I Became the Progenitor Vampire
Chapter 385 - Chapter 385: Chapter 387: The Youth Who Lacks Martial Virtue is Torn Apart by the Evil God at the Land of Bone-Burying (6000 words)

Chapter 385: Chapter 387: The Youth Who Lacks Martial Virtue is Torn Apart by the Evil God at the Land of Bone-Burying (6000 words)

May 3rd, Dawn City.

After spring had arrived, the winter wheat’s growth skyrocketed, and now the ears of wheat had begun to take on a golden hue. Farmers on the Moonlight Plain were currently using the latest harvesting tools developed by the blacksmith’s workshop to cut the wheat, their faces beaming with joy as bright as the sunlight.

For most commoners, having land to farm, clothes to wear, and not facing threats to their lives already counted as great fortune.

This city, brimming with hope, experienced joyful changes every day.

In the new district, the newly constructed City Hall had been put into use.

This massive five-story, thirty-blade-high building had become the new landmark of Dawn City.

Now, most of the City Hall departments had moved into the new office building, and to facilitate the control and issuance of orders, Lide had also moved from his old office in the former City Hall.

Standing in his top-floor office, thirty blades high, Lide could see the edge of the new district, and even the farmers harvesting wheat on the Moonlight Plain.

It had been 20 days since the battle for Risier City, but the impact of this war on Dawn City was far from over.

“Harrison, has the Giant Army been retrieved from the island?”

“Sire, they have all been returned.”

Harrison reported respectfully from behind Lide.

After the battle of Risier City, the Centaur Army and the Giant Army retreated separately, with the Magic Language Bats transporting the Giants to the island controlled by the Fishman Tribe once they had withdrawn from the combat.

Meanwhile, the Centaur Army had fallen back to the Dwarf Hills and had temporarily suspended trade with Dawn City.

This was the most cautious course of action, taken to guard against any prying eyes on the Centaur and Giant Armies.

Lide had originally planned to observe for at least three months.

But plans could not keep up with changes; as a great number of Ancient Evil Gods emerged, the attention drawn by the battle for Risier City had been diverted.

Thus, after lying low for half a month and ensuring there was no danger, the Giants began to return to Dawn City.

Only when the entire Giant Army had returned did Lide feel that the war had truly come to an end.

“This time our dispatched Giant Army numbered 1,300, with 130 casualties, all Double-headed Ogres.

The Centaur Army totaled 125,000, with over 8,000 fallen.”

Lide nodded slightly upon hearing Harrison’s report. He had to admit that the army he had spent a vast amount of resources to build was indeed formidable.

While other armies suffered heavy losses or were entirely wiped out, the Centaurs’ casualties were less than 10%, which unequivocally demonstrated their strength.

As for zero casualties, that was merely a fantasy. This was a war where hundreds of thousands clashed; no one could predict what would happen in the next second. The hope of avoiding all deaths was sheer folly.

After his report, Harrison hesitated as if he remembered something, “Sire, we did not discover Lord Asreaga in the direction you mentioned…”

Lide’s brow furrowed. Asreaga had swiftly left Risier City after grabbing the God of Plague’s arm.

He had expected the other party would return to Dawn City, but Asreaga had vanished without a trace.

After concentrating, Lide sensed that the Divine Monster had entered a dormant state, seemingly undergoing some inscrutable metamorphosis.

Lide speculated that perhaps the seal on the God of Plague’s arm had ruptured mid-way, forcing Asreaga to directly absorb the power, resulting in his slumber.

But the Divine Power had concealed Asreaga’s presence, so Lide could not pinpoint his exact location. He could only send out a rough directive and dispatch personnel to search and hopefully discover a trace.

Therefore, they were now facing this situation.

“Continue deploying search teams. The divine arm on Asreaga is too important. Although his power is immeasurably strong, his sensitivity to the outside world must inevitably decline to rock-bottom while he sleeps. If he encounters the forces of the Light Sect, he might not be able to cope.”

“Yes, Sire!” Harrison responded with a stern expression.

Although Lide had delegated the task, he wasn’t overly concerned deep down. After all, the other was a Divine Monster who had survived since ancient times. He most likely had chosen a safe place before he fell asleep.

Dispatching search parties was a precaution. Without locating Asreaga, he could only increase the tolerance for error as much as possible, giving himself more room to maneuver.

