Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

The fact that Aisha couldn’t extract information from them was quite noteworthy, don’t forget that she has a few hundreds of years of battle experience and unlike currently, there was a war in the open between forces of the four galaxies when she was in her academic years, something that ended at Aliyah’s generation.

And as one of the main representatives of her generation from the Immortal galaxy, she of course was a priority target and thus dealt with a lot of enemies back then, what’s more unlike Liz or Elaine who at least had Erin as their backing in the Revy family meaning they had a trustable team accompanying them when they went out in a mission, the Silverheart treated Aisha more like a tool than a family member, so she preferred to ditch the guys that were only there to keep and eye on her and do all the roles in a team by herself.

So, scouting, fighting, intel gathering, strategy, she had experience in all fields, though her specialty was battle of course.

"That’s not normal, I would understand if one outstanding case didn’t speak but all of them it’s too much, not to mention that they didn’t leave anything behind for further intel gathering, that’s not a level of preparation that could be associated with the Lords, Marcus didn’t have the brain for it, it might be possible from Arlion or Ereth since they put a lot of effort in hiding their hands but they only returned to action in recent years unlike the Lords, so they wouldn’t have been able to prepare something like that".

"It might be something prepared from someone on their side though, like the White’s ancestor or Ereth’s army which according to Joanna suddenly disappeared and no matter how she looked for them, she couldn’t find any trace of them", said Daimon to then add.

"I’m more concerned about Mellie not having appeared so far through the global raid mission, I understand why I wasn’t "guided" towards you until now and why Thea’s stop was first than those three’s one, but Mellie must be in the realms affected by the Lords and she wasn’t at a level where she could be left for the end".

Daimon’s challenge included reuniting with all the members of his team, especially the "hidden gems" and "legacies" which the opportunities he stole from Adam and Marcus represented, out of which Mellie was the first one Daimon met and yet she was left aside until now.

In the empress’s case, her stop was in Draim which is outside of the influence of the Lords so she is a special case of sorts, Marlene had to deal with Agrak in her weakened state so she going first is also understandable, the same applies to Daphne because while her attack power can go out of the charts, she wasn’t fit to fight alone a side effect of what Arlion did to her and Grace with the help of the curse knowledge from the White’s ancestor, so Daimon was sent to look after her during her challenge.

Jasmine, Reyne and Sarah, despite their opponents being the other halves of the Lords, had to deal with their subordinates first before they could directly confront them, not to mention that they were together at all times and the Risha sisters and the others with them as well, so they being the last stop before entering the blood prison realm was also understandable.

As for Arianna and Dana while they were separated, their opponents before they met Daimon were just blood specters, which though were dangerous when they had just obtained their respective energies, could still be avoided, in other words the difficulty was always balanced with the order in which Daimon was sent to their side.

According to that, Aisha was left for the end because out of all the original team without taking into account Thea who was a special case, was the strongest, in fact she is currently stronger than Daimon himself, but Mellie should be around the same level as Daphne, which means she is below Sarah in terms of battle prowess, so the reason behind her lack of appearance is not normal.

It’s not only that Daimon didn’t meet her, but that no one from the team nor their enemies had met her, considering that he asked Sera and Laila about and no one on their side knew about her as well

"Oh well, if I wasn’t brought to her all this time by that little thing, it must be because my presence wasn’t required, either her challenge was quite an easy one or it hasn’t happened yet, I can also tell that she is alive because her emblem is linked to mine", ultimately concluded Daimon.

And with that, the time to "think" about other girls in Aisha’s presence was over, under Sera and Lezabel’s interested eyes, for different reasons though, the silver haired vampire girl sat down to then say.

"We have caught up in terms of knowledge, but you owe me a lot of attention Daimon~", Aisha then slightly opened her mouth clearly asking to be fed by Daimon.

’Mom is as reasonable as Elaine and she is like this after not that much time being apart, I don’t even want to think what Erin and Liz will be like when I see them again...’, thought Daimon, to which Eve added.

’Not to mention what that werewolf master of yours will be like when she sees all the girls you picked up in a single mission~’.

’Don’t worry Daimon, I’ll vouch that you didn’t befriend all of them with that intention’, mumbled Nasha.

That being said, Daimon did end up enjoying Aisha’s spoiled attitude, they even cuddled to sleep after finishing dinner and having a little chat.

...

The night at the blood prison realm went on as usual with the sole difference that the danger of the peak Arch rank blood specters, was extended an extra hour in this decayed area.

"The blood specters will be gone in thirty minutes, let’s have breakfast now and be ready to move as soon as they leave, we have to catch up with those guys", said Daimon who after sleeping for a couple of hours instead meditated while keeping track of the time.

Sera, Laila and Aisha instantly opened their eyes, after a night of rest and cuddling respectively, they were ready to engage in combat right away.

"I don’t mean to offend, but are you sure those two will be fine, the ones we’ll be fighting are quite strong and they only recently ditched mana and obtained energies, they already have techniques unlike you, but haven’t surpassed the Arch rank level yet", said Aisha while they ate breakfast.

