I simultaneously traverse countless worlds

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On the unrecognizable harbor observation deck, Li Mo was chatting with Nangong Nayue, while Aurora was adorably munching on her snacks. Occasionally, she would overhear Li Mo and Nangong Nayue's conversation, listening or offering her own opinions.

In this regard, neither Li Mo nor Nangong Nayue paid any attention, because Aurora, the blonde loli, rarely spoke. She mostly enjoyed the snacks in her hand, like a cute little squirrel. Li Mo and Nangong Nayue doted on Aurora, unlike how they disliked or even forcefully disciplined Aurora.

—No normal person would think that a short-tempered loli is cute, especially a tyrannical loli like Aurora. If Li Mo hadn't suppressed her, she would have been able to turn the world upside down. Moreover, Li Mo had no intention of indulging her. If she overstepped her bounds, he would severely punish the tyrannical loli with his soul contract. If he didn't still keep her for other uses, a tyrannical loli with a rebellious heart like her would have been completely dealt with by him long ago.

The conversation between Li Mo and Nangong Nayue was actually a discussion about the current situation of the [Feast of Flames] and [Itogami Island]. Li Mo mainly explained some things to Nangong Nayue, since he had arranged for his subordinates to carry out many of the actions. Nangong Nayue herself didn't really understand much about it, but she was increasingly impressed by the power of Li Mo's subordinates.

Li Mo quickly stopped talking and looked directly in a direction outside the port, smiling as he said to Nangong Nayue and Aurora:

"Oh, my new body has already been delivered!"

Chapter 28 The Origin of the Prototype

"Your Majesty, I have brought all five avatars with me!"

This time, Xian Gu Yong's way of addressing Li Mo has changed; he now directly calls him "Your Majesty," clearly indicating that he considers Li Mo to be the final victor of the "Feast of Flames."

After all, even the Third True Ancestor suffered a crushing defeat in one move, and Xian Guyong couldn't imagine who else could be Li Mo's opponent. In any case, it certainly wouldn't be a participant in the [Feast of Flames], so it was very wise of him to immediately change his address and use a more respectful title for Li Mo!

"Her Majesty the Chaos Princess and His Highness Prince Ibrisbel have completed the handover of their original bodies!"

Seeing Li Mo and Nangong Nayue standing together intimately, and with the blonde loli Aurora present, Shizuka Koyo said without changing her expression: "Due to Duke Aldia's previous leniency, the third, fourth, and fifth original bodies are moving around freely on Itogami Island. We are currently trying to track their exact whereabouts."

"As for the first, seventh, and eleventh bodies, it has been confirmed that they are owned by the weapons dealer Zaharias. Currently, he is searching for the other three bodies on the island and has no intention of coming to the port. The remaining five bodies are all here."

"Furthermore, this is information about the Fourth True Ancestor and the [Feast of Flames] that Her Majesty the Queen of Chaos just sent me!"

"You've worked hard! You can go back now and await the order to begin the [Feast of Flames] ceremony!"

Seeing Xian Guyong take out a USB drive from her pocket and hand it over, Li Mo casually accepted the USB drive and spoke to her in a very gentle tone. Clearly, he had a very good attitude towards this one of the three saints of the Lion King Organization who had come to join him.

In this respect, Li Mo is not like the most shameful True Ancestor in the original Strike the Blood anime. That guy's personality was seen through by the Lion King Organization and the Japanese government, and he was completely used as a powerful henchman to deceive and guide. Naturally, he did not gain much benefit and was even looked down upon. Li Mo, on the other hand, showed the methods of an absolute overlord. The people of the Lion King Organization were not stupid enough to make trouble in front of Li Mo. They obeyed orders and did their work very hard.

For example, behind Xian Guyong stood five Fourth Ancestor avatars who looked almost exactly like Agulora. They were respectfully sent over by her without any intention of doing anything underhanded. Even the information they reported to him was accurate.

"Yes! Your Majesty!"

Upon hearing Li Mo's order, Xian Guyong didn't bother asking such a foolish question. She naturally knew that Li Mo wanted her to leave and await further orders, as he might be placing several True Ancestor bodies under his command, preventing her from becoming a threat while she remained stationary. Since he was truly treating her as his subordinate, Xian Guyong respectfully complied. She then turned and activated a teleportation spell, disappearing from the spot.

