C4: Personification of Malice

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"Why don't you come out little vampire? I know you're there." The man in front of me said with a jovial, mocking tone as he turned and looked at me with undisguised disgust, as if I was an insect.

Rising from my shadow I was brought into a separate space. I could have resisted it but I don't want to bring the nearby town into our fight since I'm sure it won't last once we begin. I'd rather not destroy a town if it can be helped.

"So the one I was sent was the young trash of the Tepes Faction but you don't seem like the other trash? You seem to have a decent amount of strength, for trash of course. I'll grant you the honor of explaining to me, quickly now it's not everyday trash has the option to talk to me." The man said with the same jovial, mocking voice I was already sick of.

"No need. Let's just fight already." I say before summoning my sword. It's just a normal high-quality sword since that's the best I could get but it would work fine for this battle. Bringing the sword in my hands downwards a slash of pale silver energy was sent from my blade directly towards him. It wasn't a full-force attack but most high-class devils would have trouble with it so this is a test. Will he die or will he prove to be a difficult opponent.

Raising his hand the opponent caught the attack with his palm and it instantly dispersed into the air. I guess I'll have to be careful then. If a high-class can block it with no trouble that means he's stronger than that, which to be honest isn't the best. The strength from high class and onwards have extremely high differences in power level.

For example, a high class can destroy a town but an ultimate class can destroy a country with no trouble at all and maybe even continents for the strongest ones. After that the jump in power is crazy. I've heard that Super Class devils can destroy even the world if they tried hard enough. Basically, I can't tell how strong he is because of the huge leap in strength from every level after high class.

"How rude! I didn't even get to introduce myself so allow me to do that now. I am Rizevim Livan Lucifer, at your service. It's a shame you won't be able to have the honor of meeting me for long. Begone now." At his mocking words in the same tone as earlier, he sent a simple blast of black energy. A blast of energy 10 meters in diameter with the power to destroy an entire town in a single blow.

Raising my sword I did a simple downwards slash that cut through the entire sphere of demonic energy with both sides flying past me and detonating into the copy of the city behind me and destroying most of it in a single explosion.

"Ohoh! So you can deal with that, can you? Why don't-" He began talking again but at this point, I was sick of him talking so much so I crossed the distance between us and once again slashed my sword down at him with full force.

Raising his hand at my attack he let the attack hit him with my sword cutting into his arm slightly but no fatal damage. To say this is bad is an understatement. This is Rizevim a super class devil that I as an ultimate class being definitely can't defeat. I'm definitely going to lose.

That is if we fight in head-on combat. I'm a vampire, a race that hides and attacks from the shadows. If I don't have a way to escape or fight back I'm not a true vampire. Slashing towards him again I spread my shadow to its utmost limit and began to absorb anything within its radius inside, including both me and Rizevim.

However, it couldn't be that easy, could it? Pulling out his twelve wings Rizevim simply flew into the sky where my shadow had no power and gloated towards me with the same mocking smile on his face as before, taunting me for my attacking not being effective.

Clicking my tongue I once again swung my sword at him again and again releasing a slash of pale silver mist-like energy towards him with every slash, hoping to overwhelm him with attacks. While trying to open a way out of the space with my shadows, something that was making slow progress.

"Since you seem to resort to the same attacks allow me to show you a true attack." Rizevim said with a mocking voice before creating two balls of energy that are the same attack he first threw and brought his hands together in front of him and before my eyes the two balls merged together and shrunk until they were the size of a tennis ball.

This attack was by far the strongest I've ever seen. The power of two attacks capable of destroying an entire city combined and compressed to the limits? It could destroy the entire country of Romania with no problems at all. I guess it was the correct decision to go into the barrier if it means the entirety of Romania doesn't come to the grave with me.

"Let's see if you can deal with this vampire trash!" Rizevim shouted out as he launched his attack forward while I enhanced my sword to the limit causing pale silver smoke to cover the entirety of the blade, making it impossible to see at all. Currently, I was pushing all of the mana I had into the blade to give one powerful final attack that will leave me incredibly vulnerable.

Bringing my sword up in an upwards swing the black smoke from my sword was released as a slash of pure pale silver mist that couldn't be seen through cut through the attack and cut forward into the ground cutting through for miles on end before crashing into the border of the artificial space and sending ripples throughout the entire barrier and diffusing.

The two halves of his attack on the other hand blew up behind me destroying the fake town even more to the point it was only a large crater with no visible way of telling it was a town at all. The remaining force from the attack ravaged my back and left a large wound. I guess I was lucky to be wearing an open-back shirt huh?

In front of my eyes, my sword shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces and fell onto the floor along with the handle I no longer had the strength to hold. Falling to my knees out of pure exhaustion I was stopped mid-fall by something as a warm feeling came from my chest. Looking down towards my chest there was a hand sticking straight through with my beating heart in his hand.

"I'll be taking this. You seem like a good target of research." Rizevim said with a sadistic smile on his face as I slowly passed out from the pain. I…won't be able to help Valerie as much as I hoped huh.