Chapter 6: Vampire Slaying

Attacking a castle full of powerful vampires was easy part, the hard part would be staying alive while also trying to not give away who I was. I was gonna have to limit myself to only using my holy powers and While I was confident I would be able to deal a lot of damage to the castle and the vampires inside and escape unscathed, I needed to occupy them long enough for the doll me to take Valerie away from the castle. I also needed to make sure that the Vampires didn't give chase.

This is why I decided to move an hour before Dawn. After all if I hold them for a single hour until the sun rises, the Vampires would be too busy trying not to be burned by the Sun. However despite my advantages over them with my Longinus and Holy Light, I would not be able to hold them all if the King Of Tepes, Vlad IV is backed by is strongest subjects and an entire horde of vampires. This is why I would need to be kills as many vampires I could before the King could noticed even though I really want to butcher every single one of them with my Holy Spear but I needed to keep my calm and not let my anger surfaces.

As I said easier said than done.

While moving through the woods the logical part of my mind was screaming at me that it was a bad idea but I dismissed its warning. I wanted to fight. I wanted to kill. I wanted blood for all the suffering the inhabitants of the Fullmoon went through. I know that it will not help them in the long run apart from giving them a small respite but I still wanted to try and give them hope.

The only cards that I can use for this are my True Longinus and Light manipulation. It means no Senjutsu, no Touki and no direct or obvious magics. It is going to be annoying to restrain myself in such a way but it is more than enough for these filth.

Before I reached the castle I stopped in the woods and laid down a doll I retrieved from my pocket dimension. The doll was a reward from Maphesto after I completed a task for him awhile ago, at the time he said I might need it if I am to temporarily hide my true identity as the weirder of the true Longinus, as it allowed me to appear to be in two places at once. The dolly is a creation made by Maphesto using enchantments which allow the doll to come to life as a replica of a the person who imbued it with there power. The doll gains a portion of the the persons power and will carry out any task it is told to do exactly as the actual person would carry it out.

I then imbued it with my power and it transformed into an exact physical replica of me. I then commanded it to save Valerie and it began walking to the castle and disappeared from sight as it reached the tree line. Due to the fact that it I could Caste an illusion around myself so could the doll and as he had no blood the vampires would never be able to tell it's coming.

After it leaves, I then take off my usual outfit and change into gold armour and and put on a mask and begin my walk to the Tepes castle.

I destroyed a small part of the wall with my light and made my way inside the castle, I know that it will alert the guards to my presence but it is exactly what I wanted. I needed as many enemies as possible focused on me instead of The Doll. The Second son of the Tepes King, Marius Tepes, must know about Sephiroth Graal and may have put people to guard Valerie or even be with her right now. I needed to draw him out and kill him as he is the only one who knows of Valeries scared gear too my knowledge.

I made my way through the hallways of the castle. The castle was a very dreary place, fitting for the place of residence of vampires lords and made me thinks of the castle from the Castlevania games though I shouldn't be surprised, this whole universe works on cliché.

I woke up from my musings as I could finally hear footsteps coming in my direction. Well, look at that, my first preys of the night.

"The Lord told us that the commotion was coming from here." said a voice coming down the hallways. "Tch, it's probably nothing again."

"Why is it always us who had to deal with such menials tasks ? Shouldn't that be the works of servants ?"said the second voice.

"Hmpfh, you know that these children with filthy blood are incompetent and sloppy in their works." said the first voice condescendingly."This is a job for us, true vampires of the Tepes Faction."

"Right, anyway when do you thinks the hunting party is coming. They are taking much longer than they did last month."

"They are probably having some fun with the food, lucky bastard."

I scowled beneath my mask at what they were saying and felt my anger resurface. Does vampires have some king of innate ability to piss me off ?

'I'm going to enjoy this.' I thought in anticipation.

Before they could make another step I launched a single sword of light in their direction, killing one the vampires instantly. The other guard was so shocked that he stopped moving entirely, I could have easily killed him during these few seconds but I didn't. I needed this one to alert the vampires of this castle and come toward my position.

