Chapter 205 Instance Dungeon (1)
Chapter 205 Instance Dungeon (1)
Ashton snapped back to reality. He had found his mother, but it was not a great time to chat with her. At the moment, he needed to protect her from getting harmed by the creatures pouring out of the dungeon.
'No one is taking her away from me now... No one.' Ashton thought before heading inside along with Michelle and the royal knights.
No matter how much he wanted to simply rush out and kill the monsters so that he could reunite with his mother, he couldn't do it. He needed to ensure Michelle's safety first or else Jonathan might try to make his life hell...
'It's not like he would be able to do much though, now that I technically also work for the Vampires too.'
Defeating the dungeon took priority over everything. But this dungeon was turning out to be weirder than anything the vampires had ever seen before. Before they could even form a team to enter the dungeon, several trolls rushed out of there.
Although they were rushing out of the portal, it didn't seem like they were a part of the main force. They were more like expendable cannon fodder kind of soldiers sent to the battlefield to either gather intel on the enemy or to delay them from attacking the main base.
Thankfully, Alucard didn't need to assemble his troops. The vampires gathered there for the ceremony were more than capable of fighting their way into the portal. All of them forgot about the disagreement from before and readily jumped to help everyone.
After ensuring Michelle's safety, the royal knights were prepared to help as well. But Ashton instructed them not to. There was no alliance between the werewolves and the vampires. As a result, there was no need for them to unnecessarily participate in the fight.
"Focus on protecting the princess. Since the portals have been disabled as a security procedure, we will have to hold up here." Ashton made his orders very clear, "If she dies, so would we. So try your best."
"What are you going to do?" Michelle asked him, "If you're so worried about my life, you could stay here as well."
"And show the vampires how useless werewolves can be?" Ashton scoffed, "With no due respect, I don't think his highness the king would appreciate that very much."
Saying so, Ashton finally headed outside, before Michelle could give him an appropriate reply. But the moment he did, his mouth was left open wide.
From the inside, the portal only looked big, but now that he was looking at it in all of its glory, the portal was big enough to consume the palace in its entirety.
The courtyard right outside the palace was turned into a battlefield with the vampires battling it out against the monsters. However, not all of the vampires were capable fighters and then there were humans.
There wasn't much these people could do to protect themselves, let alone fight back. As a result, all of them were soon consumed by panic. With no one to guide them to safety, they were being swatted down like insignificant insects.
"Nooo!"
A little human girl screamed in fear as a gigantic Troll rushed toward her. She closed her eyes and braced herself, prepared to take on the monster's attack and possibly die. She waited and waited, however, the blow never came.
The girl slowly opened her eyes to see a man whose hands resembled that of a wolf standing in front of her. His hands were crossed over each other, while the troll's wooden club rested on top of his hands.
"Go inside the palace. It's not safe for you to stay in the open." Ashton instructed her through his gritted teeth, "Tell everyone who can't fight to do the same, could you do that much for me?"
The little girl nodded and rushed towards the palace.
"Good girl," Ashton mumbled before turning his attention towards the troll, "Don't you have any shame, going after little girls? You fucking pedo. Well, I guess it doesn't matter. I would've killed you regardless of what you did or did not do."
Ashton sidestepped, letting the club finally hit the ground before using it as a ramp to climb up to the Troll's head. The next moment, his claws pierced the troll's neck. Ashton then took a hold of the troll's backbone and yanked it out in one swift move.
The loud booming sound as the troll collapsed was enough to steal everyone's attention. As Alucard saw Ashton standing tall over the dead troll, he smiled. At that moment, he knew his daughters made the right choice.
Handling trolls so easily at such a young age was impressive, no matter how others saw it. Most of the vampire counts and countesses present there, had to team up to get rid of a single troll as they were one of the most tenacious monsters.
Killing them quickly was especially a challenge because of their regenerative abilities. But Ashton already seemed to know this and that's why went for their weakness and ripped the spinal cord out, instead of dealing damage bit by bit.
"Rather than wasting your time gawking at me, why don't you help evacuate the citizens instead?" Ashton shook his head, "Also, if you're deadset on fighting them, go for their eyes first, then knock them down by attacking their knees, before killing them for good."
Although most of them still did not agree with Alucard's decision of including Ashton in his cult, they could now see that the child wasn't a child when it came to fighting. In fact, he just might be weirdly stronger than quite a few of them.
The following moment, Ashton felt the ground shake and turned around. Only to see multiple trolls heading in his direction.
Ashton clicked his tongue and realised the troll would drag the fight unnecessarily long and by then the real monsters would start pouring out of the dungeon and turn their fight into an even bigger mess.
"I guess it's time for Baiter's weapons to make their international debut."
Saying so, Ashton pulled the one-shot hand cannon out of his inventory and aimed it at the trolls. Their gigantic bodies ensured that he wouldn't miss the mark. He fired the weapon and it blew a couple of trolls into pieces... leaving the vampires dumbstruck.