Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System-Chapter 638: A king’s role (part 1)

Seeing the enemy queen landing on the ground, the light princess graciously descended from the sky, landing a couple of meters away from where Erika was coughing blood, she was still alive despite having a hole blasted on her chest.

"H-How did a mere tool like you, strip the protection of the Lord away from me!", managed to shout the enemy queen, she couldn't reconcile with the fact that she was unable to make even one move in her strongest state.

All because the two enhancing martial arts which she casted through the nether of the Balax Lord, suddenly disappeared, something that only her Lord should have been able to do, but Erika was sure that wasn't the case, considering that the moment it happened, she could feel the surprise of her Lord who was observing the fight.

"You are dying and I'm pretty sure that he ordered you to try and get information from me, and I am supposed to be the tool?", disdainfully said Jasmine to then add.

"That's the difference between a fanatic like you and a treasured companion like me, if I were in your position, Daimon would flip over heaven, sea and earth to help and this isn't something that I thought myself, it was told to me by someone else, though I have zero doubts about it".

Listening to Jasmine's bold words, Daimon couldn't help but clear his throat, that sounded like something Aisha would totally say.

"Humph, so what, the Lord will bring me back to his side, even if I lost, I forced you to reveal your trump cards, the fact that you can use nether to cast your spells in a chant-less way in exchange for using extra nether for it", said the enemy queen to then add.

"What's more, that armor is preventing you from receiving the backslash of using all those spells on yourself for now, but once it's gone, you'll be hit by all of them combined and condensed in a single go, and you won't be able to recover from that in a short period of time, so it is ultimately your defeat".

Seeing the light princess frown, Erika snorted as she said.

"What, did you think that the Lord was just watching for the sake of amusement, of course not, everything is within the Lord's calculations and for the Lord's benefit!", listening to Erika's provocative words, the light princess snorted as she said.

"My light nether's innate ability is "Bright Blessing", it allows me to use spells that would normally need mana to be activated with nether, not to mention that casting is not necessary, as for "Heavenly Paladin" it's the sole nether exclusive spell I know and it embodies the protection property of my nether by diminishing any side effect that buffing myself might bring me!", exclaimed Jasmine to which Erika smirked for her insides, her mission had finished so she was planning to self-destroy to land one final attack on her opponent, but then her body froze on its place.

'What is this!', she screamed to her insides as she tried to speak or move, only to see the cunning light flashing through the light princess's eyes.

Erika was right on something, the Lords weren't watching the fights for amusement, but it's not like the nethereal sisters didn't know it, how do you trick someone that is smart enough to scheme against others, easy you make him believe he has achieved his goal.

The first one to do so was the crazy girl, she revealed those outrageous innate abilities of hers "on the heat of the moment", so that no one would pay attention to her crown which she didn't manifest unlike her sisters.

But that only worked for Sarah because the Lords already knew about her predisposition towards nether, after all the Asmadian Lord himself was the one that placed that curse on her, so it was impossible for them to not know that the crazy girl was extremely talented with nether, she simply used that to further focus the enemy's attention on that aspect.

Jasmine was different, because the Balax Lord didn't expect her to be able to use nether, so the attention on her fight soared through the sky the moment she proved him wrong.

So, she mounted this little show in which she was fiercely fighting against Erika in the name of her mother, because the Lords didn't know that Jessica was alive though in a different form.

And taking advantage of that, she "got carried away" and confirmed the Balax Lord's analysis about her nether, in other words she learned from Sarah and replicated her changing what she didn't want the other party not to notice.

Which was, what Erika was seeing right now, an invisible black castle that was now floating behind of her.

'Pandemonium', with a voice that no one but her sisters and Daimon could hear, the gates of the black castle opened and an armored hand came out of it, to then pass through Jasmine's body and enter the enemy queen's one.

"Aghhhh!", Erika screamed one last time before the light of life disappeared from her eyes, not knowing what was going on, in fact Sarah and Reyne were also confused.

'That's not the "royal ability" of her crown…', thought Reyne.

'Neither it is the innate ability of her nether', added the crazy girl, to which Joanna who had remained silent, decided to shine some light on them.

'That's something that little girl obtained because the amount of Brightstar lineage in her is the highest out of you three, well there is also the fact that her talent with light is insanely high', said the Ivory ancestor.

If we were to classify the nethereal sisters lineages in some way, Sarah would be Nethereal/Ivory/Brightstar, which explains why she has barely anything that inclines to the positive side of the energy spectrum.

Then we have Reyne who would be Ivory/Brightstar/Nethereal, she could be considered quite leaned towards contradiction, since she as Nelapsi has blood affinity an affinity on the extreme negative side of the spectrum, but unlike others, not only is she a vampire that doesn't need to drink blood but her blood battle aura is not corrosive but full of vitality like it would happen for a… light affinity being.

And last but not least we have the light princess, which like Joanna stated, would be classified as a Brightstar/Ivory/Nethereal, which might be the reason as to why she achieved the contradiction of awakening a light and positive oriented nether.

