Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

After the initial shock of seeing an enemy with such a ”low” realm, release mana that had a fierce feeling, enough to make him, who has started using the ”Order” from his Lord which granted him a fundamental improvement, feel threatened.

That’s right, earlier when the scimitar returned to his hand by itself, it was a sign that the red-haired guy had obtained the ability to use Will Manipulation.

Amusingly enough, the reason as to why the snow eagle girl suddenly became fiercer, was because she thought the enemy had used that medal which she wanted to obtain for Daimon, meaning that her plan had failed.

Since it is a stablished fact that at Neptune or more accurately outside of the four galaxies, the vast majority of mages and knights seem to not have the knowledge about it, nor the capacity to use either Manifestation or Will Manipulation and that includes nethereals too.

So, Liliana thought Ethan had secretly used that medal to improve himself, it turned out to not be the case, that ”sigh” which Ethan thought was a sign of tiredness from Liliana, was a sigh of relief as she realized she was in the wrong.

Which by the way made the snow eagle girl feel her face burning behind her cute emotionless usual expression, as she knew Daimon surely noticed her little misunderstanding.

And she wasn’t wrong, high in the sky Daimon could barely contain the urge to laugh, luckily, he wore a mask so no others couldn’t see his face, though the princess of the Light Palace pouted knowing he was amused by the snow eagle girl’s performance.

’Mmm, so the Balax Lord calls ”Order” to the capacity of helping his subordinates obtain Will Manipulation without side effects, a buffing spell that works at lineage level, sounds like something good for Jasmine to learn’, thought Daimon, which made the youngest of the nethereal sister slightly blush, as if she could tell he was thinking about her.

However, the merry atmosphere was interrupted by the enemy queen, who seemed as if a lightning had struck her out of the blue.

”So that’s how those winged bitches were doing it, it wasn’t them, it was you!”, she exclaimed as she pointed at Daimon, which wasn’t surprising for him at all.

He has taken action before, both directly and indirectly, he would be unironically disappointed if the nethereal Lords didn’t realize that the Risha sisters had his mana circulating through their bodies.

Naturally, Daimon didn’t care enough to confirm the words of the enemy queen, but for her, the silence of the masked silver haired youth who has been a thorn in the side of the three Lords and acted as the king piece for the three queens at the same time, was enough of a confirmation.

But what if that was the case, from Daimon’s point of view, it’s not like them noticing it would make any difference, though Erika thought otherwise, considering she was sending a secret message to Ethan.

Back at the battlefield the red-haired guy who just listened to Erika’s explanation, about the mana that the white-silver haired girl had just released, snorted as he said.

”Well, that explains why you weren’t dying, from the very beginning you were using power lent by that masked bastard, so it was all smoke and mirrors, what a letdown”, contrary to what Ethan expected, his disdainful words not only didn’t make the snow eagle girl angry but even the corner of her pretty lips curved upwards.

Which naturally made the red-haired guy grit his teeth.

”Why are you smiling you ice block trash, do you think you can trick me, now that you had released that mana which was protecting you from my attacks, you are dead meat!”, he shouted.

To which the snow eagle girl actually answered for a change.

”Not defending anymore…”, she casually said as all the mana that was leaking out of her was finally absorbed into her body, which started producing white mist due to the drastic reduction in the temperature around her.

In other words, she declared that not only will she not defend against his attacks anymore, but she will take the initiative to go on the offensive now.

”Humph, I certainly admit that I was surprised by this state of yours, but if you think that taking the power from others, makes you my equal you are wrong”, with those words, the red-haired guy exploded in battle aura, creating a pillar of nether that reached the same height as the mana which was released by Liliana earlier.

It’s worth mentioning that battle aura, naturally has a lower propagation capacity than mana, since battle aura has solid properties regardless of element as it is meant to be used for a knight’s Battle Avatar later on, so the amount of battle aura released by Ethan was instead larger than the mana released by Liliana.

Seeing the snow eagle girl frown, Ethan smirked to himself.

’It’s too late for you to realize the difference in our power’, he thought to then say.

