SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God-Chapter 172: Why did it have to be her?

The moment Damon said those words, the walls started moving. The term walls have ears got a whole new meaning as more and more golems appeared out of the walls. These were the same weaker ones, and the group moved to take care of them quickly, each taking their own side.

But the next second, something even more unexpected happened. The walls started moving. "Shit! The golems were just a distraction. Everyone, move to the center now!" Damon’s voice rang loudly, but it was already too late.

As if it had a will of its own, the walls strategically split up the group into six partitions. Damon had already activated Blink, but his skill got interrupted because of some sort of energy ripple from the wall, and he was only able to get to one of the others.

And it was... Aurora.

Damon looked at the priestess, who stared back at him with parted lips. Why did it have to be this woman of all the people?!!

He decided not to think about that right now as he had bigger problems. He immediately opened his system interface to call Mark or Kate, only to find that both of them were greyed out.

Damon would have freaked out on seeing that, except his own name was greyed out as well, along with Sylvara and Nevin. The good thing was that his status screen still showed he had two followers, so he knew nothing should have happened to them.

"Just what the hell is this place?" Damon did not understand what sort of an enemy he could be dealing it. At first, they tried to lock them up, and now they are trying to divine and conquer? It seemed too complicated a strategy for even intelligent beasts.

Heck, beasts were easier to handle. They always had one motive at the end of the day, kill or torture. But this enemy seemed to be hell bent on doing something else. Locking them up!

What sort of an enemy would simply want to lock them up? Just who was watching them, and who was he dealing with? Who was giving the command to all of these golems? Was it a single entity or many?

Damon had many questions, but there was no way to get an answer to any of them simply standing in place. The crimson fire lance once again appeared in his hand. He did not want to use it just yet, but this place had left him no choice.

Before hurling the crimson fire lance, he took out a potion first from his spatial ring and gulped it down.

The moment the potion settled into his bloodstream, Damon’s entire body surged with heat. Crimson veins pulsed under his skin, glowing faintly as the fire lance in his hand roared to life, longer, fiercer, more volatile than before.

Beside him, Aurora gulped. Until now, she was simply standing there like a useless log, but she quickly moved into action. With a small cast, she added a 30% buff to Damon’s attack on top of the extra 20% buff he received from the invigorating potion.

Damon grunted in approval as he quickly thrust the lance forward, aiming at the wall that had split up the group. BOOM! A ridiculous explosion rang out, and unlike at the entrance, in a single hit, this wall gave way.

A huge hole appeared, and Damon immediately dove into it with Aurora in tow. But unexpectedly, they did not find their teammates on the other side. Instead, it was just the same laboratory, now completely destroyed.

There was no sign of anyone else.

Damon banged the wall with his fist in frustration. For a while he had started to become confident about his newfound powers but this was a damn good lesson that there were things that were still beyond his control even if the gods were not involved.

He needed to hurry up fast. He couldn’t let a simple exploration blow up like this. He couldn’t lose everyone he had only just gained from something so insignificant like this. He was going to figure this out no matter what.

Damon clenched his fists in determination as he hurriedly did a sweep of the destroyed laboratory. Interestingly, he found a couple of useful things here and there.

[Ding! Red Orb]

[Red Orb: Crafted by ??? Can be used as an enhancer for a soul weapon when absorbed.]

"Blood Reign, can you use this thing?" Damon immediately asked.

The weapon spirit remained silent for a couple of seconds before answering. "I am not too sure what that is. I need my complete soul before I can confirm anything."

Damon nodded and tossed the orb into his spatial ring. He would think about what it was later. He then dashed to another corner and picked up the second item that was still left intact. It was a small container.

[Ding! Soul Box]

[Soul Box: Crafted by ??? Can be used to suck and store the soul of a living being below A rank.]

"A rank?" Damon gasped. He was still at level 46 and could be categorized as E rank even though he had undergone two evolutions. This was because he hadn’t formed a pseudo mana core yet.

But a being of A rank power level? He couldn’t even imagine the strength of such an entity. How could this plain-looking soul box possibly be enough to store the soul of someone of that level?

He was pretty sure this thing was a fake or the inspection skill was malfunctioning. But he tossed it into his spatial ring anyway. The rest of the laboratory was completely destroyed, and there was nothing left behind except for golem scraps. Damon cleared out those as well, leaving the entire space completely spic and span.

When he finally finished everything, he turned to see Aurora watching him without blinking, standing at the same spot. Damon’s face twitched. He walked to her and grabbed her shoulders in frustration.

"Do you have anything to say to me? Why don’t you say it directly in front of my face?" He shook her, hoping to snap the girl out of her daze.

But surprisingly, Aurora seemed fine enough. She was not dazed or anything as she blushed deeply and tilted her head. "It has been a long time since we have been here... ummm... do you need any blood... I am more than willing to..." She gulped and waited innocently, her head still tilted and her eyes closed.

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