"Overcomer?"
After a single clash, Alfred retreated, looking at Ye Qiyan's current appearance, finally revealing a look of astonishment.
"You actually obtained even this kind of power as well."
That's right, what Ye Qiyan was using wasn't just Defiance.
At this very moment, he had also activated his own 【Overcomer】 module.
He even had the Crimson Radiance of the Celestial Comet Drive activated to provide him with even greater speed.
Combined with Red Tears' ability and the power of the Tear-Engraving Sword.
At this moment, he completely possessed the capital to fight Alfred on equal footing.
Red Tears could only wield the sword and fight based on instinct.
Don't forget.
Not long ago, he had obtained the enhancement module named 【Realm of No Self】.
Ye Qiyan, who also possessed swordsmanship skills, coupled with an even more powerful weapon.
Facing Alfred again wouldn't result in him being suppressed like Red Tears was.
At this moment, the battle between the two Train Conductors had arrived at the same starting line.
"Senior truly is knowledgeable and experienced."
The Blood God's Pavilion was collapsing.
The shockwaves from the battle between Ye Qiyan and Alfred alone were enough to make this sacrificial ground, reinforced and constructed with magic and various precious materials, difficult to withstand.
"The more it is like this, the more I cannot let you leave alive. So what if you're an Overcomer? Altos, your experience is too little. Do you really have enough mental strength and stamina to sustain this power?!"
Black and red.
In the rain-streaked sky, their figures crisscrossed back and forth.
"Who knows~"
Ye Qiyan was waiting for an opportunity.
An opportunity to kill Alfred.
Alfred, the Vampire Prince, for Ye Qiyan.
He possessed a huge weakness.
Alfred was a vampire.
From the moment this battle began, the two sides were like the scales on that 【Judge】, never equal.
Starting with Red Tears, then continuously forcing Alfred to use more and more power.
Ye Qiyan's goal was only one.
To ensure that the Judge's single strike could truly and completely defeat Alfred!
And this moment was finally about to arrive.
Boom!!
The Wandering Star Holy Sigil slowly healed.
Although no wounds could be seen on Ye Qiyan's body, his clothes were utterly tattered.
"Senior, it seems you are the one whose spirit is insufficient first."
A purplish-red halo continuously expanded outward from beneath Ye Qiyan's feet.
Before him, the Book of Reality and Illusion exerted its proper power.
Ye Qiyan's mental energy consumption was indeed enormous, but as long as the Book of Reality and Illusion existed, Alfred and even all the surrounding enemies would also undergo an equivalent amount of consumption.
"A halo-type mental weapon? Your tools are truly numerous and powerful. Thirty-nine stations, excluding the initial ten beginner stations, that's twenty-nine stations."
"In the time of these twenty-nine stations, you managed to obtain all of this. It can be called a miracle."
Alfred did not say anything more, taking out a heart and crushing it directly.
A crimson fusion restored his mental energy and stamina.
The battle belonging to them had already lasted for several hours.
The former Blood God's Pavilion now only had that heart protected by divine power remaining.
All directions had become dilapidated ruins.
The monsters still arrived in an endless stream.
Achuan and Stacia's battle also still hadn't ended.
But...
It was time.
Thump, thump!
Suddenly, Alfred felt his own heart violently convulse.
He knew very well this wasn't a problem with himself.
Rather, it was the second heart of the Blood God, the deity believed in by vampires, being very close to it, resonating with his own heart.
"?!"
Alfred subconsciously opened his personal interface. He saw that his mental energy upper limit was madly decreasing!
"What's going on?!"
Thump, thump, thump!!!
Pure black patterns appeared on the heart.
It hurt! It ached!
This heart was being affected, poisoned by something Alfred didn't know about!
And it was precisely in this moment of distraction, how could Ye Qiyan under the Realm of No Self let it go?
Sssshhh——
A figure from the Ancient Battlefield merged into the sword body.
A pure white sword slash tore open Alfred's chest.
