Vampire's Slice Of Life

The skies roared and clouds gathered like a storm right above Lith's head. The intensity of the rumbling was so high that it seemed like it could destroy the whole of Nightingale.

Elemental energies went haywire and the equilibrium broke around and above the meditation hall, all the way towards the center of the sky storm.

A gigantic pillar of chaotic elemental energies could be seen in Nightingale by everyone and sent a shiver down their spines as they saw the intensity of it.

Lith took deep breaths again and stared at the sky. The tribulation was finally here and what it would be, he didn't know.

With how the energies were, Lith had a feeling that this was going to be the most challenging tribulation he would be facing up until now.

How challenging was it?

The answer came right away as a mighty thunder strike rained down on Lith from above.

Lith covered himself with a thin layer of his own spiritual power and Destruction energy, trying to negate the effects of pure Lightning energy attacking him.

The lightning was blocked but it was so intense that Lith's skin got charred from head to toe and his clothes were completely burnt,

Lith let out a light grunt but maintained his composure. Using Life energy, his injuries were immediately healed as they got catalyzed by his innate self-regeneration ability.

'It definitely doesn't feel like a Half King Rank's tribulation,' thought Lith as his body recovered and he put on a new set of clothes.

The new clothes were made out of a neutral material that would not interfere with the tribulation but would also not break down.

Lith didn't use it before to test the intensity of the lightning strike, which was quite a lot and he could not evade it fully, making him think that this tribulation was above a Half King Rank's.

He was almost right with his analysis. The tribulation was definitely intense, but it wasn't of a realm higher than a Half King's, rather, it was at the peak level instead.

Lith was experiencing the most intense tribulation that could ever be experienced by anyone ascending from Saint Rank to the Half King Rank. This was only natural due to his boundless potential and mighty solid foundation.

The spectators watching this scene were surprised as well and Lilith couldn't help but feel worried for her baby.

She knew this was going to be much different than all the hardships he had suffered in his past adventures.

Beside her, there was Agalea, who held her hand to have her keep calm and watch.

All the ladies were sitting in different spots to watch Lith as it would get too noisy if they were together. Everyone was aware of how loud Lucifer's mouth was and they didn't want to hear her comments right now.

Lucifer was sitting with her three daughters and Mayzin at the exact opposite stand to Lilith's.

The spectating arena was in an oval shape and two sides were occupied by Lilith and Lith's aunts.

On the other two sides, at one end there was Alexandra, Arya and Emilia together and on the other end, there was Lucy and Alea.

At a bit of distance behind Alea, Jasmine and Freya sat together.

All the personal servants were positioned in a similar fashion.

Behind Lucifer there was Adriel, behind Arya and Emilia there was Rain, Miko, and Sel while behind Lilith there was Qingyue, Luna, and Bella together.

The rest of the Royal Servants were seated in the very front rows, cheering for their Prince.

Their cheers however weren't heard by Lith. In fact, he couldn't even see the spectators as there was a barrier around the arena to prevent anybody from accidentally interfering with his ascension.

Everyone was taken aback by the tribulation as they knew it was far stronger than whatever they themselves had experienced.

They couldn't properly gauge how intense the tribulation was, but the person suffering through it, aka Lith, was fully aware that one mishap here, he would either be severely crippled or at the worst, die.

The elemental energies that had manifested themselves in a gigantic pillar had the purest Half King essence within them. If Lith could take one strand from it and integrate it with himself, this tribulation would be over.

But, things were easier said than done.

After the initial lightning strike that Lith got as an appetizer, there was a thin white barrier that prevented him from coming in contact with the pure elemental energies.

Noticing the barrier, Lith did the most foolish thing he could out of instinct — touching it.

"Fuck!" Lith grunted and immediately took his hand away from the barrier.

Despite the godly pain tolerance, Lith felt pain. This meant there was something severely wrong with this thin barrier.

This didn't need to be proved further as the pain was still there on Lith's fingers and looking at it, he was shocked to find out his fingers decomposing and falling off.

Corrosion!'

Lith immediately cut his arm out and it soon decomposed and disappeared.

