Rise of the Blood Sovereign

75 The Mage Fights

The battle between the two Silver Knights and the ape caused the whole area to shake. The carriages would move slightly to the left and right, and some adventurers and mercenaries were forced to grab onto them in order for the carriages not to fall down from the side of the mountain.

Thanks to the urgent situation, some bronze knights and normal adventurers that were staying in the carriages went out without ever even being called and helped out.

Lyle and Adam, upon noticing how urgent the situation was, decided to go down and help out the adventurers in close-quarters combat since they could do little from above thanks to the apes being very close to the other combatants.

Both men restricted their powers as much as they could in order not to show more than a peak fighter below the Knight realm could and helped out with dealing with the normal apes.

The two Silver Knights were splendid in battle.

The axe-wielding knight had incredible physical strength and could even fight evenly against the ape when it came to sheer strength. Usually, monsters in the same realm had greater physical power than humans, but they had no equipment, which would even out the odds.

Even though both the Knight and the ape were strength-based combatants, the knight was not only standing his ground, but he was managing to overpower the ape at certain points.

As for the sword and shield-wielding knight, he was a balanced type of fighter. He was fast, but there were faster people in the same realm, he was strong and sturdy, but not as some in his realm were.

Overall, he was a great addition to the battle as he was able to not only deal damage to the ape and get away before being hit, but he was also able to tank some attacks from the ape and help out his teammate.

The two fought very well together and it was clear to Lyle that this was not the first time the two were fighting a strong enemy together as they knew each other well and could follow each other's actions perfectly.

The third Silver Knight still had his hood on, and underneath it, one could see a mask shielding his face.

He carried no weapon, and simply walked toward the Bronze Knights before moving his arms around and spreading small strings of mana throughout the battlefield. In mere seconds, a lot of the apes were caught by the strings and couldn't move.

The third Silver Knight was a mage and not a simple one.

Lyle was in the same realm as these people were, and he was even higher ranked than them as he was a high-grade Silver Knight.

Simply by observing the battle, he could easily find out that the two fighting against the ape were both low-grade Silver Knights, while the mage was a mid-grade Silver Knight.

The difference between the grades was not small. 𝑏𝑒𝘥𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝘭.𝑛𝘦𝑡

If put into the perspective of the system, a low-grade Silver Knight was anywhere from level 100 to level 120, a mid-grade was level 130 to level 150, a high-grade was level 160 to 180 and at the end, a peak-grade combatant was level 190 to level 200.

Lyle knew that his level before evolving into a vampire lord was 169

Additionally, it seemed that the Bronze Knight realm was from level 50 to 100, but all the other realms were divided by 100 levels, which made sense considering just how much more powerful a strong Silver Knight was compared to a weak one.

The mid-grade Silver Mage was much more powerful compared to the other two and could probably take down the ape by himself.

( Author: For you that remember the old mage ranking, I have changed it, so it is no longer Bronze Knight = Low Mage, Silver Knight = Middle-ranked mage, they will from now on use the same scaling, so Bronze Knight- Bronze Mage and so on, not sure if I will do that for assassins though as I do like the titles there, hahaha )

The mage was able to quickly get almost half of the Bronze Apes under control with the strings. With a couple of finger flicks, the strings started tightening around the apes and slowly cut them.

In merely a couple of seconds, the mage had transformed the once-hard battlefield into one where the Bronze Knights now held an overwhelming advantage.

The lightning user sped through the apes, his attacks drawing blood and cutting deep inside each one as he passed. The attacks weren't lethal, but they allowed the knights that were combating the apes to seize the advantage and deal with them more easily.

'Instead of charging in and dealing with the apes, he's decided to take a support role, conserving his strength in case of emergency and also minimizing losses, this guy isn't simple, not at all.' Lyle thought as he dodged an attack from an ape before stabbing the ape through the chest with one dagger.

He then quickly pulled his dagger out before leaning to the side and dodging another blow. He proceeded to cut and stab the arm of the ape before it was a bloody mess, the muscles were cut apart, most of the flesh dangled from the side, and bones could be seen.

Lyle then kicked off the ground and wrapped his legs around the ape's head before plunging his daggers through the monster's skull.

Such an attack would usually damage the daggers he held in his hands, even though they were Tier I and could be used by Bronze Knights, but since he was using mana to reinforce them, the daggers were able to easily break through the skull and not be damaged at all.

Suddenly a fierce roar echoed through the area.

Lyle at first thought it was the ape that was fighting against the two Silver Knights, but it turned out that a second one had suddenly jumped down from the mountain and smashed the ground below.

It stood right in front of the Bronze Knights and had managed to crush one below its giant body. Some Bronze Core realm apes and knights were injured from the ape's fall, but none died, except for the one below the ape.

The mage clicked his tongue in frustration as he suddenly drew a couple of symbols in the air.

The ape was the same as the one fighting against the two knights, a low-grade Silver Core monster, and it was weaker compared to the mage.

After a mere second, the symbol was drawn and the soil below the ape suddenly softened for a moment before two giant arms that were made out of rock sprung up and grabbed the ape.

The monster struggled violently and the rocks were obviously not powerful enough to hold it for long, but that was not what the mage expected anyway. He started channeling mana into his arms and had the full spread out as a magic circle started being created above the mage.

In only 5 seconds, the ape managed to escape from the confines of the two rocky arms before charging at the mage. None dared stand in its path and the ape only needed a second to appear in front of the mage and extend its giant arm at him.

The moment the ape touched the mask on the mage's face, the circle was completed and two giant serpents that were created out of mana suddenly came out and wrapped themselves around the ape.

The ape merely touched the mask, but the power behind its arm was powerful enough to break it and force the mage's head to snap back.

The hood that was hiding the mage's head was thrown off from his head and people were now able to see who he was.

Bright green eyes that seemed to contain the very essence of nature in them shone brilliantly under the sun while long blonde hair fell down to the mage's chest. Long, pointy ears stuck out from the sides of her head as the mage stared at the ape in anger.

The mage was a woman, and she was also an elf.

Elves were not really a rare sight in the world as they had spread out far and wide since a long time ago. The elves were well-liked by many, and their kingdom had many allies and very few enemies.

Most elves, however, were not pure-blooded and not as powerful as the ones from the kingdom of the elves. There were some that would be born with pure elven blood, which would make them much more powerful compared to the rest.

The one in front of Lyle was one of them.

Pure-blooded elves did not need to have pure-blooded parents in order to be born, but the chances of two elves that were not of pure blood having a child that was were incredibly low.

Thanks to living in a lot of places and mixing with the other races, most elves outside of the kingdom were not pure-blooded and were almost the same as humans, only that they still had a higher connection with nature and were slightly more powerful on average.

Elves mostly excelled at magic, but nature-type, not the one that could be seen right now.

They were also good archers thanks to their great eyesight but were usually weaker physically compared to others.

The elf stared at the ape as the two serpents started constricting and suffocating the ape, slowly extinguishing its life.