The Gamer’s POV

The first goat-headed blood ghoul took a step, and then the other bloodied monsters followed, charging toward the five hollow dominants.

Seeing the monsters approaching like zombies, one of the dominants let out a yell, raised its axe, and brought it down to point toward the oncoming horde. Instantly, massive bolts of lightning descended, striking two of the ghouls and shattering them in a violent eruption of blood. The remaining monsters sidestepped just in time, dodging the bolts as they continued to fall.

Soon, the bloodied monsters and the dominants engaged in a violent melee. One dominant raised her spear, piercing a ghoul's chest and tearing through the thick, coagulated mass with a sickening squelch.

However, instead of the ghoul collapsing, it simply kept approaching. It drove the spear deeper into its own body, the shaft sliding through its back until it had closed the distance to the dominant in a matter of seconds. Before the girl could react, the ghoul lunged forward and sank its jagged teeth into her throat, tearing away a massive chunk of flesh in a spray of crimson.

Without slowing, the creature raised a gore-slicked hand and plunged it into the girl's chest. It violently tore out her heart and crushed the organ in its fist before shoving her lifeless body aside like a piece of refuse. The ghoul then turned quickly to attack another dominant who was already engaged in a fierce melee with a different ghoul.

But as it tried to move, another dominant yelled, "Seal!"

Instantly, the ghoul slammed into an invisible barrier. It paused for a second, then tried to lunge again, only to be stopped short by the same invisible wall. When it turned around, it saw a dominant standing some distance away, holding the index fingers and thumbs of both hands together to form a steady rectangle.

The ghoul snarled and tried to charge the dominant, but that was when it realized it was completely trapped within an invisible rectangular cage.

The dominant trapping it then smashed both fists together and yelled, "Compress!"

In the next second, the invisible rectangular barrier trapping the ghoul instantly compressed inward with overwhelming force like a hydraulic press. The creature had no room to move or even scream as the invisible walls closed in from every side, crushing its coagulated form. The pressure was so immense that the blood making up the ghoul's body was forced through the gaps of the seal, spraying outward in a violent mist before the beast finally popped, reduced to a formless puddle of gore on the floor.

At the same time, one of the hollow dominants, a girl wielding a recurve wooden bow, drew the string back to her ear. As the tension tightened, a wooden arrow magically appeared, shimmering into existence against the bow's grip as if it had grown from the air itself.

She aimed the arrow at Evelyn who was chanting something in a foreign language. With a sharp snap of the string, the girl released the shot. The arrow hissed through the air, but just as it was about to pierce Evelyn's head, she pivoted sideways. The projectile grazed the side of her temple, drawing a thin line of red, before it buried itself deep into the ground several meters behind her.

A flash of deep annoyance crossed Evelyn's face as she snapped her gaze toward the direction the arrow had come from. "Which motherfucker da—"

But then Julius's panicked voice cut her off. "Behind you, my lady!"

Evelyn's eyes widened as she quickly spun around, only to see the female dominant who had shot at her. It seemed the girl had the ability to teleport to her own arrows.

She had already slung her bow over her shoulder and was now gripping two wooden arrows like daggers in both hands. She was already mid-lunge, with one hand extended aiming to drive the tip into Evelyn's throat.

Evelyn cursed and leapt back, narrowly avoiding the jagged point. But even as she retreated, the archer didn't let up; she stepped into Evelyn's space and slashed downward with the second arrow, forcing the vampire to twist her body at an awkward angle just to keep her skin intact.

In the next breath, the girl raised her other hand in a violent upward slash. Because Evelyn hadn't been given a single second to recover from her first dodge, she couldn't move fast enough to avoid the follow-up. The wooden tip finally connected, carving a deep, jagged line from Evelyn's lower side all the way up to her shoulder. The vampire let out a sharp hiss of pain as her clothes were torn open and a spray of dark blood stained the air.

Evelyn desperately needed space to recover and gain her bearings; if not, the crazy girl constantly advancing on her would be the end of her. And so, barely a second after Evelyn was slashed, she gritted her teeth. The blood that had sprayed from her wound and stained the air suddenly hardened, turning into thin crystalline needles that rained down upon the archer, forcing the girl to abandon her assault and retreat.

Just as the archer leapt back, Evelyn took a quick look at the large wound on her body, watching as the jagged edges of her flesh already began to slowly close themselves. She tightened her grip on both of her kama and yelled, "I'll kill you, you fuckin' bitch!"

Then, she lunged at the archer, who raised both arrows to meet the downward arc of her blades. Their weapons entangled for a moment, then separated. Almost immediately, both dominants clashed again and again, in a fierce melee of wood and steel.

At first, it looked like the archer was dominating, as her movements were incredibly fast, almost as if she possessed an attribute that boosted her speed. However, the opponent she was facing was a vampire whose own speed increased each time her blades drew blood from an enemy. And so, after the first cut opened a shallow red line across the archer's cheek, the tide began to shift.

Evelyn's movements sharpened, her strikes coming faster and more aggressive than before, as the taste of the girl's life force fed into her own agility.

After a few more strikes and cuts, Evelyn's speed peaked and then… right in front of the archer's eyes, she suddenly vanished into a total blur. The archer's eyes darted around frantically, searching any sign of the vampire, but she was far too slow.

Before the girl could even register a shadow, her head suddenly slid off her body. Evelyn had reappeared behind her, her kama dripping with fresh gore as the dominant's headless corpse collapsed into the river of blood.

Then Evelyn slowly raised her kama and licked the steaming blood from the blade with a look of pure satisfaction crossing her face. As she took in the girl's life force, all the wounds on her body, including the large, jagged cut across her side, finished knitting themselves back together, leaving nothing behind but smooth, unblemished skin and the shredded remnants of her clothes.