Chapter 49: Ch. 49 - The Magic Circle!
"It seems like you are looking for me. What is it you need from me that requires you to harm the innocents?" Although Chamber spoke calmly, pressure erupted from him which caused the werewolves to start straining just from trying to maintain balance.
The only one who remained standing still was their alpha, Wallace, who kept staring directly at Chamber's eyes without any fear.
"We've heard of what you did to Lazarus and his son. We came looking for you in hopes of an alliance to take down the vampires." Instead of Wallace, it was Lupus who answered.
"Alliance against vampires? What made you think I'll agree?" Chamber crossed his arms, amused by their attempt to ally with him.
"Because you killed Lazarus and the entire Tepes faction will be hunting for your blood! We may be small in population but we're inherently stronger than the vampires. Their only advantage is their numbers!" One of the twins, Remus was the one who spoke this time, stating plausible reasons.
"Unfortunately, you guys are a step too late. The Tepes Faction has already arrived earlier and I've already dealt with them."
"You killed them?!" Surprisingly, it was the alpha who spoke, his tone mixed with surprise and excitement.
"No," Chamber replied, pouring cold water on the werewolf's head.
"Instead, I made a deal with them. As long as they stop feeding on humans, I won't disturb them or whatever their business is." As soon as Chamber finished his words, it didn't take long for the werewolves to complain.
"You're wrong! Vampires will never stoop to such conditions. Sooner or later, they'll break this deal and it would be too late for you to act against them!"
"If I were you, I would've killed them on the spot. Vampires cannot be trusted." Wallace chimed in, expressing his personal opinion against the vampires.
"I know that." However, Chamber's answer made them drop their jaws.
"Then why'd you-"
"Because as I am now, it would be impossible to fully eradicate the entire vampire race. There are thousands of them and not every vampire belongs to the Tepes faction." Chamber slowly floated down to the ground, causing the werewolves to slightly back away.
"Even if I dedicate myself to killing all the vampires, it would be impossible for me to do it." Chamber finished and soon noticed Lupus's eyes shining in excitement.
"Then if you allied with us y-"
"Just because vampires are my enemies doesn't mean I'm automatically an ally of yours. My help isn't for free and even if your enemy is my enemy, I don't need any help."
"I have everything planned out," Chamber smirked, which for some reason, caused a reaction from Lupus.
"Are you looking down on us, werewolves huh, human?!" Lupus growled, his brown hair started growing from his face, slowly covering his facial features.
The twins, taking this as a sign that a battle would ensue, slowly started taking their werewolf forms.
Meanwhile, Chamber calmly lifted his hand and the surroundings started to fold and turn like mere papers, catching the werewolves by surprise.
Fortunately for them, their reaction and reflex are inhumane which allowed them to hold onto a structure that saved their lives.
"W-What's going on!?" Lupus panicked, he could see the surroundings suddenly taking a different appearance, into weird shapes and dizzying images.
"Make sure to hold tight! You're in for a ride!" Grinning, Chamber kept manipulating the surroundings all while watching over his reserves to make sure to stop when he's about to run out.
After all, he hasn't fully recovered his demonic energy from his fight with the vampires yet.
So what he's trying to do now isn't to fully commit to the fight, but to intimidate them and pretend their life is at his mercy.
That way, their retreat would be guaranteed.
"Do you yield?" Chamber asked them, staying afloat all while the chaos surrounding him stayed still as if waiting for the command of their master.
Wallace in his werewolf form, gritted his teeth, his sharp claws cutting through the weirdly shaped circle he was holding onto as if it was butter.
Only then did Wallace that having sharp claws also had its disadvantages.
"Wallace, what do we do? Let's just surrender, this isn't worth it." Lupus's voice shivered, also barely hanging on, asked the alpha.
The circle they're hanging on looks like a ring with an extended body and it's floating in mid-air like a cylinder, so even if they pull themselves, they would still fall to their deaths.
Why?
Because looking down, even with his sharp eyes, he's unable to see the end of their fall. As if there is no ground at all!
He, Lupus the Great, who has slain vampires more than his own age, is actually scared of heights! This is a secret he's been keeping even from the alpha, Wallace.
"…Let me think about it." Instead of outright surrendering, Wallace muttered, his pride making him unwilling to surrender.
How could he, an alpha werewolf that struck fear to vampires, be bested by a mere human?
No, his pride tells him he won't go down this way.
However while his pride is taking control of his thoughts, his heart says otherwise.
He can see his companies struggling to hold on, their claws almost slipping away.
If they slipped and die because of him, he would never be able to forgive himself!
