Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

Feeling Reyne’s dubitative gaze on her, Cassy sighed to then say.

”Could you not say things that are open to misinterpretation for a change?”, only for the crazy girl to giggle in response.

”I took it as an expression of ”sisterly” love, so don’t worry I have no resentment for all those ”Go die you evil woman” shouts, accompanied by swings of that green jade sword of yours~”, said Sarah to then change her focus to Jasmine.

Back to the fight, the two different martial arts casted by Erika actually had the same target, which was the general pawn, in other words it received a halberd for each hand, the rock one on the right and the flame one on the left.

All this while the horned horse pawn accelerated to reach the vicinity of the heavy warrior pawn, allowing the general pawn to slash with the flame halberd at it, while stabbing with the rock one.

In response, the light hammer of the heavy warrior pawn glowed in a bright white light as it swung it, the target wasn’t the general pawn but the horned horse one instead.

”Light Shockwave”, Jasmine used a spell to help the heavy warrior pawn, so that the light hammer actually didn’t need to reach the horned horse to attack it, otherwise the halberds of the general would have reached it first, due to their though by a small margin, still longer reach.

”Booom!”, the light hammer impacted the air in front of the horned horse to then explode producing a shockwave accompanied by an explosion of light mana.

”Tsk, Battle Cry!”, realizing that the light princess’s attack was going to reach its target before the halberds reached theirs, the enemy queen clicked her tongue and answered in kind by using a martial art as well.

”Roaaaar!”, it was done through the horned horse pawn and it resulted in it roaring, producing its own shockwave and a battle aura explosion.

”Booom!”, both attacks met head on and cancelled each other, the clash of energies also forced both pawns to retreat, though the horned horse and the general only went back a few meters while the heavy warrior pawn did so for a couple of dozens, the result was beneficial for Jasmine since her pawn gained distance from the enemy’s one.

Seeing the slight smile on the light princess’s face, Erika gritted her teeth as she snorted to her insides.

’Keep smiling while using spells for everything, you’ll regret using so much of your energy reserves later on’, she thought to then look at her two warrior pawns who had arrived in front of the spearman pawn from Jasmine’s side.

Their confrontation was going to be a bit more complicated since both sides have middle range weapons, though the spearman should have the advantage as it was created with that purpose while the warrior pawns were on the generic close combat side.

On the other hand, it was a 2v1 situation similar to what happened with the heavy warrior pawn and the general pawn which was accompanied by the horned horse pawn, so Erika was ready to counter whatever spell Jasmine might use through the spearman pawn with a martial art of her own.

Unfortunately, the light princess wasn’t so predictable, with a little smile on that pretty face of hers, Jasmine allowed her spearman pawn to clash with the two warrior pawns.

”Clang!”, the light spear of the spearman pawn collided with the earth tridents of the warrior pawns, producing a metallic sound, Jasmine’s light mana naturally wasn’t as solid as Erika’s earth battle aura, however the spearman pawn was innately more skilled when it came to using middle range weapons.

As if it was imitating the way Jasmine sometimes rolled her staff, the spearman pawn skillfully rolled his spear, throwing one of the warrior pawns out of balance to then… grab the earth trident with its free hand and take it away from the warrior pawn.

”Humph, if your plan to save up mana is making your pawns steal the weapons of my pawns, then you are stupider than what I thought”, said the enemy queen as she snorted to then snap her fingers.

”Crack”, almost instantly, the earth trident which was taken away by Jasmine’s spearman pawn cracked, but judging by the smirk on the light princess’s face she wasn’t disappointed by it.

And the reason was explained the next second when the spearman pawn threw the earth trident which was about to break down towards the warrior pawn which still had its weapon and was charging at the spearman pawn, to then thrust its light spear at it.

”Booom!”, the light spear reached the damaged earth trident and instantly shattered it, making it explode in countless pieces of debris which turned into a curtain of dust, blocking the view of both Erika and the warrior pawn.

Resulting in said warrior pawn not being able to dodge the light spear which changed its trajectory, to then pierce the left shoulder of the warrior pawn, blasting its whole left arm away in a single go.

