Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

Chapter 596: Challenges Daimon & Nethereal sisters, Sarah’s version (part 3)

The enemy queen saw Daimon suddenly paying attention to Purplehaze while he had more or less ignored him so far and she smirked.

"You have started to feel it right, when one's nether reaches a certain purity, those related to the emotion with which it was created will start to be affected even if they aren't in contact with it", she said to then add.

"Talented or not, with the blessing of the Lord he would have gotten an above average nether anyway, but thanks to you he became a monster, I don't know what you did to him but you should be prepared to die in a horrible way!".

Sheilla glared at Sarah while she was speaking earlier, she had already scanned the masked youth to which the crazy girl was clinging to and was surprised and angered to find out that he was a mere early-stage mortal realm trash.

'How dare you to appeal to such a miserable mortal when my Lord is offering you a chance to serve him, I'll deliver his head as well as yourself to him!', she thought only to be brought back to the real world by Daimon's words.

"I doubt it", he limited to say not wanting to waste his breath.

Naturally the previous made the enemy queen grit her teeth, she was being looked down by not only Sarah but also by the masked youth.

"Why the hell have you not finished your dam fight!", she screamed in Purplehaze's direction, she felt her sanity crumbling down with each second she spent near those two.

Quite a few kilometers away at Lance's battlefield, a disastrous scene had taken over the previously though barren still habitable terrain, giant craters all over the place, pieces of debris here and there and a huge storm caused by the clash of mana and nether in the atmosphere.

In the middle of the deadly storm that was sweeping away everything within the battlefield, two figures fiercely clashed.

"Boooom!", Lance blocked Purplehaze's sword with his spear, four black streams of nether followed but were deflected by a strong whirlwind and next both parties retreated.

Lance rolled his spear a couple of times and then calmly stretched his body with a bored expression, despite him previously being pressured by Purplehaze's sudden increase in strength and the appearance of the secondary pair of nether arms, the more they clashed the harder it became for Purplehaze to get any advantage over him.

"Why, why haven't you died yet!", shouted Purplehaze, just right know he got Sheilla's complain delivered directly to his ears, which added to his already angered self.

"You might have gotten stronger but suppressing me without using any spells or martial arts is still out of your reach, so get serious at once so we can finish this", said Lance as he snorted.

Besides those black streams of nether, Purplehaze hasn't made use of his Manifestation to cast empowered spells which is the whole purpose of it, that's also why Sheilla was complaining, he wasn't using his strongest moves.

But it was for a good reason, if even as of current, he had to use them against Lance, someone that has lost against Daimon, then that meant that he… was still too weak to go against Daimon, in other words his change and power up would be mean nothing.

"Damn it, each and every single one of you, how dare you mock me!!!", with a wild scream that resembled that of an enraged beast, Purplehaze's Manifestation actually shrank down and was absorbed into his body.

"I was keeping this for that bastard, but whatever I'll get stronger after killing you, Dark Crawler Beast!", shouted Purplehaze, his body was then swallowed in a dark cloud which disappeared the next second leaving nothing behind.

Lance's pupils contracted like needles, a black blur appeared in front of him and slashed a sword from above with the idea of splitting him apart.

"Clang!", Lance's spear managed to block the attack, sword but two clawed hands aimed at his shoulders confusing him, why you ask, well, that's because there were already two pairs of nether arms charging energy attacks in his direction.

"Booooom!", an earth-shattering explosion swallowed everything in fifty meters around those two, small pieces of broken rocks rained all over the area and a cloud of dust was raised due to the impact but was dispersed by a brown and green light spear being swung.

The dust dispersed to reveal two figures, Lance whose body was covered in a bronze green light and Purplehaze whose state was rather strange, his body was completely covered in nether, besides the two pairs of extra arms that were made of nether, his legs and arms became those of a beast.

'A boosting spell of some sort and a really strong one but…', thought Lance as he saw Purplehaze's current state.

Purplehaze whose eyes were bloodshot, saw Lance finally entering his strongest state and grinned like a beast, earlier he forced Lance to use "Sweep" while he only attacked by charging without any extra spells or anything.

In other words, he got what he wanted by suppressing Lance without the need of any spells, besides the boosting one he was using as of current of course.

"Dark Charge!", with renewed confidence, Purplehaze used one of his newly created spells, nether gathered from the vicinity and integrated with the boosting spell was using, turning him into a dark flash that devastated everything in his way.

'Unfortunately, I can't use this for too long, but it's worth it to kill that bastard…', Purplehaze's inner monologue was stopped in cold when a giant mana spear appeared in front of him.

"What the… aghhhh!", at such a high speed, Purplehaze couldn't stop his spell so he only barely managed to move to his right, avoiding the attack but the spear still tore off his left arm all the way from his shoulder, alongside the extra two energy arms on that side of his body.

