Vampire Hunt 5

The [Gravity Wall] went up as Alduin and the 2 Wolven solemnly walked towards the Vampire. Alduin had no idea why, but he had immense hatred for the Vampire. Something about manipulating the undead and torturing souls he found extremely repulsively. When Lucas gave him time to use the GalactiNet to learn he found himself looking up different religions and their underworlds. 

Even with fight before him, his mind was somewhere else. he thought of Neflheim, Hell, The Underworld, Diyu, Jigoku and other religious realms for souls and the dammed. Something about them were familiar. He didn't understand.

It was like a part of him was calling out to these locations. For what reason he had no knowledge, but one thing he knew. He would kill this Vampire and free these souls. Only then would he feel better. 

He and the Wolven walked into the large chamber filled with undead and the Vampire standing atop the largest undead. Alduin looked around and noticed none of the gates have been opened. Looks like he's been waiting for someone.

"So you are the one that has been slaughtering my precious pets?" The Vampire spoke coldly. 

Alduin stared at his prey and spoke harshly "My master was the one to make it down here before I. He as tasked me with slaying you to break your hold on the undead here."

The Vampire just raised an eyebrow. 'So there is someone else as powerful as this metallic dragon' he thought to himself. 'This won't be easy.' As he eyes Alduin the Vampire didn't even realize that the machine in front of him was also a cultivator. His hunger had grown so much that he was frustrated his enemy wasn't a living being and he couldn't feed.

With his hunger controlling him and Alduin's anger the two attacked without saying a word! 

CRASH

Alduin and the two Wolven clashed against the Vampire and the 100,000 undead in this room. It was a blood bath to say the least. The Wolven leaped into the air claws extended and ready to rip and tare into anything they could. Being surrounded in the air the Wolven attacked everything in sight. It was like a ball of bodies as they ripped and tore all they could. Flesh was shredded and bones broke with every swipe of their claws. 

They didn't go unscathed through. There was just too many undead beasts. Their claws and bones couldn't pierce through the Wolvens' armor, but there were thousands of them. With enough attacks in roughly the same place their armor began to give in and bend inward. Even if the indent was .2 an inch over time this would add up. 

The Wolven were like martial artists while being completely surrounded. Swiping their claws and talons with every strike. With each strike they made they would kill an undead. Rendering them to ash. Although the more they fought the slower they would get. With each strike turning an undead to ash meant another undead had space to attack and swarm them.

The more undead that attacked the more indents they would have. Causing their joins to be pinched and slow down. The Wolven ignored their body and followed their programing and commands. They were there to kill undead and would do just that. They would break their bodies if it meant killing an undead. 

They weren't the only ones fighting. Because of Alduin's large size compared to the Vampire he was having a much harder time. He had dozens if not hundreds of undead climbing over and on his body. Attacking anything on his skeletal body they could reach. Even the Vampire, thanks to his extreme speed, could weave in and out of Alduin's ribs punching and kicking his body with every chance he got.

Alduin had never been in a fight and barely even a day old. He began to roll like an alligator's death roll!

SMOOSH CRUNCH SNAP

With a single roll Alduin had killed over a hundred undead. Blood covered his body giving him an even more terrifying appearance. He would open his jaw and snap down on any unlucky undead. He would break their spines before dropping them leaving them paralyzed on the ground. He would then use his boney wings to crush the rest of their bodies. 

"[Dark Bolt]!" Hidden in the crowd of undead the Vampire attacked Alduin. In his right hand a bold of black lighting materialized. He gripped it tightly before using his super human strength to throw it at Alduin! His eyes constricted when he saw what happened next. 

As soon as the [Dark Bolt] got within inches of Alduin it disintegrated. The mana from that attack had been turned into neutral mana and Alduin quickly absorbed it and added it to his own energy pool. It had hit an invisible barrier and vanished, but being a peak Liquifying realm cultivator the Vampire knew what really happened!

He could sense that his attack was absorbed by an elemental shield around the dragon! For something like that to occur the dragon he was facing had to be in the Nascent realm. Then the realization dawned on him.

This was a machine, yet it was a cultivator?! His expression grew grim. He was in a lot of trouble dealing with a machine that was this powerful. Even if the machine could absorb his attacks he knew there was a limit. He planned to hide in the crowd of undead and launch more [Dark Bolt]'s and other ranged spell he knew. He would crack the shield and end the dragon's false life.

