The Bowing Vampire

"----!"

Hilda, who had been ruthlessly draining Fang Li's blood, suddenly widened her eyes.

Those scarlet eyes were filled with utter horror.

"Thump, thump..."

A heartbeat-like pulse kept sounding from within Fang Li's body.

At that moment, the power belonging to the strongest True Ancestor seemed to have been awakened, surging through Fang Li's body like raging waves.

Hilda could sense it as well.

She sensed that terrifying power.

As she drained that blood and drew it into her body, an unbelievable sensation flooded Hilda's mind.

A sense of terror erupted from within Hilda on instinct, as though a lower life-form had suddenly offended a higher existence.

"Ah..."

Hilda let out a trembling sound.

Yet this time, there was neither hatred nor delight in her voice—only pure panic.

Fang Li could also feel the power of the True Ancestor within his body churning.

He could even sense that this terrifying power vaguely carried an emotion.

It was anger.

As a princess of the highest rank among True Ancestors, she had been offended by a lowly vampire from another world.

Now, Arcueid's power seemed capable of expressing its owner's will, causing that anger to begin spilling forth.

If this power had not been left to Fang Li by Arcueid and infused into his body to protect him, it would surely have erupted and crushed Hilda into powder in an instant.

Under such circumstances, the power of the strongest True Ancestor continued to surge within Fang Li, causing his aura to skyrocket as though heaven and earth were collapsing.

At that instant, the terror in Hilda's heart reached its peak.

The terrifying, world-shattering aura rising from Fang Li made Hilda feel as though she were nothing more than an ant.

And within that aura, Hilda finally detected it.

The aura of a