After seeing the dark shadows rise and surround Archer[Quinn]'s body, a distant memory had surfaced in his mind. One that most vampires of the old wanted to forget.
At first, he thought that maybe he could convince the student not to put up a fight; after all, Titus[Siyrus] had always been a trouble maker. If he was also was able to find out what family the boy in front of him belonged to, maybe they could aid him and with his support, they would be able to strike a deal that didn't mean death.
But now, after knowing that he could control the shadow, a lost and banned Skill[ability], he had no choice. He needed to bring him in.
"If it was up to me, I wouldn't be doing this." Said Mark[Clark]. "But my duty as a Vampire Knight means I must bring you in."
In truth, Archer[Quinn] didn't want to fight either, he never expected this to happen, but he couldn't afford to be caught. Knowing Mark[Clark]'s personality, he would be one to perform his duty over his own personal agenda. This seemed to be the case for many of the high ranking vampires, which reminded him about Mill[Sil]ver as well, even when it came to a matter involving her own brother, she had picked the law above family.
The Bale[Raven] continued to circle above; it looked as if it would be the first time Archer[Quinn] would be facing a vampire that had a familiar.
Right now, he to tried summoning his Bone Claw. Focusing his mind, he tried to call out to it, but there was nothing.
'It came out before but now nothing, is it because I don't really want to hurt him?'
The delay had been long enough, and Mark[Clark] charged in as fast as he could. It was too fast for Archer[Quinn] to use his inspect skill. If he could, he would have had time to figure out perhaps the type of Skill[ability] he had.
'Wind walk activate.'
Seeing Mark[Clark]'s speed before, Archer[Quinn] also used his top speed. The two moved into the center at met in mere seconds.
At first, Mark[Clark] was planning to use a regular attack, thinking his speed would be far superior. After all, he was a vampire knight going up against a vampire, but he never expected someone to be this fast. They had met far sooner than expected; his quick reactions caused him to throw out a Blood Swipe of his own.
The shadow immediately moved into place, blocking the attack, and out from behind, Archer[Quinn] had jumped up over, performing two strong Blood Swipes.
"Blood wall." Just in the nick of time, a wall of blood was raised from the ground, and the two Blood Swipes had hit.
'The shadow will make this difficult, I don't understand its full potential or how it works.' Mark[Clark] thought.
Little did he know, that was the least of his problems, as the Blood wall had a slight crack in the middle. Archer[Quinn]'s Blood Swipe had slightly caused the wall to shake, and it looked like another hit would cause it to break.
'This power… how is this possible.' Mark[Clark] thought.
At first, Mark[Clark] thought he would perhaps be able to take it easy. Or at least not be required to use his full strength. Even with him having the shadow, his powers shouldn't have been equal to his own. But right now, the speed, the strength, it was all stronger than average.
This was all because Archer[Quinn] wasn't just using regular Blood Swipe but slightly infused with Qi. Holding back his maximum power with the Qi caused less of strain on his body parts that was still yet to handle it.
He still also wasn't able to use it to the point where he could enhance his body, but he had learned to control it with his attacks slightly, and it seemed to be doing him well.
Seeing this, Archer[Quinn] threw out a few more Blood Swipes of his own, and as it hit the wall, it was immediately shattered. Two more swipes came his way, and Mark[Clark] threw out his own matching them in power.
When the two attacks collided, both of the blood swipes had shattered on impact.
'It looks like we are equal in strength and speed. I can do this!' Archer[Quinn] thought. He still had a considerable variety of shadow skills, as well as martial arts.
As soon as he thought of this, the atmosphere had changed entirely. Another blood swipe was thrown from Archer[Quinn], but as the attack was about to hit him, he suddenly disappeared and reappeared a few meters closer.
As the attacks came out again, he would reappear and appear repeatedly.
'The flash step.' It was a move that Archer[Quinn] had learned from the tutorial but had never come across another vampire who had used it before.
It was a reminder that he was now fighting Vampires at a different level. Those that would be more skillfull than him and possibly have more abilities than himself.
If he wanted to win this fight, he needed to rely on something else. He needed to use his shadow abilities.
"Blood swipe barrage!" Mark[Clark] moving both his hands at an incredible speed, multiple small sickle-shaped blood lines that looked similar to the blood swipe came out from his hands.
Archer[Quinn] used a flash step of his own, he avoided the attacks first, but then it quickly started to follow him.
"Unexpected that you know how to use that too, but it won't work on me." Mark[Clark] said as he started to move his arms about slightly in different directions rapidly.
Now the Blood Swipes were coming to a large area, and soon as Archer[Quinn] completed a flash step, he had moved from one place directly right informing of another attack.
It had successfully hit him right on the shoulder, feigning him back.
[7595 HP]
As soon as Archer[Quinn] was able to recover, another one came and hit him again.
[7095 HP]
Having no choice, the slow shadow had finally moved into place, now covering his front and blocking the majority of attacks. The only problem was it was decreasing his MC points rapidly.
It looked like using the ordinary Blood Swipe skill and turning it into a barrage didn't affect a vampire knight as much as it did a regular vampire.
If Archer[Quinn] were to try to match firepower with firepower, his HP would have quickly decreased.
In the small amount of time, he had to come up with a plan and fast.
However, he was unaware that something was circling above, which he had connelly forgotten about during the whole flight.
Seeing the back wide open, Mark[Clark]'s familiar, the Bale[Raven], came sweeping down at a fantastic speed. It's two claws at the bottom of its feet grew twice the size and were reinforced and hardened.
Not nothing what was coming behind, His back was vulnerable to an attack.
"You are still only a regular vampire after all you have a lot to learn."
The moment the Bale[Raven] was ready to attack. A black mist appeared from Archer[Quinn]'s back, and a single large claw-like hand emerged from the mist. With its large dangling fingers, it had grabbed the Bale[Raven]. As it brought its fingers together to a single point, it had connelly sliced through the Bale[Raven]'s body, and a puff of back mist appeared once again. It was signaling the death of the familiar.
Nothing this, when Archer[Quinn] turned his head, he could see the arm of the Bone claw retreating into the black mist.
"Did it save me?" Archer[Quinn] thought. It did indeed look like that was the case. Even if it weren't going to help him in the fight, it would still protect his life.
Placing out his palm open, he started to run forward, shooting out multiple blood sprays. The strength of his attack was a little less to the small blood swipes.
The center of his attack was able to shatter the bulk of them, but a few would get past and still hit him.
Bearing through the pain, he activated his blood bank skill, consuming HP, allowing his body to heal.
Against a strong opponent, it would be dangerous to let his HP get so low. Any strong attack could knock him out or even completely kill him before his blood bank can auto-activate itself.
Then when he was finally close enough.
[Shadow void]
The whole area around the two of them started to be surrounded by a dome type area.
Seeing the two of them in what looked like strange shadows, Mark[Clark] was starting to worry.
His familiar was put off action, and their strength and skills seemed equal.
"I guess I need to use my Skill[ability] as well. The Skill[ability] of the Fourth Family." Mark[Clark] said.
To be continued....
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