The Villain’s Cheat Code: When a Gamer Becomes the Evil God’s Sidekick-Chapter 372: Love
"Our race was born of blood, immortal and undying."
"Neither gods, nor demons, nor humans are we."
"We stand above all living beings, feeding on blood, devouring life force."
"None shall witness our true visage."
"We lurk in darkness, hide among humans, nurturing the blood moon, waiting for our time."
"When the six blood wings appear in the mortal realm, as the dark moon rises high, at the edge of twilight, bloodlust shall reign,"
"And all beings shall wail in despair."
—— Excerpt from 'The Oath of Dracula', Verse 36
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But Count Laurien was different.
He was a Vampire Prince.
As powerful as he was, blessed with near eternal life.
Just as Laurien said.
The immortal vampires should not possess complicated emotions.
The elders of his clan had always warned him of this.
For he was a prince among vampires, possessing the purest and most powerful bloodline.
And so, Laurien remained quietly within the embrace of his family for hundreds of years.
Occasionally, some vampire brethren would leave the family and return with endless tales about the beauty of the outside world.
This sparked an intense curiosity about the outside world in Laurien's heart.
But the elders repeatedly emphasized that the outside world was full of schemes and plots, with undercurrents and dangers lurking everywhere.
Therefore, they had always forbidden Laurien from leaving the family territory.
However, in Laurien's view, if his weaker brethren could navigate the outside world with ease, how could he, a prince, fear the storms of the outside world?
After all, he had already lived for hundreds of years.
Despite everyone's advice, Laurien resolutely left his family.
He was full of confidence, even believing he could be invincible throughout the human world.
Unfortunately, his vampire identity was discovered as soon as he ventured out.
And the one who discovered him was none other than Grand Duke Balo, a world-class necromancer.
In that battle, Grand Duke Balo's necromancy magic beat him so badly he could barely recognize which drop of blood was his own.
Most importantly, vampires had six extremely strict commandments.
Regardless of status, whether a noble prince or a lowly blood slave, none could violate them.
The first and most traditional, most important one was:
Seclusion—
One must never reveal their true face to non-vampires, or else other vampires would sever all ties with them.
But Laurien, who had been recognized by Grand Duke Balo, ultimately couldn't defeat him.
Laurien had directly committed the greatest sin among vampires.
So he could no longer return home.
Thus, at Grand Duke Balo's request, he was forced to live as an ordinary human in the Kingdom of Kanter.
The Grand Duke even petitioned the previous king to grant him a territory.
Laurien lived up to expectations, spending over twenty years making this land prosper.
To prevent the residents of his territory from constant exhaustion and to develop the land, he even began worshipping the Goddess of Abundance.
A noble vampire prince, actually worshipping the Goddess of Abundance.
This wasn't because he particularly loved the people of his territory, as vampires weren't supposed to have emotions.
He just felt that if even vampires wouldn't do such exhausting work, why should these short-lived humans who only live for a few decades work so desperately hard?
But the result was:
A vampire prince earned the love and respect of all residents in his territory.
However, in the end, this vampire prince committed what was considered the most serious mistake among vampires.
Laurien fell in love with a human.
Love blinded him to everything else, and he felt emotions for the first time.
He wanted to be with a human.
But he would not turn her into a blood kin.
Because Laurien's love for her wasn't about possession or coercion.
He simply loved her as a human.
Similarly, the one she loved was just Laurien.
The Count of the kingdom, the kind lord who willingly lowered himself to ensure his residents wouldn't be overworked yet could still eat their fill.
Not the vampire prince.
But this was destined to be a mistake.
Never had there been love between vampire and human, and their union produced an anomalous result.
Pricis was born into this bizarre and chaotic environment.
Laurien was terrified, for he didn't know what kind of being a child between human and vampire would become.
Fortunately, newborn Pricis was just an utterly ordinary, adorable child.
Therefore, Laurien ceased to worry excessively.
Until Pricis reached the age of seventeen.
In the vampire world, a seventeen-year-old vampire had reached adulthood.
They could spread their wings and develop their own territory and blood kin.
But from birth, Pricis had lived as a human, showing no vampire characteristics.
This made Laurien extremely confident, firmly believing his daughter could live peacefully as a human for her entire life.
However, things often develop contrary to human wishes, heading towards the worst possible direction.
On the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pricis suddenly fell into a frenzy.
Her vampire traits erupted, instantly transforming her into a manic vampire.
That black night, Pricis planted seeds of brutality in her madness.
When Pricis awoke, she was in great pain from the aftermath of her frenzy.
She had no memory of her violent actions, including how many innocent lives she had taken.
To treat Pricis's mania and prevent it from worsening, Laurien painfully decided to confine Pricis in her room.
But Pricis's mania continued for an entire year.
The suffering she endured also lasted an entire year.
She needed to constantly consume fresh blood to slightly alleviate her manic condition.
