Beneath the slowly rotating, massive Magecraft Array, Fang Li hovered in the air, silently observing the situation in Misaki Town.
The scene in front of Fang Li's eyes was nothing short of a living hell.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!"
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh-!"
Such screams echoed from every corner of Misaki Town, blending together and echoing in the air.
They were the screams of monsters.
They were the screams of the townspeople.
At that moment, Misaki Town had been plunged into unprecedented chaos, spiraling out of control.
All over the Misaki Town, undead creatures were roaming the streets. With frenzied howls, they pounced on humans who could do nothing to stop them.
"You... what are you doing?!"
"Stay away!"
"No!"
"Help!"
"Someone help me."
Desperate cries echoed endlessly in the streets.
Humans fled in every direction, only to be hunted down by the howling undead.
"Shlurp!"
The sound of fangs sinking into flesh echoed incessantly.
One by one, the undead, driven mad, attacked the humans, biting into their necks and draining their blood, leaving victims in their wake.
Each time an undead drained a human and discarded the corpse, the lifeless body was enveloped in a glow of magical power.
One by one, these corpses, now covered in the glow of magic power, began to stir, move tremblingly like puppets, and begin to walk.
They had become the undead.
The undead were creating more undead, expanding their ranks as hunters.
The living were desperately fleeing, only to ultimately fall victim as sacrificial lambs.
On the streets, large numbers of undead attacked vehicles, causing crashes, collisions, and pile-ups. The roads became blocked, and explosions erupted, igniting fierce fires.
These flames spread to the surrounding buildings, setting them ablaze one by one.
In this way, flames and thick smoke rose from every corner of Misaki Town, and the extent of the devastation grew larger by the minute.
What lay before Fang Li was a scene straight out of hell.
Wailing, fear, despair, and bloodshed became the essence of the Misaki Town, turning this peaceful town into a demonic lair.
As the flames gradually spread, threatening to engulf the entire town in a sea of fire, and as the terrified pedestrians on the streets fled, only to be pursued by the undead, Fang Li raised his head and once again looked up at the Magecraft Array in the sky.
"I didn't expect you to go this far. I underestimated you."
Judging from the situation, Fang Li could easily understand what had happened.
There was no doubt that this was all Roa's doing.
Before becoming a Dead Apostle, Roa was already a highly skilled Magecraft practitioner. While he was hiding in this town, he didn't just suck blood and create undead to increase his power. He went further, planting magecraft techniques in the various corners of the town to increase his efficiency.
Normally, after a human's blood is drained, it takes time for the corpse to turn into an undead and there's also the possibility of failure.
The serial killings that occurred were due to some corpses failing to turn into undead, which were then discovered by humans.
Moreover, since the transformation of the undead takes time, the mass production of bloodsucking servants has its limitations.
At the very least, such activities would inevitably cause disturbances, eventually attracting the attention of the Church or the Executors and Magecraft practitioners from the Association, which would bring trouble upon the perpetrator.
Thus, vampires usually hide in the shadows, secretly conducting their bloodsucking activities, sacrificing efficiency for the sake of safety.
But Roa had completely abandoned this caution.
"In order to obtain large amounts of blood and increase your power, you first created a certain number of undead and allowed them to roam freely or hide. Then you planted techniques in various corners of the Misaki Town. When these techniques were activated, the entire Misaki Town would be transformed into another world. This would not only increase the power of the undead, but also drastically reduce the time required for their transformation, and probably even increase the success rate of creating the undead to the highest level.
In this way, it wouldn't be long before all the living beings in Misaki Town were transformed into undead, and all the blood would be channeled into Roa's body, greatly increasing his power.
"At that point, you'd be able to confront Arcueid, who'd been chasing you, using the otherworldly Misaki Town as your fortress and the countless undead as your soldiers. You'd wait for an opportunity to seize her power once again and become the strongest vampire."
"With the power of the strongest True Ancestor and control over this entire Otherworld, even if the Church and the Association forces came after you, you'd have nothing to fear. You could even use this as a starting point to expand your influence and power throughout the world."
"Who would have thought that this trickster actually had such ambitions?"
It's likely that Roa had started making these plans long before Arcueid arrived in Misaki Town.
After all, this couldn't have been accomplished in a short period of time.
In addition, Roa knew very well that Arcueid would undoubtedly follow him to this town after his successful reincarnation and awakening, so he had made all these preparations in advance.
"Arcueid mentioned that she was nearing the limit of suppressing her vampiric impulses. In this state, almost all of her power would be focused on controlling those impulses. To you, this must seem like the best opportunity."
"Is your mind only this sharp when you covet someone else's power?"
Fang Li's eyes turned ice blue, becoming the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
In his eyes, death flowed through the entire world.
The bodies of the undead were filled with death.
The bodies of the living were filled with death.
Even the buildings, the burning flames, the colliding vehicles, the streets, the roads, and even the plants and trees all contained death.
At that moment, the whole town was filled with death.
Even the air was filled with death.
With the ability of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, Fang Li easily located the techniques hidden in various corners of the Misaki Town.
"There are too many, and they're too far apart. It'd be too troublesome to take them out one by one."
"Besides, I don't know what's happening over there either."
With that, Fang Li turned his gaze toward one direction in Misaki Town.
That direction led to the Tohno residence.
"Hopefully, they're still alive."
With those words, Fang Li transformed into a stream of light and flew off into the distance.
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