Today was supposed to be an ordinary night in Sangruil City.
Vampires and Arachne spiders were walking back and forth, going about their business as if they had known each other for a long time. Peace was hanging in the clouds of the Vampire city as Men and Women of two various species in full-length black armor, each passing by were carrying a weapon they were an expert in wielding.
Swords, spears, axes, great swords with shields, etc.
Every Man and Woman present here was in some ways an expert.
If before, after Cravensworth's leave, the Sangruil gave an air of a destroyed and abandoned society, now with Christopher on the post of a ruler, it gives a feeling of an organized city again, even more than before.
Even the merchants now, who came here a few days ago to sell their products were wearing armor despite not being as heavy as the individuals who were from Sangruil. These merchants sold weapons, bombs, supplies, and other things that this society under the dark and big bat wings of the new mysterious Lord could need.
Coming from various kingdoms like Withpoke or Credia, these merchants saw an opportunity in the new rising Lord.
Whatever kind of interesting things members of Sangruil were interested in, the merchants went out of their way to get and sell.
Even though they were in dangerous and now unknown territory, the traders didn't care. They trusted the rumors and recordings of the new Lord's capabilities, and they knew what kind of risk they were taking in creating a 'branch' here.
Of course, until they pull their blades against Christopher, Christopher would do nothing against them.
He even welcomed them and let his people build some places for the merchants to establish their brands there.
As for the Lord's capabilities, everyone in Sangruil, a Vampire or a Spider has their secret recording of what happened that night when Christopher killed the old Arachne king and became the new one, uniting the two races under his flag.
They even have recordings of his two new Arachne generals who killed thousands of their kind just to prove their loyalty to him.
Therefore, the one thing the merchants need to promise before they can open their business in Sangruil is that no information will be leaked.
Of course, there was the possibility of information leaking; it was not uncommon for this to happen. These traders, for example. They may well try to sell this information to other beings in Aragos who were too interested in the new Lord.
The opportunity to gain free money just for some recordings of Christopher's powers smelled extremely wealthy.
But before they could do that... They would have 'several unfortunate accidents' fall upon them.
And behind them would be no one else but Merener, the right hand of the new Lord, who would personally knock on their doors or hunt them down before they could leave the Sangruil's gates.
He is a very competitive and loyal person, always hidden in the shadows and controlling the order of the city with his special patrol.
The four male elites who were right after him were the closest males who ever talked personally with the new Lord and remained alive to tell the tale.
They were also the ones who came with Christopher, Hissami, and Merener that day into Sangruil when the new Lord healed the citizens of this new prospering city.
Although the information about the new Lord smells like tasty tressure for someone like elite Witches from Withpoke, the Lake of Witches.
They knew how valuable Sangruil's territory is and they were willing to pay the merchants big amounts of money just to see the recordings of the fight.
Often some Witches would try to trade with merchants and even members of Sangruil in search of this information for 'research'.
This was one of the reasons Christopher, being a Sangruil Lord responsible for the territory now, was so valued by the elite Witches who were aware of some of his personal information like his precision in shadow manipulation.
With his powers, they could easily overthrow the Light Queen of Aragos and become the rulers.
The lesser Witches who didn't have access to this high-grade information were after two things.
The first is because of his look.
After the two transformations, when he killed the Arachne king and consumed Ortasax with the thousands of souls from that mirror, he became the embodiment of danger and excitement, a very handsome danger that became a dream of some of the women.
Some Witches with a more 'artistic' sense of the world became even more famous because of him.
It all started when in one of their meetings, one of them called him an Incubus. Immediately, this thought formed an artistic madness in the rest of the Witches present there and all of them began to paint him with more devilish features and then, selling these paintings, they managed to make a good wealth.
But somehow, all of these paintings always ended up in higher circles of the Withpoke community.
No one knows why...
The other group of the lesser Witches was after him because of the new lands he now ruled, and they knew that these lands always had valuable things.
Not for fun is Sangruil called the third, most wealthy city in Aragos.
Cravensworth's father and even Stefan Cravensworth himself were greedy Vampires, more than others, and in their long lives, they gathered so much gold that if Christopher wanted, he could turn his entire city into a fully gold one.
And not only the city...
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Within Sangruil's territory, in an area near the mountain, a gigantic castle was present.
Instead of a small castle that it looked like before, this seemed to be more of a fortress.
A gigantic fortress that acted as the last line of defense, personally customed by Merener and Christopher's very competitive subordinates.
Everything was done in the seven days that Christopher fought Ortasax.
