The Great Demon Lord of the American Comics World

Chapter 77, Wings Added! He will eventually become king!

Marcus was slammed back into human form, his head buried in the broken floorboards. He hesitated for a moment, wondering if he was still a vampire, before letting out a furious roar. He braced himself on the ground with his bat wings and was about to take flight when a leather shoe slammed heavily onto the back of his head.

With one stomp, Marcus's cheek slammed into the broken floor again, his face covered in splinters, and one of his eyes was almost popped out.

This injury was nothing to Marcus, whose recovery ability was amazing, but the humiliation it caused drove him almost crazy.

He roared furiously, transforming once again into a monster over two meters tall. His powerful claws and feet struggled wildly, his wings flapping wildly as he tried to lift the human who was stepping on his head. However, the foot seemed to be rooted to the back of his head, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not lift it off the ground.

Li Xingzhou's skin had turned dark gold. The divine power enhanced by the "Heavenly Demon Golden Body" allowed him to knock out the Sand Angel with three punches and one kick. Of course, it was also enough for him to suppress the Vampire Ancestor, whose power was only slightly stronger than the Sand Angel.

To be honest, Marcus's strength is quite average.

Although he could pull a light helicopter down from the sky with his bare hands when he unleashed his full power, that amount of strength was nothing in this chaotic world.

Aside from physical strength, he only possesses abilities such as immortality, flight, creating offspring, and blood-sucking to read memories; he does not have any energy-emitting superpowers.

He wasn't even as skilled in combat as Victor; he was just a wild monster who relied entirely on his physical abilities and instincts to fight.

No wonder that despite being the progenitor of the bloodline, Marcus always seemed like a subordinate in front of Victor.

Marcus was struggling.

Li Xingzhou suddenly lifted the ball of his foot that was stepping on the back of his head, then stomped it down heavily again, saying unhappily:
"Quiet! Don't disturb my view of the duel!"

boom!
With a loud bang, Marcus's head slumped down, his face sinking even deeper into the floor.

Marcus struggled again, but Li Xingzhou raised his foot and stomped again and again...

Boom boom boom!
After several loud bangs, Marcus's entire head was buried deep under the floorboards. His massive body convulsed and transformed back into human form, even his huge bat wings retracted into his shoulder blades. His hands hung limply at his sides, his fingertips twitched twice, and then he was still.

Li Xingzhou nodded in satisfaction, stepped on Marcus's head, and looked back at the battlefield between Selena and Victor.

When his gaze shifted.

Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, who were staring in disbelief at their tyrannical vampire progenitor, both shuddered and quickly turned to look at the battlefield between Selena and Victor.

“Mandy, your Master has the potential to become a Dark Lord.”

“I know. But don’t you think the way he trampled the progenitor of vampires on the ground was incredibly cool?”

"It was my fault. I shouldn't have raised you to be a violent and bad child... I declare that from now on, I hate violence!"

The father and daughter whispered to each other.

Emma, ​​standing beside him, had a flushed face full of excitement, and her eyes were filled with intoxication as she looked at Li Xingzhou, as if she had already fallen into a daze at his powerful tyranny...

Although Victor was doing his best to deal with Selena's fierce attack, he also saw Marcus being easily defeated. He cursed the decoder as "useless" in his heart and was already having second thoughts.

He was not a stubborn old man who would fight to the death.

Back when the werewolf clan rose to power, he faked his death and fled when faced with the thousands of unstoppable wild werewolves summoned by Lucien.

Now, seeing the unfavorable situation, Selena inexplicably released her bloodline suppression and became powerful enough to contend with him. Marcus's sneak attack failed and he was knocked unconscious. The Blood Knights were also gradually losing ground under the onslaught of the skeletal werewolves who were completely unaffected by injuries and pain. Victor couldn't help but have the thought of escaping again.

Although their stronghold was destroyed and the clan's nobles and knights were almost wiped out, for vampires, as long as they exist, creating another clan is only a matter of time.

The determination to escape was unwavering.

Victor feigned being disoriented by Marcus's defeat, his swordsmanship faltered, and he deliberately exposed an opening, allowing Selena to pierce his chest with her sword.

After being struck by the sword, he did not retreat but advanced, suddenly ramming forward, letting the sword blade pierce through his body until his chest hit the guard, and then used all his strength to push Selena backward, causing her back to slam against the corridor wall.

With nowhere to retreat, Selena seized the opportunity to close in on her, grabbing her by the neck with one claw, pulling her close to him, and then holding the blade of his sword across Selena's neck.

"Do not move."

