Vampire Overlord System In The Apocalypse

by Stayrr

Earth is submerged in Chaos. Mutated Beasts roam the globe and Gates that lead to Otherworldly Dungeons appear everyday, bringing great dangers to humanity. However, the Awakened emerged, giving a chance for Humanity to survive. Amidst a vulnerable and crumbling society, a powerless and bullied young man begins to hear the voice of a malicious entity inside of his head... "Do you

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Are You Insane or Something?! - Vampire Overlord System in the Apocalypse - Chapter 25 by PancakesWitch full book limited free

1 I Will Change my Fate!

A young man darts through the long corridors of a large building.

His entire body is shrouded in sweat as he breathes heavily, filled with the exhilaration and the adrenaline of what he had just done and the consequences that might come afterward.

Grasping something within his left hand and then putting it inside a pocked within his clothes, he runs even faster than before, disregarding any of his body limits, even to the point that the weak and slim muscles of his legs begin to ache terribly, burning fiercely as he pushes himself to his limits.

Running directly towards a wall, he quickly moved to the right, but what greeted his sight made him skip a beat.

A group of three men, grinned maliciously at him as they released a tremendous bloodlust.

The young man tried to quickly move his body and run away, but one of the men ran towards him with an impressive speed and pulled him down into the ground with a stregth akin to a superhuman.

Boom.

The young man hit the ground as he clearly felt like one of his ribs cracked a bit, filling his mind with agony, gnashing his teeth, he resists the pain and glares furiously at the man that pulled him down into the ground.

"I don't have it! Let me go!" he cried.

"If you don't have it why are you running away from us, shithead?" asked the man at his side.

"Give it away!" roared another of the men, running towards the young man and kicking his stomach, the strength of his kick was not that of a normal human, making the young man's stomach twist in pain as he vomits a mouthful of blood the moment after.

"Ngaah…! I… don't have anything…" the young man mutters, as he twisted his entire body, grabbing his stomach and resisting the pain.

"Then who the hell could have stolen it if it wasn't you?!" asked the third man, kicking the young man's face!

Boom.

The sharp pain is so immense that the young man feels as if his entire face becomes dull, and the vision of his left eye is filled with crimson red.

"Agh…! I… don't have anything…" the young man says once more, leaving the three men in front of him baffled.

"We just attacked him with all of our strength, and he keeps saying that he doesn't have it,"

"Maybe this idiot doesn't really have it then?"

"Well, he always has lived his life like a moron, so maybe he couldn't even have dared to steal it…"

"Oops, our bad then?"

The three men laugh at the young man in the ground, as they spit on him and slowly walked away…

"Get the fuck out of here shithead, if you don't want to get beaten down again, free of charge!"

The young man keeps breathing heavily… he somehow survived the attacks of three Awakened Humans and managed, by chance, to not be discovered of what he had stolen.

Of something precious within these headquarters.

The young man slowly moved his pained arms around his chest, grasping the fine red jewel that he was protecting with his life…

He smiled wickedly, as if he had done something that he could have never imagined possible…

All because of this jewel and the voice within.

The voice of something calling into him, something calling him to grab it for himself!

Since he heard about this strange jewel that these students had brought into the military school that he had begun to hear this voice, even when he went to sleep.

And through this voice is that he committed something that he would have never thought he could ever do.

After all, Noah was a mere wimpy and non-awakened human who, by chance, got into this school.

He was already bullied and getting beaten down every single day…

How could he possibly imagine that he could steal this and get away with it?

And yet…

"I did it! Did you hear me, you stupid voice?! I finally found you! Will you stop annoying me in my dreams now?!" asked Noah, as the red jewel shined in front of him eerily.

"To tell you the truth, I am rather impressed that you even took that beatdown, you should be dead by now…" said the voice of a man resonating within his mind as the jewel glowed brighter.

"Shut up already, I am tired of your… cocky attitude… You said that you would give me power, right? If I… stole this… I would… get the power I've always wanted, right?!" asked the young man, his stare seemed completely insane, as his emerald eyes shined eerily.

"That's a good look! Not like the wimpy kid you always pretend to be, Noah! It would be nice if you could wear that look every single day, to be honest," said the voice.

"…I am done with your shit, will you help me or not?"

"Help? I am not doing this out of goodwill, you know? We shall have what's called… a blood contract, little lamb…" said the voice.

"Blood… Contract?" asked Noah.

"That's right! After all, what you are holding within your hands is my heart, the Blood Core extracted from my original body, which now must be already butchered and processed by you humans… What a terrible fate!" said the voice.

"I had my doubts at my first… So you're really…!" muttered Noah.

"Indeed… I am the mind of the SSS-Rank Boss that you humans call, 'Blood Progenitor'!" said the voice.

"That's…!" murmured Noah.

"What you're holding in your hands is so precious that even the whole nation would kill you if they were to know that you're holding it in your mere and filthy hands! Rejoice, Noah!" laughed the voice.

Noah glanced at the jewel as his emerald eyes shined with enormous greed, he swallowed his saliva as cold sweat kept showering his body.

He quickly ran away from the school, and without even saying another word, he ran back to his room, closing the door.

"A time of change has finally come… Do you accept this Blood Contract, Noah?" asked the voice, as the crimson jewel began to float in midair, gleaming eerily.

Noah glanced at it, considering everything he had gone through, since the apocalypse came to Earth since the world was devoured by catastrophe, where humans awakened powers, and where animals became monstrous creatures…

Since that time when his parents were brutally murdered where he could not do anything at all…

Since that day where everyone got Abilities and awakened… while he was left completely powerless.

Now, finally.

Finally!

He had a chance to change it all, to change his fate!

No matter how evil, no matter how malicious this entity that offered him power was…

Noah only had one single answer for him.

"Yes, I accept," he said.

"Good… Very good!" laughed the voice, as the jewel floated high above, almost touching the ceiling, releasing a stream of red light, and impacting Noah with it!

Boom!

Noah felt a painful rush of power through his entire body, as the jewel clashed like a meteor into his chest, burying deeply into his bones and flesh!

Noah could not help but scream in agony!

"Nngh...!"

"Embrace this suffering! Embrace this power, Noah! Reject your humanity!" laughed the voice, as Noah's entire self was born anew.

I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO!

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2 Become my Power!

Noah felt as if his consciousness dived into complete darkness.

His senses were dulled, and he could barely grasp what was going on.

However, a very familiar voice as of now awakened him within this darkness.

Opening his sight even without eyes, he glanced at the gaping abyss, as the figure of a tall man of over three meters, with pale white skin, crimson eyes, and long silvery-white hair wearing formal clothes that someone like a duke of medieval times would wear greeted him.

He smiled like the most malicious of villains that Noah could ever remember from any cartoon he ever saw.

"Where am I?" asked Noah.

"You're inside of my Blood Core, or what I would call… my soul," said the man… with the same voice that Noah remembered quite well…

"You're…! The Blood Progenitor!" said Noah.

"That's me in all of my splendor, Noah!" laughed the Blood Progenitor.

"But why am I in here?" asked Noah.

"I called you here because we must fuse our souls as one, this is the next step before you can inherit the power I have been slowly amassing since my death, now, Noah, grasp it with all of your might!" roared the Blood Progenitor, as suddenly, Noah was shrouded in an enormous quantity of crimson energy!

Flash!

"Nnngkh…!"

Noah agonized even within this space, even without a body, his soul was here, fusing forcefully with the malicious soul of a monster, a being born within the dangerous Labyrinths that appeared all over Earth!

Such monsters were speculated to come from other worlds, different realities, Noah was now fusing with such a dangerous monster, if the nation were to know about such a thing, he would become the target from all Hunters!

The enormous wave of crimson energy engulfed Noah, as his entire soul was devoured!

"Hahahaha! It seems that my mind might reign over your body! Just as planned!" laughed the Blood Progenitor, he had schemed to take over Noah's body and mind!

Would such a strong being even leave a measly human-like Noah to possess his powers freely?

In exchange, he would take his body and mind, of course!

"Don't worry, Noah, as I shall take over you and avenge your parents- Eh?"

However, against all the expectations of the Blood Progenitor… Noah was still conscious within the sea of crimson energy!

"What? Impossible! You are a mere human! And I am an SSS-Rank Monster in your world!" roared the Blood Progenitor, pouring more power against Noah's mind, however, something within him, could not falter!

The Blood Progenitor glared at Noah with his crimson eyes, realizing that something within his very soul was very strange, very, very weird!

"W-What?! You are… Impossible! Your ability is awakening in such a situation?!" asked the Blood Progenitor, baffled about the ability that Noah was awakening!

However, this was not it.

The Blood Progenitor could only realize very late that this… could not possibly be an Ability at all.

What this young man's soul harbored was… something even deeper, even more abyssal than even himself!

The Blood Progenitor glanced at the abyss within Noah's soul, as the abyss began to absorb all of the crimson energy… and even himself!

"This cannot be…! An Ancient One… in your soul?! In the soul of this pathetic mortal?! What are the odds?!" wondered the Blood Progenitor, it seemed as if… he was being the one schemed against!

As his entire self was slowly being devoured by this abyssal gap within Noah's soul, he glanced at the entity deep within the man's soul!

An enormous mass of darkness, with a gigantic crimson eye, glaring deeply at him, thousands of tentacles waving everywhere, grotesquely!

The hidden power within such an entity seemed endless!

However, Noah's soul was still too weak to contain it all, and the entity even gave the effort of sealing itself for him!

Just what… was truly Noah?!

The Blood Progenitor could only despair!

Despair against the one he thought was a mere pawn for his plans!

Struggling against the entity's power, he tried to escape!

But it was too late, the monstrous and abyssal entity smiled eerily, as it extended its tentacles towards the Blood Progenitor, entangling him and… devouring him!

"T-This is… Impossible…!" he muttered, as he was assimilated by Noah's soul!

Darkness once more took a hold of Noah's consciousness, as he dived into this darkness for a bit longer.

Flash!

The power of the Blood Progenitor emerged from the very core of his soul, raising like a wave of enormous strength!

He opened his eyes, as his emerald eyes turned crimson red, his dark hair silvery white, and his healthy and youthful skin turned pale white!

Noah's entire body ached and twisted around, his bones strengthened themselves countless times, as Noah screamed in agony once more!

However, just as it began it stopped, silence taking hold of the room.

Noah once more opened his eyes, as he glanced at his own hands, they were as pale as candle wax.

And his body temperature was now incredibly low…

And above all, his senses, smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste had increased exponentially!

But even more, he felt a tremendous craving… for blood.

He felt as if his throat was incredibly sore, even when he drank a whole bottle of water, it still felt dry.

Noah, fell to the ground, as he was trying to cope with all of the events going on.

He could barely remember it… but within his soul, something had awakened.

The Blood Progenitor tried to take over him, but this entity, whatever this grotesque being was, devoured it.

However, against what he thought, the voice of that man resonated once more into his mind.

"I… Cannot believe it… You! You set me up!" roared the Blood Progenitor within Noah's mind.

"Isn't it more like the opposite? I had no idea I had some kind of abyssal horror in my own soul, this is straight out of some Lovecraftian book, to tell you the truth," said Noah, standing up.

"Grrrr! I… I will get my revenge on you!" roared the Blood Progenitor.

"Revenge? I thought this was a mutual benefit pact? Weren't you the one that tried to take over me? Serve you right," said Noah.

"Tch! Anyways, now that things are like this… I might as well contribute to whatever wicked desires you want… As long as you satisfy my craving for blood, of course!" laughed the Blood Progenitor, surprising Noah with his quick acceptance of things despite how it turned out for him.

"Hah, I see that you're quick to catch up with who's in charge here…" said Noah, he suddenly felt… freer. As if his mind was clearer and less clouded with insecurities and fear.

"Hmph, I am doing this because there is no other option, do you think I want to enrage whatever dwells within your soul, brat?!" roared the Blood Progenitor.

"Ah, I guess you're just a wimpy little vampire then?" asked Noah teasingly.

"Shut up! Now that you have an Ability… You should be able to use it!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Oh…? Do you mean the power given to all who have acquired an Ability?" asked Noah.

"Indeed, Noah! Now… you can finally have it! The System!" laughed the Blood Progenitor.

3 Bloodline: Vampire!

The System.

A wonderful power is given to all those who had awakened an Ability.

At first, humanity despaired.

On that fateful day, waves of miasma covered Earth, mutating most living beings, not even Humans were sparred.

90% of humanity was wiped out that day, either turned into monstrous beings or dying due to radiation.

The entire world was shrouded in chaos, as the entire world began to change, rifts in space opened, and even more, monstrous creatures emerged from distant planes and worlds.

However, an entity within the endless cosmos hear the call from humanity and descended.

A humanoid figure made entirely out of light appeared and granted his divine protection to humanity in the form of the System and Abilities.

He named himself, The System Master.

Since that day, humanity had a chance, and they carved their path through the complete insanity that shrouded Earth.

Noah, who was left, for some strange reason, powerless, could only see as his parents died while he hides in his basement, only to be rescued a month later, barely hanging on his own life while starving.

He still remembers every day of that month of chaotic despair, he even had to eat cockroaches to survive, to appease his hunger…

Now, twenty years after the Apocalypse, the world is barely hanging on, every nation was destroyed, and whatever remained of humanity built a few nations of their own, simply named 'Sectors'.

However, instead of these survivors helping Noah, he was thrown into the lowest of the food chain, bullied even by those considered to be F-Rank…

But now, things had changed!

Yes!

Noah glanced at the holographic window appearing out of thin air right in front of his sight!

This was it!

This was… the System!

[Noah]

[Bloodline: Vampire (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 30]

[Mind: 30]

[Force: 20]

[Skill(s): [Blood Progenitor: - (SSS), [Undying Body: 1 (A), [Blood Claws: 1 (C)]

Noah smiled so widely that he seemed completely insane.

This was the power that he had always fantasized to have, that everyone had except him!

"These stats… Usually, a recently awakened F-Rank individual has around 10 in each stat… but I have 20 in Vitality and Force, and 30 in Mind! Is this the power of the Blood Progenitor's Blood Core? Although, I was expecting even larger stats, seeing how you were an SSS-Rank Boss and all…" said Noah teasingly, as the Blood Progenitor answered Noah's question immediately.

"You insolent human! Don't you realize that your power was way too low, to begin with? Your body, as a vessel, was of the lowest quality! My complete power is sealed within your soul, similarly to… the Ancient One dwelling within it. As you progress and absorb more of those Cores that the monsters within Dungeons and Labyrinths drop, you will realize that you will improve faster than most humans!" said the Blood Progenitor.

Cores, aside from Abilities and the System, Cores are an essential part of humanity's survival.

Cores come in three types, Vitality Cores, Mind Cores, and Force Cores… However, there are also special types of Cores that give even abilities, some of them are named Dark Cores, Fire Cores, or by the Blood Progenitor's case, Blood Cores.

Humanity was not given the ability to level up or something through the System, but they were able to gain more stats if they absorbed these Cores, this is why they began to finally fight back against the horde of monsters and the powerful Bosses that commanded them.

"So you're nerfing yourself, so I don't die out?" asked Noah.

"More or less!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Fair enough… Now, I still feel like I hit the lottery because I got three Skills…!" said Noah, as he inspected the three Skills abilities.

[Blood Progenitor] was a Skill that represented Noah as a Vampire, it brought several abilities packed into one, such as an enhancement on his five senses, increased regeneration of wounds, to regain energy by drinking fresh blood, and even the power to manipulate his own blood or convert others into Vampires as well! However, this Skill didnt gave him the ability to regenerate large wounds other than small scars, for that he had the Undying Body Skill, that let him regenerate wounds endlessly unlike this Skill as long as he drank blood and had enough Mana.

The Skill seemed to also point out that it could let Noah awaken new types of Abilities as he progressed and grew stronger, so the young man seemed excited about the possibilities.

[Undying Body] was a Skill that enhanced Noah's physique to even further lengths, giving him an even greater regeneration as long as he drank fresh blood, alongside a body that will not die even with fatal wounds, such as having his heart or stomach pierced, amongst other things. However, it did not seem to say anything if he were to have his head crushed… so Noah did not want to be overly reliant on this.

And lastly, [Blood Claws] was a simple attack-type Ability, which covered Noah's hands with crimson claws, which let him release slashing attacks with them, each attack drained a bit of his Mind stat, which was something akin to Mana Points in videogames.

Due to this, he was not able to simply spam it all the time, however, as long as he could drink blood, his mind would regenerate quickly, and he would be able to use this ability even more.

"These abilities… Perhaps I can finally have a chance! And their Ranks… SSS, A and C! Such Abilities would cost a fortune and I got them all for free…" said Noah.

Amongst the Cores that monsters dropped, there were also Ability Cores, which were often named as Dark Core, Fire Core, Wind Core, and more, such Ability Cores would bring a random Ability within that category, and each Core always had a Rank, from F to SSS!

The Ability that Noah acquired, an SSS-Rank one, would cost a ridiculous amount of money, so much that its value could not be easily guessed, even S-Rank Hunters could just hope to have one!

"Yeah, brat, you hit the lottery more than once, I was actually going to take over your damn body, you know? Who could have told that you had such an eldritch entity within?" asked the Blood Progenitor.

"To tell you the truth, I don't have any idea why it is even there… But good for me, as it managed to suppress your cliché villain plan," said Noah.

"Tch…! Anyways, now, let's go drink some blood! I am thirsty!" roared the Blood Progenitor.

"Oh, I guess I am the same… do you share my senses?" wondered Noah.

"Sort of… It is rather disgusting, but that's how it is…!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"So this sore sensation within my throat will never cease if I don't drink blood?" asked Noah.

"It won't, and it will get worse! You will begin to feel as if your entire body decay! After all, you are something akin to an Undead, your body will begin to rot away if you don't drink fresh human blood in 24 hours!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"That's oddly specific, you know? …Although it worries me a bit, for some strange reason… I don't feel bad at all about what I am about to do… Is this your encroachment within my mind?" asked Noah.

"It could be said that it is your own Bloodline that is slowly warping your sense of self, a Vampire is not a human, after all!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Huh… I guess to finally attain this strength, I really had to lose my humanity… Well, I had nothing else to lose anymore… Alright then, let's go," said Noah, wearing a hoodie to hide his change of appearance and running out of his room within the military school…

This day, Noah had stopped being the same as before.

Reborn, he is now more than a human.

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4 Do you Desire Power?

Although Noah desired to enter a Dungeon and grind Cores from Monsters, his necessity to drink blood was slowly weakening him, if he wanted to exert his full strength, he had to drink blood, there was no other option!

Noah walked through the area of the military school, one of the few schools that remain within Sector D, one of the 'nations' built by the surviving humans after the Apocalypse.

These Military Schools prepare young humans for survival in this new and chaotic world shrouded in apocalyptic insanity.

Noah, who had no ability, decided to join in anyway, as he had heard that the Military School would distribute Ability Cores for its students, however, it seemed that such an event has not happened yet, after almost three months in here, he had been bullied due to his low physique, lack of power, and low self-esteem, which made him a great target for those who could barely cope with this world and its insanity, releasing their frustrations on him.

He had slowly warped this place as some kind of living hell at this point, there was not a single day where he did not suffer from bullying to the point that he had thought of committing suicide many times.

However, before that plan could have even been fulfilled, the voice of the Blood Progenitor began to whisper within his mind, leading to this present… where he had finally attained the power he desired, albeit, at a price.

Glaring everywhere, Noah began to feel weaker and weaker, gasping for air.

He walked through the empty corridors, most students were now inside of their rooms either sleeping or studying, making the entire place some kind of desolated building.

His crimson eyes glared to his left, as Noah sensed the smell of a human…

"There…!" he muttered, walking through the corridors and then upstairs, where he reached the rooftop of the military school…

Over there, was a girl of around 18 years old, the same age as Noah.

Noah glanced at her with a tremendous bloodthirst, as she was also covered in blood, making Noah want to drink it even more!

The intoxicating iron smell of her blood almost made him go insane… yet, somehow, he maintained his calm and slowly yet steadily walked towards her.

The girl had short bobby-styled brown hair, she wore glasses and was of rather small stature.

She was wearing the uniform of the school, but her glasses were broken, and her clothes were covered in her blood.

Her pretty face was swelled up, and her right eye was purple-colored, seemingly recently beaten down.

This girl was like him.

Noah knew that there were others bullied.

Although they had Abilities, they were perhaps even more pathetic than F-Rank, named 'useless-rank'.

They were people who awakened an Ability, but the Ability itself was either useless or their stats were even below 10, some of them even reaching 1…

This girl right here… Noah knew about her…

Her name was Iris, and she was bullied by other girls because of the useless ability she had to simply let her grow fox-like ears atop her head…

It did not bring anything but a slight auditive enhancement, and her stats were all around 1-3.

Although she could be said to be at least a bit stronger than Noah, she was bullied and treated just as terribly.

The girl suddenly woke up from her unconscious state, as she faintly glanced at Noah.

She could barely see him due to her bad vision, one of her eyes was swelled up, and her glasses broken.

"Who… Who are you?" she asked, barely managing to ask a few words, her body was beaten down by other girls who used her as a punching bag to release their frustrations.

Noah, who clearly looked like the silhouette of a man, slightly scared Iris, as she began to tremble in fear…

There was something within him that made her instinctively quiver!

"You… Iris, right? Do you feel like you want a change? Do you want to change this fate you have? Do you want to exert revenge, perhaps?" asked Noah.

"Ah… What… what are you talking… about?" asked Iris.

"Answer me…" said Noah.

"I… I wish! I wish I could… do something… I wish I could have the strength! I wish… Sniff…" cried the girl, as tears began to drip from her eyes.

However, instead of pity, Noah glanced at her with fascination.

Although different in many circumstances, her entire story was very similar to Noah's.

In this world, there were many people like this after all.

It would not be hard to find more like these people…

The ones in need of a change.

The ones wanting things to become better.

Those who also harbored an immense rage, frustration, and grudge!

Noah felt as if the nature of the Blood Progenitor was now his, and couldn't help but nod.

"Good…" he said.

"W-What… are you going to do? Why are you even here? Who are you?!" asked Iris.

"I am… The one that shall bring you strength, Iris!" said Noah, as he leaped towards the defenseless girl, grabbing her torso as she struggled.

"Let me go!" she cried.

Noah fell into silence as his impulses were making him go completely wild!

Using his immense strength through his stats, he easily immobilized Iris' body with his arms, as he moved his lips towards her tender neck!

His canines began to grow like sharp blades, as Iris felt his cold breath cover her neck!

"N-Nooo! Let me… goooo!" cried Iris, as she felt the sharp pain of Noah's fangs stabbing into her tender neck!

"Hyaaaaaaahh! It hurts! It… hurts! Ah… Aaaahh…!"

Iris cried and struggled, but against Noah's strength, she was powerless!

Noah drank the delicious, warm, and sweet blood of the young girl, as his senses enhanced, his hunger increased, and he could not let go of her neck!

More…

More!

He wanted more!

"Nnnguuh... Aahh…"

Iris slowly began to moan, as if the pain were slowly causing her… pleasure?

Noah, however, ignored her moans, as he kept drinking her blood until his entire body felt revitalized!

After hours, Noah's consciousness awakened, as he found himself prostrating on the rooftop with Iris at his side, unconscious, and with a clear mark of his fangs in her neck…

"I… Did it…" he muttered.

He felt no guilt, but a strangeness within him.

He felt like the thing he did was completely alien… yet at the moment he did it, it filled him with exhilaration!

"Congratulations, Noah! You attacked our first victim… She's still 'alive', don't worry… And soon, she shall be reborn!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Reborn?! I… You mean?" asked Noah.

"Indeed! The Blood Progenitor Ability lets you convert anyone you drink their blood from their necks into your Subordinate Vampires! Rejoice, as you have finally acquired your first loyal subject!" laughed the Blood Progenitor, drowning into the insanity of the situation!

Noah glanced at Iris, as she suddenly began to quiver…

"Ah!" she cried, awakening as her entire body started to… change!

"Unngggg…. Unngggyaaaahh…!"

Iris's skin turned into complete pale white, almost like candle wax, her eyes were also crimson red… and her hair dyed red.

She slowly stood up as she gasped for air, glancing at Noah, however, instead of fear, she sensed something within him… something deep within her instincts called her to him!

"I… This power… What… have I become?" asked Iris.

Noah could only glance at her with contemplation, as he released a slight smile.

"Iris, I've given you the power you wanted, now, shall you join my side?" asked Noah.

"This power… you give it to me? I…"

Iris glanced at her nails, as the great black and sharp… She was no longer powerless, and her muscles and bones felt incredibly strengthened, she then glared at her stats, and all of them were over 15!

"Answer me, Iris," said Noah.

"I… I have nothing to lose… I guess…" said Iris, her eyes gleaming eerily as she glanced at Noah, something within him called her to him, she could not help but say…

"Yes, I accept,"

Noah smiled greedily.

"Good…"

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5 Dhampir

Iris glanced at Noah with a strange feeling of admiration, which made Noah a bit uncomfortable but easily hide behind his shit-eating grin.

"So, Iris, what are your stats?" asked Noah, as he glanced at her physical changes, which even included the complete healing of the wounds around her body.

"My stats… Well, I think you can see them now that we have this strange connection, right?" asked Iris shyly, as Noah moved near her and glanced at the holographic window that had emerged out of thin air.

[Iris]

[Bloodline: Dhampir (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 15]

[Mind: 15]

[Force: 15]

[Skill(s): [Fox Ears Transformation: 43 (F)] [Demon Phantom Fox: 1 (C), [Dhampir: - (S), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Undying Body: 1 (A), [Poisonous Black Nails: 1 (D)]

Noah immediately noticed that Iris had indeed changed, especially because he remembered the rumors about her stats, as she was laughed at by having stats of 1 to 3.

Aside from this, her only Skill, which was the Fox Ears Transformation that enhanced her auditory sense by creating fox ears atop her head had suddenly 'evolved' when she became a Dhampir, which seemed to be lower than Vampire.

Although Noah could not appraise the Skills of others, even the ones of his subordinates, it was obvious that the Dhampir Skill could be a nerfed version of Blood Progenitor, while Subordinate's Loyalty might be related to her new loyalty as a subordinate Dhampir to Noah.

The later Skill is the one Iris immediately showcased when she glanced at her own nails, which grew dark and long, like claws, secreting a slightly acidic substance.

"Interesting, you've grown quite strong now, more than an F-Rank Hunter… Iris, how do you feel? Is this what you desired? What do you think?" asked Noah.

"I… I am still very confused… Even more now, I knew that you offered me power… but I even thought of that as a hallucination after being beaten so badly before… Yet, the pain of that beatdown is completely gone, and my body is filled with energy… And every time I see you in the eyes… I have something deep down within my heart calling me to you… Is this part of this power you have given to me? By the way, what's your name?" asked Iris.

"Oh, I guess I never gave you my name, my bad. I am supposed to be a Progenitor, yet I lack a lot of manners… My name is Noah," said Noah.

"Noah… The Useless Noah?! But… didn't you had no powers?! And I am pretty sure that… your hair and eyes…" asked Iris.

"I experienced an awakening… Remember the little red jewel that those bastards were carrying around?" asked Noah.

"Yes… Wait, is it…?" asked Iris.

"Indeed, Iris. I stole it and used it for myself. Now I have inherited part of the powers of that Boss, who was something akin to a Vampire, through those powers, I was able to convert you into a Dhampir, and share some of this power with you," said Noah.

"You stole that?! But… isn't that jewel from the little brother of an S-Rank Hunter?!" asked Iris.

"That's right, but it is how it is. We must lay low and gather strength and well… more allies, whenever I am finally found out by what I did, I want to be prepared," said Noah.

"Prepared to fight an S-Rank? Those are at the pinnacle of the world, Noah-sama! …Eh? Did I call you Noah-sama?!" asked Iris.

"It must be a part of your instincts, you see me as someone naturally superior to you," said Noah.

"This is… quite freaky, but I cannot deny that you're right, it is hard to accept it, but I really… cannot help but constantly admire your splendor… Ugh… That sounded a bit cringe…" muttered Iris.

"Not at all. Do not worry, you do not need to force yourself, I do not care how you address me. Anyways, yes, I am indeed preparing for that… The night is still young, Iris, let us go hunt," said Noah.

"Hunt… in a dungeon?! But it's too dangerous…" said Iris.

"Dangerous? After seeing how strong we are, do you still fear lowly F-Rank monsters, Iris? Let's go, I shall protect you, if that gives you some reassurance," said Noah, walking downstairs as Iris could not help but follow her new 'lord'.

Noah and Iris walked through the night, as the Blood Progenitor congratulated Noah.

"Impressive, just a few hours ago you were a wimpy shrimp, and now, you're have already gotten yourself a loyal subordinate, I can see a future in you, Noah… Also, I am beginning to think that your mind has changed a lot, is this our fusion that has made you act this way? Honestly, it also makes me act strange, I feel strangely more human, despite having been the Progenitor Vampire of my original world, where I slaughtered millions and drank their blood," said the Blood Progenitor.

"Indeed, our minds, personalities, and natures were mixed, now both of us have a part of the other… Although I do not have your memories, nor you have mine. We are separate minds in the same soul, I guess… I am rather intrigued about your past and what you know, you seem to be an enormous encyclopedia, Blood Progenitor, but I am guessing that I cannot convince you to tell me everything on the go, right?" asked Noah.

"You guessed it right, Noah. Although I am cooperating with you because of the Ancient One forcing me to do so, I have no intentions to become your friend… If you want any info from me, you will have to please me thoroughly first," said the Blood Progenitor.

"What an annoying bastard. Alright, but for now, I want to hunt monsters and release some stress…" said Noah.

"Do as you please, I might teach you one thing or two as you get there… If you met my expectations," said the Blood Progenitor.

"…Fair enough," said Noah with a smirk.

Suddenly, Iris glanced at Noah with a strange expression…

"Err, Noah-sama, who are you talking with? Do you have schizophrenia?" asked Iris.

"Schizophrenia? I guess you could call it that. I do have a voice inside of my mind. It is the original Blood Progenitor. Our souls are merged as one, so he can speak freely inside of my mind, he is rather annoying, but I am getting used to him," said Noah.

"I-Is that so? So you have… such a high-ranked monster speaking inside of your head? That sounds… terrifying…" said Iris.

"Terrifying? The only terrifying thing about this bastard is how annoying he is, there is nothing to fear about him, he is more or less trapped inside of my soul," said Noah with a grin.

"To have such a strong… monster trapped inside of your soul… Impressive, Noah-sama…" said Iris, her fascination with Noah slowly growing as she barely realized.

Noah noticed her enamored glare as he questioned if he should take advantage of such a woman.

However, he quickly realized that he lacked any desire as of now, and only saw her as his servant and someone to train to become part of his strength.

Noah gently hit Iris's forehead with his finger, as the girl released a little moan.

"Auh…"

"Don't lose your focus, we are here," said Noah, as he glanced at the wide, blue-colored rift in space.

This was a rift that led to another world, a dungeon.

6 Slaughtering Goblins

When the dark energy of unknown origin named as Miasma shrouded Earth, every living being underwent mutations, becoming mutated beasts.

However, this was but a superficial change, as the greatest change in the world was within space itself.

As if space distorted, cracks in the middle of the air began to emerge one after another, covering the globe.

These cracks all opened simultaneously, leading to different worlds filled with monsters and ruthless creatures, Dungeons, and Labyrinths.

The world was not only filled with mutated beasts that were hostile to what barely remained of humanity, but of otherworldly monsters that roamed freely as they freed themselves from these rifts.

Entire countries were taken over, becoming the nests for enormous beings that only the strongest of Hunters could take out.

And even then, Hunters entered these rifts and explored their depths.

Although many died, many others came back.

By killing monsters, they acquired Cores, strengthening themselves and also gaining new abilities, growing exponentially stronger.

And as more dungeons and labyrinths were cleared, they slowly began to disappear.

Humanity then finally saw some hope.

By clearing every dungeon, they could be capable of freeing Earth from this constant invasion of otherworldly creatures.

However, as more were cleared, many other rifts emerged, as if fate mocked humanity's efforts.

But everything changed when an S-Rank Rift was miraculously cleared.

Not only it closed itself, but many smaller rifts related to it also closed instantaneously.

If Humanity could clear these dangerous rifts, the others could close too… And perhaps… finally save the world.

However, that was but a faraway goal, as Humanity kept strengthening themselves and surviving however they could.

As the Military School trained young people to become Hunters, they naturally needed to have dungeons for their training, and there were a few rifts within the territory of the School, which were being cleared out of monsters except the Boss every day, to be maintained and used as training and farming areas.

One of such rifts was where Noah had brought Iris…

The rift was blue-colored, meaning that its danger level was low, and the monsters inside were not that many.

"This rift… is a dungeon…" said Iris.

"Yes, we are getting in," said Noah.

"But we don't have permission from the teachers… Noah-sama…" said Iris.

"It doesn't matter, do you see anyone around here caring either? This place might as well be completely abandoned, let's hop in. Stop doubting and be more confident, or at least, trust me, Iris," said Noah.

"I… Very well…" said Iris, extending her hand to Noah.

"Hm? What?" asked Noah.

"Y-You won't take my hand as we enter?" asked Iris.

"Why would I? Get in already," said Noah, throwing Iris inside with a kick into her back.

"Hyaaaaaa…!"

Iris disappeared through the rift as Noah hoped in right after with a calm smile.

Flash!

Noah's sight quickly changed, as the environment around him was different than the Military School buildings and the starry night atop the sky.

A cold and dark cave, illuminated by small lights floating near the ceiling, and several blue crystals growing in the walls.

Noah glanced down below as he found Iris still in the ground with her eyes closed, her butt was puffing up, shaking.

Noah sighed.

"Can you get up, you're a Dhampir now, you should be fearless," said Noah.

"A-Ah! Noah-sama, why did you hit me?" asked Iris.

"I was very gentle," said Noah.

"No, you weren't- Oh? It actually didn't hurt?" said Iris, realizing that she never had any pain, she was simply scared.

"Of course it didn't, your body is now rather strong, a gentle kick like that wouldn't have done anything to you, stop being afraid and come at my side," said Noah, as Iris stood up and cleaned her clothes from dirt, glancing around her as she walked at Noah's side.

"This dungeon… What's the name of it, Noah-sama?" asked Iris.

"Goblin's Lair, it is the lowest F-Ranked Dungeon that there is… Let's walk around, Goblins should show up soon," said Noah.

"Goblins are those… little green men that are always angry?" asked Iris.

"More or less, the cliché weak monster," said Noah rather expressionlessly.

"I heard they wield rusty daggers and other weapons… is it fine for us to not bring any equipment with us?" asked Iris.

"I believe it should be fine, your strength should be enough for you to crush them with your nails," said Noah with a smirk.

"I am… that strong now?" asked Iris, glancing at her long black nails.

As the pair walked around the corridor, they quickly heard the angry shriek of a creature within the shadows of this dungeon.

"Nngryar! Graarr!"

Small green men wearing a nasty loincloth and a small rusty dagger charged towards Noah and Iris.

"The first is mine…!" said Noah, rushing towards the Goblin at fast speed, leaving a trail of crimson light behind him as his hands were suddenly covered in crimson claws!

The Goblin could not react to Noah's speed, as it could barely move its head towards his face before it saw two slashes of crimson red fall over its body, slicing it!

"Grryaaaarrr…!"

Slash! Slash!

Poof!

The Goblin was sliced clean, as its body suddenly exploded into black smoke, leaving two small spherical jewels behind.

Iris was left startled as she could barely see what had happened, everything went on in less than ten seconds.

"E-Eh? Is it dead already?!" she asked, as Noah grabbed the two Cores that the goblin dropped.

"Yes, what did you expect? A hard fight against a Goblin? This is not Goblin Slayer," said Noah.

"Goblin Slayer?" asked Iris in confusion.

"Never mind. Anyways, these are Cores, they had already taught us this much in School, right?" asked Noah, showing Iris the Cores.

"Oh, those that enhance our stats?" asked Iris.

"Yes, these will only work for us until we reach stats of 75 points each, as they're F-Rank Cores," said Noah.

"Oh, like the teacher explained… F-Rank Cores can only be used up until a certain amount of stats before they become useless, and we need to absorb higher-ranked ones…" said Iris.

"Bingo. We will use these up to 75, then we use E-Rank up until 150, then D-Rank up until 300, then C-Rank up until 600, B-Rank up until 1200… And A-Rank up until 2400 and so on… It is a rather linear path. Most of our classmates have stats averaging 75-150, depending on talent and how efficiently can they hunt these. However, whenever we reach C-Rank, we might as well hit a wall because there are no C-Rank Dungeons around to keep enhancing our stats," said Noah.

"I see, Noah-sama, you know a lot!" said Iris, as she extended her hand towards the Cores.

"Hm? What are you trying to grab? These are mine, if you want some for yours, hunt them with the power I have given you, Iris," said Noah.

"Ah! Well… I guess you are right! I have to do something for myself, now that I finally got this power and all…!" said Iris, her eyes gleaming with conviction, however, Noah was already walking away from her.

"Eh? W-Wait, Noah-sama! Don't leave me alone!" cried Iris, rushing towards Noah with her great speed.

7 Blood Gathering!

Noah darted through the damp and dark caves, as goblins followed him around, raising their rusty weapons and roaring fiercely.

"Grryaarr!"

"Grrurryaa!"

"Greee!"

One Goblin emerged from his left, raising its axe and trying to slash Noah's back, however, Noah evaded in time with a kick jump, as he used his crimson claws to slice off the Goblin's head in one swipe of his hand.

However, there was no time to relax, as two more emerged behind him, one with a sword and the other with a knife, pointing their rusty blades into his back, they sliced him cleanly!

Slash!

Noah felt a slight pain as he twisted his body in a split of a second, moving his crimson claws and slicing the two Goblins in half with a vertical swipe.

Slash! Slash!

"Grryarr…!"

The two Goblins exploded into black smoke, as only a core was left from the two.

"Because I got two cores from the first one, I really thought I would get at least one per Goblin, but their drop seems to be lower, I guess I was just being lucky in my first kill…" said Noah, since he entered the Dungeon that he has killed around 12 Goblins, but he only had five Cores, including this new one.

F-Rank Cores can only give 1 point of stat, so Noah needs a rather big quantity if he wants to hit the max number of stats and be considered an E-Rank Hunter.

"T-They're fast!" cried Iris at Noah's back, as she used her Black Nails to puncture the Goblin's chests and faces, injecting a deadly poison into their flesh, making them convulse and die in the ground.

However, Iris lacked a lot of tactfulness, and often found herself attacked by many Goblins, so Noah had to aid her a bit.

But now that a few hours had gone by, she was getting more and more used to move and fight.

Noah noticed that the wound on his back had already healed thanks to the Blood Progenitor's Ability which gave him automatic regeneration and walked near Iris.

Iris gently picked the single Core dropped by the Goblin, as she offered it to Noah.

"Noah-sama, here, for you!" she said, wiping her forehead from the cold sweat.

"What are you doing? You killed them, right? It is yours," said Noah.

"Eh? Really? Usually, the Hunters give all the rewards to the leader and then the leader distributes them…" said Iris.

"What a pain, just grab what you earned, I will do the same, so don't expect me to gift you anything, Iris," said Noah rather coldly, although Iris found on his cold words a very gentle nature.

"Okay then!" said Iris with a stupid smile, just a few hours ago she was someone that everyone stepped on, but she had gained all this power and opportunities from Noah, whose she feels great gratitude.

Now, she was even able to gather Cores and grow even stronger, something that she had only fantasized about.

Noah felt honestly the same, the exhilaration of finally having the strength and killing monsters to gather their Cores really did make him feel excited.

"Let's go," said Noah, as he ran through the caves looking for more prey, while Iris nodded and followed him silently.

As the two advanced through the caves, a few more Goblins came by, as the two worked together to take them down each time.

However, Noah felt like this exploration was rather lacking, as the Goblin's quantity was very small, he wanted to at least get a considerable boost on his stats in these hours, but it seemed rather impossible due to the slowness of the spawn of monsters.

"Maybe we should go check an E-Rank Dungeon next?" wondered Noah, as he and Iris came across a larger cave section to his left, which emanated an eerie presence.

"Hm? Noah-sama, that cave…" muttered Iris as her expression turned serious.

"Oh? Just when I was thinking of moving to another Dungeon… Could this be the actual nest of the Goblins? Perhaps they are simply sending small groups towards us while protecting the rest of the group in here…" said Noah.

"That might be it…!" said Iris.

"There is something odd about this cave, Noah, be careful!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Oh? you're worried about me?" asked Noah.

"Ah?! Of course not. But if you die, I will most likely die too!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Oh, I see…" said Noah with a smirk, as he walked slowly into this strange cave section alongside Iris.

This cave section was rather different than the others, as there were very few glowing lights in the ceiling or blue crystals to illuminate the area, making it almost completely pitch black.

However, Noah and Iris had the natural ability to see in the dark as Vampire and Dhampir and seemed to not be affected by something that most Hunters would.

"The presence… is increasing…" said Iris.

"Hm, keep your guard high-" muttered Noah, as he was interrupted by the roar of a Goblin!

"GRRRYARR!"

Flash!

A larger than usual Goblin emerged from the darkness, wearing simple leather armor, a shield, and a large blade, charging towards Noah as it used it bashed its shield against Noah's body!

Boom!

"Ngh…! You're fast…" said Noah with a smirk, as he felt the excitement engulf his body!

He raised his claws, grabbing the shield that the Goblin had used to push him away, and then with his crimson claws, he destroyed it!

