Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-335

The ground below crumbled, the floor opened, showing off countless masses of stones and dirt, golems, accompanied by living Skeletons wearing armor and mounting on skeleton horses, an eerie atmosphere, but these monsters were weak compared to an army of Vampires…

Yet, Jagger assumed that this small army was nothing more than meat shields for the real army coming right before them, and activated all the traps, massive explosions destroyed the monsters without stopping, as the earth crumbled, however, the beings were resilient, infiltrating inside and slaughtering anything before them.

The shattered pieces of bones, armors, and stones gathered together once again as if strange spirits were possessing them, once again raising and crawling, attacking anything in their sight.

Jagger himself decided to join in, arming himself with powerful weapons and armor, he decided to end things quickly and search for the culprits behind the monsters… However, just at this very moment, the manor where the Vampires resided began to shake, the entire ceiling was destroyed and countless, floating centaur knights appeared before him.

"W-What is the meaning of this!? They are floating?! Artifacts?!"

The Centaurs ignored the surprise of the Vampires as they charged through the skies, galloping through the air. Agamocles and his younger brother led the army of over one hundred centaurs, as they raised their weapons and released a barrage of different Weapon Techniques, slashing and slicing the Vampires from above.

"Uooooohhh! Triple Thrust! Grand Smash!"

"Slicing Wind! Blazing Stab!"

"Heavy Push! Grand Shield Barrage!"

"Flame Burst Lance!"

"Boulder Crush!"

Sofelaia and Sofarpia were in this group, floating through the skies as they used their advanced techniques to burn alive the Vampires with Mana Blade Techniques enhanced with Fire Attribute and Holy Blade Techniques using Holy and Light Attribute, the Vampires weaknesses.

"Mana Blade; Blazing Blade!"

"Heavenly Slash! Paladin's Protection!"

"Gyaaaaaaaahh!!!"

"Run! Ruuuuun…!"

"Guaaaaah! It hurts! Help me, heeelp!"

"W-Where are the healers?! And the Arachnes?!"

"We had already run out of Mana from trying to kill these undying monsters…! We are goners!"

Several Vampires already possessed the skill [Flight] but they were taken completely by surprise, as the entire group had all of their attention in the undying monsters that kept reconstructing themselves after being broken to pieces. Already tired out of their Mana Points, most Vampires couldn't protect themselves with magic shields either use Flight, hopelessly dying.

Jagger began to destroy the monsters surrounding him, his massive furry arms smashed them into pieces, but the monsters would reconstruct themselves almost immediately after being smashed, pieces of bones, steel, and dirt got together into giant arms, or humanoid figures entangling him and punching him.

Of course, the power of mere low leveled monsters was meaningless against a Noble Vampire, but they took a lot of his attention and gained time for the Floating Centaurs to get rid of most of the Vampires. The Demon Arachne Vampires were targeted first, their bodies were smashed into bloody mush due to the rain of Techniques from the horses who worked surprisingly well together.

The protection of their Defensive Demon Thread Traps was destroyed and the Vampires that they were protecting received the merciless slaughter of the resentful Centaurs, filled with rage and determination to avenge their fallen comrades.

Jagger saw how all of his comrades and subordinates died not with saddened or tragic expressions, but with incredible rage, his large goat-like snout constantly released large amounts of air, his crimson eyes were blazing with the desire to smash every bit of these insolent mortals who dared to trick him.

However, the moment Jagger finally got rid of the undying golems, and was about to fly with his large gargoyle wings and get rid of the Twin Princess with a single blow, the space around him changed… A strange and eerie space, filled with a black sky and countless red, purple, and pink colors spinning around, space created a hallucinating scene that normal humans wouldn't be able to understand either resist, falling into insanity quickly.

Jagger resisted the strange effects of this space with his [Abnormal Status Effect Resistance] Skill which was of the high level after he trained intensively by poisoning, paralyzing, and burning himself through his harsh methods of gaining power.

