Listen While Reading: Coiling Viper's Venom
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Chuklet ran for his life across the byrinthine underground caves of Elderbridge, which he and his thugs had dug on their own to hide from the vampires above. However, everything came crashing down out of nowhere, as the vampires he feared so much found him rather easily.
“Hahh… Hahh… Hahhh!”
The burly hobgoblie his appearance, wasn’t i form after sitting on his throne and anding others to do things for him for a couple of years.
After running for less than a couple hundred meters, he had already grown rather tired, gasping for air, yet he couldn’t stop running; his life depended on it.
“Shamir should be able to buy me some time...” he muttered, smiling. “He’ll probably kill those two bastards, so that’s two problems I won’t have to worry about!”
The Hobgoblin, albeit tired, moved very quickly and khis byrinth like the palm of his hand. He climbed walls, jumped e rocks in the way, and even rapidly slid through tight crevices.
Rapidly, he was making his way towards his destination, a room within the underground byrinth where he had stored many of his magical tris.
“As long as I get there, I’ll be able to teleport the hell out of here! I’ll have to unfortunately report the Main Branch that taking over this city was a failure,” he gritted his teeth. “But I’m sure they’ll give me a sed ce! I’ve brought them a lot of money anyway.”
Chuklet wasn’t the brightest nor the smartest Hobgoblin out there, and his strength was just barely above average. However, what he was good at doing was robbing others and inspiring dumb people to join his cause and bee his meat shields and thugs.
So he was going to just do that again, but eveer than before. He had already learned many of the weaknesses of pyers, and they were a perfect target to abuse. With their stupidity, y, and how they call everything “a game,” it's very easy to trick them and then rob everything they’re holding and wearing.
“Almost there!”
The Hobgoblin quickly noticed a purple-colored sigil in the dista was beginning to glhtly before his magiand, and a bck ring on his left hand was reag to it.
A Bck Magic Artifact.
“Just in case, I’ll make a barrier there so nobody follow me…!” he smiled. “Shamir will probably go back where he came from after summoning him... Dammit, summoning him just once for a couple of minutes cost so much damn money! But I’ll make it back! In time…! I have to keep thinking positively, just as mom told me! If you ’t rob today, rob tomorrow, Chuklet!”
As he was about to go past the sigil and activate it, suddenly...
Pain.
“Ugh?!”
Chuklet felt a tremendous amount of pain, twisting his head to realize...
An arrow had just pierced his left shoulder!
“What the…?! When!”
He didn’t evehe arrow ing or being fired at him—or even a presence firing it!
Until the arrow was already pierg his shoulder, festering his wound with poison and curses while also beginning to freeze his arm, making it unusable.
“Who?!”
The hobgoblin gred behind him, notig an adorable “girl” enpassed in a veil of bck fmes. Her face was full of anger, and she gred at him with “her” pink eyes.
“Oi retard, where the hell do you think yoing?! e and fight, you braindead motherfucker!”
Despite “her” ess, she had such a foul mouth!
“You?!”
The Hobgoblin immediately reized “her” as well; “she” was the “succubus” that was with the vampire, Vd!
“You’re that damn girl!”
He quickly held upon his axe, summoning out of his bck-colored ring and giving a small step back, as if trying to put into a defeance.
“Don’t you dare shoot me again or-”
“I’m not a girl! I’m a guy, you piece of sh*t!”
Before Chuklet could say or do anything, a rain of arrows made of fire, ice, lightning, and curses were fired at him secutively.
The speed at which they were fired was too fast! And it was because the bow wasn’t a ventional version but a magic bow.
By fueling it with Ara, the incubus was able to rapidly fire many magical arrows secutively.
Holy, it was better than juring spells ventionally.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“Ugh!”
The Hobgoblin was quickly engulfed in explosions of many elements. He tried to create barriers of darkness and a veil to protect himself, but they were easily worn down aroyed.
“Shit! Fuck off!”
He swung his giant axe, unleashing a gigantic wave of darkness against Chris, which began slig through the already delicate structure of the cave.
TRUUUM!
“Ugh!”
Chris had no pce to evade, taking the hit head-on. His equipment protected him from the lethal blow that would have cut him into two halves.
BOOOM!
“To think I had to waste one use of this on your attack, just die!”
“W-What?! You’re fine?!”
Chuklet couldn’t believe his eyes! He was sure that this demon should have died from his attack, but he ended up ing out unscathed from that.
And right after that, a giarified trident came flying towards him, g against his on, which he used to barely block his vitals.
“T-This is…?! A moving on?!”
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
The trident moved by Chris’ and as he moved his small hands, g against the Hobgoblin, who could barely keep up with the immense speed and explosive attacks from the flying on.
With its wielder being so far away, the only thing he could do was defend while trying to slowly make his way towards the sigil and then close the entire road, keeping the demon outside and him ihe ste area.
“I’m almost there!”
He gritted his teeth, preparing several spheres of darkness and firing them towards Chris, who had to quickly jure walls of stone from the ceiling, walls, and floor to defend.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As the explosions surged and bombarded Chris, Chuklet smiled, rushing towards the sigil and then running past it. His bck ring glowed as a huge, purple-colored wall was formed, a mighty barrier.
FLUOSH!
“What?!”
Chris eyes widened as he saw the barrier appear and Chuklet ughing and running away.
“So long, suckers!” the hobgoblin ughed. “Chuklet lives another day! Mom would be proud of me, gahahaha!”
“Hah…”
Chris eyes glowed bright red as his demonic powers surged. Suddenly, pink and bck clouds made of dreams and nightmares he had eaten gathered within his bow, f a giant arrow.
