Corna (Volume 2 chapter 4)

Rachel with her blood colour eyes met my eyes and made a troubled face

Rachel-("You can't stay put or now can you?")

Valor-("Do mage apprentice fight by sucking blood from their enemies?")

Well I already know that she can't be a mage apprentice well she can be one as I don't know how a mage apprentice fight in the first place.

Rachel-("Fufu I am no mere mage apprentice I am the demonic being descended of the Count Dracula the strongest vampire ")

Her pale skin was covered in blood her sharp fangs showed when she was smiling, I prepared my sword for intercepting her attacks.

Valor- (" Being covered in goblin blood doesn't affect you?")

Rachel-(" I am a Vampire

Blood does not bother me")

after saying that she fired a ball of red light towards me, it was slow and didn't look powerful but My institution told me to dodge it I moved to the side to dodge the red ball, the red ball struck a tree and the tree dried up and fell.

Rachel clicked her tongue after seeing that and said

Rachel-("Stop moving mortal and allow me to suck your blood")

Valor-("What are you? some mosquito in the rainy season")

Rachel jumped on me bearing her sharp fangs I t to kicked her but she didn't take any damage but fired a violent blast of red light on me.

The attack sent me flying into the forest, but still, Christina didn't come to my rescue was the merchant also a vampire but his staus showed that he was a human and a merchant at that, he shouldn't have the capability to constrain Christina who is a silver rank adventurer so why didn't she come

Rachel-("Wondering why your friend is not coming to help you? don't worry she is just in deep sleep by my sorcery that is")

sorcery, I thought she was using some kind of unique magic but she was using sorcery.

Well, aren't they the same thing what's the difference.

Valor-("Is sorcery a name of a spell")

Rachel-("you don't know about sorcery were you living under a rock")

Well, I was living in a dungeon so one could say she is right that I was living under a rock.

Rachel-("Listen, ignorant mortal sorcery is used of magic by a conductor or item which neglects the requirements of use of mana")

Valor-("In words, I can understand")

Rachel sighed her shoulder and said

Rachel-("You won't consume your Mana Points while using sorcery")

Valor-("It's a great thing ain't it")

Rachel-("You understand the greatness of sorcery, The races regard sorcery as useless due to it's long activation time, but you understand it's greatness....Fumu be honoured mortal I deem you worthy to serve my immortal self.")

Valor-("What if I don't want to serve you")

Rachel-("it's not a plea but a decree")

Valor-(" What If I don't follow that decree")

She smiled on my words and said while crossing raising her arms

Rachel-("PUNISHMENT")

I immediately used my only range attack Sonic Blade on her

my sword started to gleam with a green light and blades of green flew towards the vampire with my every stroke but there was not a trace of my attack hitting her even though I was sure that my attack surely hit her but why the hell she is not taking any damage even if she has a higher regeneration ability than mine, Even in that case she had to show some damage for a moment or two but by the looks, it felt like my attacks are not hitting her in the first place and whenever I attack she follows up with a powerful attack of her own. I can't even hope to go with a close combat fight due to her explosive attacks. I can continue to use the Sonic Blade on her but it consumes my MP though slowly but surely it will deplete my mana. I can't even use my appraisal on her as even losing my concentration for a moment could be fatal in front of an opponent with unknown powers like her.

I was being forced in a corner I couldn't rely on long-range attacks forever but the melee fights which were my speciality would just make me an easy target for her explosive target. My attacks were not working and she didn't even break a sweat even after I depleted half of my MP by using Sonic Blade.

Time was running out as was my stamina and mana I needed to do something the only pattern I noticed Was that she only countered my attack.

The only time she strikes first was the time she used that slow ball of red light.

Could it be that she can only use strong attacks if I attacked first? To test my hypothesis I stopped my attack and just took a defensive stance.

Rachel clicked her tongue and said

Rachel-("So what if you know about my trick, You still can't win")

She was absolutely right knowing her trick didn't mean that I could land an attack on her whenever I would use my attack on her she would absorb it and use that to attack me.

I started to examine the battle until now while dodging her slow but powerful attacks.

Every time I attacked she had to compress my energy before attacking.

I just had to get the timing right and my attack would hit. I just had to attack her at the moment when she compressed my previous attack, but my attack had to be the strongest it must be able to blow her away.

Valor- (" O who is eternal, To incinerate my foolish enemies .Grant me your flames "Pheonix Drive"")

I was covered in blue flames and the blue flames condensed after some time and took a form of blue full body armour with spike like stuctures appearing on my shoulders . I swing by blue sword and the vanpire reflected that but while she was compressing my energy. I chanted

("CHOKE ON THE FLAMES OF HELL")

(""CORNA"(Sign of devil) ")

Flames from my body shaped in that of a devil with horns and the blue devil which was 10 metre tall devoured Rachel and blasted her into the sky she fell in the river with her skin charred.