Chapter Twenty-Three: The Vampire III
Seeing that the vampire continued to rush towards him, Rhodes hurriedly controlled the undead creature next to him and moved closer to the vampire.
The vampire rushed to Rod's side, and Rhodes slashed his backhand upward, colliding with the vampire's claws.
Taking advantage of the vampire's attack on him, Rhodes commanded the undead creatures on the side. On the side, the nearest corpse wolf jumped up under Rod's control, ready to bite the vampire not far away.
The vampire's figure flashed, its claws slashing through the air, and the corpse of the corpse wolf, which was already broken, broke into two. Blood spilled on the vampire's face, and instead of slowing it down, it seemed to give it a stimulus that made it even more excited.
The rest of the surrounding undead creatures had also arrived and began to surround the vampires.
Previously, in the tomb, Rhodes had always seen the state of the vampire bat, and he did not have an intuitive understanding of its own strength. At this time, with the help of the bright light outside the tomb, Rhodes finally saw the appearance of the vampire clearly.
Vampires are no different from normal people. The robes and robes had become tattered by the erosion of time and the scorching flames, making it difficult to cover its body.
On its body, there are burn marks, especially on the foot, which are hardly intact. However, due to its strong constitution, even if it is damaged, it will not affect its mobility.
The hands and faces of the vampire are where Rhodes focuses his observations. The vampire's blood-stained claws, as well as its teeth sticking out of its mouth, are undoubtedly its strongest weapons.
After a brief observation, Rhodes was able to distinguish the type of vampire in front of him from the qualities it carried.
There are two types of vampires, one is the traditional vampire, which hides in the human city-states everywhere. Even if they are only second-order, they have the appearance of human beings, behave like ordinary people, and like to suck the blood of humans, which can be used to improve the rank level.
Taking advantage of their appearance as humans, they will secretly establish their influence within the human city-states, but they will generally not be able to hide from the thieves in the city. When discovered, they are often expelled or even tried as heretics.
The other vampire is similar to the vampire in front of Rhodes, although it is the same size as a human, but it has sharp claws like knives, which make it easy to bite directly into the teeth of prey, and it is generally easy to distinguish.
Also fond of human blood, this kind of vampire does not obtain it in the shadows like the previous one, but directly hunts people as prey, and then devours flesh and blood.
For this reason, these vampires were hunted down by all human creatures and had to flee back to their place of origin. Rhodes knew that the location was in Diane, a vampire with a close connection to necromancers.
These two types of vampires are said to share a common ancestor, but there are also wars within these two types of vampires.
At the moment when Rhodes observed, the vampire and the undead creatures that had already fought with the surrounding were in a mess.
A walking corpse grabbed at the vampire, and the vampire reached out with a backhand claw, and his arm brought out an indistinguishable afterimage under the high speed, and before the walking corpse's attack arrived, he first grabbed the walking corpse's neck, and the claws on his hand pierced deep into the flesh, and then pulled backwards, grabbing a large piece of flesh.
Half of the walking corpse's neck disappeared in an instant. The huge amount of damage directly extinguished the fire of the walking corpse's soul and fell to the ground.
The vampire did not stop after killing the walking corpse, and continued to grab towards the corpse wolf underground, but the corpse wolf could not dodge, and a large blood wound appeared in front of him. The vampire stabbed the wolf in the neck with another claw, and a large chunk of flesh flew up.
At this time, the surrounding undead creatures all surrounded and attacked the vampire one after another. Even if a vampire can easily kill an undead creature, they will be temporarily trapped in the middle. Rhodes also took advantage of the vampire's attack and stabbed it in the side.
The vampire seemed to anticipate this, and before the undead creatures could attack the vampires, a large black mist erupted among the undead creatures.
A large swarm of bats poured out of the black mist, pounced directly on the nearest walking corpse and corpse wolf. Due to the proximity, nearby undead creatures are completely unable to dodge. The bat began to bite frantically at the body of the undead creature.
As soon as Rod drew his sword, he sensed that something was wrong. Before Rhodes could control the undead creatures to retreat, the vampire turned into bats and pounced on the surrounding undead creatures. In addition, quite a few bats are pounced on Rhodes.
Rod stabbed out with a sword. The bat just wanted to dodge, but Rod's blade seemed to lock onto the bat in the air, and no matter which angle it flew up, Rhodes could make subtle adjustments to the sword in his hand so that the tip of the sword was always facing the bat in front of him.
The bat was pierced by a sword, and it directly dissipated into a black mist.
Dealing with flying creatures like bats, Rhodes chose to stab this way. The sword in Rod's hand stabbed out one after another, and the blade turned into a sword flower in Rod's hand, and black mist burst out in the air one after another.
Even though the bat had shown a strong dodge ability in advance and could dodge the weapons swung at it head-on by flying, in the face of Rhodes, who had expert-level swordsmanship, the bat seemed to have lost this ability, and could only be pierced by Rhodes one by one and turned into black mist.
Quickly clearing out the bats flying towards him head-on, without stopping, Rhodes felt the mental imprints weakening, and immediately went to support the fallen undead creatures, stabbing the bats hanging on them with his sword.
Just as Rhodes had just picked out some bats, the remaining bats retreated directly, ignoring the remaining undead creatures.
Looking at the bloodstained undead creature beside him, Rhodes knew that the undead creature had suffered a heavy loss this time.
Unlike Rhodes, the undead creatures themselves have difficulty dealing with bats, and they rely on Rhodes' support.
The bat embeds its claws in the walking corpse, just hanging on the walking corpse, relying on its teeth to bite the walking corpse, without the help of Rhodes, it is difficult for the walking corpse to tear the bat off the body by its own strength, if it is hard to pull, the result can only be brought down by the bat's claws A large piece of flesh and blood.
Many of the walking corpses are missing a few fingers, precisely because in the process of ripping off the bats, the bats bite directly at the hands they are pulling. Almost all of the walking corpses had blood on their hands.
The condition of the corpse wolf is even worse, its own constitution is low, and after being hung by the bat, it can only rely on rolling on the ground to make the bat release its claws. But bats seem to have special barbs on their claws, which are almost impossible to tear apart once they are attached to the body of their prey.
The only thing that is still intact should be the undead creature of the Corpse Wolf King. The Corpse Wolf King, who was transformed into an undead creature, brought out its powerful physical qualities. In previous battles, Rhodes had seen it leap to its feet several times and accurately bite a flying bat.
The bats gathered not far away, and as the black mist poured by, the vampire reappeared.
Looking at the figure of the vampire, Rhodes deeply understood that the undead creatures around him could only be used as a cover to slightly contain the powerful vampires, and it was only himself who really fought in front.