A new arm regenerated, but this cost him spiritual power and he was sweating hard.

There seemed to be an impenetrable wall all around Lith with corrosive abilities.

He took out a sword and tried to cut through it, but that got decomposed as well.

Any Saint Grade artifact Lith used, it all got decomposed too and Lith was now stuck.

Using any artifact above Saint Grade would be problematic as it consumed a great deal of spiritual power. Add to that, this barrier could probably withstand a Half King Grade artifact too.

Lith couldn't afford to expend too much spiritual power as he also had an internal tribulation to deal with.

When people said immortal realms were hardcore, it really was no joke!

If the corrosive barrier wasn't enough, Lith felt a breeze. At first it was light, but then it got intense and was coming from the ground beneath.

A tornado was forming all around Lith and wherever the breeze touched Lith, cuts appeared and made him bleed.

Lith knitted his brows. He cast a barrier around himself using his spiritual power and Earth elemental energy.

The cuts stopped, but his movements slowed down due to the Earth barrier that lay all around him.

Lith focused on the thin barrier around him and ignored the intense winds.

Artifacts didn't work, touch didn't work, then…

Did spiritual power work?

Lith wanted to send one strand out of his body, but spiritual power was connected to a person and if it got corroded even slightly, there was no way to discard the strand and this could be fatal.

Lith didn't take such a risk and instead opted for another method, that is to send an attack of each element towards the barrier and see what worked.

Wind, Water, Fire, Earth, Space, Time… Lith sent one elemental attack after another and they seemed to be ineffective.

However, he found some minor changes when the barrier was hit by Light and Destruction elements.

Lith threw a few more attacks and it was confirmed that they worked.

To make it more effective, he had to combine the two elements and throw them again.

Lith did just that. Though, it needed some time to be turned into a fusion attack and Lith had to concentrate a great deal on it.

The howling wind beneath him was intensifying with each passing second and Lith's Earth barrier was soon breaking up and causing him injuries once again.

Not only that, Lith was getting lifted up in the air due to the intense winds and he had to hurry.

Lith ignored the Earth barrier for now and let the injuries get him.

Just a bit more… a bit more and he would be able to create a fusion attack.

The winds intensified and Lith's feet weren't touching the ground anymore. The wind tried to topple his balance and have him tumble into the corrosive barrier, but Lith extended his wings out and stabilized himself.

If there was a Human or a person without wings here, they really would've died if they didn't have any other means to stabilize themselves.

Despite being stabilized though, Lith pushed up in the sky and in just a few minutes, he was halfway up.

A red gate opened up right where the pillar touched the skies and something within it was giving off a terrifying ominous aura, as what is inside should not even be looked at.

The spectators were at the edge of their seats and were worrying a great deal. If it weren't for the barrier, they would've jumped in to save Lith. The situation was not good, even though it looked really simple.

"You idiot, focus on twisting the pure Light into causing destruction and then club it with the pure Destruction energy!" Lucifer shouted from the stands.

"Stop yelling, he can't hear you." Mayzin said from the side. She had repeatedly told Lucifer to not shout as Lith couldn't hear or see her, but Lucifer seemed to have turned a deaf ear to her advice.

"He'll die at this rate! Damn it!" Lucifer cursed. She really wanted to say 'bitch' and hand out a barrage of curses that no adult, let alone child should hear. But she was unable to due to her three daughters being here.

Things were really frustrating for Lucifer and the same was the case with the other ladies who loved Lith, Lilith included.

They really wanted to go inside and help him, they really did, but they were helpless.

If Lilith intervened now, Lith would not get the benefits this tribulation was going to provide.

The cons were greater than the pros of saving him, so she had to let the risk go on and believe in her son. She could only pray that he stayed strong and focused properly.

The prayers Lilith was making might've been heard as Lith had now finished making the fusion attack.

He combined Light and Destruction energy and sent a small attack at the barrier. Without any surprises, it worked and Lith was about to rejoice, but then felt a chill down his spine.

A grave danger lay above him, his instincts warned. Turning to see up, a red gate was hovering and something terrifying could be seen behind it.

'Shit…'