The other vampires looked at my direction and was most likely recognised my use of Holy Light if his face petrified in fear and panic was any indication. He fumbled with something in hands, most likely a magic communication device to alert the others. I let him cry in panic about my presence and and moved instantly in front of him and beheaded him with my holy spear, leaving only ashes behind, before he could tell them about my use of Holy Light. I then destroyed the communication-device which was demanding a report of the situation, crushing it under my foot and waited.

Waited for the preys to finally come.

And they didn't take long as dozens of vampires were making their way to my position and were already preparing for combat but I didn't even let them talk or makes the first move. I wanted to make as much damages as possible to their faction so I needed to be extremely ruthless in my dealings with them.

"Heaven-splitting Flash" Dozens of beams of light pierced the weak bodies of low-class vampires, killing them effortlessly. Several of them tried to fight back by sending their shadows at me but it was useless as my aura of light was literally burning the darkness. Some tried to use magic to hurt me but I fended off all of their spells while more and more beams made of light decimated them.

And through all this, I didn't move from my position. I was watching impassevely as the bodies of bloodsuckers littered the ground of the castle. I could feel that more vampires were coming but they died all the same to my light. I didn't need to use my True Longinus for small fries and was waiting patiently for the High-class Vampires to come and it seems that someone heard my wish. I could see a handful of vampires literally transforming into a form of reptiles or insects and making their way to me with anger and rage in their eyes.

'So this is the shapeshifting ability of vampires.' I mused to myself, observing the High-class vampires destroying everything in their ways to reach, not caring that they were ripping apart several low-class vampires with their actions.

They must have observed the massacre from a distance and figured that I must be weak in close-quarters combat sot they thrown away any use of their shadows and magic and and trasformed into monsters thinking that I will not be durable and strong enough to fend off their assault.

How foolish of them.

With them finally in striking distance to me, with their jaws, claws and stingers ready to tear me apart, I finally released my Longinus powers, creating a toxic aura of light in the air.

Vampires have a overwhelming disadvantage against me. They are even more weak to light than the devils or any holy equipments with them being undead and here I possess the strongest holy weapon in the world. A single cut from my spear would kill them instantly, no matter how durable their body is. It is very improbable that I would ever lose against a single vampire.

They are outmatched, in every senses of the world.

And it seems that the vampires in front of me finally realised who they were fighting against if the fear in their eyes and the burning skin caused by the Holy Light released by the Spear of Destiny is any indication.

"White Slash." I slashed at the vampires with my spear, releasing a wave made of Holy Light and cutting the High-class Vampires in two.

I looked back at the incoming forces who all stopped moving and instead opted to stare at me in shock and horror, some even started running away in fear. The vampires that I killed must have been important Lords of Tepes.

However I didn't let them gawk at me and I took advantage of this moment to finish them off.

I point my spear at their direction, some already taking steps back at my unsettling blank mask looking at them coldly, a sphere of light formed at the tip of the spear. The sphere was growing and growing while the vampires realised that the situation was hopeless and decided to foolishly decide to turn their back on me in order to run away.

"Holy Ray." a barrage of white rays came out of the sphere and bombarded all the vampires with impunity. The attack was merciless and teared apart anyone who tried to resist or run.

Looking at my handywork, I could see that nothing but ashes remained of the vampires forces but it was nowhere near enough. I needed more, more kills, more destruction. Killing a few dozens of vampires will not makes them weaker in anyway. I needed to up my game.

I could see another forces of vampires coming at me but this time I didn't let them come at me patiently.

I moved at insane speed while enhencing my body with magic and cutting down any vampires that I came across. A single cut was more than enough to utterly disintegrate them.

More and more of them were transforming into bats but it was useless. I crushed them all the same. I left nothing more than ashes and death in my wake and continued advancing, destroying anything in my way. Be it walls of the castle, statues or paintings of inestimable value. I wreaked havoc everywhere I went and killed more and more of the small fries.

In fact the Holy Aura I was releasing, both from my body and spear, was getting more oppressive for the vampires. So much that they couldn't even get near me without being burned themselves.

I continued moving and felt no more people coming at me until suddenly I felt my danger sense flaring alarmingly.