Seeing that Xiangu Yong's figure had disappeared, Nangong Nayue nodded slightly to Li Mo, indicating that the other party had indeed left the port. Li Mo smiled to indicate that he knew, but his attention was focused on the five Fourth True Ancestor bodies that now belonged to him!

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Before Li Mo, the five original bodies of the Fourth True Ancestor stood quietly in place. They had the same appearance and figure as Aurora. At first glance, they could be mistaken for sextuplets. The remaining six original bodies of the True Ancestor were in the same situation. Just by looking at their appearance, they were like twins born from the same egg.

The reason is very simple: the twelve bodies of the Fourth Progenitor are all artificially created vampires used to divide and seal the twelve Progenitor Familiars of the Fourth Progenitor. Therefore, they all look exactly the same. This is also why, when the insiders discovered Li Mo's existence and that he could use the power of the [Azure Ice Demoness] Familiar during the Gozo Island incident, they regarded him as the [Blood Companion] of the Fourth Progenitor.

Otherwise, ordinary Fourth Ancestor bodies would be mere puppets lacking common sense. Even an arms dealer like Ququ could use them as weapons of war because these Fourth Ancestor bodies were seen as artificial weapons rather than real vampires. Otherwise, if it were possible to artificially mass-produce vampires with extraordinary combat power, the sensation would be far greater than the "Feast of Flames." Moreover, the creation of artificial vampires at the Ancestor level was a special achievement personally accomplished by the three Ancestors themselves.

For Li Mo himself, it didn't matter whether it was an artificial vampire or a real vampire. Both were capable of making Aurora truly his own. As for the Fourth True Ancestor Aurora, there was no need to say more. If Li Mo hadn't planned to resolve this hidden danger during the [Feast of Flames] ceremony, the fact that the other party occasionally had the idea of ​​jumping in and stabbing him in the back would have been enough for him to deal with her completely, instead of just tolerating her a little longer like he was now.

Right now, Li Mo was looking at the five young and beautiful "Aurora" dressed in various clothes, standing in front of him like models stepping onto a stage. He couldn't help but admire them while also noticing the different situations of the five "Aurora".

"Oh? You've already developed a little self-awareness!"

Looking at the five Fourth True Ancestor bodies, Li Mo's eyes lit up slightly. He then looked at the sixth body among the five bodies, whose eyes were the most lively and whose attire best matched modern aesthetic standards, and said with a somewhat pleased tone.

"Original?"

Upon hearing Li Mo's words, "Aurora," dressed in a simple white kimono with cherry blossom patterns and a hairstyle that exuded a ladylike style, looked at Li Mo with some curiosity and asked a question, proving that she had indeed developed self-awareness.

This is not a strange thing. Just by looking at the performance of Aurora, who is actually the twelfth True Ancestor, it is clear that the familiars sealed in the artificial vampires can naturally develop personal consciousness. It's just that no one would have considered doing this before. After all, the real Fourth True Ancestor, Aurora, is still around. In her eyes, those artificial vampires who sealed their familiars are just puppets. She wouldn't care about trivial matters such as whether they have developed self-awareness. Even if they do have self-awareness, she treats them as mere tools.

However, compared to the other True Ancestor entities, the sixth one, "Aurora," had a more pronounced self-awareness, allowing Li Mo to immediately recognize her situation. Compared to the blonde loli, she was in a similar situation.

"Aurora? I've forced her into a deep sleep, with Aurora in control. Do you want me to wake her up for a chat?"

Li Mo gave a very calm answer to the question about the sixth one, "Aurora".

"No need! Since Aurora has acknowledged you and you have mastered the power of your familiars, then you are the Fourth Progenitor, and we will naturally become your power!"

The sixth one, "Aurora," remained calm, completely unconcerned about Li Mo's malice towards the Fourth Ancestor, Aurora. Instead, she looked at Li Mo and Aurora, who was looking at her, and said with certainty a hint of surprise in her eyes.

"Hmm, don't you want to live?"

Seeing the indifferent reaction of Number Six "Aurora", Li Mo raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Why live on? The human form is nothing but a prison for us; the form of our familiars is our true nature. Death in human form is a liberation for us, a release from the constraints of this body..."

