Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

Thinking that perhaps the activation of his martial art failed, a single dark pink gem embedded on the back of the helmet that the captain was using, glowed and once again battle aura was radiated from the eyes of the battle avatar, making its bloodshot eyes shine in a sinister dark pink light.

”Battleground Mind Crush!”, this time the accumulated battle aura was higher and so the effect of the martial art used, became visible, an ethereal ominous looking dark pink chains manifested around Daimon, making the captain smirk, as it seemed like things went his way this time.

”Crack!”, however the very moment a slight tinge of happiness was born in the mind of the captain, the chains that were about to entangle around Daimon’s head were instantly destroyed by a white-transparent sword that looked like an exact copy of the one being wielded by the masked silver haired youth.

But that wasn’t all, the captain saw that ghost-like sword suddenly flash away and the next thing he knew is that a burning pain was assaulting his head.

”Aghhhh!”, the source of the pain the captain was feeling was that the ethereal sword slashed the eyes of his battle avatar, and somehow it affected him too!

Which shouldn’t be the case, a battle avatar is an agglomeration of battle aura, certainly if completely destroyed it would affect its owner, similar to what happens to a domain, however damage below its destruction wouldn’t reflect on the owner, as far as the captain knows.

And he is right, the burning pain he was feeling on his eyes wasn’t caused by the shallow cutting wound on the eyes of his battle avatar, it was caused by the object that caused the wound.

Daimon who was as surprised by what happened as the captain, was brought back to the real world by the unmistakable sound of a notification ringing in his mind.

[Ding]

[An innate talent has evolved due to a Soulmate’s specific action]

[Blessing of light à Authority of Light (Incomplete) (Passive): Both the wielder and the owner of the grimoire will be immune to harmful negative effects caused by negative oriented elements, additionally any try to do so will trigger a counter attack according to the negated one, damage dealt by Gram is doubled when fighting against negative oriented affinity enemies (Only usable in Gram’s form)]

Daimon couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow, normally the Infinity Eyes or his Overlord’s Pride are enough to deal with mind attacks, in fact this is the first time he has seen the effect of ”Blessing of Light” come into play, because for it to be activated Narasha needs to be in Gram’s form and mind related techniques are really rare.

’I guess that explains the light sword mark on my forehead, however how did you triggered a change on an innate talent Nasha?’, asked Daimon to the sword girl whose mood was a bright as the light that was cladding Gram.

’I don’t know, I simply wanted to help more than ever and when that disgusting thing tried to harm Daimon, everything went ”Bang”, in my mind, then I felt stronger than before, not to mention that I instinctively knew how to use this new ability to cut down those chains~’, happily said Narasha.

The martial art used by the captain was casted using the nether of the Asmadian Lord, its objective was to restrain the mind and body of the target, and its original purpose is not hard to imagine considering that his nether is lust based.

However the captain used it to create a temporary gap on the defense of an enemy to land a heavy attack, it’s a tactic that hasn’t failed him before, even if some troublesome opponents resisted the restriction, reducing it to a fraction of a second, that was enough to gain the upper hand.

But this time not only did it fail, but he was the one that suffered instead, and it’s for a good reason, the spells that came with the grimoires are supposed to evolve to adapt to the Soulmates requirements and preferences, hence why they started at ”Lv1”.

The innate talents granted by the grimoires on the other hand don’t have that option and they should only improve when the Soulmates obtain the second tome of their respective grimoires, this has remained unchanged in all the girls, until now.

’Hey Eve, do you know anything about this?’, asked Daimon to which the administrator girl could only say.

’Sorry, restrictions, it was a decent improvement change considering it’s incomplete, with some luck who knows it might lead to an interesting development’, said Eve, making Daimon’s eyes glow for a second, as always, she deviated from the restrictions to give him a hint.

’Incomplete… the only other skill or talent that had the term ”Incomplete” in its description is my Mythical Regeneration which I obtained after stealing half the existence of that Siren, so is there another Gram out there?’, he concluded.

Whatever the case might be, the fact is that the sword girl achieved something that none of the other Soulmates has been able to, and she deserved to be praised about it, but it will have to wait for later, because the captain who recovered by channeling dark pink battle aura into his eyes, roared.

