Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 3235: Bloodrool Hegemony’s 780th Princess Bloodawn

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Dark Realm, Seven Prince of Hell Territory, Pandemonium City

“So, where is he?” Bloodawn asked Mommon, getting right to the reason for her personal visit.

“He is holed up in an artificial subdimension in the vicinity of the city,” Mommon said, pointing in Belphegor’s direction. “I have turned the city barrier opaque from the outside, so he can’t see us.”

“How sure are you that the one in there is his original body?” Bloodawn asked, as even the best diviners and curse masters of their race couldn’t find the location of Belphegor’s original body. So, she didn’t think she would be able to find the latter’s original body so easily.

“That subdimension allows Belphegor to avoid divination spells and curses. If his original body is not in there, I hate to say this, Your Highness, but we will never be able to find his original body unless he wants to be found,” Mommon replied confidently, causing Bloodawn to look at him before nodding and asking, “So, did he ask you to put in a good word for him with us?”

“Interestingly, no, Your Highness. However, he has already paid the prince for the rights to the Card World that the representative had agreed on,” Mommon replied, pretending not to know what was going through Belphegor’s mind while wondering if Bloodawn was planning to settle things with Belphegor peacefully.

Well, the fact that the Bloodrool Hegemony had sent a three-digit-numbered princess to personally deal with his matter showed how much importance the Bloodrools attached to the rights to the Card World. So, it wouldn’t be surprising if Bloodawn wasn’t willing to take any extra chances with killing Belphegor to win the rights to the Card World from the Demon Merchant Code.

“If you have given him permission to use the Demon Merchant Code function in your city’s vicinity, then revoke it now,” Bloodawn said before she and the assassins vanished from the city without awaiting Mommon’s response.

“I revoked it long ago, Your Majesty,” Mommon uttered as he informed Belphegor that they were headed his way and that if a fight were to break out, he should take it far from the city. Still, he alerted all stations in the city to be prepared for anything, strengthening the city barrier.

As Bloodawn and the assassins surrounded the subdimension, Belphegor walked out of it, retrieving the subdimension. He immediately fixed his gaze on Bloodawn and bowed down, saying, “This humble servant greets Her Majesty, the 780th Princess of the Bloodrool Hegemony, Bloodawn.”

“This was easier than I assumed,” Bloodawn said as she strengthened her presence on Belphegor using her Bloodrool bloodline, planning to burst him like a bubble of blood.

However, to her surprise, that didn’t come to pass. Belphegor stood there completely untouched, as if the blood in his body wasn’t influenced by her presence in the least bit. Unable to believe it, she tried to manipulate it, only to fail.

“Interesting trick you got there,” Bloodawn praised, learning that Belphegor was replacing the blood in his body with new blood before she could manipulate it to kill him.

“It’s just a humble trick, nothing compared to Your Majesty’s might,” Belphegor said with a gentle smile, as if he didn’t care that Bloodawn had attempted to kill him.

“Humble trick? Someone like you could feed several cities in the Sunless Realm for millennia to come.” Bloodawn was intrigued by the prospect of using Belphegor as a blood factor. The way he was killing and replenishing his blood cells at an insane speed made her feel she had found something close to an infinite food glitch.

She had no idea why the higher-ups attached such importance to the rights to a no-name world from the backwaters of the Myriad Realms, but she felt it was worth her trip if she caught Belphegor. She would be completing her mission and securing an endless supply of blood food for her personal army. Raising an army wasn’t cheap, even for someone of her status.

She immediately took action. Blood chains spread around Belphegor, and they began to reach into his skin. As the chains spread across his body, he sensed that he couldn’t mobilize his prowess in the areas where the blood chains tattooed themselves onto his body. So, he immediately discarded those parts of his body and regrew them using his reconstruction skill, as he was doing with his blood.

Seeing that Bloodawn seemed to have lost all interest in starting a dialogue, he decided to strike up one himself. “Your Majesty, I wonder why the Bloodrool Hegemony would send an esteemed princess for the rights to a no-name realm.”

“You are asking a question that will shorten your life,” Bloodawn said, stopping her assault, as those words had conveyed his intent to her clearly enough.

“Forgive me, Your Majesty, but I would have to disagree with you,” Belphegor said, shaking his head, only to sense a hand made out of blood grabbing his neck tightly as he heard Bloodawn say, “I guess you don’t hold your life dear.”

“I do, Your Highness, which is why I wrote a will stating that, in the event of my death, the rights to the Card World should go to His Majesty Librarian. Good luck trying to buy it back from His Maj—”

“You wretched bastard!”

Bloodawn shouted, throwing Belphegor to the ground and then creating a huge hammer made of blood to smack him around repeatedly, just enough to vent her raging emotions but not enough to kill him, while making sure he remained in the vicinity of Pandemonium City and not allowing him to escape using the Demon Merchant Code’s transportation function. Belphegor didn’t put up a struggle and took the beating head-on like a cosmic punching bag.

By the time Bloodawn was done, Belphegor was in a state where he himself would not recognize his reflection. Confirming she was done, Belphegor reconstructed his body and stood before her once again, saying, “If you are ready, shall we discuss the terms, Your Highness Bloodawn?”