Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

The image of a floating silver fortress manifested behind the assassin pawn, which made Daimon raise an eyebrow as that was the living image of the Flying Citadel, the legacy treasure of the Ivory family that the three nethereal sisters now owned.

Before, the image created by Jasmine’s Silver Citadel looked more like a small fortress, but now it had changed its manifestation and that wasn’t the only thing that changed.

[Mana and Stamina will be recovered by 50%]

”What!”, Erika couldn’t help but exclaim at the effect of the light princess’s recovery spell, and that wasn’t the end of the surprise, despite said spell not directly healing the target, all the cracks that had appeared on the assassin pawn were instantly repaired.

Just in time for the assassin pawn to dodge the charge of the horned horse pawn by the skin of its teeth, to then flash away, after having recovered half of the mana that was stored inside of it, it was basically as good as new and it costed Jasmine way less mana than activating a completely new assassin pawn so all in all, it was a win-win situation for the light princess.

And as if to rub salt on the wound, only now did the effect of ”Silver Wings” was explained for everyone to hear.

[Aerial movement speed and maneuverability will be quadrupled for the five seconds]

Sure, compared to the other buffing spells Jasmine had used, this one had quite short time limit instead of it being limited to ”once”, but that’s because flying is not something that should be within the territory of the Lord ranks.

Also, even if short timed, the effect was enough to practically grant the ability to fly of an early-stage Arch rank to someone when it was combined with the ”Heavenly Wings” spell, and let alone five but even one second of it, was a huge advantage in a fight at Lord rank level.

In fact, as a sign of how unique her spell was, the explanation took quite a bit of time to be given, which normally only happens when a spell is casted fast enough to overwhelm the explanation rule, and that should already be rare enough, though Erika and Jasmine had done it plenty of times during the fight.

However, there is an even rarer instance of the explanation rule taking too long to be activated, and that is when it has to go through all the records stored in it and yet it doesn’t find any similarity with the spell it has to explain.

’She has a unique spell, so what, that flying swordsman bastard is done for!’, inwardly swore the enemy queen as she saw the dark orange battle aura arrow reach its target.

”Light Dagger!”, but then contrary to what Erika expected, the assassin pawn which had escaped from the horned horse pawn, but that wasn’t the important part, but the fact that the winged priest pawn grabbed the assassin and then threw it upwards.

”Boom!”, the assassin pawn’s dagger exploded in white mana as it sliced the dark orange arrow, destroying it on the spot, after all it was an attack and the assassin pawn has a higher attack power than the archer pawn, though it is usually limited y its short range which is compensated by its high speed.

”All you three, retreat”, with a calm and composed voice, Jasmine gave her order and the winged swordsman pan caught the assassin pawn before it started falling from the sky before the three of them left the vicinity of Erika’s side of the battlefield.

So, to resume, Erika ended up teaching Jasmine the modification and multicasting dynamics, completely lost her outermost barrier, had the third one damaged beyond help and she couldn’t take out the assassin pawn either, in other words she was defeated in all the fronts.

And what’s worse is that the enemy even took the liberty to ignore her and was now intensely staring at the masked silver haired youth, instead.

”It took a while but I managed to improve my proficiency in Silver Citadel”, mumbled the light princess who was now looking at Daimon with an expecting glow in those pretty blue eyes of hers, which made latter chuckle as he placed his hand on top Jasmine’s head, patting her a couple of times.

”It was a nice progress”, he said to which Jasmine cutely giggled.

”Mm~”.

She reached the maximum possible recovery for the Silver Citadel spell within the Lord rank, while only being at the early stage, quite the feat considering that even Aurora back when she was Jasmine’s age only did so when she was about to advance to the peak Lord rank.

The previous scene caused two different reactions, first some envy on a certain fire crane princess, since she received her head pat from Liliana instead of Daimon directly, but then she was reminded of the fact that she had a ”reward ticket” for later.