She already knew that their challenges urged them to tag along Daimon for the incoming battle, but like previously stated she sympathized with their circumstances quite a bit, so Aisha couldn’t help but double check.

"I don’t think their challenges will directly involve dealing with Ereth, Karla or Arlion, probably their subordinates", said Daimon as he drank some water to which Aisha added.

"Mmm, their average subordinates might be doable, but the seconds in command are quite strong, frankly a group of six of those working together would be enough to stall Marcus, minus that last attack he used against you".

Aisha had a decent understanding of the strength Marcus used in the blood prison realm, so she of course knows that Sera and Laila would be killed by him in a fight, just the two of them dealing with all of Ereth and Karla’s subordinates is too much.

"It will be fine, the challenges are harsh, especially at the start but they are never impossible to tackle, not to mention that we’ll have "reinforcements" on our end", said Daimon as he got up.

The group left the cave and rushed towards the other side of the decayed area, after around an hour of moving, Daimon and Aisha noticed that Ereth’s group had stopped moving.

"They must have realized that they wouldn’t be able to leave the decayed area before we caught up to them, also I killed all of Arlion’s subordinates, so they have no disposable cannon fodder to slow us down".

"The floating masses of land are also bigger on the later half of this area so it is apt for battle unlike the earlier part, that guy must have realized this battle will take place and decided to stop and let their side recover to be in their best state to attack us the moment we appear in front of them", said Aisha.

’As expected of Ereth, he is fundamentally different than those two and a hero too, what an annoying bastard’, thought Daimon, still it’s not like he had no way to deal with an enemy that did have a functional brain.

And that’s what leads us to an hour later and to Ereth’s side, just like Aisha said they had stopped moving waiting for whatever that has been chasing after them while readying themselves to engage in fight in their best state, but then once they felt the enemies getting closer, they... suddenly stopped moving as well.

"Huh, what’s going on, they are almost upon us so why did they stop moving?", said Arlion, to which Ereth who was frowning answered.

"They must have realized that we wouldn’t just send our subordinates to them anymore, so they stopped at a distance that allows them to rest and recover, so either we leave them alone and let that happen or we lose the initiative by going to them ourselves, if we move again, they’ll do the same so either way it’s our loss, they have a good strategist on their side", he said to which Karla added.

"Not to mention that they must have someone monstrously strong enough to not stop chasing after us, despite the waves of blood specters and subordinates we used to slow them down, right Arlion?", mockingly said Karla, this time the past king didn’t explode against her, though he still defended himself.

"They could also be a large well-organized group, but whatever I don’t feel like arguing with you now, so, what do we do, do we leave them recover to their peak, or do we give up the initiative?", asked Arlion.

"We’ll wait for them to come, in any case I don’t think enemies of this caliber will be really tired with just two hours of difference, but I’m interested in seeing who did I miss to take into account, because that Marcus guy’s group wouldn’t give me this sensation of unease, not on the outside and much less in this place", concluded Ereth, something the other two agreed with.

Imagine their surprise when after an hour of waiting, a small group of four is what appeared at distance, what’s more it was neither a large number of enemies as Arlion had theorized, nor was it an invisible faction that entered the global raid without their knowledge as Karla had.

No, it was a group that had been in the open at all times, yet they failed to consider a threat, based on the fact that they recognized the masked silver haired youth leading them.

"You, weren’t you the one competing to see who got those princesses Terry and those two had their eyes on?", directly said Arlion as he recognized Daimon.

On his side, he didn’t consider Daimon a threat because his "motives" were to get Mellie and Daphne, which in his eyes was just child’s play, why bother with that, when he could aim to obtain everything, then anything he sets his eyes on can be his.

"I thought he was on the side of that Marcus guy’s opponent, but that other woman was on Marcus’s side, did he rebel and started to work alone?", said Karla.

In her case, her eyes were blinded by Daimon’s positive attributes which were a strong motive to believe he was working for or with Adam, of whom both she and Ereth were aware despite him missing at the time when the entrance to the global raid appearing

"No, he must way more dangerous than that if I couldn’t accurately tell that he was coming, that masked guy must have killed that hero rookie and taken over and then he killed that devil guy, am I right?", said Ereth to which Daimon smirked behind his mask.

Ereth saw through a part of his façade, as he expected unlike Adam and Marcus, he was on a different level, still, he missed the most important thing, from the very beginning he has been playing with them from the shadows, he was never allied to Adam nor did he "take over" after killing him, but was a system user on his own prior to that, of course there was no reason to clarify things, if anything Daimon planned to muddy the waters even more.

Not even Lezabel who unlike Karla earned praises from Eve, could see through the system, so his real self was still in the shadows and that’s how it should be until the enemy is either at death’s door or dead.

"Who knows, you just need to know that we came here to settle some pending scores", said Daimon which made Karla snort, while Ereth frowned as far as he knew there was no interaction between his side and the masked youth’s one, if anything he might hold a grudge against Arlion for whatever he did to one of the princesses from the Clear Water kingdom with whom he seemed close.

"Why are we even exchanging words with him, just hurry up and kill them", said the dark blue haired administrator girl as she pointed her right hand at Daimon, gray-blue water mana gathered in front of her to then take the form of a shark which then rushed frontwards, only for it to be sliced into countless small cubes with perfectly smooth sides before it reached Daimon.

