"Damn monster! " Amanel roared.
"...And you provoked this monster." Christopher smiled widely, his eyes gleaming with pure dark madness.
The monster inside him was clearly enjoying the feeling of him squeezing the Angel's head which could be confirmed by the black aura surrounding the Vampire Dragon.
As he looked down upon the blond-haired man under his foot, Christopher released the two bodies that were completely broken. It would've been a divine miracle if those two female Vampires were still alive right now.
Christopher put more strength onto his foot and Amanel literally felt his brain being crushed as the ground under his head cracked and formed a spider web shape.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! "
"YEAH, that's it... That's right! Scream like a pig being slaughtered. You deserve it after what you did to my family~ " Christopher's smile grew and grew, turning into a monstrous grin as he slowly put more strength onto his foot while pulling Amanel's heart out from his chest with glowing madness in his eyes.
*COUGH!
Amanel started coughing blood as Christopher squeezed the heart and asked.
"How do you like this hmm? " Christopher smiled and bit the heart which exploded with blinding light and crimson-red blood that began to slide down Christopher's chin.
Throwing away the heart that turned black and disappeared in ash, Christopher grabbed Amanel's hands and pulled them from his body, throwing them away.
"What now? Better?! " Christopher smiled, but not recieving any response from the man under his boot, annoyance filled his soul.
"So this is probably your end, Angel... Honestly, it was not a pleasure to meet a scumbag like you. You're just like everybody else, a pathetic bootlicker of the Light Queen... Nothing else..."
Christopher said as he put even more pressure on his leg, making the face of the Angel slowly sink into his own skull.
When Amanel's head was about to finally explode like a watermelon being broken, someone appeared in front of Christopher.
At that moment, a flash of blood-red lightning glistered in Christopher's irises as the time around him slowed down.
For everybody else, the being would be extremely fast, almost invisible to the eye, but for someone like Christopher, a freak that has lightning as one of his main Vampire bloodlines?
An abomination that had literal lightning coursing through his veins?
For him, the speed of the unknown being was nothing.
As the being approached him, the stranger used two golden swords covered in holly power and cut his body into several pieces.
"I can't let you kill him! " said the stranger with anger as the holly blade passed through Christopher's body.
Taking advantage of this moment, the woman tried to grab the Angel's body, but suddenly…
The woman felt her head being held by Christopher.
"Ugh... A-Angie? " Amanel tried to do something but his head was squeezed even tighter.
"!!!?"
The woman didn't understand how it happened, she was sure she'd cut the Monster's entire body to shreds but this man just casually catched her like he felt nothing.
And indeed she had done so, she cut him like a fish.
But the little detail that escaped her was that Christopher was better connected with The Darkness now and that the lineage of clan Dark was inside him. And thanks to this combo, he as a Darkness has a pile of special abilities like this one.
Basically, all this time Christopher did nothing against the woman whose name he now knew, it was Angie.
What he was doing was just using his echolocation, his lightning powers, and his shapeshifting powers.
So when he felt that Angie was about to slide Christopher's neck with her holly sword, which was her first move against him, within seconds, his entire body instinctively turned into a mist-like substance with his appearance still visible to everyone but no damage was taken by him.
In this form, he was like a hologram, like a ghost so the sword just passed through him.
He would be stupid to let the only thing that could hurt him pretty badly, hit him again and casually like that.
Mainly after he discovered what that beam of holly power from Amanel did to him.
But also, he wasn't feeling threatened to use an abnormal amount of energy to dodge those attacks.
So he rather used something simple but effective, like his shadow form.
The only thing that didn't turn into this substance was his right foot so he could make this illusion of him being "untouchable" more believable and because Angie aimed only at his upper body and his head.
Seeing the scared gaze of the woman in his hand, Christopher brought his face closer to Angie's and opened his mouth as his body fully materialized again.
"It's not you who decides that, woman."
"!!!" Hearing that, Angie's face darkened with fear, as Christopher brought his other hand to her face and when she felt both of the man's hands holding her head, she started to panic.
A feeling of something bad coming started creeping over her as the monster in front of her started humming a famous melody from Earth.
"What a wonderful night for a plastic surgery, don't you think, Angie?~" Christopher spoke with a melodic voice as his teeth sharpened, just like his nails, turning into long claws.
