Life As the Vampire God Chapter 23 - Sermoff's Invasion of Easlum
As multiple portals opened around the city, people emerged and began to fly. It would only take about a minute before the hoards arrived at the first wall.
Out of the blue Lucifer asked, "have your eyes improved since you first came to Easlum?"
"Why yes, in fact," I revealed. "I can see all of Easlum now." I then noticed that one of the portals was much larger than the others. My eyes widened, Alexander and Sermoff walked out and hovered. I quickly noticed that Sermoff's eyes glowed purple and Alexander's white.
Joseph inquired in an oddly calm voice. "My Lord, the Calvary?"
"By all means, call it in now."
Joseph inhaled then yelled, "Bring out the planet conqueror ships, now!"
Immediately, one could hear a strange gagging sound as part of the training field lowered itself and seamlessly slid underneath the city. Then that part of the city went back over the blank field so that the land beyond the city was shrinking. A massive 12-sided ship slowly majestically rose from the hole. The ship was 100 miles in length and width. This had been Joseph's pet design project. A flat ship with a roof, floor and 12 sides (not very stylish but there is no point to do that). It also boasted a 12-sided dome with a huge working ecosystem. Ian appeared. The ground closed itself back up.
Ian asked, "May I, do it?"
Joseph was amused and gave his permission. "Of course, go for it." He then took off to attend to his other duties.
Ian straightened his shoulders a tad. "Let's go! Teleport to the center of the dome." He vanished.
I then teleported to where he directed me. It was somewhat of a twin to the lobby of Easlum. I hovered above a huge central tree. Below it stretched a huge land mass which consisted of all of the biomes found on Earth. Surrounding the land mass was water. Bridges connected the land with the rest of the ship.
"It's state of the art." Ian remarked. "The ship has enough space for troops needed to conquer an entire planet. The area surrounding the land mass consists of many trap doors, racks of weapons, armor, and other military technology. There are 12 hallways going to each side of the ship exiting into the center of the ship."
I watched as a group of Vampires emerged from one of the hallways. They didn't go far from the door because after all the ship was long. Each grabbed a weapon and a parachute. One of them pushed a red button, the trap door opened and they jumped out, one by one. The nanosecond the last vampire disappeared; I felt the ship start to move.
"My Lord, I set the ship to rotate the city clockwise."
Bezmic appeared, "Draven!"
I turned to Ian asked sharply, "Did you not put enhancements on this ship?"
He bowed his head, "I haven't gotten there yet."
I immediately responded, "put the enhancements on now! And make certain that you do not get killed! That's an order!"
"Yes, my Lord." Ian disappeared.
Bezmic taunted, "Draven …" poof, he was gone. But not for long … "you really are a threat and a royal pain!"
My senses were on high alert. Bezmic's right arm glowed bright red. He shot a red energy ball. It came speeding towards me. I sidestepped, the ball came within an inch of my face, which I'm rather fond of looking at in the mirror each morning. I watched this energy mass hit the far wall causing a massive explosion. I instinctively touched my face. Well, I mused, red must be destruction.
The entire room glowed red and alarm bells were blaring. An entire army emerged from all twelve entrances. They didn't get to far because of how big the ship is. They just stopped and immediately formed ranks. The Counts flew into the air.
Bezmic lazily chimed in, "what's your pathetic little army going to do against me? I am a Celestial. The leader of them."
Joseph appeared. "Annoy you for starters." He grinned. "And if you are the leader your friends must be really weak," Joseph looked beyond Bezmic and shouted, "shoot him!"
Hundreds of vampires holding rocket launchers fired on command at Bezmic. His body immediately glowed black. He repeatedly teleported to avoid the barrage of rockets. When he paused for a split moment, the last rocket was beaming straight at him as thought he had a bullseye painted on his chest. But instead of being blown to bits, Bezmic grabbed the rocket, read the inscription: Property of DRAVEN YOUNGBLOOD. He chuckled, took the rocket and slammed it directly into himself causing an eardrum splitting explosion. When the smoke cleared Bezmic flew above the midst of the rubble unscathed, laughing. "Now what have you got for me, Draven?"
I muttered, "black must be space and based on where the orange is, it must be your mind. Wait you have to activate a power to enhance your mind?" I started to laugh. "The purple on your chest must be your heart, wait, no no no, it must be … the soul."
Bezmic nodded while glaring hard at me. "Good."
Joseph had been listening, too. "Um, Counts," he commanded. All of the 20 Counts shot a small energy beam at Bezmic. In response, Bezmic formed a blue shield, it connected and time slowed down within his immediate radius as did one of the Counts closest to him. The Counts stopped firing. He looked like he was frozen like pausing a movie. Bezmic lifted his shield and time resumed.
"Blue is time," I observed out loud. "Wait, that's not possible. My power stopped that… unless that's all you can do with it."
Bezmic muttered under his breath. "Curse my color power and you can go and f*ck yourself."
