Chapter 27: True Form

The heavy pressure descended on the arena making those who came to watch feel suffocated and nearly passed out cold.

It was so bloody and filled with so much killing intent. Only those ancient vampires who were among the spectators looked calm.

Also, the vampire queen, Glorias, stayed calm and quiet looking at what was happening with indifferent expression that adorned her beautiful face.

She looked so unreadable.

As for Scarlet, she looked indignant and pissed at Alfred who had that shit eating grin on his face as if he had claimed victory.

"Glorias, will you just stay calm in this?!" Scarlet said as she looked at the queen who heared but didn’t respond and continued looking at what was happening in the arena.

This only made Scarlet angier that veins bulged in her forehead, but before she could snap, the heavy calm voice of the queen descended.

"Stay down, Scarlet. For now."

She said those words, but Scarlet who heared them, noticed the sudden and faint shifted her tone at the end which made her immediately calm down and sit in her place, and that only made Alfred gleed that he wanted to jump around in happiness.

’Soon, I will have everything you have, Scarlet. The land, the riches, everything that was supposed to be mine!’ Alfred roared inside with excited tone as he watched his supposed to be son giving a hard time for Arthur.

-In the arena-

Arthur dodged another claw attack that threatened to cut him to pieces, and he surly didn’t want to experience that feeling even if he could regenerate again.

The now John, was surrounded by dark red aura while his eyes were all red with nothing clear, all red filled with anger and deep seated hate.

"I WILL KILL YOU!!"

John shouted as he moved like a bullet toward Arthur leaving the ground cracked behind.

Swoosh!!

BOOOM!!!

The heavy claw attack came and Arthur dodged masterfully making the attack miss and hit the ground cutting and cracking chunks of it to pieces.

"I will give back the humiliation of that day hundred folds!!!" John roared as he moved again.

And despite looking to be out of control, he was sane and conscious as he followed Arthur’s movements like a hawk.

"You are really annoying, don’t you think?" Then suddenly, Arthur stopped John’s strike by catching his wrist in a hard grip.

John tried to shake it off but couldn’t, it didn’t even move an inch which shocked him and made him quite nervous.

’Why is it not moving?’ He thought.

"You were moving like a fly here and there shouting about something I didn’t quite hear." His voice was deep, calm, and heavy.

"Care to tell me?" Then as he said so, he applied some pressure on his grip breaking John’s wrist in his hand.

CRACK!

"AGGGHK! YOU FUCKER—!"

"Calm..." He delivered a powerful punch to the face sending him flying backwards like a ragdoll.

"..down."

From the beginning, Arthur didn’t feel any threat coming out of John, even with that sudden power up, he didn’t feel anything, just stood calm while looking at John waiting for what he was going to do.

And John, blinded by that sense of power coursing through his veins and his arrogance, he couldn’t see that his opponent wasn’t at all affected.

Even Alfred himself couldn’t see it as he could only see Arthur’s back, so he thought that the young man was terrified by the heavy pressure.

While Scarlet was just annoyed and angry at what Alfred had done.

Anyway, as John collided with the arena walls, he felt an incredible pain in his back making him groan before he found Arthur already on him punching his face again with a powerful straight punch that broke his teeth and nose all together.

Pfft!

Blood splattered as Arthur was mercilessly beating him up with every punch.

John couldn’t even speak or say anything, just accepting the punches while being cornered against the arena walls.

But then, amidst all of that, John remembered that day. When Arthur showed him the fear of death.

And that made the arrogant young master feel so indignant rather than traumatized.

’Not again!’

His blood boiled and his eyes glowed even brighter until—

Boooooom!!!!

A sudden explosion of power occurred making the arena tremble and Arthur jumped back to avoid the impact.

He narrowed his eyes as he began to observe the changes that were appearing on John’s body.

At the same time, in the VIP room.

Scarlet was shocked along with Ava, Kares and Terra as they knew what was happening to John while Alfred looked ecstatic.

"Yes that’s it my son, show them the true power of being one of us!" Alfred exclaimed with a wide grin on his face.

While the queen, Glorias, gave him a brief glance with the corner of her eyes before looking back at the arena, her assistant was beside her, silent but her eyes were always observing.