Bang~Bang~

Suddenly, a knock at the door interrupted their conversation.

“Come in.”

Lide turned slightly as Emi entered the room.

“Good day, Sire.”

Upon entering, Emi immediately bowed respectfully, her chest tilting forward. The Shadow High Priest, who had returned to Dawn City after two and a half years, appeared excited and seemed quite exhilarated.

“Sire, I have found the way to break the seal of the divine head!”

Yes, it had been a full twenty days since Lide had acquired the divine head and still not broken its seal.

Lide had to acknowledge that his progress in researching the divine head wasn’t as swift as he had imagined.

The ancient seals handed down through the ages were exceedingly robust.

The Ancient Seal, crafted specifically to imprison an Evil God, was not something current magical seals could match.

Even though the seal’s power had significantly diminished over countless years, it was, after all, power meant to bind a god.

Thus, Lide was at an impasse, helplessly stuck for the time being.

There were only three ways to quickly break the seal: the first, naturally, was to find the correct method and unlock it directly.

The second was to tear apart the seal by brute force, where brute force referred to Divine Power level 30 or above.

The third was to use the Power of Faith to erode the seal. As a power only deities could wield, the Power of Faith was doubtlessly the trump card for breaking seals.

In principle, the third option was the best. However, the biggest contradiction lay in the fact that — there wasn’t enough Power of Faith.

Lide tentatively estimated that it would take at least a million units of the Power of Faith to break the seal, which was more than he had accumulated over the years.

So the third idea had to be abandoned. After researching for a couple of weeks without success, Lide, in a fit of anger, handed the problem over to Emi and the Magic Industry Research Institute for joint research.

This back and forth consumed a full 20 days.

“Oh? How should it be done?” Lide had been looking forward to the unsealing for so long that his excitement was indescribable,

His feeling before was much like finding a peerless secret manual in a martial arts novel after much hardship, only to prepare for cultivation and discover that it was written in an alien language that he couldn’t understand at all, which was a real pain in the ass.

A Divine head, this could be a chance to break through as a Transcendent…

Emi’s face was excited, yet her expression was a bit odd.

“Your Majesty, conventional forces are unable to break this seal; indeed, we’ve tried all methods to no avail. However, in the end, we discovered… You might be very surprised to know this method,”

Damn it, what’s this bastard hiding now? Lide gave Emi a fierce glance.

“Spit it out!”

Emi gave a sheepish smile and hurriedly spoke, but her next words made Lide’s eyes widen, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

“Your Majesty, it’s the Cow Bone Undead from the Land of Bone-Burying; it can help us break the seal…”

Looking at Emi’s serious expression, Lide’s face darkened; had he heard wrong? The Cow Bone Undead from the Land of Bone-Burying could help him break the seal on a Divine Body??

What kind of international joke was this? Apart from gnawing on bones, that damned Undead liked to build houses, and lately, it had taken an interest in constructing underground palaces, turning the subsurface of the Land of Bone-Burying into a labyrinth of tunnels.

And this thing could break the seal on a Divine Body? This had to be a joke, right?

Further, the Cow Bone Undead was only Level 14!

“Are you serious??”

At this moment, Lide truly doubted whether this guy’s brain had been kicked in by that cow…

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Emi’s expression too was a little subtle.

After so much effort, involving the smartest hundreds of Dawn City working day and night for half a month without a solution, the answer was ultimately found on a cow.

This, this seemed a bit embarrassing…

Lide looked at Emi, who spoke with such certainty, and calmed down. Thinking of the Cow Bone Undead’s odd behavior from the day he created it, he felt that it wouldn’t be too inconceivable for that damned Undead cow to pull this off… After all, that creature had never been normal.

“How did the Cow Bone Undead do it? Did it use its Soul Fire to melt the seal, or did it acquire some powerful Skill to destroy it?”

Emi looked embarrassed.

“No, neither… Your Cow Bone Undead is too powerful; it can directly gnaw on the seal…

By the Creator God, it’s simply shocking.

I witnessed the seal on the head of the Divine Body being bitten open by it, those Ancient Runes even being swallowed into its stomach…”

Emi’s explanation became more and more fantastical… but Lide couldn’t shake the feeling that this was definitely something that cow was capable of doing.

“Where is the Cow Bone Undead now?”

