Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System-Chapter 639: A king’s role (part 2)

While the three sisters entered the giant castle resulting from the combination of the three individual ones, far away from the battlefields a series of black portals out of which as few figures were "spat out" suddenly appeared.

Naturally those were the nethereals that came out of the castles to give the announcement, they were the guards of the castles basically and belonged to the armies of the three Lords, though the one leading them all was the captain of Balax special corps, besides them there were also a couple of the guys that followed Arlion, Ereth and Marcus respectively, who were apparently left behind, like it happened to Walford.

"Where are we?", asked one of the guards who was standing close to the captain of the special corps, to which the latter frowned as he said.

"This is still the royal realm but the presence of the Lord's feels really far away, but we can discuss about that at a later moment, for now… detain those guys", said the captain as he pointed at the "outsiders", making the nine remaining guards since Daimon killed one a moment ago, surround the group of five subordinates of Ereth and the others.

Originally there were two from each, but since Walford wasn't transported here, only five remained and they were now being held at sword point.

"What is the meaning of this!", exclaimed a magic beast guy subordinated to Marcus, making the captain snort.

"Your masters made a deal with the Lords, one that stated that you'll help deal with those guys in exchange for letting them enter that "place" and yet one of you turned out to be a spy, one that rendered the last deterrent prepared by the Lords, useless".

Seeing the dangerous light glowing on the guard's eyes, those five realized that their lives were in danger, if they couldn't convince the captain of their innocence then they'll be executed.

"Hold on, why are we getting lumped together with that noble bastard, we serve Lord Ereth not the White family's king!".

"Yeah, and we serve Lord Marcus, so we have nothing to do with the White family, in fact they are originally our enemies", said the magic beast guy, he came from the Maelstrom Sea and hated the races from the Clear Water kingdom after all.

And now all the attention was on the remaining subordinate from Arlion's side who felt all the stares turn on his direction.

"W-Wait, I might be under his majesty Arlion's wing, but I'm not from the same family as Walford, I can prove my loyalty by being on the frontline against that masked bastar…", the words of that guy were interrupted by a bunch of black portals suddenly opening on the sky above them.

"Aghh!", a few dozens of figures emerged out of the portals, heavily landing on the ground a second later, they wore different kind of clothes and had different characteristics, yet, the captain of the special corps could recognize each one of them.

They were the staff, special servants and even the advisors that worked in the castles of the three lords.

"Why are you here?", he asked to one of the many servants who immediately bowed his head as he said.

"E-Esteemed captain of the royal guard, I was preparing the banquet to celebrate the Lords's victory when a black portal engulfed me, the next thing I knew is that I appeared here".

"Those three have been waiting for too long to solve this debt, so I simply brought all the none-related trash out of the castle, so that you can't get in their way, that's what is happening", a cold voice coming from above made all the presents look at the sky where a last portal had opened.

Naturally the one speaking was none other than Daimon who scanned the crowd below of him, besides the guards and those guys from Ereth, Arlion and Marcus's groups, there were undead slaves from the Bane Lord's castle, maids from the Asmadian Lord's castle and logistic staff from the Balax's castle, for a total of around thirty people, without taking into the account the nine guards and the captain.

"Humph, who do you think you are, I'm the three Lord's proxy and with their authority I can go back to the castle by simply thinking about it", said the captain of the special corps as he snapped his fingers to prove his point.

"…", but then after a few seconds, the portal which should have opened for him to return to the castle, not only didn't form, but there was completely no reaction from his actions, which led the captain to test something.

"No way!!!", shouted the captain as he realized that… he couldn't contact the Lords, it was as if their connection was being interrupted by something, he could still feel the Lord's existence and everything, but he couldn't make any kind of contact with them.

'What the hell, we are still in the royal realm, so it's not like there is that much of a distance between our current location and the castles so how?', inwardly questioned the captain, just to feel the contempt coming from the masked silver haired youth.

