Peculiar situation

Chapter: 35

Peculiar situation

The ground was full of brown mud, and stones could occasionally be found around. Wizards in black robes could be seen all over the place. They were casting spells onto themselves to deal with the vampire running amok.

In the middle of the field stood two strange people. One of them had scars and stitches all over his face and rotting flesh could be found under these stitches. No hair could be seen anywhere on his head, and he glared at the person in an angry manner.

The one beside him had only one arm. In it, it was a holding a menacing and bloodied ax. Kellam was getting angry at Nefarion's reminder that he should hold back his brother. He looked around the battlefield and swallowed the words that he wanted to shout at Nefarion's face. After he saw the situation, he was in.

He was in the middle of the field, and all around him stood Nefarion´s people. Knowing that he had declared to help them, he got ready and jumped at his brother. In a breath, he vanished and appeared by the side of his brother, who was killing another defenseless wizard.

Rodolfo had now killed 5 enemies and was ready to move to his next target when he felt someone approach him. Turning around, he saw his hateful brother appear beside him and got ready to evade his surprise attack. He had never let down his guard and some of his attention was always staying on the only two people who could stand a fighting chance against himself.

Finding out that his brother had sensed him before he could attack with a surprise attack, Kellam grit his teeth in anger and attacked with all strength. Blood-red light appeared all over his body in an instant and his abilities rose a steep notch.

An enveloped sword and ax met the next moment, and a deafening sound was heard.

"Clang"

Feeling that he could not overpower him with his attack, Kellam wanted to back up but cursed when he saw another attack aim for his left foot. The only thing he could do was to step back and evade this strike. He saw a glint of a foot right next to him.

Rodolfo saw this and changed the direction of his attack, and now it went for Kellam´s hand in a smooth uppercut movement. His foot hit the hand and forced it away along with his ax, the now free sword carved into Kellam's abdominal area before he could regain his posture and he received a steep wound.

"Drop, drop".

Blood was dripping onto the floor and left behind a few blood-red puddles. Rodolfo knew he had an overwhelming advantage and wanted to follow up with another attack to end his brother. He knew that their relationship was unrepairable and just wanted to force his enemies into a disadvantageous position.

This was the only way his son and friends could find an opportunity to flee. Appearing beside his brother, he struck at his brother's unprotected back. The one sword flew in a fast and almost unbelievable manner toward Kellam, but right before the attack could connect, a black light appeared on his left side. Rodolfo knew that he either could end his brother or endure this spell, but he knew it would be disastrous to get hit by it.

He decided himself in this split second and repositioned his body and evaded the black spell.

The black spell got past him and it just so happened to hit another black-robed wizard, who stood tens of meters away. Black smoke rose from the person and he screamed madly. His flesh was melting from his bones and he could do nothing besides to scream loudly.

This situation made every non-essential person around them gulp, and they backed up to have more leeway for avoiding spells.

The scream soon turned into a gurgling sound and most of the flesh on his body was now rotten away. It dripped off his body and landed on the ground while sizzling noisily. This scene went on for a few seconds. Everything that remained of the victim was his bones, which lay on the ground.

Rodolfo saw this and sighed in relief and thanked his decision-making skill for dodging the spell. That was one of the worst spells he knew Nefarion could cast.

Kellam used this chance and backed up to regain his bearings. Rodolfo used this chance to mock his brother and spoke.

"You truly think that you are my match? It has been quite a while since we last fought against each other, but what gave you this much courage to think you can do anything to me. You just lost a hand down there and are not even used to it. Quite the conundrum, I would say. This day, today will be your death day. I do swear that I will do everything I can to kill you here and now."

He said this in a serious tone, and it looked like Rodolfo was looking down on his brother.

Turning his head, he looked at Nefarion and said.

"You are the same coward that you have ever been. Did you truly think this attack would hit me? Just hiding in the back and attacking with surprise attacks is the only thing you can do."

Kellam ground his teeth when he heard the words his brother said and shouted back while spit was flying out of his mouth. "Damn, you dare to mock me. You have no way out of this. I may not be your match right now, but with all of us together, you stand no chance."

Seeing his surroundings gradually calm down, Rodolfo was now frowning when he saw that all his enemies were now done with casting their spells and knew that he was in quite the pinch.

Wizards were never easy to deal with and Vampires could only obtain victory if they were stronger than their opponent or if they could surprise attack them or could get in close combat. After a wizard got ready and cast a few spells onto themselves to help them catch up with the speed of vampires, they were quite the tough opponents.

At the beginning of the fight, Rodolfo used his overwhelming speed and got rid of a few of them, but now that they were ready and with the fact that Kellam and Nefarion were also here, he was now in deep trouble.