“We’ve already taken it to the Magic Industry Research Institute…”

“Let’s go and see for ourselves.”

Not wanting to dawdle, Lide stretched out his hand, opened the Space Gate, and, along with Emi and Harrison who hadn’t had the chance to speak, entered the Magic Industry Research Institute.

To unseal the skull of the God of Plague, during this time Lide allowed Emi, who had previously gained a portion of Divine Power, to utilize the resources of Dawn City.

Since conventional methods were useless, Emi made use of all sorts of strange things, and the Cow Bone Undead was just one of them.

Initially, Emi intended to let the Cow Bone Undead use its Soul Fire to infiltrate and destroy the seal from within, but to everyone’s surprise, the Cow Bone Undead just attacked it with its mouth…

By the time Lide appeared at the entrance of the Magic Industry Research Institute, the newly built industrial zone came into view.

The Magic Industry Research Institute covered an area of over 500 acres, with 30 research buildings, 20 workshops, and production bases, plus a large amount of land waiting for development.

More than 3,000 people lived and worked here daily, including Half-Elfs, goblins, Dwarfs, humans, Bloodlines, and even Beastman, One-eyed Giants, and Double-headed Ogres could be seen everywhere–it was practically a natural multi-race exhibition hall.

“Your Majesty, good day.”

Over a dozen Bloodline guards bowed respectfully upon seeing Lide.

Lide couldn’t be bothered with small talk and had Emi lead the way inside the Magic Industry Research Institute.

Due to the importance of the Magic Industry Research Institute, Lide personally ordered that no one should use the Space Gate of the Land of Bone-Burying to enter, and he made it a point to lead by example and not break his own orders.

After a series of turns, the three of them arrived at the central building that was 20 blades high, amidst respectful greetings.

In the clanking sound of the Magic Elevator, they went straight down to the third basement floor.

Inside a room protected by a Magic Array and Alchemy Traps, Lide saw the skull of the God of Plague that had been gnawed on by the Cow Bone Undead.

The Evil God’s skull was roughly the same size as a normal human head, but what was shocking was that pieces of the chilling Ancient Runes etched upon it were missing as if an ice popsicle had been bitten into, with the teeth marks strikingly clear.

At the moment, the Cow Bone Undead lay listlessly in a slightly empty corner, flicking its cow tail in boredom, seemingly yearning for its underground palace…

Upon seeing Lide, the Cow Bone Undead’s originally lethargic body vibrated suddenly, its head rose quickly, and then with a sudden jolt, it jumped up and lunged towards Lide.

Tap, tap–the sound of cow hooves crisply echoed.

Then, under everyone’s gaze, the Undead cow, a few blades away from Lide, abruptly came to a stop, its forelimbs and head pressed against the floor, and then under the momentum, it slid up right in front of Lide.

“Moo~”

The short tail flailed wildly, emitting a whooshing sound as it cut through the air.

Lide’s mouth involuntarily twitched at this scene.

There are some words I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to speak.

“Your Majesty…” Emi’s eyes sparkled with the glow of discovering a treasure when she saw the Cow Bone Undead.

“After the seal of the Divine Body breaks, could you assign this undead to me? I have many interesting ideas to try…”

The Cow Bone Undead, upon seeing Emi’s bright eyes, shivered as if sensing a huge threat. It quickly stood up, then scurried fearfully behind Lide, lowering its head to his feet, glowering at Emi with a hateful gaze, and emitting a hateful sound from its throat.

Lide couldn’t help but laugh and cry as he nudged the undead that acted like a silly dog with his foot, “Let’s talk about breaking the seal first.”

Emi immediately spoke up, “Your Majesty, after the seal is broken, the aura of the Divine Skull here can’t be concealed by the Magic Array. With the ability of that Evil God, he’ll likely notice our trace…”

Lide waved his hand dismissively, “I’m not that careless.”

Having said that, he waved his hand and directly broke open a Space Gate. Lide stepped into the Land of Bone-Burying with urgency overruling the need to adhere to rules. Just a moment ago, he intended to set an example by following the rules, but now he had to contradict himself.

“Bring that skull in.”

The Cow Bone Undead, upon hearing the order, let out a silly cry, then turned around and, like a dog, carried the grey skull in its mouth straight into the Space Gate. As it left, it glanced at Emi triumphantly, as if to say you have no way to deal with me.

