Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System
Chapter 654 - 654: A king’s role (part 16)Naturally for Daimon to go as far as to call the crazy girl “adorable” there must be a really good reason behind, since let alone using such an affectionate word to praise her, even using negative adjectives to describe her would be to her liking.
And in this case, it’s because she kept an incredible ability hidden for the sake of her sisters, it was so that she could make a difference when it was needed.
But before we get to that, let’s explain why the three Lords vomited blood out of nowhere, when Sarah… hasn’t used the ability of her crown yet.
The reason is actually quite simple, but at the same time the three Lords were having a mental breakdown, as they refused to believe it from the bottom of their hearts.
‘L-Lineage suppression, this is lineage suppression!!!’, screamed Aslan as he wiped the blood that was staining the corner of his mouth.
‘Bullshit, if that was the case I would be the only one to be affected, you guys didn’t give her your blood!’, immediately said Reed who was the most affected, not only was blood forced out of his mouth, but also his nose, eyes and ears had bled earlier.
Of course he refused to believe what Aslan said, because there is only one way for nethereals of the different factions and families to have their lineages suppressed at the same time by a single person, something that not even the ones that rule the Nethereal race can do, and out of the present Lords, Byron knows about it the best.
‘Due to our ill-fated relation, their nether has some sort of suppressive effect on ours, but this is different, it might be infinitely weaker, but this is definitely the same sensation I felt from “him”, back then I was only able to remain standing thanks to the Balax King, my father whose aura shielded me from being direct exposition, but I still clearly remember the sensation of every cell in my body shivering’, he said.
While Reed refused to even process what Byron said, Aslan frowned as he asked.
‘Then for someone with the capacity to suppress all of us to appear, were we tricked to come all the way to this place, just to fall into a trap or what?’, to which Byron shook his head in response.
‘No, I said it was similar but it’s not the same, the sensation comes exclusively from that crown, not from Reed’s daughter in general, this is just my theory but it might be because of a mutation, she is not a nethereal after all, but what I’m sure about is that if we consume her, we’ll be able to gain this ability, so she is both an absolute enemy for us but also an opportunity to surpass the King rank!’, concluded the Balax Lord.
Which made both Aslan and Reed, have their eyes shine with greed, what is the King rank, it’s the highest title a Nethereal can obtain, there are many princes in each family, but there is only one king in each, and Byron was affirming that they might be able to surpass even the kings, just by getting rid of a girl in the Mortal realm, this was beyond good luck, it was fortune bestowed by the heavens.
Or at least that’s what they thought, before the crazy girl’s words made them return to the real world.
“Look at you bastards suddenly getting all confident… I don’t remember ever giving you permission to look at me like that”, Sarah’s voice became murderously cold at the later half of her sentence, her black spiked crown lit up in black nether as the crazy girl beckoned at the three Lords.
Contrary to what happened earlier, the Lords didn’t feel as if a giant hammer had been smacked against their chests, in fact they showed no negative reaction, no, to be more accurate they didn’t feel anything, until it was too late.
“No way, my Mind Flames, they are fading!!!”, exclaimed Reed as he saw the neon pink flames that were burning above his crown, extinguish, followed by him losing his enhanced reaction time and speed.
And he wasn’t the only one, the black mist above Aslan’s crown thinned down to then disappear the next second, which resulted in both his undead legion and the mount he gave to Byron, losing the enhancement that was applied to the darkness and death nether stored inside of them.
As for Byron, the red stone above his crown cracked and then crumbled apart, and of course the skeleton he had condensed inside of hit Battle Avatar followed right away, in other words, the innate abilities the three Lords had used, were cancelled.
But that’s not the important part, after all if they were cancelled, they simply had to activate them again, like Reed was about to do as of current.
“Royal Reinforcement, Mind Flames!”, he shouted while inwardly swearing.
‘Just you wait, you bitch, I’ll turn you into a mindless doll and…’, Reed’s vengeful fantasy was interrupted by him noticing there was something wrong ongoing, his innate ability was not working, no, he couldn’t even feel it to begin with.
“Are you looking for this~”, the mocking voice of the crazy girl forced Reed to look in her direction, just for him to freeze on the spot as he saw a black clawed nether condensed giant hand appear above Sarah, to then let a neon pink palm sized emblem of a mask which was both laughing and crying, land on the crazy girl’s hand.
