"Sister? Who are you talking about?" the sect master asked, not connecting the names right away, being too preoccupied with the terrifying magical form of the young man in front of him.",
The magical form of the master of Nixlas' Shadows was not simple. He was one of those who had the most elemental affinity with darkness in his sect, having a high purity of his element, which had guaranteed him the possibility of becoming an Archmage with only a thousand years of cultivation.
His form was the cypress, a tree often seen in cemeteries across the continent. In particular, his magical form took the shape of this tree, giving him powers capable of sucking the life out of his targets, absorbing enemy mana and using it to his advantage, being able to use it defensively, but also as a support power.
There were many ways to use his magical form, especially considering his six pentagrams, which followed the following configuration: yellow, orange, yellow, green, cyan, cyan.
Even so, Vicente surpassed him with the green and cyan pentagrams of his Throne of Darkness.
Fortunately for this long-lived man, Vicente had not yet absorbed his next essence. Without that, he would have been powerless in the fight.
But he remained cautious, hoping to resolve this matter in another way.
"Just under 13 years ago, a man from your sect kidnapped my older sister in Saltstar City, Seidel Kingdom. Her name is Lauren Fuller." Vicente repeated what he had said, adding a very specific piece of information.
He hadn't expected that the sect master would readily identify his sister, but he still said the only information he could give to find Lauren.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})The sect master looked at Vicente differently, identifying who this guy was, but also realizing, for the first time, the connection of the Vicente Fuller he had first heard about a few days ago with his Miss Death.
"Don't tell me you're Vicente Fuller?" the man asked.
"Yes, indeed." Vicente muttered as creatures of the shadows appeared in his surroundings, each of them with their attentions focused on the Archmage.
Seeing the 30 creatures of darkness emerging from the shadows, the sect master didn't know what to do.
'What does he want with her? Will he just leave if I hand her over? Lauren is very important to me. I can't lose her that easily!' he thought, feeling somewhat uncertain. 'What if I say she's dead? No! He seems to be interested in his sister. If I do that, he might try to get into a deadly confrontation with me! That wouldn't be good!'
He laughed and said. "So this is Lauren we're talking about. Haha, I'd forgotten her real name. If you want to find her, I'm afraid you'll have to travel for a few months. She's not in the sect now."
"Oh? Are you telling the truth?" Vicente's eyes narrowed.
"Of course. I would never lie to a fellow member of the Dark Path who has such a refined magical form," the sect master said, trying to ease the tension in the surroundings.
But then, as the many men in the surrounding area looked on, kneeling on the ground, Vicente opened his mouth and let out a laugh. Simultaneously with that laugh, the entire castle of Nixlas' Shadows shook, before the rocks in the area's underground gave rise to thousands of metal artifacts making their way to the surface.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})"Then I'm afraid I'll have to kill all the Dark Path magicians here today!" Vicente announced, just before moving against the Beginner Archmage a few meters away from him, directing his many metal items to massacre this sect with a rain of cutting blades.
"Fuck!" Some Paragons closer to Vicente felt and heard his words in terror, but unfortunately, they could do nothing to save themselves.
With Vicente suppressing them, they could only wait for their deaths as the Metallic Symphony made Vice's weapons understand his bloodlust.
The sect master paled, not imagining that Vicente would decide to go down such a horrendous path when he discovered Lauren wasn't there.
"Shit! Are you crazy? You're going to attack us when we're the last hope against vampires?" The sect master defended himself, making the roots of his cypress tree form shields around him.
As he spoke, a dark creature emerged from his shadows, reaching for his heart with a metallic weapon in its hands.
A poisonous veil appeared around the sect master's various root shields, corroding the roots as the shadow monster attacked the enemy.
"Aaaaagh!"
A scream erupted from the sect master's mouth, as this man had narrowly deflected the enemy's deadly attack, but still been hit in his right lung.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})"Humph! Trying to trick me? You think I don't know you're associated with vampires?" Vicente asked furiously as his blades brutalized the first enemies in the area.
At that moment, Miss Death appeared about a kilometer away from Vicente, seeing the man who had defeated her last time acting so violently against her sect.
She struggled to withstand the pressure caused by the Throne of Darkness, but having successfully advanced to the 5th stage minutes ago and having a very pure magical form, she could ignore what many others of her stage could not.
"Vicente!" she shouted angrily, as her Book of Death appeared in front of her, and a hateful expression formed on her face beneath her veil.
A metallic trident imbued with darkness sliced through the air, heading for Miss Death's back, to pierce her mortally, ending her life, as Vicente had promised he would do the next time they met.
The sect master and Vicente looked in her direction.
"No!" the sect master shouted as he saw what was about to happen to his disciple, momentarily ignoring Vicente's poisonous mist trying to eat away at his essence.
Dark Path magicians were also human, individuals capable of having families and choosing successors. For this man, even though he was a monster in the eyes of his enemies, had even associated with vampires, he couldn't help but see Lauren as his heir, who he wished to preserve and see thrive.
Her death would do him no good. It would be an immense waste, a great tragedy in his opinion.
He had made a deal with the vampires, but he knew he couldn't trust them completely. His plan B was in Lauren, who could one day help him keep the vampires away from his sect or even avenge him if the worst happened.
For the sake of his own future and the future of his sect, he moved to help her while being brutally attacked.
Vicente moved too, seeing the chance to finish a great enemy and a potential problem.
