Where is he?[2]

The vampire general's dead body paled and his body began to tremble due to something.

Several marks of blood appeared all over his body.

And then_

A bright light appeared inside him in the form of a small sphere.

The intensity of the sphere seemed very high .

Normal person wouldn't be able to look at with their Naked eyes.

The sphere moved and went straight toward the baby who was floating in the air covered with same thick dark particles.

Dark particles formed a hand like shape with sharp fingers forming on it.

It reached for the sphere coming it's way.

And_

As soon as it grabbed the sphere, it immediately pulled the sphere toward itself.

Because of the force , the sphere went straight inside child's body and settled in it.

Newborn baby's body glown white for a moment then returned to normal.

Then all the dark particles approached the baby's heart and established itself in it.

It was a view like darkness trying to invade his heart residing itself comfortably.

After it all ended , baby's slowly came down and laid on the ground carefully.

All this time baby wasn't even conscious,a single didn't escape his mouth.

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Meanwhile,

In a place surrounded by trees and grass.

A man was sitting on the ground with his legs crossed, his hands were on his knees,index finger being rotated back touching his thumbs with palms facing upwards.

Overall a meditation posture.

Draven was trying to quickly remove the poison from his body through channeling his mana in it.

Fiirst,he would mix his mana in the poison forcefully which was flowing in his blood then absorbing it he would remove that poisoned mana from his body through___

Mana discharge!

It was a technique that can be used by anyone but one should have absolute control on his mana , that he could freely move mana all over his body without any difficulty.

The said person should also have high amount of mana in his core so that the process will not interepted or completely stopped otherwise _

It has dengerous side effects as well.

He calmed his mind and focused his mind on his mana core .

All the other things around him faded and only mana was what he could sense .

Channeling his mana from his core he drove them to all the poisoned blood cells .

Immediately, his mana absorbed the poison .

Mana that had absorbed the poison became corrupted but that was what he wanted.

Again channeling, he removed all poisoned mana that was containing a 'Tier 8 ' poison.

It was very easy , right?

No .

It was impossible for any normal AWAKENER.

But neither he was a normal AWAKENER nor he was in early stages .

His sovint stage body helped him removing it quickly and efficiently.

That were the perks of being high stage

AWAKENER.

Then he opened his eyes and taking a deep breath he stood up.

Slowly his body's composure improved and his senses became completely fine .

And then_

He sensed Kathrine nearby .

' what is she doing here?'

'could something had happened while I was not there?'

'but how?!! It was just 10 minutes'

'No , this isn't the time to think about it. I have to quickly check on her that she is fine or not'

He thought to himself with a neutral face , one hand rubbing his neck.

And with the last thought he kicked the ground and rushed into Kathrine's direction .

Although poison was removed from his body.

It effects still lingered.

His overall physical stats were considerebly low due to that.

So it means , Draven will need more time to reach there.

But he didn't care.

He was only thinking about the safety of his friend's wife who also happened to be the queen of this kingdom.

If something happened to either of Kathrine or her new born child then,

he wouldn't be able to directly look into his friend's eye .

So he must hurry.

Fast .

More fast .

Boooooooom!!!!!!

But then a sudden explosion reached his ears coming from the way he was heading.

From the sound , it was easy to guess massive attacks are used in a battle.

He stopped in his track crossed his arm to defend itself from it's shockwaves.

Few seconds later , he sees that all the things around him turned into dust particles like eradicating everything on from the existence. Lightning attack should be cause of it , he thought.

He observed particles around him and one thought crossed his mind .

It was bad .

Very bad.

From the looks of it , Kathrine's situation could not be good.

He had to hurry!!

But how?!!

Now he only had one option left to reach there in instant.

He didn't want to use it but seeing the situation he had no choice.

And with that thought he bent his knees a little and gazed forward with determined eyes.

[Soul manipulation]

Increasing output ~{speed}

He mumbled under his breath and _

Whoooish!!!

He instantly disappeared.

And appeared right in front of center of the destructed area.

He searched for the mother - child pair.

And he found it.

He immediately appeared next to them.

And his eyes widened at the site.

Dust particles were still floating in the area but he could see them clearly.

He saw unconscious Kathrine's body with heavy injuries but atleast alive so he felt a little relief.

But that little relief faded as soon as he looked toward the child who was lying on the ground with slightly paled skin.

His heart had stopped beating.

His breathing had also stopped.

His skin was pale.

All this confirmed that he was dead.

And that thought made Draven shocked and saddened from his soul.

Because of him a little soul died .

He clenched his fist very hard that blood began to flow from it.

He gritted his teeth in anger .

It was all his fault.

If he didn't fall for that plan it wouldn't have happened.

His anger increased rapidly.

But_

he controlled it.

While Cooling himself down he looked around and found vampire's dead body at little distance.

'So it was this bastard.'

He cursed at him but with just slight anger.

He drove out a spear from his space ring and covered it with fire affinity which danced in the air with grace.

With slight anger forming on his face he threw the spear in it's direction.

Spear directly went for his head and penetrated his forehead with precise.

The fire spread all over his body turning it into white ashes.

Having done with it he turned his eyes to look at the child.

"..."

Without saying anything he moved near him and carefully picked him up in his arms.

His gaze filled depth of his emotions lingered on him.

Sadness.

Regret.

Anger.

Despair.

And many more.

He still felt like it was his fault.

Looking over at his cute face ,

"I am sorry, my prince"

He whispered, the bitterness of his failure evident on his voice.

He glanced toward Kathrine ,

And then his face cracked and a sorrowful expression appeared.