" So what now? We just stand around here and wait for Lord Max to come back? " Lucius asked as he did not like the fact that Max proceeded forward without him.
He wanted to complain and vent out his frustrations, however, unfortunately for him, his complaints fell on deaf ears.
Max's team-mates did not give a solitary fuck as to how Lucius felt about all this, they were happy to wait for Max and had no interest in catering to Lucius's whims.
" Wonderful, it's like I'm talking to walls " Lucius said, throwing his hands up in frustration as he took a seat in a corner of the room with a big frown on his face.
For a few minutes there was peace and calm, however, then seemingly out of nowhere, the wall where Max had teleported into from broke down.
*CRASH*
Dirt and Debris flew everywhere as immediately the group went into a defensive stance with Lucius on the other end of the room.
" A pretty elf, A dwarf with two very interesting weapons, A Vampire with peculiar powers, A weakling human, and a brat full of Aurelius evil….. it's quite the welcoming party, I must say " Dracula said with his arms spread wide as he escaped his entrapment with a BANG!
Sebastian's senses turned into overdrive, just from a single look into the pale face and red eyes of his opponent he knew for sure that his enemy was not someone to be messed with.
Without waiting a single second to wait and see who exactly his opponent was or what he was capable of, Sebastian trusted his Coward's senses that the group could not handle him as he pulled Severus, Anna and DarkSorrow close to him and activated his teleportation token.
If Dracula wanted to, he could have stopped the group from escaping but he quite admired the decisiveness of the young dwarf, hence he decided to let them escape.
" A wise choice .... " he said with a satisfied smile on his face as if there was one thing he hated more than the modern vampire's, it was dumb people who lived at the bottom of a well.
[ Five Slash, Fifty Split ]
Lucius attacked the unknown vampire using a sword attack that split into 250 seperate high penetration strikes.
It was a tier5 move that was designed to pierce even the strongest of armours, however, much to Lucius's shock his attacks bounced off harmlessly against Dracula's skin without making a single scratch.
" Was that supposed to be threatening? " Dracula asked, a mocking smile on his face that taunted Lucius to give it his best.
" Who are you? " Lucius asked, his legs and arms trembling at this point as he too realised that his opponent was too strong for him to face alone.
" Sorry, I've already given that answer once today and I don't like to repeat myself.
Perhaps, you can ask that question to your ancestors in hell " Dracula said as he clutched his fists and used his perfected blood manipulation to stop Lucius's heart from beating.
There was no attack, there was no struggle, just by willing to stop a mortal's heart, Dracula killed him without breaking a sweat.
Lucius contorted, struggled and clutched his chest in desperation.
The pain of having a heart-attack coupled with the panic of dying resulted in him being horrified out of his mind.
It was probably one of the most cruel ways to die as for a few moments after the heart-attack started, Lucius was still conscious and in pain as all he could do during those moments was look at Dracula's smug smiling face.
" M- my fa-father will kill y-you …. " Lucius said before he passed out as Dracula clapped his hands and rubbed his palms in excitement.
" Your father is a fraud, Ixtal's Supremacy, his best move is an inferior version of my own.
I can't wait to show him what the true Ixtal's Supremacy is like.
If everything goes as plan, he will join you in hell soon enough…. And you're asleep, so I'm rambling on to myself " Dracula said as he monologued to himself like a mentally unstable person.
It was one of the drawbacks of being in isolated imprisonment for so long as there the only person he could talk to was himself.
Now that the primordial beast had escaped his several millennia old imprisonment, one thing that was for sure was that the landscape of the universe was about to change forever.
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( Meanwhile Regus Aurelius )
" Sir, all the clans that had gone inside apart from the Bloodfall clan and Lord Lucius have exited the dungeon.
The gains this year appear to be moderate and only a little worse than last year, but nothing can be said until Lord Lucius and Max Rajput return " the scout reported as Regus sighed in despair.
The only hope he had in killing Max was that his second son Felix would rally his men for the kill, but apparently his second son prioritised the race for becoming the crown prince over the task of killing Max.
" All my children are failures…. " Regus said in a self-depriving sigh as he did not approve of how all three of his son's turned out to be.
The first one was a wastrel.
The second one had too many counsellors sitting over his shoulders and did not use his own head.
The third one was a fool who did not understand the true brutal nature of the world.
While there was still hope for the second and third one to mature with time, for now both of them were disappointments to Regus.
" And sir….. " the scout continued, however, before he could mutter another word, Regus drew his sword and shouted " SECURE MY WIFE AND RUN ".
The scout was dumbfounded, however, when Regus shouted once more in a powerful voice " RAISE THE ALARMS ", he was jolted into action as he began running as if his life depended on it.
Just as he exited the king's room and took a stride of a few metres in his corridor, he heard a lord crashing sound that sounded like the outer wall of his room had been destroyed, as he felt a crippling pressure that made him feel like he should drop down on his knees and puke.
Somehow, the scout persevered and kept repeating the king's warning to raise the alarm as within seconds he felt the Aurelius clan gods rushing towards the king's chamber while he was moving towards that of the queen.
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( Meanwhile, Ulrich the werewolf god in the underground prison )
Ulrich smiled when a particularly interesting scent wasped into his nose.
He recognised that scent, it was the scent of the vampires that they had grown with and came to respect.
" King Regus….. your end is here " Ulrich said with a smile on his face as he began howling with all his strength.
Within seconds, his underlings followed the lead of the alpha wolf, as against the backdrop of the alarms blaring inside Ixtal, the wolves howled a merry tune.
Representatives of all 35 clans were present on Ixtal to witness this event and all of them rushed towards the king's castle to check on what the threat was.
However, unfortunately for them, the threat of Dracula was not something either of them could do anything remotely about.