Chapter 98: The Vampires Crypt - IV (1/2)

As if to purposefully mock Alvira for her overconfidence, the vampire boss suddenly erupted into a cloud of redthe party

"Why did you have to jinx it" Zankoku yelled as he attempted to escape the mist "It has a second phase"

Merlin quickly leapt out of the e He found that his vision was partially obscured by red blotches in his eyes, and his atteh

Merlin watched as his party stumbled out of the mist, it seemed that a couple of the out what looked like blood

The athered back into the shape of a hu there, seely unhurt

Merlin and Zankoku both sprinted towards the vampire Vines burst out of Merlin's shoulders and attempted to restrain the boss, but the va them to retract back into Merlin's body

While the vampire's attention was locked on Merlin, Zankoku started his attack, He perfor a deep gash in both of its calf muscles

The vampire turned around and swiped its claws at the sa hies

Merlin took this opportunity to leap onto the vaers into the back of the boss's neck

The vaers sunk into its flesh It began quickly twisting its body in an atteers as support, it began reaching for Merlin, but he barely avoided the boss's grasp

Zankoku stood back up and charged towards the boss Heof the va slash to its abdoers out of the va the neck as if he were trying to saw its head off

An arrow suddenly flew through the air, piercing the creature in the ribs The vampire's attention snapped towards Nora, who had just prepared another arrow The valowed faintly before another arroas let loose, this tiainst the stone wall Nora dropped her bow and stood there in a daze, she had fallen victim to the vampire's charm

"Someone slap Nora, she's been charme--" Merlin noticed Nora's behaviour, and immediately shouted instructions to her teae claw reached towards hi itself around Merlin's head

Before Merlin could react, he felt his body lose all its strength as he was picked up by the head and thrown to the other side of the roo into the ground, only stopping once his body collided with a wooden desk

His collision snapped one of the desk's legs off, causing it to collapse on top of hie symbols slid off the desk and landed around hilow joined the a hefty thud sound as it landed on the stone floor

As Merlin tried to reach over and grab the book, he just found out that he currently couldn't roan in frustration

Merlin's eyes locked onto a few of the sheets of paper instead, his eyes traced the strange foreign symbols that were scratched onto them The symbols seee feeling that he had seen them before

A few minutes passed before Merlin's attention snapped back towards the fight He saw Alvira get pierced in the chest by the va the rest of the party It didn't seem like Alvira was dead, but she looked close to it

Tiny retaliated, launching a powerful swing into the vae angle The boss let out a deafening roar as its eyes suddenly beca ar into a handful of cages behind him

Several et as the vampire weaved back and forth as it approached the archer Zankoku attempted to intercept the boss, but was quickly overpowered and sent tu backwards

Nora let oneunder the boss's swipe She tried her best to createat it, but the vaht as well, and her party watched helplessly as her arm was snapped Nora screa at her suffering

The vas into Nora's neck, her screams slowly died out as she felt her life force drain out of her body

Merlin suddenly felt a rust of pain flow through his body, he quickly found out that he could ish he crawled out froers were still lodged in the back of the boss's neck