Chapter 109 Finale

"Leave the rest to me."

Mi Gaiya gently pressed his daughter's shoulder, a trace of love appearing in his dark eyes, followed by a calm gaze as he turned to face the formidable tenth progenitor, Ulysses, in the distance.

This vampire foe was strong.

But not overwhelmingly so.

"Father..."

Xiboli'an choked back tears, slowly releasing her grip on Mi Gaiya's clothes, tears welling up like a burst dam.

She knew it was time for Mi Gaiya to fight.

"Black Night Bishop Mi Gaiya, you and your mongrel daughter can die together."

Ulysses gave them no chance, his mind power surging, coalescing into a rotating crescent moon blade that swept towards the father and daughter.

He knew that the Black Night Bishop was a research-oriented bishop specially recruited by the Pope of the Rebirth Church, and among the original ten bishops, he was the weakest, even less skilled in combat than the Dimensional Bishop Tuoliya.

So, there was nothing to fear.

"..."

Mi Gaiya waved his hand gently, a black curtain of light unfolded before him, receiving Ulysses's devastating blow.

Ink-like dark currents flowed around Mi Gaiya, transforming into layers of defense, twinkling starlight within resembling the stars in the night sky.

This shield wasn't indestructible, visibly trembling under Ulysses's attack, but Mi Gaiya seemed to accurately gauge Ulysses's magical power, using only enough magic to defend, not wasting an iota more.

"Ulysses, I won't speak ill of you, but that doesn't mean I'm someone who can stand idly by while my daughter is bullied."

Mi Gaiya's voice remained calm as water, focused solely on his spell.

In the void before the black curtain of light, like rose vines slowly growing, a magnificent and lengthy epic was being prepared, the floating ruins and boundless void beginning to be filled with darkness, gradually occupied by a fairytale-like black forest.

Above the crimson abyss, Mi Gaiya and Ulysses faced each other from afar.

Mi Gaiya used soft black mist to envelop the weakened Xiboli'an, sending her to a safe zone outside the battlefield.

At the same time, he summoned a giant teddy bear created from dark magic beside his daughter.

The teddy bear was pitch black, over three meters tall, with eerie red lights flickering in its eye sockets, appearing both adorable and filled with an ominous aura due to its stitched-up appearance.

"It's Little Bear!"

Xiboli'an looked at her father's summoned beast in delight.

It was the doll that had accompanied her in the Duke's mansion since she was a child.

But only after she had actually grown stronger did she realize how powerful her seemingly ordinary childhood toy truly was.

"You still have time to take care of your baby."

Before Ulysses could finish speaking, blood-colored mind power transformed into countless scarlet birds, obscuring the sky above Blood Moon City as they swooped towards Mi Gaiya and Xiboli'an behind him.

"Don't rush, the curtain has only just been raised..."

Faced with this terrifying attack, Mi Gaiya wasn't afraid in the slightest.

"There are many more puppet shows for the guests invited to the Puppet Forest to enjoy."

He swiped his hand, and dark purple crescent-shaped magic blades appeared above the black forest, slashing towards the birds.

Bang!

The birds collided with the moon shadows, like thunder exploding not far above the Abyss Palace.

In the next second, both the birds and the moon shadows disappeared, turning into specks of blood and dissipating into the air.

A hint of doubt arose in Ulysses's eyes.

It wasn't an illusion, Mi Gaiya's magic still wasn't that strong, but it was just enough to perfectly neutralize his spells.

"The essence of summoned creatures lies in their strength. Can your lackadaisical magic create summons that surpass mine?"

Ulysses stomped his right foot, and a blood-colored magic circle suddenly spread across the ground, emitting a pungent stench of blood.

Immediately afterward, one by one, demonic figures outlined in blood rose from the magic circle, forming a vast army of summons forged from blood.

Some of these blood puppets were humanoid but not quite human, covered in fangs and sharp claws, while others were beast-like but not quite beasts, possessing deformed limbs and bone spurs.

"These are the demons I once defeated. They're quite good, aren't they? Just like your ugly wife, they're all monsters."