“You leave me no option then!”
The incubus formed a gigantic bd purple-colored arrow made of densed dream and nightmare essence, further enhanced by his Ara.
“{Nightmare Arrow}”
The arrow was fired, reag the barrier and being stopped.
BOOOMMM!!!
Only for a split sed before exploding aroying the barrier, shattering it into pieces.
Chuklet gred at the se in disbelief.
“Shit…”
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[The Skill [Blood Demon’s Immortal Chimera Body (SS)]’s Ability {Lesser Blood Demon Transformation} has been activated,
[Your body has transformed, taking upon the form of an A Blood Demon of your Lineage for 15 Minutes and Increasing All Stats and Vampirid Chimeric Abilities Power and Effects by 330%!]
[While in your {Lesser Blood Demon Form}, you are Immuo any Status Effect, and your Stats ot be lowered or increased any further. You also use the following Abilities without any cost: {Blood Asura’s Rampage} {Blood Domain}, {Blood Curse}, etc.]
Vd’s entire body transformed as he activated the power of his Fused Skill, being twice as rge, with a bulkier build, red skin, horns, and even longer hair. Although most of his appearance was cealed beh his armor, his armor itself was barely taining his bulky body now.
“RAAAH!”
With a furious berserk-like roar, the vampire prince reached the desert elf assassin, swinging his bare hand, now a huge, armored cw, against the two shat the daggers had bee, at the same time as he swung down his sword, unleashing a barrage of bzing sshes and blood powered cw attacks.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
The snakes were torn apart easily, as they both shattered into pieces and exploded into darkness and poisonous gases. The assassin was growing slightly surprised. His poison had little effe the vampire. This quickly gave him the insight that vampires must be immuo most poisons, even those from a soul artifact!
“So he has some sort of transformation ability too, which is iing,” Shamir smiled. “Let’s see how far he take his new form!”
Although he had been summoned here to kill as part of his job, Shamir couldn’t help but enjoy a fight that didn’t take him a few seds to end. As someone who grew while being taught by ruthless master assassins, he already had a few screws loose to even survive all of that through his childhood.
Even though his job as an assassin indicated he had to swiftly take care of his foes, that had bee rather difficult right now, even more so when he had lost any factor that would have given him an advantage in terms of stealth or surprise.
Therefore, the fight ended long-winded, instead of being the usual stab in the neck or the heart that he would do to finish off a foe before they could even realize he was there.
His jobs were quid, although he hated to admit it, b.
As someone who craved violend blood-pumping battles and was addicted to the sense of adrenalihat life-or-death battles brought to him, finishing off foes quickly was...
Too damn b!
“Good! Fight! Struggle! Show me how far you go, Vampire!” ughed the desert elf as he swung down his daggers against Vd.
His daggers cshed against Vd’s sword and his armored cws, their powerful Auras exploding against one another, releasing bursts of crimson, bck, and purple fmes everywhere.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“Hahaha! You’re too slow anyway!”
Shamir ehe fight as he quickly evaded Vd’s attack seamlessly, moving faster than Vd could ever chase him. Resembling a blur of darkness, the desert elf reached the vampire’s bad quickly attacked him several times with a barrage of powerful blows.
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
“Ungh?!”
Vd was sent flying after taking on su extreme series of blows, but quickly recovered, moving back to Shamir and quickly swinging his swain, releasing secutive sshes that the assassin evaded easily.
“This is too easy! There is no mastery behind your attacks!”
Shamir tinued being more and more vocal; he was voig his opinions and words, even though he had stated he didn’t want to talk before. It seems that the longer a battle became, the more talkative he would bee.
“SHUT UP!”
Vd, however, was already getting tired of his yapping. Like a hulking berserker, he quickly swung both of his arms down, releasing a powerful shockwave of pure Blood Power, shaping itself into something.
“{Blood Domain}!”
FLUOOOSH!
A domain of blood expanded as Shamir noticed he had been suddenly trapped within a barrier. The domain twisted space, quickly creating a pool of blood where his legs were stuck.
“A Domain?!”
His eyes widened as he noticed giaacles made of blood ed around his legs, rapidly trying to pull him down.
At the same time, the blood transformed, being giant spears aiming to impale his entire body.
Shamir felt his heart beating faster and faster.
“How long has it been already?” he thought. “How long has it been sineone mao get this far against me? And a domain?! This shmuck summon such a thing? Hahah! HAHAHA!”
As he ughed like a maniaternally, the assassi Vd ing towards him, his sword abs the blood of his domain and being a gigantic crimson bde.
“{Blood Sword}!”
SLAAASH!
A giant wave of crimson light was unleashed, blood energy erupting and ing towards Shamir at full force!
Yet the assassin smiled; he was fasated.
“Hahahah!”
BOOOMMM!!!
The entire blood domaied, trying to e and engulf him in endless attacks and agony, aiming to destroy him. Attacks came from every angle as the attack from Vd exploded on his face.
Yet…
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Hundreds of sshes cut through all things; a storm of darkness erupted as the entire blood domain was destroyed immediately, an explosion of bd purple fmes surging.
BOOOM!
“This bastard…”
Vd g the assassin; his two daggers had disappeared, now merged together inte, bck-colored scimitar.
“{Soul Artifact Fusion}: {Bck Venomous Dragon Scimitar: Apophis}”
The aura that the new scimitar released was tremendous.
It was as if everything before was just Shamir testing the waters.
“Please, vampire… Don’t die yet!”
With a wicked smile beh his semi-transparent bck veil, the desert elf reached Vd, a single swing of his scimitar releasing dozens of sshes at once.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
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Pach
