No sooner had the words been spoken than a wolf's howl echoed from the distance.
“Awoo!!!”
Wang Xiaoming couldn't help but smile as he looked at Laetitia.
“See, someone who can give us directions has arrived.”
“Indeed.”
Laetitia returned the smile.
★ Strike the Blood 1 ★
411. Strike the Blood: I Will Create a World With Them!
The world of Strike the Blood is dominated by vampires, a very chaotic world!
There are far too many behind-the-scenes organizations in this world. Why are they called behind-the-scenes? Because there are so many, but each one is quite weak. They clearly can't defeat the True Ancestors, but one or two of them always dream of defeating the True Ancestors and ruling the world. As a result, every time they jump out, they get slapped to death by a True Ancestor.
The True Ancestors stand at the pinnacle of vampires. In this world, humans and demons are in a state of confrontation. The highest point for humans is the powerful Attack Mages, while the pinnacle for demons is the True Ancestors among vampires.
This world has a total of three True Ancestors: the First True Ancestor [Forgotten War King] Kyi Juranbarada, the Second True Ancestor [Eyes of Extinction] Aswadgul Ajiz, and the Third True Ancestor [Chaotic Imperial Princess] Quarta Kukulkan.
They are the strongest vampires, possessing the strongest and largest number of Familiars.
Familiars are powerful magical life forms summoned from other worlds by vampires through their own magic power. They possess various abilities and come in various shapes.
The strongest level of Familiars is the True Ancestor level. Currently, only the three True Ancestors possess or can control this level of Familiar. This is because the more powerful the Familiar, the more magic power it requires. Ordinary vampires simply don't have enough magic power to drive the Familiar. If they try to force it, they will only have their magic power and life force drained and die.
The True Ancestors possess vast magic power on par with a leyline! Although it's not infinite, the True Ancestors possess the highest level of magic power among all vampires.
The First True Ancestor possesses 72 Familiars, placing them at the pinnacle even among True Ancestors. The Second True Ancestor possesses 19 Familiars, and the Third True Ancestor possesses 27 Familiars.
In addition, there is another True Ancestor known as the strongest: the Fourth True Ancestor.
The Fourth True Ancestor is not a naturally formed True Ancestor. It is a God-Slaying Weapon created by the three True Ancestors and the Heavenly Faction. It is an artificial True Ancestor. The purpose of the three True Ancestors in creating the Fourth True Ancestor was to monitor Kayan the Scapegoat. However, the Heavenly Faction feared Kayan's power and chose to control the Fourth True Ancestor to kill Kayan. Because the Fourth True Ancestor developed a deep relationship with Kayan during their time together, Kayan was ambushed and killed by the Fourth True Ancestor. Then, the Fourth True Ancestor raised a rebellion against the Heavenly Faction, but was ultimately defeated and divided into twelve parts, leading to the subsequent plot.
Of course, this is the superficial information. The real truth is that it was all a conspiracy by aliens!
In the universe, there is a group of aliens called the Heavenly Faction. Their technology is very advanced, capable of interstellar travel. They resemble the vampires of human legends, drinking blood to turn into mist but hating sunlight. The more noble the Heavenly Faction, the more powerful their divine power.
The Heavenly Faction fled their homeworld after losing an internal struggle on their planet, using a spaceship called [Otherworld] to drift through the universe until they entered the solar system and discovered Earth.
They parked [Otherworld] near Jupiter's orbit and continued to explore for other habitable planets while landing on Earth.
After landing on Earth, the Heavenly Faction eliminated a large number of natives and created demons for viewing and doing chores, enslaving the remaining humans. All existing demons except vampires and dragons were created by the Heavenly Faction.
The Heavenly Faction living on Earth was very satisfied with the environment. There were no enemies or races that could threaten them, so they gradually became complacent and began to abandon the exploration of the universe, leading to the gradual decline of their space exploration technology.
One of the royal family members named Kayan was still enthusiastic about researching technology. He was regarded as an oddity by the other royal family members, ostracized by the Heavenly Faction, and sent to manage the sparsely populated Otherworld.
While the Heavenly Faction was weakening due to complacency, some people of mixed Heavenly Faction and human blood began to awaken spiritual power. These people were called Saints and Saintesses, and they led the enslaved humans and rallied the demons to rebel against the Heavenly Faction.
The rebellion continued to expand. The Heavenly Faction's own abilities weakened, and their combat power was insufficient. Therefore, to suppress humanity, they released their ultimate weapon: [Familiars]. Familiars are otherworldly monsters summoned using large-scale magic rituals. Although they possess vast magic power, they have no physical form. Once manifested, they continuously devour surrounding matter and information, causing indiscriminate destruction.