Ulysses manipulated the blood undead, their eye sockets flickering with terrifying red light, closing in on Mi Gaiya and Xiboli'an in the distance, intent on devouring them alive.

Mi Gaiya remained silent, as if unmoved by the scene before him.

"What a shallow vampire progenitor."

He slightly spread his fingers, and a ball of black light gradually condensed in his palm. The black light in Mi Gaiya's palm suddenly ascended into the sky, transforming into a rain of shadowy arrows, blending into the trees in the dark forest.

"Puppet Forest, reveal yourself."

At Mi Gaiya's command, all the trees in the forest transformed into wild bears and tree demons, turning the once tranquil dark fairytale forest into a bizarre forest composed of magical puppets.

These magical puppets clashed with Ulysses's summons.

"How much dark magic do you possess?"

Ulysses carefully counted, becoming increasingly uneasy as he gazed upon these summons, fully enhanced by the original stone tablet.

Mi Gaiya seemed only capable of dark magic, but in reality, he had stolen various magics and turned them into his own unique brand of dark magic. Ulysses never imagined that the original stone tablet could be utilized to such an extent.

In this short exchange, Ulysses had already glimpsed shadows of several other human magics from Mi Gaiya.

"Enough to deal with you."

Mi Gaiya controlled his army of summoned beasts to extinguish Ulysses's blood paintings.

"Impossible, you're inferior to me in every aspect. There's no way you can defeat someone as versatile as I am."

Ulysses clenched his fist to his chest, unwilling to admit it—even though he was certain that Mi Gaiya was weaker than him across the board, and the fight was currently evenly matched, he vaguely felt that he was struggling, while Mi Gaiya was handling it with ease.

"Versatile?"

Mi Gaiya chuckled slightly at the words.

"Whenever I'm called versatile, I feel ashamed, because they haven't had the chance to spar with a truly versatile powerhouse. That's a type of problem-solving fighting style that leaves no hope of victory. No matter how strong you are, you can't break through their technical depth."

He shook his head with a self-deprecating smile, as if remembering his great priest friend in Ikelete.

That's why the great priest always seemed to be fighting with difficulty, but always managed to win.

"Don't try to mystify me. If I'm not a versatile powerhouse, then you're even less so!"

Ulysses didn't know what kind of mystifying things Mi Gaiya was talking about, nor did he know who Mi Gaiya considered a true powerhouse.

He only knew that Mi Gaiya's implication was that he was a weakling!

"Of course, I'm weak. I usually just do research."

Mi Gaiya weaved thorny vines while controlling his summons, creating a giant birdcage to lock Ulysses's summons inside one by one.

As if to express his affection for his prey, Mi Gaiya put them on display.

"Magic isn't more useful just because it's flashy. I want to see what you'll do when you run out of all your spells."

Ulysses was already annoyed by Mi Gaiya's strange new magic.

But he couldn't determine the prototype of Mi Gaiya's original magic or what effect it would have until he had witnessed it once.

"Or should I kneel down and beg you to let me go?"

Mi Gaiya asked with a smile.

After the exhibition, the birdcage contracted towards the center, but the locked vampire summons didn't disappear. Instead, they became entangled in the thorns, transforming into Mi Gaiya's new puppet summons.

"..."

Ulysses's expression suddenly changed as he looked at this scene.

His opponent's calm and gentle words caused his blood pressure to fluctuate constantly.

…

At the western assault team camp, Abigail breathed a sigh of relief as she held Cat Boss.

She watched the steadily improving situation on the light screen projected by the mechanical assistant.

From the moment Duke Mi Gaiya broke free and reunited with Xiboli'an, their situation officially began to reverse.

"Duke Mi Gaiya has quite a good temper. He doesn't get angry no matter how his opponent taunts him."

Abigail turned her attention to other battlefields.

"Don't you think his personality is also terrible, meow?"

Cat Boss spoke from experience and intuition.

If it hadn't met Lan Qi before, it would have thought that Duke Mi Gaiya was a dignified and elegant person with no malicious intent at all.

In reality, Duke Mi Gaiya's attitude was already messing with Ulysses's mentality.

