Chapter 92

"Do you recognize me?"

Su Yang laughed in surprise, "That means you participated in the Battle of the Tower of London back then."

"Merry, Socrate, Pildor, burn your vampiric essence to restrain him and buy me time to cast the 'Blood Explosion Curse.' Otherwise, none of us will leave alive."

Kraft, being one of the outstanding elders among the older generation of vampires, realized that escaping by speed was impossible. He immediately chose to fight to the death and arranged a tactical plan.

The three vampire counts hesitated for a moment upon receiving the order. After all, burning vampiric essence was like burning the essence of life. Although it allowed them to unleash powerful vampiric abilities in a short time, they would also pay a heavy price of degeneration. After this battle, their strength would regress to the viscount level, and they would be extremely weak for the next hundred years, with no hope of advancing.

But under the terrifying pressure brought by Su Yang, they had no choice. Moreover, the "Blood Explosion Curse" mentioned by Lord Kraft gave them great confidence.

"Yes, as long as Lord Kraft can cast the 'Blood Explosion Curse,' the enemy will surely die. A regression in strength is better than being annihilated."

The thunderous methods Su Yang used to decapitate and crush hearts had already chilled their hearts.

The vampires, as a powerful race that has existed for thousands of years, have a strong reason for their rise.

Immortality is just one aspect; the vampires' overwhelming strength is also included. The source of this formidable power comes from their innate bloodline and curses.

Even at the count level, there can be a huge gap in strength due to differences in bloodline inheritance and innate abilities.

Kraft possesses the progenitor bloodline. In terms of growth potential, among the three major vampire families, only the former three dukes, now the three princes, are stronger than him.

This is because he is the only one among the dozen vampire counts who knows the vampire curse.

At this moment, the three vampire counts, having burned their vampiric essence to unleash astonishing combat power, abandoned all defenses and attacked Su Yang in a frenzied manner.

Due to the high frequency of attacks and rapid movement, the three vampire counts' figures were almost impossible to lock onto with the naked eye, appearing like three blood-colored orbs constantly assaulting Su Yang.

If Su Yang were to unleash his full combat power at this moment, he could break through their encirclement in a very short time and even attempt to eliminate one of them.

However, he did not do so. Whether it was due to his absolute confidence in himself or his curiosity about Kraft's "Blood Curse," it is unknown.

Although true essence does not have the same suppressive effect on vampires as holy power, its overwhelming power is undeniable. Especially when combined with Su Yang's various martial arts techniques, he could still handle the three vampire counts' desperate attacks with ease.

Having reached the initial stage of the Foundation Establishment realm, Su Yang's true essence could punch through a steel plate a hundred meters away. With his profound techniques, it took him only a few breaths to beat the three vampire counts, who had enhanced their strength by burning their vampiric essence, to the point of howling in pain.

However, the vampires' strong vitality was also evident. Despite suffering repeated heavy blows, they could still maintain a formidable combat capability, though they could not harm Su Yang, they delayed him.

Kraft, a dozen steps away, muttered incantations, fully mobilizing the vampiric essence within his body. A layer of extremely dense blood aura enveloped his body, and a pungent bloody smell spread for a mile, creating a bizarre feeling as if one were in a hell of blood.

Although a vampire count is only one level higher than a vampire viscount, the gap in strength is like an unbridgeable chasm.

The source of vampire power comes from the vampiric essence within their bodies. Generally, when a vampire's essence reaches five units, they enter the baron level. When it reaches ten units, they advance to the viscount level.

The leap from viscount to count is significant, requiring one hundred units of vampiric essence.

To advance from count to duke requires five hundred units.

As for the most powerful duke level among the five ranks, even the weakest vampire duke must possess one thousand units of vampiric essence.

Above the duke level is the prince level, the most powerful existence in the vampire race besides the progenitor Caine. It is said that the most powerful vampire prince can have up to five thousand units of vampiric essence.

The progenitor Caine, the supreme ruler of the entire vampire race, had vampiric essence measured in tens of thousands during his prime, and the exact height of this terrifying power remains unknown.

As one of the most likely candidates to become a duke among the three major vampire families, Kraft's strength is undoubtedly formidable. His vampiric essence has already broken through to nine hundred units, just one step away from the duke level.

