314 Tricked (2/2)

There must be something valuable, or magical, inside the stone.

However, Christina was too weak to open it.

If he could not blow it up with his dark lightning ball, there was no way that she could open it.

However… only brainless people would resolve every problem with violence.

Smart people always had better solutions.

Edmund approached the rock tent. Then, he became a black mist and leaked inside.

It was Atomization, the vampires' special skill that only some of them could learn with their talent.

With this skill, they could ignore physical attacks and penetrate barriers for about one meter. Those who were strong might be able to press in for two meters.

Edmund, in Atomization, fumbled through the dark rocks. Then he perceived a dozen human-shaped creatures ahead of him, and the massive magic waves from one of them.

His vision when he was in the state of Atomization was similar to thermal imaging.

What's happening?

Before Edmund realized what was going on, the human being full of magic power had charged at him.

A beam of lightning hit him. The excruciating pain on his soul almost made Edmund pass out.

With a strong sense of crisis, Edmund turned around and fled.

He returned the same way he crawled in.

In no more than a second, he squeezed out of the rock tent and resumed his human shape.

”Damn it!”

Sensing that his soul had been hurt, Edmund almost went crazy.

Had Christina set this up to hurt him? Was she trying to kill him?

The possibility cropped up in Edmund's mind.

While he was thinking, he found that the wall on the tent softened, and that a hold appeared three seconds later.

Then, a human being, covered in magic equipment that was flashing blue from head to toe, appeared.

Edmund was dumbfounded to see the man's outfit that was expensive but not fashionable at all.

His heart was trembling as he recognized the luxurious equipment of a Mage.

Run!

It was Edmund's first reaction. As a 173-year-old vampire, he hadn't been able to put together a magic outfit yet, but this human Mage had.

Whether or not the man was strong, it wouldn't be easy to deal with him.

If he was strong, he could beat Edmund easily; and if he wasn't, he must've come from a powerful background with that gear.

Edmund turned around and flew toward the moon as a flock of bats.

Roland resealed the tent and looked at the flying bats.

A vampire whose soul was hurt would lose one-third of their power.

So, Roland simply let him fly for two seconds.

Then, a space bubble absorbed Roland and squirted him at the moon two seconds later.

Edmund flew quite fast in this morphed form. He was moving at about fifty meters per second.

He had thought that he was out of danger and was feeling happy, when he suddenly sensed high-energy reactions from his rear.

The bats turned around, and he saw a psycho whose body was radiating magic blue light and whose arms were stretched out like the wings of an eagle with lightning in both hands. The psycho was also swooshing straight at him.