”Fire Special Corps, Vice-Captain!”, with a loud shout, the ethereal half-plate battle aura armor, covering the red-haired guy, fused with his skin, resulting in an orange ethereal pattern appearing all over his body.

Unlike the darkness affinity guy, he could easily enter this state which was the strongest one the members of the special operation squad could reach, so he didn’t need to use that strange medal to stall for time.

If only he knew that what made Liliana frown wasn’t the fact that he could enter this state without needing external assistance, but because she was in high alert in case, he was going to try and use that medal, which would mean she had to step in as fast as possible to prevent that from happening.

”Hsssss!”, the white cold mist released by Liliana was met with the heat wave produced by the orange pattern glowing on Ethan’s body and the clash of extremely different temperatures, resulted in a fierce explosion of steam.

Neither of them stood in ceremony and with a ”swoosh” their images blurred as they both charged frontwards.

”Clang!”, first of all, the ten rapiers, nine made out of ice and a real magic weapon one clashed against the battle aura cladded scimitar of the enemy, producing a loud sound of metal colliding against metal, which was then followed by the clash of their energies.

”Boooom!”, blue mana and dark orange battle aura exploded out of those two, pushing against each other in a try to overwhelm the other party, an encounter which lasted less than a second but it seemed to be years for the ones participating on it.

Surprisingly, the result was… a tie, both the snow eagle girl and the red-haired guy ended up being forced backwards a total of ten meters each, however it was much more meaningful for Ethan because not only he is a knight, but he has a way higher realm than the white-silver haired enemy.

With a loud battle cry, Ethan charged back at the snow eagle girl, swinging his scimitar as strong as he could, in this state a regular slash of his sword equaled the offensive power he previously produced when using a martial art, so he refused to believe they were tied in power.

”Booom!”, naturally, Liliana didn’t back away from the challenge and so the two of them turned into a pair of blue and dark orange streams that flashed all over the battlefield, only stopping for a fraction of a second to clash with each other, resulting in thunderous shockwaves and energy explosions that devastated the surrounding area where they clashed each time.

Seeing the confident and calm expression on Liliana’s pretty face, every time they clashed and not feeling her strength diminishing in the slightest, which went against the conclusion he had reached thanks to the information he received from Erika, Ethan saw red.

”Impossible, why the hell have you not turned into a pulp of bloody flesh already, Battleground Slash!”, without taking a breath after having finished clashing with Liliana a second ago, dark orange battle aura poured out of Ethan’s body, using a martial art while in this state, not only put a lot of strain in his body but also required more than three times the amount of battle aura it normally would, naturally the outcome was also way stronger than normal.

Even before the attack had reached the enemy, it produced an explosion as it surpassed the barrier of sound and the shockwave caused by it made the barrier which was pretty far from where they were clashing as of current, cracked for a second before it was instantly repaired by a certain familiar feeling nether.

But contrary to what he expected, the white-silver haired girl, let alone using a new spell that surpassed what she has used to far to match up to his attack, she didn’t even use the strongest spell she used to send him flying for the first time earlier.

”Ice Phoenix Sword, Triple”, with four simple words and only four out of the ten rapiers she wielded, Liliana made a swift turn to gain momentum and then slashed at the incoming attack.

”Hsssss!”, imagine Ethan’s expression when the fire that followed his battle aura stream, was extinguished as if it was nothing by the cold mana that accompanied the snow eagle girl’s slash.

”Crack!”, as for the solid part of his attack which was the core of battle aura at the center, it was destroyed into bits by the rapiers and a part of the impact still remained and landed on Ethan who was in shock after seeing the previous.

”Gah!”, the impact wasn’t strong enough to cause any wound, but it was heavy enough to send him backwards a few meters and leave a scratch on his armor infused skin, which made the red-haired guy lose it for a second.

He could understand Liliana suddenly gaining a higher attack power, since the mana that she exuded earlier honestly made him feel threatened, however what he couldn’t understand is how was she enduring the impact of clashing with him, when she was dedicating said mana to offense.

Not to mention that she not only used the same spells, but her ”basic” spell overwhelmed his martial art.

”Battleground, Flame Scimitar!”, flames coated the dark orange sword of the enemy, when he entered this pattern skinned state, all the martial arts that he had active, except the one that fused with his skin, were dispelled.