”Damn it, you grab the trident and you go to receive treatment!”, instantly ordered Erika, making the warrior pawn that earlier lost its weapon take the one from the warrior pawn that lost an arm, while the latter rushed towards the battering ram where Erika’s priest pawn was hidden.

’She baited me into believing she wasn’t aware that weapons can’t be or more accurately shouldn’t be stolen, since the one who created them can simply dispel them if they fall on the enemy’s hands, damn it!’, inwardly cursed the enemy queen.

That’s right, the light princess took advantage of her lack of experience to set a trap for Erika and the enemy queen completely fell for it, and now one of her warrior pawns had been damaged and she herself dispelled one of the tridents when there was no need for it.

”Whatever, Light Rock Trident!”, through the remaining warrior pawn, Erika created another trident and gave it to that same warrior, so now it was wielding two at the same time.

”So now you want to make me waste my battle aura, bad news I could cast all the martial arts I have used so far a second time and I will still have enough battle aura to beat you up, so stop dreaming about wearing me down!”, shouted the enemy queen, to which Jasmine shrugged.

”Perhaps, but no matter how much battle aura you have left, it’s useless if you have no subordinates on whom to use it”.

Jasmine’s words gave Erika a bad premonition which became true when midway through its charge towards the battering ram to receive treatment, the damaged warrior pawn suddenly stopped in cold.

”What the hell are you doing, stop wasting time and…”, Erika’s words stuck in her throat when light particles sparkled nearby the warrior pawn, as the assassin pawn’s camouflage expired now that it had used an attack, an attack with which it pierced its light dagger on the back of the head of the warrior pawn.

”Crack!”, the dagger wasn’t long enough to come out of the other side of the warrior pawn’s head, since it had a bulky body built, second only to the tank and the general pawns, but it still did the trick, causing the damaged warrior pawn to crack on the spot, before it was beheaded by the assassin pawn.

And with that, the light princess had claimed a second victim, so that they now had both only seven pawns each, however she only was using six of them while the enemy queen had activated them all, in other words, the scale of victory had tilted slightly towards her.

Sure, Erika had one barrier more than her, but that barrier was one breeze away from being destroyed, if anything, the battering ram despite the suppressive fire of the ranger pawn and the constant harassment of the heavy warrior pawn which seemed to be imitating Calvin’s annoying personality, by attacking to then run away in a hurry in order to avoid the general pawn’s attacks, had advanced more than three quarter parts into the light princess’s second barrier’s territory.

And as if to rub salt on Erika’s wound, Jasmine even said out loud.

”Light Camouflage”, the assassin pawn faded away from plain sight like earlier, of course without a spell to buff stealth, the light camouflage couldn’t trick the horned horse pawn, the problem is that the range of detection of the latter was limited and Jasmine earlier had calculated it by using the assassin pawn’s failed ”assassination try” on the general pawn.

In other words, the light princess used the information she got from her failure to take down the warrior pawn, by using her spearman pawn to take the warriors to a distance where the horse pawn couldn’t detect it, all this under Erika’s nose.

’Not bad, that was more akin to a commander’s tactical thinking than to something Sarah would do… though she still seems to have been influenced by that crazy girl’, thought Daimon, had Sarah been less chaotic and unpredictable she would have been one hell of a tactician, but the crazy girl couldn’t be bothered with such things, she loves crushing her enemies head on and her lineage, innate abilities and insane battle prowess makes it so that she was basically born for it.

Of course, she finds amusing to play tricks on both enemies and allies with that cunning mind of hers, but it’s not really her main focus.

Jasmine on the other hand, has a much calmer and clearer mind, she simply was too inexperienced but even back then when Adam abandoned her to die, instead of resigning or breaking down, she didn’t panic and chose the best route to try and find a chance for survival.

After all, even if those guys captured her, they wouldn’t have been able to destroy the barrier in which she had taken refuge, so they would have had needed to take it away and such a bright and large light mana construction will for sure caught the eye of the others.

