Alex smiled; it was a strained smile; if you ask him if he wished to fight the enemy ahead, he would without hesitation say no, but sometimes not all plans work perfectly fine; there's no flawless plan when living factors are involved.
It was unclear what kind of expression the ferryman had under that hood, but he continued to row the board. Finally, the group passed through another thick layer of fog before the board stopped, no it was forced to stop due to the terrible presence floating in the air; even the fog seemed afraid of this person and stood far away from her.
One of the Eight Dukes looked down on Alex from the sky, the Queen of Night, the strongest Vampire, the Vampire duchess with her cold and emotionless eyes talked.
''Finally, one of the rats has come.''
Alex's lips twitched; if he were a reckless boy, he would have immediately attacked Priscilla upon hearing what she said, but Alex chuckled and calmly stared at the vampire duchess.
At this stage, a battle seemed inevitable; thus, it was better calmy think before acting recklessly; by doing so, you would be giving your opponent what she wants, and Alex wasn't going to do that. Heterochromia eyes clashed against red eyes; a fierce clash resulted in a draw; Alex still had his demon's disguise on, only his eyes had regained their original color.
''You are not bad, but you're going to die here.'' Priscilla calmly stated, but Alex ignored her and started to levitate, leaving only the ferryman on the board; however, as he was about to say something to the man, Alex was shocked to see that the ferryman along his board had vanished.
'Indeed, it's like the Styx river.' Alex couldn't help but think this, but now wasn't the moment to be reminiscent of what he had once read.
Priscilla did not move, and twenty men and women dressed like medieval vampires appeared and surrounded Alex, they did not immediately attack as if waiting for Priscilla's order, and they didn't have to wait for long as Priscilla ordered.
''Tear him apart.''
Immediately following Priscilla's order, twenty vampires pounced on Alex like a predator pouncing on a helpless lamb; the weakest was Rank 7 while the strongest Rank 10.
Alex coldly snorted, his figure blurred, and he dodged one of the vampire claw; the vampire woman was surprised that she missed as vampires are naturally born speedsters. However, she didn't get the chance to pond over what happened before blood flew in the air followed by her hand, it wasn't the end she saw a flash of light then her second hand also flew,
''What the hell.'' Those were the last words she muttered before her head was removed from her body and fell in the river, lost forever; a Rank 7 vampire had just died like that.
Priscilla frowned while the remaining vampires became vigilant, that woman must have been the weakest, but her death was too easy. Normally, vampires possess an enormous vitality, they could live even after their heads got cut off. Still, somehow, it was not the case for that woman, almost as if Alex's knife possessed anti-vampire property.
Even though Alex is stronger than they have thought, the remaining vampires believe that with numbers, they could kill him, so they moved simultaneously, not holding back as they unleashed their blood arts, special vampire magic.
Blood claw, blood sword, blood arrows flew toward Alex from Alex. Facing the incoming attacks, Alex took a deep breath and moved; this time, he poured more mana into his body, especially his legs, as he focused his Time Acceleration ability on himself instead of slowing down his enemies.
With one move of his knife, dozens of knife slashes were sent toward the incoming attacks; it was so fast that even Priscilla's momentarily tensed up. While he blocked the vampire's attacks with his right hand, which held Reaper, with his left hand, he summoned Silveria and fired, special bullets were fired, the anti undead bullets tore through the air and arrived before the slowest vampires and penetrated their heads.
BANG!
The recoil pushed their heads back as if someone had given them a hard slap before a soul-chilling scream was heard.
''Iiahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Fwish!
Seven bodies were set ablaze, silver flame covered the seven vampires, and they were instantly turned to ash; even Alex was gobsmacked. He never thought that his special anti undead bullets were this effective against vampires.
For the first time since the beginning, Priscilla wore an extremely severe expression, and an unknown fear started to take root inside the mightiest vampire heart. She immediately shook her head and ordered.
''Immediately use the Forbidden Art.''
The remaining vampires' eyes widened; they struggled for a moment. Alex watched them and wondered why it seemed as if someone had just asked them to hand over their mother as a plaything.
