Chapter 21

The girls of Blue Rose were in the adventurer's guild staying together around a table. They had heard some weird information these days. The first one was about the destruction of a large part of the Great Forest of Tob.

The area looked like a battlefield and some really powerful beings had fought each other. The description of that information was just unbelievable. Evileye had never seen or heard about something like that. It looked like she was reading a story of a battle between gods.

The next one was about a frontal village called Carne. Not long ago, the villagers had built a large wall around the village and do not let the tax collectors and the adventurers get inside.

That place does not seem any more like a village, but like a fortress and the report says that it is ruled by a warlord that happens to be a 13 years old girl.

What shocked Evileye more was that she has threatened to invade E-Rantel.

"What the hell is going on with this Kingdom?" spoke Evileye.

"That village must be really angry with the crown family." said Lakyus.

"Well, now it's more like Fortress Carne." spoke Gagaran.

Evileye thought that village must have been invaded by the Empire, but putting a child as a commander was weird. Maybe she must have a rare talent, but why hasn't the Kingdom take actions and retake the village again?

"Something must have happened."

"What do you mean shorty?" asked Gagaran.

"The King is doing nothing about this. He and the nobles sent an entire army at Katze Plains every year, but they don't do anything about a mere village.

"Actually, the king has sent an army of a thousand there, but it was defeated. My father told me."

The other girls were surprised by what Lacyus said. Some villagers had defeated a thousand soldiers? This was just unbelievable, and their leader was just a child called Enri Emmot.

"That's weird." said Tia.

"They are pretty strong… let's not forget that they have threatened to take over E-Rantel."

E-Rantel was a city fortress and it will be really hard to be invaded by a regular army and yet these villagers threatened that they will invade it.

Evileye didn't care about this problem. It was a job for the royals and the nobles. The adventurers didn't bother with this matter.

What bothered her was that dark wave that hit her three years ago. It was such a powerful shockwave that someone like her that had fought alongside with the 13 heroes against the Demon Gods, couldn't resist it.

In these three years, there has been a lot of undead activities. They kept coming out from their graves, the adventurers, the priests, and the soldiers had to fight them every night.

So many mysterious events that she didn't know where to start.

"If lord Momon would be here…"

The dark hero had knowledge that Evileye did not have, even living for so long in this world, she was amazed by Momon… she loved him. It was the fault of those damn nobles and the king that she didn't have Momon by her side.

She was lost in her fantasies thinking about the dark hero and she looked at the window. Her vampiric eyes that were far better than those of humans saw a fire outside that was a bit far away from the adventurer's guild.

She rose and slowly approached the window. The other girls saw her with wonder.

"What is it Evileye?" asked Lakyus.

"I see fire...

"What?"

"There is building on fire?!"

The other adventurers heard the masked girl. Blue Rose went out and the other quickly followed the adamantite team. It was true, there was a building far away that was burning.

Evileye did not like this, she had a bad feeling that the capital was in great danger.

"Let's go!"

Lakyus shouted and everyone started to run fast to where the building was burning.

They were running alley after alley till they reached a narrow alley. Many citizens and city guards were gathered there and were looking at the large two-story building on fire.

Evileye just didn't understand, the city guards were doing nothing. They should remove the citizens from here. But suddenly the superior ears of Evileye heard some strange screams. Not human screams burning but… monsters.

She saw the entrance of the building. It looked like someone had blown it with force or with magic. Those strange screams stopped. The city guards that were good for nothing, we're just looking at the building like they had never seen something burning.

Evileye wanted to tell the citizens to leave this place, but suddenly something came out from the building. It was really fast and it jumped on the face of a city guard, then it started to eat him on his neck.

"GHHHHAAAAAAA! HELP ME!"

The city guard was screaming for help, but nobody did anything because they were stunned by that creature. The city guard died and the creature rose on his feet and looked at the shocked adventurers. The body of the creature was like a mummified corpse of a human, the skin was grey dry, and cracked. It had pointy ears, sharp claws. A crimson red light was glowing in its empty eye sockets.

Evileye recognized what this creature was.

"Lesser Vampire!" spoke Evileye.

