Kazuto was merciless and continued to increase his magic chain's temperature that restrained the vampire's body. Not long after, sort of like hot steam evaporated from Yang Shuo's body, and his skin peeled off as if it had melted from the heat of the lava.
How could Kazuto give mercy to the vampire who was planning to take Niken from him? He didn't know what had happened while Niken was in this place for over two months, but he could smell Yang Shuo's scent on Niken's body, making him want to destroy whatever he saw.
No. Kazuto preferred to rip the vampire's limb apart and feed the meat on the most brutal magical beast in his country.
That was the reason why Kazuto had gotten out of control before this. He had been blinded by anger and hatred towards Yang Shuo for touching his inamorata and shifted into the black wolf.
If he hadn't gotten out of control, he wouldn't have been trapped by this vampire spikes trap. If he didn't die, Niken wouldn't need to use her power that could drain her energy to reverse the time of this world.
Fortunately, Kazuto managed to control his emotions even though he was still furious and wanted to burn this vampire into ashes.
Now it's the turn of the vampire's life under his palm. Being under the daemon-restrain chain's bonds allowed him to kill the vampire effortlessly, and he would do it if only no one interrupted him.
Just as Kazuto was about to end this game and wanted to return to the mortal realm immediately, Zephyr arrived and destroyed the chain with one finger snap.
If the one who came was not master Z, Kazuto wouldn't care and drew his sword straight at the vampire's body.
Kazuto didn't protest when he found out that Zephyr prevented him from killing the vampire. As one of the captains of the Ace force, he knew Zephyr was obliged to catch this vampire and brought the bloodsucker before The Hakim.
Yang Shuo still didn't pass out even though he didn't have the strength to move his muscles. His eyes fixed on Kazuto's figure with questions.
Is it true that the black knight is not blood-related to Zen?
He didn't realize it before because his eyes were focused on kidnapping Niken and bringing her into this world. Now that he was looking closely at Kazuto, he noticed something. There was no doubt that the black knight had the same vibe as Zen.
"You... must be the descendant of that person." muttered the vampire before he lost consciousness.
Kazuto's sharp hearing caught the vampire's last words, yet he didn't care.
He didn't know the person called Zen, nor did he if this Zen was related to him.
All he cares about is immediately returning to the mortal realm and letting Niken breathe the air in the human world to heal her internal wounds.
Zephyr understood what Kazuto was worried about and immediately teleported them to the portal door position once he took Yang Shuo and locked him in a particular prison in his astral dimension.
Unfortunately, they couldn't head straight to the portal door because a bunch of degraded vampires had gathered there. To be precise, they were trying to get through the portal entrance to enter the mortal realm.
Hokuto, Lionel, and Izzy have tried their best to prevent the degraded vampires from getting out of the portal door, but their energy has reached its limit.
Kazuto let Zephyr step forward while waiting in his position as he felt powerful energy emanating from master Z's body.
Kazuto clenched his hands into a fist as he saw what happened every time Zephyr stepped his foot.
Every time his feet hit the ground, around the wizard's feet, a wave of aura was created that could split large boulders. Zephyr controlled his energy so that his aura would not kill the degraded vampire or Kazuto, who was standing behind him.
His aura alone was enough to knock the degraded vampires into two parts to give them a path as if Zephyr was a royal member walking on the red carpet.
Kazuto lowered his eyes, realizing how significant their cultivation power gap was. Even though Kazuto had magic energy and elements in his body, he would never be able to win against the mix-blood wizard.
He knew sooner or later he will have to answer the man's inquiry about Ren's death. Maybe he will get beat, or worst, Zephyr would kill him. Kazuto was not a coward and ran away from problems. Even so, he hoped Zephyr would show mercy at him.
He just found his inamorata. And his dark life due to his painful past began to shine with Niken by his side.
Kazuto still didn't want to stop his moment with Niken. He wanted to be with that girl and laugh with her.
He really hoped Zephyr wouldn't kill him after this.
When Zephyr had taken ten steps forward, Kazuto followed behind him between two groups of degraded vampires on either side.
The degraded vampires didn't dare approach and only hissed out a loud threatening sound, but the two men walked expressionlessly as if they were walking amidst the ants.
As soon as both men entered the mortal realm, Zephyr closed the portal door again, leaving the furious degraded vampires.
Kazuto and Zephyr were greeted by three Elementalist knights who were panting as they were overwhelmed to prevent the degraded vampires from leaving the portal. They also saw several corpses of degraded vampires scattered on the floor, giving off an unpleasant odor.
Kazuto couldn't imagine how hard the three of his fellow knights guarded this portal door.
"Well done." came the praise from the captain.
For some unknown reasons, all the Elementalist knights did not like hearing that compliment.