"F-Father?" Elizabeth questioned, seeing how debilitated Vlad seemed. At this moment, he had just incinerated the Qliphoth that was draining mana from the lands of the Vampire continent.
"I'm fine, just give me some time," Vlad said tiredly. Even for him, that amount of demonic energy was too much. Or rather, the number of souls he absorbed was too much. He was overheating after absorbing so many different types of souls. For a progenitor vampire, this was too much; thousands of souls were sacrificed for that. While defending the cities, he accumulated a lot of power.
Gradually, his body processed that enormous number of souls, transforming them into energy.
"Dear, are you okay?" Lisa arrived in a cloud of bats and helped him up. It seemed something was wrong with him; she had never seen such a thing in all her time as the wife of this immortal man. "I'm fine, it's just indigestion... I ate too much." He commented as the enormous demonic smoke rose to the sky, turning into solitary ashes.
"Master." A man dressed as a butler appeared behind the small group. "Speak, Nosferatu." Vlad said as he rose, turning to face him. Nosferatu seemed as tired as he was. Fortunately, Nosferatu appeared to be okay.
"We have finished cleaning the entire continent." He bowed, reporting, "Elijah, Carmilla, and Klaus finished the work, as did... that woman." Nosferatu said, clearly expressing his disdain. Let's say he and his king were in conflict because of a woman.
"Tsk, you should stop caring about that; my decision has been made." Vlad spoke imposingly again, his entire body appearing as good as new.
"She is under control, stop being suspicious of everything or you'll end up being replaced." Vlad said a bit sarcastically. "I'm worried you'll be replaced." Nosferatu commented seriously and added, "We need to increase the power of the vampires soon; you are not in condition to be King forever." Nosferatu said, using magic to camouflage his words, leaving Lisa and Elizabeth confused.
"You know that won't happen," Vlad said confidently as his body began to be fully restored. "Come on, we need to understand what happened to the world. Use the remaining file, in a week we will hold a conference, it's time to put this world back in order and bring Titania back into the alliance." Vlad said, his tone completely serious and clear.
He was no longer playing the good king; his face, when Lisa saw it, reminded her of only one time...
When Vlad nearly destroyed a continent because they tried to take his wife from him.
Meanwhile...
"The sword is my soul, my soul is my sword." The man murmured, preparing to cut the enormous demonic trunk. It was the first time he would cut something different, something he had never cut before... Yes, Musashi was finally facing something new.
In the distance, Alice and her two daughters watched the swordsman prepare to cut that enormous tree.
"Will she deal with that tree? I sense some vampires in the Werewolf Kingdom. She's probably after her Valkyries," Alice pondered aloud.
AUUUWWWW!
A deafening howl crossed the world of Nightsphere, reverberating throughout the dimension.
"Stella..." Alice murmured, immediately recognizing the power behind that howl. She was aware of the current war situations but did not expect Stella to release so much aura into the air.
"This is becoming more complicated than I imagined," Alice said, turning to Musashi. "We need to act quickly before the balance of power destabilizes further."
Musashi nodded, his expression serious. "This is a huge problem... An invasion of this magnitude... it can't be just this, can it?"
"Exactly, I also think this is very strange..." Alice agreed. "I'll continue monitoring the Planet until I conclude that there are no more demonic threats." Alice said. She turned to Raven, "Get that last file, we'll hold a new meeting in a week." she finished, but realized someone was missing... "Where's Lyra?" she questioned, but a blue portal quickly appeared and the woman passed through it.
"M-Mother." Lyra stammered; she had just checked the human kingdom to see if it was only their home that was attacked, but... "What is it, woman, speak with words!" Alice was out of patience for all of this now... "Mother... the target wasn't Nightsphere." She finished, "Whoever it is, wanted the Human Kingdom... there's a tree over 80 meters tall on Lyrianna's continent!" She shouted.
"Damn." Alice said, quickly shifting her gaze in the direction of the Demi-human continent. "Morgana! This invasion has extended to the Mortal world!" She shouted straight ahead. "I'm already aware of that, I'll go check things out." The response came almost immediately...
Alice nodded, after all, despite pretending to be a bad mother, she liked when Morgana was more attentive to things. "Mother..." Lyra murmured, she seemed to be hiding something... "Lyra... don't tell me there's more." She said, turning to her daughter, whose face did not look good...
"Lyra." She said very seriously. "Y-yes... it's quite..." Lyra rubbed her right arm... "If I say that brother-in-law was on top of the tallest tree of all, and seemed to be in trouble..."
"Ah... Holy patience." Alice said, putting her hand on her head. "Why are you being humble, huh? Ah, it's the dual personality. Hey, Lyranne, switch places." Alice said in a serious tone.
"Yes, Mother." Lyra changed completely, "Great, you're better like this. Now, what do you mean by he's in trouble?"
"He was static in an arena, I couldn't see, but it looks like that idiot is fighting a greater Demon, one of the Seven Deadly Sins."
"What the hell, ah~ Leave it to Morgana, let's continue with our plans to fix this city."
Note: I apologize if it seems like the battles are dragging on with many blocks and various people fighting. I haven't found a better way to develop each core, so I apologize for the sudden changes. I am accepting any feedback to improve, including whether these more contextual chapters about the world are bothersome. Please let me know; I want to make the story better and your feedback helps a lot.