Before Reed could react, the crazy girl casually tossed the neon pink emblem to the purple skull manifestation behind of her, which devoured it the next second.
Then it was Byron and Aslan’s turn to feel the blood in their bodies running cold, they tried to activate their innate abilities and the result was the same as Reed’s case, they were unable to, and as if to rub salt on the wound, the crazy girl smirked as she extended her pretty right hand frontwards.
Like before, that giant black nether hand appeared above Sarah, to let a couple of “objects” fall on her hand, a black coffin emblem and a red sword emblem to be more accurate.
“Don’t you dare…”, Aslan who was screaming at the crazy girl, saw red as the black coffin emblem was thrown into the mouth of that purple skull, while Byron’s eyes contracted like needles, until a second ago he couldn’t feel his innate ability anymore, but now he could, the problem is that it was coming from the purple haired girl that was looking at them with disdain, in other words, she had stolen their innate abilities!
And that is the incredible crown ability that took Daimon by surprise, she could apparently steal the innate abilities of other nethereals, the Lords couldn’t even resist, but there must be some limitation in place, after all if Sarah could completely ignore the enemy’s resistance, then she wouldn’t have kept this ability hidden until now.
“Are you sure you have the time to be in shock at my “Nemesis” when you have more important things to focus on, like trying to keep your heads attached to your necks for example~”, jokingly said the crazy girl, which made both Byron and Aslan’s eyes contract like needles.
“Clang!”, first the sound of metals colliding followed by sparks, came from the middle area of the battlefield, as Jasmine slashed Gram downwards, nearly splitting Byron’s Battle Avatar in half diagonally, her attack only stopped when Byron slashed his own great sword upwards to meet Gram, which was the reason of the metal colliding sound that echoed through the throne room.
“What!”, however, Byron only managed to maintain the stalemate for a second before his sword was pushed downwards, nearly hitting his forehead in the process, he was then blinded by the light princess who turned into a white star to then thrust the Heavenly spear at Byron’s right leg.
The Balax Lord felt the danger and immediately retreated, jumping away from the black bone horse, which was pierced by Jasmine’s spear, but even then, he was unable to completely dodge and the edge of Jasmine’s Heavenly spear cut his leg all the way from his ankle to his thigh.
“Ack!”, the Balax Lord exclaimed in pain as he retreated from a hole that appeared on the back of what was left of his Battle Avatar, the light mana produced by Jasmine was burning him from the inside.
“Boooom!”, and he wasn’t the only one, from the left side of the battlefield, a loud explosion made the ground tremble as a crimson stream tore its way through the large sea of undead that were protecting Aslan.
Some were ripped apart on the spot, while other undead were sent flying into the distance, turning into piles of broken bones due to the impact, the important part is that Reyne who quite literally was burning in crimson flames had appeared in front of the Bane Lord.
“You crazy bitch, did you really directly break through my sea of death with brute force!”, shouted Aslan with disbelief, it was understandable, the Nelapsi girl not only pierced the legion of undead but also the resulting sea of darkness and death nether… with her bare body.
Well, she was cladded in her crimson blood flames, but even so, she basically took the spell of an Archmage head on without any armor and was completely fine, besides a few scratches here and there, which were disappearing as we speak.
Of course, it wasn’t as easy as that, she used all the impulse behind her charge to reach the Bane Lord, which would lead others to believe she had exhausted herself, but It’s worth mentioning that Reyne’s eyes were burning in crimson blood flames as of current, she isn’t a knight that is limited to physical impact attacks after all.
“Royal Crimson Surge!”, with a fierce voice and even fiercer crimson blood flames burning around her, Reyne turned into a crimson blood pillar of fire which exploded the next second engulfing Aslan for a moment before he forced his way out of the crimson blood waves of flames.
“Aghhh!”, unlike the wounds that Jasmine made on the Balax Lord, which besides leaving a few white marks, mostly caused pain without any physical sign, Reyne’s flames burned the Bane Lord, leaving behind horrible wounds were even the bones were exposed.