"Any minute now." As if to mock them, Chamber floated in front of them and pretended to look at his wristwatch.
'Oh wait, watches don't exist here yet. I probably looked dumb.' Resisting his blush from creeping up to his cheeks, Chamber dispelled his embarrassment by clearing his throat.
"Ehem! If my eyes are telling me the truth, I can see that you guys can barely hold on. Surrender and admit defeat and I'll let you all go off at once. I know you're different from vampires and don't feed on humans like it's necessary, so I'm willing to let you guys go." Chamber suggested, which Lupus excitedly looked at Wallace as if urging him to accept Chamber's mercy.
Wallace begrudgingly accepted by reluctantly nodding his head.
This however was ignored by Lupus who sighed in relief.
Chamber smirked and finally waved his hands, resuming the surroundings to their previous appearance.
Since they're technically in the middle of the village, instead of directly breaking the Mirror Dimension, he opened a portal instead, a few kilometers away from the village.
"You may now leave, gentlemen." Smiling, Chamber gestured for the portal.
Wallace and the others gulped their salivas and started walking.
Before crossing the portal, Chamber continued.
"Oh and even though I said earlier that you guys don't need humans to feed on since it isn't necessary, if I learned that you guys touched one without any valid reason, trust me, I'm not someone you'd like to make an enemy with." With a cold smile, Chamber waved his hand and willed the portal to move and swallow them whole.
As for Chamber, he broke the Mirror Dimension and ran back to the farmhouse.
'Werewolves are way more easy to deal with compared to Vampires. The latter can fly but the former cannot, what a glaring weakness.' While walking, Chamber muttered under his breath, smirking in the process.
Sure, werewolves are stronger than vampires, strength-wise, but when it comes to convenience, vampires take the cake. Those blood-sucking creatures have many abilities up their sleeves.
All in all, this day is great for him. Not only he earned experience from fighting two supernatural races, but he managed to instill fear to the two, to make sure they wouldn't harm humans.
It's just temporary though. At least until he's strong enough, so it's already helpful that there are now fewer problems on his plate.
***
A few kilometers away from the village, the werewolves were left standing still, their eyes staring down on the ground as their minds were registering what just transpired.
They were utterly defeated. By a human nonetheless.
It was so humiliating that even Lupus, who was scared for his life earlier, started to regret not trying to fight the human wizard and instead, he just tucked his tail and hope for the human to show mercy.
Werewolves are prideful creatures and this event just struck a blow on it.
"W-Well, think of the bright side, at least we survived, right?" Lupus tried to cheer his companions.
But to no avail, he simply doesn't have knack in becoming an alpha. As alphas are supposed to be charming and could sway his fellow werewolves with words.
"Lupus is right. Let's consider ourselves lucky that the wizard is a kind one. I've heard of some dark wizards who uses our kind as part of their experiments and rituals. With that man's strength, if he wanted to harm us, it would be too late and we'll find ourselves strapped to a table." Taking Lupus's words as a cue, Wallace lifted the spirits of his companions.
"So, what's our plan now?" Lucius, who has been quiet all this time, asked.
"Since the wizard isn't someone we can afford to offend, we'll look for other ways that would help us kill those vampires. To avenge our ancestral werewolf." Wallace gripped his fists until it bled due to his sharp nails.
"The alpha's right. Come on, we can't let one failure put us all down."
***
While the werewolves were busy with a new plan on their minds, Chamber got back to the farm house and has been studying in his room since.
"I feel like I'm close." Sitting on a meditative position, Chamber with his closed were trying to complete his magic circle.
The process is intricate and it took him so many months just to get to this level.
With the upcoming ending of the Great War coming in just a month, the pressure might have taken its toll on him but it also served as a fuel that combusted his Will to grow strong.
As long as his magic circle is completed, he would no longer have to worry about the consumption of his Demonic Energy.
With his rare capability of having not only rapid regeneration of energy but he could also recover even during battle or using it.
Normally, when using Demonic Energy, it would stop recovering and only when the pool has calmed down will it resume recovering.
Take a calm ocean for example, if you drop a boulder, it would ripple across the surface of the ocean like waves.
Now picture the ocean as your Demonic Energy and if used, would cause ripples and the said ripples would halt the recovery until the ripple stops.
That's how it is supposed to work.
But for some reason or maybe because he's just unique, he can bypass this restriction and continue recovering while using Demonic Energy.
A few hours have passed and Chamber finally opened his eyes, excitement evident on his face expression that is smiling widely.
"I did it. I did it! I finally fucking did it!"
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