"Why 'also'?"

Abigail noticed Cat Boss's implication.

However, Abigail didn't delve into it.

It seemed like the Lan Qi family was always doing missions every day.

"I just think that his magic wouldn't be out of place if it were used by a woman."

Abigail commented, focusing on the communication in front of her.

After seeing Duke Mi Gaiya's actions, she always felt like the Duke was a witch delving into dark magic.

…

Northwest Soul Hall.

Yi Fatiya gritted her teeth, her body surging with cursed magic that made the ground tremble, dyeing the entire Soul Hall dark black.

Bottomless cracks spread like spiderwebs, and the earth let out mournful wails.

Black cursed flames spread across the ground, dancing wildly in the air, scorching the ninth progenitor, Marquis Bernhard.

However, no matter how Bernhard was cursed, his excessively powerful regeneration would allow him to recover immediately.

The flames resembled the claws of a fiend, tearing apart the deformed corpses in the Soul Hall, and a charred smell filled the air.

"You've actually managed to hold on for so long."

The ninth progenitor, Marquis Bernhard's body covered in eyeballs slowly moved through the black flames, each eyeball emitting a light that sent shivers down Yi Fatiya's spine.

Those eyeballs greedily stared at the black flames, absorbing their power.

Gradually, the black flames began to weaken, and the originally sharp offensive became as decadent as if its life had been drained. The flames dimmed and were completely devoured by the eyeballs.

"Too naive, demon girl."

Bernhard's distorted, deep, and hoarse voice echoed through the hall.

"You think your half-baked abnormal state can hurt me even a little?"

Before the words could fade, purple corrosive gas erupted from his body, colliding fiercely with the remaining black flames, instantly shattering them.

The poisonous mist passed through the remnants of the flames and rushed straight toward Yi Fatiya.

The vicious curse contained in the mist made Yi Fatiya feel a chill run down her spine.

She quickly erected a black barrier shield in front of her with dark magic.

However, the moment the purple mist struck the shield, the force almost knocked her over.

Yi Fatiya slid her feet across the ground, barely withstanding the heavy blow, but she felt a sharp pain all over her body, and several cracks appeared on the barrier before it shattered with a bang.

Marquis Bernhard was closing in step by step with heavy steps, making the ground tremble and the Soul Hall shake.

Yi Fatiya retreated constantly, only to find that she had nowhere to retreat. Behind her was a cold stone wall.

Her magic power was rapidly draining, and the wounds all over her body were slow to heal under the curse, and her movements became sluggish, as if a thousand pounds were pressing down on her.

Fear began to envelop her heart.

She really couldn't win, and she didn't know how much longer she could last.

"Don't be afraid, I can't be afraid."

Yi Fatiya shouted in her heart, sweat soaking her short hair and clothes.

"Yi Fatiya, just hold on there. Xiboli'an is safe."

Abigail's voice reached her immediately.

"Really?!"

Yi Fatiya's eyes lit up.

Taking advantage of the moment when the Marquis charged again, she suddenly squatted down and darted past the Marquis's side with lightning speed, accurately casting a spell to condense a pair of frozen shackles on the Marquis's legs.

Before her feet could land, Yi Fatiya had already thrown another pair of ice shackles at Bernhard, and then she scrambled to run away.

The shackles drew an arc in the air, and with a crisp "click", they firmly locked the Marquis's wrists.

After hearing the news that the situation had eased, she didn't want to risk her life to seek a breakthrough at the last minute. If she couldn't win, she would just kite him.

Although she was fighting ugly, it was enough to stall.

"Are you really a demon princess?!"

Marquis Bernhard roared in anger.

He waved his locked arms, trying to break free from the shackles, but the ice seal briefly restricted his movements.

"Only a demon princess who survives is a good demon princess! I'm not ashamed to be a refugee!"

Yi Fatiya ran away, while turning her head back and pulling down her eyelids with her fingers, taunting.

There are two things that a demon princess must learn in her life: one is to mooch off others, and the other is to run away!

Yi Fatiya was going to write this sentence into her family motto.

