Chapter 423: Son of the Dragon, Dead

'Are they... trying to drag me into the Red Sea?' Qi Suian lifted his foot, and a mass of bloody hands came up with it.

In the sky, a brilliant, blood-red meteor was plummeting toward him.

'Talk about dual physical and magical damage.' Qi Suian glanced at the meteor, then ignored it.

His gaze fell on the Blood Bath Queen. She was clearly a Mage, and definitely not skilled in close combat.

"Baron Fisher, can you block that meteor?" a conspicuous white bat flew over and asked.

The Daywalker was tied up fighting the Son of the Dragon, but he knew the power of the blood meteor.

If it couldn't be stopped, the church's camp would be razed to the ground.

Hearing this, Qi Suian sighed. "Probably."

The word had barely left his mouth when all the zombies instantly broke down into Profound Virus fibers.

A terrifying, sky-blotting swarm of Fiber Worms emerged, frantically gnawing at the reflection of the Red Sea and tearing holes in it.

They devoured everything—resentment, anger, blood—without a second thought.

With this massive influx of fuel, the Melting Furnace ignited at full power, beginning to convert it all into evolutionary energy.

As the reflection of the Red Sea faded, the blood meteor began to look illusory and unreal.

Everything was dependent on the reflection of the Red Sea; none of it was real.

If the Blood Bath Queen truly possessed such power, she would have no need to hide from Qi Suian.

'Once I shatter her home-field advantage, then I can...'

Qi Suian's thought was not even complete when he saw the Blood Bath Queen, deep within the reflection, bathing in blood.

Her skin was solidifying, and her body began to swell, her appearance twisting into something utterly grotesque.

In a situation like this, it was obvious she was either channeling a skill or powering up for a transformation.

No matter which one it was, Qi Suian had to stop her.

So he ignored the white bat and charged straight at her.

Fei followed in his wake, providing buffs like Martial Dao will as he rampaged forward, shattering the entire reflection of the Red Sea.

In just an instant, he arrived before the Blood Bath Queen.

He threw a simple, unadorned punch, but this time, it held all of Qi Suian's power.

The fist slammed into her soft abdomen in a powerful uppercut, smashing the better half of the Blood Bath Queen's torso and her internal organs into a pulpy mess.

"Your fists... are truly powerless," the Blood Bath Queen's voice rasped, growing coarse and hoarse.

Dark power roiled across her body. Her once-human head had completely transformed into that of a dragon.

A single thought flashed through Qi Suian's mind: the children of the Red Sea Witch were dragons.

'The offspring of the Blood Race Ancestor, Cain, and the Red Sea Witch, Lilith, must also be dragons.'

'So, Blood Race plus Dragon Race... the resulting race, when combined, would be a Blood Dragon.'

A dragon claw swung out, swatting Qi Suian into a puddle of gore.

The instant Qi Suian recovered, the Blood Bath Queen completely broke free from the shackles of her human form.

She was a draconic, bat-like creature, her body formed not of conventional flesh and bone, but of constantly flowing blood.

"Did you think I was using the power of my mother, the Red Sea Witch?"

"No! This is the dominion that comes from bathing in blood—a power acknowledged by the Red Sea itself!"

The Blood Bath Queen opened her blood-forged dragon maw and unleashed a crimson breath.

Compared to the red and Black Dragon breaths Qi Suian had faced from the clone, this Blood Dragon's breath was far more overwhelming.

His polymorphic energy couldn't withstand it in the slightest. Only his ever-unfailing nether energy managed to break through her assault, carving out a space for Qi Suian to survive.

"Don't think you're the only one who can transform..." Qi Suian held his ground against the pressure, not retreating a single step. "Bosses are supposed to have two phases, after all."

As he spoke, Fei had already recalled all its fibrous matter and merged into Qi Suian's body.

The next moment, Qi Suian's form also began to swell, transforming into a one-eyed ox with a white head and a serpent's tail.

As was his custom, his own upper torso sprouted from the single eye, serving as a decoy.

"Up yours!"

With a simple, unadorned charge and impact, Qi Suian smashed the Blood Bath Queen into a spray of blood, shattering her Red Sea reflection along with her.

In that single instant, Qi Suian's Profound Domain expanded, swallowing the greater part of the battlefield between the Blood Race and the humans.

In an instant, more zombies were born, only to transform into fibrous matter and fly into Qi Suian's body.

His "normal" attacks were anything but, empowered as they were by various passive abilities.

When using his full strength, Qi Suian couldn't be bothered with fancy ancient martial arts techniques or any other flourishes.

Besides, he hadn't had much time to study them in depth anyway. The simplest approach was a head-on charge and ram.

Even spatial abilities would be shattered by his impact.

"Such brute force... Truly powerful. I find myself wanting to know your secrets more and more." The Blood Bath Queen's blood coalesced once again into the form of the Blood Dragon.

Her draconic eyes, formed of blood, revealed a human-like greed.

If she could obtain Qi Suian's power, then she only needed to find the Evil Key, and she could return to the Red Sea and seize her mother's power.

At that point, not even her father would be a match for her.

Qi Suian didn't answer. A fight was a fight; what was the point of trash-talking?

If trash talk couldn't affect his opponent's mentality, it was better left unsaid.

