Chapter 19

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Gotori ran alone in the hallway as he kicked the doors open. What laid in front of him was a fiery cavern.

There were pools of lava all over the place. He floated up on each of them cautiously, careful not to lose his MP.

Slimes made out of a sticky substance made out of lava would jump out from the pools and spit fireballs on him. 

Gotori immediately yelled out. "EMPODIO!!" as a barrier appeared around him. The fireballs exploded against it. His HP was slowly decreasing the longer he held it up so he immediately cancelled it and aimed his palm at their direction. "RAGING FIRE!!!"

Fire surged through his palm as if it was a flamethrower, burning the slimes as they dissolved into puddles of lava.

Aside from the lava slimes, there were skeletons throwing bones at him. Some of them swinging swords, whips or flinging arrows from bows.

Alaric Snipers would fly around, aiming their arrows as the sound of their wings flapping can be heard echoing throughout the castle. They were patrolling around. At least ten of them.

Fleamen being carried by bats or altairs are dropped. Flew Devils flew and tried to claw Gotori along with throwing fire.

Even though he knows that he alone is the most powerful vampire hunter, he continued to stay sharp. Blasting spells at monsters as he traversed the hellish cavern, blocking attacks with his barriers and dodging them whenever his MP runs out, taking down enemies and destroying candles or torches for hearts.

Eventually he reached the boss room, they were on an stony island in a vast sea of lava. A man with orange spiky hair who stood up ahead turned to look behind him. His skin was blue and he had a muscular physique.

"Gotori Belnades... Also known as the Blind Magician. My good old friend, Chronomage warned me about you..." he said as he turned around with a cold glare.

" he said as he turned around with a cold glare

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"What is this aura?..." Gotori said, taking a step back. This demon... This demon isn't just some lesser demon. He was one that live for one thousand years more... Demons that have been created over more than 1,500+ years ago. Possibly... THIS demon probably served Walter Bernhard at some point. The late former Dark Lord before Dracula. "who are you?..."

Zephyr sharpened his claws menacingly as he paced back and forth through the room. His footsteps echoing loudly.

 "Leave this place... I am warning you." he said, his tone cold with a slight hint of mocking.

Silence filled the room for a bit, which was immediately interrupted by Gotori's laughter as he fired a shot at Zephyr. But to his surprise, the demon disappeared. 

"WHAT THE-" 


Gotori got sent flying into a wall, he immediately used Empodio to prevent himself from hitting the wall and make the landing lighter as he got back up. He gasped for breath and looked up, seeing Zephyr dashing towards him before breaking into a sprint. The demon lunged at him and tried to claw him. 

The Blind Magician rolled out of the way and punched for Zephyr's back, who dashed out of the way. He jumped onto the ceiling and clung onto it. Before Gotori knew it, fifteen knives were suddenly heading for him, even though Zephyr does not seem to have thrown them.

Gotori dodged them, only for Zephyr to disappear as he felt a hand grab him from behind, seeing it was him. Zephyr jumped up high and rammed him into the stony ceiling before kicking him hard enough to send him crashing into multiple layers of rocks. Gotori managed to use Empodio to protect himself from the rest of the damage. Hoping his MP won't run out by the time the crashing is over.

Soon he crashed onto a room with a huge clock on the wall as he landed on the floor, panting as he cancelled the barrier. Zephyr jumped up from the hole he crashed through and drop kicked towards him, attempting to stab his claws into the magician's face. Gotori rolled out of the way as he dashed at Zephyr and engaged in melee combat with him, landing eight punches ignited in holy flames in total as soon as he ducked from a slash from Zephyr's claws and managed to punch him a few times.

Zephyr staggered backwards as he regained his composure before throwing six knives at Gotori, who used Empodio to protect himself as he sent the knives flying back at Zephyr, catching him off guard as he got impaled by them.

The injured demon grunted at the damage inflicted on him as he ripped them off and threw them back. Gotori sent them flying back once again but Zephyr immediately slashes all six of them at once, sending them all flying into several directions as he dashed towards his opponent. 

Gotori smirked. "Fine, guess I'll get a bit rough." he said as his left hand's palm crackled with electricity. The other glowing in a bright light. He fused the attacks together, creating a sphere of light shining brightly and crackling with blue lightning. "SPIRIT OF... STORMS!!!" he yelled as the sphere flew straight at Zephyr in such an intense speed. 

An explosion happened as Zephyr  seemed to have been sent crashing through the rock... Gotori waited in anticipation for the smoke to clear... But then suddenly...

A young man wearing a high school uniform stood in front of Zephyr, a barrier in front of them which protected the duo.

"Gotori... Belnades..." the young man said. His chest was stained with blood, and there was a small hole on his chest that had a lot of blood dripping out, and his hair was stained with blood.

A bunch of skeletons with advanced guns ran over to his side and pointed them at Gotori.

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