Chapter 1001: A New Look
The very instant that sudden burst of festering death force had reached him, Loimos had instantly known how, and most importantly, who it was that given up their life force to assist him, and honestly, even him, the pure undead, had not predicted for this to happen, it was about as low as it could get in terms of probability amongst his calculations, but it had indeed happen, and the proof was right in front of him.
Normally, when facing the two women who tended to be by his side the most, there would be One, the sun walking vampire girl with an obsession for all that is rotten and specifically Loimos himself, and the other would Maliah, The Death Dealer, a living working as an agent of death and amongst the most powerful members of the Empire despite being animated by life.
Now however, it was two undeads that were facing him.
"Listen here, Mister Bones... You better be very grateful that I gave up on having a glorious death by getting torn apart, cleaved into pieces, burnt alive or whatever to help you against the golden fucker!"
"I always knew that you were a competitor, Maliah" the vampiress basically hissed at the assassin.
"Hey, I didn’t do it for that reason"
"What reason then?"
"No comment"
"I knew it... Damnit! I am totally the worst choice in between us two!" One rubbed the bridge of her nose, the vampire used to be the only one brazen enough to cling to Loimos like a virulent parasite that embedded itself in the flesh of it victim, so even though she was not much compared to a lot of other female undeads, she at least was the only one competing.
Now, she had to compete with Maliah, and One had no disillusion, it was obvious that the assassin was better than her in every way, the only thing she had over before was that The Death Dealer had been a living...