Victor thinks they just have to wait for dawn, protected by Kia's shield. He was wrong.
Emil whistled, signaling the attack. A cloaked, scythe-wielding vampire reaper walked through the shield as if it wasn't even there.
Death's Scythe [Shield of Light]!
Of course, vampire assassins would have a way of bypassing supernatural barriers.
k...Kia immediately moves to intercept the intruder, but he grabs some kind of pendant and speaks magical words. The shield of light collapsed and everything went dark again.
The darkness was so deep that Victor could barely see beyond a few feet, at least until Kia used her free hand to form a miniature sun. aste
Partially illuminating their surroundings, dozens of vampire assassins charged towards them, blades in hand. He could see Allison beside him, but not the rest of his troops, though he could hear them fighting in the darkness.
Of course, Kia didn't let the enemy pass, mowing down one, two, and three thieves effortlessly. She didn't even bother to dodge the attacks, even when they used poisonous weapons; their blades ricocheted off her armor without causing damage. Meanwhile, a vampire can be reduced to ashes with just one strike from the Shining Knight.
It was like watching kids try to take down Muhammad Ali. A hilarious one-sided massacre.
But this distracts her, allowing the other thieves to rush towards their real target: Victor himself. His sharp reflexes allow him to avoid the vampire's blades and retaliate with his scythe, slicing his attacker in half.
Heavy hit! This is a one-hit KO!
His weapon absorbed the vampire's soul, which told the vizier that either his Helheim defeated the effects of the soul trap, or it spared the enemy thief. This also gives him enough time to activate his buff.
You gain a +4 bonus on checks against [undead] effects.
+100 temporary health.
The chance of causing [Terror] increases by 20%.
Your scythe will now inflict the [poisoned] disease!
You have obtained [Reply] status!
He briefly considered summoning his Ace and the [Black Knight], but this would undoubtedly cause the building to collapse on everyone inside.
Emile Ravi, the assassin he fought in the Winter Kingdom, emerges from the darkness and flanks him with a silver sword. He nearly hit him in the chest, but a gap pierced the armor.
You take moderate damage! Manslaughter is [evolutionist]!I
sta-Death was killed by [Monster Life Force (Red Dragon)]!
"Immortal?" the vampire growled, angry that his attack was countered. "How can you be considered immortal?"
Victor retaliated against the killer with a black fireball, but he ducked out of the way. A shell exploded somewhere and the whole building shook. The Prime prayed that it wouldn't accidentally hit the Kobold Ranger or the Teenager, and abandoned the attack as long as he had no visibility.
Emile is soon joined by the enemy Grim Reaper, who attempts to behead Victor from behind while he fends off the vampire assassin. "Bring the undead!" Allison rushed over to help him, knocking the enemy's undead into the wall and stopping Emil. "Vic, get behind me!"
"Okay, I'll take Marinette!" Victor said, his free hand groping in the dark with Allison protecting him.
"Marinette?!" Allison asked before a group of ghosts forced her to focus on the fight. "Conquer the undead! Conquer the undead!"
"My bazooka!" Victor replied, grabbing the rocket launcher with his other hand and wielding his scythe with the other.
"Did you name it?" Fighting off the undead didn't stop Allison from complaining. "Vic, you can't solve every problem with a bazooka!"
"Why not?" Truth be told, he couldn't use it in the dark without risking friendly fire, but it helped with the intimidation factor. "Run away from Marinette! Dread Knight!"
With these words, the Reaper glanced fearfully at the weapon before sliding back into the shadows. But the ghost harassing Allison ignores him.
The enemy's strength and charisma are reduced by one level!
Reaper of Souls is now affected by [Fear]! [Terror] failed to affect the Dark Elves and Emile Ravel!
"You're not running away this time, are you?" The minister taunted the assassin, who held a long sword in a duel posture.
"I'm more afraid of Mama Lucy than you are," he replied, then cast a spell on himself. "[Support] is dead."
Allison tried to turn him against him again, but this time, the assassin ignored her. He complained to Victor with murder in mind.