He threatened in a low voice:
"Even vampires will slowly die if their heads are cut off and not reattached in time."

As he spoke, he glanced at Li Xingzhou and the others, a hint of aristocratic arrogance on his face:
"I must admit, I underestimated you. I lost this battle. But for the immortal race, one defeat is not a defeat. As long as I live, I will always have the chance to make a comeback."

Li Xingzhou said with amusement:

"You think you're still alive?"

"why not?"

Victor's eyes were cold, the blade pressed tightly against Selena's long, snow-white neck, the edge already cutting through her skin, a trickle of blood seeping out:
"If you don't want to see her beheaded, you'd better get out of my way."

Li Xingzhou shrugged:
"But the question is, do you really still have the strength to cut off her head?"

what?
Victor was startled, and suddenly felt a deep surge of power erupt in his body. At the same time, he felt dizzy and his vision blurred.

Selena's cross-shaped sword was, of course, also engraved with the curse of weakness.

Victor deliberately feigned weakness, allowing the sword to pierce his chest, essentially inviting the curse into his own heart.

No matter how good Victor's physical condition was, he could not resist the weakness curse that erupted from within his body.

Victor felt dizzy, his body was numb, and his limbs were weak.

Selena raised her hand, grasped the blade of the sword against her neck, and gently pushed it away.

Then she turned to look at Victor and said coldly:
“Victor, it’s time to go to hell.”

As he spoke, he grabbed the hilt of the sword piercing Victor's chest, pulled the sword out sharply, and with a slash, Victor's head was split in two.

Bang!

Victor's head and half his face slid off at an angle and fell to the ground.

After that, his tall body swayed twice, then he collapsed to his knees with a thud, and then fell to the ground with a thud.

Even a powerful vampire like Victor would die instantly if his head were split in two.

Looking at Victor's lifeless body with his eyes wide open, Selena, who had finally avenged her great grudge, felt her breasts heave violently for a while.

She took a deep breath and turned to look at Li Xingzhou.

Li Xingzhou nodded and smiled at her, saying, "Congratulations."

Victor is very strong. If he were alive, he could be trained into a Blood God Child that is not much weaker than Marcus.

But compared to helping Selena achieve her revenge, a mere Blood God Child is nothing—besides, even if it dies, its corpse and flesh still have value.

The "Blood Sea Burial God Array" requires a large amount of extremely yin and evil blood.

Selena pursed her lips, her icy blue eyes misty with tears, and smiled through them:
"Thank you."

Thank you for helping me uncover the truth.

Thank you for helping me get my revenge.

Today I have personally severed the last blood tie with the Victor clan. From this day forward, my body and soul will belong entirely to you.

Whether it's hell or heaven, as long as you sound the charge, even if it means charging against angels and God, I will forge ahead without hesitation.

Where your sword points, that is where my mission lies.

Thank you, my devilish prince.

……

The rain is still falling.

The lakeside manor was still brightly lit, and even the music from the old gramophone was still playing.

But the vampire banquet has ended.

After tonight, the manor will of course host another grand banquet, but the main guests will no longer be the vampire nobles of the past.

Big Daddy, Hit-Girl, Selena, and Emma are cleaning up the battlefield.

The living vampires were all imprisoned.

Even the body parts of dead vampires, cut into pieces, must be collected and piled up in the hibernation chamber.

They didn't even spare the blood of vampires.

Emma commanded the Mind Image Mystic to transform into a dark wind, drawing up the vampire blood flowing everywhere and freezing it into blood-red ice balls, which were then carried to the hibernation chamber by Big Daddy and the others.

As for Li Xingzhou...

He was admiring the three coffins in his hibernation chamber.

Those were three antique coffins, beautifully decorated and exuding a classical artistic flair, that have survived from the Middle Ages.

It is also the resting place of Marcus, Victor, and another vampire elder, Amelia.

Amelia was a medieval European noblewoman who, through Victor's introduction, was given the Embrace by Marcus.

Amelia's bloodline originates from Marcus, and she herself is a high-ranking noble with territory and vassals. Therefore, she and Victor are allies of equal status, and she is one of the three elders of this vampire clan, along with Victor and Marcus.

In the last century, it was Marcus and Victor's turn to hibernate, while Amelia came out to be active.

But Amelia longed for Europe and remained active there.

So the vampire lineage that originated with Marcus wasn't completely wiped out.

Elder Amelia and her vassal descendants are still living in Europe.

But it doesn't matter.

Anyway, Selena's only enemy is Victor. As long as Amelia doesn't come looking for trouble, neither Selena nor Li Xingzhou will bother to go to Europe to cause her any trouble.

