Chapter 1441: War Dancer
When Dendron finally reached a small crack in one of the larger inner branches that they could hide in, Arad was already knocked out cold. "If there is a time to sleep, it’s now. You cleared the whole area. Look at all that blood." She looked back, and her jaw dropped.
What she saw was even more terrifying and disgusting than the flood of the roiling blood and torn guts that Arad. It was so bad it made her want to puke. The scene of the clean branches, the golden bark, and the non-existence of anything blood-related around.
She slowly turned back, looking at Arad with a terrified face. He had absorbed it all, corpses included. That sea of blood, all of the powerful monsters. What would happen to a vampire if they were fed so much power?
As Dendron slowly came to realise that Arad didn’t fall asleep due to exhaustion. But probably since he is now processing all of that blood, like a food coma, she now had to get answers and quickly.
She sat Arad down, made herself smaller, and flew into his mouth, making her way down to his stomach. As she reached all the way down, she appeared inside the vast and endless void of Arad’s stomach.
"To think I’m getting here on my own." She growled and then flew all the way to the small world.
As she landed, she found Cerilla waiting for her. "How is Arad doing outside?"
"Asleep, he swallowed all of that blood. Can any of you check what’s going on with him now? Is he evolving, or is he doing something else with all of that blood?"
Dendron had many reasons to be worried, and the biggest one was blood madness, as she called it, the violent outburst vampires and werewolves tend to experience after gorging themselves on too much food. She already got beaten by Arad once, so she knows how bad it’ll be to have him trying to kill everyone in sight.
"He is fine." The one who replied was Eris. She had felt the surge of power in Arad’s blood, the massacre he caused, and all the deaths that came with it. It gave her a huge spike of power, both divine and blood-related.
"Are you... How in the nine hells is a vampire a divine paladin of Amaterasu and demi-goddess of murder at the same time?" Seeing Eris had to be the strangest thing she had seen in her whole life.
Normally, the sun is the vampires’ biggest enemy, so to see one of their kind being blessed by Amaterasu and even given the powers of a paladin, it was baffling to say the least. And it even took Dendron a second to notice that Eris was also a plasma drakaina, which made her existence even weirder.