"Tini, are you feeling much better now?"
In a room on the second floor of Onizuka's villa, the "Blood Ancestor" Ashatini lay flat on the bed. Her eyes were dim, and her status as the Ninth Apostle had already been erased by the Zero Realm. This was not only because Ashatini had lost her Persona, but also because she had abandoned the Path of Blood and no longer qualified for any title associated with "blood."
The main damage the Blood Realm incident had inflicted upon Ashatini was not physical, but psychological. Her body had fully recovered, and she had never regarded Gu Chen, a defeated opponent, as worthy of notice.
Who could have known that in just a few short years, he would surpass her, the inheritor of the Blood Ancestor's legacy? He had even gained the First Generation's recognition and replaced her as the new Blood Realm.
Ashatini could not accept such an outcome.
What had happened nine hundred years ago had caused Ashatini and Onizuka to sever all ties, while Onizuka himself had fallen into the Abyss of Ten Thousand Sins. Back then, Ashatini had resolved that the Blood Realm under her command would surpass the Ghost Realm, and that she herself would exceed Onizuka. Yet the gap between them had only grown wider.
"Why did you save me? Wouldn't it have been better to let me die?"
Ashatini had now abandoned blood and mainly existed in the body of a ghostly creature. She herself was a nightmare spirit who had come from the human world, enduring assimilation by the Zero Realm's environment while retaining the essence of a ghostly creature.
However, when Ashatini had existed in the Zero Realm in ghostly form, the Ghost Realm had not yet been established.
Thus, the powerful ghostly creatures of that