The Greatest Sinner

"What? Does someone want to attack the village? Who would even want a village among the snowy hills?" Evan asked, puzzled.

He liked the area. It was cold in the north, and everything was covered in snow and even ice blocks. It was calm and quiet here, no one wanted to hold any events in places like this, at least not out in the open. He didn't expect anyone to want to attack a village somewhere on the outskirts of the kingdom.

Virion shook his head, "The thing is, this village is not far from Darkfil. Many light organizations assume that one of our bases is here. But, they don't dare to attack, they know they will die. Even if they use enough power to destroy us, we will be helped by our friendly dark organizations, one of which is the Demonic Tree. They don't want to take that risk. A simple battle will escalate into a war in which they will lose."

"They want to use this village to set up some base here and prepare for battle?" Evan asked..

Virion only shrugged, "I'm not exactly sure, but your theory seems to be true. Maybe they want to make war, but they're trying to strengthen their position as much as possible."

"I take it you're going to attack and kill them?" Asked Evan the obvious question.

"Well...no. In any other situation, we would, but we don't want to reveal our presence. It's unnecessary trouble. Besides the light organizations, a lot of neutral organizations don't like us as much. And they don't even realize that our base is under the mountain."

"Which organization will attack the village?" Evan asked.

"Azure Bridge." Briefly replied Virion, "Evan, I'll be blunt, don't you want to defend the village and kill every member of Azure Bridge who gets there?"

Evan frowned, "Can I do it alone? No argument, I need that village, and I have a vested interest in ensuring that no one's hands but mine touch the people of that village. I understand that you don't want to reveal your identities, but you have plenty of mage friends."

"You're right, we do have many friends, and we wanted to send them a request for help, but I asked the elders to take their time to decide. I told them that there is one person in Darkfil who is capable of destroying the Azure Bridge group." Calmly Virion said.

In particular, the Emerton family and Virion himself had a lot of influence in Darkfil and the vampire world in general. Virion, a member of the Emerton Family and a vampire noble, had the right to give Evan the special amulet that made Evan a friend of the Emerton Family and all vampires. But, he still had to prove his position and justify Virion's actions.

To some extent, the Emerton Family's reputation depends on Evan's next actions.

"I don't know what kind of game you're up to, but I don't like it. Do you even know when the Azure Bridge detachment will arrive, what its numbers and strength are?" Evan asked.

He didn't really mind warming up and testing his enhanced spells in practice. But, he wouldn't be able to deal with opponents who were at the - Two-Pointed Star stage, especially if there were more than one such mage.

"Not much, it will be a small scouting group. That's why I decided to ask for your help, we don't want the scouts to know anything about this place and tell the whole kingdom about it. They must continue to only guess at what's going on here."

Virion sighed and continued, "According to our information, there will be ten people in total. All of them are in the - One-Pointed Star stage. Five of them have one flame each, three have two flames, and two have three flames. They will arrive in about fifteen hours. You'll have time to get ready."

"That's pretty problematic. How well prepared and equipped are they?" Evan asked.

He had heard of an organization like Azure Bridge, but he didn't have much information about their members or their skills.

"Above average, but they still have a long way to go before monsters like Tears of Light or Merciful Death, let alone Demonic Tree." Virion said slowly.

"They can't beat opponents who have more flames on their platform than they do, but with equal opponents, they certainly won't lose, no big deal. We don't know what their Classes are, but I think most of them will be Amplifiers."

"So you think I'm a mage at the - One-Pointed Star stage with two flames can beat ten opponents at about the same level?" Evan asked.

He thought he was strong, but there was a limit to everything. He wasn't going to waste a hundred years using the power of a demon again. It was too wasteful.

"HAH, I'm more than sure you can handle it. I don't know what happened in those mines, but you definitely have a lot of hidden trumps. However, you won't need to use them, we'll help you." Smiling, Virion said.

"And how will you help me if while I'm killing these bastards, you sit here and hide?"

Evan understood why the vampires didn't want to reveal their location to the world, but he wasn't going to die and suffer for them.

"Well, well, you'll really be fighting alone, we won't help you during the fight, but we can outfit you well enough that they can't even scratch you."

Evan looked at Virion questioningly.

"For the duration of this fight, we'll lend you 4-star rank one armor, moreover you'll also receive a 3-star potion and three scrolls of various blood magic spells. Considering your strength, you could tear them to shreds in a heartbeat with an outfit like that. What's more, if you can learn something useful from the Azure Bridge scouts, you can keep that armor."

Evan smiled, and a flame flashed in his eyes, "That sounds really tempting, you know how to tempt people like the devil. I agree. Show me the armor."

Virion nodded and calmly said, "These things are in Darkfil's general storage. Follow me."