’Let’s see you block this’, he thought as he flashed at Liliana, to then shout when he was a second away from clashing with her.

”Battleground Slash!”, this time he combined two martial arts, one to empower his magic treasure and an attack type one, he refused to believe that the girl in front of him could take that on with just three of her rapiers like before and for a change he was right, however the result wasn’t going to be of his liking.

”Ice Phoenix Sword, Quintuple”, this time with six rapiers in total, there was no explosion, the blade of the scimitar was frozen upon contact extinguishing the flames that were covering it and then Ethan was directly sent flying by the remaining part of the impact.

”Aghhh!”, for the first time, the red-haired guy suffered, a though thin, large cut mark was left on his chest as he was smacked against a mountain about five hundred meters away from where he clashed with Liliana earlier.

That being said, the wound wasn’t deep enough to be anything serious, however when he got up with the word ”murder” written all over his face, he cleaned his mouth just to see that there was blood coming out of it, the impact had actually damaged his insides, and that was the drop that broke the camel’s back.

”How, how are you doing this, why am I the one bleeding due to the impacts damn it!!!”, he roared as he exploded in battle aura to then punch the mountain which was surrounding him, making it explode into debris.

Unfortunately, the only answer he got from the snow eagle girl who remained calm where she was standing was.

”Not reaching”, and while that simply angered Ethan even more, it was enough for Daimon to conclude how come a mage like Liliana was clashing against a knight and wasn’t suffering at all due to the physical impact, the answer is actually quite easy, her energy attacks were simply… too strong.

The enemy relied in high physical impact to inflict damage, but what if his attacks were pierced or slashed through by Liliana’s mana before they could reach the snow eagle girl, then she simply had to deal with a weakened impact with her innately strong body as well as her physically strong ice rapiers.

High into the sky, the enemy queen fiercely turned towards Daimon, she clearly blamed the fact that Ethan was losing on him and in part she is right, Daimon’s mana is universal, he has both physical, elemental and even mental damage, which is why the mana of the Risha sisters had mutated.

Leslie who previously excelled in elemental damage, developed fire that can burn through physical obstacles with ease, Ivonne’s darkness which was focused in mental damage, gained a corrosive property strong enough to destroy both mana and battle aura which she used to create her new techniques.

And last but not least, Liliana who focused the mana she obtained from Daimon into elemental damage.

’Calm down, the masked bastard is acting as a battery for her, unlike the ”Order” from the Lord, it has to have a limit, you just need to pressure her until she has no time to draw mana from that guy and that’s it’, directly said Erika to Ethan, helping him regain his cool.

”At the end of the say, she is just an imitation, the one she serves is inferior in front of the Lord!”, shouted Ethan to then slide his hand on the flat side of his sword.

”Battleground, Orange Blade…”, the loud voice of the red-haired guy deflated as he was taken aback by the fierce pair of eyes which glared at him from hundreds of meters away.

’Fear, are you kidding me, am I feeling afraid of her, nonsense!!!’, he swore on his heart as he rushed towards Liliana, just for his movement to slow down along the way without him noticing.

”Huh?”, though late, the red-haired guy felt his body stiff and looked downwards, just to see that there was ice growing on his legs, and waist, the source of it were light blue particles that came from the direction at which he was charging.

He only became able to see them once he had reached the vicinity of the snow eagle girl, because they were really too few of them, it was mana, similar to what happened when Leslie and Ivonne overloaded their wings with mana, which resulted in particles of it being released out of them, Liliana’s mana feathers were saturated with so much mana that some was leaking, but the quantity really small.

In other words, he wings could process more mana than those two’s which is normal, since Liliana was the strongest out of the three as of current and she was also the closest to the seventh star mage realm.

”Serve… inferior”, two words could be heard coming from the snow eagle girl which made Ethan reach to his waist were a round decoration was stuck to his belt, but he was flown upwards by a huge ascending current of ice mana which froze him whole the very moment it touched the corner of his clothes.

”Ice Phoenix Sword, Divine Ascent”, also for the first time during this fight, Liliana used five words!

