Chapter 164

"Don't you want to wash away the shame of the Kalyana Family with your own hands using blood?"

Su Nian's voice echoed in Liana's ears, and Liana stared at Zahaliyasi with crimson eyes.

Like a beast ready to devour someone.

She did! She dreamed of killing Zahaliyasi, of killing this arms dealer.

But dreams are just dreams after all; she still shouldered the mission of reviving the Kalyana Family, and she still had to protect her younger sister.

She could not just waste her life in vain to fight Zahaliyasi to the death, not to mention that the other party now had four Vessels of the Fourth Progenitor behind him.

And she only had one behind her; no matter how one judged it, throwing herself into the fight would be nothing more than suicide.

"The dead cannot return to life; the two of you might want to consider this carefully. Surely your late father would not want the two of you to die on this small island in the Far East, would he?"

"When it comes to the Vessels, we hold an absolute advantage."

Zahaliyasi smiled refinedly, bowing slightly as he spoke to Liana, who was on the verge of losing her reason.

Hearing this, the four Vessels behind Zahaliyasi raised their heads slightly and looked at the ice cream in Number Five's hand.

"Do you want to eat?"

The four Vessels nodded almost in unison.

Number Five licked the ice cream, looked at the empty shop where only the clerk remained, and pondered for a moment.

She took several 10,000-yen bills directly from the table and handed them to the clerk.

"Four more just like this."

The blonde girl said flatly with a blank expression.

Then the five Vessels ran into the dessert shop, sat down, and began licking their ice cream with their pink, delicate tongues.

Leaving behind a somewhat dazed Zahaliyasi.

Seeing this scene, Liana could not help but smile.

"Now it seems you don't have the advantage in Vessels anymore."

At this, Zahaliyasi was suddenly rendered speechless.

After all, the Vessels of the Fourth Progenitor could also control and use the power of the Fourth Progenitor's Familiars, and he could not control them either.

A Xuanzhezhe, a Xuanzhezhe—in the end, they are merely existences similar to followers of the Fourth Progenitor, reaping benefits by supporting the Vessel they back to become the Fourth Progenitor.

In reality, they dare not interfere with the Vessels too much; it is just that the Vessels have weak self-awareness and do not care about external things.

"But even if that is the case, what can you do?"

"Even your father could not defeat me, so what about you, a Vampire of the new generation?"

Zahaliyasi laughed and said, thinking he was just an ordinary arms dealer; he was also a Blood Servant of the Fourth Progenitor who had obtained the rib of the first Vessel.

"You..."

Liana's eyes instantly turned as crimson as blood, staring fixedly at Zahaliyasi.

If looks could kill, Liana would likely have killed Zahaliyasi several times over.

"Hahahaha, come on, do it! If you want the Kalyana lineage to be completely severed, then do it!"

Seeing that Liana still insisted on not making a move even under these circumstances, Zahaliyasi could not help but sneer.

"How could a weakling like you ever revive the Kalyana Family?"

"Kill him! Skoll! Hati!"

Finally, Liana could no longer endure it and extended her right hand toward the refined scoundrel in the suit before her.

"Betting on the honor of the Kalyana Family! I will definitely kill you!!!"

Under her command, two wolf-shaped Familiars appeared before her and lunged directly at Zahaliyasi.

"Useless things!"

Zahaliyasi did not even move; he stood where he was and raised his hand.

His Hungui bodyguards understood his intent in a second, directly raising their Magic Gun, which looked like an AK, and pulled the triggers at Liana's two Familiars.

In an instant, countless bullets shot toward Liana's two Familiars like a tidal wave.

They were torn to shreds almost instantly, and the shredded Familiars turned into specks of light and dissipated.

Afterward, Zahaliyasi lowered his hand, looked at Liana, and said softly.

"How is it? You trash of the new Kalyana Family? How do your Familiars fare against my weaponry, which incorporates the latest technology?"

Liana did not reply; she felt something unusual at this moment—her body actually felt no backlash.

Although they had no physical form and merely dissipated into magic power when destroyed, they could just be summoned again.

But this did not mean that there was no backlash when a Familiar was destroyed.

For the vast majority of Vampires, even those known for their recovery, they would suffer extremely severe backlash when their Familiars were destroyed.

At the very least, they would be unable to get out of bed for days, unable to use magic power, and in intense pain all over.

But now, she felt no abnormality; as long as she consumed magic power, she could fully summon her Familiars again.

Is this the experiment the Emperor performed on her?

"Skoll, Hati!"

Liana looked at Zahaliyasi before her and summoned her Familiars once more, only this time they were not summoned from in front of her.

Instead, they were summoned from the shadows of the Hungui bodyguards behind Zahaliyasi.

