Reborn Zombie Chapter 4: 97, a 13 tzameti fanfic

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When the morning had come, Victor headed out of the mansion to see the new surrounding as he was told there would be a shift in their location. He was awake throughout the night, but didn't feel anything like the castle, as he had decided to refer to the house, move. The room he was in wasn't located where there would be a window to provide a view of the surrounding areas, so he couldn't monitor through there either. Not to his surprise, the castle now sat just at the edge of an insanely tall mountain edge. Perhaps it was because of the morning conditions, he couldn't see the bottom as it was covered in clouds.

'This idea was definitely hijacked from castlevania.' Victor said in his mind. Really, what were the odds that the vampires would be the same? He thought.

Shortly after the morning hours had passed, Victor set out towards the direction of the land of vampires, city, actually. According to Vince, when the vampires emerged, they managed to take over one of the human cities and turned it into theirs, and every human that was alive within the city basically became livestock.

"The good thing for the humans is that the vampires are not really interested in taking over the world, at least for now, so they usually mind their business. That is of course, unless they run out of food and need more." Vince stopped there as he knew Victor, the Crow, understood what he meant.

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At this moment, Vince was explaining some things to Victor while they headed towards the city occupied by the vampires. Victor of course now had an idea of the way to get to the city, but since he was taking Vince with him, there was no need for him to take the lead. They were riding some demon vehicle that travelled pretty fast. The thing looked like a flying sci-fi bike, but it had an arcane look and feel to it, nothing like the normal technology of the humans.

After some hours of travelling, Vince and Victor had finally gotten to their destination, but by this time, the sun was already starting to disappear into the horizon as darkness approached from the opposite side. Along the trip, Victor had marked the vehicle they were on, then disappeared, only to return about an hour later. Vince had no idea where he had gone, and he had no desire to ask.

"Have you been here for long?" Victor asked as he appeared out of thin air before Vince who was almost stunned by the sudden appearance.

"No, I just got here some minutes ago." Vince answered.

Victor wondered why Vince didn't enter the city even after getting there, but he didn't need to think much to figure out why. In the city were actual vampires, and before those monsters, Vince wasn't really much, not to mention that he isn't much of a fighter himself. He only benefits from his altered race's abilities, that's all. In the face of experts, he wouldn't dare stick out.

"Alright, let's head in then, shall we?" Victor said as he took the lead. The vehicle they used just disintegrated as Vince stored it into a storage wrist band he was wearing.

'Something feels really weird about this place, something's off a bit.' Vince thought, but kept the thoughts to himself.

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Just like the previous city where Larry lived, this one also had a wall around it, but this wal was different, as it wasn't as big and tall, neither was it all that protective or anything. Compared to the one Victor was familiar with, this one was just half the height and thickness. They walked through the gates which surprisingly had no guards or anything guarding them, and now unlike the one Victor was used to, there was a second wall and gate, only this one was even shorter and thinner than the one they just came through. It was like a double ring around the city. Perhaps, the most noticeable difference here would be the field of what seemed to be human skeletons littered on the ground. The entire space between the first and second wall was filled with them to the point where Victor and Vince had to walk over them to get to the other side.

Seeing this kind of scene, Victor couldn't help but thing, 'Hey look, here's the similarity. Only that these guys are less creative with it.' He said in his mind as they continued on the path, until they get to the other gate.

"Why don't we just go over the wall?" Vince asked. Victor gave no answer in response to the question, and Vince wasn't expecting one, so he wasn't bothered.

Just as they entered the main city through the broken gate of the second wall, Vince immediately noticed the absence of the strange feeling he had constantly as soon as he got to the outer wall. Victor on the other hand had not been affected by this strange feeling. As soon as he arrived, he got a notification from his system that it a mental attack was being used on him. Him being an undead rendered the attack useless, but Vince who was only half undead got affected nevertheless, though Victor concluded that the effect would greatly be reduced.n0𝒱𝖊𝓵𝔲𝓈𝒷.𝒸0𝓂

As soon as they walked into the city through gate, four figures appear before them, all wearing something that seemed to be a uniform amongst them. The clothes they spotted were black and red, and looked like some kind of military uniform. They all also had a pale skin, though not as ghostly pale as Victor, and their eyes were red.

One of them immediately spoke in a slightly loud voice, enough for Victor and Vince to hear him. "How does a half made even exist? Who is your master? Speak!" The vampire said audibly enough for Vince to hear him clearly, and he could also tell how disgusted the vampire was from his tone and voice. Vince remained silent, as this was not his business, he would rather face his master/mistress than face these guys. Thankfully, Vince's request was granted, almost like Victor could read his mind.

"Vince, go on back, I'll be fine by myself. No need to come looking for me, I'll be back when I finish here." Victor said while looking around the surrounding, not really paying attention to the four before him.

Victor wouldn't want Vince to witness him eat up the vampires, so he figured it would be good to send him off first before anything goes down. Vince, using his teleportation ability teleported himself back to his master's castle and left Victor at the vampire city by himself. He wasn't worried one bit for Victor, as he believed that if anything, the vampires should be the one worried.

"Who are you? Sending off your half thing of a partner, do you believe you can just walk in and out of this city?" The same vampire asked with a hint of arrogance in his voice.

Victor didn't respond, but just stared at them all with his eyes beginning to show a tint of green as the sun set slowly behind the horizon and darkness creped in. Really, there was no need explaining things to a dead body, was there?

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"Who are you? Sending off your half thing of a partner, do you believe you can just walk in and out of this city?" The same vampire asked with a hint of arrogance in his voice.

Victor didn't respond but just stared at them all with his eyes beginning to show a tint of green as the sun set slowly behind the horizon and darkness creped in.

As the main point of the visit was for him to get some vampire material, Victor wasn't going to take things slow and silent. He disappeared before the eyes of the four before reappearing simultaneously before the one that had been talking. He seemed to be the leader, and also stood in the middle of the rest.

Before the vampire's expression could even change to show surprise, his head came off as Victor twisted it off like a well-oiled bolt. The vampire's body remained standing for a while as though not aware that its head had been taken off, and after a second, it collapsed. Following this collapse, the other vampires sprang into action.

Two of the vampires pounced on Victor as soon as their shock cleared, while the last one ran away. Victor intentionally allowed the last one to run, as he figured he would go bring reinforcement. It was a really good way for him to get all the vampires, or at least most of them, in the same place without having to go do the search himself.

While the last one ran off, the two that jumped at Victor immediately faced despair, as they also weren't given the time to even regret their actions. With two uppercuts done at the same time, Victor blasted off the heads of both vampires in mid-air, and when they got to him, their bodies also just crashed onto the ground. What Victor noticed was that these vampires he just killed didn't have any blood in them, as if they did the entire place would have been stained already. Instead, there was something black with high viscosity like crude oil coming from their wounds, and slowly too.

'Maybe this is their blood?' Victor thought to himself. When he was injured, there was no blood at all, just a wound and pale white flesh. He was curious to know what kind of change his body would undergo when he evolved using the vampire material, honestly, he couldn't wait.

As Victor waited for more vampires to show up, he helped himself to the vampire bodies before him. As always, there were certain parts Victor left there, that he didn't eat. Including the intestine and some other parts, Victor just bundles them together and stood next to the pile of innards and bones.

Not too long after he finished consuming the three vampires, he heard more coming. Even before he checked his system map to see their location, he could already tell where they were. Also, from this, Victor could also tell that the vampires coming weren't their best and were probably the first line of their defense. 'Honestly, when things like these happen, if the higher-ups would just agree to show up at once, it would always be better.' Victor thought to himself. It was like the video games where the demon king would just keep sending his minions until it was his turn as the minions were all dead. If he fought the hero himself from the beginning, it would be an easy win, but no. They just keep feeding the hero experience points and equipment to grow until he's strong enough to kill them, then they face him.

Though Victor could clearly see them like day and without any additional effects, to anyone seeing the vampires, they appeared like blurs on top of the buildings near the place Victor stood. Some also came out of the alleyway close by, and all together, they were around 20 of them, a good number for Victor to gain some valuable material.

When fighting against things that he was going to eat Victor was very limited in the skills he could use on them. It would be easy to use Negative burst, but the problem is that the negative energy after reaching max had become too strong, and would corrode and corrupt the energy and body of the target after some minutes of being exposed to the energy, that is if the target survives. Normally it would happen after they die. All of Victor's skills that were related to necromancy seemed to have become like that or similar.

With this many vampires, it was either he faced them with fists and physical force, or he used his most trusted weapon.

Victor's clothes swayed a bit like they had come in contact with the night breeze, and as it happened, all the vampires around him just fell dead on the floor. He had gotten to a point where he didn't need to activate his skills through the system, so he needed not to call out the skills name or anything of the sort.

With all his legion away, as he stopped around some dungeons to give them some training, Victor had to gather the bodies himself.

"Shadow demon, go get the bodies for me," Victor said after activating his skill Demon Shadow.

The skill creates a shadow clone of Victor that is physically as strong as him and inherits three of his skills at their original strength. The demon shadows appear completely dark, like solidified smoke, taking on the shape and figure of whatever the one who created them was wearing at that point in time. It is capable of making its own decisions but will do so in accordance with the will of the creator. Quickly, the shadow demon gathered all the bodies before Victor and then disappeared as it was done with its task.

Victor began to eat those bodies while waiting for more to come. He had a feeling it might take some time, so he made a better plan this time, one that would get him where he wanted to go, and easily.

"First, let's finish this." He said, before tearing off the flesh from one of the vampires before him. Victor always felt that he looked like a pervert, having to undress or tear off pieces of clothing to get to the edible parts.n0𝑣𝑒𝗅𝑈𝐒𝒷.𝒸0𝑀

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"Quick, report this to Lord Cassias, I'll send some people over now." Someone said to another before the figure of the one standing before him ran off. 'This kind of report is too… Whatever, those humans haven't gained that much strength to confront us yet, I wonder who's so confident.' The one who was left standing in an office thought to himself before heading towards his door.

After some time passed, after the man had received a rather strange report from one of his underlings, Victor could be seen swallowing the last of the flesh he tore off from a vampire, who happened to be the last body he ate. He had a feeling that the system was going to take quite some time to analyze the material he had just ingested, so he opened his system interface to check how much vampire material he now had.

…

Evolution Material:

-Poison Sandworm – 15,000

-Dreamling – 10,000

-Jade Creeper – 30,000

-Dragon – 400,000

-Vampire – 12,000

…

Victor's eyes went across the dragon above the vampire before he closed the tab. He had been holding off from integrating the dragon into himself because he wanted to develop it more, but ever since he killed Ramok and his master, there had been no dragon. All he could find were wyverns and lindworms, not even a drake was available. Though the wyverns and lindworms were related to dragons just like the drakes when Victor ate them and got the evolution material, it always appeared separate from the one he already had, so he stopped eating them altogether and just killed them for the experience points.

With Victor's enhanced senses, he could smell some humans from where he was at the edge of the city, but the interesting thing for him was that he couldn't pick up any scent on the vampires, not even a little. Even he himself had a particular smell, but the vampires didn't. This made Victor want to get more materials even faster.

He had thought of exploring the city himself, but that would make it harder for the vampires to find him. Last he checked, vampires weren't wolves, so their sense of smell is nothing special when experts are around. He chose to remain where he currently was to make it easy for the vampires to know his location.

Time went by as Victor sat and waited for the vampires to show up, and only after a while of waiting did they appear. This time they were four of them that came. It looked like two must have been of some kind of higher rank than the ones he had been killing since, and the other two that stood a little behind the first two were also dressed in different clothes.

Victor immediately tried to check their levels before he engaged them in anything, but the weirdest thing happened. When he asked the system to identify them, instead of having their levels displayed to him, an error message was what came up. He was unable to view their levels. Immediately, Victor began thinking of what the problem was, and what it meant for the system to be unable to identify their levels and race. Of course, he tried to ask the system about it, but unfortunately, his system wasn't sentient, so there was nothing he could do really. Even now, the system had no good explanation.

'Does this mean they are over the level cap? They are that strong..' Victor thought to himself. But then he thought, he wasn't getting any sign or vibe that they were that powerful. Victor could curse his zombie attributes of total mental resistance at that moment, but that was not the time.

The vampires moved a bit closer, a couple of steps forward from where they stood originally. Victor just stood still, looking at them and observing every movement they made.n0𝓥𝚎𝓁𝗎𝕊𝒃.𝓬0𝗆

"You say this is a human?" The vampire with gelled back hair and a receding hairline said.

"I'm not sure either, but he doesn't smell like one." The other by his side said.

"It is strange. Zane, do you know anything about this?" The one with gelled hair said to the vampires behind.

They seemed not to care much about Victor, and even acted as though he wasn't there. "Yes, lord. There was such a report about a facility which the humans had, where they carried out experiments on their kind in hopes of creating something extraordinary. Perhaps this is one of the fruits of that experiment." The vampire said.

"I see. They keep getting more and more advanced with their technology and science."

"It's really like you said Cassias, we need to do something about this world fast. If not, we might be in danger soon." The other vampire that stood beside the one with receding hairline said.

"Indeed, my friend. This is a chance to test out their champion. They might have even gone too far with their experiments, doesn't he speak?" The one called Cassias said as he took a step forward. Before he took the next step, however, he was held back by the other vampire beside him, the one he called his friend.

"What is it, Luther?" Cassias asked his friend.

"Let me take care of him. I oversee a team of Hunters, so it would be good if I had good information on the capabilities of these creatures." Luther said. Cassias agreed with a nod, and so Luther stepped forward.

Victor had just been observing all this while and was yet to make even the slightest movement. The only difference now was that his hands were not in his pockets. Rather than that, he was still very relaxed, even in mind. His undead mind wouldn't let him panic even though he wanted to.

There was a space of at least 10m between Victor and the vampires originally. The more Luther closed that space, his expression seemed to change bit by bit, and it was changing into a slight frown. He couldn't tell what his opponent was thinking, and the way Victor stood, there was no normal person who would attack. 'It's like attacking master when he looks like he is totally defenseless with countless openings… I always lose.' Luther thought to himself. He was taking this fight very seriously because of a few things. To top everything off, Victor didn't look like the type of person he preferred fighting, but that is why it's called real-life situations isn't it?

When Luther was within 4 metres, he disappeared from where he was and the next second, his swung hand passed through Victor tearing him apart.

'An after image.' Luther said in his mind. He sharply turned his head to his right side, and there Victor stood unharmed.

'Was I wrong?' Victor said in his mind, as he had to actually put in the effort to dodge the vampire's attack, only for him to see the vampire moving towards him in a slower motion than himself before swinging his hands. There also seemed to be claws, as the vampire's fingers had elongated to about an inch or two.

Luther was a bit shocked after the after image faded away. He knew how fast he was, and his master also commends him on it. Amongst his peers, only so many could match his speed, and he could count those faster than him on one hand. To think that he would find someone fast enough to not only dodge him but leave an afterimage…

'There's only one who can do that…'

Victor himself was starting to reevaluate the vampires, and soon came to another conclusion. Maybe his system was just glitching or was malfunctioning.

Luther hesitated a bit after seeing the after image disappears. Instead of waiting to see if Victor would make another move, he leapt back and stood beside Cassias who also had a raised brow. Cassias was aware of Luther's strength, and so were the two behind him. To see someone evade Luther in such close range, really was something.

"Seems like we might have underestimated our foe," Cassias said.

"We did."

Seeing that the two weren't making an attempt to run away or escape, Victor also held off to see what they would do next.

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"Seems like we might have underestimated our foe." Cassias said, as his folded arms dropped to his sides.

"We did."

Both vampires stood there without saying another word for some seconds, staring directly at Victor. After some seconds passed, Victor noticed both of them make eye contact from the corner of their eyes. 'Wait, that. Don't tell me…' Victor thought, as he had a good idea what the look they gave each other meant. That kind of look, it was either they were going to attack him together, or…

Right after they gave each other that look, Victor saw that both had slightly bent their knees, but the way it was going seem to be that they had chosen the latter. 'That won't happen.' Victor said in his mind. It was clear that they planned to escape, and by what he had seen, they didn't inform the two vampires behind them, which meant those guys were to be sacrificed for them to escape.

Victor seeing this, dashed forward immediately, targeting the slower one out of the two vampires. The one called Luther was obviously faster than Cassias, so Victor went for Cassias. He would have had no problem with them using their tactics, but he didn't mark Luther when he attacked.

The next second, all the vampires standing behind saw was that Luther had disappeared from where he was standing almost in a blur, upwards. The other figure seemed to follow just behind, but rather than it disappearing, it was dragged down. In that split second, they saw another figure appear right before where their master stood, and before they could acknowledge the fact that their master was going to abandon them, they heard something impact the ground with much force.

Victor didn't let the other vampires think much before he appeared in front of them, right after he broke Cassias' left leg with a stomp. Without even saying anything, the vampires fell to the ground before Victor, as he had used his skill Touch of Death.

Victor then turned and walked towards Cassias who was still on the ground some metres away. He seemed to be looking around, and Victor could very easily guess what it was.

