While Isobel, Vicki, Claudia, Rose, and Marcus were on their way to help Christopher, a leader of the clan Dark family was in her home office, signing some documents.
[... Residence of Clan Dark, unknown location ...]
Her name is Celeste Dark, 192cm tall, with dark black hair, E-cup breast, and mature, hourglass-body type hidden under her short, black skirt and white shirt with two buttons undone.
Resembling a woman from any human office place, she is sitting behind her desk, reading and signing some documents about money for some companies working for her in the human world.
Her home office has a wooden office desk with a lamp, a few papers, a computer, and a glass with a red liquid in it.
On the ground is a brown fluffy carpet while on the walls are pictures of little Claudia and her parents.
But there is one painting that doesn't quite catch the vibe of the home office.
It's a medieval-looking painting with two women in fully black medieval armors, holding each other's wrists and smiling towards the artist who painted this piece of art.
It's Celeste and her sister Helena, the mother of Claudia.
Behind Celeste is a wall made from three big windows and as the moonlight that was coming through them is falling on the desk, the room is filled with a melody from an old song that Celeste is humming.
*KNOCK *KNOCK *KNOCK Suddenly a knocking sound was heard on the door as Celeste spoke up: "Come in"
It was a maid, wearing a fully black maid outfit with little red details, showing that she was the head maid of the Clan Dark.
Her name is Henrietta and she is a three hundred years old vampire.
"Countess Celeste, something happened," Henrietta said and walked to the office desk, putting a picture of the burned mansion in front of Celeste.
"And that's not everything" she continued and told Celeste everything that happened in that residence and club Atlas, adding a photo documentation as well.
"So... my niece got married and she didn't even say anything?" said Celeste with a little frustration after what she heard from Henrietta, adding "Well Henrietta, pack up, we are going to visit my old friend"
She got up from the black, leather chair and left the office.
Walking through the corridors of her mansion and looking at the picture of Christopher with glowing blood-red eyes that she received from Henrietta, she thought 'Ohhhhh, my dear niece, you wanted to hide this beautiful treasure from me?'
Arriving in her bedroom, she locked herself in and after a few seconds, weird sounds started coming from that room.
...
[... The field near Phoenix's residence ...]
[... 20 minutes before Lorie arrived at the mansion and Celeste locked herself in her bedroom, doing some *ahm* important work ...]
When Lorie left, Christopher was standing alone on the field in front of the four men in white priest's clothes, ready to fight.
"You made a bad decision boy," said the priest in the middle, holding a big Western sword as his eyes were watching Christopher with a dangerous glint.
He was 195cm tall with long blond hair and two swords, one on his back (which now was in his hand) and the other hanging on his waist.
"Now you die" continued the priest as he slashed horizontally and vertically the space in front of him with his sword, releasing two waves of light in the shape of a cross.
["Don't touch the light. The consequences would be fatal!"] said Ardelean as I stretched my hand in front of me.
When the light was almost in front of me, my hand released a trait of darkness, forming a shield and destroying the light energy.
The priest with the sword said "Etalon? Go after that girl, we... we can handle this" with a little hesitation in his voice as he thought 'What was the barrier made of?'
Etalon nodded, started running and after a few meters, he jumped, wanting to go after Lorie.
"Where do you think you're going" I said as the engraved pistol from my right hand suddenly changed into a chain that flew towards Etalon's leg.
When the chain wrapped itself around Etalon's leg, I pulled him down and he fell on the ground.
Then I closed my eyes for a few seconds and after opening them, the entire field was covered in the almost transparent black barrier.
["Well done host~ you acquired a new weapon. The cursed chains of Immortal spirit. They are infinite and can tie up or hurt anyone, even ghosts"] I heard and looked at the transparent blue chain wrapped around my hand, replaying 'Well, that's useful.'
"Now, where were we?" I said and started walking towards the three priests as my two snake-head tentacles appeared, one at each side.
After a few steps, I add "Let's start this party already. I still have some business this night which I don't want to miss"
"T-that CAN'T BE" screamed the priest with a sword.
"I killed you Bastard!" he added.
"I don't think so~" Christopher spoke with a mischievous smile.
'So this is the one who killed your EX-host huh'
["That's true..."] Ardelean replayed as the sword-using Priest lifted his blade with its tip aiming at the sky, saying "In the name of our God, I'm blessing this blade to protect me and kill this demon from hell. THE BLESSED BLADE OF ORDER!"