The Heavenly Faction also couldn't find a way to control the Familiars, so they sealed the Familiars inside artificial human bodies and turned them into amber warheads, transporting most of the uncontrollable Familiar warheads to [Otherworld] for preservation. Because Familiars are summoned using Earth's leylines, Otherworld, far from Earth, cannot summon Familiars.
The use of Familiars caused drastic changes to Earth's environment, and all species faced annihilation. Therefore, Kayan decided to seal all the Familiar warheads. He used the Holy Demolition to seal the Familiars rampaging on the ground inside three human bodies, who are now the three True Ancestors.
Because Kayan refused to provide the Heavenly Faction with Familiar warheads and cut off the passage to [Otherworld], the enraged Heavenly Faction carefully created twelve Star Beast Familiars capable of traversing the universe and stuffed them into the body of a young boy with powerful spiritual power who was by Kayan's side. This was the original Fourth True Ancestor. The Heavenly Faction wanted to use the Fourth True Ancestor to kill Kayan.
However, this was also within Kayan's plan, because Kayan originally intended to die in order to seal the passage to Otherworld. He had long left the Holy Demolition formula with his imaginary personality on Earth, entrusting hope to the future, and was then killed by the Fourth True Ancestor controlled by the Heavenly Faction through the original soul.
Unable to maintain their rule on the ground after losing Otherworld, some members of the Heavenly Faction hid in secret realms and lived cautiously, while others fled into the small floating city group "Dead Capital."
Kayan's three former subordinates, now the three True Ancestors, rule the Earth. Because the Familiars within their bodies are summoned through Earth's leylines, they can exert their strongest combat power on Earth. At the same time, once they leave Earth, their Familiars will be unusable, but this does not affect their rule over Earth.
To prevent Familiars from going berserk and becoming uncontrollable, the True Ancestors acquired blood companions and created offspring to disperse their magic power, thus creating the three vampire races.
The Fourth True Ancestor, Zero, inherited Kayan's research and successfully allowed artificial humans to be parasitized and use Familiars to a certain extent. He divided his twelve Familiars among twelve artificial human bodies and founded the End Sect, widely proclaiming that "The Fourth True Ancestor is the strongest vampire," making posterity fear the Fourth True Ancestor's power while hoping that one day they would reopen the gates of [Otherworld] and allow Kayan's plan to succeed.
From the beginning, the three True Ancestors, even the Fourth True Ancestor, were all Kayan's people!
Kayan's plan was to allow his imaginary personality to fully learn the memories he left behind through the Holy Demolition, then "revive" himself, and lead the True Ancestors to rule the Earth, thereby bringing peace to the world, and finally open the door to [Otherworld], so that those artificial human girls who were left in [Otherworld] and sealed with Familiars would no longer be driven as weapons, living in a peaceful world.
In short: For the sake of these innocent girls, I will create a peaceful world!
And so, seven thousand years have passed!
To put it bluntly, the Earth in this Strike the Blood world is actually an Earth ruled by aliens.
The so-called Heavenly Faction and the so-called three True Ancestors are all aliens, and most of the humans and vampires now are hybrids of the Heavenly Faction and humans. It is unknown how many of the original human inhabitants still live on Earth.
Isn't it amazing? Originally, one thought it was a magical world, but in reality, it is a technological world.
This is called technology being the primary productive force! A certain snake-playing scientist from a renegade village gave it a thumbs up!
Now, the time point Wang Xiaoming has arrived at is seven thousand years after Kayan's death, the time point when the Fourth True Ancestor is about to reappear.
“Gojo Island?”
“Yes, Lord, this is Gojo Island.”
Wang Xiaoming, who brought Laetitia and the other two to this world, quickly found someone to ask. On the other side of these ruins, a group of people were being attacked by werewolves. So Wang Xiaoming and the others rushed over and easily solved the werewolves who were attacking them. Then, from the mouths of these rescued people, they obtained the information they wanted and learned their location.
“We are just an archaeological team hired and don't know what's here. Then, we were suddenly attacked by these werewolves. Thank you very much.”
Before Wang Xiaoming, the middle-aged man in work clothes nodded and bowed to Wang Xiaoming in gratitude.
Not for any other reason, but because he saw Laetitia and the others behind Wang Xiaoming. The beautiful golden-haired, red-eyed maids, such beautiful faces, were definitely not something ordinary people could possess, especially their uniform crimson eyes, and the way they directly passed by as a black shadow and cut all the werewolves attacking them in half.
