Although Lyle yearned to turn Joshua into a large, indescribable mass of tentacles, the thought was exceptionally challenging.
As a fellow inheritor of the Divine Blood, Joshua differed considerably from his kin who had transformed into Sea Monsters; the difference being that the Ominous could not sense the presence of his blood.
The signal was lost, and even though Beatrice had inflicted several bleeding wounds on him, Lyle still could not awaken the obedience within that blood, for it no longer belonged to Serio or to himself.
Joshua's figure vanished instantaneously, leaving behind a trail of blood from the wound on the attacking tentacle, which turned into small, spiky balls in mid-air, but Joshua had already escaped the attack range.
"My lady, did you really hurt him? He's even faster than the wildly spinning wheels driven by the Demon Race."
Beatrice's smooth forehead bulged with veins as she continued to charge at the materialized vampire.