Gradually, she also felt the subtle and familiar magic from the south, which she had missed for a long time, but could not reach.

"Mi Gaiya, you're back!"

Yi Fatiya's joyful face was a little sad, tears scattered from the corners of her eyes as she desperately ran away in the Soul Hall.

She could see her handsome husband again, and she could hug her beautiful husband again.

Warmth and joy were about to overflow from her face, so Yi Fatiya quickly tightened her relaxed cheeks, knowing that she was still fighting and could not drop the ball.

It turned out that any wish she made to her brother could come true.

Wait.

Was Mi Gaiya Lan Qi's father-in-law or uncle-in-law?

She felt like the seniority in her family was even more messed up.

In fact, Yi Fatiya had carefully combed through it, and the essence of the problem was her adopted sister Talia. Talia was the root cause of the seniority mess.

If her sister could call her "Mom," all the problems would be solved.

But that seemed a bit rebellious.

Never mind, first stall Marquis Bernhard in the Soul Hall.

…

East Chilling Ice Palace.

Heli Tier's countless phantoms appeared around Sigrid, each one causing the starlight of the Chilling Ice Labyrinth to shine.

Sigrid ignored Heli Tier's attacks, raised her fists, and slammed them hard on the ground.

The earth trembled, and the ice layer cracked. The already crumbling Chilling Ice Palace was once again severely damaged.

Countless ice pillars fell, smashed on the ground, and splashed ice chips all over the sky.

Heli Tier's phantoms also shattered along with it, and she had to show her true form, her face pale and cold sweat seeping from her forehead.

She didn't expect that Sigrid had already begun to ignore her attacks and was tearing down the Chilling Ice Palace, and her attacks had almost no substantial threat to Sigrid.

"Crazy woman, stop it! You can't tear this down!"

Heli Tier shouted angrily, but a trace of fear rose in her heart.

Sigrid not only had terrifying life recovery, but she also seemed to have a short-cooldown, high-amount of healing, which could make her younger while instantly restoring her life state.

Although Sigrid clearly didn't need to use this spell just now, it was as if she was deliberately showing it to Heli Tier to tell her that all her attacks were ineffective.

All Heli Tier could do was to continuously use spells to repel Sigrid and prevent her from destroying the Chilling Ice Palace.

However, this time, Sigrid seemed to have identified the timing, and suddenly rushed towards Heli Tier, her fists as heavy as mountains. Heli Tier quickly urged the star map, and several starlights intersected to form a shield in front of her.

Sigrid's fist slammed hard on the star shield, and the star shield shattered instantly, turning into stardust, but it also bought Heli Tier valuable time.

She didn't expect Sigrid to still attack her randomly.

She quickly dodged and pointed her staff at Sigrid, and the starlight condensed again, turning into a repulsive force field and forcing Sigrid back.

Sigrid didn't dodge or avoid, allowing the star blade force field to cut wounds on her body.

Blood splattered, but she seemed oblivious, her eyes occupied by silver light, and her fists carried the power of destruction, wanting to bury Heli Tier forever under the ruins.

"You've already revealed a flaw."

The silver light in Sigrid's eyes reached its peak, and her figure was so fast that Marquis Heli Tier couldn't see her. This time, she grabbed Heli Tier's real body.

Heli Tier was shocked. Just as she was about to etherealize and escape, Sigrid took the lead and slammed a heavy punch into her chest!

Bang!

Heli Tier flew out like a kite with a broken string, smashed into the ice wall, and made a dull impact sound.

Her body slid down, collapsing weakly on the ground, and blood spurted out of her mouth non-stop.

Just one punch from Sigrid's full strength shattered all of Heli Tier's internal organs.

Sigrid slowly walked to Heli Tier, the silver light around her still burning continuously.

"It's over."

Sigrid raised one foot and stepped heavily on Heli Tier's chest, causing Heli Tier to spit out another mouthful of blood.

"To lose to you, this cruel barbarian, is a shame..."

Heli Tier barely raised her head, her face blurred by blood, and she could no longer see her expression.

"You really think a cardinal bishop like me is a good thing?"

Sigrid snorted coldly and stomped her foot hard.