"He's gone. A good friend you have there I must say. Very good." Victor said, as he approached the slightly agitated vampire. He was still calm for the most part, and that just showed his composure. But, something about friendship had him a little agitated.

"What would you know about friendship?" The vampire said, a bit angrily, but then his expression calmed, and he returned to his former self, almost immediately.

'Huh? What would I know? Does he think this is a scene between villain and MC?' Victor thought in his mind.

"Why are you doing this? What is your aim, what do you hope to achieve?" The vampire, Cassias, asked Victor just when Victor reached beside him.

"…" Victor gave no response to the questions, and just walked passed Cassias' body, only to stop a few feet away and… 'A chair? From where? What is he doing?' Cassias asked himself.

.n0𝓋𝑒𝐥𝓊𝓈𝒷.𝐂0𝓂

'Good thing I have an inventory. I did good to take the majestic looking one.' Victor said in his mind. He had contemplated if he would need it, and after two seconds of not thinking much about it, he took it. It was now proving to be very helpful. 'I can't be sitting on the ground or standing the whole time.'

He did think of sitting atop the bones from earlier, but though that would provide a fearful image, if vampires would even fear someone sitting on bones, it would also create an image of savagery. This wasn't something necessary this time around. In actuality, the reason Victor had taken a seat there was for a different reason than whatever Cassias must have been thinking.

After two minutes of waiting with no words said between both of them, as even when Cassias would speak, Victor would not answer, Victor stood up and the chair behind him disappeared into thin air. By this time, Cassias' leg had also fully healed, and he could move it again. Victor had stood up right after Cassias showed that he could move the legs, and he was aware of that. He remained seated on the ground as Victor came closer. He was sure his life wasn't in danger since Victor kept him alive that long, so he could only guess what other thing the man before him might want.

As Victor stood just before Cassias, he started, "It took your body 2 whole minutes to completely fix the broken leg. A bit slow I would say, I expected it to be faster." Victor was still looking right into Cassias' eyes as he spoke.

'That's why he was keeping me alive?' Cassias thought to himself.

"Not exactly what I expected, but no problem. You don't seem to be the strongest here, nor are you the head. I will allow you to go back now. Inform the head, the leader of you lot, say that I wish to meet with him, and I give only five minutes, much time. Go now." Victor said to Cassias.

Cassias' eyebrows narrowed a bit, but he didn't do anything else. He stood up and looked at the pile of bones and innards some metres away from where they stood, then his eyes went towards the two vampires that escorted him. He moved closer and was about to pick their bodies, but he heard a voice from Victor.

"Leave them behind for my pets." Victor said.

Cassias hearing this stopped and turned slowly, his eyes straying off towards the bones and innards, then he faced Victor.

"Who do I say was the one that has requested the meeting?" He asked, not so much as to say respectably, but the arrogance from earlier that one could tell came with him from birth was definitely nowhere to be found.

His voice, as dead and calm as ever, Victor responded;

"Crow."

Yes people!! We've reached a hundred chapters!! Finally! And to celebrate this, I offer this bonus chapter.

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Victor sat in a room well decorated, and in it he waited for the response of the head of the vampire community. He could have gone there himself and save time, but just as he had decided not to kill the vampires randomly, he was going to take this play through everything. For him, he was practicing how to be elegant with things like killing and eating creatures, especially intelligent ones. He no longer was in the wild of course.

He stashed away the bodies of the two vampires he killed to be eaten later. He had asked Cassias to take him to a good place where he could wait, and also reminded him of the time he had, just five minutes. According to Cassias, the room where Victor was currently in was his own office, and there Victor waited for the next phase. He had an entire plan in his head, and so far it was going as he wanted, but then there was something else.

'When the other vampire attacked me, he seemed to be slow enough to appear as a slowed down picture before me, and I was able to avoid his attack relatively easily-' Victor said in his mind, 'but then…'

As Victor thought about it, he wasn't so sure about his power. This was part of the reason why he didn't just go around killing randomly, but it wasn't the major reason though. There was no doubt that the vampire that attacked him could easily be considered the strongest person he had faced when he compared him to the humans he had seen, as he was making the comparison based on his current strength, but then. It was a given that the head of all vampires would be the strongest, and though he didn't know the standing of the two who he faced, he was sure that they would be nothing compared to an actual vampire. If those two were that strong, then he would expect the vampire lord here to be at least ten times stronger.

'That might become a problem… But with my skills…'

Another thing was that his advantage over the humans and other races of him being a Zombie Lord, which gave him a boost to his power and strength, might not matter much as the lord of the vampire community wouldn't be an ordinary vampire either. There were some other things that made Victor not to be completely confident, but it was good. The lord here would only match or surpass him in physicality and some little things, once skills were also part of the discussion, Victor wasn't worried anymore, just a little bit.

"Hmm, just to be on the safer side of things." Victor said, as he mentally pulled up his status screen.

Status

Level: 42 (12,025,000/23,000,000)

Name: Victor (Crow)

Race: Infernal Undead (Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: -Poison Sandworm – 15,000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […, Emissary of Death […]

Coins: 5,495,000

Hp: 3,800/3,800

Mp: 4,100/4,100

[Stat]

Strength: 235

Agility: 162

Sense: 130

Vitality: 71

Magic: 80

Intelligence: 145

remaining stat point: 137

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]n0𝐕𝓮𝗅𝒰𝓢𝒷.𝑪0𝚖

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-MAX, Undead Aura lvl-MAX, Recovery lvl-MAX, Art of Combat lvl-MAX, Weapon Mastery lvl-MAX, Sixth Sense lvl-MAX

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-MAX, Domain of the Dead lvl-MAX, Touch of Death lvl-MAX, Negative Burst lvl-MAX, Infernal Breath lvl-MAX, Inferno Ring lvl-MAX, Teleport lvl-MAX, Remote Explosion lvl-MAX, Death Curse lvl-MAX, Plant Manipulation lvl-MAX, Earth Stump lvl-MAX, Hot Hands lvl-MAX, Terror lvl-MAX, Excavate lvl-MAX, Demon Chain Bind lvl-MAX, Demon Shadow lvl-MAX, Eye of Dreams Nightmares lvl-MAX, Perception lvl-MAX, Death Gaze lvl-Max

Looking at his stats, Victor noted that his strength needed no increment, so he just focused on the other needed stats. Since he wasn't sure how strong the most powerful vampire here was, he chose to be cautious. He could always increase them as the situation progressed, like in the middle of a fight, but what if he was attacked on sight?-

Strength: 235

Agility: 162 200

Sense: 130 150

Vitality: 71

Magic: 80

Intelligence: 145

remaining stat point: 137 79

After making the increment, Victor waited patiently for the vampires to return. Exactly five minutes after the was brought to the room to wait, the room door swung open, and in walked Cassias. Victor was sure he had threatened to go around killing random vampires, but to think that the leader of the vampires still won't come personally… 'Their pride will be their own undoing.' Victor said in his mind as he watched Cassias enter the room. He could already tell how many people had come with his senses, and following behind Cassias, another vampire came into the room.

Cassias kept quiet and allowed the other vampire to talk, "His Lordship will see you now." The vampire spoke.

Victor hearing this could not believe his ears. 'No introduction, nothing.' There was no need to cause trouble here, so Victor simply stood up from his seat and gave the vampire a nod. He guessed that this vampire that came with Cassias was stronger, as the way Cassias behaved around him wasn't like what Victor saw the first time, and this vampire even looked a bit older than Cassias.

'I don't know if vampire's age, but I'm sure they aren't supposed to be able to birth a child of their race.' Victor said in his mind as he followed the vampires out the room, with the other vampire in front, and Cassias behind him.

A moment ago, the presence of the other seven vampires outside the door almost completely vanished from Victor's senses. He had to give them credit for being so skilled to even evade his heightened senses. 'Though, with my sixth sense, they are still as clear as day.' Victor said in his mind. If he was to activate his perception skill-

Victor followed the lead of the vampires as they took him through the city slowly, and eventually they got to a school and entered the premises. Seeing where they were taking him, Victor couldn't help but think, 'What's this? Some vampire highschool romance?'

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(Sorry everyone, my PC might be planning to leave this world. I did take it to the doctors, and they are still running tests on it, so we don't know yet. For now, I'll be writing on my phone, so please understand if there's anything unusual about quality-)

The moment they entered the school premises, Victor almost couldn't take them seriously from then on. The reason why such a strong race would go to a school environment of all places to take as their home… Victor couldn't imagine it, but it was right before him.

He followed them through never the less, and as they walked pass the hallways, Victor began to notice how few the number of vampires was. It could have been possible since Vampires weren't born but made, but Victor still had other possibilities thought up in his head that could happen.

After close to minute, and a number of turns, Victor saw that they had actually reached what he would call the extreme end of the school building, and they had to descend a bit. 'What's going on here?' Victor thought to himself, as the door was opened by two vampires from within, and the vampire leading the way stepped in, followed by Victor before Cassias.

"This way please, we will now enter the castle." The vampire leading the way said to Victor.

Victor couldn't understand how where they were was the castle at first, but after something close to a trap door was drawn open and Victor saw the stairs that led downwards, he immediately understood what might have happened to the vampire castle that he expected to see in all its glory, standing tall within the city that had been over thrown and run by them.

"Really, to think the castle will be spawned underground, under a school no less." Victor said, this time out loud to the hearing of both vampires that were with him. None of them gave a response to his words, and surprisingly for all their pride, Victor didn't perceive any negative response from their body language or anything. 'It's either it's not something that bothers their ego, or they are incredibly well trained… Or maybe my stereotypical analysis of how they are to behave is only based on the things that came with me from earth.' Victor said in his mind as they kept descending the endless plight of stairs.

After several minutes of what felt like a loop, Victor was tempted to just jump down and get to the bottom of the stairs, but he had to maintain courtesy. The entire place, and Victor was guessing it went on like that till it got to the bottom, was lit with very dim lights. If one couldn't see in the dark, they wouldn't be able to walk down without falling. The vampires must have kept the brightness just high enough for their night vision to function.

For Victor who had skills that improved his night vision and boost his sight, he was surprised that he couldn't see the end of the stairs. It would seem that the range his skills allowed him to cheat the world didn't reach that far.

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'Fuck it, this ain't me.' Victor said in his mind before abruptly stopping. "Is our immediate destination from here the bottom of these stairs?" Victor asked, with his voice sounding ever so cold and lifeless.

The vampire ahead of him did not stop and just kept walking while he answered Victor's question, "yes."

Receiving the confirmation he needed, Victor placed a hand on the rail, and the next thing both vampires saw was that he had jumped off the rail and within minutes disappeared into the darkness. Both vampires, after seeing Victor's action were stunned for a second before they came back to their senses. Even the one leading the way that had maintained a straight poker face throughout broke character for a second there before coming back to normal. They both looked at each other as if to confirm their next course of action, and with a nod, both men followed after.

At the bottom of the stairs, Victor had landed safely and unhurt. Currently before him was an empty corridor the size of a basketball court in width, and the ceiling was at least 20 metres in height. 'Always having these extravagant houses.' Victor thought to himself. While he moved around a bit looking around, he was waiting for his system map to scan the place. Around three seconds later, the entire map of the palace appeared in his system, and with it were the positions of all the creatures. "That's quite the number… It's like a fucking cooperate building." Victor said to himself before moving along.

He could wait for the two vampires, but-

From the map he had, Victor could see just how big the house was. It was like putting two football fields together and stacking them on top each other ten times, a really good base. Just in case the vampire following him jumped after he did, Victor reached into his inventory and brought out a sword. He could see from the map that the hall before him continued for quite some distance, so he threw the sword forward with enough strength to get it to the other side of the hall, and a second later, he was no longer standing on the spot he was a second ago. At the other side of the hall where a stray sword just flew by, Victor appeared out of nowhere and caught the sword by the hilt before putting it back into his inventory. 'This should be far enough.'

From there on, Victor chose to head towards the closest vampire. Some minutes later, Victor would open a door and head inside like an invited guest, walking into what seemed to be a vampire tea party. The vampires there looked a bit young, but whatever-

"Who here can point me to the direction of the Vampire Lord?"

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After about some minutes had passed, Cassias and the vampire leading the way for Victor landed at the bottom of the stairs. Unlike Victor who jumped directly down, they would have sustained injuries if they did, the entire flight of stairs was that long. By the time they had reached the bottom however, Victor was no where to be found. Without any words, both vampires looked at each other and then turned back their faces just before they both disappeared from the spot they stood.

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At the moment, Victor was heading to one of the many rooms in the vampire castle. He could see that this wasn't by any means the lowest room, which was quite reasonable as the lowest would be those kept for things that needed to be done in secret and all those sort of things. Even though, the place they were heading to was quite large and spacious. Victor was could guess it was the throne room.

When he entered the room with the young tea drinking vampires, he asked where he could find the vampire lord, and by that they seemed to have understood him, and his message was passed across well, so they attacked him. So uncivilized of them to act that way. Of course, he was kind enough not to kill any for the time being, and just knocked them out leaving just one of them standing. He had to rough that one up a bit before he agreed to take him to where the he could find the lord, which was the throne room.

Cassias and the other vampire from before did say that the vampire lord had asked to see him, so he guessed it would be in the throne room after all. What better way to show power and dominance after all?

Victor get there in no time with the young vampire's guidance. The young vampire did well to open the doors for Victor, and he walked into the room in his own pace. When he entered, he looked around and saw that the entire vampire council seemed to have attended the meeting.

Truth be told, he wasn't sure what to make of the sight in the enormous room, but if there was anything he had learnt about vampires from earth, it was that they adhered to certain standards. Though he wasn't sure if it was so in this world too, but with the increasing things he had been getting right about monsters and beast in this world using his previous knowledge, he couldn't completely write it off. It didn't matter who made the decision though, his plans wouldn't change.

Victor just walked until he was standing before the vampire seated on the throne. By the sides of the vampire sitting in the throne, there were two vampires seated to the left and right, respectively. As the throne was positioned on an elevated plane, there was another seat just below the three, positioned in front of the throne where another vampire sat. The two vampires sitting beside the throne and the one in front all looked a bit old if Victor's eyes didn't fail him. 'This is.. weird.' Victor said in his mind.

After looking around and counting up to about thirty people gathered there to the sides of where Victor stood, he faced the vampire lord on his throne and spoke, while his eyes moved through those beside the vampire lord and the one before the throne.

"I thought vampires were immortal? Why do I see some of you nearing death's door then?" Victor asked in his usual cold and death tone.

Maybe this question offended the majority of the vampires, but Victor noticed that the atmosphere in the room changed after what he said. 'Do they really take so much pride in their immortality?' HE asked himself as he watched the vampires. Then, a voice came from before him, and Victor turned his head towards the one who called his NAME.

"Crow, is that what they call you?" A masculine voice came from the throne, it was the vampire lord, the one who ruled over them. The vampire had a stern face, and none of the feminine features vampires were rumoured to have. He was stocked up physically, and had an almost square face. Looking at him, Victor couldn't help but see the typical father who would want his children to rule over the world.

Victor simply remained silent and just stared at the vampire lord who was sitting in the throne with both hands placed on the arms. Just as the vampire lord was about to say something else, Victor with his hands still in his pocket turned to face his side and walk towards one of the vampires sitting on a chair and stopped when he reached a few feet away from the vampire.

Victor just stood there without doing anything while staring at the vampire who was seated. After some seconds, and the vampire finally getting as uncomfortable as he could get, he spoke up to asked Victor why he was looking at him that way, but Victor only motioned for him to stand with his hand, and hesitantly the vampire did. The entire thing was a bit unnatural, as no one could really say anything to someone who had just ignored the vampire lord himself. Maybe they were to act a bit different in such a situation, but everyone present knew just how many Victor had killed before getting there, so everybody was careful, a bit more than they would normally be.

Victor took the chair on which the vampire sat and was about to turn around with it when the vampire seating on it prior said something. Victor didn't really care what was said, all he wanted was for the vampire to say something, and in a split second, Victor sent the vampire flying. No one was able to clearly catch how he did it, they could only follow a blur.

Even then as they couldn't exactly follow his movements, the vampires were not about to let someone act as he pleased with them before their lord, so this action brought many vampires to their feet, and they looked like they were about to pounce at Victor. Of course they didn't, and just watched him walk back, while some vampires went towards the one that was sent flying.

Victor after that returned with the chair and sat before the throne and crossed his left leg over the right.

"To invite someone and not even prepare a proper seat for them, kind of rude if you ask me." Victor said as he crossed his leg.

"I came here to make a request, or.. let's say, I came to propose a deal."

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"I came here to make a request, or.. let's say, I came to propose a deal." Victor says in a dead tone.

The entire place remained silent for a while, but then the silence was broken, not by Victor this time.

"The Crow, if I'm not wrong. I don't know what you think you are doing, but I assure you that this is not a place where you can just do what you want and go scot free." The vampire sitting before the vampire lord says to victor, quite calmly.

Victor not being one to engage in politics and the schemes that have to go into it, he decides to get to the point quickly and not waste any time.

"So the deal I have is…" Cutting Victor off as he spoke, the same vampire who just answered Victor a moment ago spoke again.

