Chapter 449: My Professional Panel Has an Anime Style? Chapter 208

As the figure shifted their gaze away, that sense of discomfort faded along with it.

The black-haired vampire was instantly relieved, then immediately hurried to follow.

And Norton was naturally Li Ang in disguise; he hadn't expected the effect to be this good.

【Golden Eyes】 had unexpectedly produced some chemical reaction with 【Divine Art · Great Sun Noble Spirit】, greatly amplifying his oppressive aura.

That is to say, the vampire clan of Caius had already lost the weakness of sunlight; otherwise, an ordinary vampire would have long since crumbled to ash under his gaze.

Of course, 【Golden Eyes】 and 【Divine Art · Great Sun Noble Spirit】 alone clearly couldn't bring such tremendous pressure to bear on Caius, but don't forget that as his professions increased, Li Ang has already stacked an absurdly exaggerated number of special bonuses, many of which could intimidate specific creatures.

Combined with the combo of 【Twin Whole Hands】 + 【Qi Mechanism Sorting】 + 【Zhou Tian's Principle of Change】, along with his stats that were utterly outrageous by Fifth Energy Level standards, the black-haired vampire had for the moment genuinely mistaken him for a Sixth Energy Level professional.

Soon, Caius was led by Li Ang to a laboratory filled with various instruments.

But upon seeing the corpses soaking in solution all around, this Secret Blood Company executive showed no trace of fear on his face.

Corpses were no different from bread to him, much as a morgue was no different from a cafeteria.

At that moment, Li Ang spoke: "Lie down."

As he said this, he pointed at the workbench before him.

Caius snapped back to his senses at the words and obediently lay down.

Before performing the final procedure, Li Ang asked casually, "You should know what's about to happen, right?"

". I will die."

Faced with the question, Caius squeezed out two words with some difficulty.

But even though he had already steeled himself, his heart still couldn't help trembling, wanting to back out at the last moment from this modification he himself had proposed.

Fortunately, Li Ang didn't give the black-haired vampire any chance to change his mind.

As his right eye blazed with blue-gold radiance, a blazing sphere roughly the size of a palm instantly appeared above Caius's body.

【Divine Art · Great Sun Noble Spirit】. Minimum output version.

There was no choice; in order to preserve the integrity of Caius's corpse, Li Ang could only release this divine art at the absolute minimum.

It wasn't that he didn't want to use other methods to kill the man, but because this was already the easiest way.

After all, even if Caius, a Fifth Energy Level professional, gave up resisting, completely killing him was still an extremely difficult task.

Luckily Li Ang couldn't be judged by ordinary Fifth Energy Level standards, otherwise the ruse would have been blown by now.

Under the suppression of 【Divine Art · Great Sun Noble Spirit】, the instinctive struggles Caius put up barely stirred a ripple before being snuffed out.

Watching the black-haired vampire before him—eyes crimson, body beginning to mutate ceaselessly—Li Ang's expression didn't change in the slightest.

Whenever he wished, he could send the man into eternal slumber right now.

But doing so was pointless; after all, having torn a chunk out of Secret Blood Company, things between him and that Sovereign were already hard to settle peacefully, let alone with the matter of Christine still hanging over them.

Adding one more Caius now was nothing more than lice on a bald head—too many to itch.

Hum—

As a faint hum rose within the laboratory, the blazing sphere radiating blue-gold light instantly vanished into the void, leaving only a grotesque corpse in its place.

Seeing Caius had already drawn his last breath, Li Ang immediately used 【Soul-Summoning and Spirit-Dispatching】 to seize control of his soul before it could dissipate.

Unlike the previous two times crafting 【Quasi-Servant】, Caius's soul retained clear consciousness under the enhanced 【Soul-Summoning and Spirit-Dispatching】.

He first glanced at his own corpse, then turned his head to look at the being who now commanded his soul: "Your Excellency."

"Shut up."

"Yes."

Caius obediently closed his mouth, not daring to say another word.

Casually tossing him into 【Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tokuji】, Li Ang began modifying the corpse before him.

But now that he had 【Great Luo Cave Observation】, he could see far more than when he had modified 【Christine】 back then.

"This is." Watching the crimson characters drifting in the air, Li Ang slightly furrowed his brow, "A blood contract?"

It was his first time seeing how a blood contract actually operated; some of its underlying concepts were even laid bare before him.

"Assimilation, no wonder Caius was so desperate to break the blood contract."

Li Ang now understood why Caius had agreed despite knowing the prerequisite for modification was death—because the consequences of the blood contract were far more terrifying than death itself.

That's right: as the being who signed the blood contract grew stronger and drew closer to the Sovereign in power, their will would gradually align with His, until ultimately they lost all sense of self and merged with that Sovereign as one.

And because the bloodline of Caius's clan had been altered by the Sovereign, every single one of them was forced to sign the blood contract the moment they became a vampire, with no room for refusal.

But if that were all there was to it, it would only show this was the Sovereign's method for founding a faction—hardly worth a fight to the death.

Unless—

"It has something to do with His class advancement conditions?"

Undoubtedly, cutting off someone's Stage of Ascension in the Supernatural world was an extremely heinous act; this could also explain why that Sovereign was so sensitive about it.

Having sorted out the cause and effect, Li Ang drew a light breath to steady his emotions, then prepared to continue modifying Caius.

But before he could make any move, he noticed a thin red line stretching from the corpse before him into the void.

".?"

With the augmentation of 【Great Luo Cave Observation】, Li Ang quickly realized what this red line was for.

Because the connection between Caius and that Sovereign was so intimate, he seemed able to use it to spy on the other party.

"So this is what Xiaogu's wish was?"

As Li Ang gently tugged the red line, his line of sight kept rising, and then a scene appeared before his eyes.

The scene showed two men.

Wait, why two?

Realizing something was off, Li Ang instantly knit his brows tightly together.