Suddenly, the blade of his sword started glowing with bright yellow light as the priest started running towards Christopher.
"Well done *CLAP *CLAP *CLAP hehe, now it's my turn," I said as the chain on my right hand and the gun in my left hand changed into two western swords covered in shadows and I positioned myself, waiting for that sword using a priest to come closer.
But as I focused, my swords' blades were suddenly covered with the flames of Lilith as I looked at them, thinking 'This is new, it's your doing?'
["It's you host, you have too much power but weak control over it! You're basically a walking nuclear bomb. We need to train later."]
'Hmmm yeah, we should' I said but then ["DANGER!"] screamed Ardelean and I looked up, feeling the sword-using priest approaching me.
["DEFEND YOURSELF HOST~"] I heard so I lifted my swords, forming a letter X and blocking the priest's sword.
"You are a strong vampire, but not that strong," said the priest as I felt someone behind me.
Before I could do something, the two tentacles turned their heads and caught a light spear, that was about to pierce me from behind.
["HOST! CONCENTRATE OR YOU'LL DIE"] Ardelean roared at me and I finally threw the sword-using priest away from me.
'Fine, but how' I said looking at the four priests, surrounding me.
["Use your brain. The sword user and the flail user need to be close to you to attack you, the archer needs distance for shooting and a spear user can do both, he can pierce you with his light spears or throw them, and he's the most troublesome."]
'Okay,' I said as Ardelean continued.
["The sword and flail users are going to lure your attention to themselves, while the archer and sprear user are going to kill you from behind."]
["So I suggest you use, hmm something like this"] Ardelean took control over the tentacles and they started producing some weird but thick fog all around that covered me, the spear, and the sword user priests.
"What is this?" said the spear user looking around as I said "Gotcha", hearing ["NOW"] and positioning myself I jumped and flew with incredible speed, towards the spear user.
He saw me at the last second but I still managed to slash his right arm, but I was not prepared for what came after that.
Next to the spear user suddenly appeared the sword user priest who grabbed me by my throat, threw me towards the sky, and then pierced my chest with his sword as an incredible pain flew through my entire body.
I screamed in pain as he threw me a few meters away from him.
Lying on the ground, I slowly died from the toxicity of the Light in me, and the last thing I saw were the four priests standing next to each other, looking at me and laughing.
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[... Soul ...]
Opening my eyes, I found myself in my soul again, hearing "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!"
"YOU ARE A VAMPIRE? A HOST OF DARKNESS? YOU ARE JUST A PIECE OF PATHETIC SHIT!"
"HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOUR WIVES WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF! GET UP YOU STUPID PUPPET!"
"Ahhhh sorry Ardelean but they are too fast and strong for me. I never fought someone like this" I said as I got up from the ground.
"DON'T BE SORRY FOR YOUR ACTIONS, NEVER! YOU ARE A VAMPIRE. YOU ARE STRONGER THEN THEM."
"THEY ARE JUST HUMANS WHO ARE USING THE POWER OF SOMEONE ELSE! A POWER OF GOD"
"DIDN'T I TEACH YOU ANYTHING WHEN YOU WERE HERE THE FIRST TIME?!"
"I taught you techniques and how to use them, I showed you the power of darkness and how to use this power. And you still don't understand, right?" said Ardelean as I nodded.
"FINE, BUT THIS IS THE LAST TIME, OR I'M GOING TO LET YOU DIE AND LOOK FOR ANOTHER HOST... AND TRUST ME, I would be really sad to leave you and let your wives be with someone else."
Christopher's eyes suddenly changed black with glowing, crimson-red, reptilian-like irises as he said something to Ardelean with a deep demonic voice and Ardelean laughed, saying "Well I mean, your wives should be with Lazarus. He can at least protect them." and then, he smiled as if everything was going according to his plan.
Christopher was filled with rage as he launched himself on Ardelean and their training started.
...
After the training that felt like an eternity, Christopher was lying on the ground while Ardelean was looking at the flaming totem.
"How come time doesn't count here?" I asked, looking at Ardelean with a questioning gaze.
He looked at me and said "One day, I'm going to reveal to you everything I know, but now you have a fight, so don't disappoint me, Christopher. Not again."
I nodded, got up from the ground, and walked into the dark.
Ardelean started at Christopher's back for a few minutes before he added "Heh, you are just like my son"
[... The field near the Phoenix residence ...]
The sword-user priest started walking towards Christopher's dead body as he hid his big western sword into the sheet on his back and took out the sword from his waist.