"Booom!", the spear continued its way and pierced a giant hole through a mountain a few hundreds of meters away from the area where they were fighting.

"Bronze Titan Thrust", Lance's voice finally reached Purplehaze's ears, the previous attack was so fast that it broke the speed of sound.

"What the hell, wasn't that a defensive spell!", screamed Purplehaze, he recognized the spell used by Lance, it was the same with which he deflected a part of Daimon's final attack from back then, the difference is that his attack hadn't even reached his target instead the spear came for him.

"Certainly, the strongest aspect of Titan Thrust is its deflecting defensive property, however, you aren't worthy of me using it as a defensive mean", casually said Lance.

"Aghhh!", a pained scream coming from afar drew Purplehaze's attention, he turned around just to see that the bishop piece had his chest pierced by a very familiar spear, only now he realized that Lance didn't have his spear on his hands.

He let go of it earlier along with the thrust, the spell propelled the spear and accurately landed on the bishop who was supporting Purplehaze from afar.

The bishop tried to remove the spear but the thing made its way through his heart killing him on the spot, to then return flying to Lance's hand.

"Y-You", Purplehaze stopped seeing Daimon's image on Purplehaze the very moment the bishop died and his already diminishing vigor, was nearly cut in half, making the secondary pair of energy arms, or arm in this case since he lost his own left arm along with the energy ones, earlier, to disappear.

[A bishop has been removed from the game, congratulations to the Black Queen]

The announcement that the bishop had died, returned Purplehaze to the real world, he looked upwards and then shouted.

"Do it now!".

Up in the sky, Sheilla was trembling due to anger, after all that, not only Purplehaze didn't manage to defeat the enemy but the bishop which was specifically prepared for him, was killed and she was the first to lose a piece, it was a humiliation for her who wanted to perform for her Lord.

"What an idiot, fighting with the style of a beast against someone who specializes in fighting magic beasts", said Daimon, making the enemy queen feel the urge to scream.

'It was supposed to be used as a trump card to eliminate two pieces at once!', she inwardly thought before saying.

"Battlefield Exchange", with those words and with Lance's spear about to reach Purplehaze's chest, the latter disappeared, and to Lance's surprise his battle counted as finished since he was starting to be transported back.

"Tsk, how boring", he said as he disappeared, though he did use his improved abilities result of the challenge he overcame, he didn't get the chance to use what he gained from it.

"Hey, only I can play dirty, what was that", demanded the crazy girl, to which the enemy queen snorted.

"Just a little gift from our Lord, it wasn't mean to be used like that, but I guess getting out of a bad matchup is still worth it, what's more…".

Sheilla looked in another direction, making Daimon raise an eyebrow in doubt, as that particular area was Yvonne's battlefield.

The Night Sparrow girl who was finally allowed to fight against her opponent, since Lance's fight had just ended, frowned, she saw her enemy stopping in cold with a shocked expression.

"Why… aghh!", a pained scream escaped the guy's mouth as a black arm emerged from his chest, the figure of Purplehaze became solid behind of him and the body of the tower piece who just died was drained and turned into a mummy.

Next, Purplehaze's left arm actually grew back and that wasn't all, a black barrier covered the area of three hundred meters, limiting the mobility of those inside of it, which forced Yvonne who was flying in the sky to descend.

"Aren't you surprised, using a little help from the Lord, I prepared this trap!", exclaimed the enemy queen.

'Castling but with an illegal aspect, I guess', thought Daimon.

Castling is a chess move that allows to exchange the position of a rook with the one of the king, of course what Sheilla did wasn't exactly that, others might had have it hard to notice but Daimon's infinity showed him what happened earlier in detail.

The moment Purplehaze was forcefully transported out of his own battlefield, the rook who was supposed to fight Yvonne, was restrained by nether chains, thus allowing Purplehaze to kill it with ease, to then absorb his vitality to heal, in fact Purplehaze who used to be a knight was now a rook piece.

In other words, for the previous to work, a rook had to be sacrificed, this was probably a trick created by the Lord to which Sheilla served, similar to how the enemy queen who fought Reyne could use the bone fragments buried into the ground to her advantage thanks to her Lord messing with the rules.

'That's not the one I ordered him to go after though, damn useless bastard, I'll ask the Lord to punish him', thought Sheilla.

As if Daimon could read her mind, he smirked to then say.

"He didn't follow your plan right, you wanted to put him against one of our bishops but he changed the target".

Sheilla felt a cold chill running down her back as she heard the masked youth casual's voice, feeling as if he could see through her, now imagine how she felt when the crazy girl mockingly added.

"Anyone with half a brain could have known that~".

The enemy queen gritted her teeth not understanding what Sarah meant, she couldn't be blamed though, Daimon hadn't fought yet, so how could she know that the mana used by the Risha sister's wings, was originally his.

