Please be my partner.

The Reginal family's castle is naturally not as simple as it seems. It is a war weapon built over thousands of years and with countless manpower and material resources since the Reginal family moved here.

From the gargoyle sculptures on the outermost perimeter to the various magic arrays, mechanisms, and traps inside the castle, it can be said that as long as the Reginal family relies on this castle, they can resist enemies that are several times their number in a short period of time.

The ancient stone key in Mellen's hand is the key to controlling the castle.

In the end, Carmine was angry but dared not speak out.

After squeezing out every last bit of value from Carmine, Mellen ignored him and said to everyone, "As I said before, I'm here to lead the Reginal family to give away everything that belongs to us. In this process, the other three families in the Bell Realm will become our enemies. So, let me ask..."

"Anyone want to object?!"

Everyone looked at each other, and no one said anything.

At this moment, a person sitting at the end of the long table suddenly stood up and shouted, "We must resolutely obey the will of the clan leader!"

The people around that person were startled by this sudden incident, and then the others looked at the former with some contempt.

Melen chuckled and said, "You are... Ernie? The captain of the third squad of the family guard?"

Erni didn't expect that Melen actually knew him. His face flushed with excitement and he shouted, "Yes, Chief!"

Mellen nodded in satisfaction and said, "You are very good and energetic. I am planning to form a special assault combat team. Do you have the confidence to be the captain?"

Erni was stunned at first, then he said happily: "Master, I have confidence, please leave it to me!"

At this time, all those who had despised and ridiculed him before became envious.

Mellen laughed in his heart, as the saying goes, a horse's bones are worth a thousand gold coins, this is exactly the truth.

Next, Mellen announced a series of personnel changes with lightning speed. The power of those who had previously expressed their support for him was more or less increased. At the same time, he also inserted the people he brought with him into the family system, while the original Carmine family lost a large number of key positions.

The most important of these is naturally the intelligence system, which Mellen has firmly grasped in his hands.

Mellen didn't consider the priority of ability at all. He just wanted to use this nepotism method to tell everyone that only by getting close to him can they get more power.

This method is simple and crude, and has many hidden dangers, but Mellen doesn't care. He didn't come here to really help the Reginal family revive, but he has a clear goal.

In order to achieve this goal faster, some extraordinary measures must be used.

After quickly assigning the tasks, Melen looked around and said concisely: "Ladu stays, the meeting is adjourned!"

After everyone left, Ladu looked at the figure sitting in the patriarch's seat. It was hard to reconcile the figure with the one who was full of vigor and vitality at first but later became decadent and lonely.

Melen also looked at Radu. Strictly speaking, the latter was Cruzerai's rival in the family back then, but the past was of no significance now.

Melen said, "Ladu, you are responsible for connecting with those vassal families, right?"

Ladu nodded with a somewhat gloomy expression.

Because the Reginal family was suppressed by the other three families, the original vassal families were either bribed by the three families or felt that it was profitable, and began to disobey the Reginal family in secret.

The loss of continued support from these small families was also one of the reasons for the gradual decline of the Reginal family.

Mellen said calmly, "I will take action against the Bonaparte family within ten days. Don't say I didn't give those vassal families a chance. If they can double the tributes they've owed me over the years in ten days, I'll forgive them. Otherwise, you should know what to do, right?"

Ladu's expression gradually became ferocious, and he said hatefully, "Don't worry, Chief. I will make them understand your majesty!"

Chapter 488 The Power of Thunder

After everyone left, Mellen began to review his actions over the past few days.

Seizing control of the Reginal family is the first step in his plan. He needs this family, which is not the top one in the entire vampire world, but is also the strongest one below the top one, as a springboard to complete the entire plan.

In this process, it is also essential to obtain enough intelligence.

Melen did not forget the revelation given by fate that the black trace that swept everything began to appear from the edge of the blood. In other words, the area where the black first appeared should be in the small worlds outside the blood clan world.

It is naturally impossible for Mellen to confirm each of those small worlds one by one, but if he can regain control of the small families under the Reginal family, and even the affiliated families of the other three major families, it is equivalent to having spies in many small worlds, and perhaps he can discover some clues.

Recovering his thoughts, Melen began to consider matters related to the Bonaparte family. As the undisputed strongest of the four major families in the Bell world, it must have some background.

Although Melen had no doubt that he could deal with the Bonaparte family, it was not so easy to suppress it in a short period of time, and it required careful planning.

…………

While Mellen began to implement his plan step by step, Wright encountered some unexpected...'troubles'.

