Chapter 95 : Breaking the queens pride (3) final

[ Absolute Choice System – Quest Cleared ]

[ Quest: Defy and Dominate - Completed ]

[ Calculating rewards... ]

[ Reward Obtained: Upgrade Card × 2 (Unranked) ]

[ Reward Obtained: Containment Ring (Artifact – Seals and stores enemies’ blood, body, or souls) ]

Arthur stared at the translucent notifications hovering in front of him.

For the first time since the fight had started—

He let out a long breath.

Relief.

’Finally... that’s done.’

But the moment that thought settled—

Another one followed.

’Wait... what about the quest with Sakura?’

His expression twitched.

’Is Himari still not delivered to Yuichi?’

He paused.

’Delivered’ suddenly sounded like the wrong word.

As if she were some object to be shipped off so he could collect his payment.

He clicked his tongue inwardly.

’It’s not like I see her as an object... definitely not,’ he told himself. ’Absolutely not.’

Still—

If something had gone wrong...

’It can’t be that Yuna failed to retrieve her, right?’

Before he could spiral further, the system’s voice cut in.

[ We can think about that later. Let’s deal with this situation first... ]

Arthur’s gaze shifted back to the colosseum full of trembling vampires.

’What’s there to deal with?’ he replied in his mind. ’I’ve already made up my mind. And you already know what I want.’

[ I knew it... ] the system answered. [ And I have the perfect tool for it... <⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠> ]

Arthur’s eyebrow twitched.

’What is it?’

[ You might not have noticed, but you’ve obtained many high-ranking skills. One of them is called Blood Domain. I’ll show you the description later—use it now. ]

Arthur’s lips curled into a faint smile.

"Blood Domain," he said.

The world reacted.

[ New Skill Acquired: Blood Domain ]

[ Rank: SSS ]

[ Type: Active – Sovereign Domain ]

[ Description: When activated, create a domain where the user’s Blood Monarch lineage is absolute. Within this domain, all vampires and lesser bloodlines experience forced suppression of stats, skill efficiency loss, and instinctive fear. The user’s regeneration, strength, and skill potency are greatly enhanced. The longer the domain persists, the more it erodes enemy will and sanity. Within Blood Domain, Blood Dominion, Fear, and Hunger gain increased effectiveness. ]

[ Base Duration: 10 seconds (due to insufficient mana and current rank) ]

[ Cooldown: 24 hours ]

[ Warning: Extremely draining.mentally and physically.....it will put severe strain on body and bloodline if used repeatedly at current level. ]

Arthur’s mouth twitched as he read the last line.

’Of course it’s draining...you dumbass system.’

Then—

Blood Domain unfolded.

For ten seconds—

The entire Night Sanctuary fell and shattered under Arthur’s control.

Reality seemed to thicken.

The sky darkened to an even deeper shade, as if all color and light were being swallowed by an unseen void. A crimson hue spread over everything—walls, stone, air, skin—as if someone had poured blood into the atmosphere.

Every vampire felt it.

Their knees weakened.

Their throats tightened.

It was as if an invisible hand had reached inside their chests and gripped their hearts.

Their blood—

Rebelled.

It refused to listen to them.

Instead, it trembled.

Bowed.

Submitted.

To a higher authority.

Arthur stood at the center, and for those ten seconds, he felt it clearly—if he wished, he could crush this entire place like an egg.

Elizabeth’s mind went almost blank under the pressure.

"This... this is a domain," she whispered, voice shaking. "And it’s even stronger than the Night Sanctuary..."

She understood now.

What Arthur had intended from the moment his bloodline awakened.

Her eyes widened in horror.

She realized what he was about to do.

"No!" she screamed. "No, spare them!"

Her voice echoed across the arena—

But only one word left Arthur’s lips.

"Boom."

The domain responded.

In the next second—

Vampires began to explode.

One by one.

Like living bombs.

A child in the stands reached for his mother—

His body burst apart into a spray of blood and flesh.

A woman tried to shield her younger sibling—

They both detonated mid-scream.

Men, elders, guards, nobles—

No exception.

Their bodies swelled unnaturally as the blood inside them went berserk under Arthur’s command, compressing and then rupturing outward.

Boom.

Boom.

Boom.

Everywhere.

Blood painted the stone.

Limbs flew.

Screams were cut off halfway, replaced only by wet impacts and the sickening sound of ruptured flesh.

Vampires tried to run.

They clawed over each other, shoved, leapt into the air, tried to fly—

But the domain had them all.

There was nowhere to run.

Their blood betrayed them.

Death became inevitable.

Elizabeth watched it all.

She watched her people—

The ones she had ruled.

The ones she had protected.

The ones she had bled for.

Die like insects.

Popping apart in grotesque bursts, leaving nothing but broken bodies and red mist behind.

Her vision blurred.

Her legs nearly gave out.

The only sound that rose above the carnage—

Was Arthur’s laugh.

