After seeing the small Vampire Duchess status, Alex couldn''t help but swallow hard; while not all of her stats increased, some even decreased (LUK), her ATK, DEF, and AGI stats increased. Alex knew this wasn''t going to be an easy fight. Also, there was something that bothered him, those question marks under her Gift. Knowing that he couldn''t find the answer just by imagining, Alex decided to move.


    Prisci, who wasn''t paying attention to Alex''s eyes, finally noticed a trace of mana being used, and it wasing from his left eye; she immediately knew what this meant, and she couldn''t help but puckered her brows and red at the boy who dares to appraise her.


    However, at the next moment, a chilliness erupted deep down in her heart without any warnings, instantly engulfing her entire body. Alex had shed next to her and his knife sliced through the airing straight toward her eyes. His speed had surpassed the one he had previously used during theirst fight; still, she shouldn''t be underestimated; she pushed back the feeling of chillness and took a step back to avoid the iing de; however, just as the knife passed, a breath from her nose she noticed Alex''s smile, the chillness she had once pushed back resurfaced but more intensely.


    Alex had expected this situation; therefore, the second knife in his hand vanished to be reced by a silver gun, and an invisible burst out from the gun''s muzzle and to prate Prisci''s body, even happened too fast. Although she was caught off guard, she tried to use her Ethereal form to escape the bullet. Still, suddenly her body movement slowed; unknowingly, Alex had activated his Time eleration on her. The invisible bullet struck the vampire in the stomach; her small body was bent backward before she was sent flying.


    Bang! Crack!!!


    The vampire duchess flew across dozen meters, destroying trees as her body kept flying before finally stopping.


    Boom!


    Red light burst out from her body, destroying everything around as she shot out from the pile of trees she was under.


    What greeted her was an Aurora bullet; the white bullet exploded right before her and almost touched her; however, the red light surrounding her acted light a shield to stop the white light; the white tried to erode the red shield. Prisci snorted.


    [Shadow Shift]


    Prisci''s body disappeared to reappear where Alex was; she frowned.


    [Crimson Bullet]


    A crimson bullet tore through the air and arrived before her; the vampire duchess snorted and tapped her heels twice, faster than the crimson bullet she chanted.


    [Blood Arts Forbidden Art: d''s Shield]


    A bloody mist exploded from her body to instantly form a blood-red cocoon before the crimson bullet could strike.


    Kaboom!


    A small crimson explosion urred; it was like a nuke had struck, crimson cloud rose to the sky.


    A huge crater appeared when the crimson cloud dissipated; Alex was shocked to see a blood-red cocoon unscathed.


    ''As I thought, the real Prisci would be hard to deal with.'' Alex sighed when his six senses red up. He didn''t get the time to move before a red light shed next to him. Prisci flitted across in a red burst of lightning, aiming straight at his neck with her sharp nails.


    [Drifter]


    At thest moment, Alex drifted to avoid the attack. However, he still received an injury; his left cheek was injured. Alex didn''t have the time to ponder what had just happened before; like an enraged beast, Prisci appeared before him again; her speed was so fast that all Alex saw was a crimson sh.


    This time she didn''t attack using her nails but instead used her sword; the sword sliced through the air; Alex had the impression that even space before him was sliced.


    [Time eleration]


    Due the how fast the sword was, Alex used Time eleration on it before tilting his head to the side; however, he was still injured; the sword covered in crimson light seemed to ignore time as it sliced through his right cheek like a knife through butter, blood-sttered Alex''s shoulder as he leaned back into an impossible angle.


    Prisci, who was trying to follow up with another attack, was forced to switch to defensive posture as one of Alex''s legs covered in green light arrived before her head.


    ngs!


    Spark flew when Sleipnir shed against her Gift, and a small wind tornado was generated that pushed her back.


    BANG!


    Unexpectedly, a gray bullet collided against Lilith''s feet, and she was sent flying; intense pain assaulted her right leg, and she coughed blood. Even faced with such an unexpected situation, Prisci was still one of the eight Dukes. As she was flying through the air, she momentarily forgot about the pain, and her scarlet eyes glinted in a mysterious yet mesmerizing sh.


    Suddenly, the blood she had coughed coalesced into the shape of a de that swooped down and shed at them. Alex, everything happened too; Alex didn''t have the time to dodge properly, green light covered his left arm, and he used to block the blood sword.


    Crack!


    A sickening sound was heard after the blood sword crashed against Alex''s arm, his arm was broken, and he was sent flying. Ironically, the two happened tond on the ground simultaneously; they rolled on the ground, and Alex was the first to stand up. When Prisci tried to get up, she failed, astonished; she looked down to see her right leg turned into only bone, which started cracking, chill assaulted her spine, and without hesitation, she swung her sword and cut off her leg.


    Alex praised Prisci''s quick reaction; if she had not done that, she might be forced to cut it off starting from the thigh.


    Suddenly, crimson light mixed with an eerie dark light burst out from Lilith and rippled outward, destroying everything as it moved forward.


    Alex knew he must not get caught in this thing; just as he was about to el away, the eerie light moved faster. It pped him flying, Alex vomited blood and rolled on the ground, when he looked in front of him he was shocked to see Prisci flying, no the thing looked like her, extremely tall and busty woman, 2 meters tall, dragonified arms and legs, purple dragon scale, two long curved purple horns, the space around was twisting, no the whole forest was shaking. The ck mist surrounding her body turned the surrounding dead trees into ashes.


    〖Master, escape don''t fight against this thing you can''t win.〗Silveria''s voice ringed like an rm bell, even without being told that Alex knew that this thing before him he couldn''t win against it. He must escape, just as he was about to do it, something astonishing happened, ck chains appeared all over the forest, from the ground, the sky and wrapped around the dragonified Prisci, she tried to break free. Still, it was impossible, soon, a ck magic circle appeared behind her, and she was dragged inside it and vanished.


    ''''What the hell just happened?" Alex asked, but only silence answered him.