Carnstein said calmly, "Just as I devoured the previous Carnstein not long ago."
Juno remained silent. He could not accept being replaced by another version of himself, but Carnstein's current state was exactly what he most wanted to see. A vampire with a sound mind and the power of a god was far more reliable than the genuine Blood Progenitors.
Especially since there was something very wrong with the vampires now. Byron had inexplicably become the main target of the evil gods from the New Continent. Although other nations had sent support, judging by the current course of the war, Byron would sooner or later be overrun.
Juno was confident that even if Byron fell, it would not affect him. He could still roam freely across the two continents. But he was, after all, a vampire and a Byronian. He absolutely did not want to see the Byron Empire come to an end.
Carnstein's appearance gave him a glimmer of hope. After all, only an evil god could contend against an evil god.
Charlotte and Lilith's struggle for the large and small spiders soon encountered increasingly powerful resistance. Even when the Star Puppet Strings they released descended by the thousands, they could only capture a few dozen of the smallest spiders. Doris's resistance was clearly growing stronger and stronger.
After all, these large and small spiders were Its flesh and blood, Its consciousness. Though they had become independent individuals with independent thoughts after splitting apart, as long as Doris wished it, It could erase those chaotic consciousnesses at any time.
If Charlotte and Lilith had not been able to send the temporarily controlled spiders into the Infinite Mirror World, cutting them off from Doris's consciousness, they would not have been able to control those spiders for long at all.
Charlotte