Low at first.

Then growing.

A mad, echoing laughter that rolled across the slaughtered Night Sanctuary as the ten seconds of Blood Domain approached their end.

After ten seconds.

Blood Domain collapsed.

The suffocating pressure vanished.

The crimson hue faded from the air.

But its work was done.

Except for Elizabeth—

Every single vampire in the Night Sanctuary had been massacred.

The stands that had once been packed with bodies and noise were now filled only with empty, bloodstained seats and mangled remains.

Elizabeth stared in disbelief at the colosseum.

At the ruined stone.

At the places where her people had once stood.

Where they had cheered.

Where they had lived.

Now—

Nothing.

Arthur’s body finally reached its limit.

His knees hit the ground.

He leaned forward, bracing a hand on the cracked floor as he dragged air into his lungs.

"Haa... haa..."

Every breath burned.

"Fucking system," he groaned. "Warn me about things like this beforehand... now I feel like I can’t even stand."

He tried to push himself up.

His muscles trembled.

Then—

A chill ran down his spine.

Black aura exploded from Elizabeth’s body.

It poured out of her like ink, devouring the air, the light, even the lingering scent of blood around her. The very space around her distorted, as if reality itself was bending away from that darkness.

Her hateful gaze was fixed only on Arthur.

Pure killing intent.

She wanted him dead.

Arthur’s own aura flared in response, instinctively pushing back—

But this time, it washed over her with far less effect.

She moved toward him.

Step by step.

Defiantly.

As if his presence no longer weighed her down the way it did before.

Arthur’s eye twitched.

"What’s happening...? Where the hell did my cool aura go?" he muttered. "Wasn’t I, like, sort of invincible a few seconds ago?"

The system’s voice cut in.

[ Host, it looks like we miscalculated something. ]

Arthur’s mouth twitched.

"Just how many miscalculations do you make?" he snapped in his head.

[ It seems she was not fighting at her full power all this time. ]

Arthur stared.

"What do you mean ’not at full power’?! She was already terrifyingly strong!"

[ Host, to protect those people, she had been keeping them inside her domain—what she called the Night Sanctuary. That domain was something she created, and it consumed more than half of her real strength to maintain. ]

[ Now that we’ve broken that domain... all the power she was using to sustain it has returned to her. ]

[ And you, on the other hand, have depleted almost all of your energy reserves. Your bloodline is the only reason she’s still finding it hard to kill you—because you stand higher than her in the hierarchy. ]

Arthur swallowed.

A big gulp.

’Well... this looks bad.’

He watched as everything around Elizabeth was shredded by her black aura.

Stone.

Air.

Even the lingering mist of blood was being devoured.

"I’ll kill you, you fucking bastard!" Elizabeth screamed, voice raw.

Her movements were still sluggish.

Even with all that power, the exhaustion and damage she had taken weighed her down.

She was struggling to move at full speed.

Arthur smiled faintly.

"Why do you think I left you alive?" he said. "You’re still useful to me."

Her eyes narrowed.

"There’s a place inside the Null Realm that only someone like you would know about," Arthur continued. "Don’t worry, I have a map, so we won’t get lost."

Elizabeth’s eyes widened.

She understood exactly what he meant.

Before she could react—

Arthur spoke again in his mind.

’Open inventory... give me the Containment Ring.’

A separate space unfolded before his eyes—dark, starry, like a pocket of reality filled with items floating gently in nothingness.

From inside it, Arthur reached out and pulled a ring into the physical world.

It was pitch-black, made of a metal that looked like solidified shadow. Crimson lines ran along its surface in intricate patterns, occasionally pulsing with a faint glow like veins carrying liquid light. At its center sat a small, clear gem that reflected no surroundings—only a dull, internal gleam.

The conditions to use it were simple.

Just stand within ten meters of the target.

And speak their name.

Arthur slipped the ring onto his finger, a devilish smile forming on his lips.

"Elizabeth Crimson," he said.

Elizabeth roared, lunging forward with all the hatred and power she could muster.

"ARTHUR—!"

The gem on the ring flashed.

A vortex of dark light burst outward, wrapping around her body like chains woven from void and blood.

Her movements froze.

Her form began to distort, compressing, being pulled inward toward the tiny gem at the center of the ring.

Her scream echoed—

Then cut off.

In the next moment—

Her entire body was gone.

Sealed inside the ring.

The black aura vanished with her.

Silence fell over the ruined colosseum.

Arthur stared at the ring for a second.

Then finally allowed himself to exhale.

A huge breath he didn’t know he had been holding.

He collapsed backward onto the broken floor.

"I can finally... take a rest," he muttered, staring up at the colorless sky.

There was a brief pause.

Then the system spoke again.

[ Host... where is that girl, Olivia? ]

Arthur froze.

His eyes snapped open.

"...Crap," he yelled. "I almost forgot about her!"