That being said, normally it wouldn’t be a problem for Aslan, since his flesh is not exactly normal, he could normally summon some undead and use it to replace the parts he lost, like he did earlier, but the problem is that this time even his bones were burned by Reyne’s crimson flames.
And we are not talking about the ones that were exposed to her flames, but all of Aslan’s bones were being burned by the Nelapsi girl’s flames, so either the Bane Lord had to discard his whole skeleton, which he could do but not in the middle of a fight, which is the painless option.
Or he had to expel Reyne’s flames with his nether, which is what he was doing as of current, and which is what was causing him to wail, since he couldn’t block the pain this way.
And that leads us to the third Lord, Reed who saw the other two suffering such wounds and then had his face drained of color as he imagined, what that crazy purple haired girl who stole his innate ability would do to him now that he had lost the speed and reaction boost of his Mind Flames.
He still had the physical and energy boosts that Aslan and Bryon had given him, but those two just got trashed by their opponents, and they weren’t even half as dangerous as the one he was facing, in his mind at least.
“Heh, weren’t you so “fired up” when shooting those arrows at me earlier, don’t tell me you are getting cold feet now~”, the mocking voice of the crazy girl which came from behind of Reed, made the latter explode in neon pink flames.
He knew that just his lust nether release wasn’t enough to harm Sarah, but since she didn’t want to be touched by them, he thought that would be enough to at least force the crazy girl to get away buying time so that he wouldn’t end up like Byron or Aslan, unfortunately for Reed his neon pink flames actually stopped a meter or so before reaching Sarah.
“No way!”, the crazy girl had blocked his lust flames before by using the purple skull as a barrier, but this time… there was nothing blocking them, Reed’s flames simply “refused” to reach Sarah, in fact Reed increased the output of his flames, releasing a stream of neon pink flames, just for the thing to split in two smaller streams in order to avoid Sarah, combining back into a single stream pass the area around the crazy girl.
“Would you look at that, it seems like unlike its owner, your nether knows its place~”, said the crazy girl whose eyes were glowing in a dark light.
“Boooom!”, a giant explosion of nether happened at the three battlefields at the same time, Byron instantly manifested his Battle Avatar around him, while Aslan and Reed reinforced their Domains.
“Royal Reinforcement, Wrath Royal Armor!”, starting in the same order, the Balax Lord’s battle avatar shrank and was absorbed by his body, resulting in countless red symbols appearing on Byron’s skin, this was his Ancient Battle Armor martial art and it was the advanced version of what the captain did back then.
Daimon was indeed interested in that, but since he had already seen it before, his attention was instead drawn towards the other two Lords, since they weren’t getting armor like Byron, their Domains were actually cut in half and one of the resulting parts was absorbed into their bodies.
“Royal Reinforcement, Death Royal Coffin!”, for Aslan whose body was now covered in those strange rune-like marks, the result was a black ominous coffin which floated next to him.
“Royal Reinforcement, Lust Royal Bow!”, in Reed’s case a black-pink mana bow manifested around his right wrist, alongside those runic marks, but the form wasn’t what was important, but the fact that they were created by using a portion of their Domains.
So far, the most “innovative” way to use a Domain, Daimon has ever seen came from Rita, who quite literally molded her Domain to look like him, it was as if she had him as her Battle Avatar, though she is a mage, also her Domain has always been way stronger than the what it should, to the point that Horals has always been suppressed in a direct confrontation.
According to the undead head maid, it’s because her Domain is connected to Daimon’s shadow, and she can draw strength from that place, which is an exclusive playground for her.
Unfortunately, that was a talent that only the undead head maid could use, so as useful as it is, no one could learn it, if anything Daimon is the only one besides Rita that directly benefits from it, since she can be with him at all times, meaning he always has someone watching his back, well, there is Eve and Nasha too.
But the Lords on the other hand, had shown to have the capacity to further exploit the potential of their Domain/Battle Avatar, respectively, and if even the captain who was a downgraded creation based on Sarah’s existence, could do it, then Daimon was sure it could be adapted for everyone’s use.
“So, you have armament instead of armor, or more accurately you had to go for armament because you lacked the talent to absorb a portion of your Domain into your bodies, without turning into a pile of broken flesh~”, said the crazy girl.
