Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

The woman inside the sphere of chains, couldn’t help but change her attention from the masked silver haired youth who claimed the credit for ruining her easy escape route, to a sky-blue haired girl who was standing not too far from him, after listening to how she called her.

Since she was too focused in hating Daimon for messing with her plans, she only managed to listen to the last part of Lyn’s sentence, when she called her ”Coward Traitor”, because that term brought back unpleasant memories for her.

’While the hair is of the same color, the horns are blue instead of white and the aura she radiates is way weaker than that crazy woman, a descendant born from her blood being spilled in the battlefield perhaps… still, her voice and words are as vulgar as that bitch’s ones!’, thought the woman.

”I changed my mind, I was going to kill that masked bastard first, but your very existence is more of an eyesore, so you’ll die first, blame your ancestors for passing on such a disgusting legacy to you”, she said as she directed another set of corroded black chains, which were originally hiding inside the lake, right at Lyn who smirked in response.

”Heh, that’s rich coming from someone that never made it into the young generation’s version of the ”Beauty powerhouse ranking of the mountains, seas and skies”, unlike me and Pheli who were always within the top ten”, mockingly said the sky-blue haired girl.

Which caused two different reactions, first and formal Daimon who couldn’t help but be weirded out at what Lyn just said.

’Are you telling me that the competence between Stellar Kingdoms is such that they actually fight over which one has the most beautiful female mages and knights…’, he thought.

On the other hand, it is true that Lyn had quite the pretty appearance, to the point that her face didn’t match her violent personality, unlike Ophelia who besides being as much of a beauty had the charm of an elegant princess, without losing in terms of fierceness when it was needed either.

And then there was the reaction of the woman sealed inside the sphere of chains, which could be divided in two parts, first there was a mix of anger and embarrassment, followed by anger and surprise.

”There is no way a mere unwanted descendant would know that, you… you are that Lyndis bitch!”, screamed the woman inside the sphere of chains to then make the black chains accelerate, towards Lyn and the others, who flashed away from their previous positions in order to avoid them, because at the last second they changed their trajectory to not only target Lyn, but also Daimon, Arianna, Dana and Badr, in a try to catch them off guard.

”Crack!”, naturally the black chains which moved at high speed, destroyed the areas where they landed, leaving behind small craters, but no trace of having hit their respective targets.

”I see you are still using petty cowardly tricks, Claire”, disdainfully said Lyn as she landed on the rocky ground a few meters away from her previous position, making the woman sealed inside the sphere of chains, whose name is apparently Claire, see red.

”Shut up you brute crazy woman, how are you alive, no, more importantly how the hell are you free from the seal!”, she yelled to then make the black corroded chains charge at Lyn and the others once again.

To which Lyn casually said while she dodged the black corroded chains.

”Well, just like you are still relying on cheap tricks, I’m still way better than you when it comes to choosing who I hang around with”.

And that was the drop that broke the camel’s back, Lyn never missed a chance to mention the how childish, stupid and traitorous was the Kener family to have betrayed their own relatives and also benefactors, the Vallmery over a mere difference in the term that others used to refer to them, when compared with Lyn’s family.

Because while Lyn’s family were considered allies of the Vallmery, the Kener family were taken as a family subordinated to them, however the Vallmery never treated them as vassals.

Besides assigning them tasks that went according with their capacities, the Vallmery didn’t interfere with the Kenner, they pretty much didn’t use their authority over them for anything, the only difference between them and Lyn’s family, was that Lyn’s family had the high seat in the council that belonged to the Vallmery, Lyn’s mother was chosen to represent them.

But that wasn’t due to any favoritism, there were rules to climb the ranks of the council and to get to the highest ranks one’s family of origin needed to at least have had a Throne candidate before, to be apt for the position, of course rules could be bent one way or another, if one had the strength to do it and the Vallmery had it.

So, the Kenner alleged that Claire had the potential to become one, when it was time for the Vallmery to designate someone to represent them in the council, but the Vallmery are strong supporters of respecting the law.

To the point that they stick to the original rule of not joining the council directly, because they are involved in the army, though other families no longer paid it any mind.

Needless to say, but Lyn’s mother ultimately won the position, for both her personal capacities and the fact that there had been quite a few Throne candidates in her family before.

You know the rest of the story, the Kenner angry for not having been given the support they thought they deserved, severed ties with the Vallmery and joined the White Disaster Shark’s family and ultimately got the position in the high seats of the council through them, using Claire’s late awakening as a Throne candidate as their excuse, and all kinds of clashes under the table began after that, but let’s leave the subject for later, the point is that being reminded of the previous by Lyn, combined with the fact that the black chains couldn’t hit any of their targets, made Claire grit her teeth.

”That’s enough, go to hell you damn dolphin bitch!”, the black chains which were in the middle of lashing at Daimon and the others, changed their behavior the previously fluid movement they were using to chase after their targets, went out of the window.

Instead, the many sets of black chains retreated, to then entwine, forming five thicker chains that tensed to then shot towards Daimon, midway through their charge, the chains exploded in gray-green energy, suddenly gaining an incredible boost in speed that basically made them disappear from plain sight.