"What, are you getting cold feet because there won't be any interference from your owners?", disdainfully said Daimon, making the captain grit his teeth.

What happened is really simple, the portals that brought the nethereal sisters to his side earlier and the ones that dragged the captain as well as practically every other of the presents here, were created by his black sea emblem, and so was the barrier that was covering this area where they appeared.

'Still, asking me to deal with these guys before being able to join those three, I guess this is a part of their challenge', thought Daimon to which Evangeline jokingly added.

'Well, these challenge things are like simplified version of missions with the objective to offer some kind of growth for the participants, in those three's case the most notorious change would be in terms of mentality so it's only normal that they have to prove themselves without any "cheating"~', she said.

'Mm, having Daimon present with them when they meet their enemies face to face for the first time, would be too reassuring', added Narasha.

Daimon inwardly shrugged, it's not like he was going to interfere with those three's revenge… more than he should, especially because if what he concluded after analyzing the nether surrounding the castles throughout all the fights that happened so far as well as comparing it with the nether inside the casino led by Agrak, then those three should be fine.

'Oh well, it's not like I'm going to take long before finishing things up here and I specifically asked that little thing to remain with them just in case, so any traps that those guys have prepared to stall for time will be meaningless anyway', thought Daimon to himself to then manifest Disaster and grab it with his right hand.

Earlier he could feel Narasha's happiness when he destroyed the barrier, the sword girl has been watching other people fighting for too long and she wanted to participate too, especially when she saw the magic weapon that Erika used, since it was a new type of magic weapon, and she wanted to destroy it.

"Now, take it easy, that guy should have a better magic weapon when compared to that woman, he is an Archknight after all", said Daimon as he felt the excitement radiated by Narasha.

'Mm, it's going to be fun~', cutely said Narasha, making Daimon chuckle before he disappeared from plain sight.

"We'll leave the interrogation for later, you five protect the non-combatants, if they die you are next, guards assist them!", shouted the captain as he exploded in black battle aura, he was actually a darkness affinity knight, which is quite a rare sight, as the crazy girl has proven.

For a simple reason, darkness isn't exactly an affinity that comes with great vitality, in fact while darkness does have an extremely high offensive power, it tends to lack when it comes to endurance, though it compensates with tricky properties, like mind affecting, stealth and the like.

'I felt it earlier when he killed Miller, that bastard is actually a peak middle Mortal level, he managed to hide his power from the Lords… not that it will make a difference anyway', thought the captain.

Naturally, to take a middle stage Archknight by surprise, Daimon activated Core Synchrony since earlier, which made him a peak Lord rank mage.

"White Heavenly Javelin", a voice seemingly coming out of nowhere, made the captain's danger alarms ring, his darkness battle aura exploded out of his body as he flashed to the right.

"Battleground Dark Trail Step!", the captain who appeared in front of a group of logistic staff of the Balax castle, manifested a three-meter black metal great sword to then swing it at a white ray of light that suddenly appeared, blocking it.

"Boooom!", the darkness battle aura fiercely clashed against the white ray of light producing a huge shockwave followed by an energy explosion, which to the captain's surprise actually forced him nearly a hundred meters.

'What the hell, is this not light mana, why does it have such high physical damage and an explosive energy one!', he inwardly screamed just to be brought back to the real world by a horrified scream.

"Aghhhh!", the captain immediately turned to the left, just in time to see another two rays of white light appear, one pierced the bodies of five of the maids from the Asmadian castle as well as one of Marcus's followers, a pirate to be more accurate, making them explode in white flames before they died, leaving burning corpses behind.

The other one targeted a single person though, the remaining subordinate of Arlion whose face turned white as paper, he is only an early-stage mage Lord which is why he was left behind to assist Walford who was the "stronger" one having actually advanced to the middle stage, on the way back from the casino, so he was sure he wouldn't be able to dodge the incoming attack.

"Water Wa…", the noble who was in the process of casting a defense spell, got bypassed by the white ray of light, which then landed on the undead slaves, turning them into another batch of five burning corpses.

