The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 957: Vaan's Compensation



"Vaan Raphna."

"All members of the Black Serpent Clan, listen up! From today onwards, we shall serve His Excellency, Lord Vaan! Lord Vaan will be the only true Ocean Master our clan recognizes!"

Shortly after Vaan gave his name, the black serpent leader decisively swore his clan's allegiance to him.

(Long live Lord Vaan!)

(Long live the true Ocean Master!)

Although some were slightly baffled by the black serpent leader's choice of words, they soon realized the implications upon further thought.

The symbol of the Celestial Kingdom's Ocean Master had always been an azure trident. It was also the azure trident that possessed the Conqueror's Aura.

However, Vaan's Conqueror's Aura came from himself.

As such, between the two Ocean Masters, it wasn't hard to consider who was the legitimate ruler of the Boundless Seas. It was like the difference between inheriting the position and borning for it.

Nevertheless, Vaan felt slightly guilty after obtaining the Black Serpent Clan's loyalty.

"I've killed nine Demigods from your clan. You won't hold a grudge over that?" Vaan asked curiously.

The black serpent leader was astonished but then quickly replied, "My Lord, you have the Conqueror's Aura and have the right to rule the sea. If you had to kill them, it must mean they deserved to die."

"That's right, Your Excellency. No one in the clan will resent you for their deaths," an elder black serpent added.

Although no one knew what happened, they only felt fortunate that the rest of the clan wasn't implicated. As such, instead of feeling pity, they would even blame the nine Demigods were fools for offending the true Ocean Master.

"You don't want to know why they died?" Vaan asked as he stared at the black serpents thoughtfully.

However, no one dared to meet his gaze. They all lowered their heads.

"If you want to share the events to satisfy our curiosity, then no one will refuse, my Lord. However, if you are unwilling to divulge, then no one will dare to make the demand either," the black serpent leader said carefully.

"My woman has the awakened Golden Dragon Bloodline," Vaan stated.

Once those words were spoken, the entire Black Serpent Clan trembled with shock and realization. It wasn't difficult to guess the general situation after hearing awakened Golden Dragon Bloodline.

Nevertheless, no one could hide their astonishment.

They had long given up on the Golden Dragon Bloodline being awakened. Thus, they didn't expect anyone to achieve it.

Was the true Ocean Master involved in making it possible?

When the black serpents had this thought, the deaths of the nine Demigods did not weaken their loyalty but strengthened it instead.

"Those nine Demigods deserved death, my Lord," the black serpents stated.

"Nevertheless, it doesn't change the fact that your clan has lost nine Demigods. As the first marine clan to serve me, I should give your clan a celebration gift to commemorate this occasion, not owe you," Vaan said.

"We are honored by your kind intentions, my Lord. Your words are more than enough," the black serpent leader said.

However, Vaan shook his head and said, "I have already decided to give your clan a blessing. You are the first marine clan to join me; you can't be weak either. Do you trust me?"

"We can die for you, my Lord," the black serpent leader said honestly.

All marine life existed to serve the one with the Conqueror's Aura. To be able to serve a respectable Ocean Master would be their greatest honor.

"I don't need you to die for me; I need you to live for me," Vaan corrected before ordering the black serpent leader, "Cut yourself and draw out the Golden Dragon Bloodline."

The black serpent leader was immediately startled. However, decisiveness shortly replaced his hesitation.

Puchi!

The black serpent leader bit into itself, tearing open a gaping wound. Red blood with a hint of gold poured out in streams.

Under the alarmed gazes of the black serpents, Vaan immediately extracted all of the pure golden dragon blood essence mixed in the black serpent blood.

What he did next was considered an experiment.

He refined the golden dragon blood essences with the Everlasting Blood Refining Art, drawing out their latent potential. The golden dragon blood essence was refined into golden dragon origin blood.

Afterward, he forced all the newly-refined golden dragon origin blood back into the black serpent leader's body.

At the same time, he also borrowed Emerald's power and sent a stream of life energy to strengthen the golden dragon origin blood in the black serpent leader's body.

Ideally, he should have used the primordial energy he could acquire from decomposing the world with the Nihility Law. However, since he didn't have any primordial energy, he relied

on life energy.

The life energy from the Profound Pearl of Life was also a type of primordial energy from the beginning of the universe. Furthermore, it had evolutionary properties. Thus, it wasn't necessarily worse than the primordial energy called Grandmist.

Nevertheless, once the already stimulated golden dragon origin blood in the black serpent leader's body received further stimulation from the life energy, it felt like it was on fire.

Every drop of golden dragon origin blood was like a miniature sun, producing an incredible amount of heat energy and affecting everything around it.

While it brought a lot of pain to the black serpent leader, the black serpent leader also couldn't help but feel excited. After all, the hot energy was activating every cell in its body

and transforming it.

(Clan Leader?!)

Many black serpents grew restless and concerned as they watched the black serpent leader's

squirmish agony.

Nevertheless, they could only watch on.

Over time, their concerns slowly changed to surprise, then finally settling for pure shock and

astonishment.

Not only did the black serpent leader's black scales turn golden, but he also grew two additional gold horns on his head; they looked like a pair of eyebrows, making his eyes seem

sharper.

His divine aura also became much stronger-from First-stage Divine Warrior, his power rose

to Sixth-stage Divine Warrior.

"This is... bloodline awakening?!"

The elder serpents were all dumbfounded before staring at Vaan with glittering gazes full of excitement and desire.

Nevertheless, Vaan seemed a little unsatisfied with the results.

It only made sense for the extraordinary methods and extraordinary resources to also create extraordinary results.

However, Golden Dragon Pangea had only been a Rank 8 Divine Lord at the end of the day.

There was a limit to the benefits one could gain from her golden dragon bloodline.