The Prime Minister raised his scythe to kill the vampire, but the bastard stepped around Alison and put her in Victor's way. The Chief of Staff stopped the attack before he could cut his friend, but this gave Emile a chance. The assassin raised his sword and aimed it at the throat.
Then a blue jelly jumped out of the darkness and hit him in the eye.
"My eyes!" The vampire assassin screamed in pain and surprise, and the jelly jumped up and down with joy.
"Eyes!" chirped Buzz Jelly, as if he found the word amusing. "Eye treasure!"
"I can't see..." Emil put his hand over his injured eye, not seeing the gleaming fang on his left side. "I can't see-"
CHOMP!
Ju
io
Biting Emile's torso, the imitator bit the vampire all over like a cat biting a mouse.
Oh, right. This is a team battle.
"They thought we were afraid of the dark, but they were wrong!" cried Victor, as little James swallowed the vampire whole... but Emile escaped from its mouth in the form of mist. "They use the cover of darkness to hide from us! Because we are hoarders! We are afraid!"
"Fear!" Jelly repeated. "Fear!"
[Minions of the Gathering] is activated! The attributes of all followers are increased by one level!
Victor's statement was met with the sound of windows breaking. It suddenly occurred to him that the pagans guarding his home must have clashed with other attackers.
"Sir!" Victor heard Red's voice somewhere to his left. Focusing, he made out the shape of his ally in the darkness, next to Pink's. "This way, get out of the window!"
"[Monster Insight]," Victor answered.
Shadowma
-
Without warning he sliced them both open with his scythe, their bodies disappearing into the shadows, much to his annoyance. "How many doppelgangers do they have?"
"What kind of doppelgänger?" The vizier turned to see Kia rushing to his side, killing anyone foolish enough to dare attack her.
"Decoy!"
Flash Knight cursed. "That's the worst kind!" They can copy a health point at will. Unless we kill the first ancestors, more will come. "
"Ravery is in my basement and we have to kill her or these attacks will never end!"
"I will take care of her," the paladin said, "after we evacuate you."
Victor guessed that she, like everyone else, hated escort missions. "Sorry for bringing you into this!" he apologized, and she guided him, Allison conjuring thorns to protect their asses. He barely dodged a poisonous arrow aimed at his head and turned the scythe in another direction.
"Are you kidding me? I'm so happy! There was a big battle..." she said, blocking a cannonball with her sword and a happy smile on her face. "I didn't miss it!"
Skill check successful!
Victor felt something to his left and jumped back as the shadow on the wall stretched out its claws, trying to grab him. A horrible, horrible undead emerged from between the walls and roared at him.
Mu
defe
Wall Ghoul (Artificial/Undead)
Strong resistance to physical attacks, all status ailments, necromancy, earth and evil.
Weaker than Artist, Death Killer, Divine.
A vicious basement dweller walks through the walls of a haunted mansion (yours) to ambush its prey (you). It can drag the captured person to another part of the building. Beneath its ferocious appearance, it is a very shy creature looking for love.
Did they turn his house into a death trap?
The monster let out a terrible scream and tried to grab Victor, but the whip caught its claws. The kobold rangers emerged from the darkness and dragged the monster out of the wall, allowing Red to beat it hard. "We've got your back, boss!"
"Vic, over here! Window!" Kia called him. She raised her sword and parried a blow from the enemy Death, who had returned for a second round, locking her in place. Victor rushed to her aid, but then felt cold, dead hands gripping his ankle.
He suddenly realized that Nightblade had brought more than one wall monster with him.
Before he could react, another horrific creature dragged him across the floor as if it were water. In the blink of an eye, he landed in a catacombs, with monsters hanging on the walls above him.
Victor raised the rocket launcher and pulled the trigger.
The resulting explosion blew the monster into smithereens, blowing part of the ceiling to smithereens, and knocked Victor back a full five meters. Confronted with a pile of rubble, the Prime Minister quickly stood up.
"This thing is amazing," the adventurer muttered, stroking his bazooka with religious awe.
But it only has one projectile.
