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Chapter 21 - Battle Of The Iron Mountain 5

(Dear readers, I have noticed some mistakes in my previous chapters. I have already edited and corrected the mistakes until the 8th chapter, and I will finish the editing by tomorrow. I advise you to give a reread or at least scroll through it while paying attention to changed details. Don't worry, no plot points will change.)

Derek lunged at Dracula with the speed of one with the wind. But to his dismay, the moment he struck it teleported behind him again. 

Gregory ripped the head off a soldier with his hands. Instantly, A crimson blood sphere appeared around him. Then he dodged the attack of the nearest soldier and pointed the blood sphere toward the soldiers.

"Total Blood Control."

The blood sphere convulsed and turned into sharp spears. HE pointed the spheres at all the soldiers that was running toward him unison.

The spears flew out of Dracula's hand and impaled all the soldiers in front of him, and dragged them through the air. Some spears struck multiple soldiers and flew with them. 

Gregory looked at the scene in front of him with excitement in his eyes. Then he abruptly turned around to see Derek behind him. Derek slashed at Dracula with his silver sword, but before the sword could hit him, Dracula ducked. He then launched Derek's abdomen with his fist.

The simple punch was so powerful that Derek was thrown a couple of meters behind in pain. He hit a couple of his soldiers as he unintentionally flew backwards and hit the stone wall. So of the soldiers he hit, fell to their deaths into the abyss below.

He coughed up blood as he weakly stood up. Dracula walked toward him with slow steps while licking his blood from his fist.

"You are slow and weak; no wonder your wife died."

"You fucker, healing."

He activated his skill while six soldiers moved in front of him. After getting into a defensive position front three lunged at him with their swords drawn. Dracula easily avoided all of their attacks with swift and nimble moves.

"Shadow steps"

[Shadow's steps [Legendary] = You can teleport through shadows to anywhere]

He then appeared in front of the other three from a shadow and stared deep into their eyes.

"Eyes Of Medusa"

[Eyes of Medusa [Divine] = This ability turns any person into a stone statue. Demi-God and God-level enemies will take a longer time to turn.]

Suddenly, his eyes turned from crimson to violet. The three soldiers stared into these beautiful, otherworldly violet eyes as they instantly turned into stone statues. He then slapped the three stone statues, causing their heads to fly away in the air.

After seeing what terrible fate awaited soldiers who tried to fight Dracula, the remaining soldiers started running down the stairs. Over fifty people were throwing their swords and running, terrified for their lives. 

"You cowards, come here and fight like men. Where are your pride?"

Derek spat from behind the three stone statues with malice while his ability worked its magic. Even though Gregory doesn't agree with his ideals, he agrees with his recent statement a little. When all of them are running away, there is no fun in it. He shrugged and summoned a creature from his inventory.

"Killer bunny [SSS rank]."

Suddenly, a cute bunny plushie dressed in red and black appeared in front of him from white sparks. He looked at the cute, smiling creature for a moment and barked orders.

"Go and kill the running soldiers. Let five of them live and torture others in front of them."

As soon as it heard the orders, the cute plushie's smile changed. It transformed from a heartwarming smile to a maniacal grin painted in blood. Then it ran after the escaping soldiers at high speed. Gregory looked at the departing plushie with a strange expression on his face.

'I have killed so many people with my own hands, but I don't feel anything. Maybe when I reincarnated as a vampire, I stopped being a human both mentally and physically.'

He looked toward the stair entrance with cold eyes.

"Dracula."

He looked in the direction from which the sound came. In front of him, the three soldiers from before were pouring their mana into a ball filled with electricity. 

He smiled mockingly as he took a step forward.

"What, you guys are still here. I thought you would be running the moment you saw others do."

The man stared at him with hateful eyes.

"This amulet is a B Grade weapon. The more mana we pour into this more powerful it becomes. I will kill you with this."

Gregory couldn't control his laugh. He laughed like a maniac while four eyes looked at him with confusion. He laughed so hard he couldn't help but shed tears. 

After laughing for a moment, he looked at the three with amusement in his eyes.

"Ohh, Forgive me. Carry on with whatever you are doing."

The man in the middle looked at him with tension.

"Wh-What are you talking about. This is a B-grade weapon, this is my family heirloom. This can kill even elves."

The more he spoke, the more fear crept up to his heart. He looked at Dracula, utterly terrified of his calm demeanor. The other two were also feared by his dismissive attitude toward a B grade weapon.

While they were looking at Dracula with terrified eyes, a hand appeared from the abyss. It looked like a human hand, but there was something very wrong with it.

First of all, the hand looked too much pale, frail and long. There were also long nails that could hack through even the toughest metal.

After the hand grabbed on to a crack in the stone floor. It pulled the creature it belonged. The humanoid monster appeared behind the three, clad in nothing but moonlight. 

The creature looked very frail like there was nothing in its other body than bones. Its eyes were blood red, its hair has fallen off. Humanoid monster looked like it hasn't eaten in centuries.

After noticing it, Gregory looked at the creature with all-seeing eyes without showing any surprise.

[Name = Jal Atar Kaliel's Thrall] 

[Rank = Common]

[Level = Soldier]

[Skill =]

[Abilities =]

Gregory smirked while reading the description. 

'It is exactly similar to how it was in the game. All of its blood skills are working perfectly.'

[All of its blood = When you drink a creature's blood, you can copy its identity, memories, abilities and even its soul. Once you steal their souls, you can turn them into mindless vampires or bind them to you as slaves. ]i

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