Karu looked at Richard’s soul-strapping gaze and trembled.
He couldn’t suppress his fluctuating emotions even after he took a few deep breaths.
That was the true ruler of Twilight City!
No matter what the situation was, he brought hope.
“Yes, my Lord! I’ll go get it immediately!”
He bowed again and turned to leave with excitement as soon as he finished speaking.
Footsteps sounded afterward.
Master Karu returned with seven or eight guardian mummies.
They carried a strange blood coffin, and the terrifying aura gave people a strong sense of intimidation.
The blood coffin was closed but still gave people mindblowing pressure.
It was like an evil god of the abyss slept in the coffin and would break out of its shell in the next moment.
‘Bang!’
The blood coffin slowly landed on the ground. The surrounding soldiers immediately raised their vigilance and stared at it with empty eyes.
The atmosphere became very heavy.
Richard’s eyes flashed.
The blood coffin had crossed the spatial passageway to help the [Steamed Bun Lover] wipe out the beastmen.
He found this blood coffin in the dwarf’s treasure vault.
Inside, a transcendent vampire archduke slept.
Richard pondered and opened the Black Gold System.
[Blood Coffin]
[The vampire archduke sleeps inside, and one cannot awaken it.]
[1. You can collect holy water, life water, and light gemstones to kill the opponent.]
[2. One can place it in fresh blood to allow it to drink and recover its strength.]
[3. Drinking fresh blood could help it recover its strength.]
Richard shook his head after a moment of silence.
Twilight City comprised undead mummies, so there was no blood.
As for the ordinary residents? That wouldn’t be enough.
‘The archduke vampire drank blood to recover. How much power did ordinary people have?’
He wouldn’t sacrifice thousands of people.
He thought for a while. He suddenly thought of something, and his eyes lit up.
“Tower race!”
There were currently more than 50 children in this race, but these children were not human.
Each was four to five meters tall and had strong muscles all over their bodies. They were all level 15 and above.
It shouldn’t be a problem for them to donate some blood.
However, just to be safe.
Richard still ordered his men to go to the underworld and bring a troop of dungeon barbarians over.
The barbarians in the dungeon were genuine lifeforms, and their blood surged with thick energy.
The herald left for the underground world after Richard gave the order.
Bloodhoof City had been on high alert because of the order from Richard.
Several troops immediately passed through the two-way portal after they received the order and headed to Twilight City through the land of quicksand.
It was already late at night when they had prepared everything.
Outside Twilight City.
Dozens of Tower warriors, each about four to five meters tall, stood before the giant sandpit.
A blood coffin stood quietly in the center of the sandpit. That shocked several people.
It gave them a strong sense of discomfort.
Richard looked at it a few more times. He felt his hair stand on end.
Then, barbarians in the dungeon filled dozens of floors further.
There was no noise in the air. Instead, it was highly peaceful.
One can only hear the crowd breathing.
The cold moon hung on the side of the clouds like a millstone.
The silver-white light poured down like mercury. It covered the entire desert with a layer of silver gauze.
Yellow sand surrounded the majestic figure in the sky. The figure stood calmly. It looked down at everyone.
Richard gave the order slowly when everything was ready.
“Let’s move.”
He finished speaking.
The Tower race members stood before the sandpit, unhesitatingly picked up the giant daggers, and slit them against their wrists.
‘Puchi!’
The blood from their wrists was like a fountain as it splattered out.
Ordinary people couldn’t do this, but the divine body of the Tower race was severely mighty. The blood pressure in their bodies was not something other lifeforms could compare to.
More than a dozen Tower race members moved at the same time.
Immediately, a thick smell of blood filled the air.
That gave people a strange sense of terror under the moonlight.
Blood dripped into the sand pit, but the dried sand pit did not absorb the blood. Instead, grains were like steel and rock that channeled the blood to slide across and flow toward the blood coffin in the center.
A minute later, more than a dozen Tower warriors retreated with pale faces. They turned around and left the sandpit with some weakness. They followed the path that was left behind and left the crowd.
The Tower warriors at the back took turns to fill in the gaps.
‘Puchi!’
The sharp blade slashed across their wrists, and blood splattered again.
Fifty Tower race members or more with vast bodies finished donating blood, and the wide sandpit had already covered the bottom.
The collected blood had soaked one-third of the blood coffin.
The Tower race left, and the barbarians in the dungeon behind them began to move.
The size of the prison barbarians was not as exaggerated as that of the Tower race, but one still could not underestimate their two meters average height.
‘Thud!’
Blood splashed in different directions.
Blood gradually filled the sand pit on the ground.
Thousands of warriors and barbarians left the blood collection area with pale faces. Their accumulated blood submerged the blood coffin at this moment.
The blood coffin had been silent all this while and suddenly emitted an evil and brutal aura.
It was like a severely dark life awakened.
‘Gu gu gu!’
Bubbles appeared in the blood pool. That added a lot of terrifying aura to the already strange scene.
The prison barbarians behind felt highly uneasy, and there was a faint commotion.
However, the commotion immediately calmed down and blood flowed when they saw that the voice in the sky didn’t move.
Richard’s reputation in the underworld had already reached the level of a god. He could still be an immense motivator without saying a word.
A living flag and benchmark.
One thousand, two thousand… Eight thousand, ten thousand…
The last barbarian soldier left the blood pool with a pale face.
