The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 914: Chaotic Fluctuations

One after another, the Totems finished their fights and came over, starting with Priestess Delilah, who transformed into a dark haired human woman in the same red high Priestess Robes that Tessa wore.

Dana frowned at her, while Tessa nodded politely. But the dragon didnʼt move forward, just waited and watched.

Then the two Demons came to stand with her, and Dana needed answers.

”Is nobody going to help him? Surely, one of you can get close, youʼre all Totems.” She demanded.

”We would if we could. You can try it yourself, we canʼt get within five paces of them, there is an invisible divine barrier there. The Gods are letting them battle it out on their own terms. The conjured creatures and constructs from his bonded beasts appear to have no issue, but I had to increase my altitude when I came over here, to avoid running into the barrier.

Any spell we cast, like yours, will just get added to the mess.” The Priestess explained.

Dana glared at the suspended battle of wills, and Tessa sighed.

”If this had happened just a bit earlier, when there was still a battle going on around us, it might have been different. He gets a stacking bonus to damage from the whole group. But right now, there is only one target and the number of attacks that they can use against it is limited.

Probably only Karl and Cara, wherever she went, could even stand a chance of doing real damage to that vampire.

But what sort of vampire is that? Ten minutes in [Consecrated Ground] should have killed almost any undead, and sheʼs taking the full force of a Totem Ranked Void blast continually, plus the flames.” Tessa pondered.

Priestess Delilah shook her head, not knowing the answer. But Commander Daleth had an idea.

”I think that she might be one of the Council of Ancients. There arenʼt many Totem Ranked Vampires. Those species with Totem Ranked bloodline potential can usually heal from the virus, so they just remain dead instead of turning. That suggests that she might have reached Totem Rank during the last System Resurgence, ten thousand years ago.

At that age, and Totem Ranked, she could be considered virtually immortal. The sun doesnʼt appear to be harming her at all, though not much light is passing through to them now. Plus, that level of regeneration. Vampires get stronger with age, just like our friend Thor here.

Only, where he takes less damage for every day, they regenerate a bit faster every day.

The fact that she is showing damage long enough for us to see it is testament to how much damage is being done, but neither of them should be able to keep this up forever.

The rate theyʼre expending energy has to be faster than their regeneration.” He explained.

Remi nodded in agreement. {The Karl is drawing from our spaces as he fights. Sister butterfly has insane mana regeneration, and the rest of us are putting at least a little in for him to use, but heʼs still drawing more than weʼre putting in.

But heʼs going to run out of body before he runs out of mana.}

Remi wasnʼt actually concerned that Karl would die. Void Body turned you into black mist when damaged, and she hadnʼt seen a limit to it yet. So, it was possible it could turn a whole Karl into mist and then let him reform.

Besides, even if that thing did kill him, she still had a whole ball of his shed fur in her pouch for Lotus to resurrect him from. That had to count as a body part.

So, as the two oblivious combatants fought for dominance, the rest of the army was left watching in horror as the entangled energies became even more wildly imbalanced.

Then, it began to rain black droplets of power from the miasma onto the two, as if they were the centre of gravity.

Karl thought his vision was fading at first, until Cara informed him that it was just black energy condensing on them, then suddenly everything seemed to vanish, and he found himself in the void.

”Well, I donʼt feel dead.” Karl muttered to himself.

”Indeed, you donʼt look dead either,” a musical voice agreed, and Karl turned to face the Vampiress, only to find that he couldnʼt use skills at all, or even do more than rotate on the spot.

She swatted ineffectually at him, just a little too far apart for their fingertips to touch if Karl reached out in her direction.

”Do you think we broke something?” Karl wondered.

”I think that we intrigued something. Something terrible.”

They stared silently at each other for a moment before a third presence joined them. An impossibly large black dragon, easily two hundred metres long without counting its tail, with a wingspan twice that distance. The dragon stared at them from a distance, then transformed into a black robed human and walked across the void to inspect them more closely.

[Matilda] {Supreme Lady of the Darklight Host, Cyhosasa Branch Location}

Crap. Not a black dragon. A Supreme Rank Chaos Dragon.

It took the vampire a little longer to figure out who it was, but when she did, she went from unnaturally white to roughly the colour of fine porcelain.

”A new branch of the Darklight Host has opened, has it? And they are willing to go to war for the Guild? Interesting. Very interesting. And you brought me such an adorable new pet. I think I will keep her this time.”

The Vampireʼs nameplate still wasnʼt visible, but that didnʼt seem to bother the dragon.

”Supreme Lady Matilda, my apologies if our battle disturbed your afternoon. It wasnʼt our intention.” The vampire began.

”Now, Tiffani, is there any need for such formalities?” The dragon replied with a smile.

”Yes, Supreme Lady. I believe that you might have misinterpreted the situation. I did not enter your territory, and we had an agreement that you would not come for me if I stayed away.” Tiffani, the Totem Ranked Vampire, replied.

”But you did, didnʼt you? I sensed the instant that you entered the Chaos Plane. This is my territory as much as Cyhosasa is.”