Chapter 80: Vampire Scout
A wave of lunar esper expanded from his core and spread out, it pushed the burning ash inside him away.
Yet the ash persisted and clung to his organs like glue. The pain grew worse and he gritted his sharp teeth.
Adrian roared, his eyes blazed with fury and for the first time desperation, while this might not kill him, the pain was mind numbing.
He swung his claws, they drew silver arcs through the air and hit the wraith, he had no hope of hurting it, he was just attacking in desperation.
Yet when his claws touched it, he felt them ripping into its body like it was cloth. The wraith shrieked and disappeared.
It reappeared a dozen metres away and Adrain finally got a chance to breathe. He swung his claws in succession and hit two wraiths.
Their bodies exploded into a puff of smoke and died, he paused then grinned. The death of the two wraiths made the others pause.
Only for a split second before they lunged at him again, he lunged towards the strongest one.
His thick arm covered in silver fur stabbed like a spear, the wraith disappeared and appeared behind him.
Before he could react, its claws cut through his back and ripped his flesh down to the bone.
He roared and turned around but it was already gone, the other wraiths swarmed him.
His arms turned into blurs and his claws ripped them to shreds but their numbers were overwhelming.
Their class ripped into his body leaving burning wounds, his regeneration healed those wounds rapidly.
Adrain felt his hair stand on end and his neck prickled. He swung his claws, clang. They clashed with black claws and sparks flew.
A heavy force traveled through his arm and he staggered a few steps back, before he could stabilise himself he was swarmed by more Wraiths.
Adrain realised he couldn’t win as long as the level 3 wraith was here and if he stayed any longer, the actual army might arrive.
The group cracked beneath his feet and his body turned into a silver blur and shot out towards the city barrier.
The strongest wraith teleported like a puff of smoke and ash and blocked his path, Adrain waved his arm.
A dozen crescent moon slashes flew at the wraith but it did not even bother dodging. They passed through its body without causing any harm.
He used them again then it dodged, this caught him off guard as he did not expect it to dodge.
Using that chance he increased his speed and in a few seconds he was already in front of the barrier.
Just as he was about to pass through, a wave of ash enveloped him and he felt as if he was swimming through thick mud.
He slowed down and eventually came to a stop, a wave of energy exploded out of his body to push the ash away.
It flew back and surrounded him almost instantly but he had managed to take a step forward.
The wraiths reached him and forced him to a fight, he swung his claws like a mad beast, there was no finesse or skill behind it just wild ravaging.
He ripped multiple of them to shreds killing them instantly, his claws while they couldn’t produce his venom, had a similar effect on a weaker level.
Normally they would just paralyse and slow down his target but they seem to be quite effective against the wraiths.
After fighting his way through he finally came to face the level 3 wraith again, they clashed and he was forced back a step.
He opened his mouth and breathed out a wave of fire, even though he knew it couldn’t harm the wraith he still did it.
Using the flames as cover he shot out dozens of lunar blades, the wraith in its confidence didn’t dodge the flames.
By the time it realised his plan it was already too late, the lunar blades cut through its body and continued for a hundred metres and disappeared.
They didn’t do much damage but his heightened eyesight was able to see that a bit of the wraith’s body was shaved off.
Adrain wondered what made his lunar energy so special to even effect something like a wraith.
He fired more lunar blades forcing it to dodge then he tried to go around it but the ash cloud was slowing him down.
He released another wave of lunar energy forcing the cloud of ash back, this gave him a split second chance.
The barrier was already too close and with a single jump he ran through it then took a deep breath.
He turned back and saw the level 3 wraith watching him with its burning eyes. The others immediately ran through the barrier.
But even in their large numbers they couldn’t much of a threat to Adrian, he didn’t use any ability besides his claws.
Adrain howled to the sky and pounced, his claws lashed out as fast as bullets, the wraiths stood no chance.
He ripped them to shreds one by one turning them into a cloud of ash. In less than a minute all the wraiths were dead.
He stood in a cloud of burning ash and watched the level 3 wraith then grinned.
’ Pity those things don’t have hearts.’ turned around and ran back to the city then his ears caught something.
In his werewolf form, his senses were heightened to an absurd level. He kicked the ground and jumped towards the sound.
A few hundred metres away, a figure clad in a black cloak jumped out behind a tree and tried to run.
Adrain caught up in less than two seconds, his giant hand grabbed its head and rammed it on the ground.
" Vampire." He growled, at this distance he was able to clearly smell the vampire even though he could see the wolfsbane flower.
He turned the vampire around and their eyes met, its body started shaking with fear, Adrain grinned and his eyes turned silver.
He had the vampire tell him everything, why it was following him and its position amongst the subordinates of its master and what he learnt was shocking.
" That’s interesting, I think I might have use for you."