The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 93: The Undead Sovereign (1)

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 200,000 (+1,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 300,000 (+2,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 800,000 (+1,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 300, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen -leap -basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia]

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Inside a sinister and malicious castle that resides on the undead world of Gravendath, a figure is sitting on a throne with its menacing presence.

“master, an army is approaching your dominion,” An old butler said as he kneels in front of the throne. The old butler looks like a normal human, the only difference is his two scary fangs that long and sharp which a characteristic of a vampire.

“How many are them?” The Lord asked the old butler. It felt kind of strange to have a butler handling the military affairs too at a huge castle for a normal person’s perspective. But for vampires, a butler is meant to serve and ease their life in every aspect, so being a butler of a vampire lord is to handle every affair of their lord including controlling their lord’s army to fend off invaders.

“There are about 120,000 of them in number, master. I personally think that we shouldn’t underestimate them, master. The army… Looks kind of unusual…” Said the old butler.

“Sebastian… Do you catch the figure of their commander?” The vampire lord asked the old butler named Sebastian.

“I do, master. He’s a lich type, but I believe he’s different from a normal lich, master… We need to proceed with the highest caution,” Sebastian the old butler said as he remembered getting some cold sweat when he tried to observe the enemy’s flanks.

“It’s rather rare for you to show such expression, Sebastian,” The vampire lord said as he saw Sebastian’s anxious expression.

“Please forgive me, master. But I felt it, I certainly felt it. When I scout for the enemy commander, the terrifying sensation when he suddenly senses my gaze and shifted his eyes to me. As if the death god had put his attention to me, please forgive my weakness, master…” The old butler, Sebastian kneeled deeply as he apologizes to his master while his expression got devoured by a fear that not came from his master, but from his master’s enemy.

For a vampire butler, their lord is their target of worship, fear, and devotion. To worship, devote, or even fear another entity is the same as an act of treason to their lord.

“Raise your head, Sebas… I can’t blame you for that, it’s not your fault,” The vampire lord said with a gentle but slightly stiff tone.

The old butler raises his head and checked on his master that voice kind of weird.

“Master?” The old butler, Sebastian asked his master that showing a strange expression but different from his expression of fear.

His master.

Is having a broad and sinister smile.

“I could feel it…” Vlad Dracula clenched his fist as his mana aura of death gushed out and enveloped the castle.

“I could feel it… The strength of the enemy… Finally… A worthy opponent had finally arrived! I’m sick of slumber!!! It’s time to shake this boring world!!!” Vlad Dracula shouted as he let out a sinister laugh in the end.

Looking at his master’s morale, the old butler got a boost on his morale too.

“Let’s go, Sebastian! Call the five bloody generals! Let’s welcome our enemy!” (Vlad Dracula)

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“Master, should we attack now?” Malistrode the Mummy King asked Lich Oz who is staring at vampire dominion.

“…….” Lich Oz stays silent for a while before suddenly knocks his staff to the ground as if realizing something.

“It’s a trap, huh. They got quite a good schemer on their side. Malistrode, I’m quite interested in these vampire folks, a change of plans, we’ll be forcing them to our side,” Lich Oz indifferently said.

“A-as your wish, master…” Malistrode answered with a bow.

“Call the summoners, we’ll start with their pawn soldiers,” (Lich Oz)

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The vampire dominion Vlad Dracula ruled is a fortress city that has a huge wall circling it. It’s a royal vampire city that consists of 100,000 vampires.

“Master, the enemy had started to move,” Sebastian reported to his lord.

“Are they attacking with their main force?” (Vlad Dracula)

“No, they’re attacking with several thousands of pawn soldiers,” The old butler answered his lord’s question.

Vlad snorted. “Hmph! Are they mocking us!?” (Vlad Dracula)

“Please calm down, master. It might be their intention to make you worked up to hinder your decision making…” Advised the old butler to his lord.

“I know, Sebastian. Where are the bloody generals?” Vlad Dracula asked the old butler, Sebastian.

“They’re waiting behind the wall’s gate together with our 20,000 elite vampire soldiers, master…” (Sebastian)

“I see… Then let’s speed up a little bit,” (Vlad Dracula)

The black mist suddenly enveloped them and their figure vanished completely as if they got devoured by the black mist. The black mist suddenly dashes to the gate with a high speed, arriving in mere seconds.

When both of the black mist arrived in front of the soldiers and the bloody generals, all of them immediately kneels to their lord.

“””Welcome, your majesty,””” All of them said in harmony.