Without letting the woman answer his psychopathic question, Christopher brought his thumbs closer to Angie's face and sunk his claws into her eyes.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! " A woman's cry of pain echoed around as Amanel who heard that started punching and gripping Christopher's foot with his healed arms, as anger, even rage to be exact was filling him while memories of the two of them, him and Angie, playing with each other as kids flew through his mind.
Christopher's smile grew, he ripped off the woman's arm like pulling a chicken drumstick off its body, and with a simple gesture, he threw her left arm like a spear towards a Japanese looking Vampire who was trying to run away when nobody was looking.
Sadly, Ardelean was watching everyone and gave info to his host.
The woman's severed arm blasted through the Japanese Noble Vampire's head, and he fell to the ground, dead.
Christopher wanted to do more damage to the woman's body but a sudden action left him speechless.
The memories played in Amanel's and later even Angie's head somehow flew into Christopher's mind through the blood that painted his face, and foot, as he took a step back and looked at his hands in disbelief.
With this gesture, he released Amanel and the woman who was screaming while holding her now bleeding stub as her eyes started slowly healing.
Taking a deep breath, he looked around and saw what a bloodbath he caused.
It was like the entire time, it was not him who was in control but some monstrosity inside him.
With an understanding that his mind was clouded with revenge, he outstretched his arms and spoke.
Suddenly, a thought popped up in his head as an idea materialized inside his brain.
With a slight smile, he spoke up.
"I'm sorry for letting myself be a little... drastic and forgetting about the main priority every Lord should have, which is peace."
All Vampires stopped in their tracks as their brains froze.
"I think all of you wanted and still want to kill me even more now for what I've done, but I'll still ask."
"Who doesn't wanna kill me and wants to join me instead? "
Every single being who a second ago was trying to survive this man's killing spree was now looking at him with opened mouths in disbelief as their expressions turned normal from this shock.
All the Angels who came to help the Vampires and were prepared to interfere, Amanel and Angie, all the Vampires present, and even Rox himself stopped struggling and was looking at this man like he had fallen from another planet.
"No one? Nobody wants to see another day? Nobody wants to live anymore to tell the tale. Fighting against me is pointless as you can see."
Christopher pointed at the corpses of hundreds of Vampires scattered all around the village behind him.
Seeing the corpses or the little piles of ashes that remained from the Vampires, someone started thinking even more now about the possibility of ditching the 'good side' and joining this Angel of Death.
He is strong, very strong for someone of his age, handsome, and the dark side doesn't look as bad as before now with him in charge. The women present, floating in the distance on a purple platform with a rune in the middle of it, looks happy, and what spies, sent to Sangruil by the Light Queen said, surprised them even more.
The citizens look happy too, more than ever, and no one is laughing at weaker ones.
And if does then they are sent to 'The Hole' of course.
Three Supernatural races, Spiders, Vampires, and Werewolves are living in harmony in a single kingdom which two months ago would have been just a dream and everyone would have laughed at such nonsense if they had heard that.
Everyone is living peacefully and they are worshiping this man for it.
"I'm giving you the last chance to join me," he said and extended his hand towards the closest group in front of him, mainly towards Angie, whose eyes had already regenerated.
Through the memories of her and Amanel, he clearly understood their relationship. She was the object of the Angel's desires while he was her 'good' friend.
Christopher was showing a gentle smile that caught everyone unprepared.
"Come on guys..." Christopher faced-palmed when he saw just shocked reactions and no response.
'Maybe, I overreacted too much? They do look scared tho...' he thought casually and continued.
'Alright, I didn't want to use this but, I think I don't have any other choice. They're men after all...' Christopher thought as he spoke.
"Vampires, do you know how many free women are in Sangruil? Vampires, werewolves... even Arachne beauties like my brides there are free for anyone." Christopher pointed at his brides in the distance.
What he understood the most was that every race, Supernatural or not will have one single desire they would always follow, no matter the consequence, which is lust.
And no matter where you are or how big a conflict you have with someone, this desire will still be present.
So he decided and try playing with this card, and later, he was glad he did that.
Hearing that, more Vampires started thinking about throwing their swords on the ground and finally returning home. They missed Sangruil but Rox, that idiot, was preventing them from going back.
"Women that can fulfill your deepest wishes are waiting for you~ Don't be stupid and join me! " Christopher smiled like a true manipulator.
