Chapter 937: Prince Lu Sifante

The vampire prince's domain is huge, many times larger than the duke's lands previously eliminated, and far away one can see a dark‑red castle, its outer walls seeming dyed with fresh blood, surrounded by a wide moat whose water is also blood‑red, like a pool of blood.

That is the "Blood Fortress".

The vampire prince "Lu Sifante" has run the nest for centuries.

Around the Blood Castle lie extensive buildings, rows of gloomy houses with pointed roofs, endless in the twisted forest, like a small city but without the intersecting streets of a mortal city; vampire silhouettes fly and dart through the shadows between the structures.

The Star Destroyer entered the prince's domain, as always, the sounds in the high sky drew the attention of many vampires, who looked up.

However, the Blood Castle was still outside the range of the main cannon.

Lei En ordered the Star Destroyer to maintain its Invisibility Field, increased its speed, and raced toward the castle while silently calculating the time until the target entered range.

Some vampires rose to high altitude to scout, but they could not get close in time.

"Intercept it!"

"We must not let it approach the Blood Fortress!"

A vampire noble sensed the danger, shouted loudly, damaged his own body to trigger blood‑dodge technique to chase the Star Destroyer, finally catching up from behind, only to be incinerated into ash by the engine's exhaust flame.

Other vampires intercepted from the front; the Star Destroyer smashed them to pieces, their flesh scattered on the deflection field, then blown away by a raging wind.

These actions made a small portion of the Star Destroyer's outline faintly visible.

Though only for an instant, sharp‑eyed vampires still saw it; the massive size of the Star Destroyer shocked the pursuing vampires, causing some to halt, while the quicker ones turned and fled, trying to keep distance.

On the bridge, Ai Luoti Xiya reminded, "Lei En, they have noticed."

"It doesn't matter."

Lei En calmly shook his head, "Knowing won't help; the result won't change."

The Star Destroyer kept high‑speed flight, killing several waves of unknown vampires that surged forward; the Blood Castle was now in sight and already within the main cannon's range.

Lei En's calculations were exact, and he fired without hesitation.

Boom!

A massive laser shot toward the castle; as it fired, the Star Destroyer's Invisibility Field automatically deactivated, exposing it in the high sky; the main cannon's fire emitted light that illuminated the dim world for dozens of miles, making all vampires see clearly.

In an instant, the main cannon hit the Blood Castle, but a layer of blood‑red shield blocked it.

The moat outside the castle surged with huge waves.

Blood‑colored water rose into the sky, forming a protective dome that enveloped the whole castle; the Star Destroyer's bombardment struck it, causing a massive explosion.

Boom—

The crimson shield fluctuated violently, lasting less than a second before teetering on collapse; a roar of fury and anger sounded from within the castle, instantly causing the moat's blood water to surge, almost exposing the riverbed, finally allowing the shield to hold.

When the laser faded, the protective blood wave fell, and the shield became very thin.

The moat's water level dropped by one‑third.

This means one‑third of the blood‑colored water was vaporized by the Star Destroyer, leaving it powerless against the next main cannon attack.

The Blood Castle survived for now, but the vampires outside the castle were doomed.

The explosion's flash, heat and shockwave flattened all structures within a kilometer on the castle's southern side, turning tens of thousands of vampires to ash.

On the bridge, Lei En raised an eyebrow.

After all, he is a vampire prince; lamenting the fate of all vampires in the wasteland, Prince Lu Sifante still possesses some means, managing to withstand a single Star Destroyer strike, unlike other vampire nobles' castles that crumble easily.

One shot isn't enough; fire another.

The Star Destroyer's main cannon recharged, its massive barrel lighting up again.

"Who are you!"

On the Blood Castle's crimson shield, a massive face of tens of meters formed from the gathered moat water, complete with features, vivid and lifelike; a pair of blood‑red eyes stared at the Star Destroyer in the sky, and a furious voice said, "Who are you? Why attack my castle?"

It is Prince Lu Sifante.

Though Prince Lu Sifante strained to display his dignity and anger, Lei En saw at a glance that the fellow was all bark and no bite, already cowardly.

The All-Seeing Eye pierced the castle, locating Lu Sifante hidden in the basement.

In that basement lies a hundred‑meter‑diameter blood pool, surrounded by a massive blood rune array covering the entire castle, capable of controlling every part of the castle and the outside moat.

The blood pool is the core of the castle's array.

Lu Sifante merges with the blood pool, using the vast blood water as energy; the pool never depletes, his body never perishes, and his power surges more than tenfold.

