"Meet. Your. Maker~" Christopher said and his tentacles flew forward.
The left one grabbed the closest mage's head and pulled it away while the right one pierced his chest and pulled out his heart, eating it right after.
Another mage died when the tentacle, holding the previous mage's head threw it away and enveloped the other mage's body like an anaconda.
Spinning him in the air, the tentacle pierced his chest, flew a little further, and then bit his neck from behind, separating the head and body.
Executions like this, coming from the worst nightmares were happening around a man with a wide smile and a face filled with black veins while his eyes were as dark as the darkness itself.
A few souls of his army died, it was obvious this would happen, but that didn't help the mages to win. The only thing that happened was that the souls were even more aggressive than before and that Christopher now joined the party.
One of the mages suddenly screamed.
"WHO ARE YOU MAN?!" as he dodged an approaching claw of a close demonic soul and kill it with a blood incantation.
Christopher turned his face at the mage and teleported himself in front of him, piercing his chest with his right hand.
Holding the mage's heart tightly, he spoke.
"I'm the thing that lesser man like you fear~"
And with a smile, he pulled the man's heart out, killing the Vampire on the spot.
As if he was a Universal entity, tables, chairs, candle holders, everything was flying around him while the souls with the sword were slashing the Vampires with their bare hands and sometime with the blade.
"Master! Help US!"
"We provoke something far worse then Cravenworth! We need your help!" the mages were screaming at their leader who was cowardly hiding and ignoring everything in the middle of the battlefield while the limbs of his friends were flying around and Christopher began to approach him with slow but elegant steps.
...
A few minutes later, every single blood mage was dead and consumed by Christopher, except for the leader.
The walls of the cave were painted with the mages' blood as the last soul returned to Christopher's body, only his sword was flying around and consuming the blood.
With every drop of the blood, its power rose to the heavens, the detail that his master didn't know about... for now.
"Come out, come out little mouse HAHAHAHAHAHA" Christopher laughed like a maniac as he walked around the blood barrier the mages' leader formed and was hiding under.
"You should run when you had a chance mage~" he spoke as his left tentacle suddenly pierced the barrier with its upper sharp teeth and while Christopher was walking around, the tentacle's teeth were slowly forming two horizontal lines in the leader's barrier.
When the lines met, the tentacle pulled away its teeth which made the mage tremble in fear.
Then, with the other tentacle, the two-bit the top of the dome-like barrier and threw it away, effectively opening it.
"Leave me alone you MONSTER!" the mage shouted and fired ten blood-red spikes at Christopher while running away. The time around Christopher seemed to slow down as a pair of bat wings made of dark, smoke-like energy appeared from his back.
Using them as a shield, the wings consumed the spikes one after another without taking any damage, empowering Christopher even more.
"Enough of this shit!" the mage shouted and formed a ball of blood in his hand and sent it at Christopher who cut the blood in half with his sword that quickly flew into his hand.
The sword absorbed most of the blood, but a few drops fell on Christopher's cheek and entered his body.
"Hahahaha, that was stupid" spoke the mage and started controlling Christopher's blood system with his blood, which made Christopher kneel on the ground.
"Christopher!" Samantha and Anna shouted at the same time with worry in their voices.
For Samantha, Christopher had already an irreplaceable place in her heart and for Anna, Christopher was a savior and her idol.
Just looking at the power he had was enough for her to gain determination to become stronger in the future.
While kneeling on the ground, Christopher formed a purple barrier around himself but it didn't stop the blood mage's control.
"It's just a waste of your precious energy my friend. My blood is already in your system and I'm the only one who can control my blood."
Looking at the mage, Christopher's point of view started glitching as his darkness system was struggling a lot to get the blood of the mage out of his body.
"Foolish to think that you can kill me so easily like those maggots before me" The mage's ego started rissing again after seeing he could hurt Christopher so easily, so he lifted him with his power and started pulling out his limbs with the blood control.
The two tentacles on his back roared and with shrieks that struck fear into every being, they flew towards the mage with only one single thought, killing him. The mage looked at them and pointed his other palm at Christopher.
Controlling the blood that was dripping from his body, he formed a stronger blood barrier that stopped the tentacles.
This barrier was stronger than the mage's so the tentacles couldn't destroy it like before and the mage smiled like a madman.
After half a minute, Christopher's body was already missing a left arm and right leg as the mage was absorbing Christopher's entire existence with some kind of forbidden incantation found in his grimoaire.
