"How the hell..." Camilla mumbled absentmindedly before jumping away from the kid, "There's no way you should be awake... I personally made sure to knock you out!"
Enjoying Camilla's bewilderment, the student decided to reveal his true self to the enemies. The boy's face distorted momentarily before rearranging itself to form an entirely new face. His blonde hair turned ashen and so did his skin.
In just a blink of an eye, the identity of the boy changed... Camilla and her hired assassins were shaken by the sudden development, while Kai was down watching everything unfold in horror. Just like his assailants, he had no idea what was going on.
A bunch of vampires, who should be his allies were trying to kill him, while a werewolf, who was supposed to be a rival was trying to protect him? None of it made any sense! However, he wasn't complaining.
Even if the werewolf couldn't protect him, at least he could use him as a meat shield to escape and regroup with the rest of the professors. As long as there were others around him, no matter how strong Camilla was, she would have to retreat.
Intending to put his plan into action, Kai got off his sorry butt and made a break for it. But the moment it seemed he was free from the action, his head collided against an invisible barrier.
It wasn't an ordinary barrier either. Only the people inside the barrier could see or hear each other. While those on the outside would see ordinary scenery. They would only realise that a barrier has been placed there if they accidentally got in contact with it.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtBut even then, the barrier would still be in place. The only way to get rid of the barrier was to get rid of the one who created it, or if the caster wished for it to happen.
The caster in this case happened to be Camilla who was also inside the barrier. Which meant... until and unless someone inside the barrier either killed her or forced her to dispel it, all of them were staying inside.
"What the hell is this!?" Kai barked in frustration.
"You really thought they would be careless enough to try and kill the Overlord's nephew without taking some measures beforehand?" Ashton shook his head in disappointment, "You're not the brightest lamp, are you? Now shut up and sit quietly while I deal with these suckers."
"You ignored my question?" Camilla raised her eyebrow, "In hindsight, it doesn't matter who you are. After all, you will die here and take the blame for 'killing' Kai. Haha, you made everything a bit easier for us!"
"You think so huh?" Ashton smirked and took out the twin blades, "You think I'm just a brat who just so happened to be here to cause you trouble... don't you?"
None of them answered his question as they were too busy gawking at the twin swords Ashton was wielding.
"Where did you... get those swords?" One of the assassins blurted out.
Ashton could feel the rage in his voice. But even then, he couldn't help but laugh. He found it hilarious that whenever he chose to fight a vampire, they immediately recognised the swords as if it was a relic or something.
But the most amusing thing was if it was such an important weapon, then what the heck was it doing in the hands of a level 10 bloodsucker?
"I'm not in a mood to answer that." Ashton shrugged his shoulders and charged toward the crowd, "But maybe if you get on your knees and beg, I might disclose some details."
Watching him run his way, the assassin who had inquired about the swords, took it upon himself to deal with him. However, in his fit of rage, he forgot to take some obvious things into account. Things like skills and equipment.
[You have been affected by <Lure>. The effectiveness of your skills has dropped by 60%.]
As the notification flashed before the vampire's eyes, it was already too late. His agility skill wouldn't be enough to make him dodge the incoming attack.
He stared at his fellow assassin, his eyes begging for help. Little did he know that everyone single one of them received the same prompt. In a swift move, Ashton had made most of their skills useless. However, even with the effectiveness of their skills down the drain, there were ways to interrupt Ashton.
Camilla immediately cast an elemental spell, hurling a ball of violent wind towards Ashton. Although the spell wasn't strong enough to blow Ashton away, it was enough to ruin his balance, making him fall.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"Tsk, my bad. I forgot you are not an average bunch." Ashton mumbled while brushing the dust off of his shoulder, "You fckers will keep pestering me while protecting each other... what a pain."
The assassins were no longer taking Ashton lightly like before. In just a couple of seconds, he had shown what he was capable of. If they dare to take him lightly, they could potentially lose their heads in a blink of an eye.
"I guess I have no other choice. Well, it won't matter if I killed you all... except for one thing," Ashton suddenly turned towards Kai and threw a needle at him.
Kai tried to dodge the attack but the needle inevitably managed to pierce his shoulder. Within a couple of seconds, he was snoring louder than a panda.
"With that out of the way, let's begin the final massacre." Ashton winked at his enemies before activating all of his genes.
While he was strong enough to take them down one after another, as long as they were together, he wouldn't have been able to deal a decisive blow to any of them. If Ashton wanted to deal with them as swiftly as possible, he needed allies. Thankfully, he had enough of them.
"What in Dracula's name is going on here?" Camilla was baffled, like the rest of them when they felt an unexplainable change happening right in front of their eyes.
They could sense the presence of a Vampire coming from the boy. But that wasn't all... they could even smell the awful scent of rotten blood coming from him as well. They were all familiar with the scent but whatever they were sensing couldn't possibly make any sense!
"How..." That was the only question running through their minds, "How can someone be a werewolf, vampire and undead?"
"Interesting question! You'll have ample time to think about it in the afterlife." Ashton chuckled before activating [Valhalla] to summon Sven and the wolves out.