Chapter 14 Tension
After looking around the western edges most populated locations they hear mentions of a pale man rambling in town squares of highly populated towns. Then some fellow members of the Titan guild mention that they saw a vampire in Gelred. They rush over and see the vampire lord known as Popiri in the town square next to a fountain groveling and rambling. Alucard assures Cel it’s Popiri, the two approach the pitiful vampire clinging onto this cloak to hide from the sun due to lack of blood. Vampires can survive the sunlight as long as they reach a threshold of blood eaten in the past few days. Alucard picked Popiri up and lifted him over his shoulders as they walked out of town and talked about how to mess with the lord. They decided to drag him back to the guild so Zera could do it herself.
Popiri began to laugh and cry, rambling madness and cursing out god while apologizing at the same time. They landed at the guild base in the afternoon after traveling all morning and bought some cuffs from the guild base before heading over to their place that they are renting currently. They knock on Zera’s door to see if she’s awake she yells out just “10 more hours and I'll be up!”
“Ok then just let us know when and we’ll be back.” Cel responds, as they walk and use the cuffs to lock Popiri to a tree.
So they waited a while before going off to lunch guessing that Zera would just sleep through the entire day but that’s not what happened they came back to an odd site before them.
While Cel and Alucard went off to get some food I decided finally to get up after getting over reliving those terrible memories. I headed outside to mediate an image train by conjuring a water dummy that mimicked Cel’s movements. When walking down the hall of the small apartment complex I felt a stab to my sense screaming at me. Something was staring at me from the forest and it made my blood seem to boil though I didn't know why. I looked out the triangle windows to try and see what it was but I didn’t see anything so I kept walking down the hall to the stairway descending down the spiral of stairs out into the office space and walked out the double doors that went out to the forest. Heading about 200 meters in so I didn’t crash into anything when I started sparring against an image. I stood in the center of a small clearing focusing on my breath just listening to the melody of the universe. It was calm yet energizing, so refilling. I used this to figure out where clusters of magic in the air gathered as I slowly absorbed the magical energy for myself.
I kept this system going for Probably an hour or two before I started using the clusters to build something. I combined my water magic and illusion magic to make an ice golem as the water slowly froze over crystalizing the creature into shape. Then using some illusion magic I made it look like my teacher as I gave it the instructions to fight like them by tapping it on the forehead. I stood proud for a moment at my creation as I took a fighting stance. My teacher had told me that it’s useful that I know how to fight far ranged but I should learn close combat or I’m done for quests lacking information.
I started the battle by going in for a tackle by grabbing arms and pushing him down with a tackle but the golem performed a front flip axe knocking me into the ground. I grabbed it’s leg and pulled it to the ground, while blasting it with wind in the face to rock them off their balance. The golem unable to use magic to fight back against my own landed with a thud. It began to spin on its back and had rocks smack me in the head while it used the spinning to stand back up. While I deflected the rocks the golem went in for a drop kick. Sending me back five feet I felt a thunder of pain radiate from my back as I landed on a tree trying to catch myself with the wind but just falling further off course. I cut the tree to splinters as I regained my balance then sprinting towards the golem like a werewolf gone made as I hurled myself through the air crashing into the golem and shattering and holding it’s leftover arms as I landed after flying around 400 meters into another clearing I paused at the site before me. There lay a vampire before me being stuck to a tree by some handcuffs. Something was screaming at me. This was him, this was the vampire that ruined my life. I stood there as my entire body froze over like the ocean whenever it entered the ice age. My senses were screaming at me but I was still uncertain and as I approached the vampire said “Please help me, if you do I’ll give you anything you desire my name is Popiri I’m a vampire no-”
“Shut up, I despise you and you’re a liar through and through you trick anyone who helps you and turn them into monsters that can no longer control themselves they suffer for the rest of their lives underneath you as slaves you’re a sick vampire noble Popiri.”
The frozen over ocean inside of me now reassured it’s him began to melt within an instance as a volcano emerged from it erupting with the fury of a dragon. I condensed a sphere of steaming air and water into my right hand while in my left hand I created an ice lance surrounded by tendrils of sub zero wind. As I was about to charge at this disgusting creature I stopped myself and had a thought occur to me. He would get what he deserved not by dying but by being defeated in a proper battle so I went off to get him some blood of an animal. But before I left I created a water golem to watch the vampire.
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