Crack
Crack
"And why does it hurt so bad?" Evans grimaced in pain as he tried to move his hand which had been wounded by the Cerberus sword.
"Hooahhhhhh…" Adeline leaped and crossed the gap that Evans had put in between the two of them. She aimed to pierce the blade right through his heart and finish him off.
But Evans slipped to the side just in time to avoid the deadly blade from being the end of him. He did get a small graze on his other forearm though.
"And why haven't I healed yet?" he growled in his mind.
Adeline was not giving him any time to rest. She swung her blade in his direction again and again.
And each time, he either got some deep cut or at minimum, he got grazed or poked.
"Damn, he's good at avoiding my attacks. I should have killed at least five vampires in the time I am entertaining him." Adeline thought to herself as she went in for a kick this time. She jumped in the air in order to land a powerful kick right on his head.
Though Evans was not trying to show it on his face, he was feeling very tired as well as weak due to his body slowly dying from the wounds. And even when he could see Adeline's foot flying right towards his face, he could do little to dodge that attack.
And as Adeline had expected, the kick did slam him down to the ground very badly.
"Argh!" Evans hit his head hard on the ground and got a mild cut on his head. He tried to get up so that he could keep on avoiding that Queen until he figured out how to defeat her.
But the countless wounds on his arms and shoulders that he got from Adeline's sword made him flop right back down to the ground.
Adeline wanted to take advantage of his weak condition. "Don't you dare to run this time!" She thought to herself while heaving deep breaths in, "Let me put you out of your misery. You're dying anyway."
However, seeing their General down on the ground, a few of the vampires who were near swarmed at Adeline.
"Ugh! There is no end to them no matter how many I kill." Adeline swiped her sword upward and chopped off the arm of a vampire who was about to grab her. She then pushed her sword through his heart while he was screaming in pain.
And she irately thought to herself, "These flies never stop hovering around. Just die already!"
She then went after another vampire who was trying to stop her.
Evans, on the other hand, slowly raised his hand to hold the wound on his head thinking it was the reason why he was feeling dizzy.
That was when he finally noticed that the area around the deep cut on his forearm had turned ash-grey somehow. "What in the hell? How is this even possible?"
At first, he thought that the sword was laced with some kind of poison that could have been lethal to the vampires. So he sucked one of his already infected wounds and spat. He kept on doing so but nothing changed.
He even bit off a chunk of his own infected flesh and threw it thinking he could heal after that. However, not just his flesh, but his bone had also lost its original color.
He furrowed his brows and thought, "Can this Queen somehow hurt us? Is that why she is fighting so fearlessly in the middle of the vampires instead of riding a horse in the middle of those humans?"
He raised his head and glanced at Adeline. She was now slowly walking towards him while dragging her sword on the ground. The sword was sending out sparks when its tip came into friction with the ground.
Evans could feel the wound on his head healing already. He touched his head and to his confirmation, the wound had indeed healed.
"That isn't a normal sword, is it?" he asked himself. "I thought it was her power to give unhealable wounds to others. But in reality, it's the power of that sword."
Evans looked around him in search of something, anything that could be useful to him. "I have to make her lose her sword. And then only it will be an even fight. Else at this rate, I will die soon."
His eyes twinkled when they fell on something useful.
Continuously killing the vampires had taken a toll on Adeline's stamina. So she took her time to prepare herself to give the killing blow to that vampire lying down on the ground. It didn't look like he was going to run away anyway.
Upon reaching near him she turned her sword upside down and held the hilt with both of her hands. She lifted the sword in the air and simultaneously jumped while aiming to stab that Vampire General's chest.
She straddled him and pushed down the sword while exerting great force.
Before the sword could pierce through his heart, Evans sacrificed his left palm by grabbing the blade and using all his power to stop the sword. And with his other hand, he picked up a rock and threw it at Adeline's head.
"Aaahhh!" Adeline's head flipped backward because of the force with which the stone was smashed into her head.
Her skull got cracked.
And a river of blood gushed down from the wound and covered her left eye's vision completely.
Adeline was distracted just for a second but that was what it took for that General to pull away her sword from her grasp and throw it to the other end of the battlefield.
And though he was unable to get up, he did grab Adeline by her arm and leg and slammed her down beside him.
"Arghhhhhh…" Adeline hit her head on the ground and stayed face down. Her eyelashes were fluttering as though Adeline was about to lose her consciousness.
Evans slowly shifted to his side and put an effort to crawl toward Adeline's head. "I'm taking you down with me!"
However, before he could inch any further, he felt someone stepping on his back.
"Adeline!"
Adeline inhaled sharply and opened her eyes wide upon hearing Theodore's voice.
Theodore picked up that General and threw him aside as though he was some lifeless log that was on his way.
"Adeline, please don't close your eyes," Theodore knelt down and helped Adeline lay down on her back.
He could already feel Adeline's pain but seeing her wound made his heart clench even badly.
"Adeline, hold on a second." Theodore quickly took out a pill from his pouch and fed it to Adeline.
The wound on her head was patched up in no time. And so did all other small cuts and scratches that she had sustained here and there on her body.
"Can you stand?" Theodore knitted his brows in tune and gazed at his wife.
"Yes," Adeline held out her hand and Theodore helped her up.
Theodore couldn't help but tightly wrap his arms around Adeline's body. "You scared me for a second there."
Something very sweet entered Adeline's nose. Adeline closed her eyes and absorbed that sweetness from the air.
She felt a sudden burst of energy and power like she had never before.