As Lauren was about to be penetrated by Vicente's trident of darkness, the master of Nixlas' Shadows felt the power of Vicente's armor acting against him, along with the young man's offensive action.",

He put himself in an even worse position than he was to avoid the worst for his disciple, but he couldn't reach her, watching Vicente's weapon get closer and closer to Miss Death.

Just as she was about to be penetrated by the trident of darkness, the sect master saw something unexpected happen, with Vicente appearing at Lauren's side. In the last remaining moment, his weapon shattered into dust as it hit Lauren's body.

She opened her eyes wide at the sight, turning her attention to the young black-haired man next to her, noticing he had just saved her life.

Just then, Vicente stopped next to her, forcing the Book of Death to disappear as his Throne of Darkness grew a few degrees stronger.

"Sister..." Vicente muttered as he thanked Lina and Casey, who had jointly just shown him holding Lauren's dead body if he hadn't changed his thoughts about his last attack.

Lina and Casey sighed, while Rory understood the situation and couldn't help but crack a smile on his face.

They, their five armors, Onyx and the group's seven conscious weapons, pressed Vicente's enemy, while several monstrous shadows rose to attack the sect master.

Vicente's powers increased in ferocity, with more and more weapons and shadows appearing, making them go ahead with the slaughter he was planning.

Two shadows appeared around Lauren and immobilized her, while the suppression caused by Vicente prevented her from using her mana.

"Vicente! What's that? What are you doing? Kill me, if you have the guts!" she shouted, obviously not recognizing her brother, as she tried to escape from the two shadow creatures holding her down.

"We'll talk later. Now just relax and watch as I annihilate this sect!" he said as he glared angrily at the sect master, a liar who had just tried to trick him into killing his own sister.

Vicente walked towards the man oppressed by the poisonous veil, the attacks of his companions, but also the elemental suppression generated by the Throne of Darkness.

As he walked towards his adversary, Vicente had a terrible expression on his face, feeling even more fury and anger than he had felt the day they had taken away Lauren.

He raised one of his hands in the air, and then a pillar of darkness descended from the sky towards the sect master, making him feel as if a mountain had fallen on his body.

As the shadows around the sect master tried to hurt him even more, metallic soldiers, the size of ants, invaded the sect master's body through his wounds.

The negative elements in the area came more and more under Vicente's control, strengthening his attack and weakening the enemy's defense.

After sensing his imminent defeat, the sect master, now bleeding from various parts of his body, with a pale face and a weak aura, looked at Vicente with hatred. "You'll regret this! When no one else can help you against the vampires, remember today! Remember, you did this to yourself!"

"You talk too much to a traitor!" Vicente said with an expression of disgust. "If I were to depend on a worm like you, my race would be weakened even more. I'd rather deal with this problem on my own than depend on you!"

Then, under Lauren's nervous and frightened observation, Vicente formed a sword fully associated with darkness, before beheading the master of the Nixlas' Shadows sect!

All the Paragons of this sect had already fallen into the pit of death that Vicente had pushed them into, leaving only the Sovereigns and other weaker members of this organization.

Vicente had no mercy for these souls. When he stopped using his Throne of Darkness, he used Rory's help to form a storm of blades on that hill, directing the destruction towards the enemy headquarters.

The storm generated by Vicente and Rory would shred the enemies in the next five minutes, while Lauren watched the end of her sect, about 13 years after her arrival.

Everything she knew about her life was there, so even though her reality was harsh and difficult, without her having made a single friend there, she mourned the end of Nixlas' Shadows, hating Vicente even more for it.

Nineteen minutes after Vicente's arrival in front of the headquarters, the people left alive apart from Vicente's group were a few Dark Path beasts.

"We accept the master of darkness as our new master!"

Eleven beasts, creatures of the 4th and 5th stages, said as they bowed their heads in front of Vicente, putting themselves at his disposal to mark them.

When a beast had its master killed, the mark of its master's pentagrams would disappear, leaving room for the creature to return to freedom or become the possession of a new master.

Vicente didn't believe in second chances for the Dark Path magicians of Nixlas' Shadows, but these creatures didn't have to die. Whether they agreed with the plans of the sect's former master no longer mattered. When they received the mark of Vicente's pentagrams, they would do anything to please and favor him.

He marked them while his companions moved through the wreckage of the enemy headquarters, acting to collect whatever was valuable there.

Aware they had to leave the area, but also of the valuables there, Layla was in charge of picking up the items hidden in special areas of the ruin. Meanwhile, the others collected the spatial rings from each of the enemies.

There were at least 40 corpses of magicians there who were stronger than them, while over 100 magicians there had the same cultivation as them. Even if they ignored the over 2,000 sect members killed by Vicente, these over 140 rings could earn them impressive resources, even for Paragons!

For a group that only had three Paragons, that was a value they couldn't ignore, even considering the dangers of staying there any longer.

Before the group had been there for 25 minutes, Vicente took Lauren in his arms and fled the northern region!