Chapter 515: Vampiric Fury

Charlie leapt toward the voices. Her master had trusted her to protect this place, and that was exactly what she would do.

She landed right in the middle of them.

“An enemy, kill h—” The man never finished the sentence. In a furious spin, Charlie cut him clean in half.

“You were never supposed to come here,” she snarled, her voice raw and animalistic.

She went on the offensive, cutting through the men before they could even react. Their weapons barely came up in time, useless against the speed and power of her blade. One of them tried to attack from a distance, hurling throwing axes. Charlie caught one in midair and flung it back, embedding it straight into his face. Before he could even die, she spun and severed his head.

Charlie vaulted onto another rooftop and thrust out her hand.

[Spectral Chain activated]

An archer was yanked toward her, and she killed him before his feet touched the ground.

She charged a wall of shields and activated [Flame Aura] and [Spectral Basic Charged], smashing through their formation. She stomped down, crushing one man’s skull, then severed another’s leg and finished him without hesitation.

A mage launched chunks of earth at her. They shattered uselessly.

Charlie kept walking.

“Die, you bitch!” the man screamed as he raised mud and stone, trying desperately to slow her.

She reached him, grabbed his head with one hand, lifted him off the ground, and crushed his skull. It burst in her grip. Eight more arrived, some dropping from rooftops, others emerging from the streets.

“You know, sweetheart, wandering around here alone isn’t very smart,” one of them said with a grin.

Lulie flew up beside Charlie, scanning every direction.

“You shouldn’t have killed one of ours,” another said, laughing. His teeth were rotten. “If you’d stayed quiet, we would’ve killed you quickly. But now… now you’re going to suffer.”

Charlie stared at the eight surrounding her. Lulie hovered at her side.

“Keep an eye on the bat,” one of them said. “A familiar can be trouble.”

“Better to kill it just in case.”

Charlie tightened her grip on her sword.

One of them raised a crossbow, the bolt glowing. “You’re going to suffer, you whore!”

Charlie studied them carefully. They had seen what she could do, and they still attacked. Confident. Outnumbering her. Eight against one.

She took a deep breath.

Then she charged.

[Vampiric Strength I activated]

[-10 Blood Energy]
[Blood Core: 86/100]

“What the hell, she’s fast—”

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The man never finished. Charlie’s blade swept through him in a horizontal arc, slicing from the bridge of his nose upward. The top half of his skull peeled away, exposing his brain.

Before the body hit the ground, an electric bolt shot toward her. She sensed it instantly. Even with her back turned, vampiric reflexes guided her. She twisted at the last second, the bolt passing so close it burned the air beside her.

“What level is she?!” someone shouted.

Charlie surged forward, driving her sword into one man’s stomach and lifting him off the ground as she ran.

Another came at her from behind with twin daggers.

[Flame Aura activated]

The blade struck her. She answered with a punch, shattering the man’s arm, then cut him down. Others tried to strike with magic. Charlie spun, her sword carving a brutal arc through them.

“I’m out! Screw this fight!” one of them screamed.