All eyes turned to Max when Neatwit asked him to confirm or deny what Micheal was saying as Max's confirmation stunned the entire room.

" It's true, big brother has ascended to the celestial realm and is no longer with us" Max said as his confirmation sent a stir throughout the council.

Neatwit looked devastated as he took his seat, his eyes wide open and his face clearly shocked.

Micheal had a sly smile over his face due to which he bore an uncanny resemblance to Lucifer of whom he was the elder brother.

However, the happiest person in the room was Beniogre who had the excited spark in her eyes of wanting to see how things played out from here on out.

" Lord Max, we are partners in alliance, I believe such important news ought to be shared to us beforehand" Emperor Cervantez said as he felt disappointed in Max for not sharing this piece of news with him prior to this meeting.

" I can't agree more, we are blindsided by such things" Augustus Won Knight said as Max had to put up his hands apologetically.

While he owed nothing to the rest of the room, he did feel like he had done wrong by the alliance members by not sharing this news prior to the meeting, but he had his reasons to do so.

" So what now? Who is the new supreme lord? Who controls the queen?" Asked Beast King Omar as all eyes once again turned towards Max, who calmly rose up from his seat at the position of the vampire monarch and sat back down at the head of the table reserved for the Supreme Lord.

As he snapped his fingers, two queen figurines entered the room with an intimidating aura as all doubts about who was the next Supreme Lord were settled instantly as with this demonstration it was clear as to who Rudra passed his power down to.

" So it's true-, the position of the supreme lord is to be passed down through the Rajput family and that we are forever to be under their dumb to do their bidding" Omar said disappointedly as Max could not help but chuckle at his statement.

" If you wish to protest, please beast king, have a go at me. But the queen aside, I assure you, you won't even get past my bodyguard" Max said as Drax jumped into action.

He used an archaic binding spell on Omar and instantly the beast king was chained down to his chair without having even the slightest scope to move.

The veins on his arms and body bulged as anyone could make out by looking at his face that he was trying very hard to break out of his chains, however, he could not move even a single centimetre as despite all his efforts it did not seem like he was trying at all.

" Who the hell are you? Why haven't we seen you before? What kind of magic do you wield?" Sariel asked Drax, completely stunned by what he was seeing as he did wonder about the identity of Drax from the moment he saw him.

Not only did monarchs not pop up randomly in the universe, but the fact that they had never seen nor heard about a mage as powerful as Drax was extremely suspicious.

However, what was worse was the fact that Drax was already under Max's thumb, which greatly increased the strength of his faction.

" Me? I'm just a humble butler of the Rajput family" Drax said as everyone in the room was stunned by this remark.

A tier8 mage, more powerful than what the universe had seen in centuries, was just a humble butler of the Rajput house? How were the rest of them to compete with such strength?

" Drax, let him go" Max commanded as immediately Drax undid the bindings of Omar who sat calmly now at his seat without uttering a word.

It was true that Max was not Rudra and hence maybe he did not possess the strength to directly suppress the monarchs like Rudra could, however, that was no reason to underestimate the new Supreme Lord.

He had the queen and this new mysterious tier8 mage as his underlings which meant that opposing him was going to be tricky and if for nothing else, then for the fear of the queen the rest of the room had to accept that Max was going to call the shots from this moment onwards.

" Ha- ," Micheal chuckled as he began clapping his hands at this show of strength from Max.

" All hail supreme lord Max, the king of vampires and the inheritor of Shakuni's legacy.

Of Course if you suppress us with the power of the queen you can take the throne for yourself.

But don't think for a second, Max Rajput, that we monarchs RESPECT you like the supreme lord.

Your brother defeated the queen, your brother made us submit through strength.

I don't aspire to be like him, and I don't love him in particular, but I respect Rudra Rajput and all that he stood for.

You? Never" Micheal said as he made his stance on Max becoming the next supreme lord clear as his words were aimed at rousing Max's ego but Max was unaffected.

Max was not like Micheal, he had no desire to prove to everyone in the room that he was the biggest, meanest and baddest of them all, because he already knew that he was.

Calling him names or playing his ego was not effective as Max did not care about his optics.

He had clear goals in his mind and only focused on how to achieve them.

" Very well then, Micheal, consider the feeling mutual.

I don't respect you either.

You can go back to your cloudy heaven and hell enjoy a threesome with your ego-stroking brothers once this meeting is over, but until you're here, you will listen to me, even if it's out of fear, and once you're out of here, you will obey me, because if you don't.

I won't even have to lift a finger myself to kill you, because my servant the queen will-" Max said as he willed for the queen to express her true aura strength as immediately a suffocating pressure silenced all the voices in the room.