Chapter 127
Meanwhile, Zatanna tried her best to ignore the battle going on below in the streets, but her attention ended up being drawn to it, and her spell took a few extra seconds.
She finds it easy to do magic. She can do amazing things with just a few words.
The spell must be done carefully because it covers such a big area. These spells can kill the magician and the target if done wrong.
That's why this time was so important.
"Evom lla snamuh tuo fo eht retemirep."
A few words, but terrifying.
It looked like a huge light grenade had exploded from her body.
The white light spread out in a circle a hundred kilometers across, with her in the middle, and then it vanished.
"Esiar a reirrab, on retsnom nac epacse."
The second spell extended her blue energy like a bubble from her body, and seconds later, a blue energy barrier isolated the vampires and humans.
It was amazing that she could cast two strong spells right after each other. It was one of the best things she had ever done.
"Now I'll leave everything to them."
Zatanna said, with her eyes closed and maintaining her position.
In order for the energy barrier to hold, she cannot leave this position.
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Dio knew he had asked John to hold the vampires for some time, but it would be only a few minutes this time.
He didn't make this judgment out of arrogance; he knew very well that the magician in front of him was a big problem.
After a few minutes, Dio would help him, even if he had to turn his back on his enemy because John couldn't endure.
"Are you going first?"
Dio asked the magician in front of him.
They are in the same place as before, standing in the narrow corridor while the vampires enter through the left door.
There was a line in front of the door because the rooms are too small for all of them.
The magician advanced, and Dio retreated to give them a bit more space.
The magician moved first.
He raised his white hands with long nails and pointed them at Dio. A beam of dark energy shot from his hand to aim at his torso.
Dio put the shield in front of him and completely defended against his attack. The energy is powerful, but not enough to push him back.
Its color is also a bit horrible—instead of the Raven's shiny black, his is a "dirty" black.
Dio couldn't describe it well, but it's not pleasant at all.
It is not unusual for practitioners of dark magic to detect the presence of a mystic poison within this energy.
He continued to maintain the flow of his eldritch blast, so Dio decided to counterattack.
Dio used the shadows to appear behind him and strike with his sword. Surprisingly, Dio didn't appear behind him.
Instead, Dio appeared a few inches behind his previous position and received the eldritch blast in the chest.
"BOOOOMMM!"
Dio was thrown against the wall at the end of the corridor and sat on the floor.
On the chest of his armor, the dark black energy from the magician has stuck like tar, and Dio can clearly hear something trying to erode it.
"That caught me off guard."
Dio said this and stood up.
He must have manipulated Dio's darkness and changed the location where he should have appeared.
He is a dark magic master, unlike Dio.
"Επικαλούμαι το κρύο της θλίψης του ποταμού koʊˈsaɪtəs!"
(I Summon the Cold of Wailing from the River Cocytus!)
Dio took a deep breath and exhaled a large black mist that froze the entire corridor in front of him.
This time, Dio didn't hold back. He only saw enemies around him and no allies or friends.
The vampire did exactly what Dio thought he would do, conjuring a black pentagram as he did the first time while immediately absorbing his spell.
"Επικαλούμαι το άτρωτο του ποταμού Στύξ!"
(I summon the invulnerability of the River Styx!)
A thin layer of fine black energy covered his body, and Dio moved against his own at high speed to pass through it in less than a second.
Dio appeared in front of him covered in ice, but he wasn't hurt because the spell had already ended. He swung his arm at his neck.
The surprised magician leaned his body backward, and when the blade almost made contact with his skin, he turned into mist.
He forgot that Dio was not only dealing with a magician but also a vampire.
The mist passes by his side and solidifies behind him. He tried to touch Dio's head with an open hand filled with energy.
Dio couldn't let that touch his skin; Dio's chest was still hissing from the previous contact.
Dio lowered his body, dodging, and spun three hundred and sixty degrees to counterattack while aiming for his body.
The magician also turned while holding his sword with his bare hands, protected only by his energy.