Crimson blood gushed out, the pulsating heart directly exposed to the air.
This was the first time he had suffered such a major injury in this battle.
Unable to recover, the power of the Tear-Engraving Sword hindered the restoration of life.
Stamina and mental energy weakened simultaneously.
Alfred even had a feeling that he could no longer hold his sword.
And this was the opportunity Ye Qiyan had been waiting for.
Without the slightest hesitation or waiting.
One of the Blasphemy Cards that had been obediently staying in the Void Card Repository could no longer restrain itself and flew to Ye Qiyan's side.
【Blasphemy Card · V · Judge】
【Determination of Guilt】
The faceless person on the card face raised the tilted scales.
The Justice Mark had already been set.
Alfred felt discomfort originating from the depths of his soul, born from the underlying logic of his race.
He saw a sun.
A sun that shouldn't have had any effect on him.
"The power of judgment... Your timing, sir, is excellent."
Alfred did not flee. He still hovered in the air. Even though his body was soaked in blood, even though the wound brought by the Tear-Engraving Sword was difficult to heal.
He still elegantly flapped his wings, pointing the rapier in his hand at Ye Qiyan.
"Hah..."
"From beginning to end, I have been guarding against the power of judgment you once used."
"That last sword strike was excellent. If it were me, I would also choose to unleash that strike at that moment. It's just that your swordsmanship still needs more tempering."
Alfred raised his head, looking at that still-beating but now blackened heart.
"This change in the heart, is it also your handiwork?"
"Yes, poisoned it? Mental poison... Heh..."
The faceless Judge raised the gavel of judgment.
The Tear-Engraving Sword slowly returned to its sheath.
Ye Qiyan watched as Alfred raised his palm. Right on his palm, the Judge was slowly and steadily rotating.
"And also... the Blasphemy Card. So the most recent person to possess this card is you..."
"Senior."
Ye Qiyan called out like this.
"It's time to depart."
The muzzle of Black Ebony aimed at Alfred's heart.
He was different from other enemies.
Alfred very clearly perceived that his life would end because of this next attack.
But he had no intention of fleeing at all.
Instead, he smiled elegantly, used a goblet to catch his flowing blood until it was full, and drank it all in one gulp.
"You will become an excellent Train Conductor. No... if you don't die halfway, perhaps... you can become the most formidable one."
"The Golden Age, huh... Haha, I think I roughly understand why they call it that name."
"The Blasphemy Card with the power of judgment. If you had taken it out from the very beginning, I might have chosen to flee."
"But now, I cannot escape, nor do I intend to."
Alfred stroked the rapier in his hand, feeling his power being gradually sealed by a certain more sublime power of judgment. Towards Ye Qiyan, he threw it.
【Judge】 Third Ability
【Adjudication: Remove one Mark, and based on its sin, deliver judgment】
The mark on Alfred's body was removed.
【Train Conductor · Alfred】
【His Sins Are As Follows】
【Belief in Gods, Arrogance, Bloodthirst, Slaughter, Enslavement, Evil Life】
【Additional Guilt of the Innocent】
【Module Activation · Judgment of Gunfire】
【Guilt Determination.】
【Determination: Guilty.】
【To Be Purified】
He did not betray his race.
Alfred was not an outsider Train Conductor. He was a true vampire, a "native" lifeform who grew to become a top-tier Train Conductor.
Black and white radiance surged within the gun barrel.
Pulled the trigger.
Bang——
Alfred's heart disappeared at this moment.
His body also turned to ashes in this instant, washed away by the rain, disappearing forever.
In the air, only his final words echoed.
"That sword, I give it to you."
【Thorny Dream (Level 12)】
【The personal sword of Vampire Prince Alfred, given to the human Train Conductor "Altos" just before his death. This sword can only be used by vampires.】
【"If one day you are about to die, use this sword to become a vampire. This is your reward for killing me, Alfred."】
Alfred, the Vampire Prince, had fallen.
"Farewell."
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