"We have every information on you 'Crow'. Though it was a bit unexpected that you showed up here and did what you did, considering your normal attitude, we can assure you that we do not fear you in anyway." The vampire said, still keeping his eyes fixated on Victor.

'So they think I am the same as the other Crow? No wonder. It would seem that the original Crow is quite strong, given their reaction to him, or maybe there's something else.' Victor said in his mind.

Though he thought of these things and some more, he wasn't going to play around with them, he had better things to do. (Not really)

"The next time you interrupt me, it won't be funny." Victor said in a plain and nonchalant voice while looking at the vampire before the throne. In the end, one could engage themselves in such games, creating schemes and trying to manipulate the other party, but in the face of absolute power, such schemes are not needed. OF COURSE, Victor doesn't consider the power he possesses as absolute, but it it definitely so at the moment. He was a bit cautious about the vampires thinking that they might be stronger than him, but as he is seated in that throne room, he could feel it. Only the vampire lord was worth it, the rest weren't really much.

"I came here to meet the, 'vampire lord', not to exchange words with one who is below him." Victor said following his earlier provocation. Without beating around the bush, he went directly to his offer to them.

"I will allow you to offer up 70% of the vampires that are under your.. whatever it is to me, let's say as, sacrifice, and by so doing, I, on my side of the deal won't massacre your entire race." Victor said, still nonchalant in his attitude and voice.

To what he just said, the atmosphere inside the throne room changed completely, and the tension could be felt, literally. Every vampire inside that room tensed up immediately, and if not for the show of strength earlier where they saw just what Victor could do, they would have attacked right that instant. Maybe it was the respect for the lord, being in his presence, or it was them being cautious towards Victor, they remained put and after a while of staring at Victor like they had already killed him in their heads, they all turned their attention towards the vampire lord.

'Guess the vampires are the more coordinated ones between them and their supernatural counterparts. Wonder if they also exist in this world.' Victor said in his mind. There were countless fantasy novels and series where vampires existed and their counter parts didn't exist, so Victor thought it possible in this world. Not like he was looking forward to their existence though, they didn't really fit his evolution path. Maybe as a second form it would be possible.

With the way the entire thing was progressing, the vampires couldn't clearly make out anything about Victor or what his plan was. He didn't seem to care at all at the mention that they had his information, as the 'Crow', and they hadn't heard of any new notable figure appearing in the human world. Also, after he directly took it to the leader, if the vampire lord didn't reply now, it wouldn't do well for his power standing before Victor.n0𝓋𝑒𝐥𝓊𝓈𝒷.𝐂0𝓂

The vampire lord adjusted the way he sat, from a more relaxed posture to an upright one. "What do you mean by that? Offer up my family to you as sacrifice,-" Before the vampire continued however, Victor cut him short.

"What? Family? This isn't the entire vampire community? This isn't your entire race?" Victor thought in his mind.

'If that's the case then… there's no need for me to have this negotiation at all.' He said in his mind as he stood from his seat, and as he did, all eyes returned back upon him. What did he mean by 'it wasn't their entire race?' Everyone asked themselves this question in their minds. At that moment, the smarter ones out of the bunch seemed to have understood something, and the three vampires and the vampire lord himself were part of these people, something Victor noticed himself.

Originally, the reason why Victor wanted to have this deal where the vampires will give him 70% of their people was simple. Victor knew how much material it would cost him to get to the absolute peak of the vampire evolution tree, and to achieve that he needed evolution material. If he was to kill and get the evolution material of all the vampires present in that city, it won't be enough, so he planned to have them get into a deal with him. They would provide the evolution materials for him as time went by. Vampires couldn't be born, only made, so after the first 70% were taken, new vampires will be made by the remaining 30%, and he would take the new ones. The process would continue until he reached the peak of vampire evolution.

Of course, with the information that these weren't the only vampires around, and that this was just one of the many families, Victor no longer saw a need to keep some alive. He could just get the remaining materials from the other families.

(In the minds of the vampires)

The vampires just realised that they had messed up by saying the word family, and that apparently that had put them in a bad position. Whatever Crow wanted to do, with the existence of other vampires, he no longer needed them alive, so they had entered a very bad position all of a sudden.

The vampire lord was thinking of different ways to handle the situation before him, and apart from him, other vampires were also thinking of their own way out of this.

The vampire lord had already seen that he won't win against Victor. He suspected that Victor was at least at the same level of strength as himself, so the outcome of a battle between both of them was quite clear in his head.

'I have to find out what he means, and even what he wants.' The vampire lord says in his mind as he looked at Victor who had stood up, with both of his palms clenching tightly around the arms of the chair.

"Hmm…"

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"Hmm…"

At the moment, Victor was just standing, and most of the vampires seem on edge, this time like they would really jump from their seats.

After some seconds passed, Victor simply sat back down as something seemed to have come to his mind.

"So you are not the entirety of the vampire race, you are but one of the families." Victor said after sitting down.

He then continued. "How many families are there? I suspect there are quite the number of them, and not just few of them are the top ones.. Perhaps, there are even vampires that do not belong to any family? Or maybe that is not really possible?" Victor said, throwing in questions, important questions, ones that would really put the vampires in an even more dangerous position, and the good thing here was that Victor knew also knew that they were aware of this.

The vampires just continued looking at him, some with shocked faces, but those were the minority, the others had a bit of a frown on their faces. Victor waited for a bit, and after not getting an answer to any of his questions, he get up once more, slowly and at his own pace.

Seeing him get up again, the vampires became a little restless. Honestly, something like this was meant for them to seat together and discuss, so they know absolutely well where they were going, but with the sudden turn of events-

"Wait!-" The voice of a vampire from the seats to Victor's left came through. It seemed to be an elder or someone of that status. The vampires around immediately shut the vampire up. Any speaking at the moment was left to be done by the vampire lord or those seated around him.

"Th-You are correct, there are other vampire families, and we are not the only vampires in our race." The elder in front of the throne said.

'Of course, I already know that.' Victor said in his mind. He had a different reason for still wanting to take only 70% of them for now even after knowing that they are not the only vampires. "Don't I know that already?" Victor said.

"You.. do." The vampire said, a little unsure of his answer. The pressure was really on, and no vampire was seating relaxed at the moment.

"So?" Victor said. This time, his legs were crossed, and he leaned back a bit into the chair to listen.

"Yes.." The vampire then went on to explain that they were suddenly transported into this world from their original world, and that was just their family. They had been on the lookout for other vampires/families, to see if they were also brought to this world with them, but in regards to that, they are yet to find anything. Currently, they have their network spread across the entire human community, so they are able to keep up gather information even with their small numbers.

'Small? He just compared themselves to the other families, and called themselves small. The others that are 'big' better come fast.' Victor thought in his mind.

During the explanation, Victor noticed that the vampire sitting at the right side of the throne had tried something. It was definitely his eyes, Victor saw that they shown a faint light for a brief moment before going back to normal. He wasn't sure what that was until he received a notification from his system telling him that he had perfectly countered a mind manipulation technique. 'No shit. So they do have that here too, but is it all?' Victor thought to himself..

"I see where you lot get the confidence from… Just so you know, I am not the same as the Crow you know, that is a different person entirely." Victor said, and to this the vampires' eyes widen a bit, but return to normal soon after. They must have just realized something.

"Next time, there will be no next time." He said in a nonchalant tone like he wasn't even bothered.

They go on to talk about some things, and Victor also learns that their numbers after he killed the ones he did had dropped down to something between 300 and 310, definitely convenient.

"That's good, so I assume we are in agreement on the specified quantity to be provided?" Victor asked calmly. He wasn't really here to waste much of his time, so he wanted to get it over with.

"Yes, 210 vampires will be handed over to you before the day runs out." The vampire lord said. He did have a plan in mind, which included him attacking Victor, but after a quick thought earlier on, he abandoned that idea quickly. 'We must comply, at least for now.' The leader said in his mind.

'He must be thinking of a way to take me down, but then I don't know what it is.' Victor said in his mind. Not like he cared much anyway. For now, it was good. As long as it is a fight to the death, Victor was confident in his skills. Well, if there was someone with the power to block someone from using their powers, then there might be a problem, depending on how it works.

The tension in the room had not reduced at all, instead, it had gone up by a bit. The vampires simply didn't know what Victor was going to do next, so they all were on guard.

"I believe all of you present here will remain alive. That's good, the strong should be left. After all, the strength of a vampire also depends on the strength of the one who turned them." Victor said. Really, the way he had been hitting all the points accurately during their short exchange made it seem as though Victor was very knowledgably about the vampires, which only helped to raise further suspicions and vigilance. If only they knew where the knowledge came from.

With that, Victor simply stood up and pointed towards one of the younger looking vampires that seemed to be in his thirties, "you, come with me." Victor ordered, to which the vampire slowly responded to and came close to him. Victor simply looked at the vampire lord one more time with his usual dead eyes, then he turned around and headed towards the doors that led out of the throne room.

Of course, during the meeting, Cassias and the other vampire had joined and were present for most of it, so there was that.

'There are some questions I want answered, and this guy is going to do so for me.' Victor said, as he led the way away from the throne room.

With Victor gone and only the vampires left in the throne room, they all look a bit edgy, and the vampire lord spoke;

"There will be no discussion. My word on this matter is absolute, and that is what we will be following." He says. "Sebastian, get your people ready, and order them to execute the plan. The rest of you can go for now." The vampire lord said, and as the vampires all start moving out, well, except for fourteen vampires that remain behind.n0𝓋𝑒𝐥𝓊𝓈𝒷.𝐂0𝓂

"Now, let's get right to it."

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Sorry for not updating yesterday, I literally forgot and thought I had already done so, only for me to see 3days below the place with the chapters.

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'There are some questions I want answered, and this guy is going to do so for me.' Victor said, as he led the way away from the throne room.

After they exited the throne room, Victor needed not to look or spy on the remaining vampires in the room, as he already knew what they would do. He simply took the vampire with him on a walk as they went through the vampire castle like it was his home and the vampire was visiting.

While the vampire following behind him seemed to have something in his mind, Victor spoke, "Why would you vampires choose to place the castle underground?" Victor asked.

'Doesn't he know that already?' The vampire asked himself, finally coming to a conclusion that Victor was just trying to do some small talk, he answered- "It was teleported underground when we were brought here, and after that we made the stairway up and out into the open." The vampire explained, as efficiently and short as best he could. To his answer, Victor didn't nod his head, or do any other thing that would show attention; instead, he hummed to show that he had heard the vampire, and then went to another question.

"Have you figured out how you got here and how to go back?" He asked.

The vampire seemed to hesitate a bit before answering, "Not exactly, but there has been a research team dedicated to solving that mystery. Though, even up until now, there have been no important findings."

'Hmm, they aren't as undead as I thought.' Victor said to himself in his mind. He could still read them when they told a lie my reading the miniscule movements of muscle, pattern and tone of speak, and other things. Unlike himself, the vampires were easy to read if one knew where to look. An undead like a zombie (aka Himself) can stand before you or even a lie detector and tell the most blatant lie, and there would be nothing to give away.

'Let's just hope that such a flaw is not added to me after evolving.' Victor said in his mind as they moved on, thinking all these in just mere milliseconds and seconds.

"Something that I noticed and didn't think it was possible…" Victor paused his sentence while they kept walking. "…Aren't vampires supposed to be immortal? Why are there old and young vampires? And they definitely weren't turned when they were old, as if that happened they are more likely to reverse in age for some years." Victor stopped there.

Seeing that Victor wasn't saying anything more, the vampire following him simply spoke, probably trying to think of the best way to answer Victor's question. For a vampire that came from a world where vampires were a thing, and they had existed for ages, it would definitely be hard to answer such a question. For them, vampires may not really have the kind of immortality that victor was thinking.

"I am not exactly sure what you mean.. Sir.. but I don't think there are vampires who don't grow old." The vampire said, the slightest bit unsure.

"Hm?"

"Well, we all grow old, but the more powerful a vampire becomes, the longer they can live and maintain their best physique." The vampire said.

'Oho?' From what the vampire said, it seemed like they had their own power scale different from the one of this world, so Victor asked the vampire to clarify and tell him about this 'power' that the vampire can attain to maintain their youthful looks.

About some minutes later, and the vampire following Victor was done with the explanation Victor asked for, and also did well to answer any questions he had about things he wasn't clear about.

As Victor now knows, the vampires do have ranking system, and it goes like this;

Fledgling

Blood Sucker

Blooded Vampire

Vampire Noble

Vampire Lord

Ancestral Vampire

Progenitor

Of course, the stronger a vampire becomes, the longer they live, and in addition to these, there are also other benefits to becoming stronger. From a higher standing in the family and in the society, to having your own vampires under you and being able to build your own family. The higher a vampire climbs, the more vampires they can turn and have under their command.

When a vampire turns a human into a vampire, they have complete control over that vampire who they turned. As time goes by, they will eventually break away from that stern control imposed on them, but though they have become a bit free, they can never go against the one who turned them, their master. Whether it is trying to kill him or her, or going against their direct orders, it is impossible because of the blood covenant they share, literally binding their souls in a way.

Like every power scale, it is always easier to climb the ladder at the lower levels, and it gradually becomes very difficult to advance in the middle levels reaching the higher ones, and eventually it becomes virtually impossible to advance.

For a vampire to advance from a fledgling to a blood sucker and then a blooded one, drinking blood and engaging in some blood rituals may suffice, but above that and it becomes another story. Not like it is as easy as it sounds, as it takes time, and most of these rituals may even span through a period of years, or even centuries.

The current vampire lord is said to have been blessed by another vampire. Some say it's the ancestor, some say he made a deal with the devil. Either way, he is currently the strongest vampire in the house, and has control over all other vampires under the house, as he was the one who turned all the elders, even the ones that looked to hundreds of years old, surrounding the throne.

'It just goes on and on.' Victor said in his mind. Just like any other power ranking, each individual rank also has a difference amongst them. For example, the older looking vampires that sat to Victor's side and the younger ones like the one following him were all Vampire Nobles, but the younger generation would dare fight the older ones, as they would be trashed, and depending on who, it might even be done easily.

Victor also inquired about the various positions in the vampire house hold, but that is not of importance now.n0𝗏𝑬𝑙𝑢𝓈𝑏.𝑐0𝗆

"We've roamed about enough, I'm heading back. What is your name?" Victor asked.

"Damian, Damian Emrick." The vampire said with a light bow. Victor didn't care about his loyalty for now, but at least he has some brain in him. Vampires always seem refined, even when they die, Victor thought, so it was all in the behaviour.

'A vampire of the Noble rank who is one if the strongest in his generation, and a male.' Victor said in his mind. 'It's better to not use the females for now. I don't exactly understand them yet, but no matter the creature, females are always problematic.'

In response to Damian, Victor simply responded with a slight nod as he continued onward and dismissed Damian. As Victor continued onward, the latter just stood there and watched Victor as he left.

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"Whatever the case, this is the plan we are to follow." A voice said.

"Yes, all we have to do now is wait for the right time. The project will soon be finished, and by then we will be able to achieve most of your goals." Another voice said.

As the voices spoke and deliberated on something, like some kind of secretive meeting, another voice spoke from elsewhere.

"The task should be complete by now."

Immediately, all eyes in the room turned towards the new and yet familiar voice. Victor could be seen standing there in the throne room. How he got there, none of the others knew, and they were supposed to be elders and eldest elders of the house Emrick. Even the vampire lord who was present did not notice the presence of Victor at all until he spoke. This freaked them out a bit.

Suddenly, a voice came from amongst the fourteen vampires gathered, "To disturb a private meeting." The vampire said in a very low voice, not enough for those farther from him to hear him. Seeing as he was such a master gossip, he was shocked even more when he heard Victor's question.

"DO I hear a bitch complaining?" Victor said in his usual calm tone.

The vampire who had said this visibly shuddered. Though just slightly, those around him noticed, and they couldn't help the frowns that appeared on their faces. Truth be told, he could have reacted like that based on anger instead of fear, but even then-

The vampire lord spoke, after expressing his disgust at the actions of a particular vampire with a slight frown of his own, unconsciously even. "It has been done, and their bodies are being brought to you as we speak, please hold on for just another minute or two." The vampire lord said.

There was nothing Victor could do as it stood now, and he was not in charge of anything in this place, so he decided it was not time to exert authority yet. He would do that after he took it over.

"One minute." Victor said as he sat on the chair he brought out earlier.

Exactly one minute later, Vampires started trooping into the throne room, and some minutes later, and a pile of bodies was visibly stacked up already. Victor was told that those amounted to 210 bodies, but he didn't need their confirmation, he could just check after he placed them in his inventory. He did confirm the number after placing their bodies in the inventory, and after that he returned to his seat, only that this time, he wasn't sitting.

Giving no room for negotiation, Victor firmly said. "I will return at exactly thirty days from now. Make sure to have at least twice the number of bodies today readied. I don't want to wait next time." Victor said to them as he disappeared immediately from where he stood, leaving behind nothing but an empty space. Even after he left, the vampires didn't move or say anything, especially the elders and the vampire lord. They were sceptical that he might have still been around.

After about a minute, the vampire lord spoke and dismissed everyone, while those that stayed the first time remained.