"Whoa," I yelled back at him. "That's uncalled for."
He glared at me with furry burning in his eyes.
That was my cue. I flew as fast as I could. I grabbed Bezmic and tossed him down the tunnel that was facing the front of the Capitol. I flew in after him. Bezmic crashed onto the marble floor. His body glowed yellow. He managed to rise and run down the tunnel. I caught him, punched him with no mercy. The punch sent his body smashing into and through the gaping hole in the door caused by the force of his body crashing through. I ran in and found myself in a massive farming room. So many rows and levels of plants and a hole in where Bezmic crashed through. He got back up and true to form, he attacked me, again! We both spiraled into the hallway once more. I turned back around and faced Bezmic.
"You can't …"
"Win?" I finished for him. "Don't sound like you've fought thousands of battles and had never lost." I shot a quick glance to my right. Right above a door I read 'Colosseum'. He charged; I blasted him. His body went flying toward the end of the tunnel which is a long, long way. He was about to hit the end when it opened!! revealing a huge room. I sped into the room hoping I was where I "thought" I was. I felt a sense of relief.
The area was open on the other side revealing Easlum and the current fighting. The giant tigons lifted their multiple tails into the air and shot spikes at the ship, but they bounced off the energy field. Part of the training field went under the city again and the city went back to its original configuration so that another 12-sided ship was about to be released into Easlum.
This ready room was filled with many different types of ships depending on the battle type and of course, the level of enemy threat. For instance, there was a cube that can hold 12 troops and what looked like a 3D triangle which can only hold 1 person because it's a fighter ship. Bezmic's groan snared my attention.
"Arrrggg." He uttered as he rose to a standing position. "I can't believe I have to use this move on a Apex like you!" he shouted. His body glowed green. The area around him proceeded to curve around him which then manifested into 10 witches.
He said Apex again I noticed. Maybe he is just referring to me as a Apex predator. He can't possible consider himself stronger than a Apex predator. Unless it's just a title given to certain people. I put those thoughts aside and focused on his green power. Well he constructed people with that power and besides magic it is reality.
"Green is reality!"
Bezmic just smiled. Not a pretty sight, either. "Fortunately for you Draven, because of your power even I cannot do anything to you, I understand that now. However," he chuckled then shouted, "get him!"
The witches flew into that air and shot blasts of energies at me. I instantly put up an energy shield and shot blasts of pure lightning. Lucifer appeared thus sending a shockwave in his wake which knocked everybody back.
"Draven," he began sounding just like a parent speaking to a naughty child, "you need to kill him." My dear old dad Lucifer tossed me a red blade explaining, "it's made from a tooth of a saber tooth tiger. It has been dipped in my unholy blood and that I meddled with. It's one of three blades to exist and it can kill anything."
I managed a quick, "thank you."
"You are very welcome." He paused then added, "seriously, you really need to kill Bezmic now rather than later. We still need to deal with Alexander and Sermoff since both are still alive."
I looked straight into Lucifer's eyes and declared, "I still need more power!"
Lucifer was quick to respond, "Draven, why are you looking at me like that?"
"Sorry Lucifer, bottom-line, I need your power, your… 'essence'."
"What! No!" His eyes widened when he realized what I was about to do. I felt bad for about a millisecond.
I gritted my teeth with determination. I took the blade and cut open Lucifer's neck. The opening glowed white with energy. I grabbed him and inhaled. His pure essence went into my mouth. I kept inhaling until I had almost retrieved all of it. I stopped just short of emptying all of it. My entire body lit up white light shining as bright as the brightest star. At this point, my wings were showing. I slowing spread these magnificent wings to their full span. This continued for about another 5 seconds then the light died out. Lucifer collapsed. "Sorry dad," I whispered. "It will regenerate and the power I took will dissipate in a few days."
The hell portal opened, I watched the red smoke leave Lucifer's body, move in a lazy like manner in a non-existent breeze and enter the portal in its entirety. The portal to hell closed. I then looked at Bezmic. My eyes were glowing red like the time when I summoned my inner Archangel. Slowly, methodically I walked toward Bezmic and spoke softly, "I know I agreed with Lucifer not to do this but guess what, I going to anyway."
'Yea," he said, "and what's that?"
"I'm not going to kill you," I said, "I'm going to absorb you."
Bezmic's face turned white but then …
Bezmic smirked. He yelled, "Distract him!"
The witches all jumped at me in unison. I snapped my fingers. All the witches glowed bright red and blew up, leaving nothing behind. Bezmic attempted to escape but I put on an angelic shield around him and pulled him toward me.
"Can we talk about this in a civil manner?"
I laughed. "No, we cannot." My entire face glowed bright red. Bezmic started to turn into energy.
"Wait, please, I can offer you something grand," he begged, just before his body turned into energy and went into my chest. My body got all colorful much like a rainbow.
Joseph shook his head. "Draven, you just killed a Celestial."
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