'I was already skeptical when I got to know that grandmother of yours, but I only know that there is a certain "secret" hidden in the Brightstar lineage, since sister Alicia was not supposed to inherit it as she was the youngest', she said.

Daimon on the other hand perfectly knew what they were talking about, in fact ever since that black castle appeared behind of Jasmine, he was sure of what was going on, because that was the exact same manifestation that he could see when… he used Sanctuary.

And now that Erika died, Daimon also got to hear the unmistakable sound of a notification.

[Ding]

[The level of trust of the daughter of the Northern Sky has been updated]

[Level of trust currently attained 60% à 80% (Sanctuary will be granted to the daughter of the Northern Sky), please keep working to reach its final state]

[Ding]

[Inspired by the host, the daughter of the Northern Sky has veered off from the path of self-sacrifice… updating]

[Sanctuary à Pandemonium: Once a day, the daughter fatigue will be able to select two of the following: fatigue, energy used, damage or abnormal statuses to transfer them to an enemy target (If the target has been defeated in battle or their realm is two major realms or less, higher than the one of the daughter of the Northern Sky, the effect will be irresistible, otherwise the success will depend 50% on luck, 25% on the target's resistance to curses and 25% on the caster's ability with curses]

Daimon was momentarily taken aback, he expected Jasmine to obtain Sanctuary since that was an ability he got thanks to her, it was the best recovery spell he has ever heard or seen.

And apparently it had something to be with the Brightstar lineage descending from a "daughter" of the Northern Sky, because Ophelia as weakened as she was, granted him the usage of an ability to prevent death and that was just a side ability that came with her tittle as the "First Princess of the Northern Sea".

'Is the tittle perhaps going to change from daughter to princess like Ophelia's one, once the level of trust reaches a hundred percent?', wondered Daimon, that trust percentage didn't represent what Jasmine felt by the way, it was a judgement made by the oath, because at this point the light princess trusted Daimon with her life.

Anyway, what happened a moment ago when Jasmine used "Pandemonium" on Erika is that she transferred the damage and energy she used during her whole fight with the enemy queen, to her, which caused Erika to die, without the Balax Lord noticing why.

Speaking of which, feeling the curiosity of her sisters and Daimon, the light princess properly explained her true innate ability, that's right everything she said earlier was a mix of lies and truth, after all if the Balax Lord wanted to gather intel about her, she was more than happy to provide him with the incorrect information.

'My innate ability is "Retribution Blessing", and it basically makes it so that I can apply all the buffing spells I have used on others… all at the same time without restrictions and up to two times each', she said, to then add.

'As for "Heavenly Paladin" it's an armor spell that takes all the damage be it magical or physical in my stead, for as long as I provide nether to the armor of course'.

That explained how Jasmine, a non-combatant and a mage, utterly destroyed Erika a purely combatant and a knight no less, in a direct confrontation, the light princess was basically buffed as hell.

Just imagine, combining the speed, attack, defense, buffs Jasmine used, then multiply them by two, that would be an increase from 600% to 800% in all those aspects since she could stack them up to two times and it wasn't limited to a single once since restrictions didn't apply, not to mention special buffs like defense ignoring.

Of course it came with a price, Jasmine isn't a knight, so while her body is not fragile thanks to her high vitality caused by her light affinity, using all those buffs at the same time, will cause both physical and magical damage to her.

But that's why she concentrated all the protection nether into that armor to not suffer the damage on the moment, and then used Pandemonium to transfer all the damage she would have suffered and the energy she spent to the enemy, it was a brilliant move.

With this, Jasmine could fulfill her role as the main support of the group, defend herself and deal with overwhelmingly stronger opponents, if the need for it came, in other words she would never be a damsel in distress again and anyone who tried to target her, tricked by her inoffensive appearance will pay a hefty price.

'Protecting yourself by protecting others, not bad', said Daimon, he couldn't help but praise the light princess, she found a way to convert her support to others into strength for herself.

Those words reminded Jasmine of the fact that Daimon said he was going to give her a "surprise", and there was also a certain special indication, he gave her before her fight with Erika started.

'Ahem, but you didn't kill land that lethal attack on that woman with that, it was your royal skill, right?', asked the Nelapsi girl to which Jasmine nodded.

'Mm, it's called "Banishment" and the effect is to cleanse away all the enhancing effects on the target', mumbled the light princess to which Reyne added.

'Cleanse, not strip?'.

'Because a cleanse it's not "detrimental" so it will be harder for the enemy to resist it, as it doesn't have hostility', concluded Daimon making the light princess giggle.

'Mm~', she had the words "praise me" written all over her pretty face, she wanted a few more head pats like the ones she received before.

But before that, a black portal appeared below Erika's corpse, swallowing it on the spot, Daimon didn't know if the Lords could revive their dead subordinates, as Erika affirmed, but probably creating a new one with the corpse as the base wasn't hard for them, so removing the material from the equation should be enough to eliminate that possibility.

That and a certain undead head maid, had cute expecting eyes every time a nethereal died, so Daimon allowed her to take them if that helped her with her advance.

As if waiting for Erika's corpse to be taken, the announcement of victory came a second later.

