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A bck scimitar in the shape of a draic bake with big, glowing amethyst eyes.
The result of Shamir’s Soul Artifact Fusion, the bination of existing Soul Artifacts into new forms and shapes.
Vd had imagi would only be an additive ge, that the sword would simply be as strong as the two kogether. But he was wrong—that scimitar carried more power than he imagined.
Much more power.
“SHAAAHHH!”
With a furious hiss, the scimitar roared, its aura growing to a tremendous size. The young vampire quickly saw through the reason a single swing of that bde could unleash so many cutting attacks!
It was because with each swing, the aura of the scimitar would divide into snakes—yes, dozens of them spreading everywhere, sshing through thin air using their giant, sharp fangs.
And this series of attacks was so fast that Vd couldn’t eve; the dozens of sshing blows reached him, his armor’s Durability going doidly; it was now below thirty pert!
“Impressive!”
Shamir’s legs were suddenly enpassed by his scimitar’s Aura of snakes, ing around his body, and suddenly transf his leg into a shat rushed towards Vd, biting his armor and then pushing him down with tremendous force.
CRAAASH!
“Ugghh…!”
The vampire prince groaned in pain as he felt some weight over his chest. The desert elf was standing right above him, his scimitar glowing with aronger aura as his Sands of Time Essehered around it.
“Seeing how the other Realms are much vaster and have more resources than ours, I had expected that your people, especially your warriors, would be stronger.” Shamir said. “And indeed, you’re quite strong. However…”
He pointed his scimitar at Vd’s head.
“I suppose this is as far as you go, hm?”
Vd tried to move, suddenly feeling a tremendous, paralyzing pain across his muscles. Poison had somehow entered his body, even when he didn’t even feel a fang pierg his flesh.
“I’m poisoned?!”
As he tried to move but felt paralyzed, the desert elf smiled.
“Surprised? My Scimitar ot only attack many times at once, but I also directly ignore defenses,” Shamir smiled. “Well… it’s a small ce, but when there are so many blows, it always hits anyway.”
“What?!”
Vd was surprised the assassin revealed his ability so easily; it seemed he reized him enough to tell him this.
Despite being an assassin, Shamir was more akin to a warrior. Someone who admired those who were strong aheir own against him.
Therefore, Vd realized this paralyzing pain he felt wasn’t his body, his soul had been poisoned!
“Soul Poison is worse than normal poison, did you know?” Shamir smiled. “It slowly corrodes your soul, paralyzes your movements, and gives you tremendous amounts of pain. Over time, your Soul’s size is reduced… until it dissipates into nothingness. There will not even be an afterlife for you.”
“Soul… Poison, huh?”
Paul was surprised there was such a thing to begin with, but seeing how vast the world of Genesis and its many Realms were, everything ossible.
He felt the purple and bck essence course through his soul, rapidly trying to devour it pletely.
Yet…
He couldn’t help but smile.
“I just happen to be pretty good at using my Soul,” he said. “{Bzing Soul}”
“Huh?!”
BOOOM!
Before Shamir could move away, the Soul Aura of Vd emerged, resembling aion of endless golden and crimsohey engulfed Shamir a him flying away.
At the same time, the Soul Poison seeping into Vd’s Soul rapidly began to burn, fueling his Bzing Soul’s fire and making it even stronger.
“These are… Soul Fmes!”
Shamir’s golden eyes widened, a smile on his face.
A fasated, insane smile.
“Yes! You’re not do, right? RIGHT?!”
FLASH!
Without a sed of hesitation and while still burning, the assassin reached Vd, swinging his scimitar down and unleashing a storm of sshing attacks.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Vd quickly touched the ground as he received the attacks and maniputed his own Soul Aura at the same time, suddenly juring something by bining Alchemy into it.
“{Geomancy}: {Volic Soul Eruption}”
“Huh?!”
RUMBLE!
The ground transformed, and the stohat made this entire underground cavern merged with Vd’s Soul Fmes, quickly taking the shape of a series of small voloes aing and firing giant ade of boiling Soul Lava.
“What sort of…?!”
Beyond all expectations, Vd did the impossible, fusing the elements of nature with his very soul through Geomancy, an advaeique of both Magid Alchemy.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
The ons of Soul Lava impacted Shamir directly, too fast and big for even him to evade; he had to quickly swing his scimitar and slice them apart as they came.
However, even that proved to be difficult as the surroundings and everything else burned aed away!
“T-This is…!”
