Suddenly, before Alucard could kill Hein Eduard, a huge piece of the ceiling fell to the ground, making the Dragon stop and look at the figure holding on for his dear life. That figure was James Ross.

A few minutes later, he was separated from others before James Ross fell. He was in a black area where he couldn't see anything.

James yelled everyone's name one by one, and there was no answer from anyone.

"Hmmm? It seems like Alucard separated us, so where am I?"

Ross walked around the area without seeing anything.

'Why, whenever I am alone, I'm in dark places.'

"Whatever. Bell, Mike, Eduard, everyone. Where are you?"

He yelled, and there was no response, making Ross think, "I hope they are not hurt."

He entered a place where lit torches were on the arch. The flames illuminated a tiny area. When Ross saw them, he picked one up from the wall.

"Good light, but why does this place look like a cave?" When he shone the area, it looked completely different from the skyscraper he had entered.

Sounds of wings flapping from the distance were arriving closer to Ross. James felt the vibration of the closing figure.

"I don't know what that sound is, but I ne-"

The giant bat, Vicious One, charged toward James and swung its claws at him. Ross dodges it, and it smashes into the rock behind James.

'It's fast.'

'But thanks Creation.'

Ross jumps and hits the bat in the face, recognizing the bat is Vicious One.

"Crap, this will be difficult."

The Vicious One was angry at Ross, so it raised its head and charged at him, which James was ready to block. Instead of attacking, it grabbed him, surprising him.

"Huh? Where are you bringing me?" James tried to stop the bat by attacking its arms, but it wasn't budging.

When they reached the area, it dropped its enemy from its hands. The nanobots formed an armor around his body, protecting him from the ground. The Vicious One brought James to an empty room with many windows illuminated by light from them.

The bat opened its mouth, and a gold and silver artillery gun was raised after dropping its enemy. It made James a little grossed out after seeing its mouth open.

'What a hideous-looking thinking.'

'Hmmm? It's charging-?!'

The big gun in its mouth fired a red beam. Ross was avoiding it by running. With one wrong step, James would die when they followed him. That's why Ross was getting closer to the bat. To make it not follow him. It worked when the Vicious One turned off the artillery after the laser was getting dangerously closer to it.

"Thank you!"

James said when the bat allowed him to punch it. He jumped above its head when it would charge the weapon again. Ross turned his feet into armor and kicked the Vicious One's head.

After the kick, the giant bat smashed into the ground, and Ross landed on the floor near it. He transformed his right hand into steel and shifted his feet back to normal skin before attacking again.

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Boom!

Ross smashed his fist into the bat's giant ear, and the impact made the Vicious One fly. The XI0 brought out a gun from his arm, and numerous bullets were fired.

The bullets pierced its body many times, killing it before it could recover from the beatdown Ross did to it. After slaying the giant bat, Ross thought loudly, "Now that no one is not in my way. I have to others."

***

Ross left that room and explored the floor he was on. After five minutes of exploring nothing, a panicked noise from the distance approached.

Three people are running while yelling at Ross, "It's coming! Run!" They were coming closer.

Ross also yelled, "What's coming?!"

"Vicious One!"

Those words from the man confused James Ross, so he said to the man, "Huh? What do you mean, Vicious One?"

Before the man could speak to Ross, he fell to the floor from his untied shoelaces. James was about to help the man if a speck of wind dust didn't slash his head off from his body.

The dust of the wind also went through James, but his armor protected him from death, so it killed the other men who were also running.

"Shit?! What's happening?!"

The Vicious One revealed itself after killing the men with a wind attack, and James saw it and said, "Huh? How are you still alive?!"

Without answering his question, it sent a red orb toward James Ross that was spinning around its head. Two other orbs circled the bat's head with different colors. These orbs were turquoise and blue.

James dodged the attack from the orb, and he was thinking, 'What is this? It didn't have these things before. Maybe that-?!'