However, several figures appeared before him, those of beautiful women, Jagger could at least discern some of their species, but others were completely unknown to him. These were Kireina and her wives who had decided to show themselves in their true forms to Jagger.

He could see a strange Dark Fairy with horns and a similar Vampire Aura has him, but even worse, a blue Oni Demoness with six arms and blue skin, a brown-skinned large and muscular one-eyed Ogre with long golden hair and several horns in her forehead, a giant purple-colored lamia with beautiful features that would instantly charm most men and a beautiful human-looking woman… however this woman's body seemed to be made entirely of a viscous multi-colored liquid.

"W-What are these misfits?!" Thought Jagger, without realizing that he was a misfit himself…

"Hmm… Well… Is this the fifth? Hopefully, City 3 has the last one, I want to get done with this~" Said the fairy, lazily glancing at Jagger, she seemed tired.

"Master, please take things seriously…" said the six-armed blue Demoness, Zehe.

"I will"

Flash!

Without Jagger realizing, the Fairy had suddenly transformer, her medium-sized body, which was that of an adult human woman, increased in height, reaching four meters, her skin was covered in dark armor and she had gained two new pairs of arms, each arm was wielding a different, shining weapon.

Jagger immediately realized what these weapons were, Legendary Relics!

Legendary Relics are items given by the gods themselves through extremely rare situations, a mortal couldn't possess so many Legendary Relics as if they were mere toys… Unless this mortal had fought and killed other Legendary Relic users and stole their weapons…

And because not anyone could get such items, it was often believed that only Heroes were able to get one, making Jagger immediately guess that Kireina and her group had killed at least six Heroes, with almost the same level of power than him.

And this is without even taking into consideration the other woman, who all had different relics, which seemed strangely linked to their Auras, this clearly said that these belonged to them, connected to their very souls.

Kireina approached Jagger without asking anything else, she was going for the kill… She didn't wait for him to think about something, neither surrendering. If Jagger didn't do anything in the next couple of seconds, he would die.

"S-Shit! Venomous Crystal Barrier! Toxic Adamantine Spikes Shower!" Shouted Jagger as he used an advanced spell that combined both Poison and Earth Attribute, showcasing his amazing talent and training that he had put himself through, not only physically but also mentally. He was perhaps one of the most skillful magic users that Kireina had seen between the Noble Vampires she had fought.

A purple-colored barrier made entirely of crystals protected him from a few seconds from the beastly onslaught of Kireina's techniques, which were released like a tornado of pure destruction. The Large toxin-coated Adamantine Spikes rained over her but were blocked without any effort, her entire body was not only protected by this sturdy armor but also with several magic shields… Just how absurd could this irregular be?

From what Kireina had barely shown to Jagger, she was already as strong as the three High Archduke Vampires, the strongest Vampires below Lady Aleksandra's strongest children. They were the strongest Vampires without being related to Aleksandra, or being her direct descendants, and had lived for hundreds of years, each one was a terrifying monster filled with countless tricks below their sleeves, Jagger couldn't compare to them, but aspired to one day be as strong as them.

And everything would have gone smoothly if it wasn't for this irregular, who appeared out of nowhere and ruined Aleksandra's plans, to the point that even the Goddess decided to aid them in killing her… She was not an ordinary irregular at all… Just by taking into consideration that the goddess herself had to assist them already implied how ridiculously strong was this being… how did Jagger never consider this when he was given the task?

Taken aback by his own naivety, Jagger tried his best to survive, using his incredible physical power, flying skills, and magic spells, he released all sorts of powers and abilities which he had been polishing for his thirty years of life. If he were to know that Kireina wasn't even a year old in this world, Jagger would certainly rip his eyes out of its sockets from bitterness alone.

Poisonous Crystals, Dark Smoke, Solidified Poison Blades, several barriers of all shapes and forms, Kireina ripped them all with her powerful techniques, Jagger was getting out of options, and tried to negotiate…

"W-Wait, don't kill me…! We can negotiate things… I wouldn��t mind betraying my former masters…! So hear me out…!"