Sangruil's castle, the last defense of Sangruil's territory, and also the personal residence of the Salvatore Clan, and the leader of the Salvatore family, the new Lord.
Christopher Salvatore.
And inside that castle, in a bedroom, was a man surrounded by six women. He was naked, hidden under the sheets of his bed, and covered with the bodies of his five women while the sixth one was levitating horizontally above him and was the only one with clothes.
"Good morning my disciple~," a sweet voice came from her mouth as she greeted him.
Christopher opened his eyes and the sight in front of him made him shiver, but in a rather pleasant way.
A floating woman with flaming irises and a 'beautiful' smiling face was welcoming him, a few inches from his face while her soft hair was tingling his right cheek.
"Are you ready for our first training? " She asked, a murderous but excited smile can be seen on her face.
"How did you get here? " Christopher asked as he scratched his cheek cutely.
'Oh, he is so cute~' she thought.
"Easly, you were sleeping like a baby~." She smiled cutely and winked at him.
"Come on disciple, get up," she continued and stopped floating, landing in front of his bed.
Disappearing in shadows, he appeared next to her wearing his aristocratic purple clothes.
"What do you wanna do first then? Material arts, swordsmanship, or something else? " he casually asked and flew through his bedroom door with his hands behind his back, appearing in the hall as Selene appeared next to him.
"I want to show you something first." She spoke as she touched his hand.
Christopher was surprised by this sudden act but said nothing.
"Close your eyes now." She spoke and Christopher did what she asked for as they suddenly disappeared somewhere in a beam of flaming light.
"..."
"You can open your eyes now." Selene's voice suddenly resonated in Christopher's ears together with a warm breeze and when he opened his eyes, a warm sun's rays and blue sky welcomed his gaze.
"Wow, it was a long time since I saw a normal Sun, but... Where are we? " He asked as he looked to his left and saw Selene's beautiful face looking at him again while the green grass from the ground they were lying on touched gently his left cheek.
"Near your neighbor's territory, The kingdom of the Full Moon ruled by Frederic Casentino."
"Casentino... The werewolf? " Christopher asked as he quickly got up from the ground and looked around.
He was in the middle of the small field which was surrounded by thick forest but that was not the thing that caught his attention.
His attention was diverted towards his hands which began to release a grey smoke with a burning sensation.
More importantly, his entire body started releasing this smoke with the same feelings.
"Yes, the werewolf..." Selena replied as Christopher disappeared from the direct sunlight and reappeared under one of the nearby trees.
"What are we doing here? " He asked as he heightened his senses while his body began to heal.
A few more seconds and he would light up like a torch!
But, ignoring this attempt to hurt him for now, his echolocation flew through the forest as he felt someone's presence.
"To meet me..." A strong male voice was suddenly heard by Christopher who turned and looked at the owner of it with a calm face.
He was a tall man wearing a little different aristocratic clothes.
A white shirt with a light blue vest, brown leather pants, and a pair of brown leather boots.
"I'm Frederic Casentino, the Lord of this territory and you must be Christopher Salvatore, the new Lord of Sangruil."
"Nice to meet you, Frederic," Christopher spoke politely as he regained his posture, although, his senses were on alert toward any unseen attack.
"What do you want? " Christopher asked.
"There are many things I want my friend... Try to be more specific when you are asking something..." Frederic replied with a slight smile as he leaned against a nearby tree.
'Wow... He is still a child, huh...' Frederic thought.
"What do you want from me? " Christopher corrected his question.
"That's better. I want to become friends with you..." Frederic replied with a casual smile and closed eyes.
"Friends? With the Rival of my race? "
"Stop with this race-related shit. I'm not here to become your enemy alright? "
"Fine by me," Christopher replied.
"So, you are the new Darkness host I heard about, am I right? "
Christopher narrowed his eyes a little and spoke.
"I don't know what you are talking about..." He replied, testing the waters of Frederic's awareness about his origin.
"Don't play dumb boy, I know what you are... The information was leaked. But I don't want to be on your bad side as I mentioned before. All I want is to help you."
"What brought you to the conclusion of helping me? "
"Oh, don't you see that this planet is dying? And all of this is happening thanks to the pathetic Queen. That bitch is the Light user ruling a Darkness planet full of beings of the night. What do you think will happen?! "
"Either the planet kills her or she kills the planet and that's what she's doing! She is slowly killing us with her power because no one can stop her..."
Suddenly, Frederic narrowed his eyes and then smiled mischievously.
