Chapter 456
Chapter 456 Who is Surrendering to Whom
Shackles of Blood!
As the name implied, this was a spell that superior vampires used to control their direct blood kin and blood servants.
It needed to be used in conjunction with Crimson Pact and would allow damage sharing and energy-siphoning. Mary, being the master of the Crimson Pact, would never die as long as she still had blood servants alive.
The blood energy within her four subordinates surged towards Mary through the Shackles of Blood. It allowed her to successfully break through the multiple walls of elementium fire and reach within ten meters of Greem.
Under normal circumstances, the Scalding Ray and streams of fire would work together with the Ring of Fire to inflict tremendous fire damage on Mary; it could reach up to a hundred and forty points. Even with Mary’s resistances, she couldn’t linger for more than two seconds inside the center of such extreme attacks. Otherwise, her life forcefield would be damaged and her body would receive grievous wounds.
That was why Mary had previously relied on her agility and speed to avoid all the attacks. Many times, she even had to give up on her advances. However, right now, Mary seemed like she had just been injected with a powerful stimulant. Not only did she not avoid the fire, she even folded her wings and dove right into the center of it like a moth to the flame.
The next second, a cloud of crimson mist exploded in front of Greem.
“Are you sure?” An odd smile appeared on Greem’s face forged of fire, “You should know that I will never surrender!”
“Why? For your so-called dignity as a man?” Mary pouted in disdain, “You know it as well. I’ve always quite liked you. As long as you admit that I’m stronger than you, then I can be your only lover. I can even help you fulfill that tiny dream of yours!”
“Er…” Greem was stunned for a moment. He had never expected Mary to say these things when she thought she had the upper hand. However, he shook his head slightly and did away with this unexpected emotional disturbance, “I’m not rejecting you because of some weird male dignity. Rather…
“…it’s because you haven’t beaten me.”
Greem’s massive Flame Fiend’s body started to grow even larger as he grunted out that last sentence. His Ring of Fire began to turn from red to purple-black. A strange unknown fire started to burn Mary.
While Greem was unsealing his Flame Fiend’s Heart and completing his second phase transformation, the wind dragon let out a reverberating roar. An intimidating aura of might rushed towards Mary.
The vampires were already considered to be higher magical creatures, but their bloodline tier was still below that of the dragons. The dragons were the real king of the food chain. Consequently, Bloody Mary was affected despite her excellent resistance; she was far too close to the dragon itself. Her mind started to haze and fog up. She couldn’t move at all for the entire duration of three seconds.
Greem seized this opportunity. His four-meter body exploded in size and instantly turned into a six-meter monster of flames. He then bent down, extended a large magma hand, and grabbed Mary in a single grip.
The terrifying Burning Domain immediately scattered the blood mist around Mary. The hand of magma and fire kept a tight hold on her. It didn’t tighten to crush her, and no energy flames were intentionally used to burn her.
“It’s my turn to ask you, Mary,” An enlarged version of Greem’s face formed on the head of the magma giant, “I have defeated you. Now it’s you who should be surrendering to me!”
Mary had now broken free of the dragon’s aura of might and was furiously struggling.
Unfortunately, her advantage lied in her high Agility. Her Strength was only a measly seven points. Greem, on the other hand, possessed twelve points of Strength upon completing his second phase transformation. Even though he still couldn’t compare to body-refining adepts who specialized in Strength, it was more than enough for him to restrain an Agility-focused assassin!
“Dream on.”
The sudden swap in their dominant-subordinate positions angered Mary. Someone of her personality would never be willing to become a subordinate that another person could order around.
Even with Greem’s savage strength and raging flames around her body, Mary drew upon all her blood energy without any regards for her life.
Greem sighed bitterly. He lifted a finger and formed an extremely concentrated cluster of flames at his fingertips. He then made drawing motions in the air around Mary.
Zchwing! Zchwing! Zchwing! Zchwing!
With the help of the Chip’s elementium sight, Greem very cleanly shattered Mary’s aid.
The Shackles of Blood had been broken!
Mary, who was already at her limits, let out a yelp in surprise.
“They are all decent servants of yours. You should treasure them more and not throw them away in an inconsequential internal struggle. Er…” Greem had just finished lecturing and shifted his attention back to Mary. It was then that he realized the intense shockwave from breaking the Crimson Pact had caused Mary to lose consciousness. She was knocked out.
Cough.
Greem looked down upon the messy battlefield and the four unfortunate figures lying around it. He let out an exasperated sigh.
“This battle was completely unnecessary!”