Rescue

I never thought I would ask Ophis help to raid the headquarters of the Tepes clan, but here we are. While I can use Nothung to cut down the barrier but after doing that, we need to fight too many vampires, just the two of us.

However, with Ophis backing us, we can defeat them in a single sweep.

Anyway, we arrived in front of the castle where Valerie is imprisoned. After explaining it to Ophis, we know that Ophis can track where the Sephiroth Graal is located. She said that both of Sephiroth Graal are located in one place. They are nearby.

It looks like we can hit two birds with one stone.

"Ophis, can you tell me where the location of the two Sephiroth Graal is?"

"En? In there and there."

I look at where she pointed her finger. The first one is inside the castle tower in the back, and the next one is in the opposite direction of the first one but on the first floor.

"Thank you, Ophis. Lucina, you and I will be the ones rescuing Valerie."

"Roger."

I then look at Ophis before saying.

"Ophis, I need you to be the one taking care of the one that holds the other Grail. Can you do that?"

"En."

"Good. I promise you I will bake a hundred cookies for you after we are done with this. A banana cookie, just the way you like it."

"EN!"

I chuckle a little at her sudden enthusiasm. She really likes bananas, just like the wiki said. She REALLY likes it. I grow a hundred banana trees, and she can eat all of the fruit if not for me promising her a batch of cookies.

"Good, then let's go."

Lucina takes out her two weapons, Balmung, and Tyrfing. While like her weapon, Balmung and Tyrfing are on the other level. Lucina is already planning to upgrade her weapon so it can be compared to Balmung and Tyrfing, maybe even surpass it.

The only thing she needs to do is to learn Alchemist. The technique to forge the legendary weapon in this universe needs three techniques. Blacksmith, Alchemist, and Runic. There is also a small portion of Potioneer, but the potion needed can be bought from the other.

Anyway, I pump a good amount of mana inside Nothung and swing it down. After I swing down Nothung, I can see the barrier around the castle in front of us begin to crumble. Just like I thought, the second I destroy the barrier, I can see a group of bats fly toward us.

"Summon!"

I decided to summon all my creatures that stay indefinitely. When I saw the flocks of bats turned into a dozen or so men with a pale body, I shouted.

"Attack!"

At my command, my summon begins to release a wave of the elemental blast. From fire to darkness. Most of the vampires get hit by the elemental blast. As for the rest that successfully dodges the elemental blast, they are attacked by Lucina and me.

I pump a little bit of mana inside Dainsleif, create a pillar of ice from the ground, and freeze one of the vampires instantly. I swing Nothung, send a sword wave toward the pillar of ice, and slice it into two, cutting the vampire frozen inside.

After cutting the vampire, I dodge to the left when I see the other fire a spell toward me and raise Dainsleif to block the incoming claw of the vampire near me. The vampire tried to get away after attacking me, but I froze him up before he could do it.

After freezing him up, I destroy him using Nothung. I look to the side and ready to charge at the vampire casting the spell at me, but to my surprise, Lucina already takes care of him. I nod my head at her and start to fly by casting a spell I learned from Merlin Grimoire.

I fly alongside Lucina, and our destination is the tower where Valerie is located. As we fly, we encounter another flock of bats. This time it was denser than before. When the bats arrive in front of us, they change into vampires.

Before they could do anything, I swung down Danslief and sent a wave of chill energy toward the vampire. Some can dodge the chillwave, but five of them get hit by it and freeze up immediately.

The frozen solid vampire falls to the ground and gets destroyed. As for the rest of them cannot do a counterattack as my creature companion starts attacking them. While most of my creature's attack is either dodged or blocked by the vampire, it was good enough to distract them from us.

I swung Dainsleif once again and sent another chillwave, and this time it hit seven of them. To my side, I can see Lucina also sending waves of destruction from Tyrfing.

Even with all the bombardment, some of the vampires successfully get closer to us. I block the incoming claw attack, push him away and cut him with Nothung. I frown a little when I see five vampires flying toward me.

"Twinkling Star!"

A second later, a laser of doom appeared from the sky and obliterated the vampire with ease. That is another aspect I found the Star Rune have. It has an affinity against the unliving. The vampire is an unliving being.

However, I'm not done yet.

"Cold Peace!"

This is a perfect time to practice my Darkness Rune. All of them is unliving being. I can release their soul from the mortal husk. I don't know if this spell is working against a reincarnated devil as they are resurrected by the devil, after all, meaning that they are technically is an unliving being.

Anyway, I see that my spell really works. I can see the soul of the vampire disappear alongside the white pillar after I cast the spell. I can only use this spell fifty times a day. I want to use this spell to take care of Marius Tepes, but with Ophis taking care of him, I don't really need to save this spell.

"Cold Peace! Cold Peace! Cold Peace! Cold Peace!"

I keep spamming this spell for a minute and see thirty or so vampires get killed. Seeing their comrade is dead at a fast rate, the rest of the vampires decide to run away, but sadly, I did not let them do it.

"Cold Peace! Cold Peace! Cold Peace! Cold Peace!"

I spam that spell as much as I can before I cannot do that as they are too far away from me. All of the rune of range. Their range is five hundred meters from me.

Seeing no more vampires want to fight against us, Lucina and I begin to fly toward the tower once again. When we arrive in front of the castle, I swing Nothung and cut down the wall.

However, instead of looking at beautiful blond Dhampir, I'm looking at a young pale man looking at us with a fury in his eyes.

"HOW DARE YOU?!?"

Oops, it looks like we are in the wrong place. The information we got from the other vampire is false. Valerie was not imprisoned in a tower but rather in the dungeon on the castle's first floor.