Gwen Spider: I'm from Prototype

Chapter 122 The Witch and the Vampire King

Verusa, who was hit by Dracula, did not die.

At this time, her face was covered with blood, and her hair, which was originally arranged like a lady's, was disheveled, like a madman.

With a grim expression, she held the bloodstone tightly in her hand and aimed it at Peter.

"You monster, I want to completely purify you!"

As she spoke, red light shot out from the bloodstone and shot towards Peter.

Peter, who had just devoured Dracula's flesh and blood, was restricted by the "black light virus" and could not swallow and absorb. His body showed the physical characteristics of the king of vampires, causing him to face the bloodstone and show serious discomfort.

Illuminated by the red light from the bloodstone, he frowned.

At the same time, the surface of the skin began to produce a strong discomfort reaction as if it was being burned by a flame.

"Oh!"

In the next second, a long stick was thrown on her head.

Verusa staggered, and the bloodstone in his hand fell to the ground.

She grabbed her body and looked at Elsa Bloodstone who was attacking her.

Elsa held the manor guards in her hand, the long sticks carrying electric currents used to hunt and kill monsters, gasped slightly, and stared at her stepmother.

Verusa really didn't expect Elsa Bloodstone to attack herself.

With a sharp voice in her throat, she cursed at Elsa: "You bitch! Why don't you die? By living, you are humiliating your father's memory and the sacred Bloodstone family."

Elsa just listened to her curse coldly, and when the other party finished speaking, she hit the long stick in her hand at the other party again.

The electric current shot out instantly, and Verusa also let out a scream.

In the next second, her screams stopped abruptly.

"Boom!"

A cold light flashed, and the old woman's head was separated from her body and hit the ground heavily.

Blood gushed out of her neck in an instant.

With a "boom", Verusa's body fell straight down.

Peter, who finished the blow, looked at the stunned Elsa Bloodstone, put away the knife in his hand, and said to her expressionlessly: "It seems that the relationship between your mother and daughter is not very good."

Looking at the stepmother lying on the ground with her body and head separated, Elsa didn't blame Peter, but just stood there, silent.

Ignoring Elsa Bloodstone any more, Peter walked near the bloodstone.

Under the influence of the Talisman of Life, his body has begun to eliminate the vampire's weakness.

At the same time, the blacklight virus begins to act on the absorbed DNA.

More tyrannical power began to surge in his body.

That is the power from the Vampire King.

Astonishing strength, speed and endurance, as well as super responsiveness, the information engraved in his genes began to be absorbed by him, and his body began to evolve towards a stronger direction.

Unfortunately, because he didn't absorb and devour the opponent's head, he couldn't read the opponent's memory.

The magic-side skills used by Dracula are naturally unavailable.

What troubled him even more was that after he devoured the body of the vampire king.

He could faintly feel that he had also become a part of the curse.

Dracula's body contains "life blood", which is a vital existence for vampires.

When Dracula was competing for the title of "King of Vampires", he was forced to drink Varna's life blood and gained all the power of the original vampire.

(Varna: The Atlantean wizard, the first person in the world to use the "Dark Book" to transform himself into a vampire.)
Swallowing Dracula's body, he also swallowed the opponent's "blood of life", which made Dracula unable to be resurrected, and he became the body that continued his curse.

As for the curse - not being able to die, walking in the dark most of the time, being tricked by fate from time to time, and so on.

Bending down, Peter picked up the bloodstone on the ground.

Despite the corrosion of the bloodstone on his palm, he felt the pain of his skin.

In other words, after devouring the body of the Vampire King, did I only obtain part of his power, but did I inherit his curse?

The curse cannot be lifted until he returns his body to him.

Or get his head yourself to become the real king of vampires.

This is really a troublesome thing.

Holding the bloodstone, a serious look appeared on his face.

"You your hand!"

Elsa Bloodstone's voice interrupted Peter's contemplation.

He raised his head and looked at the shocked Elsa.

