23 A Shot at the Dark

Draig was looking at his system and found his advancement skills, they were negligible at best in his opinion but he could make use out of two of them. Clicking the skills he made his decision with Murder of Crows and Vampire's Allure.

"These should prove it's usefulness soon" said Draig as he waited for Sylvie to finish resting while also seeing if any of the Guilders would return.

It was about an hour later that people began showing up and looking towards Draig with a bit of trepidation, a few prominent Guilders stood at their lead hands resting on their weapons.

"What do you want Vampire" asked a Knight with a familiar red armor

"To war against those two" stated Draig pointing to Zarra and Rodolfo who were still watching the scene unfold.

"Why should we listen to you" demanded the knight arrogantly.

Draig wasted no more words and casually tossed a red stone towards the knight, Draig hadn't been idle while he was waiting he had been refining more Skill Stones before resting once more.

The knight looked at the stone under the curious gazes of everyone present and slowly widened his eyes before looking at Draig seriously.

"Where did you get this" demanded the Knight

"I make them" stated Draig

"What's the issue Goeki" asked one of the other assumed Leaders

"Whats up with the rock flame brain" asked a arrogant youth.

"It's a skill stone" said Goeki seriously, Goeki was a prominent figure out in the real world. One of the specialized classes known as Flame Knight.

Goeki did not like Draig due to their first encounter when he was casually defeated at the hands of the latter, thus when he had heard the Vampire boy was calling everyone he had figured he would use his forces to overwhelm him but ended up crossing paths with his rivals. At that moment he realized his plans would not succeed, if his faction was weakened in front of these other groups they would be picked clean without knowing what happened.

Now it had gone even further from his original intentions with the introduction of the Skill Stone.

"Goeki what are you talking about" asked the arrogant youth from before, he was wrapped in a thick set of robes carrying an interesting looking staff with five heads facing different directions forming the top of if.

"Look at it for yourself Zura" said Goeki tossing the stone to the arrogant youth who then let out a gasp.

"You said you made this" asked Zura staring at Draig intently

"I did" answered Draig simply

"Then what's gonna stop us from just forcing you to make more for us" stated Zura confidently.

Draig cast his gaze at Zura causing the youth's confidence to shatter instantly as the effect of the Apex Predator title activated,

"Simple you are not qualified" stated Draig ominously as he allowed everyone in this gigantic crowd to feel the effects of his title.

"Then what do you want" asked Goeki gritting his teeth as he tried to keep himself fromshivering under that gaze.

"I already told you, I wish to wage war" responded Draig

The group silently looked at each other as if debating their odds, if all of them united they could probably take them down just like when word had spread about the Blood Knight having lost his sword after receiving so many attacks. They looked at the positions of Zarra and Rodolfo and slowly came to the acceptance this was probably the best way to be done with this hostile lifestyle.

"Fine, what do you want us to do" stated Goeki

"Simple attack and distract while I go in for the kill" stated Draig smiling hungrily at the two floating in the sky above.

"Then we will follow your lead" stated Zura somewhat differently

'It's only been about two months since this all started and this is all that's left from everyone who came' thought Draig looking at the combined forces before him and feeling disappointed.

"Lord Sylvie is awake" came the quiet voice

Turning around Draig was welcome to the sight of Sylvie once again walking normally, she fell in place behind Draig causing him to smile slightly. Tina also fell in line albeit hesitantly, her mind just resigning herself to this position but a hint of longing could be seen in her eyes when she stared at Draig. She was aware of the feeling she had but she didn't know what had changed, right after Sylvie had passed out Draig had just suddenly changed.

Draig then called out to Zarra.

"Dark Mage, we are done being your guinea pigs. We want our freedom, today we will do whatever it takes to achieve that" stated Draig calmly but his words were like thunder easily traveling the distance.

Zarra was interested in this development and couldn't help but smile as he and Rodolfo landed on the ground.

"What is it leech brat" asked Zarra with that same patronizing smile

Draig sat silent for a long moment, the crowd behind him began to get nervous but just as they were considering leaving he spoke.

"Kill" stated Draig as the group behind him charged towards Zarra and Rodolfo while became mist that scattered in their wake