She even took into account the fact that most of her ”allies” wouldn’t even try to help her, after all she had just been betrayed by the one that was supposed to protect her with his life on the line, so she instead counted with the fact that the ones that wanted to capture her weren’t just one single group, so that if she drew other people’s attention, the other group will come to fight them and then she could have taken advantage of the chaos to look for a way to escape.

Of course that was just one of the two possibilities, she expected, the other being that she will just be taken back by the Skelefiends resulting in she having to resort to take her own life, in order to avoid a fate worse than death, but ultimately none of the previous happened, because Daimon got in the way of both the Skelefiends and Adam’s plans.

Anyway, the point is that even back then, Jasmine had already shown to have the qualities of a commander with her quick and smart decision taking skills, and now that aspect of hers seemed to have started to properly flourish, giving the youngest of the three nethereal sisters a slight domineering charm.

Though, the only thing that Daimon perceived from her were those cute expecting eyes of hers, as she had the words ”Praise me” written all over her face, especially because she could tell Daimon was impressed with her previous tactic, but she didn’t get distracted and instead continued with her fight.

With a roll of her staff, she casted a ”familiar” spell on the winged swordsman pawn, familiar as in Erika will probably never forget about it.

”Silver Wings!”, the winged swordman pawn received the buffing spell, making the light wings on its back to gain a silver glow, before it turned into a white blur that flashed through the sky, almost instantly reaching the vicinity of Erika’s third barrier, her purpose was clear, Jasmine wanted to destroy the barrier.

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

’Humph, that’s what I have been waiting for!’, inwardly screamed the enemy queen as she listened to the explanation of Jasmine’s buffing spell, to then use a martial art of her own, this time however she didn’t cast it through her pawns, but directly through herself.

For a couple of reasons, first and formal, all her pawns had charged deep into Jasmine’s side of the battlefield so they wouldn’t reach the winged swordsman pawn in time, except perhaps the general pawn, but she had tried that before and it didn’t work, because the winged pawn soared back into the sky.

And the second reason being that her attack type martial arts naturally could excel more power when being casted by herself, after all the pawns were limited to the early Lord rank, but Erika was a middle stage one and unlike the pawns, the battle prowess of the queens wasn’t affected by the game.

That and because, her standing was high into the sky, since the battlefield for the game was below the area where the queens were floating, so she had a better view of the winged pawn.

”Crack!”, the very moment the slashing light shot by the light mana sword of the winged pawn destroyed Erika’s third barrier and even reached the second barrier, only to be stopped by it, leaving only a few shallow cutting marks, the enemy queen who had gathered dark orange battle aura on her right hand and dark brown battle aura on the left one, fiercely shouted.

”Battleground Blazing Meteor Rain!”, Erika continuously punched upwards, shooting battle aura attacks of both earth and fire battle aura at the winged pawn which had already retreated into the sky after fulfilling its orders.

The rain of battle aura attacks still reached the winged swordsman forcing it to dodge some and use the light mana sword on its right hand to cut and block others, before it was swallowed by the insane number of attacks shot by Erika.

”Booom!”, a bright white light illuminated the sky, making the enemy queen laugh, at least for a second before she saw the battered figure of the winged swordsman which managed to emerge out of the previous explosion, which Erika thought was caused by Jasmine’s pawn being destroyed.

”Tsk, oh well at least that annoying freaking sword is gone and there is no way she has enough mana to cast it a second time and still have the mana to activate her last pawn and continue fighting with the others”, said the enemy queen as she saw the damaged winged swordsman retreat back into the safety of Jasmine’s second barrier.

She was right, that explosion was caused by Jasmine ordering the light sword to detonate itself in order to save the winged pawn, the quantity of mana she had condensed into the Heavenly Sword, was so big that even after the winged swordsman had used it to slash down two of Erika’s barrier and leave some marks on a third one, it still had enough juice to completely nullify what was probably Erika’s strongest wide area long distance martial art, by self-destroying itself.