"Mrs. Verusa thought this thing could deal with me, against undead creatures."

While speaking to Elsa, Peter clenched the bloodstone in his hand.

"Crack! Kick!"

The sound of the bloodstone being squeezed sounded, and a strong red light shot out from the gap in his palm.

"She's wrong because I'm not a real vampire."

The bloodstone continued to corrode his palm, but the Talisman of Life began to heal him again.

The function of the Talisman of Life is to revive undead creatures such as vampires and be able to walk on the ground like normal people.

And the blood stone could sense the vampire blood in his body and invaded his body.

In this way, the two are in his hands, the bloodstone is destroyed, and the life talisman is cured, and the two have been in a state of canceling each other out.

As Peter's strength in holding the bloodstone continued to increase, the bloodstone was finally squeezed into a stone the size of a ring by his powerful strength.

Compressing the mass and volume, the bloodstone was not destroyed during the whole process, but kept shining brightly, resisting this kind of external attack.

Under Elsa's shocked gaze, Peter closed his palms and opened them again.

The metal ring is inlaid on the bloodstone, and the original bloodstone becomes a ring that can be worn.

Putting the bloodstone ring on his hand casually, Peter felt the erosion of the stone on himself.

Then he clenched his fist and punched the wall.

The light of the blood stone flashed by, and even though Peter didn't use any force, the blood stone suddenly released a powerful force, directly smashing the wall.

Although the main function of the bloodstone is to have a strong influence on monsters, making monsters appear, affecting their minds and so on.

But the bloodstone itself also has power attributes.

Anyone who wears it will gain extraordinary power.

This characteristic is the same even for those monsters.

If there is a monster that can resist the bloodstone's damage to itself, wear it, just like a humanoid (even if he wears it passively), after wearing it, the tyranny will be thicker and the power will be stronger.

In a way, the Bloodstone is a lot like the "Power Stone" of the Infinity Stones.

On the other side, watching Peter turn the bloodstone of his family into a ring and put it on his hand, Elsa Bloodstone was dumbfounded.

"Who are you?"

Elsa had an expression of disbelief all over her face.

Dracula was defeated by this guy, and he was able to resist the influence of the bloodstone, smashing the bloodstone.
Is this still something humans can do?

"Or are you... Cain?"

The only person she could imagine who could defeat Dracula was Cain in the Bible.

The son of Adam and Eve, who killed his brother, was punished by God and became Cain, the ancestor of vampires.

"Hmm, that's a good thing to say."

Peter nodded. The first vampire creature he absorbed was indeed called Cain.

"But I still prefer to think that I am a human being."

Scanning the mess and blood around, Peter said to the lady with a dull expression: "I should go. I have to say that tonight's Halloween is very satisfying to me."

With that said, he turned to leave.

But Elsa who reacted stopped him, "Are you taking the bloodstone away like this?"

"Or do you have any other proposals?"

Peter stopped in his tracks, frowned slightly, and asked her.

"Although I am also somewhat interested in bloodstones, more importantly, bloodstones are passed down from our family."

Although she was a little apprehensive about Peter after what happened tonight, she finally said to Peter: "We've worked together before, haven't we?"

"uh-huh."

"So, as a collaborator, you have to tell me your real name, and where you come from? Maybe I won't care about the whereabouts of the bloodstone."

Elsa told Peter her purpose.

Peter nodded, "But you must understand, Miss Elsa, if you involve me too much, it will be a bigger trouble."

Considering that the other party had briefly helped him and was against his stepmother, Peter did not leave in the end.

"I've gotten into enough trouble."

Elsa smiled.

"Crack! Kick!"

Watching Peter leave, Elsa slowly walked towards the center of the hall.

The ground was covered in blood, as well as shards of broken glass and wood.

When she walked to a bookcase, the housekeeper who was hiding on the side stood up tremblingly.

"Miss, you are here."

The gray-haired butler leaning on a cane hurriedly arranged his clothes, walked quickly to Elsa, bowed slightly and said, "I just want to serve you, miss."