And the other reaction wasn’t on the cute side, as it came from the enemy queen who basically saw red at the sight of her opponent ignoring her while her pawns hadn’t even gotten back to the safety of a barrier while she instead demanded the attention of the basked youth.

’This bitch, does she think I can’t do anything to those flying pawns even if they aren’t being protected by a barrier!’, inwardly swore the enemy queen.

On the other hand, she noticed the slight signs of tiredness flashing through the light princess’s pretty face earlier, she has used quite a bunch of strong buffing spells with amazing effects but they came with a price after al.

’Fine, keep on using high-cost spells, while having only activated four out of your seven pawns, let’s see where does that take you to’, thought Erika as she exploded in dark orange battle aura to then point her hand at her last blank golem.

”Orange Regeneration Banner!”, the image of a burning orange flag manifested behind the enemy queen to then fly and enter the last remaining blank golem she had.

The result was the previously gray statue gaining an orange tone and changing its vague genderless body to a female shape which had a familiar looking attire carved into it, familiar as in it was similar to the sister-like attire wore by Jasmine’s priest pawn.

With the difference that Erika’s priest had some light armor added, however its purpose was similar as the explanation of her previous martial art was given.

[Middle grade wounds will be healed for the next sixty seconds]

That was arguably Erika’s best healing martial art, she is not a healer after all, though the same applies to Jasmine.

Speaking of the light princess, having her head pat time interrupted, made Jasmine softly snort, the enemy queen now had all her pawns active at the same time, which meant that her final assault will be coming next.

’She must have completely left aside the idea of defending her barriers, which means that…’, thought Jasmine as she saw Erika’s fierce expression.

And she was right, after being outwitted by Jasmine time after time, the enemy queen was reminded of a simple truth, he wasn’t fighting a combatant but a support type mage and so her attack power is nowhere near that of hers.

Sure, she had amazing buffing spells but since she is not a fighter, she can’t take advantage of any of the ones that would be really dangerous, like that light mana sword one for example.

In other words, Erika decided to directly charge at Jasmine without caring of she did the same, as she was sure that she could deal with the attacks of the pawns by herself but the enemy will have to resort to use the pawns to protect herself and there is no way to sort that out, unless she received help from the masked guy who is clearly a combatant.

”Archer, spearman and priest, follow the general to the battlefield”, said Erika which made the archer, spearman and the priest pawns to rush towards the general to then jump on the back of the horned horse, which for a second seemed to be about to run wild over the fact that others besides the general were mounting it, but was suppressed by the general releasing some battle aura.

”Cube Rock Shield”, while the horned horse used its superior movement speed to get back to where the tank had retreated in order to cover the two warrior pawns from the continuous cover fire being released by the Jasmine’s ranger pawn, Erika casted a new weapon enhancing martial art on the tank pawn.

The previous frontal wall-like earth battle aura shield being wielded by the pawn, grew another four faces, basically transforming into a giant battle aura box, quite the strange form, at least until the general pawn and company reached it, only for one of the sides of the earth battle aura box.

The spearman pawn, the archer and last but not least the priest pawn, went into the giant cube shield, which then started moving frontwards at a slow but gradually increasing speed.

In the meantime, the general pawn and the two warrior pawns hid behind the towering earth cube, which protected them from the suppressive fire of the ranger pawn, since the light mana arrows being shot by it simply bounced away when they impacted the enemy.

”Battleground Siege Charge!”, through the tank pawn which was inside of the rock cube, Erika casted a martial art, making the target which was the tank pawn itself, accelerate on the spot.

The result was the giant rock cube turning into a projectile and quite a heavy one at that, which made Jasmine frown, through her own priest pawn which had retreated into the safety of the second barrier, she casted her own buffing spell on the ranger.

”Silver Arrow”.

[The next long-range attack will have its effect quadrupled]

The ranger pawn pointed its light mana crossbow at the rock cube which was coming at them and then, Jasmine used an attack spell thorough it.