The desert elf started sweating as he tinued evading and trying to ssh away the ons of Soul Lava, only for them to explode and cover his entire body with burning magma that seemed to damage his soul as well.
His Aura Armor, which he used to protect his body, made out of his own Soul Artifact, was very strong, but it was being rapidly worn down like this.
“Aagh! Haha…! This is ridiculous! So you do such a thing, Vampire?!”
Shamir ughed as Vd titag. He couldn’t stop now and lose his momentum. Without wasting a single sed, and as he noticed his Soul Aura began to weaken after burning through all the Soul Poison that served as “fuel” to enhance his Soul Fmes strength, he jured more spells using his boundless Ara.
“You may surpass me on physical power and on teique! But you surpass me in spamming as much fug magic as I ?!”
All the accessories that Vd was wearing, which he had made to sta Ara in ridiculous amounts, glowed brightly, making his body incredibly heavy due to the Ara penalty.
“{Tier 3 Fire Spell: Small Meteor} + {Tier 3 Light Spell: Sunshine Beam}!”
FLUOSH!
Several dozens of small meteors materialized and merged with the shining sunshine.
Suddenly, they resembled small stars.
“{Geomancy}: {Glistening Nova Rain}!”
“Not just magic, but the ability to bine spells?!”
Shamir gnced in disbelief, uo keep his mouth close as he gasped. Miniature stars reached him within a split sed, even as he was still trying to evade the volic eruptions.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“Ugh!”
The explosions of light, fire, and stone were strong, stantly wearing down his Aura Armor and f him to stantly spend energy by using his scimitar ability on mere projectiles.
However, the assassin wasn’t going to remain a sitting duck, quickly running around the room’s walls, cirg, and trying to reach Vd.
“e here!”
FLASH!
Suddenly, his Aura made of snakes merged with one of his hands, suddenly transf his entire arm into a dark, purple-scaled sh amethyst eyes.
“SHAAAHH!”
The snake arm rushed towards Vd, opening its gigantic jaws and aiming t him towards Shamir so his scimitar could finish him off.
Yet…
“I was already waiting for this…!” Vd smiled wickedly. Even as he was exhausted, even as his transformation was about to wear down and bring him even more exhaustioill had the spirit to tinue fighting.
“{Tier 3 Water Spell: Sea Snake} + {Tier 3 Ice Spell: Frost Beam}!”
FLUOSH!
Snakes made of water and beams of ice merged together into his Soul Aura, rapidly verging into a single Fusion Spell.
“{Geomancy}: {Winter Dragon’s Wrath}!”
“ROOOAAARR!”
Everything turned into a gigantic ese dragon made of azure ice, which roared. Rushing towards Shamir’s snake arm and g against it, a giant explosion of id poisonous bck fmes erupted.
BOOOM!
“Ngh?!”
Shamir suddenly felt a deep pain on his arm as he rapidly pulled it back, realizing it was pletely frozen, with a few of his fingers falling off into pieces.
“This bastard…!”
Yet he wasn’t really mad.
He was overjoyed.
“Maybe... just maybe I show him that too?!”
His eyes suddenly ged color, turning deep red.
His scimitar’s aura started enpassing him as the snakes began to bite his flesh and skin, iing him with venom.
“Thank you, Vampire!”
Suddenly, Shamir rushed towards Vd again, even as dragons of id miniature stars bombarded him with several magical explosions.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“This guy’s a monster!”
Vd gave a step ba fear as he held tightly to his swathering his powers into his bde, and was about to attempt to ssh him away.
Yet…
Something was odd!
“What is he doing?!”
Shamir’s snakes tinued biting him, iing him with more and more venom until his clear brown skin began to turn pletely purple.
Bck scales started growing over his body, and his eyes, which turned crimson in color, resembled those of a snake, looking almost crystalline, like rubies.
Two bck hrew from his forehead, and his slim muscuture grew bulkier, while a long snake-like tail surged from his back.
All while his long white hair turned red and dark purple in color, shaping into several snakes made of hair!
And above all, two new pairs of arms sprouted from his flesh, made out of many snakes fused together.
In that moment, Vd realized this was no mere assassin.
“I will show you why I belong to the top ten assassins of the Desecrated Shadow King’s Temprs!”
RUMBLE!
The entire world around Vd trembled as the scimitar that Shamir was holding was suddenly gohe moment he began transf, his scimitar had already disappeared.
Indeed…
It merged with him!
“{Soul Artifact Absorption}: {Six-Armed Demon Snake King: Naga}!”