CLASH!

"Gryar…?!"

The Goblin was left startled, as Noah charged forward, slashing the surprised monster's chest, slicing through its leather armor like a hot knife through butter!

Slash!

"Grraaarrr…!"

The Goblin resisted the damage, however, as blood flowed from its wound, making Noah's senses sharpen!

The Goblin gnashed his teeth, as it used its own strength to stop Noah's arms, and raised its blade, trying to slice his torso!

However, Noah smiled as he exerted more of his strength, completely shattering the Goblins' hand with his claws and then slice apart the arm that held the blade!

Slash!

"G-Graaahh…!"

"Blood Gathering!" said Noah, as he raised his hand and began to gather the blood of the Goblin while it was still alive and did not disappear yet, the Goblin fell into the ground while struggling, but Noah simply put his feet over its chest and pressed lightly, slowly crushing its ribs.

Blood Gathering was a special technique that came with the Blood Progenitor Skill, it let Noah manipulate the Blood around him, and gather it around his hands for him to drink.

Noah drank the blood straight away, although it was that of a disgusting Goblin, and it was worse than Iris' blood, it was good enough to appease his hunger and recover his Mind a bit, so he could use more of his Skills.

"Graarr…!"

The Goblin cried as Noah sliced its head off with a fell swipe of his claws.

Poof!

The Goblin disappeared, as two cores were left, which Noah quickly picked up and saved inside of his backpack.

Then he glanced at Iris, who was fighting against a larger Goblin and a smaller one.

The smaller one held a bow and was shooting arrows at her, which she was barely evading, while the larger one was also using a blade and a sword, bashing Iris, and then trying to slice her in half with its enormous blade!

Iris gnashed her teeth as she jumped towards the larger Goblin with her eyes gleaming with crimson light, as she was enveloped in a dark, blue-colored phantasmal aura, showing as fox ears atop her head, and a fox tail at her back, her claws were enveloped by this force, as her speed increased slightly, managing to slash the large Goblin's face, seeping her poison into its eyes!

"Grryaarrr…!"

Noah smiled as he felt slightly proud of Iris's progress, however, his face quickly changed as another squad of Goblins came near… one of them was holding a staff and conjuring something.

8 Against the Strong Goblin Warriors!

"Graaarrr…!"

The large Goblin attacking Iris felt the sharp pain of his eyes being sliced open, and the deadly poison seeping inside of the wounds, struggling to maintain any sanity, it moved its blade and shield crazily around, as Iris evaded easily and then began to stab the Goblin's blind stops with her black claws!

Slash! Slash!

"And… there!" said Iris, as she slashed open the Goblins' chest, as an enormous amount of blood splattered over her, which she quickly drank to nourish herself, taking the goblin's shield to take on the arrows of the one far away, and then throwing it towards that one with incredible precision, knocking it out!

Clash!

"Gryyaarr…!"

"Phew, well, that's that- Eh? Even more?" asked Iris, as she quickly grabbed the cores in the ground, saving them on her backpack.

"Iris, look out!" said Noah, as Iris sight was greeted by a blazing fireball!

"That Goblin is a mage?!" asked Iris, leaping out of her position like a frog, just a few seconds before the fireball hit the ground in a loud explosion.

"It seems so, I will go take it down, cover my back," said Noah.

"Alright!" said Iris, as both former humans rushed through the cave, Noah raised his claws and sliced away the Goblins that came his way, leaving them to Iris!

Slash! Slash!

"Grryarr!"

"Grooarr!"

"Two large ones… alright, I can do this!" said Iris, charging with the shield she retrieved alongside the blade of the goblin, clashing against the smallest of the two large Goblins, and then burying her claws into its eyes!

Clash!

"Grryaarrrr…!"

The Goblin cried in pain as its partner came behind Iris, pushing her away like a ragdoll with its shield!

Clash!

"Unngh…! T-That hurt, you know?!" roared Iris, her fangs growing larger as her crimson eyes gleamed eerily, she moved acrobatically around the air, landing perfectly in her two feet as she shrouded herself in her Demonic Phantom Fox Skill once more.

Meanwhile, Noah broke through the group of smaller Goblins, easily slicing them in half or cutting off their heads, reaching the Mage Goblin who suddenly panicked, conjuring a spell!

"Grrryaarroo!"

Flash!

Anther fireball emerged from the Goblin's staff, clashing against Noah!

BOOM!

"Gyahahahaha!" laughed the Goblin, even beginning to dance as it managed to defeat the threatening foe in one hit!

Or so, it thought.

Flash!

A crimson shadow emerged from behind the Goblin, as Noah's burns slowly began to heal… The Goblin's entire body began to drip with cold sweat, as the deadly presence of the one he thought had died appeared out of nowhere!

"That hurt a lot… But nothing that some sweet blood cannot heal completely," said Noah, as his claws moved incredibly quickly, slicing the Goblin's arms, and then kicking it to the ground, just like it did before.

"Yeah, that's a better look," laughed Noah, extracting the Blood of the crying Goblin Mage, and drinking it all in a few seconds, as the Goblin Mage cried in agony as he did, dying out of blood lost and disappearing out of thin air.

Noah grabbed the Cores without having much time to inspect them, as another large Goblin emerged from his back, this time holding a large hammer that is carried as if it were nothing.

"These are surely not normal Goblins… I should have read more of the Monster Encyclopedia's pages… But these big guys might as well be Goblin Warriors…" thought Noah, evading the heavy hit of the Goblin's hammer, which he was sure could easily blow his head off even if he was now a Vampire.

Noah released two crimson slashes from his claws, distracting the Goblin to protect himself with his shield, as he quickly ran towards its back, leaped on its shoulders, and buried his claws into the creature's neck!

Clash!

"GRAAAAA!"

The Goblin Warrior roared in pain, using its fists and punching Noah's back with immense strength.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

"Ungh…! Haha…!" laughed Noah wickedly, as he stabbed with his jaw into the monstrous creature and with all the strength of his mouth, he torn apart a large chunk of flesh, which he ate monstrously, the blood splattered all over, which he gathered and drank while just taking the hits… If he were to take more without drinking the blood to heal himself, he would have most likely died, but by using this insane strategy, he pulled off a victory once more.

The Goblin Warrior's lost its vitality by Noah's monstrous attacks, as its body fell into the ground loudly, disappearing not long after and leaving some Cores behind, Noah immediately realized that Goblin Warriors had a higher chance to drop Cores, just as he desired, although they were particularly harder to kill than simple Goblins.

Noah grabbed the Cores as he glanced at Iris at last, who was barely managing against the Goblin Warriors she was fighting.

One of the Goblin Warriors she fought was suffering from her poison, and its movements were becoming lethargic, yet it still held enough energy to rampage around.

The other Goblin Warrior was only with a few wounds around his body, and because of its muscle mass, her poison was having a hard time seeping into the rest of the body.

Iris suddenly leaped high enough for the Goblin Warriors to not be able to reach her, enhancing her body with the phantasmal enshroud of Demonic Fox Phantom, as she infused more Mana into her Black Nails, falling over the poisoned Goblin Warrior and burying them right inside of its skull!

Clash!

"GRRAAAARRR…!"

The Goblins shrieked in agony as it died right after, turning into black smoke, only for Iris to be greeted by the other Goblin Warriors' shield, bashing her away with immense force!

Boom!

"Nngaahh…! Y-You!"

Iris's eyes gleamed eerily, as she fell into the ground and charged back to the Goblin Warrior right after!

Flash!

Iris ran like a wild beast, her Demonic Phantom Fox Skill gave her a greater speed as its highest enhancement, so she managed to use it to her advantage and have a greater reaction time alongside her Dhampir capabilities.

"GRROAARRR!"

The Goblin Warriors suddenly roared so fiercely that Iris felt slightly paralyzed, the Goblin Warrior had a Skill!

"That's… Roar? A Skill that temporarily paralyzes an enemy with a roar, but it is only seconds… Although it might be enough for the Goblin Warrior…" thought Noah, as the Goblin Warrior smiled, using its feet to kick Iris in the stomach, sending her flying high into the ceiling!

Clash!

"Geeehh…!"

Iris shrieked in pain as she vomited a mouthful of blood, falling back to the ground, where the Goblin Warrior waited for her with his blade raised.

"You should go help her," said the Blood Progenitor to Noah.

"Is that so? Maybe you are underestimating her? Iris is way fiercer than you think… I realized this a few hours ago…" said Noah, as Iris suddenly woke up, her eyes gleaming even redder than before, as the veins around them could be clearly seen!

Her crimson hair suddenly began to raise as if something was surging from her, and her teeth and canines became larger and monstrous!

Her Demonic Fox Phantom took complete possession of her, as she hit the air with a strong shockwave, flying towards the Goblin Warrior while pointing her nails towards it!

"Graaaaaaaaarr!"

"Greh?!"

The Goblin Warrior was left startled by Iris's sudden change, as it tried to slice her off desperately with its blade!

However!

Clash!

Iris's black nails sliced the Goblin Warrior's blade without any trouble, as she stabbed her claws into the Goblin's face, and her fangs into its head, crushing its skull and taking a large piece of bone and brain, which she monstrously triturated inside of her mouth!

Crunch, crunch!

The Goblin Warrior died almost immediately after, exploding into black smoke, as Iris was left gasping for air, her phantom fox disappeared, and she suddenly felt like her head was about to explode…

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9 Blood Projectiles!

"Here."

Iris heard Noah's voice she glanced up, the young man offered her a sphere of floating blood, which he had extracted from the Goblin Warrior and saved.

"Haahhh…!"

Iris quickly moved towards the sphere, engulfing it with her mouth and drinking the sweet and warm liquid.

She slowly felt more at ease, as her Mana recovered.

Mana was a part of the Mind stat, as it divided into three pseudo stats, Mana, the energy used to activate Skills, Magic Attack, the amount of damage increased based on the Mind stat number, and Magic Defense, the amount of damage reduced based in the Mind stat number.

By being a Dhampir and having some of Noah's capabilities from the Blood Progenitor Skill, she was able to recover her energy through drinking blood, the pain she had suffered in her head was the overuse of Mana over her own limits, which should have made her braindead if it was not because she had superhuman capabilities as a Dhampir.

There were many cases of F-Rank Hunters suffering from head illness and other things when they overused Mana above their very limits.

"Thanks, Noah-sama… Phew… Did I overdid it?" asked Iris.

"Not at all, that's the strength I want of you. You did good, but you have to learn to extract the blood of your enemies better… Albeit you drank some from its brain, it was not enough," said Noah.

"Yeah… Anyways, it seems that the Goblins stopped coming?" asked Iris, cleaning her clothes from dirt as she stood up.

Noah glanced at the darkness ahead of him.

"Not at all, they're preparing… Let's charge at them and surprise their troops before they are ready to fight again," said Noah.

"Alright!" said Iris, following Noah through the vast darkness.

The pair of vampires charged in, as they quickly came into a small group of normal Goblins led by a larger Goblin who was dual-wielding axes.

"I will take the big one, you take the little ones, I don't think it will be much of a trouble. Make sure to extract their blood as I have taught you," said Noah. In these little minutes that they explored the caves, Noah taught Iris how to use Blood Gathering as well, and now this was the time for her to try it out.

"GRAA!"

The dual-wielding Goblin Warrior raised its axes and roared, rushing towards Noah straight away, while the smaller Goblins evaded him and laughed perversely, rushing towards Iris!

It seemed that the Goblin Warrior had the same idea as Noah, which made Noah's life easier.

Clash!

Noah used his crimson claws to intercept the Goblin's axes with great speed!

"GRRRAAA!"

The Goblin Warrior, however, was suddenly enveloped in a red aura, reinforcing its skin and muscles!

"Oh, a Skill?" thought Noah, as he evaded the Goblin Warrior's double slashing attack by jumping away!

Clash! Clash!

"Grrr…!"

The Goblin Warrior seemed to be enraged by Noah's flexibility and nimbleness, groaning, and then charging towards him like a red meteor!

"UUGRRAAA!"

CLASH!

The axes once more hit the ground, as Noah moved like a spider around the Goblin Warrior's log-like arms while using his crimson claws to slash away through the reinforced skin and muscles without much issue!

"GRROO…!"

The Goblin Warrior groaned in pain, as it suddenly extended its hand towards Noah, grabbing his clothes and throwing him away!

"Nnggh…!"

Clash!

Noah hit the walls directly, creating slight cracks behind him.

This Goblin Warrior was indeed stronger than the previous ones, and it seemed to have an enhancement-type Skill that strengthened all of its capabilities by a small amount.

Noah glanced at it with contempt, but then, revealed a sphere of floating blood on his hand.

"After Blood Gathering is activated, I can gather blood in a sphere… and by using other techniques, I can also weaponize it, right, Progenitor?" asked Noah.

"Oh? So you have figured out that much, indeed, Blood Gathering isn't simply so you can drink blood, that would be too dull! I remember using the blood of those hunters against them, crystallizing them as floating crimson blades, and impaling them to death!" laughed the Blood Progenitor.

"Crystallized… Like blood coagulation?" thought Noah.

"GRRAAA!"

The Goblin Warrior did not wait for Noah to think through things, as it quickly charged towards him, raising its axes and clashing against the wall with them, Noah barely evaded, although a slash reached his leg, making him lose blood.

However, instead of feeling annoyed, he smiled.

"I should use my blood as well, I suppose," he thought while in midair, gathering the blood that dripped from his wound before it slowly closed, and making his sphere of blood larger.

"Now…! Blood Blade!" said Noah, as the Goblin Warrior was still giving him his back, Noah willed it through Blood Manipulation, as the blood within the Blood Sphere started to coagulate, becoming harder and thicker until it began to crystalize!

Then, he shaped it as a large blade, and fired it without thinking it twice towards the Goblin Warrior!

FLASH!

"Nngraah!"

The Goblin Warrior, however, realized the crimson blade flying his way, as he quickly raised his axes once more, unleashing a barrage of slicing attacks towards it!

Slash! Slash!

The crimson blade was crushed into bits!

"Well, that's good enough," said Noah, as he used the opportunity where the Goblin Warrior had to destroy the blade to rush near it again, his crimson claws seeping into the Goblin's muscular knees, slicing them, and making it fall immediately!

"GRRAAAAKKH…!"

Boom!

Struggling to stand up but realizing that its knees were completely sliced off, the Goblin Warrior glanced back at Noah with scorn, as it moved its arms fiercely, using them to aim punches at him or slicing attacks with one of his axes, as the other one was sent flying when it fell into the ground.

"GRAAAKH! GRAA!"

Noah smiled, as he used his own legs to kick away the Goblin Warrior's fist, and his claws to grab the axe and apply pressure on it, splitting it into pieces!

Crash!

"GRRUH?!"

Noah's eyes gleamed eerily with crimson light, as he jumped over the Goblin Warrior's back, seeping his claws into its back as blood began to flow like a river!

For some reason, Noah could not get enough of this… of bathing in the warmth of blood!

"Blood Gathering!" he said, as an enormous sphere of blood began to form over his right hand, the Goblin Warrior struggled, but it felt as if its entire energy was being drained away at a fast speed!

"GRAAAAAAA…!"

As a last stand, the Goblin Warrior's body was shrouded in this crimson energy, gaining a last bit of strength which is used to twist its body and extend its hands towards Noah!

"Blood Spear,"

However, before that could ever happen, Noah shaped a part of the blood into a sharp spear made of crystallized blood, impaling the Goblin Warrior's heart, and immediately draining all of its blood away!

"Nngggruuoooh…!"

The Goblin Warrior vomited blood, as it became motionless, not long after, exploding into black smoke, as a few Cores fell to the ground.

Noah glanced at the large sphere of blood, his new weapon, and nourishment.

"You're getting better at this than I imagined…!" muttered the Blood Progenitor in contempt, realizing that because Noah was putting himself in these challenges is that he was adapting and discovering his new capabilities incredibly fast.

Noah glanced back at Iris, as she was done with the smaller Goblins, which now presented no problem to her, she even had gathered a Blood Sphere of her own, amusing Noah.

"Noah-sama… I'm done… Phew, that one you killed was very big!" said Iris.

"Indeed… And there is a bigger one waiting for us past that corridor," said Noah, pointing to his front, as Iris could feel the overwhelming presence of something dwelling within the darkness!

"That's…!" muttered Iris in surprise.

"Yeah, it seems that a Mid-Boss spawned…" said Noah with a smirk.

10 Against the Goblin Fencer!

Noah and Iris charged towards the darkness, as the presence of the creature within grew larger!

As they rushed through this cave section, more and more Goblins emerged, although they were just the small Goblins, which Iris and Noah defeated by slashing off their necks and draining their Blood, managing to gather a large amount of Blood for this upcoming battle.

As if this entity was awaiting them, it remained still within a large cave.

"I wonder why there are stronger Monsters in here than what is supposed to spawn… It is quite puzzling…" said Iris.

"I wonder the same thing. However, I imagine that we might because of this…" said Noah.

"Us?" asked Iris in surprise.

"Hm… More like just me. Or well, what's inside of my chest, the Blood Core of the Blood Progenitor," said Noah.

"E-Eh?" asked Iris.

"So you even figured that out… Indeed, this is because of the strong core that you have fused into your body, Noah. An SSS-Rank Core of a Monster is a precious source of energy, even if you cannot perceive it, the essence it exudes makes the Dungeons capable of spawning more Monsters! This might also be some kind of authority, as I remember that more Monsters that aided me would appear in the battle where I was killed whenever I willed it… Perhaps you might one day learn to master this ability," said the Blood Progenitor, revealing to Noah the actual truth.

"Is that so? Iris, the Blood Progenitor had just confirmed it… It is indeed my fault, I suppose. Although it is not like it is a bad thing at all… The stronger the monsters, the better for us," said Noah, slashing away the head of a Goblin that charged against him.

"W-Well, as long as they are not out of our league, I suppose it's fine…!" said Iris nervously, as she slashed a Goblin, making it drop into the ground in pain, groaning due to her poison's effect on its flesh.

"Grryaarrr…!"

"Grroooaarrr…!"

"Grrryyhhh…!"

As the pair of nocturnal vampires ran through the darkness of the cave, Goblins and more Goblins emerged, like an endless army of creatures from hell itself, it seemed that Goblin Warriors had now become rare.

Noah and Iris employed their claws, slicing them creatures apart or draining their blood as much as they could while they did not die yet, it was truly a blood fest!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

Iris and Noah then came to a large section within the cave, where a large army of Goblins waited for them, alongside two Goblin Mages and three Goblin Warriors!

And behind them, a large figure sat down, glaring at them with its bright crimson eyes, gleaming eerily within the darkness…

"I-It's huge!" said Iris.

"Around… three meters? That's… A Goblin Champion…" said Noah, recalling some of the monster encyclopedia pages he read, there was a large section solely for Goblins, who had many variants, some more dangerous than others.

Although it was not as strong as the Goblin King, the Goblin Champion would not pale in comparison, being right below it in the strength hierarchy, it was a powerful F-Rank Monster almost at the peak of such strength, where the Goblin King already passed to be E-Rank!

"Goblin… Champion?!" asked Iris in surprise.

Noah glanced at the monster's crimson eyes, as it seemed oddly calm.

"He seems to not see us as a complete threat yet… If he's sitting there, he might also be quite prideful… Excepted of a 'Champion'…" said Noah.

"They're coming!" said Iris, gnashing her teeth as her crimson eyes gleamed with voracity.

A large army of over a dozen Goblins armed with shields and weapons, three Goblin Warriors, and two Goblin Mages rushed towards them!

"GRRAAA!"

The three Goblin Warriors roared, as their bodies were engulfed in a red aura, this was the same enhancement-type Skill that the Goblin Warrior that wielded two axes possessed!

"Gyahahaha!"

The two Goblin Mages did not move from their position, unlike the rest, keeping a distance while being surrendered by several small Goblins wielding bows.

The Goblin Mages did not waste any more seconds, as they conjured a large fireball each, launching them towards Noah and Iris!

Iris and Noah leaped out of their original positions, baring their claws, and jumping over the large group of Goblins, slicing them into pieces one after another while bathing into their blood for nourishment!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

Boom! Boom!

The two fireballs exploded where they originally were, but instead of raging in frustration, the Goblin Mages simply began to conjure more magic straight away!

"Grrryaaaa…!

"Grreeehh…!"

The Smaller Goblins were not a threat at all for them at this point, as they had grown experienced to their patterns and easy to abuse movements, even Iris was now easily slicing off their heads and bathing in their blood, strengthening herself even more.

"GRROOOOOH!"

The three Goblin Warriors finally closed into the pair, as two of them targeted Iris, who they deemed as the weakest, while another wielding a long and thin blade charged towards Noah!

The long blade-wielding Goblin Warrior was oddly fast compared to the others, and it even had a slimmer complexion, with a cheeky smile and a very long nose.

"This speed and precision… This is not a Goblin Warrior… Could it be a Goblin Fencer?" thought Noah as he gnashed his teeth, the Goblin Fencer managed to reach his body in a matter of seconds, moving at an impressive speed, and unleashing several slashes over his chest!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

"Unngh…! Heh, you shouldn't have gotten closer!" said Noah, as he moved his Blood Sphere above his head and forming a Blood Blade, sensing it straight towards the Goblin Fencer!

Flash!

"Grya!"

However, the Goblin Fencer raised its long blade, intercepting the Blood Blade created by Noah and sending it flying away!

Clash!

Noah used the same tactic as before, by distracting the Goblin Warriors and then rushing to their back with his max speed while the Goblins had to put their strength into destroying this long-ranged attack!

Flash!

Noah was already behind the Goblin Fencer, as his claws were about to seep into its neck!

However, the Goblin's Fencer was filled with a red aura, and glared at Noah, following his same speed if not greater!

Twisting its body with an incredible showcase of masterfulness, the Goblin Fencer moved its long blade right towards Noah's torso, impacting the left side of his stomach!

Clash!

"Gyahaha- Eh?"

Before the Goblin could finally celebrate its victory, it quickly realized that Noah's body wasn't sent flying as it believed due to the impact force of its attack.

It was standing right before him.

And from within Noah's wound, an enormous mass of blood emerged, puncturing the Goblin's chest!

But how?!

And when?!

Noah smiled, he was completely insane, using such an opportunity to deal a fatal blow could have only come out of his head and no one else…

"By amplifying… Blood Manipulation into my own fresh blood, it was easy to mold it and use it directly to attack it the moment it opened this large wound into my stomach… Right, Blood Progenitor?" laughed Noah.

"You're… more insane than I imagined!" said the Blood Progenitor, Noah was simply compensating for his lack of experience fighting with his insane ideas that abused the body of a Vampire!

"GRRRYAAAAAAH…!"

The Goblin Fencer cried in agony as it tried to struggle, however, the 'blood tentacle' that punctured its chest was already raining it dry from its own blood, feeding it to Noah directly into his wound!

Noah grasped the long blade, breaking it into pieces with his crimson claws, his wound slowly closed itself, as the dry corpse of the Goblin Fencer turned into black smoke…

11 Exhilarating Battle!

Boom!

An enormous fireball impacted Noah's feet, as he managed to jump away in time, he had no time to relax at all, there were two Goblin Mages behind him and several arrows raining from the sky by the Goblin Archers that protected them!

Flash! Flash! Flash!

The arrow's sharp tips were reflected by Noah's Crimson Claws, however, he was rather worried about Iris, as she was left against two Goblin Warriors.

Noah decided to glance at her for a slight of a second, realizing that she was still kicking, covering herself on her Demonic Fox Phantom Skill and enhancing her speed and strength, she was giving a hard time even to the two Goblin Warriors that possessed the enhancement-type Skill.

"GROOOAAH!"

One of the Goblin Warriors wielding a large mace tried to smash Iris' entire body like a pancake, however, Iris jumped and even ran over the log-like arms of the Goblin Warrior, making sure to seep her poison into it and then jumping straight to the eyes!

"GRRRYAAAA!"

The enormous Goblin Warrior felt immense pain, groaning in pain as it covered its bleeding eyes, however, Iris kept slashing it and draining its blood, while the other Goblin Warrior could hardly catch up to her speed without having to damage its ally in the process!

Boom!

In that little time, the poisoned Goblin Warrior fell directly into the ground, as Iris leaped like a vicious vixen towards the next one, biting its nose off and drinking the sweet blood coming out of it!

"GRAAAAAAARRR…!"

The Goblin Warrior tried to grab her, but she quickly jumped right in time, acrobatically moving around the large and muscular body of the creature, and raining it with slicing attacks, seeping it with poison, and slowly killing it while draining its blood!

Noah smiled proudly of Iris's talent, the more she fought, the more she was showing off her true capabilities, and it seemed that her ability to gather blood for energy and her constant use of Demonic Fox Phantom was enough for her to fend for herself for the moment.

Noah kept running around, evading the arrows as some inevitably fell over his shoulders and back, which he mercilessly pulled off without being affected y the sharp pain of doing so.

The Goblin Mages realized that he was going after them, and quickly made the Goblin Archers take out their knives and attack Noah at close-range!

However, Noah simply waved his claws as swipes of blood emerged from them, slicing apart the Goblins while draining their blood before they became black smoke!

"Gryaar!"

One of the Goblin Mages desperately conjured a new Spell, as an enormous spear of ice emerged from a magic circle in front of his staff!

Flash!

The enormous spear of ice left a trail of cold and freezing air behind, closing towards Noah at an immense speed!

Noah's senses sharpened as he felt the cold approach, gnashing his teeth, he moved to the left!

Clash!

The enormous spear of ice impacted his shoulder, tearing apart a large chunk of flesh while freezing his wound instantly!

However, for someone who was already cold and Undead, to an extent, Noah didn't felt any discomfort other than the inability to use that arm for a few seconds before it could regenerate!

The Goblin Mage was left startled as Noah charged towards him!

"GRRYARR…!"

Trying to conjure another spell to finish Noah off, the Goblin Mage tried to create a new magic circle, but Noah was already right in front of it, grasping its head with the claws of his healthy arm, and exerting a monstrous strength!

"Die."

"Grryaarrrrrr…!"

CRASH!

The entire head of the Goblin Mage exploded into bloody pieces, which Noah absorbed and drank to nourish his body, healing back the lost flesh on his shoulder wound!

However!

An enormous fireball closed in from his back while he was regenerating, generating a loud explosion of blazing flames into his back, blowing Noah off into the distance!

Boom!

"Gyahahaha! Grryarrr!" laughed the other Goblin Mage, having caught Noah off guard and managing to deal a great amount of Damage, it ordered the Goblin Archers to finish him off with a rain of arrows!

Noah hit the wall, leaving several cracks in there he vomited blood, he felt the sharp burning pain of his back being completely roasted, he could barely move, and his wounds were beginning to heal slowly again!

He poured an enormous quantity of blood from his Blood Sphere into his mouth, drinking it all to regenerate, but before he could even begin to close the wounds, a dozen of arrows reached him!

"Noah-sama!"

Clash!

Iris emerged from within the darkness, having finally taken down the other Goblin Warrior she was fighting, she came to help Noah, using her large black nails and her strength to destroy several arrows with powerful slashing attacks, and taking on the others that managed to get through her attacks!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

"Aaaghh…!" she cried, kneeling near Noah.

"Iris?" muttered Noah, finally getting up as he quickly shared his saved-up blood with Iris, emptying his reserves!

"Noah-sama, are you okay?" asked Iris with a tired smile.

"Yes… Thanks, Iris. I will make sure to give you back this favor… Stay here!" said Noah, charging towards the Goblin Mage!

"G-GRYAARR!"

The Goblin Mage trembled by seeing Noah's killing intent, which shrouded him like a crimson aura!

Desperately trying to kill him, the Goblin Mage sent the Goblin Archers against him, while the Goblin Mage started to conjure a spell, as a green magic circle emerged in front of its staff!

"Graarr!"

Flash!

An enormous amount of concentrated emerald winds emerged from within the Goblin Mage's magic circle, shaping itself as a small tornado!

Noah easily sliced off the smaller Goblin Archers, who were not a threat at all when they desperately fought at close combat realizing that they would not be able to use their bows properly if the enemy were too close to them!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

"Grryaarr…!"

Noah smiled wickedly as he began to drain the blood of the Goblins' corpses before they could disappear, gathering more blood into his Blood Sphere, and finally closing in to the Goblin Mage, who greeted him with an enormous typhoon of slicing emerald winds!

Flash!

"Blood Shield!" said Noah, as he manipulated the accumulated blood he had, shaping it as a large shield that covered his entire body!

BOOM!

The slicing winds began to penetrate through the Blood Shield quite easily, but Noah kept charging until the shield easily broke apart and the slicing wind sliced off his skin and flesh!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

However, this was good enough for Noah, the first impact and most of the power of the Spell was already consumed!

Noah gnashed his teeth maliciously, as he resisted the pain and finally reached the Goblin's Mage, penetrating its chest with his crimson claws before it could run away!

CRASH!

"GRRRYAAARRR…!"

"Blood Gathering…!"

Noah absorbed all of the blood of the Goblin Mage until its dried corpse disappeared into black smoke!

"Noah-sama, I've regenerated my wounds!" said Iris, reaching Noah's side as Noah began to drink some blood from his Blood Sphere, glancing at the figure sitting in front of them a few dozen meters away.

Its eyes gleamed with excitement as if it were being entertained.

"Gehehehe… Interesting… Humans!" it said.

"It can… speak?!" cried Iris.

"It's not that… but because we are now part Monster due to the Blood Progenitor, we can understand his language a bit," said Noah.

"You… Can understand… me? Interesting! Very… interesting!!!" roared the Goblin Champion, revealing its enormous and muscular physique, and standing up while raising its gigantic arms!

"Let's… battle to the death then!" he said.

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Thank you very much for reading!

12 Against the Goblin Champion!

Were Monsters able to understand human language?

This has always been a question that has puzzled the minds of scientists and other people that investigated the phenomena of dungeons and also of monsters.

Certainly, it has been stated and even reported that groups of an intelligent monster such as Goblins, Ogres, Lizardmen, Trolls, Kobolds, seemed to have a tribal system of sorts, and could easily communicate with each other through their unique languages… meaning that they were indeed intelligent beings.

Based on this knowledge, there was once a faction of humans that desired to be able to communicate with monsters and to lead to some kind of peace in between them…

However, this never led to anything, and such organization was quickly disintegrated when they tried to socialize with a dungeon filled with Ogres, where they were brutally murdered and eaten.

No matter how much humanity tried to communicate with Monsters, Monsters seemed to have an inherent and instinctive desire to kill any human that invaded their dungeon.

No matter how much humanity tried to speak with a Monster, these creatures would never respond to humans kindly, and would often roar in a declaration of hostility, or laugh mockingly at their attempts…

However, Noah was able to understand their language, and the Goblin Champion also understood his words instinctively.

Noah had come out with the conclusion that this was because he was no longer a simple human, as he had the Blood Core of the SSS-Rank Boss Monster Blood Progenitor on his chest, fused to his body and soul, he was clearly not human anymore and even considered himself a monster.

Perhaps, this was the secret to be able to communicate with monsters… to become one yourself.

However, even then, there was absolutely no room for further conversations, the Goblin Champion clearly seemed like a battle junkie to Noah's eyes, and he only desired to fight someone strong to the death, no questions asked.

And because Noah was not interested in befriending a random Goblin, he happily received his hostility with a pleasant smile.

Boom!

The giant three-meters tall Goblin Champion rushed towards Noah and Iris with a strong charge, his feet clashing over the stone floor and generating cracks!

"Strong Fist!" he roared, as the Goblin Champion's fists were coated in a large amount of energy!

"It has a Skill too!" said Iris, as she jumped off the direction of the giant's fist, impacting the ground and generating a small tremor!

Boom!

Noah jumped off as well, as both he and Iris separated and rushed around the giant.

"Being so big only makes you an easier target, you realize that?" asked Noah teasingly, as he jumped with all of his strength put into his legs, reaching the Goblin Champions log-like arms and seeping his claws into the flesh!

Slash!

"Nnngrruoh?!"

Noah managed to slice off a piece of flesh cleanly from the Goblin Champion's arm, which he then devoured voraciously while drinking the blood in a few seconds!

The Goblin Champion directed his fist towards Noah with immense speed, as Noah evaded it in time, only for an enormous boulder to surge from the ground!

"What?"

BOOM!

"Gah!"

Noah was impacted by the giant boulder surging from the ground, sending him flying towards the ceiling itself, impacting it, and then falling like a ragdoll!

"It has an Earth-type Skill?" thought Noah while drinking from his stockpiled blood, and then baring his crimson claws again as more boulders surged from the ground, is all directed towards him!

"Do you like it, human?!" laughed the Goblin Champion, its body was exuding a strong amount of Mana, as he kept using this Skill as if it did not even cost much!

The Goblin Champion was not only a good physical fighter but also a mage!

This was something that was not registered in the monster encyclopedia that Noah studied, meaning that this was a special variant of the Goblin Champion!

Noah gnashed his teeth furiously, as his eyes gleamed with even more crimson light, falling into the ground as he used his crimson claws to destroy the boulders with loud and explosive slashing attacks!

"Gahahaha! There is more where that came from- Ungh!"

The Goblin Champion was about to release an enormous rock spear, however, Iris was there to stop him!

She infiltrated through the shadow of the Goblin Champion and then seeped her black nails into its ankles, seeping as much poison as she could do before the Goblin Champion's feet tried to splatter her like an ant!

"Get off, ant!" he roared, kicking Iris with enormous strength, throwing her off the sky, as Noah managed to get some time from Iris distracting the Goblin Champion!

"Nnngaaaahh…!" cried Iris, falling into the ground as she vomited blood.

Noah gnashed his teeth as he finally reached the Goblin Champion's shoulders!

"Hm?!"

The Goblin Champion noticed the sharp pain seeping into his strong muscles of his shoulders, as he found Noah there, slashing off his flesh, devouring and drinking his blood like a disgusting parasite!

"Get off me!" roared the Goblin Champion, using his giant fists and clashing against Noah's back!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

"Nngaaahh…! No way in hell!" roared Noah, his ribs were constantly breaking and regenerating through his Vampiric healing capabilities, while constantly feasting in the flesh and blood of such a strong monster, Noah was tearing apart more and more of the flesh, accumulating blood!

"Get off!" roared the Goblin Champion, managing to grasp Noah and throwing him off the air!

Clash!

Noah fell into the walls like a small ragdoll in comparison to the giant Goblin Champion, as the monstrous humanoid charged directly at him!

Flash!

"I will not let you!" roared Iris, her entire body covered in a dark blue phantasmagoric aura, as more fox tails emerged from her body!

Like a flashing blue light, Iris appeared right before the Goblin Champion, using the wound left by Noah on its shoulder to seep her poison into it with her black nails!

"Unngrryaaaa!" cried the Goblin Champion, punching and then kicking away Iris like an annoying fly!

Clash!

"Aggh…!"

Iris hit the wall, barely managing to not pass out due to the sharp pain, most of her bones were broken, and although they immediately began to regenerate, this was getting too tiring for her mind.

The Goblin Champion began to conjure enormous boulders, as he sent them towards Noah!

"Let me kill this one and then I kill you too, no need to rush it!" he laughed, as the gigantic boulder fell over Noah who struggled to get up!

Too fast for him to escape in time, the boulder fell over his entire body, the gigantic weight was so heavy that his entire body was splattered into pieces!

BOOM!

"N-Noah…?! NOAH!!!" cried Iris, his eyes crying blood as she was barely trying to move towards his flesh pieces…

Noah… died!

Iris felt like the world was turning over… the one she believed was so strong… died!

Was this… useless from the beginning?!

Her entire mind began to fragment, the death of her lord would be way too heavy for her mind!

…However, something was off.

For some reason…

She still felt his connection with her!

But why?

The Goblin Champion smiled wickedly, walking towards Iris with a sick smile.

"Gehehe… I have run out of Mana… but I will make sure to regenerate it by eating your little limbs, one by one…" laughed the Goblin Champion, moving his giant hand towards the paralyzed Iris!

However, Iris immediately noticed something… within the Goblin's Champion shadow!

"Hm?!"

The Goblin Champion immediately noticed the strange presence, twisting his body towards it, only to be greeted by Noah who rushed towards his chest!

"W-What?! You're still alive!?" roared the Goblin Champion, trying you use his fists to catch Noah, but due to his tiredness by having used his Mana, he could not manage!

"Did you liked my little clone? Well, it cannot move independently so I thought it would be very useless to even make one… But it really became useful to fake my death!" laughed Noah, he had faked his death by creating a Blood Mass through Blood Manipulation and shaping it as himself, shrouded in the darkness of the cave, it was hard for the Goblin Champion to even realize its true identity!

And because Noah did this when the Goblin Champion was busy dealing with Iris, he was able to somehow pull it off!

Noah reached the Goblin's Champion's chest, and seeped his Crimson Claws into its flesh as blood gushed out like a fountain!

"Blood Blades!"

Noah manipulated the very blood from the insides of the Goblin Champion that he was touching, as they began to crystalize inside of the Goblin Champion's body, tearing apart his flesh as he groaned in pain!

"Y-YOU…! YOU…! Human…!"

"Blood Gathering!" said Noah, gathering an enormous amount of blood at his side in the form of a Blood Sphere, as the blades inside of the Goblin Champion penetrated his chest, reaching to his neck and then… his head!

"UNNGRRRYAAAAAAA…!"

Boom!

The entire head of the Goblin Champion exploded into pieces, as Noah closed his eyes, bathing into his blood!

Such a glorious scene was seen by Iris, who thought of Noah as someone that came back from death!

Her admiration and devotion grew larger and larger for him… Almost like an obsession!

Poof!

The Goblin Champion's corpse exploded into black smoke, leaving a few Cores behind…

13 Growing Stronger!

Noah began to absorb all the blood he had bathed with, cleaning his tattered clothes, he would have to change them whenever he gets back to his room… the same could be said for Iris, who had most of her shirt torn apart alongside her skirt, revealing a bit of her body.

Noah glanced at her eyes, however, as he asked her how she felt.

"It is done. Iris, how do you feel?" asked Noah.

"Ah… (Is Noah-sama worrying for me?!) I am… fine," said Iris.

"Good, let's pick these Cores, and let's go then," said Noah.

"The Cores! …Will you keep the ones that the Goblin Champion dropped, Noah-sama?" asked Iris, quickly standing up as she covered the area of her breasts that was being revealed shyly.

"Well, we both used all our strength to defeat it. Although I gave the final blow, you also helped on its defeat quite a lot. I would like you to take a share, if possible. After all, if you grow stronger it is also better for me so I can rely on your strength," said Noah with a cold and expressionless tone, although Iris saw him as someone very gentle…

"I-I see! Noah-sama, you're so benevolent…" said Iris.

"Benevolent? What are you talking about? Let me tell you that you are my servant, it is normal for me to want you to grow strong. I am not a gentle person, and all I do is within my personal interests, make sure to bear that in mind," said Noah coldly, although Iris kept smiling dumbly.

"Alright~," said Iris, thinking of Noah as some kind of tsundere, although he really meant it.

Noah sighed as he could not get to convince Iris that he was not really someone gentle, and decided to simply go grab the Cores.

The Goblin Champion had dropped six Vitality Cores, Mind Cores, and Force Cores, alongside two Ability Cores…

The Ability Cores seemed to be related to the Goblin Champion's Skills, and it was the first Ability Cores that Noah had finally found in the whole Dungeon exploration.

These Ability Cores were named 'Goblin Champion Ability Cores' and would give a random Skill that the Goblin Champion possessed.

Because in this world, the acquisition of Skills through Monster Ability Cores was rather random, it was very hard to specialize at first, but after more investigation about the monsters and their specialties was made, classifications of Monster Ability Cores were finally born.

The Goblin Champion could be classified as a hybrid-type monster, who was both good at physical combat and magic, meaning that his Monster Ability Core could randomly give either magic or a physical Skill.

Usually, the Class of a person was decided when their first Ability awakened, whatever it was about would decide the person's future, who would then seek Monster Ability Cores of certain monsters that specialized in what their Class was about.

Noah and Iris were both physical fighters with extreme physical strength and fast speed and could be considered between the 'Berserker' Class, but Noah is also becoming proficient in long-ranged Blood attacks, so he could even be considered an 'Archer' as well.

"I said that I would share, but now I feel rather regretful, I would like to have both of these… But I must keep my word," thought Noah, as his soul and personality were fused with the Blood Progenitor, he was very prideful and decided to keep his word with his subordinate, even if he now regretted it a bit.

"Iris, here, have half of the drops," said Noah, handling Iris three of each Stat Core, and one Ability Core.

"E-Eh?! This much, Noah-sama, are you sure?!" asked Iris, even she was surprised over Noah's generosity, which wasn't truly generosity but his pride.

"Take it already before I change my mind. I will not say this twice," said Noah.

"Eep! Okay, okay!" said Iris, grabbing the cores and saving them in her backpack, which was still miraculously intact for the most part, aside from the blood and dirt stains.

Noah had gathered 23 Cores in this dungeon exploration, counting on the ones dropped by the Goblin Champion, it was a rather bountiful harvest despite this being his very first exploration, and he was already looking forward to exploring the dungeon a few more times tomorrow with Iris.

If he were able to provoke stronger monsters to appear, it meant that he would be capable of getting more Cores than originally intended, which was way better for him.

Noah and Iris then walked out of the Dungeon without many difficulties aside from a few small Goblins, which Noah sliced off into pieces without much effort, although only one of them dropped a Core, which Noah took for himself, making it 24 Cores.