"Why the hell is a monster like this here?" murmured Evileye.

Some adventurers that had silver weapons were ready to slay the creature. The city guard rose on his feet and he was now a ghoul that will follow the orders of his master. The lesser vampire charged at the adventures and made his claws ready to cut their neck, but his head got crushed by Gagaran with her war-pick. The ghoul was hit with an arrow in the head and fell on the ground.

The adventurers felt relieved but it was not over. More lesser vampires came out from the building.

"What the hell?!" shouted Gagaran.

Hundreds of lesser vampires were running towards them.

"Damn it! ATTACK!"

All the adventurers charged at the lesser vampires and they clashed. Blood started to float everywhere. The battle was brutal, the lesser vampires cut the weak adventures and bite them on the neck, turning them into ghouls.

The adventurers were fighting with all their strength and tried to kill as many lesser vampires as they could. Gagaran flexed her war-pick and sent five lesser vampires flying.

But there was a bigger problem.

The bloodsuckers were attacking the weak citizens and the city guards. The adventurers had to fight men, women, and children that were turned into ghouls. This was really bad. If it keeps going like this…

The priests were healing the wounded warriors and the arcane magic casters were shooting the vampires with magic arrows, fireballs, and other spells but soon their mana will be empty so they had to kill these monsters quickly.

An adventurer was trying to hold a vampire because it was trying to bite his neck.

"Damn monster, get away from me!"

The lesser vampire pushed him on the ground and his sharp teeth were close to his face. The disgusting fluid that was mixed with blood was dripping from his mouth and was falling on the face of the young adventurer.

"NNNGGGGGHHHH!

He struggled because he didn't want to be turned into one of those things.

"HELP!"

And the lesser vampire was hit by magic arrows. The young warrior rose up, took his sword, and cut the head of the monster.

"Damn bastar…

Another lesser vampire grabbed him and bit him on the neck. The man screamed in agony but it was too late for him. He died and soon will come back as a ghoul.

Because the alley was narrow, the bloodsuckers jumped on the roofs and fell in the middle of the adventurers where the magic casters and the priests were located. The lesser vampires were not like mindless undead skeletons or zombies, they were intelligent monsters.

"Retreat! We can't fight here!" shouted Lakyus.

Blue Rose and the stronger adventurers stayed back to hold them, so others can have time to retreat. The adventurers encountered many lesser vampires and ghouls attacking the citizens. The monsters were divided so the adventurers slew them easily but more were coming from the roofs. When they reached the plaza, the saw a horrifying scene.

MY BABY! MY BABY! AAAAAAAHHH"

The lesser vampires were eating a newborn baby and the mother. The adventurers got really angry from this carnage and slew them immediately.

For Blue Rose, some lesser vampires were not a problem, but they were coming more and more from that building. It was not even that big to hold inside so many vampires.

"Where the hell are they even coming from?!" shouted Gagaran

She has been smashing all the vampires that were coming at her. Tia and Tina were cutting the heads of the monsters one by one because that was the only way to kill them immediately.

"Tch! We have to return to the others!"

[Dark Blade Mega Impact]

The demonic sword released the dark energy and caused a huge explosion, vaporizing all the lesser vampires.

"Let's go!"

Blue Rose and the others arrived at the plaza and what was awaiting them was a brutal bloody battle. There were coming from every direction and went straight at the weaker adventurers.

Evileye flight in the air and started to bombard the bloodsuckers. Gagaran like a berserker crushed their heads. Tia and Tina used shadow clones and kunais to fight the vampires. Lakyus stayed behind to support her teammates.

The civilians were in the middle of the plaza, and the adventures had formed themselves like a barricade not allowing the lesser vampires and ghouls to pass thru.

Gazef Stronoff with his warriors joined the battle and pushed the monsters and lowered their numbers. The royal faction used this moment to have more advantages against the nobles. The royal faction fought against monsters to protect the heart of the Kingdom and the nobles hid like rats inside their domains. That will be the big topic after this battle and they will not even remember the deaths of so many innocent civilians.

"Let's send these monsters back to hell where they came from!" shouted the Warrior Captain.

"OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!"

"FOR THE KING!"

The moral raised. Adventurers and soldiers fought alongside each other and cut the numbers of the vampires until they were no more left. All the arcane magic caster attacked the direction where the monsters were coming from, with fireballs. The explosive magic created so much smoke and raised dust.

No attack was coming from monsters now. They wanted to shout for victory but it was so quiet. Beyond the thick smoke and dust, countless crimson points that were glowing could be seen. The protectors of the city felt a chill down the spines. Their hands were shivering and couldn't control their weapons. The smoke and dust disappear slowly and they saw terror.

"Gods help us…

The despair was over the mortals. The wide road that citizens walk every day, was filled with hundreds of lesser vampires and ghouls. The royals that came here to be heroes, were shivering in fear and wanted to run away.

Evileye saw that the blood sucked were moving and were opening a path for someone. The creature was two meters tall, the skin was pale white like a corpse, it had pointy ears, sharp fangs, black eyes, and a nose like a bat. It didn't have hair and it was wearing a black coat.

The creature was smiling while looking at the frightened mortals. The creature spoke…

"Good evening humans!" he spoke with a scary raspy voice.

Just his voice, made everyone take a few steps back.

"Who are you and what do you want?!" shouted Evileye.

"Hehe, all right then."

He raised his arms and was standing straight, then two black batwings showed up from his back.

"I am the Vampire Lord Nosferatu! I have come to bring death and destruction over this kingdom!"

All of them were shocked. There was only one story about a Vampire Lord that has destroyed a kingdom single-handedly. It was known as Vampire Lord Landfall, but later after that, it was slain by the thirteen heroes.

This creature of the night called Nosferatu was new for this world. Nobody has ever heard legends or myths about this name.

"Could it be… the awakening of this ancient vampire that caused that dark wave 3 years ago?"

Evileye estimated that this vampire was at the same level as her or maybe higher, that's what she thought, so she had a chance to kill him but the lesser vampires around him might be a problem.

"We will never allow this, you devil! In the name of God, we will send you back to hell!"

Lakyus shouted like this, to bring the will for the adventurers to fight and it worked. The adventures and the soldiers were ready to fight to the death.

"Eh? I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision, nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

"What… What does he mean by that?!"

Evileye couldn't come to understand what he said. Was this vampire similar to her, but had fallen into the darkness?

"What... the hell are you?!"

"Hmph! Foolish humans, always believing in idols. And you really like to say the line "hell" a lot, do you? All right then...

"I will show you true hell! Slaughter them all!"

Like a fury, the bloodsuckers charged at the adventurers and they clashed against each other. Sword and claws clashed, undead and mortals begin to fall like flies.

[Fourfold Slash of Light]

Gazef cut many lesser vampires to pieces. He was advancing forward, exterminating every monster that was coming at him.

[Smash]

Gagaran smashed the vampire and when her war-pick hit the ground, it caused shockwaves around, sending many vampires and ghouls that had surrounded her, flying away from her.

A lesser vampire was running towards a warrior, he raised his sword to cut down the monster but he vanished from his eyes and appeared behind the warrior. The bloodsuckers used his claws to penetrate the body of the warrior. The adventurer died and the lesser vampire started to drink his blood.

Only the stronger adventurers and soldiers were holding the advance of the vampires but soon they will be tired. They must destroy all of them here or tonight this nation is done for.

The battle was really brutish. Both sides were having trouble fighting because of the dead bodies around. The land could not be seen by the sea of blood and the corpses of the vampires and humans that have fallen upon each other.

[Shard Buck Shots]

The small sharp crystals penetrated the bodies of the vampires and ghouls, opening a path for Evileye. The Vampire Lord now could be seen and both of them had the attention on each other.

[Shock Lance]

[Crystal Lance]

Evileye and Nosferatu released their 4th tier physical spells. They clashed and caused a huge explosion and shock waves, making the buildings around to fall. The adventurers and the vampires were struggling against each other and were not looking at the two of them.

"You were able to stop my spell. You are a strong brat. What is your name?"

"My name is Evileye! I am the one who shall defeat you Nosferatu!" declared Evileye.

