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Chapter 27
🕑 Added 2024-04-04 08:14:44 +0000 UTCAnton and his family were traveling on the road from the last camp and they were about three or four hours away. Anders didn’t stop even for breakfast. They ate while moving. It’s as if their father were afraid that somebody was chasing them which could be true since Anton killed a total of five ghouls yesterday and Anders told him that the monsters could have been part of a patrol.
If they were part of a group that meant that somebody up in the undead hierarchy could be leading them and his father was still afraid that Anton was still not powerful enough to deal with something like that.
Anton could understand his father’s worry. He also wouldn’t want to gamble with the life of his family. The sun was fully up in the morning sky which greatly relieved the siblings since the morning sun seemed to always chase the scary monsters away but Anders still seemed to be worried.
Suddenly they heard a voice behind them.
“Oh, what’s this? A group of peasants.”
A very handsome man was effortlessly running behind them. Anders stopped the cart and shouted at the man to not get near them. Anders commanded his children to leave the cart and to stand behind him.
“Father, what is it?” Anton whispered.
“You don’t have to whisper son. It can hear us. It’s a vampire.”
“I thought they were not supposed to come out during the day,” Anton asked.
The vampire laughed when it heard them.
“Your father is correct child. I can hear you. We can come out during the day though it weakens us but for peasants like you, our weakened state is still like a god amongst mortals. The important thing is do you happen to know what happened to my ghouls? My connection to them suddenly disappeared and you’re the only mortals that I’ve seen for miles.”
“Father let me handle this. Please walk further behind me. I will do something that will affect those near me.”
“Are you sure about this?”
“Yes, I have something that will protect me.”
Anders and Anna stepped far behind him and he only gestured that it was all right when he could feel through his mana sense that they would not be affected by his Frost Nova spell.
The vampire did not do anything only observed their behavior. More than likely, the monster was confident enough in its speed that they would not be able to get away if they ran and the fact that Anton stayed and was not moving surprised it a bit. Anton refused to call the monster a he since it's not a male, it’s a monster. Not because it was a vampire but because it had the nerve to hunt him and his family.
A slow anger was beginning to grow inside him. “The audacity of this vampire to confront us!” Anton thought. He recognized that it was pride. Pride of someone who was becoming powerful. He knew his parents in the old world would disapprove since they thought him better but he liked it.
“Vampire, I killed your lackeys and I will kill you too you who dare follow me and my family!”
When the vampire heard Anton his expression was entertaining to see. The monster looked like a bully in a playground who was murdering ants then suddenly an ant confronted him.
Anton walked towards the vampire slowly who was smiling, amused at the audacity of an ant walking towards him. When he felt that the vampire was near enough to get the full blast of Frost Nova, he cast the spell chilling the vampire. He didn’t want to use Ice Blast or Glacial Spike because he didn’t want the vampire frozen. He wanted to know if they could find loot from the corpse of the undead monster.
The vampire was thoroughly surprised when he received the full blast of the spell and could not react. Anton cast Fire Bolts aiming at the vampire's head. His most powerful spells were still the ones from the fire tree since he was wearing the runeword staff Leaf which provided plus three to all fire spells and also added plus three to the spell Fire Bolt itself for a total of six levels and since his Fire Bolt had one level, its total level was seven.
Not only that, since the Fire Bolt spell receives synergy from Fire Ball and his Fire Ball had a total level of eight due to the same staff and Anton also added a skill point to the spell, his Fire Bolt was truly overpowered resulting in the vampire’s head being blasted into pieces. The vampire without a head fell to the ground. Anton wanted to make sure that the vampire was dead so he cast a few more of the spell onto the monster's head making the vampire totally headless.
At first, Anton thought that he would react badly to the death of the vampire since this was the first time he killed someone who looked like a human in real life but it was not so. Then again he killed a lot of rogue women inside the game and he was also there almost personally because of him being in the game virtually.
“Father the vampire is dead. It has no more head.” He told his father. Anna made a nervous laugh when she heard Anton’s comment.
“Can you burn the corpse thoroughly to make sure?”
“I can but we should loot it first maybe it had valuables with it.”
Anders walked towards the corpse while Anton got ready with an Ice Blast floating in his hand just to make sure. His father kicked the vampire’s corpse to check if the body would react and when it didn’t, they checked all of its pockets.
Anton’s father found a couple of coin purses, a wand, and a spell book. When they confirmed that the vampire’s body had no more items Ander asked Anton to dispose of it.
He cast the Ice Blast that was floating in his hand and it froze the corpse then he shattered the frozen corpse using another Ice Blast making sure that nothing would remain once the pieces of ice melted.
“We should hurry,” Anders told his children.
Anton’s family left immediately without inspecting the items they had gotten from the vampire and just to be safe that they would not be traced by any sort of tracing magic, Anton kept all of the items in his private stash. He doubted that any magic in this world could trace items that were inside the game but of course, he was not one hundred percent sure. He didn’t know how powerful the magic was in these lands.