“Marcus’s coffin can serve as the main array eye and blood sea container of the ‘Blood Sea Burial God Array’. Victor and Amelia’s coffins can serve as auxiliary array eyes… One main and two auxiliary array eyes, that’s quite stable.”

Big Daddy, Selena, and the others are still cleaning up the battlefield, taking in prisoners, and collecting corpses and blood.

Li Xingzhou was not in a hurry to start refining the grand formation.

He pressed the mechanism on the middle coffin, and after a series of clicking sounds, the coffin lid slid open automatically, revealing a man with angry eyes.

It was Marcus.

He was knocked unconscious by Li Xingzhou. His entire face was smashed and his eyeballs popped out, but in no time, he was completely restored to normal, without even a bruise left.

The vampire progenitor's incredible vitality is truly admirable.

Although he had fully recovered from his injuries and regained his senses, Marcus was completely immobilized by the cursed steel needles embedded in all his joints, including his spine. He couldn't exert any strength and couldn't even make a furious expression. He could only try to stare at Li Xingzhou with wide eyes.

“Don’t say that, Marcus. Your father and I are close friends despite our age difference. In fact, you should call me uncle.”

Li Xingzhou chuckled, "For your father's sake, I won't kill you. Instead, I'll give you a surprise—you will become one of the leaders of my Blood God Sons, commanding all the Blood God Sons transformed from vampires, fighting and killing for me. How about that? Aren't you happy?"

Marcus didn't know what a "Blood God Child" was, but he could tell that Li Xingzhou wanted to enslave and drive him.

This filled the progenitor of the vampires with immense humiliation and anger—it had always been me who enslaved and devoured humans, and today, due to a momentary lapse in judgment, I had actually fallen to this state…

No, you won't enslave me! I will never submit to you, no matter what! Once I find a chance to escape...

Marcus secretly clenched his teeth, but he could never have guessed that Li Xingzhou's methods of enslavement were even more unsolvable than vampires' use of "bloodline suppression" to enslave their descendants.

Once refined into a Blood God Child, not only will one's life and death be out of one's control, but one's will will also be completely assimilated by Li Xingzhou, becoming some kind of alternative incarnation of him.

Whenever Li Xingzhou suffers a fatal injury, the injury is randomly transferred to a Blood God Child, causing the Blood God Child to die in his place.

Of course, Marcus's value is not limited to refining into a Blood God Child.

Li Xingzhou was also somewhat interested in Marcus's abilities.

Although vampires' abilities overlap with those of werewolves, and their strength and physique are inferior to werewolves, absorbing ordinary vampires wouldn't be of much use. However, Marcus is different. He is the progenitor of this branch of vampires, and his strength not only far surpasses that of ordinary vampires but is also much greater than that of ordinary werewolves. Moreover, he can fly...

Li Xingzhou cannot fly or teleport yet.

He needs Marcus's wings to help him with the early transition.

So… Li Xingzhou scrutinized Marcus from head to toe for a moment, a chilling smile appearing on his face.

After that, he cut his palm with his fingernail, wrote an evil incantation in his palm, made a hand seal, and then pressed his palm onto Marcus's forehead.

The Heavenly Demon Devours Flesh and Bones, both activated simultaneously!

……

early morning.

After the rain, the sky clears up.

Selena arranged rooms for Big Daddy, Hit Girl, and Emma, ​​who had been busy all night, to rest, and then went to the hibernation room to find Li Xingzhou.

But Li Xingzhou was not in the hibernation room.

She left the hibernation room and went to the window in the hall, looking out the window.

The morning sun shines on the garden outside the main castle, and the dew on the petals reflects delicate rainbows. The morning breeze blows, and the petals and dew tremble gently, looking delicate and beautiful.

Selena admired the garden in the morning light for a while, then looked around for Li Xingzhou, but found nothing for a long time.

"Where have you been?"

Just as she was about to call out, she suddenly heard a strong gust of wind in the air.

She braced herself against the windowsill, leaned half her body out of the window, and looked up. She saw someone in the sky spreading out a pair of huge wings and circling in the air.

At first glance, the wings looked somewhat like Marcus's bat wings, but upon closer inspection, their appearance and color were completely different.

Marcus's wings are grayish-black, with jagged bone spikes, giving him an ugly and ferocious appearance.

But the wings in the sky were a dark silver with a metallic texture, and had a dazzling pattern of fine scales. Their shape was also more slender and elegant, like the wings of a silver dragon in a legendary story.

