HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

Teach heard a powerful, forceful heartbeat.

[OMG, can anyone tell me that vampires actually have heartbeats?]

With each heartbeat of Marcus's heart, his head, shattered by the Serpent Bone Demon Spear, began to heal a little more. Seeing this, the silver-haired Teach sheathed his spear, activated his double-blade formation, and swiftly sliced ​​the still-standing Marcus into several pieces with his hand blades.

That wasn't all; a flame array was drawn, and the raging fire incinerated Marcus's mangled body.

Even so, the sound of Marcus's heartbeat did not disappear or stop.

Silver-haired Teach looked at the blood seeping from the floor, which was almost covering the entire hall, and realized that the reason Marcus had survived being slashed by the corpse and that his heartbeat had returned was probably because of the presence of this blood.

But with the blood constantly gushing out, Teach really couldn't handle it in the short term: [The most important thing right now is to decipher the oath spell, remove the shackles from Andri and Shake and restore their freedom, and then use their dragon breath to cover and burn a large area].

Marcus's ability to survive as long as he has blood makes the current silver-haired Teach very wary, since he is now human, and humans have limited strength, stamina, and energy.

Having used multiple overloaded Flash Magic spells in his battle against 01 on the west coast of Islay, and having consumed three years of his lifespan to draw the Human-Dragon Training Circle for Shake, Teach Carl's body has now reached its limit.

Even without looking, Teach could tell that a tenth of his hair had turned white.

Silver-haired Teach gripped the enchanted silver spear in his left hand, while the life magic chain in his right hand connected to the oath spell on Marcus's chest. He was urgently analyzing the spell in a race against time.

Marcus was also racing against time. As the flames of his training array burned, he gathered the blood from the ground to reconnect with his body, restore it, and reshape it. He feared that if he was even a few seconds late, Teach might see the danger and run away.

Seven minutes later...

[Analysis complete].

[It's fixed, my body is fixed]: "Miss Teach, do you think I'm an ordinary vampire? You're sorely mistaken."

Almost simultaneously, the two who had completed their analysis and repair rushed towards each other.

Marcus wanted to forcibly transform the silver-haired Teach, suck her blood, seize the knowledge of training arrays in her mind, and then use Teach as a tool to complete his experiment, to achieve the rebirth he desired.

The concepts of 'knowledge' and 'know how' are different.

Even if Marcus knew the knowledge of training arrays, without any related experiments or prior knowledge, he wouldn't be able to complete the magic in less than several years of research.

Therefore, he intends to turn the silver-haired Teach into a vampire, and then enslave her by relying on the vampire bloodline between the 'upper' and 'lower' classes.

Silver-haired Teach faced Marcus head-on. The analysis of the Oath Curse was complete, but this was only the first step in removing it. The subsequent stripping, destruction, or reconstruction would require Teach's personal intervention.

In the castle hall, which was filled with pools of blood, a black figure and a silver figure met in the blink of an eye.

Silver-haired Teach saw the specks of blood poison emanating from Marcus's sharp claws and quickly dodged. If even a tiny bit of this stuff got into his body, Teach would be transformed into a cold-blooded vampire.

Teach opened and closed his left eye, and the Petrifying Eye shot magic power at Marcus's outstretched arm, instantly spreading petrification over the target.

When Marcus saw his arm inexplicably petrifying, he quickly manipulated the blood on the ground to coat the petrified arm in order to resist or break down the petrification.

Under the influence of blood, the petrification was gradually dispelled, but at this moment, the silver-haired Teach was already close to Marcus's wide-open chest.

Teach slapped out with his right hand, firmly grasping Marcus's chest, which was engraved with the Oath Spell, and then the 'disintegration' was completed in an instant, before finally pulling it out with force.

A ball of magic was successfully pulled out by the silver-haired Teach.

Having successfully obtained the Oath Rune, the silver-haired Teach vanished and reappeared in a flash. Then, before Marcus could even realize the danger, he crushed the magical energy of the Oath Rune. Thus... the Oath Cage that would forever imprison Andri and the others was broken.

They gained their freedom.

Having done all this, Teach's body, which had reached its limit, could no longer hold on. She looked at the blood-red blade that Marcus was unleashing in a fit of rage and was too powerless to use Flash to dodge it.

Just as the silver-haired Teach was about to be cut in half at the waist by the Blood Blade, a roar that was neither human nor dragon rang out.

The magical energy generated by the roar shattered the sealed stone door of the hall. Xia Ke, transformed into a dragon girl, flapped her wings and arrived in front of Teach in the blink of an eye. She then wrapped her entire body with her wings and blocked the bloody blades that Marcus was slashing at her.

Marcus watched as the blood blade shattered upon striking the dragon's scales, and then looked at the dragon girl Shaka Karl, his face filled with shock and disbelief. He suppressed his extreme excitement and asked, "You are... Shaka?"

"Didn't your experiment fail and turn you into a dragon? How come you're in this form...?"

Ignoring Marcus's question, Xia Ke turned around and gently picked up Teach, who was exhausted and whose silver hair had grown a few more strands of white hair. Then, she flapped her dragon scale wings and flew away from the hall in an instant.

"Wait~ You perfect experimental subject, come back here! I, as your ancestor, command you to return!" Marcus watched as Shake gradually disappeared from his sight, feeling anxious. He absolutely could not let this perfect experimental subject escape.

Just as Marcus spread his bat-like blood wings to chase after Xia Ke, the roof of the hall suddenly shook.

Andri smashed the ceiling slab, falling into the dust, and then grinned at Marcus with a gloomy smile: "Oh, my ancestor, how are you?"

"If it's good, I'll give you a bad one."

After saying that, Andri shattered the blood pool floor with both feet and rushed to Marcus. Then, he clenched his dragon arm into a fist and punched the vampire Marcus squarely in the face.

With Andri's furious roar, the power of the dragon arm suddenly increased, shattering half of Marcus's face.

The instant Marcus was blasted away by the immense force, Andri grabbed his arm, and then unleashed a barrage of Dragon Arm Fists.

The collision of fists and flesh echoed with booming sounds throughout the blood pool hall.

Andri's powerful punch pierced through Marcus's body, and the force of the punch struck the wall, creating deep cracks.

Punch after punch, Andri's Dragon Fist relentlessly pounded Marcus's body.

He wanted to vent all the humiliation the McFastie family had endured for over two hundred years, and the humiliation his sister Anne Molly had suffered, on Marcus McFastie, the instigator of their tragedy.

The mother and father that the siblings had forgotten, Andri channeled this hatred into the power of his Dragon Fist, blasting Marcus into a mangled mess.

Andri released Marcus, stepping on the rotting flesh that was regenerating in Marcus's blood, and then opened his mouth: "You think this is the end? You think this is the end of my and my sister's anger?"

From Andri’s open mouth, magical flames and dragon breath condensed, compressed, and compressed again, until they were highly compressed into a fireball as hot and dazzling as the sun.

"Feel our fury in this dragon's breath."

With a roar, dragon breath shot down from its mouth towards Marcus beneath its feet.