As the two finally left the rift, they noticed that it was already around 3 am, and in a few more hours classes would begin again, although they did not felt sleepy at all and the exhaustion they felt was already dissipating.

"Now, Iris, we will march our ways to our rooms, tomorrow let us try to lay low and do as usual… If we fight against those that bully us out of nowhere, it might awaken suspiciousness. I am not asking you to not fight back, but if you do, do it in a place where there are not many people… And even then, they usually thy have higher stats than us. Hm, well, it would be better to avoid them altogether, try to be more evasive. We'll meet at 10 pm again in here, alright?" asked Noah.

"V-Very well!" said Iris.

"Make sure to use all the Cores, I want you to be stronger," said Noah, walking away, as Iris quickly do so.

"What a concerned Master," said the Blood Progenitor, teasing Noah.

"Would you shut up? My mind has most likely become like this because of you of all things," said Noah.

"Heh, it's not like you had anything before that, right? You were a pathetic and suicidal brat, no one ever liked you nor cared about you. I gave you the power and even a BETTER personality, you should be thankful!" laughed the Blood Progenitor.

"I am thankful for your power, but not of you pestering my mind," said Noah.

"Heh, this is the least I can do, I can't even control your body or something! I am literally caged inside of your soul, you know?! Let me torture your mind a bit at the very least!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Sigh…"

Noah sighed, walking within the shadows of the night back to his room, where he sat down on the bed and began to use the Cores immediately.

He had gathered 8 Vitality Cores, 7 Mind Cores, and 9 Force Cores, each one gave him a single digit of a corresponding stat because they were F-Rank, but if he were to use one of higher ranking, he would get way more stats.

However, just by seeing how he almost died against the Goblin Champion, it was still rather early to even step into E-Rank Dungeons yet, at least Noah wanted to get into the E-Rank stat requirements before jumping into it.

Flash!

The spherical jewels turned into light, infusing Noah's body and strengthening it.

Vitality was something akin to Health Points, Stamina, and Physical Defense, Mind was something akin to Mana, Magic, and Magic Defense, and Force was something akin to Strength, Agility, and Dexterity.

By using Cores from all of these, Noah felt not only his magic becoming stronger alongside his Mana pool getting a bit bigger, but he also felt like his bones, cartilage, skin, and muscles strengthened, and that his vision and sharpness had also been increased.

Then, Noah glanced at the Goblin Champion Ability Core.

"Time to use this thing…" said Noah, absorbing the Ability Core as, unlike the one he has fused into his chest, this one turned into light and merged with him differently.

Flash!

Then, Noah sensed that he had gained a new Skill.

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14 Champion's Great Perseverance!

[Noah]

[Bloodline: Vampire (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 38]

[Mind: 37]

[Force: 29]

[Skill(s): [Blood Progenitor: - (SSS), [Undying Body: 14 (A), [Blood Claws: 26 (C), [Blood Manipulation: 31 (D)] (New!), [Blood Projectiles: 18 (D)] (New!), [Champion's Great Perseverance: 1 (C)] (New!)

Noah quickly checked his Attribute Panel, seeing that his Attribute Values had increased, and alongside this, there were three new Skills!

"So the Goblin gave me Champion's Great Perseverance… But what are these Blood Manipulation and Blood Projectiles? Did these appear as Skills in the middle of the fight?" wondered Noah.

"Didn't I told you that you would be awakening Skills as you fought, Noah? Blood Manipulation and Blood Projectiles are one such Skill. It was rather obvious that they would show up, as you already showed that you were able to use Blood, shape it, and even use it as projectiles. Now, through these Skills, the task should become easier," said the Blood Progenitor.

"So these just popped up because I had already gained their proficiency when I manipulated blood and shaped it as projectiles… Interesting, I guess they're rather straightforward and good Skills to have, there is never enough Skills," said Noah, who had grown obsessed with possessing a Skill through his entire life now had plenty of them, which could not make him happier!

And the new Skill was also very good, more than he had imagined.

"This one Skill is C-Rank… Despite the monster, we killed being F-Rank… This might be a very rare one within the pool of Skills that the Goblin Champion Ability Core has…" said Noah.

"I guess it is also thanks to me that you got such a Skill from the Goblin Champion Ability Core," said the Blood Progenitor.

"What? How?" asked Noah with intrigue.

"Similarly to how I can make more monsters appear, I was also, more or less, capable of generating items… Well, the thing is, they are generated when I die! And those items were the ones that those Hunters brought home. It could be said that now that you possess my power, you can draw higher quality items or Skills from Ability Cores thanks to this passive effect," said the Blood Progenitor.

"Huh… It feels more like Luck than the manipulation over the System to generate greater items, but alright, whatever," said Noah.

"Luck doesn't exist in this world, and I am pretty sure that there is no Luck Attribute Value either! Everything has a reason to be, I don't believe that chance governs us all!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"And from where did that mentality came from? I can't believe that you would have developed such a mind by just living inside a Dungeon, right?" asked Noah.

"Of course, my life has been very long, being reduced to this simple voice in your mind is quite pathetic… I used to- No, I will not tell you yet," said the Blood Progenitor.

"Oh? So you are still into keeping secrets… Very well, keep your secrets," laughed Noah, as he finally checked what could the Champion's Great Perseverance Skill do.

The Skill coated Noah's body with a glowing red aura, and it seemed to harden his skin, bones, and muscles.

"Oh? It is an enhancement-type Skill, an active one… it is draining my Mana quite crazily," said Noah.

Then, Noah also realized another thing, for some reason, he felt like his Mana was connected to his Health.

"What is this?" he thought.

He then decided to try out something, slicing a bit of his skin with his nails, realizing that the damage he received was partially taken by his Mana too, reducing what he got into his Health.

"How odd… Although I am fairly sure that if I get my head blown off, this won't really help. Nonetheless, it is remarkably interesting," thought Noah.

After some more inspection, Noah finally figured out this powerful Skill.

Champion's Great Perseverance was an active buff skill that increased Noah's Vitality and Force by a whopping 20 points temporarily, alongside this, it granted him the ability to offset some of the damage done into his Mana, and there was also an extra description saying that if his Health Points ran out, his Mana would begin to be used as Health Points instead.

However, the Skill itself drained a lot of Mana, and Noah calculated that without having to drink Blood to recover his Mana, he could use this Skill for around five minutes before his Mana were to completely run out, which also came accompanied by a strong headache and soreness all over his body.

But Noah simply smiled wickedly!

As long as he had a nice amount of Stockpiled Blood inside of his Blood Sphere, which he could store inside of his very body, he could easily recover his Mana Pool fully at least two more times!

With that, such Skill could be used even more in battle, and in the many, he was already predicting to come, as he was not planning to be bullied after getting these powers.

If possible, he was probably going to kill those that bullied him and drink their blood.

Although he had considered converting them into Vampires, it would be a pain to have these guys that Noah hated so much as people at his side, even if they were to become brainwashed, Noah would not become able to trust them.

And Iris, who was in a similar situation to him, would most likely think the same about her bullies…

Indeed, Noah had grown colder and more calculative now, and he was even planning the death of such people.

However, there was a problem.

One of the leaders of the group that bullied him is the little brother of an S-Rank Hunter, which is luckily not in Sector D at the moment.

If Noah were to kill it, he would have to do it swiftly and in a way where no evidence could be left about him being the one that killed him.

It might be hard, but he had already planned something.

He simply needed money.

By selling Cores, he would become able to gain money, and through money, he would be able to buy special items or other Ability Cores that might offer a pool of skills that could be useful for his plans.

One of his first goals was to get his hands into a Spatial Storage Ring.

Through it, he was planning to save the corpses of those he killed, simply as that.

Another thing he would desire is some kind of Accessory that could give him a Stealth Effect, and even Camouflage, even.

Although there could be the chance of getting those Skills in Ability Cores, they were completely random, and even after the Blood Progenitor told Noah that he was enhancing his luck or something, he really did not want to bet everything on it.

So, the best option was to get an accessory.

Unlike Ability Cores, accessories or equipment could bring a Skill without having the randomness of a large pool of them.

Specialized Hunters had Skills that could let them embed Skills into items, and such accessories were born and sold at high prices due to their rarity and preciousness.

However, Stealth and Camouflage Pendants were already within Noah's scope, as the Military School's Shop sold them, as there was a strong Hunter that was paid by the government to mass-produce these useful accessories, and they were selling them exclusively in the Military School or in other areas that were linked to the government.

Such items were put in here to bribe people to join these organizations.

However, to even get his hands into these two accessories, Noah needed a crap ton of money.

"I have to quickly grind my way up and then begin to amass Cores and other items to sell…" thought Noah.

Although he feared that he might not be able to get his hands into those items before a perfect opportunity came to kill those he abhorred.

So in that instance, he planned a few other things…

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15 Noah's Schemes

If Noah could not have enough money in time, he needed to do something else!

He had considered it already.

Although Iris was a bit annoying, her strength was useful, and her devotion and loyalty were clear to Noah.

Having finally confirmed that whoever he bit and drank their blood would turn into a Dhampir, Noah planned in converting more people.

…Someone with money.

But who could be weak enough to not be able to fight back against Noah's assault while also having money?

Usually, people with money are rather strong, as they can buy resources to grow stronger.

However, Noah knew of someone within his class.

Arthur.

Arthur, a boy near his age, was someone crippled.

Arthur lacked lost his legs, and no matter how much money his family used, they were never able to grow them back, even though the use of special Healing Skills.

Even then, he had joined the Military School and was training himself to become some kind of supporter Hunter.

Even though he was crippled and could not exactly move by himself, as he had an F-Rank Servant at his side aiding him on it.

Although he was very into his dreams, the students clearly did not agree with his mindset, and many thought that a crippled hunter would never be useful.

If it were not because of the aid of his maid, he would most likely have died inside a Dungeon.

However, this boy's conviction to become a Hunter was very rooted in his mind, no matter what others said, he trained every day his Skills, polishing them to become useful and help others.

Arthur was the perfect target!

Although he was rich, he could not fight back, and he was even crippled and bullied.

"Blood Progenitor, can a Dhampir regrow lost limbs?" asked Noah.

"…It would need some confirmation, but I believe it is possible, just like any Vampire. Perhaps, they might need blood as nourishment for them to grow faster," said the Blood Progenitor.

Noah smiled at his words.

"Oh? Do you have someone in mind?" asked the Blood Progenitor.

"Indeed, I am thankful that my school is filled with trash that bullies others, as many vulnerable people are seeking a change that I can offer in exchange for their loyalty," said Noah maliciously!

"Quite cunning… But I am sure that the target is not alone if it is so vulnerable and all…" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Indeed, his name is Arthur, and he is rather popular because of being a rich crippled kid that really wants to become a Hunter… Wouldn't it be such a good opportunity for me to do yet another good deed and give him his legs back?" said Noah ironically.

"Heh… Good idea, although I don't think you're getting to do this any time soon," said the Blood Progenitor.

"It might take a few days… But I will get it done, I have to find a good opportunity, and luckily for us, we are going into an 'excursion' of sorts in three days to the outside of the Sector D, the wasteland filled with mutated beasts," said Noah.

"Sounds like a good plan…" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Well, for now, I will meditate, I can't sleep even if I want to. After absorbing these Cores, my body feels like its overwhelming with energy," said Noah, as he sat cross-legged on the floor, closing his eyes as he breathed slowly, calming his mind.

Such a technique was something he learned by himself, he would usually meditate after long days where he got bullied and beaten almost to death.

On such days, he would often meditate to calm down his troubling and depressive thoughts.

Now that he was a Vampire and that his nature and personality had evolved, he found it possible to meditate even easier than before.

For a moment, Noah felt like the energy around his body slowly gathered around the Blood Core inside of his chest, which then moved the energy out, making it course through his body.

This energy was a combination of both Stamina and Mana, both energies that come from the Vitality and Mind Attribute Values, respectively.

The Blood Progenitor quickly noticed that Noah was doing something strange… and something that he did not teach him to do!

Just how talented was he?!

"This kid… how is it possible? He just figured out a way to Cultivate his Physique and Soul through the power of my Blood Core?! By using the Blood Core as a catalyst of his energies and then using it to send them back to complete the course through his body like rivers, he is actually… cultivating! Something that not even in my original world was widely known! This brat…!" thought the Blood Progenitor, he felt frustrated every time Noah grew stronger, as it made his chance to one day overtake his body dimmer…

Soon enough, he might completely give up on it…

And like this, two hours went by flying for Noah, who slowly felt this strange mysticism rush through his body.

When his alarm clock began to sound, it was already 5 am, time to wake up, have breakfast, and quickly go to class.

Noah opened his crimson eyes, as he discovered that his pale white body had turned slightly healthier, and his eyes went back to his original color, alongside his hair!

"What is this?" he said.

"Oh, that's the power of any Vampire… You can shapeshift your appearance so you can look like you did before becoming a Vampire! Although whenever you activate your Abilities completely, your Vampire appearance might surge," said the Blood Progenitor.

"I hope Iris figured this out as well," said Noah, he had planned to simply wear a very large hoodie and some kind of scarf to cover his face and head, but it seemed that it wasn't completely needed.

Noah rushed to the shower and took a warm bath, and afterward, began to think if he even needed to eat normal food anymore.

"Although you can drink blood for food, eating food should also be possible," said the Blood Progenitor.

"However, it can give you only some stamina, but you still need to drink blood eventually to nourish your Vampiric body," said the Blood Progenitor, adding an important detail.

"I don't feel any hunger at all, but I might as well eat a sandwich," thought Noah, quickly filing his empty stomach, and then finally moving to classes.

Many of the students walked around the corridors, talking, and even showcasing their fantastical powers.

Noah ignored them as he walked with a dull expression straight toward Classes.

For a moment, he thought that he might have luckily evaded his bullies, but that was not the case.

"But if it isn't Noah,"

"Hey useless, how are you doing? Gahaha…"

"I have some pent-up frustration, so why don't you let me punch you like you always do?" asked the leader of the three, the bratty Hunter who was the little brother of the S-Rank Hunter that brought the Blood Core into the school, Fernand Firebrand.

Noah could not help but smile at him a bit, although he quickly averted his gaze from him before he could completely burst into laughter, just knowing that he stole his precious SSS-Rank Core and used it for himself to gain such fantastical powers was insane, and revealing the truth to them would easily break their spirits.

However, not yet…

"Sure thing," said Noah, as he walked towards the corridor, and was rained with punches.

However, through Champion's Great Perseverance and his Vampire physique, their punches seemed to not hurt at all compared to the slashing attacks or the enormous boulders thrown by the Goblin Champion.

After ten minutes, the bullies felt incredibly tired, and Noah slightly smiled at them.

"Are you done?" he asked.

"Eh? Why…?"

"Has he gone mad? How is he not suffering on the floor?"

"Maybe this will do it!"

The leader of the gang, Fernand, kicked Noah in the face, although Noah only felt a slight dullness and nothing else, he pretended to be in pain, kneeling.

"Aaah… it hurts so much…" he said, although a wicked smile surged on his lips by playing it out, the bullies could not see this as he was covered in his own black hair.

"T-That's it!"

"Y-Yeah…"

"Well, let's go,"

As the three bullies walked away, Noah quickly stood up and walked back to classes, for a second, he realized that without the pain of their hits… everything felt quite dull, and not even threatening now.

It was all like an act, and he was just letting them live on their own fantasies… so he could break their minds and spirits later on…

Noah walked inside the class as they started, Iris who was in the same Class glanced at him a bit, her appearance had changed to her original one, which Noah noticed.

And then, Noah glanced at a blonde boy sitting over a wheelchair, with a beautiful maid with black hair and brown eyes at his side, Arthur, who was wearing a hopeful and diligent smile.

"There you are…" thought Noah.

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16 Don't You Want Revenge?

[Iris]

[Bloodline: Dhampir (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 22]

[Mind: 25]

[Force: 23]

[Skill(s): [Demon Phantom Fox: 25 (C), [Dhampir: - (S), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Undying Body: 10 (A), [Poisonous Black Nails: 37 (D), [Lesser Blood Manipulation: 17 (E), [Rage Mode: 1 (D)]

As the classes were coming to an end, Noah checked Iris Attribute Panel, her stats had increased by a bit, and her Skills had also raised in proficiency.

Noah noticed that she got two new Skills, a lesser version of his Blood Manipulation, and 'Rage Mode', which was something like a lesser Berserk Mode that she most likely acquired from the Goblin Champion's Ability Core.

Noah noticed that Iris was a rather evasive and agile fighter, she was also quite beastly when she shrouded herself on her Demon Phantom Fox, which enhanced her speed and attack even more.

By using Rage Mode, such specialization would increase, and she could even enter into a powerup mode to become of greater use and help for Noah's plans.

The teacher of the class was in fact a military man, an old sergeant who had studied the System and the Dungeons since they appeared twenty years ago.

"As you can see, Skills have proficiency levels, as you use them, the proficiency will increase, increasing the strength, speed, and effectiveness of the Skills. There have been cases of Skills even awakening after reaching max proficiency, to the point of reaching the next Rank," said the teacher.

Arthur who was always very active in class and interacted with the teachers a lot raised his hand.

"Yes, Arthur?" asked the teacher.

"Teacher, is it possible for any Skill to awaken, or only special ones can do?" asked Arthur.

"Hm, I believe that every Skill can awaken. The thing is, certain requirements need to be fulfilled for them to awaken. Everyone here has the potential to grow into an S-Rank Hunter if you put your effort and mind into it. Keep training hard, everyone, classes have finished, you can go eat lunch," said the teacher, closing his books as a loud ring alerting the kids that it was break time came, many of the students ignored the teacher and darted out of the classes, chatting, and interacting.

Noah glanced at Arthur, as he was talking with the teacher after school like he used to be.

"Teacher, do you think that there could be a way to regrow my legs if I awaken my healing skills?" asked Arthur.

"…Well, there might be a chance, Arthur," said the teacher, packing his things.

"Wait, teacher, I have a few more questions…!" said Arthur, as the teacher already wanted to leave the class.

"Arthur, my time is over, you can ask other questions to the next teacher if you want," said the teacher while glancing at Arthur with annoyance.

"Ah… Okay…" muttered Arthur, glancing at the floor.

The stoic beauty at Arthur's side, his maid, smiled gently at him.

"Arthur-sama, why don't we go have lunch? I have prepared your favorite meal," she said.

"Ah…! Right, it's already Lunchtime, isn't it? Alright, let's go, Timassa," said Arthur with a gentle smile, despite that deep inside he was filled with sorrow.

Timassa slowly carried Arthur's wheelchair out of class, as only Noah and Iris were left pretending to read a book.

Iris shyly glanced back at Noah…

"N-Noah-sama…" she said.

"What? I told you that we don't have to talk a day," said Noah.

"My bad!" said Iris, as she averted her gaze and took out a little lunch box where she began to eat something.

After a few minutes, she glanced back at Noah.

"Are you hungry? I can share… my lunch with you…" she said shyly while flushing a bit.

Noah glanced at her expressionlessly, and a bit annoyed.

"Iris… Stop talking to me," he said.

"A-Ah! Right… Sorry…"

Iris apologized as she kept eating, Noah noticed that she was eating rather healthily, despite being a Dhampir.

He began to think that Dhampirs might still need to eat unlike him, as they were more like half human and half vampire than a full-fledged vampire like him.

Due to this, Dhampir had a few human necessities.

After two minutes, Iris glanced back at Noah, and Noah could not help but sigh internally.

She then stood up and slowly walked near him… making Noah a bit annoyed.

"Iris, what are you do-"

Noah's words did not come to an end as Iris gently offered him a bottle of cold green tea.

"D-Do you want tea? I brought a second one… by accident…" said Iris, averting her gaze shyly from Noah's angered gaze.

"By accident? Sigh…"

Noah sighed, grabbing the bottle that Iris offered him.

Iris's eyes suddenly glowed with happiness, as she gently sat down in front of him, bringing her lunch box of course.

"…Iris, that I took the bottle you offered me doesn't mean that you can sit near me…" said Noah.

"B-But I want to be with you! We are friends now, right? A-Actually, maybe if you want, we could be more than-"

"Shut up. Our relationship is strictly that of master and servant… But whatever, eat or do whatever you want, I am tired of arguing…" sighed Noah, resting on his chair and drinking the tea while glancing at the ceiling.

It was cold and sweet, and the taste of green tea was rather refreshing to his throat.

"I have found our next target," said Noah.

"Next… target?" asked Iris.

"Iris, do you think that we would be just the two of us? If we want to survive in this world, we need to build a group, a party. Or even more, an organization. With my ability to turn others into Dhampirs, it is rather an obvious guess," said Noah.

"R-Right… I guess I didn't think about it…" said Iris.

Noah approached Iris face expressionlessly, as Iris suddenly turned as red as a tomato.

"Idiot, you might be rather strong now, but your head is empty," said Noah, gently hitting Iris's forehead with his index finger.

"Ouch…" said Iris adorably.

"Anyways, the first thing I thought that we needed is a lot of money. Even after the Apocalypse, money and resources move this world… Or whatever it is left of it. I also have some plans in taking care of those that bullied us, are you okay with that?" asked Noah.

"T-Taking… care of them?" asked Iris.

"Don't you want revenge, Iris?" asked Noah.

"I…" muttered Iris, as she stopped eating and glanced at the floor.

She began to remember all this time she had been bullied by those girls, and how many times they made her suffer.

Luckily for her, she did not found them this morning, and through what happened yesterday, she had mostly forgotten about them, but now that she was reminded of the reality by Noah, she realized that things have not changed that much.

"You said that you wanted a change, that you wanted power for that… Are you backing down on your words, Iris?" asked Noah.

"I… No, I have not… For everything, they did to me… I want to… see them cry, to beg for me… I want to… Crush them with my feet, to slash them with my nails, to seep poison into their agonizing eyes! To…"

Tack!

Noah hit Iris' forehead again, waking her from her bloodlust.

"Ah!"

"I see that you have harbored a lot of anger. But calm down now. I am glad that we think the same it will make things easier. I would gladly help you kill them. After all, it is free blood," said Noah.

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17 Stop Being So Stupid

Noah smiled a bit as she got to know a bit of Iris's wrath.

She was not that different from him.

However, she was rather good at making herself seem to be an innocent and shy girl.

She was in fact rather the beast inside.

Perhaps this was why she had a Skill such as Demon Phantom Fox and even Rage Mode fit her true nature.

"Sorry… But… I often keep those thoughts caged inside of my mind… Because they make me… go a bit crazy…" muttered Iris.

"It is understandable. I have also caged a lot of those feelings, of these thoughts. But now, I feel calmer and somehow, content. I know that as long as I do things right, I will achieve my goals. So, Iris, you better stay at my side and make yourself useful," said Noah rather proudly, as if he were the incarnation of an old and cunning Vampire Progenitor.

"O-Of course!" said Iris, behind Noah's cold words and expressionlessly, she could see that there was a very gentle person, that offered her a lot for very little in exchange… she couldn't help but admire him more.

However, Noah could not understand why Iris was not intimidated by his cold words and demeanor, he wanted her to be intimidated and loyal, but it seemed that she was always happy with him, making him think that he was doing a bad job at being an evil vampire master.

After all, inside of his mind, he really thought that he was being an asshole, but it seems that Iris could not see him that way at all.

"Anyways, who might that person be?" asked Iris.

"Right. Arthur," said Noah.

"Arthur?" asked Iris, quickly remembering the blonde and youthful crippled boy that always had a maid at his side.

"Yes. He is rich, weak, and bullied. The perfect match for us, right? I have also realized that if I convert him into a Dhampir, he might be able to heal his lost limbs. After all, in the battle against the Goblin Champion, our bones broke into tiny pieces a lot, yet they regenerated nonetheless, right?" asked Noah.

"That's right…" said Iris.

"See? If bones can regenerate, why wouldn't the ones of his legs?" asked Noah with a malicious smile.

However, Iris glanced at him with admiration, her eyes were even shining.

"Uwah, Noah-sama, you're such a benevolent person… Do you want to help Arthur regrow his limbs? That's so nice of you…" said Iris with a cute smile.

"What? What are you talking about? I am not nice, I am in fact a complete asshole. I want to use him as my Dhampir servant, so he can provide us with resources and money… I might convert his maid as well if things come to it," said Noah.

"Is that so? But that's still a pretty nice act of goodwill… Imagine the face that Arthur will make when his legs are finally back!" said Iris happily.

"Geh… Stop twisting the meaning of my actions! I am not doing anything out of goodwill, stupid girl," sighed Noah.

"Really?" asked Iris with a smug.

Noah was already popping some veins on his forehead out of anger!

"Cut it out!" he roared.

"A-Ah! Okay, okay!" said Iris shyly.

After a few minutes, Noah finished drinking his tea as Iris had left a few of her food aside.

"I-If you want to eat some, I have left a bit for you…" she said shyly.

Noah glanced at the food, it was a small portion of white rice with vegetables, and half of a chicken meat patty covered in ketchup, there was also a small piece of sausage.

"Iris, I don't need your food, eat it yourself," said Noah.

"But Noah-sama, you haven't eaten all this time! You need to have a full belly to always be prepared. And your mind is always clearer after a nice meal…" said Iris while nodding.

Noah could not help but think of Iris as a complete idiot.

But she might be right.

He perhaps needed to eat some meat to make his brain and thoughts go faster.

But he was rather tempted about it because he has not eaten meat in weeks.

Noah sighed, averting his gaze, and taking the used fork of Iris, grabbing the chicken patty and eating it without many delicacies.

"It is good," said Noah, as he glanced at Iris who was blushing.

"Eh? What?" asked Noah.

"N-Noah-sama, that's my fork…! I used it! M-My saliva is there…" she said.

"Hm? So what? Why would I care?" asked Noah angrily.

"T-That's… and indirect… kiss…" she muttered.

Noah was left speechless.

What is wrong with this girl?

For a moment, he began to regret having made her into his loyal servant.

Smack!

"Awuh!"

Noah smacked Iris's head with his fist.

"Stop talking such stupid things. Thanks for your food, but I am done with talking to you for the rest of the day. Go back to your seat, it's an order," said Noah.

"A-Alright!" cried Iris, walking away from Noah and sitting in her chair.

Soon after, the Break finally ended and the students rushed back to classes, including Arthur.

The day went by as usual afterward, with many hours of classes where Noah took a lot of attention, as the information taught was often all about monsters, dungeon, cores, and skills, so everything could come in handy.

It was already 7 pm when the classes finally ended, and Noah walked out of the classroom rather hurriedly, managing to evade his bullies by a pinch and reaching his room.

As Noah reached his room, he went to take a relaxing and warm bath, and then sat down to mediate a bit more.

"He's cultivating again?! Just how much is he planning to do?!" wondered the Blood Progenitor in anger, he was already getting tired of Noah and Iris's stupid interactions.

After one hour of meditation, Noah suddenly felt a strange wave of energy reaches his mind.

It was a call from Iris.

It seemed that Noah had a mental connection of sorts with Iris, and even discovered that it might even lead to them being able to talk through Telepathy.

Noah then began to hear the wave of voice… it was Iris… weeping?

"Iris? What is happening?!" asked Noah.

However, Noah could only hear her weeping.

"Is she getting attacked by her bullies? But she should be strong enough to take on their hits better now… or is she just crying?" wondered Noah.

It was rather normal for people that was bullied and suffered from depression to cry sometimes while being alone, even Noah had done it before, and imagined that it could be the case for Iris.

"It could be either of the two… And none would really threaten her life. But it would hurt my pride if she were being beaten and crying like that…" thought Noah, grabbing his backpack and quickly running out of his room towards the direction where he sensed Iris… the rooftop.

As he ran through the stairs, Noah could hear more easily that Iris was indeed being beaten, as he could hear the voices of others.

He slowly took a peek at what was happening, as there were three girls near Iris age, one had long red hair, the other had short blue hair, and the one in the middle, seemingly the leader of the trio had long blonde and shiny hair.

"What's wrong, useless pig? You don't like my kicking?!" laughed the blonde girl, hitting Iris' stomach.

"How odd, she is not using a lot of her strength, this shouldn't really hurt that much to Iris, why is she crying then?" wondered Noah.

"Fucking disgusting pig, keep crying!" roared the red-haired girl, hitting Iris's head.

"We saw you talking with a guy earlier, were you trying to seduce him or something?" laughed the blue-haired girl.

"Who is she even going to seduce? She is just an ugly ass bitch!" laughed the blonde girl, kicking Iris's head again.

For some reason, Iris kept weeping, asking for forgiveness while being in a fetal model.

Then Noah finally realized something.

Iris was having a panic attack… even as a Dhampir.

18 Let All Your Rage Flow Out Of Your Heart

"Please… Aaahh… Sniff…"

Noah glanced at the girl that was being so cheerful and happy at his side suffering a panic attack, despite the damage dealt with her being not that much, it seemed that her powers as a Dhampir were being unwillingly weakened in such a state.

It was as if Iris herself was letting these girls hit her and made her suffer.

"What a fucking disgusting pig, look at her weeping and asking for forgiveness!" laughed the red-haired girl, kicking Iris's butt several times.

"Aaaaahh…! Please…!"

"Shut the fuck up, bitch, and weep harder! I really had a bad day today, so you better weep for all I care!" roared the blonde girl, as her hand was suddenly covered in a golden glow…

Noah, someone who was now emotionless and calculative could not help but feel like he had enough.

Although he felt no love for Iris, he felt a strange feeling of kinship with his fellow vampire.

Since Noah converted Iris to a Dhampir that he had felt this strange thing, which had made him a bit more lenient with Iris.

Rushing towards the rooftop, he stood there glancing at the three girls.

"I don't care anymore," he thought, unleashing Champion's Great Perseverance into his entire body, and rushing like a red meteor towards the three girls.

His claws appeared over his hands…

His eyes were gleaming with bloodthirst.

He was now rather hungry, too.

"Aauuuh… Plea… see…" muttered Iris in complete panic, her mind could not make any sense now, and she was drowning herself in a crazed state of perpetual and despairing fear.

"Shut the fuck up! I am going to mold that ugly pig face you got, you fat ass!" roared the blonde girl, grabbing Iris's face and pointing her fist towards her!

"Let's mold that ugly face that you got a bit, maybe you'll end up as pretty as me!" laughed the blonde girl, closing her fist towards Iris's face with immense speed!

"I will also gladly mold your body," said the voice of a young man, as a flash of red light emerged out of nowhere, crossing through the blonde girl's arm!

"Eh?"

Slash!

In front of her aquamarine eyes, her arm was sent flying through the air, and a tremendously sharp pain emerged from her wound, as a large quantity of blood began gushing out of her cut off arm like a river of scarlet liquid!

Iris's face was covered in her attacker's blood, which seeped into her throat…

"GGGYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

The blonde girl fell to the ground, glancing at her own wound, as the enormous pain would not go away!

In a second, her arm was just cut off!

It was simply surreal for her!

Suddenly, Noah's figure emerged at her side, while the other girls were still paralyzed in shock.

"Aaaahhh…! W-WHO ARE YOU?!"

"I am your friendly vampire. I believe that now that you lack one arm, we should make your body pretty by making it more even!" said Noah, as he used his crimson claws to tear down the other arm of the blonde girl in an instant!

Slash!

"GGRRRRYAAAAAAAA…!"

Noah laughed as he gathered a lot of blood for his Blood Sphere.

"Do you like it? This is pain! Something that you might have never heard about!" laughed Noah, as his claws suddenly rushed towards the girl's legs!

The girl struggled as she gnashed her teeth, but all her abilities were about strengthening her upper body and fight with a golden aura, something that she couldn't do with such enormous pain and a state of panic and fear!

"What a pity, these legs are so beautiful and healthy, but we'll have to take them out if we want you to be more pretty," said Noah ironically, as his claws reached the girl's legs in an instant, cutting them from the thigh below!

Slash! Slash!

"MMMFFGGHHH…!"

The girl tried to cry louder, but her mouth was covered with Noah's Blood Tentacle.

"Shh, we are doing this in private," said Noah while giving her a wink, the girl's aquamarine eyes suddenly rolled out, falling unconscious out of fear, pain, and blood loss.

"Ada… Adamantine!"

"H-Her legs! They're gone!"

"Her arms… oh my god, oh my god, get away from us!"

"Runaway!"

The other two girls tried to run away, but someone else behind them that they had completely forgotten about was lurking at their side!

"GRRAAAAAAAH!"

Iris emerged, furious and insane!

Her entire body was covered in phantom and a red aura, she was using her strongest skills, becoming monstrous berserk!

"W-What?!"

"Is that Iris?! How?! She is just a useless and powerless pig!"

"DIE… DIEEE!" roared Iris, rushing towards the girls and raising her black nails!

"Get away from us! Fireball!"

"Thunder!"

The two girls released their Skills, a large fireball, and a thundershock towards Iris!

"GRAAAH!"

Iris, however, leaped upwards, evading both attacks and then rushing towards the two immediately after with an immense speed!

Although these girls had Attribute Values averaging around 40, Iris was able to reach a bit higher thanks to her Skills, and because of their panicked state, they were nervous and could not aim well!

Even more, as both of them were Mages, their physical defenses and strength were very lacking!

Iris closed in furiously, her claws seeping into the blue-haired girls' eyes!

"Eat my poison, eat my pain!" roared Iris, seeping her poison into the girl's eyes, as she screamed in agony!

The sharp pain of having poison poured into her very eyes made her scream!

However, Noah took care of the noises by throwing pieces of coagulated blood into the girl's mouths, letting Iris release all her frustrations!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

Iris kept roaring fiercely, her claws seeping into the girl's flesh, seeping poison into their bodies and making them vomit and convulse!

"Mmgmghhhuuughhh…!"

"Gggueeeehgghh…!"

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

More slashes fell over the girls until they simply stopped moving.

"Haahh… Haahhh…!"

Iris was breathing heavily, barely managing to realize what she just did.

"Well, you did it all pretty quickly, I had planned their deaths, but you rushed and ruined my plans. Honestly…" muttered Noah, although it was all his fault, as he could have perfectly let Iris get a beatdown, he decided to save her due to his pride as a progenitor.

"Noah-sama…" cried Iris, moving towards Noah while completely shrouded in blood, and hugging him, she began to weep again.

"I am a babysitter or something now?" he sighed.

"I'm sorry… I am… such a pathetic servant… I have powers now… and even then… I… I panicked and… I could not use my powers… I was so afraid… I did not… wanted to suffer… after being at Noah-sama's side… I thought that life was different… but everything… everything is always the same…" cried Iris.

"You're true quite the pathetic servant. I am really angered with you for having fallen into panic for such feeble girls. The blonde here was the strongest, but even then she was so bad at using her powers that she didn't even fight back," sighed Noah.

The limbless blonde girl at his side was named Adamantine Gold, and she was an F-Rank with Attribute Values averaging of 50, when Noah used his Champion's Great Perseverance, his stats began similar or even higher than her momentarily, so he managed to catch her by surprise and slash her limbs away.

"We have rushed things up, I suppose… But our plans with Arthur remain. Let's grab these corpses and clean the blood through Blood Manipulation, I have a place where we can let them, and I've already planned somethings to cover this up," said Noah.

"Noah-sama... Thanks for… coming to save me…" said Iris with teary eyes.

"I just came here because it would hurt my pride to let you be so pathetic in front of them, you're now a Dhampir, act proudly as one," said Noah, although he himself let the bullies hit him, this case was a bit different than that one, as Iris was terrible at pretending like him and lacked his willpower.

"Well, with your bullies out of the picture, I guess we don't have to worry about these girls anymore… Although, I am tempted on making the blonde a Dhampir," said Noah, grabbing the corpses of the two girls and the unconscious Adamantine, by putting coagulated blood on her limbs, she stopped losing blood from her cut off limbs.

The pair then rushed towards the F-Rank Dungeon where the Goblins roamed…

"Although it is not as convenient as a Space Storage… Letting the goblins eat them would be convenient," said Noah.

"Ah, that's… quite smart…" said Iris.

"Not really, this is a rushed plan, it has a lot of flaws, but it will be hard to find clues in a dungeon that is always changing," said Noah, dropping the two corpses in a cave deep into the dungeon, where several goblins suddenly emerged, not attacking him but immediately jumping into the corpses, tearing them apart and eating their flesh rather fast.

"They were quite hungry… Serves them right!" said Iris, she began to enjoy seeing her former bullies getting eaten.

"And about her… Maybe making her a Vampire would not be a bad thing, right? Don't worry, we'll make sure to break her mind so much that she will become a zombie," laughed Noah.

"Torture… C-Can I… torture her?" asked Iris, her eyes glowing eerily.

"Let all your rage flow out of your heart, Iris," said Noah with a smile.

19 Adamantine's Despair

It all happened too fast.

Adamantine Gold was just minding her own business as always.

She was with her two lackeys, girls that sucked up to her because she was moderately strong.

And as always, she was beating the pig that she always liked to kick and insult to let go of her frustrations.

It always made her feel better to see others being so pathetic and low before her, it gave her a feeling of fulfillment like nothing.

Although originally she never thought of bullying others in the past, after getting to it due to a burst of rage, she could not stop.

It was like a drug to her.

She loved making others suffer, insult them, and tell them how low compared to her they were.

Especially because she had many frustrations in her life, her parents were piss poor and they could barely maintain a house, while also having weak Abilities that could not make them into good Hunters.

She was being given all the pressure of becoming a successful Hunter and maintain the family because of these two useless parents.

One day, she exploded and attacked a silent girl that often never did anything to anyone, although she was often ridiculed due to her useless ability, which reminded her of her useless parents.

Iris then fell into her bullying, and it was very constant.

Almost every day Adamantine would come with her 'friends' and insult her, ridicule her, and more.

After a few weeks, it finally ended in physical aggression and seeing Iris face all covered in blood while having her teeth broken made Adamantine feel like she was the Queen of the World.

She could not stop it.

She was addicted to abusing Iris and constantly looked for ways to make her suffer even more.

In fact, there was not any grudge against her.

Iris was actually a gentle girl that would not hurt anyone.

But Iris simply targeted it because of this.

She was weak, passive, and gentle.

And because no one cared about her, she was the perfect punching bag.

Not long after, she grew obsessed with her cries of agony and pain.

She was selfish and egocentric, and could not even imagine what Iris was going through, after all, although her life 'sucked' for her, she was never in the receiving end of bullying.

She did not remember the last time she even felt pain after awakening and acquiring the Gold Aura Skill, which let her cover part of her body with a glowing gold aura, which made her as resistant as gold.

Iris was undergoing a constant hell, something quite similar to Noah… But perhaps, because she still has not gone as insane like him, she suffered even more, as her innocence was being slowly broken into pieces.

She was falling into a constant abyss of suffering and desperation.

Not long after, she started to reflectively have panic attacks when Adamantine came to beat her, giving her an even more passive stance in the situation.

Adamantine grew so obsessed with hitting Iris and making her shriek in agony that she began to make of this some kind of wicked fetish, to the point of getting sexually aroused when she thought about beating Iris to almost death.

Even after Noah made Iris a Dhampir and gave her power, she could not help but fall into a panic attack again.

Unlike Noah who had his soul fused with the Blood Progenitor, which made his mind and thoughts warped and different to a human to an extent, Iris still held most of her traumas even as a Dhampir.

Although she had new and monster-like instincts, they were rather lesser as she was only a half-vampire compared to Noah, who had become a complete monster.

Eventually, although she had been told by Noah that she should simply run away from them with her new agility through her Dhampir powers or to fight back against her and escape afterward, Iris ended up falling into a panic attack when she glanced at Adamantine's wicked smile.

As Iris was falling into the abyssal darkness of her own traumas without even being able to fight back even with strength, Noah decided to come and finish this annoying thing.

Adamantine was about to hit Iris face as she always loved to do, but within a millisecond, her arm was flying in the air, and a sharp pain took hold of her.

Not long after, the figure of a young man emerged from nowhere, which she couldn't even detect in time.

Noah quickly sliced off her other arm within a second, and then, as she cried and struggled on the floor, her legs went away just as easy.

Adamantine, someone that was never truly on the receiving end of such abuse was now experiencing what was truly agony and despair.

So much that her feeble mind began to quickly break into tiny pieces, her ego and selfishness flew away, and much like Iris, she had become a vulnerable little girl.

Falling unconscious over the pain and the fear of death that made her go completely insane, Iris quickly killed her two lackeys mercilessly, surprising those two girls which were perhaps just as insane as Adamantine.

20 Breaking The Mind of a Bully Has Never Been This Easy

Iris crimson eyes gleamed eerily, as her fangs grew larger and sharper, extending towards Adamantine's tender neck.

The light of Adamantine's eyes quickly went off, as only a gaping abyss of despair could be seen…

Although she did not know exactly what was going on, she knew that Iris… was not a human anymore.

Her presence, her bloodlust, her entire being, what she emanated from her whole being was not even akin to a strong Hunter…

Shew as something akin to a monster, the only creatures she had ever felt such bloodlust before.

And her gleaming crimson eyes, and the wine-colored hair.

Her skin which was youthful and healthy had now turned completely white, almost like candle wax.

"Please… wait!" cried Adamantine.

"Your little piggy is very hungry… Let her have a bite, alright~?" asked Iris gently, as her bloodlust grew to the point of overwhelming Adamantine's senses, suddenly a sharp pain emerged on her neck, as she saw Iris glancing at her with her crimson eyes while seeping her sharp fangs into her tender neck!

"AAAAAAGGH…! G-GET AWAY! STOP! IT HURTS… IT HURTS! I… LEARNED MY LESSON! SO PLEASE… I WILL NEVER BULLY YOU AGAIN! I PROMISE!"