But—
Misfortunes never come alone.
Everyone believed it was Laurien's frenzied wife who killed their daughter, but that was just his cover story to hide the truth.
In reality, it was Pricis, who had become a blood descendant, who killed Laurien's wife.
That nightmarish evening, Laurien nearly broke down.
He sought help from everyone he could, including Grand Duke Balo who had cared for him since his arrival in the kingdom.
So he begged Grand Duke Balo.
To have the Grand Duke exchange the souls of his wife and Pricis.
The words Grand Duke Balo spoke then remained fresh in Laurien's memory.
"Your wife could have lived well, but she wrongly possessed emotions she shouldn't have had."
"But these wrong emotions were only human nature, something any mother would definitely have."
The Grand Duke told him.
In fact, his wife had already sought out the Grand Duke.
She had long known Laurien was a vampire, had long known what exactly caused Pricis's severe condition.
Finally, she obtained the solution from the Grand Duke.
The answer was...
"Besides you taking Pricis's place and bearing her pain, I have no other way."
"However, even doing this will only turn her into a wandering spirit, but she won't dissipate."
"She will retain her memories from when she was seventeen, waiting forever."
"Until in the future, when a true solution is found, she will return to her body."
"And you will take her place."
"Your soul will scatter to the winds."
So, Laurien's wife resolutely did just that.
Laurien wouldn't allow her to enter their daughter's room.
So she secretly entered her daughter's room on the day Laurien had to leave.
As it happened, that night, Pricis's mania erupted.
The mania caused her to kill her mother, which was exactly what her mother had hoped for.
The Grand Duke exchanged their souls, and from then on, Pricis's mother took her place, trapped in the agony of mania.
Even losing her sanity.
On the day Viktor made a deal with Laurien, Laurien revealed this heartbreaking truth to Viktor.
"My wife has already sacrificed herself, I cannot ignore her dying wish."
Viktor's gaze, as deep as the night sky, fixed on Laurien.
"Then, what do you plan to do?"
Laurien lowered his head in worry and confessed to Viktor:
"The Grand Duke told me that His Majesty Augustus cannot control his ambition."
"He wants to complete the revival of mages, using necromancers again to consolidate his position."
Because the kingdom had magic-suppressing stones, once Augustus monopolized them, every high-ranking mage would be controlled by Augustus.
Becoming Augustus's puppets.
"So, the Grand Duke plans to have me test him."
"If His Majesty Augustus truly does something out of line, then..."
Count Laurien would reveal his vampire identity and agree to marry his daughter to Augustus, consolidating his rule as king.
And Laurien used just one reason to convince Augustus.
That was, to resurrect his daughter.
"And if Augustus truly tries to resurrect my daughter through this opportunity, he is destined to fail."
The next stage would be taken over by Count Laurien.
He would use all his power as a prince to turn all of Shulbon into his blood bank.
Thus, bearing all the sins, to minimize Augustus's influence on the kingdom.
All this, just to ensure his daughter's safety.
And the Grand Duke allowed him to draw blood essence from the humans in his territory.
The entire territory of Shulbon had over a million humans.
If each person contributed just a year or half of blood essence, it would be enough to evolve Pricis into a true vampire.
But even so, this was still painful for Laurien.
The hope for his daughter's survival, versus a year of life from a million territory residents.
It was a difficult choice.
But Laurien was absolutely certain that the residents would be willing to lend him this year of blood essence.
Yes, lend.
Because this time, he didn't plan to live on.
"In my life, I have only loved two people—"
His wife, and his daughter.
His wife's sacrifice led Laurien to make his final decision.
"Finally, please kill me."
"Only you, I believe, can truly kill an immortal like me."
"With my death, I will return my blood essence to everyone."
Just as others said.
He was a beloved count.
Holy light transformed into a gentle breeze, passing through Count Laurien's shattered flesh and blood.
Countless pieces of flesh slowly tore apart under the golden light's bath.
Finally, fine cracks spread across his already thoroughly broken body, rich blood essence pouring out towards the sky.
In the blink of an eye, the pale head atop his body cracked into countless heavy fissures, scattering like fragments.
Only that one crimson eye remained, still watching Pricis.
Meeting her shocked and dazed gaze, seeming to understand yet not quite comprehending.
Only a faint, gentle voice that only Pricis could hear arose:
"Pricis—"
"My sun, the light of my heart."
"I am willing to give everything, even if I am left with nothing."
"Just so you may escape this endless darkness of pain."
Finally, Laurien looked up at the sky, towards the burning sun.
Feeling his life swiftly slipping away, his soul separated from his flesh,
His soul gradually closed its eyes in midair, bidding farewell to this world of dawning light.
Allowing the holy light and blazing sun to slowly consume him.
And he only murmured one last sentence:
"Praise the sun."
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Chapter 372: Love
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