Nobody knows how to be a villain better than me.

The closer they got to the village, the more impatient Arcueid became. He looked up at the sun, which was gradually being swallowed by the horizon, and got up to urge them on.

However, as Bai Ji strode toward the east end of the village, Samael grabbed her shoulder from behind and whispered a playful murmur into her ear.

"That child just now, I think his name was... Noel?"

In the village, wisps of smoke rise from the chimneys, and a sweet aroma of cream mixed with sugar wafts from the bakery, whetting the appetite.

At the table, a little girl with short, blue hair and a white apron around her waist was standing on a small stool, carefully kneading a piece of dough into the shape of an adorable animal.

"Irecia!"

Just as the little rabbit on the cutting board was beginning to take shape, a sudden banging on the door and urgent cries made the blue-haired girl in front of the cutting board tremble and crush the rabbit's head.

"Noel! What are you yelling about! You idiot, how are you going to make it up to me!"

The blue-haired little girl jumped off the stool in a flurry, her face ashen, and grabbed her peer who was panting heavily by the door, gritting her teeth as she questioned him.

"Pay me a head off! Arecia, have you run off and done something bad again? There are two strange people outside the village, especially that blonde woman with red eyes, she looks really fierce! If you don't want to get caught, you'd better run!"

Noel rolled her eyes at her neighbor, who was a head taller than her, and irritably pulled her hand away, giving her a huffy reminder.

Although this guy was known in the village for his bad temper and violence, and would resort to violence at the slightest provocation, often taking advantage of his precocious physique to beat up children several years older than her until they were bruised and swollen, Noelle couldn't say she liked this neighbor of the same age.

But considering that Arecia's parents often gave her snacks, and in order not to make things difficult for the kind uncle and aunt, she couldn't betray this troublemaker.

blonde hair...red eyes...

In an instant, these two special keywords seemed to trigger a warning switch deep within Arecia's mind, causing the blue-haired loli at the door to narrow her pupils and instinctively rush outside.

However, the moment she stepped across the threshold, the blue-haired little girl froze on the spot, gazing wistfully at the two figures that appeared in front of the door.

"You...you didn't go to the east, did you?"

Hearing the noise, Noel instinctively turned around, looked at the familiar couple in astonishment, and stammered a question.

"Lying is bad behavior..."

Samael scolded in a low voice, then turned his gaze to the little girl with blue hair and blue eyes, and smiled with narrowed eyes.

"However, I still want to thank you for showing me the way, little Noel."

laugh!

At that moment, as the ancient serpent murmured, the little girl named Arecia's deep blue eyes flashed with a blood-red light. Suddenly, she sprang up, grabbed the oblivious Noel beside her with one hand, and hurled him forward without mercy.

Samael's gaze sharpened, and he immediately stepped in front of Noel, catching the little girl who had been caught in the commotion.

"Roya, don't even think about running away!"

Arcueid, standing nearby, roared and, without hesitation, gave chase to his nemesis who had turned and fled.

"Stay home and don't go out!"

Then, the ancient snake solemnly gave a few instructions, put the terrified little girl on the ground, turned around and rushed rapidly in the direction where the two had disappeared.

At the same time, a slender figure appeared in the dense forest outside the village, parted a thick layer of branches and leaves, and looked at the Citroën hidden underneath, its blood-red eyes gleaming eerily.

found it……

Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Perfect Red King (4.4k)

Whoosh!Whoosh!

Sharp whistling sounds rang out one after another as two figures, enveloped in crimson arcs of light, darted and chased each other through the dense forest. Wherever they passed, it was as if a category 12 typhoon had been unleashed, with vegetation being destroyed and sand and gravel crumbling.

At this moment, as the blood energy was stimulated, the little girl named Arecia's originally azure eyes turned crimson, and another consciousness hidden within her soul quietly surfaced.

That woman found us so quickly! She's like a persistent ghost!

Damn, this is too rushed, nothing is ready yet...

The little girl, Arecia—no, to be precise, Michael Roya Faldanyan, the Serpent of Agatha—turned back to look at the blood-red light and shadow that was relentlessly pursuing her, her brow furrowed, and she cursed inwardly.

As the infamous "Reincarnated Infinite One," after his own death, he transfers his soul information to a chosen child. When the victim grows to a certain age, he corrupts the child's soul and transforms the body into a Dead Apostle. This is the special ability that made Roja famous.

In fact, he has used this technique to successfully evade more than ten attempts to kill his nemesis Arcueid.

The body destroyed by this White Princess on Eminmego Island several years ago was his fifteenth generation vessel.

Generally speaking, the primary condition for the reincarnation target chosen by Roya is high social status. This way, after he gradually gains control of the body, he can use the victim's identity and resources to quickly take control of the local area. The physical qualities of the target are secondary considerations.