"Look how much she begs…" laughed Noah, he was simply spectating this while casually beheading Goblins from time to time.

Iris slowly drank Adamantine's blood, as her senses began to sharpen, even more, her tongue began to suck the wound more and more, and she was draining all of the vitality off Adamantine in a few seconds!

"Nnngggoooohhh…! Nnnggggaaah…! Mmmffgooohhh…!"

"Who is the pig in here? Just hear those moans, what a disgusting pig!" laughed Noah.

Iris kept tightly grabbing Adamantine's neck, as she drank more and more of the sweet and warm blood, her senses sharpened even more, as she suddenly felt dizzy and in a trance, she moved her hands towards Adamantine's breasts and began to squeeze until she shrieked even louder, and then she began to slowly scratch her belly with her nails without putting any poison on them, making her cry even louder!

Because she was deep within the Dungeon with Noah, there was absolutely no one that could come help them, especially at these hours where most people were either sleeping or in the city doing other things.

"Nnnnggyyyyaaaaaahhh…! Stooop! It hurts…! Uuhnngghhh…! It hurttttssss…! Aaaaaauuuuuhhh…!"

"Fufu, yes… Keep moaning in pain!" laughed Iris, as she squeezed Adamantine's large breasts with even more energy, and then squeezing her neck to difficult her breathing.

"Mmmgoohhhh…!"

A few hours passed by as Iris delved into her vengeance, and Adamantine was left completely expressionless, her entire face covered in tears, she seemed to have fallen into some kind of vegetative state due to the constant pain.

And soon after, her skin turned pale white, and her eyes crimson red, her blonde hair remained, however…

"It seems to be a success! You can turn others into Dhampirs… Oh? It seems that she isn't a true Dhampir though… Ghoul. How interesting. It seems to be a more beastly vampiric creature," said Noah, checking on Adamantine's attribute panel as she was now his subordinate even if bitten by Iris.

Soon after, Noah moved his Blood Sphere, and poured some fresh blood over Adamantine's mouth, until she almost shocked herself with it.

Suddenly, her crimson eyes gleamed with light, and her entire body began to convulse…

Her missing legs and arms began to slowly grow, starting from the white bone growing like a tree, and then the nerves and blood vessels wrapping around, the muscles, cartilage, and skin.

After about ten minutes, Adamantine's limbs were back.

"Now wake up, Adamantine-chan…!" said Iris, slapping Adamantine's face until she suddenly woke up from her daze.

"W-What?! Iris?! Ahh…! Ungh…! My mind, why?! Why does it feel so dizzy?! Boogeeh…!"

Adamantine quickly began to vomit all the food she had in her stomach, feeling sick and even weakened.

"What a nasty pig!" laughed Iris, kicking Adamantine's ass and throwing her off into the wall.

"Bbugeeh… Iris… Stop… Stooppp… Geeh…!"

Iris grabbed Adamantine's neck and raised her up the air.

"You might be one of us, but your position is clearly different, Adamantine. You're not a servant, you're Iris plaything now," said Noah with a smile.

"Play…thing?!"

"Don't worry… Just like you grew so obsessed with making me suffer, I will make sure to make you obsessed with all the suffering I give you until you cannot stop but moan for more!" laughed Iris, hitting Adamantine's face into the wall as her jaw suddenly broke!

"GGAAAAHH…!"

However, her jaw slowly began to reattach itself, but Iris kept hitting her into the wall, making her entire face broken apart, her nose fell off as a fleshy piece, and after many minutes, Noah couldn't even remember how many times did Adamantine's eyes burst out into oozy slime and grew back up.

One hour…

Two hours…

Three hours.

After three hours of a constant beating, Iris finally grew bored.

"How can she enjoy this so much? For some reason, it became quite boring after a little," sighed Iris.

"That must be because of your instincts, as part monsters, we seek challenges, and Adamantine is clearly not one anymore," said Noah.

Adamantine was left on the floor, barely breathing.

Noah gave her a bit more blood as she suddenly woke up, her face was now expressionless and her entire mind was broken, she seemed dull, like a zombie.

She glanced at Noah with admiration, as he was her progenitor.

"…Master," she muttered.

"Mistress…" she said again, glancing at Iris.

"You really broke her spirit… Does she rally Adamantine anymore? Well, beats me. We have already cut off her limbs a lot, and they seem to keep growing. We could even use her blood for nourishment, although it did not taste the best… Well, leaving her in here is necessary for the plan," said Noah.

"Noah-sama… what plan?" asked Iris, as she slowly went back to her usual self, her psychopath-like alter ego had finally satisfied itself.

"It's something very simple, we'll leave her here, alongside the eaten corpses of her friends… Tomorrow, a teacher will most likely find them, Adamantine should be alive through her regeneration, although she smells like a corpse, so I suppose that the goblins might not even notice her… Although we are leaving it to luck on her side, if she survives or not, that's it," said Noah.

"I see, that might work… O-Once again, I'm sorry for…" muttered Iris.

"Shut up already. All of this conflict never happened, you hear me?" asked Noah.

"A-Ah… Alright," said Iris.

After Noah and Iris hunted a few Goblins, Goblin Warriors, and Goblin Mages far away from where Adamantine was left and gathered their dropped Cores, they left quickly left the Dungeon while making sure to clean most evidence, running away to their respective rooms.

The morning quickly came as Noah and Iris casually chatted through their newfound Telepathy, and Noah even taught her a bit of how to shape blood into crystalized blood weapons, although she was still rather amateur.

The two casually walked back to classes as always, but there was a very big commotion going on, three girls were found in the nearby F-Rank Dungeon, two of them had been killed brutally by Goblins, and the other was being eaten alive, and was barely rescued.

It was also said that she had survived after awakening some kind of regeneration ability, but because people cannot see each other attribute panels, they could never tell her race change nor her Vampiric Skills.

Noah smiled maliciously behind his hoodie, it seemed that the plan was a success, at least for now.

21 The Useless Party

Noah walked back to classes, seemingly having avoided his bullies.

Now that Adamantine's issue was dealt with rather smoothly, he still felt like he needed to be cautious.

The teacher talked about how it was prohibited to enter Dungeons at night, as the monsters usually multiply there.

Even an F-Rank Dungeon filled with weak monsters seemed to be dangerous to inexperienced students, and the security around the Dungeons' rifts increased.

Noah gnashed his teeth a bit, it seemed that he would not be able to enter this place as smoothly as the last two days.

The worst part, E-Rank Hunters would be monitoring the area.

Although students can enter to hunt at day, it is usually advised to not do so if not given a task or test by the teacher.

However, this was a Military School that trained inexperienced young people to become Hunters, their primary job was to kill monsters after all.

So today there was a small test.

"It has been roughly two months since classes have started and I believe that it should be finally time for a test. Of course, not written, as we had many like those already. The director had permitted me to allow this class to go to an exploration towards the F-Rank to E-Rank Dungeon 'Miasma Forest'," said the teacher, as many of the student's eyes shined brightly, they were finally given the chance to enter a Dungeon through a test, instead of the boring written tests on paper!

"Ahem. I am happy that all of you are excited, but all of you must consider the dangers of such a Dungeon, you cannot simply go by yourselves after all. Although I am rather confident that you can defeat F-Rank or E-Rank Monsters without many issues, it would be better if you could form parties of up to five students," said the teacher, as the students began to dart out of their seats, running towards their friends to make parties with.

Of course, no one wanted the 'useless' Noah nor the 'pig' Iris, so they were left alone, there were also various other outcasts, weak students that have not managed to make parties or were looked down on by the crowd.

Noah smiled as it seemed that his plans were coming to fruition faster than he had expected.

Arthur was left alone with his maid, which somehow also counted as some kind of student.

There was also another boy, with short brown hair and a large scar on his left eye, Noah knew about him a bit, he was nicknamed the 'cyclops Jon'.

Much like Iris, Jon had an ability not fitted for combat as much as the other students, which let him enhance his vision through the only eye he could see with.

His stats averaged at 3-5, and although he was slightly stronger than Iris originally, he did not even compare to the strongest students who averaged with stats of 50-70.

Although Arthur was not looked down on by his stats or abilities, which were rather decent, he was crippled and seemed rather useless, so no one even took a glance at him.

Iris shyly glanced back at Noah, as she began to walk to his seat…

Noah sighed.

He had strictly told her to not approach him in Class, yet there she was, cutely walking towards him with an excited and adorable smile.

"N-Noah, let's… make a party!" she said.

Many of the students noticed the 'pig' Iris asking the 'useless' Noah to form a party with, and burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! So fitting, the pig and the useless one forming a party!"

"Oh my, look at her face, she looks so happy to have realized that there is someone as useless as her!"

"Damn, all those useless guys should just form a party so they go and die altogether, they would be giving us a favor, honestly," said Fernand Firebrand, the leader of the group that bullied Noah.

"What is she going to do in a dungeon? Hear the monster come? Not like she can even defeat them, to begin with!"

"Literally everyone can sense monster coming, her little ears are very useless,"

"And that Noah, he doesn't even have abilities! Does he even has the System?"

"Teacher, form a party for all of them, add Jon and Arthur into the mix for maximum useless efficiency!" laughed Fernand, as his lackeys nodded.

The teacher seemed to sigh for a moment, although he would have liked to reprimand these students, Fernand was the brother of an S-Rank Hunter, and he could not easily offend him.

"Ahem. Please, everyone, be more respectful, those that have not awakened Abilities like Noah might one day do…" said the teacher.

Iris glared at all the students laughing as her eyes suddenly gleamed with bloodlust, emanating a crimson aura for a few seconds!

Somehow, many students that were not strong enough noticed this, and froze in shock!

"W-Was that…?"

"Did Iris just?"

"No… It must have been our imagination…"

"Y-Yeah, there is no way that the pig would ever emanate such a presence,"

However, Iris was stopped by Noah's hand that touched her own.

"Calm down," he said.

"Ah… S-Sorry…" muttered Iris.

"Alright, there is no helping it, let's form a party then," said Noah expressionlessly.

"He actually accepted!"

"Good thing you know your place!"

"Just ignore them, soon, they shall know what we are capable of…" said Noah telepathically to Iris, as she nodded slightly, averting her gaze from the other students.

The teacher quickly noticed the students that were left alone and decided to make a group with them, although it was the same suggestion that the bratty Fernand gave to him, he could not help but think that it made sense to an extent.

At the very least, he believed that F-Rank to E-Rank Dungeons, which were in the middle difficulty between these two Ranks would not be much of a problem, especially because Arthur was a good healer and there was also his maid that held some useful offensive Skills.

"Very well then, there is no other choice. Jon, Arthur, Timassa, Iris, and Noah shall form a party, you are exactly five," said the teacher with an apologetic smile.

Noah glanced at his main target, Arthur, as the blonde boy gently smiled at him Timassa, the stoic beauty that was his maid, glared at Noah, Iris, and Jon with a sharp look, seemingly quite wary.

Jon in the other case, glanced at Noah, Arthur, and Iris for a bit, he seemed completely expressionless, and his face was always down.

"Well, now that things are settled, please make sure to grab the items we have left for you outside, our soldiers will distribute them. Alongside basic medicines, there are also weapons that you might pick for yourself, although they are only borrowed, make sure to bring them in a good state if you do not want to pay for it," said the teacher, as the students walked out and were given backpacks filled with medicines and potions mass-produced by Hunters who had acquired Creation-oriented Skills.

Noah quickly gathered with his new group, as everyone decided to present themselves a bit.

"Hello, it is nice to meet all of you, please take good care of me, I will make sure to take care of your wounds and also to enhance your capabilities, even if you have non-offensive abilities, I am sure that I can make you be able to fight," said Arthur with a gentle smile.

"I am also looking forward to you three. As long as you behave in front of Arthur-sama," said Timassa.

"You don't have to be so strict with other people, Timassa-san," said Arthur.

Jon only seemed to nod shyly, he didn't seem to even be able to muster a word.

"Well, I am looking forward to working with all of you…" said Iris adorably, giving a bright smile that made Jon's dark eyes suddenly shine a bit brightly.

"Sure thing, Arthur, let's work together so we can get a good grade in the test," said Noah.

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22 Exploring the Dungeon as a Test

As the parties gathered in front of the Dungeon, the teacher began to speak, giving instructions.

"The instructions for this test are quite simple, each party shall bring 20 cores from any defeated monster, although there might be a time when a monster doesn't drop any core, you shall slay them until you manage to find enough. There is a time limit of seven hours, so make sure to hurry up. Your grade will depend on how many Cores you gather. Do not worry, we shall give you back the cores for you to distribute evenly in the party when we judge your progress. Also, you cannot use cores that you already have gathered beforehand, we will be able to tell through special artifacts, so cheating is prohibited," said the teacher.

Some students seemed to have the intention of cheating like this, but their hopes were quickly shattered.

"Alright then, let's do this, killing some E-Rank or F-Rank Monsters will be easy," laughed Fernand, as he grabbed his Magic Sword which began to glow with fire.

The 'Firebrand' family was known to have the ability to wield Fire-related Skills, and Fernand's specialty was to use it on his special Magic Sword, an item specifically crafted to be able to absorb elements and use them to enhance its slashing power.

The parties then began to hop in one by one, with a window of around five minutes per party, the test would start the moment the last party would enter, which was Noah's party.

Crossing through the rift, the five outcasts reached a different scenario than the one they had seen in the caves of the F-Rank Dungeon filled with Goblins.

"A forest…" said Arthur, glancing towards the tall trees erecting towards the sky.

The forest was almost completely covered in trees, which made the light that entered the surface very dim.

There was a slight white mist floating around the forest, and the temperature was rather cold, the 'sun' of this dungeon was barely hitting the ground due to the trees taking most of this sunlight, which made the surface filled with mushrooms, not for consumption and logs, tree branches, and small insects.

It seemed almost like a normal forest in the old earth, as the forests from the new earth after the apocalypse were chaotic places filled with mutated plants and beasts.

Iris quickly made her fox ears pop up from her head, enhancing her auditory senses, while cyclops used its single eye to detect things nearby.

Noah had decided to grab no weapons at all, which had surprised Arthur a bit, but he seemed so confident about it that he did not try to convince him to take one.

Iris was the same and was strangely sticking very near Noah, almost touching him with her shoulders.

Meanwhile, Jon was in I the middle of the group, while Arthur behind and his maid moving his wheelchair through the areas, such wheelchair was specially adapted to be able to slide through many types of terrain, something that might be completely useless as crippled people should not even go to dungeons, to begin with, but that Arthur's rich family gave him the luxury of having.

As Arthur chatted with his maid and Iris about the monsters present in this Dungeon, Noah took the time to check his Attribute Panel.

[Noah]

[Bloodline: Vampire (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 43]

[Mind: 44]

[Force: 36]

[Skill(s): [Blood Progenitor: - (SSS), [Undying Body: 20 (A), [Blood Claws: 31 (C), [Blood Manipulation: 42 (D), [Blood Projectiles: 25 (D), [Champion's Great Perseverance: 16 (C), [Telepathy: 7 (D)]

His stats had increased a bit since yesterday as he have grind a few Cores while Iris was torturing Adamantine, and had managed to get two of his attribute values up to 40 in Vitality and Mind, while his Force was still a bit lower than the rest, it seemed that the Blood Manipulation and Blood Projectiles Skill used Mind for damage calculation, so it made his long-ranged attacks stronger.

He had also acquired the Telepathy Skill just yesterday, it was very useful to discuss things with Iris without others being able to hear them.

"I am still lacking on stats, Fernand has way higher than mine, even with Champions Great Perseverance boost… I need a bit more to crush him…" sighed Noah.

"I've read that the monsters of the Miasma Forests are mostly Walking Mushrooms that can release poisonous spores, so make sure to stick near me so I can heal you if you guys ever get hit with them… And there are also said to be big cats named Shadow Lynxes, that can manipulate shadows to an extent, those are more dangerous, and are qualified as peak F-Rank… We have to react well whenever one appears," said Arthur, he was very informed.

"I see, don't worry, if we all work together… It should be possible," said Noah as he smiled back at Arthur with odd confidence, which Arthur did not remember from the usual bullied Noah.

Even Jon noticed this and also Arthur's maid, but Iris seemed used to this, and oddly close to Noah, making the rest of the group believe that they might be in some kind of secret relationship, or even be a couple.

As the party walked through, noises around bushes emerged, as three creatures leaped out, frantically running towards them with their large root-like feet.

They were Walking Mushrooms, giant living mushrooms with enormous caps atop them, each one had a different color and marks on them.

Although these monsters could be considered to be at the level of the Goblin Warriors or Goblin Mages, they lacked a lot of the goblin's abilities, and their strongest asset, or perhaps the only one was to be able to release toxic spore clouds when they got near a target.

"Grrryarr!"

"Grrooooohh…!"

"Grruuururu…!"

"Arthur-sama, let me handle them!" said Timassa, as she generated an arrow-shaped bolt of lightning, firing it towards the nearest Walking Mushroom!

Zap!

The lightning bolt hit the nearest Walking Mushroom, as it exploded into pieces of mushroom in an instant!

"GRUUOOH!"

However, the other two Walking Mushroom approached the party, jumping towards Jon and Arthur!

Timassa needed her Mana to recharge for a few seconds before using her powerful Bolt Arrow Skill, as she rushed towards the front of Arthur, raising the shield she brought.

"Arthur-sama, I shall protect you!" she said.

Meanwhile, Job barely was holding back the creature while being boosted by Arthur's Skills, he was using a small shield and a short sword, although the Walking Mushroom seemed enraged, as its cap began to inflate, meaning that it would soon release a cloud of toxic spores.

"Grruooh- Geh!"

However, the Walking Mushroom fighting Jon was suddenly stopped on its track, as a slash of crimson light sliced it in half, making it disappear into black smoke instantly while dropping a core into the ground!

"Ah…!" muttered Jon, surprised as it saw Noah in front of him, his hands were covered in some kind of crimson material, shaped as sharp claws.

"GRRRYARR!"

The Mushroom that attacked Timassa suddenly unleashed a barrage of attacks, seemingly being a rare type of monster that possessed more than its base Skill, throwing back the delicate maid who was more oriented at magic!

Clash!

"Nnngaaahh…!"

"Timassa!" cried Arthur, as he conjured a bright yellow light over her faraway body, as the Walking Mushroom jumped towards him!

"GRYHIHIHI!" it laughed maliciously, almost celebrating an easy prey!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

However, in an instant, the Walking Mushroom was showered in slicing attacks, exploding into pieces!

Boom!

"…Eh? Iris?!" asked Arthur in surprise, as Iris showcased her long black nails, which she used as blades to easily slice the monster. Her body was also covered in phantom and a red aura, enhancing her stats a bit more.

"We told you that as long as we are together we will manage," said Noah.

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23 Against the Shadow Lynx!

Noah and Iris had decided to use their Skills immediately, showcasing their true strength to their party members, which Noah had already planned that would be joining their side soon enough as Dhampirs or Ghouls.

"That's… Amazing, those nails simply sliced through that monster…!" said Arthur in shock.

"Strong…" muttered Jon, seemingly admiring Noah's crimson claws, which slowly disappeared from his hands.

"Arthur-sama, are you okay?" asked Timassa, ignoring what was happening and checking if Arthur had received any damage or something else.

"Y-Yes, I am okay, Timassa… But… Iris, Noah… Are those really your Skills?" asked Arthur impressed.

"It's all thanks to Noah… He has given me the power to do this," said Iris.

"The… power?" asked Arthur.

"I have awakened my Ability recently. However, it is a secret for now," said Noah.

"I-I see… Well, that's a relief, I am glad that we can have more people to rely on," said Arthur with a mild smile, although he was left intrigued about what kind of power Noah truly had.

After all, he was deemed useless and completely powerless, however, now he seemed to have become a completely different person, especially because of the strong aura he emanated.

Iris was also rather 'useless' and even insulted by most of the class as a 'pig' due to her smaller and slightly chubby complexion, she wasn't really fat at all, but due to her wide hips and her belly, she was called by those that hated her appearance, such as Adamantine.

Was that Noah really the same 'Useless Noah'?

And was that Iris really the same 'Pig Iris'?

Timassa seemed to have grown wary of Noah and Iris, although they had saved Arthur and Jon's lives, they emanated a powerful presence that made her instinctively feel like they were up to no good.

Jon, in the other case, did not fear them at all, in fact, he was slowly growing strangely fascinated.

It was as if something on Noah made him want to follow him, some kind of essence within his existence.

As the party continued walking through the Dungeon, the Blood Progenitor, who had been watching things over in silence, spoke to Noah.

"You have already shown them your Skills… Are you sure about that? What if they tell the teachers and other students and end up making many people grow interested or suspicious about you? Such things might end up making your plans be difficult to accomplish," said the Blood Progenitor.

"I know. But it is not like I am letting them go. I will find an opportunity to convert all three into Dhampirs by my bite or Ghouls by Iris' bite," said Noah, mentally communicating with the Blood Progenitor.

"Hm, well, it seems that you have a plan, do you?" asked the Blood Progenitor.

"Nothing too complicated. But I am guessing already that based on how this whole test works… that other students might come to steal our Cores," said Noah.

"What? Oh, you mean…?" muttered the Blood Progenitor.

"So you realized. Indeed, this whole test seems to be built like this. I don't know if it is really intentional or not. But there is no way that each party would be able to gather 20 Cores each in 7 hours, there is a limit of how many monsters spawn on a Dungeon through these hours after all. Sooner or later, students will begin to attack each other to steal Cores, and most likely, as we are considered to be very weak, we will fall into their primary target…" said Noah to the Blood Progenitor.

"Heh. This world is really filled with scum… I like it," said the Blood Progenitor.

"The scum is everywhere, even in the teachers, they must have intentionally done it like this, so they can also get to test which students are truly qualified to fight against other hunters, which are often seen as more valuable for obvious reasons. After all, this world is dominated by enormous organizations that fight against each other constantly through the Sectors. What they want the most is not someone that can kill monsters (as everyone with a power can), but those with the talent to fight against other humans with powers," said Noah.

"You've figured a lot on your own…" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Not really, as a useless human, I studied a lot of how this world worked in my vast free time in between bullying and classes," said Noah.

As the party continued their trip, Noah decided to check Iris's progress through her status panel, as she noticed him glancing at her, she flushed a bit.

[Iris]

[Bloodline: Dhampir (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 26]

[Mind: 27]

[Force: 27]

[Skill(s): [Demon Phantom Fox: 31 (C), [Dhampir: - (S), [Undying Body: (A), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Poisonous Black Nails: 43 (D), [Lesser Blood Manipulation: 27 (E), [Rage Mode: 14 (D), [Telepathy: 5 (D)]

Much like Noah, Iris had also hunted a few Goblins on her own yesterday and had mange dot increase her stats by a bit, although not as much as Noah.

She had also gotten the Telepathy Skill, which she used to chat with Noah without speaking a word.

"Noah-sama, are you looking at my status? I've grown a bit more…" she said with a slight proudness.

"I can see that. Although this is not enough, let's make sure to hunt any monster we come across in here, you need to grow stronger," said Noah rather expressionlessly.

"Sure thing!" said Iris.

"GRRAAOOH…!"

Suddenly, the party was startled by the roar of a giant feline!

A large, two meters tall shadow emerged from within the trees, leaping towards Jon!

Flash!

"T-That's a Shadow Lynx!" said Arthur, pointing at it as Jon was startled by the fierce emerald eyes of the monster!

The mass of shadows then revealed large paws filled with sharp claws, pointing them towards Jon!

"Ah!" cried Jon in surprise, falling into the ground and being left at the mercy of the beast!

"Blood Blade," said Noah, as he summoned his Blood Sphere, taking a chunk of blood from it and shaping it as a blade of crystalized blood in less than a second!

Flash!

Arthur, Timassa, and Jon were left in disbelief as Noah suddenly summoned such a powerful long-ranged attack!

Slash!

The blade penetrated right through the Shadow Lynx, slashing through its flesh and throwing the beast to the sides, saving Jon's life!

"GRRAAAOOH…!"

The beast, however, seemed to have a large vitality, as it quickly stood up and fiercely leaped to the nearest target, its mouth was salivating, it seemed to be incredibly hungry, completely disregarding the wound on its back!

Flash!

"Bolt Arrow!" said Timassa, conjuring her Skill and launching it towards the Shadow Lynx, as the powerful lightning impacted the feline creature with a loud explosion!

Boom!

"GROOARR…!"

However, the Shadow Lynx completely tanked the hit, leaping right towards Arthur, as Timassa was not able to protect him with her shield this time!

"It's rather strong…" said Noah, appearing right beside the Shadow Lynx as he unleashed a barrage of slashing attacks towards the beast, throwing it through the air!

Clash!

"GRRAAOOH…!"

The creature quickly stood up, breathing heavily, as Iris emerged right beside it without it noticing in time!

"GRAAAH!"

Roaring like a beast herself, Iris shrouded her body with her Demon Phantom Fox and Rage Mode Skills, enhancing her Attribute Values and raining the monster with her slashing and poisonous nail attacks!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

"GROAR!"

The Shadow Lynx leaped out after taking some serious damage, trying to run away!

"You're not going anywhere!" said Noah maliciously, firing a large Blood Spear towards the beast's torso, impaling it as it tried to escape!

Clash!

"GRROAARR…!"

Poof!

The creature released a small agonizing shriek before disappearing into black smoke, leaving some Cores behind.

"A-Amazing…" muttered Arthur, even Timassa had begun to see Noah differently as well.

"Well, things haven't ended yet, it seems that we got some more unwanted visits," said Noah, pointing at a pair of larger Shadow Lynxes who emerged from the bush!

24 Against Two Big Shadow Lynxes! ...And a Greater Threat Aproaches!

"Two… more!" said Arthur in awe, the strong F-Rank monsters, Shadow Lynxes, had great vitality and agility, and deadly claws, he was left almost hopeless against such creatures, and even Timassa, his protector and maid were not able to kill them with her strong Bolt Arrow Skill.

The feline beasts glanced at Noah and his group and seemed greatly angered.

Noah realized that these Shadow Lynxes were in fact way bigger than the one they killed…

"Could these be its parents? Do monsters even breed? But how?" wondered Arthur, who was very attentive and also realized the same thing as Noah.

"It doesn't matter what they are, if they try to attack us, we'll kill them, that's how this world works, Arthur," said Noah, charging towards one of the Shadow Lynxes who was startled by his offensive!

"GROAR!"

The second Shadow Lynx tried to attack Noah's side, opening its jaws, and pointing its sharp claws towards Noah's torso!

"Bolt Arrow!"

Timassa assisted Noah, as she conjured an arrow made of lightning, throwing it towards the Shadow Lynx and electrifying it, throwing it not the ground!

Noah smiled as he realized that such a fast projectile attack was very useful, and was also more impactful than his Blood Projectiles.

"GROAR!"

The Shadow Lynx in front of Noah roared, suddenly gathering darkness around itself as several magic circles emerged, large watermelon-sized shadow spheres emerged in an instant, launching themselves towards Noah!

"Blood Claw!"

Noah roared, as he slashed his crimson claws, releasing a scarlet energy force, exploding against some of the Shadow Bullets, although others managed to get through his attack and impacted his stomach and shoulder!

Clash! Clash!

"Blood Spear!"

Noah simply ignored the damage he took, forming a Blood Spear through the blood he had saved on his Blood Sphere, it was fired right into the face of the Shadow Lynx in front of him!

CLASH!

"NGRRAH…!"

Poof!

One hit kill!

Noah managed to immediately slay the creature by penetrating its skull with his Blood Spear, by getting near it so it could not easily evade the fast-speed crystalized blood projectile.

Noah fell to the ground as he consumed some of his stockpiled blood, recovering his wounds slowly, as he glared at the other Shadow lynx, the one that was hit by Timassa, which was now fighting Iris.

"GRAAR!"

The Shadow Lynx leaped towards Iris, raising its claws coated in shadows as Iris used her long black nails coated in poison while enhancing her attribute values with Demon Phantom Fox and Rage Mode, making her numbers a bit over the Shadow Lynx, enough for her to be able to deal severe wounds on its body where poison seeped in, weakening the creature.

"Bolt Arrow!"

Timassa once more helped with her strong Skill, as a bolt of lightning crashed against the Shadow Lynx, blowing it away into the air!

"Now!" said Iris, leaping out of the ground and unleashing a constant barrage of slashing attacks, filling the Shadow Lynx with poison while being on midair!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

"GRRAOOH…!"

Poof!

The Shadow Lynx finally perished, as it exploded into black smoke, alongside a few Cores that Iris grabbed.

"A-Amazing…" said Arthur.

"Thanks for the help, Timassa," said Iris with a gentle smile.

"It is the least I could do," said Timassa.

"Nice, with this… we have around 6 Cores, 14 more to go," said Noah with a confident grin.

"We are doing this pretty fast, it has only been an hour since we started the test," said Arthur, praising Noah and Iris's strength.

"Strong…" said Jon, glancing at Noah with its single eye with admiration.

"W-Well, let's continue then, thanks for your help… Although I am still incredibly surprised about your changes… Why do you want to hide your abilities, Noah, Iris? You seem to be extraordinarily strong, if you revealed them, you might even become more respected…" said Arthur, as the party explored more of the forest.

"Well, as I said, it's a secret… Although we have an intention to do so… Being looked down is not so bad, it helps us lower the guard of those we want to target," said Noah with a calm smile.

"That's right, fufu…" said Iris with a slight chuckle.

"Lower the guard…?" wondered Arthur, as Timassa patted his shoulders.

"Arthur-sama, it would be better for you to stop asking questions…" she said.

"O-Oh, was I being unpolite? I apologize…" said Arthur.

"Not at all, it is normal to feel curious, Arthur…" said Noah.

"Indeed," said Iris.

"Anyways, have you found any type of way to heal back your legs?" asked Noah, as Arthur was a bit surprised by the question, but then glanced at the floor.

"Oh… No, not yet… There are rumors about an A-Rank Hunter that specializes in healing, but it doesn't live in this Sector, and it is employed by even richer corporations and organizations, although my family might have some money, we are not an organization nor we hold a great monopoly, so our connections are limited to this Sector, bringing people from other Sectors is hard…" said Arthur.

"I see… What would you do if someone could give you those legs for free, what would you do for that person?" asked Noah, shocking the whole party except Iris.

"Eh? What… do you mean?" asked Arthur.

"What would you do, Arthur? Tell me," said Noah rather calmly with a soothing voice.

"I… I would be very grateful, in fact, I might really be very grateful… I guess?" said Arthur.

"How grateful?" asked Noah.

"I… What with that question? There's no way that you could…" muttered Arthur.

"Noah, please don't tease Arthur-sama's condition…" said Timassa with a sharp glare.

"I am not teasing him. But perhaps I might have a way to help him," said Noah rather carefreely.

"What?! R-Really?" asked Arthur.

"That's why I am asking you, how devoted are you to get your legs back. Would you become… something else for that? How important is it for you?" asked Noah.

"I… Since I lost my legs when I was very young that my life… even with all of this money… has not been good… Not even being able to go to the bathroom by myself… to not be able to freely move around… I… Every day I wish I could walk again… to finally… be independent…" said Arthur, as Timassa was a bit shocked by Arthur's confession.

"Arthur-sama… Have I… not done a good job?" asked Timassa with trembling lips.

"Timassa…! No, you've… done an excellent job. You're perhaps the only person that… brightens my life and makes it a bit worth it," said Arthur with a gentle smile, caressing Timassa's hands.

"Arthur-sama…" muttered Timassa as she flushed a bit, although she looked older than Arthur, they were off around the same age, but Arthur was rather small and looked even smaller while sitting on a wheelchair.

"I wonder if Timassa would be willing to follow you on this path," murmured Iris.

"Path…?" wondered Arthur.

"This is already getting quite odd… Could you two please reveal your intentions with Arthur-sama?" asked Timassa.

"Heh, that would have to wait, we got company," said Noah.

"Monsters?" asked Arthur.

"No… humans…" said Jon at Arthur's side, who had detected a few figures coming from beneath the shadows of the trees.

Five figures emerged, although they were not that familiar to Noah, they were a few of his classmates.

"Well, well, what do we got here? Fernand missed the opportunity to catch you I guess, I will gladly take those Cores you have gathered, Useless," said a young man with brown hair and yellow eyes, grinning.

"You're… Esmond? I am sorry but we can't do that, we would be disqualified from the test if we don't bring any Cores!" said Arthur.

"Hah? And what do I care about that, crippled, give it or you're getting a beating," said Esmond, one of the students from Noah's Class.

Noah, however, glared at him rather carefreely.

"Come and get them," he said.

"Oh?! Have you finally gone insane, Useless?" laughed Esmond.

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25 Are You Insane or Something?!

Esmond Oswalt was your typical young brat, although he was already 17, he was still rather immature, and liked to go around with girls that sucked up to him due to his strong Abilities.

He was not from any important family, to say the least, but was lucky to have been given a strong Ability when he awakened and having acquired a few useful ones when he explored F-Rank Dungeons.

He liked to make fun of others and badmouth them, although he usually did not engage in physical bullying, he liked to laugh and insult Noah, Iris, and even Arthur sometimes, despite Arthur being from a rather rich family, he was very confident in his strength and talent to the point where he didn't need to worry.

"Have you gone insane, useless? Do you want to get killed or something? I am surprised that you have survived up to this point in here, to be honest. Now, give them to me if you do not want to really experience what hell truly is," said Esmond rather smugly.

"Hm. You're right… Sorry for being so disrespectful, Esmond…" muttered Noah rather shyly, as he slowly walked towards Esmond while grabbing his backpack!

"What? Noah, what are you doing?! Don't give them to him!" said Arthur.

"Sorry, Arthur… but he is way too strong… But we cannot possibly win… It is better to remain alive than to court death…" said Noah, as he glanced at Esmond with fear in his eyes.

"Yeah, that's the expression I like from the trash like you-"

Slash.

"Eh?"

Esmond extended his arms towards Noah to grab the backpack, but in less than a second, he felt like something very sharp penetrated his chest.

He glared down below, seeing a large blade made of a red crystal puncturing his chest and crossing through his spine, blood gushing out.

"W-What…. Buuggahh…!"

Esmond vomited a mouthful of blood, as he fell to the ground!

"Eh?"

"Ah?"

"Huh?"

"What… Eh?"

The four other girls at Esmond's side were just as shocked.

For a moment, they thought that this was some kind of optical illusion or something.

They could not have possibly seen Noah generate a crimson blade out of thin air to stab Esmond's chest, right?

No, how could the Useless Noah even do such a thing!

He did not even have an Ability nor the System!

…Right?

Well, it seemed that the truth was different than what their minds had fabricated, as Esmond finally came to his senses, the sharp pain was still there, as he glanced above him as Noah's hair turned white and his eyes crimson red.

"I was waiting for someone to show up, I was growing rather thirsty," he said.

"Impossible… You cannot… how?! You awakened an Ability and kept it… secret?!" asked Esmond, barely managing to muster words while vomiting blood constantly… if he continued like this, he would die soon after!

"Surprise, surprise," said Noah, as he noticed Esmond slowly gathering his Ability on his arms, as a sudden coverage of solid rock emerged, using it as a shield and a weapon, and trying to attack Noah so he could run away and heal in time!

"Oh no, you're not going anywhere!" laughed Noah, evading Esmond's lethargic punches and kicking him into the face!

Clash!

"Unngggoooohhh…!"

"Blood Spear," said Noah, walking slowly towards Esmond.

"Wait… you can't possibly… you will… really kill me?! Are you are insane or something?! That's… murder! You will become a criminal!" roared Esmond, as he covered his chest and around his body with more rocks, and then, pointing his hands towards Noah, firing small rock bullets from his hands!

Noah evaded some and destroyed others with his Blood Claws, the speed of the attacks was not even comparable to the Shadow Lynxes Shadow Bullets, mostly because Esmond was weakened due to the large wound on his chest and also because such long-ranged attacks spent a lot of energy that he was trying to save.

Clash! Clash! Clash!

"A Murderer? Didn't you say that if we resisted you would have killed us? Oh? Maybe you were not actually going to kill us…? Oh my, maybe I misunderstood you!" said Noah as he laughed and reached to Esmond, using the Blood Spear to penetrate through his rock exterior, into his stomach!

Clash!

"Gyaaaaaggghh…!"

Esmond roared in agony as he vomited another mouthful of blood!

"Quite the resilient guy, you're really a Tank Class Hunter are you?" laughed Noah.

"Stop… Stop!!!" roared one of the girls that came with Esmond, with white hair and black eyes, she suddenly generated a black arrow out of thin air, pointing it at Noah!

The other three girls quickly followed her, conjuring their own attacks, a freezing wind, a lightning spark, and a fireball!

"How about we cut off your ankles?" laughed Iris, running towards the four girls at an immense speed while being enhanced with Demon Phantom Fox and Rage Mode, extending her black nails and slashing the four girls ankles in a single slice!

Slash!

"Eh?!"

"Gyaaaah!"

"Unnggaah…!"

"M-My ANKLES!"

The four girls quickly fell to the ground almost as if they were synchronized.

Arthur, Jon, and Timassa were still in shock by seeing this unfold.

"S-Stop… Please, Noah, Iris, stop! It's wrong… you shouldn't… Kill other people! We are growing stronger so we can… protect them!" said Arthur.

"Are you kidding me, Arthur? You are crippled and this bastard still dared to fuck with you. Do you think he has any respect for what you believe or about what you are? He's trash, and I love to take out the trash," said Noah.

"B-But he is our classmate!" said Arthur.

"Arthur-sama…" muttered Timassa, she was still doubting what to do, while Jon only watched at Iris and Noah with fascination.

"Classmate or not, don't you realize how wicked this whole test is? It was made so conflicts like these occurred, this is what our school wants us to do. They want us to kill each other so the strongest and most suitable for their interest surges," said Noah.

"That's… no… it can't be…" muttered Arthur, as a giant fireball was suddenly launched towards him!

"I am going to kill you all!!!" roared one of the girls, in anger and pain over her ankles being sliced off, she fired a giant fireball towards Arthur!

"Ah!" cried Arthur in surprise, as the heat neared him!

"Bolt Arrow!" said Timassa, generating a bolt of lightning shaped into an arrow, and firing it towards the fireball, stopping it on its tracks as it exploded!

BOOM!

Iris evaded the attacks of the four girls, as she made her way towards the redhead capable of launching fireballs!

"What a cute neck you get there, care if I slice it?" asked Iris, as she evaded the fireball coming to her, nearing her sharp nails towards the redhead's tender neck!

"G-Get away from meee!!!" cried the redhead girl, firing several fireballs and expending all of her Mana!

"RAAAH!"

Iris roared savagely, unleashing a barrage of slicing attacks and destroying a few fireballs while evading others, although some impacted her and burned her face and chest, she slowly began to recover those wounds, ignoring the pain!

"W-What? You took my fireballs into the face and you are still alive?! What kind of… monster are you…?! You are… You're a monster, you fucking pig-"

SLASH!

Iris did not let the girl finish her words as her head was sliced off her neck in an instant.

She manipulated the flood of blood and drank a bit while saving the rest in her Blood Sphere, while also grabbing the head of the girl with its hair, which was still convulsing.

The three girls and Esmond who was barely tanking Noah's attacks glanced at the scene.

"E-Eh?! N-No way…! You… actually killed her!!!" cried one of the girls.

"Amandaaaaaaa!!!"

"You murderers!"

"Kill them, kill them!"

"N-No way… this must be a bad dream… there is possibly no… way…" muttered Esmond, as Noah stood at his side.

"Believe it or not, this is reality, Esmond," said Noah.

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Iris May Have a Chance?! - Vampire Overlord System in the Apocalypse - Chapter 50 by PancakesWitch full book limited free

26 Taking Care of the Trash

Reality.

The moment Esmond was attacked by Noah, who he believed to be a weakling and useless ability-less human, was when his perception of reality warped.

After trying his best to survive by employing his Skills, he managed to cover his body with rocks as he would usually do to fight or defend himself, managing to live a few more seconds than Noah had anticipated.

And then, he saw one of the girls that followed him around and with who he had sex some days within the week, Amanda.

He really did not even care about her.

He did not even love her or anything at all.

It could be said that the only person Esmond loved was himself.

But still, seeing the girl he has been with a lot of time be beheaded so crudely in front of him really impacted him.

He was already pissing and shitting himself out of fear, and now he just finally saw someone from his party actually dying.

…Although Esmond did not know that this test was actually designed for such things, he had thought about beating Noah's party until they could not move and then leave them to the mercy of the monsters.

Even if he had some kind of intention of killing these useless people, he was not going to nasty his hands.

But Noah and Iris were willing to do so, and very crudely at that.

"Y-You… killed Amanda!" cried Esmond, as he tried to blast Noah away with another rock projectiles, but he quickly noticed that they began to come out smaller and smaller, his mana was already getting low.

If he could reach his backpack and get a potion, maybe he would be able to recover some Mana… But Noah was not letting him do as he pleased.

Noah did not want to waste more blood in projectiles as he began to use his Blood Claws, crushing the rock exterior of Esmond as he agonized loudly.

"Okay, I get it! I will not… bully you anymore! Please…! Just do not kill me! I… I have a lot of connections you know?! I could be very useful to whatever you want to do! Please… Don't kill meeee!" cried Esmond, as his rock exterior went flying into the air through Noah's crimson claws.

