction.
ant the failure of his ascension.
Seeing the red dragon turn toward the next progeny, the symbol of arrogance—his most cherished daughter, Alexia—Duke Brad could endure no more.
His crimson eyes burned with boundless fury as he controlled the endless blood mist, surging from the sky toward the red dragon.
"Lizard, I will kill you!"
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