However, his expression turned into a smile while thought.

'At least I got most of their attention focused wholly on myself. Kyle and his friends should find a way out of this now.'

Nefarion watched all of this and was angry that his surprise attack didn´t hit Rodolfo, and after he heard his words, he got even madder.

"The arrogance of yours is truly greater than the heavens to spout such nonsense, even at such a time. I will see how you will avoid this calamity today. Kellam, get ready to disrupt him, men attack him with all that you have. Let the fun begin."

His voice echoed all over the place and everyone got ready. Kellam knew he was the only one who could truly match Rodolfo's speed and he could hinder him. He then sprinted back to fight his brother.

Wizards all over the place had their wand at the ready and started to cast different spells. Spell lights were flying all over the place and impact on the place where Rodolfo stood just a few seconds ago.

The whole place was in chaos.

The ground got broken apart, vanished, melted down, or exploded. It was utter pandemonium. Rodolfo thanked his judgment for moving instantly and even he would, at least, be seriously injured if he got hit by so many spells.

Kellam was ready and intercepted his brother along the way and he did not use a difficult see-through tactic, but just tried to hold him in place. He may not be strong enough to do anything to his brother, but being a nuisance was enough in this situation.

The wizards all around them had themselves enchanted with spells to improve their own reaction time and eyes to see Rodolfo's movements. They could now accurately see all of his movements and sent one spell after another at the fighting and evading vampire.

Nefarion was now ready and shot out a dark green spell at the ground surrounding Rodolfo. That was one of the spells that he had prepared for this fight and he needed quite some time to finish casting it.

The spell hit the ground and, in an instant, the complete area around all of them changed. The mud turned into a swampy zone deemed to hinder movements. Most of the advantage of vampires was focused on physical abilities. That meant mostly strength and movement speed.

Feeling the surroundings change, Rodolfo knew he needed to get out of this or he would be in trouble. His feet sunk into the ground and he cursed with a burst of strength. He could jump out of it and did land on a stone right next to him.

Viewing his periphery, he saw that all his enemies stood on stone platforms and were unimpeded by the swamp. Kellam was also standing at a stone that was rising out of the ground. Kellam looked at the serious expression which his brother wore and was elated by that.

Spell light never ceased flying and Rodolfo needed to move out of the way all the time. However, he only found a few places where he could freely step onto. The stones were also gradually sinking more and more into the swamp and he would lose most of his options in a couple of minutes.

He turned his head towards Nefarion and who was mumbling something unreadable under his breath. Rodolfo knew he would be in much more trouble when he finished his next spell.

Running out of ideas, he turned his head and focused on the wizards all around him. Rodolfo decided and jumped at the nearest person. Spells flew everywhere, but Rodolfo was able to deflect most of them with his sword and only a few hit him. His whole body was shrouded in the blood-red light and when the spells hit him, the light acted up and swallowed these spells.

The only bad side of this was that it also got thinner as it needed to use up energy to destroy the spells.

Stronger spells would need more energy to be destroyed and Rodolfo only let himself hit with spells that could not do much to him and avoid or deflect the rest with his sword. His other hand needed some more time to heal and he could only deal with the situation with this handicap.

Headed for the closest platform, the wizard on it grew fearful and shot a last Avada Kedavra on the vampire. He knew he would not be able to do much against a vampire in close range and tried to avoid that situation.

Rodolfo spun his body at the last moment and avoided the death spell.

Landing at the feet of the vampire, it took him only a swing with his sword and another one of his enemies went down for good. He now had a much better foothold and got ready to jump toward his next destination.

With spells flying all over the place, many explosions happened along the way and many wizards could not even get close to hitting the vampire. After all, they needed to have a clear view of their target and, with the speed of Rodolfo, it was quite the hassle to get a shot in.

It also didn´t help that explosions were disrupting their sight when the swampy water was flying around.

The lucky thing was that they had many more people and with the swamp spell, they had as much advantage as they could have. They also knew that when their master got the spell done which he was casting, it would let the battle end in an instant.

Kellam could only curse at his situation. He had the same trouble as his brother and needed to deal with the swamp. Not really finding any good footholds, he was constantly trying to hinder his brother but was not able to get near him. He only lagged behind. Therefore, he used this time to let them exhaust his brother and after that, he would surely kill him.

／(^ x ^)＼

At the same time, Richard, Sniffy, and Kyle went invisible, and the fight was starting.

The trio saw some of the bad guys being slaughtered in an instant and could only gulp at the sight of it. They never had seen such a gruesome sight and could only shut down the instinct to barf, after they remembered themselves that they were in a life and death situation. Shaking off the discomforting feeling, the trio turned their heads towards the wizards, who were coming towards them.

