Chapter 38

The man who had his attack redirected seemed shocked, and the next second, he took the full brunt of the attack he had been so confident in and rolled away on the ground.

“Hiiii!!” Pufaros looked around and there he saw, all his minions lying on the ground, covered in blood. Not even five minutes had passed since the start of the battle and yet…

What the hell is this…?!

Didn’t the 2nd prince an idiot who has no real power…?!

Then, what the hell is this?! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!!

This is a nightmare! This must be a nightmare!!!

Pufaros large body trembled as he saw Cian slowly walking towards him. “You’re left… any lost words… is what I want to say but I’m not really that keen listening to your mumblings. So go die~”

“Hiii, hey!!! Is there someone in there!? H-help me! Help me!” Pufaros scrambled away. He tried calling for help but sadly… this place was already locked down.

“Wa, wait, wait… Y, you’re highness, I, I didn’t mean to do, do that… I was, I was just ordered to! Your Highness, I can tell you who—”

“No need, I already some suspicions… no, I guess I should say, that’s not important anymore. It’s not like your client is the only one I need to clean up for the Sanitation program. I’ll just use your death to give them some fear and they will surely show their tails on their own accord, don’t you think so?” Cian muttered in an excited tone.

“Hiii!! Wa, wait, you, your highness! I can, I can still be of use to you, I will change myself! I will become your slave if you want to!”

“Nah, thanks for the offer. But, a snake will always be a snake… not interested. Besides, if you are a beautiful woman, I might consider it, too bad, you are not~”

“Gyaahhh!? S-stop!!” a terrifying voice echoed in the dim dark alley.

“Wait! Please wait, you, your highness! No, no! This isn’t right!! I, I beg you! Help! Hel-byah! Byah gwaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!?”

Like a pig being butchered, such cry covered the entire alley. First was the right hand, the left hand, the right leg and then the left leg—with an indifferent smile, Cian tore the ugly pig limb by limb.

Tears and snot, blood and saliva mixed into one, creating a bad stench. “So disgusting!”

Bang!

He kicked Pufaros in the gut as he still tried to crawl along the floor.

Repeated sounds of dull impacts rang out. He kicked him 5 times, 10 times, 15 times, 20 times, and eventually, his body suddenly disappeared into the darkness as it crashed into the hole.

However, as expected of a demon, he was still alive after all that.

With turned limbs and crushed face, he was quite a pathetic excuse even for a demon. He looked like a giant Croquette, ready for cooking.

But Cian felt no pity even while watching him.

Well, I guess time to end this boring show~

And the ugly pig seemed to understand what it was Cian was thinking. He seemed to begin begging while looking up towards him.

“Afhhe… afhehh… farhhheh…”

“Sorry,” apologized Cian while cutting him off. “Do you have any idea who you’ve made an enemy of?”

The black gauntlet on his right arm started to wriggle and then, it protruded from Cian’s hand, turning into a long black sword.

A smile tore across his face from right to left. Slash!

A large head of a boar rolled on the ground, blood splattered and with its eyes still wide open in shock.

“That was refreshing~” Cian swung the black sword and the blood slide away from the blade, leaving a glossy black shine.

“Is that so…?”

With an indifferent expression, Cian turned his head towards the sudden voice.

Standing there, looking at her was a girl around 18 to 19 years old. She has fair skin and a pale complexion. Her eyes are striking red rubies and she has long blonde waist-length hair with a pink ombre. Coupled with her height - tall by most standards - and her voluptuous body figure, modern people would surely associate her with a supermodel.

She stood there quietly as her silky eyelashes fluttered, with not a single bit of impurity; her eyes had a joyous expression of clear mountains and springs, yet also cold like winter solstice. Then, she looked at him with somewhat apprehension and suspicion. The gentle wind lifted the corner of her skirts, bringing about a simple elegance, yet the most beautiful poem of this world could not describe it.

She looked to only be around fifteen or sixteen, her beautiful dreamy, liquid eyes were young. In terms of appearance, she couldn’t compare with the Demon Empress Sitana, but in terms of how delicate and perfect her complexion was, even Sibylla, quite known to be number one fairy of the Southern Forest, was inferior. In Cian’s two lifetimes, out of all the females he had encountered, in terms of complexion, only his current sister, Oriel could stand shoulder to shoulder with her. It was as if the heavens favored her, and gave her this fairy-like complexion before his eyes.

If he was an ordinary man, Cian believed that his heart would definitely be lost, but he wasn’t an ordinary man. In the entire Demon Empire, it was perhaps impossible to find a second who could make him forget himself like that just with their complexion. He suddenly moved his gaze away, slightly bent his head as he calmed his heart.

When he lifted his head to look at her fairy-like face again, it was still indescribably beautiful, but he was no longer distracted.

“… though, even if you are his highness, creating a mess in someone’s backyard is surely rude… wasn’t it? Prince Aanuel…?” The girl slightly perked her flowerlike lips and spoke as though she was reprimanding. A hint of cold and sharpness can be heard from her tone.