”Humph!”, the blue haired girl snorted, sky blue energy covered both of her hands as she punched both frontwards and at her right where the little tiger girl was.

”Booom!”, two explosions echoed through the vicinity as the chains which reappeared for everyone to see, not too far from both Dana and Lyn, as they clashed against Lyn’s sky-blue energy.

Despite their charge having been interrupted, a slightly strong current of wind still reached both Lyn and Dana, making their hair wave a bit, in comparison, Daimon, Arianna and Badr distanced themselves from their previous position, barely avoiding the chains which passed next to them to then land in the ground.

This time there was no explosion unlike before, the chains instead pierced through the hard black rocky frozen ground, all the way to where their non-corroded part started, which was past the hundred-meter mark, meaning that the chains actually reached that deep into the ground.

”That’s the Wave Splitting Narwhal family’s ”Piercing” affinity, basically it’s compressed wind and water, used to break through their target’s defenses, if you want to fight it head on, don’t try to defend but instead counter it with a strong physical impact attack to overwhelm it, otherwise it’s better to take advantage of the lack in mobility it has to dodge it”, said Lyn to which Arianna who saw the chain that was aiming to her, coming out of the ground leaving behind a deep hole in it, said.

”Hey, don’t you think it would have been better to say that before she attacked?”, to which Lyn shrugged in response.

”You are old enough to know how to fight, so I didn’t think there was a need to tell you when to dodge”.

Arianna felt a vein pulse on her neck, but she had nothing to say about it, she actually agreed with Lyn putting the little tiger girl as her priority, not only because she is the youngest and has the least experience among all the presents, but also because the opponent has Arch ranked strength, while all of them, besides Badr are in the different stages of the Lord rank more or less, and Claire targeted the ”weakest” link

That being said, the nethereal can’t use his complete strength without using his other pairs of arms, but in exchange he gains a better recovery ratio.

Seeing the ”Tell her something” gaze that Arianna was giving him, Daimon cleared his throat to then say.

”Ahem, so basically it’s the improved version of the Shooting Narwhal’s pressure, anything else you want to mention?”.

”Mmm, nope, besides its defense breaking properties and strong acceleration properties, the Kenner’s exclusive affinity has nothing else worth mentioning”, said Lyn as she pointed her right hand frontwards shooting a large sky-blue colored ring of energy, that clashed with two chains that were charging at her, making them lose their power and be forcefully deviated.

However, another two chains passed through the energy explosion, aiming at Lyn just for a dark red cladded figure to get in the way.

”Clang!”, the two chains were stopped in cold by Badr who used his left shoulder to tackle them, that was the same application of the lineage ability he used to turn that guy into a broken corpse earlier.

And then to finish the current exchange of movements, two different streams of energy flew towards Badr, one which was silver colored landed on the four chains that originally tried to kill Lyn, severing a third part of their total corroded length, turning them into black particles the next second.

The other stream of energy had a bright yellow tone and was radiating arcs of bypassed Badr and the chains to fiercely land on the sphere of chains, making it retreat a few meters due to the violent lightning explosion caused due to it.

”Agh damn it!”, the woman sealed inside the sphere of chains couldn’t help but curse both because the length she could control of those four corroded chains was diminished quite a bit and though the yellow lightning that landed on the sphere of chains, didn’t wound her, the electric shock did hurt.

But what angered her the most, is the fact that a bunch of mere Lord ranked not only managed to defend against her attacks, but to also launch a counter attack while doing so.

”Heh, she might have been able to gain strength even if she was sealed thanks to those three bastards, but she sucks at channeling her energy through the chains, or more accurately even with the help of the Lords, she can’t properly get through the Megalodon general’s seal”, mockingly said Lyn.

To which Claire gritted her teeth, as much as she hated Lyn, she was right, the seal was diminishing her energy’s output enough for five ”mere” Lord ranks to defend against her, she especially refused to believe that Lyn at a lower rank could fight with her if that wasn’t the case.

More importantly, now that she had cooled her head, her attention was once again directed to the masked silver haired youth, because his ability was the most mysterious and potentially dangerous one.

’He cut the corroded chains so easily, an extremely positive kind of energy focused in attack perhaps, just where the hell did that bitch find him and more importantly why didn’t that bastard of Dian send someone at least on the same level to come help me escape this damn seal!’, she cursed to her insides.

But for a change something went her way, as in the clouds that were slowly covering the sky above the frozen wasteland, thickened and got darker which made the illumination in the vicinity to go down a few notches.

”Finally, those guys are doing their job properly and that being the case…”, said Claire, the next second dripping sounds could be heard coming from afar as black drops of water starting coming down from the black clouds.

Daimon who reacted faster than the others, pointed his right hand at Lyn and the others, projecting a ”roof” of silver light above them, while with his left hand he made a stream of silver light orbit him, just in time for the black rain to reach the frozen lake area.

”Hsssss!”, as expected the moment the black rain landed on the silver light cover that Daimon had casted above his companions, sizzling sounds were produced as it turned into black strands that evaporated the next second.

