Chapter Volume 4, The Lost Files of the Ancient Castle 9: Dark Sun, the Light Born in the Darkness (2/2)

When Dark Sun landed, it was to a sea of silence. He continued making his way to Avexila, and this time, she dared not be careless. She instantly made a large claw of blood, and even Gong Feng Xiang morphed two fierce-looking, huge axes. Neither of their expressions was as calm as before.

X also morphed two blood claws, and as he walked, he said, “The woman beside Avexila, your opponent is me.”

Hearing that, Gong Feng Xiang’s face immediately turned pale. She was definitely no match for X.

In terms of strength, even Avexila might not be X’s match. Though X had never revealed which generation he was of, he was after all, a vampire over a thousand years old. Moreover, he had not been killed despite being hunted by the Church for over a thousand years… Any vampire would say that they are unable to be X’s match.

“Did you think that we would fight you one-on-one?” Once Avexila said that, Gong Feng Xiang instantly regained her calm.

Dark Sun roared in rage, “It doesn’t matter how many! You actually dared to treat Charles like that! No matter how many people are in front of you, I will kill all of them, and then slaughter you!”

A hint of rage showed up on Avexila’s face, but following that, a malicious smile faintly appeared. She said dubiously, “Ooh! You like my child, Charles, so much? Are you two really just master and servant? Or perhaps, you are actually bed partners? My child is certainly rather beautiful…”

“Hahaha!” Ezart suddenly burst into laughter.

The others in the midst of battle also started laughing one-by-one. They even ridiculed:

“Idiot, like Ah Ye would know that kind of thing!”

“Please, he doesn’t even know how to do it with women, let alone guys!”

“He’s a pedophile, not a homosexual!”

“He likes round and fluffy stuff.”

“He’s practically still at the age of cuddling soft toys to sleep!”

Young Master, as expected, everyone knows you well.

Avexila seemed not to believe a word of it. That was because the Dark Sun in front of her was holding the Death Scythe, not a soft toy, and it had just killed ten non-humans in one go.

Dark Sun dashed straight over and swung the Death Scythe. Avexila dodged it, and the scythe cut through the throne. She then seized the chance to counterattack. Blood claws swung toward Dark Sun, and he naturally avoided them, too. The two of them went at each other, and though it looked like they were evenly matched, I believed that Dark Sun would win. That is because he is someone who could reach a stalemate in a match with X.

Although Avexila did not intend to fight one-on-one, non-humans without sufficient strength would find it impossible to interrupt the fight between the two of them. Most likely, the moment they stepped in would be the moment they split into two.

The only ones who might have had the power to step in were Gong Feng Xiang and Krell. However, Gong Feng Xiang had been challenged by X. She dared not fight head-on with X and was retreating the entire time. It appeared that she was thinking of joining forces with Krell to defeat X.

Krell was, however, busy dealing with Dragon Peace and First Wind. Of the two of them, one had great strength, and the other used his speed and techniques to gain victory. When they worked together, they could actually challenge a vampire of the sixth generation.

They will win. I felt a lot more relieved and did not focus on the battle as much anymore. For I felt tired. Very tired…

“What a heated battle. It’s way better than a movie.”

Hearing that, I looked toward the door. A golden-haired man was lazily leaning against the destroyed door. Beside him was Mr. Kyle, holding a business suitcase. Other than that, the two of them were heavily protected by the bodyguards surrounding them. They were all in black military outfits, wearing a golden mask with a sun crest on their foreheads.

Everyone… Every human and non-human knew who this golden-haired man was.

The Sun Emperor.

At first, no one realized his arrival. They first noticed the adjudication squad, but following that, the number of those who recognized him increased—both the humans and the non-humans. The people whom the young master had brought with him did not seem overly shocked. Rather, it was the non-humans who raised a commotion.

When Avexila too noticed it, it was when almost everyone had ceased battling. Only then did she realize that something was off.