It was black Raziel's sword with red cravings, the strongest one among all Raziel's swords. This one is powerful enough to kill even a Progenitor.
As the priest was getting ready to pierce Christpher's heart, destroying him once and for all, a dark orb flew from Christopher's body, towards the sky.
All four priests looked at the orb, feeling that something had gone wrong.
When it was around fifteen meters above the field, it exploded as another almost transparent darkness covered the entire field like a dome.
"Another barrier?" asked the flail user as he touched the barrier which sent sensitive pulses all around the field like an echo.
Hearing something, the sword user looked down but Christopher was nowhere to be found.
Quickly understanding, he turned and shouted "Azmel don't touch-" but it was too late because Christopher already appeared next to the Azmel and-
*BOOOOOM
-he punched him so hard, that his head evaporated from existence.
The flail fell from his hands to the ground and the three remaining priests were shocked because of what they saw next.
Christopher bent down and took the flail and as it still had some power in it, he absorbed it.
Because it was a holy power he started coughing blood but then, he looked at them with a wide smile on his face.
That was the last thing the priests could see because then, the barrier that was covering the entire field, turned into pure darkness and nothing could be seen because the moon was gone.
"Zanderiel do something!" said the spear priests as a bright light suddenly appeared in the hand of the sword user priest and he threw it towards the sky like a flare.
"So Zanderiel is your name huh, I finally know what I'm going to write on your grave" was heard a few steps behind the priests and when they turned, they saw Christopher and twelve stone shards appearing behind him, one after other.
Zanderiel screamed "BRACE!" as Christopher sent the stone shards, with an incredible speed towards the priests.
Zanderiel kneeled and pierced the ground with his sword as a golden barrier appeared around them and the shards collided with it.
Six shards were stuck in the barrier but the priests survived.
*Tsk "You really are annoying Zanderiel. Why can't you just die?" said Christopher as his black eyes with blood-red reptilian-like irises wanted to see their dead bodies lying on the ground.
Zanderiel pulled the Raziel's sword from the ground as he finally understood, why the stone shards could penetrate his barrier.
"Shit, I had this in my hand all the time?!" Zanderiel mumbled and threw that broken sword away and he pulled his other sword from his back.
Suddenly, a white orb left Azmel's body and slowly flew toward the sky.
"Fuck, Azmel is dead" mumbled Etalon as his grip on his light spear tightened and his expression turned angry.
The white orb was slowly rising, wanting to go to heaven and when Christopher sent his tentacle for it, he heard ["DON'T!"]
Of course, it was too late for him because when his tentacle was about to eat that orb, an arrow pierced its head and its shrieks were heard all around the field.
Christopher looked at the archer as his eyes lightened with rage.
He started running towards him while Azmel's soul was stuck on the ceiling of the darkness barrier.
The archer fired three arrows at Christopher, but Christopher dodged them all as the flames of Lilith enveloped his hands and he jumped towards the archer like a hungry lion.
When he landed on the ground, a wave of black and white flames together with stone shards flew toward the archer and he was sent flying while his clothes started burning with Christopher's fire.
"ZANDERIEL, ETALON. HELP!" screamed the archer as he stood up, wanting to extinguish the flames but then, eight black chains tore their way out from the ground and wrapped themselves around the archer's neck, arms, body, and legs, making him kneel in front of slowly approaching Christopher with glowing dragon-like eyes.
Zanderiel and Etalon were just standing there, looking at Christopher, who approached their archer and tore his head out but when he wanted to absorb the archer's soul, he heard a sweet and seducing female voice in his head.
"Ohhh, yes please mmnnn~. Burn them all with my flames dear~. Ahhh ~" but looking around he only saw the two remaining priests.
"Well, that was weird" he mumbled as he absorbed a white orb, the soul of their archer, and started walking towards the two remaining priests with a wide smile.
"You two didn't like him much, did you?" asked Christopher, looking at Zanderiel and forming two swords in his hands again.
"He was weak and annoying" answered Zanderiel as he too started walking toward Christopher, gripping the handle of his holly sword tighter.
"Ohh, you are not strong either, Zan," said Christopher and started running as the blades on his swords lit up with Lilith's flames.
'Fuck, the flames of that bitch. This is going to be interesting' Zanderiel thought.
"Let's see," said Zanderiel as he started running too and when he was just a few steps away from Christopher, he screamed "THE BLESSED BLADE OF ORDER" as their swords collided.
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