The frenzied Vampire kept sending some kind of bolts at Michael; he couldn’t tell what they were due to the speed.
However, after many times of dodging them, he noticed they were a dark red color, looking exactly like blood.
‘Do they use blood to attack?’ He asked the system and created 3 shields and layered them in front of him, preparing for the next attack to come.
For the most part yes, stronger ones can use affinities though.
‘I see.. well, that’s not great…’ Michael exclaimed as the attack broke through his shields and went through his shoulder.
The Vampire was still inside of the coffin; the power behind those attacks did not seem like it came from a person who had lost his mind.
They were all coordinated, some even combining into one to penetrate Michael’s defenses more efficiently.
He was beginning to find it hard to dodge and block; better yet, he could see the Vampire gripping the sides of the cut-open coffin, seemingly trying to get out.
‘How much longer do I have to endure?’ Michael asked as he was debating whether to send down all of his Swords of Light at the vampire; he didn’t want to kill it, but if it came down to it, he would.
These frenzied states last depending on the Tier of the Vampire; since it was most likely a Tier 1, it would be around 10 minutes.
‘Fuck… are all Vampires so unreasonable?’
You tried waking it up before it was time; you were the one being unreasonable.
‘And you couldn’t tell me that before I tried waking it up!?’ Michael exclaimed at the system and felt the pressure around him increase greatly.
This was the strongest opponent he had faced up to date; in a real battle anyway, Amanda was still much stronger.
‘Can’t you parry its attack at least once?’
What do you think I have been doing this whole time? Those little injuries you have are due to me redirecting the attack to a different area; all of them were aiming for your vitals.
‘Aha..’
Suddenly, the Vampire shot up out of its coffin, sitting up straight, its eyes glued on Michael.
They were pure red, similar to Chloe’s but more.. savage.
It made his hands shake a tad bit; he was not sure if it was due to the pressure or the potential for him to die here.
Nonetheless, he won’t die, not again.
‘System, are you sure the Vampire was originally Tier 1?’
I am sure.
Upon receiving the system’s confirmation, Michael decided to take up on the offensive, he clearly could not block its attacks, but at least with a close-range battle, he could prevent it from using those deadly blood attacks.
Or that’s what he hoped for anyway, if anything, he could send down all of his Swords of Light; even a frenzied Vampire would not survive.
Its attack power might have increased greatly; however, its defense was that of a Tier 1.
Michael prepared for battle, covering himself in as many shields as he could before dashing forward.
However, to his surprise, the Vampire disappeared from his vision and he could feel a sudden burst of mana appear from his side.
He attempted to dodge, yet was too slow, resulting in the attack piercing through his abdomen, a small hole appearing with blood pouring down.
‘It just barely missed my vitals…’ Michael’s expression hardened, a bit higher, and he would have certainly died; he was not sure if even his healing capabilities would save him.
He shot out a Sword of Light, aiming for the vampire; however, it dodged it without much effort, sending a bolt of blood in the form of a spear right at Michael.
‘Fuck this’ Michael resolved himself to not bother with this nonsense and waved his hand downwards, the sky suddenly lighting up in a golden light.
And before the Vampire could react, hundreds, if not thousands, of Swords of Light flew towards it.
The vampire attempted to dodge; however, it was not successful, with some attacks landing and causing huge gashes to appear on its body.
However, much to Michael’s surprise, those injuries were quickly healing, almost like when he casts his healing on someone, it was way too fast.
Vampires tend to have very high regenerative abilities; it would be even faster had it not been fighting against someone using the Light affinity; its demon and undead side suffer greatly from it.
‘Well, it doesn’t seem like it would slow down..’ Michael observed and waved his hand down again, sending another batch of Swords of Light flying right at the vampire.
But this time, the number was greatly increased, same with the speed, the vampire had no choice but to pay attention to the attacks, completely ignoring Michael.
That gave him the opportunity to attack back, the tides have turned due to his hidden attack, equaling out the strength difference just a tad bit.
Michael used his mirroring passive to hide Piercing Light and sent it at the vampire’s heart.
He was unable to use it with an extremely high number of Swords of Light, he was a bit far from that level.
The golden haired him managed to make it look so easy.
Just as the vampire dodged the barrage of Swords of Light raining down on him, it noticed a single Sword of Light flying towards it.
It did not seem bothered as it simply tried swatting the attack away; however, it passed through its hand, and suddenly, a massive hole appeared in the very middle of its body.
‘That was rather easy huh..’ Michael thought to himself as he noticed the vampire slowly falling down to the ground, slowly dispersing into the wind.
He wished for this fight to not happen, but he did not want to risk dying; he could not see himself surviving for 10 minutes; it was hard to survive for even 2.
All of a sudden, some of the black particles that appeared when the vampire began dispersing flew over to Michael before being absorbed into his body.
He looked around for a moment, not understanding what just happened.
‘System?’
Hmm…
-Ding
[Curse of the dying Vampire]
# All nearby vampires can tell that you have slain their kin.
Duration: 4 weeks
‘Oh..’ Michael looked on at the notification that just appeared and facepalmed.
‘It would look pretty bad if I were to approach Chloe with this thing on huh…’
Well, there are rogue vampires, plus, just because they are the same race, doesn’t mean they hold affection for one another, this one was not even from the same world.
‘I see.. that makes sense’ Michael nodded and glanced at his map again. He saw a familiar yellow dot watching him from not too far away.
It was Astraea.
Yet a question remained lingering inside of his mind ‘How did this Vampire even appear here with the horde of undead, I was looking at the map quite frequently..’
You were and so was I, it appeared around 10 minutes before you saw it yourself, I am not sure how it got there, it definitely was not there the entire time.
‘Can hibernating vampires mask their presence? Like make it so even the map could not spot them’ Michael asked his last question and headed over to where Astraea had been hiding.
I don’t know if that’s possible, but nothing else could explain what happened, maybe?
‘Who knows..’ He shrugged and appeared in front of Astraea who had been silently watching him.
“Nice fight” She said with a thumbs up.
Michael was speechless at her casual reaction “…Thanks?”
