'Duke' Farnburg (Part 2 - Four Updates 2)

Today, I'm doing a four-chapter mini-burst. Please give me some recommendation votes! This is the second chapter!

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Farnburg took a deep breath. Countless black and red mists suddenly emerged from the ground around him, and a despair-inducing evil power of aging, decay, rot, and corruption spread from Farnburg's body. Yin Xuege was fine; he could still stand steadily. However, all the other Blood Demons present all knelt down in utter terror.

This was absolute suppression based on rank! Blood Demons were a peculiar race with extremely distinct class divisions. The lines between superiors and subordinates were clearly demarcated. Apart from the legendary Sunwalkers, absolutely no lower-ranking Blood Demon could challenge the authority of a superior.

Yin Xuege was a legendary prodigy, which was why, despite feeling the soul-level suppression, he could still stand firmly in place. But all the other Blood Demons present, including the two Thousand-Year Dukes driving the carriage, knelt on the ground, drenched in sweat, not daring to even tremble.

"Back in the Blood Prison, I was quite generous to those two little brats!" Farnburg's fingers made cracking sounds from within, his nails growing out inch by inch until they were over a foot long. He slowly flexed his sharp nails, producing loud clanging noises, and then he repeatedly let out cold, sinister laughter.

"Originally, I brought people here to cause some trouble for the Great Berlin City-State. I didn't expect to catch them right here!" Grabbing Yin Xuege by the shoulder, Farnburg said nonchalantly, "Little one, why don't you give me these two little darlings as a gift?"

Feeling the unfathomable, ocean-like evil demonic power within Farnburg, Yin Xuege spread his hands, making a gesture of compliance.

"Very good!" Farnburg laughed happily. He glanced at the three Thousand-Year Dukes lying on the ground, unable to move, and snorted coldly and ruthlessly, "As for you, for the sake of my friendship with that old fellow Amley Vanek Brianburg, I can spare your pathetic, worthless lives! However, you must be punished!"

Gently patting Yin Xuege's shoulder, Farnburg said calmly, "This little one inherited my vital essence. According to the most ancient secret scripture and commandments, he is my Bloodline Son, Faenborg Emple Stuttgart. As Thousand-Year Dukes, you should know the crime of harming a Scepter Prince's Bloodline Son!"

"Great Ancestor above!" a Thousand-Year Duke from Brianburg desperately raised his head. "Your esteemed Highness, we did not know he was under your protection! Your Scepter Imprint was not left upon him. This is unfair!"

"Pah!" Farnburg crouched down and spat a mouthful of saliva onto the Thousand-Year Duke's face. "Fair? Have you forgotten what race we are? Unlucky brats! That's right, I haven't left my Scepter Imprint on this little one because I haven't had time to perform the formal inheritance ritual with him yet! But he inherited my vital essence, and that is a fact!"

His sharp nails directly pierced the Thousand-Year Duke's heart. The Thousand-Year Duke let out a heart-wrenching scream, his body convulsing violently.

"Whether or not he bears my Scepter Imprint, he is under my protection! Even if you didn't know he had my protection, you still couldn't offend him in the slightest! And you foolishly acted in such a way, so you must offer all your vital essence as atonement!"

The shrill screams continued unabated. Farnburg, with a brilliant smile, slowly used a secret technique to drain all the vital essence from the bodies of the three Thousand-Year Dukes. The three Dukes lay on the ground, dying, their bodies shriveled and withered, looking like three dried-up monkeys.

A vital essence sphere, the size of a human head, faintly emanating golden light, floated in Farnburg's hand. He reached out and inscribed several sealing demonic texts within the essence sphere, then slammed it into the top of Yin Xuege's head. Yin Xuege's face suddenly turned bright red, his body trembled slightly, and the surging blood and qi within him gave him the illusion that his body was about to explode.

"A pity, I really can't bring myself to be ruthless. Otherwise, it wouldn't just be draining their vital essence, but all their life force, the origin energy within their innate bat wings, and all the life energy in their muscles, bones, and internal organs. That way, Yin Xuege, my successor, you would possess the full power of three Thousand-Year Dukes in a short period!"

"Well, who can I blame but their descendant of Amley? And my wife is Amley's distant cousin, so I really can't bring myself to be ruthless to them. Therefore, giving them a little bit of punishment is enough! My Bloodline Son, the vital essence of these three combined is enough for you to be promoted to a powerful Duke!"

Farnburg said it lightly, but his words made the eight Yin Clan Marquises behind Yin Xuege so jealous they wanted to vomit blood!

The vital essence of three Thousand-Year Dukes! This was a fortune that would drive people mad! It was enough to allow Yin Xuege to break through and become a powerful Duke within a little over a month! Although his strength would be slightly weaker than a thoroughly tempered Thousand-Year Duke, it was still not something an ordinary Duke could compare to.

As for the ruthlessness Farnburg mentioned, all Blood Demons could understand how terrifying that would be.

For a Blood Demon, especially a powerful Thousand-Year Duke, his vital essence only contained about twenty percent of his total power! The majority of his strength was stored in his innate bat wings and his body! Unless they were squeezed into ashes using a secret technique, draining their vital essence would only yield at most twenty percent of their power!

The combined vital essence of three Thousand-Year Dukes was equivalent to about sixty percent of the strength of one Thousand-Year Duke. After refining and absorbing this power, just as Farnburg said, it would be enough for Yin Xuege to grow into a powerful Duke!

In the Yin Clan, Duke-level combat power was not uncommon! The crucial point was that Yin Xuege was only eleven years old! He was merely eleven years old!

What made these Yin Clan Marquises even more devastated was that Yin Xuege had actually become the Bloodline Son of Prince Farnburg of the Stuttgart Family! In the strict commandments formulated by the ancient Blood Clan secret scriptures, a Bloodline Son was an even more important and rarer existence than a biological son!

In the future, although Yin Xuege would not be able to become the head of the Stuttgart Family, he could undoubtedly become the Supreme Elder of this powerful Blood Demon family, becoming the 'protector' of this family!

Distant, high-pitched wolf howls could be heard, and loud explosions continued. Looking at Fanlu'er City, a large number of Great Berlin City-State soldiers and Hunters were scattering in disarray, with some deserters rushing towards them.

Farnburg suddenly smiled. He waved at the fleeing human soldiers and issued an extremely ruthless order.

"Kill them all! And capture alive those who call themselves descendants of deities!"

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The second chapter of the four-chapter update, please give me some recommendation votes, do you have any? (To be continued)