It was for a good reason, that huge current of ice mana had not only froze everything within more than three hundred meters, which is an insane range for a spell used by let alone a sixth but even an early stage Lord rank, and that’s not all, the current of ice mana took the form of a beautifully designed giant bird, similar to the image produced by Leslie when she used ”Phoenix Wingfall” but this one was white and blue instead of orange.

”No!”, from outside of the battlefield, the enemy queen shouted as she proposed to jump into the battlefield, just to be blocked by a black sword which made her unconsciously step backwards, that fraction of a second was enough for Liliana who had soared into the sky to then flash and appear behind the enemy, perfectly aligning with the image of that white and blue ethereal bird.

”Ice Phoenix Sword, Demonic Descent”, amusingly, within that incredible scene, the most amazing part is that the snow eagle girl dedicated five words to an enemy, once again, the result however was different this time.

The giant bird made out of mana that floated behind of her after freezing and sending the enemy high into the sky, went from being made out of cold but ethereal mana to a solid ice state in a fraction of a second to then use its claws which moved alongside Liliana’s ice rapiers to rip the frozen enemy into pieces.

”Crack!”, the impact made the enemy explode into countless small crystals, but the solid ice phoenix didn’t diminish its charge due to the previous in the slightest, clashing against the ground a second later.

”Boooom!”, the ground exploded due to the impact, and debris flew in every direction, alongside a curtain of dust that covered more than a kilometer around the center of the explosion, even the barrier which was reinforced earlier had some cracks appear on it once again.

The dust dispersed in an unnatural way, to reveal the figure of a pretty girl with white-silver hair, standing in the center of a huge crater, she flew out of it to then show an object which she was holding with her now free, left hand, at the sky.

The snow eagle girl was all smiles as she showed the perfectly intact medal which was encased on ice, at Daimon’s direction.

At the same time, the enemy queen who had gotten over the initial sensation of dread that Disaster brought to her, due to seeing it for the first time, saw red, not only was her younger brother’s body smashed into countless pieces of ice, but the enemy took the liberty to even steal something before killing him, it was an unadulterated insult.

Unfortunately for her, the barrier detected her hostility and she was encased in invisible walls, that prevented her from jumping at the masked silver haired youth, now imagine her expression when a black portal appeared in front of the enemies.

A portal that the silver haired masked youth crossed to then appear at the battlefield, one meter away from the ice winged girl, whose eyes were sparkling as she offered the ice encased medal to him.

Naturally, Daimon didn’t just enter Liliana’s battlefield because he wanted the medal, the thing was trying to break out of the snow eagle girl’s ice, in the few seconds that passed since Ethan died, containing the medal had used more than half of her remaining mana.

And yet she didn’t say a thing, it was Daimon the one who noticed it and decided to jump in, otherwise she might have gritted her teeth and simply kept the thing under control with force.

But since Daimon went to her, then her she had no need to wait and directly handed the thing to him with a bright smile on her pretty face.

Daimon didn’t pay attention to the medal, he took it and put in his ”pocket” to secretly send it to the inventory, which made the thing completely stop resisting as any connection with the outside was instantly severed.

And now Daimon found himself, being intensely gazed at by the snow eagle girl, this lasted for a couple of seconds until Liliana had looked at him to the content of her heart, before she said something that let alone Daimon but even Ivy and Leslie didn’t expect.

”Reward… please~”, her usually emotionless voice gained a cute tone at the end of her ”sentence”, making Daimon be reminded that, the side effects of those three using their wings were back after whatever happened during their challenged.

”Sure, but later, okay?”, said Daimon to which the snow eagle girl nodded.

”Mm”, she was back to her cool and aloof self, for a good reason, Liliana closed her eyes and her body glowed in a blue tone for a split of a second, when she opened those beautiful bright blue eyes of hers once again, she… had broken through.

From the peak of the sixth star mage realm to the early stage of the seventh star, the previous fight gave her the experience she needed to advance to the later part of the star ranks.

Which made a certain Fire Crane girl, feel a bittersweet sensation flooding her heart, something that her Night Sparrow older sister who was standing next to her, didn’t fail to notice.

’This silly girl…’, thought Ivy as she placed her hand on her head.