Chapter 303 - False King

The Tepes Faction were all dumbfounded by the sudden assault of the Carmilla Faction having grown cocky into believing their power was now unstoppable and superior to anyone. Their young master, Marius Tepes, had used the power of his little sister's Longinus sacred gear, the Sephiroth Graal that had the ability to have Law of Life, Soul, Death and many more. 

It contains the divine blood of Yeshua, or known as Jesus Christ. This one of the few bloods that will never be tainted by Yaldabaoth and cannot be reproduced as it is as pure and had the qualities the god of flesh doesn't have. 

After overusing the sacred gear of her little sister putting her brain dead state where she is only able to speak in an incomprehensible manner. Marius has used the power of the Sephiroth Graal in order to remove the weaknesses of his fellow vampire and aims to overthrow his father having gained more control and favor with the faction.

He felt invincible and unstoppable, constantly craving for more power leading him in conspiring with Rizevim and to exact the sacred gear. Marius saw himself above all and trample everything under his feet yet his dreams began to crumble as he witnessed something unbelievable. A young man began walking his way to the battlefield rather confidently, having the face of a doll while he was deep in his thoughts.

'To think those wench would actually bare their little cunt for someone? No matter, my creation will be enough.' 

He glance at his protector where they slaughtered the monster around him while Marius took a out what seem to be a Graal and began using its power causing the monster and beast to be drained and fall like flies yet their souls were nowhere to be seen.

"Magnificent you two was worth it! Having two Super Class by my side, nothing can stopped me!!" He sadistically remarked while the Daemon and Beast were easily sliced to pieces by two individuals around him. Marius was then sliced to pieces by a clawed Daemon but it was useless as it robbed the lifeform from the Daemon while Marius put himself back together as if nothing had happened. 

"How barbaric? You think I'll die because you tried to kill me? My body is immortal and unkillable! Nothing can stop me!!??" 

Marius lost in his own delusion uncaring when other vampire begged for his help and was just trampled under his feet and killed. It was then he spotted something heading towards him in blinding speed as if it was a meteor until it slowed down and hovering in the air was four individuals. 

Two women were familiar to him while the green haired woman that emanated a similar law as the sacred gear made him anxious yet the most eye-catching was a young man with long black hair akin to the starless sky wearing a mask covering his eyes while three pairs of wings sprouted from his back.

'What the? How does someone have Devil, Angel and Fallen Angel wings!?' 

He was intrigued upin witnessing unbelievable and remained confident that the victory was within his side. Meanwhile, the young man, Ryuu looked down at the man before him and the two individuals with him as he muttered something.

'This people…'

He spotted a young woman with pale blonde hair cut into a flare cut and Red eyes. She had a fairly broad-shouldered torso, yet maintained a very voluptuous and buxom figure, she wore a tight buttoned shirt with a turtleneck and pockets and a matching mini skirt with a belt, a long stockings and ankle fold boots and gloves while own of her arms was replaced by a mass of writhing black and orange shadowy matter that initially manifested as a whip-like set of tendrils. 

While the other individual was a stunningly beautiful adult woman having a perfectly shaped body and large buxom figure wearing a  buttoned up shirt with breast pockets that tightly hugged into her body and black shirt. She also sported a high thigh kneesock and high booths that were inches away from her knees along with a red overcoat.

'Seras Victoria…Mina Tepes…Khaos is this your doing?'

[....]

'...Whatever. Guess who would have thought I'll actually meet a big tits police girl by strolling through the woods.' 

Ryuu jokingly said and recalled that seras victoria supposed to be Alucard's draculine from the Hellsing verse and yet here she is while Mina Tepes is supposed to be the queen of vampires from a series called the Dance in the vampire bund. He remained stoic wondering how many characters Khaos places in order to spoil him and kept observing them while Elmenhilde decided to speak up.

"My lord, do you wish for us to dispose of them?" He nodded at her words and said.

"You and Carmilla should be able to handle those two. Leave me and Kie to fight that guy over there." The two nodded while Marius heard their conversation thanks to his superior hearing and arrogantly said.

"My, my, then let me introduce myself. I come from the royal family of Tepes and am the fifth candidate to succeed the throne, Marius Tepes is my name. I am the mayor of the temporal government as well as the chief advisor for Sacred Gear Research. It is a pleasure to meet you, may I ask who you might be before we end your pitif-" 

Within a split second the two woman beside the young man vanished and couldn't even see how two of his weapons began to clashed against Elemenhilde and Carmilla causing large explosion as the building was destroyed leaving Marius alone but maintain his arrogant demeanor while he saw the young man having his wings folded into his back silently stood before him while beside him was the green haired woman. 

"That is quite the introduction, Mario-"

"Marius Tepes!!" He roared at Ryuu while he shrugged it off and said.

