Chapter 138: Low-Rank Demon and Plunder

A 'gurgle' sound.

Kelakesi entered the blood demon's body through its mouth.

Its canine face showed a look of surprise.

The OriginalBodies paused their attacks, actively stepped back, and looked up at the blood demon as if waiting for something.

"Ugh!" the blood demon suddenly felt a sharp pain in its chest.

"Pfft!" thick, dark blood gushed from its mouth like a waterfall or fountain.

"Slice!"

Kelakesi swung his right-hand energy wrist blade from inside out, slicing open the chest and leaping out of the blood demon's body.

"Thud! Thud!" Kelakesi landed steadily on the altar.

"Boom~ boom boom~!"

Moreover, along with Kelakesi separating from the blood demon's body, there was a large heart beating violently.

Kelakesi flung the heart forward with his left hand.

"Splat!" the heart, two sizes larger than a brown bear, fell in front of Robert.

Without needing to say, Robert understood his brother's intent and immediately swung the Flame Sword at the heart.

One cut, two halves!

The inextinguishable flames quickly scorched the two heart halves to ashes.

"Boom~."

The heart turned to ash, enveloping the blood demon's body in flames.

The skin quickly dissipated, exposing the bones which also burned.

It would take only another ten or so seconds for the blood demon's fleshly body to be completely eradicated.

"Ha-ha-ha!"

However, the blood demon enduring the burning pain did not utter a deathly wail; instead, it laughed wildly at the OriginalBodies, saying:

"Don't get too cocky, little things; even if you destroy my body, you cannot erase my existence. I am a god, and a god's will cannot be..."

Suddenly, the blood demon's formerly arrogant words halted.

Immediately after, it seemed to sense something, and its tone turned extremely fearful: "What... what is happening?!"

"No——!"

Finally, the flames completely destroyed the blood demon's body, and its unwilling roar echoed throughout the underground cavern.

As the blood demon dissipated, the pillar of light connecting the real world and the demon realm also vanished with its disappearance.

Inside the blood pool, it became unusually clean, with not a drop of blood left, and the runes on the pool walls lost their glow.

It seemed as if everything had returned to its original state.

"Robert." The previously somewhat neutral-voiced OriginalBody walked to the edge of the blood pool, gazing at the dry bottom in confusion, saying:

"That guy seems to have really disappeared; do you know what's going on?"

Although Kelakesi had ripped open the blood demon and forcibly pulled out its heart, it was Robert who delivered the final blow.

Upon hearing that.

All the brothers turned their gazes toward Robert.

Robert first silently dispersed the sword's flames, attaching the Flame Sword to his right waist, then shrugged and said:

"I'm not entirely sure either... perhaps Father would know something."

"Father?" the OriginalBodies exclaimed in surprise.

"Hmm." But soon, the OriginalBodies all nodded in agreement.

Evidently, the brothers all believed the eldest brother's viewpoint.

After all, Father had once, in full view of everyone, conquered Ares' weapons and armor, and that blood demon seemed to fear the Spear of Fear in John's hand.

Thus, after this round of speculation, the OriginalBodies grew ever more convinced that the blood demon's total disappearance was inseparable from Father.

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While the OriginalBodies were speculating.

Two thousand kilometers east of the area where the OriginalBodies were located lay Paris.

The city center.

Inside the Command Center of the Umbrella building.

"Four technical teams are expected to reach the castle in ten minutes, preparing to enter the castle with the assistance of the HellParatrooper battalion to conduct initial cleaning and disinfection."

"The Special Task Force and six elite security units are currently cooperating with the team led by Agent Kennedy to carry out a capture operation targeting two abnormal biological species.

"They have encountered some resistance, but our personnel have suffered no casualties so far, and the operation to capture targets across Europe is expected to be completed in seventy-two hours."

Employees in black uniforms stared at their respective control panel screens, reporting the current situation.

HellParatroopers and OriginalBodies stormed the castle, controlling and eliminating vampires, werewolves, and blood demons, while Leon, Pulaise, and others began conducting captures in an orderly manner.

Once Alekxia and the Paris researchers finish analyzing vampires and werewolves, Umbrella's global capture efficiency will greatly increase.

These two species pose no threat to the company, yet the Red Queen still gave them a Nyx-class (second-tier) rating.

Speaking of the Red Queen.

She and the White Queen, using the holographic projection device installed in the Command Center, projected their virtual images behind Sui Bian.

In front of them, Sui Bian stood with arms crossed over his chest, watching the three giant screens.

One of the screens displayed the helmet camera footage of the OriginalBodies.

At this moment, Sui Bian's expression was blank, his demeanor cold, making the two AIs and the on-site staff unable to guess his true thoughts.

But it was exactly Sui Bian's 'calmness' that eased the employees' tension, allowing them to continue handling their respective work efficiently.

Actually…

Now Sui Bian isn't very calm.

Because just now, the system spoke in his mind:

【Detected the host's subordinate OriginalBody physically annihilating the low-rank demon 'Gorefiend (Gorefiend)', therefore this system rewards the host the special ability 'Spiritual Energy Plunder'…

Detected that Gorefiend, due to its physical body being destroyed by the OriginalBody, is currently in its weakest state; please ask the host whether to consume 500 points to complete the full plunder of Gorefiend's Spiritual Energy.

Note: This plunder action has no side effects for the host.】

When the system said all that, Sui Bian, via the OriginalBodies' helmet camera, saw and heard the Blood Demon say to the OriginalBody: 'It cannot be destroyed.'

Although Sui Bian at that time hadn't had a chance to digest the keywords 'demon', 'Spiritual Energy', and 'plunder', he still chose to spend 500 points to complete the plunder.

Thus the system continued:

【Deducting 500 points from the host for the plunder, the host's remaining points are 13367 points.

Plundering…

Plunder completed, congratulations to the host for obtaining all of the low-rank demon Gorefiend's Spiritual Energy.】

The moment the system finished speaking, Sui Bian immediately felt an indescribable force surge into his body, then fill his entire body.

Having just completed the plunder, he was about to figure out how to control this force, or rather the Spiritual Energy, when he heard the kids' conversation.

Saying something like 'Father knows the reason.'

However, from all aspects, it was indeed he who personally annihilated the low-rank demon Gorefiend.

But currently he had no mind to explain anything; instead he turned his head, using his peripheral vision to look toward the Red and White Empresses and said:

"Red Empress, notify the technical staff to arrive at the castle, then first disinfect the ten OriginalBodies; after disinfection let the OriginalBodies immediately return to Paris center."

"White Empress, you organize the relevant files about the Blood Demon, then send them to the nest's plague doctor."

(End of chapter)