"You are fucking sick, Alfred." Scarlet’s eyes glowed as she gazed at John’s figure that was transforming on the ground of the arena.

Ava and Kares, both were equally surprised to see John’s change.

"Was your bother able to do that before?" Ava whispered to Kares while clutching onto the armrests unconsciously.

"No, I didn’t even know that he was able to do it, after all, it’s not easy to access our true forms." Kares said as the more she looked, the more she found it weird as in her memories, John didn’t have that kind of access to his true form.

While besides them both, Terra was frowning deeply.

’He really did it even after knowing the consequences of that choice.’ She said inwardly as she didn’t like it. Though she didn’t give a shit about John, she was afriad that Alfred would do the same to her daughter. And that’s a red line to her.

Back on the arena.

Arthur looked at John who now looked taller reaching beyond two meters, his ears elongated while his skin became redder with glowing red veins spread across his body.

His teeth became sharper while his fangs were bigger. His arms also became longer with black sharper nails, same for his toes.

However, looking at his figure, it became thinner and looked so terrifying emitting such a heavy and thick bloody aura that made the spectators pass out except some who were older and strong.

"GRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" John released a loud roar that shook the place before vanishing from his place.

BOOOW!

SWOOOOOOSH!

BOOOOOOOM!!

Arthur found himself plunged into the wall in the next moment in a way he couldn’t perceive, it was even faster than the time with Hella.

’Yup, it’s faster.’ As Arthur thought so, he got out of the wall and spat a mouthful of blood on the ground before looking straight at John who was standing there as if waiting for him.

’What an arrogant bastard.’

He thought so, before moving in a high speed of a bullet toward him, he found John’s head turning toward him as if he could see him moving slowly.

Right then, John moved again and hit Arthur in the back with a powerful punch that broke his spine into two completely.

"Agh!" Arthur groaned as the pain surely was unbearable, but it eased in the next second as his regeneration kicked in.

"That was a bad memory for sure." Arthur spat before his eyed glowed faintly then moved again, but this time, it was faster than before.

But still, John could still perceive him and moved accordingly blocking Arthur’s deadly attacks easily and without much wasted effort. This version of John was surely more refined and dangerous than the older one that looked arrogant with no ability to back it.

This time, his arrogance was deserved as he could back it up with his new strength.

You could say that he had every right to be arrogant at this moment.

A massive grin that seemed to reach his ears spread across’s John’s eerily looking face making him looking more horrifying and disgusting.

It was a smile filled with mockery and so much arrogance as if it was dripping off of his body like liquid.

Meanwhile, Hella had already arrived watching the scene of the transformed John beating up Arthur.

She looked at Alfred with a cold and scornful glance as if looking down at a pest.

"You really are pathetic, you know that. Alfred." The blonde haird woman said as walked inside while tying her long hair into a ponytail looking sensual and alluring at the same time that made Alfred look at her with heated gaze that made Hella feel disgusted.

"Look at me with those eyes and you could say goodbye to them in the next moment." Her strong suffocation aura fell upon him deeply concentrated which made him feel like passing out on the spot.

He sweated while blood was coming out of his lips, eyes, ears, and nose. He was looking so really pathetic.

"Enough, Hella." And looking at Glorias, Hella stood silent for a moment before a smile spread across her face.

"Sure~" Then she released the pressure immediately making the man feel as if he had come back to life again.

-At the arena-

A shocking scene happened that made everyone look shocked and surprised, but Ava was the most affected of them all.

There in the middle of the arena, the transformed John had plunged his hand through Arthur’s chest and came out through the other side with his heart still beating.

"Gehehe~~"

And that made John giggle in a verg eerie way that sent shivers down the spine.

"ARTHUR!!!" Just right then, Ava’s frantic scream echoed through the whole arena as she was standing trying to go right there in the arena for her husband but she couldn’t as the queen’s assistant stopped her.

"LEAVE ME! I MUST GO FOR HIM!" Ava snapped as her eyes turned blood-red glowing brightly with slits in them.

"I can’t—" But just as the assistant tried to tell her that she couldn’t let her go, Ava glared at her with so much anger.

"I SAID. LEAVE. ME!"