Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 291: Vampire vs. Corrupted Knight

Alvas' bat wings tore open the ventilation duct on the top of the laboratory, and the cold air of the Everwinter Sword instantly froze the corrosive liquid surging under his feet. He stepped on the ice and looked down at the Corrupted Knight in the center of the laboratory. The corpse standing next to the living furnace was slowly raising its head, and maggot-like shadow tentacles emerged from the gaps in the armor. The purple light of the furnace illuminated the necromancy runes engraved on its breastplate.

"Nice craftsmanship for a human mage." Alvas licked the blade of the sword, and frost spread along his black robe to the wall, freezing a row of screaming soul crystals.

Tormented by the constant loss of flesh golems, Basu screamed and gave orders: "Kill them!"

The iron chain of the Corrupted Knight "Calamity" suddenly broke. It grabbed the Corrupted Rune Giant Sword that was stuck in the ground, and split a jar of boiling alchemical acid with the blade. It roared: "Invaders... crush..."

Alvas swung his sword and the cold wave rushed towards the Corrupted Knight like a huge wave, and the metal instruments in the laboratory were instantly covered with ice. However, the knight inserted the rune sword into the ground, and the dark purple energy ripples spread out, melting the ice and corroding the floor, revealing the boiling blood pool reactor below.

The tip of the Corrupted Knight's sword continuously emitted foul-smelling green spores, and a stream of corrupted mist shot towards the vampire. Alvas teleported to the suspended soul-binding crystal chain, cut the chain with his backhand, and dozens of crystals smashed towards the knight, but were crushed into poisonous crystal dust by the tentacles when they touched his armor.

Alvas' figure flashed and turned into blood mist, rapidly shuttling back and forth above the knight's head. The frost spread along the trajectory of the blood mist into a spiked cage that trapped the knight. However, the necromancy rune on the knight's breastplate burst into green light, and corrosive mucus gushed out of the armor, melting the ice cage into a swamp with poisonous smoke.

Alvas tore open his chest and pulled out a beating blood core, and the blood turned into a rain of ice cones and shot at the knight. The armor of the Corrupted Knight was pierced, revealing the skeleton of the Arcane Knight with runes wrapped around it, but it stabbed the sword into its own chest, and the runes on the skeleton absorbed the energy of the blood core, and more corrosive tentacles emerged from the wound.

"Tsk, what a trouble." Alvas couldn't help but frown and curse.

Silas, who was standing by, smiled and said, "Do you need my help, Jasmine?"

Alvas's face darkened and he was furious.

Jasmine? He is not one of those lowly [Jasmine blood clan]. How dare this disgusting corpse covered with spikes insult the great [Nosferatu]? !

Alvas swung out an ice ray with his sword, aiming directly at Silas. The latter chuckled, and a hideous corrupted queen flower grew in front of him, swallowed the ice ray in one gulp, and immediately turned into an ice sculpture.

It’s no wonder that Alvas is angry. There are thousands of types of vampires in the multiverse, but only three major branches of vampires are common.

They are respectively [stiffness] of body being stiff and strength being stronger than that of King Kong.

A high-level vampire with beautiful appearance hiding in human society - [Jasmine Blood Clan].

And the rarest one - [Nosferatu].

Nosferatu are a very rare species of vampires who do not have the ability of normal vampires to produce offspring through biting.

Nosferatu is the product of a curse and is the most powerful type of vampire. However, due to the lack of the ability to develop offspring, the number of Nosferatu in the multiverse has been decreasing.

Under normal circumstances, there is one difference between Nosferatu and the Jasmine blood clan - their appearances are extremely hideous and terrifying.

Only a strong man like Alvas, who is close to being a legend, can change his appearance.

This is also the reason why Nosferatu is extremely jealous of Jasmine's blood clan.

Compared to the nightmare monsters, every Jasmine vampire is a well-educated handsome man or beautiful woman, occupying the upper class of society. They even use beautiful jasmine patterns as a symbol of identity. Silas called Alvas "little Jasmine", which can be said to be like pointing at his nose and cursing "fuck you" for any Nosferatu.

The fight between the two gave the Flesh Golem, which was on the verge of destruction, a chance to breathe a sigh of relief. Nemesis couldn't help but cough lightly, reminding these two teammates, who had never met each other before, where they should focus their attention most.

Alvas's face froze, then he snorted coldly and ignored Silas. Instead, he tightly grasped the blood core he had taken out of his chest and laughed coldly at the Corrupted Armor Knight.

"You are such an unintelligent idiot. The undead should have fewer low-class people like you filling the ranks."

Endless blood gushed out from the blood core, and Alvas shouted an evil curse: "Sanguine Lunae"

Nine-ring blood magic——[Scarlet Ode]!
This is a unique talent of Nosferatu, a supernatural ability derived from necromancy that gives them the magic to control blood.

Of course, although the way Nosferatu applied blood magic was similar to that of warlocks, their spell slots were quite scarce, because the blood in the blood core was consumed when they released blood magic. Even for a near-legendary warrior like Alvas, the blood stored in the blood core would be almost dry after releasing this spell.

Scarlet blood mist seeped out from the blood core, as if being pulled by an invisible hand, gathering into a vortex that surrounded the Corrupted Armor Knight.

Green light of resistance burst out from the gaps in the armor of the Corrupted Knight, but the blood mist had already condensed into twelve blood chains, piercing into the necromancy runes on his joints and breastplate. Pus spurted out from the cracks in the armor, but was instantly absorbed by the blood chains and transformed into a thicker crimson wave.

Listen, puppet—this is the "Scarlet Rhyme"! "

Alvas' pupils ignited with blood flames. The moment the rune was completed, all the blood chains collapsed into billions of blood beads, and a miniature wailing human face appeared inside each blood bead. The air in the laboratory began to tremble, and the blood beads vibrated at a high frequency, emitting a shriek that was beyond the hearing of mortals.

The red-robed wizard thought to himself that this was not good. He had already discovered that this strange spell seemed to be some kind of instant death spell, and judging from the knight's performance, the other party might not be able to resist the power of the spell.

He was just about to take out a four-ring magic scroll engraved with [Anti-Death Barrier] from his space bag, but the next moment he felt a strong sense of threat enveloping himself.

He followed his intuition and saw that the vampire's master was looking at him with a faint smile. He knew that was a warning from the other party.

The surface of the Corrupted Knight's armor cracked under the influence of sharp sound waves, and the rust peeled off like snowflakes, revealing the skeleton of the Arcane Knight that had been corroded into black inside.

The shadow tentacles at the joints of the skeleton were broken, and the pus and blood were turned into acid mist by the sound waves before they could drip. The knight's rune sword shattered into pieces, and the control rune stone of the red robe wizard on the hilt "cracked" and broke in two.

The skeleton jaw of the Corrupted Armor Knight opened, roaring silently, and the corrupted core in his chest tried to detonate, but Alvas's Eternal Winter Sword suddenly flew into the air, and the tip of the sword pierced into the center of the blood mist vortex.

"rest in peace."

The vampire uttered a word from his thin lips, and the sound waves suddenly materialized, transforming into a scarlet shock wave ring containing blood crystal fragments.

The knight's skeleton began to shatter from the head, like porcelain hit by an invisible giant hammer, with cracks spreading to every rib. All the glassware in the laboratory exploded, and the screams mixed with the cries of resentful souls. Even the roar of the furnace was temporarily suppressed. The blood mist swept through the walls, leaving honeycomb-like holes, and the blood frost condensed on the ground was shaken into red powder.

(End of this chapter)