At this moment, with the resolve to fight to the death, he released all his vampiric essence to cast the curse, creating a blood-colored domain ten meters in diameter.

The overwhelming blood aura surged within this domain, making it impossible to see, and the dense bloody smell could turn ordinary people into blood slaves if they inhaled even a bit.

A rare sense of pressure enveloped Su Yang, causing excitement to flash in his eyes.

"Don't drag this out. I've given you plenty of time to cast the curse. Don't disappoint me!"

Su Yang's words reached Kraft's ears, making him furious. He bared a pair of sharp fangs and roared, "Miserable human, you will soon be annihilated by the curse. The dignity of the vampires cannot be violated by anyone."

His hands moved rapidly, forming various complex and obscure gestures. Suddenly, the blood aura around Kraft surged, and he formed a circle with his hands, launching it at Su Yang.

In an instant, the blood aura within ten meters seemed to be sucked into a black hole, gathering at his fingertips. A bat, about the size of a large basket, formed from the purest vampiric essence, appeared with a deafening screech. It multiplied from one to ten, then to a hundred, and pressed down on Su Yang, who was still engaged with the three vampire counts.

The three vampire counts seemed to know what was about to happen. They were willing to suffer two punches from Su Yang to immediately withdraw from the range of the blood bats' attack.

As vampires, they were too aware of the power of the curse. If they did not escape in time, even if the curse was not aimed at them, they would still be caught in the crossfire and devoured by the blood bats.

A rare serious look flashed in Su Yang's eyes. A layer of visible pale green aura, powered by true essence, enveloped him, facing the incoming blood bats.

When the first blood bat touched the pale green aura, it exploded, creating a fist-sized hole in the aura shield.

It must be noted that although Su Yang was using martial arts techniques, the source was the unique true essence of cultivators. The defensive power of the aura could rival the most secure vault doors in the world.

"Interesting!"

"Is this the attack derived from your vampiric essence? Since it's a source of power, let me test a certain skill."

A hundred blood bats condensed into reality and attacked in a dense wave. Su Yang made a bold decision, withdrawing his protective aura and concentrating powerful true essence in his fists, launching nearly a hundred punches in an instant.

The fist prints that condensed in the air seemed to have eyes, colliding with the incoming blood bats. The deafening explosions stirred up dust within a ten-meter radius.

The destructive shock waves spread out, crushing everything within five meters of Su Yang and even evaporating the ground to a depth of half a foot.

The blood aura rose to the sky, obscuring everything in sight.

Even with Kraft's senses, he could not detect anything in the dense blood aura.

"Did we get him?" a vampire count with a severed left arm asked in surprise.

"That was a curse cast by Lord Kraft himself. No one can survive such an attack," another count with a blinded eye said fiercely.

"Even if he is a powerful figure from the East, he is doomed in the face of the curse."

Ignoring the three injured vampire counts, Kraft's nerves remained taut. Although he was confident in the power of the curse, Su Yang's previously displayed strength was too formidable. He did not dare to relax until he saw the corpse.

This vampire curse is called "Blood Explosion." If cast by the progenitor in his prime, it could summon thousands of blood bats, sweeping over several miles. Each blood bat's destructive power is comparable to a vampire count's all-out attack.

Although Kraft's limit was only a hundred blood bats, the power was no less. In other words, that attack was equivalent to the combined all-out attacks of a hundred vampire counts.

Such a dense and massive attack made Kraft believe that even one of the three vampire dukes could not withstand it without dodging.

Suddenly, a chilling voice came from the rising blood aura.

"Who would have thought that the core power of your vampires is so delicious."

As Su Yang's voice echoed, the thick blood aura suddenly thinned. He stood at the center, mouth wide open, chest inflated, and took a deep breath.

Like a whale drinking water, he inhaled all the surrounding blood aura into his body. In a few breaths, the residual vampiric essence from the hundred blood bats was absorbed into his body.

"What... what are you?"

Seeing Su Yang absorb the vampiric essence with a look of extreme enjoyment, Kraft could not help but cry out in terror.

Vampiric essence is the source of power for vampires. For thousands of years, no other race has been able to utilize this exclusive source of power.

But at this moment, Su Yang was clearly treating the vampiric essence as a delicious treat to be devoured. How could this not terrify Kraft, even making him call Su Yang a "monster"?

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