Ren felt himself being buffed by Ruth who remained near the entrance of the attic.The buffs she cast were powerful and appeared to reinforce Rens own buffs.
With Rens physical abilities further increased he was now a match for the vampire again.Ruth also began casting spells to help deal with the vampire.
Andreus noticed that the battle shifted in favour of the humans so he began using more of his spells.Andreus casted some sort of spell on his soul weapon or perhaps it was one of the soul weapons abilities.
Blood began to trace along the edges and circulated around the blade.Arcs of blood moved back and forth along the vampire counts greatsword ready to be unleashed.
That was as much preparation as Ren was going to allow however as he cast entangle to lock Andreus in place.His thorn dagger appeared to improve the power of the spell as well as the circulation of mana.
Andreus who was now a bit slower then Ren attempted to react to the spell and partially succeeded by keeping his arms free.Ren attempted to capitalise on the moment of weakness however the runes on Andreus' armour appeared to glow and a massive burst of mana occurred.
Claws,blades and arcs of blood exploded outwards along with a nova of shadow mana.Ren was unable to leap back in time as he had leapt toward Andreus and his body was assaulted by blood arcs,blades and claws.The shadow nova also appeared to cast away Rens buffs.Two severed fingers fell to the ground causing a slight sound to interrupt the silence that followed.
It was Rens left pinky and ring finger.Ren noticed that he had two fingers missing and he yelped and cried in pain.Earlier he had put both his arms in the way of his chest to prevent a fatal injury.That didn't stop Rens body from receiving a large number of cuts and claw marks.Ren dropped to his knees as his wounds bled profusely.
"That was foolish of you.You shouldn't have jumped towards me like that without knowing my full capabilities.Your impulsive behaviour cost you the battle even though you didn't stand a chance to begin with due to the amount of souls I possess." Andreus clicked his tongue as he saw that Ren was starting to bleed our.
Ren took control of himself and cast a more powerful healing spell on himself.Unfortunately it could do nothing about the severed fingers.The spell only caused skin to grow over the stubs.
Ren looked over and saw that Andreus was back on his ominous throne.The pipes were currently injecting a large amount of blood and flesh into Andreus body.
Ren attempted to get up and run to the exit but he was immediately kicked to the ground by Andreus.Andreus grabbed Ren by the hair and looked him in the eye.Ren only felt extreme danger as though he was a rabbit being attacked by a wolf.
"I can sense that your fellow intruders have killed my entire vampire family including my wife.Due to that there is no one to break the seal and release me from the attic.Thanks a lot I shall now repay you by slowly beating you to death." Andreus grinned in preparation for the torment he would inflict upon Rens soul.
"Yaaahhhh" Ruth lunged at Andreus with her staff but it was grabbed by Andreus with his other hand.
"You are also a fool.You should've run away when you had the chance but I guess you two are young and inexperienced.Ahhhhh...Now I'll slowly beat the two of you to death and claim your souls.
...
Raphael had just finished off the countess.He had to admit that it was a joyful battle despite the fact that he had to chase the countess through most of the mansion.
20 seconds later he felt a strong sense of danger coming from up above.He immediately remembered something.
"Where are Ruth and Archie?" He worriedly asked himself.He immediately cast the sense presence spell but he could just barely feel their weak presence in the attic area of the mansion.
Raphael rushed to the attic.He arrived at the entrance which appeared to have a magical seal on it.He observed the interior of the room and saw that the bodies of Archie and Ruth were dissipating into smoke.They had also dropped a number of different loots.
"Wait...what is this?" Raphael asked as he had tears building up in his eyes.
...
Ren felt his soul leaving his body and he was disappointed with himself.He had led himself and Ruth to their deaths.Yes Ren could respawn but Ruth couldn't.
[Respa...unable to respawn]
[Due to your soul being devoured you are unable to respawn for now.There are two conditions to respawn again]
[1.Remove the surrounding souls]
[2.Wait till the entity that consumed you dies]
"Wait...what is this?" Ren asked in his soul.Ren then found himself lying on the cold,dark ground in an ominous vampiric city.There appeared to be other souls all in agony and screaming or yelling in pain.