Chapter 256: BloodStar Attack

Chapter 256: BloodStar Attack

Nero drudged along the main boulevard heading towards the Sage Palace. The capital city was now awash in a red tint from the ever-growing BloodStar glowing overhead. Nero held his war hammer, Blood Cry, over his shoulder, and he took in a deep breath which invigorated him. This was his first time bathing in the presence of a BloodStar since he had become a BloodStar Immortal, and he felt encompassed with pure energy with it overhead.

After several more minutes of walking, Nero begin to feel the ground rhythmically beat to the steps of soldiers marching, and it wasnt long before he began to see endless columns of 10,000 soldiers approaching him and blocking his path towards the palace.

Nero continued his own march forward unyielding in the presence of such overwhelming enemy forces until the leader of the soldiers called out to Nero from 50 yards away.

Gladiator Champion Nero! BloodStar Immortal Nero! General Kublai of the Sage Empire stood in front of his legion of 10,000 men feeling invincible with such a force under his command. He smirked to himself to find Nero alone and unaccompanied by Xenia.

You come to our lands! You turn our beautiful blue skies red! You will atone for serving such a vile empress! You will atone with your life! Kublai then raised his hand giving a signal to his men, and all 10,000 assumed a battle position with a synchronized grunt as they did.

Only a few miles away, Xenia remained in her lotus position in front of the blood waterfall with a smile on her face as she bloodbent into Neros mind to watch the battle and address Nero.

Nero, darling. Ill be watching. Allow me to set the mood for you. In exchange, please remind them of the power of us BloodStars, especially on a battlefield with a BloodStar looming so largely overhead. Xenia couldnt help but smile as she allowed herself to be slightly distracted as she anticipated watching Neros carnage.

Nero grunted and responded, Yes, my empress. I will remind them.

Nero then felt a drop of blood from the sky. It came as no surprise to him; however, as the single drop turned to a light shower, the opposing Sage Empire soldiers began to look around at the unusual phenomenon.

The light shower then turned further to a steady rain and slowly increased in intensity until becoming a downpour. Soldiers quickly realized it was raining blood. Not just blood, but the blood of their countrymen as Xenia set the mood for Nero.

Nero then raised his war hammer showing off the broad side of the hammer head revealing Erika Sages face embedded and petrified within the metal, Submit to the Empress BloodStar! Kneel at my feet, kiss your dead Masters face, and I will give you a quick death, General!

As rain poured down upon the General with blood soaking his hair, running down his face, and trickling into his mouth, he felt a sense of disgust towards the savagery of the BloodStar Empire.

You dare to rain down the blood of my own people! Dare to have me taste the blood of the ones I love and protect! You die today, Nero! Kublai then pointed his sword forward, Attack! Charge!!!

Kublai stood in place as his men rushed passed him with sword and shield in hand yelling as they rushed into battle.

Nero stood his ground ready to put on a show for his empress. He held his massive war hammer with one hand straight above him. He then used his bloodbending powers to call on the energy above from the BloodStar.

A massive red lightning strike of ki extended from the BloodStar striking Neros hammer in a flash of brilliant red light within the storm.

Blood Cry absorbed the energy turning the war hammer into a glowing red weapon, and Nero briefly cried out in agony as the surge of energy burned his palm where he held the hammers staff. He then immediately slammed the hammer down onto the ground in front of him and directed the ki from the BloodStar forward towards the charging soldiers.

I have more than several ways to pry you out of your cage of desperation, General. However, my empress wishes to see you die a slow and painful death, and so you and your men will have one.

Nero looked at the palm of his hand from where the staff of his war hammer had burned him from the surge of energy from the BloodStar lightning strike. As he stood in the blood rain, he looked up to the BloodStar once more, and raised his ki.

He backed up ten yards from the shield dome and held his hammer out in front of him targeting the dome. Then, he called down multiple successive lightning strikes upon the dome. With each strike of ki, Nero bloodbent the energy to dissipate inward towards the shields rather than dissipating outward.

Although the dome of shields protected from direct ki strikes, it did absorb the heat of the attacks just as Neros palm had been burned from the sudden and uncontrolled surge. Nero took this opportunity to practice both controlling such a large transfer of energy to prevent future burns to himself and also to practice directing attacks from the BloodStar overhead.

The shields stood strong as Nero began to call down multiple lightning strikes at a time now as the red lightning streaked through the storm of blood falling from the sky.

Within the dome, the temperature had steadily risen owing to the lighting strikes and their massive surges of ki90 degrees Fahrenheit 130 200

Nero could hear the screams of the people within as their skin, fat, and connective tissue began to slowly melt off their bodies.

300 500 lighting strikes of ki began to accumulate quickly upon the shields sending the temperatures within the dome skyrocketing 1000 2000 3000 5000

The cries abated as the dome now glowed with a red hue not from the ki but from the accumulated thermal energy gathered within the metal of the shields which themselves had begun to melt.

Nero finally stopped. He took his hammer and swung the piercing points of the hammer head down on the dome piercing it with ease owing to the void material built into the pointed striking aspects.

A rush of hot vapor escaped, and as the vapor cleared, Nero looked within to see a molten pool of what used to be the flesh and bone of the humans within.

Xenia having watched the entire process, was overwhelmed with joy, Nero. Mmm. Nero. If that was foreplay, youve made me wet. Ive never been hotter for you. Was that for me? Tell me it was.

Xenia bit her lip with pleasure anticipating his response as she used every ounce of energy within her to keep from pausing her BloodStar growth to go fuck him immediately.

Yes, that was for you, empress. And once I am finished taking the Sage Palace, I am returning to you to finish what Ive just started between the two of us.

Xenia gasped with a welcomed shock as she thought to herself only, Since when does Nero talk dirty to me? That news with Constance must have really stirred him. Oh I love this!

She then responded to him, You feel it too, Nero? Finish what you must, but I will be coming to you at the palace. I refuse to wait any longer than I must.

Nero looked to the Sage Palace and responded, I see the other legion in the distance. A Heraklinos legion. Foreplay isnt over just yet, my empress.