So he threw it away, leaving only the scythe running quickly in the dark underground corridor. Just then, Victor hears a bagpiper's melody echoing among them; although he knows he should run as far away as possible, the Prime Minister decides to kill Laville before she launches another attack.
The corridor eventually led him to a larger catacombs, which, unlike the manor above, contained some magical light sources. Bright lanterns blocked the darkness, illuminating the coffins of dozens of Night Blade Knights and a table in the middle. He quickly made out the figures around him in the darkness. Savou
euse, a strange human bagpiper, and...
“Chocolati
e?" Vic's eyes widened and he looked closer.
"Oh, hi Vic!" Savou
euse greeted him. Victor noticed a pile of crackers and cheese on the table, along with some half-drank wine.
"Oh, hi, Vic!" the werewolf repeated, waving at him. "What's all the noise up there? "Is there a party?"
Victor glanced at her, then at Savuluse, who shrugged, then looked at the chocolate.
……No. It must be the doppelganger. He used [Monster Insight] on her to make sure.
Chocolati
e
Werewolf (humanoid/beast)
Powerful effects against the moon, beasts, madness and fairies.
Weak against Silver, Killer, and Beast Slayer.
Your girlfriend, whether you like it or not. She drowned herself in Savou
In the delicious meat biscuits, I forgot the sadness of my brother's arrest. You don't want to know what they are made of, or rather, who they are made of.
Yes, that’s true, despite the difficulties. "You're not a hostage, are you?" Victor asked Chocolat, paying attention to the others present; especially the piper.
? ??
fomo
. damn it. However, somehow, he ignores the adventurer and plays music, and Victor is unable to hit him with a fire bomb without hurting his friend.
"Hostage?" Chocolati
eTurn to Savou
use. "Am I a hostage?"
"Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you," Savuluse said, then turned to Victor. "I wanted to tie her up, but I couldn't let such a lovely couple break up when she told me how her brother's arrest would affect your relationship. So I baked her cookies."
"Poison cookies?" Victor asked, finding the scene very surreal.
"I would never poison food. People do that all the time, but what about delicious food? Only nobles would do that."
"You have to tell me the secret ingredient, though," Chocolate continued, oblivious to the situation. "Is it a goblin? A gnoll?"
"It's a secret, dear," Savou
euse replied with a cheeky smile. "I don't want to fight you, Vic."
He didn't know that it was against his better judgment. "We don't have to do this."
"Indeed. (Dark Fear)."
A familiar dark aura engulfed Victor, and he felt a terrible dizziness. He lost strength and energy and fell to his knees.
HP and SP reduced to 1!
[Fear] and [Anatophobia] diseases are eliminated!
[Troll Reply]Activate!
"Like they say, if you want something done," Lucy Lavelle said, walking into view holding a screaming black book and flanked by a solid shadow figure Made up of humanoid robots. "Do it yourself."
Victor is full of hatred for the assassin hiding in the dark tonight. She must have waited for her minions to soften him before going to kill him like a hyena.
Charisma check successful! Lucy Lavery can't read your mind!
Chocolate was horrified, and when she woke up from her drunkenness, she immediately rushed to defend her lover and targeted Lavery. "Conquer the undead! Conquer the undead!"
Unflinching, the leader of the Night Blade proved herself to be nothing like her servants. "Telekinesis". She absentmindedly raised her free hand and used her mental powers to throw the chocolate onto the coffin, knocking it unconscious. As Savris watched the scene with fear in her eyes, the actor He stopped playing the flute for a moment, a twisted smirk on his face.
"You should check your mansion for tunnels," Lavelle taunted Victor, in a good enough mood to joke with her prey.
"I did!" protested the minister, struggling to his feet. "I was going to take the architect to inspect the hidden passages after the seminar, but I didn't have time before the economic crisis broke out!"
You have recovered a quarter of your HP!
"Nasty," Ravi said, quickly casting another spell on Victor. "[Accelerate A
ti-Telepo
t]. "
Luck check failed! You can't teleport out again for the next 24 hours!
Realizing that she could reduce his HP to 1 at any time, Victor decided to sacrifice some. "Hell explodes!"