Interestingly enough, when the black rain reached a few centimeters away from Daimon, it turned into black strands to then be evaporated, without landing on him, of course the silver stream that was orbiting his body was slowly but surely getting paler and smaller because its energy was being used to protect Daimon’s body.

’As expected, that masked guy is the most annoying one, whatever even if he can protect the others from the black rain, I refuse to believe he can also protect them from this!’, thought Claire as she made all the black chains she could control to come out of the lake, a total of thirty-six.

And in case you wonder how come she had control over so many chains, while even Lyn and Badr had less than twenty under their control, that’s because she had the support of the Lord’s nether, well, she farmed nether for them and got to benefit from it as a reward, using a certain portion to weaken the seal through the years.

The thirty-six chains dug into the ground to then inject a black substance into it, as a result the corroded part that Claire could control was cut in half, but there was another reaction caused by it.

Strange symbols appeared on the ground before black portals spawned all over the area, allowing black blood specters to become present even if it wasn’t night yet, and what’s more the weakest was at the middle stage of the Lord rank and there were a total of four middle stage Arch ranks leading them.

”Let’s see if you dare to say I’m hanging out with the wrong people again when the corroded blood specters are eating you as slow as possible!”, shouted the woman inside the sphere of chains.

Apparently, the Lords had given her the right to command their corroded black blood specters, because as soon as she finished her sentence they charged at Daimon and the others from all directions.

”I have seen similar symbols being used by Byron before, they have multiple and dangerous applications, she just wants to have us busy dealing with the black blood specters while she prepares something to get rid of us”, said Daimon as he placed his hands on the ground, surrounding the group with silver energy which slowed down the charge of the black blood specters.

”And this damn rain is on the way, having to divide one’s attention to block it while fighting is a hassle”, said Lyn, as she saw the cover that Daimon had projected above them starting to dissolve.

”Hold on a second, I’ll do something about that…” said Daimon as he placed his hands together as if praying for a second to then separate them, revealing four large spheres of silver light that he then shot at Dana, Arianna, Lyn and Badr.

The spheres of silver light dissolved a moment before landing on those four, bathing them in silver particles which made their bodies shine in a dim silver light.

”What is this, it’s not being absorbed by my body anymore?”, said Lyn, when Daimon used the silver streams of light to orbit anyone besides himself, the thing passed through their bodies and depleted itself of energy because of it, but this silver light clad, he casted on them was different.

”Today’s improvement was not on attack power for a change”, sarcastically said Daimon as he extended his right index finger, manifesting a sphere of silver light which then split into many smaller spheres and then divided until it turned into silver particles that floated around Daimon, condensing back into a sphere to then be absorbed back into his body.

”I obtained an increase in ”dexterity”, so I can execute much more complex processes with the silver energy now”, he said, to which the little tiger girl’s eyes sparkled as she extended her hand outside of the roof of silver light that Daimon had projected above them.

As a result, similar to what happened with Daimon, the black rain evaporated before even getting too close to her, what’s more the silver light didn’t limit her movement nor caused any discomfort, in fact it gave Dana a sensation of safety which she liked.

”Big brother Daimon’s silver light is amazing”, mumbled the little tiger girl, to which Arianna couldn’t help but say.

”I can’t wait to see what will your ability will be like”.

”Me too, it’s annoying to have to make do with my own ideas for an energy that I don’t know what the hell it is related to”, said Daimon to then add.

”Anyway, I leave the black blood specters and blocking that woman to you, I’ll take care of the black clouds, the specters at the Arch rank can only be outside during day due to them, so without the clouds the biggest obstacles will be gone, not to mention that the source of energy for whatever that woman is trying to do, will also disappear”.

”Deal!”, Lyn immediately accepted, now that she didn’t have to worry about the black rain, she flashed outside of the silver roof and directly made two Lord ranked black blood specters explode with her punches, Dana, Arianna and Badr followed right away, while Daimon took some distance to then use a martial art in order to reinforce his stance.

The reason being that he was going to gather a lot of that silver energy to attack the black clouds, in fact he only pointed his right hand frontwards, while using the left one to hold onto his right wrist, to stabilize and accelerate the charge of his ”attack”.

”Dream on!”, of course while the black chains where being used to maintain this special area that allowed Claire to summon and control the black blood specters, that didn’t mean she couldn’t attack the one she considered the most annoying, in terms of abilities because she hated Lyn the most.

Gray-green energy condensed in front of the sphere of chains to then turn into a straight line of light of the same color which was shot towards Daimon, only for a ring of blue energy to intercept it midair.

”Boooom!”, both energies collided and destroyed each other, the difference is that while Claire was directly aiming at Daimon, Lyn had casually pointed her left hand at that direction while she blasted the head of a peak Lord ranked black blood specter with her right hand.

What’s more, she realized another application of the silver light clad that Daimon had casted on them, it didn’t work with enemies lower ranked than the peak of the Lord rank, but when she attacked one, the silver light accompanied her own ability, and as a result the corroded black blood specter, did produce a red strand.

In other words, this way Daimon didn’t need to attack the corroded black blood specters himself, he just needed to cast this clad on his companions and they could hunt the blood specters themselves, which was perfect, because one of the middle stage Arch ranked black blood specters was… a tiger.