A moment ago, the wizards started cursing after they had lost sight of them and got their wands out and cast revilio spells all over the place. These spells were meant to reveal their position, but the trio was not standing at the place where they disappeared anymore and had moved quite the distance away.

"Where the hell did these brats go? They definitely stood around here somewhere before. But now they are gone. Keep casting the revealing spell. They cannot have been gone too far."

Brian, the bald wizard, shouted at the 5 people that he had brought along to capture the kids. At first, he wanted to have some good old fun and catch them alone, but he could not fail in this endeavor to catch them and took a few people along, just to be on the safe side.

That was also the moment when Richard asked Kyle to attack some of their pursuers with his metal pieces. Kyle heard this and then remembered them. His hand went into the pouch that hung on his waist and he took out a handful of metal spikes.

Each of them was as long as a finger. On one side, it was shaped like a needle but was much sharper, and on the other end; it was flat. Kyle had trained with them in the last few months and was now quite the passable shooter.

Ready and with the weapons in his hands, he shot two spikes at the first wizard, who had the back to him.

"Swooooosh"

They flew, and a second later impacted with a dull sound inside the wizard's body. The spikes were shot with too much power behind them and went right through his body and shot out of his abdominal area.

The wizard could only scream in surprise and fall down onto the ground. He squirmed on the ground for a moment but went still afterward. A puddle of blood was soon forming on the ground and nobody knew if he was alive or dead.

Kyle had never had the chance to train on a living target and was not knowing of how much power he needed to deal enough damage to his opponent. Therefore, he went with as much power as he could muster.

Hearing one of their own people scream and fall down, they were completely perplexed. The black-robed wizards had never treated these kids seriously and all of them thought that this would be a simple job.

Reality taught them in a gruesome manner and they could only look at their downed comrade in a dumbfounded manner. Brian saw this and was also stunned by this, but he was a veteran in this field and could get out of it in an instant.

"Get it together, people. Has anyone seen where the attack came from? They cannot be too far away. Find them." Shouting to get his people out of their minds and telling them what to do.

No one had seen where this attack came from, but they now set up shields around their bodies and started casting spells again to find them.

Kyle was already gone from his earlier position and got ready to shoot another pair of spikes.

Richard oversaw the whole spectacle and looked at what he could do and found that a wizard would surely get lucky with his next spell and find Kyle in the next moment. Seeing that, he whispered to Sniffy beside himself, to restrain the wizard.

With the shield all around his enemy, Richard knew he would not be able to do much with his spell arsenal and could only try to strategize to help his friends.

Sniffy was beside Richard at all times, because she didn´t want to get too far away. She heard him and cast an earth spell towards the feet of the wizard, who would surely find Kyle in the next moment.

Right now, was a suitable moment, that her affinity with earth allowed her to cast spells that affected earth and nature. To not need to shoot a spell light forward. Her magic directly went into the ground under her and she let it speed toward the wizard.

It took the magic no time to reach the ground under the wizard's feet, and the spell took effect.

Vines were growing out of the muddy ground in no time at all and surrounded the target completely. They pulled him down to the ground. On top of that, on the vines grew thorns, and they scratched the victim all over. He was now completely bound in the bundle of veins and bloody all over his body.

This attack might not deal much damage to the wizard, but the thorns had been producing a paralyzing poison, and he was out of the fight.

Another wizard saw this and shot a spell over to burn the vines without affecting his colleague. He then saw the bloodied and unresponsive state he was in and concluded that he was out for good.

Kyle used this chance and shot 2 sets of spikes and attacked the next one. He knew of shield spells and also that they could only hold on against so much force. Thus, he had shot 2 sets of spikes this time.

He would look at how that would go and then act accordingly. The first two spikes damaged the shield and the third one 3 broke it, but had no more power left and fell to the ground. The 4rth spike pierced the wizard through the right shoulder. He was right-handed and let his wand involuntarily fall onto the floor. With fear emerging in his eyes, he looked in the direction where the spikes came from. Before he could shout what he had discovered, he saw another 2 spikes fly in his direction. The wizard was not able to do anything against it, as his wand was on the floor and he looked on in horror when the two spikes pierced his body.

The now downed wizard had only enchanted his eyes and brain to see the incoming attacks, but his body could not move with the same speed, and he was not able to evade any of the two remaining spikes.

Kyle breathed in relief when he saw this and thought that he got away scot-free. The next moment, though, he saw a spell envelope the area around himself and he got revealed for all the world to see.

Also, at the same time. The surrounding ground turned into a swampy area and restricted all of them.