The three vampire brides had launched their sudden, aggressive ambush without warning. It caught everyone off guard, including Anna Villeris, the lord of the place, and the residents of the ancient Transylvanian town. The ensuing chaos had nearly caused a serious trampling incident.
But the three demons' retreat had been even more sudden than their arrival. Before the townspeople could react or even finish hiding inside their homes, the monsters' attack was already over.
That was because two of the vampires—or perhaps they were better described as two vampire women—
At any rate, after two of them had been killed in turn, the last one had let out a series of terrified, piercing howls before spreading her wings and flying away without looking back. She plunged into the gloomy, dark clouds in the distance and quickly disappeared.
By the time the townspeople had cautiously gathered in the open area of the town, the two dead vampire brides were already lying on the ground not far from a little fellow in strange clothes reinforced with iron armor...
Apparently, when the monsters had swooped down to attack the little fellow, he had knocked them out of the sky with that strange iron rod that shot some kind of glowing attack?
In any case!
The vampire brides' demonic shrieks and the whooshing sounds of their dives as they swooped down to snatch people gradually faded away. Once everyone was sure there were no more vampires in the sky or nearby, the townspeople—who had shoved and trampled one another earlier, injuring quite a few innocent people—picked up their weapons and cautiously gathered in the town's wide-open area. From a distance, they pointed at the two vampires lying in twisted heaps on the ground and the short "dwarf" standing imposingly between them, gripping his iron