The King of Black Fog

"I don't have time to joke around with you right now," Gothic Lolita Bi said, crossing her arms.

"Do you think I would joke with a little girl? That would be illegal," Li Changzhou replied.

"So, you're really a vampire?" She snorted disdainfully with her little nose, "If you want to play an erotic role-playing game, find someone else. I'm almost thirteen and not interested in that stuff."

"....."

The intense sunlight reflected off the distant house's windows, converging into a blinding point of light.

Beneath the elm trees on the street, the cicadas sounded like a heavy rain.

July 12, 1880, in Monroe Park Town, under a windless sky on a scorching summer afternoon.

Li Changzhou and Bi stood in the darkest corner of the carriage, looking at everything in front of them.

"I have an idea."

"Hmm?"

"I'll sit on your head, and you hide under my skirt," she suggested.

"...Are you serious?" Li Changzhou looked away, his eyes already tearful from the pain of just looking.

It's no wonder that in movies, vampires often involuntarily shield their faces from the sun.

"Hmm—right, your feet would still stick out," Bi reconsidered.

"Is that the crucial issue here?" Li Changzhou blinked, trying to ease the pain.

"Forget it!" Bi took out a lollipop from her pocket.

As she was about to unwrap it, she suddenly looked up and said to Li Changzhou, "I'm eating this for you, so it's like you're eating it, not me, got it?"

"What's this about you eating and me eating?" Li Changzhou felt unbearably hot, as if he were a piece of meat needing to stew for two hours in a kitchen with no air conditioning—the meat being him.

"After breaking the limit and enhancing my 'Telekinesis,' I limited myself to one lollipop a day unless it's during a fight. I already ate today's lollipop on the car," she added.

"Afraid of cavities?"

"A beauty must have good teeth. It's the price and foundation of beauty, something your kind, a sun-shy crypt bat, wouldn't understand."

"Believe it or not, I could bite you? Turn you into a vampire too?" saying so, Li Changzhou's gaze uncontrollably landed on Bi's slender neck.

He swallowed hard.

A heat different from the sun's and not like the heat of desire, but rather a hunger-driven bloodthirst, began to burn within him.

"Hmph!" Bi put a lollipop in her mouth, "Watch the 'Strength' of this princess!"

She crossed her arms and did nothing.

Pop! Their carriage, detached from the rest of the train, began to rise slowly like an elevator.

Twenty meters above ground, it "boom!" zoomed off into the distance.

On the ground, the regular folks were shocked, each mouthing, "Oh! My God!" like straws popping out of their mouths.

"...Isn't this a bit too ostentatious? Aren't vampires supposed to hide in basements, castles, caves, or tombs?" Li Changzhou sounded more like a kid afraid of getting into trouble.

The game had given him a baronial status, soon to be elevated to viscount, proving his strength was only at this level.

With a hierarchy of titles above him, such as Prince Morgan, it was better for him to keep a low profile.

"Then you go down," Bi said as she sat on a chair, swinging her legs, pressing her fingertips outward against the sides of the chair, happily sucking on her lollipop.

Li Changzhou looked outside just to feel threatened by the harsh sunlight again and shrank back into the corner with the shadows.

What use is this vampire lineage! Utterly useless!

The train carriage crashed into a forest, branches sweeping past the windows like brushes, making one almost believe it was indeed a train traveling through dense woods.

"Where are you planning to go?" Li Changzhou watched the ever-changing lights and shadows outside the window.

"To Edison's lab," Bi manipulated the lollipop in her mouth with her tongue, "Goebbels will definitely try to kill him; I just need to wait for him there."

"You're protecting Goebbels, right? One of the werewolf's side, aren't you in danger going there to Edison's place?"

In 1880, Bi's identity was that of a prodigious child at the Superpower Club.

The Superpower Academy embraced all, teaching vampires, werewolves, and banshees as superpower users.

The academy had a werewolf girl, Goebbels' daughter, who got along well with "Bi." Her visit to Monroe Town this time was to protect her sister's father.

If it were Li Changzhou, he definitely wouldn't waste time protecting anyone but would rather stay and study at the Superpower School.

Too bad he was a vampire who had crawled out of a grave with only a few unwanted coffin planks, with no means of studying.

He pulled out the Emerald Bee Sword and made a small cut on his arm.

Flesh turned inside out, blood oozing out, and soon, like a zipper being pulled, the wound quickly closed up.

As Li Changzhou evaluated the vampire's 'Super Recovery,' he rolled the dripping blood into Blood Pearls.

True to its name, within five seconds, a gash deep enough to see bone had completely healed.

Looking up, Bi stared at him with a disdainful gaze that seemed as if he had just urinated there, mixed with a bit of curiosity to the same extent.

"Eat one if you're injured," Li Changzhou tossed out a Blood Pearl.

Halfway through its flight, the Blood Pearl hovered in midair, slowly floating in front of Bi.

She pinched one and examined it under the sunlight.

After reading the system prompt that popped up, she glanced at Li Changzhou and said reluctantly, "Did you harm yourself just to give me this?"

"Yes, what else?" Li Changzhou speculated on the extent to which he could trade blows with an enemy in combat using 'Super Recovery.'