However, because the disintegration of his body was too sudden during that battle, Roya did not have time to choose a reincarnation body. Therefore, he could only rely on the pre-inscribed spell on Aimingmego Island to spread blood seeds and create chaos while randomly transferring his soul to a body.

This is Eresia, the daughter of an ordinary baker in a remote French village.

According to the usual practice of reincarnation, because the baby's body is too fragile, and because he has consumed a lot of soul power in the ritual, after completing the soul copying, he needs to sleep for a period of time to allow his own soul to slowly and completely penetrate and transform the host body until it is completely eroded. That is when he will awaken again.

To avoid leaving any hidden dangers, this process often lasts for several years.

However, to Roya's surprise, Arcueid, who usually returned to the Thousand-Year City to hide after beating him up, had chosen to stay in the human world for several years due to someone's abduction. He had even attached himself to the Council and used the power of this super organization to search for his reincarnation all over the world.

Therefore, before Arecia reached adulthood, her consciousness was completely assimilated, and a few days ago, her consciousness surfaced and she made abnormal moves, so Roya was discovered by the council's intelligence personnel.

As a result, just a few days later, Arcueid, who had come seeking revenge, chased him to his lair and blocked his door.

Due to his extensive experience fighting against this White Princess, Roja's consciousness was awakened by the emergency mechanism.

However, by forcibly awakening his original consciousness and controlling this unfamiliar body, Luo Ya's accumulated soul power was naturally consumed rapidly.

Even in his prime, he couldn't defeat the princess behind him, let alone in his current severely weakened state.

So, realizing something was wrong, this scumbag made a clean and efficient escape.

boom!

With a deafening crash, a petite figure landed on her knees in a cemetery filled with tombstones outside the village, her slender right palm striking the ground. Blood-red, serpentine patterns, like veins, rapidly spread in all directions.

"Asshole, don't even think about running away!"

In an instant, a deadly sound came from behind. Luo Ya dared not linger and immediately rushed into the dense forest.

Click!Click!

As Arcueid arrived, following the trail, the ground beneath his feet trembled violently, and the surrounding tombstones suddenly cracked open. One by one, figures of varying degrees of decay, emitting a foul stench, crawled out of the soil, dragging yellowish-green bodily fluids and scattered maggots, moaning as they rushed toward the vibrant life that had intruded into this cemetery.

Ghoul!

It is truly filthy that the church's secret methods of worshipping God and the association's magic of pursuing truth are being used to awaken the corpses of the dead.

What comes from dust should return to dust.

So, behave yourself and lie down!

Arcueid stomped his foot hard on the ground, and a tremor like an earthquake spread rapidly in all directions from him, instantly plowing through the entire cemetery. The blood-red magic circle that snaked through the mud collapsed and shattered.

The ghouls that surrounded them extinguished the ghostly flames in their eye sockets, and the broken bones, shriveled entrails, and rotting flesh wriggling with maggots were reburied in the tomb.

They've caught up again!

He hadn't run far when he sensed the aura behind him rapidly approaching again, and his scalp tingled.

"Roya, die!"

Along the way, even though he reacted quickly, he still couldn't make up for the gap in strength. Arcueid, with his superhuman physique, kept closing the distance. When he spotted his nemesis ahead, he was furious and roared as he swung his interlaced fingers down.

laugh!laugh!

In an instant, a strange, blood-red blade sliced ​​through the air, mercilessly severing the head and neck of the petite figure in front of it.

Counting secret patterns? Separating accumulated thunderbolts!

Feeling the sudden change in wind pressure behind him, Luo Ya couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine. He crossed his fingers in front of his chest, creating a series of hand seals. The surging magic power transformed into several purplish-red lightning bolts, intercepting the deadly blood-red blade.

Boom boom boom!

The two forces collided in mid-air, and the overwhelming shockwave swept around, creating gusts of air that uprooted trees within a radius of 100 meters.

Missing?

Arcueid stood proudly in mid-air, casually tearing apart a column of wind that swept in. He looked up at the empty area in front of him, his brows furrowed, and his thoughts spread like the tide. His scarlet eyes quickly landed on a certain spot on the edge of the explosion below.

Got you!

With a flash of dark light in Bai Ji's eyes, the giant sword in her hand, woven from magic and materialized from imagination, slashed down from the sky with a sharp whistling sound.

Lightning strike!

At the same time, a figure with nowhere to hide unleashed its magic once more, transforming into a fierce bolt of lightning and fleeing into the depths of the dense forest.

Trying to run away? Hmph!

Arcueid emitted a cold, nasal sound, and without thinking, accelerated the ether within her body, relentlessly pursuing her fleeing nemesis.