The noble from the Clear Water kingdom was momentarily in shock, that attack would have for sure pierced through his defensive spell, and he would have ended like those corpses that were slowly burning on the ground.

"S-Screw this!", shouted the noble as he turned around to then flee for dear life, disappearing into the distance not too long after that, an action that made the remaining three "outsiders" exchange gazes before they followed that guy.

"Where the hell are you going you useless bastards!", roared the captain, whose great sword exploded in darkness battle aura as he prepared to cut down the deserters, he was at the end of the day a member of the Balax army and desertion is punished with immediate death.

But then he felt a dreading sensation coming from above, which forced his battle instincts to change the angel of his slash upwards, just in time to collide with a thin one-edged black metal sword.

"Clang!", the sound of metals colliding as well as sparks flying all over the place was the result of the collision between that huge great sword and the "fragile" looking one edged sword which didn't even reach the two-meter mark.

"Crack!", then under the disbelief of the captain, both the ground below of him and the battle aura covering his sword cracked on the spot, not even a second into the collision.

"Get the hell away!", he roared as he poured more battle aura into his sword to use a martial art.

"Battleground Dark Severing!", a crescent moon shaped huge slash dragged the masked silver haired youth away into the distance, giving the captain a second to process everything that happened, or at least that's what he thought until he saw that one-edged sword… cut through his martial art as if it was butter.

"Boooom!", losing its integrity the darkness slash exploded on the air turning into countless black wisps which rained down upon the other nethereals, forcing them to scatter in a hurry.

The captain forgot that there were a lot of non-combatants in the vicinity, just being grazed by his battle aura will gravely wound most of them and he couldn't let that happen, it was not out of camaraderie or anything like that, but because he had some use for them.

But then as he flew to dispel the rain of destruction accidentally created by him, he was intercepted by the masked silver-haired youth whose sword was now covered in white flames, that's right, Daimon earlier only used Disaster, without adding any mana nor battle aura to it.

The impact that nearly buried the captain into the ground was just Disaster's weight, combined with Daimon's physical strength and the momentum he gained by using blink, like he did right now, after all he is not an Arch rank even in Core Synchrony so he can't really fly, but moving through the air is simple when one has a spatial movement spell.

"Damn it, you nine protect the others!", ordered the captain as he injected battle aura into his sword, it wasn't hard to realize that the magic weapon used by the enemy was a really high ranked treasure, but so what, his "Fallen" is a weapon created by the three Lords cooperating and is the symbol of him being their proxy.

"Royal Reinforcement, Darkness Crushing Blade!", with a loud shout, the black great sword wielded by the captain actually had those patterns used by the special corps, appear on its whole body, what's more what was powering them were three black gems that worked as decorations, those were medals!

The result was that an ominous dark liquid covered the blade of the great sword, giving it a threatening appearance.

'Royal Reinforcement huh, funnily enough the "queen" didn't have such a technique, or perhaps this guy wasn't supposed to have it either, I guess those three's performance left quite the deep impression on those idiots', thought Daimon.

Though he already guessed that Erika should be weaker than the captain of the special corps, she also had the rank of "Captain" so the difference shouldn't have been that big, besides the fact that the captain was an Arch rank since he had no need to participate in the challenges as that was Erika's job which limited her to remain in the Lord ranks. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

So, after seeing how those three faired in their fights, the Lords probably further empowered the captain and sent him to deal with the sisters or in the worst-case scenario stall them and force them to reveal any trump card that they kept hidden, who would have thought that Daimon casually rendered that effort useless by taking away not only the captain but even all the other nethereals in the castle.

"Radiant Blade", Daimon answered in kind by using a weapon enhancing spell on his sword, or more accurately Narasha did it, because she was in competitive mood and so she wasn't going to lose against another sword which was enhancing itself without the need for its wielder to do anything, the edge of Disaster was dyed in a bright white light, which had a nice contrast with the mostly black color of the sword.

