American Horror Story, Starting from Falls Town

Chapter 385 Why Not Kneel
Cain reacted very quickly, but by the time he heard the whooshing sound, it was already too late.

Caught completely off guard, Cain was instantly blasted apart by a golden throwing axe.

Yes, it really was blown to pieces. Only a pool of radiating black slime remained on the ground, with the rest of Cain's body splattered everywhere.

The flying axe continued its momentum, piercing through the museum wall and flying further into the distance.

Fortunately, the FEA had already evacuated all the civilians around the Shadow Hunter base, otherwise there would definitely have been collateral damage.

Even so, the destructive power, like that of a cannonball, still startled the FEA agents.

Paxton Fairtie frowned deeply upon seeing this.

Iris's eyes, covered by a black cloth, emitted a faint blue light; she already knew who had arrived.

"Mr. Black, is that you?"

Roy slowly walked into the museum hall.

"It's me. Ms. Elise, are you alright?"

Elise breathed a heavy sigh of relief. The reason she was stalling for time with Cain was because she had seen some vague future through the Eye of God and knew that Roy would probably appear.

Unbeknownst to her, Elise had come to regard Roy as a reliable comrade-in-arms, something that would surely surprise the other angels if they knew.

Because the angel of wisdom, Uriel, hates losing control; she prefers everything to go according to plan and dislikes relying on others.

With a grasp of the void, the Leviathan Axe flew back into Roy's hand.

At this moment, Elise had weakly reverted to her human form and was kneeling on the ground. Numerous golden cracks appeared on her body, indicating that her human form was no longer able to withstand the strain.

"Mr. Blake, I can no longer fight. I can only rely on you from now on!"

Roy noticed Elise's condition and immediately asked what was wrong with the guy he had just beaten up.

Because he didn't get the treasure chest, Roy knew that Cain was not dead.

"Ms. Elise, what is this thing?"

"He is Cain, the progenitor of vampires summoned back by 13 third-generation vampires!"

Roy gave a knowing look.

Cain is a very famous name. Thanks to the popularity of vampire culture, Cain's image often appears in all sorts of random vampire works.

Cain, Dracula, and Lilith are arguably the three most frequently appearing characters in vampire stories.

In some versions, Lilith also holds the title of the progenitor of vampires, but she does not in this world.

"What special abilities does this guy have?"

Roy noticed that the dark "oil" on the ground was crawling in one direction, as if trying to merge together.

However, Roy did not rush to make a move; he wanted to assess Cain's situation first before taking action.

“Cain cannot be killed; he possesses a conceptual ‘immortality.’ Originally, this guy’s strength was average, so he was relatively easy to deal with. However, after being exiled to the edge of the universe for thousands of years, he seems to have mastered some special powers, and I have no way to deal with him!”

"Tell me more specifically."

"Dark elements... Cain seems to have gained control over a portion of the dark elements, and is able to manipulate them!"

This ability sounded somewhat familiar, but Roy decided to try it out first, as Elise's explanation was too abstract.

Just then, Cain had finished his resurrection, and the progenitor of vampires, who had been ambushed and defeated, looked somewhat furious.

"Who was it? Who attacked the great progenitor of vampires, the Dark Lord Cain!"

boom!
Another flying axe struck Cain, who was once again blown apart before he could react, splattering oil everywhere.

“Ms. Elise, this guy doesn’t seem as formidable as you described.”

Elise stared at Roy in shock. Even in his Ghost Wolf form, Roy's power was almost the same as when he transformed into a demon.

It had only been less than a month since they fought together against the War Knights and Leviathan in Ravensfall, and Roy had already improved so much that Elise almost thought she was under an illusion.

"Uh, don't underestimate Cain, he just didn't realize it yet."

Then, Roy killed Cain three more times in a row, leaving Elise speechless.

Ultimately, Cain is a fragile spellcaster. Although he can resurrect infinitely, he is easily overwhelmed by Roy, a warrior, because he lacks the invincibility period during resurrection.

