Chapter 2: 2. The duke

Clanging of iron, Explosion magic and agonizing screams of the dying. Those were the sounds of the battle of Liden forest….no, no sane person would call this bloodbath a battle this was one sided massacre.

The Dwarfs were unable to deploy their heavy guns out of fear of hitting their allies and had to rely on war axes and few rifles. Elves could not use their strongest spells to attack the vampires for the same reason as dwarfs, and had to rely on their legendary archery skills and few smaller offensive spells.

As a result, humans lost huge chunk of their forces. The rifle men who in the last decades became central formation in human armies for their fire power and accuracy, thanks to which they were treated as humanity’s trump card against vampires. However, vampiric regeneration proved stronger than humans expected; you cut off an arm it will regrow in few minutes or so, and then they rejoin the fight right back. Put a bulled trough their brain or heart? Few seconds and they’re as good as new. It took group of five rifle mans and their concentrated fire at a single vampire to take them down.

And the human swordsman? They were getting reminded why are humans at the bottom in racial hierarchy. Though they were doing better than the riflemen, working just in teams of 3 to take down the vampires. The Beastman were working on their own, utilizing their agility in a hit and run tactics. And it seemed to have work in thinning down enemy lines. But even their valiant fight was proving futile.

Julian was running across the battlefield cutting down all vampires in his path with his great sword. He understood how dire the situation got and therefore decided for bold move, eliminating the noble that led enemy forces. Vampires surpassed all of the world races thanks to their regeneration, without it individual common foot soldiers would not pose any problem even to humans.

Vampiric society was based on strength, so commoners were weakest and the queen was the strongest. So, the higher someone’s standing in their society was the stronger they were. Therefore, if noble that led this army, the strongest vampire present would to die by Julian’s hand, by a mere human’s as far as vampire’s understanding went. They moral should be sent to sewer and then they should pull out, allowing coalition forces to consider this battle a pyric victory.

“Here you are!”

Julian spotted his target, a tall black-haired vampire that was about to kill Beastman’s chieftain. Based on his armor and the sword in his hands there was no mistaking it, this guy was the noble that Julian was looking for. Julian putted what little mana he had as a human on to his sword and slashed at the vampire noble.

“!?...Your insolent insect dares to injure this noble?”

Julian managed to cut off one of his opponent’s arms hoping to disadvantage his opponent. However, as Julian was preparing for his next move, his eyes opened wide at the spectacle in front of him. I heard that vampires have strong regenerative abilities and that their nobles were stronger than normal ones, but come on this is ridiculous.

The noble’s arm was slowly growing back right in front of Julian’s eyes. His opponent merely looked at him with mocking smile while keeping his distance to allow himself full regeneration.

Julian refused to grant him the time and closed the distance between them as fast as he could. The vampire noble looked at Julian with amusement as he redied his sword in his healthy hand.

Clank

Their swords collided, but the vampire’s sword didn’t budge at all. Even though Julian was using all of his strength and his opponent was holding his sword only in one hand.

“Hah! Is that all? Since you come to me, I had expected more from you but…chuckle what did I expected from a human?”

Julian distanced himself from the noble. So, this is the difference of strength between us and them, huh? But I can’t afford to lose this!

When Julian got few meters between them, he pulled out from a small flask filled with bluish liquid. Without a further ado, he poured content of the flask in to his mouth. Julian’s face clearly shown how disgusting the taste of the liquid was.

Divine drops, as the liquid was called. Was form of mana rich drink that increased amount of mana in person’s body making it a necessity when fighting vampires. And therefore, it was given to all humanity’s warriors by the church… In reality however it was so expensive and complicated to produce, since slight mistake would cause it to turn toxic for human consumption. Therefore, only higher ranked members of coalition army such as Julian were given some to use in case on strong enemy appearing.

After finishing the last drop, Julian felt his mana increasing. Even though it wouldn’t be enough to overwhelm vampire in front of him, it gave him higher fighting chance with the use of sacred art. Sacred arts were essentially healing, offensive and buffing spells that humans could use. But number of humans capable of using them was extremely low, even people with highest amount of mana amongst human race were unable to sustain them in fight for long without divine drops.

