340 Fear
The bone knives that protruded out of the fleshly vine pierced into Dilan’s skin from all directions.
The amplification of [Switch] and [Bracing Pain] had worn off, decreasing his Health stat gradually. Despite that, Nial’s stats were still high enough for his Special trait [Stone Skin] to protect him from the most severe injuries.
He tore at the vines and tried to pull the Bryte family’s patriarch out of the rubbles of the destroyed skyscraper but that didn’t seem to work as he had expected.
‘Just how long are these vines?! Did he turn his entire body into vines, or what??’ Dilan cursed in his head before he swiftly changed his tactic.
If he couldn’t find a way to the Bryte family’s patriarch, he would force the patriarch to come to him!
Using the Thunderbolt dagger coated with bits of mana, Dilan cut through the vines that were aiming to tie him down. It was easy for him to destroy the fleshly vines but this hadn’t been his plan earlier.
“If you don’t come to me, witness how your entire clan ceases to exist right in front of your eyes!” Dilan growled as he executed every ounce of strength within his body to shoot out of the mountain of rubble.
His Strength was more than enough to allow him to break out of the humongous pile of rubble and to emerge in the dazzling sunlight.
Dilan retrieved a second Thunderbolt Dagger, which he moved into a defensive position in front of him instinctively. He sensed that several opponents had appeared around him the moment his body emerged from the rubble.
It was as if they had been waiting for him to show up and pounce on him at once!
A crazed smile appeared on Dilan’s face as he pushed in the direction of the closest enemy, using all his strength. The ground below him was pushed aside as Dilan’s body jerked forward. He slashed to his side with the Thunderbolt daggers, blocking off the attacks that would have reached him at any moment before he smashed into the noble Vampire of the Agilt family.
The noble Vampire wielded a set of daggers, which he thrust toward Dilan. His attacks missed the designated target narrowly as Dilan twisted his body while leaning backward.
Dilan’s cheek was cut and so was his shoulder, but he ignored the pain as he initiated a counterattack. His Agility was slightly higher than that of the noble Vampire’s Agility even after the noble Vampire activated his Vampire Power which increased his Agility further.
Dilan’s stats were more advanced and with the activation of [Thunder Step], the final result allowed him to be faster than all of his opponents.
A smile, overflowing with arrogance and pride appeared on Dilan’s face as he thrust one of his daggers into his opponent’s heart and the other one cleanly through the Vampire’s eye socket, piercing his brain in the process.
Both daggers were twisted smoothly when they dug deep into their designated target, ending the life of the noble Vampire, who had lived for centuries, if not millennia, for good.
His hair stood up at its ends when he noticed something behind him and Dilan moved instinctively. He had yet to pull the daggers out of the noble Vampire, whom he had killed.
Without wasting a second, Dilan lifted the Vampire’s corpse over his head and aimed to fling it behind himself in order to block the incoming attacks.
But instead of achieving what he wanted, the corpse of the Vampire ended up slipping from Dilan’s razor-sharp Thunderbolt daggers.
The corpse was flung in the direction he sensed the danger from, where it impacted hard on the Tier-2 Vampire who had attempted to take Dilan by surprise and assassinate him.
‘Not exactly like I planned, but that is certainly a pretty decent result!’ Dilan thought as he rushed forward to attack and kill the Vampire he had just thrown to the ground.
It took him two mere stabs to kill the Tier-2 Vampire. The Tier-2 Vampires of the four clans appeared to be weaker than the patriarch’s or most noble Vampires.
Their occupation was not that strong either, which resulted in much lower improvements upon advancing to a higher Tier.
Nonetheless, he could ignore the Tier-2 Vampires, especially since it was still unknown as to what kind of unique advancements a race might receive for advancing in the Tiers.
When Dilan had ended the life of the Tier-2 Vampire, he leaned forward, almost touching the rubble that covered the ground.
Whether it was luck or his instincts, was hard to tell but he saw fleshly vines cutting their way through the rubble, while more than five Vampires attacked him from all directions.
Dilan’s fight was not yet over. Too many opponents surrounded him and there were even more joining in.
Some were still holding back, waiting for their masters to order them to attack. The patriarchs were waiting for the right timing but they quickly noticed that even the worst timing didn’t seem to be much helpful.
Dilan was currently being attacked from five sides and the ground. However, this did little to scare or confuse him.
After he had activated [Thunder Step], his Agilityalready reached a frightening level, yet, Dilan didn’t think that this was enough. He enhanced his Agility further by activating [Second Acceleration] to make sure that he could obliterate his opponents!
His Mana was slowly being drained but Dilan ignored this for the time being. He shot forward with an Agility stat that crossed 200 Units.
Utilizing two Agility-boosting abilities, boots that increased his Agility by 20 Units, and the title [Beyond the Stars] that increased the wearer’s stats by 10% were more than enough for him to achieve this shocking speed that left behind nothing but dust and destruction.
Dashing over the rubble lightly as if it was a mere obstacle race was certainly not easy but Dilan beheaded the closest opponent that was right in front of him before he brushed past the ordinary Vampire, whose life he had ended before the Vampire could even realize it.
Dilan felt excitement coursing through his body that got accustomed to running over the uneven ground of the skyscrapers’ debris.
He moved briskly and ended up in front of the Agilt family’s matriarch just a moment later.
Luckily, she didn’t possess an Origin ability, which made things much easier for Dilan.
The matriarch was much weaker and slower than Dilan, and she could only prevent dying at his hand by retrieving and activating a Magic Scroll.
A huge blueish mana sphere manifested around the matriarch, protecting her from all kinds of physical attacks.
“You don’t think that I will bother destroying this, right?” Dilan asked in a light voice. Instead of answering, the matriarch looked straight into Dilan’s crazed eyes that seemed to reflect her crimson eyes.
Dilan’s eyes were crystal clear and the matriarch could clearly see her furious expression mirrored within them.
She…was afraid…
Dila could obviously see this but he didn’t really care. The matriarch would die, sooner or later, and in his opinion, the latter would be more painful.
After all, the matriarch would have to witness the destruction of her entire clan if she died later, rather than sooner!