Accompanied by several screams and the sound of metal falling to the ground.

"When?"

Only then did Zahaliyasi realize that he had somehow fallen into an encirclement.

However, after seeing the two Familiars in front of Weierdiyana and the two Familiars behind him.

An unexpected smile appeared on his face.

"Even your father, a Vampire of the old generation, is no match for me; how could you possibly be my match?"

As an arms dealer who constantly carries assets exceeding 35 billion Euros, he is like a giant treasure chest walking freely.

To say it is like a child carrying gold through a busy market is putting it mildly; without absolute strength, how would he dare to walk outside?

Could it be by relying on those useless Hungui behind him?

"Gangulete! Gangulete!"

"Skoll! Hati!"

Liana and Weierdiyana issued orders to their Familiars, and flames and ice erupted from the mouths of the four wolf-shaped Familiars.

They struck Zahaliyasi's body.

But they did not cause him any damage; Zahaliyasi twisted his neck, producing a crisp sound.

The next moment, his body suddenly expanded, and countless pitch-black bristles grew out all over him.

It was as if he were a giant wolf standing upright.

"This is Divine Beast Transformation."

Liana's face revealed despair; she had not expected Zahaliyasi to be a Beastkin, and a Beastkin who had mastered Divine Beast Transformation at that.

Just like back on Gozo Island, she was facing the same despair as the Dead Emperor Brother.

Their Familiars could not inflict damage upon a Beastkin who had undergone Divine Beast Transformation, with their physical bodies shrouded in a dense layer of magic.

To defeat a Beastkin after Divine Beast Transformation, one could only rely on absolute physical strength or heavy firepower suppression.

"You are the second people to see me in this state, besides the Kaliyana Duke."

Zahaliyasi, in his massive Divine Beast Transformation Beastkin form, looked at the despairing Liana and Weierdiyana and said with great satisfaction.

Liana looked at Zahaliyasi at this moment, and especially upon hearing the name Kaliyana Duke from his mouth, her heart burned with even greater rage.

The Kaliyana Duke was their father!

"Go to hell, you bastard!!"

Liana, having nearly lost her sanity, did not know when she had retracted her Familiars and merged them into her own shadow.

By utilizing the connection between her shadow and her physical body, Liana successfully borrowed the power of her Familiars.

However, to Su Nian's surprise, Liana did not transform into a Familiar, or rather, only her shadow had turned into a Familiar.

She herself had gained the constitution and abilities of her Familiars, achieving an ability similar to a Beastkin's Divine Beast Transformation.

She watched Zahaliyasi approach her, waiting for the moment when Zahaliyasi would crouch down to crush her skull and kill her completely.

She thrust a claw through Zahaliyasi's heart, and her shadow did the same.

Or rather, it was precisely because the shadow broke Zahaliyasi's defense that she was able to kill him.

"Is he dead?"

Liana looked at her right hand, still in the shape of a ghost claw and stained with foul-smelling blood, and at Zahaliyasi, who lay on the ground before her with a large hole in his chest, her face showing confusion.

Was the family's great vendetta avenged just like that?

For a moment, Liana felt a sense of absurd unreality.

And he had been killed by her own hands, at that.

Liana stood blankly on the spot, unable to recover for a long time.

"Hmm... is this Ghost Species Transformation?"

Su Nian pinched his chin, looking at Liana's arm and her current state as he spoke.

"It's a bit beyond expectations, but it's not unworkable."

Although Vampires in Little Garden are said to be molecules of humanity's distant future, they are actually classified under the Ghost Species category according to the System Tree.

Even a Vampire's Gift can allow others to undergo Ghost Species Transformation through bodily fluids.

Thus, it is normal that by merging Familiars into one's shadow to enhance the physical body, the final manifestation would be Ghost Species Transformation.

Moreover, after Ghost Species Transformation, she simultaneously possesses the recovery power of a Vampire and the physical constitution of a Beastkin after Divine Beast Transformation; the strength is quite decent.

Su Nian's assessment was that as a prototype, it was barely good enough.

The bloodline is rated as Six-digit; after reaching adulthood, one can normally attain the standard level of a Six-digit.

Even in Little Garden, that is considered quite good; even the Vampires in Little Garden are at about this level before becoming Little Garden Knights.

Only Demigods reach Five-digit after adulthood, and only the strongest species, the Born God and Buddha, reach Four-digit.

Six-digit is already very good.

After a long while, Liana, who was to the side, finally came to her senses; seeing Su Nian recording something, she hurriedly pulled Weierdiyana to kneel on the ground.

"Thank you, Emperor, for bestowing upon me the power of revenge."

Liana said very sincerely, and silently handed the assets that the arms dealer had carried with him to Su Nian.

(End of chapter)