The turquoise orb glowed, making the red move more quickly. The speed boost caused the red sphere to fall into the dust of wind that was hard to detect, making Ross's job harder. He looked around for the orb but couldn't see it anywhere.

'Where is it? Where did it go?'

He was so focused on the orb that he forgot the bat. The Vicious One used its claws to slash down Ross' body.

The nanobots protected him from the slash attack. However, the ball crashed into Ross's body from the side. He flew into a room and broke the wall outside of it. Ross entered an area of the skyscraper being worked on; everything was empty. There needed to be furniture to make it look full.

'Shit, they are fast. I need to focus.'

Ross takes a deep breath and closes his eyes. He could feel the sound waves of his enemies' movements. When he felt the waves of the sound were close to him.

James swings his fist toward the red orb, breaking it into pieces. It was already damaged from hitting Ross's body, but that attack was the final to smash it completely.

After destroying the red orb, he punched at the bat, which was about to impact.

Ding!

However, the blue orb blocked the jab, protecting the bat from the attack. The Vicious One opened its mouth again, and an artillery bullet fired at James.

James Ross saw the bullet coming and jumped up, avoiding it, and fired a laser at the bat. The turquoise glowed, making the giant bat prevent the attack.

After dodging the laser, the Vicious One changed the projectile type from bullets to laser, charging it.

Ross saw it and tried not to let it happen. He was on the floor and clapped his hands after transforming his right hand, creating sounds of waves.

Ding!

The blue orb stopped the sound waves from harming the creature. The Vicious One fired the laser. Ross ran when he saw that. Cracks were forming into the blue orb.

'Shit, how am I supposed to kill it when those things are protecting it.'

The bat flew up and sped up, creating a wind dust around it. It flew toward Ross, and he needed to focus on using his Sight to feel his enemies coming, but he couldn't do that.

'I need time to focus, but-?!' The dust of the wind slashed his skin, but nothing happened because his nanobots protected him; they were fast, not letting Ross activate his Sight.

'Tsk, I must defeat it before my Flow energy drowns to zero.'

His armor shielded another attack from the bat, lowering his Flow even more. James threw a random punch, and it almost hit the monster, but the blue orb protected its master for the last time until it broke into pieces.

After one of the blue-colored orbs broke, James' armored fists moved into the Vicious One's chin. However, the bat dogged the attack by the power of the turquoise.

The turquoise orb again glowed, cloning the Viscous One into four clones. Each clone looked the same. They all looked real. After the fake bats appeared, the real ones changed position with the fake ones to confuse their enemy. The orb was also spinning around on the fake Vicious One, but they were not the real one either.

'Fuck, clones now!'

The giant bats attacked James simultaneously, activating Model XI0, protecting Ross from one bat's attack, and lowering his Flow energy even more.

"Hmmm?"

Ross noticed that his arm didn't respond to every Vicious One, only to one. James concludes that the nanobots protect him from the real bat or that the clones don't do damage, only distracting the enemy so that the real one can attack.

Ross grabbed the Vicious One from that knowledge, but the turquoise orb glowed before he could, making it dodge.

'Good. My gut was right.'

After it appeared, it opened its mouth and fired a beam at Ross while the other Vicious Ones spun around, making dust of winds around him, blocking his path from the giant bat.

"Great. You fools don't want me leave before that one kills me," James pointed to the real one and continued, "I will kill you before you can kill me!" He was saying that to the real one.

A compartment opened from Ross's left arm, raising a gun. He waited until the Vicious One fired its beam. It did, and when the projectile went inside from a gap, Ross noticed and fired his own.

Ross's beam was stronger, pushing it back toward the Vicious One, killing it instantly by turning it ash. The clones vanish after the real giant bat dies.

"Shit!"

'My Flow drowned from that.' The ground suddenly started breaking apart.

"Huh? What-?!" Before he could do anything, the floor collapsed into the lower level. He grabbed a big piece of falling ground so as not to fall.

From the button, he saw Hein Eduard was about to die from Alucard.

To Be Continued.