Why did this damn thing have to come at me, I tried to run because I felt like it was one of those suicide attack situations, he was being attacked by Several Dragons and received an attack from Navar, yet he ignored his attackers coming towards me. on top of me while I was still being attacked.
"(That damn bastard wants to take me down with him!?)" (I)
"< Summoning: Blood Dragon >" (I)
Lesser Familiars are like first-generation monsters, pure instinct, and no intelligence, they are creatures that follow the will of their summoner and are usually loyal weaker than Contracted Familiars, but with all that blood and that Territory it should be enough.
Half of the blood Vampires crumble into blood gathering to form a magic circle, soon a fully red Dragon with an Aura charged by hunger emerges, its size 3 times mine.
That Dragon as soon as it appeared directly attacked the big pursuer coming after me.
He didn't need to win, just distract this giant thing long enough for the others to finish him off.
Being tired and just recovered from my injuries, I went over to Alice and bit her neck to drink her blood, it seems that since she is my Saint, her blood has a higher recovery effect for me it comes almost as close as blood of Natasha with the advantage of also recovering my energies.
"The Blood Dragon is now under his leadership, distract that thing north." (I)
"I will do as ordered..." (Alice)
Leaving her behind, I change back to my Dragon form and attack the insect army troops, or that's what I wanted to do before I realized what was coming out of the other large creatures.
It was a large insect with thick and sharp scales instead of the carapaces of insects, it also had only one big eye, and it was far from having a human form, its appearance was that of a complete monster, two scythes with great reach, high defense with scales and high speed by the way it moves.
"What is it this time." (I)
These things start attacking almost immediately when they appear and come right at me.
I don't know what's going on, but the way I see it, it looks like the damn bugs have declared Zenos hunting the day.
There are dozens of these little pests and their speeds are greater than mine, if I couldn't sense their movement in advance I would have been injured several times since the start of the fight.
These things were moving around me and attacking one after another from strange angles and directions making it difficult for me to move or counterattack.
I defend myself from an attack from behind while closing my wings to avoid another attack at the same time as I spin my tail piercing another one that had come behind my leg.
Even wounded, these things move without a problem as if the wounds are unimportant.
Fighting these things was being difficult, even for my Familiars it was difficult to launch attacks since the enemies were so close to me, another problem is that I don't have time to use Skills or spells due to the constant attack against me.
I was doing my best to fight, but these things were too fast and strong, even breaking through their natural armor is taking all my strength to do any damage due to not having time to do more than one attack. "(Nix, finish them off!)" (I)
"(I'm coming.)" (Nix)
I kept fighting, but the enemies were coordinating better and better and I couldn't do effective damage to those damn things anymore, the only one I managed to kill was one I bit off his head, catching him off guard.
After a few minutes, Nix appears in his Dragon form and along with it came endless darkness that when they descended bringing the light back it showed that he was further away from the enemies.
"< Eclipse Breath >" (I/Nix)
I joined forces with Nix with each using an opposing breath attack, me using the power of the Sun and she using the power of the Moon, our two Breaths fused together because of our Auras creating a straight line attack of pure destruction.
When we stopped I had spent more than half of the energy I just recovered drinking km of Alice's blood, even so this fight seems to never end, when the main characters appear.
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Pov Hades:
"In the name of Zenos, you come with me." (I)
When I appeared in front of the Insect Empress her eyes were on me, but her lady was not able to utter understandable sounds, but she was still hearing her voice as before.
"(Help... help... help... help...)"
"May the blessing of Zenos be upon you to bring salvation." (I)
"< Blood Eclipse Magic: Eclipse Stigma >" (I)
"Be thankful that Zenos heard your prayers and answered your call, come..." (I)
I place my hand on the center of her chest while using a spell that I myself created throughout this year of my studies, the Eclipse Stigma is a mark created using Holy Power with a trait of Authority, its mechanisms are similar to a curse in its ability to attach itself to the individual.
With that curse a flow of power under my control forms between her and me, I'm just being the intermediary of his power to reach those out of her way.
The Stigma is made of 27 interconnected magic circles in the shape of a golden Sun with a silver waning Moon in the middle, this Stigma is engraved in the body and Soul of the individual who must accept the Stigma by their own will.
"Are you a Priest? Interesting."
I don't even try to turn around and start loosening the maimed Insect Empress's restraints, lines running from my finger tips as I carefully wrap her around her, creating protective and healing spells around her leaving only her head sticking out.
"Aren't you afraid I'm going to attack you?"
"You don't exude murderous intent, and your presence is weak to the point where you're easy to kill if necessary." (I)
"Besides, an enemy would have already attacked me while I was distracted." (I)
"You mind, you were never distracted from the start, do you think I don't feel the thing in my shadow ready to kill me?"
"Looks like your senses are pretty good." (I)
On my way here I released many Killer Shadows, Lesser Familiars that I myself developed to support my lord's protection.
Even as I was talking to him I kept working collecting all the torn off limbs around not knowing which ones belong to this Insect Empress, maybe Miss Natasha can do something about it with her expertise in healing.
"You don't need to hurry, this isn't the only one and I'm not your enemy."
"You're not an ally either, you're just a messenger who hasn't delivered the message so far." (I)
"I thought simply talking would be pointless, you don't seem to care, which did you hope to change after showing I'm not an enemy."
"Just say what you must and I'll decide what I must do based on your words." (I)
I didn't stop paying attention to the surroundings, somehow my Familiars noticed the change in the corridors, the people who were supposed to be rushing around here were using new paths leaving this empty, in a few meters around us there's no one else as far as I can feel.
"I came here to propose a cooperation between my Empress and her master, Priest."
"My Empress wishes to seek refuge for herself and her followers, which includes me."
"Why go against your race?" (I)
"Don't you understand, internal struggles have always happened and always will, but when external enemies come we come together as one."
"But now things have changed, the Swarm is following a light that leads only to doom and forgetting the old ways."
"Those who started and are still fighting are enemies in our eyes."
"I accept only in my name a temporary cooperation until the end of this battle, what comes after will depend on what your leader discusses with my lord." (I)
"For my Empress that is all we need."
When I turn around and see the one who spoke so far, I see a half-humanized ant, I can feel the Aura power on him separated from the Aura flow that I have been avoiding getting too close to until now, he seems to be hiding from his own companions.
"(As the master said, the enemy of my enemy is a possible ally.)" (I)
"(I hope I'm making the right decision, it would be much easier if I could contact my lord.)" (I)
"What should we do now?" (I)
"My Empress cannot move until the end, she is under surveillance because she already tried to open the Swarm's eyes once."
"We will act to free those who think like my Empress, my duty was to bring the one you carry, there are others like me rescuing and mobilizing those who are following my Empress."
"If I can get out of here I can take care of this a lot faster." (I)
"Come with me, I will guide you to the others."
"(I hope I'm doing it right.)" (I)