“You go ahead with your tasks; don’t wait for me.”

Lide left behind these instructions and then closed the Space Gate.

That left Emi and Harrison staring at each other in silence.

After entering the Land of Bone-Burying, Lide was cautious to close all the Space Gates he had opened, while using the Power of Death to strengthen the spatial barriers of the Land of Bone-Burying.

Only after all this, did he have time to examine the Evil God’s skull lying on the white bone ground.

The ferocious rat skull remained as hideously ugly as ever, with a single, blade-long unicorn horn on its head that was razor sharp. It was wrapped in densely packed inscriptions that made it even more daunting.

Lide subconsciously opened his attribute panel, and the God of Plague’s skull attributes immediately appeared before his eyes.

Sealed Divine Skull

Quality: Divine-level

Status: Sealed (Damaged)

Explanation: A sealed Divine Skull containing powerful Divine Power. The sealing power has weakened over time due to the passage of time, and the owner of the skull is calling out to it.

A simple attribute, but it made Lide’s brow furrow slightly.

“The God of Plague…indeed never gives up, even if hiding in the bottomless abyss to recover his strength, he still watches this skull closely.

And fortunately, the ancient days he spoke of have not yet come, otherwise he might have directly intervened and snatched it.

But the time left for me isn’t much, either. This world is about to, or is already undergoing, a world-shaking change.

In tumultuous times, only powerful forces can protect everything around.

And Transcendence will be the next stage to aim for…”

After seeing the attributes of the Evil God’s skull, Lide felt an added sense of urgency in his heart.

Throughout the last half-month, the seals of the Evil Gods on the Main Plane of Glory had been breaking one after another, and the deities of ancient days were becoming active, a crisis that was visible.

And there was one thing that he kept in mind, a chilling sentence once spoken by the God of Plague–The Destiny Tablet has been stolen by the deities of ancient days, and the old days will return.

He didn’t quite understand what the Destiny Tablet was, despite all the mythological stories he had frantically collected in this time, which had never mentioned this term.

But he could feel that it was something extremely important to the multi-dimensional world of Glory and the root of all change.

Although Dawn City could now rise up an army of several hundred thousand soldiers, strong as it was, it was not enough in the face of the disaster triggered by the deities.

So, the next goal for Lide would be–to break through Transcendence.

And not just for him, he also needed to enhance the combat capabilities of his subordinates. One Transcendent was far from enough to face the upcoming upheaval.

With the situation so urgent, he no longer had much time to plan anything else.

“Help me bite through the seal…”

Lide reached out and rubbed the Cow Bone Undead’s head, the smooth and hard skull was slightly cool to the touch. The Cow Bone Undead seemed to enjoy Lide’s caresses, wagging its tail even more zealously.

With a tap on the creature’s head, the Cow Bone Undead sensing the command immediately turned around and, taking the skull it found rather tasty, trotted to the center of the area beside the twelve-tiered White Bone Altar and lay down slightly.

Then, under Lide’s peculiar gaze, the undead cow started to gnaw at the terrifyingly pulsating seals like it would a bone it would normally eat.

Crunch~

Crunch~

The seals were directly crunched, the crisp sounds like eating peanuts or biting into crunchy mahua,

Lide watched, his eyelids twitching; young people these days really lack martial virtue…

The Cow Bone Undead not only crunched up the seals, but it also chewed and swallowed the inscriptions directly into its stomach…

“What???”

Lide’s face was full of question marks as he witnessed this scene.

“.What exactly are these seals made of?? It’s one thing to bite through them, but to eat them too?”

He didn’t even know what words to use to describe this eerie scene.

This thing made no sense at all, it had swallowed the seals…

And that wasn’t all, what happened next completely made Lide feel that this cow bone undead was about to ascend to the heavens.

The broken inscriptions were swallowed by the cow bone undead, and under an invisible force, they began to dissolve slowly, just like melting snow.

To make matters even more exaggerated, the dissolved inscriptions began to swirl around the skeleton of the cow bone undead, then as if they were being rewritten by someone, those Ancient Seals started to re-inscribe themselves onto the cow bone undead’s body.

The snowy white skeleton showcased Ancient Runes glowing with a faint blue fluorescence, creating a scene that was unspeakably stunning.