Selena's lips parted slightly as she stared blankly at Li Xingzhou in the sky, who was soaring through the air with his magnificent silver wings spread wide. She even forgot to breathe for a moment.

It wasn't until Li Xingzhou noticed her, swooped down from the sky, spread his wings, hovered three feet off the ground, and smiled as he said "Good morning" to her that she came back to her senses.

"Li Ang, you... how did you grow wings?"

She asked in shock.

Li Xingzhou smiled:

"This is an ability I obtained from Marcus using 'magic,' and I've slightly modified the appearance of the wings..."

He landed on the ground, his wings encircling Selena like arms:

"How is it? Does it look good?"

Selena gazed at the magnificent, dark silver wings and softly exclaimed in admiration:
"It's beautiful, like the wings of a legendary silver dragon... magnificent and majestic."

Li Xingzhou extended his hand to her:

"So, would you like to come with me for a ride in the sky?"

Selena smiled and reached out to take his hand.

Li Xingzhou carried her out of the window, held her slender waist, flapped his wings, and slowly took off bathed in the morning light. He first carried her to circle above the manor for a while, then flew out of the manor, skimmed over the lake, and then soared into the sky, all the way to the clouds.

"It's so beautiful..."

Selena looked down at the beautiful scenery of the Kazchi Mountains, and was momentarily mesmerized.

Li Xingzhou kissed her cheek and smiled:

"One day in the future, you too will be able to fly into the sky on your own."

Selena froze, then asked incredulously:
"Can I fly too?"

"Of course." Li Xingzhou nodded with a smile.

He can deprive others of their abilities, and naturally he can also bestow them with them.

Currently, he can only grant others mental abilities, similar to how he helped Emma unleash the Mind Imagery Mystic. However, once his strength is further restored, he can also directly grant them physical abilities.

Although granting physical abilities places stricter demands on the recipient, Selena has fused with the "Perfect Blood," which possesses extraordinary fusion capabilities. In the future, if Li Xingzhou were to transfer his wings to her, it wouldn't be an easy task, but it certainly wouldn't be too difficult.

……

After annihilating the Victor clan, in addition to obtaining a large amount of cultivation resources, Li Xingzhou also acquired a huge fortune.

First, there's this castle-like manor.

The estate is now nominally owned by a foundation called the "European Classical Architecture Research Association." It is obvious that the head of this foundation is a human blood servant of the Victor clan.

It is said that the vampires of the Victor clan are very good at keeping up with the times.

Although those vampire nobles were corrupt and decadent, they were very sensitive to power struggles and money.

They used the lure of "immortality" to attract many talents from various industries very early on.

Furthermore, leveraging the substantial capital accumulated over millennia, they have used human blood servants as agents to independently operate or invest in numerous private hospitals, financial companies, and foundations of various kinds.

The speed of the scalpels at the prestigious private hospitals is well-known, as is the power of Wall Street financial firms.

While the foundation is nominally engaged in research and charity, in reality...

In Da Piao Liang, whether it's research or charity, it's all business.

It was precisely because of this constant stream of income that the nobles of the Victor clan were able to live a life of extravagance and debauchery for so long.

Otherwise, given the vampire nobles' extravagant spending habits, no amount of wealth could withstand their squandering.

Now that the Victor clan has been completely wiped out, it is only natural that Li Xingzhou should take over the properties that belonged to the Victor clan.

With Selena, Victor's "adopted daughter," the ten captured Death Walkers, and Li Xingzhou, who was particularly skilled in communication, it was not difficult to subdue the human blood servants who managed the various industries for the Victor clan and take over the Victor clan's industries.

In short, Li Xingzhou got a huge advantage in this game.

Of course, he himself is not particularly sensitive to wealth.

Since embarking on the path of cultivation, wealth has become nothing more than a tool for him to expand his power and gather resources.

While he didn't reject enjoyment, he wasn't extravagant either. In his private life, he was content with having enough wealth.

The following week.

Selena, along with the ten Death Walkers who had sworn allegiance to Li Xingzhou after seeing half of Victor's head, traveled around taking over the properties of the Victor clan one by one.

Li Xingzhou would occasionally step in to smooth things over with higher-ups.

Just one week later, ownership of most of the properties had been transferred to Selena's name.

Another weekend.

The castle estate was brightly lit, with classic music playing from an antique gramophone. The tables were covered with snow-white tablecloths, and various exquisite delicacies were displayed on antique porcelain plates and silver dishes. Fine wines aged for many years were also available for the guests to take as they pleased.

This is a dinner party.