”What the hell did you do to me you fucking bastard!”, he couldn’t feel the connection between the eyes of his battle avatar and himself, and since the mana circuits he used to cast those mind attack martial arts were on the eyes, then… he had lost the ability to use them.

”Why the surprise, you are barely imitating the techniques used by someone else, but your affinity with mind affecting techniques is trash, isn’t that why there is only one gem on that helmet unlike your sword which has three of them”, casually said Daimon, making the captain grit his teeth.

Naturally, since the capacity to use the nether of the three Lords was artificially implanted into the captain, his affinity with them differed, when it came to death nether, he was in the upper tier, as for the mental corrosion nether of the Asmadian Lord, he was on the middle tier.

Of course, that didn’t mean the captain was weak in the slightest, since even talented people won’t usually have a way to defend against mind affecting techniques, as they are a rather obscure field.

But Daimon knows a few exceptions to that, like Aura for example, her eyes are trained to see through tricks like that, because Erin used to play all kind of ”pranks” on her with her darkness illusions, speaking of which the Revy matriarch is another one of the exceptions, because she is adept in clean and traceless mind manipulation, a few whispers from her and you might end selling yourself for her sake, while even helping her count the money.

Then we have Ivy whose nightmare spells create illusions that cause reactions on the real world, and the one who goes against the previous with her incontrollable mind and emotional destabilizing abilities, the crazy girl Sarah.

In comparison with them, at the same level, the captain’s affinity for mind affecting techniques was a mere child’s play, of course even if that’s the case, when the nether of a Lord was involved, even Daimon would have needed to use Overlord’s Pride to resist, had it not been by Narasha who was actively protecting his mind.

”Not to mention that the one you are imitating isn’t especially talented in that aspect either, in other words you are an imitator of an imitator, for being the supposed ”finished product” you fall quite behind Sarah”, added Daimon as if to rub salt on the wound.

”Battleground Death Corroding Charge!”, unable to stand the insulting words coming from the masked silver haired youth, the body of the captain exploded in both black and dark pink nether as he flashed from his previous position.

Appearing behind Daimon in a fraction of a second, his sword was already descending upon him the very moment he reached his target.

’He got faster, not only his body, but his reaction speed is the same, I guess affecting the mind of the opponent isn’t all there is to the Asmadian’s Lord corrosion nether’, thought Daimon.

”Battleground Death Corroding Slash!”, roared the captain as black and dark pink nether exploded on his sword, he wanted nothing more than to cleave through the masked silver haired youth’s body with his sword.

However, the captain was unaware of one thing, a certain sword girl had become way fiercer after her innate talent had changed, and now the empowering effect of ”Blessing of Light” wasn’t restrained to a darkness filled environment, with ”Authority of Light”, as long as the enemy had an affinity that tilted towards the negative side of the spectrum, the damage dealt by Gram will double.

Daimon turned around to slash Gram at the incoming battle aura cladded black sword, which made the captain snort, trying to take on his dual nether martial art with just a normal slash, the enemy seemed to be underestimating him too much.

”Crack!”, but then, the Fallen of the captain which was swung downwards while cladded in two different types of nether, heavily landed on the white light cladded sword and… instantly cracked.

”What!”, the captain couldn’t help but exclaim in disbelief, he was the one attacking, he was the one using a martial art and yet, his martial art, battle aura and even the blade of his sword were cut apart by the sword of the enemy.

”Damn it, Battleground Death Corroding Crush!”, luckily the Fallen of the captain had self-repairing properties, otherwise the tip of the sword would have been cleanly cut with that clash, and that gave him the chance to use a martial art with both of the arms of his battle avatar.

And so, while the left arm was covered in black battle aura and the right one was burning in dark pink flames, the captain aimed to smash the masked silver-haired youth into meat paste.

”White Heavenly Javelin”, only for eight rays of white light to crush both his expectations and the arms of his battle avatar.

”Booom!”, that wasn’t all, the white light cladded sword on the hands of the enemy, also suddenly became heavier to then cut through the part of his Fallen which was constantly regenerating.