In that moment, Vd moved by instinct. Toug the ground at the same time as Shamir rushed towards him while hissing like a snake.
“{Tier 3 Earth Spell: Stone Fortress} + {Tier 3 Earth Magic: Stone Giant’s Fist}”
He activated two Earth magic Spells, the stones and ground all around the cave started to shape and fiant walls surged to protect him; and enormous fists emerged to csh against Shamir.
Yet that was not enough; he merged them.
“{Geomancy}: {Stoan}!”
BOOOM!
The ceiling above shattered into pieces as the pavement and the houses crumbled down. Thankfully, these areas were not poputed, so Vd took that into sideration.
“Hahahaha! Good! Show me! Show me what you do; I was so bored! But this! THIS IS IT!”
Craving bloodshed and blood-pumping adrenalihe assassin Shamir ughed while showing his long snake-like tongue. His arms moved down, all of them materializing scimitars made of the snakes enpassing his aura.
“{Abyssal Asura Bde Storm}!”
At the same time, Vd swung his arm, trolling the giant of over twenty meters made of pure stos massive fists reag Shamir.
“{Titan’s Fist}!”
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
Fists and bdes cshed, unleashing shockwaves into the sky that cleared it from any visible clouds within seds!
At the same time, Vd quickly noticed his stoan beginning to rapidly crumble apart! Despite being so huge and intimidating,.
“Hah! Just sto the end.”
Crack, crack…!
CRAAASH!
The giant proteg him crumbled into pieces, Shamir appearing above him and then rushing down towards the vampire, his big jaws opening, revealing his long snake-like fangs.
“I’m so fasated with you! Let me take a souvenir before I leave! Let me bite you, my dear vampire rival!”
“What the…?!”
Vd had realized a bit too te that, as he fell from the crumbling stoan, his armor had also broken to pieces. The attacks from Shamir had pierced through everything, leaving several houses behind him devastated too.
BAAAM!
As his body colpsed on the ground, making him vomit blood, the enormous Shamir, who had bee as tall as three meters, smiled at him, tearing down his armor into pieces and then grabbing the vampire.
“Let me go, you bastard! Agh!”
“I’ll mark you! You’re my PREY!”
Vd bombarded him with spells, Frost Beams, Miniature Meteors, Sunshine Beams, Stone Fists, and everything else, trying to keep the monster away.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“No use!”
Shamir licked his lips as he tinued moving towards Vd, his eyes full of...
Obsession!
“You’re mine… Only mine! MINE!”
With mere swings of his bdes, all spells came undone, sliced apart into hundreds of parts.
“What the hell is wrong with this guy?!”
And then, catg him off guard, a giant snake emerged from the underground, right behind him.
“SHYAAAH!”
“What?!”
His eyes widened as the snake quickly ed around his entire body, immobilizing him!
Above all, his blood demon transformation had already run out, and he was even weaker than before, even more so without his armor.
“Let me see what my prey looks like~!”
Shamir took off Vd’s helmet, revealing the beautiful face of the vampire.
Pale skin, red eyes, and long, silky silvery-white hair.
“Ahh! You look delectable… I’ll enjoy tearing you to shreds!”
His giant jaws opened, aiming at Vd’s neck, and the with tremendous force.
A pierg pain reached his entire body, shaking him.
Venom sipped into his entire body, beginning to e him.
And then a mark appeared on his neck, shaped like a purple snake opening its jaws.
“It didn’t kill me?!”
Strangely enough, Paul felt like his avatar was surprisingly fine.
“Hmm~ Even your skin and your blood taste delicious!”
Shamir licked his lips, gng at Vd with obsession.
“You’re mine now.”
He licked his neck, drinking the blood ing out of the wound.
“I’ll enjoy you… Bite by bite~”
“W-What…?!”
Paul couldn’t help but feel both scared and a bit aroused…
“Dammit! I wao win without using it, but screw this!”
FLASH!
As Vd was about to activate the Heavenly Demon Transformation ahis snake man’s ass, suddenly, Shamir started turning into darkness, disappearing.
“It was a good fight,” Sharmi said. “I couldn’t kill you, nor that girl… But that doesn’t matter anyway. We’ll see each ain. I’ve marked you. I will always know where you are now… Hahah! You better get stronger. ime, I’ll kill you for sure…”
FLUOSH!
And then Shamir and his snakes disappeared, and Vd was left there, sitting over the paved floor, barely uanding just what happened.
“So he was summoned only temporarily…”
Vd colpsed on the ground, relieved that the monster was finally gone.
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