However, Roy also understood what Elise meant by "immortality." Cain was truly unkillable. Roy defeated him four times, and each time he resurrected at the exact same speed and time.

Even if Roy were to work himself to death, there would be no way to physically kill Cain.

Are we going to have to use the power of the Grim Reaper?

This plan should be feasible in theory.

Cain possesses a conceptual level of "immortality," while the Eye of Death can conceptually kill matter.

It's like a battle between the strongest shield and the strongest spear.

However, when facing the War Knight Ash last time, the Death's Eye Cat's Eye Stone reacted abnormally, so Roy simply threw the Cat's Eye Stone into his inventory and hasn't taken it out since.

"enough!"

Cain, who had been resurrected, suddenly transformed into an elemental form, becoming a dark shadow lying on the ground, and finally managed to dodge Roy's flying axe.

Cain was humiliated by Roy's flying axe time and time again.

So when Roy finally failed to get up, Cain immediately hid far away to prevent Roy from throwing his axe again.

"Who are you? State your name!"

Cain's expression was extremely ugly. He was about to successfully obtain the Holy Grail he had been dreaming of, but then a handsome stranger suddenly appeared and beat him up so badly.

"Roy Black, you may not have heard of this name, but that's okay, it will soon become your nightmare!"

Upon hearing this, Cain was furious. This man was already prone to madness due to his long years of exile, and now he was even more unable to control his emotions.

"Arrogant brat! Let the Dark Lord teach you how to talk to people!"

As he spoke, a deep abyss appeared beneath Roy's feet, from which countless tentacles extended, binding Roy's body from different directions.

This move is very effective against warriors, since even the strongest warrior needs a process of exerting force to fight. This process can be shortened, but it cannot be eliminated.

Take War Knight Ash, for example. He possesses unparalleled strength, but he also needs to stand firmly on the ground to exert his power. Roy is the same.

Without a fulcrum, Roy can only fight using his core strength, which will definitely be much less effective.

Fortunately, Roy is not just a simple 9-Intelligence Warrior; he also possesses some special abilities.

Bloodlust and the double buff of the War Domain were fully activated, followed by nine tentacles made of dark elements extending from behind to fight against the tentacles created by Cain.

Cain was very surprised to see this.

"How could you possibly possess the power of darkness as well!"

boom!
Roy suddenly threw the Leviathan Axe again, but this time Cain was prepared and used dark elements to create a shield that trapped the Leviathan Axe like a swamp.

"Damn it, he actually tried to ambush the great Dark Lord again!"

The next second, Roy withdrew the Dark Touch, then created a soul clone that rushed over, grabbed Leviathan's Axe, and blasted Cain to pieces. "This guy's strength is indeed quite average, but he's definitely troublesome."

Roy had realized what was truly difficult about Cain.

Because he could resurrect infinitely, Cain had an infinite number of opportunities to try and fail.

Just like how Roy was able to easily kill Cain with his throwing axe a few times before, but after Cain was prepared, he couldn't do that anymore and had to use other trump cards to kill him.

Once Cain figured out the abilities of the Soul Stand, Roy would have to use other trump cards to deal with him.

It's like in a single-player game, Cain is the player with unlimited resurrections, and Roy is the powerful boss.

Even the most powerful boss will be defeated when faced with endless challenges.

No wonder God chose to banish Cain; banishing such a creature is indeed the best way to deal with him.

“Mr. Black, it wouldn’t matter if you killed him a million times.”

Roy knew this, of course, but he had no better way than to use the Eye of Death.

“I know! Ms. Elise, do you have a way to deal with him?”

Elise gave a wry smile.

"If I were in my prime, I might have been able to banish him through a great prophecy, but now..."

Elise is currently using all her power to maintain her physical stability and the light barrier on Claire's side, leaving her with absolutely no energy to spare.

Cain was quickly resurrected, and he remained extremely arrogant after his resurrection.

"You can't kill me! The great Cain is immortal!"

"Get lost!"

Roy used different tactics to kill Cain again, and even executed Cain once with a cleaver.

However, Cain died and was resurrected, and was not affected in the slightest.