Dio raised his shield, intending to crush his throat, but the vampire pushed him against the wall.
He pointed to his forehead with his extending finger.
"Slãpian!"
He said it for the first time with his hoarse and dry voice, as if he hadn't spoken for years.
There was a silvery glow coming from his finger.
Dio then felt his mind being struck by something; he closed his eyes and lowered his hands to slide slowly down the wall.
It was a spell to render him unconscious, but he didn't know that not even the most powerful wizard on Earth could reach my mind for some reason.
While pretending to have fallen asleep while sliding slowly down the wall, he stepped back, and then Dio struck him.
"Επικαλούμαι το κρύο της θλίψης του ποταμού koʊˈsaɪtəs!"
(I Summon the Cold of Wailing from the River Cocytus!)
Dio spat out an ice arrow, aiming for his heart, but the magician was agile and managed to raise his arm while putting it in the way.
Dio's arrow managed to pass through his wrist, but he couldn't hit his heart.
"σηκωθείτε!"
(Rise!)
A portal of darkness appears on the wall behind him, and four skeletal arms grab his two hands and legs while pulling him into the wall.
He escaped once again by turning his body into a mist and moving to the left.
He appeared, then raised his hands and shot another eldritch blast of his chaotic energy at him.
Dio raised his shield to protect himself, but his posture wasn't good as he was still getting up, so some energy went through the shield and hit him on the left cheek.
He advanced, and to fully protect himself, Dio put one of his knees on the ground to lower himself.
Dio felt his cheek burn, hurting like hell, but Dio had bigger problems now than that.
"σηκωθείτε!"
(Rise!)
On the walls on both sides appeared two full skeletons that attacked the magician.
The magician gave up on him and hit both of them with his bare hands while cutting them in half.
They didn't last long, but they served their purpose.
At the moment he turned to resume his attack, Dio was already standing with his sword approaching his shield.
"BAANG"
The explosion of divine energy worked perfectly, and the magician somersaulted backward as Dio advanced.
"HAAAAAAAAA!"
He roared in pain with his unique voice.
In the air, Dio didn't have much space to land a fatal blow, but he managed to sever his injured arm.
Dio now has his back to the vampires squeezing into the room because their positions were switched, and the two couldn't hold back and attacked.
Dio didn't have much time to deal with them, so he quickly spun around and cut off both of their heads.
However, the one-armed vampire magician took advantage of the situation to attack him.
Dio took the risk of using the shadow movement and felt that he was too close.
But it worked.
Dio appeared behind him as he spun his body and tried to blind him with his long claws, surrounded by his energy.
"BOOOM!"
It's an explosion that looks a lot like the one Dio used when he used his divine powers, but it's made of pure, chaotic black energy that knocked him back a few steps and broke his defense.
The vampire took advantage of this by stooping down and putting his hand on the ground.
Soon, a pentagram of dark energy appeared under his feet, with him in the middle.
Dio jumped, teleported, and finally swung his sword into the ground to break the circle, but none of them worked.
Dio couldn't move a finger.
Dio paid more attention now and felt that the vampire was restraining him and pulling him to the ground.
Dio felt like thick octopus tentacles were coming out of a small black hole and wrapping around his whole body.
They are all connected to the center of the pentagram at his feet.
The wizard crouched and suddenly plunged his hand into his shoulder.
He wrote on the ground with his blood-soaked fingers without pain while his shoulder healed rapidly.
"Don't worry, kid. This will end quickly; darkness will embrace you."
He spoke again with a strange and unpleasant voice, his head still lowered, and symbols written on the ground.
"Επικαλούμαι τη δύναμη του Sisyphus!"
(I invoke the power of Sisyphus!)
Dio shouted as he forced his arms.
But nothing happened.
"What the hell!"
Dio screamed in shock.
"It's useless, you fool. The creature of darkness drains your magic and grows stronger."
He said this while still fully focused on the ground.
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