Cid fell to his knees.
He wondered what had happened while blood dripped from almost his entire body.
His breathing was heavy.
(What... what did I do?)
In front of him, Gerhardt was sitting.
He looked at Cid disinterestedly.
Cid tried to stand up, but an invisible force struck him.
He fell onto his back and spat blood.
Then, the sealed coffin opened.
A mummy should have been inside, but the one who placed a hand outside to emerge was a beauty.
A beautiful woman with white skin stood up; she was naked.
Her hair was red like blood and covered her entire body.
Her limbs were long, so she was very tall.
Her ears, like those of the other vampires, were pointed.
Her leg moved to step out, but she stumbled due to how weak she was.
Gerhardt approached her as he spoke.
"Aah~ mother, I've been waiting to see you all this time."
Cid was trying to stand up, because the resurrection of the vampire queen had been successful.
Gerhardt was just two meters away from her, but then he disappeared.
Cid was speechless because in less than a blink, the man in front of him was gone.
What he did notice was that there were two holes in the place; through one of them, the red light of the moon entered.
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Gerhardt was meters away from meeting his "mother."
Without knowing it, an unknown force struck him out of the tower.
When he realized what happened, he was falling.
"...?!"
He reacted in time. From his back, bat wings made of black blood manifested.
He observed the tower from the outside.
Then, a voice came from behind him.
"So you're the famous Night King, aren't you?"
Quickly, without changing his expression, he looked above him at a floating woman.
Her dress was dark blue and shone intensely in the night.
Her blonde hair was as long as it was beautiful, but not even with that long mane could she hide her elven ears.
Her radiant crystalline eyes looked at him as if he were an insect.
She crossed her arms under her large, exposed breasts before speaking.
"There are many things I want to ask you; the first is, have you seen an attractive black-haired boy in there?"
That woman was Amy.
Amy asked Gerhardt as if she were the owner of a company inquiring about general sales figures.
Gerhardt rose until he was above Amy before answering.
"Was it you who ruined my reunion with mother?"
Amy looked at him the same way but repeated her question with annoyance.
"I asked you if you saw a—"
"Black Blood Magic: Blutbad."
Gerhardt interrupted Amy by casting a high-level spell.
His vampiric ability was to use his own blood.
Gerhardt could manipulate his blood vessels, arteries, and everything that conducts blood in his body.
From his body, a large amount of black blood, as if coagulated, shot straight at Amy.
It trapped her in a prison made of black blood.
A large black cube of twenty square meters was the prison. It shrank every second that passed.
Gerhardt watched the prison shrink; he turned around to return to his mother.
Then...
"I heard vampires were aristocrats with the best education. Perhaps that education was nothing more than self-conceit? Since you are not educated."
"Let me teach you manners; when a lady speaks—"
The prison began to expand like a balloon, and then...
"It is a man's obligation to listen to her."
It exploded like one.
The black blood was falling. Gerhardt just moved his head slightly; using his index finger, the falling blood rose to form spinning spears.
"Black Blood Magic: Blutlanze."
The black spears spun at great speed, approaching Amy.
She watched without interest. Her hand raised and then...
"It seems an animal will always be an animal, even if it dresses like a man."
Various purple magic circles appeared near her.
Small winged spheres came out of those circles, and small laser beams shot out.
The arrows were instantly destroyed.
Gerhardt raised an eyebrow; it seemed Amy had caught his interest.
This time, he pointed both hands at her.
"Black Blood Magic: Fledermaus."
From his body, various blood vessels came out and joined to form a dozen enormous blood bats.
They all surrounded Amy.
Gerhardt analyzed that she was an obstacle to his plans.
"A woman is no match for me. No, the appropriate thing would be to say that an insignificant elf is no match for a vampire."
"You filthy tree-huggers may compare yourselves to us in longevity, but your lifespan is barely a small fraction of ours. You never—"
An explosion sound interrupted Gerhardt's dialogue.
It was half of his body that was disintegrated by a purple light beam.
A blue vein marked Amy's forehead.
Her hand was raised, then she snapped her fingers.
"Disappear."
With those words, all the red bats were destroyed by the purple spheres.
For the first time in several decades, Gerhardt showed an expression of confusion on his face.
He watched his body regenerate and then Amy in small intervals.
Then, that day appeared in his mind.
It was the day the country the vampires lived in was destroyed.
They lived in a human kingdom for centuries.
Gerhardt at that time turned 450 years old; vampires can live up to 1000 years without aging.
And since they practice incest, their blood not only doesn't become contaminated, they also don't age.
The human kingdom they lived in was one where they ruled from the shadows.
They hated the light, so they created a special suit that prevents sunlight from touching them.
On the night of his birthday, they were attacked.
A man in red armor with horns destroyed the castle where Gerhardt and all the superior vampires were.
That night, he met defeat.
He activated his awakening and ended up without limbs.
Quinque was his vassal, but even his right hand lost half his head dodging an attack.
The one who did it came by order of the emperor; it was the demonic knight.