”Sorry…”, mumbled the light princess with a downcast voice, as if she was apologizing to Daimon for using the spell she created for him and with which she was representing him in the battlefield, that way, to which Daimon chuckled as he patted her head.

”Show her what a true commander is like”, he said, making the light princess’s eyes burn in a fierce white light.

”Mm”, with a soft nod, Jasmine glared at Erika who snorted in response, her third barrier had fallen and certainly she was unable to finish off the winged swordsman, which was the biggest risk factor in the battlefield for her, however during the previous exchange, her battering ram had reached the second barrier of the enemy.

One had to give it to Erika, neither she nor Jasmine had managed to really gain a notorious advantage over the other.

”Explosive Thrust!”.

”Devastating Arrow!”.

Once again, Erika used battle aura of both of earth and fire elements at the same time, but it was through two of her pawns this time, the archer pawn and the spearman pawn that were hidden inside the battering ram to be more accurate.

”Booom!”, being used basically at point blank, even the battering ram was partially engulfed by the energy explosion caused by the spear’s thrust and the arrow shot by the archer pawn, which actually also worked on Erika’s favor since the heavy warrior pawn which was charging at the battering ram to continue with its harassing tactics, had to change directions in order to not be dragged into the explosion.

Once said explosion ended, the sight of the battering ram having suffered some noticeable damage due to the attacks used by the spearman and archer pawns, was revealed, however marks on par with the ones left by the winged swordsman on Erika’s second barrier, had appeared on Jasmine’s one this time.

”Brown Restoration Banner!”, through the priest pawn inside the battering ram, Erika casted a new martial art, one whose effect was immediately shown… by repairing all the damage that the battering ram had suffered earlier.

This was Erika’s highest success strategy, once the battering ram had reached the second barrier, she simply used the spearman and archers to use their strongest single target attacks alongside her martial arts, resulting in an explosion at point blank, one that worked to both grind away at the enemy’s second barrier at a quick ratio and to keep away the enemy’s pawns which tried to interrupt the process.

Lastly, the priest pawn was in charge of sustain, so that the battering ram wouldn’t be destroyed until it fulfilled its purpose, of course she needed a total of four pawns for it, but that was within her calculations.

What wasn’t within her expectations is that Jasmine would have managed to get rid two of her pawns before her second barrier had been destroyed, leaving her with only three available at the time, which did affect her plan, resulting in she taking the ”hard” decision of separating her general pawn from the horned horse pawn.

”Forcing me to make my noble general separate from its mount, you’ll pay for this”, poisonously said Erika.

Just like for Jasmine the Heavenly Sword spell represented Daimon in her battlefield, for Erika the combination of the general pawn and the horned horse pawn, represented her Lord’s participation in her battlefield.

Of course, none of the previous was actually the participation of neither of the mentioned kings, but that’s how those two perceived it, it was a source of motivation for them, and losing it did affect the ”morale” of their respective armies.

”Humph!”, the light princess limited to snort as she ordered her ranger pawn to distance itself from the border of her second barrier and retreat to her last barrier, to then support the heavy warrior pawn and the spearman pawn from Jasmine’s side, since Erika now had three pawns in the open, having separated the horned horse from the general and making the dual wielding warrior pawn join them.

Her next move was as Erika expected, dispelling the light wings on the back of the winged swordsman, to let it rest next the ranger pawn, in order to activate her last blank golem.

”Silver Shackles”, with a gesture, a white light left Jasmine’s mana, turning into chains that entered her last blank golem, changing its previously generic form into that of a short but athletic male shaped one.

The newly activated pawn had a wolf hide covering it, carved into its body, so that the head of the wolf hid the upper half of its face, it was a hunter type pawn, Jasmine’s purpose was clear, she was aiming to destroy the horned horse.

And the reason was simple, just like Erika hated her ”Heavenly Sword” spell, she hated the ”Armored Ride” one used by Erika, since both were used to represent their respective kings, the difference being that Erika had forced Jasmine to dispel hers, so now it was time for the light princess to seek revenge for it.

”Go”, with a single word, the hunter pawn rushed towards the battlefield.