Red glanced at Drake unleashing an utterly ridiculous attack. Her very eyes witnessed the immense power of the Dragon King, as she saw him, with utmost ease, merging the power of several Elemental Divinities and Elements together in mere seconds, alongside the power of his own Divine Weapons and Divine Spirits. The creation was an enormous blade made of Rainbow Ice named Oblivion, something completely out of this world.
That attack alone not only completely annihilated the boosted Aberrations she had created and alter enhanced, but it even broke the entire formation! To make things worse, she quickly heard the core of her formation, the Rank 9 Divine Material, [Nightmare Blood Rose] she used as the core of the formation getting completely destroyed, stomped over by Drake's enormous attack!
Servants quickly came running knocking at her door, telling Red of what was happening. Her face quickly twisted in horror as she heard the roar of a dragon the moment these Vampires showed up.
"Milady the Dragon has…!"
"The Dragon…!"
"I know you fools!" Red roared angrily. "Well, I am not stupid enough to not have prepared something here…!"
Red desperately acted, having absolutely no time to ramble like before and quickly saving up all her frustration and anger over the situation for later.
She raised her hand and the rings in her hands shone bright red.
The power of the Vampire Venerable were activated, flowing across her entire body as she conjured a powerful Divine Spell, activating yet another Formation!
"Do you truly believe I am foolish enough to not have prepared something for this occasion, dragon?!"
Red smiled evilly, as an enormous series of magic circles appeared everywhere!
"Divine Primordial Blood Magic: [Eternal Abyssal Blood Prison]!"
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
"Shit! She's already trying to erect another barrier!"
Drake quickly led everyone else, as they flew forward, attempting to get inside the small city in front of them before the barrier could be erected!
However, the conjuration of such formation was almost instantaneous, Drake knew that no matter how fast he flew, he wouldn't get there in time!
"Then…!"
He quickly grabbed an enormous sphere of slimes from his hands, throwing it like a baseball ball towards the city!
FLAAAASH!
The barrier quickly erected before the slime could reach it though, being evaporated as it touched the barrier of powerful Rank 9 Divine Power…
ZAAAP!
As the slime died, the entire barrier erected, reinforcing itself upon countless transparent layers of red-colored barriers made of pure divine power.
TRUUUUMMM!!!!
The enormous formation, now composed of three Rank 9 Divine Materials, overflowed with enormous quantities of divine power, and quickly took the shape of an enormous fortress protecting the entire city!
"It's too late already…" Sighed Pekora.
"Damn it!" Tisha angrily roared.
"Can we do anything with this barrier?! It seems… several time stronger than the one from before!" Hector said.
"I can't believe the prideful vampires would hide themselves behind walls so much…" Sighed Rose, as she emerged on top of Drake's head.
"Can we do something, Scaled God-sama?" Asked Kraxka.
"Please ask us anything!" Said Larzak.
"Heh… I guess we just have to push forward. There's no helping it." Drake smiled at the challenge, however. "This must be the last line of defense, attack it with everything you've got into a single point, the center of the barrier!"
Drake knew that to break magic barriers, the best way to do it aside from overwhelming power was by targeting a certain spot of this barrier and then hit it as much as possible to build up pressure.
"NOW!"
Drake roared, as everyone unleashed their magic attacks or strongest techniques countless blasts of elemental power began hitting one spot of the barrier, dozens of times at once!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOOOMMM!!!
However, as the seconds went by, nothing was happening.
Drake had to hurry, if he didn't interrupted the ritual everything would be over and Ruby would probably never be able to come back.
"Ruby…! RUBYYYY!"
Rakasha roared furiously, his eyes overflowing with red scarlet flames as his hammer grew larger and larger in size, hitting the barrier to no avail, not even a single crack emerged within the barrier's surface!
CLASH! CLASH! CLAAAASH!!!
Rakasha continued hitting the barrier furiously, harder, and harder. With all the fury he held, with all the frustration he felt. Just by remembering Ruby and how she was dragged away from the happy life she was having, just thinking about these malicious hands that wanted this innocent girl's body and life for their wicked purposes… it filled him with fury.
Rakasha began to recall his past, everything he had lived through his life. The many moments he had with those he cared for, and the journeys he had all across the world. Despite never telling anybody about this, Rakasha did have a family.
He had one…
One of the reasons why he never told anybody about this family of his was… because it always brought him a lot of pain to recall such memories.
Over sixty years ago, as he traveled across the entire world of Yggdrasil, and as he meet so many new people, experienced so many new things, and walked through many beautiful landscapes, he came to know a woman.
A beautiful mountain giant woman only ten years younger than him. Giants lived for up to 300 years normally, ten years younger was usually not much a problem when both were already over a hundred years old.
She was a woman of the mountains of Alfheim, the beautiful continent of wilderness where elves governed most of the place. He meet her in one of his journeys, as he traversed across a Mountain Range looking for materials to make weapons to sell and make a living using his Blacksmith Magic and his talents.
However, because he got too deep into a mountain's caves, he was chased down by wild trolls, savage humanoid-like monsters twice as big as Giants, brutes and savages that ate anything that they saw. He was almost about to die surrounded by these monsters, only for the silhouette of a beautiful woman to jump from atop the mountains, taking down the trolls in just a few hits.
That's where he meet her, Azalaia.
