Chapter 390: Fernando, The Embodiment of Scum

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Since separating himself from the group, Fernando had felt the necessity to grow stronger and also to gather loyal subordinates.

He could not trust anyone from his former lives anymore, as they were all untrustful, and desired to backstab him more than anything… or so he thought.

Due to how his two previous lives were, he grew an intense feeling of insecurity.

Fernando could still remember that on Earth, he was not known for being anyone special, in fact, he made of himself someone noticeable by trying to be "funny" or a classic "pervert".

This made his popularity with women rather bad, but it also made him a fun person to be around for men.

He had lacked much self-esteem through his entire life on Earth, born with an abusive parent and a mother that constantly let her husband hit her and treat her horribly, every day was torture for him.

And because there was never a change in this life, even when he was already 20 and went to live alone… such thing continued on his parent's house.

At some point, he completely isolated himself from his family and decided to live alone, delving into online entertainment, and satiating his sexual frustrations by excessively reading hentai doujins and watching pornography every day for most of his free time.

Due to this, his mind was often filled with sexual thoughts, which simply intensified his personality of a "clown" and a "pervert".

Even when he joined the office where his other coworkers were, which also held some of his former classmates, he kept acting just like he did in high school…

Naturally, the women hated him, but the men pitied him or found him funny enough to bring him along whenever they went to drink or eat at night.

Eventually, he had somehow managed to get into this party that Eustace, one of the most handsome and popular coworkers within the office he worked in made, where many of the pretty women within would assist…

He was planning for some occurrence of fantasy such as the women getting drunk enough so the boys could take advantage of them and bring them to a love hotel or something, but before such a stupid thing was to ever happen, a car crashed into the restaurant and killed him and all the people inside, coworkers and normal people included.

And then, he was sent into a white space, as a tiny soul.

He met Hekaton's voice, had an introduction to the System, and then was sent to another world…

All of this… had him excited, in fact.

Fernando was one of the few people that actually was incredibly happy of having died and given a System to reincarnate in another world of fantasy, with swords, magic, and dragons.

And with the amazing Cheat of ignoring Defense and Resistance from anything his attacks, be it magic or physical touched, he thought that he would become unmatched, and the protagonist of this world…

…But he could not be farther from the truth.

Eustace and many others were at his side, born in the same city, from even more prestigious families of rich aristocrats that also had close connections with the church of Bestellen.

And although he tried to improve himself, leveling up, collecting Skills, improving in magic and swordsmanship, alongside many other things, he was always somehow overshadowed by these kids…

His time in the Aristocrats School where he met once again with all of his coworkers and some of the other people within the restaurant was not so good…

Although in the end, when he began to get some recognition, Bestellen came and ordered him and the other Kids to become Heroes of the Country and to lead them to victory against the Evil Demon Nation and the Dark Gods.

Fernando did not like any of this and found that everything was bullshit.

But he had no option.

Born from fanatic believers, his own parents, and inside an Empire filled with these fervent. Insane people, that did anything this God said… did he had any other option?

Perhaps his power could ignore defense and resistance, but in this world, there was the concept of Health Points too, and people would not be one-shotted by him, even his allies.

The amazing power he thought had the quality of making I am unmatched actually only made him a bit above average, as there were other people with even more insane powers such as controlling gravity which could send him flying into the air like Mason, or set him in the fire before he could attack at all like Leonia… or even completely decimate him with a shower of blade-shaped holy light like Eustace…

Compared to these incredibly flashy, god-level powers that covered wide ranges and were incredibly potent, without the need for chanting or anything unlike techniques or spells, his power to ignore defense and resistance, Penetration, was… not enough.

Before he could even get close to any of them, he would be blasted into pieces, burned into ashes, or impaled alive…

And like this, he was forced to obey them, and to become a Hero… always overshadowed and ignored, barely given any spotlight, while Eustace got everything…

Was this any different than his previous life then?

He was filled with bitterness…

However, at the time that they killed Veronica, the world started to fall apart, and everything went downhill.

An opportunity arose within his hopeless and chained life.

Bestellen went insane and was not able to dominate over the Heroes, and Eustace's mind was broken when he learned that who he killed was Veronica, whom he had been in love with in his previous life, someone that everyone believed to have been born elsewhere which they were never able to meet, or died at a young age… Bestellen had even told him, reassuring him, that the Dark Gods did something to her…

In the end, she was just born in the wrong faction, and was ganged up by every Hero, blasted into pieces, and burned alive, and then, she had her soul sliced in half by Bestellen.

