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Numerous cuts now covered Lucy’s body.

 

They were the small wounds she received from not dodging or blocking the Priest’s attacks completely and while Lucy normally wouldn’t care about such small cuts, the fact that they weren’t healing yet and that the priest seemed fine began to slightly worry her.

 

‘Sera…How much… longer can you… hold up this barrier’ Lucy asked telepathically while keeping her eyes and chipped blood sword trained on the Priest

 

‘N-Not much longer master! It’s currently taking all of my concentration to even do this much…’

 

Lucy nodded slightly as she silently assessed the situation at hand.

 

The way she saw it, as time went on the costs of this battle would become increasingly overbearing for her.

 

 For one the concealment barrier would be coming down soon, she had lost a lot a lot of blood earlier and more now, plus Sera wasn’t in good shape. And the fact that she had left Nox in the middle of his rebirth was something that was also weighing heavily on her mind.

 

“I have to hurry and end this…” she whispered while tightening her grip on the blood sword

 

“You say something? Your prayers maybe? Ha ha, too late” laughed the priest

 

At that moment the seven small silver blades that Lucy had blocked earlier began to fly towards her from all different angles just as the priest sprinted over ready to strike again with his silver kitana.

 

‘Not good, he’s trying a pincer attack!’

 

Digging her claws into her palms, Lucy immediately drew blood and then spun in place as strong winds and the droplets of blood began to circle her.

 

Faster and faster she spun while using her Blood Domain ability and in the blink of an eye a terrifying cyclone of blood was reaching up towards the heavens.

 

“Damned demon!” cursed the priest as the unexpected Blood Cyclone whipped his projectiles off target while simultaneously throwing him off his feet.

 

‘This is our chance Sera, we have to flee!’

 

Using her vampiric speed Lucy seized the moment the Blood Cyclone had created and snatched Sera’s bat form up while taking to the skies with her own set of wings.

 

Lucy was flying extremely fast!

 

Just after distracting the Priest with the Blood Cyclone, she scooped Sera’s bat form into her bosom and made a beeline for the forests. She hated the idea of fleeing but not as much as being able to live and fight another day.

 

‘Master who was that? How was he able to brush our telekinesis off so easily?’ asked Sera

 

‘I have no idea, I’ve never seen anything like it’ Lucy replied honestly, ‘Perhaps it’s because I’m low on Blood Energy or maybe there’s some other reason… I’ll have to check Amara’s memories later’

 

Right now, Lucy just wanted to create as much distance between her and the odd priest as possible. She was definitely curious as well about who he was and how’d he know so much about vampires’ weaknesses but getting some blood and finishing Nox’s transformation before their departure was her top priorities.

 

‘Did you manage to complete the tasks at least?’ Lucy questioned, ‘we still should try to leave tomorrow’

 

‘I was able to complete them all except picking up the men you bought from the slave trader, just as I was about to head to Grimsby that’s when I ran into that creepy Priest…’

 

Lucy exhaled a sigh of relief at Sera’s response, she may not have her men but it was just a small matter to pick them up at dawn tomorrow. As long as she had her ships everything was still going according to plan.

 

‘Excellent, thanks and great jo’-

 

However, just as Lucy was rejoicing a sudden hair raising feeling from her vampiric senses caused her to instinctually bank hard left just as several silver daggers stabbed at the space she was once at.

 

“Surprise!” said the priest as he flew a few meters behind Lucy on a large rock, “Did you really think you could get rid of me that easily?”