"Sorry, I'll correct myself. No one was here to stop her." Frederic spoke with the same smile.
"Hmm, your tone indicates that I should care but, I need to let you down. I'm leaving sooner or later." Christopher replied with a smile similar to Frederic's.
"That's why we are here... I'm offering you myself and my army in exchange for a one-way ticket for me and my people to go out of this hell..." Frederic spoke as he extended his hand towards the sunny forest.
"So, what do you think? You already united two races, you can do it again with a third."
Christopher looked around as a few hundred men and women with children wearing little torn clothes started slowly coming from the forest.
"You see..." Frederic pointed towards the sky.
"It was already two years since we last time saw a moon. Our territory became a place where only day rules and with each day, we are weaker until we eventually die."
"The Light Queen is for some reason stealing our territory's moon power but I don't know why..."
"You may heard that in the past, we were a strong race and our numbers were big, but now only a few stayed and others hid somewhere or left for Cravensworth's territory because of the moon."
"But, the Vampiric moon is not as powerful for us as ours. The moon of your territory empowers more you and your Vampires than me and my Werewolves, which means that my friends left for Sangruil, only to become hunted and killed by Cravensworth's son, Rox."
When Christopher heard that name, his eyes turned fully black and his hands started being enveloped by darkness.
Seeing this, Frederic smiled a little as it was a confirmation that Selena wasn't lying to him.
"Heh, I see we have the same enemies~." Frederic smiled.
"You want to leave? Then leave... I'm not holding you here, but I'm not taking a risk that one day you will turn your blade against me and my family... huh? " Christopher stopped in front of Frederic as he also stopped talking and his image turned quickly back to normal while he turned his face towards the sky at his left.
As a few seconds passed, everyone was looking at Christopher like he froze or something but when Selena approached him, Christopher pushed her to the side.
"Look out! " shouted Christopher as a wave of power erupted from him, sending the closest individuals a few steps back while something flying at sonic speed suddenly hit Christopher and the explosion with the power of a few nuke bombs sent everyone literally flying a few meters away.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? " Spoke a woman who appeared in the sky, with blond hair, wearing a white dress as a pair of white angel wings were holding her in the air.
"Ariel..." spoke Selena as she got up from the ground having a few bruises on her face while the dress on her left arm was torn slightly showing a small cut on her forearm.
"Hello, Selena... long time no see. What do you think you are doing here hmm? "
"Oh, you know, your sisters are really upset that you left your grave and are looking for you," spoke Ariel in an arrogant tone as a white light spear appeared in her hand and she threw it at the same place as before.
"CHRISTOPHER!!! " Selena shouted as she tried to cover the place with a barrier but it was too late and the spear made another explosion but a little smaller than the previous one.
"What do you want bitch! " Selena got up from the ground again with more small bruises on her body.
"Well... Look. At. This... A Witch who doesn't have even forty percent of her previous power wants to train a boy whose power is coming from that dirty Darkness? "
"Bleah, you don't have a style Selena... although, he looks like a real candy. Sadly, he must die! " Spoke Ariel, and when she moved, a button on her dress that had the appearance of sun moved a little with her.
...
A Light Queen, who was sitting on her throne looking at a big screen that was displaying her what was happening on the battlefield through the sun button, was smiling widely.
"Good Ariel, continue and kill him before it's too late~. Kill him for good, The Darkness can't be free again! "
...
"BITCH! I said!- " Selena spoke up but was interrupted by Ariel.
"I heard you and to answer your question, I came here at the order of my dear Queen to deal with this piece of darkness trash~ " spoke Ariel and started forming an even bigger spear than the previous two.
"And what he did to your Queen, Priestess Ariel! " spoke Frederic as he slowly got up, weaker from the light explosion with several deep bruises on his body and a tired, painful expression.
"Oh Frederic, you mindless beast, you are here too? You should stop putting your nose into matters that you don't understand and become a good doggy before it's too late! " Ariel replayed and quickly threw the spear towards the place where she sent the previous ones with a mad smile, but this time, the spear suddenly slowed, stopped in the air, turned and as it flew back at Ariel, the spear started catching fire.
"Huh?! You dare challenge me Selena?! " spoke Ariel as her spear suddenly turned into a flaming one and hit Ariel's wings who used them to protect herself.
"If it means to finally send you to hell then so be it! You irritated me enough! " Selena spoke and started levitating while the dust from the two explosions slowly started rising to the sky, covering the sun on the cloudless sky.