"Sounds tentative, but I've already made up my mind, I don't want any of you to remain alive, so you don't go telling the teachers… Maybe I could convert you, but I cannot really imagine having an idiot like you at my side," said Noah rather calmly, as Esmond roared, using this opportunity to release the last explosion of rocks, which he used to dart away!

BOOM!

Noah took the hits as he was left with a few wounds while the other rocks were blocked by his claws, he glanced at Esmond coldly and expressionlessly.

"So you had that trick below your sleeve," he said, as he quickly ran towards Esmond who was trying to run away!

Esmond was barely standing, running away until he realized that Arthur was still rather confused, he did not want Noah and iris to do this!

"Oi! Arthur, heal me! HEAL ME YOU LITTLE SHIT!" he roared, as he ran towards Timassa, who got into her way!

"Get away from Arthur-sama- NGAAH…!"

CLASH!

Timassa was blown away by Edmond's powerful rock punch, several of her ribs breaking as she was thrown like a bloody ragdoll near a tree!

"Edmond… I…!" muttered Arthur, as Edmond fiercely grasped Arthur's neck!

"NNGAAH… NNnggooh…!" cried Arthur, barely gasping for air.

Noah glanced at the scene as he stopped in his tracks.

"If you give one single step, I am breaking this little rat's neck! NOW, HEAL ME, YOU PIECE OF TRASH!" roared Edmond.

"H-He… He… Hea…!"

"GET AWAY FROM ARTHUR-SAMA!"

Suddenly, an enormous bolt of lightning emerged from the side of Edmond, the same direction where Timassa was thrown, as the gigantic lightning bolt clashed against Edmond, throwing him away as Arthur fell to the ground!

CRASH!

"UNNGGYYAAAAAHH…!"

BOOM!

Edmond's body fell to the ground, as he vomited mouthfuls of blood, even his large vitality was beginning to not work with so many wounds…

Noah smiled, appearing right before him.

"Sorry for the wait, Blood Spear," said Noah, generating a spear of crystallized blood, right above Edmond's face!

"I should have really just aimed at your forehead the moment I threw that attack at you, but I wanted to see you suffer some more. I guess I shouldn't have even thought about that," said Noah.

"Wait… You… little SHIT! Nnnngggyaaaahh…!" cried Edmond, as the Blood Spear penetrated his forehead, going all the way into his brain and getting out through his skull!

CLASH!

Noah quickly began to manipulate all the blood that Esmond possessed, drinking mouthfuls of it to recover his wounds and strength while saving the rest inside of his Blood Sphere.

Meanwhile, Iris had already killed another girl through poison and was dealing with two who could barely move and were simply desperately spamming attacks.

The moment they saw Esmond die, they completely lost all of their hope.

"ESMOND…! DIEEE!"

"H-HE… KILLED HIM?! YOU FUCKING PIG!"

The two women began to release lightning bolts and spears of darkness towards Iris, who was barely evading while also shielding herself within the tall trees.

The two quickly grew frustrated, as they pointed their spears to weaker targets!

"We will take at least one with us!" cried one.

"Die, you little shit!" cried the other, as the two girls fired their attacks at Arthur who was in the ground, Timassa had many of her bones broken, and could barely move!

"A-Arthur-sama!!!" she cried, trying to exert some of her power but not being able to due to her excessive use of Mana, which even gave her a sharp headache.

Arthur was unconscious when his head hit the ground rather strongly, the lightning and darkness closing in!

Suddenly, someone who had been hiding this whole time appeared, Jon, grabbing a large shield and putting himself in front of Arthur!

BOOM!

Lightning and Darkness clashed against Jon, his shield broke into pieces and he received a large wound on his chest, sending him flying into the air to fall loudly into the ground.

"That's enough," said Noah, as he and Iris quickly rushed towards the two girls, who had run out of Mana and tried to struggle to the very last minute, their cries of fear and agony resonated through the forest!

Slash! Slash!

Noah ripped apart one of the girl's head, while the other had her head sliced off by Iris, as large quantities of blood exploded out of their severed necks like rivers of scarlet nectar.

"Ungh…!"

Noah and Iris quickly walked towards their party, which was barely hanging on their lives.

Timassa was barely standing, as she finally reached Arthur, her insides were mostly crushed, and she would soon die.

"Please… save… Arthur-sama…" she cried, glancing at her unconscious master.

"Sure thing and there will be two legs as an extra," laughed Noah, grabbing Arthur rather brutishly as he seeped his fangs into his neck, surprising Timassa as she tried to resist and attack Noah for what he was doing!

"Stop…! Ungh…!"

However, Iris appeared and embraced her, quickly biting her neck as well.

"Ah…! Aahh…!"

After a few seconds, Noah was done with Arthur, throwing him into the ground as his skin suddenly turned pale white as if he had died, however, a strange crimson aura emerged from his body.

Iris sucked Timassa's blood from her tender neck until she fell unconscious, leaving her resting while undergoing her transformation as she glanced at Noah bite Jon's tender neck rather hurriedly and without many delicacies, only giving a quick bite and then taking some blood before dropping him into the ground.

As the seconds went by, Noah and Iris poured blood into their mouths so they could drink it, making the changes go faster.

The changes into their bodies finally began to emerge as their wounds healed themselves, Arthur's legs slowly began to grow like young saplings, and even Jon's blind eye recovered.

"Welcome to our family…" said Noah, as Iris smiled at the three new members of their creed, who had just woken up.

27 New Vampiric Subordinates

Arthur would often dream about having his legs back.

He would dream about being able to walk, to finally protect his beloved ones, instead of being the one protected all the time.

He always woke up of these dreams while glancing at his legs, only to find them missing.

It was as if each day he wished reality was just a mere dream, while his dreams could be reality.

But the reality is often disappointing.

Arthur woke up from his daze, glancing at his surroundings.

He felt a strange sensation, almost alien to him.

Somehow, he had something within his legs muttons.

There was some strange electrifying sensation growing from them, which began to hurt a lot.

He felt a bit of dullness at first but then felt strange nausea and dizziness.

He glanced at his surroundings once more, finding Timassa at his side…

Although her appearance had changed slightly, as her eyes were crimson red and her hair had turned purple, alongside this, her skin was of an unhealthy pale white, almost like candle wax.

"Timassa?" asked Arthur.

Arthur found his maid, Timassa, crying out loud.

Arthur was sure that she had been hit by Edmond and was covered in blood… but now she seemed quite fine.

"Why are you crying? What's going on?" asked Arthur.

"Your… legs… Arthur-sama, your legs are back!" cried Timassa, embracing Arthur with a hug as Arthur suddenly realized something strange.

The weird pain and dullness that he felt on his missing legs were not just his imagination or the hallucination of the lack of oxygen by being strangled by Edmond.

He could clearly see them now.

His legs.

"Eh?"

Arthur could not believe what he was seeing with his very eyes.

For so long as he dreamed about finally recovering his legs, but after so many years, such a dream seemed to be slowly fading away.

He had already begun to think that it would be useless to keep trying…

Yet because of Timassa and her support, and because Arthur did not want to make her suffer, he decided to keep striving forward… Although he had long ago begun to give up on his entire life.

If it were not because of the woman that was hugging him now, he might have even ended his life before he could have even reached this day.

Arthur began to cry, as warm tears started to drop from his crimson eyes.

"Aahh… My legs… but how? Is this… another dream? Is this another dream, Timassa?" wondered Arthur.

"No, Arthur-sama… Your legs… your legs are really back!" said Timassa with a warm smile, although her appearance changed slightly, she was still the same devoted woman that Arthur loved.

"H-How? How is this… real?" cried Arthur, as he finally noticed Jon at his side, he was touching his face.

Jon's brown hair had turned blue, and his eye was scarlet red… alongside that, the blind eye he had suddenly gained its color, and became purple-colored.

"My eye… I can see… with my two… eyes…" muttered Jon, he had said more words than Arthur had ever heard him say.

"So? How do you like your new legs and eyes? Nice, isn't it?" asked the familiar voice of a young man that has surprised the trio since he joined their party.

"Noah… You… You did this?" asked Arthur.

"Indeed, I did. And well, Iris also helped Timassa get through it. Now that you are all part of my creed, you will serve me for eternity," said Noah, his crimson eyes gleaming eerily with a dominant aura, which the three could not easily resist.

Although Arthur and Timassa seemed to resist a bit, Jon was completely fascinated with Noah and glanced at him with a lot of devotion in his eyes.

"Master…" he muttered, kneeling to Noah.

"Good, Jon seems to get it quite quickly," said Noah.

"Our family is steadily growing," said Iris, her crimson eyes gleaming just as eerily and dominant as Noah.

"What is going on? C-Can I get an explanation first…?" wondered Arthur, he couldn't feel afraid while being in front of his progenitor but had many questions.

"I… I have no clue either… But I am sure that most of my bones had broken and my internal organs were destroyed when I was hit by Edmond… My death was surely coming, yet my body feels completely anew," muttered Timassa.

"That's because of the regeneration that your new race brings to you," said Iris.

"New… race?" wondered Timassa.

"All three of you can already notice the changes in your appearance, right?" asked Noah.

"Check your attribute panels to realize your changes," said Iris.

Timassa, Arthur, and Jon quickly checked their Attribute Panels, glancing as their Attribute Values increased a bit, alongside acquiring new Skills and even acquiring a bloodline.

[Arthur]

[Bloodline: Dhampir (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 22]

[Mind: 35]

[Force: 19]

[Skill(s): [Healing Light: 53 (C)] [Healing Blight: 1 (B), [Dhampir: - (S), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Undying Body: 1 (A), [Waves of Erosion: 1 (B)]

[Jon]

[Bloodline: Dhampir (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 15]

[Mind: 20]

[Force: 15]

[Skill(s): [Hawk Eye: 61 (E)] [Clairvoyance: 1 (B), [Dhampir: - (S), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Undying Body: 1 (A), [Cursed Evil Eye of Phantom Pain: 1 (A)]

[Timassa]

[Bloodline: Ghoul (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 28]

[Mind: 45]

[Force: 19]

[Skill(s): [Bolt Arrow: 61 (C)] [Dark Bolt Spear: 1 (B), [Ghoul: - (A), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Undying Body: 1 (A), [Paralyzing Dark Lightning: 1 (A)]

Noah also took a peek at each of the new Vampiric subordinate's status, finding that they had grown exponentially stronger and acquired very useful Skills as well.

Some of them which he would immediately find a good use for.

Even Jon who was the weakest of the group acquired two new powerful Skills, Clairvoyance and Cursed Evil Eye of Phantom Pain, even with his low stats, he could still be useful through Clairvoyance that let him see anything he wanted in a large scope of vision of several meters around him, and the Cursed Evil Eye of Phantom Pain could inflict direct damage to a target just by glancing at it with it.

Arthur in the other case had his Healing Light Skill evolve into Healing Blight, which seemed to be an even stronger healing skill with the ability to also drain health from others, and then there were the waves of erosion, which seemed to let him release waves that could slowly erode things like a deadly toxic substance, however, the effect was limited to a certain range, and the erosion was slow, although it dealth damage, it wasnt as powerful as other attacks from Noah and his subordinates, and due to the slow effect, it could be more catalogued as a Skill that slowed and weakened enemies but didn't inflicted enough damage to make Arthur good at slaying monsters by himself completely, but he was a very good support unit.

Timassa's stats surprised Noah a bit, as she seemed to have been fairly okay before becoming a Ghoul, being specialized in the Mind Stat, her Bolt Arrow evolved into Dark Bolt Spear, an even stronger version of the former Skill, and she also acquired the Paralyzing Dark Lightning Skill, which could let her release paralyzing shocks of lightning at her target.

Noah now had even more useful tools at his disposal!

"Dhampir? What is… this?" wondered Arthur in surprise.

"And I am a Ghoul…?" asked Timassa.

"I am a Dhampir…" said Jon.

"Welcome to my creed. I am your Vampire Progenitor, through my bite, and that of Iris who was also converted by me, you have been granted a new chance at life. Rejoice, as only greatness awaits those that follow me," boldly said Noah.

"Vampire? Is this your Ability, Noah? To convert others into your race and give them power?" asked Arthur.

"Yes, it is an SSS-Rank Ability, after all, named the Blood Progenitor!" said Noah.

"Blood… Progenitor…" muttered Jon.

"Wait… then Noah, are you the one that sole Fernand's Blood Core?" asked Timassa in surprise.

"Heh, that's right," said Noah.

28 Kneel Before Your Progenitor!

After Timassa, Jon, and Arthur woke up, they quickly noticed the changes in their bodies.

Their skin had turned pale white, their eyes crimson red, and even their hair had been dyed of a different color except for Arthur, whose blonde hair remained of its original color, albeit while having lost some of its lusters.

After a little explanation, Timassa realized something…

Noah was the one behind the theft of Fernand Firebrand's Blood Core, the one he was carrying around and showing it off everyone like a fool.

Such item was an SSS-Rank Blood Core acquired from the drops of the SSS-Rank Blood Progenitor Boss, which Fernand had gotten his hands into after his older brother, an S-Rank Hunter gifted the item to him so he could grow stronger.

However, instead of using it straight away, he showed it off to everyone and even foolishly left it inside of his room, where Noah sneaked in by the instructions of the voice of the Blood Progenitor into his head and stole it, fusing with it and acquiring the powers of the Blood Progenitor!

"That's right, Timassa, I stole it and made it my power… Now that explanations are over, all of you shall join my creed, my family. I expect gratitude from you, as I have saved your lives and also given you a new strength…" said Noah.

"Kneel before Noah-sama," said Iris.

"K-Kneel?" asked Arthur.

Jon immediately kneeled again with fervent devotion, as Timassa and Arthur doubted it a bit.

Although they had the Subordinate's Royalty Skill, it seemed that they were resisting a bit, mostly because they were not as mentally vulnerable as Jon was.

However, as Arthur started to think about it, Noah did indeed save his life, and he even granted him the greatest wish he always had, getting his legs back.

Timassa was also healed from death's door, which was already amazing, something that not even Arthur's healing Skill could have done so easily and fast.

In the end, Arthur glanced at Timassa, as the two realized that they really did not have any other option…

Noah had already done so much for them, they felt inherently very grateful, and couldn't simply live with such guilt now, they had to serve him as much as they could…

Although these thoughts seemed natural in their minds, the Subordinate's Royalty Skill was already taking effect on their minds, encroaching their thoughts to admire their Progenitor, Noah.

"…Master, we shall now serve you," said Timassa.

"Please, count on us from now on…" said Arthur rather shyly, he still needed to get used to his legs a bit more.

"Good…" said Noah with an eerie smile, as Iris nodded in affirmation at his side with a pleasant smile.

"Now then, we got a big mess in here… If we stay for too long we may attract monsters. Let's drain their blood and steal their belongings for now… Such as these!" said Noah, walking towards the dried corpse of Edmond and grabbing his backpack with a blood tentacle, taking out 12 Cores from it.

"So many cores…" muttered Arthur.

"So they all died…" said Timassa.

"Cores…" said Jon.

"Indeed, we killed them as they were planning to kill us one way or another. As I said earlier, this test seems to have been made to provoke these types of conflicts, the military does not really care much about us, and it could even be said that we are all Guinea pigs for them," said Noah.

"That's… can't be true, right?" asked Arthur.

"It is true. Edmond and his harem were planning to leave us fatally wounded and then that the monsters were to take care of us. Arthur, can't you realize the truth already? We are trash, and we are even seen as eyesores to these people. For the sake of the few cores we collected, they would even be willing to kill us, albeit indirectly…" said Noah.

"That's… but…" muttered Arthur, his mind was still rather confused, but what said Noah slowly began to make sense on his head.

Indeed, even as a crippled and rich person, he was hated a lot, even the sole point of being weaker than the majority made him a target of abuse.

Although Timassa was at his side so he could not be physically wounded, insults and hateful stares were a thing of every day.

"Kill, kill, kill… Is this world just all about killing each other? Even after being… in such an apocalyptic era where we have a common enemy…" muttered Arthur.

"Indeed, I believe that such thoughts had simply intensified. The times had changed, people are starving on the streets, monsters and mutated beasts roam the world, and more dungeon keep appearing, this world is filled with chaos, even with this seemingly order, it still the survival of the fittest world. Or as they like to say, a dog-eat-dog world," said Noah.

"Have I lived in an illusion through the luxury of my family?" wondered Arthur.

"Arthur-sama… Don't say such things…" muttered Timassa.

"No, Timassa, he's right," said Iris.

"You had indeed lived in a tender illusion. Although I believe that even you had already begun to see this world with other eyes as you lost the hope of regaining your legs, haven't you?" asked Noah.

"I see… But even then, isn't this still illegal?" asked Arthur.

"In this world the strong rules the weak, even in this rearranged society where people live in closed Sectors, it still the same. Hunters of high Ranks are even allowed to kill other people as long as they don't leave enough evidence or bystanders to accuse them, the government even encourages such behavior sometimes, against other Sectors, killing the Hunters of other Sectors will help the government of the attacking Sector be able to easily assimilate that area and their resources," said Noah.

"That's… So what do we do with these corpses?" asked Arthur.

"Arthur, Timassa, Jon, do you feel that your throats are a bit sore?" asked Noah.

"Sore? Now that you say it… Yes…" said Arthur.

"Indeed…" said Timassa.

"Hmm…" nodded Jon.

"Then there is a nice buffet here, feel free to drink all these corpses' blood until they end up as dried mummies, they had died, so make sure to honor their lives by making all the use of their corpses. It is the least we could for them!" laughed Noah, as Arthur, Timassa, and Jon doubted a bit.

However, Jon simply waved his head, jumping into the beheaded corpse of a girl and beginning to drink its blood fiercely.

Arthur and Timassa ended up accepting such thirst, as the delicious scent of blood almost seemed intoxicating to their senses, their crimson eyes only gleamed more brightly.

Arthur then started to drink the blood of a corpse, while Timassa, as a Ghoul, gave in to her more beastly instincts, beginning to devour the corpses' flesh, which she found like the most delectable of meats she had ever tasted.

Half an hour passed in this little feast, as only a few carcasses were left, Timassa ate the flesh of two entire corpses in this little time, even her was beginning to doubt if she was really the same as before anymore… Even more, because she felt absolutely no guilt for what she did.

"You are all good feed now, Arthur, you have a Dimensional Storage Ring, right?" asked Noah.

"Yes, this is where we had been storing the Cores," said Arthur.

"Good, how many slots does it have?" asked Noah.

"Around fifty…" said Arthur.

"Alright, put these carcasses inside, it would be better if we simply leave absolutely nothing behind… And oh? Well, look at this…" said Noah with a wicked smile, as he took a strange Ability Core that he found above the corpse of Edmond…

29 Farming Cores For the Rest of the Test!

"I have found two more Ability Cores too…! Did these corpses dropped them?" asked Iris with curiosity, already going back to her cute and shy personality.

"Indeed, it seems that we simply had bad luck when you killed those two at the rooftop…" said Noah.

"Y-You had already killed more people?" asked Arthur.

"Yeah, well, she did," said Noah.

"A-Ah… Well… I was a bit wild there… Hehe…" said Iris apologetically.

"Anyways, did you know that Hunters can also drop Ability Cores? The chance is often kind of the same as normal monsters, which is quite low, but it seems that we got lucky this time, with three Ability Cores out of five people…" laughed Noah.

"I… did not…" said Arthur.

"Well, that's because we have never killed a person…" said Timassa.

"Hmm…" nodded Jon in affirmation.

"Well, I am not planning on stopping here. There are a few more people I really want to get rid of… but anyways, make sure to save the carcasses and the items they held," said Noah, as Arthur slowly walked with his new legs, still getting used to them as he collected the items.

"Now we have… around 18 Cores, we just need to defeat a few more monsters and we should be done in here… We still have around six hours or a bit more," said Arthur.

"Hm, let's grind for five hours then, we cannot waste the opportunity of grinding in such a Dungeon, as they had closed the dungeon entrances at night," said Noah.

"That's… well, it makes sense," said Arthur.

"Wouldn't we be disqualified if we get out of the dungeon late?" asked Timassa.

"No, the only thing they care about is getting out within these seven hours, this is why we can stay as much as we want," said Noah, walking around with his new party of vampiric subordinates.

"This could also be a good opportunity for all three of you to get more used to your new Skills and bodies," said Iris.

"Don't worry about appearances, as you can get back to your original human ones just by willing it. As long as you do not activate your Skills, that is it," said Noah, showcasing how his hair and eye colors suddenly turned back to normal.

"I-I see… Like this?" wondered Arthur, as his pale white skin suddenly turned healthy once more, and his crimson eyes became aquamarine.

"Oh, Arthur-sama, your appearance…" muttered Timassa, as her purple hair turned black alongside her crimson eyes turning black as well.

Jon also changed his appearance without saying a word.

"I wonder how we will explain my legs growing back… You don't want to reveal your power yet, Noah?" asked Arthur.

"Not yet, until I get my revenge that's it. After that, I might reveal it and then just leave this place altogether, with enough strength we can register as Hunters outside of this School and do as we please," said Noah.

"R-Really?" asked Arthur.

"Yeah, now that you have gotten your legs back and that your strength is surging, do you really care about this school altogether? We can even get our own manor now with your resources, after killing a few bastards in here, we will get out," said Noah, deciding the fate of his party immediately.

"I see… now that I think about it, if we can simply become Hunters, it would be better. Military School is just a hindrance," said Arthur.

"I will accompany you anywhere you go, Arthur-sama…" said Timassa with enamored eyes, although she was now devoted to Noah too, she was the most to Arthur.

Noah did not mind this as long as she was a loyal subordinate to him, and was not interested in her in the least nor in what she could feel for Arthur.

"However, I do have planned some kind of excuse for your legs growing back, so don't worry. And for Jon's eye, he can cover it with his hair," said Noah.

"I-I see…" said Arthur.

"Hm," said Jon while nodding in affirmation.

The party explored the Dungeon for the rest of five hours, without coming across another party, it seemed that the other parties might had already gathered their Cores and exited the Dungeon or… as Noah thought, they might have been caught by other parties and gotten their Cores stolen and then left to the mercy of the monsters while being wounded.

After five hours, the party had gathered up to 43 Cores in total, defeating any Walking Mushrooms and Shadow Lynxes that they came across, alongside the occasional Gale Bird, which was a large hawk with the ability to release strong winds.

There was not any Ability Core drop through the whole hunt, but Noah had already gotten three, which he planned to gift one to Iris (as she killed three of the girls, one of them that dropped an Ability Core) while keeping another two for himself.

Arthur, Timassa, and Jon practiced their new skills a bit more, and Jon's clairvoyance seemed to be very useful in detecting upcoming Monsters even more than his former Hawk Eye Skill.

Arthur practiced his Waves of Erosion, finding out that they were very effective on slowing down monsters and slowly affect them with a decaying effect on their bodies.

Lastly, Timassa was able to unleash even stronger bolt attacks, and her speed and mana pool had increased a large amount after becoming a Ghoul, she was even able to stockpile energy from the flesh she ate which she could use to heal her Mana quickly, similarly to Vampire's Blood Sphere, although Ghouls were not able to have these special skills.

When the party finally finished their exploration and gathering of Cores, they decided to slowly walk back to the entrance, as Arthur asked Noah what he planned to explain his legs growing back.

"Pretty simply, we'll cut them down, stop them from growing back by patching them with coagulated blood, and then you can come back tomorrow with them grown back, giving the excuse that your parents finally found you some kind of potion, you could even use this excuse with your parents, drinking some kind of tonic in front of them so they can see your legs growing back…" said Noah.

"Oh, that's such a good idea! I would have never thought about that," said Iris.

"Hmm," said Jon, nodding in affirmation.

"…Eh? You mean… cutting my legs… off?!" asked Arthur.

"Is there no other way, Noah-sama?!" asked Timassa.

"No, so grab him, it will be quick, and the pain will be a bit dull as you're a Dhampir, so don't worry about it," said Noah.

"I… But I…" muttered Timassa.

"I-It's fine, Timassa, please make sure to grab me tightly," said Arthur with a bitter smile, swallowing saliva as he sat down on his wheelchair again.

"Arthur-sama… Very well then!" said Timassa, grabbing Arthur's arms and chest, and tightly hugging him with her arms, making him feel comfortable through the floral scent of her cologne and her hair.

"It will be quick!" said Noah, laughing a bit as he extended his blood claws.

SLASH!

"UNNGGGAAH…!"

Arthur cried in pain as he gnashed his teeth, his legs tried to slowly grow back, but Noah quickly patched them with coagulated blood through his Blood Manipulation Skill, stopping the regeneration in time.

"Whenever you take off these blood patches, your legs would begin to regenerate again," said Noah.

"I-I see…" sighed Arthur, he had to bear the pain quite surprisingly, as Noah had expected him to scream louder, but it seemed that while being embraced by Timassa, he felt more reassured.

"W-What are you going to do with my legs?" asked Arthur.

"Well you can feed them to your wife- I mean Timassa," said Noah.

"W-Wife?!" asked Arthur while blushing.

"I… would gladly receive this gift, Noah-sama, Arthur-sama!" said Timassa, glaring at the freshly cut-off legs with a lot of voracity.

"…Eh?" muttered Arthur, with a bit of nausea.

Arthur ended up saving the legs for later, and the party finally walked out of the rift, surprising the many students and teachers who had expected them to have died because of how long they took inside.

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30 Perfect Score!

Noah and the rest of his party exited the rift rather carefreely, as they were greeted with the rest of the class' parties and the teacher, most of them were raising their eyebrows in surprise and disbelief.

"No way in hell…" muttered Fernand, he and his lackeys were all dumbfounded.

"T-They're alive?"

"How?"

"Weren't they trash? They would have surely died by the monsters…"

"Yeah…"

"This doesn't match at all…"

"So where's Edmond?"

"True, he hasn't come back with his girls…"

"Could they…?"

"Nah, they probably were lucky to not encounter many monsters, the maid of Arthur is a bit strong, so she might have handled the monsters… They were just lucky…"

"You're right, the fat pig Iris and the useless Noah couldn't possibly even beat a walking mushroom… even less that cyclops…"

Noah and his party ignored the gazes and comments of their classmates, as they walked towards the teacher who had his mouth open wide.

Even someone that seemed to be 'gentle' had already given up on them, and not because he wanted, but because the higher-ups at the Military School told him to forget about the weaklings, as this test would most likely filter them out.

However, here they were.

Alive.

"Did some of them awakened an Ability while fighting? Or perhaps they were simply lucky to not encounter too many monsters? …Then surely, if they did, they must have barely gathered enough Cores-" thought the teacher, as he was stopped by Noah's words.

"We are done. Here, 20 Cores for the best grade, right?" asked Noah with a gentle and innocent smile as he opened his backpack and showed the teacher the twenty glowing crystal spheres, Attribute Value Cores of Vitality, Mind, and Force.

"W-What?" asked the teacher, he glanced at the Cores, touched them, and realized that they were indeed real.

Even then, he had his doubts.

"Bring the artifact…" he said, as an assistant brought an artifact that resembled a box, where the teacher put the 20 Cores.

Ding!

The box then showed a holographic window, showcasing that they were indeed harvested in this Dungeon and not brought from another.

Every Core, even if they looked exactly the same, had an essence from their respective dungeon origin.

Such artifacts were able to detect this essence to immediately tell if these Cores were harvested in this Dungeon or not.

"Unbelievable… you actually… did it?" asked the teacher, as Noah's eyes gleamed with crimson light for a split of a second, as his aura suddenly released just a tiny bit, surprising many, who then immediately began to think that it was just their imagination due to their impression of Noah for so long.

"Yes, it was pretty hard, but with a lot of planning and the use of Timassa Bolt Arrow and Arthur's healing skills, we managed!" said Noah while smiling brightly, pretending to be genuinely surprised himself.

"That can't be true…"

"Oi, oi, oi, don't fuck with me, the useless bunch is getting higher grades than us?"

"Don't fuck with me…"

"Could they had stolen… from someone else?"

"Aside from Edmon's party missing, there are another few missing… but I doubt these weaklings could have stolen their Cores,"

"This smells fishy,"

"What if they really did… do something to others?!"

As the students began to try to find a reason why Noah and his party could have to find so many Cores while being so pathetically weak, the teacher realized that there might be something going on behind the scenes.

Perhaps Noah or any of the others in the party had some kind of reawakening, where they are granted a second Skill and even an increase in attribute values, which is an incredibly rare thing, but not impossible.

However, without an Appraisal Artifact at his side, he could only leave such things into conjectures.

For the moment, he simply decided to accept the Cores as proof of their skill and give the party a high grade.

After all, the higher-ups had told him that this test was made to provoke students to attack each other for the Cores, which could also filter the weaklings while leaving the more useful ones for the plans of the Military to convert them into Awakened Soldiers.

"Could they have killed other students to steal their Cores? There is always that possibility… But even then, they should not have enough strength to kill another party with five strong awakened students… I am certain. Someone has most likely reawakened. Or… Could it be? That boy, Noah has… The presence I sensed earlier…. Was it really my imagination?" wondered the teacher.

"Teacher…? What's wrong?" asked Noah with a concerned expression.

"AH. Nothing, you all pass the test with excellent grades… You can go back to your rooms to rest for the rest of the day… Here, make sure to distribute the Cores evenly," said the teacher, giving back the Cores to Noah.

"Thank you very much," said Noah while nodding, completely ignoring the stares and comments of his fellow students as he walked away with his party.

For some reason, they felt like they did not want to provoke them anymore…

Something weird was going on.

Not only Noah had released that weird aura that some assumed to be their imagination…

But Iris too was rather strangely content, her face seemed in another world completely, and she glanced at Noah with admiration.

Arthur, Timassa, and Jon too seemed strangely close with Noah and Timassa.

Certainly, they might have survived together and that could have forged some bonds, but not near as enough for them to be so oddly close together.

And even more bizarrely was that all four of them glanced at Noah as if he were some kind of leader or a glorious figure.

Which made some students particularly sickened.

Specially Fernand Firebrand…

"What the heck is going on in here?" he wondered, as he walked back to his room.

As Noah and his party walked through the Military School interior, the party seemed a bit curious as to where Noah was leading them.

"N-Noah, where are we going?" asked Iris, trying to not call him with honorifics while being in public.

"To my room so we can talk and distribute the Cores more comfortably. I have some drinks there," said Noah.

"Oh, Noah's room…" said Arthur.

"Master's room…" said Timassa.

"Oh…" said Jon as he flushed a bit.

"E-Eeeh? N-Noah's room?! But isn't it a bit earlier to go that far yet…?" asked Iris while flushing and covering her face, as a bit of steam came out of her reddened ears.

Noah glanced at him rather expressionlessly.

"Don't get weird ideas," he said.

"A-Ah! O-Of course not…" Iris said apologetically.

Noah took out his keys as he opened the door of his room, letting his party in one by one.

"Get yourselves at home, it is small, but this is my humble domain," said Noah, as Iris sat down on Noah's bed with a smile, as her lips trembled out of nervousness, the entire room was rather messy and filled with Noah's scent, which she particularly liked a lot.

Arthur and Timassa felt like the place was way too messy, but were gentle enough to not point it out.

Jon was happy to be there and stood at their side.

"Well then, do you like green tea?" asked Noah, opening his fridge and offering cold drinks to his vampires.

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31 Planning for the Future!

Noah offered his allies some cold drinks, as he finally sat down cross-legged on his bed, right in front of Iris, making her even more nervous.

Iris swallowed saliva as her thighs pressed against each other rather tightly, everyone else was watching her but she seemed to imagine that she was alone with Noah or something.

"Iris is really… in love with Noah…" thought Timassa, realizing her obvious facial expressions.

"She's not subtle at all…" thought Arthur.

"If Iris and Noah get together, would she be our mistress?" thought Jon.

Noah simply decided to ignore Iris's weirdness as he took out the Cores.

"43 Cores… I will distribute them based on your current strengths, but don't expect any generosity of my part, as I hunted most of them myself," said Noah.

Everyone nodded in affirmation, the only one that hunted Cores the most was Iris, then came Timassa, Jon, and Arthur.

In Noah's rules where the ones that hunt the most get the most, Arthur should barely get one or two.

Noah then decided to distribute the Cores around, keeping 23 for himself, while the other twenty were distributed between the four others evenly, although over ten should have belonged to Iris, she told Noah that she wanted to share them with her new allies and because Noah did not mind, he distributed these 20 evenly, giving five to each one.

Of course, just Five Cores was not really that much, to get to cross the E-Rank gap they would need way more, but it was better than absolutely nothing.

"Thanks, Master," said Timassa.

"Thanks a lot," said Arthur gently.

"Hm, thanks…" said Jon.

"With this, I might be able to cross 30 points in some attribute now!" said Iris with a bit of excitement.

"Now that we got that out of the way, let's discuss our plans for the future," said Noah, as his eyes gleamed with crimson light.

"Our future?" wondered Arthur.

"Indeed, our future, Arthur. And you are a crucial part of most of my plans, so I am rather glad that I have managed to get you into my side," said Noah.

"M-Me?" asked Arthur with a bit of embarrassment.

"Yes. You have money, right? That's what we lack now. We could make some bucks by selling Cores, but we are better using them on ourselves for now, so I always had the dilemma of money. But with you here, that shouldn't be a problem right?" asked Noah.

"I… Well, perhaps. But Noah, you have to know that my family is not the richest, we have a particular high capital that my father uses to slowly earn more through investing in his shops, but we are not near as rich as the top families of Sector D… We cannot simply buy any Ability Core or Cores you wish for immediately. After all, if that were the case, I wouldn't be so weak…" said Arthur.

"You have money to buy a manor, the most basic and cheapest of items for Hunters, and food, right?" asked Noah.

"Eh? Yes… In fact, this armor I am wearing alongside my small staff is C-Rank Equipment from the item shops that my father manages," said Arthur.

"That's more than enough then. Can you get me a Spatial Storage Ring?" asked Noah.

"Ah! Yes, I have a spare one in my house, I can bring it tomorrow," said Arthur.

"Good. We also are just starting our creed, but I aim to create our own Guild to act independently from the government… Although that might come later on, I want to set things for that moment starting now…" said Noah.

"A manor as a headquarters then? We could use the abandoned Manor that is within my family's territory… It used to belong to my grandfather before he passed out, I can tell my servants to clean it for us," said Arthur.

"Excellent. We also need better equipment, all of us are just in our day-to-day clothes, if it wasn't for the borrowed items from the school, we would be completely naked in dungeons. As we enter more difficult ones, it will become harder for us to get through those Monsters," said Noah.

"Equipment… I believe I could ask my father and his employees to make custom equipment sets for all of us… But I would need all of you to come to my manor for all of that… Ah! We could do that on the weekend, which is in two more days… After the small expedition to the wastelands," said Arthur.

"Custom equipment? That sounds feasible," said Noah.

"Custom equipment for me? I wonder what weapon could suit us?" wondered Iris.

"Hm, Noah-sama and Iris wield claws as your main weapon, but perhaps gauntlets that could cover your claws to give extra power into them could work," said Arthur.

"That sounds good. Now that we got the technical parts out of the way, I will let you know our next plans…" said Noah.

"What could it be?" wondered Timassa.

"To get stronger quickly," said Noah, his crimson eyes gleaming with conviction.

"But… Noah, you're pretty strong already…" said Arthur.

"Not enough," said Noah.

"How much?" wondered Timassa.

"For all of us to reach E-Rank," said Noah.

"E-Rank? Well, it should be possible…" said Arthur.

"In two weeks starting tomorrow," said Noah.

"Only two weeks?!" asked Arthur.

"To reach E-Rank in only two weeks for all of us… That would mean that we would have to spend the majority of our day at a dungeon, but we have school…" said Timassa.

"We will attend school as usual, but we will enter the school's dungeons if necessary… Or we can always escape School and enter another dungeon outside, I am sure that Arthur can get ourselves into one that might be within his family's possessions," said Noah.

"I-I… well yeah," said Arthur.

"And it's not like we are restricted to the military school, we are free to go out to the city when classes are over, as long as we get a stupid pass before that," said Noah.

"Sounds good… I want to grow stronger so I can protect you, Noah-sama…" said Iris.

"Protect me?" asked Noah.

"A-Ah! I-I mean, to be useful to you!" said Iris.

Noah averted his gaze from the embarrassed Iris as he put it back to Arthur, Timassa, and Jon.

"For now, all of you should go to your respective rooms… And Arthur you can go back to your house to get your legs back," said Arthur.

"Yes," said Arthur.

"Very well, Noah-sama," said Timassa.

"Okay," said Jon.

"You're dismissed," said Noah, as his party slowly left his room.

Noah sighed as he glanced at the ceiling.

At his side, there was an embarrassed and cute girl.

"What are you doing here? I told you to go back to your room," said Noah.

"I-I thought I could stay here a tiny bit more… A-After all, I am your first… converted Dhampir, Noah-sama…" said Iris with a shy smile.

Noah glanced at Iris with an expressionless face.

"You shouldn't disobey my orders," said Noah, gently smacking Iris's head.

Smack!

"Awuh!" cried Iris, as she rubbed her head, although it surprised her more than hurting her.

"Noah-sama… Can I stay here with you?" asked Iris.

"Hm? Why?" asked Noah while drinking green tea.

"It gets cold at night…" said Iris as she blushed more intensively, trying to approach Noah.

"Gahaha! She's really trying to get with you," laughed the Blood Progenitor.

"I couldn't be less interested in anything other than growing stronger and breaking the skull of those I despise, Iris, so get out," said Noah.

"A-Ah! Okay, okay! S-Sorryyyyy…!" cried Iris, as Noah kicked her out of his room.

"What a perverted woman…" sighed Noah.

"But isn't that good? Maybe you could get some descendants out of her!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"That's for the far future, so no thank you. It is not like I will reject her though, someone as loyal as her must be kept at my side. But I do not believe that it is the right time to get to do such things at night, while there are many threats ahead of my path," said Noah.

"You may talk it out rather eloquently, but I believe you're being shy," laughed the Blood Progenitor.

"Do you want me to tell my Eldritch Horror inside of my soul to eat you completely now?" asked Noah.

The Blood Progenitor fell silent.

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32 Learning Cultivation Techniques for Vampires!

As Noah was finally alone, he decided to quickly use the Cores he had gathered.

Receiving a great boost of power and several energies going around his body, he closed his eyes and meditated for a bit.

Slowly, he perceived the energy that the Blood Core on his chest emanated.

He decided to slowly guide these energies within his body, the ones that the Cores gave him, and then moved them to his own Core, intensifying the power, which then flowed back to his body repeatedly.

By doing this simple task several times in a row, Noah felt like a small bit of power was being slowly unlocked on his Blood Core.

"I can feel it… the hidden powers within the Blood Core… The ones that the Blood Progenitor said I would be able to unlock as I became stronger… Could it be possible to unlock them faster if I use the energy I gain from Cores like this?" wondered Noah, as he continued his meditation.

"W-What?! As he just becomes even better at Blood Core Cultivation?! This damn genius! To think that he was just a shrimp before I granted him all of this power, and now he just becomes a genius at the cultivation of my own world like that?!" sighed the Blood Progenitor, as he recalled his original world.

And how he came to be a Boss.

"Having lived so long in Abyss, the world of Vampires, just to end up being killed by a raid of Hunters from this measly world… and now, I am trapped in the body of one of these humans… Is this the karma of all the sins I committed in Abyss? Cursed Sun Heralds!" he thought, recalling his days in his original world, where he reigned a large territory.

Abyss, a world filled with Vampires, where the Sun God and the Moon Goddess once reigned, however, the first Vampire to have been born, known as the Blood God, sealed the Sun God and seduced the Moon Goddess, making her his concubine.

The world that was once in perfect brilliance at day and in perfect darkness at night became one of eternal darkness and night, with a moon shining brightly in crimson red, due to this, it was renamed as Abyss by their new inhabitants.

The children of the Sun God, the Sun Herald, were pushed back by the new race of Vampires, who governed in the eternal night.

Aiming to free their God, the Sun Heralds plotted the defeat of the strongest figures of Abyss' Vampires, and one of them was him, the Blood Progenitor.

"If it wasn't because they set me up in that Sunlight Barrier! However, rifts in Abyss had already begun to occur, bringing monsters from other worlds and well… these Humans who call themselves 'hunters'. At first, it was easy to defeat them, but stronger and stronger groups emerged… until those that call themselves S-Rank emerged, and my defeat came promptly after…" sighed the Blood Progenitor.

"So that's what happened…" said Noah.

"EH?!" cried the Blood Progenitor.

"So you come from a world named Abyss… and guys that resemble angels named Sun Heralds set you up in a barrier of some sort? The Hunters entered through the rifts that appear in here and killed you, calling your manor a dungeon…" said Noah.

"Y-You…! Did you read my Mind?!" asked the Blood Progenitor.

"When you begin thinking this intensively, I can more or less read it through the combination of my Telepathy Skill. Well, now it became even easier as I think I unlocked a bit more of power from my Blood Core," said Noah.

"Y-You!" roared the Blood Progenitor in anger.

"Now tell me more about that other world… And what you call "Cultivation", alright?" asked Noah.

"I… If I tell you more, you will only grow stronger… (And that's not what I want if I one day have to take over his body…)" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Let me tell you something. I am not asking you to tell me, I am ordering you. Whatever you were in the past, it has no meaning to me. You're my property now, Blood Progenitor, you're the source of my power and a big library of knowledge… Spit it out," said Noah, his menacing presence intimidated the small mind of the Blood Progenitor!

"S-So overwhelming…! I…" muttered the Blood Progenitor, as he sighed, and ended up answering a few questions while being mildly angered.

