Child of Destiny

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Bang! Bang!

Almost at the same time, Alucard and Sheryl pulled the triggers of their respective sniper rifles, firing the fully charged shots that they had prepared earlier.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

The blue and crimson beams of light flew straight to one another before colliding and producing a devastating explosion.

Boom!

The shockwaves from the collision repeatedly overlapped with one another, creating a chaotic storm that annihilated everything on their path.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The surrounding trees and little structures started falling one after another, almost leveling the entire place before sinking to create a deep crater.

When everything settled, the figures of Shery and Berit were slowly revealed. Both were wearing masks that covered the lower half of their faces.

Sheryl was wearing a somewhat modern tactical mask while Berit had a traditional metallic mask filled with mysterious runes.

On the other side of the crater, Alucard stood quite menacingly and arrogantly, along with the sniper rifle resting on his shoulders.

Seeing him, Sheryl could not help but frown deeply, clearly showing her annoyance.

“The poison is spreading quite slowly yet steadily. This is quite dangerous for us. We will lose because of this if we don’t find a way to deal with it,” said Berit with full solemnness.

“We neither have a priest nor anyone who can dispel for us,” she said with a frown. “Even my cleansing syringe is ineffective against it.”

“Maybe it is more like a curse rather than a poison?” said Berit, voicing his thoughts.

Regardless, we are now on a timer. We can’t let this match continue any longer. Let’s use the trump card now,” said Sheryl after a brief analysis.

“Tsk! This is still early, but I guess we have no choice,” said Berit before getting into position.

A moment later, he positioned himself in front of Sheryl before crouching down and curling his body while holding his shields on both sides.

The shields then grew larger, almost covering him entirely. In between these shields, Berit suddenly pulled the shields a little closer to himself, making them join and hiding him inside completely.

This formed a wheel-like object that slowly swayed forward and backward before suddenly rolling down the deep crater before it.

It continued to gather momentum as it rolled further before turning into a huge spinning wheel of destruction that could annihilate everything on its path.

Swoosh!

‘Shield Master Skill (Tier 3): Forbidden Technique – Rolling Dragon’

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Alucard raised his brows when he saw the ‘wheel’ rolling, bouncing, and dancing within the crater to gather an even stronger momentum.

“Interesting,” he commented before looking at Sheryl, who was standing at the opposite end of the crater and seemingly preparing something.

Squinting his eyes a little, he activated his ‘Sanguine Eyes’ to see what she was doing more clearly before frowning once again. “Constructing an advanced firearm?”

“It must be the particle cannon that she keeps on bragging to her elder brother,” he mumbled before shaking his head.

This weapon might be quite destructive and could put quite a pressure on him, given the large range that it possessed.

But there was also quite an obvious weakness that came alongside it, which was her unable to move and becoming a sitting duck for her opponent.

But Alucard highly doubted that it would be that simple, making him look at the ‘wheel’ rolling within the crater.

“So, that’s it, huh?” he smirked.

He could tell that this ‘wheel’ would have more than one purpose in this match. Not only was the offensive power that it had quite decent, but its defensive prowess shouldn’t be something that could be underestimated either.

“Since you are showing me something interesting, then let me show more as well,” he mumbled before casually waving his free hand in the air.

Swoosh!

With this movement, he conjured a bunch of sniper rifles made of blood power behind him, fanning out quite stunningly.

‘Vampiric Ability: Blood Alchemy – Annihilator’

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

He then aimed forward, targeting Sherly, who had just finished setting up the energy cannon and assumed position behind it.

Along with his actions, the blood rifles fanning out behind him also aimed forward, locking on whoever his main rifle was at.

“Let’s test what you can do first,” he mumbled before pulling the trigger.

‘Military Gunfighting Technique: Lethal Move – Meteoric Barrage’

Bang!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Right after he pulled the trigger of the main sniper rifle, the rest of the blood rifles fired almost at the same time and sent a barrage of shots at Sheryl.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

As the beams of light were heading straight to her location, Sheryl kept her calm as she aimed back at Alucard and charged the energy particles for her first attack.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Right before the crimson beams of light reached her, a huge energy wall was suddenly erected before their path, blocking them.

Rumble!