Blood deluged the giant sandpit.
Due to the different rules of the “Shining Era,” the amount of blood in the bodies of these life forms was far more than that of the life forms on Planet Blue.
And more importantly, the blood contained boundless energy.
The dungeon barbarians were all high-level warriors above level 10.
There was also the blood of tens of thousands of high-level warriors and tens of Tower warriors.
Blood comprised energy that could make a person explode.
At this moment, a dense mana tide had already appeared above the blood pool.
It even caused several city wall guardian mummies to turn their heads.
Dead souls didn’t crave blood, but the negative energy contained in it was an immeasurable supplement for a soul.
‘Gu gu gu!’
The bubbles in the blood pool grew increasingly vast.
The aura that emitted from it became increasingly soul-tormenting.
Richard could sense that the blood coffin devoured the power of the blood and that it awakened the sleeping life.
The Archduke of the Vampire race, a transcendent.
Evil has returned.
‘Buzz!’
‘Rustle!’
Suddenly, a strange cry and flapping wings sounded in the sky.
Richard turned to look.
Palm-sized creatures with wings, sharp teeth, and claws flew over.
“Bats!”
‘Buzz!’
The ear-piercing sound made people feel extremely uncomfortable.
The bats from nowhere danced wildly above the blood pool.
That gave off a soul-stirring, mind-boggling impact.
Everyone in the “Shining Era” would associate bats with vampires.
That was because these living beings that walked in the darkness were the symbols of cruelty. Some powerful vampires could even transform into bats and fly.
A few minutes of silent perception had passed, and Richard slowly descended beside the blood pool.
He focused his gaze.
The energy in the bubbling blood pool quickly thinned at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Before long, it would sink to the bottom and lose its energy.
But the sleeping existence in the blood coffin had yet to awaken.
The amount of energy required to become a transcendent was simply too massive.
Richard was amazed.
Even tens of thousands of people could not satisfy the other party’s needs.
Was this the transcendent?
He pondered momentarily and waved his hand. Thumb-sized crystals appeared out of thin air and emitted a nerve-cracking negative aura.
There were numerous undead crystals.
There was still a lot of this thing left.
Each contained a vast amount of negative energy.
He just didn’t know if it would work.
Richard unhesitatingly grabbed at the blood pool.
‘Plop!’
They could hear the sound of pebbles thrown into the water.
The undead crystals exploded when they came into contact with the blood. The energy inside surged overlapping waves and fused with the surrounding blood.
That was significant!
Richard immediately became alert when he sensed that the energy of the blood recovered.
He began to pour several undead crystals.
He threw thousands inside.
He only stopped when all the survivors were gone.
But even now, the existence in the blood coffin still showed no signs of waking up.
Richard frowned.
He pondered. He slowly took out a sharp blade and slammed it to his wrist. Golden blood flowed out.
The entire desert seemed to come alive at the same time.
Waves of majestic energy that surged from the surrounding yellow sand followed his blood into the blood pool.
The blood pool devoured the sand lord’s portion of yellow sand power, and then sublimation and transformation happened.
Richard had become a life blessed by the desert of death.
His every move affected the desert.
The blood pool became tender and beautiful after it received the majestic energy.
The characteristic of vampires was that they used blood as a medium to devour energy.
Richard’s blood finally broke the camel’s back.
‘Gu gu gu!’
The bubbles in the blood pool began to burst.
The commotion was more than ten times greater than before.
At the same time, a brutal aura ten times more ferocious than before gushed out.
That vampire that had slept for unknown longevity rose.
Good fortune comes to the heart.
Richard subconsciously took out the Contract Scroll.
He smeared the fresh blood on the scroll and injected his soul power.
Then, he gently threw the Contract Scroll into the blood pool.
It was like the contract scroll had a life of its own. It dazzlingly exploded after it fell into the blood pool.
It fell directly onto the blood coffin.
In the next moment, countless inscriptions floated on the Contract Scroll. Then, those inscriptions turned into nothingness and penetrated the blood coffin. They fused into it.
The glow of the Contract Scroll dimmed and turned into a piece of waste paper when all the runes disappeared.
‘Kacha!’
Cracks suddenly appeared on the blood coffin.
The evil and brutal aura that already surged increased by a hundredfold.
The entire heaven and earth dimmed at this moment.
The moonlight that brought peace and serenity to the people in the sky turned extremely cold at this moment.
It was as if one had become the servant of darkness.
‘Bang!’
A fist pierced through the crack-filled coffin.
The dull sound was like a heavy drum that thumped one’s heart. That caused one’s mind to tremble.
The pale white fist was so eye-catching in the blood pool. It had become translucent due to the loss of energy.
Richard’s pupils constricted as he stared at the bottom of the pool.
However, something happened before he could see the next scene.
‘Kacha!’
The crack-shrouded blood coffin exploded.
A black shadow broke through the blood pool like lightning and rushed into the sky at a speed difficult to catch with the naked eye.
The surrounding soldiers who had yet to leave looked up subconsciously.
‘Thud!’
The black lightning suddenly spread its wings in the air.
Blood splattered in the air.
That evil and brutal aura was like thousands of surging rivers.
The extraordinary aura crushed everyone’s hearts without any restraint.
Heaven and earth fell silent.
That gave rise to the transcendents of Twilight City.
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