Noah got to know about Blood Core Cultivation and a few of their techniques, which consisted pretty much in what he was already doing, but a bit better and more refined.

One of such techniques was named 'Blood Core Refinement', where he would use internal energies (such as Mana) to create streams inside of his body, making them be absorbed by the Core and then expelled back to his body, creating a circle of self-nourishment.

Another one which needed fresh blood was named 'Blood Absorption Refinement', where instead of Mana or energies from the Cores, Noah could use the fresh blood of his enemies to do the same process as the previous technique, but this one yielded greater results and even made his blood stronger.

Blood Cultivation was necessary for him as a Vampire, as it was the secret behind unlocking new Skills.

Noah realized that he had been doing it quite roughly every time he drank blood from his enemies, and now he could do this more efficiently.

"Cultivation… An interesting power. I will make sure to use it well, do not worry. Your legacy will keep on going, Blood Progenitor," said Noah with a pleasant smile.

"I will not tell you anymore until you earn my trust a bit more!" roared the Blood Progenitor, he was quite the tsundere.

And because Noah did not want a grumpy old man roaring inside of his head all the time, he nodded, what he learned today was quite enough.

"So you come from a whole other world… the Sun God being sealed, the Moon Goddess becoming charmed by the Blood God, the Vampire Families, the Sun Heralds… So interesting… I wonder if one day we would be able to get there?" laughed Noah.

"…Why would you even want to get there?! You have your own world!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Well, as the Blood Progenitor descendant, I feel like it is my responsibility to take over that world as well… But for now, let's focus on our own," said Noah.

"I know that your personality fused with mine, but you're way too confident!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Hmph. Now, I will get some new Skills," said Noah, glancing at the two Ability Cores dropped by Edmond and his girls.

"Edmond's abilities were all about covering himself on rocks and throwing them, would I even be able to employ them correctly? And the other, I don't know which girl this is from, but all of them had useful long-ranged Skills… Well, time to dig in," said Noah, as he absorbed both Cores at the same time.

Ding!

[External Ability Cores detected]

[Triggering [Blood Core] new function]

[Assimilating information…]

[Generating new System Function]

[Complete]

"What?"

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33 New System Function Unlocked, Skill Trees!

In front of Noah's eyes, system windows began to pop up.

Something like this would be incredibly rare, as the only system windows he would see was his own attribute panel or sometimes the information about his Skills.

But this…

Was indeed odd.

And what was even the new System Function?

And how could it be possible for the Blood Core to affect the System in such a way?

"What is this? Oi, Dracula, why is the Blood Core affecting the System?" asked Noah.

"Dracula?! And what are you talking about?" asked the Blood Progenitor, who was now nicknamed as Dracula.

"The System is… generating a new function through the energy and essence detected in the Blood Core, it is as if the Blood Core itself was giving orders to the System… Care to explain to me how that is even possible?" asked Noah.

"I… How? Wait… Could it be? I have more or less figured how the System that you Humans use. It is a special Divine Construction that helps Humans absorb powers and energies from other sources, even from other worlds. This way, such power is converted in yours through Attribute Values and Skills… if the System is doing the same function with the Blood Core… It could be possible that the Blood Core is unlocking more of my capabilities and then inserting them into the System through its ability to assimilate energy and power… But this… The Blood Core is doing everything by itself! Could it be that it has harnessed some kind of consciousness due to its high amount of concentrated energy?! But this is… near impossible!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"Well it's happening right in front of my eyes…" muttered Noah, as he was greeted by many new System Windows.

[New System Functions Generated]

[New System Functions: [Ability Core Exchange] and [Blood Progenitor's Skill Tree] have been created]

"Ability Core Exchange and… Blood Progenitor's Skill Tree… Did you had this before, Dracula?" asked Noah.

"Stop calling me Dracula! And no. To begin with, Abyss never had any kind of strange System like you Humans have, we forged our strength by devouring other beings Blood Cores and Bloodlines, strengthening our Bloodlines Abilities… But Skill Trees are certainly… strange," said the Blood Progenitor.

"Maybe it is a way for the System to assimilate all the saved up power within the Blood Core that I still cannot unlock yet… This makes it way more convenient," said Noah with a smile, as he checked the two new Functions descriptions.

[Ability Core Exchange: Exchange Ability Cores for Skill Points, and use them to learn new skills through the Blood Progenitor Skill Tree, or new Skill Trees that might be acquired or generated after exchanging many Ability Cores]

[Blood Progenitor's Skill Tree: The Skill Tree of the Blood Progenitor, containing many Levels which possess abilities, Attribute Values Bonuses, Cultivation Techniques, and Skills that can be exchanged through the use of Skill Points acquired by exchanging Ability Cores through the [Ability Core Exchange] System Function]

"Skill Points, so I can pretty much use Ability Cores to get my own Abilities instead of random half-assed stuff… Well, there is also the option of just using them and ignoring this… but… Skills from the Skill Tree are most likely better suited for me as a Vampire than just covering my hand in rocks…"

Ding!

[Do you wish to exchange [Ability Core (D), and [Ability Core (C)] for 70 Skill Points?]

[YES NO]

"Only 70 Skill Points… Seems like a very small amount… But maybe it is good enough…" thought Noah, as he selected the 'YES' Option.

Flash!

Suddenly, the two Ability Cores that he had gotten by killing his fellow classmates disappeared into bright light, merging themselves with him.

Ding!

[You acquired 70 Skill Points]

"70 Skill Points… Let's check this Skill Tree and what's is all about…" thought Noah, as he selected the Blood Progenitor's Skill Tree.

Skill Trees

[Blood Progenitor] [Innate: The Skill Tree of the Blood Progenitor, generated through the innate powers of the Blood Core, using Skill Points will unlock more of its hidden power and the various abilities of this entity.

Complete the Level 1 Skill Tree to unlock further Skill Tree Levels, with the possibility of generating a new Skill Tree all together.

[Level: I]

[Blood Progenitor Successor (0/50): Spend Skill Points into this branch to unlock more of the innate strength of the Blood Progenitor, such as bonus Attribute Values, Skills, and more.

Additional Abilities can be unlocked after the Branch is Maxed.

Additional Abilities (I): [Blood Flow Acceleration (0/5), [Blood Sacrifice (0/5), [Blood Retribution: (0/10)]

Additional Abilities (II): [Vampiric Eyes of Hypnosis (0/10), [Poisonous Blood (0/10), [Blood Curse (0/20)]

Additional Abilities (III): [Blood Armor: (0/25), [Blood Potion (0/30), [Blood Combustion (0/40)]

"Oh? This is interesting… Although I will have to go in order, it seems… I cannot cherry-pick whatever I want… But at the very least, these are guaranteed abilities instead of the randomness of Ability Cores, so that's certainly a plus," thought Noah.

Noah then decided to max out the branch and finally access the Additional Abilities, which seemed rather enticing.

Ding!

[You have spent 50 Skill Points]

[The [Blood Progenitor Successor (50/50)] Skill Tree Branch has been Maxed!]

[You acquired bonus Attribute Values]

[You acquired bonus Skill Proficiency]

[The power of your subordinates has increased]

Noah then felt as his Attribute Values increased by a small amount, it was not anything outstanding, but it was better than nothing.

Aside from this, all the Skills he had gained a bit more of Skill Proficiency, becoming stronger.

And lastly, it seemed that the power of his 'subordinates' increased when he maxed the level of the Branch, although he was not sure what this could truly mean aside from just making them stronger through Attribute Values bonuses.

Noah himself also felt stronger, as if his entire body were being shrouded in an aura of crimson red.

And all of this through just two Ability Cores…

Ding!

[You acquired the [Blood Soul: 1 (A)] Skill]

"Blood Soul?!" asked Noah in surprise, as he felt like something within him, not his physical body nor blood had changed.

"You… You acquired a Blood Soul already?!" asked the Blood Progenitor.

[Blood Soul: 1 (A)]

A Skill that changes the nature of the wielder's soul to that of Blood, being capable of manipulating it through Blood Manipulation and use it in the same way as other blood could be used.

The nature of a soul is unique, as it can bypass material objects and ignore physical damage.

However, if the Soul is overused, the soul could receive damage.

By consuming blood and enhancing the user's soul with it, such damage can be mitigated, and the power of your Blood Soul will increase.

"Hoh? Isn't this absolutely amazing then, Dracula? Were you hiding this treat from me? Well, too bad!" laughed Noah, as he felt his soul flowing like a river of crimson blood inside of his body, nourishing his Blood Core through Cultivation Techniques now seemed easier!

"And now, for the main dish… Let's get some Bonus Abilities!" said Noah, as he glanced at the first Skill on the list, deciding to use the last 20 Skill Points he had.

34 New Skills! More Power!

Noah felt as his soul evolved, acquiring the power of flowing like blood and therefore being capable of manipulating it like blood through Blood Manipulation, he had now 20 Skill Points left, which he planned to use on Additional Abilities within the Skill Tree Branch.

"Although I cannot check the Abilities as they are, I can check them when I unlock them through Skill Points, although based on their names, I can already guess that Blood Flow Acceleration might be a buff-type Skill, Blood Sacrifice might involve damaging the user through the sacrifice of my blood, and blood retribution might go in tandem with blood sacrifice…"

Ding!

[You have spent 5 Skill Points!]

[You unlocked the [Blood Flow Acceleration: 1 (C)] Skill!]

Ding!

[You spent 5 Skill Points!]

[You unlocked the [Blood Sacrifice: 1 (C)] Skill!]

Ding!

[You spent 10 Skill Points!]

[You unlocked the [Blood Retribution: 1 (C)] Skill!]

"Four Skills in exchange for two Ability Cores harvested from mildly talented kids… How amazing! And even my Attribute Values increased as a bonus! So I am finally becoming capable of harboring more of your original power, Dracula!" laughed Noah, as he immediately checked the three new Skills.

Noah used [Blood Flow Acceleration] in exchange for some large quantity of Mana.

Flash!

Suddenly, Noah's blood began to rush through his body as if there was no tomorrow!

"Ohh?!"

Noah's muscles seemed to become stronger and more flexible, his skin was becoming a bit redder instead of pale, and even his body was exuding a bit of steam!

He was burning calories like crazy!

It was as if Noah's body was an engine, and it had finally started using all the fuel it had!

Although Noah could use Mana for the Skill activation, he clearly noticed that this consumed his stamina and calories saved up, and realized that if he wanted to count on this amazing buff, he would have to eat food and not just survive on a diet of blood.

"That's… Blood Flow Acceleration! Impressive… So you can even do that now…! However, if you overuse it, you will fall unconscious, you need to stockpile energy first," said the Blood Progenitor.

Noah felt like all of his senses increased, it was a feeling even greater than when he employed the Champion's Great Perseverance!

He moved even faster, and his strength had also increased exponentially!

However, he clearly felt like his energy was diminishing at an outstanding pace.

He could either drink blood or have a lot of stockpiled energy/calories beforehand.

Noah quickly deactivated the Skill, as he realized that if he combined it with the effects of Champion's Great Perseverance, he would be able to enhance both his defenses, attack and speed!

Even if his base Attribute Values did not match an E-Rank Hunter yet, he was now confident that he could fight one on equal footing.

The issue was the immense use of energy and mana, to achieve this level of power, Noah was sacrificing a lot of his 'fuel' and could not maintain this for eternity, he still had to plan, plot, and scheme for a good opportunity to fight, and he was not strong enough to overpower everything.

"An amazing Skill, but I will need energy stockpiled to use it properly… Well, I will go buy some food then, Arthur left me some of his money," thought Noah.

The next Skill to use was… Blood Sacrifice.

By sacrificing blood, Noah was able to enhance his Mind and Force Attribute Values, but his Vitality Attribute Value would decrease.

The more he used blood, the more his Vitality and Health would decrease, becoming frailer, but his Mind and Force would become even greater.

It had a clear advantage and a disadvantage.

However, as long as he did it moderately, he would become able to enhance himself even more!

But if overused… he could even die.

By adding up all these buffing Skills, Noah could be able to even get to a peak E-Rank!

However, the things he would need to sacrifice and the momentaneous effect of these Skills did not make them as reliable unless he prepared well.

"However… there is a Skill that works the more blood I sacrifice…"

Blood Retribution was a special Skill that enhanced the damage of the attacks Noah dealt based on how much he has lost, not only by using it through Blood Sacrifice but also various wounds and more.

With this, he would become even stronger the more cornered he was… but it wasn't as if Noah enjoyed being cornered, nor was his intention for every fight he might undergo in the future.

"These Skills are impressive, with this, my power has become more flexible… Now I am looking forward to acquiring more Ability Cores! However… these Ability Cores were good because I acquired them from humans. The ones dropped by monsters will certainly not give me as many Skill Points based on their lower quality… Hm… Should I go hunt Ability Users to strengthen myself then? No. It is better to lay low for now… But perhaps at a later date," thought Noah, as he decided to not be reckless and do something incredibly stupid to get some little more power, which could risk his entire life in the process.

After all, if he wanted to kill people, he would have to plan it out.

Noah walked out of his room, as he went to buy food to stockpile calories.

Oddly enough, no matter how much he ate, he never felt full, nor his stomach became fat.

It was as if his food was being made into calories incredibly quickly as if his metabolism has been enhanced.

After eating more than he had ever done before, Noah decided to meditate until morning.

Noah opened his crimson eyes, as the light of the sun crossing through the window greeted him.

Strangely enough, Noah remembered that Vampires of fiction were weak to sunlight, yet he had no such weaknesses for some reason.

Although he might have other weaknesses such as Silver, he wondered why this a thing was.

"Sunlight Weakness? Yes, Vampires in Abyss used to have, however, when the eternal night came, we never had to worry about such things anymore… Oh well, as long as you keep drinking blood, possibly human blood, your weaknesses to sunlight, silver, or light and fire will be decreased. This is the power that only Progenitors have, as lowly Vampires that do not have our bloodline do suffer these things even by drinking blood. But as long as you keep yourself nourished, such weaknesses are non-existent. Beings converted by you such as the Dhampirs or the Ghouls converted by your Dhampirs inherit this trait as well," said the Blood Progenitor.

"Well, that's indeed quite convenient… But I am glad that there are not such stupid weaknesses inhibiting my goals… As long as I keep myself well fed, that is it… And just yesterday we had a very bountiful harvest, so I do not think I would need fresh human blood in a few days," said Noah.

"Indeed, you're more merciless than I thought you would become, so feeding yourself with human blood shouldn't be a problem for you as long as your classmates keep being idiots that underestimate you," laughed the Blood Progenitor, as Noah walked out of his room, reaching his class.

However, unlike other times, Noah received strange gazes, and Fernand did not come to beat him as always even though he saw him walking to class as well.

Perhaps something akin to an instinctual fear had surged within their hearts, as Noah's presence warped into something strange and bizarre…

However, the students gazes quickly averted from Noah as Arthur entered the classroom with Timassa at his side.

This time, Arthur entered walking.

35 Arthur's Family Happiness

A few hours ago…

Arthur reached his manor as he was greeted by the many servants he had, and his parents, who had just recently come back from a business trip to Sector C, near their current Sector.

"Ah, my boy, how has school been? Has Timassa taken care of you?" asked his father, as Arthur sat down with his parents to have dinner together.

"…Yes, it has… been quite a good… experience," said Arthur, trying to avert from his mind the memories of what had just happened a few hours ago.

"Arthur-sama has been an excellent student, my lords. His grades have been always the highest," said Timassa with a gentle smile.

Hearing Timassa praises their son so much filled Arthur's parents with a lot of pride.

"Mufu, of course! I couldn't expect less from my son," said Arthur's father, a short man of almost the same stature as his son, who had a fat belly and a funny-looking blonde mustache.

"We are still searching for a way to bring your legs back, but we had brought some new All-Healing Elixirs that we got in an exchange as souvenirs, why don't you try them out?" asked Arthur's mother, a beautiful and radiant woman with silky black hair and aquamarine eyes, with a slim and slender figure.

"Ah! Sure thing… (Should it in here? But… it might be a bit disgusting for them…)" thought Arthur, as he decided to simply do it straight away now that his parents were with him.

"Alright then! Here goes… nothing!" said Arthur, as he sipped the elixirs mixed together in a glass.

They tasted quite bitter, but he endured the taste and then quickly began to force his regeneration on his legs, throwing away the blood patches that exploded into blood on the floor, as his parents became startled and on almost disbelief as they saw their son's legs grow back like new!

From the bones that slowly grew like a sapling to the cartilage, muscle, blood vessels, and skin!

"Oh my… OH MY GOD!" cried Arthur's father, almost falling into the ground before a nearby butler caught him in time.

"A-ARTHUR! My Son… your legs! They are… they are back!" cried Arthur's mother, as she jumped towards her son and hugged him tightly, crying all over him.

"Carry me to my son!" cried Arthur's father, as a large and stoic butler grabbed him with his enormous muscles and carried him near Arthur, which he hugged.

"I am so happy! At last! We have finally gotten your legs back!" cried Arthur's father.

"It has been so long… But finally…! Finally!" cried Arthur's mother.

"I am also very happy… But could you… not squeeze me so hard?" asked Arthur while trying to breathe.

"O-Oh, my bad!" said Arthur's father.

"It has been so long… Since I saw my little boy's legs…!" cried Arthur's mother, as she kept squeezing him.

"I am… also very happy of it…" cried Arthur, as he gave in to his emotions and cried quite loudly, Timassa at his side cried silently with a warm smile, and the rest of the servants glanced at the scene with a lot of emotion, most of them knew Arthur since he was a little child, and after the incident where he lost his legs due to an accident in the streets that the family has been trying to get his legs back for so long.

Now, it had finally happened, and Arthur, who they saw as something akin to their son due to how long they had been taking care of him, had finally gotten his legs back due to the efforts of their lords.

…Although not exactly.

If it was not because of Noah, Arthur might have had to wait god knows how long to get his legs back.

It was certainly something that Arthur could not reveal to his parents… yet.

However, what he could reveal was that he had formed a party with Noah, and about the ambitions that he now shared with him.

"Oh, our son has finally gotten strong friends at his side! His dream will finally come true!" cried Arthur's mother.

"Oh, such joy! My son had finally made friends! And such strong allies as well! I see I see! We shall tell the servants to go clean my father's manor, that will be your future headquarters! Don't worry my son, you will have all of my organization support for your future Guild!" said Arthur's father, he loved to spoil his son rotten, and barely questioned him when Arthur asked him all the things that Noah wanted.

"Really father?" asked Noah.

"Of course! However, I would love to meet them! Could you bring your friends here? We can even invite them to pass the night in here, they could get in here early so we can have breakfast, lunch, and dinner with them! Oh, and we could even go through the city to one of our favorite restaurants!" said Arthur's father, already planning everything, he was a simple man that enjoyed simple things in life, such as eating and going out.

"They will surely come, I had already invited them to come at the weekend, in two more days!" said Arthur.

"Excellent then! It is decided!" laughed Arthur's father, he couldn't be happier right now.

"Make sure to be gentle with your friends, Arthur, never treat them unfairly, as they are precious allies that will accompany you through your life. Especially in this kind of world, and based on the things you want to aim, having reliable companions at your side will be of utmost importance!" said Arthur's mother.

"Yes, mother… Noah, Iris, and Jon are good people," said Arthur… although he could not help but remember when Noah and Iris slaughtered five students mercilessly.

They were not good people at all…

In fact, they could be considered to be criminals… and psychopaths.

But Arthur wanted to believe that they had… good intentions.

At least, for him and his family.

Yes, at the very least, he was not the one being targeted, but their ally.

He felt rather lucky for that.

And well, he got his legs back thanks to Noah, so it was not as if they didn't do anything good for him.

In fact… getting his legs back was his greatest dream.

And he even got new Skills and powers out of it as well.

It could be said that he was indeed an incredibly lucky person.

He might as well embrace his new friends and help them however he can.

Noah entered the classroom as he found Arthur walking inside, every student except him, Iris, and Jon were dumbfounded.

Their eyebrows were raised up to their foreheads, and their jaws dropped to the ground.

Arthur, the crippled and legless rich boy was now walking.

And they did not seem like prosthetic legs, they were in fact real flesh legs, as Arthur wore shorts this day to just show everyone he had indeed grow back legs.

The teacher dropped his book as he glanced at Arthur in surprise.

"This… Arthur, you… have healed your missing legs! Incredible… Congratulations! After so many years… I am… very glad for you and your parents!" said the teacher, pretending to be happy, although he was very surprised, according to what he knew, there wasn't any healer capable of letting other people grow back legs that weren't an S-Rank Hunter, whose services were so expensive that the little rich family of Arthur could never fathom to pay unless they were to go broke for him.

"This is…"

"No way…"

"He got his legs back?!"

"Is this not an illusion?"

"Holy shit…"

The students began to show their discomfort as well, as Arthur was always bullied for being crippled… and well, now he was not anymore.

Noah smiled at Arthur's entrance, as he savored the awe of his fellow students.

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36 Mutated Beasts and Subhumans

Now that Arthur had regained his legs in just a night, most of the students within class glanced at him with disbelief.

Arthur smiled gently as he saw down on his chair instead of replacing it with a wheelchair, and now that Timassa did not have to be behind him at all times, she decided to sit down at his side by Arthur's request.

"Master is it really prudent to sit at your side?" asked Timassa while flushing a bit.

"Yeah, why not? You're also a student at this school, Timassa, and my good friend too," said Arthur.

"Arthur-sama…" muttered Timassa, glancing at Arthur with enamored eyes, she was indeed quite in love with her master, although it seems that their relationship was still strictly of master and servant.

The teacher noticed that the students kept babbling about and that it had already been over ten minutes since classes should have started, so he decided to shut down the students and begin classes.

"Silence everyone, enough of your comments. Now that Arthur has his legs back, all of you should be happy for him. Now, let's begin classes, take out your Monster Bestiary Books and go to page 23," said the teacher.

All of the students sighed, taking out their Monster Bestiary Books and glancing at page 23.

There, Noah noticed the drawing and pictures on these pages.

They were strange and malformed creatures, some looked oddly humanoid, while others resembled a horrifying mutant creature made up of many corpses.

However, these creatures were real and not a work of fiction, they existed just a few kilometers away from Noah's current position, in the outskirts of Sector D, the wastelands, as they call them.

"Mutated Beasts…" muttered Noah.

"As you can tell, tomorrow we will go on a quick trip to the wastelands outside, so you can get more used to that environment. After all, not all threats are inside Dungeons, but in our own world there are countless natural enemies, Mutated Beasts," said the teacher, as he began to write a few things on the blackboard.

The teacher seemed particularly good at drawing, as he drew a humanoid figure.

"Mutated Beasts can range from normal animals, plants, and well, us, humans," said the teacher.

"Teacher, how did Mutated Beast came to be?" asked a beautiful and tall girl with a slender figure, sharp clear blue eyes, and long azure hair, one of the stoic and silent beauties of the class, Clementina Icespear.

"Clementina, I was about to explain that. But Mutated Beasts came to be when the waves of miasma hit our world, twenty years ago, animals, humans, and plants began to mutate randomly. Those that survived the mutations became like us, awakened, acquiring abilities which we employed against the monsters. And well, those that were not so fortunate… became mutated beasts, undead, or other entities," said the teacher as he began to add multiple limbs, masses of flesh, and eyes over the human figure he drew.

"This is your typical Human-type mutated beast. They have humanoid figures but are mutated and grotesque, they often possess multiple limbs, eyes, noses, and large mouths to engulf prey easily. All of them possess superhuman strength, and some had even been seen to be capable of using Abilities like monsters… Mutated Beasts do not give us Cores, however, their bodies are precious resources for the creation of items. Unlike monsters who disappear when we kill them, Mutated Beast's corpses remain, and are one of our major resource points aside from extracting materials from the dungeons, such as Magic Crystals that often grow inside Dungeons such as the Goblin Caves," said the teacher.

"Mutated beasts were former humans, right? Is it okay to kill them, teacher?" asked Arthur as many of the students glared at Arthur's innocent question with annoyed expressions.

"Of course it's fine to kill them, idiot! Do you want to get eaten by them or something? Well feel free to go and die," said Fernand Firebrand, as he provoked the laughter of many students.

"Don't dare insult my master!" roared Timassa.

"Tch, shut up subhuman slave," said Fernand.

"You…!"

Timassa was about to blow away Fernand with a bolt arrow but was stopped by Arthur.

"Calm down," said Arthur.

"Master…" muttered Timassa.

"Ahem. Yes, Arthur. Mutated Beasts that used to be humans had been mostly exterminated at this point, however, their eggs had remained, and they multiply incredibly quickly, those that were former humans had died, but their grotesque offspring are still going around. Although they might have human-like features, they are in fact monsters, and they will try to kill you if you get near them. Make sure to remember that, they are not humans anymore," said the teacher, repeating several times over the 'they are not humans anymore' words.

"I-I see…" sighed Arthur.

"I do wonder though, are Subhuman considered Mutated Beasts?" asked a bratty student.

Subhumans.

A word that only existed in fiction before the apocalypse.

However, subhuman existed in real life now.

Aside from awakened people who remained as humans with powers, subhuman are humans that mutated and became half-beasts, acquiring the power of mutated beasts while remaining their human-like intelligence.

There have been many subhuman species detected through these twenty years, but they are often discriminated against and not seen as humans, often slaughtered as resources similarly to monsters.

The surviving tribes live in the middle of the wastelands, making such dangerous places their home.

"Subhumans? Although they possess a more advanced intelligence, they are the same as mutated beasts. They might be intelligent, but they employ such intelligence to hurt us and prey on us. Subhuman only see us as food and nothing else, and just like Mutated Beasts, they should be exterminated at sight, and if you are not strong enough to kill them, make sure to escape as fast as you can from them," said the teacher, as Noah began to think something.

"Subhumans… Could I and my converted vampires considered Subhumans then? I wonder if there might be others like me…" thought Noah.

"It's impossible, you are a unique existence due to my Blood Core! Measly Subhumans cannot compare to your power and talent… because it was all mine, to begin with!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"No one told you to speak, Dracula, shut up," said Noah while being mildly annoyed with Dracula.

"Noah-sama… Are we Subhumans?" asked Iris through telepathy.

"I don't know, but it could be said that we are… However, as we can remain in the appearance of humans without any issue, our powers can also be simply masked as a new type of Ability," said Noah through telepathy.

"I see…" sighed Iris through telepathy.

"Teacher, if Subhumans are so dangerous, why do people keep them as slaves?" asked another student.

"Well, that's simple, similarly to how we keep monsters as pets sometimes if you discipline them well, they become loyal and valuable allies in battle. As long as they wear an Obedience Necklace, it should be safe to own them, although they are not cheap at all, and I would recommend you to simply have reliable friends instead of Subhuman slaves at your side," said the teacher.

"In my house, we have like five of them!"

"I like how stupid they are, if I ask them to bark for me, they do!"

"Yeah, Subhumans are fun pets, I like to take mine out for a walk sometimes, although she gets crazy sometimes,"

"You guys sure are rich, we cannot even get more than two Subhuman Slaves,"

"Damn, I wish I wasn't so poor, I would surely get myself a sexy one,"

Amongst the students, most of those that belonged to rich families held many Subhuman Slaves, seeing them as pets and not as people.

Even Arthur was not the exception to this rule, although Timassa was half-subhuman and mostly had human traits.

However, Arthur knew that she had a small cat-like tail hidden below her clothes.

The classes continued until break time came and then resumed once more until late, where the students were finally freed from a military education.

"Come to my room in one hour, make sure to be well prepared," said Noah telepathically to his vampires, as he walked back to his room.

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37 The Threat of an S-Rank

Sector C, 8 PM.

Inside a large skyscraper, a man in his thirties with a muscular figure, with long and spiky crimson hair, glanced down below into the beautiful city at night, many lights illuminated this dark night, and the city was very busy even when it was getting quite late.

His eyes gleamed with an orange and fiery glow, as he wondered how his little brother might be doing.

"I wonder if he already managed to absorb that Core? If he did, he should not even be in that school anymore… I guess I will ask him- Oh?"

The man received a phone call from a familiar number.

"Talking about the devil, how are you?"

The man answered the call as he asked his little brother how he was doing.

"I… lost it…" said the voice of his little brother.

"Eh? What did you lose?" asked the man.

"…The Core that you… gave to me…" muttered the boy.

"Sorry! I am deeply sorry! I… I don't know how it disappeared, I had it saved inside of my room, which was even locked when I left it… But when I came back the room was unlocked and the Blood Core… gone," said the young brother.

"Aniki?"

"YOU FUCKING IDIOT! It was meant to be your fucking ticket to my league, and you fucking lost it?! Why didn't you used it the moment I gave it to you, to begin with?! Were you showing it off your stupid friends?!" asked the man, his eyes suddenly releasing flames of anger!

"I… I… Well… Yes…" sighed the young brother, as the man simply lost it.

"GRAAAARRGHH…! Now a random ass kid is going around with an SSS-Rank Core?! Are you fucking insane?! Maybe… he already fucking used it! You gotta find that kid right fucking now!" roared the man.

"I've tried… But recently no one has shown any signs of showing some kind of Skills related with the Vampire Boss where you took the Core from…" said the young brother.

"Then look harder, Fernand! Or I am going to get there and personally beat your ass and whoever stole it!" roared the man, as his brother screamed in fear.

"Y-Yes! Sorry! I am very sorry, aniki! Please don't come here! I will find it! I promise!" cried the young brother.

"You better fucking do it, Fernand, you better fucking do!" roared the man, closing the call and then suddenly hitting the entire wall with a blazing punch!

BOOM!

The entire building began to tremble, barely stabilizing itself!

An enormous hole appeared on it, as pieces of the building fell to the streets down below, crushing a few innocent people.

"FUCKING HELL!!!" roared the man, as flames surged over his entire body, like a living torch, he unleashed a gigantic beam of concentrated heat towards the sky, illuminating the entire night for a brief moment!

BOOM!

A gigantic explosion unfolded in the sky, as many people glanced with surprise, many thinking that it was some kind of firework of sorts.

"I should have never given that idiot the fucking Core… For once I was trying to be a good older brother and this spoiled shitass ends up having it stolen?!" roared the man, sitting in the building while glancing at the city through the giant hole he made.

Suddenly, another call came, as the fire-resistant phone he possessed showed up another familiar number.

"What do you even think you're doing?!" asked the voice of a man.

"Ah, chairman… What's up?" asked the man.

"What's up my ass! Why did you just blow off a piece of the building?! Two people were flattened like pancakes down below by the debris!"

"Oops…" laughed the man.

"Sigh… If you weren't a freaking S-Rank Hunter I would have sent you to prison a long time ago buddy!"

"Haha, yeah sure. I am way too strong for you to waste me in prison, even if I were an A-Rank or B-Rank I bet you wouldn't even dare touch me anyways," laughed the man.

"Tch…! The reparations are going to be discounted from your pay!"

"Yeah sure whatever," sighed the man.

"Why is an S-Rank Hunter such an immature fucking brat-"

The man closed the call midway through as he threw the phone down the building, without a care of the world.

"Man, I got pretty angry there… Maybe I should go release some steam in some nearby Dungeon…" said the man, covering himself in flames once more and jumping off the building, flying like a meteor of flames through the sky…

Unaware of the lurking threats that the future awaits, Noah's party enters his room after an hour of preparing.

"Noah-sama, we are ready," said Iris, she had taken out her school uniform and was now wearing simple sports clothes.

"Hm," said Jon while nodding, he was also wearing simple clothes which he did not mind getting covered in blood.

"Err, Noah, what are we going to do?" asked Arthur.

"Oh nothing much, we'll get out of here for the rest of the night and go grind in the nearby F-Rank Dungeon for more Cores," said Noah.

"But tomorrow there is…" muttered Arthur.

"Yeah, the trip to the wastelands… So what? We still have to train and become stronger, we cannot waste such a beautiful night as this one… And well, is someone hungry by any chance?" asked Noah.

"Hungry?" asked Timassa, as she remembered that one day ago she ate two corpses by herself. Since then, she had not felt any hunger and has not drunk nor eaten any other food.

"The night is beautiful, and we all are a part vampire. Shouldn't it be ideal for us to go hunt some innocent and weak civilians?" asked Noah.

"B-But that might be dangerous!" said Arthur.

"Nah, there are a lot of homeless people around… And well, we have to feed ourselves, right? Oh, a new member is joining us today…" said Noah, as the party heard a knocking sound in Noah's room door.

Knock, knock…

"Who might be?" wondered Timassa, as she opened the door, which revealed a lugubrious woman.

Her skin was pale gray, and her eyes crimson red, her hair was blonde, but it has lost a lot of its bright colors and seemed old.

"Oh, Adamantine, so she recovered already?" wondered Iris.

"Indeed, although her mind is completely broken, she had been given the liberty of sleeping in her room, mostly because the teachers and doctors in here do not even care about her anymore, so I went to take her a visit and ordered her to come here in an hour, so here she is… She's rather hungry," said Noah.

"Master… Mistress…" muttered Adamantine with a dry voice, glancing at Noah and Iris with wicked fascination.

"That's… Adamantine… She's one of us?" asked Arthur.

"Yes, I guess you had already figured out who killed her two little friends and let her in the dungeon, right? Well do not blame me, because that was Iris," laughed Noah, as Iris gave an apologetic smile.

"I… went a bit wild there…" she said shyly.

"Well, the more people the more strength we have, right?" asked Timassa.

"That's right, although I don't plan on getting any more, too many people all together at night will awaken a lot of suspiciousness, especially if they are us… For now, let's keep the group small until we get out of this school," said Noah.

"Concentrating our resources and growth into a smaller group is better than in a larger group after all," said Arthur.

Adamantine slowly walked towards Noah, as she kneeled.

"Master… Hungry…" she said.

"Here," said Noah, as he sliced off his hand without any issue and threw it as a snack for Adamantine, who began to devour it like a mad dog.

Noah's hand quickly grew back anew, surprising everyone except Iris.

"Noah-sama, I also want to taste your flesh~!" said Iris.

"Anyways, let's get going," said Noah.

"Don't ignore me…" sighed Iris.

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38 Cyberpunk City Night and... Robots!

"I wonder what did Adamantine's parents said about her… changes," said Arthur.

"She was smart enough to appear on her human appearance to them, but whenever I am close, her Ghoul colors emerge, perhaps because she is actually still quite hungry. It took Timassa two whole corpses to be satisfied after all," said Noah.

"I-I see… Were they affected due to her mind change?" asked Arthur.

"Obviously. But it was not as if they could do anything over it, they are a poor family after all. It was explained that her trauma must be due to having been eaten by Goblins and also after seeing her friends being eaten as well, so they have not suspected about us, and it has been two days since then, I haven't seen anyone investigating it either, mostly because Adamantine and her friend were not seen as valuable by the school, nor they were from rich families," said Noah.

"O-Oh, I see…" sighed Arthur, as he glanced at the expressionless Adamantine who had just recently cleaned her mouth from the blood of the snack she ate, Noah's hand.

"Do you want to help her parents monetarily?" asked Noah.

"Ah… Well, if she is going to be part of our group… Maybe," said Arthur.

"Do as you please… Although we should ask Iris what she thinks about you being compassionate with the girl that constantly beat her to almost death," said Noah.

"E-Eh? Did Adamantine do such a thing?" asked Arthur.

"It seems that you are quite blind about what is happening in your surroundings," said Noah.

"Oh, I am fine. Adamantine is not even the one she was before, it is as if she was reborn both in appearance and mind! She's like a sweet toddler now, the only thing she has on the mind is eating flesh and perhaps sleeping, fufu," laughed Iris.

"Mistress… Hungry…" said Adamantine.

"Calm down, we'll get you a nice snack soon~," said Iris, caressing Adamantine's chine as she closed her eyes as if enjoying it.

"I see… well, I will try to help her parents then…" said Arthur, he had a compassionate heart even as a Dhampir.

As long as it did not affect Noah nor his allies, Noah did not really care what he did for others.

The party had already gotten permissions from the guards, who all looked at the group quite suspiciously, but they dint do anything else than as what they were going to do, which Arthur had explained by saying: "I have invited them to have dinner in a restaurant with my parents", which made the soldiers shut up at the end, as Arthur's father was a big supplier of items to this school, and they didn't want to provoke their son, although some students didn't care about this, soldiers were a different thing, they were working in here after all.

The party walked through the streets of the central city of Sector D.

In Sector D, there was the Central City area where most of the population and the rich families lived, and then there were three smaller cities each one at one side of the city, connected through large bridges where futuristic-looking cars traveled through.

Although 20 years ago cars like these never existed…

Nor flying cars either.

Although Noah was used to this as he lived in the Central City, Jon, who seemed to be a country pumpkin that lived in a faraway town in the last areas of Sector D was always surprised over the wonders of nowadays technology.

Such advanced technology would not exist if it were not because of the discovery of magic, of course.

By merging magic and technology, humanity was able to do great leaps in technological advancement.

Using things such as Magic Crystals as sources of amazing fuel, enormous ships traveled the sky, and cars flew around the sky.

And through the war for survival against monsters, they were pressured to generate even better technology, which finally gave birth to what is called, Magic Technology.

Magic Technology is mostly used by all of humanity at this point, although the military school where Noah and the rest are does not invest much money in high-tech items unless they will help students learn how to fight better.

"Such a beautiful city… To think that the outside world is filled with monsters…" said Iris.

"Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since the discovery of magic… But most of this beauty is reserved for the rich, so we cannot enjoy any of it… yet," said Noah.

"Ah, look, a robot!" said Iris, as she pointed out to a humanoid-type robot with the appearance of a cute girl, although her skin was silvery gray and decorated with pink and blue lines, her eyes were large and almost anime-like, with pink twin tails and a cute smile.

"It is really a robot… You don't see these doing such work…" said Timassa.

"What is it doing?" asked Arthur.

"It is promoting that restaurant, it seems," said Noah.

"Hello! Come in here, we got delicious porridge! Ham Rice Bowls and even Fried Monster Shrimps! 20% Off only today with this coupon!" said the adorable robot girl, as she moved around as if dancing while carrying a large sign around.

The majority of the people ignored her, although some perverted guys glanced at her with pretentious smiles.

"Look! She looks like those robot whores from the other back street district!"

"You're right… Those are pretty cheap, but what about this cutie?"

Two shady-looking men who exuded a mild amount of Mana, F-Rank Hunters, approached the robot girl with perverted smiles.

"Oi cutie, do you got some time off?"

"How much for a night?"

"E-Eh? Are they serious?" wondered Arthur.

"Sadly, robots are not only used to serve as soldiers or servants… but like any slave, there are certain models like this one who are modified to have imitations of genitalia, often used as… prostitutes…" said Timassa.

Noah watched at the scene expressionlessly as he slowly walked with his party, he had no interest in a robot, even less in people… but these two guys, the F-Rank Hunters, seemed weak enough to be good prey.

"A-Ah! S-Sorry, I am not… I don't work in those things…" said the robot girl, as she stepped back a bit.

"What are you talking about? You're clearly a Fembot-type robot, you're made to be fucked," said one of the men.

"You're just our type, come on," said the other man, forcing the robot girl's harm.

Although the girl tried to protect herself, she was modified so she couldn't hurt humans, she could only struggle and try to talk them out of this misunderstanding.

"Please you are misunderstanding something, sir… I work in this restaurant, I am not… a robot for those works…" said the robot girl, her cybernetic pink eyes seemed to be a bit worried.

"There is no misunderstanding in here, come on!" roared one of the men, forcing the girl towards the side of the buildings, streets where the light of the city did not reach.

"Please let me go! Don't touch me!" cried the girl, although the F-Rank Hunters were strong enough to force their way into her.

Throwing her into the ground, one of the men quickly moved towards her lower parts, forcibly taking off the metallic parts that covered them…

"Oh, we told you that you were made for it! Look at that wet-"

Slash!

"Yeah, she's ready to take it- Eh? Aniki?"

Suddenly, the head of one of the F-Rank Hunters that tried to assault the robot girl flew into the air, leaving a stream of blood all around…

"W-What?!"

The figure of Noah and Iris emerged at his side, glancing at him.

"Hm, he smells quite bad, but I don't think Adamantine will discriminate," said Noah with a smile.

"W-What… who are you!? FIREBALL!" roared the F-Rank Hunter, however, a bolt of black thunder stopped his fireball from impacting Noah.

Clash!

"E-Eh!?"

The man noticed that within the shadows, four more figures emerged, all of their eyes were gleaming with crimson red light below the masks they wore, releasing a strong bloodlust as the little robot girl glanced at this scene with surprise and disbelief.

"W-Who are… they?" she wondered.

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39 Saving a Cute Robot Girl?! That's Not What Vampires Do!

"I-I couldn't even notice their presences…! Just who are you lot?! You know that I am a Hunter, right?! And you just killed one of us! That is a crime! You'll go to prison for that- GYAAH…!"

Slash!

Suddenly, the figure of a blond girl leaped towards the man, as he barely managed to evade her attack, but had his shoulders slashed with large black claws growing from her hands.

"G-Get away from me!" cried the man, trying to run away as he walked, however, he could.

"Adamantine, your prey is running away," said the voice of Noah, as Adamantine glanced at the man running away and leaped into his back!

"A-Aaahh! B-Burn to ashes you horrible subhuman!" roared the man, as he struggled to get off Adamantine from his back, as she began to tear part of his shoulder apart!

"FIREBALL!"

Roared the man, blasting a fireball right into Adamantine's face!

Boom!

"H-Hehe… I won!" muttered the man, as he realized that Adamantine's claws were tightly grabbing his flesh, and her legs were locking into his torso!

