Castle of vampire progenitor
"Rose!?"
With a shout Eric woke up from his sleep.
Eric looked around only to see that he was still in the cave where he fought the bat.
"Haa..."He calmed down as he gazed at the ceiling.
"That unpleasant dream again."
The death of rose was still Vivid in his memory, even after seven years. It was about that time that he stopped trusting people , because of his trust issues he even stopped interacting with people. Maybe it was the type of protection mechanism, Eric didn't know if he was right or not but after experiencing how Maverick betrayed him, he was glad that he didn't trust anyone. At least it was easy to cop up with the betrayal.
"Get it together man! You can mop about the past later, first let's get out of here."
Eric stood up as he started searching the cave for a way to get out of here. He started searching every nook and cranny of the cave. While searching he found sets of arrays at the corner of the cave.
Arrays were set of ancient runic formation used for different purposes. Like teleportation, mana gathering, traps and etc. The only problem was that arrays were ancient and in present nobody had ever understood or created an array. why would they? this was the generation of technology. with mana at their hand, mankind had made huge steps in technology by combining mana and science in many different ways. so all the arrays present in the world were the last of their generation.
Eric didn't know what this array did either and there was only one way to find out. to put it into use.
Using an array was simple as you only need to pass your mana through it.
Eric touched one part of the circular array as mana flowed from his hand to the array.
Suddenly the array started changing and red light started emerging from border to center.
Startled, Eric stepped back.
Moment Eric stepped back, light began retreating and the array reverted back to its original, unused form.
'Got to take a risk'
With that thought, Eric supplied mana to the array again. The array started changing and red light emerged from border to center. The light concentrated on the centre in the shape of the ball for a few seconds and then became bigger and bigger and soon took the shape of the gate.
The gate was as big as the cave's height, and there were several black runes lined at the border of the gate giving it an ancient vibe.
Eric was suspicious of this gate but he didn't have much choice. It was either this or roaming around the cave to find another exit.
Eric much rather take this, then looking for another way hopelessly.
And it was common knowledge for the portal to exit the dungeon, to appear where the boss monster was defeated.
So if it didn't appear here, then chances of it appearing anywhere else were very slim.
Eric stepped inside the array as he pushed open the majestic red gate.
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A black moon in the bloody red sky. This was the first thing Eric noticed when he passed through the gate.
Second was the giant castle, Some distance away. It stood there as if it was centuries old.
It was surrounded by a forest whose trees had withered, only showing black trunk and branches. It increased the creepiness of the place by a large margin.
Eric stepped forward as he headed toward the castle. He instinctively knew, that his way out of this place was there.
Soon Eric entered the forest. It was not at all like a normal forest, There was unusual deathly silence in it.
Eric didn't stop and continued on his way toward the castle.
He stopped in his tracks as he sensed the presence of a group of monsters 100 meters away from him.
He immediately used [stone armour] and hid himself behind one of the trees.
A few minutes later a group of women with white hair and white dresses appeared. there was nothing wrong with them until Eric saw their faces. Large Black eyes and crying the tears of blood.
And then suddenly out of nowhere they started screaming and wailing.
"AAAAAAAAAAAA...
Eric just stood there wondering what they were doing.
As he stood there he remembered that in a dream how Rose's body was embedded in the wall and he just stood there watching her die. And worst of all he even got kidnapped by her killers.
Eric was feeling nothing but regret, pain and sadness about losing someone he loved so miserably.
'I'm useless I couldn't even save her, I don't deserve to live. I should just die.'
In between his self loathing Eric pupil suddenly dilated. As he began to see himself in the third perspective. He was being strangled to death by women in white dress.
Eric's pupil became normal and a screen prompt appeared at the corner of his eyes.
[Precognition was in effect]
This time it didn't take long for Eric to react. He released Sonic blast where the screams were coming from.
And the Sonic blast hit the women in white dresses. All of them were knocked back as black blood started coming out of their ear.
Eric back was drenched in sweat as he realised he could have died. He didn't wait for them to get up as he fired fire balls at them and burned them to ashes.
Eric understood that those screams were not normal. The moment he heard them he started to think about rose and all the negative emotions kicked in.
[ You gained a small amount of mana ]
[ You gained the ability: voices of regret ]
[ Voices of regret: by activating this ability you will be able to put your target in a small illusion of their regret and failures. ]
[ You gained slight resistance against ] illusions ]
Soon the prompts of killing them appeared.
"So there really was something wrong with their screams huh"
Eric commented as he got the information about his new ability.
'Now that I think about it. They looked like creatures from one of the books.'
"What was its name again? Ah! Yes"
"banshee and the name of the book was mythological creatures"
Mythological creatures were creatures whose stories were even older than the occurrence of great catastrophes. But there was no evidence to prove their existence, until mana surged in the world opening dungeon who housed these mythological creatures, not all of them but still some of them were still found in dungeons.
There was one thing in common between these creatures and monsters. That was there hostile behaviour against humans. Even if there was infighting between them they would drop it all if humans ever appeared in their territory.
Eric also gained small resistance against illusions.
'At least I won't have to rely fully on Precognition.'
At one hand Eric was happy that he had such a life saving ability. on the other hand he was disappointed in himself for reling too much on it.
Though eric really was glad that Mike died in his hand.
'If it wasn't for him I would have been dead.'
Eric thought as he thanked Mike for his sacrifices.
"I should avoid monsters from now and focus on getting out of here."
Eric moved fast yet cautiously as he avoided all the monsters throughout his way.
It was necessary, if Eric's guess was correct banshee was around his rank. Yet it still had such a unique type of ability which could even put him in life threatening situations. He? who defeated monsters twice his rank . If it wasn't for Precognition he would have 100% died.
If it was any other time he would enjoy being in such a place. Filled with different kinds of abilities. But not this time, he needed to get out of here fast and show Maverick why you shouldn't mess with Alastair.
Soon Eric reached the castle while avoiding monsters, like giant spiders with one eye and giant blue centipede.
The castle was at least 5 to 6 km away from where Eric's starting place was. And it took Eric about 15 minutes to reach the castle, he could have done this faster if it wasn't for those banshees. After all he did have passive ability [ Enhanced agility ] from one of the guards of mike. His speed was about 30 to 40 meters per second. The average speed of humans is about 20 meters per second, that is, if they hit the ground with the maximum force physiologically possible.
So when Eric reached the castle doors which were pure black and had shining red ruins at the centre and additionally were surrounded by two demonic dog type statues. They were twice as big as normal dogs and they had two golden black horns on their head, with a golden belt around their chest.
Marvelling at details of statues, Eric took a step forward. Instant the Eric stepped towards the door statues eyes started shining gold as they came to life, and jumped from their pedestal.
"Oh, fuck"
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