Chapter 20 Rise Of The Blood Fiends

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Ch.20 Rise Of The Blood Fiends _____ [ MONARCH'S MESSAGE ] This chapter is slightly gruesome, so for the viewers of faint hearts; beware. _____ Naturally, the humans were shocked. For a few seconds they couldn’t even comprehend what they were being told. Kill one another? It didn’t make sense. Why should they kill each other? Didn’t you kill for food? Why... But the confusion passed and then they were soon angry. How could he possibly ask them to kill each other! The previous leader was the first to start growling, waving his arms in protest. Even baring his teeth and taking a threatening step forwards like he intended to fight. He was smart and knew that the others would back him up if he started a fight with this villain. He wasn’t wrong. The others started to surround the Crying Ghost in preparation to take him down. Glee filled the old leader’s heart. He had always been miffed about the fact that his position was taken but there was now an opportunity to take it back! With a wide grin on his mouth he- SHICK! ‘???’ The old leader didn’t even manage to think a final thought before his head rolled off his body, blood gushing out of his neck as his body collapsed. “EEEEARRH!” The humans screamed in fear, running back from the corpse of their old leader and his killer. Crying Ghost flicked his weapon causing blood to fly out and stain the grass. With a sinister grin on his face, he bent down and began to feast on the corpse of the old leader, striking terror in the hearts of the viewers. Unfortunately, not all were disgusted. It suddenly occurred to them that if other predators can use them for food, why can’t they eat each other if need be? Some of them actually had the light of greed shine in their eyes as they watched, but they didn’t dare to act, the power of Crying Ghost terrified them far too much. But when Crying Ghost finished eating, licking the blood on his fingers and stood up in satisfaction, pointing towards them and signifying them to partner up and fight - the greedy ones suddenly understood and became excited. In this process, the ‘humans’ became stronger and stronger, but at the same time, they became a lot more vicious. At this point, even if Crying Ghost didn’t order them to kill anymore, they would still go out to perform mass genocides. The reason being the fact that their instincts told them so. At this stage of their primitive lives. Instincts developed and vanished like rain in a storm. So it was understandable for them to so easily forget their foraging lives and move on to the path of executioners. And this was extremely terrifying because instincts were a living being's foundation. No matter what morals you developed in the future, it would always align with your instincts in some way. So when you have a sinister instinct like: kill anything, even your own family for power, lives are just resources - you can only turn out to be an evil person. Like this, life continued and terror spread across the entire forest. Soon, the magical outburst arrived, causing grand changes to the human marauders that seemed to make it their mission to destroy peace, and it went without saying that there was no way these fiends could end up remaining regular humans. Crying Ghost roared out in pain as massive changes occurred in his body. First, his skin peeled off, an eerie pale skin replacing the old. Next, his nails and teeth sharpened like that of a beast. His body started to grow, reaching a whopping 2 metres tall. His hair became the colour of crimson blood and last but certainly not least, his eyes became completely red. Not only were they red but they even shone like stars, causing any viewer to shiver with fear. This transformation repeated itself in all of his followers, only, they didn’t grow like him, nor did they gain red hair. But they all gained the red eyes, pale skin, sharp claws and shark-like teeth of their progenitor. Behind him was the vague illusion of a blood-curdling red sea. This was the hair-raising result of Crying Ghost establishing mana using the blood element and entering body refining stage 1. (First realm of human cultivation) When their transformation was over, they all looked at one another, feeling the slight intimacy and affinity of blood that they each had, then they looked at their now extremely handsome progenitor that made this all happen. They then started to scream out loud in celebration, respect and reverence in their eyes. If they knew how, they would probably be prostrating themselves. After that, they continued to hunt. However this time, it wasn’t just to become strong. It was for pleasure. Yes, they now found pleasure in the act of killing as if it were a game. Definitely the influence of Crying Ghost. All of them had sinister looks in their spine-chilling eyes as they cut down their prey and sucked out their blood and disregarded the flesh. Something they did after the taste of blood became like nectar to them, making the taste of flesh dogshit in comparison. Thanks to their new constitution, they didn’t need solid food to survive anymore. As a matter of fact, not only could they live on blood. Their efficiency in absorbing essence from blood had become 90% (Only Crying Ghost had 100%). This was a dramatic increase from their earlier 5%, causing their strength to rise stupendously. Although other species could absorb the essence in blood, it was woefully inefficient and caused about 95% of it to be lost. No one with brains would do that. But this was how these fiends came to be and in the end, it paid off. They were now gifted with 90% efficiency in absorbing blood. What a terrifying thought. As these evil creatures ran around the forest causing most of it to be coloured red with blood, only one thought came to Eridel who watched the sequences of events from the World Archive. ‘Blood Fiends...’

Chapter 20 Rise Of The Blood Fiends

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