Chapter Ninety-Seven: Kindle the Sacred Fire Here! / Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Demon Who Wields the Power of Life and Death

For a vampire like Dimitrie, whose erosion had left him with nothing but the desire to fight and stripped away his longing for life, the thrill of battling a powerful enemy before destruction was like a drug, intoxicating him.

It could be said that fighting people was a drug to Dimitrie, and with both his body and will severely eroded, only by tasting such drugs could he gain some sense of being alive.

"Hisss—"

A nauseating, utterly revolting chorus of snakes flicking their tongues arose. It was not one snake, but hundreds upon thousands of snakes flicking their tongues at once.

Above Dimitrie's head, a massive knot of snakes appeared. Hundreds and thousands of venomous serpents coiled together as if mating, their ferocious heads all bearing the bluish-purple hue of deadly poison.

So many disgusting snakes tangled together were enough to make one's SAN plummet.

Yet as though that were not enough, Dimitrie erupted with an earth-shaking surge of magical power.

As that magic burst forth, even Dimitrie's face turned pale and his body swayed unsteadily. It was clear that he had used all his strength.

The six snakes he had previously summoned began to merge, all of them fusing into that twisted, revolting mass of serpents.

It resembled a hairy sea urchin, every protruding spine transformed into an enormous snake head.

The seven snakes fused together into a gigantic mass of flesh, and Dimitrie himself merged into that twisted lump as well. The face of one giant serpent took on his appearance.

"You look more like an alien creature from beyond this planet."

Saigō looked at Dimitrie, who had let the giant serpents devour him and transformed himself into an ugly monster, then let out a sigh.

Though he was a demon, he had no interest in turning himself