Vampire Cultivation System in a Hidden World of Monsters

I finished my countdown to my counterattack against the guards with swords that were constantly barraging me with sword strikes. They were faster than any humans I'd ever seen. I guessed most of their bodies were cybernetic. No one could move that fast otherwise.

I glanced over at Mira. She was handling the superhumanly fast gunmen fairly well. That said, she was getting peppered by bullets, but she seemed to be holding her own. She had already taken out two of them.

One by ripping out his heart and the other by making him eat his gun. I don't mean she made him shoot himself in the mouth. I mean she literally shoved the gun so far down his throat, he choked on it.

Her insides hadn't liquefied yet, so maybe I was over estimating my opponents level of cybernetic enhancements. What ever composition made up their bodies, it was enough to rock my world and then some.

But now it was time to rock their worlds. I began my counter attack by sidestepping one of their swipes and slamming my elbow into one of their faces. That knocked him to the floor and sent him tumbling.

I started putting the pressure on my enemies with my sword. I slammed my blade into theirs with every strike, knocking their swords off center and giving myself an opening for a melee attack. I swiped some legs out from under them, shoulder checked a few, and bicycle kicked one in the chin.

The result was I put them all on the ground. I went to start stabbing them to finish them off, but they weren't that vulnerable yet. The first one knocked my blade out of the way, then the others quickly got to their feet. I kept trying to kill the last guy on the ground.

While I attacked the opponent on the floor, the others didn't attack me. They stood there and flexed while grunting like they were taking a poop in their pants. That wasn't what they were doing, but that was the first impression I got.

Soon I realized what they were actually doing. They were powering up. Apparently they hadn't reached their full power yet. Their eyes started to glow blue and wisps of blue smoke came off their bodies.

Without him being able to power up, I was able to finish off the guy on the ground, but that was more a consolation prize than anything. There were still many guys with swords left up, and they were going to be even stronger and faster this time.

After finishing off the guy on the ground by stabbing him through the throat, I readied my sword. Something I had noticed over the course of this battle was that my Blood Saw wasn't cutting through their blades like it had with the kitsune's.

They must have been better constructed in some way. It might have been the vibrating nature of the vibro swords or it could have been a stronger alloy of metal. Whatever it was, it was making this fight so much harder than any fight I have had before.

I was pulling out all my tricks, and still left wanting. I was going to need to come up with another new technique and soon.

The guys stopped powering up. They lifted their swords and disappeared from my vision again. They reappeared all stabbing my legs. That struck me as odd, until I noticed something I hadn't before.

They all had these metal pieces coming out of their heads. They were sleek and formed against their heads. They reminded me of the short modern car antennas that just looked like a small shark fin on the top of the car.

They must have been using those to telepathically communicate with each other. I wasn't just fighting each of them individually, it was like I was fighting one organism with multiple bodies. All of them worked in perfect harmony with each other, fully aware of their moves and positions.

Now that they had my legs stabbed, they all pulled their swords apart horizontally, cutting my legs to pieces in the process. They severed my legs from my body this way.

My torso fell to the ground without my legs attached to it anymore. They all tried to pounce on me but I was just fast enough to roll out of the way. As soon as I was barely out of their reach, I began focusing Vi at the ends of my leg stumps.

I was attempting to grow back my legs, and I was attempting to do it in a matter of seconds. They began to grow back, but it was too slow. My opponents quickly recovered after missing me and pounced again.

This time, I couldn't move out of the way. I needed to stay still to focus well enough to regrow my limbs. I barely parried a sword headed straight for my heart. I knocked it slightly out of the way and it pierced my lung instead. Continue your adventure with empire

I coughed up blood and gritted my teeth. The rest of their swords all stabbed me in the midsection in various organs. That I could handle but just barely. Honestly, I was surprised I hadn't passed out from pain or exertion yet.

Maybe it was because I knew I couldn't. If I passed out here, it not only meant my death, but it meant Mira's as well. And I couldn't allow that to happen. Not her. Not now. Not when we'd come this far.

I was down to my ankles now. All I had to grow back was my feet. The swordmen all pulled their swords back and then stabbed me in the throat.

I sputtered and tried to cough up blood, but my airway was completely blocked by their swords. I wasn't ready for it so I hadn't taken a big breath beforehand.

I had maybe thirty seconds of air and that was only due to my excellent physical condition. They leaned on their swords and wait for me to die. I looked them in the eyes and glared with a fury I was slowly becoming more and more familiar with.

It was the part of me that had created Evil Dylan surfacing. The part that held all my anger, resentment, and desire for retribution, for revenge. A part of myself I had repressed until I couldn't anymore.

I wasn't blind with rage however. I was calculating better and faster than ever. I had already come up with my countermove to their recent power up. I had designed a power up of my own and it was going to devastate them when I unleashed it.

My feet finally finished regrowing. My vision was blurring and darkening at this point. I was almost out of oxygen. Before I passed out from lack of oxygen, I kicked my legs up towards their heads and made blood spikes shoot out of my feet, aimed directly at their heads.

This forced them to jump back out of harms way and pulled their swords out of my neck. I took a huge gasp of air when my airway cleared. It was a ragged breath, with the holes in my throat, but with some effort, those quickly closed up and healed.

I got to my feet and began my power up. I began to scream. The power up didn't hurt. It just seemed appropriate to scream during this moment of extreme effort and exertion.

Using Vi control on the blood in my body, and over my heart, I circulated and pumped the blood through my circulatory system faster. The blood collected oxygen from my lungs and then immediately moved to another part of my body to provide oxygen to my muscles and other tissues.

I took deep breaths and allowed my quickly circulating blood to provide enhanced oxygen delivery to my muscles. My muscles would now react faster and stronger than before, without fatiguing.

My opponents realized I was powering up and went to stab me, but I disappeared from their view. I had surpassed their ability to perceive my movement and location. Now I was ready to end this fight.