"Mario, I don't need to introduce myself to a dead man." Marius saw his eyes glow through his mask while his demeanor and atmosphere changed into pure dread that made Marius shudder and felt dumbfounded.

'What!? Was that…fear? Are you telling me I'm afraid?? Bullshit!!! I am above all!! I am the strongest!' Ryuu saw his expression and gave a deep sigh. 

"Fool…you haven't realized the truth or perhaps you are denying it? You are not stronger neither am I….the Reality of the situation is more terrifying than you think, little Mari-"

Marius had enough and used the Sephiroth Graal to enhanced his overall power and began to cast a power darkness that began engulfed the entire city block toward Ryuu and confident of it's result her he saw his expression that remain stoic and didn't even flinch when it was inches away from him and nonchalantly swung his blood sword.

The darkness was sliced as it was solid object making Marius speechless while Ryuu just stabbed his blood sword on the ground and said. 

"I see you're quite eager to die like the rest of them…" He said to him forcing Marius cower in fear and suddenly felt his arms was suddenly sliced causing him to roar in pain while he squirmed in pain tried to use the Graal to heal himself and easily restored his arms and laughed it off and said.

"Hahaha I am immortal! You can't kill me!!" Kie hearing his words doesn't know if she should pity him or not but knowing what he had done made her understand that this is fair. Marius grinning but his eyes widened when he heard a laughter and said. 

"You can't kill me! I held the power of a Longinus! My speed, my stamina, my power all rival - nay, DWARF yours! In comparison to you, I am a DEMIGOD!"

"Really? Really?" ( Ryuu)

"Really."( Marius )

"Really?"(Ryuu)

"Really!"(Marius)

"REALLY?"(Ryuu)

"Really!"(Marius)

"Sanguis incarnatus Dei. ( Blood God Incarnate) " (Ryuu)

"Dei what?" (Marius)

In that moment, the blood crossed was not merely a simple blood but the purest kinds and that went into Ryuu transforming him into yet another form having countless forms yet can't access them all as the world would not bear the stress. 

Marius witnessed his transformation where he became a blood that was in the shape of an armor wielding a blood sword.He felt incredible fear when his red beady eyes stared at him and suddenly felt his legs were sliced clean off. 

"Agh! Agh! Fuck!"

He felt pained and tried to use the sacred gear only to find that his regenation wasn't working while he could here step and saw the person responsible having turned into ethereal like blood.

"Hahahaha yes, it is always a delight when their poor vanity is squashed under my feet showing the hopelessness of daring to challenge me." The creature before him was beyond thought and comprehension akin to a concept where you cannot go against the concept of time, space, death, etc. This creature before him was Evil incarnate. 

"Mortals who would dare to play God must pay a steep price for their arrogance, that is Truth." He released more pressured that lit the sky where it patted the cloud scaring Marius beyond measure and tried to crawl to escaped managing to dug his hands on the concrete and tried to leap but his arms were cut off.

"AGH!! Fuck!!." He roared in pain and looked back at the monster before him that growled at him.

"Come on! You were talking all that good shit a second ago! Then I blew your fucking legs off!" Marius couldn't speak and began to stutter.

"But I... you... WHAT THE FUCK!?" He was beyond confused that his mind was eroding while the monster began to taunt him and said.

"What's wrong, demigod? Just grow back your legs! Summon up your demons! Hit me! FIGHT ME! Give me a hug!" He roared and was now standing before Marius defeated body and finally broke Marius' mind.

"Really?" Ryuu grins and turned his torso into an beastly maw where tendrils sprouted and lunges at him

"Oh, God, no…!" In that moment the sound of flesh being ripped and body torn to shred leaving nothing behind even traces of blood was gone leaving only a chalice and didn't bother touching it turning his attention to Kie.

"Kie, can you hold that for me." She did as told and held the chalice where upon picking up was greeted by knowledge and power of Life, Soul, Death, living, and many more. As the chalice glowed in a golden light where Ryuu reverted back to his humanoid form as he felt his heart ache but gave a soft smile and said.

"Reassure, brother. This time we will not fail." The golden light softly smiled and went to hug him before it soon faded away leaving Ryuu behind. He turned to Kie and said.

"How do you feel?" Kie awoke from her shock and said.

"I felt great! My understanding of life has grown significantly!! It's simply amazing!" She was giggity making him smile and while they were busy fighting Elmenhilde was showing her prowess as she fought DxD version of Seras Victoria where she evaded the tendrils whole as Elmenhilde tried to cast a spell only for her concentration to be interrupted and dodged cursing a bit.

'Even though I've gotten stronger, my combat skills are lacking….I need to train to completely utilize my strength.' 