After some time had passed and the vampires that remained along with the vampire lord seemed to have come to a conclusion, they all stood and left, leaving behind the vampire lord and another vampire that held the position of an elder. Then the vampire lord spoke;

"Melchior, you will have to be in charge of this as Sebastian is already occupied with the other project." The vampire lord said in a calm voice, showing his dominance.

"It will be done. I may not be as good as Sebastian, heh, but that's only because he is a monster in every right. I will surely accomplish this task without fail." Melchior said, as he then gave a light bow and left the throne room, disappearing from where he stood like a cocoon of blood enveloped his body, then sucked him into the ground.

Being the only one left in the room, the vampire lord relaxed more into his chair as the thoughts of the plans they've made came to his mind. Whether they will succeed or not, was still quite uncertain.

'Well, if we factor out that one at least…'

Back at Werzelya's castle of a house, Victor appeared inside the room he was given, and since it was currently night time, 'there's no need to be travelling now, I should go check up on those guys.' Victor thought to himself, but then he just sent his legion out not long ago, so that is even sooner than-n0𝓋𝓔𝓁𝔲𝑆𝔅.𝕔0𝔪

'Let's begin the journey now, I don't know the way, so I can't teleport there.' He said in his mind just as he opened the door to his room and stepped outside.

Looking at the long hallway before him, and knowing that many more are ahead of him before he gets to his destination, Victor just teleported to where Vince was, and it would be mild to say that Vince was shocked. Even for someone who was partially undead, the shock still got to him quite good.

Seeing Victor, Vince couldn't stop his thoughts from going haywire as he thought of what could have happened and what the future entailed. Issue of vampires was no small thing, and though he had never gotten the opportunity to meet the vampire lord before, he wasn't exactly hoping for it.

His master was not a high ranking vampire, and even then was far stronger than he was. 'To think he is already done with then.' Vince said in his mind as he now saw the person before him in eve more detail, seeing that his clothes were intact, and didn't seem to tell that Victor had any sort of fight. 'This is… unreal.' Vince thought to himself. Unlike other vampires, he doesn't share any connection with his master, so he would know if they were dead.

"Wel-welcome back si-sir Crow." Vince said.

'What's wrong with him?' Victor thought to himself, before he figured it out.

"You had a master who was there right? Was he under any of the vampire elders?" Victor asked.

"N-no, he wasn't. He was under an Ascendant." Vince explained.

"Oh? IF so, then he's probably dead already."

As Victor said this, Vince almost couldn't believe it, but then it was Victor who said it. The man known as The Crow simply couldn't be underestimated. Vince wasn't attached to his vampire master, if anything he hated him a bit. The shock came from the fact that Victor most likely killed dozens of vampires as strong as his master, and even stronger.

"Does that mean you completely exterminated the vampires?" Vince asked.

Victor just turned a bit and looked at Vince almost from the corner of his eyes. 'Shit! Did I speak out of turn?' Vince thought to himself, as sweat dropped from the side f his face.

Victor simply turned his back at him before answering, "No, I kept some."

'Kept, not leave. Hahahahah, he is something else. Only a monster can keep beings as vampires.' Vince concluded in his mind as he also noticed himself sweating. He never sweats, at least not since he became a vampire.

"Go get your master down here, it's time to leave for her organization. Don't make me wait."

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"Go get your master down here, it's time to leave for her organization. Don't make me wait." Victor said as he sent Vince off.

Vince almost disappeared from where he stood as he left towards Werzelya's room. Victor wandered about the place in his own pace as he waited for Vince to be back with Werzelya. He wasn't really the no nonsense kill after disrespect type, it was mostly just an act. If he does get irritated however, now that's a different case, or if the situation calls for it.

Before Victor took ten steps however, Werzelya was already standing before him, dressed and all. He was really not expecting this outcome, as he took her for the clumsy and unreliable type. 'Did I miss judge her before?' Victor thought to himself. He already sensed her coming since she exited her room, so he wasn't surprised by her sudden appearance.

"WEL-WELCOME BACK CROW SIR!" She said, with a bit of uncertainty as she said so. She didn't even look at Victor when greeting and kept her face down. Victor however, didn't stop to receive her greetings and just walked passed her.

"Let's get going." He said in a normal tone.

He noticed her state of nervousness and uncertainty when she spoke, and now that she was walking. He couldn't help but think of the possibility that she had planned something ahead of time while he was away, 'that's definitely a possibility.'

He did show her a bit of his strength, so she must have feared and reported it back to the organization, and now they had planned to eliminate him. 'I can't blame her if that's what she had done. But, I will have to kill her then.' Victor thought to himself. He will leave it as is till he confirms the situation. He might have just been overreacting.

Surprisingly enough, though more like unexpectedly, Werzelya had a craft somewhere beneath her house. The design and build of this one was very different from the ones Victor had seen up until now. Boarding the aircraft, they travelled towards the location where the HQ of the organization was.

It took about an hour of them flying before they got to the place, and they weren't flying leisurely at all, and one has to note just how far off the place was from civilization.

The way the world was currently, more than half of it had been taken over by whatever monsters spawned from dungeon outbreaks in the area. If the land on earth were to be taken in percentage, out of hundred percent, what was left and occupied by the humans was just over 30%, and those figures were not good at all considering the fact that creatures like the vampires were around, and their major staple is of course, the human society. The rest of the land that covered the earth was just a scene out of a post apocalyptic era, and some places looked even worse.

All of that stood, and the waters of the earth had yet to be mentioned. Last the humans checked, the seas and oceans were a no go area, as the crews sent out never return, not even once. Humans had always preferred to know what was in space and what existed light years away from the earth, but none of them cared about what existed in the depths of the ocean. With the availability of aircrafts of different designs and uses however, the humans didn't need to venture into the oceans anymore, what was there could just remain there.

When Werzelya's craft which also carried Victor got close to the HQ, Victor could immediately see the brilliant work that was done on the place. There was some kind of illusion over the area of mountain, but somehow, not even Victor himself knew that he could see passed illusions so easily, but he could.

The entrance, after breaching the illusion looked like an enormous gate, not even a door, that was made of some kind of metal. The gats were at least 50 metres in height, and 20 metres wide. Seeing it made Victor wonder just what could have made them build something like it. It was just a telling sign that they had some kind of machine or weapon that needed that big a gate to pass through. 'If anything, this is the best knowledge from all the movies and anything fictional I've ever read or seen.' Victor said in his mind.

As they approached, their aircraft had slowed down a bit, and Werzelya moved towards Victor until she was close enough to him before she said.

"We have arrived. There is a high ranked illusion skill cast over the main entrance, so you may not be able to see it yet, but-" Before she could finish however, Victor cut her off.

"You mean we won't be passing through those thick metal gates?" Victor asked. He wasn't really curious; he just wanted to show that he could see through the illusion or barrier, whatever it was.

'He can see it?!' Werzelya thought in her mind as her head immediately snapped towards the gates to see if the illusion had been lifted, not like it normally would be. Even she couldn't see beyond the illusion.

'And they call it a high rank skill. Even I can tell its low ranked.' Victor said in his mind as he began thinking just how much different his power is to everything else.

Just like that, the aircraft swerved towards the side of the mountain where a more realistic sized gate for an aircraft opened and they entered. The gates were also made of metal, and they met vertically at the centre of the construct.

Their craft moved smoothly into the hanger where Victor could see other crafts being kept.

When they landed and everything was in place, Werzelya and Victor came down from the craft, and Victor allowed her lead the way, since it would seem too weird if he knew the layout of the place. Even though he could clearly see it using his map, he didn't know which side was which, so there was also that, and in case this was a trap, he wanted to stand behind Werzelya.

"They can track objects that approach this mountain and identify them, so they should know of our arrival already." Werzelya said as they walked down the craft.

"You've contacted them already, so they should be coming to meet use, any moment from now." Victor said. Obviously, he could see a group of people approaching their location, so it was easy to guess.

'He already knows that I had informed them already…' Werzelya thought to herself in a bit of shock.n0𝓋𝓔𝓁𝔲𝑆𝔅.𝕔0𝔪

Just then, as the stairs that extended from the stairs of the aircraft retracted back into the craft, a group of five people came into view as they entered the hanger.

As Victor looked at the approaching figures, he couldn't help but think to himself, 'I can't seem to shake this Batman-Justice League vibe from this meeting.'

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The five approaching them reached before them, and as both sides stopped, Werzelya moved a bit forward, probably to introduce both sides.

Now, Victor stood at a height of 6'1 feet, and he had an average body size like someone who trains regularly. If he was to take off his shirt, then the fine muscles underneath would show a man with quite the fighter's physique. Right now however, Victor was wearing a set of trouser, and a pretty fine plane black shirt with amazing quality, and an amazing looking black coat of unknown material. Of course, these clothes, he got from Ramok's stash.

The person in the middle of the five people approaching, compared to Victor, was simply a giant of a man, if he was a man(human) that is. He would easily reach a height of 12'0 feet, double of Victor's. His body itself was something to write home about, as he was completely covered in muscles, and the clothes he was wearing did nothing to cover the muscles.

Looking at the man and those around him, Victor couldn't help but think if this was some kind of planned event where he was supposed to be oppressed by them. They clearly weren't wearing their usual outfits, as Victor could easily tell that these were battle clothes.

'Suspicious.' He said in his mind.

Werzelya began the introductions, and after saying to everyone that Victor was Crow, she was cut off by the giant before she made another sentence.

"You? Are the Crow?" The man asked, his voice deep and raspy. To that, Victor just remained quiet and kept his eyes locked with the man.

"You don't look like much." The man said.

Hearing the man, Werzelya was quick to try and avoid any unwanted situation. "Hey! Idiot! Show some respect!" She said with some anger in her voice. Whether it was anger or fear, it wasn't clear through her tone, but her reaction to the situation was quite unexpected as the others developed a certain look on their faces.

'Seeing as the others don't seem to have the guts to rebook her, it means they aren't really important people as I had thought.' Victor said in his mind. 'How about-'

"What do you mean Werzelya, this worm definitely has no po-" As the man said this, Werzelya felt the slightest spike in Victor's aura, as she felt something really sinister behind her and could stop herself from fully turning around to look at Victor.

'What was that just now? And, he's even angry? Maybe I'm-' She said in her mind as she faced Victor. But then, she heard the sound of something drop behind her, and it sounded like a body just dropped, a big body in fact. Werzelya slowly turned her head back as her upper body followed, and then she could fully see what had just happened.

"I was going to warm him, but I just didn't have the patience. Who is he by the way?" Victor asked, in a usual calm voice like nothing bothered him.

Werzelya could only turn back her attention towards Victor who had began walking forward, her face also had shock written all over it. She couldn't help but think that it could've been her that would have died like that the first day they met. 'How did he do this?" She asked in her mind. 'Is he head? I did feel that strange energy.'

"H-he, he, he is the leader of our organization." She said, still not fully calm after what just happened. It was just so unexpected. This was someone she would consider a bit stronger than herself, and to think that he would die like this.

As though to confirm Werzelya's words, Victor could also hear the four that came with the so called leader mentioning repeatedly that the leader was dead, so that confirmed it.

'He definitely was trying to be on some power play kind of shit. Unfortunately, I don't have time for that.' Victor said in his mind. To top it off, unlike the vampires, Victor didn't really have a plan for the organization, so he didn't care what they did. The big gate he saw did pique his interest a little, so maybe now he would see what it was for.n0𝓋𝓔𝓁𝔲𝑆𝔅.𝕔0𝔪

"No need to worry about dead men, take me to the vice immediately." Victor said to Werzelya. Before she answered however, someone appeared above the giant's corpse, as though examining it.

Victor just stared at the human figure for a bit, but he could immediately tell that the creature that looked like a teenage human female wasn't in fact human at all.

"I am the leader here." The girl said, as she floated towards Victor and Werzelya like she was standing in air.

"Maggie, this is The Crow." Werzelya said as she faced the approaching girl.

"I can see that Werzelya." She said, before turning towards Victor. "It's nice to make your acquaintance, Crow. We here have heard some things about you and even sent one of us to contact you, but it seems as though that is no longer necessary." She said with a slight bow at the beginning.

Her body looked normal, just like that of a 15 year old teenage human female, and her looks weren't bad, but not particularly good to say the least. She also spoke in an almost mono toned voice, and didn't show a single emotion in her expression.

"You aren't human are you?" Victor asked, after she was done with what she had to say.

Of course, he used the system to identify what kind of creature she was, but just like most times the system wasn't very informative about what exactly she was. According to the system, she was an evolved carnivorous plant, but what Victor was looking at currently was more than that. She was also level 130, and that was at least the highest he had seen in any human, but she wasn't human right? Nevertheless, it was very high for this world's standards. That meant she wasn't ordinary enough to just be an evolved carnivorous plant monster.

"What are you?" Victor asked, and for the first time since Werzelya knew Maggie, she felt a trace of emotion from her.

'Not again.'

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"What are you?" Victor asked, and for the first time since Werzelya knew Maggie, she felt a trace of emotion from her.

'What was that just now? There was definitely something.' Werzelya thought in her mind. As far as she knew, Maggie never seemed to even have any emotions in her. She just was incapable of it.

The atmosphere seemed to tense up for a bit as Maggie and Victor just stared at each other with blank expressions, but then just some seconds later and the tension disappeared.

'Too dangerous. He is a threat.'

In a split second, Maggie who was standing still before Victor moved in a zip and her hand was just about to pierce Victor's chest, but he managed to dodge the attack by turning his body sideways and guiding her hand away with one arm. The speed at which she moved was almost untraceable by Victor, but thanks to his skills that made it possible to keep up in such situations, he was perfectly fine.

'That movement, can he read my attacks? That easily?' Maggie thought to herself.

It did take some effort to dodge the speed Maggie used, but with the help of his sixth sense skill, Victor was able to tell that she was going to attack just a split of a second before she did, and began shifting his body on time.

As soon as Victor avoided that surprise attack, he didn't waste anytime before he activated his perception skill. With this skill activated, Victor's perception of time became even slower than it already was, and he could read now, where Maggie was going to attack or do next.. except, that was how it was supposed to be.

His analytical skills that came with the perception skill proofed to be almost useless, as the way it worked was for him to read the different movements of the opponent's body movements, from muscle contractions, breaths, facial expressions, change of balance, and all that, and with all that information, he would be able to tell exactly where or what the person was going to do next. Of course, this skill had it's limitations, but that was only if the opponent knew Victor had this skill, and even when they knew, if they have not at hand the method to counter it, their knowledge is useless.

The problem now however, was that Victor couldn't read any of the things he would normally be able to. From muscles, to facial expression, to breathing, and every other thing that he normally looked out for, Maggie seemed not to have any of those. 'What did I even expect from a plant monster that evolved in a weird way?'

Maggie being the evolved plant monster that she was, she didn't have things comparable to a normal creature's physiology.

All these deductions, Victor made in his mind, all in that moment where he dodged the stab Maggie made with her fist.

As Victor leaned back a bit and to the side, this time a lot more comfortable than he was when he evaded the attack initially, he delivered a kick of his own. Now, unlike Victor who dodged, Maggie couldn't evade such a fast attack at such close range, so she was blasted away by Victor's kick.

'I did put enough power into it.' Thought Victor, as he saw that Maggie had seemingly broken, literally, after he kicked her away.

Before he completed that thought though, and before Maggie even met the floor, her body that than broken apart into at least five pieces sprung out vines, and by the time she hit a metal pillar, she was back in one piece.

'Now that's the regenerative capability I'm looking for.' Victor said in his mind, all the while his face being none expressive, and so was Maggie's.

In that moment where Maggie's body hit the metal pillar, and she was just falling to the ground, Victor seamlessly appeared out of nowhere as he disappeared from his previous position, and in that moment stood in front of Maggie. But then, something unexpected happened, as Victor was not the one to attack, instead he was the one who retreated.

Just then, as soon as he appeared, Maggie's body began to deconstruct into something alien, and from all corners of her body, different plant monsters and different parts sprung out from her into existence. This time however, it could not be counted as a surprise attack, as Victor could detect the contortions in her body, and had even expected an attack, just not one of this nature. It was as though a wave of water was heading for him, but in this case it was plant monsters and some grotesque looking parts.

Before the different things got to Victor however, he once again disappeared from that position and appeared beside Werzelya. Following that, Maggie restructured and came back to her normal form, slowly, as each separate plant monster that came out of her went back into her like they were being dragged back to hell.

It took some seconds before she was back to normal, and immediately after that, she launched herself once again at Victor, unexpectedly, only to fall before him.

'Death Gaze.' Victor activated the skill in his mind as he locked eyes with Maggie for a split second.

It was really wonderful that he learned to control his passive skills to not be as passive as they were meant to. Maggie had piqued his interest when he first saw her name, but at this moment, after she released whatever the thing she just did was, Victor's interest Peaked.

Werzelya on the other hand couldn't believe what she just saw. She was strong in her own rights, but she had never been one for physical fights that much, that's the whole reason she relies on her enchanted armours and gears. The highlight of the entire thing was simple in the end, Victor still had a calm and almost cold expression, but Maggie on the other hand had a face of one who was in fear. She couldn't even raise her head, and just remained lying on the floor not daring to move.

