Supreme Magus novel Chapter 830

Chapter 830 Heartless Monster Part 2

In the blink of an eye, all the vampires were slain by the members of the Knight’s Guard. They were wielding weapons surrounded by a golden aura, just like Jirni’s spear.

"Did you really believe that I got this old by sheer luck? That I would fall for such a blatant trap?" Jirni said while piercing with her needles Kaelan’s four limbs and head.

He tried to shapeshift into his mist form to slip through the restrictions, but his flesh refused to move. Then the vampire summoned the mana from his blood core, to use true darkness magic to kill the wench that dared to stand so close to him.

Yet the mana went haywire and exploded inside his body, making his veins burst open as he coughed out a mouthful of blood. The pain and weakness almost made Kaelan faint.

Almost.

’What does she mean obvious? I studied Manohar’s pattern and played it by the book...’

"Let me tell you a secret. Manohar would never attend a black-market auction. He would simply ’liberate’ the ingredients from criminal’s hands in the name of the ’greater good’. His own." Jirni’s words derailed his train of thoughts.

"That was your first mistake. Your second mistake was forgetting that it’s the army array blocking dimensional magic, hence the army can turn them on and off at will. The moment you jammed my amulet’s signal, you signed your death warrant."

She poured a flask of blood on Kaelan’s head. His skin absorbed the red nectar as dried earth would do water. It healed his wounds and gave him new strength, but just enough to not die.

"Your third and fatal mistake was thinking yourself better than Balkor. The weapons we made are devised to block all of your powers to more easily capture live specimens. You undead are hard to kill and even easier to keep alive, since you can’t stop yourself from feeding."

Jirni poured another flask and Kaelan abandoned all hope. The sweet pleasure he derived from the blood only made the suffering from the golden metal pieces piercing his flesh more intense.

The woman in front of him could bide her time, whereas as soon as sunrise came the vampire would become more helpless than a child. He had seen it happening to other members of his race, he had done it himself a few times.

Move the prisoner to a safe place and then let the hunger do its thing. An undead could die of starvation, but it was a long and excruciating experience that would reduce them to little more than beasts willing to do anything just for a drop of blood.

Jirni didn’t even bother asking questions. There was no need to. Soon, it would be the vampire to beg to be interrogated.

"Great job spotting the footprints." She said to Kamila. "You have a keen eye for details, but you have to learn how to put the pieces together."

"Couldn’t you warn me beforehand? I almost crapped my pants!" Kamila was still quaking in her boots. The vampires had been scary, but the Knight’s Guard was terrifying.

Aside from Orion, no one spoke, focusing solely on their surroundings. They acted more as golems rather than as humans.

"Sorry, kid. I needed them to buy the act and your nervousness might have compromised the mission. Vampires have amazing instincts and can feel the blood pressure of humans from a distance. It allows them to read our emotions.

"If you knew about them, you would have been afraid, whereas if you knew about the Guard, you would have been too cocky." Jirni replied.

"What about you?" Kamila asked, giving voice to Kaelan’s thoughts. They had followed the women for a while, to make sure they had no detail and that they were unaware of the trap.

Kaelan had checked on Jirni personally, feeling her thrill for the hunt at first and then her resolve to die fighting once the ambush had been triggered. None of it made sense.