She could feel Daimon’s interest in that technique, so she of course had to demonstrate that there is information about it, codified in the nether she has stolen from those three, and that she can put the effort to decrypt it for a fair “price” of course.
Seeing the crazy girl cutely gaze at him while fluttering her long eyelashes, Daimon bitterly smiled behind his mask.
‘I’m now regretting calling her adorable… but as much annoying as she is, she deserved the compliment’, he thought.
We have explained why Daimon was surprised, since the ability of her crown was on a whole different level, when compared to what Jasmine and Reyne had shown to be able to do, it’s not like they have weak abilities in the slightest, it’s just that Sarah’s Void Crown is too domineering.
Innate abilities are most of the times stronger than spells for those that possess strong lineages, they are the manifestation of a race’s talent and Sarah can steal that.
But that’s not the reason as to why Daimon called Sarah “adorable”, no, she earned that because she didn’t steal from the Lords for her own benefit, but for her sister’s sake.
Seeing the different atmosphere that the Lords were radiating, the crazy girl nodded before saying.
“Mmm, let’s see it was like this right, Royal Reinforcement, Crimson Blood Mist~”, with a snap of her fingers, the purple skull behind of Sarah opened its spike toothed mouth and a red flame stream flew out of it to then enter Reyne’s body.
The Nelapsi girl’s mouth widened in surprise as she saw her body being cladded in a red haze which instantly lit up her battle aura, making it rise all the way into the sky, before it was absorbed back into her body, as a crimson flame emblem appeared above her.
And as if that wasn’t incredible enough, the crazy girl pointed her right index finger at Jasmine, making a white stream fly out of the mouth of the purple skull behind of her, which landed on the light princess the next second.
“Royal Reinforcement, Heavenly Shield Gem~”, Jasmine’s eyes sparkled as she saw a diamond shaped white emblem appear above her, before a layer of white crystal, cover the arm with which she was holding Gram, she wasn’t the only one surprised due to that, the sword girl inside of Gram couldn’t help but say.
‘No need for mana to further lessen the weight of Gram, and this toughness…this feels as if Daimon was wielding me’, in other words the arm which was covered by that layer of white crystal actually reached the base level of Daimon!
While Reyne and Jasmine were marveled at the state they were in, the crazy girl struck while the iron was hot.
“I’m glad my cute sisters like it, because those innate abilities are now yours, of course you’ll have to activate and develop them to this point by yourselves after this one time, since this was possible thanks to those guys getting them stole while being active~”, said the crazy girl.
The Lords’s shock turned into anger in a matter of seconds, basically the purple haired girl waited until they had used their strongest innate abilities to so that she could steal them in their prime, and use them for their benefit.
“She took one of our innate abilities, so what, to obtain the tittle of “Prince” you have to have awakened at least eight of them!”, shouted Reed with bloodshot eyes, his innate ability was stolen and the purple haired girl didn’t even bother to use it against him, that was even more insulting in a way.
He pointed his nether bow at Sarah and a giant magic circle which covered basically half of the throne room, appeared in front of him.
“Royal Lust Destruction Arrow Rain!”, with a loud voice, nether gathered from all over Reed’s Domain, in a fraction of a second before releasing a barrage of black-pink nether arrows, which aimed to hit the three sisters at the same time.
Or that would have been the case, had it not been for a certain light princess who pointed her right hand frontwards, manifesting the image of a white brick castle behind of her.
“Light Fortress”, a large white wall of mana appeared in front of the three sisters, in order to intercept the arrows, but that wasn’t all, the white crystal which was covering Jasmine’s right arm, suddenly reacted like water thrown into a hot oil.
“Mm?”, the light princess observed with sparkles in her eyes, how the light mana wall she created was covered by the white crystal, so now her “Light Fortress” spell was a double layered defensive spell, meaning that her Silver Fortress which enhances both magic and physical defense will be perfect for it.
But also, her defense now used both mana and nether since the white crystal, was nether condensed into a solid form, and the best part of it is that Jasmine wasn’t using her own nether, it was created using Byron’s innate ability which was a boost based on how much blood has the target spilled.
Well, for Jasmine, the crystal was condensed based on how much has the target protected others, and that is Jasmine’s nether concept, so as Reed was about to realize, the light princess had become quite tough.
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