Chapter 890 - Double cross (1/2)

Navigating their way through the battlefield, both Cia and Layla were running as fast as they could to reach one one gate in particular.

Cia's hands couldn't stop trembling at what she had seen not too long ago, but at the same time, the sight of wounded vampires, their own side's and that of the enemy, as well as the cries of pain were distracting her, but not for the better.

Cia gripped the whip in her hand a little harder and swung it towards one of the vampires who came to stop them. The man had tried to block it with his left arm, but it got cut off and he immediately dropped the weapon in his right hand due to the sheer pain the loss of a limb and the still burning fairy blood caused him.

During this attempted attack, Cia had learnt a bit more about her weapons and why they were going to Alex, and now she was feeling even more terrible.

'All of this is my fault! This whole nonsensical war has started because they found out about Alex! If I had stayed quiet and not gone to visit Cindy, none of these people would have been hurt.' She blamed herself. 'After my parents died because of the war, didn't I join Pure because they kept preaching about peace? And now my selfish d.e.s.i.r.es led to this horrible outcome!'

'Why does the answer always have to be to fight each other?'

Seeing Cia's hand shaking after hurting the vampire, Layla embraced and grabbed her hand, to stop her from shaking.

”I know you don't want to hurt them, but if you hadn't stopped him, he would have hurt us. We are just defending ourselves.” Layla reassured her. ”So thank you for protecting me.”

Alas, this all made it worse for Cia. She knew that Layla only meant well… but would she still think that way if she knew what Cia had done?

Cia's dislike of fighting had never been much of a secret and it was also why Pure had made her be an agent instead. When she was assigned the task to keep an eye on Layla she had wanted to get to know her better.

For once she was going to be with another agent, that would understand what they were going through. Since they were experiencing the same things together. Through watching Layla, and 'pretending' to be friends with her, she had actually felt like the two were starting to get on.

Perhaps, because Layla was the first friend she had made, Cia had regarded Quinn as someone who would get in the way of that.

However, right now she truly realised how foolish she had behaved. Simply put she had been jealous. Jealous that her only friend would pick Quinn over her and it was quite clear.

Because she couldn't swallow her pride, she had caused all of this. These were the thoughts that were going through her head.

'Layla, whatever happens, I promise, that I will make sure you survive all of this… no matter the cost!'

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Erin had been pierced in the stomach and although most would have felt pain at this point, instead she was feeling a new energy rise in her. Against a Vampire knight she couldn't afford to hold back, so she let the energy take over her body.

Her eyes took on a yellow sheen, and power was being sent to her blade. She swung it and with it activated the Blood swipe, the usual red color also changing to yellow.

The knight stepped back a few steps and raised a Blood wall, but it got smashed through easily. With no other choice he had to use the Blood hardening on his forearms blocking the attack, but when Erin's attack touched him, it cracked through that as well.

It was too late to stop it, so he did the only thing he could by falling to the side and sacrificing his left arm over his body.

”A dhampir in a place like this! Not only are the tenth family hiding a Blood fairy but you as well! Have you gone crazy or do you intend to rid the world of all vampires!” The knight shouted angrily while he lost vast amounts of blood.

Normally the wound on his remaining arm would have at least started to heal but something was preventing it from doing so. This wasn't an effect he knew the dhampirs had, it had to be something else.

Still, placing his other hand over his arm, soon the arm started to reappear where it once was.

'He's healing again, no this isn't a healing ability, it's something else. A different ability.' Erin thought, since she knew the effects Qi should have had on vampires.

It looked like their advantage of using Qi to stop the healing was being countered by the second family's own ability to heal these types of wounds. Although they should still be very useful against the other families, that knowledge didn't help Erin in the current situation.

”Everyone, form a line inside the towers' range, your attacks will be stronger than theirs! Remember what Leo taught you, they won't be able to heal forever with their ability!” Erin ordered, and the rest followed nearly instantly.

The ten soldiers that Leo had been training how to use Qi, started to run past the knight in a line. The knight wanted to intercept them, but Erin wasn't giving him any chances. He might be able to heal such a wound, but he had a bad premonition that turning his back on her might lead to a fatal outcome for him.

She moved directly in front of him, and swung her sword down barely missing him as he pulled back.