NOVEL WEB Chapter 684: 683: Coward
The moment Prince arrived, his aura was not a burst of mana or a violent pressure like other powerful beings.
Instead, it was absent. His aura felt absent.
It felt like a void.
The temperature dropped, but it was not too cold. Instead, it was a strange numbing neutrality, like being submerged underwater.
The Devourers fell silent, not only out of fear, but instincts.
Corey noticed this and he could not blame them. Although it seemed like the leader of the Devourers had no aura, Corey sensed something much more different and sinister.
Prince's presence devoured everything around him, even the sound around him was swallowed.
Prince stepped forward, and his footprints left behind black ash. The air around him trembled as if it was being digested. His shadow was bent unnaturally, and it occasionally stretched like jaws that were yawning hungrily.
Corey's left eye changed, and runes began appearing in his eye as he scanned Prince who was slowly approaching him.
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Name: Maxwell Brown
Alias: Prince
Race: Devouring Vampire
Affiliation: The Devourers, The Underworld.
Class: Apex Predator
Talent: Nil
Title: Eater of Kings
Tier: Tier 5
ATTRIBUTES
Strength: Blue Star
Agility: Blue Star
Constitution: Blue Star
Dexterity: Green Star
Endurance: Blue Star
Intelligence: Yellow Star
Mana: Green Star
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The instant Corey saw Prince's or should he say, Maxwell Brown's stat, he knew that Maxwell was not ordinary at all.
Just like Pamela, Savage, and Divine, Prince who was the leader of one of the top groups of the Underworld, had unique stats.
He was not a human but a Devouring Vampire, a branch of vampires he had never heard of.
After meeting Divine, Pamela, and Savage, Corey was no longer surprised by the fact that the leaders of the top forces of the Underworld were not even humans anymore.
Pamela's race as an Arcane Human was the race with the highest potential amongst all of them.
The limits of her race were in the Violet Star realm, meanwhile, the highest stat of Savage and Prince was Blue Star.
As Corey observed Prince's stats, he compared it to Savage's stats and he instantly knew that Prince would most likely be a more difficult challenge for him.
Prince's stats were more balanced, and even his abilities were strange to him.
His Class was also intriguing to Corey because he had never heard or seen of a class called Apex Predator.
'Is it that the Underworld residents are just extremely talented or is it the same in the universe?'
'What of New Earth? Are the people of New Earth talented like this?'
'Surely, they should be this talented or more talented right? I mean, we we're denizens of a Blessed World.'
Although had these thoughts, what he didn't know was that individuals like Savage and Prince were specially cultivated by top tier forces so that they could be the strongest amongst the Underworld residents.
If there was any uprising or issue among the Underworld residents that needed a culling, individuals like Savage and Prince were deliberately placed to suppress issues like these.
There were other talented Tier 5s and Tier 4s who were not cultivated by top tier forces but were instead kidnapped or taken as prisoners for their sins against these elite forces.
Corey had no idea, but once his actions of killing Savage and Orpheus was known, the Underworld would be filled with an extremely tense atmosphere and unrest that would shake the minds of the Outsiders.
Hower, this is for the future.
At the moment, Prince stood in front of Corey and unlike Savage who was taller than Corey despite his height, Prince was not.
In fact, he was a tad shorter. However, the threat Corey felt from him was more than what he felt from Savage.
Prince tilted his head to the side, and Corey could see in his sickly red eyes, the light of hunger, desire, and a visible predatory gaze.
The way Prince looked at Corey wasn't like an enemy, a threat, or a potential ally.
Instead, he looked at Corey like a rare dish he could not wait to devour. It was like a connoisseur encountering a new flavour of wine.
Corey frowned slightly.
"Oh... You smell unlike anything I've ever tasted before."
Prince spoke, not in haste but slowly, like he was savoring his words as he stared at Corey's pure white eyes.
Corey said nothing but merely frowned in response.
"Your poisonous mana... It's so unique, so delicious, and it whispers. Can you believe it?."
Prince turned towards Jamal who had appeared behind him the moment Prince made his presence known.
"Poison was always meant to be disgusting to devour, but yours..."
Prince gestured at Corey with a wide grin that seemed extremely creepy on his half-mask.
"It's not disgusting. The smell. The taste... It's so unique."
Prince raised his hand and attempted to pat Corey on the shoulder, but Corey calmly took a step back and dodged the hand.
"Not only does your poison whisper. Your soul sings. Your eyes... are too knowing for your age. Tell me, child... what do you taste like?"
A light of hunger and madness appeared in Prince's red eyes, and Corey's frown deepened.
Corey was not only frowning at the words of Prince, he was also frowning at the passive effect of Prince's presence.
As Prince stood before him, Corey was beginning to feel the effect of Savage's presence on the environment.
Corey could feel a subtle, strange, but powerful suction force from Prince.
This suction force did not act on his physical body but on his stamina, mana, and even spirit.
Most would not be perceptive or have the ability to sense this, but they would just find themselves becoming more fearful, weak, and exhausted the longe they stayed in the presence of Prince.
If not for his Stars of Consciousness and unawakened Cosmic Soul which gave him the ability to control his body to nigh-perfection, even he would begin to realize that his stamina, mana, and willpower was being weakened in Prince's presence.
Apart from Corey's aura and scent, this was another reason why Prince desired to devour Corey.
He knew that he had not being able to devour anything from Corey, and this shocked him because this was the first time he was experiencing this.
Even powerful Tier 6s would find their stamina, mana, and spirit getting devoured in his presence. Although, it would be like a drop compared to the ocean they had.
Corey stared into Prince's eyes for some seconds, and then he grinned.
"If you want to know how I taste like, then stop being a coward."
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