However, Dark Sun was the last person to notice his presence. Though Avexila had stopped attacking him, he still was not aware, but he did not take the chance to attack her, either. He merely stopped in his tracks, observing her. It seemed that it was highly likely that Avexila’s expression appeared overly shocked, so the young master then turned his head. Then, he just gave an “Ah.”

The situation now was incredibly strange. Everyone was in the middle of battle, but that had all come to a grinding stop. All of their gazes fell onto the master, but the master was staring at Dark Sun.

Dark Sun removed his visor, showing his face. This formed a large, unnatural contrast between his angelic face and the Death Scythe in his hands, and the non-humans all showed a strange expression at that.

The young master quietly grumbled to Elian, “El-gē, didn’t we agree not to tell Gēge?”

Elian gave a wry smile as he said, “Ah Ye, you used more than ten information networks, five special forces, two adjudication squads, seven jets, and even spent a large sum of money. How would it be possible to hide it from the Sun Emperor?”

“You wanted to hide this from me so much?” The master’s face turned dark, and he looked very unhappy.

The young master lowered his head and said in a small voice, “I was just worried that Gēge would try to kill Charles again…”

The master immediately growled, “If I knew he was going to be this troublesome, I should have slaughtered him from the very start!”

“Gē! You can’t…”

“Can’t kill Charles, I get it! Can’t kill this, can’t kill that. Seriously, when will you desire something different! Can’t you just wander around looking for beauties and indulge in drink and pleasures, and tell me you want something when you see it, even if I have to snatch it, or ask me to kill someone that pissed you off, including all eight generations of his family?”

“That sort of thing is too easy. I already have the ability to kill ten generations of someone’s family, so I don’t need Gēge to do so!” was the young master’s bold answer.

The master looked very depressed at that. He gritted his teeth and said, “When we get back, I must tell An Te Qi not to modify you to become even stronger!”

As the two brothers quarreled, the others looked on in speechless shock. Even Sadina stammered behind me as she asked, “Cousin, t-they are…”

“The young master is the Sun Emperor’s younger brother.” Although I spoke softly, it was loud enough for the whole hall of non-humans to hear, sufficiently shocking them to the point of petrification.

The young master said unhappily, “Gē, what did you come here for? Didn’t I tell you to stay at home and wait for me to come back?”

The master gave a displeased “Hmph,” and the young master turned to look at Mr. Kyle who stood beside him.

Mr. Kyle pushed his glasses up and reported, “Young Master, it is because summer vacation is almost over, and even though the Sun Emperor waited, and continued to wait for you every day, and even complained daily about how Ah Ye hasn’t returned yet, you still have not returned home to see him. Finally, he found out that you were using a lot of resources, and thus had an excuse to ask you what you were doing. After that, he forced me to bring out a battle aircraft that is still in its testing stages and flew over at jet speed.”

The master shot a glare at Mr. Kyle, and then scolded the young master, “You carelessly spent so much money. Since the money you spent was mine, as your elder brother, can’t I come over and inquire where the money went?”

“Gē… Do you really know how much I spent?”

The master fell silent for a moment and then shouted, “In any case, it was a lot of money!”

Mr. Kyle said in a professional tone, “The money that the young master spent was about the same value as the trashcan in his apartment.”

“… Didn’t you report it as a large sum of money?”

“Sun Emperor, the trashcan that you bought and placed in the young master’s apartment is an antique from three hundred years ago.”

At this point, the young master sighed and said, “Really. I’m not going to talk to you anymore. I have to go check on Charles. His injuries look severe.”

Once he said that, the hostile gaze that the master shot at me made my injuries worsen… Sadina had hugged me even tighter, and it truly hurt a lot.

The young master walked over. Before walking into the cage, he stabbed the Death Scythe into the ground, and then grabbed the iron bars. It seemed that he was trying to bend them with his bare hands, but since the cage was meant for imprisoning vampires, it was abnormally sturdy. After he managed to bend it a little, he switched to cutting the bars with his hair, and then he walked in.

