As Asphodel noticed the spike going through her torso, Netherius was about to continue and execute the vampire with his scythe but was promptly halted by another blood thread created by Balthazar.
Dante instantly advanced and used his scythe to create a wall of black flas between Asphodel and Netherius, then used a "Destro" spell to shatter the bone and carry the vampire back, regaining so distance.
Asphodel gripped a healthstone tightly and gritted her teeth, coughing out blood and frowning with rage from the pain.
Letting out a sigh with a mix of relief and exhaustion, Dante gazed back at Netherius, who had already removed the wall of black flas with his overwhelming energy.
'It's no use. I'll run out of umbra before he runs out of necrotic energy…' Dante thought.
While he sensed that the overall necrotic air in the city was slowly diminishing, Netherius' powers only kept increasing.
It was easy for Dante to deduce that Netherius was using the energy that the corrupted district had accumulated, which ant that there was a limit to it. The problem was that he couldn't see the end anywhere near.
'I don't have any other options at the mont… I have to keep draining his power,' Dante pondered, clenching his scythe and lunging forward once again.
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anwhile, at the southern checkpoint, gan was lying with her back against a wall beside Vesnia.
The brunette could barely stay conscious from the exhaustion and wounds plaguing her body, but she still ordered Sami and Lexia to bring another android from their squad to her.
Vesnia couldn't move a single muscle, but the Death Knight was still awake, wondering if she would die at the hands of Netherius or if she would turn to dust after his death.
After gan struggled a little to scoot closer to Vesnia and placed her hand on her shoulder, the Death Knight's eyes widened in surprise.
In Vesnia's mind, she could see the image of the young and kind Beatrice that had saved her once by secretly curing her disease, and the eerily resemblance of gan left her speechless.
For a brief mont, Vesnia thought that it was the real Beatrice who was caring for her, but when the image of her soft and kind smile switched to the current cold and exhausted expression of gan, she couldn't help but smirk.
As the cyborgs and other mbers of the Jade Dragons spectated gan's actions, she closed her eyes and held the conversion stone close to Vesnia.
The android she ordered to approach got even closer and kneeled before the two. She had the appearance of a woman with short black hair and silver highlights—and for so reason, gan believed it perfectly suited Vesnia.
The brunette knew that others from her team had already tried using the stone but failed. However, she was also aware that Ira was able to activate it, so it wasn't an impossible task.
Sami and Lexia witnessed Ira using it on the undead servants, but the Sacred Beast completed the process so quickly that their computer brains weren't able to process all of the information they needed to make it work themselves.
On the other hand, gan was going through the conversion process quite slowly, focusing on transferring her umbra into the stone, which began to produce a small amount of necrotic energy.
As gan opened her eyes and focused on the gem, Vesnia let out a gasp, feeling her life slipping away. However, the sensation only lasted for a few seconds when she noticed a glowing thread that traveled from her heart through the gem and into the android's body.
A drop of sweat trailed down gan's temple as she maintained her focus, and when the gem stopped producing its faint glow, she widened her eyes in fear.
'Shit… Did I ss it up!?' She pondered, looking at Vesnia's lifeless body next to her.
gan frowned, believing that she had brought the worst outco, but her thoughts were interrupted by a woman's voice.
"I'm… alive?" Said the forr android, kneeling in front of her.
"Vesnia?" gan asked, her gaze locking on the android.
"Yes… I-I can move," Vesnia replied, staring at her hands while bending all of her fingers.
"My mind feels… clear?" She continued.
When the new cyborg looked back at gan, she saw her eyes closed with contentnt and a soft smile on her lips, bringing the image of Beatrice back into Vesnia's mind.
The similarities between gan and Beatrice were mostly physical, and Vesnia was perfectly aware of that by seeing their utterly different expressions. However, for that brief second that gan smiled at her, she looked like the perfect copy of Beatrice.
*Sigh* "I'm glad…" gan comnted, leaning back against the wall and saying that she needed a quick nap.
Vesnia wanted to wholeheartedly thank gan, but the brunette fell asleep as soon as she stopped speaking.
"Damn, she actually did it. Though, I still don't really understand how to use the stone…" Alice said, moving gan's body slightly so that she would be more comfortable.
"I got it!" Sami interjected, approaching the group and taking the conversion stone.
Thanks to gan's slow show of energy conversion, Sami was able to process all of the information she needed in ti, so she believed that she could now use the stone.
Calling one of the male android models to follow her, Sami approached the wounded Isidor, who had been conscious but silent for so ti.
"W-What are you doing?" Isidor asked, slightly raising his gaze to look at the hell-cyborg.
"I'm following orders…" Sami replied, holding the stone between Isidor and the male android.
With a smirk on her face, the stone began to glow, and shortly after, the thread connecting the two bodies to the gem appeared.
As Isidor's eyes rolled back, he felt as if he had died for less than a second, looking down and noticing he was in an entirely new, cybernetic body.
There was confusion clearly plastered on his face, and when he looked back at Sami, the hell-cyborg was playfully smiling while rubbing her head.
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