Chapter 430: Angela Finally Awake
"Other than becoming stronger and losing their mind, what else will happen?" Albert asked the female vampire.
"I don"t know. We also thought that those were just myth. And there hasn"t been any case of someone drinking another vampire"s blood," the vampire said.
"There have to be at least one case of a missing vampire. After all, your king suggested this plan to half of the vampires here. Which mean he already know that it will work," Albert said.
"…there were some missing vampires. But they were just some low-rank vampires, and no one cares about them gone," the vampire explained.
Albert start thinking for a bit.
In the battlefield, Kayla and the other expert level mages have started fighting the crazed vampires. Those vampires don"t even care how injured they are, and as long as they are not dead yet, they will attack anyone in sight. Even their own kind.
Basically, the battle has changed.
It"s humans against crazed vampires, normal vampires against crazed vampires, and crazed vampires against other crazed vampires.
The normal vampires were actually not fighting. They are trying to withdraw from the fight, but because the crazy vampires are blocking them, they had no choice but to fight back. Ignoring the humans they should be fighting.
Seeing the battle, Albert looked at the despaired female vampire next to him.
"What are you doing?" Albert asked.
"…"
"Don"t you see that your own kind are being ma.s.sacred?" Albert asked again.
"Then what should I do!?" the female vampire shouted.
"What"s your rank?" Albert asked.
"…Vampire Duke," she replied.
"That mean you are second only after the king, right? What about the queen?" Albert asked.
"The queen and the king are different tribe. We are at war with them. we think that whatever the source of this is, we can get stronger and defeat the queen," she explained.
"So, the king and the queen are not a couple. And they are probably not even a family. Well, doesn"t matter. It means that there are other vampires than your group, right? Hmm… let me think for a bit longer," Albert said.
At this time, the werewolves and the angels have appeared to help. The angels quickly healed those who got injured and bitten by the vampires. So far, there have been no casualty at all. But the crazed vampires who have lost their mind are too powerful. They would even break through the magic of the expert level mages forcefully, and fight back.
The human healers have spent their mana to heal so many people, and now, only the angels and some higher leveled healers can heal others.
Celestine and Kayla would create a trap to capture the vampires, but those vampires even broke through the cage as if it was nothing. It"s getting more dangerous if it goes any longer. The vampires also started drinking the blood of their own allies" corpses.
The longer the battle continues, the stronger they will be.
"Sigh… since you"re second only to the king, I need to ask you to get the vampires together. Either you will retreat or you will join us fighting the crazy vampires, it"s up to you. We will no longer kill you unless you still want to fight us," Albert said to the female vampire.
"But… I don"t think anyone will follow me since the king is still alive," she said.
"No. He will die. Or he might have already died. The one fighting him, Roy, is strong," Albert said with full confidence.
"But that human was overpowered by my king. And even if my king died, I don"t think everyone will follow me," the vampire said.
"It"s fine. Even if the enemy is stronger, Roy has many tricks under his sleeves. As long as his mind is still clear, defeating someone stronger than him is easy for him. And I will tell you this as a king of a country. A leader who cares about his people, will have the people"s trust. Since there are still many vampires who haven"t drink vampire"s blood, they are still clinging to hope of survival. Go out there and help the vampires retreat. Or you will lose every single vampire that are here," Albert said.
"…you won"t kill us?" she asked.
Instead of answering her, Albert gave an order to everyone.
"Everyone! Ignore the vampires who are retreating! Focus only on those crazed vampires!"
Seeing Albert gave the order, the female vampire quickly go to a surviving Vampire Marquess, and told him that they should retreat so they can survive.
There weren"t many vampires who would obey her. And she only leaves with those who want to leave. She also told them to carry the corpses of their allies with them.
"That"s a good decision. Not the best, but good enough," Harold said. To which Henry nodded.
"Letting them go? What if they ask that Vampire Queen to attack us?" Lynn asked.
"They will know that we are too strong since we could even stop those crazed vampires. They will think twice before attacking us. Or there will be another way," Henry said.
"What way?"
"That lady vampire and those who are retreating, will come back here and ask for help. We don"t know what kind of conflict between the two tribes, but if it"s not something that can be finished with just the Vampire King"s death, they will ask for our help. And then, we will have the vampires as our allies. Not many, but we will still be stronger," Albert explained.
Lynn nodded in understanding. Making their former enemies turned into allies is something good. But that"s only if they will return to ask for help, and pay it back.
And even if the Vampire Queen"s army decided to attack them, Albert knows that Roy won"t let that happen. He will either told Albert that the Vampire Queen"s army is coming, or finish them himself.
Despite the vampires retreating, the battle is still not over. There are still fifty crazy vampires left, but they have drunk a lot of blood of their own kind.
Their strength has surpa.s.sed even the attack of the expert level mages. Whether they are being attacked by wind, earth, fire, or water magic, they can endure it and only got a slight injury.
"They can still get injured! Attack them more! Werewolves, aim at their heart!" Shelia gave the command to the other werewolves.
"Angels! Heal the injured, and support the werewolves!" Graham also lead the angels to help.
The battle is far from over. To defeat one vampire, they will need five expert level mages, and several werewolves. Even worse, as long as the vampire corpse is still remaining, the other vampires would come together and drink the blood of the corpse. Which only make them stronger.
The only one who is fine here is Jewel.
With her transformation into a rhino, her skin is thick enough to not get the vampire"s fang pierce her. But for normal attack, she will still get injured. Though with her lightning element, the attacking vampires will be stunned, and the other can defeat that vampire.
That"s the strategy that they devised after seeing how amazing Jewel"s rhino form is. But it is still difficult to get the vampires focus on Jewel.
"When will Roy return!?" Kron shouted.
"That Vampire King must be much stronger than the ones we"re fighting. He will come as soon as he killed the Vampire King. We must endure it," Fabio said.
"Rather than that, won"t it be much better if we can defeat them all before Roy returns? We can tell him that he"s so weak against just one vampire, while we"re facing about hundreds of them. His expression will be priceless," Oleg said.
Hearing that, not just Kron. But Fabio and everyone who hears that sentence, become encouraged and think that it"s best to defeat them before Roy returns.
"…I don"t know what happened, but it seems like the group with Kron and the others have their morale raised all of a sudden," Albert said when he sees the location of where Kron and the others are.
Suddenly the atmosphere changed. The magic fluctuation in the area become much stronger.
Instantly, the battle paused. All the humans, werewolves, angels, and vampires, are stopped and looked at one direction. To the dome where Angela is breaking through.
Kayla quickly recovers from the shock, and stabbed a vampire in the heart with an Earth Spike, before shouting.
"Angela will finish her breakthrough soon! Everyone, fight!"
Angela"s shout wakes everyone from their stupor, and they return back to fight. As for the vampires, they wanted to ignore those people and just charge at the dome where Angela is, but they are being blocked.
"We don"t need Roy. As long as Angela has broken through, we can end the battle before Roy returns," Albert said.
"Is she waking up soon?" Lynn asked.
"Maybe she"s already awake. Roy has left some food near her, so she might be eating her fill since she hasn"t eaten for a while. Let"s protect her a little longer. We can only check on her after the battle is over, or she will come out herself soon," Albert said.
Just as he said. Inside the dome, there"s a starving girl who is filling her stomach with her favorite foods. Those foods were cooked by Lina, and Lina cooked them everyday because she knows that they are the food that Angela loves.
"I think it"s time for me to go out."
The girl inside the dome said as she feels the battle outside the dome.