Scarlet

I wipe the blood from my mouth while absorbing it into my bloodwell as I climb back to my feet after being pushed to the ground by the male twin’s attack. But despite the attack not being absorbed by Power Drain, I can’t help but grin.

Because while I knew it was a possibility, the fact that one of the two Nobles uses blood magic is perfect for me.

Vampires are a species of demon that branches off into two different types of magic. Blood magic, which is less common, and darkness magic, which is more common. And by the looks of it, these twins have both magics, with the male twin having blood magic and the female twin having darkness magic.

But since all blood magic skills below epic rarity are simply absorbed to energize and heal me, the blood magic twin is going to have a rough time here. Most normal people, even at Class V, only have around half a dozen or so legendary skills. The stronger ones having upwards of a dozen. And since it’s normal to focus on the legendary skills you have, people don’t often put in as much time or SP on getting epic rarity skills.

Guess one of the vampires won’t be as much of a threat to me as I thought they would.

I identify both of them as I jump backwards to avoid a blast of darkness.

|Draven von Nightborne – Vampire – Level 1206|

|Aurora von Nightborne – Vampire – Level 1207|

Both of them are about 190 or so levels above me. Which should actually be a bit easier than fighting that Class V while I was in Class IV. Since they don’t have a Class advantage over me, and I have the stacks from the demons in their little army along with the +100% boost from Apex Predator.

I immediately start using Rain of Blood while also spreading plagues around through Blood Plague and only targeting the demons, giving the Class IV Guardians attacking from the cliff plenty of openings to kill the demons. And getting myself plenty of stacks until I quickly reach the maximum number of stacks in the process.

[Blood Thirst Effect applied. Stack is now 250. You have reached the maximum number of stacks you can have at once. Stacks will not reset for ten minutes regardless of kills made by the user.]

From my time fighting against the nightshade before, I learned that it means that it resets to ten minutes after reaching the maximum stack. Every time you get a new stack.

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Which makes the skill pretty much permanent in battle.

“Your Highness, we greet you formally and wish for an honorable battle,” both twins declare at once, surprising me for a moment. But I just nod my head respectfully to them in return before sprinting towards the male twin to get the smaller problem out of the way first.

Vampires tend to have a large focus on magic without as much physical strength. Although they have strong mental stats as well since darkness magic tends to branch into mental magic.

The male vampire spreads both of his arms out, making his eyes glow red and the two canines in his mouth lengthen as blood begins to form around him. And in just an instant that blood starts glowing as well while moving faster and faster in circles around him so that when my claws reach him, I’m sent flying backwards while gritting my teeth.

So I turn into my bipedal beast form and immediately activate a skill I haven’t used all that much since getting it.

Vampiric Ascendancy.

I feel a powerful hunger immediately filling me as I see the crimson light from my eyes reflecting in the drops of blood falling down around us from my rain. And without hesitation I rush over to the nearest demons, not giving the vampires a chance to attack me before I grab them by the throats and lift them to me where I quickly tear into them with my own lengthened fangs. Then I move back and forth, slaughtering several demons until the twin sister raises both of her hands and sends what looks like some sort of necrotic bolt at me that has me frowning. But after realizing what it is I simply ignore it as it crashes into me, seeping through my armor and into my skin.

Then doing absolutely nothing.

After absorbing a bit more blood to enhance Vampiric Ascendancy’s effect, I activate Crimson Overdrive, making crimson lightning flow across my body as I rush straight towards the blood magic vampire.

The vampire’s eyes widen in shock at how fast I’m moving even in my bipedal form, but he and his sister both gather together and raise their hands, creating a large orb made of both blood magic and darkness magic appear in front of them. An orb that gives me pause for a second before I continue forwards, swiping my right hands claws coated in blood metal straight into the rapidly growing orb. But the orb manages to hold strong as sparks, blood, and droplets of darkness begin flying all over from the point of impact.

I grit my teeth as I feel the orb pushing me back, growing larger and larger by the second. All while the darkness and blood inside of it continue merging and mixing together to make a pitch-black blood that’s still rather different from blood of ruin. And not long after that I feel the blood metal around my claws beginning to slowly disintegrate, following which my claws themselves also disintegrate.

I’m not the only one taking damage though as with every single disintegrated particle in my hand, the two vampires grimace with bloody mist leaving their bodies thanks to Bloody Thorns. But eventually the orb begins to push past my claws and envelop and disintegrate my hands as well, so I activate Scarlet Aegis, making a blood red barrier appear blocking the orb before I transform into blood and move backwards.

After reforming myself my hands and claws are already fully healed, but the massive orb is still growing.

A ritual skill… albeit only with two people.

This’ll be interesting.