While the 3rd stage magicians in Saltstar City were moving together with noble forces and the royal army to defend the city, the storm over the city worsened, reaching the next level.
The storm became more rigid as Rory and Vicente's abilities combined more perfectly. It unleashed its fury on the city, unleashing violent winds and torrential rains that defied any structure or magical defense.
The skies were utterly darkened with black, ominous clouds as if nature itself was enraged.
The winds howled with frightening intensity, ripping trees from their roots and hurling roof tiles through the air.
Soon, the rain was turning some streets into raging rivers, swallowing everything in its path. Lightning cut across the sky, illuminating the chaos with bright flashes, and deafening thunder echoed through the city.
Some of the buildings closest to where the focus of the battle was taking place were torn from their foundations, wagons were overturned like children's toys, and people clung desperately to anything that gave them the slightest chance of survival.
The sound of destruction was deafening as the storm's power showed its merciless strength.
As the storm roared with relentless fury, the city was plunged into chaos and devastation.
It was a scene of unimaginable destruction, where the actions of two magicians showed their overwhelming power over the works of ordinary men, for the most part.
In the midst of all this, Vicente's family's weaker men had to retreat, no longer able to hold their positions safely.
Fortunately, Onyx, Layla, Jasmine, Casey, Nova, and some of the family's allies and subordinates managed to neutralize the weaker vampires in that group before the chaos generated by Rory and Vicente made the situation difficult even for them.
Meanwhile, Benson, Rory, Vicente, and the four Fuller family men dressed in 4th-grade robotic armor were attacking the vampire protected behind his many defenses.
This creature's situation became untenable as time passed, bringing him to the point where he could do nothing but defend himself.
He had many powers and was naturally very strong. However, he wouldn't be able to protect himself from all these attacks for long and was already gradually feeling exhausted.
No matter how strong a vampire was, these beings were also creatures that depended on their mana. Once exhausted, they would be weakened in their own way.
When Vicente realized that the vampire was close to his weakest moment, he took Torne's powers, suddenly making his aura reach the peak of the 4th stage.
The moment he did this, Vicente stopped using his first skill in conjunction with Rory.
His body suddenly disappeared until the vampire felt something strange and opened his eyes wide as he felt his body rapidly slipping out of his control.
'Shit! He's got me!" He exclaimed to himself, feeling that if he didn't get out of there immediately, he would be killed by Vicente.
He hadn't expected anything like this to happen, let alone that the enemy had so many allies ready to fight. He had formed quite a strong group, but even so, there was no way he wouldn't be surprised by the special weapons used by Vice's men.
This vampire was fully aware that there was no way he could have lost so easily if it hadn't been for those weapons!
If it hadn't been for the 4th-grade firearms and some of that robotic armor, his allies would have kept most of the men who attacked him busy. In other words, even if Vicente had strong allies, he would still have fallen into this vampire's hands if it hadn't been for his special artifacts!
With that in mind, the vampire saw that there was no point in staying there any longer and clenched his teeth as he used what little mana he had left to teleport away.
'If I can change my position to at least 5 kilometers from here, I'll be able to escape!' He thought to himself as he made the space around him distort.
As soon as his ability came into play, he disappeared from that area, dodging all the attacks coming at him.
The men from the army, local noble families, and the Fuller family saw this and were despaired.
"Shit, he got away!" Someone shouted as soon as they saw her attack pass by where the vampire was and hit no one.
Jasmine heard that and came out of hiding, immediately using her ability to search for the vampire.
...
Simultaneously with the despair of those people in the area destroyed by the battle against the vampire's group, this being appeared a few kilometers away from the Fuller residence but still inside Saltstar City.
However, as he appeared in the middle of that flooded and half- destroyed street, he suddenly changed his expression when he felt a hand squeezing his left shoulder.
"It can't be..." He muttered as he looked back.
As he did so, he saw a black-haired young man appearing from invisibility behind him while one of the young man's hands cut into his back.
He felt his diamond skin break and the hand of the guy he had hunted for months reach into his heart.
"Oh, yes, it can," Vicente commented as darkness surged around him, in particular, a dark energy covered the hand he was using to squeeze the creature's heart.
The vampire's eyes fluttered as he realized that he had made a big mistake in using his last bit of mana to teleport.
'Shit! He was on my side!' He realized that Vicente was too close to him when he used that ability, which meant he had teleported himself and Vice!
"That's the end of the line for you." Vincent said before using his mana to destroy the creature's soul, simultaneously as his third pentagram glowed.
What Vicente lacked in order to eliminate this vampire in their first encounter was mana density and understanding. His first magical form wasn't particularly interesting for fighting vampires, so he needed to be much stronger than vampires to be able to eliminate them.
But with the improvements he'd had since that encounter and the improvements from Torne, who was helping him at the moment, he'd achieved the requirements to eliminate this Mid-
level Mage!
After using his mana to destroy that being's mind, he extinguished the vampire's soul, making all the life in that body disappear in a single instant.
At that moment, the vampire finally died and fell at Vicente's feet, ending the battle that would mark Saltstar City's history!