”Light Piercing Bolt!”, though the ranger used a crossbow that didn’t mean it couldn’t use single target high impact attacks, it’s just that it would be much more effective if it used a bow, however the distance between the target and itself was quite short as it was charging towards the third barrier where the ranger pawn was stationed, so there shouldn’t be any problem.

Light mana condensed in front of the crossbow to then turn into a white giant bolt that was then shot towards the rock giant cube.

”Boooom!”, the moment the white bolt impacted the rock cube, sparks flew all over the place and the charge of the rock cube was actually stopped… for around a second, but then the explanation of the martial art previously used by Erika, came, which meant that it wasn’t a simple movement martial art, but a composed one including a buff, as only those were explained by the rules of this place.

[High defense allies will have their instant speed tripled and long-range attacks will be nullified for twenty seconds]

With a smirk, Erika laughed out loud, she finally got one over the light princess, since she defended with the ranger pawn, instead of using the winged ones or even the assassin, which meant that her attack was futile.

As a sign of the previous, the white bolt ultimately couldn’t pierce through the rock cube and exploded into wisps of light mana that were then forcefully dispelled by the rock cube continuing its charge frontwards.

Seeing the very small distance between the border of her third barrier and the incoming rock cube, Jasmine directly said.

”Return”, the ranger pawn retreated from the spot it had properly defended during the fight until this point, barely getting away in time before the rock cube reached the barrier.

”Crack!”, a loud shattering sound followed by Jasmine’s third barrier crumbling apart on the spot was the result of the clash and the siege charge didn’t stop until it had advanced halfway towards Jasmine’s second barrier.

Also, the general pawn and the two warrior pawns arrived at the vicinity of the rock cube, before the ranger pawn had the chance to fire its crossbow at them, so they had completely invaded Jasmine’s territory at this point.

”What do you think of my ”Battering Ram” formation, amazing right”, mockingly said the enemy queen as she injected battle aura onto the rock cube, making a couple of openings to appear.

The spearman and the archer pawns peeked from said openings, while the tank started slowly advancing towards Jasmine’s second barrier, of course Jasmine’s ranger pawn had gotten in position to defend again and so a few light arrows were shot at the openings in the rock cube.

”Clang!”, but the result was a burning dark orange wall of battle aura appearing in front of the ”battering ram”, stopping the light mana arrows before they could reach it.

”Orange Protection”, said the enemy queen who casted a defensive martial art through the priest pawn which was perfectly hidden inside the rock cube.

At this point, Erika’s strategy was obvious, she was going to use the priest to reinforce the tank and support the archer and the spearman, while being under the protection of the rock cube, in order to directly grind through Jasmine’s second barrier, this way she won’t have to worry about the light princess’s pawns while she works her way through it.

On the other hand, she still has four pawns at her disposition to block Jasmine’s ones from interfering too much, basically she was inviting or more accurately daring Jasmine to go and attack her barriers, specially because the third one was a breeze away from crumbling apart.

’Come on, send them this way so I can destroy them with my own attacks!’, thought the enemy queen, after all she is a combatant and the closer Jasmine’s pawns get to her, the better.

Naturally the light princess didn’t sit still to wait for the battering ram to reach her second barrier without doing anything besides having the ranger pawn shot its crossbow at them, her staff and her right hand lit up in light mana as she casted two different spells.

”Silver Spear!”, from her right hand a stream of light mana was shot into one of her remaining three blank golems, changing its previously gray tone and genderless shape into that of a tall male with a balanced figure.

[The next piercing attack will have its effect quadrupled]

”Light Spear!”, following right away, a white light spear manifested in front of the newly created pawn for it to use, the result was obvious, it was a spearman pawn.

However, things didn’t end there, for starters, the light wings on the back of the priest pawn diminished their size making it descend from the sky and then the priest pawn raised its hand, as Jasmine casted another couple of spells through it this time.

”Silver Hammer!”, a white ray of mana was shot from the priest into one of the now two remaining blank golems.