〖It's why I'm not too fond of this race, orders from the strongest are absolute as it's engraved in their DNA. Because this woman ordered them to do something, even though they wished not to do it, their bodies would act independently and complete the master's order.〗Silveria explained she seemed to have a certain understanding when it comes to vampires, probably they must have given her a hard in the past for her to hate them so much.
However, only one thing was sure, no matter what these twelve vampires were about to do, he must let them accomplish it, so Alex moved, he Accel-ed to reappear before one of the vampires and swung his knife, silver light flashed and reaper, as its name suggested, was about harvest the vampire life when suddenly out of nowhere a crimson shield appeared in front of the vampire, and Alex's knife was bounced back. Alex glared at Priscilla after putting some distance between him and the vampires; it was thanks to the vampire duchess intervention he was unable to finish the vampire.
''Tch!"
Alex clicked his tongue and watched helplessly the twelve vampires execute their forbidden art.
''Blood Arts: Bandersnatch!"
Immediately following the twelve vampires' chants, crimson light poured out of their bodies and melted into one and a big body that stood eight meters tall with four mechanical arms; the moment Alex saw this thing, goosebumps rose all over his body, and he unconsciously stepped back.
Swoosh!
Bang!
Alex was punched into; his body spiraled through the air; he immediately shifted his body to avoid one of the Bandersnatch's claws.
Even so, he was still injured; his chest was ripped, blood flowed out, but his regenerative ability kicked in, and his injuries were instantly healed.
[Bandersnatch]
Age: 10 ?????
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Race: Vampire
[Rank 12]
Level 112
Experience Value: ?????
Magic Power: 3850/4050
Magic: Wind, Dark, Blood Arts
Attack: 2100
Defense: 1500
Agility: 2000
Intelligence: 1400
Luck: 1210
BP: 0
SP: 0
Skills: [Swordsmanship Level Max] [Control Level 5] [Iaido Level 8] [Wind tornado Level 5] [Gale Slash Level 9] [Flying Slash Level 5] [Presence Detection Level 7] [Dark Vision Level 8]
Special Abilities: [Spirit Possession] [Bandersnatch] [Flare]
Titles: [The one that destroys] [Blood Descendant]
The Bandersnatch was almost strong as him; Alex stabilized his body before he Accel-ed to dodge a crimson flame fired by the monster; Alex believed it had been the Flare ability.
Suddenly, the Bandersnatch body shrunk before getting multiplied into ten small Bandersnatchs that attacked Alex from all sides.
''Time Acceleration!''
Alex used his time ability to deal with the incoming attacks calmly; he slowed down the Bandersnatchs movements before killing them with his gun; however, every time a Bandersnatch was killed, it would go back into the main body, and more Bandersnatch would be created, it was like an endless circle. Alex started to become annoyed as he was forced to fight the same thing endlessly; it was not like he had endless stamina, nor his MP was limitless.
Numerous injuries appeared on Alex's body, but they got instantly healed. Alex's left eye turned crimson; using the Eye of Truth which had leveled up, Alex searched for the whereabouts of the real Bandersnatch; it was only by doing this he would be able to put an end to the endless circle.
And it worked, amidst the many Bandersnatchs was a particular one; it had crimson light surrounding it. It was like numerous tentacles that stretched out its body to connect to the other Bandersnatchs and control them.
Alex fired a homing bullet at Priscilla; the latter snickered. Still, her expression changed when the bullet shifted its trajectory before colliding with another bullet to produce an explosion that blocked Priscilla's vision.
Making use of this opportunity, Alex moved.
[Time Stop]
Alex used his special ability on the real Bandersnatch; the one-meter-tall Bandersnatch froze in place as Alex appeared before the monster, the silver gun pointed at where its heart should be (thanks to the Eye of Truth).
BANG!
Silver light flashed before the Bandersnatch's body violently shook, and it vanished with a puff; it had turned into a cinder. Immediately following the death of the original Bandersnatch, the other Bandersnatchs died.
''Worthless scum!" Priscilla spat out, and her figure blurred before she reappeared behind Alex punched him; he was sent flying; Alex coughed a mouthful of blood and glared at Priscilla.
''Cough! Cough!"
[Eye of Truth]