Book 5: Chapter 16: The Ambush

Book 5: Chapter 16: The Ambush

The Northern Coast of the Eastern Continent

Draven von Nightborne walks alongside his twin sister, Aurora von Nightborne, as their force of three thousand Class IV demons marches onto the coast from the tundra bordering it. And as the vampire walks, he constantly keeps his guard up, watching for any potential enemies. But no matter how many times he looks, he doesnt find anything across the nearly endless tundra. All the way till they all climb downhill and arrive directly in at the coastline.

Stay vigilant, he shouts at the other demons now that theyve entered an easy ambush location.

Because no matter how many times the witch assigned to his forces says the humans dont know of their existence, he wont believe her. Not fully, at least.

Not when the humans have the Purple Knight of Humanity on their side, even if shes not known to directly participate in small-scale conflicts.

Draven glances at his twin, finding the woman to appear as nonchalant as ever.

Both of the twins have been relatively detached from others aside from themselves for as long as they can remember, but Aurora is even more detached than Draven. And neither of them have much trust in other demons.

Not that thats an uncommon thing amongst demons.

The two of them both have long white hair with the appearance of late teenagers despite their level, crimson eyes, and are wearing matching sets of black leather armor.

This operation is running too smoothly, Draven says to Aurora through their shared telepathy, making his sister nod her head. Do you think the Purple Knight warned them about us and theyre setting up an ambush? Or do they simply not know of our arrival?

Aurora purses her lips for a second before shrugging.

Draven sighs.

Damn it

Draven immediately feels the royal order flowing through him from the Demon Prince, Leonidas. One he gave to every Noble demon within the level range of his daughter, the Princess.

An order to fight the Princess to the death should she not have her crest out so that she can continue to grow stronger. Unless its simply just throwing their lives away, since that wouldnt benefit her at all.

So without hesitation, Draven, driven partially by the royal order, manifests dozens of blades made out of blood above him and throws them all at the princess.

Only for his eyes to widen in both shock and fear at the sight of the blades directly striking the Princess and instead of harming her, merging into her skin and making her skin begin to glow a faint red.

Blood magic used against her empowers her?!

Draven flinches as the Princess begins slaughtering the Class IV demons in between him and herself, only to be sent flying by a bolt of darkness sent by his sister. But she quickly gets back up while a massive hole in her side completely heals under his very eyes.

Then she just shakes her head and frowns, focusing on Aurora.

All while attacks continue raining down on the force of demons under Dravens command from the Class IVs above that have gone unhindered thanks to the Princesss presence.

Draven grits his teeth and begins using his higher rarity blood magic skills, refusing to believe that she could be fully immune to blood magic. And just as he expected, the moment the massive orb of blood from his Blood Fall skill hits her, she grits her teeth and has to push back against it.

So she can only absorb blood magic of a certain rarity and below.

He narrows his eyes slightly and makes eye contact with his twin then looks back at the Princess again.

Thisll be tough.