Chapter 1016 The Awakening of the 6th Stage Vampires!
Chapter 1016 The Awakening of the 6th Stage Vampires!
Meanwhile, back in Polaris Realm...
In the far north of the continent, numerous monsters stood around an icy region where the largest desert on the entire continent was located.
Close to the coast, The Ivory Desert was one of the most challenging places on the entire continent, where only the most extreme creatures could live. Not by chance, this place had become home to the most powerful monsters in Polaris Realm, where vampires had made their home for hundreds of thousands of years.
Previously, only powerful magicians and magical creatures would dare to come to this area. Not only that, only powerful monstrous races would live there. But things had changed a lot since the beginning of The Purification.
Now the outskirts of the headquarters of the vampire territory were teeming with negative creatures from weaker races, with encampments stretching as far as the eye could see.
There were so many monsters guarding or just living there at the moment that it would be almost impossible for one to travel through the region without being observed.
After years of conflict with the forces of magicians and beasts of the Light Path, the creatures of the vampire coalition were, mostly, living around The Ivory Desert, both because they had been expelled from other areas of the continent and to protect this place.
Powerful individuals, such as Lauren Fuller, had several times tried to invade The Ivory Desert in recent years, seeking the deaths of the 6th stage vampires in seclusion in the area.
The last 10 years had been chaotic and rather negative for the beings in this region. Of the hundreds of thousands of inferior vampires and thousands of superior vampires, there had been almost no trace of this powerful race left in Polaris Realm.
The number of lower vampires had reached a level where one could say that they were on the verge of extinction. Meanwhile, fewer than 300 superior vampires existed on the continent at this time and they were, without exception, in hiding.
However, that was about to change!
At the start of another night in this cold and malicious area of the continent, the sound of a trumpet rang out from one of the highest mountains in the area.
Little by little, the tired and despondent looks on the faces of the hundreds of thousands of magical creatures around the desert improved as they heard the sign they had been waiting for.
As the creatures opened their eyes, raised their weapons in the air and shouted in excitement, three vampires left an underground cave in the middle of that area full of creatures.
When they arrived in a large underground area, where black walls took the place of bare rock and red flames illuminated the area, the three came across a group of white-haired, red-eyed individuals.
This group, however, was not large. With less than 200 members, the group of Sovereigns and Paragons there paled compared to the presence of the three newly arrived Intermediate Archmages.
The three strongest remaining vampires looked at their people for a few moments in silence. None of them were happy, even though they had finally ended their seclusion.
'That damned Vicente Fuller nearly destroyed us on his journey.' One of them thought to himself, remembering how his people had lost not only Demien, but several 6th stage vampires and many good 5th stage talents who could have become Archmages.
Vicente had also killed important 6th stage monsters that could have given the vampires a chance to develop more of their skills after his departure. If they still had some of those high-level Archmages they had before Vicente became an Archmage, their whole current situation would be different.
'Fucking Miss Death screwed us over good!' thought one of those old vampires, his hateful gaze determined to suck the traitor's blood. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Lauren had, at the beginning of The Purification, been part of a sect allied with the vampires, but after being an ally, she had become the worst of the vampires' executioners.
Several vampires with the potential to become Archmages who were in seclusion after Vicente's departure had been killed by her. The three vampires could see this by the ridiculously low number of strong vampires left after their decade of seclusion.
However, now that they had ended their seclusion, it was time for a comeback!
With clenched fists, the oldest of these vampires, Vicente's survivor, said in a harsh tone. "Prepare to go into battle! Let's kill those damn magicians who think they've taken back the continent from us!"
The strongest vampires in the area raised their voices in unison, each of them eager to taste human blood again.
They would not take any chances with Lauren and Nina rampaging around the continent, while no one with the strength to fight them appeared. But with Intermediate Archmages who could keep them busy, they were more than willing to show themselves again.
As soon as the three vampires walked out of that underground area, the dozens of vampires there followed them, with some of them walking closer to the elders and answering their questions.
"Are you all that's left?" one of them asked with an ugly look on his face.
"No, there must be 50 to 100 of us scattered around the continent now. We issued a warning to everyone a few days ago, but we didn't hear back. Either they're hiding in wait for our movement, or they're surrounded."
There was also the possibility that these vampires were unwilling to risk themselves after everything that had happened in recent years.
The monster coalition had certainly caused many difficulties for the mainland forces and generated many deaths in recent years. But they had lost far more than they had taken from the allied forces led by Lauren.
There was now a widespread feeling that the vampires were not so strong and should be careful when acting against Miss Death.
"What about the inferior vampires?"
"We have a thousand of them in the area, Elder. Most of them are Paragons, but we have 11 lower vampires in the mid part of 6th stage. They're waiting for your orders."
"What about the monsters?"
"We have 350,000 creatures around. But less than 30,000 are Paragons and less than 200 are Archmages."
"And the enemies? Where are they? What are their numbers?"
"They've been surrounding us for 350 kilometers from where we are. Their encirclement has at least 100,000 individuals, including magicians and beasts. We don't have the exact location of Lauren Fuller and Nina Fuller, but they must be hiding amid this siege. Supposedly, they will act together."
"Nina Fuller?" The face of one of the 6th stage vampires contorted sharply, hearing that name for the first time. "Who's that?"
"A magician from the Dark Path, younger sister of Vicente Fuller. She's killed tens of thousands of our coalition's allies in recent years."
The three vampires felt Vicente Fuller's plague on them once again, not expecting the accursed Fuller family to have someone else to antagonize them.
"Is there anyone else from that damned family?" one of them asked, before speaking without giving anyone room to answer him. "Never mind. Let's hunt down all those with the surname Fuller! They must all die after we kill those two bitches!"