The traces of battle in the manor have long been cleared away, and most of the hosts and guests at the banquet have been transformed into humans.

"When can we drink alcohol?"

In a corner of the hall, Hit-Girl, dressed in a white dress, sat on the sofa, holding a glass of juice and complaining.

"21 is old."

The man sitting diagonally across from her, dressed in a suit and with his hair slicked back, exuding the air of a successful businessman, took a sip of champagne and said, "Federal law stipulates that you can only drink alcohol after you turn 21."

HitGirl rolled her eyes in annoyance:

"The law even says you can't kill people, and I've killed so many thugs already! Don't you think federal law is absurd? Teenagers aren't allowed to drink alcohol, but they can smoke tobacco..."

Big Daddy shrugged:

"There's no way around it. This is a country that has grown up in a wild and almost deformed way. If everything here were perfect, would there be vigilantes like Big Daddy and Hit-Girl? Don't you think so?"

The last sentence was addressed to a tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular woman sitting directly opposite him.

The muscular woman, dressed in a black evening gown that revealed a large expanse of her ample chest, had a matchstick dangling from her lips and a glass of whiskey in her hand, and showed no reaction to Big Daddy's question.

She is the angel of sandstorms.

After spending a week on Rex Prison Island, and with Li Xingzhou's patient persuasion, she was finally moved by his sincerity and joined his ranks.

Although she accepted Li Xingzhou's offer of recruitment, Sandstorm Angel was not fond of Big Daddy—that old man was too weak.

When she attempted to assassinate Li Xingzhou, she punched the car overturned, and the old man immediately passed out in the driver's seat. Such a fragile old man, even if he was somewhat ugly-handsome, could not arouse her interest.

Big Daddy's attempt to strike up a conversation backfired, but he wasn't discouraged. Just as he was about to continue searching for topics, Hit-Girl whispered:

"Dad, you're not serious, are you? This woman is terrifying. I saw her lift a 300-kilogram barbell with one hand and drink beer while holding it with ease... I feel like she could kill a bison with one punch."

"Kill a North American bison with one punch?"

The old man snorted softly:
"You underestimate her. What's a bison? She can send an armored car flying with one punch."

Hit-Girl looked shocked and admiring:

"Knowing how formidable she is, you still dare to go for it? Well, I can only wish you good luck. I hope she doesn't break your back with her thighs..."

"Hey girl, where did you learn such rude talk?"

Hit-Girl quickly shifted the blame:
"The bad guys in nightclubs taught me that..."

the other side.

Mariko sat alone in an antique chair, elegantly crossing her legs, slowly sipping a glass of red wine.

Harada Kenichiro stood behind her, watching Li Xingzhou weave through the crowd with his female companion, and said with some resentment:

"He went too far. He invited you to the banquet, but left you out and made other women his companions..."

Although Harada Kenichiro was already intimidated by Li Xingzhou's irresistible power and dared not disrespect him any longer, he was still somewhat indignant about what had happened to the young lady.

Mariko, however, said without any hesitation:

“That’s not just any woman; she’s the mistress of this manor and castle. Strictly speaking, Li Ang is just a guest here.”

"But……"

“No buts.” Mariko stared intently at Li Xingzhou and said leisurely, “Think about it, how many women are in the General’s inner palace?”

Harada Kenichiro was taken aback:
"But he wasn't the Shogun..."

He did not refute the claim that modern society no longer has generals and Ōoku (the inner palace) – the hierarchical system of Japan from ancient times to the present still hides under the glamorous cloak of modern systems.

Even without the Shogun, those powerful families that have survived since ancient times continue their traditional rule under the guise of modern conglomerates.

Take, for example, the Yashida family he serves. They were daimyo during the Sengoku period and remain the number one conglomerate in Japan today, with private armies and ninjas. They wield enormous influence and power in both the political and economic spheres. The important figures in the family may only have one legal wife, but they have countless mistresses.

Even so, he did not want to see the lady he had always admired reduced to being someone else's nameless and unrecognized lover.

"He is definitely not the Shogun..."

Mariko said quietly:

"But look at the guests who have come to the banquet tonight! Officials from the New York judicial and municipal governments, members of the city council and even the state legislature, star reporters and lawyers, star traders and investment bank CEOs from Wall Street, business tycoons, and even..."

She glanced at the mustachioed man who was chatting and laughing with Li Xingzhou:
"That richest man in America, and also one of the most powerful men in America, is also his close friend despite their age difference... Don't forget, even the Emperor once bowed before the generals of this country. And he will eventually become the king who rules this land, I have no doubt about it."

(End of this chapter)