By human transcendent standards, he now possesses over Thirty-level strength.

This is no weaker than many Abyssal Lords!

Ai Luoti Xiya gazed at the huge face above the castle, fear in her eyes, reminding her of the Abyssal Lord she had seen in the succubus queen's court.

She instinctively wanted to flee, but turning she saw Lei En seated in the middle of the bridge, his expression unchanged; remembering she was aboard the Star Destroyer with Lei En, she suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of safety.

Lei En gave no reply to Lu Sifante's words, while recharging the main cannon and opening his phone interface.

The previous shot harvested nearly five thousand units of electricity; the soul‑power pool instantly rose by half, and he must find a way to expend this energy.

Reslin's spell can no longer be upgraded.

He also failed to trigger the eighth Soul Transformation, advancing to th Level mage.

More electricity will be harvested soon; without time to think, Lei En poured two thousand units into Holy Blood Amber, converting it to Holy Light Power, instantly filling the artifact's capacity.

Over three thousand more units remained; Lei En invested them in "Thunder God's Spear".

In just a few seconds, Thunder God's Spear rose from Level Seven to Level Eight, then broke through to Level Nine; the progress bar's advance became extremely difficult, stalling after a tenth increase, requiring about fifteen thousand units to level up.

This is the strongest single‑target attack besides Thunder God's Hammer.

Lei En sensed that when Thunder God's Spear reaches Level Ten, there is a high chance it will evolve into a legendary Element.

He once consulted Elder Titan Sorim; historically, no Titan Giant has ever mastered a Thunder God's Spear beyond Level Nine. The Giant God An Na Mu might, but he dislikes spears, preferring a massive sword.

"I need more electricity!"

Lei En's attention returned to the enemy.

Prince Lu Sifante waited a few seconds, received no reply, while the Star Destroyer's barrel grew brighter, clearly preparing the next attack.

It no longer hesitated and launched a counterattack at once.

The Blood‑faced Giant inhaled deeply, the blood in the moat surged upward, it drew it into its mouth, then spewed a string of blood balls over five meters in diameter; each exploding blood ball was a Nine-ring Technique, moving at extreme speed, and in an instant struck the Star Destroyer in the sky.

Bang bang bang…

The blood balls exploded, blood spray flew hundreds of meters, covering half of the Star Destroyer.

Yet the Star Destroyer remained unmoving.

A transparent force field blocked all the blood outside; the toxins and corrosive effects in the blood had no effect, the field only rippled from the blast and quickly recovered. The blood slid off the deflected field, a blood rain fell from the sky, and the vampires below could not dodge, each melting into blood amid screams, then flowing back toward the moat as if alive.

The exploding blood balls could not pierce the Star Destroyer's defenses, so Prince Lusi Fante immediately switched tactics.

Crimson blood mist spread across the sky.

The blood mist's range was enormous, enough to envelop the entire Star Destroyer; although Lei En had great confidence in the deflection field, he sensed a hint of danger within the mist, and the Star Destroyer suddenly accelerated, bursting out of the blood mist.

The eight‑pair double‑linked Electric Light Cannons fired backward, launching sixteen electric light shells that detonated simultaneously within the blood mist.

A rumbling roar.

The crimson blood mist churned a few times then calmed, becoming slightly thinner, yet its area expanded rapidly, attempting to engulf the flying Star Destroyer.

"Interesting."

Lei En said lightly.

He didn't know what this blood mist was, but it must be Prince Lusi Fante's most formidable attack; for others, the mist might be quite troublesome.

However, that was all for the Star Destroyer, because the blood mist was too slow.

The Star Destroyer could fire from any point within ten li, and the blood mist could not cover such a vast area nor catch up to the Star Destroyer's speed.

So it only needed to keep circling.

Even if the crimson blood mist caught up and submerged it, the Star Destroyer would have little trouble; Lei En was just being cautious and didn't want to take risks.

The Star Destroyer circled the Blood Castle twice, charging its main cannon while the secondary cannon kept firing, bombarding the Vampire City outside the castle. As massive structures were destroyed, vampires turned to ash in the explosions, and the energy in the Soul Power Pool surged rapidly.

Lei En poured all the energy into the Thunder God's Spear, and the progress bar kept advancing.

"Ah…"

Prince Lusi Fante roared furiously, "No matter who you are, daring to slaughter my people and attack my castle, you will pay with all your blood!"

"You can hide in your flying fortress, thinking I can't trace your origins?"

"The Blood Ancestor will never let you go!"

Its roar echoed across the heavens.

Lei En remained silent in response, only a slight jolt in his heart when he heard "Blood Ancestor," but he didn't dwell on it.