They are vampires! And very strong ones at that, and there are three such powerful vampire maids!
Then, the man who commands them must also be a vampire, perhaps even a noble among vampires!
He is just an ordinary person and must serve them carefully. Otherwise, he can only blame himself for being killed. He didn't even buy insurance, so his death would be in vain.
“Then, do you know where your archaeological team leader is now?”
“I know, they went inside the ruins. The entrance is over there!”
The middle-aged man pointed to a cave entrance supported by machinery not far away. As for betraying the boss, he was just an employee who had been hired. What could be more important than his own life?
In the original plot, all of them outside were killed by werewolves. He couldn't be happier to be alive now!
"Thank you very much. Take your people and leave quickly."
"Thank you, thank you, sir."
Having received Wang Xiaoming's permission to leave, the middle-aged man hurriedly nodded and smiled, then turned and ran to call his men to run away as quickly as possible.
Watching the middle-aged man leave, Wang Xiaoming looked at the dark cave entrance.
"Let's go, Leticia. I'll take you to see the Strongest True Ancestor of this world."
412. Before you stands the Vampire King ~ Lord Xiaoming!
It must be said that Wang Xiaoming arrived at a good time, before the Fourth True Ancestor was born. If the Fourth True Ancestor had already been born, then Wang Xiaoming would probably have met Kojou Akatsuki, who had already become a vampire.
But now, the Fourth True Ancestor hasn't been born yet, so Wang Xiaoming has much more room to maneuver.
Wang Xiaoming has no interest in being the Fourth True Ancestor of this world, but he is very interested in the twelve Kenjuu of the Fourth True Ancestor. Unlike the Kenjuu of the Three True Ancestors, the Kenjuu of the Fourth True Ancestor do not need any restrictions. They can be summoned as long as magic power is provided. They can be summoned anywhere and taken away from this world without any problems.
If possible, he wants to get all those Kenjuu and distribute them to his lovely maid wives.
As for whether the future of this world will be peaceful or what, Wang Xiaoming can only say that he is quite helpless.
Cain's plan is to bring peace to the Earth with the Three True Ancestors and even the Fourth True Ancestor after his resurrection, and then awaken the girls who are sealed in the [Otherworld] and sleeping with Kenjuu, so that they can live in a peaceful era.
It is worth mentioning that there are a total of 6,500 Kenjuu that are sealed, which means that there are 6,500 innocent artificial human girls sleeping in the [Otherworld]! The Kenjuu sealed in these girls are all True Ancestor level! At that time, there will probably be 6,500 mobile Lesser True Ancestors on Earth!
But this peace is actually just a peace born under the threat of [Kenjuu] for the humans of this era on Earth. Cain has been dead for seven thousand years. For seven thousand years, the new humans have developed to the current level. The Earth, which was originally unified under the notification of the Celestial Department, has now become hundreds of countries. In this situation, one can imagine how many ambitious people there are.
Moreover, when the Three True Ancestors enter the ruling class of the Earth and their status rises again, then the vampires under the Three True Ancestors will definitely rise with the tide. In addition, with the 6,500 mobile Lesser True Ancestors, the power of the vampires will be unprecedentedly enhanced.
Even if Cain wants to be fair, it is impossible to take care of everything.
At that time, humans may appear to be equal to the demons on the surface, but their actual status will be similar to that of humans under the rule of the Celestial Department. Perhaps it won't be to the point of being enslaved, but they will definitely be inferior to the demons.
Peace will not last long, and war will inevitably be launched again under the impetus of various ambitious people and conspirators. Perhaps assassinating Cain will also be a common occurrence. At that time, the world will still be the same, nothing will have changed, it will just be a new cycle.
So, to be honest, Wang Xiaoming can't save this kind of world even if he tries. Unless Wang Xiaoming learns from that Cain and lives in this world all the time, acting as a restraining force to suppress everyone on Earth.
But in this way, Wang Xiaoming's plan is no different from that of Cain. There will still be ambitious people who should exist, and there will still be conspirators who should exist. Once Wang Xiaoming leaves, things will still be chaotic as they should be.
On an Earth without superpowers, humans can fight back and forth for thousands of years, let alone in this world that advocates personal force with superpowers. It would be strange if it didn't become chaotic.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoming can only say that he can't manage this world and can only help as much as possible.
And now, he is about to start his path of helping.
First of all, he is going to find the [Fourth True Ancestor] who is being dug up, or rather, the twelfth body of the Fourth True Ancestor, the artificial human girl who controls the twelfth Kenjuu of the Fourth True Ancestor.
As for her name, she doesn't have a name as a body, but the person who found her gave her a name, Sleeping Beauty Aurora.