Number Six, "Aurora," seemed puzzled. She tilted her head and looked at Li Mo. Her answer made Li Mo frown slightly, indicating that he understood the situation.

"Haha, you guys are completely different from Aurora the twelfth. That kid is now pestering me for ice cream every day, wanting to continue existing!"

Li Mo said with great interest regarding the reaction of Number Six, "Aurora".

"Is that so..." Number Six "Aurora" looked at Number Twelve Aurora and found that the other was looking at her with bright eyes. After hesitating for a few seconds, she looked at Li Mo and said, "Then, let's make a deal with our new master!"

"Oh, just tell me what kind of deal it is!"

Li Mo looked at number six, "Aurora," and asked directly.

"Please promise that Number Twelve will not be forcibly absorbed, and that we will become your strength again after the [Feast of Flames], and fight for you!"

When these words were spoken, it wasn't just Number Six, "Aurora," but all five of the Fourth Ancestor's physical forms said them in unison. Their eyes, as they looked at Aurora, held a hint of envy and determination.

As the original bodies of the Fourth True Ancestor, they naturally knew that the [Feast of Flames] ritual was being held. The twelve True Ancestor original bodies would merge to revive the Fourth True Ancestor. They would exist in the form of familiars. As for the [Feast of Flames] ritual, if more than half of the True Ancestor original bodies and the Fourth True Ancestor's soul were present, the [Feast of Flames] revival ritual could be forcibly carried out, which would forcibly absorb the power of the original bodies.

In a sense, the five True Ancestors embodied their support for Aurora by actively helping Li Mo in exchange for allowing Aurora to remain at the end of the [Feast of Flames] ceremony.

"Don't worry, I won't force the [Feast of Flames] to be held yet. What we can do now is go find that last surviving contestant..."

Upon hearing what the sixth "Aurora" said, Li Mo gently reached out and ruffled Aurora's beautiful hair. Looking at the other five "Auroras," he smiled and replied. He hadn't wasted these past few days. He had already figured out the general situation regarding the relationship between the Fourth True Ancestor Aurora and the twelve True Ancestor bodies, as well as the related rituals of the [Feast of Flames], and he had his own action plan.

However, Li Mo did not explain his thoughts to the blonde lolis at the moment. He gently reached out and saw number six "Aurora" grasp his hand. Then, he took the six blonde lolis and Nangong Nayue and disappeared into the port that had turned into glacial ruins!

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When the battle at the port first broke out, the officials of Itogami Island were naturally shocked by the burst of familiar magic power and the momentum of the glacial sea. As for Balthazar Zaharias, who had also participated in the Feast of Flames and gone all out, he was also trying to find the final winning chip in this battle.

As an arms dealer who sells death, Baltasaru Zaharias is quite capable. Otherwise, how could a middle-aged man who is almost forty years old have managed to cause a vampire count in the War King's Domain under the First True Ancestor to suffer a great loss in a border conflict, control a Fourth True Ancestor's body, launch a surprise attack on the Second True Ancestor's Extinction Dynasty and abduct two Fourth True Ancestor bodies, and successfully escape to participate in the Feast of Flames? To say that he is not capable is an absolute insult to everyone's intelligence.

The problem is that Balthazar Zaharias is very self-aware. He understands that he has already exhausted all his energy as an ordinary middle-aged man in the arms trade and possessing the Fourth True Ancestor's body. To try to win the [Feast of Flames] by fighting those powerful vampires and extraordinary experts head-on would be foolish and self-destructive. He must win by surprise.

Just two days ago, he had already sent his subordinates and obtained intelligence through unrelated channels, letting Baltasaru Zaharias know that there were still three True Ancestor bodies wandering around Itogami Island. So naturally, he couldn't resist wanting to get his hands on this bargaining chip first!

"Boss, I've spotted a target, they're... ah!"

In a commercial street in the city center of Itogami Island, an arms dealer dressed in a black suit with a full beard, who looked anything but friendly, was with a dozen subordinates and three Fourth True Ancestor avatars. The voices of his subordinates coming through his personal communicator were cut off by a scream.

"Hello? Hello? Damn it, what happened?!"

