Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

Chapter 603 Challenges Daimon & Nethereal sisters, Sarah's version (part 10)

Having attained the glorious victory she wanted, Haylee smiled as she was transported out of the battlefield, appearing at the resting area the next second, where she was met with a Michael that though was clearly proud of her, also wanted to scold her for fighting in such a reckless way without explaining the changes in her fighting style/element.

One couldn't blame Michael for being worried, he has known Haylee since they both had use of reason, so he is used to her poison and control tactics, and now she suddenly changed to close combat and physical reinforcement of some sort.

"Don't look at me like that, though I obtained "swamp" affinity is not like I lost my original ones, with proper training I should be able to use both simultaneously by the time I reach the Lord ranks...", mumbled Haylee just to be interrupted midway by Michael who somehow had crossed ten metes without being noticed by let alone Haylee, but even Calvin.

"Silly girl, I'm proud of your progress, just don't think of yourself as a burden ever again, we did what we had to and would do it again if needed without a second of hesitation", he said as he brought Haylee into his embrace.

Considering his and Calvin's experience during their challenge, he had understood that their reward aligned with their desires and needs to a certain extent, so how could he not notice that Haylee awakened that strange affinity which basically nullified all physical damage so that he wouldn't need to worry about her survivability in future fights.

Unlike Calvin, Michael is a person of few words, well, except when he is with Calvin since the desert coyote young master manages to exasperate him enough to make him way more expressive than normal and Haylee knows it, so she was taken aback by this public demonstration of affect.

"That was amazing, I still do believe my Loren will perform better though", jokingly said Calivin from the side, destroying the romantic atmosphere between those two.

"Would it kill you remain silent for a damn minute, Calvin Bastard", said Michael while gritting his teeth.

"Humph says the shrimp who interrupted my quality time with Loren", retorted Calvin and before they noticed they were both arguing like cats and dogs, very much for the amusement of Haylee and Loren who limited to cover their mouths while giggling.

...

Leaving the merry atmosphere at the resting area aside, high up into the sky things weren't as harmonious, Sheilla just saw Garak being killed not even a minute after she accepted a bet with Sarah and couldn't help but feel scammed.

It's not like she didn't expect Garak to lose, heck, she was already planning to get his corpse since that power he used might be of a huge use for her Lord, what angered her is how easy the tables were turned, it was almost as if... the green haired girl was waiting for her to accept the bet to win just to humiliate her.

No, she was sure that was the case, given how Sarah has been mockingly gazing at her ever since they both agreed to the bet.

"Want to make another bet~", said the crazy girl with a smirking expression on her pretty face, while tightly holding onto Daimon's arm.

'This bitch!', Sheilla trembled due to anger, unfortunately for her, the barrier prevented her from taking any action, so she could only swallow her anger and wish for the last round to end as soon as possible so that she could vent her anger on the enemy.

Sheilla wasn't the only one wanting to see the fight, Daimon was also paying special attention to it, not only because it was the last round and as much as he didn't want to admit it, he felt curious as to what has the crazy girl in the store for her fight, tgiven that Reyne had quite a nice performance earlier.

But also, because Jade's fight will be the last "hint" that those girls will give him to discern the basics of dynamics of their newly acquired powers and this seems to be an important thing for Scarlet and the others, so Daimon was taking it seriously.

He could imagine Ruby, Lapis and maybe even Jade being playful just for the sake of it, given that they were relatively carefree even back then, but Scarlet and Amber were much serious since they were in charge of the group as the eldest ones so if they went along with it there must be a proper reason.

'Well, they all got "livelier" recently but I doubt this game has no deeper meaning considering how they are now able to locate me without me knowing how they do it', thought Daimon.

Even Scarlet and Amber showed some kind of expectation when they were showing their newly acquired abilities to him after all and even now the usually pacific Jade seemed raring to go, not to mention she actually became a knight piece when Daimon would have thought she would have become a tower given her elemental affinity.

Speaking of Jade, back at the battlefield, the barrier finally disappeared allowing the two participants to start the fight, not even a second had passed and the opponent, a pirate from the Maelstrom Sea, who was also a bishop piece and a Lord ranked mage, had already run into the distance while casting long distance wide area spells at Jade.

"Violent Rain!".

"Hammer Gale!".

Despite being the last one remaining from Sheilla's team, the pirate wasn't exactly a weakling, for starters, he actually had two affinities, water and wind, which is understandable considering he has ancestors from a lot of different races like most humans who live in the Maelstrom Sea as nomads.

Also, as a pirate he of course was a battle-oriented mage, meaning that he probably chose to be a bishop piece since he had no say in the role distribution, so he went for long distance and mana reserves boost which is not a bad deal for a mage.

"Booom!" needle like drops of water descended from the sky, raining all over Jade to then be followed by a powerful current of wind that produced a huge shockwave, it's worth mentioning that the pirate didn't even bother to look at the result and simply kept moving while casting his next round of spells.

