A Forgotten Hero - Volume 1 Chapter 24 Was It Worth It?

“Charge!” Ian called out with confidence.

The vampires glided across the field to the church, hurling fire balls or shooting beams of energy to the vampire leaving the church in a hurry from the smell.

Boom!

Explosions started to appear around the church, swords colliding with swords, spells destroying spells, vampires killing vampires. Before long, the battle started to escalate that the church started to lose its stability!. Ian, with the highest kill count right now, dominates the field with his electricity, allowing less casualties to be formed on his side. Well this is pretty normal as he is a noble, though restricted, he can still take on many normal vampires at the same time.

While the battles between the vampires go on, Jack took this time to flank the back of the church, which will take some time, but to him the fight will take some time to end.

Slam!

One of the vampires were crushed to the ground by a large, broad and hairy hand.

“This will be our victory!” Ian shouted out, lifting his hand from the smashed vampires face.

“Oh, how naive!” A ball of fire shoots towards Ian but Ian parries away from it. The fireball was shot by a purple robed thin build vampire, giving off arrogance from his straight posture.

“You have finally come Ross” Ian expectedly said.

After his words, thanks to his flight spell, he began to float to Ross’s level while the rest fought on the ground.

Though both are restricted, they are still noble vampires! Not a moment longer, Ross hurls a larger fireball and Ian shoots a beam of lightning from his hand.

Boom! The colliding forces explode!

“Your courting death Ian, to think you gained the confidence to challenge us!”

“Burst fire scatter shot” Ross chants, bullets of fire scatters from his hands and aim towards Ian!

“Hm, lightning chain!” exclaimed Ian. Retaliating, electric circles appear in front of Ian, linking themselves in electricity! Unlike the time it was used against Jack to attack, this time it’s used defensively to make a barrier of electricity!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The shots exploded of fire in contact with electricity, but after it settled, Ian could be seen perfectly unharmed.

“Thunder claw!” Ian charges, his right hand enveloped in electricity, resembling a claw of a dragon, strikes on Ross!

“Too weak! Blood magic, harden!” Ross’s right hand was enveloped by blood, from his body, and crystalised! He punches against Ian’s thunder claw!

Trchhhhh!! Bzzzzz! Crzzzz!

The impact lead sparks to fly in every direction!

“We blood vampires will always have the advantage Ian! When will you learn! We can use our origin abilities unlike you!” Ross says, while their forces collide.

“Times are changing Ross!” Both of them fly back to their position from the shockwave.

“Yes they are, finally the vampires will evolve by getting rid of the weaklings!” Ross flies straight to Ian, his fist ignite with fire!

Ian counters, using the skill “discharge” spreading condensed sparks of electricity around him, pushing Ross back and damaging him.

Not wasting this opportunity, Ian casts ‘lightning chain’, only this time the spell is casted faster, the magic circles surround Ross, linking up, and strike Ross with electricity from different directions!

“urghhh” Ross clenches his teeth.

Meanwhile, Jack managed to sneak into the back entrance of the church. The door was locked but freezing it was a piece of cake!

The new room had a lot of boxes neatly arranged with a straight path towards another door. With no time to check what’s inside the boxes, Jack heads to the next door. He opens only a small part, allowing him to see parts of the next room.

Jack could see rows of benches and at the corner of his eye he saw the alter.

‘Perfect, through this door is where I was last time. The blood Rose should be here..’ Jack thought, sweat dripping from his forehead.

Closing his eyes, he releases particles of ice from his aura to the next room. Whatever the ice particles touch he would be able to feel it as the aura is connected to him and since its small it will be hard to notice. Its like sonicwaves used by bats but instead of sound its with frost and less effective as he can’t get a full picture of the room or anything, just abnormality in the room.

“Damn, there are two vampires..”

Boom!

The dust cleared, Ross’s blood spear is pierced in Ian’s chest, blood spilled from Ian.

“Urgh” Ian groans, he clasps his hands on Ross’s head!

“Shock crush” Ian smirks.

Ross’s eyes lose control, sparks flying from Ross’s head!

“Its over Ross!”

Ross screams! Struggling to break free from Ian’s grip, blood 4 tentacles shot out from Ian’s back attacking Ian with fury.

As Ross’s last ditch effort to live he didn’t care about expanding his precious noble blood and kept piercing his foe!

However as his view is blocked and the intense shock attack scrambling his brains, he was unable to pierce Ian’s vital points but only able to stab his body. At this point Ian was dripping in his own blood everywhere but he still continued, even increasing his voltage output!

BOOM!

Ross’s head explodes, blood spreading everywhere!

The blood spills on Ian’s face and parts of his clothes.

“Goodbye…old friend”

Ian just floated for a few seconds but to him felt like hours. He felt very weak and exhausted from the blood loss but he couldn’t rest when his companions are still fighting hard! Eyeing the church, Ian extended his hand.

“Goodbye vile grounds”

Numerous medium size magic circles surrounded the church.

“Devastation sphere” Slowly Ian started to use his magic but due to the excessive blood loss his mind had a hard time concentrating.

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“F.u.c.k! We have to run!” One of the guarding vampires shouted.

“No shit! Ross lost! This place is doomed!”

The vampires could sense massive amount of power was gathering around the church and knew it was the enemy thus they concluded that there leader was defeated!

“Damn it!” Hearing the words of the vampires, Jack couldn’t help but curse his misfortune.

It seems that the battle is going faster than he expected and now this church is about to be destroyed.

At an intense speed, Jack’s thought were frantic seeing the cost and benefit of risking his life to grab the rose before everything is destroyed.

“Screw it, this rose is not worth risking my life over” thinking for a minute, he came to his decision and ran to the entrance he came through.

Boom!

A sphere of pure energy erupted at the church! The entire church broke to pieces, leaving barely any remains!

The last few blood vampires were slain, Jack was blown a few feet from the church due to the shockwave and Ian fell from the sky as he couldn’t maintain his flight.

Overall, all the blood vampires were slain and two thirds of “friendly” vampires were killed. However, Jack was not in the greatest mood since all his preparations to get the rose ended up in it being destroyed.

Truly my luck is awful he thought to himself, while looking up at the luminous sky.