"Eh?"

He noticed that Adamantine's face was completely burnt, but the burnt flesh began to fall apart, as new muscles, eyes, and a tongue began to grow on a horrifying sight!

"W-What… what kind of monster are you?!" asked the man, as Adamantine opened her still healing jaws, extending her teeth as sharp knives, biting his neck, and throwing the man into the floor with tremendous strength!

"G-Gyaa- Mmghhgh?!"

A Blood Patch suddenly covered the face of the man, inhibiting his screams.

"Has no one told you to not talk while being eaten? Ah, maybe that is not how it goes? Well, anyways, make it quick, Adamantine," said Noah with a pleasant smile, as he glanced to the main street.

It seemed that people still have not noticed them, thankfully, the light of the city did not reach this place.

Adamantine heard the orders of her master as she carried the corpse deeper into the shadows, breaking it apart and eating large chunks of flesh like a wild animal that has not eaten for weeks.

Noah walked back to the first man's corpse, as Iris offered him an Ability Core that he dropped.

"Oh, an F-Rank Ability Core? Well, better than nothing… Arthur, save the corpse inside the Dimensional Storage Ring," said Noah, as Arthur nodded and immediately put the corpse inside the special accessory.

Noah and the rest of the group were wearing all kinds of masks to cover their identities, and the trembling robot girl on the floor could not discern who they truly were.

"Y-You… You killed people…" she muttered.

"Are you okay?" asked Arthur, gently smiling at her as he offered his hand.

"Eh?" the girl grabbed Arthur's hand by reflex and stood up.

"It is very rare to see such an expensive model such as you in these areas… I am pretty sure that your strength is equivalent to an F-Rank Hunter, why didn't you resist?" asked Arthur.

"I… I am not programmed to resist humans… It is something that came when I was built…" said the robot girl.

"So she is indeed a Fembot then," said Noah.

"Yeah, but her model is from Axis Corporations… She would cost a fortune to create… I don't think my family can even afford an Axis Robot, especially those strong enough that are built to deal with Mutated Beasts and Monsters…" said Arthur.

"If she is so valuable what is she doing working for a restaurant?" asked Iris.

"I… I used to be owned by my master… but he died inside a Dungeon… They wanted to sell me to a brothel when they discovered that he died… But I escaped and… wondered the streets until my battery was almost empty… However, I found a group of abandoned robots and we have been… surviving as we can… They helped me recharge my Magic Core Battery, and now I found some work in these restaurants and mini markets… As I do not tire, I can work an entire week without breaks!" said the robot girl.

"I see… Robots, huh? How many?" asked Noah, he seemed to have come with an idea…

"Eh? W-Well, many of them are damaged… But we are… a few dozen…" said the robot girl.

"N-Noah-sama, what are you planning?" asked Arthur with a bit of concern.

"Hey, wanna work for us?" asked Noah.

"E-Eh?" asked the robot girl.

"We won't let you go either way, as you saw how we killed those people…" said Noah.

"I-I won't talk! I swear!" said the robot girl.

"I don't believe you. Even more, it feels weird that you are not as affected by what we did, have you seen humans being killed before?" said Noah.

"I… my sister… big sis… she was a war machine… she… kills those that try to steal us away…" said the robot girl.

"Hoh? And you say you are just in the streets? Do you need money? This blondie here is filthy rich, I am sure that we can get you into our new manor, right, Arthur?" asked Noah, petting Arthur's shoulders.

"I-I… I think I could manage… But is this… really okay?" asked Arthur.

"Do you want to ask her opinion? Well, she only has two options. She either obeys us, or I break apart every bit that makes her up," said Noah.

"Uuueeehh… I will obey, I will obey! P-Please doesn't pull me apart…" cried the robot girl.

"Such an obedient girl," said Noah, petting her head with a pleasant smile.

"I really thought they were good people for saving me like big sis… but he doesn't seem good at all!" thought the robot girl, as she led Noah's party through the streets.

"Noah-sama, are you okay with this?" asked Iris.

"Yes. I like to take any opportunity given to me. This is one of them, we either grasp it or let it run away," said Noah.

"Well it was all quite sudden," said Timassa.

"Y-Yeah… But if we really manage to get such expensive models like a Fembot and a War Machine for our future guild… Perhaps with my money, we could repair them and make them into reliable allies…" said Arthur.

"Do Robots have any System?" wondered Iris.

"Our System? No, but they can be packed with magic weapons, Magic Core Batteries, and all types of things, they are like Magic Weapons, but they are independent… That's why they are so expensive," said Arthur.

"Even better then… Although we might have to convince her big sis to obey us… Nothing that we shouldn't be able to do," said Noah.

"Noah-sama, you're rather confident…" said Iris.

"Anyways, what's your name?" asked Noah, to the robot girl.

"A-Ah! M-My name is… Sakura…" said the robot girl.

"Sakura? I would have thought that your name would be a series of numbers and letters that didn't make sense," said Noah.

"Well yeah… But big sis and my other siblings call me Sakura due to my pink hair," said Sakura.

"I see, well, it is fitting, you have maintained your colors very well despite having been on the streets this long," said Arthur.

"I-I am very careful with all of that… After all, it is thanks to my model appearance that I can get Jobs easily," said Sakura.

"I-I see… I guess that's how robot thinks…" sighed Arthur.

"Anyways, we are here… This is… my home," said Sakura.

40 Abandoned Robots and... A Sudden Fight?!

Sakura raised her arms as she showed the entrance to her home to Noah and his party.

She lived rather far away from the center of the Central City, almost on its outskirts, within a series of abandoned buildings, where a lot of trash, scrap metal, and junk was thrown.

There were also humans living in here, and even the occasional young Subhuman running around and hiding from the presence of Noah.

"So this is… the part that we don't see of that splendorous city…" said Iris.

"Hm, a lot of prey," said Noah.

"I-I think we already got pretty filled with what we ate… No need to hunt more, Noah!" said Arthur.

"Hmph… You might be right," said Noah, as he glanced at his surroundings while walking inside the dark alleys of this abandoned building.

There were large pieces of scrap metals, even pieces of weapons, large cubes of iron, shattered Magic Core Batteries, and a ton of trash scattered all over.

Suddenly, several colorful eyes gleamed within the darkness, startling Noah's party.

"W-Who are those?" asked Iris.

"Ah, everyone, you can come out! They are friends… they just saved me from some very shady thugs…" said Sakura, as the lights over the large and dark building suddenly covered the entire place, illuminating it and revealing dozens of robots hiding within the scrap and other things.

"Sakura, nee-sama…" said a tiny robot boy that was missing an arm and whose left eye was turn off.

"Are they really… Good humans?" asked a model similar to Sakura, although she was missing her air and seemed filled with wounds that were patched back with scrap metal.

"Sakura, you idiot, get away from them! You shouldn't have brought them here!" roared another Fembot, although her legs were missing and she moved by being attached to a wheelchair, her eyes were wearing a special lens, that made them seem oddly big, and her hair was long and brown.

"But Sugar, they saved me…! I was about to… to… Sniff…" cried Sakura, as she hugged the one she called 'Sugar'.

"They also killed those two F-Rank Hunters like nothing! They are not afraid to kill humans, like big sis!" said Sakura.

"T-They killed them?! Really? I would have guessed that they would have allied with them!" said Sugar.

"They were easy prey, so we took them down to feed our family. We are not so different from you, we struggle to survive in this world, we are not normal humans either…" said Noah, as he showed his vampiric traits, the rest of his party members also did so, surprising the robots.

"Subhumans?" asked Sugar.

"Hm, perhaps I could tell you more if we can meet your leader," said Noah.

"I am here…"

Suddenly, an enormous mech descended from the ceiling, falling like a tank into the ground!

BOOM!

"W-What…?!" asked Iris.

"That's… really a war machine!" said Arthur.

"So big…" said Timassa.

"I am the big sister of my siblings… And the one that protects them from the trash of this world… That you are a subhuman or that you killed those that tried to assault her does not mean that we are instantly friends. Although I would never doubt Sakura's words, as she is an honest and goodhearted girl… I won't ally nor obey weaklings," said the war machine.

Her legs were like those of a spider, black and made of powerful metallic material, ending on sharp ends.

Her upper torso resembled a very refined Fembot, with the slender torso, arms, and an adorable face, although she covered most of it with a steel plate, only revealing her glowing crimson eyes.

The arms of her upper torso carried rechargeable magic shotguns, and she could also separate them into six arms with six blades that could slice through rock with ease.

Her entire body was black and gray, and her powerful presence and the enormous magical aura she unleashed meant that she was indeed a powerful War Machine, special Magic Mechs used to fend off Mutated Beasts on the outsides of the Sectors, or even used as incredibly expensive guards for rich people.

"Weaklings? So you want to fight me?" asked Noah, as his entire body began to cover itself with a powerful crimson aura.

"I see that you're strong… But if we fight in here… the entire building might fall off… If you want to prove yourself to me, follow me," said the war machine, walking away.

"E-Eh?! Do we really need to fight?! Big sis, Noah saved my life with his friends!" said Sakura.

"So what? I want to see how strong he is, weak allies are not needed," said Big Sis.

"So cold…" sighed Sakura.

"Well she wasn't programmed to have complex emotions like us, although she is very protective, the only way to gain her approbation is by fighting…" said Sugar.

"W-Wait, Noah-sama, are you sure you can… beat such a thing?" asked Iris.

"I-I think you might be overestimating your current capabilities…" said Arthur.

"I never fight battles I can't win," said Noah, following Big Sis as his party followed him from behind alongside Sakura and Sugar.

Big Sis reached a large empty area that seemed to have once been a stadium, which had now been broken into a wasteland and ruins.

However, this place was wide enough for the battle to begin.

Big Sis glanced at Noah once more, her body towered almost four meters above the ground.

"Are you ready, subhuman? I will not take responsibility if your entire body is broken down into pieces by my bullets," said Big Sis.

"Go ahead and do your worst," said Noah, as he quickly activated the Champion's Great Perseverance, and Blood Flow Acceleration Skills, enhancing all of his capabilities, as his pale white skin suddenly turned redder, and steam began to flow out of Noah's body!

"W-What is that? A Skill that you humans use?" asked Sugar in disbelief, adjusting her mechanic googles to see Noah with more detail.

"I-I don't know, I don't remember seeing him use such power yesterday…" said Arthur.

"It must be something new he got… Amazing, Noah-sama just keeps getting strong every day…" said Iris.

"Indeed, his strength keeps surging, we have to make sure to grow stronger as well to be more useful to him," said Timassa.

"Hm," said Jon while nodding, through this whole ordeal he has been as silent as Adamantine, he didn't enjoy talking after all.

Big Sis glanced at Noah's powerful Aura, through her eyes and Mana Detection devices, she noticed a large amount of power amassing inside of his body, and even an incredibly warmth filling him, it was as if… his entire blood was going around his body incredibly fast, increasing his metabolism to ridiculous levels as if his body had begun to boil!

"Interesting, subhuman and humans always have strange Abilities…" said Big Sis, opening the cockpits of her shotguns and firing several light bullets towards Noah without even giving him a warning!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The bullets were small, but whenever they reached anything, they would explode loudly, as if they were small bombs!

The worst part was that they were completely made out of magic, Light Attribute Magic, to be specific!

Noah quickly realized that if he were to intercept the bullets with his claws, they would most likely explode his hand into pieces!

However, Noah smiled!

This was… exhilarating!

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41 Battle of the Century! Vampire Versus Machine!

Noah immediately evaded the Light Bullets, as he leaped into the air.

Big Sis specialized Magic Detection eyes quickly followed Noah, as she directed the bullets towards him with excellent precision, if it were not because Noah was enhancing his capabilities through his Skills, he would have already been reduced to pieces!

"Hm, you're good at running away, but can you fight back?" asked Big Sis, as she managed to get near Noah, using her large spider-like legs as blades and beginning to hit the ground, creating small tremors while trying to crush Noah or even impale him!

Noah's senses were enhanced to his limits, as he realized how frighteningly powerful was this Machine!

"This thing precision and Magic Detection make it even stronger than the Goblin Champion and the Shadow Lynxes, it makes most of my classmates seem like jokes… This machine was most likely contracted to fight and defeat monsters above Rank E or even D!" thought Noah.

"However, because it possesses high intelligence and decision-making capabilities, it might be even stronger… However, let's see how hard her shell is!" thought Noah, as he summoned his Blood Sphere and generated a large Blood Spear, throwing it at Big Sis's upper torso!

FLASH!

"Oh? Long Ranged Magic…" said Big Sis, as she directed the bullets towards the Blood Spear while being in midair, completely shattering it into pieces!

However, that was but a distraction, as Noah emerged behind her and grew his Blood Claws like slicing blades!

SLASH!

CLANK…!

"Oh?"

However, instead of doing a penetrative attack, Noah's claws only left a large scratch, but did not manage to get through the hard protection of Big Sis metallic shell!

"Fool, did you thought that my torso was weaker than my legs because it is smaller?" asked Big Sis, as her chest suddenly opened, revealing another shotgun!

"Die!" she said, firing several Light Bullets at the same time, blasting away Noah!

BOOM!

"Gaaahh…!"

Noah's chest burned through the Light Bullets, and exploded into pieces, as his body fell into the ground!

His chest was blown apart, only leaving a few pieces of flesh connecting it with the rest of his body!

A gigantic and burnt hole was the only thing left, as his heart and even lungs were turned into ashes!

"Sakura, make sure to dispose of his corpse-"

"Oh? Did you think I was dead?" asked Noah, as Big Sis suddenly opened her cybernetic eyes wide!

There, she saw Noah running towards her again, already reaching her upper body with his claws ready to slash her!

Where the giant hole was supposed to be, a large amount of coagulated blood was present, connecting his body together, and slowly regenerating the tissue lost, as she could even see a heart growing back!

"It took a lot of my blood reserve, but I guess I can also regrow lungs and a heart, who would have known?" laughed Noah, as he unleashed his Blood Soul, covering his claws with them and materializing them into larger claws!

"What kind of monster are you!?" asked Big Sis, as she pointed all of her shotguns towards and unleashed a barrage of Light Bullets!

Noah, however, unleashed a powerful slashing attack, making the Light Bullets explode before they could hit him, as he seeped his claws into Big Sis!

CLASH!

"Nggh…?!"

Noah Blood Claws seeped into the gigantic mech's small torso, breaking apart part of her shoulder, as one of her arms was blown off!

BOOM!

"You broke through my layered Magic Alloy Shell?! That… Should not be possible!" roared Big Sis, as she pointed her shotguns towards Noah, blowing him away in a barrage of Light Bullets!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

As the bullets penetrated Noah's body, Big Sis noticed how more blood was poured into his entire body, regenerating it even through midair!

"Are you immortal or something?!" she roared, pointing her claws towards him, and employing them as blades, trying to slice him into pieces!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

"Blood Manipulation!" roared Noah, as he saw his entire limb being sliced into pieces!

However, through Blood Manipulation, he manipulated the blood in each limb, including the blood inside the muscles and other parts, grabbing them and then forcefully sticking them back to his body!

Clash!

"T-That's ridiculous…!" roared Big Sis, as she pointed her shotguns at Noah.

However, she noticed a giant blade made of blood that had emerged from Noah's wounds, as he had employed his own blood and made a large blade with it!

"Through Blood Sacrifice, I spend my own blood to enhance my capabilities, and through Blood Retribution, the damage of my attacks is enhanced, this obviously includes my long-ranged ones!" thought Noah, smiling wickedly as he had no remorse on using his own body and pushing it to unimaginable levels so he could achieve victory!

The Blade was enhanced by Noah's Attribute Values, and by the damage, bonus added from Blood Sacrifice!

Noah has lost so much blood that the power it achieved was also double its original damage output!

Flash!

"W-Wait!" cried Sugar, as she saw the gigantic blade penetrate Big Sis torso!

CLASH!

"UNGGAAAKKHH…!" cried the giant war machine, as several of her circuits were being broken apart!

"You are quite valuable, but I had to do this!" laughed Noah, as Big Sis screamed and suddenly fell over the ground!

BOOM!

Noah fell into the floor like a ragdoll, he had somehow achieved victory against a giant machine capable of turning E-Rank monsters into ashes.

His body was barely regenerating now, and the speed it did had decreased exponentially as he had lost too much blood, and the one he had stored beforehand was all used.

Although Noah seemed 'immortal' to others, he could not achieve this if he did not have fresh blood to drink and nourish his body with!

"Big sis!" cried Sakura and Sugar, as they ran towards her as fast as they could.

"Ugh… He actually… beat me…" muttered Big Sis.

"Don't worry, I will repair you in no time!" said Sugar, as her hands suddenly transformed into dozens of small mechanical arms possessing many types of repair tools.

"Let me take this out!" said Sakura, quickly taking away the large Blood Blade out of Big Sis's torso, throwing it away as it broke into pieces over the floor.

On the other side of the battlefield, Noah's party quickly ran towards him.

"Ah! Noah-sama, that was way too reckless!" said Iris.

"But I told you I would win, I don't fight-"

"We get, we get it! Heal!" said Arthur, as he employed his new healing Skill over Noah's body, managing to close his wounds with more ease.

"Here, drink this!" said Iris, as she poured fresh blood from her Blood Sphere over Noah's mouth, which he drank expressionlessly.

"N-Noah-sama, you didn't have to be so reckless…" said Timassa.

"Please… get well…" said Jon.

"You don't have to worry for me, I am your progenitor! Stop being crybabies," said Noah rather pridefully, although he seemed a bit happy that they worried about him.

After a few minutes, he felt anew, standing back up again.

"Now, 'Big Sis', what do you think? Am I strong enough to be fitting of offering you a new life?" asked Noah.

"Y-You... are strong… Very well, I trust your strength… But what are your plans?" said, Big Sis.

"Seriously, you fight with him to almost death, but you didn't even ask him what he genuinely wanted beforehand? You really have some loose screws, Big Sis!" said Sugar.

"A-Ah… I might have gone a bit too fast… To be honest, I was angered that Sakura brought strange humans here, I was about to dispose of them, but when she tried to protect them, it really made me angry," said Big Sis.

"But I told you that they meant no harm!" said Sakura.

"I guess I should try to suppress my aggressive program a bit more… Although I seem to have calmed down now," said Big Sis.

"You really should! I can't believe it, you're so reckless!" said Sugar.

"I guess they are not so different than us…" said Iris with a bitter smile.

"Now that I have your attention, what I have come to offer you is to join our guild," said Noah.

"Guild…?" asked Big Sis.

"Here we go…" sighed Arthur.

42 Recruiting Robots!

"Guild?" asked Big Sis.

"But we are robots… we don't count as people…" said Sugar.

"Yeah, I guess we would become their servants…" said Sakura.

"Well, we have not officially established our family as a guild yet, but we will soon do so, perhaps in a few weeks… if things go according to our plans. For now, we have established a hideout, where you can live quite… comfortably, compared to this place. Arthur here has a lot of resources, I am sure that we can get you into a good and functioning condition, your strength shall be useful for my goals," said Noah rather coldly, he wasn't that good at inspiring people, nor acting gently.

However, he had already beaten Big Sis, and if he wanted, he could completely shatter all the robots in here…

So it was better to obey him.

And it was not as if they did not grow some admiration to him.

First of all, he saved Sakura, although unwillingly at that time.

Second, he beat Big Sis, yet he did not kill her and even forgave her life.

Afterward, he offered everyone a better future.

There were dozens of damaged Robots of all types in this place, all of them lived below Big Sis, and would obey her decisions if it meant that they could live better lives.

"Big Sis, maybe… we could trust them?" asked Sakura.

"Hmmm… Well, I don't want to get her beaten again, so she better agrees," said Sugar.

"Sigh… I am impressed that even after defeating me, you have not tried to take me apart to sell my pieces… Perhaps your intentions are indeed good for us… But why?" asked Big Sis.

"Why? A Guild cannot be just one person, I need a lot of strength, and strength is achieved in the group. Although I might be strong myself, I still need to assistance of loyal subordinates. Robots like you with nothing to lose are perfect. Fear not, I treat my subjects fairly, as long as they make themselves useful," said Noah, his presence suddenly became greater for these artificial beings.

"How can you… put so much trust in us? We are robots… not people…" said Big Sis.

"Do you really think I trust you? You are completely wrong, but I trust in my strength, and that you will not try to defy me… If you do not want to die," said Noah.

"Hmph… Well, I was already beaten, you could take my life at any moment, there is no other option… And if you prove to have actually said the truth of what you promised, I will swear my loyalty to you," said Big Sis.

"B-Big Sis…" said Sugar.

"Well, it's all done now! Let's move to that comfy mansion!" said Sakura.

"It will be rather hard to move such a large group of robots through the streets…" said Arthur.

"Aren't robots organic lives? They are similar to items rather than living beings, right?" asked Noah.

"Hm? Yeah, why?" asked Arthur.

"Then shouldn't it be possible to save them inside the Dimensional Storage Ring?" asked Noah.

"I… That's… true… But would they… like to be treated as an item?" asked Arthur.

"I don't think they have an option to refuse," said Noah.

"Well, this will be a bit weird…" said Sugar.

After having decided to save the robots inside the Dimensional Storage Ring, Arthur opened the artifact as a small portal that led to the inside of such a place emerged.

Dimensional Storage Rings were special items, often found inside Dungeons of high Ranking inside of Treasure Chests, dropped by monsters, and so on.

However, through reverse engineering and the advancement of Magic Technology, Axis Corporations managed to finally find a way to mass-produce these useful items, making them more common and cheaper to the public.

However, such items were incapable of harboring living beings inside, but any type of item, food, or anything else, was possible to be stored inside.

Robots were not alive, so such a thing was possible for them.

Although they would feel rather uncomfortable doing so, it was not as if Noah were giving them any choice.

Robots from all shapes and sizes entered the Dimensional Storage Ring, some seemed amazed, while others were a bit frightened, however, after a few minutes, Big Sis was the last to enter, having emptied all of this building.

The Dimensional Storage Ring had multiple slots where things could be saved, and each slot could save several items together, so it was possible to save every robot without many issues, and with a lot of slots to spare.

"I never thought that it was possible to store robots inside the Dimensional Storage Ring… This is a bit surprising…" said Arthur.

"I bet that many big shots do so, or how would they carry around such a big machine as that War Machine?" asked Noah.

"I-I guess it does makes sense now," said Arthur.

"Noah-sama, what shall we do now?" asked Iris.

Noah glanced at the starry sky, and the shining moon, the night was still young.

"Let's go to the Dungeon we decided to go, after that, Arthur will bring the Robots to our Manor, and we'll go back to school before it begins," said Noah.

"Which Dungeon are we going towards?" asked Timassa.

"The Scale Dungeon, the one filled with lizards, it should be an F-Rank Dungeon," said Noah, as the rest of the party nodded, quickly rushing through the streets, jumping over buildings, and crossing through the shadows.

That night many of the people that lived in these districts reported the sighting of strange crimson-eyed masked people roaming the streets and rooftops.

After half an hour, the party finally reached the area where this Dungeon Rift was located, right in the middle of a special park that was surrounded by large walls, it had a few guards in the entrance, but it was rather easy to let them get inside as long as they showed their identifications of Military School Students.

"Going to a Dungeon at this hour, younglings?" asked the guard, rather concerned.

"In a world filled with monsters, we cannot slack for a second, sir," said Arthur.

"Hm, diligent kids, I like that, then go in, make sure to have brought some provisions," said the guard, as he let the students in without much concern, this was all because this Rift conducted to an F-Rank Dungeon, the monsters were the weakest, and such a big group as they were more than capable of disposing of these monsters even if they came in armies.

Noah and his party entered the Dungeon through the Rift, as they found themselves in vast jungles with large trees towering to the skies.

The sky was blue, and the sun was shining brightly, dungeons did not care at all what time it was on Earth, as they seemed to be worlds of their own.

The chirping of birds could be heard all around, and even that of small monkeys.

However, those were simply animals that appeared in this dungeon, as the real threats were the large, scaled humanoid lizards that roamed around.

As soon as the party entered, they were greeted by a large scouting group of Lizardman, humanoid lizards with armor-like green scales and alligator heads, they wore tribal clothes and wielded lances, shields made off their scales, and axes.

"UKAKA!" roared the leader, immediately commanding its comrades to charge after Noah and his party!

"Oh? It seems that we got a nice welcome party here!" said Noah.

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43 Machines and Vampires Against Lizardmen!

Dismembered bodies flew into the air, sliced heads fell into the ground, a bloodbath unfolded.

Noah and his party quickly got to work, and the group of Lizardmen that attacked them was sliced into pieces after less than a minute.

Arthur used his powerful Erosion to make the Lizardmen literally melt away, Jon used his powerful Evil Eye to drain the life out of these creatures, Timassa wielded her black thunder, electrifying her targets, Adamantine used her Black Claws and Dark Aura to become a beast, tearing apart her enemies, and Iris used her slashing claws and her Demonic Phantom Fox to enhance her capabilities.

"That was relatively easy…" said Arthur.

"Well, we are a big party already, this is to be expected," said Noah, as he accumulated the blood of the Lizardmen he killed before their corpses were to disappear into black smoke inside of his Blood Sphere.

"Our strength has increased a lot… I usually needed to rest every time I used Bolt Arrow… but now, I can use it several times without getting tired, is this because my Mana regenerates fast due to having eaten corpses?" asked Timassa.

"Indeed, all of us can enhance our Mana regeneration and even regenerate it completely whenever we are fully satiated. This way, we can unleash our Skills without worrying so much about spending all our fuel, something that low ranked Hunters don't have the privilege of unless they are very talented," said Noah.

"My eye… is strong…" said Jon.

"Oh yeah, Jon, you just drained the life of those monsters! Well done," said Iris, petting Jon's head, he was rather small, the smallest of the group, and seemed to like to be given attention by Noah and Iris, who he called his masters or lords.

"I've wondered, do your eyes grant you the ability to drain life and recover it?" asked Noah.

"Yes, Master… My Health has recovered… although I did not lose any… So it was wasted… And my Mana… has also filled a bit," said Jon.

"Interesting, perhaps we should try to get you a more offensive long-ranged attack for a more immediate effect, this way, you can both kill and recover without even needing to drink blood," said Noah.

"I would… be glad…" said Jon while blushing a bit, talking with his Master could not bring him more happiness, he was truly fascinated with Noah.

"Master… Hungry…" muttered Adamantine.

Although Jon was rather shy, he was not near as strange as Adamantine, whose mind seemed to have regressed to a dependent toddler.

"Didn't you ate some of the flesh of the Lizardmen? Well, have this leg," said Noah, taking out a leg off Arthur's Dimensional Storage Ring, one of such legs were from the corpses of the two nameless F-Rank Hunters they casually hunted.

"Graarr…"

Adamantine quickly began to eat the leg, tearing apart the flesh and drinking the blood voraciously.

"Adamantine-chan is such a voracious little girl now~," said Iris, caressing her silky blonde hair as Adamantine seemed to feel relaxed whenever she received affection from her mistress.

The party continued their exploration around the jungle, as they came across smaller monsters unrelated to the Lizardmen, such as Giant Dragonflies, Roaring Jungle Birds, and Fire Breathing Monkeys, which were disposed of rather easily by Noah's Blood Projectiles, Arthur's Erosion Wave, Jon's Evil Eye, and Timassa's Black Thunder, while Iris and Adamantine were more close combat fighters, so they could only watch.

"Noah-sama, I think I have been managing to create my own Blood Projectiles! Are these okay?" asked Iris, as she shaped the blood inside of her Blood Sphere and showed a thin and long blood needle.

"Oh? Have you been practicing diligently? Well done, this one seems sharp and rather strong as well, it would easily penetrate through flesh, although the Lizardman has scales, so you should try to aim towards their eyes or mouths," said Noah.

"I see!" said Iris as she blushed, Noah's advice was like precious treasures for her.

"Hm?" said Jon, as he stopped walking.

"What is it?" asked Noah.

"…There is… a big group of Lizardmen coming… Over… 50…" said Jon, detecting the lizardmen marching towards them from several meters away thanks to his Clairvoyance Skill.

"So many?!" asked Iris.

"That's… a lot… Should we retreat?" asked Arthur.

"What are you talking about? This is the perfect opportunity to grind more Cores, let's wipe them all out! Arthur, take out the War Machine and Sakura," said Noah.

"Eh? R-Really?" asked Arthur.

"Do as I said," said Noah.

"Y-Yes!" said Arthur, as he opened the portal to his Dimensional Storage Ring, and the giant Big Sis and Sakura emerged out of it.

"W-What is happening? Is this… a jungle?" asked Big Sis.

"Eeeh?! Why are we in such a place?!" asked Sakura.

"This is a dungeon, give us a hand defeating an army of Lizardmen, will you?" asked Noah, as he gave Sakura a sword and a shield made of a cheap magical ore that Arthur carried on his Dimensional Storage Ring.

"E-Eh? Fight?! Me?! I used to be a servant to my former master… n-not a fighter!" said Sakura.

"I don't care what you used to be before, I want you to do as I say," said Noah.

"O-Okaaay! D-Don't look at me like that, master…" said Sakura, as she braced herself.

"Don't worry, I will protect you, Sakura. Taking care of a Lizardmen is not a problem, my bullets shall tear through their flesh without a problem," said Big Sis, she was a strong War Machine, brimming with confidence.

"Grakakh! Gragaaaakkhh!"

A large Lizardman of over two meters led the rest of its group, wearing an armor made of several scales of many different lizardmen, which was painted crimson red by blood.

Its face was filled with scars, and it wielded a large spear and shield, leading the rest of the army to charge!

The Lizardmen roared fiercely, charging against their enemies!

"You go first!" said Noah, as Big Sis nodded, pointing her shotguns against the Lizardman Leader!

"GRAKH?!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Light Bullets fell over the Lizardman Leader in seconds, tearing apart its body into pieces in front of its army!

"G-Graakakh…!"

"GRAKH!"

"GRAAAKHAKH…!"

The Lizardmen quickly lost their confidence, as they glanced at the imposing War Machine in front of them!

"Extermination in process," said Big Sis, raining the entire army of Lizardmen with Light Bullets while impaling other Lizardmen with her giant blade-like legs!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

"A-Amazing… such destructive power…" said Iris.

"So this is the true power of a War Machine when fighting against many monsters is when it truly shines," said Arthur.

"Well, don't act all surprised, we also have to harvest some lives ourselves, get moving!" said Noah, leaping into action as she sliced the heads and limbs of two Lizardmen in a second, absorbing their blood and then jumping towards his next prey, grabbing its head and tearing it out of its neck with a loud 'Crack' sound!

"Let's go then, Adamantine!" said Iris, rushing with Adamantine at her side as the two girls slashed through the Lizardmen, breaking their shields and spears with their strong claws, as Iris blinded the lizardmen with her Blood Needles and then finished them off with a rain of slashing attacks that seeped poison into them!

The entire party joined against the army of monsters, quickly diminishing their numbers!

The Lizardmen despaired, as those that tried to escape were greeted by the shy Sakura, whose strength was rather admirable, despite her not realizing it!

Slash! Slash!

With two slashes of her sword, she ended dismembering two Lizardmen, as she glanced at the corpses with surprise before they disappeared into black smoke.

"E-Ehh…? Am I that strong?" she wondered.

44 Slaughtering Entire Armies of Monsters!

In the span of a few minutes, the large army of Lizardmen was reduced to a sea of Cores, as their dismembered bodies turned into black smoke and disappeared.

"I-I… I killed… monsters…" muttered Sakura, as she glanced at her sword covered in blood. She had barely received any damage, as her entire body was made of very resistant materials.

"Have you never killed monsters before?" asked Arthur.

"No… Well, I've never entered a dungeon… I always served my former owner inside of his house, I made his bed, cooked for him, cleaned the house… and all of those things… But never invited me to a dungeon…" said Sakura.

"Look at this treasure throve… There are around 36 Cores… and some Ability Cores as well!" said Noah, as he smiled greedily.

"Quickly gather the Cores and let's get moving, we haven't explored fully this place, I can feel the presence of more monsters nearby," said Noah.

"Yes!" said Iris and the rest, as they quickly gathered the Cores while Noah cleansed his clothes.

"Do you Robots consume Cores to grow stronger?" asked Noah.

"No… We cannot, Cores can only be consumed by humans," said Big Sis, as she waved her legs and arms, taking the blood out of her metallic body.

"Then how are you planning to grow stronger? Hm… Perhaps new mechanical parts, but they will surely cost a fortune… Well, I suppose that such plans will be for later," said Noah, as his party finally gathered the Cores inside the Dimensional Storage Ring.

"I am confident in my own strength. However, War Machines and advanced Fembots such as Sakura can be upgraded through new types of Magic Core Batteries, which can be created through Axis Corporations, or custom created by a talented Creation-oriented Hunter, if enough Cores and Magic Crystals are used, and often other materials mined from Dungeons," said Big Sis.

"Oh? Do you detect any of such materials?" asked Noah.

"…Actually, the trees of this jungle and the soil are filled with Mana, I have been packed with several tools for the mass extraction of Dungeon Resources, as I am an advanced model that not only defended Hunters but also extracted materials safely," said Big Sis.

"You're saying that this soil and the trees in here are valuable? And how come people don't take them out?" asked Noah.

"Perhaps the amount of effort that it would be needed makes it not worth it, especially because this is a low-level Dungeon, and the value of the products does not outweigh the resources spent to mine them," said Big Sis.

"And you're telling me that you can mine them no problem? Then how they haven't done it yet with your models?" asked Noah.

"As I said, my own model is very expensive, the owners of my model would most likely use me in higher level dungeons, resulting in this one being almost abandoned," said Big Sis.

"Interesting, then get to mine some, Arthur, come here," said Noah, as he told Arthur most of what Big Sis said.

"Eh? Mine this ground and trees?! Well, I think we can save a lot in the Dimensional Storage Ring… But how will we be able to process it?" asked Arthur.

"That's easy, I have a processor within my mechanical parts, it is a very easy thing to do, and as long as I am supplied with Mana by you lot, I should be able to process the dirt and wood into compact magic resources," said Big Sis.

"Wow… I never thought about that! So we are mining now?!" asked Arthur.

"You help her save the resources, we'll get rid of the monsters marching to us…" said Noah.

"Master, there is another army… no, two… Huh? Three… three armies of over 30 Lizardmen are charging towards us," said Jon.

"So many? How is that even possible?! Low-level Dungeons are supposed to have low spawn rates!" said Timassa.

"Oh, that's because of Noah-sama! He's capable of using his powers to enhance the production of monsters within a dungeon!" said Iris.

"That's… Isn't this cheating?! Such a power would be paid a fortune by higher-ups! The amount of efficiency that it could be achieved by farming so many resources so quickly is baffling…" said Timassa.

"Well, we can talk more about it later, let's get to it," said Noah.

Big Sis began to shapeshift her gigantic spider-like legs, as the two on front transformed into large drills, while her arms became large claws to take out the dirt.

"Hm…? I can detect… greater forms of mana below this… Magic Crystals and… Magic Alloy? What are the chances?" asked Big Sis, as she began to drill, after reaching ten meters in a few seconds, she found several shining crystals below the ground!

"That's… Magic Crystals and… Eh?! Magic Ores?!" asked Arthur in surprise, such materials cost a lot of money in large quantities, and were used for a variety of purposes, such as batteries for technology, the creation of armors, weapons, robots, buildings, flying cars, flying ships, and more!

Noah smiled, as he asked the Blood Progenitor if his Blood Core could provoke such things to emerge.

"Hmph, most likely. The power of my Blood Core is enormous! By the release of corrupted energy similar to the Miasma that changed this world's fate, it is possible to make dungeons produce more resources… It seems that the more power you unlock from my Blood Core, the more this ability intensifies… (Grr… Does this means that this brat will end up having even more money now?!)" said the Blood Progenitor.

"I see… Thanks for telling me so obediently, Dracula… Now time for some slaughter, we got a large pack of Cores walking directly towards us! Perhaps today I might finally get to E-Rank in terms of Attribute Values? Well, let's see how far this can go…!" said Noah, darting towards the battlefield and releasing his Blood Claws, slicing through the Lizardmen's ranks like a hot knife through butter!

The Lizardmen were left in shock, as Noah's prowess and speed had been enhanced, the more blood he drank from them, the stronger and faster he grew!

"As long as I can drink their blood, I can keep up my buff Skills and almost double my overall power! This is what I call efficiently grinding Cores!" laughed Noah, as he resembled a crimson demon slicing through anything on his path of bloodshed!

"Uwah, Noah-sama, he looks so handsome while embracing his Vampiric nature~!" said Iris, as she cut through the ranks of the Lizardmen almost at a similar speed to Noah, slicing them off with ease.

"GRRKAKAAHHH!"

Suddenly, two large Lizardmen emerged, wearing harder armor and weapons!

"Oh?! Lizardmen Warriors? Do they have similar ranks to Goblins? Interesting!" laughed Noah, darting over the shoulder of a Lizardman Warrior and then generating a large Blood Blade, slicing through its neck!

"GRRAAKKHHH…!"

Slash!

"However, I am not as weak as that time when I had to struggle with Goblin Warriors… Killing Lizardmen Warriors shouldn't be much of a problem," thought Noah, as the Lizardmen Warrior he killed exploded into black smoke.

Noah quickly jumped off it before it completely turned into smoke, and reached for his next prey, seeping his claws into its eyes as the Lizardman Warrior groaned in agony!

"Black Thunder Arrow!" roared Timassa, as the powerful thunder attack reached the Lizardman Warrior, electrifying it as it died on the spot!

Boom!

The bloodshed continues, as the Vampire Family cannot lose this opportunity to finally gather resources and Cores to grow stronger!

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45 Boss Battle! Against The Lizardman King!

"GRAAAKKAHH…!"

A large, two-meters tall Lizardman wearing leather clothes and wielding a long wooden staff with a skull on top roared, conjuring a spell and forming a magic circle in the process!

Flash!

Suddenly, a large amount of green smoke emerged from the magic circle, reaching Jon!

"That's… poison? Hm, it doesn't smell as bad as I imagined…" thought Jon, completely unaffected by the poisonous smokescreen!

"Gakkahhh…!" cried the Lizardman Shaman, completely surprised by Jon's resistance over poison!

"Because I am a Dhampir, as long as I am well-nourished with blood, my resistance against things such as poison is increased… I can barely feel my health slowly dimming… Well, Evil Eye," thought Jon, as he activated his Evil Eye, glaring at the Lizardman Shaman and instantly draining its life force!

"GRRAKAKKH…!"

The Lizardman Shaman cried in agony, as its strength slowly dissipated and it fell into the ground, its life was completely drained out, and it slowly became as dry as a mummy!

Jon felt like his health was back at full now, his new ability was incredible.

However, because it wasn't of an immediate effect, other Lizardman could take advantage of his low attribute values and lack of agility to strike him from behind!

"Grakakakah!"

"Groooaakkah!"

Two Lizardmen Spearmen emerged before Jon, raising their spears coated in deadly poison as Jon was not able to drain their life completely before their spears reached his flesh!

However, a dark figure emerged from the shadows of the jungle, Adamantine roared like a beast, her entire body coated in darkness, as she used her shadows and shaped them as claws over her hands!

"GRRRAAAAAAH…!"

SLASH!

SLASH!

The two Lizardmen Spearmen were sliced in half on an instant, as Adamantine feasted in the streams of blood that emerged from their bodies before fully dissipating into black smoke!

"Thanks…" said Jon.

"Friend… Protect…" said Adamantine, her mind was broken now, and it had now been reformed into a very young one, however, she saw anyone with the same 'scent' as her master and mistress as friends she needed to protect, and because Jon was bad at fighting other than using his Clairvoyance and Evil Eye, most of the time, she was protecting his back.

"Let's fight… together…" said Jon rather shyly, as Adamantine nodded innocently and the two joined forces, Adamantine serving as a defender and fast physical attacker, while Jon weakened the Lizardmen that rushed towards them and drained their life force with ease.

Like this, the unlikely pair broke through dozens of Lizardmen, annihilating an entire battalion by themselves!

A path of blood and cores was the only thing left, as Jon began to slowly learn how to use Lesser Blood Manipulation, managing to generate his first Blood Sphere, where he stored Blood for later consumption or use.

Meanwhile, Iris roamed the battlefield alone, using her Blood Sphere and shaping the blood inside into Blood Needles, targeting the Lizardmen's eyes or snouts, while she used her long and poisonous nails to slice through their necks or stomachs!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

"Grrryyakkhh…!"

"Grruuuooohkkha…!"

"Grrakakahh…!"

"Fufu, it has never been this easy before! I have really grown a lot these last days!" she laughed, coated in her Rage Mode crimson aura and her Demonic Phantom Fox dark blue phantasmagoric aura, her fox tails grew larger as more slowly began to emerge, the more time she spent using this power, the stronger would be the buff, but the more insane she would become!

However, for someone who had already embraced insanity, she was not at all that affected, and even enjoyed such a feeling of exhilaration and bloodshed!

Several arrows, spears, and swords reached for her, as she evaded them with incredible agility while using her Blood Needles to attack her enemy's blind spots, slicing them into pieces not long after!

She roamed the battlefield and annihilated her weak prey, the Lizardman had no choice but to fall into despair, their kin was being slaughtered as if it were child's play for these invaders!

Quickly, Noah reached the leaders, three large Lizardman Leader Warriors, and a larger one, a four-meter tall Lizardman King Shaman!

"So we already got into the leader's territory!" said Noah, as Iris, Timassa, Jon, Adamantine, and Sakura reached his side not long after!

