Year 7447, Month 7, Day 15That b.a.s.t.a.r.d Viruhaima, his HP has recovered..Hn?
Between Viruhaima and the Vampire Lord, I wonder who I should finish off first?
Obviously the more troublesome one.
In that case it"s the vampire lord but I"m sure he"ll interfere.
Viruhaima"s looking at me with his shining red and empty eyes but judging from how he moved when he stood up just now and this will be pretty troublesome.
If it"s just this guy then it"ll only take one shot of {Disintegrate}.
It would be fine to just quickly turn him to dust.
I still have more than enough mana for just that.
However, Basu and Jiru are here as well so I want to at least leave the corpse and magic stone for them.
In regards to the vampire lord I still need to take it"s eyeb.a.l.l.s so there"s no way I could use {Disintegrate}.
I hesitated for a moment but decided on a plan.
First off I"ll defeat Viruhaima.
After that will be the vampire lord who"s started recovering his HP again.
Just as expected this guy seems to be an amateur at fighting.
If you have magic skill levels that high and MP remaining then use it on a {Lightning Bolt} or {Fire Ball} instead of something like recovery.
I"m not worried about the woman and tiger-man becoming {Death.Knights}.
The reason being, I used {Identify} on Viruhaima and the maximum values in the parentheses of his HP and MP are slowly dropping. Though in exchange for that his ability points are slowly increasing. Since I was curious about it I tried using {Detect.Magic} and there"s a mana line connected between Viruhaima and the other two vampire corpses.
I guess he sacrificed several other vampires in order to power up Viruhaima or something like that?
Just before, I guess the reason he was trying to take weapons from the two corpses was just pretending so he could touch them...
That b.a.s.t.a.r.d Viruhaima is currently in this state.
Roberto.Viruhaima/24/2/7404
Male/19/3/7403.Elf.Viruhaima Family Fourth Son
Condition: Vampiric.Death.Knight
Age: 45 Years Old(0 Years Old)
Level: 20
HP: 200+36(200) MP: 60+16(60)
Strength: 39(19)
Speed: 51(25)
Dexterity: 49(24)
Endurance: 43(21)
Special Skill: Infrared Vision
Special Skill: Bloodsucking {Drain}
Special Skill: {Paralyze}
Special Skill: {Petrification}
Special Skill: {Energy Drain}
Special Skill: {Mist.Form}
Special Skill: {Bat.Form}
Special Skill: {Double.Acceleration}
Special Skill: {Magic.Resistance 100}
Special Skill: Earth Magic Lv. 6
Special Skill: Water Magic Lv. 6
Special Skill: Fire Magic Lv. 6
Special Skill: Wind Magic Lv. 5
Special Skill: Void Magic Lv. 6
Whatever the case it shouldn"t be a spell(?) that can be used consecutively.
"Gryeee~dwo~~~you b.a.s.t.a.r.ddddd~!!"
Viruhaima roared with a considerably hoa.r.s.e voice.
His face looks like he"s rapidly losing moisture as his skin dries, his eyes cave in, and his cheeks thin as well.
There"s still fangs showing from the edges of his mouth and his eyes are giving off an even stronger red light than before.
If I leave him be it feels like he"d continued to power up even more so I can"t waste anymore time.
Though if I drag it out I feel kind of like he"d destroy himself all on his own.
I can"t imagine that the vampire lord will remain quiet forever though.
It"s unknown whether {Grave.Strike} will pa.s.s through {Magic.Resistance} but the duration of the effect should continue for a bit longer.
Fortunately this place is a bit open.
There"s plenty of s.p.a.ce to thrash around.
This is the critical moment.
Let"s go!
"Uuu~!!"
I charged at Viruhaima who was holding up his small buckler.
I twisted my body to avoid the spikes embedded in the shield but Viruhaima displayed a frightening reaction speed as he shifted the direction of his shield thrust.
Reflexively I knocked away the spikes with my gunstock and kicked him in the stomach.
Viruhaima fell backwards on his a.s.s.
Thinking it"s a chance I twisted around my bayonet and thrust it towards the gaps in his knees and thighs while looking at the area around his chest.
I guess he was tricked by my line of sight as he quickly tried to cover his chest with the buckler.
Thanks to that my thrust splendidly went through.
However, in that instant the sunlight disappeared from my bayonet.
But, I still felt the real sensation of piercing flesh.
The damage properly went through to his HP as well.
Though not very much.
Viruhaima quickly rolled over.
{Double.Acceleration} I guess?
He was a lot faster than I expected.
But, I found it just a bit unexpected.
Why evade?
Don"t let this chance go!
I decided on eight shots of {Stone.Arrow} aiming at his sides and the areas with no or thin armor as I fired them one after another.
It"s fine even if it misses a bit.
In any case I fired them consecutively as fast as possible.
Until he got up I landed several tens of hits.