[A queen piece was eliminated from the game, congratulations to the White Queen for earning the right to challenge the Wrath King, please return to the waiting area until the next round starts]

Just as the light princess was about to happily enter the portal that was going to take her back to where her sisters were waiting, the ground trembled before the three castles on the distance started… moving?

Under the doubt-filled eyes of the three nethereal sisters, the castles where the three Lords resided, pressed together to then project a solid looking barrier, then a few figures came out of the castles, led by a tall man on his late twenties who glared at the three sisters as he said.

"The Lords send their congratulations to the challengers, they'll wait for you at the throne room, don't take too long, your right to face them will expire in an hour, ah right, only the queen and king pieces can attack the barrier and it's impossible to teleport from the outside, good luck".

That was the captain of the special corps, and apparently, he was the one in charge of security, there were also a familiar face among the few guys that accompanied him, it was Walford.

"They are cheating, they want Jas and the others to tire themselves with the barrier to then have the advantage in the fight!", exclaimed Cassy, which made the light princess clench her little fists in anger.

She is at her prime condition because she used Pandemonium, and she can enter that state one more time, today though she won't be able to transfer the damage, to others, but now she'll have to waste mana and nether before even reaching her enemy, it was frustrating.

But then in the middle of it, the light princess was brought back to the real world by a soothing sensation that circulated through her body from the top of her head, she turned around just to see Daimon who had appeared next to her a second ago and was patting her head as of current.

"Close your eyes for a second", said Daimon which made Jasmine's little innocent heart skip a beat, that being said she obeyed and closed her eyes, but the peck on her cheek which she expected didn't come, instead of that, she was forced to open her eyes due to the loud shattering sound that came from the distance.

"Crack!".

"Mm?", Jasmine opened her eyes and looked in a very specific direction, the one in which that giant barrier was to be more accurate, just to see a familiar figure stabbing an ominous looking one edged black sword on the inner side of the barrier, causing huge cracks to extend all over the thing.

Naturally that was Daimon who was wielding Disaster, there is now doubt about it, the question here is how the hell did he get there, the undead head maid's shadow portals would be a good supposition, had it not been for the fact that even Rita would have needed some time to sneak into a barrier created with the power of the three Lords.

There was also another thing that didn't fit in the current situation and that is the fact that Walford was now on the resting area, surrounded by magic weapons by the way, since Calvin, Michael and Lance directly surrounded him and were one word from Daimon away from killing him.

…

Going back in time a few seconds to when Daimon told Jasmine to close her eyes, a certain seemingly plain ring on Daimon's hand, shone in a dim blue light and then Daimon inwardly ordered.

'Promote to rook, castling'.

And what happened next is that under the eyes of disbelief of the captain of the special corps, Walford started shinning, before he was dragged into a portal, a portal from which a masked silver haired youth which he knew really well, casually came out to then stab a black sword into the barrier's inner side.

"You, how the hell did you come here!", he shouted to which Daimon simply said.

"Nothing complicated, I simply converted a "pawn" who had reached the deepest line of the enemy's territory into a rook and then used castling to change positions with it, it's not even as much of a cheat as what you guys did earlier".

"So, that's why that turtle bastard gave us wrong intel, he was working for you all the time!", exclaimed the captain of the special corps to which Daimon smirked.

'Not out of his own will, but yeah', he thought.

What happened is that Walford was unfortunate enough to meet Daimon, who had not only received a tittle from the one whose Walford's race served, in other words Ophelia, but he also had Ophelia with him in a way.

Back at the casino, Daimon found something interesting, thanks to the previous he could basically order Walford around, and since back then he has been his mole on the enemy's side, reporting him about the movements of the enemy, giving them outdated information and things like that, after all, an incompetent ally is worse than a strong enemy.

"I don't know how you did all that, but it's futile, do you think a single attack can damage the barrier created with the energy of the three…", the captain's words were stopped in cold by a shattering sound.

"Crack!", and we are back to the present, the part where the barrier cracked to then shatter into countless shards of nether to be more accurate.

"White Heavenly Javelin", Daimon pointed his free hand one of the remaining guards of the castles, and a thin white line of light was shot from index finger, piercing the head of the guard, killing him on the spot.

"And now for the finishing touch", said Daimon as he snapped his fingers making three black portals appear next to him, out of which the three nethereal sisters whose eyes were sparkling, came out.

"What a good king we have~", said the crazy girl as she tried to pounce on Daimon, just to be avoided by the latter who then made all the remaining guards, the captain included enter a black portal in which he also jumped the next second.

"I'll see you at the throne room… take care", he said before disappearing, leaving a trio of sisters who were all smiles as of current, the last trick that the Lords could play was leaving them out of the combined castle.

Now that they were here, they couldn't keep them out, but just in case, a black sea emblem was orbiting those three as of current, Daimon left it behind to protect those three, which is why they were smiling from ear to ear.

"Why don't we have some quality bonding time as sisters, by beating those some scum in the meantime~", said the crazy girl, to which Reyne and Jasmine nodded as the three of them entered the castle.