The instant Queen Beatrice made her epic entrance, she flashed a badass smile at the vampires who were all having their mouths agape and staring her. In the next second, she catapulted from the ground again as another monster came hurtling at her from behind. The vampires who were looking on were amazed at the queen's fighting skills. Queen Beatrice was so cool!
She did not even turn to look back, but it already seemed as though she had already known what was coming even without looking. It was as though she had 360 degrees vision and could tell whenever an enemy was approaching her no matter where they came from and could execute a perfect counterattack on them.
Like a dark lightning bolt, Queen Beatrice moved in a zigzag pattern that the monsters did not even know where to look at. Then seemingly out of nowhere, she appeared right before the level two monster. One powerful kick was delivered and landed squarely on its head, sending the monster soaring away before landing on the ground and continued rolling away like a large stone, eventually hitting the other level one monsters that were crowding around along its path.
"Whoaaa!!! Daaaaamn!!! She's definitely way stronger than you, leader!!!!" Levy exclaimed loudly and dramatically, breaking the rest out of their trance. Watching the queen fight had rendered them all speechless and awestruck. Even Laiza could not quite believe what her eyes were witnessing. It truly was an exceptionally rare occasion to see the queen fight.
She had heard that this woman, the female vampire who became the queen of the dark faes, was one of the strongest among the females in the entire Under Lands, if not the strongest. But at that time, she did not pay much attention to it. She had truly thought what she had heard was a little bit of an exaggeration as it was news about the queen. She had suspected at that time that perhaps to give the queen some face, the news that was being spread about was a little more flattering to the ears. She never thought that it was real! She was truly the strongest woman she had ever seen!! And to think that this was her attacking without any magic at all!! How awesome was that?! She had never seen anything like this! No man in the Under Lands could passively possess such raw power!
"You really are a dumbass," Luc elbowed Levy, "of course she is. Queen Beatrice is the last pure blue-blooded vampire there is!"
"Oh, right! Haha. I had actually forgotten about that for a moment." Levy scratched his head rather sheepishly.
"Enough you two. Stop chatting. Let's go back Her Majesty up. Remember… she's the mother of our King." Samuel reminded them and those words had everyone's face turning incredibly serious. Even Levy lost his usual playfulness in that instant where Samuel had made mention of their king. "Let's go!"
The vampires roared their agreement. Then they finally jumped into the fray and joined the queen.
"Hello there, my boys… nice of you all to join me. Is everything alright now?" she asked rather casually while fighting off the monsters.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" the elite vampires chorused out their response to her question.
"Well, then… let's put an end to these little nasty things, shall we, boys?" Beatrice threw them a quick but fierce smile. It was a challenging smile of a warrior. And everyone felt their spirits burn and soar within their hearts, inciting the desire to fight and do well for their king, queen and fellow allies.
They shouted once again as they attacked the monsters and fought with a newfound valour alongside the queen.
The vampires' fighting was fierce, brute power and speed. It was Laiza's first time watching an all-out attack without any magic being involved. It was just purely based on their raw strength, speed, and sheer skill. And she found it to be utterly fascinating because she had always adored this kind of fighting style. Because her magic was not that powerful. She grew up as one of the weakest dark faes because her magic was just that weak.
And that was why she had trained the hardest and focused on other things as well, like her skill and speed, rather than just purely on her magic. To her delight, she had fallen in love with her newfound fighting style more than magic. And now she was recognised as one of the strongest – in fact she was the fastest among the soldiers in Lord Klauz's army. She had also been hailed as the best female assassin in the Under Lands.
Her skills were already considered incredible but now as she watched these vampires fighting, she knew she was still had more to achieve according to their standards. Her blood rushed within her vessels as she joined them. She usually liked to fight alone. But now, it was the first time she had ever felt this thrilled fighting in a group.
And before she knew it, she felt like she was a part of them. Like she was dancing to the same beat of music with them. For the first time, she felt like she belonged to this group of people.
"You're fast. I've never seen a dark fae move quite as fast as you do." Queen Beatrice noticed her, and she could not help but blush at the attention. Her idol had noticed her! She used to hate on royals but… but… this queen was so nice… and just so cool…
She could not reply. She was totally tongue-tied. She had never spoken to any royals before. And she was not supposed to… so why was she so nervous? She had never been this flustered before in her entire life!
"Right? Your Majesty! I was surprised too at first when I noticed how she moved. She really moves like a vampire." Levy butted in, grinning proudly as he replied to the queen in her stead. He was so proud as though it was him that Queen Beatrice was praising instead of Laiza.
The queen nodded at Levy's comment and smiled at Laiza kindly.
"What's your name, dear?" Beatrice asked, and Laiza did not know why she turned to look at the annoying male vampire first. He met her gaze, and his eyes gleamed with encouragement, as though telling her it was alright to answer to the queen's questions.
Laiza returned her gaze to the queen and as though Levy's encouraging gaze had worked, she managed to reply to the queen. "I… My name is Laiza."
"Laiza…? That's a beautiful name. I'm Beatrice."