Christopher didn't want to cry from that pain, even when it was unbearable, which caused him to slowly faint.
His body might have the strength of a thousand years old vampire now but his mind was too young for this kind of torture.
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[... Redwilnet ...]
"DARLING!!!" Rose screamed as a feeling of Christopher's soul being shattered into thousands of pieces filled the connection.
She fell on her knees, clutching her chest strongly with tears in her eyes.
The same reaction had Vicki and Claudia who were walking aimlessly around the Báthory residence.
The pain was enormous and their senses were driving those three on the edge of fainting.
[... Unknown place ...]
After fainting, Christopher opened his eyes and found himself in a fully dark place where he heard.
'Focus Christopher, just focus...'
Focusing on the voice, a small pool of blue liquid appeared in front of him, and as he lifted his hand to touch it, the liquid suddenly moved and followed the movement of his hands.
'With focus, we can do things that others can only imagine. Focus is the key Christopher' was heard from behind him, and when he turned, he saw his mother kneeling in front of his ten years old self.
It was when he accidentally hurt his friend with his magic powers, which caused his family to move away from that town because too many people saw this incident. This memory was sealed by his mother and now was reopened.
Later on, he and his family were called monsters and the police of their previous hometown wanted to arrest them. That day, one powerful Vampire helped them to make the police forget this incident and let them go.
His mother then did something for the Vampire and they were free. She was the strongest White Witch on Earth. Everyone would want something from a person like her, even a powerful Vampire like the one who helped them.
'Mother?' Christopher spoke and tried to walk to her but the image immediately disappeared as he felt some kind of chains around his legs and arms.
Feeling something leaving his body and shattering his very soul, he heard his mother's voice for the last time.
'Don't forget sweetheart. Focus is the key~' his mother's voice resonated in his ears before he closed and reopened his eyes again.
[... Aragos ...]
Slowly looking around, he was back again in that cave, in front of the blood mage leader who was taking some kind of purple essence from his body.
"And now, I'm going to be the strongest being in this world HAHAHAHAHA! That stupid Cravensworth would be useless against me. Even all four Lords with the Light royalty would be useless against my POWER Hahahahaha... huh?"
"Let him go!" Samantha suddenly appeared in front of the blood mage and punched his face, sending him towards a wall which made Christopher fall on the ground as his body started quickly healing.
Turning her face, she quickly came to Christopher and asked.
"Are you alright?"
"Heh, yeah thanks to you. Because of my recklessness, I lent him control over the fight." he replayed and slowly got up. His body was already healed, a feat every Vampire would envy.
Suddenly, in front of him appeared Ardelean, but no one could see him. He was missing a left arm, right leg, and half of his face at which Christopher narrowed his eyes.
'What happened to you?' he asked.
["What do you think?! You almost lost me and our power! Consume him and give me back my parts! He took them away!"] Ardelean roared at him as Christopher nodded, understanding that the mage was consuming the Darkness essence together with Ardelean from him.
'It's not going to happen again,' he said as Ardelean nodded and disappeared.
Christopher started walking towards the mage as his two tentacles and wings, which because he fainted disappeared, reappeared again.
Arriving in front of the mage, he grabbed his neck and lifted him into the air as his mouth opened widely.
"You wanted my power? Here, take it!" he said and he bit the mage's neck furriously, transferring the darkness to the mage.
The mage woke up and started shaking and screaming all around but his voice slowly died down when a last drop of the darkness essence was transferred to him.
Except for Ardelean of course.
"NO STOP!" screamed the mage as his body was about to explode from that ridiculous amount of power.
"What? I can't hear you" said Christopher with a wide smile, making a gesture of turning his face to the side while placing his hand behind his right ear.
Opening his eyes widely, the mage's irises turned purple as he started levitating and spinning in the air.
The space around started cracking and gravity began to increase in the cave until his body turned into a sticky, black mess and flew inside Christopher like a missile.
After that, Christopher took a step back from the powerful push and turned himself to his savior who looked at him like a scared dear.
"Hahahaha, don't need to be so scared." he chuckled.
Samantha nodded as her sister appeared next to her and ran to Christopher's arms.
"Thank you for saving me... Master" she said with a shy expression, looking pretty cute.
"That's cute, but why master?" he asked with a raised eyebrow, looking at Samantha who started whispering around.
