875 Laura, Takeshi, And Tear Against A Shadowy Vampiress
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"{Miasmic Spirit Clone Technique}: {Mirroring Shadow Assassins}" FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! In front of Takeshi, Laura, and Tear, the female warlock that had appeared suddenly expanded her Miasmic Aura everywhere, her appearance dividing itself as dozens of clones materialized.
"Oh, I get it now, she can duplicate." Takeshi nodded. "And it's not just illusions, they must be physical manifestations."
"So that's why she's so confident?!" Laura asked angrily. "I'm gonna blow up a new hole on her."
"You two don't get too ahead of yourselves, if possible, stay behind me." Tear said. "You're not S Rank yet after all!"
Tear's necklace began glowing a bit, as her powers started slowly manifesting. The assassin Vampiress in front of them laughed, as she quickly rushed towards them!
"Fufu, this is going to be fun, tearing all of you apart, that is!"
The Vampiress rushed with her over thirty clones towards the trio, their movements just as swift and precise as hers, while they also held two sharp black daggers made out of their own components, moving their weapons in the same fashion as she did too!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! "Not another step further!" Tear roared. "{Divine Frost Queen Magic}: {Freezing Domain}!"
Their attacks were precise and their movements fast, they surrounded Tear, as she unleashed her Frost Magic, constantly freezing their legs and shattering, only for her to notice them quickly regenerating them back!
"What?!"
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Six of them attacked her at once, their powerful strikes constantly pushed her back, even though she was wearing a strong Divine Ice Armor, it was already gaining a few cracks!
"You're really persistent!" Tear roared furiously. "{Divine Frost Queen Magic}: {Frost Giant's Fists}!"
She unleashed her Divine Aura at full power, as a freezing power materialized into gigantic fists made of ice, clashing against three of the six clones attacking her!
BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM!
Their bodies were splattered into the floor and frozen, shattered apart, and then frozen and shattered even further, Tear had to make sure to grind them to dust, all while she evaded the blows of other clones while protecting herself using Frost Barriers!
"Ah! The children!" However, Tear felt immediate fear as she glanced at Takeshi and Laura, who were surrounded by over a dozen Clones, and the real vampire to boot!
Takeshi was keeping some in place using his fishing rod's metallic thread and his strong water magic, while Laura let them reach her only to touch them and blow them up into pieces, because they somehow didn't count as living beings, as long as her hands got to them, they could be destroyed with one shot!
However, the assassin learned of Laura's Unique Skill very quickly, overwhelming her with fast attacks from a distance, while slowly separating Takeshi from her, as he was too busy dealing with a dozen clones himself!
"I got you!" Laughed the Vampiress. "{Dark Assassination Arts}: {One Thousand Cuts}!"
TRUUUMMM...!
Several walls made of frost materialized around them, protecting them temporarily. Tear quickly took out a potion and feed it to Laura.
"I told you that you didn't had to be reckless!" Tear said.
"I broke one of her daggers..." Laura smiled. "She got all roasted too, the burns made from my flames cannot be easily regenerated either, she took a blow she won't be able to recover from easily!"
"Laura..." Tear realized how battle-hardened the girl was. She had joined Maria's group rather recently, so she had no idea how much experience everyone in the party had gathered.
But it seemed that she had underestimated them just because they were much younger than her... She was also once a reckless young girl, and that was perhaps the reason why she committed the mistakes she did.
She was most likely attributing such mistakes to any youth, fearing that Laura and Takeshi would commit a mistake they would regret for the rest of their lives...
"Sorry for doubting you, but still, don't let her attack you so easily- Ah, Takeshi!" Tear glanced at Takeshi, worried, only to open her eyes wide. "T-That's...?!"
"{Ocean's Domain}!"
FLUOSH!
An enormous domain of oceans materialized around Takeshi, drowning over twenty clones inside!
"I did good on holding back until there were a lot around me!"
Even Takeshi was much more than Tear thought.
"Now... {Sea Serpents}! Keep them there!" Takeshi roared. The waters quickly shaped into dozens of sea serpents, wrapping around the clones, and keeping them trapped within their water-made bodies!
FLUOSH!
"Now, Tear, freeze them!" Takeshi said. "I can't hold them for too long!"
"I see, he wants me to freeze them so we can destroy them more easily!" Tear thought. "After all, they cannot drown and will keep on trying to free themselves."
Tear left Laura within the barrier she made, appearing in front of Takeshi, and freezing the Ocean Domain, the clones trapped in the waters were quickly turned into frozen statues!
"{Fishing Rod Technique}: {Metallic Thread Serpent}!"
Takeshi's fishing rod's thread quickly grew several times larger, its hook turning into the head of a huge metallic serpent, catching the frozen bodies and wrapping around them, shattering them apart one after another, while Tear's Frost Giant Fists pulverized them!
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! "Tch...! You bastards!" The Vampiress roared, emerging from the shadows again, more and more clones kept pouring from her Miasmic Aura. "Don't think this is over yet!"