Now with Eustace knowing the truth, his mind broke and his Guidance stopped brainwashing everyone, making them think more independently, and realizing the atrocities they had committed.

…But Fernando never cared about any of it, he was not even guided by Eustace and felt no remorse nor guilt for all the innocent people he slaughtered.

He just did not care about them, to him, they were mere mob characters in a game… or just NPC's.

When the apocalypse came in Kritias, he took this opportunity to run away and grow stronger on his own once more.

However, he was trapped into catastrophes after catastrophes and was barely hanging on his life.

At some point, Gabriel invited him to have some revenge against Eustace and the rest of these bastards, and he accepted.

Fast forward to now, it went horribly, and Fernando's entire second life was completely worthless.

His first life was terrible and filled with self-loathing and pretending to be a clown, his second life shattered any hopes he had to live again and anew, and ended up ruining any plan he ever had, despite the powerful Cheat Ability he had…

In the end, he was now on his third life, after being offered everything he ever wanted for his fourth life…

He could not falter, he had to take this chance, he had to make of his fourth life finally something good, finally something he could enjoy!

To become the protagonist this time!

He did not even care about Lance, Camila, or Leonia.

Fernando had a reason why he wanted to be a Vampire.

Hekaton had told him and the other Reincarnated Souls that they could not make changes into their bodies as it was connected to their original memories and senses of selves, but they could do race changes, as long as the race was similar to a human.

And Fernando chose to become a Vampire.

A Vampire, from what he had gathered in the Original Kritias, was a type of Demon capable of many amazing feats and powers, which were all superior to normal humans, and this coupled with the power to evolve from the Samsara System could make him into an enormously strong Vampire!

But there was also another reason…

Vampires could turn others into their Subordinates, and force them to become their slaves through their authority over their subordinates.

Fernando did not care about his former coworkers because he intended to build his own creed of Vampires now, with loyal subordinates that obeyed anything he asked!

And there was an even bigger plus.

Thanks to being born in this new grown-up body as a Vampire, he ended up becoming a Progenitor Vampire and not the lower castes that were converted into Vampires!

This was something that Hekaton had not taken into consideration either…

And Progenitor Vampires had immense power over anyone they converted…

And like this, suddenly, rumors about people disappearing in Seashore began to spread… mostly young and beautiful women…

Fernando is finally having the time of his life!

Veronica's death could wait!

Fernando was now building himself a creed filled with salves, and lots of hot girls he found around, which he stalked in the night, kidnapped, raped, and brainwashed through converting them into subordinate vampires.

Fernando's wicked mind could not be happier now…

He was finally having a feeling of strength, of freedom, of possessiveness!

"Please… let me go! Stop! Agh! It hurts! AAAH! Mama! Help me! HEEELP! LET ME GOO! IT HURTS!"

The sounds of a young girl being held against her will into a bed as she was being violated by a lustful vampire man resonated within an abandoned underground dungeon.

"Hahaha! Yes, this is it! CRY LOUDER, YOU BITCH! Don't worry, I will turn you into a Vampire later!" laughed the vampire man, as he squeezed the face of the young girl.

The terrible scene continued until the woman fell unconscious due to the pain and agony, and Fernando stopped feeling any excitement, walking away.

"What's the point if they can't keep up with the pace?" he sighed, as he glanced at the window…

Suddenly, he felt something strange…

As if the wind disappeared for a few seconds, and space itself distorted.

Suddenly, a box emerged right in front of him.

"W-What?"

Fernando glared at the box, which had da big paper saying; "open me".

"Oh?! Could it be a gift from that God? Finally, I hope it is something that could incentivize me in working harder, you fatass!" laughed Fernando, looking at the sky while thinking that Hekaton was there.

Fernando walked to a table and glared at the box again… and then, he opened it.

"Eh?"

There was… nothing inside.

Or so he thought.

"What? Is this a fucking joke- Nngh?! Nnaggahaaagggagagagagagg!"

Fernando suddenly felt something entering his own body, a strange phantasmal entity began to take over his very body!

"UNNGGAAAAAAHHHH! UNNGGRRYAAAAAAHH!"

Screaming in agony, his soul and that of this strange creature merged together forcefully!

Suddenly, Fernando fell silent, as his crimson eyes flashed with blue flames…

A calm smile emerged from his lips.

"It worked…" he said.

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