Chapter 60: The Blood Alliance
The Bruch are part of the Hidden Alliance.
Bruch is generally considered to be the most combat-ready clan among the Bloods, and indeed, the physique base of the Bruch members is the best of all the Bloods. However, the complexity of the beliefs of the members of Bruch is also one of the most complex among the Bloodline. From Nazis to environmentalists, you can find it here. Leinster, for example, was a Nazi.
To outsiders, the Bruch were just a rabble that brought them together only because of their contempt for authority. This statement is not entirely true, but it is not too far from the truth. There is a joke that the only reason the Bruch remain in the secret party is that none of them can fully represent them in the party separation agreement.
In fact, Bruch is not united, mainly because of the number of their members. No other clan has as many members as the Brujah who became anarchists.
Suffice it to say, every night there were cases of Brujah members turning their backs on the secret party. The Brujah members who remained in the secret party were also troublesome for the elders and princes. Despite this, members of the Bruch clan are considered important samurai - as no vampire is more terrifying than them in face-to-face combat.
So although it seems to be gentle, Rheinster is a standard martial artist. However, in how to fight, in the face of an invincible enemy, Leinster still chose to retreat, he is a warrior, not a fool.
"Your guests have come to the door, and they have not been greeted from afar, so please bear with me." Just as El threw Rheinster out, a mellow and magnetic voice suddenly sounded.
The voice came from overhead, and El looked up to see a man with huge bat-wings looking down on El and Diana in the crimson moonlight, and there was only one person in Romania who dared to swagger so much.
Count Dracula!
Vlad Tepes Dracula, one of the supervillains in Marvel and the King of Vampires, was wounded in a battle with the Turkish general Turaci when he was still a human, Turaci wanted to heal Dracula and use him as a puppet ruler, so he sent Dracula to Gypsy healer Linda, who was actually a vampire under Varna. She turned Dracula into a vampire as well, but she was killed herself.
And the tyrannical Turaci killed Dracula's wife, which made Dracula completely degenerate into an evil vampire, he bit Turaci and ordered the general to return to Turkey and kill his own family.
Later, the Count killed Varna's servant Nimrod in order to compete for the title of "King of Vampires".
In the end, Dracula was forced to drink Varna's life blood, gaining the full power of the Progenitor Vampire. Later, Dracula unleashed a bloody battle against the Gypsies, which was to avenge Linda's actions. He inadvertently kills the son of Glash, whom he does not know, but unaware that he raised Dracula's outcast daughter, Lilith, and he curses Lilith to become a vampire who hunts down Dracula for eternity until the day of Dracula's destruction.
In World War II, Dracula will also be sniped by the United States, otherwise it will be Midnight and Captain Werewolf who sniped him, but there is no need for it now.
"You know what I want?" El said as he looked at the vampire king in the sky. "Your powers shouldn't be familiar only with vampires."
"So what, do you want to get that power? I can give you eternal life with me. "Dracula is still an ambitious guy who wants to build an immortal dark dynasty.
But alas, delusions are just delusions after all.
"Don't dream, Dracula, I don't want your treasure, I'm just asking you, that guy once lodged on your body and gave you far more power than other vampires, but at the price, you also lost your soul forever." El saw through Dracula's essence at a glance.
All living things have souls, even vampires who claim to be dead. The reason why they seem to have no soul is because their soul dissolves in their blood, so they need to suck blood to survive, and they absorb not human blood, but human soul.
Blood is the currency of the soul, and the exchange of blood is the exchange of souls, which is the true face of vampires.
But Dracula is not, he has no soul at all, he is immortal because he has no soul, and his power comes from the most mysterious being, which is the soul gem.
Soul Gems are different from other Infinity Stones in that they can steal, manipulate, or modify souls. Gems can not only control living souls, but even necromancy can command them.
This gem is also very dangerous because he has some powers that other gems do not have, he has some sense of self-independence, and he has a hungry soul. These are all things that Heimdall once told El, because Heimdall once gave up the gem that represented infinite power, which was sane.
Ironically, however, this gem is essentially the entrance to a small, idyllic and beautiful universe. The Soul Stone is a powerful force that allows users to ingest and manipulate the souls of living beings, control and drive the undead, and emit powerful explosive shockwaves.
Wakanda had the presence of vibranium because of the existence of the Soul Gem, but the Soul Gem was gone, although it was indeed there.
"You know that thing?" Dracula's eyes turned dangerous. "Then you should know that you shouldn't look for him."
Of course, Dracula was not motivated by good intentions, he had seen that hungry soul, crazy to devour everything, crazy to have the most perfect soul. This soul can be extremely noble or extremely filthy, but as long as it is valuable.
And Dracula saw this value in El, so Dracula wanted to persuade El to leave, because he also saw El's strong strength at the same time.
"Of course I do, but that's not something you should be dealing with, I can handle it." El looked at Dracula's dangerous aura, and his muscles slowly tensed, is there really still a fight?
"That's a pity, he's gone from me, I didn't know he was there." Dracula turned to leave, cautiously guarding El from making any irrational moves. But as Dracula expected, Elco had no intention of letting him go.