Chapter 540: The Might Of A Vampire Ice Giant
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"CRAAA!"
Muninn used his sharp claws to grab Lily's corpse while in midair, grasping it tightly and then flying back to Fuyu, bringing the beheaded body for him.
"Thank you." Said Drake, petting the black crow.
"Now go end that one other Vampire, they need as much help as possible, he seems to be the strongest…" said Drake.
"CRAA!"
The crow quickly flapped its wings, flying towards Austr's direction and joining Huginn, Tisha, and Skadi as well.
Meanwhile, Austr had already been fighting against a group of ghost and Uller for a while now. Since they emerged in a large group and began to fight against their ice golems and snow beasts that he had been pressured greatly.
He was being bathed with multiple attacks. Although he had lived a long life, and had battled many foes at the same time, he had never battled ghosts before, even less ghosts this powerful and dexterous at flying and conjuring magic.
They were also incredibly intelligent and masters of their own elements, each one being good at their own thing. He was forced to fly away from Lily, separating himself from his ally, and ultimately ending in seeing her death.
He wasn't filled with sorrow, however, but only hate and frustration, he wasn't a man that would regard allies as family or something, and wouldn't cry over them dying, after all since he joined the Vampire family that he knew very well that they were all disposable.
He was given the opportunities to grow stronger and improve himself, but his missions and the life of a Vampire by itself was filled with dangers everywhere, there wasn't a single mission where they wouldn't risk their lives despite how powerful they were.
There was always a reason why someone would decide to become a Vampire, although they could be forced, the Vampires themselves were prideful and wouldn't simply convert anyone they wanted into a Vampire, after all, there were many ways to control others than by simply turning them into Subordinate Vampires.
Wasting away such a great privilege wasn't something the infamous bloodsuckers would usually do, and only when a non-vampire subordinate had proven their worth through the earning of merit is when they would finally be given the privilege of being turned into a Vampire.
The Vampire Family that lived faraway within the Jotunheim continent had many non-Vampire recruits within their ranks, which were forced to do missions for them that always involved a Vampire as their leader, in such missions, they risked their lives constantly, and most of these non-Vampire subordinates would end up dying at the end.
Only those that survived several trials and showcased innate talent as fighters would be rewarded with the conversion ceremony, being given the blood of one of the Pure-Blood Vampires, as Subordinate Vampires were not capable of turning others into Vampires…
Austr recalled all the hardships and missions he had lived, but he had never fought with such strong enemies before, even less in such a large group, all ganging against him from all sides.
He had fought stronger enemies than him before, but not into this scale where they seemed to be old masters that had lived for thousands of years… and well, three of the ghosts he was fighting right now had lived for almost a thousand years- or well, existed, as they had died long before reaching that age.
He had lived a life without emotions, detaching himself from them and only living to serve his benefactor, who all Vampires was obsessed with, of course, it was this woman known as "Red" by the phantom of Black. As a powerful Vampire Immortal, every single Vampire was obsessed with her and would work for her alone.
She was the leader and empress of their family, and the Vampires devoted themselves to her, and everything in their lives was all about her and around her, she was their reason of existence, in a way… Having lost mostly everything in their lives, they saw her as the one that once more brought purpose to their lives.
The vicious vampires, however, were not so close with one another, mostly competing viciously to gain their lady's favor, seeing another of their allies die most of the time didn't caused any problem to them, although when it was in such a life and death battle as this one, it was rather obvious that Austr would grow restless.
Less companions meant less chances of winning, seeing Lily dying right in front of his eyes affected him in ways he never thought he would feel before, but nonetheless, he was too busy dealing with the two he was currently fighting, and had little time to dedicate into thinking about how Lily could had died so pathetically.
Two of his other subordinates had died pathetically as well, and with Lily, that made it three!
"Where are you looking at, the fight is here, big guy!"
The ghost of the Winter Lotus Ancestor reached Austr as she clashed against him. Her long blade made of ice through her unique skill flashed with a strong aura of iciness, as it clashed against his cursed blade!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! CLAAASH!
The powerful slashing attacks clashed against his blade multiple times, Yukihime had become an amazing user of her katana-like blade, to the point she was able to unleash a storm of slashing attacks, pushing Austr, an ice giant vampire, a few meters back!
"RAAA!"
Austr released a loud war cry, as his blade unleashed a beam of darkness against Yukihime.
CLASH!
Yukihime blocked it with her blade and expanded a barrier made of ice and moonlight around her, but she was ultimately thrown away several meters, interrupting her charge against him!
"GROAR!"
However, an enormous phantasmal dragon exuding a bright pink light clashed against him from above, using her sharp jaws, Mikoto began to bite through Austr's blade, while her powerful claws slashed through his armor, and beams of moonlight began to fall over his entire body!
CLASH! CLASH BOOM!
"Nngh… A damn dragon… ghost?! I've seen everything now…!" muttered Austr in shock.
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