Elmenhilde's power was immense, close or even surpassed to Dragon gods yet all those are firepower and not skills. She can't risk destroying the entire area because of her recklessness and kept his control at bay. 

'Still this is a perfect opportunity to sharpen my skills and prove my worth.' 

Though her strength lies in planning and negotiation doesn't want to fall behind treating this as a way to redeem herself. She decided to fight in a similar fashion and molded darkness behind her back letting her instinct take hold of her action. 

They turned into streak of light in their speed where spark and explosion every time they stopped where Elmenhilde was growing stronger against her opponent who seemingly driven purely by her animalistic instinct and eventually she managed to knock her out sending her planing to the ground and observed if she was truly knock out before taking her back to Ryuu. 

Meanwhile, the same goes for Queen Carmilla as she eveenly fought her opponent noticing something and finally said.

"Now I remember, you are Mina Tepes. The strongest vampire queen but to think they'll be able to revive you." Carmilla evades the magic spell that her opponent cast and the same intercepts the attack. Unlike Elmenhilde, She was quite the adept fighter and got a pretty good hold of her power. 

"Yes! you will be a fine concubine for my lord!" She found a suitable woman and be of use to her lord since Tepes would need a capable leader to take control and she was the best candidate since She couldn't control two factions at once and only desired to end the conflict fearing for her own faction's peace. 

"Grrrrr!!" 

Mina Tepes released more power creating dozen upon dozen magic circle before sending countless magical spell while Queen Carmilla laughed and did the same while rushing towards her and continued their clashes destroying a large part of the city but she made sure no civilian was in the area and didn't try holding back until she overwhelmed her allowing to knock her down.

*Well then, you've been an entertaining opponent but I had to end it. Now, let's us return to my lord." She used her magic and picked her up before soon enough where her and elmenhilde arrived where Ryuu saw their opponent was badly beaten and knock out and place them down before returning his attention to them and said.

"Thank you for the hard work. Here comes closer." They saw him point at his neck making them blush and Carmilla first one to speak.

"M-My lord it's embarrassing to drink your blood in the open. C-Can we postpone our reward?" 

"That's right, my lord. We understand your memories are still at disarray but it is quite a exhibitionist act by drinking your blood in the blood." (Elmenhilde)

Ryuu tilted his head and nodded a bit confused but put it aside and said.

"Kie, heal them for me. Carmilla, Elmenhilde take these two back to our camp and place them under our custody. And Yes, I fancy the two of them." 

They nodded and took the two women back to their camp, vanishing into thin air leaving Ryuu to continue the war where it was too overwhelming for them to fend off the constant attack and in the end few had surrendered, taking only several hours for them to be completely defeated. 

Now Ryuu arrived at the throne room where he saw the king who looked exactly like Marius and beside him who appeared brain dead was a young woman with short blonde hair and red eyes. They were surrounded by guards who ready to attack at any moment but their king spoke and said.

"You're the person responsible for all the ruskus? I don't know if you're a fool or confident to dare challenge us knowing of our weapon?" His sharp voice annoyed Ryuu and said,

"An apple doesn't fall far from the tree huh? You're son, Mario spoke the same tone as you did and guess what happened to him?" 

The King Tepes knew exactly what happened but were confused about the name.

"Mario? You mean Marius?" Ryuu shrugged off and said.

"Don't care, I didn't bother remembering the name of a dead man. The same goes for you, False king. Kneel." In that moment every single one of them fall into their knees except the young woman as Ryuu stepped forward where he sat on the throne and placed his feet into King Tepes back while leaning back as Kie watched in disbelief and couldn't help but shake her head.

"Yes, this will be a fine throne for my queens. Anyway, all of you can die knowing you've angered me, Maacah." In that moment when his name was spoken made the king Tepes dread unlike any other before dying where their soul will be taken to Slaanesh realm for some of their desires to be fulfilled but in a twisted manner. He gets off the throne and moves closer to the young woman, Valerie, where he can see the soul around her and the law of life. He took out the chalice and placed it into her where it glowed before it was absorbed by her body and said.

"Kie, Heal her." She nodded and used her power to restore some of Valerie's soul while Ryuu received a message that said. 

[ Side Mission ]

[ Description: The Vampire faction had been continuously having their civil war, having split the faction into two, The Tepes Faction and Carmilla Faction. The war was now on the verge of it's conclusion upon the Tepes Faction had acquired a powerful assets that would soon decimate the Carmilal faction

Objective: Defeat the Tepes Faction and Save Valerie Tepes.

Reward: Carmilla faction trust, Tepes Subordination, 3x Random Summon (Rank: ???). ] 

He nodded at the screen and turned his attention to Valerie who began to regain Color looking around and stared at them and said.

"W-Who are you people?"