Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 23

Dracula felt the moment when a creature similar to him was summoned even before the dark mist acquired its final shape, outlining long claws and a twisted mouth full of teeth. The feeling of grave cold and the barely perceptible smell of death passed over his bones like sandpaper, terribly similar to the feelings that Dracula himself bestowed on his allies as they approached.

"Vampire" Vlad instantly realized this, "Extremely strong one".

The vampire that appeared out of nothing was not weaker than Vlad himself.

Of course, in a battle inside Vlad's Kingdom, taking into account the help of his Master, his summoning and Noble Phantasm, Vlad believed that he was still stronger than the summoned vampire, but if he had to face him in a one-on-one battles on neutral territory... Vlad was not sure his victory was assured. And even it were, it would not be an easy victory.

"Creating a creature of such power ..." Dracula looked into the sky, where his opponent continued to evade the whirlwind of stakes that was chasing him "Who are you even?!"

The vampire that appeared from the black fog, however, did not bother with Dracula's thoughts and instantly rushed forward, forcing Vlad to respond to his movements.

The claws of the summoned creature met a spear in the hands of Dracula, leaving deep dents on it, then, feeling something was wrong, Vlad threw away the spear, which, after a second, disintegrated to smithereens due to the force behind creature's blow.

Vlad retreated a step, after which, intercepting with a newly conjured spear, he blocked a new strike of the creature, which was followed by another.

Left without direct control from Lancer, the whirlwind of stakes in the sky unexpectedly slowed down, after which, almost lazily, slowly crawled behind the wizard, who teleported again. Without Lancer's control, the whirlwind lost most of its speed and maneuverability, which meant that with only one move, Ainz instantly virtually neutralized all the danger from the Kazikli Bey vortex that arose earlier, while creating a really strong opponent for Dracula, capable of fighting him on an equal footing.

"Great..." despite the fact that Dracula was full of disgust for his opponent's stingy and dishonest style of battle, he could not help but admit the genius of the move of his opponent, "In one move he was able to neutralize me, my main and the most deadly trump card for him, and provide himself with a powerful ally at this crucial moment of our battle. So this was your trump card?.. As expected from my opponent."

Dracula greatly overestimated Ainz, although at the same time Ainz himself greatly overestimated Dracula. Ainz created the Vampire Lord as a temporary solution. Ainz saw Kazikli Bey appear as a whirlwind, but he considered that this ability was necessary to Dracula only to buy Dracula some time to prepare one of his trump cards. He needed to disturb Dracula's concentration, and he considered it best to create a temporary puppet in order to buy some time for himself before he decided on which battle strategy was best.

However, to the surprise of the mage soaring through the sky, the undead that emerged at his behest was not only not killed in battle, he unexpectedly forced Dracula to retreat from his position, defending himself from the merciless blows of a newly created vampire, while the soaring whirlwind of spears slowed down and turned into a lazy cat barely crawling across the sky in a reluctant pursuit of Ainz.

For Ainz, this meant only one thing.

"He prepares some powerful ability!" Ainz felt like a panic attack rose inside him, which got wiped out in an instant his passive skills "I should do something!"

The most suitable action was to use one of the high-level spells. However, Ainz could feel that his body could not withstand such a thing, even the use of Napalm was quite exhausting for his body. In other words, the use of high-level spells in such conditions was a last resort.