Chapter 750 - Scarlet & Pitch-black Colors
Duran stepped out of the black smoke. The sacred air left him uncomfortable. If it was possible, he didn’t wish to lead the army in the battlefront personally despite his close relationship with Cullen. But it was a pity that this wasn’t a request. It was an order instead. In a nation like the Country of Darkness that respected hierarchy, orders were above all else. Even though Duran, Burks, and Cullen were similar in rank and strength, Cullen was the commander, after all. Since he was the commander, he had the rights to command them. Although Duran was dissatisfied, he could only nod in agreement.
Damn it!
Duran gnashed his teeth. His crimson eyes glinted in faint radiance at the thought of his fallen men. He scanned the place that was full of lowly, weak humans… Then, he turned to the soldiers who rushed toward him with a raised weapon.
The soldiers were baffled to see this mysterious man appearing out of the smoke, but they hurriedly raised their swords and charged ahead. Then, they realized that this enemy was on a different level.
“Heyah!”
One of the soldiers brandished his sword and the razor-sharp blade streaked a glaring, silver arc in midair. But it was immediately stopped by a pitch-black, armored hand that clutched it firmly. The soldier realized that no matter how hard he tried, his sword just couldn’t break free from that menacing hand. The soldier looked up and all he saw was a crimson radiance.
Duran swiped his other hand in front of him as though running his fingers along piano keys. Then, the soldier was as though struck by an invisible, gigantic hammer, which blasted him away and blood from his ghastly neck wound splashed in a perfect arc. At the next moment, the blood arc solidified in Duran’s control. The soldier shriveled like a deflated balloon and the solidified blood arc turned into a lethal whip. Duran lashed at the surrounding soldiers and sent them flying off the city walls.
“Hmph, lowly humans.”
Duran laid his hand down and gazed at the soldiers in disdain. With his abilities in the Legendary Stage, these soldiers weren’t even worth his attention. The other soldiers came to an abrupt halt. They looked at one another in hesitation.
Celestina knitted her brows and snarled. She treated her enemy as a lowly race and it was only right that he abided by her orders.
It is only right that you crawl to my feet for me to hit you and lay your head before me for me to kill you. How ridiculous that this lowly Vampire not only defied my orders, but also retaliated!
Celestina’s trains of thought weren’t logical to begin with…
She flew into a rage. Her chain sword was bit into tightly by Duran’s blood monster, but it didn’t leave her panicky. Instead, she glared fiercely at Duran and a faint radiance glinted in her scarlet eyes.
———!
Suddenly, black flames burned on her body and flowed along her chain sword which swarmed the blood monster. The black, mysterious flames didn’t extinguish. Instead, the blood monster howled in grief after being tainted by it. In the blink of an eye, it collapsed and fell apart and this left Duran baffled!
As an experienced and knowledgeable Vampire, he had read about legends and documentary records about the black flames—the negative flame!
It was rumored that this black magic flame came from the core of the burning hell—pure and dangerous. Unlike ordinary flame, this black magic flame was full of negative energy which would devour every magical flow related to the rule powers. It could also be said that this was the nightmare of every legendary being because after entering the Legendary Stage, one of the privileges that they held was the ability to attack using their rule power, where they would simulate magical flow in order to manipulate the rule power.
To the contrary, the negative flame was entirely different, where it could forcefully change the magical flow and return it to zero. For example, if a legendary being who cast its rule power was like how one drew a picture on a white paper, the negative flame could turn the picture to nothing and return it to the state of the clean, white paper before burning it in flames.
Why did she have such powers?!
Duran had no doubts that it was the negative flame. But why was it here? The documentary records clearly stated that the negative flames were completely sealed after the Creation War. How did this woman possess such powers?!
Unfortunately, he wasn’t granted the time to search for an answer because Celestina brandished the chain sword that was burning in black flames at him. Duran gritted his teeth and braced himself. He had no way of retreat now.
In the blink of an eye, scarlet and pitch-black colors collided, erupting in dazzling sparks.