Every single person present at the hanger also couldn't believe what was happening before them. It was just unreal for those who didn't understand what was going on and the power play at hand, and to that it was all of them.

Victor just looked down on Maggie as he spoke in a calm and bordering cold tone.

"You've piqued my interest. Now, answer my question. What are you?" Victor asked slowly.

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"You've piqued my interest. Now, answer my question. What are you?" Victor asked slowly, as he looked at Maggie who was lying on the floor.

Less than two seconds after Victor spoke, Maggie suddenly stood up from the ground and bowed towards Victor, with one knee on the ground. Though her face was not visible, she had returned to her usual calm and expressionless face. "Yes. Right now, I can't say exactly what I am, only that I am a combination of different plant monsters, all in one body." She answered, in a calm voice.

Victor was taken unawares to say the least. 'What's up with the sudden loyalty?' He asked himself. HE could almost predict that she would attack the moment he let down his guard, so he did. Unexpectedly, the monster called Maggie still didn't make a move and maintained her position.

"I see, but can you explain why you are bowing? I'm lost." Victor said, as his eyes travelled across the room. He didn't need to even scout the room to know how everyone else felt about this, or their reactions. They had all stopped whatever it is they were doing, and to say their faces showed surprise would be an understatement, nearing shock was more like it.

"Well, you killed the leader, so you have become the new leader. Also, you have furthered my evolution in a way I never thought possible, something I never could do myself…"

Hearing this, Victor couldn't help but think where she was going with this. "…So, I beg you to become my master." She completed her sentence, raising every brow that heard her except for Victor's.

Werzelya for one couldn't believe a sentence of what she just heard. She had nothing to even say about the matter. Surprises had been popping up one after the other so far in just a matter of days that she just might have run out of surprise. The thing she had in mind though, was perhaps the same thing every other person present had in mind also, and it was quite simple.

'What is he going to do?' She questioned herself. Victor did just kill the leader of the most secret and top organizations in the world, and defeated the second in command.

'Well, I did plan to do this the moment that idiot began..' Victor thought to himself.

"Then-"

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-Time Skip; Some hours later-

"I don't need to- actually, I will have the meeting with all the board members. Schedule one in two hours, and make sure to send the notification to everyone who is available and can come here before that time. You know what to do." Victor said, as he and Maggie walked towards her lab, where she spends most of her time.

Werzelya went somewhere else, as she had gotten enough of Victor for the time being at least, and her job was already done the moment Victor met with the leader(who's now dead by the way).

Victor accepted the position of the head of the organization, but he had another idea in mind. He also accepted Maggie as his personal subordinate, and not just one in the organization. Also, the name if the organization was Under Current. Such a normal name for the mightiest secret organization, Victor thought. It sounded like something some person made with his friends when they were young and stupid, only for it to turn out big as time went by, and then the name couldn't be changed anymore.

Back at Maggie's lab, Victor was really impressed with the things he saw. He was no scientist, and had absolutely no idea of whatever Maggie was doing there, or even what any of the expensive looking machines she had there were for. He did see in tubes the bodies of different plant monsters, and some other types of monsters were also there. There also were capsules that just like the tubes contained bodies, and there was even the body of human female in one of the capsules. When Victors aw the human body, he immediately noticed the resemblance between Maggie and the human. 'Perhaps this is the one she got the specimen to make a human appearance from.' Victor thought to himself.

After walking around the lab and looking at everything that was there, Maggie did some explanations about some things, and with that the tour was done. Victor was curious why Maggie became how she became, and even had enough intelligence to do what she was going, and all as some plant monster.

All the plant monster Victor had come in contact with, not like he had come in contact with many, but all of them didn't show any sign of such level of intelligence.

Turned out that Maggie, just like Werzelya and the vampires, came from a different world, and after a dungeon outbreak somehow found herself(well, more like itself actually. I'm only using feminine pronouns because it currently looks like female) outside the dungeon.

To cut the long story short, after reading her own memories recently to see what she was like and to find more of her kind, Maggie found out that she was the one of her kind, as for what she could get from her memory.

She used to be a carnivorous plant monster, and with every creature she ate, she would become smarter and more intelligent, but she wouldn't gain the physiological advantages or features of the creature. It went on like that till she ate the first plant monster, and this time though there was no advancement in brain power, there was a change in her body. From there, she went on evolving herself until she could move effectively around, and communicate to some extent.

At that point was when she was discovered by the previous leader of the organization, brought back to the organization after they had a fight and he won, and with the lab and uncountable number of experiment, she was able to get her current form and powers.

"I started looking for ways to integrate other creatures into myself to become stronger, but this is as far as I have gone." Maggie said, while moving her hand from top to bottom pointing at herself. She had spotted different forms over the years, but this was her most comfortable. There was no use having the other ones, as there was no advantage in having another form apart from her plant one, since it didn't grant any additional perk. It was just like a skin and nothing more.

Victor did need smart subordinates, and the thing would practically worship him later after one or two evolutions, but the thing was that he would have to kill it first.

'I haven't tried it with a plant monster, and I'm not even sure if they have a soul to revive. It's mostly similar to AI with some emotions.' Victor thought to himself. 'It would be more useful alive than dead, so let it stay like this.'

"That's quite the story and all. It'll soon be two hours, let's head towards the meeting area." Victor said.

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"That's quite the story and all. It'll soon be two hours, let's head towards the meeting area." Victor said as he stood up from his seat. Truth be told, he didn't really care about the thing's back story, he just thought he would get some vital information in the process, but in the end he got nothing. It even made him late for his meeting.

'Doesn't matter though, a leader should always be the one to enter last in a meeting.' Victor said in his mind. The leader is the most important person, and shouldn't be the one to wait for others, others should be the ones to wait for the leader.

While they walked to the meeting room, Victor asked Maggie to tell him the top five people in the organization who would be attending the meeting who he should take note of. There were supposed to be eleven people in the meeting, so picking the best five wasn't bad. Maggie in turn began calling the names of each person she deemed worthy to be in the top five, and since Victor didn't specify that strength was the only factor, Maggie had room for one person, who Victor also wanted to see.

Some minutes later, and they got to the room where the meeting was to be held, and inside as Victor stepped through the door, he immediately noticed 11 pairs of eyes immediately turn to his direction, but he could only see 10 people seated. 'Guess the invisible guy has decided to prank me.' Victor concluded in his head.

He walked towards the head seat without saying a single word or giving his attention to those in the room. Maggie on the other hand took the seat at the other end facing Victor's. He could only imagine what was going on in the heads of everyone present, as he was sure that they knew of the recent happenings. This, definitely was also the reason why they all were in attendance.

The room was spacious, and had room for up to 100 people to stand all around. The major colour inside was purple, and there was also white thrown in to balance. The table and chairs were black, with some other colours that matched the design and feel of the room, and everything around was just well placed and done. There were no poppy colours, but the entire place just felt right.

Victor looked around the table to see all their faces, and immediately he noticed the two he had his interest on. 'So that's the one with the cardboard looking face, and there's my scapegoat.' Victor noted in his mind.

"You can stop the circus act now. I know you are there." Victor said, as he looked towards the direction of the one who was invisible. The invisible guy, after turning visible now turned towards Maggie in slight annoyance, but she didn't pay him any attention and just kept looking forward.

"Now, why don't we start by introducing ourselves."

-Time Skip; Middle of the meeting- (A/N: I don't know what people talk about in meetings like these, so yeah. Plus, this is not even Victor's goal here)

"Even though I am the boss now, I will delegate the position of leader to someone else. Of course, I will remain the overall power, but someone will have to run things while I'm not around or busy." Victor said.

He would have simply left this to Maggie since she was the vice and all, but if there was one thing he noticed, it was that the creature was more focused on it's research and laboratory, or anything to better what she was doing. Running the entire organization wouldn't suit her because of this, so Victor needed another person there, and he already had one person in mind.

"For that role, you, stern face, what's your name again? You didn't get to introduce yourself because of the dead body." Victor said, as he turned his attention towards the bulky looking man that was almost seven feet tall with a traditional stern face.

His face only got worse as Victor turned to him, because he couldn't help but squeeze it even more than it already was naturally. It was quite clear that he wasn't very comfortable with where everything was heading, even though he did quite the job of hiding it, especially after Victor had just made a scene.

Earlier during the meeting when Victor started things off, it would seem like one person wasn't smart enough to shut up and listen to the person that killed the previous leader who was by far leagues ahead of all of them, and decided to cut Victor off in the middle of his speech.

This idiot, was none other than the one known as The Undying. He as the one Victor had set as his scapegoat, and not disappointing at all, he played his part fantastically well.

Of course, Victor did not care for the name of a soon to be dead man, but he had other plans for him. Because of future plans, Victor retained the man's name, it was Deacon. Apparently, he used to go by a different name before, but after he got his powers, he started going by the name Deacon.

After the meeting had gone on for a while, Deacon seemed to not be having it, so he raised the question everyone was too scared to ask. Why the hell was some stranger standing before them and acting all high and mighty. Victor knew what he was thinking. Since he basically couldn't die, even though a nuke was dropped on him, Deacon had nothing to fear, not even from the most powerful of men or monster.

Everyone in the room knew this, and they knew that Victor knew, so they wanted to see how he would handle the situation. Deacon wasn't the type to back down easily, so this was sure to escalate, and if the so called new leader couldn't even beat Deacon, then he would only die in the end.

Of course, the moment Victor ordered for him to return to his seat, he got even more upset and started walking towards Victor, but when he got to the seat where the man with the stern face sat, which was just three seats away from Victor's, he suddenly collapsed and never stood nor spoke a word again.

'Death Curse is very helpful. Even beings like this can be killed. As long as there's a soul, it's possible.' Victor said in his mind like a sort of confirmation in his theory.

Since then, everybody in the room became even more upright in their seating and answers. The person before them was simply a psycho to them, it was better not to get in his bad side.

Now, with Deacon lying dead behind his chair, the man with a stern face couldn't do much than to cooperate. If the undying could now die, what was to say about him who was living?

"My name is Markel Zaluich-" He said, before going on to give some other info.

"Great, you will be the one filling in this post for the time being." Victor said as he began standing up from his seat.

"That's all, dismissed." He said, but still no one dared stand and leave before him it seemed. Victor didn't care much, so he just walked towards Markel's seat and spoke to Deacon.

"Arise." He said, as he neared there. Like a true undying, Deacon stood from the ground, and when he was completely awake, he immediately went down on one knee before Victor got him to leave and continue his normal duties. The other were shocked at this, and Victor just left them inside the room and left.

'I don't need that kind of regeneration.'

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A/N: What's good everyone? I was ill for the past couple days, that's the reason why I couldn't update the book with a new chapter. Now that I'm back, I see that I owe you guys two bonus chapters for 200 and 300 power stones, so that'll be coming alongside the next chapter.

I'm not at a hundred percent yet, but I'm good enough to write, plus I missed work for three days now and couldn't even call in to tell them that I was sick so… Yeah. I might not update in two days, maybe in three, for sure by then.

Also, I wanted to inform you all that I'll be introducing two new tiers for the privileged chapters next month, so get ready. It might be something like five advanced chapters, and Ten advanced chapters.

The thought of eating Deacon and gaining his impressive regenerative ability was the very first thing that came across Victor's mind when he heard of the immortality, the only thing that kept him from doing just that was simple.

As it would turn out, Maggie had managed to get a sample of Deacon's flesh, and just like any other scientist, she ran tests on it as she too at the time was interested in that immortality. What she ended up finding however wasn't something she would want to associate herself with.

It turned out that the healing ability Deacon possessed was not actually his, but instead, it belonged to something else within his body, something Maggie identified as a kind of parasite. This parasite was symbiotic in nature, and as it granted Deacon such a body, it also needed him to survive. According to Maggie's research on it, every single cell in Deacon's body could no longer be classified as a human's cell, it was totally different. Maggie also suspected that it might have affected not just his body, but also his personality and other things.

Victor wasn't sure how strong his system was, and certainly didn't want to try his hands on psychopathic Venom. Other than that, Deacon's body had become completely dependent on the thing and would give out easily after it is split from him.

With that, he settled on just killing the guy and then bringing him back alive. This was also to see how actually being undead would affect the parasite, so that he would decide finally whether to eat it or not.

All Victor had to do was kill the guy, and then bring him back to life, all to show his power. After all, the power to take and give life is the greatest when it came to power tricks. 'No doubts there. Even Christ himself loved this trick.' He said in his mind as he walked through and out the door.

With him gone, he was sure that the ones that remained inside would now be devising any and all plans to take care of him, or at the very least contain him. Victor wasn't a total control freak, just when the situation called for it, so he didn't bother with that. He already had some counter measures against something along those lines, so it didn't bother him much.

'Next, I want to know why they have such a gigantic gate up front.'

[A/N: I think it's because of the fever or something, I seem to have forgotten some key ideas I had about this secret organisation part, and unfortunately I hadn't put down the ideas, so I will be leaving it alone for some time until I remember. I know it was a very good and sweet idea, but it just completely left my brain… Haiii… I will advance to another part of the story for now while waiting for it to come back to me.]

While Victor was doing all these and making some little establishments around, if they could be called that, other things were happening in the human world. Now that he had access to the organisation, being their new leader and all, Victor would definitely be taken advantage of that and tap a little into their information and spy network from time to time.

One of the interesting things he would be learning of in the coming days if he were to check the spy network was that the government had started moving against him a bit more seriously now, though it was still under wraps. After the incident where Victor completely wiped off the face of the earth several important people in a single attack, the government couldn't make clearly the danger he posed to the world. He was a prime suspect concerning the disappearance of the countless rankers in the world, and they certainly took caution with him, but it seemed like that wasn't enough.

Anyway, away from the government and maybe even something Victor would not be able to know through his spy network, a certain family had been on the lookout for him, and have been gathering desperately, any information they could get their hands on about Victor.

Of course, this family, was none other than the Beechmon family.

One would wonder why the Beechmon family would be looking for Victor trying to start a fight? Even though their family head was present the day Vince came to pick up Victor? Well, it was easy, on the day that Victor sent a couple people up in smoke, one of their family members also happened to be there, and that family member was none other than the red haired man Victor killed during the incident in the city. His name was Bryce Beechmon.

The whole thing started some days after the head of the Beechmon family, Arnold Beechmon, came back home from visiting the auction house. He came back quite ecstatic after experiencing what the entire scene with Victor back at the auction house earlier that night, and was quite happy with himself that he had made at least some type of impression on Victor that was good. He was aware that Victor was not a good guy currently, but he was very sure that such a person would not remain small forever, so the benefits of having any sorts of contact with such a person were massive. All in all, he was satisfied with how the night had gone.

After getting back and calling for a meeting the following morning with all the family members that were eligible to seat in the decision making for the family, he headed to bed. He got back very late because of the commotion outside, but with the knowledge that the main cause of the commotion had left the city, he did enjoy a worriless drive back home.

The next morning, during the meeting, when most of those meant to be present had gathered, which they did in the library of the house, the door to the library came swinging violently open, and in walked a very angry and sad looking man with a prominent pot belly.

"Hey! What's the matter with you?! You scared me to death… Why do you look like that?" Someone within the room said, calming his voice as he saw the look on the face of the person that just joined them in the library.n0𝒱𝑬𝒍𝗎𝓈𝒷.𝑐0𝓂

"What happened?" Another man asked, following after the first.

With tears gathering in his eyes, the semi chubby man that came into the room said, "My son… he's dead."

On hearing this, everyone inside the room kind of looked away with a bit of grieve. From there on, they comforted him, and the man went on to share the details of how he died, according to how it was related to him by those that brought him, or more precisely, his remains. He also explained the details concerning the circumstances surrounding the death. The man's son was the red haired man with the sonic sound power that fought against Victor.

As it was, only his head was left, and that was all they had to bury. Everything seemed to be going pretty normal, until the man suggested for the killer to be found and killed.

"THE FUCK?!"

In a lonesome alley way located somewhere in the city, the same one Victor used to stay at, where he had razed bodies in flames; a lady could be seen walking through. Sometime later, she had gotten back home and seemed to be changing her clothes. She was the same lady from the research lab where Ann, the one with the holy energy was been enhanced or whatever it was that was been done to her.

The house was located in a good area of the city, so as to why a scientist living in such a place was going home on foot…

When the lady was done with her bath and changed into proper clothes, that had no say that she was going to bed any time soon, she headed for her fridge. She wore a skin tight black trouser of strange material that seemed like leather, and had a light red top on that went all the way to her wrists. She took out wine and poured into a glass before taking occasional sips.

It would seem as though she was enjoying herself, perhaps waiting for something or just reading to leave for a party. After some minutes passed, the space behind the lady rippled strangely a couple of metres away from her, and seemingly out of nowhere, the figure of a man appeared as the ripple disappeared.

"I see you are enjoying yourself here in luxury." The manly figure said, as it stopped some distance away from the lady.

"Not at all Luther, the place is a little stale without you here." The lady said in a very seductive tone, as her body moved in suggestive manner.

