With his Tohno Blood fully unleashed, physical abilities outrageous even by vampire standards, and knowledge of magecraft so broad that even the True Ancestor princess who regarded him as her nemesis rated it highly, Roa was an opponent who could not be underestimated in any era.
You could look down on his weakness and despise his treachery.
But you could never let down your guard, or in the next instant, you would discover that his fangs had already pierced your body and begun injecting their venom of deception and corruption.
From then on, you could only come to understand the origin of the name Serpent of Akasha through regret.
Even so, before Arcueid's descending palm, Roa was no different from a buzzing mosquito.
-After all, both would end up leaving nothing but a bloody smear.
But there was nothing strange about that.
Even at the height of his power, Roa had fallen to Arcueid, let alone now, with Shiki Tohno as his host.
Although his host's Oni Blood was potent, the abilities he had awakened were rather disappointing.
The abilities Shiki Tohno had awakened were assimilation and immortality.
The former's ability to create familiars seemed decent, but was nowhere near as convenient as directly creating servants by drinking their blood. The latter was even more of a name only; it did not mean he was immortal, but that he could survive even after losing part of his body or an organ.
For a vampire with powerful regenerative abilities, they were utterly useless.
Since these two abilities were inferior substitutes for what a vampire already possessed, the only thing Shiki Tohno had brought Roa was a set of poor-quality Magic Circuits.
This had severely lowered his ceiling.
Otherwise, after regaining consciousness, Roa would not have abandoned his plan outright to focus