However, unlike with Keenan, who sincerely surrendered to her and instantly became her slave through the system, Jagger remained untouched, he wasn't even enslaved neither his Aura told her that he was telling the truth, he was only trying to find a way out, to buy time or escape.

Kireina only answered with her arms extending like giant tentacles and using the Legendary Relics as sharp needles, a barrage of techniques enhanced with magic was unleashed over Jagger, who protected his body with the thick skin inherited by his Gargoyle parent, which was as hard as a rock, and after he trained it by making it go through destruction and regeneration, it became as hard as steel, coupled with his magic coating, he was somehow able to take on the powerful smashes of the armor-covered and incredibly muscular tentacles.

Meanwhile, Kireina's wives began to understand most of Jagger's spells and techniques, silently watching over the fight.

��Master is going very easy on him…" (Nesiphae)

"It's hard for the Vampires to use their Divine Flesh right away, they seem to be very conservative of it, almost at their very last moment would they use it" (Zehe)

"Perhaps it has some type of negative effect on them?" (Brontes)

"Guuu… I want to help out Masta…" Rimuru seemed worried over Kireina fighting Jagger alone.

"Rimuru, relax, Honey wanted to fight the Vampire alone, at least to drive him into a corner so he would use all of his trump cards, she is still learning how to use all of her skills, after all, she wants some practice in real-time combat" analyzed Zehe.

As this casual conversation unfolded, Jagger trembled in pain, several of the weapons that were merged with Kireina's tentacles were coated in deadly poison generated from her [Abyss Body] Skill and others skills, it could probably be seen as the deadliest poison in Vida if it was discovered by Alchemist Experts.

And his body has been punctured by it several times, his flesh and blood began to quickly rot away, no matter how high his Abnormal Status Resistance Skill was, he wasn't immune to Poison, and Kireina's Poison was something completely out of the ordinary.

Although Jagger had a high affinity with Poison Attribute Magic, it didn't mean that he was immune to Poison most mages of certain attributes would never have resistance against the attribute they wield. Only Monsters or highly-evolved Demi-Humans would as if they were to learn that Attribute, they would also represent it with their own bodies, like a Fire Ogre, or an Earth Ogre, or a Wind Lord or a Shadow Lord.

However, Goat Demons and Gargoyles weren't immune to Poison or Earth, perhaps a highly evolved gargoyle, but Jagger was a mixed-race demon, so he couldn't gain access to such thing.

His arms rooted away and instantly regenerated, Jagger's entire body was in a constant struggled within dead and life… The artifacts encrusted on his body were certainly effective in giving him amazing vitality and abnormally high self-regeneration.

As Kireina saw how Jagger was still hanging on it for longer while pleading for her to listen to him, she decided to unleash some of her magic…

Since now, Jagger hasn't thought that Kireina had any type of magic outside of her strange barriers. Because she only used weapon techniques, which could be seen as magic by itself due to how she used them in succession, generating powerful shockwaves of force.

However, as he thought about his next course of action, a small, black-colored sphere appeared on his sight, and quickly planted itself on his shoulder…

Flash!

"GIHHH- GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"

Jagger's flesh began to twist around crazily, the dark sphere wasn't anything like he had ever seen before, his own flesh, blood and bones twisted in a spiral, losing all of their order… This small magic bullet wasn't from Shadow or Dark Attributes, but from the Chaos Attribute, Chaos Sphere.

And just as that was released, another spell attacked Jagger's mind, twisting his own thoughts and making him go through living nightmares, Chaotic Mind Attack.

"GYAAAAAAA…! N-NO…! W-What is that magic…?! GIIIHHH...! D-DIVINE BEAST FLESHHH…!"

Flash!

And just as Kireina finally cornered Jagger enough for him to unleash his last trump card, a flashing light emerged from within his body, his entire body shapeshifted and changed, and the Aura that Kireina knew as Divine Energy was released.

"There it is…!"