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Chapter 97: Chapter 97 The Blood Fangs [Part 1]
A white light covered the three of them and immediately they vanished and appeared where the magic circle led.
The white light faded, and the three of them appeared in a dungeon-like place.
The air was cold and damp, and the stone walls around them were old and cracked. Torches were lit along the sides, giving the place a faint orange glow.
Victoria looked around first. "No traps? No what I was expecting, but befitting of criminals to use a dungeon"
Mary shook her head. "Nothing triggered. It’s quiet."
Evelyn glanced at the floor. "Strange. I was sure they’d leave something behind, and if this was their lair, they wouldn’t risk someone tracking them"
They all started walking slowly through the corridor. The place wasn’t wide, just enough space for the three of them to move side by side.
There were old metal doors on both sides, most of them rusted shut.
"It doesn’t look like anyone’s been here in years," Victoria said, touching the wall.
Mary stopped for a moment and closed her eyes. "There’s still Mana in the air... not strong, but recent."
Evelyn looked ahead. "Then they passed through here not long ago."
They kept moving, alert but relaxed. There were no sounds, no beasts, and no traps—just the quiet echo of their footsteps as they walked deeper into the dungeon and soon they approached the end of the path.
"Let’s see what’s at the end of this path," Victoria said, her eyes narrowing and stopped just before she walked through.
"There’s a barrier in front of me right?" She asked not quite sure.
"This is hardly a barrier, it’s too weak to keep anything out" Mary replied.
"I don’t think they’re trying to keep someone out, the barrier might activate if we go in, before we do I’ll need to draw a magic circle to take us back" Mary spoke.
"Do what you need to do, we’re going in" Victoria spoke as she stepped forward and Evelyn followed her immediately and as they entered the barrier was activated.
A smile formed on Victoria’s face when she saw five figures at the very end of the room, the room was big enough, as big as their training room back at the academy so Victoria knew they were going to fight.
"Victoria and Evelyn, the strongest mages of our generation, it’s nice to meet you two" A voice spoke.
"I’ll assume you’re the leader of this little group, the Blood Fangs right, what’s that your name again?" Evelyn asked.
"It’s Sonia, let me introduce you to my team"
The figure spoke, she had long black hair just like Victoria, she was beautiful with black eyes to match, her entire clothing was black and a smile was on her face as she spoke.
"Skip the introduction, since we’re in a barrier, I’ll assume you’re looking for a fight, that’s exactly what we came looking for too" Victoria spoke not giving a fuck about them.
"I want to ask you two something, what do you think our purpose is?" Sonia asked.
"I’m pretty sure they don’t align with Avalon’s interest, and even if they did, you’re certainly going about it the wrong way" Evelyn spoke and soon they heard a voice from outside the barrier.
"You can’t break the barrier with magic, it’s tethered to a crystal which must be inside the barrier, so one of them has a crystal right now, of you destroy that the barrier would crumble" Mary spoke.
"Thank you" Evelyn said.
Sonia wasn’t concerned about Mary and neither were any of the Blood Fangs, none of them made any move to do anything and frankly none of them could.
From where they stood the aura Evelyn and Victoria radiated was enough to make any mage planning to fight them run away, but in front of them was Sonia, the leader and S-rank in their group, also Karin was unfazed as she was itching for battle.
"We align with the interest of the entire world, we’re planning to take the fight to the demon lord" Sonia spoke.
"What!"
"Huh!! What did you say?" Evelyn had to asked again.
"I’m sure you heard me correctly, we’re planning to take the fight to the demon lord, the vicious cycle of this world would never stop unless the demon lord is defeated, and since none of the three kingdoms are willing, I’ve taken it upon myself and my little group" Sonia spoke.
A smile formed on Evelyn’s face before she spoke, "You and your army of four, you do know both of us is enough to beat all five of you right now, and you’re talking about storming the demon’s lord castle where his generals who are on par with us are?"
"If that is truly your goal, what have your little group been doing this past year?" Victoria asked.
"The demon castle can’t just be stormed by an army, we need an unkillable army, you really think we spent a year sitting on our butt like all of you did" Sonia spoke with a smirk as she cracked her neck and Karin stepped forward too.
The rest of the Blood Fangs moved forward backwards, a crystal was thrown to Sonia and caught it and placed it into her chest between her tits.
Then the three members vanished outside the barrier as a magic circle was on the ground beneath them.
Karin stepped forward silently, her eyes locked on Victoria with wild excitement.
She raised her hands slowly, and blood began to flow from her fingertips—not dripping, but twisting unnaturally in the air, as if pulled by some invisible force.
The blood spun and gathered, thickening and hardening into a long, curved scythe. The weapon pulsed faintly, as if alive, its blade glinting a deep crimson under the dim light of the dungeon.
With a grin, Karin gripped the shaft tightly, resting the scythe on her shoulder.
"I’ll handle her" Victoria said as she stepped to the side with Karin in front of her.
"What did you find that gave you this confidence of storming the demon’s lord castle?" Evelyn asked because she was surprised by Sonia’s plan.