He wheeled around, charged, and rammed her again, the ox head's mouth gaping open in preparation.

At his full speed, the Blood Bath Queen couldn't react at all. Once again, she was blasted into a sky-blotting spray of blood.

At the same time, the ox head's gaping maw viciously swallowed a large mouthful of her blood and gulped it down.

The blood wasn't digested or absorbed; it was sent directly into the Melting Furnace as fuel.

He had swallowed a huge mouthful, but to the Blood Bath Queen, it was merely a drop in the bucket.

She recovered in just an instant.

Qi Suian's Strength, Agility, and Constitution attributes were higher than the Blood Bath Queen's, but her Spirit and Perception were clearly stronger than his.

This created a problem: she could perceive Qi Suian's intent to attack, but couldn't move in time to block him.

She was like a Blood-Lock Mage caught in close quarters.

All she could do was take the hits.

Things weren't easy for Qi Suian, either. Each impact took a tremendous toll on him.

Without other zombies to replenish his energy, he could only last five minutes at most before he'd have to start drawing power from the Supernova Strong Nuclear Reactor.

And that changed the nature of the fight entirely.

The former was shifting the cost; the latter was paying it out of pocket.

So, he had to break the stalemate.

His attention shifted partly to the Daywalker.

He was currently pressing the Son of the Dragon, holding a slight advantage, but killing him wouldn't be easy.

'The blood chalice didn't give the Daywalker the power of a dragon. It seems you need to already have draconic power for the chalice to activate it.'

'So what he's using now is... himself?'

'I have to admit, the Daywalker is a real genius, directly stacking his own power as the Cursed Child on top of itself.'

'It required no adaptation, was a perfect match, and effectively doubled his power.'

'Combined with the attacks from his Execution Axe, he was indeed formidable.'

A sudden thought struck Qi Suian. Since his fight with the Blood Bath Queen was a stalemate, why not launch a surprise attack on the Son of the Dragon?

If he could successfully eliminate one of them, the rest would be easy to handle.

The Blood Bath Queen would never dare to face both him and the Daywalker.

More importantly, after the Son of the Dragon died, his Slaughter Knife would definitely fall into the Daywalker's hands.

At that point, faced with two offensive Blood Race Sacred Artifacts, she would be in way over her head.

To do this, he must first escape the Blood Bath Queen's attention.

Fortunately, this was not difficult.

'I just need to slip away. Having Fei hold her off for one second will be enough.'

His actions were incredibly swift. He initiated another charge, but in the process, he silently separated from his merged form.

Blessed by his numerous modules, he became invisible and headed for the Son of the Dragon.

The Blood Bath Queen didn't notice. After all, the decoy of Qi Suian's upper body was still protruding from Fei's single eye.

This cognitive bias led her to assume it was still Qi Suian attacking.

It wasn't until Fei slammed into her and she didn't feel the familiar sensation of being torn apart—instead, Fei disintegrated into scattered fibrous matter that began to gnaw at her—that she realized she'd been tricked.

"The Son of the Dragon! Damn it!" The massive Blood Dragon turned and sped toward the Son of the Dragon.

Although she couldn't see Qi Suian, she could perceive a trace of his trajectory.

The Son of the Dragon was currently focused wholeheartedly on dealing with the Daywalker, and didn't notice Qi Suian's arrival at all.

The next moment, Qi Suian's left hand held the Secret Silver Dagger, his right hand a wooden stake.

The Secret Silver Dagger slit his throat as the wooden stake pierced his heart.

The force was so immense that the Secret Silver Dagger sliced through the Son of the Dragon's throat, skin, bone, and all, while the wooden stake punched clean through his heart.

"That pair, Mr. Louis and Mr. Abe, told me to send their regards!"

Qi Suian grabbed the Son of the Dragon by the head. Without waiting for a response, he tossed the head into his Melting Furnace and seized the remaining corpse to use as a shield.

The Blood Bath Queen's attack from behind arrived in an instant.

A tidal wave of blood that stretched from heaven to earth obscured all vision, and a massive torrent of breath drowned everything in sight.

The death of the Son of the Dragon caused the Dark Sky Curtain, which had sheltered the entire Blood Race, to dissipate.

Sunlight streamed down. If the Blood Bath Queen hadn't substituted the blood wave for the curtain, every member of the Blood Race on the field—besides herself—would have died.

Their ability to move unopposed, even marching during the day, was entirely thanks to the Dark Sky Curtain.

BOOM!

The Son of the Dragon's corpse shattered. The Slaughter Knife flew into the air, and the Daywalker snatched it.

"Today, you will all die!!!"

The Daywalker, Slaughter Knife in his left hand and Execution Axe in his right, used the power of the Blood Race to forcefully cleave a massive rift in the blood wave.

The rift spread in an instant, causing the entire blood wave to collapse on the spot.

At the base of the blood wave, the Blood Bath Queen understood that she had completely lost this battle.

There was no chance for a comeback.

"This time, consider yourselves lucky. Next time... Hmph." The Blood Dragon's figure gradually collapsed, reverting to the Blood Bath Queen's human form.

After delivering her parting threat, the Blood Bath Queen dissolved into a mist of blood and vanished from their sight.