“Don’t look down on humans you scum! A wrath of the Lez!”

Wrath of the Lez, was one of the offensive spells created by the church for humans. Its main effect was increase in user’s brute strength, those who ended up mastering it were essential part of human coalition since it was easy for them to overpower almost everything.

Clang

Julian’s sword was coated in light red aura as he slashed at the noble. The vampire was taken aback by sudden increase in Julian’s power, but quickly recomposed himself and blocked Julian’s attack. Julian continued attacking noble with as much power he could muster.

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“I appreciated your help human but this is my battle!”

In the meantime, the Beastman’s chieftain regained some of his strength and rejoined fight against the noble, attacking him from behind with short sword. The surprise attack seemed to work as deep cut wound was created on noble’s back. However, it was healing too quickly for liking of vampire’s two opponents.

“My apologies however if we don’t kill him now, we in for big troubles!”

Julian and the chieftain attacked vampire in tandem targeting his blind spots. Luckily for the two of them this particular noble didn’t seem to poses any magic skills. Maybe he is part of lower nobility setting this trap to impress the queen and climb up the ranks of nobility? Well, is not like it matters to Julian his only concern is to defeat this noble and save his troops.

“I have to applaud you human. You are not weak pathetic worm like rest of your kind. Be honored, for I Zaechy Malfen, the duke of Malfarhem shall remember your name.”

The duke indeed seemed impressed by Julian’s fighting, while utterly ignoring cat people’s chieftain. The noble was covered in dozens of cuts but they didn’t seem to heal as quickly as before.

“I am Julian Beleng son of the count of Belengen, it is my honor to fight with you.”

Julian bowed slightly as he returned curtesy of duke Malfen. Then redied his sword to strike. Just a bit more and we won. Julian meet eyes of the Beastman’s chieftain who nodded his head to acknowledge Julian’s intentions. The chieftain then sprinted towards the duke Malfen and attacked him vigorously. The duke’s defense seemed sluggish compered to earlier and his wounds were yet to heal. Is his regeneration getting weaker? He also looks tired just like us, if it’s so than maybe this will work.

Julian took second flask of divine drops and drank it in one gulp. Once again suppressing urge to vomit from the disgusting taste. He could feel his mana increase again as well as his fatigue vanishing.

“Let’s do this human! Moon claws!”

“Yea! A wrath of the Lez!”

Determined to save their respective people, both of them attacked duke Malfen simultaneously. The duke was able to barely block their attacks, he was visible losing strength. His situation was worsened by Julian using one of the stronger spells know to the humans, as well as chieftain using stronger strengthening spell known to the Beastman.

“Ugh!”

Julian managed to overwhelm duke Malfen and knock him to the ground. The duke was covered in wounds, not a single one of them was healing. He was obviously defeated.

“It’s over duke Malfen, you have lost. Order your men to retreat or you shall die by my sword.”

Julian pointed tip of his sword at the duke. He was sure that duke Malfen will not want to order a retreat in front of a human but it was still worth a shot. And just as Julian anticipated the duke started laughing.

“Ahaha… Retreat? You joking right? We are wining there’s no way we retreating just because a human got me. Actually, you may even be the toughest opponent I have faced in my life. Dying by your hand would have been honor.”

Julian was taken aback by duke’s words, he expected that duke would not be wiling to retreat but he didn’t expect to hear that it would have been honor to die by his hand. After a bit, Julian recomposed himself and bring his sword closer to duke’s chest and pierced it.

“Aght… Long…live...the queen…”

Julian and the chieftain stood there dumbfounded for few seconds. They did kill noble that led vampires in this battle they killed the strongest vampire on this battlefield but the vampires were still attacking as if their commander’s death meant nothing to them.

Julian had no other choice than fight against rest of the vampiric army, and force them to give up. He and the chieftain both rushed in to the fray taking several vampires down and finishing them off before they could retaliate.  It was going to be bloody battle but vampires should be les coordinated without their leader.

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