At this moment, Baltasaru Zaharias could no longer contain himself. He called out several times into his specially made personal communicator, only to find it was busy. His expression darkened, and he quickly began to think about what had happened.

Balthazar Zaharias naturally learned of the powerful magic of the True Ancestor-level familiar that had just erupted through his subordinates. Knowing that the [Feast of Flames] had already begun, his only thought was to find the three Fourth True Ancestor bodies wandering on [Itogami Island] before encountering the hostile vampires. Otherwise, if he encountered vampire electors from the [War King Domain] or the [Extinction Dynasty], he feared that avoiding battle would be impossible, and he would definitely be hunted down to the death.

Before Balthazar Zaharias could decide whether to seize the opportunity to search for the Fourth Progenitor's body or, for the sake of caution, first ascertain the situation of the battle at the [Feast of Flames], he suddenly froze and heard Li Mo's voice:

"Oh, so the remaining participant in the [Feast of Flames] is you!"

Chapter 29 The Arms Dealer's Scheme Fails

How can this be? !

When Balthazar Zaharias heard Li Mo's words, he was already paralyzed with shock. He couldn't believe that even with thorough preparations, he had still been ambushed by such an extraordinary powerhouse and had been successfully outmaneuvered.

Well, Baltasaru Zaharias wasn't an idiot who didn't know his own limitations. He naturally knew that his previous decisive actions had severely offended the two great Night Empires!

To put it simply, the fact that the inferior vampires, whom the vampires had previously despised as "ghosts," directly killed a vampire count and a large number of his troops in the [War King's Domain] was already a resounding slap in the face to the [War King's Domain]. They were incredibly lucky not to be retaliated against immediately.

In reality, it was because Balthazar Zaharias possessed the physical body of a Fourth Progenitor at the time, and had an artificial vampire with such a Progenitor-level familiar as his bodyguard, that he wasn't immediately crushed by the vampires of the [War King's Domain]. After all, it would be too much to ask the [Forgotten War King] to deal with an arms dealer like Cricket. The higher-ups of the [War King's Domain] were discussing how to punish the arms dealer while simultaneously tracking Balthazar Zaharias's whereabouts.

Before Balthazar Zaharias could enjoy his freedom for even a few months, the Gozo Island incident and the [Feast of Flames] were about to begin. Upon receiving the news, he immediately realized that something was wrong and directly led the Fourth True Ancestor's avatar he had to launch a surprise attack on the [Extinction Dynasty]. He successfully seized two Fourth True Ancestor avatars from the unsuspecting [Extinction Dynasty] and escaped, but in doing so, he also completely offended the [Extinction Dynasty].

At the same time, they have seriously offended the First Night Empire and the Second Night Empire. No wonder no one, including the Lion King Organization, thought that the arms dealers could win the Feast of Flames. Few people were foolish enough to bet on a guy who was about to become a dead man. Knowing that everything depended on their own arms dealers, they naturally put a lot of effort into their own safety.

However, the relatively tight defenses of the Strike the Blood world were as fragile as a piece of paper in front of Li Mo. He subdued the arms dealer and his subordinates with a single move, while the three armored "Aurora" were stunned in place!

"Is the secret of your move that you freeze their perceived time?"

Seeing that more than thirty demons, including Balthazar Zaharias, were stunned in place, Nangong Nayue, who appeared with nine "Aurora", immediately saw the key secret of Li Mo's move.

"That's right! Even intelligent life forms can experience illusions when it comes to time!"

Faced with Nangong Nayue's question, Li Mo gave a very confident answer. He calmly looked at Baltasaru Zaharias and his subordinates, and explained in a very calm tone, "Especially at certain times, their sensory experience time can be infinitely prolonged. Now, I'm simply using the power of the [Azure Ice Demoness] to let them experience this feeling of being frozen..."

Okay, the principle behind Li Mo's move is very simple. It's still a personal version of the [Freezing Light] move, only more precise on an individual level. The freezing power puts them into a pseudo-frozen state similar to a physical time stop.

In this situation, unless it's an extraordinary individual or a powerful demon with sufficient superhuman strength, or someone with a magical item that provides self-protection, or even a summonable familiar, unless Li Mo increases the amount of freezing power he uses and turns the opponent into an eternal ice sculpture in one move, this move, while seemingly powerful, is actually only suitable for crushing weaker opponents.

