Taming My Vampire Servant - Chapter 174

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It’s finally the long awaited Servant Competition!

As there are many Qawiun Academy graduates in Ivory’s batch, I will only write and focus on her and Sigmund’s battles.

In the coming chapters, expect more action and relevant extra chapters!

This web novel is ENDING SOON, around the last week of November or first week of December! Also expect more drama as Ivory and Sigmund’s identities are revealed!

Editor iridescentdream and I are very happy that you have been with us to watch how Ivory grew as a Master. Although some dropped the book because she was a weakling, you are still with us until now that she became stronger. I hope you liked the development of her character!

At this point, we would like to thank everyone, from the bottom of our hearts! <3

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Arcea held onto Ivory’s arm, and asked in a very worried tone,  “What should I do? How can I fight my closest friend?! What if I leave a scar on your beautiful face?!”

Ivory chuckled, feeling her cold steel gauntlet, “Arcea, do not worry! I will try my best to dodge you.”

“I am not sure if I can fight you…” she whispered as she lowered her head.

Someone suddenly grabbed her hand, “Hey, you should fight! Why did you wear that heavy armor we prepared for months if you’re just going to quit?”

Upon seeing that it was Caspian who encouraged her, Arcea was dumbfounded.

“Arcea, do not forget what we did in Empirica City. I taught you some magic, you taught me some close combat techniques. If you quit now, then all the things I taught you will be wasted! What do you think I will feel?”

“But Caspian, I-”

He made her face him and touched her shoulders, looking straight into her gray eyes, “Arcea, at least do it for me.”

She pursed her lips and her cheeks turned red as she slowly nodded her head.

Caspian glanced at Ivory, “I am sure your close friend wouldn’t mind fighting with you. Am I right, Miss Sprucemint?”

Ivory smiled, “Of course. It will be a pleasure to fight with the close combat specialization class awardee.”

Arcea took one last look at Caspian, who gave a reassuring smile at her. While she  was still holding onto Ivory’s arm, the two of them walked towards the stage with their Servants. They were asked to stand separately, and they followed the instructions.

“Ivory… I will do my best not to leave a scar on your face!”

Ivory just nodded at her friend with a smile. She didn’t know why, but she’s quite excited to have a first time battle with her close friend.

Educator Rosanna looked at the two competitors. She glanced at Arcea first, who was cladded in full steel metal armor. It had intricate designs all over it with oversized pauldrons on the shoulders. She was also wearing a helmet where only her mouth could be seen, and thigh-high poleyn. Ivory, on the other hand, was dressed in a metal layered breastplate, ruffled white leather skirt, and a mauve-colored leather covering her shoulders. She was also wearing golden metal boots and gauntlets.

The Educator yelled from the side, “The Servant Competition is a battle of wits and magic techniques. You’ll have a maximum of 30 minutes to make your opponent use as much of her mana. Whoever had the most damage taken and the least energy to fight will be the loser. But for this terrain, even though the abyss is safe, you will also lose if either the Servant or the Master drops to the abyss underneath the pillars!”

“Yes, ma’am!” the two of them yelled.

“Oh, and one more thing. Your Servants can replenish mana in battle. That is, if your opponents give you the chance to stay still,” she cleared her throat, “You may inflict wounds on your opponents, but killing them is a no-no. Going against the rules will automatically bring you to the Oracle and be unchosen, and that will be the end of your life as a Master.”

They nodded at her after hearing the rules.

“Now, Miss Sprucemint and Miss Knightwing, and your Servants! Please do not move!” Educator Rosanna shouted, and her demon samurai Spirit Servant Natsu positioned themselves at one side outside of the stage.

Soon after, a big rectangle appeared underneath, which raised them up above the ground. They gaped when pillars, positioned circularly around the stage, started to rise from the rectangular base and they balanced themselves as they were lifted high. The pillars finally stood still and blazing fire appeared on top of the pillars, except for the ones they were standing on.

