Chapter 24
“Mary? You’re Mary!” Greem cried out in shock.
The huge humanoid bat grinned like a human, then dived and threw Greem to the ground. After rolling a few times, Greem finally came to a stop, then stood up, a pain filled expression on his face. Meanwhile, after circling through the air one last time, the huge bat descended and landed beside Greem.
Miraculously, when the humanoid bat approaching the ground, its form starting to twist and change in a bizarre manner. The fiery red body hair gradually disappeared, changing into a soft and bright red dress. The thick, protruding cheeks began to squeeze inward, revealing a beautiful and charming face.
After it finished transforming, it gracefully turned around and walked toward Greem. Mary was back.
Bat Morphing!
This… appeared to be a unique ability of Vampires.
The innate abilities of a newborn Vampire were gaining strength through drinking blood and regeneration. By these two things alone, they were already an extremely frightening species. However, If a newborn Vampire could go one step further, they would gain the ability to morph into a bat. No matter if it was transforming into a single huge bat and flying through the sky, or exploded into thousands of small bats, as a mean of escape, it performed admirably in saving one’s life.
And, if a Vampire made it to the mature stage, they would be able to start mass-producing Blood Slaves.
Judging from the vicious and ugly looking face, it had to be Sinbad’s head. It looked like even the leader of Ghost Nanny was unable to escape from the brutal Alice.
“You’re good… you’re really good…” Alice murmured. Clenching her jaw tightly glaring at Greem. It was easy to see that she was unable to express all the rage and frustration she felt with Greem right now.
When she had first stepped into this Magical Swamp, she was in high spirits and filled pride. In her mind, with the exception of those exalted, venerable Adepts, all other people were just a drab assortment of trash, not even worthy of carrying her shoes. Relying on her indestructible Protection Barrier, and her mysterious Spatial Cut, she was even qualified to stand up to a Pseudo-Adepts.
But who would have thought that, inside this seemingly insignificant Magical Swamp, which was a common resource site of a Third Grade Adept family, she would actually suffer such a heavy loss? Right at this moment, nobody could understand how depressed and angry she was! She was like an ancient brutal beast who devoured all men before her. All she wanted to do was to peel the skin off this slippery rat and pluck out all the sinew between his muscles, smashing all his bones one after the other and crushing his flesh into a pile of meat paste.
Perhaps, only by doing all this, she could ease the anger in her heart.
“Boy, tell me honestly, how did you find the loophole of my Protection Barrier?” Alice ferocious-looking face grinned as both her hands began grabbing at the air in front of her. A constantly stretching spatial crack appeared in between her hands, like a tamed snake. “As long as you tell me the truth, I promise, I’ll not do anything to you today. I, Alice, will always honor my words!”
“Only dead man would trust you! Even if you don’t attack me personally, you might simply throw me into a swarm of demons, and that would kill me. Hmm, it’s obvious that I know more of dirty tricks and sinister plots than you…”
Greem started complaining in his mind, then he realized that he was staring at a spatial crack was behaving like a tamed snake in Alice’s tiny hands. He was not brave enough to say even a single word in front of such a feat of power. Although he looked calm on the outside, on the inside his mind was overheating.
“Damn, she is indeed a genius, she is playing with a spatial crack with her bare hands! That’s a spatial crack! A SPATIAL CRACK! Even the sharpest weapons in the world can’t compare with it! No matter if it is faced with a shield made from pure steel, or an iron that went through thousands of tempering steps, as long as they don’t have any magical protection, then it will be cut through like was a sheet of paper!”
Although it was an extremely dangerous spatial construct, this little Lolita was handling it with her hands as if it was a cute little puppy. This was the proof of how important innate ability was to an Apprentice Adept.
“I can’t see the Spatial Energy around you at all!” Greem hesitated for a brief moment, then decided to tell her the truth.
“Nonsense!” Alice cried out in rage, saying, “If you can’t see them, then how did you find the exact location of my Wind Barrier?”
“You should know that Spatial Energy doesn’t have any specific Elementium characteristics. It is part of a Planar Principle. Those who don’t possess an innate talent for a principle can never see it with their naked eyes. But don’t forget this, there is a huge repulsive force between opposing Elementium, and the Spatial Energy you are using is incredibly harsh and solitary….. So…”
“So you determined the shape and position of my Protection Barrier by sensing the area where no Elementium is present and, as a result, were able to see that they were repelled by Spatial Energy? Then…” Mary drew inferences from what Greem said and soon she found the source of the loophole, saying, “Damn it, I shouldn’t use a Wind Elementium spell to cover that hole. Next time I will use the Force Field spell that has no Elementium in it.”