The Blood Ancestor is the progenitor of all vampires in the world; it was the first vampire created by the Lord of Chaos Nayaxin Lanqi using his own blood, its power and status far surpass those of vampire princes. It now serves as the Abyssal Lord of the 378th layer of the Abyss, ruling over half the princes, countless vampires and other demons in Blood Sail Bay.

It is rumored that the vampire progenitor is entitled to audience with the Lord of Chaos, though the truth of that is uncertain.

It is no surprise that Prince Lusi Fante has ties with the Blood Ancestor.

Nevertheless, Lei En wasn't particularly worried; he sighed that the wilderness and Blood Sail Bay were far apart, and that eliminating Prince Lusi Fante would be enough.

The All-Seeing Eye saw its panicked expression and that it was already preparing to flee.

"Hmph, trying to run?"

Lei En sneered inwardly; at that moment the main cannon finished its second charge, the Star Destroyer adjusted its flight slightly, aimed its barrel at the Blood Castle, and fired immediately!

Boom!

This time, the blood‑colored shield held for less than half a second before collapsing.

The laser pierced the shield and struck the castle; an immense amount of energy was released in an instant, shattering the sprawling castle. Lei En deliberately aimed at the underground blood pool; the explosion triggered a chain reaction, detonating the massive rune array and the pool's energy, sending a mushroom cloud hundreds of meters into the sky, as if the end of the world had arrived.

Tens of thousands of vampires living in the Blood Castle and surrounding structures were all turned to ash by the blast's power.

"Sss…"

Lei En drew a brief gasp of cold air.

Tens of thousands of souls poured into the Soul Power Pool felt like ice water poured into his brain, a chilling rush that made his head spin and nearly caused him to collapse in a scream.

The Soul Power Pool instantly filled to max, the readout showing 10,000, reaching its limit.

Lei En acted swiftly, opening the "Minecraft" icon before firing and pouring all the energy into it. When advancing to Holy Soul Ascension, this new mobile feature appeared, but it required 100,000 units of energy to activate.

In an instant, the Soul Power Pool's full energy was emptied.

Lei En watched the progress bar under the icon rise by a tenth, feeling a pang of toothache; 100,000 units of energy could create 2,500 Thundercast Celestial Soldiers.

But he also looked forward to its effect once activated.

More vampire souls were siphoned remotely, the Soul Power Pool surged again rapidly, though much slower than before, allowing him to calmly pour energy into the Thunder God's Spear.

The explosion subsided somewhat after a few seconds.

The Blood Castle could now be seen as a huge crater, the moat vanished, and the blood‑colored river water evaporated in the heat.

Prince Lusi Fante was nowhere to be seen.

Its domain was vast; beyond the main cannon's bombardment range lay tens of thousands of vampires, about fifty to sixty thousand. With the castle destroyed and the prince missing, the vampires screamed and fled in all directions, daring not to attack the Star Destroyer in revenge for the prince.

Rumble rumble rumble…

The Star Destroyer rained fire wildly, its thirty‑two double‑linked Electric Light Cannons firing nonstop, countless lightning beams spewing out to annihilate vampires.

Extreme Warriors and the Holy Spear Knight Corps also launched ahead, hunting the fleeing vampires.

Dozens of li away.

A dark‑red silhouette emerged in the Black Thorn Forest, tall and slender, with a handsome yet pallid face, gazing from afar at the firing Star Destroyer; its blood‑red eyes were filled with anger, fear and bewilderment, and it whispered softly, "So it's a mortal from the Prime Material Plane! That thing is the Fu Kong Cheng?"

Even in the Abyss, the Wizard's Fu Kong Cheng is extremely famous.

Prince Lusi Fante observed for a few seconds; the enemy's overwhelming power made him extremely wary, suppressing his fury, and he decided to report the matter to the Blood Ancestor.

"The Blood Ancestor would definitely be interested in a Fu Kong Cheng!"

He thought that, then cast one last glance at the domain he had managed for centuries; though reluctant, he cold‑heartedly turned and left.

Just as he turned his head, Rusfant suddenly sensed danger.

In the final second before darkness overtook it, it saw a human clad in a black magical robe, gaunt, expression cold, gripping a straight staff that released an intangible magical glow from its tip—and then it knew nothing more.

Six seconds later, time resumed its flow.

In this black forest erupted countless scorching flames and arcane light, terrifying energy ravaging every inch of space within hundreds of meters.

Before the spell could subside, Prince Rusfant vanished completely from this world.

(End of chapter)