It's worth mentioning that Daimon actually doesn't have a weapon enhancing neither spell nor martial art that works with his Demon Light, he knows some of the elements that compose it, like the "Radiant Blade" used by Narasha right now, but he would need to apply them separately and at most he can use three of different elements at the same time, which isn't enough to make a weapon enhancing spell fit for Demon Light.

That's a problem with a variant element like Demon Light, spells or martial arts that fully utilize its power have to be created by Daimon and so far, only the spells and martial arts of the "White Universe" like Comet Sword for example, fulfill that criteria, this also shows how amazing Aisha is, because her "Lightning Empress" state is achieved by overlapping more than three different enhancing spells with utmost precision, but that's beside the point.

The swords met on the sky, turning into a huge black and white sphere, that made the air tremble before everything was engulfed in a loud explosion.

"Boooom!", waves of mana and battle aura travelled through the air, many of the non-combatant nethereals were forced onto the ground due to the pressure caused by the shockwave, just the aftermath of the clash between the captain and Daimon, made them feel their innards being crushed.

"H-How is that a battle between a peak and a middle level Mortal, that masked guy is a peak level one as well, Lord please help us!", shouted one of the remaining maids from the Asmadian castle, her role was just to look appealing to the eye and tend to the needs of her Lord, she was essentially a decoration for the castle, so earlier when five of her fellow maids were killed in such a horrible way, she nearly peed herself.

"Shut up, if you have time to be a nuisance, start gathering your nether so that we can hurry up and finish that bastard to return to the Lord's side", said one of the nine guards, he had to block the wisps of nether and the shockwave for those whores of the Asmadian Lord while also preparing "that" for the captain at the same time, and the ones being protected weren't doing anything, it was infuriating.

"Balax logistic members, ready to offer support!", shouted a middle aged looking nethereal, he was the leader of the logistic staff so he knew what the guards were doing and ordered the others to gather their nether.

As for the undead slaves they had no choice but to do as they were told whether they were afraid or not, since they were literally subjected to the captain's beck and call, since he was the proxy of their Lord.

"Crack!".

The clash between Daimon and the captain finally ended with both of their weapon enhancing techniques breaking down at the same time, which also stopped the clash.

"What's the matter, are you not going to use your Battle Avatar, or perhaps you need to use one of those medal things to be able to manifest it since you are a middle stage Archknight only?", casually said Daimon to which the captain snorted.

"You think that my darkness crushing blade will be destroyed so easily, a royal reinforcement martial art is something that normally only the Lords can use, so… don't get carried away!", he roared, then the black metal great sword was instantly covered in that layer of darkness battle aura like before.

This was without the captain having the need to cast the martial art again, probably because of the medals engraved on it, and that wasn't all, a giant battle aura arm was manifested at the left side of the captain to then form a fist and punch in Daimon's direction.

"Battleground Darkness Crushing Fist!", the captain actually used a martial art alongside a partial manifestation of his Battle Avatar, which is quite an advanced technique and as if to further prove that he wasn't "incompetent" like the ones that the masked youth's group had faced so far, he also slashed his sword at Daimon while using a second martial art.

"Battleground Corrosion Slash!", the black metal great sword radiated a thin but still noticeable black mist which produced sizzling sounds the moment it made contact with the air, that also gave the already big great sword and even larger range, since the mist extended for around two more meters.

'Humph, Gram Transformation!', as if provoked by the great sword's increase in size, Narasha directly changed Disaster to Gram's form, turning it into a great sword as well, but that wasn't all.

'Radiant Sword!', the sword girl used a different enhancing spell this time, the previous one only affected the blade of the sword, which was enough for Disaster considering it is a one-edged sword, however Gram is a great sword with two edges, so she used the full version of that spell.

As a result, a blinding white light enveloped the whole length of Gram, turning it into a white light sword, this was also the first time Daimon saw Narasha doing something like this.