Under the full moon, two figures, one chasing and the other fleeing, rapidly advanced through the dense forest, resembling two eerie, blood-red rainbows in the darkness.

As they ventured deeper into the forest, wisps of white mist rose from the trees, making the surrounding scenery gradually appear somewhat indistinct.

Moreover, the branches and vines along the way seemed to have grown much more lush, which caused considerable trouble for Arcueid's pursuit, thus keeping him at a distance from the fleeing scoundrel.

Gradually, a strange sense of unease welled up in my heart.

Arcueid once again swung his hand, severing the tangled thorns and vines in front of him, abruptly halting his advance. Gazing at the still hazy distance ahead, the forest seemed to stretch on forever.

Wait a minute, she remembered that when she arrived, there wasn't such a large area of ​​forest near the village!

Whoosh whoosh!

Just as Shirahime realized she had stopped, the forest in the mist seemed to come alive. Vines, branches, roots, and thorns grew and spread wildly, overwhelming Arcueid in mid-air and instantly enveloping the unsuspecting Shirahime like a Venus flytrap.

From mid-air, Arcueid gazed down at the thousands of blood-red thorns that seemed to spring up from nowhere on the ground, and within the thick white fog, thousands of snake-like tendrils of blood-red thorns. Her pretty face gradually darkened, filled with a murderous aura, and she parted her dry lips to utter the true name of this monstrous thing.

“Fuhailin Anashu…”

Eight hundred years ago, Arcueid was a secret weapon forged by the Millennium City, mainly responsible for eradicating corrupt vampires in various places. At that time, she executed an ancestral vampire named "Anashu".

Unexpectedly, after the first Anashu died, his blood was absorbed by a blood-sucking plant, and thus the extraordinary monster "Fuhailin" was born.

It is a special vampire creature that can think for itself and hunt for prey. It appears approximately every fifty years, attacking humans who gather there and using its immense magical power to nurture the core that grows deep within it.

In the otherworldly forest that it transformed into, the connection with the "real world" was severed. This was something like a super-specific innate barrier, so it was difficult to define its size and range using the conventional five senses.

Furthermore, due to the obstruction of magic, casting spells within its affected area becomes virtually impossible.

In addition to its almost abnormal regenerative ability, Fu Hailin is a rather troublesome existence.

Whenever it appeared, the Holy Church would send people to try to destroy it, but all attempts failed. The City of a Thousand Years made a similar attempt, which also ended in failure.

In a sense, Arcueid and this monster have a deep connection and are considered old enemies.

But to Bai Ji's surprise, it seems that less than fifty years have passed since Fu Hailin last acted, and this thing has already awakened again, and even appeared outside that small town in France, seemingly entangled with her other nemesis, Luo Ya.

But what can Fu Hailin do? You think you can stop me?!

Arcueid gazed at the petite figure hidden in the dense forest, his heart filled with rage, and a surge of magical power erupted, forming a visible, raging crimson flame on his body.

boom!

In an instant, the violent blood light, like countless sharp swords, tore the vines that were gathering from all sides to shreds.

hum!

However, the moment Bai Ji broke through the thorny cage woven by Fu Hai Lin, a series of strange tremors came from below. The surrounding space became viscous and heavy, as if she were sinking into a swamp. Her five senses became increasingly dull, and her consciousness gradually sank and fell away from her body.

But as a combat weapon nurtured by the City of a Thousand Years, Arcueid's eyes flickered for a moment before she suddenly bit her cherry lips, using the slight stinging pain to instantly awaken her consciousness and stare down.

Suddenly, she was shocked to see clusters of blue-green phosphorescent flames emerging from all around, like sinister, peering eyes. Meanwhile, the previously invisible white mist in the forest had somehow coalesced into a visible vortex below.

As Arcueid relaxed his mind slightly, his consciousness began to uncontrollably feel out of his body, as if the vortex had opened a gate to hell that devoured souls.

The Predator Duke—Stanrob Coyne!

In an instant, a name long buried in her memory surged into her mind, and Bai Ji's expression turned somber.

Stanrob Coyne, also known as "The Street Eater" and "The First Dead".

That's right, this vampire, who was also of the [Ancestor] level, had his physical body destroyed by the Holy Church long ago.

However, its resentment still lingers, transforming into a vortex of power that destroys everything around it, and it seems to maintain its existence by constantly devouring the souls of other lives.

He and Fu Hailin, one preying on souls and the other devouring flesh and blood, clearly created a synergy where one plus one equals more than two.

Even Arcueid, caught off guard, nearly fell victim to the attack.

rustle!

Amidst the ear-piercing scraping sound, thousands of crimson thorns surged forth from the mist, frantically coiling around Arcueid in mid-air.