Chapter 270: Blunder (1/2)
Up in the air, Vlad looked down at the Players who were still baring their fangs and had yet to give up on resistance, and couldn’t help feeling confused…
Was humankind supposed to be that tenacious? It didn’t feel like that before…
“If it wasn’t that Tigerman’s attacks interrupting my awakening, such mere inferior lifeforms… I knew I shouldn’t have helped them awaken their ancient bloodlines.”
Vlad gritted his teeth, glaring at the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior whom the Players had moved to the distance to avoid projectiles but still hadn’t been freed from Vlad’s curse.
Meanwhile, massive spears of light and black serpentine flames shot towards him from below. Knowing that both could hurt him, Vlad could only evade or block them with his blood cloud.
“Damn it!”
Vlad raggedly looked downwards at the rogues who tried to attack him: a youth who was holding an unusual staff brimming with mystical powers and a young girl whose body was palpating some divine power.
Moments ago, Vlad had already noticed that those two had fighting power a class above the other humans.
In truth, Gou Dan and his AWM wouldn’t fall short in comparison to their ability to deal burst damage, but he was now hiding amidst the debris of buildings nearby, looking for the best chance to attack. Likewise, Joe was stronger than Edward in close-quarters fighting—the only problem was Vlad who didn’t get the Players a chance to go toe-to-toe with himself, and so Joe the Spirit Swordsman could only give the Nightstalker dirty looks from down below.
Still, after being harassed by the Players whom he saw as ants in every manner ever since he awakened, Vlad became a little serious. But despite assuming that he would crush those ignorant fools in no time at all, he had spent a lot of energy only to kill just a handful…
Feeling as if nothing was going according to his will, Vlad’s blood pressure boiled over. Without thinking, he summoned a few more thunderbolts and launched them at Eleena and Edward who dared to attack him, only to be blocked by Eleena’s sacred shield.
And at virtually the same instant, the weapons of several Holy Lancers positioned elsewhere shone with dazzling radiance, focused and buffed with mana before unleashed as enormous cannon strikes!
Even so, Vlad’s target was only those two humans, and the moment of less than two seconds when his thunderbolts shone to the point that it struck at Eleena’s shield, he had already regained mobility the instant his blood cloud revert to its normal form!
Hence, flapping one of the crystallized blood joints behind him, he easily evaded the Third Seal Release: Range of Truth-even though it was a combined ultimate move that the Players charged for a long time!
Regret and irritation showed on those Players’ faces just then. Even they were aware that the chance for a sneak attack only came once, and it wouldn’t work since Vlad would be careful against it next time.
Still, despite thanking his lucky stars for evading the combine mana cannon blast, Vlad’s own irritation was growing into rage.
To think that he was being forced by ants to such extent, and was almost caught in their trap!
Though he wouldn’t die instantly from a single strike that contained such levels of mana and divine power, he would definitely be critically injured and unable to move freely for some time.
And there were only too many solutions to handle an immobile Nightstalker, the most common of which was sealing him directly…
“All of you had truly exceeded my expectations. Rejoice, I’ve changed my mind!” Fred roared from the skies. “I won’t kill you so easily, because I will torture every last one of you until you die!”