A powerful mage before, A ring now!?

Chapter 6: The Mage Apprentice

The vampire slowly opens the doors. It was indeed a lady holding a baby in her arms. The lady was a bit surprised that she saw a man opening that door. She must have expected that Liora would open it.

When the door was open, Liora shouts as loud as she could tell the lady to run away from this place. The lady immediately notices Liora was on the floor and starts to question the vampire instead of running.

"Who're you, young man… What're you doing inside Liora house and why is Liora on the floor?" The lady said that.

The vampire didn't reply at all as he showed his bloodthirsty expression towards the lady. The moment he does that, I could sense that this vampire was using another spell. I know pretty well about it as I always do it when I am in a challenging situation to get some items.

The spell that he was using was none other than a charm spell, reading the magical energy that the vampire used on that spell. I guess it was one of the basic ones. It would not be that effective against someone like me. But if it was the lady, I'm sure she would fall to it quickly.

"Begone from this place, you will return to your cabin and remember nothing of this…" The vampire said in a calm voice.

The lady slowly walks away from the cabin but there's something that makes the vampire irritated. It was the crying sound of the baby in the lady's arm. It was so loud that the vampire couldn't stand it anymore.

The vampire snatches the baby from the lady's arm and kills it instantly. He then just threw the corpse away without any remorse at all.

Seeing that incident in front of her eyes, Liora stands up from the ground and punches the vampire in the face. The vampire was unfazed by Liora's punch at all. Clearly, it does not inflict any pain at all.

"How could you! How could you kill a baby like that… You're a monster!" Her fear had gone entirely after witnessing the whole incident. The only feeling she had now was hatred and anger towards the vampire in front of him.

The vampire grabs Liora's arm and looks at her directly in her eyes. "There are too many humans in this world and the human population would never decrease just because a baby has been killed." The vampire says, "Besides, the baby means nothing to me. Baby blood doesn't even taste any good at all."

Hearing the vampire world, it makes Liora much angrier than before. She began to curse the vampire and started to punch the vampire using her other hand as well. But the vampire just stands there as he watches Liora's futile effort.

Of course, I also disliked what the vampire had done towards the baby. If I still had the body, this vampire wouldn't even lay a finger on the baby as my powerful light spell would obliterate the vampire.

"Liora! Like I told you before, you can't beat this vampire without using a light spell." I said that, realizing it was the only hope for Liora to kill this vampire. "Concentrate and imagine a light orb in your hand."

After I said that, I could feel that all of Liora's magical energy had to gather in her hand. It seems that Liora managed to do that and there's indeed a light in her palm right now. She successfully cast light magic without any experience at all.

I realize that Liora does have a talent in magic despite having a small magical power.

The vampire was very surprised at it, "What! Aren't you just a village girl…"

It does not seem that powerful but I think it would do the job. Liora then directed the light orb in her hand onto the vampire's face. 

"aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh!" The vampire screamed in pain as he could feel the pain.

I thought it would finish the vampire for sure. Still, this was better than nothing as Liora could finally escape. "Liora! This is your chance to escape and maybe call out some capable men…"

Liora was just about to fall as it seemed that she couldn't maintain balance at all. She tried to take another step forward but immediately dropped to her knees. She seems to be out of breath as well and I realize what has happened.

I could feel that Liora consciousness was fading away. I couldn't let that incident happen yet again. This time indeed, I would save this girl from it. That's the only reason why I created this spell in the first place.

I am not quite sure whether this would still work as I had become a ring. I pray that this will work or I will see Liora's corpse in front of me.

There's one other problem that was whether I had enough magical energy to give to Liora. As I had become a ring, I doubt that my magical energy was the same as when I had my body. I was hesitating for a moment but when I saw Liora right now. I know what I must do right now.

I have not perfected this transfer energy spell yet but there's no time. I then chant the spell. I don't need to worry about fulfilling the requirement to do this spell, as we're basically in touch with each other right now.

The vampire didn't even care about Liora at the moment. He was in the middle of recovery right now.

"Where is my baby?" The lady says as she seems to be free from the vampire charm spell. I guess the spell must lose its effect when the vampire gets hurt by the light orb.

The lady then saw something that made her speechless for a moment. As she saw a dead baby in front of her, she could tell that it was indeed her baby lying on the ground. I could see that tears started coming out of her eyes.

She held her dead baby in her arms as she then caught sight of the blood on the vampire's hands. The lady then shouted towards the vampire as she demanded to know what had happened.

"Tell me! Are you the one that kills my baby… tell me… tell me." She said as she punched the vampire in the body.

I didn't pay attention to the lady anymore as I noticed a little movement that Liora had made. Does the spell work?

"Hey!!! Liora, could you hear me."

Liora opened her eyes slowly, "Is that you ring that's been talking to me? What happened…" She said that to me.

Suddenly we both hear a scream coming from the lady. I was not aware of what had occurred but all that I could see was the vampire killing the lady. The lady slowly falls to the ground with her dead baby as well.

"I will kill you! You shouldn't have to kill her." Liora shouted as she witnessed everything.

The vampire faces towards Liora direction, "Still alive? I thought you had died because of a magic deficiency." The vampire said as he touched his scarface, "It's good that you're alive, girl, as I will surely kill you in a gruesome way."

"You would pay…" Liora says that as she was furious, she stood back up from the floor. She clenched her fist and it seemed like she wanted to punch the vampire again.

The vampire was advancing towards Liora slowly but something made him stop. "You!" the vampire shouts while pointing at Liora.

"Now, I understand. You're a mage and this time you've been suppressing your magical aura to make you look like a normal village girl."

The moment I heard that I felt a bit weird why the vampire called Liora a mage. Suppressing her aura? What nonsense was that as she clearly doesn't do that, Liora just had a faint magical aura, that's all.

But to my surprise Liora had cast another light orb spell and launched it towards the vampire. The light orbs weren't that fast as the vampire could dodge it easily.

I was confused when I saw that Liora cast another spell. That should be impossible as she couldn't cast it again because she will collapse after that if she does cast it. It was hard to believe that Liora was still standing and kept casting it over and over again.

It's almost like Liora suddenly had a vast amount of magical energy. I then understood what had happened to Liora. The reason why she can cast it was because of my magical energy. There's no limit to the transfer and because of that, all my magical energy was given to her at that time.

I assume that the transfer would stop when it reaches the max capacity of someone's magical energy. I never expected that this would happen and somehow, I still managed to remain conscious, maybe because I will never feel that way anymore as I am a r