I immediately moved to the side at the incoming and powerful attacks. A wave of darkness passed by me harmlessly and destroyed a good chunk of the castle behind me. I then moved through all the waves of powers coming at me from all sides.

"Aegis of light." I intoned slowly. A crystal-like wall made of light protected me from all of the attacks. I continued forward as I could feel that my attackers were at least Ultimate-class in terms of powers and I needed space to fight them seriously. I destroyed a giant gates which was situated at the end of the hallways and entered the room.

The room or should I say hall was clearly a thrones room if the literal throne made of countless bones was any proof.

I looked behind me to see my five opponents making their way toward me through the rubbles. All of them powerful and all of them very furious if I were to go by their looks.

"How dare you ?"started the leader slowly with cold anger in his voice."HOW DARE YOU ATTACK MY CASTLE, YOU MONGREL !"hurled the King Of Tepes, Vlad IV.

I didn't answer and simply looked at all them impassively with my expressionless mask. I recognised all of my opponents.

Vlad IV Tepes, Leader of the Tepes Faction, His son Alucard Tepes, Crown Prince of the Tepes, Galliard Vladi, Lord of the Vladi and father of Gasper Vladi, Ferid Bathory, The Gourmet, And finally Crowley Eusford,The Fallen Crusader, I have heard of all of them in my studies. Apart from Alucard Tepes who is only at the level of a powerful High-Class vampire, they are all veteran of the Vampire Civil War between the Tepes and The Carmilla and are at least Ultimate-Class in terms of power.

Fighting all of them at the same would be dangerous even for a Maou and yet here am I, ready to fight against the strongest vampires of the world. Most would consider me a fool with a deathwish to do this for what is basically a reckless decision but I did not care.

I may not be able to kill them today but I will at the very least make them suffer.

"Do not ignore my father, bastard !"spoke the Heir of the King and approached me."You're going to pay for your impudence !" He began to run in my direction, his form transforming into a gigantic preying mantis and tried to cut me down.

Key word being tried.

Before he could even touch me, I ignited the blade of my spear with burning holy light and thrusted it at my opponent, impaling him in the chest. The Crown Prince looked down at the mortal wound in incomprehension and a second later he burned to nothing more than ashes.

I looked back at the shocked face of my enemies.

"Makes me pay he said ? No, the only ones who are going to pay are you filthy scums." I whispered with barely a hiss. "Who are you ?Who do you think you are to invade my castle and kill my son ?"hissed the King of Vampires with barely restrained fury if his trembling shoulders were any indication. "Do you really think you will escape my punishment ?"

My shoulders too were trembling but not out of fury but laughter. I laughed so I would have made Gilgamesh proud, the faces of all the vampires before me turned into something hideous and angry-looking but I didn't care. I leisurely made my way to the throne of bones while laughing and sat down on it. My laughter stopped abruptly.

"Who am I you ask ?" I said slowly with indifference, slammed down my spear on the ground and released it's full aura of Holy Light and I could finally see a small amount of fear in theirs eyes as they recognised my weapon and thus who I truly am. "I am your doom"

No words where needed anymore. They all launched at me with fury and power and I was more than glad to reciprocate with as much if not greater fury.

'I wonder how far the doll is it really needs to hurry up, I don't know how long I can hold off the Tepes King.'

X

The doll had finally made it past all the guards, as it reached the dungeon entrance it saw only one guard guarding a cell. The doll silently walked up to the guard being unseen and then manifesting a light sword and stabbing the unsuspecting guard killing him instantly. Looking into the cell it saw a girl about the age of 11 leaning un against a wall. It blasted the cell doors open and walked in.

The girl looked up and stared at the doll observing it with curiosity. "Tell me do you want to get out of here?" the doll said. The girl then spoke "It's impossible for me to leave, my brother has made sure I will not get far." "But I can protect you from your brother, he will not be a problem so don't worry about him." The doll stated. "How do I know you won't just use me like he did?" "I can't promise I won't ask for you to use your sacred gear but I can promise I will never force you to do anything that you don't want to unless it's for your safety, you have my word as the student of the Sage Equaling the Heavens. " Very well then I'll come with you as long as you keep to your word."