Luther just remained unmoved by the antiques as he continued, "we don't have time for that today. We need to return immediately." He said, as he moved towards her and took her glass of wine from her and began drinking it himself.

"Why, did something happen?" She asked, while leaning into his body and wrapping her hands over his neck.

"Yes, something that threatens our entire race. We will also need all the livestock you've prepared." Luther said, still not showing any care for her.

"You are no fun today. I also have very important information on what the humans have been up to. Seems the humans have been up to no good creating things that are a danger to us." She said, as she left the room and went into another room.

"Walk faster Mina." Luther said, as they approached the school where the entrance to the vampire castle was.

"You did say something was on, but what's up with our numbers? Why are there so few of us around?" Mina asked with a raised brow.n0𝒱𝑬𝒍𝗎𝓈𝒷.𝑐0𝓂

"They were sacrificed."

The words didn't really make sense at first after she heard them, and she had to ask again what Luther said, but he didn't repeat himself and continued moving. In the end she had no option than to keep following him into the castle, wondering what exactly had happened.

"Lord, there is an important report that needs your ears." Luther said, as he bowed slightly before the vampire lord.

He motioned for him to speak, and to that he just brought forward Mina. She gave a bow of hers before speaking, and after the bow went on to tell the vampire lord and the elders present about the human experiment that posed a threat to them, the vampires.

The vampire lord listened to all she had to say, and after a brief moment of thinking, he asked for Luther to call the vampire known as Damien before turning to the elders present to share his idea.

"This is also a serious problem. If they complete, rather, when they complete that thing and find out about us, it will become our ultimate weakness." One of the elders said.

The others followed this train of thought, and the vampire lord was not against their thoughts at all. They decided that it would be best for them to destroy and kill the girl before the human government would be able to complete her.

"To that, I say that we inform the Crow, and maybe try to make him go handle this matter." The vampire lord said.

Everybody agreed with the lord, as informing Crow will not only help build their trust and maybe relationship, but if he was to go, it would save them the trouble of risking their lives.

By the time Damien came to answer the call of the vampire lord, they all had decided on what they were going to do as they saw it as the best course of action. They told Damien to go contact the Crow and inform him of the situation. It had only been a few day since he was there at the vampire castle, so he not to be expecting the bodies of vampires for some time.

Damien did as he was told and contacted Victor. He was the only vampire currently who could use long range telepathy over thousands of miles, so he was the one that was responsible when ever Victor's presence was required.

About an hour later, Victor would appear in the throne room, while the vampire lord and the elders were in some kind of discussion. The entrance was so sudden and unexpected that it almost threw one overactive vampire elder off his seat. This also put a bit of worry and uneasiness in their bodies, knowing that the monster they knew as the Crow had access to their very home and could come and go without any restrictions or supervision.

"Welcome, Crow." The vampire lord said. After what happened last time, this time the vampires were well prepared, and provided a seat for Victor to seat immediately after the vampire lord's welcoming greetings.

"Of course, being benevolent, I did make sure to tell you lot not to call me if it wasn't worth it or necessary, so- Speak, what is the matter?"

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[This is bonus chapter for 200 power stones. The next one is coming soon. Sorry for the repeated paragraph, I made a mistake and didn't post a chapter in between, so it messed up the order of things, and I can't replace what I had posted before with something that is missing 100 words. Please do understand, sorry for the inconvenience]

After looking at the report for a while, she got up and headed to the main room where some scientists were moving about doing some things here and there, it was also the room where the girl, Ann, was kept and experimented on.

'I need to report back, this thing can become a potential harm to us. I can already feel it.' She said in her mind, as she approached one of the people there to talk.

The house was located in a good area of the city, so as to why a scientist living in such a place was going home on foot…

"I see you are enjoying yourself here in luxury." The manly figure said, as it stopped some distance away from the lady.

"Not at all Luther, the place is a little stale without you here." The lady said in a very seductive tone, as her body moved in suggestive manner.

"Why, did something happen?" She asked, while leaning into his body and wrapping her hands over his neck.

"Yes, something that threatens our entire race. We will also need all the livestock you've prepared." Luther said, still not showing any care for her.

"Walk faster Mina." Luther said, as they approached the school where the entrance to the vampire castle was.

"You did say something was on, but what's up with our numbers? Why are there so few of us around?" Mina asked with a raised brow.

"They were sacrificed."

"Lord, there is an important report that needs your ears." Luther said, as he bowed slightly before the vampire lord.

The vampire lord listened to all she had to say, and after a brief moment of thinking, he asked for Luther to call the vampire known as Damien before turning to the elders present to share his idea.n0𝑣ℯ𝑙𝗎𝚜𝒷.𝕔0𝕞

"This is also a serious problem. If they complete, rather, when they complete that thing and find out about us, it will become our ultimate weakness." One of the elders said.

"To that, I say that we inform the Crow, and maybe try to make him go handle this matter." The vampire lord said.

Everybody agreed with the lord, as informing Crow will not only help build their trust and maybe relationship, but if he was to go, it would save them the trouble of risking their lives.

"Of course, being benevolent, I did make sure to tell you lot not to call me if it wasn't worth it or necessary, so- Speak, what is the matter?"

Though with the blatant disrespect, the vampires couldn't do shit but flinch their fists and press on their teeth. There simply was nothing they could do. Their entire race could disappear off the face of the world for all they knew. At least, that was the kind of power they saw Victor possessing.

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After swallowing their shame and anger, they went on to explain the situation as it was to Victor. They may have exaggerated a bit about how serious the whole thing was so make it seem more urgent, probably because they loved their lives. They all had serious faces throughout the entire meeting, as they didn't really know what Victor's response was going to be. They had only interacted with him once after all.n0𝑣ℯ𝑙𝗎𝚜𝒷.𝕔0𝕞

Victor listened to all they had to say about the humans and their experiments, and since he was aware that they had already figured that he was also an undead, just like them in many ways, he could clearly see what they were aiming for, and he was not going to let them have their way so easily.

Now, of course, Victor's emotions and feelings were extremely suppressed to the point that it felt like they were none existent, so he really couldn't enjoy thrilling events or heart pumping action. He was as dead in his mind and heart as he was outside, though the emotions and all had lightened a bit, it was just that, a bit. When looking in the grand scale of things, that bit really went nowhere. Despite all of this, Victor still had a way to get his kick out of things. (Author: Not really sure if that's a correct way to use that there, but-)

"And why didn't you people handle this by yourselves?" Victor asked. "Also, you are going to have me over in such a big castle, but there isn't even as little as wine to present." He stated again.

His last statement shook them perhaps even greater than the first. This was only the second time they had met him, and for someone who monsters referred to as a monster, the vampires really forgot something like that. Anyway, Victor waved that they reserve their wine, as he came for business in the first place, not for drinks. That was just to tease the vampires, and looking at their expressions, he was, if he would say, satisfied.

The vampire lord, after that, did a good job of proving Victor with good reasons why they had not taken action by themselves, one of them being that they just received the message that same day. After a bit more talking from the vampires, Victor stated that they allow the experiments to continue until completion.

He told them that he too was interested in the results of the experiment, and wanted to see the final product and how it turned out. He called for the spy who worked with the humans in the lab, and Misa was brought into the throne room.

She did seem a bit, how to put it, relaxed and a bit respectful, so just for the kicks, Victor decided to see of her behaviour would change after some skills were displayed. Of course, a little death stare was all it took, as she became subservient in her behaviours immediately.

Victor ordered her to continue monitoring the experiment, and asked her to report back when it was through, or if it had failed. He also told her to take a piece of the girl, preferably both her arms, if the experiment was to fail. He identified that he wanted it for his own research. Of course, Victor would only want to send something like that down his throat, but then, they needed not such information.

With that, he dismissed the meeting and returned back to the base of Under Current, the secret organization he was now the leader of. Victor was about to do something that had been interesting him for a while before he even thought of taking the organisation for himself.

"Alright, take me to meet this Crow you people talk about." Victor said to Maggie the moment he teleported into her lab.

He wanted to see who the other crow was, at least he would know the face of the person whose name he hijacked without knowing, and gave him the early legendary status.

It turned out that this crow was not part of this organisation, but was the leader of a different one. According to Maggie, he was the leader of another secret organisation that called themselves Moonless, and they were partners. Moonless was an organisation that specialized in assassinations and generally, anything that had to do with spying and espionage. Under Current had people for this, but the expertise of those who specialize in the field was undoubtedly more.

Since Moonless had less members in power and people who could do other things, like nuke an entire city, they had to partner with others, and in this case, they went for the best, Under Current.

'Whatever their history is, it doesn't matter.' Victor thought to himself, as he and Maggie went to the hanger where they will be taking an aircraft to where the original crow was. The Moonless hideout, or base.

In about thirty minutes, they had arrived at the base of Moonless, and immediately, Victor noticed the difference in caution compared to Under Current. Moonless only had a normal looking house on top ground that would attract little attention. Though the magic that made it look normal like nothing was there was in place, behind that mirage was just a small house that resembled an outpost. Anyone who came across it would immediately discredit it and identify it as what it looks to be, some outpost. Of course, the illusion magic around the place could easily be said to be kept in place for monsters that roam around, so everything was good.

The moment Victor went into the small house on the surface however, his map scanned everything and updated him of what the entire structure really looked like, and even for a zombie, Victor was really impressed. The place wasn't as big as Under Current's base, at most just half the size, but the design and structure of the entire place was so intricate that it would drive someone who doesn't know the layout nuts just to navigate.

'Truly, a real secret organisation.' Victor said after they led them into the 'secret passage' that led underground. From there, they were taken to see the leader, Crow. Of course, every single of the Moonless members frowned the moment they heard that Victor's name was also Crow, but alas, what could they do. They were well trained enough not to start anything in such a situation.

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Victor already had something in mind, as he had formulated a simple plan over the days. At first, he wanted to meet this other crow and have a fight with him, maybe even kill him, but now, he saw that there was no need for that. As for strength, he was going to keep growing and evolving, so comparing himself with some human was not the right way to go about things. There was a far better way.

After some minutes of walking, they got to the room where the person directing them said the leader would be in, and they entered.

"Welcome Maggie.. Crow." The man inside said.

He was wearing combat clothing like some modern day swat, except his attire looked very much comfortable to be in, and he wasn't putting on his helmet, or head gear. He was quite the tall man, and had a muscular body under the clothes. Perhaps, the most striking thing was his skin colour, he was black, and not the kind of black where one would associate him with a race of humans, no, he was completely black, like coal. If there was to be a comparison, he would only be able to contend with Mr. Popo.

The Crow extended his hand out to shake Victor, and Victor received it. The moment they held hands, Victor could feel that the Crow had applied pressure and was trying to do some kind of power test right there.

Victor could feel that Crow was quite the powerful one, physically of course, but fortunately, he too was able to match that level and even surpass it. The entire just washed past Victor like a smooth wave.

'Not bad for the rumours following his name. Certainly deserves to be one of human's strongest.' Victor thought in his mind, and so did Crow.n0𝚟𝔢𝑙𝑈𝑆𝑩.𝐂0𝗆

When it became apparent that there was no pressure felt by Victor, and the only ones that were affected really were the two that stood with Crow in the room, Crow stopped and nodded towards Victor before apologising for the test and proceeded to offer them a place to seat.

The room they were in was quite spacious, at least the size of a basket ball court. There was even an offer of wine and some little eateries, but Victor had just the wine.

"So, let's get down to business. I know you never come here just to say hi, and this time you even brought a most valuable guest." Crow said, while directing his speech originally to Maggie before switching his gaze to Victor.

'If only this guy knew that the original plan was to kill him.' Victor said in his mind.

Honestly, he really changed his mind after they got mid way to see the Crow. After meeting and killing the leader of the Under Current, Victor felt like he might have made a mistake. If he was to just go around killing the leaders of such organisations, it would only reduce the power of the organisation if he took it over, and that wasn't very good for an organisation, regardless.

After they made some talk about random important things, Victor finally brought up why he came in the first place. Maggie was not aware of these reasons, as Victor had said nothing to her prior.

"Now, for the main reason why we are here. It concerns my plans moving forward." Victor said, as he took another sip of the wine he was holding.

"I don't understand, how do these plans affect me really for me to be hearing them?" Crow asked.

As normally, people don't just go around sharing their plans with strangers, Crow was quite curious what it was that Victor would need to say it to him, maybe it was something that required his expertise. It was safe to say that at the moment, Crow wasn't exactly impressed or afraid of Victor, as everything he had heard and seen up until this point wasn't anything that would cause him to be wary of him or not. To him, he could also recreate such feat on a good day.

There was no mention of whether Victor was the one who killed the tens of rankers that entered that dungeon, he was only a suspect since he was the only one that came out of it alive, and the rest never made it. Now, if anyone was smart enough, they would put into consideration that those that entered the dungeon may have encountered some kind of monster that was strong enough to kill them, and maybe only after their deaths did they manage to kill the monster, and then Victor was able to escape.

As for now, being a cautious person, Crow was just being careful, just in case.

"I checked, and it happens that there are a lot of secret organisations, or those operating outside of the governments and proper jurisdictions."

"Where are you going with this?"

"I want to unite them all, under one banner, if you will look at it like that. They will still retain their individuality, but they will all answer to one organisation overall." Victor said.

It took some seconds before Crow responded, perhaps this was not something he was expecting to hear.

"May I know what your goal is with this move?"

'Well, right now there is no definitive plan or reason, but maybe in the future there will, better be prepared than sorry.' Victor said in his mind.

"For now, there is no definitive goal." Victor said, then continued. "Will you join me?" Victor asked.

"As an equal?"

"Probably not." Victor answered.

"…" Crow remained silent for a while, then he spoke.

"How about we just see how things are going for now, and maybe I'll decide in the future." Crow said, with both hands crossed under his chin.

Victor listened to his answer, and noticed what he meant, but truth be told, Victor didn't want to follow through for today. He made this plan just when they were heading here, so he thought to leave it for the time being.

"That will do then." Victor said, dismissing any other thoughts.

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[I don't plan on dragging out this book, especially if it's unnecessary, so from here on, it may seem a little fast paced, but worry not as I will not skip over any important thing or spoil the quality and good factors of the book]

Maggie who had just been listening to the conversation without any interference was quite surprised with the route Victor had decided to take. She wasn't sure why he made this decision, but seeing as she herself had taken Victor to be some kind of higher being these days, she had faith in his decisions and didn't even want to object, not like she saw anything wrong with it to begin with.

"I was wondering, Crow- Just how strong are you? Really?"

"Well- probably enough to take down a battalion of A rank hunters with some S rank thrown in the mix." Crow answered.

Though Crow's answer might have seemed honest or a bit boastful, when taken from another angle, it could be seen as an indirect challenge or provocation towards Victor.

Victor took his words as the latter, and he wasn't going to allow such a relationship of equals. He was well aware that if it came to it, Crow would most likely win in a battle of physical strength, or at least match him, but when it came to skills… Victor was the undisputed hands down.

"I take that as an indirect provocation towards me.. DO you want to try and see who's more powerful?" Victor said, in his usual calm and nonchalant tone.

Crow remained quiet for some time, clearly showing that he meant what he said in the way Victor understood it, and that he actually had the thought of who was stronger in his mind, or a better way to put it would be to say that he was thinking of the possibility of him eliminating Victor.

As both men stared intently at each other like two tigers looking at another animal trying to invade their space, Victor made the first move, as he would not let someone who is supposed to be his subordinates get any ideas. That would only be a recipe for failure.

Victor activated two skills as a start off against Crow while he spoke in a dead calm tone, as his eyes gained a brilliant but dull gleam in them. "I would have done more, but just know, I am not the type to tolerate insubordination. Of course, I would like to think that you are under me?" Victor said while looking at Crow dead in the eye. It didn't take up to three seconds, and Crow couldn't help but shift his eyes down and away from Victor's.

'What is this feeling?… I- I can't refuse him.'

Before Victor began speaking, while both his and Crow's eyes were locked, he activated his skills Death Gaze and Terror at the same time, the first making his eyes glow just the slightest bit green. Death Gaze only needed one eye contact, and terror just needed the target to be within a certain range. Both were similar, but they worked differently. Death Gaze was used at full capacity, while Victor only used a bit of Terror, just to supplement the first skill. Now that he had control over his skills, something like Death Gaze and Terror could be activated in levels with different intensities.

In the end, that was all it took for him to suppress Crow, and before he deactivated the skills, Crow answered.

"That wasn't what I meant; we are undoubtedly your subordinates." He said. It was clear that the words almost didn't want to come out of his mouth, and that also showed Victor what type of man he was.

Victor was sure Crow would not have submitted if it wasn't for his own subordinates, who he was sure would definitely meet a terrible end if he was to do something out of line. Nevertheless, Crow was scared shitless, probably to a degree he had never been in his life.

After Crow gave the answer, Victor deactivated his skills, and their influence disappeared. Even though Crow was no longer influenced by the skills, the effects they had on him lingered, as skills that affected one psychologically weren't that easy, they always left a lingering effect.

