SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God-Chapter 87: Sneak attack in the middle of a heated battle

As soon as the huge undead appeared, the other soldiers started hurtling their attacks at it but this time around the chip damage did not matter at all. The damage numbers that popped out of the attacks were extremely negligible.

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"What is happening?"

"The attacks are not working?"

The soldiers started panicking. Lirae’s expression turned serious. She glanced at the soldiers next to her who were already pissing their pants in fear. She shook her head and then turned to Damon. "Blood Drinker, I can take down that monster in a single attack but I need a minute to prepare the attack. Can you hold on for a minute?"

"You better hurry." Damon nodded.

"I will do my best." Lirae answered with sincerity.

Damon was actually talking to the shadow clone since he had almost forgotten about the drop of blood he needed. The horde of the undead was also taken care of and Lirae had spent the whole time fighting from the back. This did not give him any chance to get the blood.

But now that this boss had shown up, it finally gave him the perfect chance. All he needed to do was...

Damon intentionally did not go all out with the undead abomination and only sparingly used his divine and holy skills.

He kept parrying and blocking the attack from the undead boss as he slowly inched backwards, getting closer and closer to the outpost main barricade where everyone was standing.

The undead abomination had a big club in its hand and it used nether infused attacks to strike Damon. Each strike was quite terrifying and its level 70 was no joke.

The mana core pulsed violently inside its ribcage with every swing, releasing waves of corrupted pressure that sent cracks through the ground and rattled the air like rolling thunder.

Damon winced as one of the swings scraped his shield, sending a jolt through his arm and rattling his bones. He let it happen.

He had to make it look real.

The undead’s strikes were destructive, but predictable. Damon knew how to dance with giants.

He drew it closer, step by step, dragging the fight toward the barricade where Lirae stood with the soldiers. "Hurry up!" Damon shouted again and Lirae quickly regained her composure. She gritted her teeth and began casting.

Soon, a huge ball of fire appeared in front of her. However, it was nothing like an ordinary fireball. The intensity of the raging flames was akin to a sun and it threatened to burn the very air around it.

Lirae lifted both hands toward the swirling inferno, her lips moving in an ancient incantation that didn’t match any known elemental chant Damon had heard. Her aura flared wildly, gold and white embers rising like feathers caught in a solar wind. Soldiers nearby instinctively stepped back, shielding their eyes from the searing brilliance.

The orb of fire pulsed once, twice, then began condensing, shrinking in size but growing impossibly dense, as if she were compressing a star into the palm of her hand. This was clearly the most difficult step of the attack and it was exactly at this time that the undead came shockingly close to the outpost.

Lirae grit her teeth to keep her focus when a shadow clone silently materialized next to her, rising from her shadow. While everyone’s focus was fixated on the hulking abomination, the shadow clone swiftly made a small scratch at the back of Lirae’s neck on her milky white skin.

Damon immediately blinked right next to Lirae and casted a divine shield, preventing any damage from reacing her. Without missing a beat he absorbed the drop of blood smoothly.

Damon’s grin was hidden behind the golden light of his [Divine Shield], which shimmered protectively around both him and Lirae. Perfectly timed. Perfectly clean.

The clone had already melted into the ground. No trace. No alert.

Lirae didn’t even flinch, her focus locked onto the miniature sun now hovering over her hands, compressed and trembling with barely contained destruction.

But Blood Reign was purring inside Damon’s mind, nearly drunk with delight. "I am dizzy from just the scent of her blood. Sunfire blood! She has a great heritage. Sunfire blood! Let’s drink it all to the last drop!"

Damon ignored the blood thristy weapon spirit and continued his fight with the abomination. He no longer had to hold back so he unleashed his full power, quickly bringing down the abomination.

When its health dropped down to 50%, the abomination suddenly let out a horrifying shriek and a swirl of nether erupted out of it. The air around them became bleak and corrupted and the nether was contaminating everything.

The grass became ashen in an instant, shriveling and crumbling to dust. The stones under Damon’s feet cracked with black veins. Even the wooden barricades behind him began to rot and warp from the touch of the nether. Soldiers nearby gasped, stumbling back as the debuff notifications hit them.

Everyone’s stats instantly became halved by 50%.

Lirae could no longer hold her massive attack. She had no choice but to release it. The big ball of intense fire shuddered as her concentration wavered, then launched with a thunderous boom, tearing through the corrupted sky like a falling comet.

It wasn’t elegant anymore. It wasn’t precise.

It was pure, desperate annihilation.

The orb exploded into a massive wave of fire midair, raw, uncontrolled, and roaring with fury as it descended onto the undead abomination. Even with the corruption smothering the surroundings, the heat from the impact seared the battlefield, turning the very air to flame.

But the abomination survived.

Barely.

Its front half was charred, molten bones fused into grotesque armor, and its core flickered like a dying star, erratic, unstable, but still pulsing. It opened its mouth and screamed, a wail that made even the strongest of the soldiers drop to their knees.

[Status Effect: Fear Shock – Duration 10 seconds]

[Corruption Surge – All Healing Disabled]

Howling in rage, the abomination charged towards the outpost straight at Lirae, its hollow eyes fixed on her. The elven woman trembled in fear.

She had no strength left after using everything in the sunfire attack. Tears seeped down her eyes. It was clear that she was going to die now and there was no one coming to save her.

"Father... I am going to die... are you still angry with me? Will you still not look at me?"

The abomination raised its club ready to smash her into a meat pizza but the blow never landed. When Lirae opened her eyes to see, she saw the hulking abomination staggering and the club in its hand knocked out. freēwēbnovel.com

Damon swung his sword again landing attack after attack non-stop at the mini-boss. It was a grind but he swiftly whittled down the last of the undead’s health.

"You are not dying on my watch, princess." He chuckled. None of the nether debuffs affected him so he was happily able to continue slaughtering the abomination. Finally, after a last roar of defiance, the abomination collapsed backward with a sickening crunch, its corrupted mana core shattering into a mist of black and violet particles.

[Ding! You have killed the Level 70 Undead Abomination]

[Ding! You have gained experience points]

[Ding! Quest Updated: Elenthil Outpost Defense – Status: COMPLETE]

[Optional Objective Complete: Princess Lirae Survived]

While Damon was going through the notifications, Blood Reign quickly called out in his mind. "Blood God! Now! Act like you are weak and wounded. Maybe the elf will offer you some blood."