This time the previously blank golem gained a quite tall and bulky but not exaggerated appearance, amusingly enough it was Michael’s time to mock Calvin since the resulting pawn looked quite similar to him, though the Grish young master has yet to use his magic weapon in a proper fight so far.

[The next blunt attack will have its effect quadrupled]

The effect of the buffing spell was explained before the second spell casted through the priest pawn was activated.

”Light Hammer!”, a second later, a light Warhammer for the heavy warrior pawn to use, manifested in front of it.

”Heh, so no more winged priest, are you perhaps reaching the limits of your mana reserves, I felt surprised when the Lord told me that unlike those two bitches, you don’t have a second affinity”, mockingly said the enemy queen after she saw Jasmine dispelling the wings on the priest pawn before she activated the new ones.

Naturally she was proud of her dual affinity and the fact that she is a knight, which will play a major role later on, but for the time being also meant she had double the amount of energy reserves when compared to Jasmine giving her an easier time since she didn’t have to keep a strict control over the martial arts she used.

Seeing the light princess’s gaze turn fierce, the enemy queen snorted at her.

”What’s up with that gaze, the Lord complimented those two recognizing them as ”annoying” so they should feel honored, especially the purple haired crazy one”, she said, referring to Sarah.

”Everyone but the ranger, go”, calmly ordered the light princess, which made Erika smirk to her insides.

”Battering ram destroy her second barrier, general and warriors go meet those pieces of trash!”, ordered Erika in response.

Following their instructions the battering ram slowly started moving towards Jasmine’s second barrier while the ranger shot round after round of light arrows at it, to slow its advance.

The heavy warrior pawn and the spear pawn also charged at the battering ram, since they were created by Jasmine for that purpose, however the archer inside of the battering ram intercepted them with its own arrows, while the spearman waited in case the assassin tried to ambush them, by taking advantage of its varying effective range and that’s why there were openings ready to be used in all the directions of the battering ram.

And that wasn’t all, the general pawn ordered its armored horned horse to charge at the heavy warrior pawn while the warrior pawns which were using rock tridents charged at the spearman pawn from Jasmine’s side.

All this while the priest pawn remained close to the second barrier just in case it needed to retreat in order to protect itself and the winged swordsman was still floating in the sky, waiting for a chance to make a difference to appear.

’Tsk, she didn’t send that winged swordsman bastard and even left her last blank golem alone in order to have the flying one still available, I have to force her to either make that one move or lose the capacity to fly’, thought Erika as she exploded in dark brown battle aura, while the priest inside the battering ram did the same but in orange one instead.

”Heavy Rock Halberd!”.

”Flaming Explosive Halberd!”.

With two different martial arts but the same voice calling them out, Erika used the last of the dynamics she knew off and one that particularly favored knights like her, as the frown that appeared on Reyne’s pretty face suggested.

”She used battle aura of different elements to cast two different martial arts at the same time with such ease…”, mumbled the blond haired Nelapsi girl.

Knight’s don’t have the precise energy manipulation property that mages have and so complex processes like multicasting, dual casting and in the rare case of having dual life sparks, using both of their battle auras at the same time, are harder to accomplish.

For example, Reyne herself couldn’t use her blood battle aura and her fire battle aura at the same, until not too long ago, though that might be because she didn’t try to develop her blood affinity due to the situation back at Kerrol.

Anyway, the point is that using two different battle auras and also using two different energies at the same time like Erika did, is not something easy to accomplish, with the exception of Sarah who was able to do it from the very beginning… but the crazy girl’s talent for nether is out of the charts even for the three nethereal sister’s standards, due to her own circumstances.

”She is not like me and is using a way to sort out most of the obstacles, but, talent is also required for that”, said the crazy girl after listening to her younger sister’s words.

”In any case, there is no way Jas will lose to her, unless we are talking about someone that can kill me with a single attack and as little Cassy can confirm, that’s easier said than done~”, she jokingly added.