“Stand up, this is war, not a ceremony,” Vlad Dracula indifferently said as he observes the battlefield. Above the walls, dozens of vampire archers and magicians are fending off the pawn soldiers sent by Lich Oz.

Different from usual archers and magicians, vampire archers and magicians have a bigger explosion power on their every attack, making the pawn soldiers look like they’re harmless. The vampire magicians and archers easily fend off the pawn soldiers sent by Lich Oz even if they’re thousands in number because of their explosive attacks.

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“Hm… Not bad, they’ll be good soldiers,” Lich Oz muttered with a satisfied tone as he observes the battle between the wall guards and his pawn soldiers from the hole he made with his skeletal thumb and index finger that serves as a magical telescope.

“Master?” (Malistrode)

“Hm? Ah! Sorry, I’m too busy admiring their prowess, let’s make our move,” Lich Oz answered Malistrode as he looks at them with from his skeletal hand telescope once more.

“Hm…Since they have such a human-like figure, maybe I should use my human form to communicate easier with them,” Lich Oz mutters as he focuses his mana aura and envelope himself with a black and sinister mana aura. The aura completely covers Lich Oz for a while and suddenly vanished, leaving a pale and tall muscular person with beautiful long white hair. His body build is muscular but not heavy enough to hinder movements.

“Not bad!” Lich Oz exclaimed, feeling satisfied.

“Master… That figure…” (Malistrode)

“Yes, this is my human form. Now, let’s advance,” Lich Oz said with his new face. Before, Malistrode couldn’t see any expression because Lich Oz only has a skeletal face that couldn’t make any expression. But now, Malistrode could clearly see Lich Oz’s face that gives a strong feeling of intelligence and confidence.

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“Your majesty, the enemy’s main force had started their move,” One of the bloody generals said to Vlad Dracula.

“They started to move? Do they have any siege tools or something similar that looks like their card to handle our walls?” (Vlad Dracula)

“No, master. They simply slowly march to our direction with all of their troops,” Said Roselia, one of the five bloody generals.

“Are they going to suicide? No, it means that they’re confident about their strength… Sebastian, I’m going above,” Vlad Dracula said to his loyal old butler.

“Yes, master. Let me accompany you…” Sebastian the old butler said with a bow.

A pair of huge bat wings suddenly appeared behind their back, and both of them fly to the sky. Vlad Dracula stared at the invaders that about to attack his dominion. But Vlad Dracula’s brows twitch when he saw the enemy’s commander.

“Sebastian… Don’t you say the enemy’s commander is a lich?” Vlad Dracula asked his old butler with suspicion.

“Indeed… W-what!?” Sebastian suddenly shocked when he saw the enemy disappearance of the lich figure he saw before, replaced by a man that looks like a human with a very pale face that’s leading the army with a huge and sinister staff on his right hand, and a floating black grimoire at his left side.

“I-I swear I saw a lich leading the army before, I don’t see that man before, does the lich went back?” (Sebastian)

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When Sebastian question himself whether he saw right or not, he even started to doubt his capabilities and start to think that he might be already too old and need to retire to not become a burden to his master. But suddenly, the figure he’s observing suddenly shifted his gaze to Sebastian’s direction with a sinister and malicious smirk on his face, a familiar feeling of terror struck him that makes him realized.

That man is the lich I saw before!!!

“M-m-master… I believe that man is the lich I saw before… I don’t know what kind of tricks he uses to change his form, but I could swear that he is the lich I saw!” Sebastian said in a panic.

“Hm… Calm down, Sebastian,” Vlad Dracula asked his loyal butler to calm down as he gazes the figure that makes his butler that on the [Duke] rank to shiver in fear.

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Vlad Dracula unleashes his murderous aura together with his tremendous amount of death aura that envelopes the whole city. His soldiers and generals felt the familiar terrifying aura but they don’t shiver, rather they got excited because their lord’s prowess gave them morale and strength.

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But in a split second, countless thunders suddenly appeared as if showing how tense the atmosphere suddenly became. loud sounds of thunders appeared everywhere because of the clash of two powerful aura. Vlad Dracula secretly praised his enemy inside his heart because of his prowess to rival his aura, he focuses his eyes to the figure that look more like prey on his eyes with a sharp gaze, but Vlad suddenly felt that he heard a small but powerful voice.

“Hm… It can’t be like this… We’re here to make them submit by showing them our prowess, I feel bad for them, but we can’t let them have any courage to do anything against us,”

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Vlad suddenly felt his aura getting overpowered by the enemy’s aura.

“Let’s use that new skill. Burn everything to cinders, [Flame Of Gehenna: Burning Fortress]“

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“Impossible…” (Vlad Dracula)