However, only now Viktor realized that Nyissa chose to stay, and she and Oben were preparing to fight out.
'Why…' This was the question he momentarily had in his mind, not knowing why Nyissa chose to stay when she could have saved her own life.
He wondered if it was because she had something to settle with her dead grandfather.
But he didn't think too much about this as he jumped over to the area where the cages were. He noticed that there was a large pillar in the middle that had large rune marks on it and thought that this had something to do with the cursed barriers on all the cages.
He thought so since whenever he passed through near the cages, the rune marks would slightly glow.
"Don't keep jumping and face me!" Borin said in a frustrated tone as he chased Viktor with his heavy hammer.
Viktor stood before the pillar and smirked, "Come and get me. I am standing right here," Viktor said with a taunting gesture.
Borin's eyes became even more frenzied as he wildly swung his blazing hammer and struck at the position where Viktor was.
Viktor, however, rolled sideways, easily dodging his blow while the pillar shook like a leaf from Borin's heavy blow that contained most of his power.
Borin was not holding back at all. In every attack of his, he always uses as much strength as he can since he couldn't resist the temptation of smashing Viktor to a pulp.
Viktor's eyes lit up, seeing that the pillar cracked and the runes got destroyed by the dark orange flames from Borin's hammer.
He immediately noticed how there was a faint dark flash before all the cages, which he speculated as the barriers disappearing. He wanted to try destroying the pillar himself before, but he had no idea whether he would be able to get rid of the runes because of his weakness since these things were being powered by mystic arts that affected him.
He was counting on Borin's flames to have some effect on them, and fortunately, his guess was right.
Oben, who was casually exchanging moves with Nyissa, easily noticed this and frowned as he said in a flat tone, "Borin, what do you think you are doing? You destroyed the barrier."
"Who cares as long as I get to kill him!" Borin didn't really care since he had been waiting for a long time to kill Viktor, and it didn't matter what he had to do to kill him. It was as if he couldn't bear to let Viktor breathe for a second more.
Nyissa saw how Oben took notice and said, trying to divert his attention, "I am your opponent!"
She immediately unleashed her cursed raven that shot towards Oben, who raised his staff slowly to point it towards the raven.
A black ray of light shot out from his staff that struck the raven, but nothing happened.
Nyissa was feeling very anxious about fighting the founder of her clan and was not confident about defeating him but was trying her best to make sure she could buy Viktor as much time as she could.
But just before she was able to feel relieved, thinking that her raven remained unaffected, her brows raised when she saw her raven change direction in mid-air and shooting towards her instead, its eyes no longer looking familiar to her but also had a black ring on its neck.
'How…' Nyissa couldn't understand what Oben did to turn her own raven against her, but she wasn't too surprised, considering she was facing one of the most powerful shamans known to her.
Viktor inwardly thanked Nyissa as he used this moment of distraction to quickly deal a bone-cracking punch to Borin's chest, sending him flying towards the other end of the dungeon.
He used this moment to quickly rush towards the cages and free his people, especially his parents.
But the moment he was about to break open the cages, a voice from behind sounded beside his ear, "I can't let you do that."
Oben pointed his staff at Viktor as three different black rays of energy shot towards him, transforming into thick black chains in the air before wrapping around Viktor's body.
"Ugh!" Viktor grimaced as these ominous-looking chains trapped him to the stop.
He began to exert his strength to break them, but the chains only seemed to get tighter around his body.
Oben's grip around his staff tightened the more Viktor was struggling hard.
Nyissa frowned, seeing Viktor getting trapped, and immediately unleashed an attack spell on Oben, trying to take him by surprise.
If it was any other time, she would hate attacking someone who was looking in the other direction but just as Viktor said, she knew now was not the time to follow all the rules or care about what was honorable.
She already made a blunder because of that and wasn't willing to make the same mistake again.
Oben didn't even turn his head around and simply blocked Nyissa's black spear-like projection of energy with just his staff, destroying the energy spear in the process, making Nyissa feel dismayed.
He then controlled the black chains around Viktor's body to lift him into the air and dropped him beside Nyissa as an ethereal black cage suddenly took form around them, making Viktor's expression even darker, seeing that he was being caged as well.
Nyissa tried to break the cage by using her spear, but all her efforts were in vain, especially when she got a rebound force by striking against the cage, making her back hit against the cage.
"Now...don't resist, and everything will end quickly," Oben said in a calm tone as Viktor slowly got up, the black chains around his body making creaking sounds.
"Haha, nice one, Oben.. I knew I could rely on you to catch this slippery vampire," Borin said as he walked towards the cage while licking his lips, looking completely alright.