Of course there were some that missed and were deflected by his shield and armor as well.
"..It doesn"t work."
He jumped up while happily saying.
Although it seems he was surprised by the fact that I increased the number of attacks and the speed I was firing them.
"What!!?"
The one who was considerably surprised was the vampire lord as his voice was trembling in shock.
Furthermore it seems his concentration was broken for the spell he was using so the spell failed.
When he jumped up I charged at him with my bayonet and thrust it towards his face!
The edge of my bayonet was caught up in two of the spikes on his buckler as he quickly dodged it.
What an amazing reaction speed!
However, I made the thrust for things to end up like this.
This was the decoy!
I let go of my bayonet with just my left hand and then the grip left my right hand as well as I grabbed on to the sling strap and fired off an attack spell once again with my left hand.
This time it"s eight {Flame Arrows}!
Even though they were fired at close range Viruhaima deflected almost all of them with his super reaction speed and the ones he couldn"t deflect he used wind magic with his open right hand to evade them.
I take back my bayonet.
Hmph. Just as I thought.
Just in case right after firing the {Flame Arrows} I used wind magic in front of me and put some distance between us though.
It seems that undead feel pain but it"s only for the instant of the attack.
As expected I can"t imagine him being able to ignore the pain from when I stabbed between his knee and thigh in order to use spells.
Though he just took a number of attack spells from me, he still has plenty of {Magic.Resistance} remaining.
Even though that"s the case he still put priority on evading and defense.
It seems his awareness as a vampire still hasn"t completely overwritten his awareness as a living adventurer.
If it was me then I"d rather endure a bit of damage to throw away evasion and defense in order to focus it all on attack.
In actual fact that"s why I did against {Franken} and {The.Gazer} after all.
In that case, there"s only one thing to do.
I just need to shave down his {Magic.Resistance} while Viruhaima still isn"t used to it.
Since there"s some distance between us there"s no problem with using spel..he"s fast!
While swinging down the spikes on his shield the momentum with which he came charging at me was tremendous.
Even though his knee should be injured..is it because it didn"t reach the bone!?
I use wind magic behind me once more and flew backwards while once again firing eight {Flame Arrows} this time with missile added as I aimed them towards Viruhaima"s legs.
"Ja!!"
Viruhaima tried to evade as he jumped up.
Just a bit late my {Flame Arrows} suddenly shifted upwards and all of them hit.
Obviously they disappeared the moment they hit though.
I obviously aimed for the moment he was going to land and fired off some more!
Several of them were deflected but there wee some that hit as well.
Of course, one again they disappeared the moment they hit.
"You"reeee goooood~!!!"
Viruhaima said that as he charged at me the moment he landed.
I didn"t have any time to do anything but recast {Grave.Strike} on my bayonet.
It seems Viruhaima intends to challenge me with the spike shield in his left hand using speed.
I evade the spike and hit his body with my gunstock.
Just as he evades that with his super reaction speed I crouch down and do a round kick towards his injured right knee.
My leg was obviously diverted and evaded.
Without losing my momentum I roll and while rolling cast the spell {Grave.Strike} on my throwing needles before throwing them.
They hit him in the a.s.s!
"Tha~t hurtsss~!!"
We changed standing positions.
Still another 23 left on his {Magic.Resistance}.
Hurry!
"So I"m at a disadvantage against you with attack spells..But, I can break your bones with just a single blow~!!"
It seems you get it~
I fire off one {Stone Arrow} and as he evaded that one more shot!
It was deflected by his shield.
Another shot!
It was deflected by his shield again.
And then one more shot!
Obviously, it was deflected by his shield.
This time it"s a shot with missile added!
I slightly shift the center of my gravity of my body before firing it.
Viruhaima cautiously held up his shield.
Aiming for the instant he deflects it I throw more throwing needles without magic cast on them(it was timing where I couldn"t cast any).
"Gu!!?"
They hit his flank.
I immediately fired off eight more {Stone Arrows}.
Then charged at the same time!
"Kwu!!"
Viruhaima rolled to the side to evade.
As expected it seems he can"t immediately use wind magic after taking damage!
My charge was a feint as I quickly used wind magic to jump backwards and returned to where I was but it seems he still got caught up on it..s.h.i.t.
Viruhaima picked up his long sword in the direction he rolled.
However, I"ve finished aiming there with a {Lightning Bolt}!
Obviously it disappears.
There"s no way you can deflect this right?
And then while his muscles should still be contracting {Flame Arrow}!
..And it was deflected again.
Something like not experiencing muscle contractions, that"s cheating right!
Though if I think carefully about it the spell was erased so I guess it can"t be considered a hit.
Something like muscle contractions didn"t occur.
Err, I was tricked!
Now there"s only 10 meters distance between us.
He twists his face in joy seeing my surprised expression.
Get full of yourself and charge at me!
"Fushi~aa~!!"
