"You guys!" Quinn exclaimed in disbelief as he started at the figures in front of him.
Four figures emerged from the maze's pathway on Quinn's left. Quinn personally knew them as he had met them from time to time, and he was surprised that they decided to showed up and was relieved to see them.
"Yo." Core Oliver greeted Quinn with a slight nod and a lollipop in her mouth, she had a deep frown on her face, but she looked cute rather than threatening.
'.... hasn't grown....at all.' Quinn thought looking at Core.
"Good to see you again, Sir." Louie Robbins greeted Quinn.
'respectful as always....' Quinn thought looking at Louie who had a warm smile on his face.
"..... Tsk, you're not dead yet." Arngrim clicked his tongue and looked way with an annoyed look.
'arrogant as always....' Quinn sighed and shook his head.
"Old man? When did you learn this?" Henry Hale asked while looking around in amazement.
"You Eshwar." Quinn mumbled out involuntarily and made Core, Louie and Arngrim chuckle.
"What was that supposed to be? An insult or a compliment?" Henry asked with his brows furrowed at Quinn.
"For now, an insult." Quinn said with a smile.
"I hope you're warm reunion is over." Kensa Bishop said with a nonchalant look on his face.
"Wow, look at his face." Arngrim said as he walked towards Kensa, but was stopped by one of the vampires, he didn't seem to mind as he continued to walk towards him, pushing back those who stood in his way and halted when he was a step away from Kensa.
"It's a pity." Arngrim curled his lips down as he mumbled.
'There is he goes again....' Quinn shook his head with a smile.
"What is?" Kensa frowned at Arngrim because he didn't seem to like the human acting as if he owned the place.
"You got a competition." Arngrim ignored Kensa, walked back and said to Core.
"Really?" Core furrowed her brows and squinted her eyes at Kensa Bishop who was seething in anger.
"Hmm... I guess he won." Core mumbled and nodded her head in understanding, Louie, Henry and Arngrim chuckled while everybody else who were staring at them were flabbergasted.
"Yea, it's a pity, if he was woman I would have gone on another round in the maze. Look, he has a face with delicate features as if he has never been outside just like you. Tsk, what a waste." Arngrim explained for the others while looking at Core and Kensa back and forth before sighing deeply in disappointment.
"Pfft." A laugh could be heard from the back corner, setting off a chain reaction in which all of Quinn's allies began to chuckle lifting off the tense atmosphere while some of the vampires covered their mouths with their hands.
"You! Basta*ds!" Kensa Bishop clenched his fists and gritted his teeth before releasing his killing intent, which made everyone gasp for air, including the vampires, with the exception of Core, Quinn, Louie, Arngrim, and Henry.
*
"Heh." Arngrim scoffed and dashed at the vampires after taking out a scythe from his subspace.
'Stupid basta*d, falling for such a small provocation, laughable for a 'Ranked' vampire!' Arngrim thought and started to swing his scythe.
His scythe was 7 feet long with a horizontally curved blade like a hook, the curved blade was almost a metre long, dark red with several bumps on it that were lumps of meat from all those he had slaughtered with his scythe.
"Hap-!" Arngrim roared and danced around the battlefield while spinning the scythe around him, he swung his scythe so fast that he appeared to be in the middle of a transparent red blob. Red blob, because of all the blood splatter he caused with his scythe, he turned five vampires into blooded meat lumps in an instant.
"Aye! Leave some for us too!" When Arngrim heard Core's voice from behind him, he turned to face them with a wide savage grin.
"First come, first served!" Arngrim said and dashed towards the army of vampires.
"You cheater! You ran first!" Core yelled at Arngrim who shrugged it off and continued to 'slaughter' the vampires.
To kill a vampire, their heart needs to be destroyed, but there is another simply way and that is to.....
Turn them into minced meat.
*
"Arg! I'm going to kill him first!" Core said in frustration while Louie and Henry chuckled.
"Well, let's join the fun." Henry said as he leaned forward over Core's shoulder with a slight smile.
"Mmm~" Core hummed and stared at Henry from the corner of her eyes.
"Aye! Kids are here! Don't do anything inappropriate and there is a certain time for those things!" Louie karate chopped on their heads and said while shaking his head in disbelief.
"Sir Walker, please send off everybody, they'll simply die if they stay here." Louie said while staring at Quinn straight in the eye.
"Yes please, no hindrance is needed." Core said after giving a quick peck on Henry's lips.
"Agreed." Henry said while chuckling at Core's adorable actions.
"Right." Quinn was hesitant after hearing Core's choice of words, but he understood their point and agreed because they were a hindrance even for Quinn because he couldn't fight properly while protecting them and the fewer the number, the higher their survival rate against the vampires appeared to be.
"We'll definitely survive." Louie assured, staring at Quinn ponder and snapped him out of his trance.
"I'll be back in a bit, I'll cancel the zone and apply after I return." Quinn said and rushed back to his allies.
[It doesn't matter, does it?] Core said to Louie and Henry via telepathy.
[He doesn't know that we could just overpower it, so leave him be for now.] Henry replied as Louie nodded in agreement, Core, too, nodded her head in understanding.
"Anyway, shall we have some fun? It's been a while too." Henry said as he stretched his body.
"It sure has." Louie said with a slight nod and took out only his double edged 4 foot long sword.
"Hm? He has yet to reach the 20th body count, let's go!" Core said while staring at Arngrim who was dodging and slashing at everybody who go a bit too close.
Many blood spikes protruded from the ground, as well as blood bullets, a blood cutter that looked like a wind blade magic spell, blood rain, blood arrows, and blood spears, which were being launched at Arngrim, who had a wide savage grin on his face as he dodged, slashed at the so very vampire-like techniques, and killed some vampires while standing in the middle of their horde.
"Hahaha!" Arngrim abruptly laughed maniacally.
"Well, that's 'The Psycho' for you."