The result was that the arms of the captain’s battle avatar as well as his sword were smacked away, just in time for the silver-haired youth to take one of his hands away from the hilt of the sword and point it at the captain who was flown away.

”White Heavenly Javelin”, a fierce white light condensed on the now free hand of the enemy to then be shot at the captain’s chest.

”Royal Reinforcement, Red War Banner!”, realizing that he was too late to either dodge or block the incoming ray of white light, which by the way not only looked more dangerous than the eight ones shot from different spots on the body of the enemy, but also meant that the masked silver-haired youth could actually shot nine of them at the same time, the captain exploded in dark red battle aura.

A red flag with a sword and shield emblem manifested behind the captain, then the missing parts of the upper body of his battle avatar, were manifested just in time to block the white ray of light.

”Booom!”, the white ray of light landed on the chest of the battle avatar, exploding on the spot turning into a white light sphere that lasted for a couple of seconds before the captain who was enveloped in his battle avatar managed to break out of it.

Now his battle avatar was half manifested, from the waist and upwards, and it looked…ugly, though the esthetic part would be the last thing one would worry about when it came to condensing a battle avatar, it is also true that the details and aspect of it often signal how much domain a knight has over his battle aura.

For example, the battle avatar of the Lamia queen was a perfect copy of her till the last detail, in fact unlike the queen who didn’t take her lamia form unless she was going to get serious in a fight, her battle avatar was in lamia form by default.

And as we saw, her control over it was excellent, to the point that she used it as an ally to pummel enemies in a 2v1 situation, instead of empowering herself with it like knights usually do.

The battle avatar of the captain on the other hand, was conformed of three different types of nether as of current, the arms had the death nether of the Bane Lord flowing through them, the head had the corrosion nether of the Asmadian Lord and lastly the trunk of the body had the wrath nether of the Balax Lord.

It looked like a doll that was created with remaining parts of other toys, it had a bad harmony overall, not to mention that the legs were still missing, at least until the captain released a huge amount of battle aura out of him.

”Royal Reinforcement, Red Solid Cape!”, just like Erika, the nether of the captain was wrath based, as he is a top member of the special corps of the Balax army, it had a darker red tone than that of the nether of the Balax Lord though, due to the difference in quality.

However, the legs of the battle avatar did indeed somewhat match the appearance of the trunk, that was the most stable part of the whole thing, but then the martial art used by the captain made a red cape appear on the back of his battle avatar and a thin layer of red nether covered the whole thing, disguising the difference in the appearances of the different body parts.

”Well, that does indeed look a bit more decent than the patched-up thing of earlier, it’s still not even as good as miss Bell’s one when she was actively fighting against the corrosion of the Asmadian Lord’s nether”, said Daimon after taking a look at the captain’s full body battle avatar.

”Shut up already!”, the captain has had enough of the sharp words that came from the mouth of the masked silver-haired youth, since he had manifested the whole body of his battle avatar for the first time in a really long time, he was going to crush enemy with all his might.

In fact, a total of five blood red gems appeared on the chest plate of his armor, which contained the nether of the Balax Lord, it also reflected the fact that his affinity with wrath nether is of course the highest.

”Battleground Slaughter Corroding Slash!”, apparently the combination of death and war nether results in the term ”slaughter” being used instead and they are highly compatible which makes sense, after all war and death go hand to hand.

And as a sign of the previous, the captain’s sword was enveloped in both black and dark red nether while both hands of the battle avatar took a sword wielding stance, before battle aura manifested on the hands of the battle avatar forming a battle aura sword.

The moment the captain slashed his sword at Daimon to release a half moon shaped battle aura projectile, his battle avatar did the same, but instead of releasing a long-range attack, it simply slashed the giant battle aura sword it was wielding towards Daimon.

It was a combination of both energy and physical attacks at the same time, and since the battle avatar was around 700 meters tall which is quite the big size considering the captain is only a middle stage Archknight, the range of even a simple sword slash was enough to be considered a long-range attack, not to mention that with his reaction time being empowered by the Asmadian Lord’s nether, the attack reached Daimon quite fast.

’Daimon, use that fire sword technique!’, said Narasha with an excited voice, she sounded like a child who can’t wait to try out a new toy, so Daimon complied, he was going to use Comet Sword anyway, because he needed to deal with a martial art casted through a complete body manifestation of an Archknight after all.