Moo~

Seemingly aware of the changes to its own body, the cow bone undead chewed even more vigorously.

“What in the world have I created??”

Lide’s emotions were at their peak complexity.

This creature was too bizarre, those were seals, and not only did it eat them, it absorbed them???

What the hell is this principle??

Is there no more logic? Don’t think just because you’re a cow you can do whatever you want…

Crack~

As the seals continued to break apart under the cow bone undead’s chewing, the originally rigid and stone-like skull of the God of Plague began to warm up.

Then, an indescribable, untouchable, and unfathomable terrifying aura began to permeate within the Land of Bone-Burying.

The aura was like a fierce beast breaking out of its cage, emitting a low growl ready to select its prey.

To ensure safety, all the Death Spiders were transferred outside, leaving only a few small withered bones inside the Land of Bone-Burying, which were now trembling, their Soul Fires flickering as if they might be extinguished at any moment.

Clearly, these low-level undead that he had created, although lacking intelligence, could also feel that soul-invading terrifying aura.

Lide’s deep, dark eyes held an indescribable gravitas.

He felt it, felt the resurfacing evil power within, calling, yes, calling. The skull was calling out to its soul–the Ancient God of Plague.

Using the Plane Power of the Land of Bone-Burying, Lide could feel a call responding to the Evil God’s skull in the Chaos Void, a call that crossed distances, across countless Planar barriers.

God of Plague.

This Ancient Evil God had sensed its skull…

Lide’s heart chilled, and he forcefully invoked the power of the Land of Bone-Burying to block the other’s sensation.

It was fortunate that the Land of Bone-Burying was anchored in the Main Plane and entirely under Lide’s control, which prevented a major issue.

Yet the mutual calling between the Evil God’s skull and the God of Plague across time and space still put tremendous pressure on Lide.

With a wave of his hand, the surging Power of Death began to tightly envelop the cow bone undead, forming a protective shell like dark clouds, re-establishing another sealing defense line.

Perhaps it was psychological, but Lide distinctly felt that the calling weakened slightly under the isolation of the Power of Death.

“Speed it up!”

Lide’s gaze was sharp, his senses fully extended, constantly sensing every change around him.

If there were any changes, he would immediately summon the Plane Power to suppress the skull, just like the Twelve-winged Blazing Angel.

Not even the God of Dawn could sense the sealed Twelve-winged Blazing Angel, and Lide didn’t believe that the God of Plague was stronger than the God of Dawn.

The only problem was, if he proceeded in this manner, the opportunity to break through to Transcendence would undoubtedly be blocked.

He could only, as with the Twelve-winged Blazing Angel, use a massive amount of Power of Death to transform the Evil God’s skull, so Lide was reluctant to take that step unless absolutely necessary.

The cow bone undead also sensed something was amiss, its short tail no longer wagging, instead standing alert, but the biting in its mouth did not pause for a second.

The cow felt its body growing stronger after chewing this strange skull, which made it very happy.

And as the seals shattered more and more, the inscriptions on the cow bone undead’s body also became numerous and increasingly dense.

At this moment, the cow bone undead had become a skeleton cow emanating faint blue light, possessing an indescribable presence.

Who would have thought a cow would become the key to breaking a Divine seal…

Snap~

With a crisp sound echoing, Lide’s expression changed as the last Sealing Rune was ingested by the cow bone undead, as he had no time to react, an indescribable terrifying power erupted from the Divine skull.

Gray energy gathered on the horn of the Divine skull, then the horn shattered the space of the Land of Bone-Burying, which Lide had reinforced time and again.

It was like a Forbidden Curse compressed a thousand times over and suddenly exploded, with an energy of a volcanic eruption not one ten-thousandth of this power.

In the instant that space shattered, an emanation of Extreme Evil from the torn space surged out–like mountains collapsing and immense tidal waves rolling back to the sky.

It was filled with a darkness and brutality enough to make a Transcendent kneel.

Then, with a hiss–a hand with sinister barbs reached directly through the space cracked open by the Divine skull into the Land of Bone-Burying.

The arm was entwined with gray energy capable of obliterating time and space, and seemed to have countless miniature thunder flashes, heralding the arrival of great terror.

At this moment, Lide’s every hair stood on end, every pore on his body warned him.

Danger!!!

Extreme danger!!!