"Is that so? That's good, I was already thinking-" Victor cut himself off and ended it there, leaving Crow to his own imaginations. "We will be leaving then. I have no use for you than to inform you of this decision of mine today, so I will inform you later of anything-"

With that, Victor and Maggie were escorted out of the underground base and back up. After they got to the top, Victor could notice a change in the way the guards at the entrance and exit treated he and Maggie. He couldn't quite say, but he was certain they had received the news of what happened and the latest update. 'Good to know their information network is fast.'

Victor returned with Maggie to the hideout after that, and he used the craft all the way. He could always teleport, but really, there was no need to always be in a rush, not like there was anything chasing him. He is arguably the strongest in the world at the moment, and nobody in their correct sense would even think of attacking him, at least, not at the moment, he thought, so he could take things slowly for now.

"Is Werzelya around? I want to see her." Victor asked Maggie.

"No master, she's at her residence last I checked." Maggie answered. "But I can find another one for you, master."

"What do you mean?" Victor asked.

"Is the reason you want to see her for the master's pleasures? I can arrange that with other qualified females." Maggie said.

Victor just turned to look at her for a brief moment, then he took his gaze off her and answered, "That will not be necessary, that is not the reason I want to see her." Victor said simply.

"Oh… No problem master, just tell me if you need anything." Maggie said.

"Hm. Do restrict yourself from speaking in that manner?" 'What kind of show does she watch?'

"Ah, yes, master."

As Werzelya would not be in the base, Victor saw no other need to visit. He already had someone he put in charge of that position, and even without the pawn, Maggie was there to look over things, so that didn't bother him. 'If there's anything I learned in those business classes I took on the side, it's that having businesses and organisations that are automated is the best. Passive Income.' Victor said in his mind, and he nodded at Maggie before teleporting.

Somewhere in Werzelya's house.

"Hey, wake up."

…

"Who's that disturbing my sleep? Get! O!U-t… Ah?"

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Just like that, a month passed, and as the new month came by, new things and developments came with it.

During this time, Victor had slacked off a bit when it came to raiding dungeons, as he started seeing a pattern in them, and they no longer benefitted him. He had gotten all the evolution materials he needed from the dungeons, and since the dungeons had similar monsters in the ones that were similar, Victor really didn't have any use for them anymore, except for the experience points he got. There were two ways Victor knew to get stronger, and it was either to kill and get experience points, or to evolve himself.

Of course, during this month, Victor had collected plenty vampire evolution material from the vampires that were supplied to him. The vampire material wasn't enough for what he planned for, but it was enough for him to use to achieve what he wanted. Victor had also been sitting on dragon material seeing if he would be able to find other dragons before he evolved using it, but that didn't happen. He wanted to get adequate material from dragons, so that he would do the same thing he was planning with the vampire evolution materials, but in the end, it seemed like the dragons would have to wait still.

Victor enquired from Werzelya ways for him to find a demon, but that ultimately failed. Werzelya for one wasn't knowledgeable about any magic that could achieve a dimensional effect, not did Victor or any other person he could think of. He did try to ask the vampires, but they didn't have anyone who could do such magic. In the end, Victor left the research to Maggie who was very eager to take it on.

While these were some of the more important things that happened within the time frame, there was something major that was going on in this new month they were in. The previous day, Victor got a call from the vampires, through Damien, they requested an audience with him, so he scheduled it to take place the next day.

The next day, Victor teleported directly into the vampire castle, only that this time he didn't appear right in the throne room and just appeared somewhere else before proceeding to walk to the throne room. The vampires were to produce for him 200 bodies of vampires on this day also, overall it was the best day to visit.

When Victor got to the throne room, the doors opened before him and he walked in. It seemed like the vampires had been waiting for him, and unlike the previous times that he would come uninvited, this time a spot for him was well prepared in advance, and he took the luxurious seat closest to where the Vampire Lord and the three Eldest Elders sat.

Greetings were given, and just like Victor had instructed the other times he came, they kept everything brief and got to the main reason why they summoned him.

"It's about the experiment that was reported to us some time ago." The vampire lord said. Normally, he wouldn't be the one to be giving such reports, but given the fact that Victor was the one these reports were presented to at the moment, anyone lower than himself would be an insult. At least, the vampires were cultured enough not to be told something so simple.n0𝒱𝓔𝗅𝑢𝓈𝓫.𝗰0𝑚

The vampire lord did move the explanation to one of the eldest elders to continue, the most important thing was for him to start.

[In the vampire society and household, these are some of the positions there, I will be keeping these only in the house

Master (Head of the family)

Eldest Elder (The oldest and most respected apart from the Master. They can be more than a single. They can be referred to as elders sometimes, like in a sentence.)

Elder (The elders and respected vampires of the family)

Ascendant (They are the elites in the society or family, and can be in charge of Service ranks)

Service Rank (They are like soldiers. Vampires strong enough to be mobilized if needed. They are first in line if a force has to be sent)

Fledgling (newly turned vampires or vampires that are not more than 25 who are still young and learning)

]

As it happened, the girl who was placed in the laboratory where the experiment was taking place had reported the completion of the experiment, and that it was a success, to an extent.

After the elder was done with what he had to say, which he also made sure to keep brief, the girl was called forward to explain herself what she had relayed earlier. They could do so themselves, but since the girl was present at the meeting, it was better she be the one to do so.

"As I remember, you are Mina, right?" Victor asked as his eyes locked unto the young looking vampire.

"Yes, I am." She responded a bit casually, though her tone and manners were still pretty formal and respectful. A few of the vampires' breath almost ceased for a second as they listened to her speak in such a casual way. Perhaps she didn't know who was before her? It was even more of a mystery seeing that Victor didn't mind it. Not like this brought any of them the thought to act this way, perhaps her beauty and feminine charms worked in this case?

"Go on then, tell me everything, and why you are here instead of being there al giving updates." Victor asked in his usual calm voice that sounded a bit cold. If he was still human, he would complain about this voice and characteristic of his current self, but now he really couldn't care much of it.

"Right." She responded before beginning her talk.

The experiment, the girl named Ann, was the main component of a project the government conducted with something, a material that was found that could repel undead and all negative energy, and even dispel them. The scientists, after somehow getting a church to see the piece of stone, called the energy that was exuded from it Holy Energy.

The church tried to harness this holy energy, and the government allowed it as it gave them a shot at harnessing this foreign and powerful energy, and surprisingly, the church was able to produce members that could do so. These people who could harness the energy from this stone could go further to heal, buff, debuff, and even cast some offensive and defensive spells with it.

This, was the very first appearance of magic after the world changed.

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Normally, people just had skills, but with the holy energy, this changed as those who could use it became a different class all together, and their individual value became unimaginable.

Of course, as anyone would think, the church got too stingy with these people who could harness the energy, and began gathering too much power because of this. If the government hadn't given away just a palm size of the rock to the church and kept the remaining that was at least the size of a bucket, that would be all for them. There were others who emerged that could also do more than one or three skills and were also considered to be some kind of magicians, but these people were extremely few, and most of them refused to work with the government.

It was very simple, since the church refused to work with the government, they decided it would be better off they created their own human that could utilize the power of this stone, Holy Energy, and the scapegoat for this happened to be Ann. How she got to this position, Mina did not know, but the important thing was that she was extremely compatible with the stone, and now a piece of it was inside her.n0𝒱𝓔𝗅𝑢𝓈𝓫.𝗰0𝑚

"The good news for us is that because of her extreme compatibility, the stone had started working against her, and she might not live as long as is intended." Mina said.

"Well, such is the case of first experiments." Victor answered.

As for why Mina left the facility, the energy was affecting her quite a bit, and the one coming from Ann, the lab rat, seemed to be even more effective against her, so she had to leave. Ann hadn't gotten complete control of her powers yet and was still being thought, so the energy was all over the place. The energy did seem to have an effect on those around, but it was simple things like bringing happiness and things like that, nothings serious.

"Alright, I get the gist of it. So, what do you vampires plan to do about this?" Victor asked, this time directing his question to the vampire lord.

"Since you showed interest in the human, we will not do anything unless you say so." The vampire lord answered respectfully.

'Cleaver thinking.' Victor thought to himself.

"Very well, I will handle it myself and get what I want." He said before getting up from his seat.

As he walked towards the doors and out of the throne room, a vampire walked up to him quietly and bowed before saying, "It has been arranged and is waiting in the regular room." The vampire said with a bow.

To which Victor responded "Good."

After taking the bodies, Victor left the vampire castle and returned to his house. Within this time, he also got a house of his own where he could stay without any disturbance. The house was quite big, so apart from the automatic cleaning feature that covered most of it, Victor needed at least two people to work in the house and carry out choirs and general maintenance. He could ask the one who moved the most weight in him getting the house, which would be Maggie, but he had a better way to do so.

After receiving the 200 bodies from the vampires, Victor took them into his system inventory before living. When he got home, all he had to do was raise two of the vampires to become part of his legion. Doing this opened Victor up to new information, one he had actually being thinking of.

Since the vampires were undead creatures, raising from the dead to be part of his legion didn't change much in their physiology or anatomy, they were already undead. These two were just fledglings that had been made not too long ago, so their levels were pretty low and nothing dropped further after they were raised.

Victor granted them their previous names, Jade and Zed. Both were females, and just to add a variety, Victor decided to raise a male vampire, who he also granted their previous name, Luke. The first two were level 2 and 4 respectively, while Luke seemed to be awakened before he was turned into a vampire as his level was 12.

Though Victor planned to have them take care of the house choirs and general matters of the house, he still felt the need for them to be strong. Now that they were part of his legion, they get to experience a faster growth and even go past their limits, so there was no way he was leaving them to remain weak. He didn't plan to make any of them part of his personal guards, at least for now. They were still regular vampires with nothing special about them. Victor could very much protect himself and didn't need any protection, so if there was to be someone like that, they would need to be special.

For now, his legion consisted of;

Arac: Level – 60 (Semi intelligent)

Konda: Level – 62 (Semi intelligent)

Gurok: Level – 65 (Intelligent)

Amadon: Level – 70 (Intelligent)

Pyro: Level – 69 (Semi Intelligent)

Larry – 71 (Intelligent)

Shanok – 82 (Intelligent)

Jade – 2 (intelligent)

Zed – 4 (intelligent)

Luke – 12 (intelligent)

After experimenting on them, Victor was able to boost their intelligence to different degrees. Some like Arac had began approaching their limit, and levelling further was proving to be extremely difficult. The problem lied in the fact that Victor couldn't find monsters that were worth being part of his legion. In the end, being too strong was the root problem… Who would have thought?

For their training, Victor delegated it to Shanok and Amadon to oversee. Shanok was more of a magician, and was one of those that wasn't constricted by skills and could learn a bit more than a normal awakened could, so if any of the vampires leaned towards their skills more than physical strength and capabilities, he would guide them. As for those that were physical attributed, Amadon was the man for the job, as at the moment he was the one most versed in that aspect.

With the training plan sort out, Victor teleported himself and the three new legion members and took them to the entrance of one of the dungeons ranked as one that was approaching A, pretty much something on the level of the dungeon he was born in.

Finding a dungeon of such rank was extremely easy, as Victor had visited most of the dungeons within his area of search, coupled with the fact that higher ranked dungeons had started appearing more frequently as of late, it was all very easy.

"Alright, as that has been taken care of, let's get to the main treat."

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The thought of creating his own personal vampire army did come to mind, but Victor looked past it almost immediately. For now, that was not his focus. Of course, one could argue that Victor could simply use his own vampires to create more vampires as these vampires will be able to do so after they grow a bit from simple fledglings, but what would be the point of running the human race into extinction really? There were many factors that came into play there, and it was good knowledge not to do so.

After eating all the remaining bodies and getting the evolution materials, Victor was ready to begin his evolution. If not the major reason, with a house of his own, he could now freely do things like enter evolution without any worry in particular. There were those like Vince, but unless the world had tired him, he wouldn't dare, not in his right mind.

"System, begin evolution."

–

[Starting evolution process]

[You will lose consciousness during the evolution process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

–

[You will now lose consciousness as evolution begins]

…

After a while of what seemed like just a brief moment, Victor was greeted with the warm and calm system voice, as it read out the notifications that popped up in the system interface as system notifications.

[Evolution complete]

[Due to the now having a superior undead race a Vampire, you are beginning to change races into one]

[Currently, your Zombie essence is stronger than your vampire essence as the vampire is yet to surpass the evolved race of a Zombie Lord]

[If the vampire essence surpassed the Zombie Lord, then a complete change into a vampire will occur]

[You have evolved into a new race, Vampiric Zombie Lord]

[You are now a Vampire Noble]

[Gained new skill Blood Drain]

[Gained new skill Blood Weapon]

[Gained new skill Mind Control]

[Gained new skill Domination]

[Gained new skill Blood Bank]

[Gained new skill Illusion Master]

[Gained new skill Paralysis Bite]

[Due to change in physique, the skill Rot Bite has evolved and altered]

[Gained new Innate Ability Vampiric Physicality]

[Because you already possess a superior Innate Ability Undead Body, the effects of Vampiric Physicality will be absorbed into it]

[You have acquired a special stat, Charm]

[Received 30 stat points]

[Strength 15, Agility 10, Sense 20, Magic 10, Intelligence 20, Charm 30]

[It will take 96hours to completely adjust to new form. Till then, evolution is impossible, unless under favourable for dangerous conditions]

(A/N: I couldn't find a better way to articulate that, so I called it essence. If anyone can come up with something better, that'll be much appreciated. The vampire noble thing was so that we would have an idea of what his rank is in the vampire society. Also, for the race, I just couldn't write Vampiric Infernal Zombie Lord, nah G, that's just too much, so bear with it.)

Victor got up from his bed slowly as he felt the changes in and on his body. As for the physical changes, nothing was too different. He didn't feel any taller or more handsome, the real change happened inside of him. It would seem that the vampires turned out not to be completely undead after all.

After the evolution was complete, Victor could immediately fell that his emotions were a little loose than they normally were. It wasn't to the point where he would shed tears or do anything cringe that could cause him to vomit black blood, but it was quite evident. To be honest, he used to think that the day this happened, he would only realize his emotions where back after some absurd scenario happened, but it turned out he was wrong.

For now though, Victor couldn't say exactly how much of his emotions had become present, so he left that for later. Something that seemed to be going out of hand was his repertoire of skills, it was simply absurd. The number of skills that Victor hadn't used more than twice couldn't be counted in one hand, and he had just updated that number.

With his healing factor now, he no longer needed a skill for it, and his recovery skill now could work as a great supplementary skill for his natural healing factor.

As for the skills and the new perks that had been added, Victor decided to leave them for a later time. At the moment, the mirror was his interest. Though he didn't really feel taller, Victor knew he had grown in height a bit and wanted to see how much.

Victor was now 6'3ft and had a not too lean muscular build with very condensed muscles that also seemed too flexible to be legal. His hair that was starting to have a shade of white was now completely black, as black as soot. His green eyes had also turned into a very dark shade of red. The most incredible change though was Victor's face. If he was to step into the human society, even the one in this world where superpowers ruled, he would easily be considered a once in a lifetime model. It wasn't like he had become some Korean dull that delusional girls dreamt about, nothing like that, but his face also held some beauty in them.

"I look like those perfect vampires in anime I used to watch back on earth." Victor said out loud as he examined himself before the mirror.

'I remind me of castlevannia… I will never be gay- never be gay.' Victor rebuked in his mind as an image of the vampire from the show came to his mind. If he was to say anything, he would say that he looked more like the young vampire's father, only a more handsome version.

'Now, if only my supposed to be woman didn't kill me, the story would have been complete.'

Victor led his lips apart, and the first thing he noticed was the slightly pointed canines, but at least his teeth had become commercial worthy for the best brands. Another thing he noticed had changed was the saliva that was always present in his mouth at the back of his teeth. Seeing this change, Victor needed no explanation. The rot bite had evolved to be in some kind of gland or something.

'The more I look into these things, the more I believe them to be reptiles.' Victor said in his mind before heading back to his bed, referring to vampires.n0𝑣𝑒𝑙𝐮𝒮𝔅.𝗰0𝗆

The stench he always had to worry about had also disappeared completely, and now if he wasn't imagining it, he had a particular natural scent on him that smelt quite appealing. 'I always thought those vampires were bad at taking care of their castle, turns out their individual scents could remain on things. How didn't I think of it?'

Status

Level: 47 (2,250,000/35,000,000)

Name: Victor (Crow)

Race: Infernal Undead (Vampiric Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: -Poison Sandworm – 15,000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […, Emissary of Death […]

Coins: 5,495,000 4,100,000

Blood Bank: XX

Hp: 3,800/3,800

Mp: 4,100/4,100 4,200/4,200

[Stat]

Strength: 235 250

Agility: 200 210

Sense: 150 170

Vitality: 71

Magic: 80 90

Intelligence: 145 165

Charm: 30

remaining stat point: 79 109

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

[Passive: All Title, Undead Aura lvl-MAX, Recovery lvl-MAX, Art of Combat lvl-MAX, Weapon Mastery lvl-MAX, Sixth Sense lvl-MAX

[Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-MAX, Domain of the Dead lvl-MAX, Touch of Death lvl-MAX, Rot Bite lvl-MAX, Negative Burst lvl-MAX, Infernal Breath lvl-MAX, Inferno Ring lvl-MAX, Teleport lvl-MAX, Remote Explosion lvl-MAX, Death Curse lvl-MAX, Plant Manipulation lvl-MAX, Earth Stump lvl-MAX, Hot Hands lvl-MAX, Terror lvl-MAX, Excavate lvl-MAX, Demon Chain Bind lvl-MAX, Demon Shadow lvl-MAX, Eye of Dreams Nightmares lvl-MAX, Perception lvl-MAX, Death Gaze lvl-Max, Blood Drain lvl-MAX, Blood Weapon lvl-MAX, Mind Control lvl-MAX, Domination lvl-MAX, Illusion Master lvl-MAX, Paralysis Bite lvl-MAX

Victor had gone ahead to max out the new skills he got since he could, and now, he was beginning to see a new path he could follow.