Wright sat on a gorgeous chair, his chin supported by one hand, with a melancholy expression.

Dennis stood not far from Wright, with a strange expression on his face, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Further below, a number of important members of the Aleksa family knelt on the ground, looking at Wright with a fanaticism that was almost burning people.

The reason why it became like this can be traced back to a few days ago.

For a legendary strong man like Wright, it is actually very simple to hide from being discovered by the outside world. He can just hide in a remote mountain forest and cut off any contact with the outside world. Unless the enemy has a powerful prophetic ability, how can he be found?

Of course, when people exist in this world, they naturally have many demands. If we trace back these demands, it is difficult not to reveal our true intentions.

Just like Wright, his goal must be to leave this world full of the influence of the Aleksa family as soon as possible, and the latter naturally understands this.

Therefore, when Dennis was checking the security of the channel, he was noticed by the Aleksa family.

At first, the Aleksa family did not confirm the connection between Dennis and Wright. It was only after eliminating other targets one by one and obtaining more intelligence that they confirmed this.

What happened next was very simple. Aleksa personally led the elite members of the family to block the two people who were secretly meeting.

In fact, it’s not Dennis’ fault for being careless. He really didn’t expect that the Aleksa family could do this.

Facing Alekasa's eyes that said 'Brother, you smell so good', Wright felt a chill and at the same time made up his mind that no matter why the former kept staring at him, he would never let the other party off even if he had to blow himself up in the end.

The only thing that made Wright feel a little regretful was that he had implicated his good brother Dennis.

As for suspecting that the latter betrayed himself?

Wright had never thought of it this way, because Dennis was different from the others. He was one of the original members of their adventure team and a true friend who had shared life and death with them.

However, Dennis was not interested in their idea of forming a new faction to change the kingdom, so he kept wandering and adventuring, and finally left the Blue and Green Realm early and entered the heavens to adventure.

The battle started peacefully, but ended hastily and strangely.

Just when Wright was about to make a move with the idea that killing one would not be a loss and killing two would be a huge profit, he suddenly discovered that his dark power, which had been transformed by the black gem, had an unexpected characteristic.

When Wright's dark power entered the bodies of those vampires, it overwhelmed their defenses with overwhelming force and quickly completed the erosion.

All the vampires who were corrupted became Wright's fanatical puppets and obeyed his orders.

Just like that, a battle that was bound to end in death ended abruptly with Wright's expression bewildered.

In the next few days, the entire Aleksa family fell, leading to the current scene.

After a simple experiment, Wright also discovered that his corrosive ability was not effective against all life forms, but only against dark life forms, and the vampires were precisely dark life forms.

After realizing this, both Wright and Dennis breathed a sigh of relief.

But now, a new problem lies before us...

Dennis looked at Wright, who looked worried, and asked curiously, "Isn't it good now? What are you still worried about?"

Wright said helplessly, "That's not good at all. You know what my power means to dark beings. Once it's exposed, the consequences will be disastrous."

Dennis also became more serious and said, "So what do you think? Stay? Or leave?"

Wright shook his head and said, "I can't leave!"

Wright pointed at several members of the Aleksa family, who looked even more humble.

"Those few are even stronger than me. My current dark power can only temporarily suppress them. It can't completely destroy them like those weaker than me. If I don't replenish them for a long time, the dark power will be eliminated and repelled by their own body power, allowing them to recover."

"That is to say, if we leave like this, it won't be long before we face the full pursuit of the entire vampire clan."

Dennis's face showed a cruel look, and he said, "Then let's just go all out! Cut off the roots and put an end to it once and for all!"

Wright still shook his head. "That won't work. Not to mention the many vampire families in this world. Although they're secretly hostile to each other, they're still on good terms on the surface. The destruction of one family is too conspicuous."

"More importantly, the vampire class system is top-down. The Aleksa family is actually a vassal of a powerful family in a medium-sized world, and the latter family has a saint in charge."

"If anything happens to the Alekasa family, that powerful family will definitely come to investigate. The Alekasa family has been making a lot of noise trying to capture me lately, leaving too many traces. If they investigate carefully, I will definitely be exposed."

"This dark force is powerful, but once you start using it, you're immediately trapped."

Dennis scratched his head and said irritably, "This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either. What should I do?!"

After a moment of silence, Wright said, "Dennis, go away before you get hurt..."

Before Wright could finish, Dennis shouted angrily, "Wright, what bullshit are you talking about! Am I that kind of person?!"

Wright's face was calm as he said, "Do you remember the rules when we were adventuring?"

Dennis's expression froze and he murmured, unable to speak.