"Elemental Dance, First Step, Wind", from within the curtain of dust created by the enemy's attacks, Jade's mellow voice could be heard, the next second the dust was instantly dispelled to reveal a Jade who was perfectly fine, there was a green cyclone spiraling around her, which was what blocked the enemy's spells.

Or more accurately it deflected them, which is what caused the dust curtain, since the spells impacted the surrounding area instead of directly clashing against Jade, who now took a single step from her previous position

But then, that tattoo was a temporal stimulation, that as far as Daimon could see with the infinity eyes, wasn't putting any strain into James's mana circuits, nor he wasn't losing anything important as lifespan to use it, it only consumed stamina which is a recoverable kind of energy.

'Daimon...', the voice of the undead head maid returned Daimon to the real world.

'Yes?', he said to which Rita asked.

'Can I study that guy and also the fish head one's corpses too?'. Continue reading at empire

'Sure, I'll send you this one's first but you'll have to wait until Sarah finishes her fight, since that barracuda guy has become the stake of the bet she did with the enemy queen', answered Daimon, making the undead head maid inwardly snort.

'Humph, that strange woman is always causing troubles for Daimon', she thought but limited to nod from within the mind space.

'Mm, thanks, I'll continue with my "lesson" now', she said with hard to hide excitement, clearly whatever she was doing to those girls from the Black Night race, she was having fun.

Daimon chuckled to himself and then focused on the fight again, Jame's fierce voice echoed through the battlefield.

"Tsunami Break!".

"Dark Descent!".

A giant water wave suddenly appeared in front of Jade, raising from the ground to then descend with the aim to break through the cascade wall, as one would expect from someone who originally had water affinity, his all-out water offensive was strong enough to wear out the cascade wall.

"Booom!", the water offensive and defense exploded against each other, this was James's strongest water spell, an early Arch rank one, he had been preparing it since the battle started and yet he was just using it as a path opener.

'It took way too long to cast Tsunami Break, but it should do the trick, let's see you counter a neutral element you bit...', James's inner monologue was interrupted by the bad premonition he got after seeing Jade not only remaining unfazed when the cascade wall was destroyed, but she also elegantly moving her left bare foot frontwards to take another step.

"Elemental Dance, Third Step, Light", a dazzling light-yellow glow enveloped her, just in time for James's darkness spell to land on her causing a clash of mana as well as a storm of sparks due to the natural incompatibility of light and darkness.

Still, in terms of output the darkness spell used by James was lower when compared to the water one, he used it as darkness wasn't weak against any of the elements with which Jade had defended herself, so even if she managed to reconstruct her defense, she should receive some damage, or at least that was the idea, but the result wasn't as expected.

After a few seconds of clash, the light-yellow glow surrounding Jade increased its brightness successfully dispelling the darkness current that James casted.

Speaking of James, he was at a loss of words, he could still understand facing a dual affinity enemy, he had double affinities as well after all, however, Jade just used a third one, but as dangerous as a triple affinity enemy would be that wasn't what was occupying his mind as of current.

'Triple elemental affinity and she... hasn't used that racial ability those other colorful haired women used', he thought.

Despite not showing it, Sheilla did inform James about what she learned from Scarlet and the others, which is why the crazy girl mocked her asking if she wanted to make another bet, Sarah as a queen could somewhat tell if the other queen was in contact with one of the participants after all.

The point is that, James knew all the hints that Scarlet and the others had given about their powers to Daimon, since they didn't bother to speak about it out loud, he knew those glyphs weren't boosting spells nor curses, so he didn't know what to expect.

As if Jade could read James's mind, she mockingly smiled to then say.

"Don't worry my glyph has nothing to do with affinity unlike that horned tattoo of yours".

The clear provocation behind Jade's smile, made James feel his blood boil, but he managed to regain his cool, knowing that the temporary darkness affinity he gained was affecting his mood, which is normal as he isn't used to it.

"Whatever, you can only protect yourself with a single element at the time as far as I understand, now that I know the elements you can use, I just need to take you by surprise".

With those words, James's body exploded in mana, wind surrounded his body as he prepared to use his strongest wind spell to get rid of the protection around Jade, but didn't start a second spell this time.

'Tsunami Break was enough to destroy her water barrier but not enough to force her to create the light one, I had to split my attention to instantly use Dark Descent, this time I'll destroy her barrier and force her to create the next one in a single go!', inwardly screamed James.

Contrary to what one would believe, the first affinity he awakened wasn't water but wind, so he has practiced his strongest wind spell way more times than the water one, hence why he was confident in its strength.

"Giant Tornado!", with a loud shout, James raised his hands and all the mana he had gathered was shot upwards, resulting in a tornado descending from the sky above Jade who stole a gaze at Daimon before lifting her right leg a bit, just enough to draw attention to her pretty right bare foot, which had started glowing alongside her hair.

"Unity Glyph", just as Jade finished speaking, she was engulfed by the giant tornado that descended from the sky.