CHAPTER 479: THE GROUND THAT BLED ARMIES

Malvador arrived inside the Ashen Crucible.

Just like Pablo, he was also allowed inside by the ground itself.

But the vampire king was still hearing voices inside his head and to be sure that the vampire king would feel the same thing that Pablo felt, Pablo decided to test it.

He asked Malvador to sniff the air of the Crucible. The air filled with the smell of the black smoke.

Pablo had done the same and was placed under hallucination because of it while his real body was being devoured by the Crucible.

Pablo wanted to see if Malvador would go through the same thing or not if he smelled the black smoke coming out of the ground from various spots.

So he asked Malvador to sniff the air and Malvador did just that.

The next second, what Pablo expected, happened.

The eighteen year old vampire king fell on the ground.

Ashes began covering the man from all sides as the whole army of the Forza kingdom watched it while praising Pablo’s mind.

The night was still on and the darkness was still around. They were only able to see the face of the vampire king. They weren’t able to see anything more than that and they believed that they wouldn’t need to see him whole anyway.

If Malvador got swallowed by the Crucible then it meant that they already won the war. So there won’t be any reason to see all of him. But there were some people who were not too sure about it.

Pablo, Harlia, Draxus and some other soldiers were standing still and silent. They were just watching the scene, waiting to see how it would play out.

Among these silent people, Pablo was the only one who was sure of what would happen.

If Malvador was the same as Pablo, then in no time...

BURST!

He would be free from the hold of the ashes.

Pablo wasn’t able to finish his thoughts as from Malvador’s spot, an explosion took place.

The ashes flew out and Pablo could only smile at that.

He is free.

A man emerged from the cloud of ashes flying around and when everyone saw the face, they all cursed under their breath.

But the man looked straight at Pablo who was also looking at him with a smile.

"This place is worse than I expected. That was some heavy shit." Malvador said, shaking his head.

"How did you break free from that? And if you smell the smoke again, will you face the same thing?" Pablo asked some questions.

Andrezj had helped everyone when they smelled the smoke for the first time and after that he had used his magic to make sure the soldiers became immune to the things Crucible would throw at them.

But Pablo wanted to know if Andrezj hadn’t used his magic and if the soldiers had smelled the black smoke again after breaking free from it after the first time, would they get captured by illusions again? Or does the black smoke work only for the first time?

Pablo decided to use Malvador to get answers to those questions and Malvador only laughed out loud.

"I am not your test subject, Pablo. I won’t tell how I broke free from it but just this once, I will try to answer your curiosity."

Pablo nodded and Malvador smelled the air again.

The black smoke scent went inside his nose and then his head and Pablo watched the man with full attention until...

"I am fine. That is only a one time thing it seems. Of course, apart from the cursed smell, everything is fine. Not to mention the voices. They are still going at it."

Pablo nodded. "Good work."

"Don’t mention it. You will say it often tomorrow." Malvador replied.

Pablo shrugged and asked something else. "Where is your partner?"

"I am single."

"Very funny. I meant your soldiers and shit. Where are they?"

"Why?" Malvador raised his brows. "You don’t think that I alone will be enough?"

Pablo chuckled. "You alone would have really been enough if I wasn’t present here. But now that I am here, you being alone is only suicide for you."

"Hahaha. That’s why I like you, Pablo. You are too big for your balls. But you are right. I shouldn’t be alone right now. That’s why..."

Malvador raised his right hand and while staring at Pablo, he snapped his fingers.

"My army is already here."

RUMBLE!

Pablo and everyone else suddenly felt their heart beats rising.

The ground became rumbling just after Malvador snapped his fingers. It felt like an earthquake.

Pablo took a few steps behind as he wasn’t sure what was going to happen.

Also, something emerged inside his mind when the ground began rumbling like that. Something horrendous and dangerous.

The return of the Dragon King.

He believed that Malvador was summoning the dead dragon king from under the ground.

He didn’t share all this with anyone else and silently waited for the doom to appear.

However, when he saw some heads appearing from the ground around where Malvador stood, he became at ease. It wasn’t the dragon.

But instead of the dragon, they were none other than the armies of both the Vampires and Cannibals.

They came from under the Crucible and they stood in front of the army of the Forza Kingdom.

Beside Malvador, another man now stood and Pablo figured that man was the king of the Cannibals.

He couldn’t see the face of the Cannibal king as the darkness was too much and the king of the Cannibals wasn’t as shiny as Malvador too.

Malvador and Cannibal king was standing in the middle and on the side of Malvador, one army stood and on the side of the Cannibal king, one army stood.

Pablo had already figured that their armies would be different as only their kings had joined forces, not the armies.

So Pablo’s decision to divide the armies of his kingdom in two was right and he focused on the man whom he had to kill.

Malvador Nocturne.

But more than that, in Pablo’s and everyone else’s mind there was one question at the top...

How the hell were these people under the ground in the first place?!