The energy wall trembled quite violently due to the bombardment of those beams of light, but it remained standing strong and tall, not showing any signs of crumbling.

“Quite sturdy,” commented Alucard after seeing that.

“Then how about this!?” he added before adding another ability.

‘Vampiric Ability: Dark Phantom – Mirror’

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Not long after, multiple copies of himself suddenly appeared and spread out, aiming at Sheryl along with their respective array of blood rifles.

“Damn! This is dangerous!” commented Sheryl after seeing the multiple ‘Alucards’ from the opposing side of the crater, but still maintained her calm.

It was because she was not alone.

Swoosh!

Not long after, Berit, who was currently in his ‘rolling wheel’ form and started attacking Alucard and his clones, preventing them from targeting Sheryl and killing most of them in the process.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Unfortunately, the rest still managed to fire their respective shots and bombarded the energy wall with successive attacks.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

However, Sheryl had already finished charging the energy of her cannon and swiftly pulled the trigger, firing a destructive energy beam that had destroyed everything on its at.

BOOM!

Even the residual parts of the energy wall and the remaining crimson beams raining down on it were erased right after coming in contact with the huge energy beam that Sheryl had just fired.

Boom!

Right after the energy beam dissipated, everyone saw the huge scar that it had left behind.

The aftermath was quite serious as the energy had erased everything on its path, even leaving a scorching land to tell everyone how strong it was.

However, the main target of this energy beam was nowhere to be found, seemingly surviving the destruction.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Not long after, a series of resounding sounds suddenly reverberated on the map as multiple copies of Alucard started firing from different directions.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

It was clear that Alucard was intending to pull Berit away from Sheryl by scattering multiple clones of himself to different places.

However, Berit did not bite the bait and continued to roll around, even bouncing high up in the air to collide against some of the shots that Alucard had fired, lowering the number of attacks that could bombard the newly erected energy that protected Sheryl.

Boom!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Boom!

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

A series of exchanges then followed as both sides started firing at one another.

Alucard relied on his phantoms and clones to attack the opposing side from multiple directions. He was also applying most of his combat techniques in the mix for more complicated attacks and combinations.

He was also utilizing the environment quite well, particularly the night setting of the map, to hide his presence.

This made it hard for Sheryl to lock on him, especially when Alucard’s utilization of darkness was no weaker than those top-notch and godly assassins and thieves out there.

Even though Sheryl’s firepower was quite devastating, her firing rate was not that fast. This limited her options, particularly when Alucard was starting to use more of his Vampiric Abilities aside from Shadow Bats, Dark Pathom, and Blood Alchemy.

One of the most annoying abilities was ‘Vampire Psychokinesis’, which worked perfectly well with Blood Alchemy.

With the flying weapons everywhere, Berit was unable to fully utilize his abilities, particularly when his rhythm was repeatedly being disrupted by the combination of these two abilities.

There was also the ‘Night Curtain’ ability that not only amplified the stealth abilities of Alucard but also created some illusions that further confused Sheryl, who was already having a hard time monitoring the phantoms and clones that were firing at her from every direction.

This was not even the end, as the ‘Blood Poison’ that was already affecting was getting worse due to the continuous ‘supply’ of blood weapons summoned through ‘Blood Alchemy’.

This show of abilities made everyone realize how scary Alucard was when he truly and fully showcased the abilities of his race.

But what made those from the top guilds and huge organizations worried were the ‘Vampiric Abilities’ themselves.

They might not be familiar with the Vampire Race, but it did not mean that their information network was that weak. They had already built a database about different races and classes, especially after learning the importance of such information.

Quite a lot of forces had already tried to figure out the races of every member of the Empyrean Talons and other top players within the game.

From the information that their scholars had learned, the Vampire Race was divided into multiple families, where each family had a unique ability of their own.

It was similar to other major races, which were divided into multiple subraces.

However, after seeing Alucard use multiple Vampiric Abilities one after another, which were supposed to be unique to certain Vampire Families, these forces could not help but doubt the information that they had gathered about the Vampire Race altogether.

That-… or Alucard was just different from everyone else.

If it was the latter, then it was more than just a problem if they clashed with the Empyrean Talons in the future.

Aside from that, there was another question that flashed through their minds.

“Just how many Vampiric Abilities does this guy have?”

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