Knowing his identity and yet still able to retain his cold and rude attitude, there’s only a few in this world. And one of tehm was; “… Was that so? Then, please overlook it this time, your majesty, Vampire Lord, Altrusia Blood Krul.” Cian bowed slightly. “… This place is just too suitable for this game of mine~”

“… …” The Vampire Lord’s eyes narrowed. Her gaze observed Cian body as if she was looking for something, “I had heard about it… but it seems like, the rumor about the prince change was true—”

“… Was it a good change? Or a bad one?” Cian smiled faintly as he slowly takes off the mask on his face. Behind him, for who knows when, Ruka was already standing, looking vigilantly at the Vampire Lord.

“That needs to be see, Prince Aanuel,” The Vampire Lord responded. “However, several of my servants guarding this area seemed to have disappeared into thin air… Can I ask his highness for an explanation for this?”

“Ah… them, did not see~” Cian shook his head. “Was there someone like that? Ruka?”

“…No, your highness. I haven’t seen someone other than your highness…” Ruka answered.

“See…” Cian grinned.

“… …” the Vampire Lord’s eyes narrowed. But Cian was still unperturbed, a carefree smile on his face.

“How did you do it?” As Cian and the Vampire Lord stared at each other, suddenly the Vampire Lord breaks the silence first. She was just curious about something.

“Do what… exactly?”

“No use in pretending. That worm just now was surely in an illusion… However, I never felt any kind of magic or ritual being used. How did he fell in the illusion without noticing anything? Forget about your strange power, I never heard about illusions starting without looking at someone’s eyes.”

Vampires possess the infamous [ Mystic Eyes ].

People who are weak-willed would be enchanted by those scarlet pupils, and their spirit forever trapped in the darkness. It was some sort of hypnotism, making those who victims fall into some sort of illusion.

However, [ Mystic Eyes ] can only work upon eye contact and the effect may take a few minutes to work or happen instantly, all depends on the target’s resistance. Even so, there’s no such thing as miraculous as Cian’s power. It actually made Pufaros think that he was still walking towards his destination without noticing anything or feeling anything out of place.

Result wise, it was even more miraculous as Vampire’s [ Mystic Eyes ]. Any vampire if knew it would surely feel jealous—it was the very definition of complete [ Mystic Eyes ]!

But to think that this kind of power resides in the 2nd Prince hands, who was always ridiculed as useless, good-for-nothing paper tyrant!

—in fact, the Royal Family, even Her Majesty the Empress did not have such an ability!

More so, if one looks closely at the prince lineage, there’s no one who had used or even possesses the power of the [ Mystic Eyes ] or something similar.

“… is that a born power? The reason why such strange mismatched eyes, completely different from your other siblings…” The Vampire Lord stared at Cian’s Heterochromia iridum, which was colored differently from each other, in full interest.

With his right iris being colored slitted ruby while his left iris was beautiful oceanic blue, it was beautiful at the same time giving a feeling of being seen through it.

“Interesting~”

“… …” But Cian didn’t answer and instead just smiled. As what had the Vampire Lord had said, it was the ability of his eye; [ Eye of Night ]

It gives him heightened visual senses, allowing him to see fast movements normally impossible for human eyes to follow, or minute details with great clarity. The [ Eye of Night ] are also equipped with a self-restoration function such that over time, they will heal themselves from any damage sustained.

Most importantly, his eyes are able to see 'The Truth' of the world. This allows him to see past world-altering illusions along with perceiving an individual's unique aura. It allows him to control the senses of all people around him at will.

So to say he brushes across emotions of people and then proceeds to paint over their minds with the information/visions/images, he wants them to soak in. In other words, he can manipulate the vision of others to some degree and force them to move in the direction he wants them to, or see through another individual's eyes without any eye contact—as long as he can see them with his eyes, he can do it. One can even call it; The Ultimate Eye!

Obviously, it cost a large amount of magic power but that amount, for a Demon Royal like him wasn’t much of a problem. And that’s what he did to Pufaros!

While stalking him, he altered his vision and let him walk towards the place he wanted, a place where people were forbidden to enter, a place where no matter how much screams they made, people wouldn’t bother finding out the cause—the Vampire Boundary [ Howard’s Alley ]!

Of course, that’s not all his [ Eye of Night ] can do. One convenient ability it has was that it allows Cian to witness past events that the target have seen. This ability needs eye contact and cost quite a substantial amount of magic power. Even with his current capacity, it was still quite a chore, causing him to use it only able to use one or twice every day if ever he had the way to replenish magic power, such as a potion or what they call: Elixir.

Aside from that side effect, this ability caused quite a huge strain in his mind from the external information that enters his brain, giving him quite a headache and if one used it recklessly, it might cause some irreparable damage to him…

As expected of a God’s Ability, one of Night’s eye already gave him many overpower abilities that many people had dreamt of having. And probably still more, as long as he managed to control and master this eye…!