["What are you doing host?! "]
'You'll see~' he replied to Ardelean's question and continued.
"Fighting against me is just a suicide and you know it... So? What do you choose? To keep living or die because of someone who doesn't even care about you..."
And in that moment, when Rox wanted to order an attack, a random Vampire suddenly threw his sword on the ground and spoke.
"Guys... I think is time to go home," was heard, followed by footsteps.
The man started walking and stopped in front of Christopher where he kneeled on his left knee and bowed.
"My Lord... I promised to protect and fight for the Lord of Sangruil and Sangruil alone. Because of that, I followed the previous Lord to the Royal Capital where he was murdered by his own greedy son."
"When the news reached us, we became scared for our lives and followed the murderer here to kill you. With fear in my heart, I forgot about the promise I gave to Lord Cravensworth and followed the wrong path. My promise was to protect the Lord... but it didn't say anything about which Lord should I protect, so therefore, I'm humbly asking if I can join your legions... my Lord."
Christopher smiled and extended his hand towards the Knight.
"You can," Christopher pulled him up, and before he could say something more, all Vampires, females or males seeing Christopher's response, threw their swords on the ground and kneeled.
"We want to join too," they spoke in unison and got up.
With a wide smile, Christopher nodded and all the Vampires slowly went behind him where they turned and faced Rox and the Angels.
Even Adam and Jessie joined Christopher's numbers. They were not stupid to fight against him head-on. So, they established a new plan. Fight from inside...
"What about Angels? " Angie's sudden voice made everyone look at her.
"They can leave. I didn't saw them hurting any villagers here so it's fine even when they invaded my territory."
"Huh? " Angie opened her eyes wide. She didn't expect this type of response.
...
Ariel suddenly opened her eyes wide towards the battlefield and spoke.
"That's Angie! "
Lucy quickly looked where Ariel was pointing and saw their old friend facing Christopher while holding her shoulder which was still missing the rest of her arm.
"You know her? " Samantha asked and the two nodded.
"Yeah, she helped us a lot when we were kids and later when we found her here in Aragos. She helped us blend in... mainly Lucy as you may see, she's not an angel like me."
Lucy looked down at her hands but the sudden touch made her shiver.
Turning her face, she saw Melissa, Ariane, and Hissami, whose hand was on her shoulder, all smiling.
"We understand," Hissami spoke to which Lucy responded with a beautiful smile too.
"Amanel was there too," Ariel continued.
"But he is only interested in Angie and her status. He is disgusting... Always following her like a stalker." Ariel said but then placed her hand on her chin.
"I mean, love stalkers in our society are mainly just misunderstood individuals and are scared to approach their targets but they still love them and protect them from shadows..."
"But this coward took this idea and twisted it for his liking... he's like a leech, a manipulator, and all he wants from Angie is her body and status as a general of Angels, but he's hiding it well, acting like a love stalker so he will not bring any unwanted attention on himself."
"What would he gain from her? " Selena asked as her gaze fell on Amanel who looked surprisingly... calm. It was like everything went according to his plan.
"You're kidding, right? " Lucy spoke but when Selena shifted her gaze at her with an innocent expression, Lucy understood.
"Sorry, I meant that with her status, Amanel can control the legions of Angels to do his dirty work for that pest from Earth," Lucy spoke.
"Wait, wait, wait. Who are you talking about? " Selena narrowed her gaze at Lucy who answered.
"Lazarus Laire of course. He is the Vampire pest that sent an experienced assassin to kill the man who stole his wife, Rose Báthory. You didn't hear about that case? " Lucy asked, adding: "I mean, everyone heard it and knows that Amanel and Lazarus are partners."
"I don't know why tho, but they're playing a big game behind the curtains."
Selena and the other girls opened their eyes wide after Lucy dropped a bomb like this without thinking twice about it.
They knew Rose and other Christopher's wives because he talked about them when they asked. Not too much but he said some details.
How he met them, how he loves them, and how he got stuck here, so they know Lazarus from his explanations.
In the case of Selena, she already knew who the nasty Vampire was. She met him a few times while doing business with Redwilnet and from the first interaction with him, she understood what type of person he truly is.
'So this is where the circle is closing...' Selena thought as the entire situation connected in her mind like a puzzle.
"Can we... Can we talk with her? " Ariel suddenly said and looked at Selena who nodded with still a little shocked expression.