Cain would be on guard every time Roy tried to kill him, which greatly increased the difficulty for Roy to kill him.

By the time he was killed for the twentieth time, Roy was forced to change his form, revealing his demon form.

Relying on his terrifying physical attributes of +60, he beat Cain to a pulp.

At this point, Cain dared not speak.

This guy also found that every time he provoked Roy, he would be beaten even more miserably. After dying more than twenty times, Cain had completely lost face.

Where is the original vampire and the Dark Lord?

However, Roy was also very unhappy. In order to kill Cain, he had to go all out every time, which led to his physical strength being consumed more and more.

If this continues, the balance of power will shift.

So, when Cain was resurrected for the fiftieth time, Roy suddenly transformed into his ghost wolf form, grabbed Cain with his explosive power, and then cast a sleeping spell.

Cain had been killed 49 times, and his mind was already somewhat muddled, so the Sleeping Curse successfully hypnotized him.

"Fuck! How on earth do we take this guy down?"

Roy arrived at the Shadow Hunter base at 6:30, and it's almost 8 o'clock now, and he still hasn't finished fighting.

Even though Cain was the only one taking the beating, Roy would get tired after killing him so many times.

Elise was also helpless; she couldn't help at all unless Adrian suddenly appeared and healed her human form.

However, after the Ravensfall incident, Adrian disappeared somewhere, so Elise could only offer Roy emotional support and help him come up with ideas.

Cain, under hypnosis, was temporarily unable to move, so Roy took the opportunity to catch his breath and discuss a solution with Elise.

"Ms. Elise, if we kill Cain's spirit, I wonder if that would have any effect?"

Elise looked at Roy in surprise.

"Do you have any way to draw out Cain's soul?"

"No, I mean entering Cain's dream and killing his spirit directly."

Upon hearing this, Elise pondered for a moment.

"I've never thought of this method before, but perhaps you could give it a try!"

Just give it a try!
Roy immediately used his Nightmare skill on Cain, which he hadn't used in a long time, and his mind entered Cain's dream.

Inside a magnificent palace, scantily clad, beautiful women laughed and played, while in the very center of the palace sat a young man with black hair.

This young man had a noble appearance and an unparalleled aristocratic air, like a born king.

The beautiful women around him were all moving closer to the black-haired youth, showing off their beautiful bodies to him without any hesitation.

In this environment filled with extravagance and desire, four people stood out from the crowd: two men and two women knelt at the feet of the black-haired youth.

One of them had the face of Michael's true form that Roy had once seen, and the other three, needless to say, were definitely the four archangels.

It is clear that the black-haired youth deeply hates the four archangels, so in the dream he makes the four archangels kneel at his feet.

Furthermore, the black-haired youth issued an order.

"You two, come and lick my feet."

The black-haired youths refer to Gabriel and Michael, who were his nemesis back then and tortured him terribly.

However, in the dream, the guardian angel and the judgment angel could only lick their own toes, which made the black-haired youth very proud.

"What a wonderful dream! I don't want to wake up!"

The black-haired youth was Cain. At his level, how could he not distinguish between reality and dreams?

But the reason why a dream is a dream is because people become so engrossed in it that they are unwilling to wake up on their own.

Since I'm not going to be killed anyway, why not indulge in my sweet dreams a little longer?
This is what Cain is thinking right now.

But Cain, who was enjoying his dream, suddenly felt the golden palace begin to shake.

"what's going on?"

Cain pushed away the women around him. These women were dream creatures created by Cain, possessing only basic intelligence and therefore unable to react to changes in their environment.

But then a giant hand lifted the ceiling of the golden palace, and Cain looked up to see an old man, bigger than a mountain, staring at him.

"Cain, now that you have seen God, why do you not kneel?"

Cain was horrified and looked at the old man with disbelief.

"That's impossible! You should be dead!"

(Image of the Fire Keeper from Dark Souls 3. When I was designing the character Elise, the Fire Keeper was in mind. I just changed the black robe to white.)
　The image was deleted, and there's nothing I can do about it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)