I became a legion lich

232 Unexpected situation

Defeat was already certain, but if he managed to destroy that damn control, they could send the warning signal and accomplish their mission.

To their surprise, Lukas took a step forward instead of trying to back away.

The older twin’s barrier could take no more punishment and disappeared, a hammer hitting him in the side with deft timing and throwing him out of the way, leaving a clear path between the younger and Lukas.

Floating shields moved in front to block the younger one, each releasing a hexagonal barrier that protected Lukas, while the guns were aimed all at once at the younger one.

‘It’s all or nothing.’ The younger twin thought and attacked with the dagger in his left hand using weapon break. The blade was made of magic steel and its explosion was strong enough to break the first, but the second barrier remained intact.

The youngest tried to throw the last dagger to destroy the last barrier, but an axe hit him in the arm and dropped the dagger to the ground, exploding harmlessly.

The youngest didn’t give up and punched the barrier with his bare fists until the armor barrier disappeared, dropping to his knees on the ground.

“I surrender. It is useless to continue the fight.” He spoke as he glanced at his older brother from the corner of his eye, noticing that he was also kneeling.

“It’s a smart decision, but I remember Thersec saying you were going to beat me to an inch of death, so I’ll pay you back in kind.” Lukas smiled coldly at them and the twins gulped and tried to run away, but the hovering weapons hit them in the back and knocked them to the ground.

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White chains wrapped around their wrists and ankles, preventing them from moving and sealing their cores. The chains have the same enchantments as the shackles in the damned dungeon, preventing mages from drawing mana from their cores.

Lukas took his time beating the twins, taking out all of his frustration at being interrupted and Thersec’s cunning to trap him. Whatever he did now, Lukas would still be punished for disobeying Thersec and going out to avenge a bastard.

By the time he was done beating them up, the twins were in black and blue, their bruises covering their entire bodies, their god-steel armor in shreds on the floor.

Lukas poured two high grade potions on the twins and healed all of their wounds, causing them to pass out from the effort of healing. Without receiving nutrients, their bodies were not able to support such extensive healing.

“Huff…” Lukas sighed and chained the twins against the wall to ensure they wouldn’t run away even if they regained consciousness somehow.

He let the weapons fall back to their positions on the walls, where the magic steel on the walls would recharge the weapons’ enchantments to speed their recovery.

‘It’s going to take some time to track down the crystal I gave Emilia, so it might be a good idea to reload all my weapons. My masterpieces have the power to face a dragon head-on, but only when they are at full power. They won’t recover enough energy for full strength, but any extra energy is welcome.’ Lukas thought as he walked towards the seemingly unfinished portal.

It was his first working prototype for a portal, and despite being extremely energy inefficient, it worked flawlessly. Lukas kept records of all of Emilia’s crystals and his closest family members in a log of his own, as Thersec would have deleted anything related to Emilia if he remained in the main portal.

Lukas accessed the control panel on the side of the portal and selected one of the runes on the portal, beginning the tracking process. Each teleportation crystal had a unique signature, and mages assigned a specific rune to each crystal’s signature.

World energy flowed through the lab and powered the teleportation crystals embedded in the portals. Unlike portals that could track crystals and expend energy only when activating the portals, his prototype would expend energy in both steps.

Lukas felt his hands shake slightly as he shifted his balance from one foot to the other, his expression a mixture of impatience and anger. The seconds felt like hours as he watched Emilia’s crystal rune grow brighter and brighter and a light appeared in the center of the portal, slowly increasing in size.

When the mithril arc finally located Emilia’s crystal and the portal opened, Lukas’ heart jumped and he felt a lump in his throat. The portal started to feel unstable after opening and Lukas remembered his prototype’s second malfunction.

Normal crystals teleported the user immediately after being filled with energy, but what few knew was that if energy was continuously injected after the teleportation happened, the purple spheres would be maintained and would continue to connect both locations.

His prototype didn’t have that function and Lukas needed to feed his portal with his own mana to stabilize it.

The weapons he had let reload flew to his back again and this time, a suit of armor made of divine steel did the same, opening like an exoskeleton and covering him from head to toe.

His own clothes were enchanted, but they couldn’t compare to Ripha armor, the armor that only the Ripha and their chosen servants were capable of wearing.

Lukas advanced through the portal, prepared to attack and kill anything that got in his way.

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Shiima city, in the building of a trading company.

Valko the vampire was lying in his room sleeping, waiting for nightfall. It was almost late afternoon, but vampires usually slept until dark, except when they were on missions or there was an emergency. Vampires didn’t need to sleep, but they could sleep for pleasure and they usually slept for as long as the sun was up.

The building he was in belonged to a shell trading company and was actually a base for mainland Nytrer spies. All of the employees were spies and nearly half of them were vampires or ghouls, while the other half were humans who came from Sytrer or were born in the city but who became loyal to Sytrer.

This building wasn’t their only spy base in the city since Shiima was a big city, but it was the biggest and most important.

Valko’s room was in the basement and had bunk beds on either side of the room, with chests for her personal belongings and the teleportation crystal Valko took from the black skeletons was in her personal chest.

All the bunks were full of vampires sleeping and about to wake up because of the hour, so the sudden purple light in the room woke them all up.

“Hmm? What is it?” one of the vampires asked in a panic, looking up at the purple light. The confusion only lasted a few seconds before the vampires recognized the teleportation light, turning into full-blown panic.

“It’s a portal! Why is there a portal?!” The same vampire screamed in panic and everyone started running towards the stairs that led to the first floor.

‘Is that it?’ Valko was among the fugitives and looked at the back for a moment, noticing that the portal was opening just above his chest, where the teleportation crystal he stole was. ‘No, it doesn’t matter how we were discovered. We have to flee now.’

“We’ve been discovered, We’ve been discovered! Destroy everything!” The vampires broke down the door leading to the first floor and yelled at their companions to destroy all the evidence they held.

There were customers in the company currently and they were shocked by the sudden appearance of the undead, but their shock didn’t last long. Employees who until a second ago treated them politely turned into two-meter hideous monsters and tore customers to shreds.

“What happened? Why are we abandoning the base?” A human servant holding a bloodied dagger asked, throwing the corpse of the woman he had just killed to the ground.

“A portal is opening in our room and we need to evacuate the place before it finish forming.” Valko answered the question and the spies nodded in understanding, going up to the second floor to alert the rest of the team.

A dozen magical weapons smashed through the floor and impaled the vampires and ghouls, pinning their bodies against the first-floor ceiling. The workers on the second floor were startled by the sudden bloody blades appearing on the floor, at least until the weapons released their enchantments.

Explosions of different elements, shockwaves, and aura blades blasted the building, sending debris and corpses all over the block. The first floor ceiling was also destroyed, exposing the vampires to sunlight and burning their skin.

Lukas broke the floor of the first floor and floated in the air looking around in confusion.

When he walked through the portal, he expected to find himself surrounded by thousands of black skeletons ready to kill him, not a basement dark room. He used mana vision to look around to understand where he was, recognizing the mana cores of ordinary people just above his head.