Dungeon Raider System-Chapter 482: Vampire slayer

After exiting the passage and reaching a place he'd been before, finding the exit became a matter of time. Unfortunately, time was against him because now that he was carrying the maid who betrayed him, the nosferatu was faster than him and she wasn't letting go.

Killing her would solve this issue, but it felt like a disproportionate punishment for something he brought on himself. Nika warned him before of his naivety and he thought he grew past it already and yet, he still trusted a complete stranger would help him escape when there was nothing to gain for her.

Besides, if he was on her shoes he might have done the exact same thing and he felt some empathy towards her.

"You can let go now." Uriel let out with a jagged breath after cancelling Dash. Carrying weight with his skill active was extremely tiring as he needed to apply much more force than the usual.

"No, please! You'll run away as soon as I let go." The maid cried and held on even tighter.

"Fine, you can keep holding onto me, but I'm not running away. If you're staying, you'll have to fight too." Uriel shrugged his shoulders as though giving in to her demands.

"Against that creature!? It regenerates, flies and it can also turn off any source of light!"

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"It can't regenerate anymore, the ceiling here is too low for flying and I made sure it can't put out the flares. If I can't defeat it here, I won't be able to do it anywhere else. Running any further will only be a waste of time and flux." Before Uriel even finished speaking the maid had already turned to leave.

It wasn't unexpected, but it left him a bitter aftertaste that lasted for just a few seconds.

"If I make it, I'll owe you my life... I won't forget that." The maid said after turning her head back for just a second before disappearing into the dark halls of the vampire lair.

Uriel knew the vampire was getting closer by the second and he wished he had more time to prepare a trap like the one he used to kill the rougarou in the wetlands, but there would be no point in laying a wire trap if the cryptid knew it was there.

Thankfully, Uriel knew his fair share of human history thanks to his studies as an archaeologist and that included all sorts of artifacts of war and traps.

Since the nosferatu was able to hover over the floor, any kind of fall trap would be useless. Its skin was also probably too tough for a spike trap and hitting it with a boulder would cause little to no damage. In the end, Uriel decided to lay a single wire trap tied to a flashbang towards the exit in case he needed to fall back.

A shrill sound announced the arrival of the horror rank cryptid and Uriel hurried to place as many flares on the ground as he was able to. Spending so much money hurt him a lot, but not as much as a horror level cryptid could. Then, Uriel started blindly firing his magnum to cause as much damage as possible before the enemy arrived.

Uriel couldn't see beyond the dark threshold, but judging by the sounds he heard he realized more than a couple bullets hit the mark and he smiled faintly, until the dark visage of the nosferatu appeared in front of him.

This time it didn't speak and jumped directly on the offensive with a slash Uriel dodged with ease thanks to Dash. The vampire followed then with another slash, but this time Uriel used his dagger to block causing metal sparks against the blackened claws.

Both attacker and defender were thrown off a couple meters and the cryptid felt into a confused state as it wondered what kind of weapon could withstand its sharp claws, but it was now Uriel's turn to strike and he lowered his center of mass to increase his acceleration.

By the time the cryptid wanted to realize it, Uriel had maimed one of its legs. The cut was so clean the nosferatu didn't even feel the pain, only the blood loss that came after which sent it into a frenzy. The precious red liquid was the source of its life and for the first time in centuries he was losing buckets of it.

Uriel's mouth gaped when he saw the impossible amount of blood that gushed out from the cryptid, but that didn't stop him from pressing his attack even further and he attempted to do the same with one of the cryptid's arms, but in spites of being frenzied the cryptid was smart enough to dodge instead of blocking the incoming attack.

The vampire and the hunter became entangled in a fight of speed where the latter had the upper hand. For every strike the nosferatu landed, Uriel was able to kick him twice, but the cryptid was now wary of the dagger and didn't let him come close enough for a clean slash. After losing a limb, the nosferatu knew it was one stab away from losing the match which seemed more likely as time passed.

"What!?" Uriel shouted in utter disbelief, not knowing if he somehow killed a horror cryptid without noticing or if the system granted him a freebie. He was so exhausted, though, he didn't care to look a gifted horse in the mouth. All Uriel wanted now was to grab something to eat and take a shower.