Wright continued, "If a companion is in danger, you should save them if you can, but if you can't, you should prioritize your own safety. There's no need to make unnecessary sacrifices."

"And now, it's the latter situation."

Seeing that Dennis remained silent, Wright's expression softened and he said, "Don't worry, it's not that easy to kill me. I already have a plan to save myself, and I need your help."

Dennis suddenly looked up, his eyes burning.

Light chuckled and said, "My ability has absolute suppression power over dark life forms that are weaker than me. In that case..."

His tone turned fierce. "Then let's just do something big! Leverage the Aleksa family's wealth to boost my strength. At the same time, I'll try to erode the other vampire families in this world. Once I control the entire world, it won't be so easy to expose myself. This will also buy me more time!"

Although Dennis was terrified, his eyes lit up and he said viciously, "Go ahead!"

Then he asked with some doubt: "What do you need me to do?"

Wright said: "The resources I collected from the blood clan are not necessarily suitable for my use. I need to use your channels to help me exchange them."

Dennis immediately patted his chest and promised, "Leave it to me! I haven't been around for nothing all these years."

Wright stood up and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window. The bright moonlight surrounded him in a hazy halo.

Under tremendous external pressure, Wright regained his long-lost fighting spirit and passion, and a flame of ambition burned in his eyes.

If I can conquer this little world, then perhaps I can do so much more!

…………

“People, if you don’t push yourself sometimes, you really don’t know how much potential you can unleash.”

When Melen saw the information in his hand, he couldn't help but sigh.

The cause of the incident was the position of captain of the special assault team that Mellen promised at the family's high-level meeting. In addition to rewarding the first family member who approached him with a huge sum of money, his original intention was to find a local who was familiar with the environment of the Bell Realm.

The so-called special assault combat team, whose main members are naturally the group of legendary peak blood demons brought by Melen, but it is obviously impossible to let them form a team alone, otherwise if Melen gives the task, it will probably take them a lot of time just to find the target location.

Therefore, it is only natural that members of the Reginal family are mixed into this combat team.

What Mellen didn't expect was that captain Ernie did much better than he expected.

Melen only needed to give the mission, and Ernie would formulate corresponding tactics according to the actual situation of the target. Not only did he complete each mission extremely well, he also used his subjective initiative to predict the reaction of the Bonaparte family in advance and carried out several beautiful ambushes and counter-ambushes.

That's right, ever since Melen declared war on the Bonaparte family on behalf of the Reginal family five days ago, he began a full-scale attack on the latter.

As the undisputed number one family in the Bell world, the Bonaparte family was naturally shocked and angry, but before they could react further, they were stunned by a series of actions by the Reginal family and could only cope with it in a panic.

The other two families couldn't figure out what was going on, so they were temporarily watching from the sidelines. However, according to the intelligence Mellen had obtained, messengers from the Bonaparte family had been frequently entering and leaving the two families, and it shouldn't be too far away for the three major families to reach a consensus.

After all, ever since the Reginal family was criticized by the Thirteen Clans, although it was only verbal, it was an extremely obvious signal.

Since then, isolating the Reginal family has become the tacitly accepted 'correct' behavior by the three major families.

Now that the Reginal family has suddenly launched an attack, no matter if they have gone insane or have some kind of trump card in hand, the three major families will not allow the former to rise.

The reason why the other two families have not made a move yet is simply because they want to gain more benefits in the upcoming "feast". Even the Bonaparte family thinks so.

However, Mellen will not give them so much time. What he wants is to destroy the entire Bell world with one blow!

Cote d'Azur, City of Waves.

This coastal city is prosperous and bustling, with tall buildings and crowds of people. The beach is bathed in warm sunshine, and the clear sea water reflects beautiful light on the beach. The dock is bustling with people, and it looks extremely busy.

On a high coastal cliff not far from Botao City, there is a huge ancient castle, which belongs to the Bonaparte family.

Because many family leaders and important strongholds were frequently attacked during this period, the Bonaparte family also began to mobilize manpower to deal with the aggressive Reginald family.

At this time, almost all the senior members of the Bonaparte family gathered in the castle to discuss countermeasures.

Just as the top members of the Bonaparte family were arguing fiercely about something, the sky was unknowingly covered by a layer of dark clouds, and gradually, these dark clouds turned blood red.

By the time someone realized something was wrong, it was already too late. A fierce beast roar came from the blood cloud, and then it turned into a ferocious beast and rushed straight towards the castle.

Puppet constructs, magic circle protection, weapon attacks, all of these are useless.

"Boom!~"