While escaping, Gerhardt watched as his relatives were massacred.
They hid in the surroundings.
When the sun rose, the vampires who were not killed were tortured with sunlight.
Gerhardt watched as his wife and children were burned alive.
Hours before the attack, his uncle-brother told him they had found his mother's coffin.
They called her mother because she was the progenitor of all vampires; there were other progenitors, but they were her relatives.
From that moment, Gerhardt had the idea to restore the glory the vampires had lost.
They were attacked by the cattle they used.
Such a thing was unforgivable.
So Gerhardt, along with Quinque, went to a place called the Granville Duchy.
The years passed, and finally the long-awaited night arrived.
He was happy; the reconstruction of the vampires was not a dream.
But... some intruders attacked his castle and then killed his right hand, and now a mysterious woman prevents him from reuniting with his mother.
Such a thing... just thinking about it made the black blood coursing through his veins, a product of hatred sown over many years until forming a poison so powerful that it was harmful to his body.
One day, he gave a sample to humans to see what would happen; he wanted to see if they mutated or writhed.
But he got something else, something unexpected.
What was poison for him was an elixir for them.
Then, as if it were a deal between seller and buyer, Gerhardt and the Black Crows became allies.
The black blood completely darkened the white part of his eyes; it was a sinister scene; his mouth twisted in rage, and his sharp teeth grew like his nails.
His long hair stood on end, and from the bottom of his heart, he shouted.
"I won't allow you to interfere with my mother's resurrection!"
From his body came hundreds of arteries and blood vessels.
They joined to form a dragon.
"Black Blood Magic: Blutdrache!"
The blood dragon chased Amy; she fled.
But it wasn't because she was weak.
Amy thought of something.
(Let's play with him for a while; I wanted to use him as an experiment, but I dislike looking at him.)
Amy flew straight to the white district, where all the nobles were.
Some guards observed a woman flying, but they couldn't believe what they saw.
Due to the low altitude she was flying, the dragon chasing her destroyed the wall separating her from the other district.
Debris fell near people and buildings.
Amy approached Granville Castle.
The dragon opened its jaws and tried to swallow her, but she just dodged it.
As a result, the dragon ravaged buildings and people with its mouth.
Amy didn't care about the lives of humans.
That's because of her past.
She didn't remember much; she only remembered how she was in a dark dungeon with her mother.
She saw her mother being a toy for the guards.
She wasn't touched because someone ordered them not to.
Amy's heart was filled with hatred.
The day she was rescued by Razel, she thought about stabbing him. But because of the kindness he showed from the beginning,
She felt warmth. She cried on his chest because it was the first time she saw a trace of kindness that wasn't from her mother.
The blood dragon ravaged the small city.
It headed straight for the castle, but she stopped it.
"It would be bad if you destroyed that place. The reason I came is because of that place."
The shining spheres near her joined to form a wall.
The dragon approached and was then crushed by the wall. Various amounts of blood fell like meteors in the surroundings.
Explosions and screams resonated.
Amy was very arrogant.
The reason for that is because she was stronger than anyone.
Her magical power was superior even to Lily's if she faced her.
No one could stop her.
Amy didn't understand why her magical power was so great, but she didn't care.
In that sea of flames, a woman floated.
She was responsible for bringing this tragedy upon them; she was just like a witch.
A Calamity Witch, without a doubt.
Amy could take over the world even if she didn't follow the game's story.
But...
(Razel-sama must be in this place without a doubt. Since it's our mission to save the world.)
Amy loved Razel.
So much so that she thought of nothing else but him.
One day, they wrote letters to each other while he was studying.
She wanted to see him, but she was working under her alias Monika Gramheart to make money for him.
Only Razel didn't receive that money because he never opened his correspondence.
The money accumulated, and no one claimed it.
In the distance, she saw Gerhardt annoyed; she decided to bother him more and flew quickly towards him.
She was a lady, but she could also be very rough if she wanted to be.
One of the shining spheres placed itself in her fist.
That fist headed straight for Gerhardt's face.
He activated one spell after another.
"Blood Magic: Blutmagd!"
"And..."
"Black Blood Magic: Schwarzes Fallbeil!"
"Dieeeeeee!"
A black iron maiden appeared to trap Amy; then a huge guillotine manifested.
When the guillotine was descending, the iron maiden was destroyed, and the guillotine was caught by a hand.
Amy was unharmed; she looked at Gerhardt with a look of superiority.
She then approached his face at great speed.
Gerhardt tried to activate a defensive spell, but it was useless.
Amy threw her fist, and it became completely buried in his face.
Gerhardt lost some teeth and was sent flying straight toward the Palace of Pleasure, which had a mysterious shining blue glow.
But Amy didn't allow it.
She quickly positioned herself behind him and gave him another great blow.
His spinal column was destroyed with that fist.
Now he flew straight towards the slums.
Amy again approached and from below gave him a strong uppercut, sending him straight into the sky.
And again.
Another uppercut came.
They were above the clouds.