"Well then, let's see what you got, Witch! " Ariel spoke as her wings stopped protecting her.
"Prepare yourself for final defeat, Ariel..." Selena replayed and Ariel laughed.
"Me and defeated? I'm a light priestess of Aragos, I can't be... Aaaaaahhhhhhh! " Ariel wanted to continue but a ball of flames big as a fist and fast as lightning hit her beautiful perfect face right in the middle.
"You're talking too much! " Selena said and formed another ball of flames in her hand.
"YOU BITCH! You are going to pay for this! " Ariel shouted as her face covered in flames started healing slowly.
She wielded her hands as eight balls of slightly yellow light appeared around Ariel, forming a vertical circle behind her, and fired beams of light at Selena who nearly got hit by a few of them.
'That was close,' she thought as five swords made from pure lava appeared behind her.
"Flaming destruction! " Selena shouted and the swords flew at Ariel who aimed the palms of her hands at the swords and formed a slightly yellow barrier in front of her.
The swords clashed with the barrier and were destroyed but the barrier had only a few cracks.
"You are weak Selena, give up or you end up like that boy over there... huh? " Ariel looked at the crater that was already uncovered from the dust but Christopher was nowhere to be found.
"You are looking for me? " a sudden voice took her by surprise and when she turned, she received a slap that was so hard that before it sent her towards the ground, she got hit by three sonic booms and only then she hit the ground forming a crater ten times bigger than Christopher's.
...
When the Light Queen saw it, she opened her mouth wide as rage filled her veins.
"WHAT! " the Queen got up and slammed the screen with her fist as the screen disappeared from existence and another appeared right away.
"LUCY, COME HERE! NOW! " the Queen shouted hard from her lungs as a female dragon wearing female gold armor appeared in front of her with a shocked expression.
The armor was covering her arms, legs, private parts, and her chest.
Her neck, belly, and hands with her face were all uncovered for better movement. It was personally made by the Light Queen herself.
"Go and take your best man! I want you to help Ariel and kill Salvatore and Casentino with his people! "
"The Werewolf and his people are weak now so that means our little project worked. They should be easy to kill.
Salvatore is tougher, but he is still a child so fight like you would do with a combat God and you should be good.
The biggest problem is Selena Moriarty. She is weak but the smartest in the group so fight wisely."
"GO NOW! FAST BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! Kill them, KILL THEM ALL!! " The Queen was furious.
"Yes, my Queen," Lucy bowed and roared strongly as a thousand Light Guards wearing armor with gold dragon skin covering their arms and necks suddenly appeared from a beam of light.
All of them looked identical, the same height, same weapon, same armor, everything was identical. They looked like clones.
"Guys, we have work to do," spoke Lucy with a smile as everyone except the Queen suddenly disappeared in a slightly yellow portal, with a rune in the middle, that formed under them.
"Don't worry Ariel, I'm sending you help," spoke the Queen with worry in her voice as she sat on her throne again, a little calmer now after she sent her trusted Priestess reinforces.
...
"Christopher, you're alright? " Selena appeared next to her new disciple, scanning his body she saw he was all right so she slammed his head with her fist, sending him toward the ground.
"Ouch, what was that for? " Christopher asked, surprised as he got up.
"You stupid idiot! You should have warned us sooner! " she suddenly shouted at him.
"I'm sorry okay, I was not sure." He replied with a smile.
It was worth mentioning that Christopher knew what was awaiting him but he didn't do anything just because he simply didn't want to.
Selena and her explosions of cute 'rage' were a source of entertainment for him these past few days.
The 'cute' expression on her face was priceless!
"Humph okay fine, but you are going to have a punishment. Two thousand push-ups with five hours of training of your regeneration should do the damage."
Christopher looked at his teacher in disbelief and gulped with little fear but hidden excitement.
'Well, the future is going to be definitely interesting,' he thought.
"Okay," spoke Christopher and slowly flew towards Frederic.
'It's 'Okay' for him?! ' Selena thought as she never heard this type of answer to her punishments. Everyone is always mumbling and trying to at least half the punishments.
'He is different, huh... I already have been surprised countless times by him and this feeling is still new to me after so much time being locked in that hole, but I can't say it's not good. This boy keeps me excited! I also should train too, I'm rusty...' she thought and descended behind Christopher.
"You should leave Lord. Take your people and hide somewhere. They can die here and you too."
"I don't fear death, my friend. We will stand on your side until the end," spoke Frederic suportively as his eyes turned bright blue and he turned, wanting to speak something but a bright light suddenly appeared near them, blinding them all while revealing a thousand light guards with a woman wearing the gold armor.
