Picking up Girls With My System

Chapter 435 Battle Against The Von Stein Family (2) - Rank Five Mage!

The Von Stein family castle was running as usual, with the vampires mistreating others and the servants cleaning each part of it, making sure there was no dust for the rank-four mages to complain about, especially Alastair, who was an annoying ancient vampire.

But despite the ordinary looks, the situation there would be far from it.

Werewolves appeared out of nowhere, transformed like savage beasts, ripping apart any vampire they met inside the castle.

The two rank-four vampires quickly reacted, appearing at the castle's front gate and fending against the werewolves easily until Caitlyn showed up!

"A powerful one you are, Harker; let's work together and get her down!"

While the castle was in chaos, and the two rank-four vampires were facing Caitlyn, Arthur and his wives moved stealthily throughout the court, arriving inside the room where Arthur's main body was.

There, they came across a barrier that was impossible for Arthur's main body to destroy, but it had to be possible for them, or else the entire plan would go down the drain.

Separated by the barrier, Arthur's two bodies were facing each other, one helping the other!

The Emperor Eye could see the energies in the atmosphere and the connections of that magic barrier.

Now that his avatar was on the other side of the barrier, Arthur exchanged information between the two, one seeing the intricate mechanisms of the barrier. In contrast, the other tried to crack it open.

Wisa and Jane were beside Arthur, and seeing how focused he was, they did not get in his way and acted as guards, preparing to attack anyone that showed up to destroy their plans.

Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and Arthur was almost cracking the barrier, but at that moment, someone showed up.

It was Harker! Seeing how two rank-four vampires were too much for Caitlyn, one returned to protect the room where Arthur was in as Harker felt something terrible would happen, but he could not explain what it was.

"Who are you? How dare you trespass here!" Harker yelled, his claws growing in size, looking like sharp talons from a beast.

He did not think straight, believing there was no chance the two before him were rank-four mages -- these were rare and usually stayed inside their territory.

But he was wrong! Wisa stepped forward and blocked the claw attack using her sword, sending Harker to retreat a few steps.

"What?"

In the meantime, Arthur managed to break the barrier, freeing his main body and Sybille too! Well, Sybille was still asleep, but it was a start.

Harker watched everything unfold right before his eyes, but he did not have the power to stop it! A terrible feeling to have, one of being useless, but Arthur did not care how he felt!

"Why are you freeing that person? Aren't you a promising vampire from our family?" Harker said as he looked toward Arthur, recognizing him.

It was funny, considering he did not know the dragon he had trapped and the vampire before his eyes were the same person.

"Shut up and die, Harker. Your family will crumble, and you can do nothing about it!"

"Wisa, Jane, please take Sybille to a safe place."

Arthur's two bodies would go to battle, but someone still had to care for the unconscious Sybille.

"Send us a message if you need help in the battle," Jane said as she and Wisa left the room with Sybille in their arms.

Harker tried to stop them, but Arthur quickly reacted and blocked him with his crimson spear.

"How are you already at rank four? Impossible! You were at rank one not that long ago!"

He could not believe his eyes after noticing the strength Arthur now had, as it all seemed impossible for any person. It was like the feats of legendary book characters, yet it was happening right before him!

Arthur giggled and said, "it is a secret. Now, do you want to die by my vampire's hands or my dragon's hands?"

"What?"

Harker frowned his eyebrows, and for a moment, he did not understand what Arthur said, but then a crazy theory formed inside his head, one that he did not want to believe.

"No, this is even more impossible than your rapid ascension to power. No, I-"

"This is the truth. We are the same person. Seeing that you don't want to choose, I will fuse my bodies, and you will die anyway, okay?"

Arthur had a bright smile, and he was feeling good! If his guesses were correct, fusing two rank-four bodies would give him something close to rank-five, or perhaps rank-five!

That was a power capable of winning against anything from that world and power not that weak when he eventually left the planet.

Anyway, his two bodies went close to each other, and with a simple chanting inside his head, both bodies merged. The general appearance was that of Arthur's main body, that of a dragon, but he now had all the abilities from his avatar, be it the Blood Monarch Inheritance, blood essence, or being a vampire.

Also, he had two forbidden eyes, the Emperor Eye and the Unseen Truth Eye!

When the fusion happened, a blast of energy came from Arthur's body, destroying everything around him! The castle room where he was once locked did not exist any longer!

It was so powerful that Harker flew away, hurt by the explosion, before the fight started.

"NOOOOOOOOO!"

He yelled after feeling an extraordinary aura emanating from Arthur, one that his meager power could not fully comprehend. It was that of a rank-five mage!

"Rank-five early stage, not bad, not bad," Arthur said as he moved his arms and legs, readjusting to his new power and body.

Alastair, who was starting to win the fight against Caitlyn, also felt the aura and saw the explosion, "what is happening?" he thought, flying away from the fight.

Caitlyn let him go, as she was losing the fight anyway, "at least that person kept the promise. But what is this power? It does not feel like a rank-four mage at all!"

"Harker. What happened?" Alastair asked as he stood beside Harker, gazing at the youth before them, one they knew, Arthur.

But the aura was completely different from before. "He is a rank-five mage now. We are all dead, but it is okay. We lived countless years, and it is time to die."

"What are you saying?"

Harker had already given up, "there is no way he is a rank-five mage, Harker. So please stand up and fight with me! I will show you we have a chance of winning," Alastair said as he dashed toward Arthur, trying to prove his point.

He threw a ball of blood in mid-air that was not meant to attack but to act as a decoy! Arthur's vision was obstructed by it, and Alastair took the chance to attack him from the back!

Harker was watching everything, and for a brief moment, he believed they had a chance of winning, but the next moment crushed all of his hopes.

Arthur saw everything in slow-motion, and using his fists, he hammered Alastair down, making his body turn into a bloody pulp.

Body parts flew everywhere, and the mighty Alastair, an ancient vampire and leader of the Von Stein family, was dead.