Gerhardt's body was bruised.
Amy slowly approached him.
And as if he were a candle going out, she blew, and he fell straight into the slums.
But Amy didn't allow it.
She felt no interest in the lives of humans.
But as someone who lived in seclusion for many years, she felt a little empathy for them.
So she activated a large defensive spell.
When Gerhardt fell, the circle caught him, and it looked exactly like what happens to an insect hitting a window.
A large black stain was on top of that circle.
Little by little, he regenerated.
Gerhardt's appearance was no longer attractive, nor even human.
He looked like a chiropteran in every sense of the word.
His ears were so large they almost made him look like an elephant.
His arms were longer, and his nails grew into claws.
His jaw stretched a little, and he looked at Amy sinisterly.
He flew away from her near the tower.
He was meters from it.
But a defensive circle appeared and prevented him.
Amy was behind him.
Her face indicated she was bored.
"I'm tired of these games. I'm going to end this; I no longer care that you are a key piece in my research on that pill. I'll kill you right now."
Amy's hand pointed at Gerhardt.
But he decided to use all his power.
"Don't underestimate me, filthy elf!"
He raised his hands to the sky and said.
"Ultimate Black Blood Magic: Grosse Blutsonne!"
"Come to your monarch, my subordinates!"
Then, all the vampires located throughout the duchy, along with the ghouls, began to turn into liquid.
Cries of agony were heard everywhere.
This was the "call," an ability from the game that he used. This is a spell used by a superior vampire that converts others into vampires or ghouls.
He gave an order for everyone to grant him their power.
Above Gerhardt, a large black sphere formed.
It grew until it was the size of a small planet.
Amy saw that, and her expression didn't change.
Her hand remained the same; she even yawned.
With all his might, Gerhardt boasted.
"This is the ultimate power of the Night King! No one has ever mocked me like you did!"
"I will grant you the honor of testing the ultimate power of the Night King! In human terms, this is friend level 6! Hahaha, I am unstoppable!"
"Absurd."
Said Amy, interrupting Gerhardt's victory dialogue.
A small magic circle formed.
A laser beam was shot directly at the sphere.
It began to crack into small parts, and after a few seconds, it was destroyed.
As if it were crystal in slow motion, Gerhardt watched his ultimate ability shatter into pieces.
This time, his expression was one of disbelief.
His eyes moved to see Amy, who said.
"That was level 4 magic. A few weeks ago, I managed to rise even higher. Now, taste 1% of level 8 magic."
Purple magic circles formed in front of her, and for the first time, she recited a spell.
"Gaia Magic: Wrathful Lightning."
A small electric storm was shot directly at Gerhardt.
The event lasted no more than 3 seconds.
He was electrocuted to the point that his regeneration was useless.
When the punishment ended,
Gerhardt looked like a burnt cookie.
His mouth was open.
Little by little, he began to turn to ash.
He fell like a leaf on an autumn night.
Looking at the red moon, unable to have completed his mission.
A crystalline tear ran down his cheek.
(I wanted to restore the glory of our race...)
(We vampires have nowhere to live.)
(Humans have despised us even when we did nothing.)
(What's wrong with living as we please? Humans are just like us in using their own, but we vampires do not discriminate against our brothers.)
(Mother... forgive me for not fulfilling your dream—)
"How annoying you are; just die already."
With those words,
Amy launched an electric attack much more powerful than the previous one.
Gerhardt was destroyed in an instant.
His body turned completely to ash while his heart slowly faded away.
The Night King and his subordinates were destroyed.
The lawless city no longer had a ruler.
But someone still remained.
Having seen everything,
The vampire queen did not say a single word.
Her gaze turned directly to Cid.
He didn't understand what had happened, but he tried to stand up.
There was no one else who could fight.
Then, someone grabbed him and threw him out of the tower.
He was caught by some golden threads.
It was Clement, who couldn't enter because he had been fighting vampires until a moment ago.
Since the situation was bad for them, he decided to retreat.
Cid asked him.
"Professor, why did you pull me out?!"
"We must—!"
"What are you talking about? I didn't pull you out. I was looking for a way to do it, and I saw you were thrown out."
Cid had a confused face.
(Someone threw me out, no doubt, but who?)
Then, a face came to his mind.
At the same time,
Someone stood before the vampire queen.
His blood-red eyes looked at that person without interest.
She opened her mouth and said.
"Are you the one who will grant my wish?"
"Yes."
She made an expression for the first time. It seemed like joy.
"Then, please. Grant me what I so desire."
Her hair covered her body.
A kind of black leather armor-suit covered her body.
Heeled boots on her feet.
A red cape on her back.
A cross crest over her large breasts.
She was the vampire queen.
Astraea Gerbera der Trueblood.
She looked longingly at the person before her.
"Tell me your name."
The person opened their mouth and said.
"I am Licht."
It was Razel without his mask.
"And I have come to kill you, just as you wish."
The final battle in the lawless city, between Razel and the vampire queen, had just begun.