Chapter 179
Chapter 179 Unsuccessful Bait
Theoretically the vampire adept and the spellbreaker knight were fairly even in power.
However, the racial advantage was evident when the two started fighting with all their strength.
On one hand, you had a terrifying vampire whose race could be found in all high-magic planes, while on the other you had a normal human who had only strengthened his physical strength and comprehended some special uses of Elementium crystals. The spellbreaker knight might be able to force a stalemate against Mary by using his skilled and potent knight battle-techniques.
However, once the battle had turned into a critical fight on the edge of life and death, the terrifying traits of Mary’s race became the deciding factor. Her resilient Physique and regenerative ability far outclassed her opponent and gave her the edge. After three rounds of battle, Mary had the advantage on the battlefield and was slowly turning the advantage into a complete beatdown.
Mary, being a vampire adept, did not need to suck the blood directly out of her opponents to regenerate. As long as she did a substantial amount of damage, she could gain an endless stream of blood energy from her opponent’s blood that splashed everywhere.
An opponent that became stronger as the fight went on, whose strength did not decrease as their wounds increased, was the scariest nightmare for the spellbreaker knight. It didn’t matter how severe a wound he dealt to Mary. As long as Mary was able to deal an equally severe wound to him, he would never have a chance of defeating her!
For that one moment, the spellbreaker knight thought he was fighting against himself…no, fighting against his own blood! Every slash he made wasn’t making his opponent bleed, it was making him bleed. His opponent only needed to trade him blow-for-blow, and she would go unscathed in this fight.
Acteon was about the same as Mary. The limit to the number of people he could battle at once was three spellbreaker knights.
Greem, on the other hand, could deal with five spellbreaker knights at once if he coordinated well with the Fire Lord. Of course, if that happened, he wasn’t sure if he would be able to successfully retrieve the Fire Lord after the battle.
Regardless of how they calculated, as long as the opponent managed to join together, their advantage over the three was extremely obvious. To have only killed a single spellbreaker knight in that battle, this was way too innefficient!
Just as Greem was spacing out and thinking, the witcher-knights in the distance started to move.
They split into twelve squads, keeping a distance of less than thirty meters between each other, slowly riding their horses in a fan formation as they moved towards the location of the adepts’ base.
Now it was Greem’s turn to curse and swear!
With no choice left to him, Greem could only cast a spell to signal Acteon and Mary to return to his side.
“What’s the matter? Why are we not continuing?” Mary had just consumed all the blood in the body of a spellbreaker knight. She was in an agitated state, with energy flowing all through her body. It was obvious that she was unhappy that they had abandoned the plan of baiting the opponent.
Acteon who was standing alone by the side, didn’t go close to the two. He silently waited for Greem’s reply, his ghostly green eyes hidden under the shadow of his hood.
“I’m afraid the plan will no longer work!” Greem smiled bitterly and helplessly, “The enemy’s leader is also a perceptive man. Their actions are very decisive. It seems they’ve seen through our plans. Now we can only fight them head on.”
Mary was obviously skeptical about this. Silently, she commanded a squad of vampires to flank and tackle witcher-knights at the edge of the formation- only to find that the squad of witcher-knights were led by two spellbreaker knights.
Moreover, as the vampires were occupied with the witcher-knights, the other squads of witcher-knights had quickly come to their aid. Under the two-fold attack of runic bows and blades, the group of twelve vampire spawn were decimated before they could even kill a single witcher-knight.
Acteon was equally skeptical, and sent a clone made of scorpions to bait the enemy, only to have it be destroyed by a terrifying volley of flame arrows from the witcher-knights.
The direction of the army’s search still did not change!
Only then did the two finally believe that the plan had failed and agreed with Greem’s proposal of a head on battle.
The three immediately split up and began to prepare!