The most damage received from Christopher because of his origin which mirrored on his appearance that now had black veins covering his face while healing him.
Still, while resembling a demon he didn't lose any points on his beauty.
Meanwhile, the woman's dragon wings were hanging behind her and her gold horns were glowing on her forehead.
"Lord Christopher, you look even better in person," spoke Lucy as she licked her lips and pointed her right finger at him.
"But, will you be so handsome even after death? " she asked and took a step forward appearing close to him but a sudden punch sent her back.
"Not so quickly Lucy~," Selena spoke as she walked sensually from behind him, leaning against Christopher's shoulder as he crossed his arms and they together watched the female dragon's actions.
"Selena Moriarty, it's a pleasure to meet you, really is... But you should stop being so overprotective of your little dragon here... You might get hurt by other women~."
"A threat from you will do nothing to me Lucy and you know it~."
"Yeah, I know... but that was a past. I'm stronger now! " She said and started levitating.
"My dear warriors! Who will first bring me the heads of the two Lords will spend a FULL weak of night activities with me! "
Hearing this, the Light Warriors turned their gazes at Frederic and Christopher like predators and started running like mindless beasts with battle shouts.
When Christopher wanted to start running too, Frederic stopped him with his hand, placing it on his chest.
"My friend, let them to us. You should take care of her," Frederic said and pointed his finger at Ariel who started getting up from the slap she received, from behind them.
"Don't get killed, Frederic! I started to like you a little..." Christopher smiled slightly, patting Frederic's shoulder at which Frederic winked.
"That would be pretty stupid from me, don't you think? " He spoke and turned his face at his people.
"My dear friends! " he spoke with the deep voice of the Alpha.
"Help me in the battle against the tyranny of the Light Queen and I'm promising you, you will not regret it. Rise my fierce army and crash these Light bugs once and for ALL!!! " shouted Frederic as he and his people suddenly started feeling stronger as their bodies began to slowly turn into their werewolf forms, enveloped by purple halos of power.
"What the..." Frederic looked around, at his hands, and then up towards the sky and saw Christopher firing big amounts of his purple energy from his hands towards the sky like dragon flames, clouding the sun and forming a fake night with a smile on his face as an opening in space began to form on the 'night' sky.
A few seconds later, Sangruil's blood-red moon appeared in the sky.
"What? I want to see what are you made of, brother." Christopher spoke with a smile and wink and Frederic smiled.
"Well then, I'll show you, brother~."
"WILL YOU HELP ME MY WOLVES? " shouted Frederic as he turned his face from Christopher and looked at his people who were now fully in their werewolf forms, looking like wolves standing on their two, covered in brown and white furs while their eyes glowed yellow and green and their teeth and claws were sharp as katana.
"YES!!! FOR OUR FREEDOM! " they shouted in distorted voices and all of them started running at the Light Warriors, howling, crashing them, and tearing them apart while the Warriors were piercing their skin with their swords and breaking their bones with their shields.
Frederic roared as he started turning too. His eyes were bright blue and his fur was fully black. With a slight pressure on his legs, he jumped a few meters into the air and fell into the middle of the battle.
'Finally, I feel alive again,' he thought as he crashed the skull of a near Light warrior.
It was a fierce battle, really fierce while a duel between a Witch and a Light Dragon was happening in the air.
"Flaming destiny! " shouted Selena and sent three flaming Phoenixes made from red energy towards Lucy who cut them in half with her claws.
"Stop using your filthy tricks on me and fight head on Selena! " Lucy shouted and flew towards her enemy with a mad smile who disappeared and reappeared on the other side.
"Why should I limit my powers? You said you became stronger, but I became smarter..." Selena replayed and fired a beam of ice which Lucy dodged with ease and a smile, but thanks to that, her attention went elsewhere which Selena immediately used to her advantage.
Sensing a danger approaching, Lucy quickly turned only to be met by Selena's earth swords which pierced deeply into Lucy's stomach and got painted with her gold blood.
"Sneaky bitch~ *Cough" Lucy coughed but smiled as she moved her hand to the side and kicked Selena away from her while she pulled the swords out from her wounds.
Selena stabilized her body in the air and cleared the blood from the wound on her bottom lip while looking at Lucy who was slowly falling to the ground.
"She really became stronger... and faster," spoke Selena as she suddenly felt a piercing pain so she caught her neck and blood started spraying through her fingers.
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