The problem is that the prerequisite for having a way to deal with it is that one must be a powerful superhuman or demon. Unfortunately, Balthazar Zaharias is not a superhuman at all. He himself is not even a superhuman. Apart from the three "Aurora", the strongest of the bodyguards he has are at most at the level of high-ranking vampires and high-ranking orcs. In front of Li Mo, they are just cannon fodder with no strength and cannot withstand the power of Li Mo's move at all.

The three "Aurora" possessed by the arms dealer were immune to the power of Li Mo's move. However, their individual consciousness was too weak. They were not comparable to Aurora No. 12 and Aurora No. 6, and they were even inferior to normal people with communication difficulties. Without Baltasaru Zaharias's order, the three of them remained motionless in place.

In this regard, Li Mo had to admit that among the original bodies of the Fourth True Ancestor, there were differences in the degree of awakening of personal consciousness. For example, these three "Aurora" were puppets with almost no personal consciousness compared to the other True Ancestor original bodies.

"Hmm? It still retains some semblance of thought? This is rather interesting..."

Looking at Baltasaru Zaharias, Li Mo noticed something amiss. After a closer look, he discovered the problem and suddenly extended a finger, piercing an ice blade directly into a certain part of Zaharias's body.

Tsk~!

With a soft sound of a sharp blade slicing through flesh, Li Mo used his ice blade to remove one of the arms dealer's ribs. However, this seemingly cruel scene did not frighten Nangong Nayue and Aurora; instead, they looked over with curiosity.

The rib that was fixed in place out of thin air was not a male rib at all. It was very light and small, like a girl's rib, and it was covered with extremely fine and delicate magical runes. What was most strange was the magical aura attached to this rib, which proved that it was extraordinary.

In any case, Li Mo and Nangong Nayue could both see that this was a hidden trick by the arms dealer, and the two of them could even sense the magical aura on the ribs and find that it was exactly the same aura as one of the three armored "Aurora"!

"This is... a rib from the Fourth True Ancestor's original body? And a special technique? Does he intend to use this method to control the resurrected Fourth True Ancestor?!"

As for the Witch of the Gap, her knowledge was equally extraordinary. She hadn't noticed when the arms dealer hid it inside her body, but when a section of the rib of the Fourth True Ancestor's body was revealed, Nangong Nayue immediately saw through the secret.

In a sense, Nangong Nayue's understanding of arms dealers was the first time she had truly grasped their madness and audacity. The desire to control the resurrected Fourth Progenitor was, for a witch who knew how powerful the vampire progenitors were, a truly challenging thing to comprehend. Even top-tier human superhumans wouldn't dream of such a thing, otherwise, there might have been top human superhumans eyeing the [Feast of Flames]. The fact that no such situation actually occurred speaks volumes.

Of course, Nangong Nayue knew that the [Feast of Flames] was very complicated, so she was astonished and even amazed by Baltasaru Zaharias's crazy goals. Only a madman with such audacity could do such a series of big events!

"Heh, for an arms dealer, even a sliver of hope is enough to make him take a big gamble at times, let alone the huge profits Ying could make!"

Faced with Nangong Nayue's exclamation, Li Mo, who had seen countless madmen and geniuses through his memories from different worlds, wasn't surprised. He casually picked up the rib, examined it, and confirmed his guess. He then put it into his [Portable World], and looking at the arms dealer, he sneered, "However, he won his previous gambles and thought he would keep winning. But this time, he lost everything..."

In Li Mo's view, arms dealers are walking a tightrope. Selling arms was a business with huge profits and huge risks in the world before he transmigrated. Just by watching the movie "Lord of War," you can see that there are probably five giants behind those arms deals, and there are countless entanglements of interests involved.

In the context of Strike the Blood, the arms trade carries a very clear political element. Otherwise, why would arms dealers have access to large quantities of weapons to sell to inferior vampire factions like the Huns, causing them to constantly clash with the First True Ancestor's [War King's Domain] and even engage in small-scale battles? The implications are quite obvious. It would be a lie to say that there is no powerful force supporting them. However, by using an arms dealer as a black glove, they can be discarded at any time when necessary.