Crack! The sound of Heli Tier's bones being shattered echoed in the Chilling Ice Palace, almost announcing the end of this fierce battle.

"Abigail, I've succeeded here."

Sigrid raised her hand to catch the mechanical messenger that landed on her fingertip and said to Abigail.

"Great, Miss Sigrid! Go to the Extermination Hall to help Antanas and capture the eighth progenitor, Marquis Sommerset, along the way!"

Abigail's excited voice came.

"No problem."

Sigrid retracted her foot, picked up the half-dead Marquis Heli Tier, and turned into a silver comet, heading west into the sky.

…

Blood King's Palace Square.

"Lan Qi, the Chilling Ice Palace has been breached. Lasalle will soon be immune. You can hit his state."

Abigail shared the latest battle situation of the assault team with Lan Qi as soon as possible.

The breach of any palace guarded by a Marquis meant that the Blood Moon City's protection on Lasalle in the Blood King's Palace would temporarily fail, allowing him to be harmed!

"Okay."

Lan Qi received the communication.

As he spoke, he watched the third progenitor, Lasalle's figure, leave a long afterimage in the air, and the sky full of phantoms brought up by his palms covered him!

But at this time, Lan Qi didn't intend to fight head-on or dodge.

Lasalle's crazy eyes were so deep red that they almost swallowed all the light.

He had already gone berserk, fighting Lan Qi as if venting his anger.

"Lasalle, it's time to end this."

Light began to emerge from the dark singularity.

The void in Lan Qi's palm twisted and condensed like the birth of the universe. In an instant, the dazzling light of the midday sun filled the entire Blood King's Palace Square, dispelling the dark night and turning it into a pure white world of light!

This blazing light seemed to burst through the glass, causing the rose window of the Blood King's Palace to explode, and even the Blood King's Palace castle was plated with a layer of rainbow.

At the moment when the sun released its dazzling light over the Blood King's Palace Square, the entire Blood Moon City was dyed with it.

Even the Extermination Hall, Chilling Ice Palace, Soul Hall, Ice Stasis Palace, and Fading Palace, dozens of kilometers away, could feel the faint light of the sun.

South side of Blood Moon City.

The battle between the tenth progenitor, Marquis Ulysses, and Mi Gaiya above the Crimson Abyss and the Black Forest was also paused due to the sudden light.

Marquis Ulysses looked at the light, and an uncontrollable look of horror constantly emerged from his suspicious expression.

Although this light could not threaten him due to the distance.

But he could feel it.

The light contained the power he was familiar with!

And it was this power that suddenly sealed him in the throne hall of the Demon King's Palace.

"No, impossible, why is he back? He's in this era?!"

For Ulysses, this kind of incomprehensible thing was almost out of control.

Lankelosi was supposed to have died tens of thousands of years ago.

How could he bloom a similar glow at this moment?

"Do you need me to use dark magic to block the sunlight for you?"

Mi Gaiya looked at Marquis Ulysses's suspicious appearance, hesitated slightly, and asked him.

This gentle appearance made Ulysses stiffly turn his head.

"...What did you say?"

At this moment, Ulysses felt that there were too many things he couldn't understand.

His brows were twisted, and the corners of his mouth began to tremble. After a moment of losing his voice, he couldn't suppress his emotions.

"Isn't that what you vampires expect? That I can use dark magic to protect you?"

Mi Gaiya opened his arms like a mother, expressing his willingness to care for the vampires.

"Are you going to all this trouble to fight me just to humiliate me?"

Ulysses covered his chest, and a sweet pain surged into his throat, questioning angrily.

After fighting for so long, he couldn't deceive himself any longer. Mi Gaiya's easy-going appearance was not pretended, but he really didn't feel much pressure fighting him.

"Haha, I don't think it's any trouble at all."

Mi Gaiya finally laughed heartily, as if he couldn't bear to continue pitying Ulysses.

"Mi Gaiya...!"

This voice made Ulysses feel like his five internal organs were about to split.

"Mi Gaiya!!!"

Ulysses rushed over like a madman, wanting to question this damned cardinal bishop.