There was a tremor in his voice.

Elsa stared into his eyes for a few seconds, then nodded slowly.

"Very well, let's clear this up first."

After finishing speaking, she walked to the seat where the family patriarch was originally sitting.

Pushing aside the chair that fell to the ground, covered with blood and sawdust, he straightened it up and sat on it.

Sitting in a chair, she had a complicated expression, not knowing what she was thinking.

After a while, I took out the bloodstone fragments that Peter had given her before from her clothes, and observed them in the palm of my hand.

After observing for a few minutes, she held the bloodstone tightly.

"Peter Parker!"

Leaving the manor, Peter drove to New York by car.

The time has already pointed to ten o'clock, and I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with the Halloween event in New York.

but
He stretched out his left hand and looked at the bloodstone ring worn on it.

It's not all fruitless either.

At least this Halloween in Boston, make yourself memorable.

"Om~Om~"

While driving the car, the phone rang suddenly.

He picked up his phone and saw that the caller showed Gwen Stacy.

"Hey, Peter?"

After connecting, Gwen's excited voice came from the other end of the phone, "Where are you?"

"Something happened and I'm still in Boston."

"I knew it. Didn't you text me before, saying that you might be delayed?"

A noisy voice came from Gwen's phone, "In order to surprise you, I have prepared an event, do you know what it is?"

"what?"

Peter slowed down, "You won't tell me you're in Boston, will you?"

"Bindog, the answer is correct. I came to Boston by car, and I am now located in the No. 1 Halloween attraction in Boston - the small town of Salem."

"Salem?"

Hearing this name, Peter was a little surprised.

The town of Salem, founded in 1626, was 150 years earlier than the founding of the United States. It is the most famous witch town in the United States.

At the same time, it is also the largest and most high must-see attraction Top1 for Halloween in the United States. Millions of tourists from all over the world come here every year.

"Are you interested in witches, Gwen."

"I'm not interested, but Salem is very close to Boston, so I came here after listening to the tour guide's flickering."

Gwen said that he came to feel the atmosphere.

"Okay, come here quickly, Peter, I'll wait for you here."

"Hope you won't be intimidated by all the witches out there."

Peter hung up the phone and drove to Salem.

The town of Salem is best known for the "witch trials".

The incident originated on a certain day in 1692, when the 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old niece of a priest in a small town suddenly showed strange behavior "beyond epilepsy or natural disease".

The girls screamed, threw things, made strange noises, crawled under furniture, twisted their bodies into weird poses...

At that time, medicine could not explain these behaviors, so people blamed all these on witches, and forced the girls to testify about which witch had enchanted them.

The accused person could only continue to testify against others in order to get rid of severe punishment, so this protracted farce lasted with great momentum for one year and three months.

More than 200 innocent people were arrested and imprisoned in the incident. In just three months, more than 13 people were executed, 5 of whom were hanged, and [-] people (including two babies) died in prison.

Reflecting on memories of Salem, Peter soon comes to town.

Countless tourists dressed as witches roamed the streets in the town.

Children carrying jack-o-lanterns ran wantonly on the street, knocking on the door of every house and asking for candies.

On the streets, countless "haunted houses" decorated according to the residents' own creativity are displayed for everyone passing by to appreciate.

Peter even saw a gallows, where people dressed as trial courts tried the "witches" and "hanged" them to death.

The whole town is full of Halloween and witch atmosphere.

Peter parked the car in front of a cafe. Just as he walked to the street in front of the cafe, he saw a witch in a black robe and a pointed hat standing in front of him.

"Happy Halloween! Magical people from New York!"

The little witch jumped on Peter directly.

Peter was a little stunned at first, stroking the familiar Gwen's back, and then he gradually came to his senses.

"Happy Halloween, Gwen!"

For Gwen to cross such a long distance to spend Halloween with him, he was slightly touched in his heart.

(End of this chapter)