Chapter 89: Boons from Lords (1)
"Young Lord, stay close to me," Gareth said quietly as he took on a fighting stance. He looked back at Caius and gave him a reassuring smile,
"The Estate was alerted the moment the Carriage crashed. Reinforcements will be here soon. Until they arrive, I assure you, I will protect you."
Caius looked into that smile and the confidence in Gareth’s smile and he still didn’t believe him. There was just too much of a disadvantage to be overcome here. He didn’t have any real feats for them in the original story to refer to.
In [To Kill A Demon Lord...], Caius had never actually been in danger while under the Guards’ protections throughout his time at school. His moments of danger and real-life and death battles came after graduation when he was making his own way.
The most Caius—as Kevin—had read of the fights the forces of the Von Helsing Estate got into were always like reports. Nothing about what they actually had to overcome and simply a leap to the result which was always a success.
But that didn’t fill Caius with confidence because they, in all those fights, were never stated to be in as much of a disadvantage by numbers and maybe even power levels as was happening here.
The Vampires started their assaults with magic, unleashing Spell circles that thrust various elemental attacks at the Hellsingers—the term used to address every member of Count Lucian Von Helsing’s private Army of Monster Hunters.
The spells were all at the Fifth Circle and the Hellsingers all stood firm and swung their swords at such incredible speeds that the blades blurred. When it was all over, every magical attack had been sliced through.
The Vampires split off then. Two of them to each of the three other Hellsingers while three faced off against Gareth. Well, two faced off against him, while the other tried to take advantage of the distraction to pull Caius to him.
That third Vampire managed to wrap a tendril of water around Caius’ arm and pulled hard. Before Caius had even moved an inch, and before his mind could process the situation so he could try and free himself, Gareth’s sword swung and cut the tendril on two, before throwing two fingers of his free hand forward to cast a spell circle against the Vampire’s Chest.