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Vlad's party became better at hunting the dangerous Dark Spirits, utilizing a strategy that allowed them to easily paralyze them and then attack them from every angle, facilitating its hunt greatly.
Because Light Magic paralyzed Dark Spirits the first time it hit them, this was abused, allowing them to easily finish off the second Silent Dark Spirit they found.
BOOOM!
"G-Gryyeeh…"
The Silent Dark Spirit let out an agonizing sigh before dying; its entire bleeding corpse, while still fresh, was stored by Vlad within his Inventory for later consumption and dismantling.
The unique thing about Dark Spirits was their physical bodies, which normal Spirits didn't have. Vlad theorized that this was because their Spiritual Energy had been corrupted or cursed by the Darkness or Miasma of Obscuritas, becoming solid and slime-like, just like Miasma itself.
And yet, despite everything, they still counted as Spirits, and could be contracted, although the act of contracting them to begin with was incredibly dangerous by itself, even more when it came to the Frenzied Dark Spirits, who were incredibly aggressive in comparison to the Silent Dark Spirits.
"Phew! We're done with this one! Hey, that wasn't that hard~!" Chris said while stretching his arms. "Let's hunt a bit more before logging out, though; it's getting late."
"Okay, let's hunt some more then…" Vlad nodded. "We can't waste time; I also kind of want to log out soon, maybe an hour at most before we leave."
"I agree! I want to go have dinner later," Emerlinda nodded. "But what about Camilla here?"
"We'll bring her back home, of course," Vlad nodded. "Camilla, how do you feel so far? Has it been fun?"
"Kinda!" Camilla nodded. "Although the whole thing that happened to Chris was… weird. But it was fun, brother!"
Vlad smiled, petting her head. Remembering a few weeks ago when she was so shy and looked so weak and malnourished made him quite sad.
But now that she looked so healthy, strong, and happy, he felt quite happy, even proud… Paul never had any siblings, so this entire experience was very unique and felt good for him.
"Let's go then!" Vlad nodded.
Like that, they repeated the same trick ten more times, securing a lot of Dark Spirit corpses and blood. The trick worked every time; although sometimes the Silent Dark Spirits would freak out and jump over their heads, Chris would shoot them down with a Heavenly Smite.
"We've hunted ten so far, but… Hmm," Vlad looked around. "Emerlinda, don't you feel something's weird? Or odd?"
"Yeah…" nodded Emerlinda. "It's as if the Spirits are moving away… They're gone, actually. They move surprisingly quickly."
They quickly realized that for some reason the monsters were becoming rarer around them as they continued through the route that Vlad had marked in the map, however…
They quickly learned what was truly happening.
"W-What the hell is that?" Chris asked.
While looking behind several large trees, Chris panicked, his demonic eyes allowing him to easily see through the darkness.
"T-The Dark Spirits, all gathered together…" Emerlinda muttered, also managing to see from afar by infusing spirit energy into her eyes. "But why? What's going on here?"
"This… might be a little trap, perhaps," Vlad smiled half-jokingly. "It doesn't really feel like something that occurs normally; don't you think?"
"Hmm… I can hear something; mind waves somewhere." Camilla closed her eyes, sensing presences. "They're quite far away now… but they were here. I can hear their lingering thoughts a bit."
"Y-You can do that?" wondered Vlad, surprised.
"Yeah, it's a new ability I developed," Camilla nodded. "And… Hmm, it seems it might be indeed a trap. But… I think we're surrounded already, bro."
"Huh?!"
Vlad screamed as he realized that within the map, their group had already been surrounded by almost a hundred Dark Spirits, which showed big red dots.
There were Frenzied Dark Spirits, Silent Dark Spirits, and a third and rarer type of Dark Spirit that Vlad had never seen registered before in the Monster and Hunting Grounds Page.
"You've gotta be kidding me…" Chris muttered. "Do we escape and fly away?"
"Flying seems like a good choice," Vlad nodded. "But…"
He smiled lightly, realizing that although this was a trap they could easily avoid by flying away… this was also an opportunity they couldn't miss.
"Let's stay and fight; of course, let's do it in the sky; it's too disadvantageous to do it on the ground, surrounded by the forest," Vlad said.
"C-Can we fly while fighting them?" Emerlinda asked. "I mean, I could try, but..."
"{Wind Magic}: {Soar}!"
FLUOSH!
Suddenly, emerald winds surrounded Vlad and Emerlinda, allowing them to fly with ease, although Vlad had been already floating, barely stepping at all due to his annoying curse. But casting the stronger Spell from Float, Soar, helped him move even faster.
"W-Woah! I'm floating!" Emerlinda was surprised. "It's nice! Okay, let's do it then! But I am a close-ranged attacker…"
"You've got spirits, right? So just use spirit magic! Jesus, girl, do we have to tell you how to do everything?" Chris complained, getting a bit annoyed by Emerlinda.
"I-I haven't… trained my Spirit Magic that much…" Emerlinda muttered, blushing in embarrassment.
"…"
"…"
Chris and Vlad facepalmed, but at the end they let her be.
"Whatever, Camilla will cover your back," Chris said. "Right?"
"Yep, leave it to me, Chris!" Camilla nodded. "I'm confident after I made a new friend back then!"
"New friend?" Chris wondered.
"Uuh… Long story, I'll tell you later," Vlad sighed. "Anyway, you're up for it?"
"Sure!" Chris nodded. "If it means we get to grind a lot in a small amount of time, it sounds like a sweet deal to me!"
"Alright, it's decided!" Paul nodded, cracking his knuckles. "Let's go!"
The entire group quickly flew into the skies. Camilla used her Psychic Energies and Chris' wings to quickly reach the dark skies, right beneath the Red Moon.
Vlad felt powered up beneath its Crimson Moonlight, his Magic growing stronger thanks to the blessing he had received from the Goddess.
"Let's start with a lot of fireworks!"
FLUOSH!
With tremendous quantities of Arcana Energy flowing through all of his equipment, Paul combined several Spells together through Geomancy and Synthesis, manifesting a massive magic circle above the skies.
"{Crimson Moon Arcane Arts}: {Infernal Blood Meteor Rain}!"
Massive four-meter-big meteors made of crystalized blood energy covered with infernal flames fell from the skies, reaching the congregated Dark Spirits, and causing tremendous chaos!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
RUMBLE!
As the dark forest trembled, the camp at the southern outskirts felt large tremors come from the forest, most goblins glancing into the distance with worried expressions.
Meanwhile, a certain goblin girl and her little squad were glancing from very far away, flabbergasted.
"S-So that's the power of the Vampire Prince, huh? Damn…" The goblin girl's eyebrows twitched in disbelief.
These goblins, however, weren't the only people that the tremors alerted, as the northern area of the dark forest hosted a large congregation of people wearing dark green robes, with a red-colored lipstick smile imprinted on the robe's hood.
Their eyes glowed with bright green light as they directed their eyes towards the loud commotion, suddenly sensing the presence of uninvited guests stirring chaos within their territory.
An old man among the group quickly spoke with dry words.
"Those heathens dare to disturb our sacrificial ritual towards our Maiden?! They'll regret this!"
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