The young master knelt down, lowering his head to look at my injuries. His eyes grew red, and he turned to shout, “X, Charles… he…”

X said indifferently, “His injuries are very serious, but he is a pureborn vampire. This won’t kill him.”

The young master’s expression visibly relaxed a lot from that. He looked at me, then at Sadina, looking very curious. However, in the next moment, Avexila spoke up, and we all looked in her direction.

“If it is you, Sun Emperor, I, Avexila, would naturally serve under you. The Endelis clan as well as the Elysees family that will soon be under my control, are yours to do as you wish.”

“Elysees?” The master looked annoyed as he said, “What are you? Within the Elysees, only Sadina is qualified to speak to me!”

Avexila turned in our direction, and said in disdain, “Are you referring to the one in the cage?”

The master looked over. He first glanced at Sadina, and then at me, but then frowned. I believe the master is truly not fond of me.

Avexila announced in a proud tone, “As of now, Sadina is my prisoner.”

The master said with an indifferent air, “It’s not like you can command the Elysees family just by capturing her. If it were that simple, I would have already done so.”

She quickly explained, “But we can command her. Her only grandson is already our blood thrall, and the Church has promised not to interfere with our business with the Elysees family once we hand X over to them.”

The master snorted. “Don’t tell me you are foolish enough to believe that the Church would really keep their promise? How are you going to make sure the Church abides by their promise?”

Avexila’s face changed, and she said, “We have already signed a contract!”

“A contract? Surely you do not believe that humans would abide by a contract with vampires? If the Church doesn’t keep their word, then what are you planning to do? Go to court and sue them? Hahaha!”

Avexila was so shocked that she was almost unable to form words.

“Hm… But there is still a possibility it might work.” After a period of laughter, the master was suddenly deep in thought. He commented, “If it were up to me, it would be different. I would make it such that even if the Church wanted to break the contract, they wouldn’t be able to.”

“Then…” Avexila’s eyes shone with hope.

Sadina reacted as well. Leaning on her, I could feel her heartbeat quicken. Perhaps, she also had the same line of thought as the Sun Emperor? That the Church perhaps does not intend to keep their word with vampires and would not let Avexila take control of the Elysees family.

However, if it were the Sun Emperor…

The young master stood up and angrily said, “Gēge! You can’t do that!”

“Nonsense, you br… Young Master.” At first, Avexila had wanted to rage, but she suddenly changed her tune. She put on a smile and said with a humble tone, “It’s the Elysees family in question. As long as the Sun Emperor gains control of the Elysees family, no one will ever be able to challenge him again! Young Master, if you like having a vampire butler, there are plenty of vampires in my clan. Male, female, your choice! It’s not a problem even if you want all of them to serve you.”

The young master gave her a venomous glare and then told the master, “Gē! You’re not allowed to do that!”

“Another no… Okay, okay. Don’t look so upset. If you say no, then it’s no.”

Hearing that, Avexila’s smile froze on her face. She forced out the words, “Sun Emperor, s-surely that’s a joke, right?”

“What’s a joke?” The master coldly glared at her and growled, “Who has the time to joke with you? I am not interested in your proposal! Also, daring to lay your hands on the people by Ah Ye’s side, I trust you should be prepared for the consequences?”

“Sun Emperor, y-you truly do not wish to take over the Elysees family?” At this point, Sadina seemed to be in disbelief as she said, “If you take control of the Elysees family, then y-you’ll practically have control of the whole world!”

“Of course I want to, but my dìdi doesn’t allow me to, so what can I do?” The master shot a nonchalant glance at Sadina and said, “You can have a beloved vampire that you must protect at all costs, so why can’t I have a beloved brother that is more important than the whole world?”

Hearing that, Sadina visibly relaxed. She quietly laughed and said, “Yes, of course you can.”

Suddenly, the youngster with the icy expression shouted, “Protect the Sun Emperor!”

