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Within an underground area in Seashore, a large group of shady-looking demi-human men wearing black clothes wandered everywhere, assessing many things, preparing weapons, and consumable items.

And an old man with gray hair wearing wizardly clothes glanced at a large blade covered in runic seals, which shined brightly with black colors, a large and heavy mace seemingly made of some strange organic material harvested from a shielded beast covered in such seals as well, and then at a long whip seemingly made of black, iron-like hair, whose handle was also covered in these seals.

The old man smiled wickedly as he admired the weapons… each weapon emanated dark and malefic energy that even disrupted its surroundings, covering everything with illusory dark color.

Not many people would be able to tell what these weapons truly were, but an experienced priest would be able to easily find what they were.

They were the Demo God-King's Sealed Fragments, which were converted into weapons.

Since the death of the Demon God-King that not only gods had used his fragments as weapons, but also humans.

Humans sealed the weapons with powerful runic seals made by the strongest priest in the continent and then shaped as weapons of immense might, capable of even ignoring magic and breaking through defenses easily.

However, Demon Gods also knew such techniques and using their powers, they created weapons for their mortal followers using the fragments they had collected or stolen from other Gods.

Borunidhan, the Demon God of False Treasures was excellent at creating items and artifacts, and easily created many weapons like this.

These three in front of the man, who would be easily recognized by most folk as one of the richest aristocrats in Seashore, Aran, the owner of most of the shops across all of Seashore, were weapons given by the Demon God to this man, so he could accomplish his goals.

Coupled with the criminal organization he had been controlling this whole time to easily suppress any potential rival in commerce, the man was packing things for war.

Tonight, he would come to Veronica and Ervas house and storm it, destroying everything and seeking to kill them while bringing his large army.

Borunidhan had already grown too impatient, and after being pressured by the other Demon Gods, he forced Aran to obey him and to quickly do as he ordered him.

"Ah, Borunidhan-sama, your wish shall come true soon! All those you see as enemies will be slain by your name!" he said, completely ignoring the tiny spider crawling over the wall right before him.

Borunidhan suddenly manifested over a grotesque monolith in front of Aran, appearing as a spectral projection.

"Make sure to do it quickly, Aran! I am not waiting anymore!" he said.

The little spider was so small and insignificant that not even God noticed it, as it crawled over the floor and began to slowly reach Aran.

"Yes, Borunidhan-sama! After this, will you bless me with more luck? Business is blooming! I believe I might be able to become the richest man in all of Seashore soon!" said Aran.

Borunidhan smiled wickedly, showing his grotesque form to him, resembling an enormous treasure chest made of bones with fleshy, red-colored tentacles coming out of it which were covered in little crimson eyes and slimy ooze.

"Hmm… Sure thing, Aran, you are a good pawn! Gehehe… I will give you all the fortune you want… Everything shall be yours!" said Borunidhan. As a Demon God that loved to play with the delusions and dreams of other people desiring treasures and riches, he found great joy in filling people with happiness only to shatter it later when all of their luck finally falls apart… He enjoyed seeing this great and was one of his greatest passions in life.

The little black spider, which looked to have some strange, metallic exoskeleton, slowly walked towards Aran, as he and the god conversed.

Meanwhile, within an abandoned mansion around a different sector of Seashore, a group of Vampires readied themselves to depart.

Vladimir, the Pure-Blooded Vampire already had everything prepared and smiled devilishly as he awaited his Vampires, led by Vestron, who was walking right into his hall.

"Lord Vladimir, everything is ready. We have assimilated the spheres that gave us stats, and we had grown accustomed to the new magic weapons," said Vestron.

"Excellent, now go, and don't dare come back without their heads!" said Vladimir, completely unaware of a little black spider crawling over the floor right at Vestron's foot.

Vestron, however, noticed it and wondered what type of weird spider it was, as he had never seen a spider with such a shiny, metallic-like exoskeleton.

"What are you looking at?" asked one of the Vampires at the side of Vestron, who was originally a Gray Wolf-king beast-man, as his ears twitched while glancing at the spider.

"No… Nothing… Never mind…" said Vestron, as the spider glanced back at him…

And as this happened, within the underground laboratories of the Demon God-King's possessed vessel, Leonardo, who was renamed Beelzebub by the System Master, a large army of Pure-Blooded Vampires were preparing themselves for a raid as well.

All of them were covered with black armor and bones and seemed Frankenstein-like as if they were made of many pieces.

Beelzebub used his knowledge as a necromancer to "upgrade" these Vampires to a whole new level of strength by replacing their body parts with that of other beings or monsters and had achieved Chimera Vampires with the strength equivalent to A-Rank Adventurers in mass.

Alongside this, he had filled them with the new magic technology given to him by the System Master, and they all possessed great levels of power and many gadgets.

The Vampire with long silvery-white hair and shiny crimson eyes smiled happily over his creations, whose souls were also tempered with, infused with many negative emotions and phantasmal magic, making these robot-like soldiers into ultimate weapons.

"It is a pity that I was not able to catch some of these original body companions, but that's not really what matters now… This army was made specially to resist Life Attribute Magic and Death Attribute Magic, and was tampered by me for many weeks! The only way that Ervas and Veronica could even triumph would be if they were given some god-like power! But the System Master said that they had not grown at all in these last six months…" laughed Beelzebub, calculating that even if everything went wrong, he had also many weapons to fight back, and also had mastered the power to shatter souls through his development of Death Attribute Magic, and which he had mastered using this super-powered Vampire Body of Fernando, which also had the power of Penetration, giving him the ability to ignore all defenses and resistances!

With his army of over one hundred Patchwork Chimera Pure-Blooded Vampires, Beelzebub was more than secure of his victory!

However, he was completely unaware of a little black spider crawling around the laboratory, he had completely ignored it, thinking of it as another spider of the bunch, its presence was nothing at all, and could be said to be even lower than any ordinary insect, in fact, it was almost invisible to him as if it didn't even exist at all.

As the Vampires were about to march outside of the laboratory and fly towards Ervas and Veronica's manor, the little spider walked near Beelzebub…

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