AUTHORS NOTE: UNEDITED CHAPTER
After searching for Elena and her friends for a few days without any result, one day Raden got a report from one of his generals that two of the vampires he had been looking for had been captured, while the other one had escaped.
Naturally, the one who escaped was zareth. When Master Aidris teleported them back to Zastlevania with his shadow warp, he had made sure to erase all memories of himself from their minds.
they had no memories about meeting him in the healing chamber or ever accepting him as their teacher, neither did they remember a thing about visiting the Chaldin Planet or entering into the shadow domain.
so when they woke up in a strange apartment in the 3rd Kingdom, they were naturally surprised about how they got there.
A quick scan of their environment made them realise they were in the 3rd city, but at this point, a lot of things seemed different from the 3rd city they were familiar with.
left with no choice, zareth decided to reach out to Elena, but all his attempts to get in touch with her with his communication device proved to be futile.
At the end of the day, they decided it would be best to look for Elena in the city of kings since that's the most likely place for her to be presently.
so, the trio began making their way towards the nearest teleportation stop. unfortunately for them, the short trip to the teleportation stop got them into greater trouble than they had expected.
the new soldiers that were stationed in various points in each and every street were already aware of what Elena and her friends looked like.
and their new lord had given them orders to apprehend Elena and her friends on sight. so this was why, currently, Zareth emeira and Lydia were all in a different situation.
several soldiers were chasing after them, with no plans of them stopping anytime soon, emeira decided to stay back in order to slow them down and give Zareth and Lydia enough time to escape.
Turning around, she activated her ability and began summoning one of her biggest attacks ever.
[absolute chaos] The skill she used was called absolute chaos for a reason, for it was a skill that was capable of killing even it caster.
this was why most wind ability users refrained from using such skills. upon activating absolute chaos, she created a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
Rotating and destroying everything on it path, while emeira was fueling her massive tornado like attack with her mana, her health, stamina, and energy reserves were spiralling down quickly as a result of the difficulty level of the skill she had just used.
the soldiers, civilians, and properties that were unlucky enough to get caught up in Emeira's attack were all reduced to nothing.
those who were out of her attack range were thanking their God or whatever divine they worshipped.
Zareth and Lydia, on the other hand, also ran into another group of soldiers close to the teleportation stop, and they both decided to fight since they were left with no option.
To access the teleportation portal, they would need to fight their way through. vampiric energy collided against energies of various sorts while their battle lasted.
it was a battle of 2 vs. 30, a battle they knew they had next to no chance of winning, but that didn't stop them from fighting anyway.
2 minutes into the fight, Zareth and Lydia had blood stains on several parts of their body, even though their injuries were healing at a fast pace, their body had taken alot of damages and the blood stains serves as proof.
Lydia coming to the conclusion that, it would be now impossible for both of them to escape alive, saw a small opening in the formation of the soldiers and she decided to push Zareth into the teleportation portal.
After pushing Zareth through, she decided to surrender as she knew it would be impossible to defeat every single one of them on her own.
maybe if she surrendered, she could buy Zareth enough time to get in touch with Elena, For she believed only Elena would be able to rescue her.
The moment zareth appeared on the other side of the teleportation portal, he kept screaming No ...no...no...no....no....no.
The thought that Both Lydia and Emiera had both sacrificed themselves in other for him to escape, left a sour taste in his mouth.
he could go back if he wanted, but that would make their sacrifices for not as he knew he was powerless in the front of that amount of soldiers.
he sat on the ground, feeling dejected and lost. in his head, he kept saying if only he was strong enough, if only he was like Elena, maybe just maybe he would have been able to change the outcome of today's battle.
After contemplating for a while, he made up his mind to find Elena at all cost. Hence, he began calling her again, but all his attempts were futile like before. so he made up his mind to visit King Alacad, as he was convinced he alone would be able to tell Elena's were about.
Back in the 3rd city, Emeira's absolute chaos attack has destroyed thousands of buildings, properties, and lives. both soldiers and innocent civilians were all affected.
but currently, she was on the verge of collapsing, as the absolute chaos attack had drained out almost all her energy, mana, stamina, and health point.
she was finding it hard to keep her balance and even keeping her eyes open was provingto be a difficulttask, as a result, the absolute chaos attack came to an end with her falling to the ground, powerless and weak.
After her attack ended, it took a few minutes for some soldiers to arrive at her location, and they proceeded to apprehend her as they had done to her friend Lydia earlier.
Upon receiving the report from one of his generals that two of Elena's friends had been captured, Lord Raden was filled with joy.
If anything he wished, Elena would be able to see first hand what it felt like to watch her friends die.but since she was proving to be difficult to find, he decided he would do her the honor of recording the death of her friends.
Whenever they crossed paths in the future, he would show her the gruesome way to which both of her friends lost their lives.
For days, he would torture Lydia and Emiera without killing them. First, he started by pulling out the fingernails one after the order.
After that, he made his way to their legs and then their hands. every day, he would cut off one body part. this went on for days, and Raden or Asura was enjoying every bit of the fun.
Before killing Emiera and Lydia, he made sure to cut out their eyes and tongues while recording the entire scene before using his own powers to end their lives.
"Just you wait, Elena!!! You will be joining them soon." Asura said through clenched teeth. he couldn't explain the hatred he had for Elena.
something about a mere weak vampire being able to withstand his attacks twice without dying annoyed him greatly.
Once she had humiliated him, and he had sworn to exact his revenge on her.... even if it means him burning zastlevania to the ground to find her, he would.
Zareth, on the other hand, finally appeared before King Alacad Vlad with the intention of finding out Elena's whereabouts and also to seek her help in rescuing Emiera and Lydia .
Much to his horror, King Alacad threw him into his dungeon without telling him why and what he had done wrong.
It was as if he had escaped the wolves just to fall into the lions den.
"Elena, Elena, where are you." Zareth kept murmuring softly. At first, he was so carried away that he didn't even notice he wasn't alone in the dungeon.
This was also due to the fact that the old vampire sharing the dungeon with him had concealed his aura completely that it would be now impossible to detect his presence unless one was to lay their eyes on him directly.
Zareth was in a bad mood for days, as he kept blaming himself for being too weak to save his friends.
he felt useless and powerless. If he was strong enough, he would have been able to save both Lydia and Emiera, perhaps all three of them would be together right now in somewhere safe and not in a dark dungeon.
with his thoughts running wild, he began punching the dungeon wall, only then did the old vampire speak to him for the first time.
Calm down, child, no matter how hard you hit the walls, I'm sure you'll only bring damage to yourself and not the walls.
Hearing the calm voice of the old vampire man, startled Zareth as a result he blurted out in a hurry. "Who are you, and how did you get in here?"
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