"Roar!"

A deafening roar sounded and a man appeared in front of Cecilia and deflected the attack with a clunk sound. Cecilia looked at the man in front of her and then at the beast that had appeared in the gallery out of nowhere and then closed her eyes and lost her consciousness. The previous attack was already life-threatening for her and she was holding herself by just a thread. As soon as she saw that the help had arrived she lost her consciousness.

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"Who are you?" the vampire demanded. "How dare you interfere in our matter. Do you know the consequences of interfering in our matter?"

No one replied. Kadyn looked at the blood-covered unconscious body of Nefia and Cecilia and his blood bubbled with fury. "Kill him." He commanded.

As soon as he said he jumped down off the beast and dashed towards Nefia while Khrom and Hot Rod rode the beast and attacked the vampire. He was just Rank 1. It didn't take long before he was sliced in two by Barret's sharp slash of a sword. Blood painted the floor and guts littered the ground as the disgusting stench wafted the entire place. Everyone's expression twisted in disgust.

"Now, what?" Khrom asked.

"Now, you need to get into the shop and take these two girls with you." Kadyn sighed in relief when he realised that Nefia was still alive. She would be alright after some treatment.

"What about you?" Barret frowned when he heard Kadyn. He could tell from his tone that he had no intention of going with them.

"Don't worry, I can escape on my own," Kadyn replied with a smile. Then flicked his hand and a gate appeared in front of them. "Get inside. It will lead you to the shop."

"This?" the trio widened their eyes when they saw the gate. It was hard to comprehend from where this gate appeared, but then they exchanged glances and shook their heads — if it was Kadyn's doing, then nothing was too shocking.

"This gate will take you to the shop. Now get inside, Nefia and Cecilia are severely injured. Take them to Elora to heal," he said as he looked around him vigilantly.

"If it is that easy to escape then why don't you come with us?" Barret insisted. He didn't want to leave him behind. After spending a few days with him he became quite close to Kadyn. It would be heartbreaking if he died here.

"Didn't I tell you that I have my reason to stay here?" finally Kadyn couldn't take any longer and frowned in displeasure. "You need to go, hurry."

"Alright, we will go first, then," Barret sighed and shook his head, "but be careful."

Then the trio entered the door with two unconscious ladies. Kadyn took a deep breath and looked around him. Actually it wasn't that he didn't want to go with them but he couldn't, as the shop was inside his body. How could he go inside something that was inside him? That was impossible.

Just as he turned and was about to move, a group of vampires appeared in front of him. One, two, three…. Seven. Seven of them. As soon as they saw him they surrounded the man. "Shit!" he cursed. What should I do? He thought but nothing came into his mind.

But the enemy wasn't going to wait for him to formulate his plan, and so, they attacked. Kadyn tried to defend and he succeeded but he was just a single man — with a mindless beast — not even Rank 1 mage yet, but none of his enemies was below Rank 1. Just as he avoided the first attack another came and hit on his back, he winced in pain and flinched, groaning miserably.

"I have felt Cecilia's aura at this place, but it suddenly vanished. It must be this guy's doing," one of the vampires commented. His red eyes fixed on Kadyn and his beast.

"We need to capture at any cost, or we won't have a good ending," another one replied.

"Let's capture him first," someone else suggested. "After that we would make him vomit anything he knows about Cecilia."

"Let's do it!"

"Fuck, I can't stay here any longer," Kadyn cursed when he saw their red eyes peering at him like vicious wolves. "I have to escape," he murmured and then commanded his summoned beast. "Attack!"

"Roar!"

"Bang!"

As the beast attacked, Kadyn opened his status window. He wanted to teleport away from here, otherwise, he would not make it out of here, no matter what. After all he was alone and he was no match for these people, and who knew how many vampires were roaming inside the castle.

However, the vampires didn't give him a chance to focus. They continued to attack him from all directions., injuring him from time to time. Kadyn persisted and tried to hide behind the beast as much as he could.

"Roar!"

The three heads roared and attacked frantically at the enemies. One of the vampires couldn't react in time and his head was torn from his body, the beast chewed his head and a crunching sound reverberated in the entire hall, sending a chill in others' spines. Nonetheless, they became more alert after that and started to attack it from a distance. None of them could match the beast in close combat. It was simply asking for death.

However when they took the long-range attacking method, the beast wasn't completely helpless either. Because it could breathe fire. This time it successfully burned two vampires. Though they didn't die from its attack, they weren't in a condition to fight anymore either.

"Let me take care of him," when every one of them was filled with despair as they could not take care of a single mindless beast, a voice came from behind them. They split and formed a path, then a man walked in front of them. He was a Rank 2 vampire!

All the Rank 1 vampires retreated respectfully. The man looked at the beast and then at the Kadyn behind it and sneered disdainfully. Then without speaking anything he lifted his right hand and slashed in the beast's direction. However, before anyone could understand what had happened, the Cerberus sliced into two equal parts. The insides of the beast fell from below the belly and spread on the ground. Blood and water and other disgusting material.

Unexpectedly the impact of the attack even affected Kadyn who had once again opened the window, however, by mistake he chose another continent just now and had to go back and start over again. He knew that such a mistake at this moment was almost asking for death, but he was under too much pressure and it happened without even realising. That's why it took him so long. He wanted to teleport to Avibria city, but then he was smashed on the wall by an enemy attack.

He groaned and winced and then sat by the support of the wall. He held his chest that took the last attack and knew that his rib was broken. Then he peered at the attacker and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His vision was blurry and he felt dizzy. "Shit!" he cursed.

The vampire walked towards him step by step and crouched in front of him and before he could say anything, he grabbed his face in his hand and slammed him on the wall. Kadyn felt as if his head would explode at any moment. The pain was almost unbearable, the right side of his face was covered in blood while his right eye had closed due to swelling.

Only then the vampire spoke. "Where is the girl?"

Kadyn tried to focus with his single eye on the man and revealed his bloody teeth. "Which girl?" he said.

"Crack~"

"Ahhhh!"

"This time I just broke your single hand, next time it will be your other hand and then another leg and the torture will continue until you tell me where is the girl." The vampire said with an emotionless voice.

Kadyn gritted his teeth and remained silent.

"AHHHH!!"

"Next will be your right leg,"

Kadyn's entire body twitches and his two hands dangled at the side of his body without any strength. However at this moment Kadyn curled his lips and said in a weak voice. "I don't think you will be able to fulfil your wish."

The vampire frowned at him and reached to break his leg, but before he could take the action, the light covered Kadyn and then he vanished. There was nothing at his place, except his blood and rubble and debris of battle and of course the guts and faeces of the beast.

"Fuck!" one of the vampires cursed as he witnessed this eye-popping scene.

"What the hell was that?" someone else commented.

"He-he vanished just like that?" the disbelief was evident on their faces.

"Was that legendary Space Element?" one of them asked in confusion.

"What do you know?" another vampire sneered. "He wasn't even a Rank 1 mage, how could he perform such a long-range teleportation spell. Three to five meters should be his limit. But now, see, he had vanished without any trace. That was too ridiculous. If my guess is correct he must have a powerful teleportation artefact."

Rank 2 vampire's expression turned ugly as soon as Kadyn vanished. He wasn't even a Spell Caster but he escaped so easily from his grasp in front of so many vampires. That was so humiliating in his eyes. Unacceptable. Unforgivable.