MIGHT AS WELL BE OP

Chapter 1099: Anticlimactic

”This has gotten boring, Blood Queen, I might need to end this soon if you don’t show some better attacks and spells,” Anthony warned as he looked at her, his smile now absent, all that remained was an apathetic face devoid of interest or excitement.

The next moment he was done speaking, he vanished from where he stood, his body appearing merely a step away from the Blood Queen; before she could even react, Anthony’s hand blurred as he slapped her to the side with star-burning force, the sheer impact distorting the surrounding space.

The Blood Queen’s body tore to the side, but before she could go far, she immediately came to a halt as she regained control over her body. She acted instantly as she tapped into her Gravity affinity, but before she could even do anything with it, Anthony was already before her again, his fist thundering into her chest with maddening intensity that left no room for resistance.

The Blood Queen felt her chest cave in and explode outward from her back as blood splattered violently, bones crushing as flesh tore apart under the overwhelming force. She streaked backwards once more, her regeneration kicking in as she healed within a split second, restoring her physical form with eerie efficiency.

But again, Anthony was already there; he caught her by the jaw, his body vanishing from where they were as he reappeared before a nearby star, and with wicked force, Anthony slammed her skull into it with battering intensity. Her head immediately splattered against the star’s surface due to the sheer power of the impact, her brain matter and shattered bones painting a portion of the star in grotesque detail.

From the remains of her corpse, her blood stirred and moved, converging to form a new Blood Queen once more. But the moment she reappeared, all she felt was Anthony’s fist connecting with her jaw in a vicious punch, her body tearing upwards like a launched missile, unable to stabilize herself in time.

As she tore upwards through space, her thoughts couldn’t help but spiral, ’Was the difference between our strength truly this vast?’ she questioned herself even as her consciousness flickered in and out. She had expected to struggle against Anthony, acknowledging that it would not be an easy battle, but for it to be this one-sided, she had not foreseen such an overwhelming disparity.

Her thoughts came to an abrupt halt as she slammed against a distant sun, her spine shattering upon impact. Yet her passive regeneration ability paid no heed to her suffering and simply restored her physical injuries, though it continued to ignore the damage inflicted upon her essence.

With a twisted expression, her voice echoed through the void of space, carrying a dangerous and desperate resolve.

[Forbidden Blood Art: Sacrifice Of The Living]

As those words left her lips, blood energy detonated from her body as she tore free from the sun’s surface, rising toward the heavens. Her strength began to climb in real time, her mana multiplying rapidly, her physical power surging to new heights with every passing moment.

The Forbidden Blood Art she had used was an ancient and perilous technique that sacrificed one’s vitality in exchange for immense power, granting an all-around amplification to her abilities, including her skills, techniques, and overall combat prowess.

The Blood Queen’s crimson eyes snapped toward Anthony, who stood at a distance, watching her with a bored expression, as he had already lost interest in the battle.

’Maybe I should have fought her subordinates longer,’ Anthony thought to himself with a quiet sigh. Despite the Blood Queen’s increase in all parameters of power, it held no significance in his eyes.

Even if an ant increased its strength by several multipliers, it would still remain an ant.

The Blood Queen closed the distance with her newfound speed, her vampiric strength enhanced to terrifying levels as she launched a punch toward Anthony’s head, intending to obliterate it entirely. Anthony calmly observed the incoming attack, his hand moving slightly as he raised a single finger in response, and with a thunderous impact, his index finger halted the Blood Queen’s full-powered strike effortlessly.

But it did not merely stop it, the force contained within that single finger shattered the Blood Queen’s entire arm from fist to shoulder, as though it were nothing more than a fragile egg smashed against the surface of a boulder, the difference in power made painfully evident.

The Blood Queen’s vampiric fangs immediately extended as she lunged forward, attempting to bite into Anthony’s wrist in an effort to drain his blood or forcibly convert him into a vampire. However, the moment her teeth made contact with Anthony’s hand, they shattered instantly, as though she had bitten into the hardest metal in existence.

Before the Blood Queen could even process what had happened, Anthony grabbed her by the face, his hand forcing its way into her mouth as he clamped down on her teeth, and with disturbing ease, he ripped out her entire set of fangs, tearing them from her mouth as blood splattered violently into the surrounding space.

The Blood Queen’s eyes widened in sheer horror; even as she sacrificed her vitality for greater strength and power, she still couldn’t match Anthony in the slightest.

’How is this even possible?’ she thought to herself as she watched Anthony tear out her entire set of teeth from her mouth. But before she could react further, a crackling sound echoed as lightning surged violently, buzzing in her ears as Anthony immediately engulfed her entire body in an overwhelming torrent of rampaging lightning that tore through her flesh, bones, blood, and muscles alike.

The Blood Queen finally screamed as the pain became utterly unbearable. She possessed a high tolerance for pain, but not immunity to it, and Anthony had surpassed her threshold with ease, pushing her beyond what she could endure.

Her once beautiful face was gone, her pale skin reduced to charred remains, her perfectly arranged lush hair incinerated entirely as Anthony burned her to a crisp with his lightning.

”No need to keep struggling, Blood Queen; at least this way, you and your son can be reunited. You might even find the Ancient Vampire Blood Grade in the realm of the dead,” Anthony stated, gripping her by the neck with calm indifference.

The Blood Queen stared at him with hate-filled eyes as she spoke, ”You think the Vampire Domain will let this slide? Every vampire within the Blue Planet will come for you,” she declared, her voice laced with venom and defiance.

Anthony looked at her as though she were a fool as he replied, ”Then I will send the entire Vampire Domain to the realm of the dead; perhaps another Domain can be formed over there,” he stated with finality, his tone flat as his Divine Flames consumed the Blood Queen, silencing her before she could utter another word.

Anthony remained silent for a moment. To him, this battle had been somewhat anticlimactic, it had begun with promise, carrying a sense of excitement, only to end in a disappointingly dull manner.

’I hope the Vampire Domain will at least put up a fight,’ Anthony thought to himself, disappointed by the now-deceased Blood Queen’s lackluster strength, his expectations for future battles rising as he sought something truly worthy of being fun.