The doll then scooped up the girl in its arms and turned invisible once again leaving the castle as quickly as possible."

X

Cao Cao was having a hard time with the vampires constantly disappearing into the shadows or transforming he was not able to get in a single hit he trying to keep up with their speed but even enhanced he was to far bellow their level. Even with his advantage of being coated in light energy they still somehow were able to get in hit buy covering their fist in shadows so that it cold make contact with his body. He was beginning to get tired and while he was able to make Marius flee when he almost cut him only to be saved be his father. I was beginning to tire and the King could see that.

"Give up and face your death, boy." said the Lord Vladi trying to convince me to end this meaningless fight while swinging his sword at me. "Your actions are meaningless. You have no chance of winning against the four of us."

I felt the other three coming at me from behind but I launched omnidirectional beams of light in every directions making them back off hurriedly.

"Winning ? I already won. I killed hundreds of vampires and dozens of nobles." I said with amusement clear in my voice."I ruined your reputation. A mere human crushed the mighty vampires the so-called superior race as if they were nothing more than annoying bugs. After today the Tepes Faction will be a laughing stock." I laughed and I could see that my words had an effect as they are looking even more furious than they already were. It seems that they really want to rip me limb for limb.

"I'm going to enjoy draining your cattle body of all life." said the Gourmet, Ferid Bathory with an very angry smile.

"Why ?" said Crowley the Crusader with an smile that was as angry as Ferid and I hummed questionaly. "Why are you attacking us ? We, the Tepes, are an isolationist faction and we do not leave our territory of Romania so I do not think that we ever met or hurt you personally. The only answer I could find was that you chose us as a target to make your grand debut as the possesor of the Ultimate Sacred Gear but the Devil Faction would be a much better target for you, wielder of the True Longinus. So why us ?"

"Why huh ? Its simple really." I mused."For one you made me angry, angrier than anything ever made me in the past and secondly, I merely wanted you all to understand one thing." a vicious smile spread beneath my mask. "That in this world where the strong crushes the weak, people like you are one thing and one thing only." I pointed my spear in their direction."and that is…preys for me." It seems that they didn't expect me to answer with this. That the only reason I attacked was simply to prove a point and because I was angry. Better that they believe this than the true reason being Valerie. Though Crowley was also right about the grand debut. I needed to make an impression on the supernaturel world and build my reputation as a fearless and ruthless individual and what better than attacking the Tepes Castle simply because I could. They will also not suspect that I am also doing this for the Fullmoon Village.

Looking at their enraged expression, I couldn't help but smirk beneath my mask. I think that looking down on and mocking arrogant bastards is going to become my favorite hobby.

"Y-you've…done all of this, killing my son, my subjects by the hundred, ruining my reputation…for such a worthless reason." said the King of Tepes, trembling with rage.

"Not so funny when you are the hunted isn't it Vlad ?" I mocked him with a cold voice. "But I had enough fun for tonight, it's time to leave."

I need to rap this up quickly. The Doll had sent a message telepathically to inform me it was done. Now I needed to make an exit quickly other wise risk death. I raise my spear in the air and immediately slammed it onto the ground send a shockwave of light all around me. It disintegrated on of the Vampires but the other two were left unscathed. And then follow it up with sending out a countless number of light swords at my enemies.

'Here is a taste of your own medicine.' I thought viciously as I rained a barrage of blade at the vampires. It didn't matter if they dodge, I would make the blades follow them like homing missiles. This technique allowed me an opportunity to escape while they were occupied but first thing first.

Leaving one last parting gift I lifted my hands to the sky above the castle and formed the biggest light sword I could and let it fall right into the castle destroy a good part of it.

I took this opportunity to escape, satisfied for now with the destruction I coursed.

Knowing that I made them suffer for everything they did.

X

How did this happen?

Marius Tepes, second son of the King of Tepes and fifth in line for the throne still don't understand what happened. They, the Tepes Faction, one of the strongest factions in the world was attacked by one single human and…lost. How could this be possible ? and yet right in front of his eyes was the truth.

