I Shall Cuck Everyone

"Overload!"

A surge of concentrated aura burst from Jake's palm. For a brief moment, a strange force pushed back against it, but it wasn't strong enough to resist. A loud bang erupted from beneath the ground, as if a hidden mechanism had shattered, sending tremors rippling across the area. Jake felt something rupture deep below.

Then everything became clear.

The wendigos and ghouls that had been charging toward him suddenly scattered in all directions, fleeing toward the outskirts of the city.

"Don't let a single one escape, Gogo!" Jake commanded.

Gogo responded immediately, launching into action and intercepting the fleeing creatures with ease.

'So that was the barrier Old Man Duke mentioned. Now that I've broken it, they can escape and reach nearby vampire settlements. I'll trust Gogo to handle that part.'

With nothing holding him back, Jake crouched down and scanned the area. Within seconds, he detected an underground structure buried a few miles away, deep beneath the ruins.

Smiling to himself, he shot forward, accelerating with such speed that he crashed through several half-collapsed buildings, sending debris flying in his wake. Once he arrived at the location, he found the place blocked—not by stone or steel, but by something far more dangerous.

Dozens of wendigos and ghouls stood on the surface, forming a tight perimeter. Their glowing eyes locked onto him, and they immediately advanced.

Jake narrowed his eyes.

'This doesn't make sense. They should have run away the moment they felt my aura. Yet here they are, ready to fight. If someone is commanding them to defend this place, it has to be Zunda—but she should know it's pointless. This level of coordination…'

His eyes widened.

'This is no ordinary group of monsters.'

Then he saw it—towering at ten feet tall, a massive wendigo stepped into view. Its skin was thick, gray, and wrinkled, and its limbs were grotesquely long. Red eyes glowed beneath a crown of strange, pulsing mass on its head. The sight was both disturbing and oddly amusing.

Jake briefly wondered if it might be a hybrid of a vampire and a wendigo, but quickly dismissed the idea as it was what he thought it was. 'Vampires are fucking freaky as hell.'

"Die," Jake said, swinging his hand with incredible force.

But this was no ordinary swing. A massive arc of blood aura shot forward, cutting through massive wendigo and a large portion of the wendigo horde, reducing them to nothing but shredded flesh. However, just as it continued, the blood wave was abruptly neutralized by a strange force.

Then, the true enemy appeared.

A throne-like chair hovered into view, carried by four wendigos. Seated atop it was another wendigo—clearly not a mindless beast. This one wore a tattered hooded robe over rusted armor stained with old blood. Its eyes gleamed with intelligence.

"So, you're the one behind all this," Jake said. "Mind telling me who ordered you to attack me?"

The creature stared down at him and spoke in a coarse, steady voice.

"It's not your place to know, stranger. You are powerful, but the Wendigo King does not fear you. Leave now."

Jake's smirk returned.

"So, you're the Wendigo King, huh? Do you even know what it means to be a king? Idiot. You're living in a delusion if you think you rule anything. Who are your subjects—these mindless, flesh-hungry beasts?" Jake said, his voice sharp and serious.

"Please, leave, stranger. I say this with respect," the Wendigo replied calmly. "It doesn't matter if they're mindless. At the end of the day, they saw me fit to lead them."

Jake raised an eyebrow, slightly caught off guard by the creature's intelligence. "And if I don't leave… what then?"

The Wendigo King's expression darkened. He stepped down from his throne-like chair, standing tall at nearly eight and a half feet—still shorter than the massive one Jake had slain earlier, but he towered over Jake, who stood just under seven feet.

"Then I'll make you leave," the Wendigo King said, pulling back his hood before lunging at Jake.

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Elsewhere, beneath the ruined city in the underground facility Jake had sensed earlier, Zunda stood before a wall of glowing monitors. Her sharp eyes were locked onto one feed in particular showing Jake placing his hand to the ground and commanding Gogo to fend off the wendigos.

The room was a control center, dimly lit, with five vampires seated at various consoles, busily working.

"How… how did it come to this?" Zunda muttered, watching Jake force his aura into the city's defenses.

"This intruder is trying to break through the anti-detection field. I don't think the system can hold him for much long—" the operator didn't finish his sentence before a deafening explosion shook the entire underground.

Dust fell from the ceiling. Everyone froze.

"Deploy the strongest wendigos!" Zunda ordered through gritted teeth.

"Yes, ma'am!"

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Meanwhile, on the surface, Jake and the Wendigo King clashed like titans, their blows sending shockwaves through the city ruins. They burst through crumbling buildings, crashing through walls like a blade through paper.

To Jake's surprise, the Wendigo King kept up with his speed.

'There's no doubt. This thing's at god-slayer level. Its arms are sharp enough to cut me—even while I'm coated in KI. Fascinating. If I had fought it before becoming a Vampire Lord, I might've actually lost.*

They tore through more buildings, the Wendigo King striking Jake with relentless force from every angle.

'However…' Jake's eyes suddenly flared a bright, menacing red. A surge of aura exploded from his body.

He caught the Wendigo King's right arm mid-punch, and in the same motion, seized his left—locking both in a bone-crushing grip. The Wendigo King struggled, panic flashing in his eyes.

"You're nothing but trash!" Jake growled before ramming his forehead into the Wendigo King's face with brutal force, sending the creature flying.

*BOOM!*

Jake didn't give him a chance to recover. In an instant, he launched into the air, caught the Wendigo King mid-flight by the neck, and veered downward. With monstrous force, he slammed the creature into the ground, shaking the earth and sending debris in every direction.

When the dust cleared, the Wendigo King lay motionless. His spine was shattered.

Jake approached, gazing down with a smirk. "I like you. You're fearless and you never stop pushing your limits. So because of that, I'll spare your life. But you're still going to pay… for all the stress you caused me with your little deceptions."

A sheepish smile crossed Jake's face.