Once I'm near the castle I set Nadia down, since I don't want to implicate her with this.
Then I fly closer to the castle and as I approach, the guards rush out.
"Who are you?" "What do you want?" "Why are you here?" Consecutive questions leave their mouths. It's quite annoying.
"I'm here for your queen." I tell them with a slight smirk. After a pause my smirk changes into an aggressive smile. "Tell them Artoria is here for her head."
"Arrogance!" One of the guards yells and tries to attack me.
*SMACK*
An incredibly loud smack is heard, like someone just crashed a steel plate against a boulder. I slapped the guard approaching me and he went flying ragdoll, like gravity was erased for him. It is a hilarious sight. Now I'm planning to do the same to the other guards because of this.
I entangle all the guards in a web, sparing only one. Then I proceed to slap them, one by one. Making sure to create anticipation, by preparing my slaps extra long.
*SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK*
Incredibly loud smacks are heard consecutively. Each of those smacks is followed by a guard flying out of the web comically, for hundreds of meters.
"Pfaahahahahahah." I can't bear it any longer and start laughing. Coming here was the right idea.
Just as my laughter ends, an attack flies towards me. I set up a barrier in front of it and it blocks the attack, but as a consequence, my barrier is also destroyed.
"Hm?" I gaze at the source of the attack with interest.
I see a girl with white hair enter my field of vision. She's absolutely beautiful, like a doll. One of her eyes is blue and the other is red. She also has an angry expression on her face.
"Why are you attacking us?" She asks me with attitude.
I ignore her question, instead analyze her. "I see you are quite strong. I've been waiting for you! You best take this seriously." I say cryptically and give some healthy advice. From my analysis, I can say that her magicules exceed mine by about 10 times, maybe more. Very good! I haven't fought against an opponent this strong before.
Since I gave her no answer, her confusion over the situation turns to anger. "Fine then. I will slice you apart."
She grabs a sword from somewhere and rushes at me. I start with something simple. I pull out my two blades and coat them in electricity and aura. A reddish black electricity swirls around my blades.
I use one to parry her blade and the other to strike at her. She unsuprisingly dodges my strike. Without her seeing, I manage to place my foot behind her lead foot, making her lose her balance, as soon as she steps.
"Very sloppy." I comment while smiling.
She spits on the ground and lunges at me again, this time using more force and some aura. I continuously parry and block her strikes, trying to comprehend her attacks.
She has a wide variety of combinations, moves and arts she's throwing at me. Each one is interesting in their own right. They're completely different from my own arts. I continue to observe in rapture.
"Good. Good! But I need more!" I yell out and kick her on her side, sending her flying. Then I try doing something crazy, just off the cuff.
I quickly create a lightning railgun, then make a purple fireball and condence it as fast as I possibly can, morphing it into it's plasma form. Then I take this purple ball of plasma and set it in the swirling lightning. Once it's there I fire the impromptu railgun.
*Vooom* *BOOOOOOOM*
The explosion is practically immediate. The explosion is so big, that even I get caught up in it, blowing me away.
I quickly recover and see that the explosion wiped everything within a 2km circle. Even the castle was damaged, with half of it in severe disrepair.
I quickly try to locate the queen. I can't find her! Did I one-shot her by mistake?!
As soon as I think that, I instinctively react and block a blow that sends me flying into the ground.
*Booom*
This blow was much harsher than before. I guess she took the gloves off.
I feel a bunch of barriers form around me, then I hear a whisper. "Disintegration."
Holy magic starts to converge upon me. I stand up quickly, seeing myself trapped on a plate that is going to have a huge consentration of holy magic fired at it.
I quickly calculate my chances. I could tank this and survive, with grave injuries, but then she would just kill me off instantly.
With a split second decision, I decide to bet my chances on a new mystic art I'm developing. I channel around half my magicules and a portion of my aura to my blade. I raise my blade up, then using space magic, I slash at the barriers. "Dimensional slash."
It easily slices through the barriers, going even so far as to make a small cut in space. I use this chance without hesitation and rush through the crack. When most of my body is out of the circle, I conciously leave my arm in there. A second later the spell goes off and disintegrates everything within the circle, including my arm.
I wince slightly. Maybe because it's holy magic. It hurts like hell.
The queen looks at me with confusion as to why I deliberately put my arm in the circle when I was already out. This is of course because of my unique skill pilfer. I simply wanted this attack for myself.
"You have some interesting tricks, queen of vampires. But you see, your skill are only so-so." I smile at her widely. Then I disappear from her vision.
The next second she feels lighter, for some reason. Then she sees the reason. Her legs fall off. Sliced cleanly, just above the knee.
As she looks down, she recieves a heavy kick on top of her head. Sending her down to the ground and creating a crater. When she looks up, she sees me standing over her, while her arms have been cut off.
"Do not worry, I'm not out to kill you. Then again, I don't know exactly what's lethal for you. How good is the vampire regeneration? I've never tested it..." I ponder aloud. Then I tap my sword on her belly. "This won't kill you right?" I ask smiling, with a whispering voice.
Then I proceed to cut her stomach open. Watching as her eyes widen and her face finally contorts in pain.
""Master Luminous!!!"" Her subordinates scream when they see her. Rushing towards me.
"Hmm." I humm in amusement, teleporting myself and the queen to some remote place. Then I stick my sword through her stomach, standing upright in the ground.
"Let's have a chat." I casually say, with my hands behind my back, like a commander starting a meeting.
Meanwhile Luminous coughs up blood on the ground. Wriggling around with no arms or legs. Of course I see her body restoring itself with speed. Within a few minutes she'll be up again.
I turn to her and crouch to get closer to her, as this is important. "As the victor, of course I demand compensation. I will be taking 2 of your subordinates and some information." I tell her.
Luminous is having a hard time dealing with my reasonable demands. She frowns and counters. "Of course not! I will not hand over 2 of my subordinates to you." She firmly rejects my conditions, glaring at me with hate.
I seemingly don't react, as my face stays impassive like before. I grab the sword that's imbedded in the ground, through her stomach and pull it out. Then I slice off her almost regenerated limbs again and embed the sword in the same spot.
"Kuh." Looks like this time she felt the pain. Her magicules are almost running out. So she can probably regenrate her limbs around 2 more times before she's fucked.
"Perhaps I didn't explain myself well. The winner gets to decide the conditions." I sit down, gently pick up her head and lay it in my lap, while staring at her eyes.
"Luminous. I hope you will grow stronger by our next meeting." I say, while caressing her face. Then I bring her head upwards, towards mine.
I've been holding myself back for a while now. Her blood smells so delicious, I can't bear it. I lift her up and bite her neck, sucking large amounts of blood out of her.
"Mmmmmhhh." I moan involuntarily as it's the most delicious thing I have ever tasted.
I continue drinking, until I find no more blood coming out. Only then do I realize that I have fallen into a trance while drinking her blood and accidentally drank her dry. She looks like a dessicated corpse now.
I stand up and ponder over the corpse Luminous. "She'll probably recover from this, right?" I stare at her, as if wanting her to give me the answer. "Right?"
"Just in case." I crouch and slice open my veins. Pooling my blood in her mouth. I donate about a liter, then nod and walk away. I look back at Luminous once more, then teleport away.
Should we have continued fighting, I would have lost for sure. This victory is only due to Luminous's inability to judge my stamina. I was running on fumes, when I defeated her. If she would have been more on the defencive, I wouldn't have had the chance to take her out like that. Still in the end, I am just better than her.