"Hahaha! You think you can bring down the mighty Vampire Lord Nosferatu? You really are a little stupid brat."

[Lightning]

From the tip of the Nosferatu's, was released a bolt of lightning. Evileye dodged the attack and flight in the air.

[Acid Splash]

A pool of acid was about to hit Nosferatu. He opened his bat wings and dodged the AOE spell.

"Know despair, brat!"

[Grand Fireball]

A spell that was a superior version of Fireball loose from Nosferatu. Again Evileye dodged the attack. The 4th tier spell falls in the middle of the battle and burned many vampires and adventurers.

"Cheh! You are an annoying little brat!"

[Reverse Gravity]

"What the...

Nosferatu lost the equilibrium for a moment. He kept beating his wings but he was just rolling in the air.

[Maximize Magic - Shard Buck Shots]

"Damn it!"

The small sharp crystals hit Nosferatu on every part of his body. He fell harshly and rolled on the ground. Evileye landed and was about to finish him but Nosferatu got up quickly. His sharp teeth were grinding. That told Evileye's that the Vampire Lord was really... really angry.

"You… You dare… A little brat like you…

His wrath was glowing and was about to go on a rampage. Evileye understood that he was about to fight seriously.

[Penetrate Magic - Burn Lance]

The 4th tier physical spell loose and went straight at Evileye very fast.

[Crystal Wall]

Earth-element crystals covered Evileye. The burning lance hit the defensive spell and it cracked the wall but didn't break it… but the wall broke.

"What?!"

The wall didn't break from a magic spell but from Nosferatu himself. He had caught Evileye in suddenness and was right in front of her.

"You little shit!"

"CGHHUUUU!"

Nosferatu punched Evileye on her stomach. The powerful strike sent her flying till she made an impact with a building. It was a really strong punch that caused Evileye to cough blood from her mouth.

"How do you like that, HERO?!"

"Very strong...

Evileye rose on her feet slowly. The pain disappeared immediately because of her undead nature.

"Ready for another round, brat?"

"You fucking monster!" angrily shouted Evileye.

"Eh? You bark, just like those Lycans."

"Lycans?"

Evileye remembered the story of the dark hero. The war between the Lycans and the vampires that caused the destruction of the kingdom where the dark hero comes from.

"Shouldn't you all be dead?! The Lycans won that war!"

"Oya, oya! So you know about the Vampire-Lycan war, eh?"

"Yes! The dark hero, lord Momon told me about that war!"

An angry look showed up on the face of Nosferatu when she mentioned the name of the dark warrior.

"That human was the cause that we lost that war! Those dogs have been our slaves for hundreds of years, but when the alpha Lycan showed up, the war started and that damn human helped them! I'll kill him!"

"Don't you dare!"

[Sand Field: All]

A sand storm covered the surroundings. Nosferatu was in the middle of this and he saw nothing but sand particles around him.

"The fuck is this?!"

As Nosferatu was trying to find a way out of this sand storm, he felt a presence behind him. He turned quickly but…

[Penetrate Maximize Magic - Crystal Dagger]

"GHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA!"

The dagger pierced his body. Even his defensive magic couldn't stop this powerful attack that electrified his entire body. He fell on his knees trembling and throwing blood from his mouth. His blood on the ground shocked Nosferatu.

He, a servant of the Supreme Being on this state? This was a shame. He looked at the one who caused him to fall on his knees. This little brat just made a hole in his body.

"This is the end, Nosferatu. Remember the name of the one who killed you! In hell!"

"You remember my name, BRAT!"

"Wha...

[Teleportation]

Nosferatu vanished like a lightning and appeared behind Evileye.

[Dragon Lightning]

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

The 5th tier spell hit Evileye. She screamed in agony. This spell hit her three years ago and nearly killed her, but in these three years, she had trained hard. At last, it didn't cause her to fall unconscious, but now she was the one on the knees like Nosferatu a moment ago.

"EVILEYE!"

Lakyus shouted while cutting the vampires in front of her. All of them were fighting very hard to kill the lesser vampires and go to help Evileye, but the swarm of these monsters was not ending.

