119 3.31 The Clubs - Part 2

"Hey, why don't we just do just opposite. You can take that fool or whatever, and leave us at peace," Zagan said as he walked towards the clown.

He still had the sword in his hand, and the smile on his face was clearly saying that he was up to something.

"Well kid, looks like I will have my hands full with this clown. You will need to deal with those bloodsuckers on your own."

It was at that moment I remembered what flare told me about her golden flames. So, I threw the rod that I was holding on the ground and created a sword using Flare's golden flames.

"Wait, I think we should do the opposite. I will handle the clown while you deal with these bloodsuckers."

Zagan smiled when he saw the Flame sword in my hand. That meant he understood what I was trying to do.

"Okay then, I guess I will show these bloodsuckers what the former general of the Demon lord's army looks like."

"Oh my, then you really are the great Lucifer... Though it's a shame that you have fallen this low. Guess all the tales I heard about you were just exaggerations," Joker said.

It was clear that he was trying to buy time by provoking us, so instead of responding to him, I charged straight at him.

When he saw me coming towards him, he closed his umbrella and tried blocking my sword with it.

That might have worked if my sword was made up of any physical material, but as it was now, I could just make it pass through the umbrella.

When the surface of my sword touched his body, the miasma in him started being purified, but his body itself started decaying. There was only one word to describe how his body started looking: ugly.

"Keh-keh-keh... KEH-KEH-KEH."

Despite the condition he was in, he was laughing. That made him look even creepier than he already was.

Right when I was almost done with purifying all the miasma, black smoke came out of his back and changed into a cloud with a face.

"Keh-Keh-Keh! You may purify that body, but I will just find another one. We will meet again."

After saying that, the cloud of dust disappeared, and the body it was possessing, fell on the ground.

As I had thought, it turned out to be someone possessed by an evil spirit. But now the question was: 'Who on the earth is using this spirit, and how?'

But that was something that I could think about later. I had to take care of the situation first. I turned around, and there Zagan was going against 12 of those at once.

"Hey dude, what's with your hair?"

"Well, every time I absord a little miasma, I start changing into my true form."

His hair had grown, and he was starting to look a little muscular. The way he was fighting 12 of them at once proved that his strength had also increased several-fold.

"Are you going to join, or are you just going to watch," Zagan said while blocking a claw attack from the front.

I physically enhanced my right leg and kicked the vampire that just attacked me in guts. He went flying towards the nearby rubble and crashed.

We were watching each other's back so they had no choice but to attack from the front. Even though Zagan might be able to handle them alone, it wouldn't be wise to move forward without him. Especially considering the fact that I had no idea when it came to dealing with miasma.

While I was busy with that one, another vampire charged at me from the left. This time, I grabbed his hand exactly when it was about to reach me.

I pulled his arm and threw him towards the direction where had I just kicked the vampire that came at me earlier.

"So hey, do we need to expose them in the sun or something?"

"These don't look young enough to die with just the sun. Try burning them with your flames."

After Zagan said that, I fired a Fire slash at the ones that were on the ground, but they dodged it before it could reach them.

While I was attacking them, two vampires charged at me. One came from the front while another from the left.

I had no time to counter them both, so I extended my cloak and created a wall of flames around me.

When their hands touched the wall of flames, it burned them which proved that they were weak against Flare's flame.

Both of them backed down so I used this opportunity to attack them with a long horizontal Fire slash. This time they weren't prepared to dodge it, and as soon as the flames touched their body, they started burning.

"Kid, above you."

I jumped forward as soon I heard him say that. And by doing so I narrowly escaped the claws that were coming at me from above.

"Man, they have wings too?!" I said when I saw the two long bat-like wings growing out of their back.

"Honestly, you are lucky that you have those flames to protect you... As for me, I have to dodge everything," he said while dodging the two that were attacking him from the front.

"Then I think I will go on the offensive. You can keep them distracted," I said after which I charged towards the one that just attacked me.

As predicted, the two that were on my right charged at me when they saw the opportunity. But as they were doing that, they left themselves wide open.

I sensed their position and fired a Fire slash at them. Without looking backward, I charged towards the one in the front.

He tried to move backward, but Zagan turned around and kicked him in his neck.

I used this opportunity to attack him with a fire arrow. And when the arrow touched him, his whole body started burning.

"5 down, 7 to go."

: The Clubs - Part 3