"As always, you prefer to use others to fight on your stead, Karla", a familiar voice reached the siren administrator girl as a gray-silver glow different than the metallic silver one from Aisha’s energy and the white-silver one of Daimon’s, shone on the battlefield.

A tall athletic girl fully covered in silver metal armor, with wings sprouting out of her back and a valiant aura radiating from her body, suddenly appeared once the silver glow disappeared, that was of course Freya who finished absorbing the origin the received from Daimon this morning but only woke up once she detected Karla in the vicinity.

"Y-You, why are you still here!", exclaimed Karla as if she had seen a ghost, in her mind after that attack which used everything Freya had, she should have died, her contract unlike hers with Ereth was a life and death one, even if the system rescued her, she wouldn’t appear in front them so soon.

What she didn’t know is that at her user and friend’s petition she also severed their connection and by pure will and with the reserves of origin she had, she stayed in Kerrol though in a sealed state.

Karla underestimated the hatred Freya had for them, had she not met Daimon, chances are that with the origin she had left, her concept would have been degraded or she might have even lost her status as an administrator.

"I think it was clear enough "we" came here to settle some debts, it’s a shame that my opponent is not that double-faced bastard, but I’ll at least make sure to cut you until there is not a single speck left of you", said the Valkyrie like Freya.

Unlike Karla, Ereth remained calm at least at surface level, because seeing one of the very few people that managed to instill the fear of a true death on him, appearing out of nowhere in front of him again, did cause waves in his heart and mind.

’I had used a few "miraculous escape" opportunities prior to meeting those two, but I had to waste my precious "sure death escape" opportunities and a "comeback" chance due to those two and this woman, still, this doesn’t make sense, that rookie hero had an angel type administrator as far as I could detect, so if that masked guy took over his system why is his administrator a war goddess instead, unless...’, Ereth’s pupils contracted like needles as he said.

"Karla, look at her properly, she is not possessing someone but has an actual physical body of her own".

"What!", the siren administrator girl couldn’t help but exclaim to then take a better look at Freya, she appeared out of nowhere so Karla thought she was using a solid mana condensation but now that she noticed that didn’t seem to be the case.

"I see, and here I thought you and your users were the classic goody two shoes, but you actually "devoured" the administrator from that useless hero guy to recover and achieve a temporal physical manifestation, in order to get back at us, I wonder how will that affect your concept, it’s a shame that you won’t have another user anymore", said Karla.

Her body also underwent a noticeable transformation, originally, she was just possessing a now empty vessel, the basics of the body were altered when she took over to give it some resemblance to her real appearance, but it was more like "make up" than actual changes.

Now, her hair grew longer until it reached her hips and it went from straight to wavy, with its dark blue tone it seemed like waves in the ocean, her skin paled a tone or two and her face also became more beautiful, she looked like a humanized mermaid from fairy tales, since she was missing the tail, that being said unlike her other half which Daimon and Freya had faced in Kerrol, this one didn’t feel "incomplete" but more like restrained.

’Is she not going all out instead of being unable to, well, if Ereth has become a system user again, then that siren must be a proper administrator as well, the question here is if... she is still Ereth’s administrator or if there is another one with that guy’, thought Daimon as he dispelled the green energy mask after using it to analyze the enemy.

He could feel and see a connection of sorts between Ereth and Karla, but just like with the barrier from earlier, Tessa’s technique only allowed Daimon to realize that there was a façade on the surface to trick others.

"I guess the fish guy is my opponent then, well, six seconds in command and him should be enough to not get bored", said Aisha as she sharply glared at Arlion who gritted his teeth in response.

"Who the hell do you think you are...", however in the middle of his answer, Ereth interrupted him.

"She is "what" has been chasing after us apparently, don’t be arrogant and take twelve of our seconds in command with you, the remaining six as well as our others subordinates will take on those two who used to assist Adam and Marcus, leave the masked guy to me".

"Someone that doesn’t underestimate the people on my side thinking they are "secondary", that’s a new experience for me", said Daimon to which Ereth added.

"You have Freya on your side, so stop trying to make yourself pass as ignorant, you must know that I was nearly killed by "secondaries", it’s not going to happen again", the Ereth in front of Daimon hadn’t stopped speaking when another Ereth materialized behind of Daimon, with a trident on his hand which he used to... pierce through Daimon’s back.

"Hsssss!", but then that Daimon who had his heart pierced by Ereth turned into a bunch of bright yellow lightning which exploded, engulfing the one who had attacked him, and Daimon who was using Tessa and Femi’s energy to blend with the ground a few meters away, became visible.

’Mine was an energy condensation, but that second "him" which disappeared when it was attacked... didn’t release any energy signs?’, he thought as he replaced the energy condensation to stand in front of Aisha, Sera and Laila to then give the green light to spread.

"Be careful, these guys have quite a few tricks up their sleeves", he said.

"Mm!", and with that those three parted ways to their own battlefields, leaving behind Daimon and Ereth who were staring at each other from afar.