Once he shouted, the young master immediately dashed out of the cage and picked up his Death Scythe on the way, making his way to the master.

“Shit, that’s not right. She changed her target, and it’s—”

Avexila suddenly turned around and sped toward me. The poisonous rage in her eyes was directed right at me.

I was not surprised and had already been prepared. I had not reckoned in the least bit that she would attack the Sun Emperor, for her hatred of the Sun Emperor was a mere passing fancy. However, her hatred toward me was deeply etched into her bones.

She let out a large amount of blood ability while I was completely unable to move. However, because of that, I was able to let all of my blood ability flow outside my body, solidifying it into a huge and sturdy blood shield. What it protected was not myself, however, but Sadina and Curtis.

Faced with her ferocious expression, I could not help but ask, “Why do you hate me so much?”

“Why do you all turn your backs on me and leave me! Why?”

As she roared, I felt a strong impact against the blood shield. I did not feel much pain, for my body had already become empty.

In front of my eyes, the Death Scythe swung down. Avexila was cut in two, and her body fell apart to both sides. What was revealed, though, was the young master’s figure.

Avexila’s attack had completely destroyed the cage. The young master threw aside his Death Scythe and rushed up to me. However, he did not dare touch me in the slightest, and his expression looked incredibly frantic. Exactly like the expression that Sadina is making right now.

The young master panicked for a moment, and then instantly raised his head and shouted, “X, X! Charles, he… Will he be okay?”

X walked over, looking at me with his head lowered. However, he remained silent with furrowed brows.

“Charles, he—”

Halfway through his question, the young master noticed X’s expression. He could not finish asking. Instead, he turned and shouted at the master, “Gē, this time, I won’t tell you not to kill! Other than Charles, I want all of the Endelis clan dead! They don’t have the right to use the name Endelis!”

Gong Feng Xiang shrieked, flustered, “Great Sun Emperor, even if Avexila is dead, I can still turn Sadina into a blood thrall. If you, sir, don’t want that done, we are still very useful! Please don’t kill me!”

The master did not even spare a glance at Gong Feng Xiang. He merely coldly said, “El, Ah Ye wants them dead. Why aren’t you killing them yet?”

“My sincerest apologies, I will start killing them right away.” Elian apologized and following that, commanded the start of the massacre.

However, Dragon Peace and First Wind did not join in with the massacre. They stood at the side, merely gazing at me with worry.

The screams and cries all sounded so distant. I merely gazed at the two faces in front of me. Their faces were of different ages, different genders, and different personalities… But at the moment, they looked so similar.

Sadina cried as she wailed, “Charles, Cousin… Didn’t you say that you left me because you didn’t want to see me die? How could you let me watch you die now! This is too unfair.”

The young master’s eyes had turned red, and he said, “Charles, even if we’re just following the written contract, you still have to continue being my butler for another year!”

“Charles…”

“Charles!”

Charles, Charles. There was always someone calling my name continuously. Even when I had fallen from grace, even in death, they would not let me leave. My father was like that, Sadina was like that, and even the young master was like that as well.

However, Father, you are dead. Sadina, you have grown old. And Young Master…

You are really such a wonderful master, so wonderful that it makes me want to serve you for my entire life. I wish to grow old along with you, wish to see your marriage with Briar, wish to see your children be born, wish to see whether your children would grow up to look like you in your early years. I wish to see you hug your grandson, wish to joke with you about competing to see which one of us would die first… However, I am an unaging, immortal vampire.

Both the one on my left and the one on my right, one old and one young, looked at me with an anxious and upset expression. Sadina’s elderly appearance made me recall her younger years, and the young master’s youthful appearance made me want to see his face once aged… It was a little regretful. But to be able to watch these two people and know that they are both safe, before I then passed away, I believed myself to already be very fortunate.

I gave a faint smile toward the two of them.

“I am terribly sorry, but I am truly exhausted.”