"Measly humans… Have you come to annihilate our kin as you always do? Burn to ashes!"

The Lizardman King Shaman glanced at Noah from its bone throne, which was being carried by a dozen of Lizardman Warriors, as it began to conjure several spells at the same time, magic circles emerging out of thin air!

Suddenly, a rain of blazing rocks emerged from the sky, falling over Noah's party!

"That's… meteor shower!" said Arthur from the backlines, as he decided to leave what he and Big Sis were doing, rushing to assist Noah and his party!

"Evade!" roared Noah, as his group dissipated while moving swiftly through the jungle, evading the large yet slow-falling meteors.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The meteors, which were the size of a car each, fell over the jungle and detonated into blazing explosions, burning through the vegetation, and turning it all into ashes!

"Jon, Adamantine, Timassa, take care of the Lizardman Warriors and Leaders defending the King! Iris, come with me!" roared Noah, as his party nodded without a shred of doubt over their leader's tactics, getting back together once more and darting towards the Lizardmen Leader who greeted them with roars of war and enormous weapon attacks!

"GRRAAAKAKAKAH!"

One of the Lizardman leaders roared loudly as if laughing, rushing towards the party that decided to confront them, raising its gigantic axe and quickly making it fall over them, the weapon's weight alone could easily crush them without any effort!

"GRROOOOOAAAHHH…!"

However, Adamantine enhanced her entire body with her Dark Aura, clashing towards the axe with all of her strength, her giant Dark Claws cracked the axe with enormous strength, breaking it apart into fragments, as the Lizardman Leader Warrior was left in shock!

"Good work…" said Jon, as he glanced at the Lizardman Leader from nearby using his Evil Eye, and enhancing its effectiveness with more Mana poured into it, and then, he released several Blood Knives crafted through his Lesser Blood Manipulation!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

The Blood Knives penetrated the Lizardman Leader's flesh, as the evil eye effect drained his life away!

"Aaaaaaand now…!"

Sakura ran by pushing the limits of her entire body, raising her blade, she released a wave of slashing attacks over the Lizardman, disrupting its counterattack!

"Dark Thunder Arrow!"

Timassa quickly came to finish off the creature, electrifying it with her powerful dark thunder, frying it alive on the spot!

"GRRAAAKKHH…!"

Boom!

Turning into black smoke, the trio had no time to rest, as they quickly moved towards the next target, who was charging directly at them!

However, as they rushed towards it, another two more Lizardman Leaders emerged from their backs, raising their large hammers and spears!

"Waves of Erosion!" roared Arthur, as he attacked the two Lizardman Leaders with a powerful wave of erosive poison, breaking through their flesh and making their scales melt away!

"GRRRYAAAKKH…!"

"Begone!" roared Big Sis, as she used her gigantic drills to break through the Lizardman's flesh, crushing their legs and then blowing off their giant heads with her Light Bullets, covering herself on blood!

Boom!

The Lizardman Leaders turned into black smoke in an instant, as the other group managed to get rid of the ones they were targeting in time!

Meanwhile, Noah and Iris rushed through the battlefield, evading the magic barrage of the Lizardman King Shaman!

46 Desperate Battle!

"You humans…! I have never seen someone wiping out my army like this before! You must be exterminated! Burn to ashes! Meteor Shower!" roared the Lizardman King Shaman, enraged by his army's defeat, he began to conjure more meteors all around, destroying the entire place and leaving a hellish and burning wasteland!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Noah and Iris evaded each direct meteor, but the flames were too intense that it began to burn through their clothes with ease, penetrating their flesh and slowly melting their skin!

However, through the regeneration of Vampires, and the constant drinking of accumulated blood, they managed to break through the hellish walls of flames that the Lizardman King Shaman encased itself into!

"Noah-sama, we are here!" roared Iris, as she and Noah finally reached the big boss!

"Do your worst! Ice Blades!" roared the Lizardman King Shaman, as he conjured dozens of blue-colored magic circles, making fall a rain of Ice Blades against Noah and Iris!

Noah smiled maliciously, as he suddenly put his own blood and the one he accumulated into motion!

"Let's make it a bit fair then, you bastard!" laughed Noah, as his Blood Soul was also put into effect, expanding like a crimson aura, and combining with his blood and that of the Lizardman which he harvested when he killed them!

Flash! Flash! Flash! Flash!

Blood Projectiles of all shapes and sizes clashed against the Lizardman King Shaman's Ice Blades, generating an amazing spectacle of explosions and colors!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

"Oh?! Interesting! Very interesting!" laughed the Lizardman King Shaman, generating more attacks as Noah kept infusing Mana and blood into his!

"Iris, slice through the bastard's neck!" roared Noah, as Iris was already getting into motion, rushing towards the Lizardman King Shaman, and unleashing her blood Needles!

However, she quickly noticed that the Lizardman King's scales were simply way too hard, like metallic plates, her needles were not able to get through!

"Tch! How about this then?!" roared Iris as she was covered on her Rage Mode crimson aura and Demonic Phantom Fox dark blue phantasmagoric aura, enhancing her capabilities to her very limits!

She coated her black nails into these powers, and then began to slice through the flesh of the Lizardman King's arms, as the monster roared in pain, glancing at Iris as his conjuration was interrupted!

"D-Damn it!" he cried, as Noah's Blood Projectiles reached the Lizardman King's entire body, slashing through its flesh and managing to penetrate its hard scales, unlike Iris' attacks!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

"Unngrraaa…!" cried the Lizardman's King, as he shielded himself with his large arms, walking out of his throne!

Iris smiled devilishly, as she finally reached the Lizardman King's face!

"Do you like poison?" she asked, as she leaped near its eyes, slashing through its eyes dozens of times, as blood gushed out of his crushed eyeballs!

"UNGRRRAAAKKKHHH…!" cried the Lizardman King!

Iris jumped out of the monster's face before she was to be slapped like a fly by its gigantic claws, and then rushed back to its neck, abusing Noah's wounds, and beginning to slice through the tender flesh below the hard scales!

However, the Lizardman King's Aura suddenly changed!

"UUUNNNNGRRAAAAAKKKKHHH…!"

Boom!

An enormous wave of magic energy was released from his entire body, as Iris was sent flying through the sky, barely managing to get caught by a Blood Tentacle made by Noah!

"A-Ah! Noah-sama, you saved me!" said Iris with enamored eyes, as Noah quickly dropped her to the ground!

"Bugeeh…!"

"Quickly get up, we are not done with this!" said Noah, his face growing fiercer as he glanced at the gigantic Lizardman King enhance his body!"

"Aarrgghhh…! My eyes… You damn monkey! I shall crush you like ants!" roared the Lizardman King, enhancing his body with a Body Strengthening Spell, as his muscles bulged, and his wounds stopped flowing with blood!

"We need more back up here!" cried Iris, as she and Noah evaded the enormous and incredibly fast fist that fell over the ground!

BOOM!

"You want to throw some fists?! We throw some fists then!" roared the Lizardman King, breaking through the sound barrier and twisting his body, as his long tail whipped Iris and Noah through the air!

CLASH!

"Hyaaaa…!"

"Nngh…! Blood Spear!" roared Noah, flashing a large spear of blood towards the Lizardman King, which reached its forehead and got stuck in there!

CLASH!

"Unngghooo…! Gakakakakah! That won't do it! My scales are as hard as steel!" laughed the Lizardman King, stepping into the ground and generating earthquakes!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

His large claws quickly reached Noah and Iris, as Noah threw away Iris from the claws' range and was embraced by the Lizardman's King!

Clash!

"N-Noah-samaaaaa!" cried Iris, as she fell to the ground.

"GAAKAKAKAH! I caught you! Now di- GEHKKH?!"

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

"I also got claws, lizard!" laughed Noah, as he sliced off the Lizardman's fingers, making it cry in agony!

"GRRRYAAAAKKKHH…! M-MY fingers, you monkey! DIE!" roared the Lizardman King, as he moved his tail towards Noah while he fell through midair!

Noah's energy was already low, and he had spent most of his blood on his Blood Projectile Barrage!

Without energy, his senses dulled, and… he was not able to move in time!

Preparing himself to take the hit, a black thunderbolt fell from the sky, crashing against the Lizardman's King, and blowing it off!

BOOM!

"UNGRRAAKKH… W-What?! I-It can't be… you already killed my Warriors?!" asked the Lizardman King in shock, glancing at Timassa's confident smile, as she generated more thunderbolts, falling over the Lizardman's King!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"UNNGRRAAKKHH..! YOUUUU!"

The Lizardman King roared, moving its leg towards Timassa, trying to crush her like an ant!

"Waves of Erosion!"

"Evil Eye!"

However, Arthur and Jon joined in, using their powers to attack the Lizardman's legs, waves of erosive poison began to slowly melt the skin of the Lizardman's King, as Jon's Evil Eye drained off his lifeforce!

"UNNNNGKKKHH…! You damn… Little Ants! Meteor Shower! …Eh? Why… it doesn't conjure?! Agh! I ran out of Mana already?!" wondered the Lizardman King, after all, he had used Mana excessively through the entire battle, even monsters were able to run out of Mana, and if they were provoked to use their strongest attacks right away, there were tactics that forced them to tire out of their mana so they could become less threatening!

"Well, too bad for you!" said Big Sis, rushing towards the Lizardman King and raining Light Bullets over its legs, crushing them through several explosions of light!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

"UNNGAAAHKKKH…!"

"There is more where that came from!" said Sakura.

"GRAAAAAAAAHHH!" roared Adamantine.

Adamantine and Sakura came right after! Adamantine used her dark claws and dark aura to enhance herself, while Sakura began to slowly get more used to her capabilities, using her sword to break through the Lizardman's open wounds, slicing more flesh out of it, until both of its legs finally fell!

BOOM!

"UNGHH… T-THIS! I am… the Lizardman King! I cannot be defeated by measly humans!" cried the Lizardman King, as Noah and Iris darted towards him!

"Well, too bad for you. I can only see you as resources, so give me a favor and die," said Noah, covered in his own blood, he gathered it all into a giant blade, as he received the support of Iris with her own blood!

"Die!" said Iris and Noah, slicing through the Lizardman's King neck, as a fountain of blood exploded into the sky!

"UUUNNGRRRYYYAAAKKKKHHH…!"

CLASH!

Boom!

The Lizardman's head was sliced right off, as his enormous body turned into black smoke right after, leaving several precious Cores behind!

47 Great Rewards

With the death of the Lizardman King Shaman, came the recollection of dozens of Cores around this wasteland.

Cores had unique properties and were incredibly durable, even after beginning showered in the powerful Meteor Shower of the Lizardman King, they were just as new but covered in a lot of ashes and debris.

Thankfully, Big Sis could detect magic elements and quickly dug out every Attribute Value Core and Ability Core.

Jon then checked the surrounding of the Dungeon, and only detected very dim presences of lesser and smaller monsters that were actually running away from the area, it seems that for now, the Dungeon was emptied.

However, there was also the sealed dungeon boss door, as long as the actual boss of this dungeon was not defeated, the dungeon would be kept existing, making it an easy place to grind cores and other materials.

"That was quite intense… But we did it, somehow!" said Sakura.

"Indeed, and the amount of Cores we acquired is ridiculous… But I wonder why there were so many monsters in this place compared to other dungeons we had visited," said Timassa.

"Hm, it might be related with the Dungeon type of structure, or even that this Dungeon had been ignored for a few weeks mostly, so the monsters began to accumulate," said Arthur.

"Oh right, this Dungeon is often ignored, as most F-Rank Hunters are usually at Military Schools using the Dungeons there… And no other Hunter visits this Dungeon due to its annoying landscape of jungles, where many mosquitoes and annoying bugs live," said Timassa.

"Alongside that, there could be another reason… My Blood Core ability to warp Dungeons and make them spawn more monsters has intensified after I have unlocked more of its power… This also means that our rise to power will be rather swift, but not easy," said Noah, although he was easily slaying Lizardmen Leaders, the Lizardman King was particularly hard to kill, and it needed the help of all his subordinates to take it down.

"That's amazing if it's really true… We could grind a few more dungeons and finally get to Rank E!" said Iris.

"Indeed… I am beginning to think that we might be able to achieve this tomorrow at night if things go well…" said Noah.

"That's… amazing… so fast?" asked Arthur.

"Well, Master, you can clearly see that this is the truth, by just looking at the immense amount of Cores we have collected…" said Timassa.

"We'll have to hunt on E-Rank Dungeons soon!" said Iris.

"Well it's already near 4 AM, let's keep finding any monster nearby while the War Machine and Arthur farm the underground resources," said Noah, as everyone nodded in agreement and darted through the jungles, slaying large insects, monkeys, or any critter they found.

Meanwhile, Big Sis and Arthur kept mining materials with incredible efficiency thanks to Big Sis's enormous drills, when it was near 6 AM, they had ground three tons of Magic Crystals and Magic Ores, which were all F-Rank, but valuable, nonetheless.

Just like Cores and Hunters, materials that can be mined inside dungeons had Ranked as well, often determined by the dungeon's original rank and their level of Mana capacity.

"We left an enormous hole in here… Will we not get in trouble leaving this like that?" asked Arthur.

"Well, half of the jungle was burned by the Lizardman King, so they might not realize this before noticing all the wasteland and burned trees," said Noah.

"R-Right…" said Arthur.

"Well, don't dungeons regenerate naturally after some time? After it absorbs enough Miasma from the environment, it will most likely regenerate to its original state, and then make new Lizardman appear," said Iris.

"She's right, there isn't much to worry about," said Timassa.

"Master… Thirst…" said Adamantine, as she moved near Noah, grabbing her arm and glancing at him with puppy eyes.

"You're thirsty? Hm, drink this," said Noah, as he cut off his wrist and let Adamantine drink from his large wound.

"E-Eh?! A-Adamantine gets to do that but I can't?!" asked Iris.

"Well, the last time I checked you didn't have the mind of a toddler… Or maybe I am wrong? I am beginning to think that you might!" said Noah rather annoyed, as Adamantine drank the blood very peacefully as if a baby drinking milk from her mother.

"A-Ah! N-Nooo! Don't get angry with me, Noah-sama…" sighed Iris, as Noah simply sighed and petted her head.

"Let's go back now, there are classes, and we also need to absorb these Cores we acquired. Let's hurry up," said Noah, as Adamantine finally satiated herself and Noah's wound immediately regenerated.

Arthur saved Big Sis and Sakura inside of his Dimensional Storage Ring and ran back to his house atop the building's roofs alongside Timassa, while Noah and the rest moved back to the school.

The party had gathered 202 Attribute Value Cores, and 8 Ability Cores, which they ended up dividing around, until Noah was left with the most, ending at 50 of Attribute Value Cores and 4 Ability Cores, which also included the one that an F-Rank Hunter they killed dropped.

After quickly separating, Noah was finally left alone inside of his room, the sun was about to rise on the horizon, so he needed to quickly absorb the Cores, take a bath, and go to classes.

"Hmph, you did quite well… you're closer to E-Rank… That was… Not even a week has gone by since you acquired my powers! Perhaps… you're truly innately talented?" wondered the Blood Progenitor.

"Thanks for the compliments, Dracula, but I don't need them," said Noah rather coldly, as he began to absorb the Attribute Value Cores.

A surge of new power covered his entire body, as the streams of energy began to cross through his muscles, bones, cartilage, and blood vessels, reaching his Blood Core and nourishing it further.

Noah opened his eyes as they gleamed with crimson red colors, his muscles felt strengthened, his bones became harder, his senses became sharper, and the amount of Mana he possessed increased as well.

Without saying a word, he decided to check his Attribute Panel.

[Noah]

[Bloodline: Vampire (Awakening)]

[Vitality: 69]

[Mind: 70]

[Force: 72]

[Skill Points: 0]

[Skill(s): [Blood Progenitor: - (SSS), [Undying Body: 56 (A), [Blood Claws: 62 (C), [Blood Manipulation: 78 (D), [Blood Projectiles: 57 (D), [Champion's Great Perseverance: 48 (C), [Telepathy: 47 (D), [Blood Soul: 28 (A), [Blood Flow Acceleration: 25 (C), [Blood Sacrifice: 21 (C), [Blood Retribution: 20 (C)]

"Oh? It seems that my Force Attribute might be the first to reach E-Rank! Interesting… I only need three more points… Hmm, that will have to wait. I do not regret giving the other Cores to my subordinates, they are, after all, my own strength as well. If they grow stronger, I grow stronger as well," thought Noah.

"Hmph… If you were not so caritative with your slaves, you might have already reached E-Rank, foolish human," said the Blood Progenitor.

"Caritative? I am not such a person. I only am not an idiot like you. I know very well that in this world, alone you are devoured. The strength comes in numbers. Even if I am strong by myself, by having others at my side, such strength multiplies several times. Maybe I am more of a leader than you, an SSS-Rank Monster was? How amusing, I guess you were an autistic loner," said Noah.

"W-What did you call me?! I had hundreds of slaves!" roared the Blood Progenitor.

"Slaves? So you cannot even convince people to follow you, so you have to slave them? Pathetic," said Noah.

"T-Tch! What do you even know about that?! I won't talk with you anymore!" roared the Blood Progenitor, cutting his conversation with Noah.

Noah shrugged off such a threat and smiled, glancing at his Ability Cores.

48 Learning New Skills Through the Skill Tree!

Now that Noah had increased his stats, it was time for him to get some Skill Points.

By using the Ability Cores dropped by monsters (or humans), he can acquire Skill Points instead of a random Skill within the Ability Core Skill Pool, and be able to select Skills related to his Blood Core through the Skill Tree he possesses.

He now had 4 Ability Cores on his hands, enough for at least a few Skill Points.

However, because they were all F-Rank instead of the higher-ranked Ability Cores he acquired from Edmond and his harem, the Skill Points he would acquire were lower.

Ability Cores separated themselves in Ranks, but the Ranks themselves were not related to the being they originated from Attribute Values, it was related to their strongest Skill.

Edmond had a D-Rank Skill, so his Ability Core was D-Rank, the Lizardmen were all F-Rank and only had F-Rank Skills, so their Ability Cores were also F-Rank.

Noah knew this very well and did not expect to get such a big boost in power, but honestly, anything that he could get for now was good enough, especially because he was finally getting to the level of strength of Fernand Firebrand and his lackeys, the ones he desired to kill the most.

There were also several E-Rank Students in his class, and some were even close to D-Rank, however, Fernand Firebrand was high E-Rank, however, there could be the possibility of him growing stronger in these days, so there was not any guarantee that at the time that Noah reached E-Rank, Fernand would not be D-Rank already…

This was why he needed to grow stronger as much fast as possible!

"Absorb," said Noah, as he used the System command to absorb the Ability Cores into Skill Points.

Ding!

[Do you wish to exchange [Ability Core (F)] X4, for 20 Skill Points?]

[YES NO]

"Only 20 Skill Points for four Ability Cores… Well, that should give me at least two new Abilities," said Noah, as he accepted the exchange.

Ding!

[You acquired 20 Skill Points!]

"Open Skill Tree…" said Noah, as a holographic window emerged in front of his sight.

Skill Trees

[Blood Progenitor] [Innate]

[Level: I]

[Blood Progenitor Successor (50/50)]

Additional Abilities (I): [Blood Flow Acceleration (5/5), [Blood Sacrifice (5/5), [Blood Retribution: (10/10)]

Additional Abilities (II): [Vampiric Eyes of Hypnosis (0/10), [Poisonous Blood (0/10), [Blood Curse (0/20)]

Additional Abilities (III): [Blood Armor: (0/25), [Blood Potion (0/30), [Blood Combustion (0/40)]

"I see, I can spend 20 for two Skills, perfect," said Noah.

Ding!

[You have spent 10 Skill Points!]

[You unlocked the [Vampiric Eyes of Hypnosis: 1 (C)] Skill!]

Ding!

[You have spent 10 Skill Points!]

[You unlocked the [Poisonous Blood: 1 (C)] Skill!]

Suddenly, a bit of the power of the large Blood Core within Noah's chest was unlocked, as new power rushed into his entire body, alongside new information about how to use this new type of power.

Vampiric Eyes of Hypnosis could let Noah hypnotize weakened foes, making them subdue or paralyzed for a few seconds, which could be intensified as more Mana was poured into the intensity of the Skill.

However, those that had strong wills and were experienced could be able to break through his hypnosis, so he needed to use it with caution, and not treat such power as an ace, as it was not completely reliable. Nonetheless, it was a useful Skill.

And lastly, Poisonous Blood was simpler, it was a Skill that could let Noah convert his own blood into a poisonous black ooze, which he could spray on foes or coat his claws with, however, to activate it, he needed to spend his own blood, which was not always favorable.

However, he began to come with interesting ways to use this Skill in convergence with others such as Blood Sacrifice and Blood Retribution… or even use this Poisonous Blood and convert them into crystalized Poisonous Blood Projectiles in the form of needles… There were a lot of interesting uses.

"Interesting, with these Skills my capacity of battle has increased a lot, and now I have more tools to play around with… Hm, it's already 6 AM… I will go take a bath and perhaps fill myself with food to use Blood Flow Acceleration whenever I might need it," thought Noah, quickly getting into the bathroom and taking a warm bath, washing his teeth and then eating several sandwiches in less than five minutes, alongside a lot of greasy food and sugary drinks.

This was because Noah needed to accumulate as many calories as he could, which he spent monstrously through his buffing Skills, and his metabolism was so fast that his stomach would not even bulge a tiny bit even after eating so much.

However, blood was still needed for complete nourishment, and he made sure to drink a liter of it, which he had saved inside of his Blood Sphere.

Finally finishing his unconventional breakfast, Noah walked out of his room and right to his Classroom.

On the way back to the classes, Noah sensed Fernand Firebrand and his lackeys reaching him.

"Should I hurry up and get inside the classroom? No, this will only make them follow me after classes, it would be better to please their lowly minds with some amusement, so they don't annoy me after class… it will also be a nice way to detect how strong has Fernand become…" thought Noah, as he pretended to be as slow as ever, and was quickly caught by Fernand, who kicked him in the back.

The amount of pain he felt was absolutely nothing, compared to the Lizardman King's grasp, this was like a gentle pat.

However, for their sake, he pretended to be weak, falling to the ground.

"So there you are! You shithead! I have been looking for this damn Blood Core everywhere! Have you really not seen it?!" asked Fernand, kicking Noah's face, which felt like a dull pat to him.

"I… N-No… Please… I told you that I didn't have it…" said Noah rather weakly, his acting skills were quite good.

"I told you that he didn't do it, look at him, he's just a piece of shit, what could he even do?" asked one of Fernand's lackeys.

"Hmm… You are right I guess! Well, let's use these minutes to show him his place. I hope that getting a perfect score on the test did not get into your head! Trash will always be trash after all!" laughed Fernand, kicking Noah alongside his two lackeys.

To Noah', such dull insults felt like the words said by a toddler, they didn't even affect him anymore.

And now that his stats were quite high, even if not an E-Rank yet, their kicks and punches that were not charged with Abilities were incredibly dull, and could only make Noah train his resistance a bit.

"What with this shithead?" asked one of Fernand's lackeys.

"What?" asked the other.

"He feels… like he's a rock or something," said the lackey.

"EH? You're imagining things, look how much he's bleeding," laughed Fernand, as he kicked for the last time Noah and walked away.

Of course, the blood was just part of Noah's façade and quickly went back inside of his blood, which had come out through his nose.

"Oh, he seems to not have grown as strong as I thought… Well, I still need to prepare well…" laughed Noah, quickly getting up as if nothing, and walking back to classes.

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49 Expedition to the Wastelands

Noah walked inside of the classroom and sat down in his seat, the teacher quickly entered and began classes.

"Today is the day, we will be having a quick expedition to the outskirts of Sector D, and we'll show you all how the world… truly is. Be prepared, as there will most likely be Mutated Beasts, which we'll have to exterminate if we ever come across one," said the teacher.

Clementina Icespear, one of the stoic beauties of the Class and someone at almost the peak of E-Rank, raised her hand.

"Yes?" asked the teacher.

"What is the Rank of power that the Mutated Beasts will have, teacher?" she asked rather directly.

"Well, by using our War Machines and Hunters to clean up the area, most of the strong ones have been exterminated, however, there is the chance for Mutated Beasts up to E-Rank to emerge sometimes, but it shouldn't be anything too serious," said the teacher.

"E-Rank… I see," said Clementina, as her eyes glowed with fervent conviction.

"It is only an expedition, so our main purpose is not to go hunt Mutated Beasts but to know how the world outside is… Mostly because the majority here hasn't known about the outside world, and had been born in here," said the teacher.

"The outside world… That brings some memories…" thought Noah with an expressionless face, as the light of his eyes disappeared, remembering the past he once lived.

Noah, unlike most students here, was born in the wastelands.

It was not up until he was around six years old when he was rescued and then sent inside of Sector D.

He knew very well the living hell that was the outside world.

Giant mutated beasts roam everywhere.

Monstrous creatures devour each other in endless madness.

Armies of crazed zombies ravage anything they come across.

Flying malformed creatures catch giant prey in the go.

He can still remember it.

The day his parents died.

The day he was locked inside an abandoned house underground for days.

As he heard the cries of agony of his parents being devoured alive.

And as he cried until he fell asleep.

The agony only continued as the days went on, as he heard beasts come and devour the corpses of his parents, bit by bit…

However, Noah was different now.

He was not powerless.

He had the power to change his destiny.

He was not powerless to be locked away while hopelessly hear his parents die.

Noah swallowed saliva.

The outside world was his trauma, perhaps.

And by going outside, he would be getting over such a thing.

He must know the outside world better and must see how it is now, after so many years of living inside Sector D.

Mutated Beasts? They are only materials now, resources.

And he will make sure to hunt them down, no matter how 'humane' they may look.

However, there was another topic.

Subhumans.

Most students saw them as equal to Mutated Beasts, others saw them as lowly slaves.

But Noah saw opportunities on them.

The discriminated, the poor, the powerless.

He wanted them at his side.

He had the power to give power to others.

And who else could they count than on him?

Those that had nowhere to go could only see him as their salvation, and swear loyalty to him.

Subhumans? Similarly to the robots, they will become his subordinates and his strength.

Who cares what Humans think about?

He only cared about himself and his family, everyone else could go die.

As the teacher kept explaining things, Arthur communicated with Noah telepathically.

"Noah, the robots have been introduced to our manor, and seem to be adapting quite fine. However, Big Sis is way too big, so she was left in the garage. She has been processing the materials we harvested, and we might either use them to craft equipment with the crafters that work for my father or… sell them to increase our money, I've also bought several new parts for the damaged robots, and Sugar seems to be working hard to repair the majority, if they all get into a good condition, our strength will increase," said Arthur.

"I see. Good work. For now, let's concentrate on what's ahead of our path," said Noah.

"Yes, of course… I guess we will just go explore around and that's it? Not much of a problem," said Arthur.

"I believe that we might be targeted by students, some hold grudges against us as we got perfect scores," said Noah.

"O-Oh…" said Arthur.

"What did you think this expedition was about, Arthur? It's obvious that the higher-ups are using this one to filter us even more, they want conflicts between us, to separate us as students, and to make us kill each other, the less there are, the more talented we are, and the more useful we become for them, filtering the useless and weak is their priority…" said Noah.

"That's… I guess it might be true…" said Arthur.

"We are not here to be protected and be given opportunities to become Hunters. We are here to be nurtured as Soldiers for the government, after all, this is a Military School. This society is more inhumane than you think. People have long lost their feelings of humanity, this world is shrouded in chaos, you cannot blame them, right? Survival is the priority, and only the fittest shall survive…" said Noah to Arthur.

"Noah… you…" muttered Arthur.

"If we have to kill, we'll kill. And if they are too strong for us to kill, we escape as much as we can, and survive, even if we have to struggle. I won't fight battles that I cannot win, and the same goes for you, if any of you die, my strength will reduce, make sure to stay alive," said Noah.

"…Yes, I understand… I will make sure to protect your back, Noah," said Arthur.

"Well, that's reassuring, and I shall do the same," said Noah.

"Tch… Your stupid human emotions will not let you anywhere! I thought you embraced my power, but you are still a weak and pathetic human! Do you truly believe that bonds will get you anywhere?! They only hinder your growth!" roared the Blood Progenitor.

"I see that you talk by experience, were you betrayed before? Perhaps you always sucked at dealing with people and forging bonds of mutual trust. I can't blame you, you were a monster after all," laughed Noah.

"Y-You! I am not a monster! I was-"

"A Vampire Progenitor? And where did that came to help you? You were targeted by the Sun Heralds and perhaps betrayed by your slaves, but that was because you never held your authority as a true leader. There is a difference between a boss and a leader, you controlled people, but never lead them somewhere. You never promised them something nor gave them results, you only used them. You could have forged better bonds of trust, you could have managed to create strong allies, but you were too self-centered on your hypocrisy and selfishness to even fathom such a thought," said Noah.

"Y-You damn… human! How dare you… tell me such… a thing… I…" muttered the Blood Progenitor.

"What? Why are you stuttering? Did I hurt you somewhere? It seems that I might nail there… Don't come ordering me around again, Dracula," said Noah.

The Blood Progenitor fell silent, as Noah told him what he failed at, and he could only contemplate his own mistakes.

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50 Iris May Have a Chance?!

"Well, as always, all of you will need to form a group to explore the outskirts of Sector D, this time your group can be a bit larger, but nothing above 8 members," said the teacher, as every student began to chat around, moving out of their seats and forming groups.

Noah simply communicated with his vampires as all of them slowly walked towards him, Iris was as always, wearing an innocent smile, she seemed to always be happy when she was near Noah.

"Noah-sam- Noah, we'll form a party today too?" asked Iris happily.

"Yes, there is no other choice, we are all the outcasts of our class… Well it is beneficial this way," said Noah with a mild smile.

"Well, it is just an expedition… right? We don't… have to worry too much… right?" asked Jon rather shyly.

"That's what I would like it to be, but things might become way more complex as we get there, so let's keep our guard high…" said Noah.

"What about Adamantine?" asked Iris.

"She shall join us as well…" said Noah.

The teacher glanced at the lonely and expressionless Adamantine, despite having survived being eaten alive by Goblins and somehow recovering through some awakened healing Skill, most of the students and teachers had given her for death, mostly because she seemed to be completely broken mentally, and lacked any of her former intellect and personality.

Nonetheless, she was in good health and was made to go back to classes and… well, handle things however she could.

After the incidents that involved her and the death of her friends, most of the students glanced at her with disgust, and some even thought of her as having some kind of vegetative state.

However, Noah only gave her a telepathic message and she quickly stood up, easing the worries of the teacher to relocate her somewhere.

"Ah, A-Adamantine, will you join a group?" asked the teacher.

"Group… with Master…" said Adamantine, slowly walking towards Noah and the rest.

"Master? What does she mean? Maybe she is indeed insane now…" sighed the teacher.

The teacher glanced at Adamantine join Noah's group, who pretended to be a bit surprised until Arthur gently invited her to join, and Adamantine only nodded expressionless, sitting at Noah's side, and even grabbing his arm.

"So she joined Noah's group… that group is quite mysterious. Could it be possible for more of them to be hiding abilities? It could not be possible for them to have gotten perfect scores in the test of the dungeon after all… But what would Adamantine be related to them? Perhaps I am simply speculating way too much. After all, as long as they get good grades, I should not really worry," sighed the teacher, letting them be.

Adamantine glanced at Noah with her lifeless eyes, tightly grasping his arm.

"Master… hungry…" she muttered, as she slowly licked her lips, she was now getting used to being feed by Noah.

"Not here, Adamantine, and don't touch me in front of the class," said Noah telepathically, as Adamantine nodded sadly and moved a bit away from Noah.

"Grr…! Why can she touch you, Noah, and not me?!" asked Iris.

"Iris, you touch me all the time," said Noah.

"E-Eh? Really?" asked Iris.

"Indeed, I remember you grabbing Noah's arm most of the day yesterday when we were out, and in the dungeon, you also did so," said Timassa.

"A-Ah, well, I have been assuming that you two were in some kind of romantic relationship already…" said Arthur.

"Please make sure to never have such thoughts again, our relationship is mere of a creed, a family," said Noah.

"B-But there could be the chance to be something more too!" said Iris.

"No chance," said Noah.

"But Noah-sama!" cried Iris.

"Don't be so loud," said Noah.

"Sniff…" cried Iris, as Adamantine moved near her and petted her head.

"Mistress… no sad…" she said.

"G-Get off me! I am not sad…" said Iris while pouting, as Noah sighed.

"Does she really intends to become my romantic partner? I guess it would not be so bad if I were to someday leave offspring… Although I am not planning to die any time soon, so such thought of the next generation is not my priority… Well, looking inside my human side emotions, I do suppose I am quite romantically attracted to her. Should I suppress these useless emotions or embrace them to strengthen the bonds?" wondered Noah.

"There might be a chance, but not get your hopes high unless you work very hard to earn it," said Noah.

Suddenly, everyone around Noah became dead silent!

"Eh? Really?" asked Arthur.

"Oh… He really did say it," said Timassa.

"Master and mistress… together… as it should be…" said Jon.

"Happy…" said Adamantine.

"N-Noah…! R-Really?!" asked Iris, her face growing red as she began to breathe heavily, her face was that of a pervert!

Noah seemed mildly annoyed.

"No never mind, I didn't say anything, forget it," said Noah, averting his gaze from her.

"Geh…! H-How can you say that! I will still take it for granted!" said Iris.

"Do as you want…" said Noah.

"Fufu… I will!" said Iris, glancing at Noah with enamored eyes.

Although most of this conversation was done telepathically, the students around Noah's group glanced at them strangely.

"So Adamantine is joining the useless party?"

"To be expected of trash…"

"I guess she was never someone like us anyways,"

"Though, weirdly, she's joining the girl she once bullied…"

"Oh, the fat pig? I guess now that she's in a vegetative state, her sanity might be completely gone."

Iris seemed enraged after hearing so many comments, and her deadly aura began to leak out of her body, her eyes seemed to glow red, and she was about to leap and tear apart her fellow classmates.

However, Noah grabbed her hand.

"Calm down, not yet…" he said.

Iris calmed down, as she glanced at Noah with an apologetic smile.

"S-Sorry…"

"Don't be sorry. I do also contain my bloodlust. It is tiring and painful, but it is better than doing something without planning it and ruining our lives, with the possibility of dying," said Noah.

"Y-Yes… I understand," said Iris.

The group moved towards the special flying bus that was waiting for them, which would transport the class to the outskirts of Sector D.

"Are we really getting inside one of those? Wow…" said Iris.

"Ah, my father owns a few of them, we use to transport items," said Arthur.

"R-Really?! Amazing…" said Iris.

"This seems to be a flying bus also made by Axis Corporations… It seems that they have overtaken almost everything…" said Timassa.

"Indeed, it would be nice to convert the leader into a Dhampir and make him my ally… But I guess that would be way too difficult," sighed Noah.

"I don't know how you can even begin to have such thoughts…" said Arthur.

"T-They are indeed quite insane," said Timassa.

"Well, Noah-sama dreams big!" said Iris.

"Aside from making a Guild and survive… what is Noah's dream?" wondered Arthur.

"My dream? Make of this world my domain," said Noah.

"T-That's quite ambitious indeed," said Arthur.

"Such a long-term goal… But perhaps we might one day… reach it…" said Timassa.

"Oh, I see that you're finally beginning to believe Noah-sama's words! When he says that he will do something, he will do it!" said Iris.

"Master is… ambitious… someone worth following…" said Jon.

While chatting through telepathy, the flying bus flew high in the sky, reaching the outskirts in less than two minutes.

51 Exploring the Desolate Wasteland! ...And a New Threat Aproaches!

A desolate wasteland.

Dry Brown earth, barely any strange, alien-looking plants growing in the ground.

To the left, there is a large conglomeration of such plants, some were green-colored and looked as if they were made of ooze, others resembled large corals where a red liquid similar to blood but not being actual blood at all flowed out, and large flowers with giant tentacles, seemingly waiting for prey to approach, this was a 'forest' in this Earth, and thankfully, the group would not be exploring this.

To the right, there are strange, rat-sized creatures resembling the combination between a lizard and a bird, but without wings, and walking with three legs, the third leg was their tail, and the creature hoped like a frog at great speeds, they moved in groups, and seemed not interested in the students.

And to the front, more and more dry land, sometimes, a large flying creature resembling some kind of wyvern would fly around, however, it seemed to not attack humans, perhaps because its kin has been slaughtered by the giant War Machines resting all around the large titanium walls that surrounded Sector D, making them grow wary to not mess with the creatures coming from inside the walls.

However, the creature was foolish enough to fly above the city, where it hit an invisible magnetic force that protected the Sector, being electrified and barely alive, it was shot down to pieces by the War Machines.

"W-Woah…"

"So those are War Machines…"

"I've never seen them before in person!"

"Damn… They're strong,"

"Heh, I got one of those in my manor!"

"Amazing…"

Most of the students admired the outside world, some others seemed rather terrified, and others were fascinated by the chaotic wilderness and wanted to explore around.

However, Noah and his group were calmly looking around, completely silent.

Despite this appearance, they were all chatting and discussing through their Telepathy Skills.

"Amazing, this is the outside world… So terrifying…" said Arthur.

"You've never gone out, Arthur? I was born in this eternal wasteland…" said Noah.

"R-Really?!" asked Arthur.

"Is that so, Noah-sama?" asked Timassa.

"I didn't know…" said Iris.

"I was rescued when I was around 5 or 6 years old and put inside an orphanage until I was recruited into the Military School. I survived below an abandoned house basement, it was really a pathetic stage of my life," sighed Noah.

"T-That's impressive…" said Arthur.

"I've wondered this for a while… but what about your parents?" asked Iris.

"My parents? They were with me as we survived, but were slaughtered and eaten," said Noah rather expressionlessly.

"T-That's…" muttered Arthur.

"Noah-sama…" said Timassa.

"Master…" said Jon.

"I-I see… Well, I never met my parents, so I don't know how it feels to have them…" sighed Iris.

"I barely remember them as of now. I only remember my father always telling me to be strong and to follow my ideals, and my mother always told me to be careful and cautious of this world and the people that live in here…" said Noah.

"Those are very valuable lessons…" said Arthur.

"You had good parents, Noah-sama…" said Timassa.

"Yes…" said Jon.

"I see, so is this why you're so strong willed, Noah?" asked Iris.

"I don't know. I am simply how I am," said Noah rather coldly.

"I guess that's a response you would expect from Noah…" said Arthur with a bitter smile.

Seeing all the students gathered around, the teacher nodded.

"Hm, we have prepared a few obstacles and small challenges around this area, such as defeating small, mutated beasts, or getting across that one forest. There are many other obstacles too, and Attribute Cores and Ability Cores lay waiting for someone to grab them, this is not really a test, but challenges that you might try to do to incentive rivalry and competitiveness, War Machines will be monitoring this place, so you don't have to worry about larger monsters coming for you, but be careful, small Mutated Beasts can still be dangerous if you underestimate them," said the teacher, leaving the students to do as they pleased.

"Really? There are prizes around?"

"What kind of stupid game is this? We are not kids anymore,"

"Well whatever, let's just go with the flow then,"

"Maybe we can pick up something to play around with…"

"Oh yeah, I guess so…"

"Jon, use Clairvoyance and try to find any Core that there might be around," said Noah.

"Oh, good plan, we could just pick them all then!" said Iris.

"Yes, master…" said Jon, as he used the Clairvoyance Skill, expanding his field of vision outside of his own eyes.

The wasteland was enclosed by several small robots that created some kind of forcefield, so actually escaping from it seemed impossible.

Jon also found out, as he explored around with the party, that there were four main challenges, the Forest, a pit that led to some underground caves filled with small insectoid Mutated Beasts, a small, abandoned town filled with small, mutated beasts, and then there were small dunes.

All four of such challenges seemed that would take a while to complete, so it seemed that it was not intended for the student groups to gather more than one reward.

"Insectoid Mutated Beasts… Let's go for the underground caves then, we can gather all those corpses and make some good profit from it," said Noah, as the party nodded in agreement, and everyone began to run towards the pit.

As the group neared the pit in the deserted land, another group of students glanced at them from afar.

"So they're choosing the pit…" said a blue-haired man with sharp emerald eyes.

"Emerald, do you truly want to target them?" asked a young woman at his side, with long pink hair and purple eyes.

"My Danger Detection never fails… Those people… They are not humans…" said Emerald.

"Shouldn't we tell this to the teacher instead of trying to kill them ourselves?" asked the girl.

"Cathina, I know very well that if we were to tell the teachers, they would see them as valuable soldiers instead of a threat to our society and humanity… But those presences… that bloodlust, and the sickening smell of blood within all of them… I know that they are not ordinary…" said Emerald.

"So you think it would be better to get rid of them before things get worse?" asked Cathina.

"They seem to be hiding their strength. However, I can clearly tell that their power is increasing every day… Most of them are nearing E-Rank most likely, we cannot let these fiends in the disguise of humans grow any stronger," said Emerald.

"Do you believe that by killing them, we would be doing a good deed to humanity?" asked Cathina.

"No. But I believe it is the right thing to do. And the only way to get rid of them is by doing it with my very hands… Adamantine's case… they most likely did it," said Emerald.

"Are you a detective or something?" asked Cathina.

"No, but I am not someone who is fond of beasts within our classes," said Emerald, his eyes glowing brighter as emerald jewels began to emerge out of thin air around him.

"Let's go," he said, walking ahead as his party followed him from behind.

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