Along with a small shout he charged over.
Now!!
{Fire Wall}!
Instantly a three meter high wall of fire appeared.
I"m sure you"ll just erase it as you come over just like that right?
How unfortunate, there"s a {Growth.Spike} right in front of the wall of fire!
A large serving set of 150~!!
The speed at which the stone spikes grow from the ground isn"t all that fast.
However, even if it"s half-a.s.sed the goal is to have his charges of {Magic.Resistance} get used up so that"s fine.
For that reason I took distance and used {Fire Wall} to seal off his vision.
The spikes grew up to a height of 10 cm.
On his first step he stepped on two of them with his right foot as they disappear.
20 cm.
Another seven of them were kicked by his next step with his left foot as they disappeared.
I fire off a {Fire Arrow} aiming above Viruhaima!
I won"t let you jump up!
"s.h.i.t!!"
30 cm.
Another 10 of them disappeared as they hit his body.
Viruhaima made a sudden stop with his frighting physical abilities.
Obviously the moment the {Fire Arrow} flew over him Viruhaima went to jump over the remaining stone spikes.
They"ve already grown to 40, no, 50 cm after all.
And then...
{Fire Catapult Missile}!
Of course there"s eight shots.
"Gugya!!!"
The best you can manage is deflecting one of them right?
Like that he shouldn"t even have any negative HP remaining.
It should be pretty close to instant death.
Now then, next up is finally the vampire lord. It"s you turn~
My remaining MP is just below 2,000.
It hurts that the {Growth.Spike} trap consumed over 1,500.
But that can"t be helped.
It seems Zulu and the others are still struggling.
It"s only about about two or three minutes sent I charged into this room but aren"t they taking too long...
Though it can"t be helped.
HP: 0+751(498) MP: 32+50(558)
Hmph, it seems he was able to recover a decent amount.
His MP has decreased by quite a bit as well.
Though that"s the case, as long as he can use {Cannon} it"s plenty enough to kill me several times over.
"This is plenty.."
The vampire lord stood up from what appears to be a bed a bit further in the middle of the room and smiled in satisfaction while looking at me.
He"s too far so I can"t tell what he"s saying.
Is that so?
My position has returned back to around where I entered the room.
I guess there"s over 20 meters between us.
"Mwun!"
He came flying at me with no preparatory movements!
Wind magic I guess.
At almost the same time I erased the {Stone Bolt} that came flying with {Anti-Magic Field}.
The vampire lord continued his charge just like that.
I guess he wants to continue our high speed close combat battle with spells again?
Honestly speaking this is the hardest to manage against the vampire lord.
My body is already creaking from continuing to blow myself around with wind magic.
Added to that the vampire lord"s physical abilities are above even the powered up Viruhaima.
Even though he"s an amateur the speed he charges over and thrusts forward his chops is still more than enough to make up for it.
I pa.s.s under his thrust and swing my bayonet, that is evaded and then my kick is parried as well.
"So you aren"t running away with wind magic?"
seeing my station the vampire lord put on airs.
s.h.i.t.
In any case should I fire off a big one to blind him then put some distance between us?
The moment I thought that..!
The vampire lord in front of me stepped in at a super speed almost leaving behind an afterimage!
"Gu..Oaaaa!!?"
I felt a sensation as if all the power in my body disappeared at once.
His chop has stabbed into the inside of my left elbow!
Paralysis!?
I immediately used the spell {Remove.Paralyze} and then in desperation used wind magic to retreat.
Then used a healing spell on my left arm.
Additionally I used {Identify}...After all that was the case...
Alan.Greed/5/3/7429
Male/14/2/7428.Hyumu.Viscount Greed Family Second Son
Condition: Normal
Age: 19 Years Old
Level: 31
HP: 249(251) MP: 1828(7453)
Strength: 40
Speed: 57
Dexterity: 36
Endurance: 42
Unique Ability: Identify(MAX)
Unique Ability: Gift of Natural Talent(MAX)
Special Skill: Earth Magic(MAX)
Special Skill: Water Magic(MAX)
Special Skill: Fire Magic(MAX)
Special Skill: Wind Magic(MAX)
Special Skill: Void Magic(MAX)
Experience: 3300001(3600000)
What the h.e.l.l!
The larger portion of my injuries are healed but I lost the level I just gained!
That"s a big problem as well but the sensation of losing all the power in my body is harsh.
If it"s come to this then I"ll to use my final method.
{Delayed Blast Fire Ball}!
15 times the power!
Delay time 1 second!
Seeing the diamond like crystal that rolled on the ground the vampire lord"s face twisted.
"You b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Where do you think this is..!"
Like I care!
At the same time I used {Anti-Magic Field} with 700 MP which I"m most used to!
The giant {Fire Ball} over 60 cm in diameter exploded.
No matter how high his physical abilities are there"s no way he can avoid all of the stones!