He unleashed a powerful burst of purple energy on the vampire, sacrificing his own life force to amplify its power.
The book in Lavelle's hand let out a wail, and the cover turned into a terrifying face. A shield of dark energy bounces around the vampire and her doppelganger allies, protecting them. Victor used her brief distraction to rush towards her, scythe raised, shield dispelled. The doppelganger uses his body to protect his mistress, but she doesn't need any help.
"Fountain of Blood".
As soon as these words came out of her mouth, Victor's body was in agony, and wounds opened under his armor. His blood was drained by Lavery's evil spell.
Warning: Critical health! Your vitality has dropped by three levels!
Congratulations! You learned [Blood Fountain] personal benefits!
[Blood Fountain]: Skill, 50 SP. You can use [Vampire Kiss]Pe like
Like k, expels blood from each target within 30 feet of you, restores half HP damage, and reduces the victim's vitality; creatures without blood are immune.
"Finally, I tasted the dragon's blood..." The leader of the Night Blade sucked the blood floating on the water like drinking champagne...
Then spit it out immediately.
"Your blood tastes like shit," Ravelli cursed, her facade of false sophistication giving way to disgust. "Half human blood, half...chili pepper!"
Victor would have gladly shoved more down her throat, had he not been forced to use his scythe to avoid dropping it to the ground. That benefit really hurts!
"Kill him," the piper said with sadistic glee, and Savileus glanced away to see what happened next.
"It seems you can change the words at will," Rafl observed as he cast the spell. "I want to know if you will turn into a zombie due to the effects of my energy field, or simply die. Let's check it out."
"Is that spiritualism course still effective?" Victor said expressionlessly.
"No," replied Lafleur, careful to keep a considerable distance in case he had one last trick up his sleeve. "Broken heart."
She opened her free hand, and a ghostly heart formed in her palm.
"Don't worry, I'll take over your role," the doppelgänger said, before making a copy of itself. The blurry blob split into two, one in the shape of chocolate and the other in the shape of Victor himself, "More and more."
Then there's no way. He didn't want to do this in a closed space, but... "[Black Knight]," Victor activated his trump card. The vampire might prevent him from teleporting, but that won't stop him from calling for help.
"Call your horse?" Lovely mused, closing her fingers and holding the fake heart in her palm. Faced with the mercy of her enemies, she allowed herself a moment of complacency; a fatal mistake. "It would be foolish to fight me."
Yes.
But fighting is for gladiators.
The Vizier Death Assassin used cheap tricks.
"Summon Vai
queue
!”
Then the entire crypt shook as the legendary dragon teleported onto Ravelli and her bodyguards in a seated position. His crown struck the ceiling above, causing it to crack; the teleportation effect blew dust in all directions, overturning tables and coffins.
"Minion," the dragon muttered, the artificial darkness summoned by the vampire dissipating. "You'd better have a good reason for calling me in the golden shower."
Victor knew it was a dirty joke, but it was beneath his dignity.
The flute player's eyes bulged at the unexpected sight as Saulus failed to find the right words. He silently opened a circular crack in space and fled quickly without looking back, trembling all over.
Winkle sniffed his chief of staff, unaware of the vampire and doppelganger being crushed under his royal ass. "Did the bat bleed you?"
"Yes, but Lovely doesn't like it."
"What do you mean she doesn't like it? How dare she not appreciate the perfect happiness of dragon blood?" Vaikl asked angrily. "This only shows that she has absolutely no taste!" I want to eat her cow. !”
Victor glanced triumphantly at the spot where Lavelle once stood, until he noticed the purple mist slipping out of Winkle and escaping through the tunnel. "No!" the minister cursed, and Lavelle ran away in a hurry.
He was the first to bleed, but judging by the lack of escalation, the war was far from over. Why they decided to attack him while he had a Kia in his home was beyond him.
…
Unless...unless they want to keep her busy as a secondary goal. Another way to hit Winkle through others. "His Majesty……"
"Yes, slave?"
"Have you called your niece lately?"