'For consuming so much darkness essence, you can permanently unlock two darkness skills. Which skills do you want... master?' spoke the system in his head.
'You already know that... right?' Christopher spoke as an icon of YES/NO buttons appeared in his point of view.
He ignored the shy tone his system used, very similar to that Anna used, and focused more on the exciting thing.
Christopher clicked the YES button and two darkness skills were immediately unlocked ad his gaze falled on the grimoaire.
Lying on the ground, Christopher felt a bad feeling about it, so he picked it up and burned it in Lilith's flames, one of the skills he chose to unlock permanently.
"No one will EVER do this to me again!" he said and beggan to walk out of the cave.
"..."
Coming out of the cave, something interesting for the girls was awaiting them at the entrance.
Four men with pail skin wearing medieval black armor with red details were kneeling in front of the front of the cave and behind them was a wooden carriage with the same red and black details.
"Lord Salvatore." the four vampires stood up and bowed.
Their faces were hidden under their helmets, only their red eyes were visible.
"Lord Cravensworth is humbly calling you to his castle. We have orders to escort you to the place."
Christopher narrowed his eyes and scanned the surroundings with his senses that after this encounter began to work like an echolocation.
Feeling nothing from the vampires and not sensing any hidden individuals, except the wild life and that mysterious crow flying around, he nodded and placed his hands on Samantha, who was on his right, and on Anna, who was on his left.
Darkness started leaving his palms, forming two medieval perfect-looking, white-colored dresses with red stains resembling blood on their bodies.
Their lips began to be painted by blood-red lipstick and their hair started being tied up into buns, leaving few strains of their hair comming down their cheeks.
On their ears formed expansive looking earrings and necklaces with diamonds formed on their necks
After the dresses and accesory were done, thicker darkness started covering Anna's entire body and after a few seconds, her bruises and bite marks disappeared completely.
The girls looked at him with shock, grattitude and admiration as his white clothes repaired and turned to black aristocratic ones, with the same blood details as their dresses.
He looked like an ancient ruler as he looked at his hands and smiled.
Immediately, darkness covered them and formed a pair of white glows on his hands but that was not the only thing that appeared on his hands.
On his right formed an angular ring.
It was the ring he recieved from his father on his birthday.
'Well, maybe it's not going to be so long to recieve everything I lost. And maybe-' he looked at the girls '-I recieve more then I lost~'
"Girls?" he spoke and lifted his face up.
"I think we should not let Lord Cravenswoth wait," he continued and placed his hands around their waists.
The four men's eyes glowed for a few seconds at the site of the two beauties in front of them as their sweet sents flew towards them.
Christopher's eyes turned purple as a pair of black bat wings made from smoke-like energy appeared behind him and embraced the girls even more, pushing them closer to him.
When even this didn't help the four men woke up from their desired state, a flashing vision that only they could see flashed through their eyes which made them finally wake up while sweating like pigs to be sluthered at any moment.
With a wide smile, he spoke.
"Can you open the doors for my dear sweethearts?"
The men nodded and two of them quickly ran to open the door while the other two tried to understand what kind of monster they had just seen, but the only thing their mind could recall were a pair of purple eyes surrounded by darkness.
"What was that t-thing" asked one.
"I don't know and I never wanna find out" spoke the other.
"Are you talking about me?" was suddenly heard from behind them which caused them to tremble and slowly turn around.
Seeing the big grin on Christopher's face, they quickly shook their head and denied that.
"N-No Lord, we... we were talking about... payment! Yes, payment..." spoke the first one with a trembling voice.
"Ohhh" Christopher looked at them with disappointment.
"When you want to talk about what you saw... I'm here~" he smiled widely like a devil and got in the carriage.
"He knew that"
"He definitely knew that" spoke the other one.
"We should move" spoke the first one.
"Good idea" spoke the other one while his eyes started being glued to Samantha's body, while Christopher sat between the two girls.
Feeling the gaze of the vampire, she sensually crossed her legs and placed one on Christopher's right thigh.
Looking at her sister, Anna did the same and even kissed Christopher on his left cheek.
Knowing himself and his possible bloodlust that already began to take control over his eye color, he formed a thick cloud of darkness on the windows and sealed the entire carriage with his power.
"Lucky" spoke the two vampires and walked to the front of the carriage where they sat and commended the horses to move towards their destination.
The first Lord's castle.
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