A good part of their castle, nothing more than rubbles in the grounds, hundreds killed including many nobles and his older brother dead at hand of this some human. How could a single human do so much damage to their faction in a single night even if he is the Wielder of the True Longinus. Even if he have such a powerful Sacred Gears, a human is still a human. They should be nothing more than food for us, vampires and one lone human humiliated us like this. Granted, no true assets apart from his worthless older brother was killed and rebuilding the castle would take a matter of days and the majority of those killed were the ones with impure blood but still this is the proof of what I've always known.

That the Tepes Faction became weak under the leadership of his father. This could also be an opportunity, with his brother dead. Father may chose him as his heir and if he doesn't he simply has to kill him. The other nobles will fall in line as they all follow the one giving them power. He needs to use Valerie and the Graal to make his kingdom stronger sooner than planned but he needs to do it fast before the other factions like these wrench from the Carmilla takes advantage of this.

But as he was making his way to check on his impure sister, one of his men came to him and told him something which shocked and enraged him to the core.

The wielder of Sephiroth Graal, the tool that would have allowed him to become unstoppable, his sister Valerie Tepes disappeared.

How did she disappear ? Was she killed ? No, her part of the castle was untouched. There is only one explication for her disappearance.

Someone took her away during the chaos. And now he knows why this person attacked them. It was nothing more than a distraction to kidnap her. It was either the wielder of the True Longinus or an accomplice and it means that they know about the Graals. I punched in anger one the remaining walls and roared to the sky. 'Shit shit shit shit ! What I am I gonna do ? They ruined everything.' He thought in panic.

No, he just needed to find her. His father would want to find her too if he knows about the Graal but I can't tell him about her true powers. It will ruin everything but he would want to find the wielder of the True Longinus and finding him means finding Valerie.

'I will make that foolish human regret ever standing in my way.' He thought with a sneer on his face.

I immediately went to my father to talk to him about that worthless halfbreed disappearance and more importantly about our next course of action.

"Father." I interrupted him while he was talking with Ferid Bathory who is one of the few people of the castle who knows about the Graals and who would follow him if he made him stronger wth it.

"Marius." said Father with a curt nod and I told him about Valerie's disapearance and he reacted just as he expected. He could see through the corner of his eyes, Ferid's eyes widen in shock.

"That foolish child must have conjured images of ghosts with her mind, wandered during the chaos and got herself killed." As expected he didn't care. "It doesn't matter. What matter is finding that mongrel who dared to humiliate me. He dared to take the name of the first human my ancestor ever killed. What arrogance." said father with gritted teeth and rage clear in his voice.

"My King, we can't send an hunting party after the True Longinus possessor. The sun is close to rising." said Ferid dissuading my father.

'His pride over his dead son, such a typical behavior for a vampire.'

"We should put a bounty on him, with a price that no one would be able to resist. The inferior races would find this human for us and we will just have to hunt him down ourselves.' Marius proposed with a confident smile.

"You do that but only I am allowed to kill him. True Longinus or not, I swear to one day put his head on the pyke of my throne." he said with a cold voice despite the pain he felt because of the Holy light.

"Very well, father." he turned around and left.

It would be much easier to find Valerie if several factions were to hunt down the human but there is still the possibility of them giving up. He shivered at the opressive aura of light that he felt even from afar during the attack. It was like being in the presence of an angel. That human is strong even if that weapon is wasted on a member of such a weak race.

He had no choice. He needed to ask help from them.

Going underground to avoid the sun, he connected the communication device and a face appeared on the screen. It was the face of a young looking man with silver-braided hair.

"Marius, to what do I owe this pleasure ?" said the silver haired man with a smooth and arrogant voice. Marius gritted his teeth and was also shaking in fear despite trying not to. "W-we h-have a problem, Lord Euclid."

The man at the other end of the screen seemed displeased by what I said.

"Tell me everything."

X

I traveled to the edge of Romanian where I met the doll and I absorbed his memories and then placed him back in the pocket dimension. Due to the long journey they took Valerie had fallen asleep and was fast asleep when I arrived. So I placed her in my arms and sat down on my golden could as we flew off into the sunset headed for the Vatican.