"Ha hah hah! Now, look at how the tables have turned!

Evileye was shivering on the ground and the pain was not leaving her body. She felt the human pain returning to her. The 5th tier spell was too powerful for her body to resist it.

Out of nowhere, Nosferatu kicked her in the ribs, sending her flying close to the battlefield where the adventurers and the vampires were fighting. Again, Evileye was feeling intense pain through her body.

"HAHAHAHAH! Where are those big words? Eh?"

Nosferatu was stomping her head with his foot and her mask was beginning to crack. Evileye was trying to protect herself with her arms but his kicks were too strong and painful.

"God, help me!"

Evileye was near death. She didn't want this to be her end. She was hoping for a miracle to come from the sky.

"Get away from HER!" shouted Lakyus that was coming toward Nosferatu.

"Eh? Where did you come from?"

He hit Lakyus with one of his wings. He didn't even look at her. Then he covered himself with his wings to protect himself from the war-pick of Gagaran.

"Don't intervene, you fool!"

He punched the female warrior and she felt on the ground. She just can look as he violates her friend.

"Hmm, before I kill you, let's see what face hides behind this stupid looking mask."

"No… I don't want them to know...

At the moment he was about to touch her mask, everything turned white for a moment, and an explosion was heard as something landed on the ground harshly. Something shined behind Nosferatu.

Lakyus saw a huge crater and felt a strong divine aura. In the middle of that crater, she saw a being that had covered itself with wings that had white feathers.

The battle had stopped because of the sudden appearance of this being. Everyone was staring at the large crater.

The being opened the wings. What the others saw was… Divine beauty.

The wind floated her long pure white hair. The silver-golden armature was so shiny that spread light almost in the entire city. She slowly started to walk toward the Vampire Lord and on her hand appeared a golden broadsword that was shining. The Gods themselves had created this divine being.

"Who in the world are you?!" shouted Nosferatu.

The angel stopped in front of him and raised her weapon. In the blink of an eye, she cut the Vampire Lord in two pieces. The shock wave that was caused by the golden broadsword spread thru the city making everyone protect their eyes.

After that, the powerful angel released her divine aura, and all the lesser vampires and ghouls that were around the city turned into dust.

No words from anyone.

No one could describe this moment. They were all looking with widened eyes at the angel that erased all the monster from existence.

A true divine power.

All the priests fell on knees and they hold their hands into a gesture of prayer. How can the not?!

This divine angel descended from the high heavens and saved their lives. They thanked the gods for everything.

"By the four gods! An angel! A true angel saved us!"

At that moment, the angel appeared in front of Lakyus and pointed her sword at her. The tip of the blade was one millimeter away from her eye.

Did she say something wrong?

Lakyus was completely frozen in fear, and a chill run down her spine. She couldn't do anything. The angel was looking at her with cold eyes. The people around didn't move a muscle. If they anger this angel, a fate worse than death might await them.

"That vampire was right about one thing… You foolish mortals, believe in idols and imaginary gods."

The angel lowered her weapon and went away from Lakyus. She opened her white wings and lose from the ground. The sky turned white, like the gates of heaven were opened for the angel to enter inside. All of them had the eyes in the sky until the angel disappeared.

For those who survived this night, they will have so many stories to spread around the human nations about this angel that saved them from the Vampire Lord Nosferatu.

Evileye rose while rubbing her head. She was astonished by the amount of power around that angel. She saw Lakyus still on her knees trembling.

"Lakyus...

She heard, what the angel said. All the priests shocked when they heard that their gods were fake. What can they do? A divine being said that so it must be true. They were lost.

This was a terrifying night. The adventurers and the remaining soldiers were helping each other to remove all the dead people that died tonight fighting monsters.

Evileye looked around and saw the plaza or what used to be. It looked like a pool full of corpses and blood. Male, females, newborns, children, young, adults, old people. All of them could be found in this pool of carnage. Evileye fell on her knees, as she had lost all hopes.

Why?!

Why should this happen every century?!

Why should I see so many innocent people die in this horrible way?!

WHY ME?!

WHY?!