Unfortunately for him he was wrong about one thing. The barrier wasn't a normal cultivation technique, but a Rune cultivation technique. Normally when an elemental absorption barrier is formed it requires the user to use mana every second to keep it active, regardless if its in affect or not. This is also why the Vampire is speculating that the dragon is in the Nascent Realm. Only people in this realm have the mana pool to be able to sustained the technique.

Runes on the other hand act differently with the universe than normal techniques. Runes are letters of the universe. They only required mana from the caster when being created, but were then fueled by the universe itself! The only difference between similar runes created by different people is the amount of mana used to create it. If two cultivators both created the [Elemental Absorption Rune] and they were in the same cultivation realm. The one who used more mana to create the rune will have a much stronger rune. 

But Alduin was different. Not only was he a machine, but he was also a cultivator. He was made to be strong. He was made in the Nascent realm. The run made by Kur wasn't placed on him, like other cultivators would do. The rune was literally made when he was. Meaning Alduin was part of the universe! To an extent that is. The runes he had inscribed into his body weren't separate parts, but a part of him. Like an arm and a leg. 

Regardless what the Vampire thought he attacked! He used a combination of his strongest spells!

"[Dark Bolt]!"

"[Cloud of Death]!"

"[Decaying Poison]!"

The Vampire weaved back and forth between his undead horde. He would launch an attack whenever he could. Always hitting his target.

The [Dark Bolt]s he fired once again dissolved once they reached the invisible barrier. He tried another spell, [Cloud of Death]! A dark grey cloud wafted out of his body and traveled in the air. As soon as the cloud passed over some of the undead that were on top one another they died instantly!

Their already grey skin turned different shades of white as the cloud passed over them. What life force they had remaining was sucked dry as they withered up. The cloud killed dozens and dozens of undead before reaching Alduin. He happened to have an undead beast in his claw and just about to squeeze when the cloud passed over. The undead in his claw quickly withered in place. 

Sensing something wrong he backed up closer to the wall, squishing undead as he moved. He could sense that the cloud feeds on life energy and grows stronger. The undead didn't have much life force, but because of how many there were the cloud quickly grew much stronger!

SIZZZLLLLLEEE

Still while fending off undead, and dodging the [Cloud of Death] he felt the ground under him began to give way. If only slightly. He glanced down and saw a dark purple liquid substance on the ground. Where ever it went it steam followed. Directing his attention forward every undead that was in the liquid was reduced to nothing but bones. Bones that were also quickly aging into dust. 

Seeing the desperate situation he was in Alduin acted. He moved his hind legs up against the wall and readied himself. When he spotted the Vampire casting another [Dark Bolt] he lunged forward by kicking himself off the wall. He angled his claws to clear any undead out of his way. Seeing this giant dragon coming directly at him the Vampire activated his [Dark Shield] technique. 

A thick barrier of darkness rose from the ground. It was a half circle shape that blocked everything directly in front of the Vampire. As soon as it was finished forming the Vampire saw large set of teeth on either side of the [Dark Shield].

CRACK CRACK

The Vampire eyes widened seeing the cracks in his [Dark Shield]. For just a moment he frozen and thought of how powerful these jaws had to be! His shield could withstand a powerful spell from Nascent realm cultivator, yet this machine was crushing it with its jaws. Just how powerful is this thing?! That was his last thought as his body reacted to the maw breaking his shield! 

He jumped in the air putting his feet on the lower jaw and his hands gripping two teeth on the top jaw. He used all his force to keep the jaws of death from crushing him.

"[Strength of Darkness]!" He cried out. A surge of dark energy filled his body boosting his strength tenfold, but that still was barely enough! He turned to call for his undead to assist him, but noticed how much a he underestimated these machines. With his numbers he thought it would be an easy fight, but he was surely mistaken. 

The Wolven never stayed still. They, with the help of Alduin's large body crushing undead, managed to cut the horde down to less than 25%! And those left were either damaged by his [Decaying Poison] or [Cloud of Death] spells. Although, the Wolven weren't in any better shape. One was missing an arm and a single foot, yet still fought off the undead. The other was missing part of its head, parts of its chest and even missing an entire leg from the thigh down. 

Seeing the situation the Vampire summoned all his mana and cast a new spell!

"[Embodiment of the Dark Lord]!"