Purplehaze didn't know it until a second ago either, he was originally going to follow up Sheilla's plan, but he felt a familiar energy firm coming from one of the other battlefields and since it belonged to the one, he hated the most, of course he chose to go there.

"Whatever, I don't believe a second bad matchup can save you, the mobility of those winged women is useless in a reduced and closed space, so the result will be the same as the one planned", said the enemy queen to which the crazy girl giggled as she said.

"That wasn't a bad matchup, it was just that idiot being too weak but this one is one hell of a nightmare matchup~", she said.

Listening to the crazy girl's mocking words, Sheilla had a bad premonition but she then inwardly shook her head.

'No way, I paid special attention to those winged bitches, this one uses the bow and fights at long distance but now is trapped inside the barrier, there is no space to maneuver in the sky and being forced to fight against that guy in close combat is a death sentence for her', she thought.

Back at Yvonne's battlefield, the night sparrow girl gave a disgusted glare to the guy who just interrupted her time to show off.

"You, you have his mana, die!", Purplehaze's eyes got muddy and the secondary pair of energy arms which was gone when the bishop died earlier, appeared once again, apparently, he used the fact that Yvonne had traces of Daimon's mana in her, to pump himself up again.

Yvonne saw the four black streams coming for her and her pretty dark feathered wings sprouted out of her back, as she raised into the sky to take some distance, though she couldn't go too high due to the barrier, it was still enough to dodge Purplehaze's attack.

"It's those wings, he gave them to you, then if I tear them off, he'll be angered right, he'll suffer, that should suffice to get back to my prime", rambled Purplehaze, he couldn't use Manifestation nor his boosting spell anymore since he had used most of his nether, he only recovered in the physical aspect after draining the rook piece.

With a "swoosh", Purplehaze used the long-distance teleportation granted to rook pieces, to appear behind Yvonne and punched with all his might towards her neck, or at least that was the idea, Yvi's black feathered wings shone in a pretty dark light which made Purplehaze lose his aim and fail his attack.

Yvonne then flashed downwards, not without taking out her bow and shooting a dark arrow at Purplehaze who shook his head to get rid of the dizziness caused by Yvonne's mana, the two pairs of energy arms caught the mana arrow and crushed it with ease.

"Petty tricks, you can't run forever, just one punch will be enough to get rid of you!", shouted Purplehaze as he prepared to rush towards Yvonne, only to see the night sparrow girl land on the ground a few dozens of meters away from him to then dispel her wings.

Yvonne's body glowed in a pretty purple light for a second as she circulated Daimon's mana throughout her whole body instead of using her wings, similar to what Leslie did earlier, to then glare at Purplehaze with contempt.

The combination of being looked down and the traces of Daimon mana he perceived from Yvonne, made Purplehaze's blood boil, but at the same time he felt his nether recovering at a faster ratio than before.

'Stupid bitch, I'll crush your skull in front of that guy', he thought as he charged towards Yvonne.

"Booom!", the ground cracked under Purplehaze's pressure, unfortunately his attack was easily dodged by Yvonne elegantly moving to the side, the four energy arms also launched their nether streams but didn't land on the night sparrow girl who simply made a few twirls like a feather dragged by the wind.

Up in the sky, Daimon couldn't help but be surprised by Yvonne, she was using the "Phoenix Dance" exclusive of Leslie's family branch, or more accurately it was a revised version of it, which reduced the explosive and energetic rhythm used by Leslie and instead increased efficiency.

'Despite how easy she seems to be dodging that guy's attacks, the concentration needed to pull that off is quite high, she isn't losing in terms of battle sense when compared to a knight', thought Daimon as he saw Yvi fluttering around taking the less amount of moves and using as small amounts of mana as possible to keep up with Purplheaze's fierce barrage of attacks.

Let's not forget that she is still a Star ranked mage who is fighting against a middle stage Mage Lord that could put pressure on Lance in close combat, at least to a certain extent.

Purplehaze saw his attacks not landed as was reminded of his previous battle with Lance, he gritted his teeth and then shouted.

"Stop running you, slippery bitch!", Yvonne who was happily enjoying the feeling of Daimon paying all his attention to her display of improved skills, frowned, she stopped in cold, which gave Purplehaze an opening for him to land his attack.

"Finally go die!", he forgot about energy attacks and focused everything into his right fist, cladding it with mana as he punched towards Yvonne's face.

"Boooom!", the fist landed against something and made the ground explode due to the impact, nether was dispersed in every direction resulting in a dark cloud that dispersed a second later to reveal an Yvonne who was standing there with her right arm extended in front of her.

Her pretty index finger was extended frontwards, blocking Purplehaze's punch head on, making the latter feel as if his brain had stopped working.

"You are merely a target for me to display my improvement in front of him, so… know your place", Yvonne's nail painted black and the next thing that happened was a loud lung-breaking scream, being forced out of Purplehaze's mouth.

"Aghhhhh!".