"Go," she said and recovered from the shock, showing a slight smile as the two quickly flapped with their wings and flew towards the battlefield.
'So this means Aragos and Earth must be more connected than I thought.' Selena thought and promised herself that when they got back, she would have a word with Christopher.
Meanwhile:
["Your girls are coming,"] Ardelean spoke and Christopher turned.
'Huh? But these are not my-'
Before he could say or do something more, two black rockets hit him, forming a cloud of dust all around.
When the dust settled, Christopher was seen embraced by Lucy and Ariel who were kissing him on both of his cheeks.
"Eh? " He was speechless at this sudden affection but didn't say anything and waited for their explanation.
"Thank you for bringing us to your family Master! " They spoke together and then looked at each other with cute smiles.
The Vampires behind Christopher opened their mouths. They want this treatment too! ... Mainly from beauties like them.
"Who said you this nonsense? " Christopher asked, a little confused.
'If I remember correctly, I only took them because their bodies were unintentionally turned by me and because I lacked punching bags and subordinates with good skills that can take the role of commanders! ' he thought as his gaze shifted to the distance, mainly on Selena and Hissami who winked at him together and waved.
'Of course... those two don't stop with this,' Christopher rolled his eyes and looked down at the two girls still hugging him.
'Hah, when they will understand that the more women they bring, the more things get complicated...' Christopher thought.
"Lucy? Ariel?! " Angie was speechless when she saw her two friends.
The Dragon and the fallen Angel looked at her and smiled.
"Hi Angie, long time no see..." they spoke together and giggled.
"I- I- I thought you two are DEAD! " Angie fell to the ground and started crying heavily as sadness took control over her feelings.
"No, we just changed Angie. Who said we are dead? " Ariel and Lucy pulled away from their master and looked at Angie.
"The Light Queen! " Angie cried out, tears streaming heavily from her eyes.
'So she convinced the Angels that when they join me, they'll die? What a Liar! ' Christopher deduced this from the quick conversation as the two commanders in front of him kneeled on the ground.
"My Lord, can we talk to our friend for a minute? " Lucy asked with a cute expression while her dragon tail was swaying from side to side. She looked cute.
"Please? " Ariel took her Master's left hand and placed it on her right cheek.
'Hmmm, I already saw this somewhere but where...' he thought as memories of Melissa and Ariane quickly filled his mind. Inappropriate memories...
"...Okay " Christopher nodded, still a little shocked, and wielded the two from the ground.
He shook his head to get the inappropriate memories out of his mind and spoke "Go behind me... I still have something to do," as the two ran toward their friend and hugged her...
... At which Christopher facepalmed.
'I said behind me not in front of me?! ' he thought but ignored them as he pointed the palm of his hand at them and a red barrier started forming around them.
"HEY! What do you think you're DOING? " Amanel immediately jumped towards Christopher who moved his left hand slightly to the left side and with his telekinetic powers, he sent Amanel flying towards a nearby building where he crashed and the entire building fell on him.
"Shut the hell up parrot. You don't have permission to speak to me like that." Christopher continued to form the barrier as a bunch of Angels, seeing their Archangel being attacked, started flying at him.
"Stay! " Christopher said in an ordering tone as his gaze glowed red for a second and the angels froze in the air, falling on the ground like statues.
'Hmm, looks like I evolved more than I thought. My basic skills are much stronger~' he thought.
When the barrier was done, Christopher wielded the barrier with the girls in it and tossed it further behind himself, to a safe zone close to Hissami and others.
The interesting thing was that the barrier worked like a ball. It could spin and turn around but the girls inside were still on the same spot, in the middle with their heads towards the sky, hugging each other. Only the barrier was moving around them like a protective shield.
Then, he sighed and formed the barriers around the angels lying on the ground as well and threw them behind himself too but this time, the Angels were moving in the barrier, crashing against its walls.
["You are the only Darkness host who didn't kill angels when he saw them. This kindness is a weakness... be aware of it."]
'You are right but wrong at the same time my friend,' Christopher smiled widely.
["How come? "] Ardelean narrowed his eyes in Christopher's soul together with Nicolle who was holding that place stable.
'Kindness can be a weakness but it can be a power too. But, what I'm doing is not an act of kindness nor a display of weakness.'
["Then what is it? "] they both asked.
'It's called manipulation~'
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