At this time, she is being frozen by the ability of the twelfth Kenjuu, sleeping in the freezing, waiting for someone to wake her up.
And the person who awakens and obtains her will become the elector of the Fourth True Ancestor, and will be able to participate in the Feast of the Flame Light. The Feast of the Flame Light is a battle where the electors gather together and use the Fourth True Ancestor Kenjuu bodies in their hands, that is, these artificial human girls, to fight until only one side is left victorious.
The side that wins in the end will become the new Fourth True Ancestor, and the elector will have the opportunity to become the blood servant of the Fourth True Ancestor.
On the surface, not many people know the true identity of the Fourth True Ancestor anymore. The Three True Ancestors have also been keeping this secret, so everyone thinks that after the Fourth True Ancestor awakens, he will establish a Night Empire like the other Three True Ancestors. Therefore, many people want to curry favor and become the blood prince of the new Night Empire, second only to the True Ancestor, after they become the elector of the Fourth True Ancestor, and have a position above everyone else.
Therefore, many ambitious people want to become electors. There are also people with such thoughts in the cave in front of them.
After Wang Xiaoming led Leticia into the cave, they heard the sound of fighting and a man's rough voice from afar.
"I am the Death Emperor's younger brother from the Black Death Emperor faction!"
"You, a new generation vampire, are worthy of being my opponent?"
"After activating the Divine Beast Transformation, I possess the power to slay gods. Even a True Ancestor can be killed by me. The toys you summon are useless in front of me! They can't even stop me from moving forward!"
Good heavens, right from the start, I heard someone making a crazy flag. Awesome, awesome.
If I remember correctly, this guy named Death Emperor's younger brother should have been instantly killed by the twelfth of the Fourth True Ancestor, right?
While thinking, Wang Xiaoming led Leticia to the hall in the ruins.
In this hall, two groups of people were confronting each other. One side was a tall werewolf, who was the Death Emperor's younger brother who had just made many flags, and the other side was a blonde girl who was nervously driving two wolf-dog-like Kenjuu, staring nervously at the Death Emperor's younger brother. Behind her was a middle-aged man, and behind the middle-aged man were two other people, a little girl wearing a witch's costume and a little boy wearing ordinary clothes.
This Death Emperor's younger brother, who had made bold claims, was posing as if he was about to pounce, but was interrupted by Wang Xiaoming's arrival.
The arrival of Wang Xiaoming and his four companions attracted the attention of everyone present. A handsome man in gorgeous armor, leading three beautiful maids, entered the ruins. It was hard not to notice them.
As soon as this gorgeous combination came in, a question popped into the minds of everyone who noticed them: Who?
"Hmm? Another vampire? And another group of garbage vampire nobles."
The Death Emperor's younger brother reacted first. He didn't care who it was. Especially since the other party was a vampire, that was an enemy that had to be dealt with for him. Having activated the Divine Beast Transformation, his current state was infinitely close to the Beast God in their beastman legends. Even a True Ancestor could be "killed" by him!
"You all come at me together! I will let you all die a quick death!"
"Damn it!"
Although she didn't know who the newcomers were, the vampire girl chose to resist first.
"Betting on the honor of the Karyana family! I will definitely defeat you!"
Liana Karyana, a new generation vampire noble girl, stretched out her right hand to the werewolf.
"Kill him! Skoll, Hati!"
Under her command, the two wolf-shaped Kenjuu in front of her pounced directly at the Death Emperor's younger brother.
"Useless things!"
The Death Emperor's younger brother didn't even move his legs. He stood in place and waited for the two Kenjuu to pounce on him, then directly stretched out his claws and tore the two Kenjuu apart. The torn Kenjuu directly turned into light spots and dissipated.
"Skoll, Hati!"
Looking at the two Kenjuu being easily torn apart, Liana shouted sadly, which made Wang Xiaoming, who had been silent all along, couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
Good heavens, the names are quite awesome, one Skoll and one Hati. These two are the names of the sons of Fenrir, the wolf who slays gods in Norse mythology. In the twilight of the gods, one devoured the moon and the other devoured the sun. As a result, you've turned them into two dogs?
Moreover, Kenjuu don't have a physical body. Being destroyed just turns them into magic power and dissipates. You can just summon them again, so what are you yelling about?
"Hmph hahaha! I told you, in front of me in Divine Beast Transformation, everything of you vampires is futile!"
Liana's sad appearance made the Death Emperor's younger brother very satisfied. He opened his arms and looked at Wang Xiaoming next to him.
"So what about you? What tricks do you have to show me?"