Loud cheers from the crowd could be heard, which made the tension in the arena build up.

“What the hell?” Sigmund muttered while looking at the dark hole underneath them, “Is this some kind of entertaining game that they had to put so much effort on making the battle difficult?”

Ivory scanned the whole stage and gave a reassuring smile as she held his hand tight, “May the Goddess be with us, Sigmund.”

When the loud horns played, indicating that they may start their battle, the audience started to get noisy in excitement.

“Ivory, why don’t you attack first?!” Arcea yelled from the opposite side.

“Aren’t you going to put your fox Golem in its active state? Come to think of it, I haven’t seen it for a long while!”

“Then let me show you what Minxy can do!”

The small, stone fox leaped onto the air and turned into a larger creature. Its green, fluffy, evergreen shrub-like tail glowed as it floated mid air, in front of its Master. Aside from that, its stone body turned into steel, the same as Arcea’s armor!

Without further ado, Arcea hopped onto her Servant’s back. She materialized the scabbard onto her hands, then unsheathed her level 3 sword, which was a blue claymore sword wherein the fuller was silver in color, while the edge of the sword was indigo and sapphire blue. The rainguard also had an intricate design of a fox head which symbolized her Fox Servant.

Seeing her stare in amazement, Arcea asked, “Why so surprised, Ivory?”

“Congratulations on having a level three weapon,” she responded with a smile.

“Where’s yours?”

Because hers wasn’t a level 3 weapon yet, Ivory still could not dissipate it and materialize on her own will. From her leather back belt, she grabbed her level 2 staff and pulled it up. She detached it in its middle, separating the white-crystal orbed rod on her left and the black-crystal orbed rod on her right.

“Unfortunately, it’s not yet evolved.”

Arcea raised her sword with her right arm, “Then… Apologies, but I’ll beat you today! Yaaaaa!!!”

Seeing Arcea and Minxy charging towards them, Ivory told Sigmund, “What do you say, let’s go separate ways?”

“That’s exactly what I’m thinking of-”

But even before they could do their plan, their opponents were already near, in front of them!

Sigmund, following his reflexes, carried Ivory to their left and enveloped them with a Water-type magic barrier. They spoke as he hopped onto each torched pillar.

“I thought we’d go separate ways?” Ivory asked.

“We should. I think the fire technique we developed can be done in this terrain!”

“Oh, that one? But to do that, Arcea and her Servant should be in the middle of all these pillars,” she uttered as she firmly wrapped her arms around Sigmund’s neck.

“Right,” he glanced back, seeing them still floating onto the side and coming after them. “Damn it!” the Vampire growled.

It was as if Arcea was a knight at war, riding an agile, armored horse!

As Ivory was clinging onto Sigmund’s neck, she could see Arcea and her Servant behind them. They were only coming in circles around the pillars as if there was no end to it.

Minxy’s glowing, bushes tail could make itself float without any effort because it was an innate ability. Arcea just rode on her fox Golem Servant without any effort at all. The two weren’t even using magic, and they were just chasing them endlessly!

It was quite obvious that they wanted Ivory and Sigmund to let them use Water barrier for a long time and attack them to make them consume mana, so that when thirty minutes passed, Ivory and Sigmund would have consumed too much mana and would be defeated.

In the Servant Competition, even if one Master and Servant pair had a stronger mana quality, they would lose if they do not use their mana efficiently. Ivory and Sigmund knew of this fact.

They already have disadvantages in that competition.

One, she could not replenish Sigmund’s mana in that open space. If she did, the audiences might see that her Servant was a Vampire.

Two, neither Sigmund nor her could float. Unless they use wind technique to lift themselves up, they’d surely fall into the abyss.

Three, Arcea knew her well. She knew that her mana quality had improved over time while they trained in the academy. Perhaps it was the reason why she’s purposely intimidating them by chasing them around.

Thinking about these, Ivory came to a big decision.

“Sigmund…. drop me!”