Daimon’s body exploded in white flames which he then channeled into Gram, to his surprise the burning light layer cladding his sword wasn’t buried by his Demon Light, instead of that they opened way for his Demon Light which increased Gram’s size to around four meters, before that layer of light encompassed the whole thing.

Narasha’s enhancing spell actually adapted to his Demon Light, though it couldn’t empower it as a whole, after all Narasha doesn’t have affinity with all the elements that compose Demon Light, but she is skilled enough to not get in its way.

”Comet Sword”, of course the around four-meter sword wielded by Daimon didn’t look like more than toothpick when facing the 200 meter sized battle aura sword created by the captain, it was a rather comical scene to see that huge blade descending on such a small sword in comparison.

”Clang!”, however the result of the clash didn’t make the captain smile in the slightest, because his battle aura sword was completely stopped by the enemy.

”No way!”, the captain nearly lost it, in terms of strength, his battle avatar should have completely overwhelmed the enemy, but here he was unable to even make the masked silver-haired youth let alone retreat, but his sword didn’t even flinch.

’Now, you can use the spell to attack Daimon’, said Narasha, to which Daimon nodeed, he condensed the Comet Sword to use clad Gram instead of releasing it as an attack in order to block the enemy’s slash, so now he was going to release everything in a single go.

”Boooom!”, the white flame cladded sword exploded, turning into a kilometer sized white light slash that cut through the battle aura sword of the enemy which was formed of two different kinds of nether, to then cut open a deep wound into the chest of the battle avatar.

As a result, the captain’s battle avatar was thrown backwards, forcing it to fall on its back due to the impact, what’s more the white flames fiercely burned through the armor on the chest, invading the insides of the battle avatar, almost instantly reaching the captain who couldn’t help but scream due to the burning sensation that assaulted him by the proximity to those terrifying flames.

”Aghhh!”, it took a moment for the captain to realize that the more battle aura he sent to intercept those flames, the stronger they burned, leaving him no choice but to actually dispel the trunk of his battle avatar.

Only then, did he manage to escape the pursuit of those flames, which consumed the remaining battle aura that conformed the discarded part of his battle avatar, turning it into a small sea of white flames that kept burning on the ground.

’What the hell kind of light element is that!’, inwardly swore the captain, the light used by the masked silver-haired youth was even more vicious than the death nether used by the Bane Lord in his memories.

And what’s more is that even after that ridiculously strong attack with which he intercepted both his battle avatar and his martial art, the sword on the enemy’s hand hadn’t returned to its normal size.

’Are you kidding me, he didn’t use all the power of that spell into that attack’, thought the captain as he gritted his teeth.

He wasn’t the most surprised about this though, Daimon couldn’t help but look at his sword which had remained in the form it will take when he gathers the Comet Sword on it, which wouldn’t be a problem if he hadn’t just released all the Demon Light he gathered on Gram a second ago.

”This is… the counter-part to Disaster’s ability to devour mater”, said Daimon after a second, to which Narasha softly laughed as she said.

’Mm, I can now take out whatever Disaster has taken in but didn’t consume, what do you think, I can’t use Demon Light unlike Daimon, but this way with just one usage of your spell I can keep pouring ”fuel” into it, so you can fight with Gram in this state for as long as you want, I call it White Demon Sword~’.

Narasha actually used the fierce propagation property of Daimon’s Demon Light alongside the fact that the capricious Disaster often just took stuff for the fun of it, to make Gram enter a though incomplete, permanent Comet Sword state, well at least for as long as she kept the white flames around the sword burning.

Which wasn’t a problem, Disaster has swallowed planets before but the capricious sword only really consumed the delicious stuff such as rare ores and other materials that could be found inside of it, the rest was just there inside the sword to be used as ”dry rations” in case it was needed, so Narasha learned how to release that which is actually something Disaster wasn’t capable to do before.

It also didn’t escape Daimon’s eyes that she named it ”White Demon Sword” as a way to compete against Jasmine’s ”White Heavenly Sword”, she really didn’t want to lose when it came to anything related to swords, it was cute.