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[Undead Body]

As an undead, you do not require sleep or rest, and you do not require any sustenance nor are you held back by the need of bodily functions. Your stamina is limitless, and you do not accumulate fatigue. Your overall physical capabilities are greatly increased above that of others, and your feature and presence is speaks for itself. Any injury aside from a critical or fatal head injury will not kill you, and will not hinder your mobility or bodily functions, but damage will still be taken. You are able to survive in extreme conditions of cold and heat, and radiation, up to a certain EXTREME limit. You will naturally heal your injuries at an insanely short period if regulated, and regaining lost body parts is easy. Foreign Body parts cannot be attached.

-Necrotic/Negative energy is converted to healing/mana supplement

-Healing/Holy magic is converted to damage (Penalty lessened)

-Complete Immunity to sickness and disease

-Complete immunity to psychic attacks

-Complete immunity to poison attacks

-Complete immunity to curses

-(50%) damage received from Holy/Light magic attacks

-Higher chances of swaying or appealing to those of weaker will

-Higher chance of swaying and appealing the opposite sex

-Can enter holy grounds.

Of course there were some race advantages, but those were natural things that needed not be added into these.

After that, Victor had to delay his plans a bit until his body was fully adapted and completely assimilated.

Three days later, Victor visited the vampires he had left with his legion to train to check up on their progress, and to say the least, he was satisfied with what he saw. He hadn't really interacted with them a bunch, so the familiarity wasn't there. Despite that, the vampires were as loyal to him as the other legion members were.

Victor gave it some thought the few days that he spent doing nothing at home. Since these vampires weren't turn by him, he couldn't tell with a hundred percent certainty if they were only loyal to him. When a vampire is made, they become something of an offspring of the one who made them, and that bond goes deeper than the physical. They are unable to refuse their maker in anyway, and will unconditionally prioritize them above all other. They are also dependent on their maker and cannot kill them, even though they consciously wished it, which would only be when they had gotten way more powerful.

Of course, the older and stronger they get, the less restricted they are by this bond, but it never really leaves them. They may grow to the point where they can even become fully independent of their maker, but for the 99.9% of the vampires, they never get to the point where they can kill their master.

Anyway, these were some things that he was thinking of. In the end, it was a good thing that he planned to just have them take care of things in the house and nothing else. As it was now, Victor could not make his own vampire as he was unable to turn another yet, so he would have to wait until he gains the ability then he can do that. As for the idea of retaining them as his personal guard if they showed any thing special, Victor had to also scrape that out.

After they returned on the fourth day, the levels of the vampires had risen tremendously.

Jade – 20

Zed – 36

Luke – 25n0𝑣𝞮𝑙𝓤𝑠𝓫.𝑐0𝓂

As it would turn out, Zed was the talented one out of the bunch. With Victor's body at a hundred percent, he decided it was time for him to visit Mark and his brother in the city. The only thing was that Victor had just one problem, he didn't have a mark where the girl, Ann was at the moment, which was most definitely the research lab. He really didn't want to cause another event in the human city, but-

'Information like this should be available.' He said in his mind and he got dressed in his preferred clothes. He could use Mina to get close to the girl and all, but some times, Victor saw no need to be too skeptical. As for his outfit, he decided to go with a simple look. A red top which was worn under a coat that reached his knees, and black trousers. Of course, these weren't cheap by any means, and so was his shoe and watch. His hair was still long and a bit bushy, as he hadn't trimmed it after evolving, but it fit him just right.

In the blink of an eye, Victor disappeared from his bed room where he stood just a split second ago, and the next moment, he was standing inside a special room some place else.

"Well, this is quite the luxury." Victor said in a smooth voice that he now had instead of his usual dead one. The voice was still cold in a way, but it just was less of what it was.

The man who was sitting on his seat with a pretty damsel on his lap kissing and rubbing could help himself from dropping the lady as he panicked. His heart must have jumped right into his mouth as the thought of an intruder entered his head. He was a man that was on many people's black books, even the government; surprises like these were the last thing he needed.

After some seconds of looking at Victor with a weird look on his face, Mark altered the words, "The, Crow?" Keeping aside his terror, surprised and whatever the emotion filled face could be called, a huge relief came upon Mark when Victor answered.

"Correct." Victor said, as he walked up to the closest seat to him, which coincidentally happened to be the one he sat on the last time he was in that office. As he walked towards the seat to make himself comfortable, the lady from earlier stood up and without any other words walked out of the room in a bit of haste while keeping her head down.

"Too much fun can be bad fun sometimes, but, you can afford it."

"Come one, get yourself together, I came here to enquire about something."

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Victor took his seat and made himself comfortable before asking, "I came here to enquire about something." He said while leaning back into the seat. It wasn't really all that comfortable since these were office chairs, but they were just enough, Victor had sat on worse, rocks included.

"Sorry you had to see that." Mark apologised, as he dressed his shirt before taking a seat also. 'Why the fuck do I have to be the one to apologise!?

He screamed in his mind as he calmly looked at Victor. He wouldn't have even recognise that it was him if it weren't for the signature tattoos.

"There's a government facility where they are carrying out research and conducting experiments on some mysterious power. What I want to know is where this laboratory is." Victor concluded. He really didn't need any other information, all he wanted to know was the location of the place.

'Mysterious power? That's like all their laboratories, but I can't tell him that now, can I?' Mark contemplated in his mind over the situation.

'I can already tell he is stressing over something simple.' Victor thought in his mind as he looked at Mark.

"Well…" Before Mark could continue, Victor cut him off.

"I can see that you don't have a clear idea. How about you tell me where all the laboratories within the city are located."

Victor knew the lab was in the city, he just didn't know which one. If he could just get the location of all the individual laboratories, it would be easy work from there.

"Yes, please." Mark said as he showed Victor a hand, directing him to look to the side, which he did. On the wall, an image of the entire city layout appeared, and using that Mark was able to pinpoint the places where the labs in the city were located. There were three in total, so that would have given Victor less trouble than he initially thought.

Adding to that, Mark also informed Victor about a certain people that had been on a lookout for the Crow lately. Much to Victor's surprise, if he could be surprises, it was the Beechmon family. He was sure he had heard that name before, and as his wonderful memory would permit, he remembered Arnold Beechmon, the man he met the day Vince came around. However, Mark quickly pleads for Victor not to crumble the entire family, and explained to him the circumstances that led to the vendetta.

After listening to Mark's plea, Victor assured him that he had no time to play with children over such a matter, but just for the sake of sending a message, he was going to respond, but he would do it in his own way and Arnold would not be hurt.

With that, Victor disappeared and came to existence in what seemed to be a random alleyway that had no one on it, just perfect. 'To make things easy and poetic, now…'

Victor got some information on the Beechmons, and with that he was able to track down some of their people. As it would seem, they owned some businesses around the part he teleported to, and Victor was about to make use of that.

First thing he did was approach a tea shop which was owned by the Beechmon family. These kind of places that were owned by such families always had some kind of security that wasn't from a firm or agency watching it, and that was what Victor was looking for.

Fortunately for Victor, the very man standing before the door to usher guests in was one of them, and he would know because his five sense were pretty enhanced. He could pick off most small details from muscle to breathing to little twitches. For someone like that, it was easy to read people.

As Victor approached the door, he stopped and just when the guard was about to welcome him in and instead of going in, seemed to be having some sort of conversation with the guard. After a few second, he simply turned and left the place. If nothing else, the place seemed like a high class tea and coffee shop, he was impressed.

The moment Victor left, a voice came into the guard's earpiece asking who was that, but he simply responded saying Victor was just someone looking for directions on some place across the street. Some moments later, guard left and was replaced by another.n0𝚟𝓮𝐥𝑢𝐬𝗯.𝔠0𝐦

If anyone was looking at Victor's eyes when he approached the guard, they would see that his eyes glowed a faint red for the briefest of moments before returning to normal, the moment the guard made eye contact with Victor, he was already affected by his skill, Mind Control.

The instruction Victor gave were simple, for the guard to go to a certain location, and to act natural, as natural as possible. Of course, he didn't need to add the last part, but it was just a failproof.

Moments later, the man who was guarding the entrance to the fancy tea place met with Victor, and Victor went on to ask some quick questions. All he needed was the location of the one that wanted him dead. As it would seem, just two from the Beechmon family were spearheading the entire operation.

As though to favour Victor, the guard conformed that both men were at their respective homes, so Victor went on with the next phase of his plan. After that, he ordered the guard to go to the house of the man who's son was the red hair, but should not enter. He was to wait outside the premises for ten minutes, and after that was to head to the house of the second person. To finish everything, Victor asked the guard to enter into the premises of the second man, and then kill himself.

After the guard left, Victor summoned Larry, Gurok and Amadon and gave them their respective duties to follow through. After that, Victor set a rendezvous location, and they departed.

"With that done, let's begin the search. It shouldn't be too difficult if everything go as planned." Victor said to himself, as his figure vanished from the spot it was before.

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Victor appeared close to one of the locations where a government laboratory was, and without wasting any time began his operation. After setting the ground work and was about to infiltrate the facility, Victor suddenly felt a spike of familiar energy. Without anyone explaining to him, he could tell that what he just felt was holy energy, the same kind he felt from the Ann girl the day she attacked him after falling from a plane, or so he chose to remember.

'It must be there then. I wonder what's here that's also top secret.' Victor asked himself as he slowly shifted his attention to the energy spike. If there was any other thing happening, the vampires would inform him, so he wasn't bothered. To create a little commotion to use as distraction, Victor left Shanok in this lab to keep them busy for a while. If anything happened, Shanok had escape methods, so it wouldn't affect him.

Victor himself left using teleportation and appeared in the place closest to the happening. From a first class view, he noticed something was off about the entire scenario. From what he could make out, it was either the girl Ann and the government had some kind of falling out, or she was going insane due to all the power.

The place Victor was in at the moment was a bit outside of the city to the south, and on a normal day, one would expect to see nothing but barren land in the area, but the day wasn't normal. Some couple tens of metres away from the city, the ground in that area had caved in it seemed, and the hole was reasonably big too.

It was clear who had caused the ground to cave in, but Victor still had t go in to know, right?

From the start, Victor's major objective was to gain evolution material from the girl, and he didn't plan to waste time at all. If he could get the girl's evolution material and assimilate it into himself, he would be able to eliminate the nasty weakness he had to things like holy and healing magic. Victor came prepared for a very brief confrontation.

After dropping down the whole, Victor fell straight into an area that resembled some kind of stage. At first glance, it looked like a mini coliseum, but given the state of the place, Victor could immediately tell that this was a training ground where the girl most likely trained to control her new power. If that was the case, then maybe the fact that she went out of control with the powers was a more plausible conclusion.

Victor had changed slightly in appearance after his latest evolution, so normally it would be a bit puzzling for someone to recognise him off bat, but with his signature tattoos, it made things very easy. Now though, the lines that ran across his body burning, had more of an artistic feel to them, as their arrangement had also changed after the evolution.

The moment Victor dropped and the girl, Ann, saw him, she instantly recognised who he was, and for that reason, she completely lost it and her power started raging and thrashing around. It seemed like holy energy turned people blond, as Ann's looks had completely changed. Now that her power seemed to be going on overload, her hair began shining a certain goldish colour, and her eyes turned completely with as bright golden white light was being emitted from them.

Victor couldn't understand this kind of reaction at all, as it was just doing too much. He understood that humans still had emotions and all, but even he while he was on earth won't behave like that, he was at least sure of that.

The people around Ann seemed to be trying to calm her as her power got more chaotic, but as things would happen, it was completely useless. Having the single man she gave her life to take revenge on before her was a way stronger cause than anything else. The thing she failed to see was how vulnerable she was at that moment.

Victor on the other hand just stood still in the same place he landed. The whole scenario almost looked staged and fishy as he saw things. For him, he had gotten into the facility way too easily, and from what he saw, there wasn't as much security outside as he would expect, or maybe that was the idea of even calling it secret to begin with?

'It doesn't matter now. I will just have to kill her as fast as I can and move out.' Victor concluded once more in his head. Messing around with someone with holy energy wasn't something he planned on doing.

With his mind set, Victor took the first step towards Ann, but the moment he took that step, as though he was being monitored using motion detection, spikes that seemed to be made out of a golden material began shooting out of the ground towards Victor, and their speed was no joke either. Of course, to Victor the spikes were slow and he could see the whole thing, but to an average S rank hunter, it would be almost untraceable. It was clear that the spike were a manifestation of the holy energy, so Victor avoided them completely and just went for Ann.

As though sensing that her attack would fail, Ann launched a bunch of other attacks towards Victor in quick succession, and also, the same golden materials seemed to be forming something around her. As the spikes passed without getting their target, another wave of projectiles came raining down towards Victor, and this time he had to do more than just walk towards the girl as the projectiles covered a large area.

In a split second, Victor moved from where he stood just moments ago and appeared before Ann, or at least that was what she saw. Victor made sure to stay out of range where the streams of energy thrashed all over.

It didn't matter that he could get too close, all he needed to do was get within range. 'While don't I test that while at it.' He said to himself, before he activated a skill.

"WHY DON'T YOU STOP THIS FOR A MOMENT." Victor said, not shouting, but enough for Ann to hear what he said, and her face only grew more spoilt after that.

She was about to do something as her enemy had brought himself so close, but the very next moment after voice came from her enemy, she felt an immerse pressure come over her, and the power that was thrashing around almost uncontrollably stopped, then she fell to her knees with eyes wide open as she stared down in terror.

Victor had used his skill, Dominate.

The problem with those using holy magic was that negative energy didn't work on them, and they can't be affected by mind control and such. Basically, she automatically blacked most of Victor's skills. Of course, he still had numerous skills to use if he wanted to kill her, but that was the thing, he wasn't aiming to kill her, or obliterate her.

Luckily, the Dominate skill seemed to have effect, as it wasn't really mind control, maybe that was why it worked, Victor wasn't sure. The key point was that it was effective. For him, taking a bite out of someone like Ann who had been drenched and wrapped in holy energy was a no no, and besides, Victor had been searching for a way to make the eating process easier for himself. He even considered making his second form that of a snake so that he could just swallow everything whole, but later reconsidered. Now however, Victor had the perfect tool to use.

"Blood Drain." He said, as he looked towards Ann.

From where ever, blood started leaving Ann rapidly under the effects of the skill, and in under ten seconds, she was completely drained of blood leaving not even the obscure single drop behind. Before the skill could activate and carryout to its second phase which was to give the blood to Victor which he would then use to revitalize himself, he sent the blood straight into his blood bank to store it. Nevertheless, the blood still flowed into him.

As he looked down at the girl before him, he could hear faint words coming from her. He needed not be told what these words were, as Ann pleaded for her life to be spared. Her body had become thin and as almost as pale as Victor's, which said much in itself. The only thing that was left was her golden hair that still shown a dull light.

"Don't worry, I can send you to meet your lover really fast. However, I hope your transition will be great." Victor said, as moments later Ann lost her vision and was no longer in the world and all was done.

"Arise."n0𝚟𝓮𝐥𝑢𝐬𝗯.𝔠0𝐦

"Arise."

Moments later, Ann's body rose from the ground, and she was alive again. She was baffled by this, as she was sure that she lost her life quite clearly, but she also couldn't dispute the fact that she was alive at that moment. Before she could ask any questions, Victor unsummoned her.

This seemed to be the problem with intelligent creatures or those that were semi intelligent. If not that, it also happened if the one risen again was human. Same as Larry, Victor noticed immediately the confusion, that was why he decided it was best to keep her away in a place where she could rest and recollect herself. He never asked what it felt like when they were unsummoned from the physical world, but Victor could bet that Ann would meet with the others and they would explain to her whatever she needed.

It seemed kind of odd that even with the explosion, no one came down to check what was happening. Victor really thought it might have been a trap, but then that would mean that the one to set him up was Mark, as he was the only one in the city who knew of his presence there.

To make sure, Victor checked the entire place to see if there was any kind of security camera in place, and to his surprise, the entire training ground didn't have any, which was also strange. On the other hand, he would know if someone was using their power to spy on him, but he felt nothing. Maybe the person was a special type.

In the end, not to dilly dally around, Victor teleported himself elsewhere, close to the location where he was to meet with the others. It had been roughly seven minutes since he sent Larry and the other two to carry out their task, and as he got to their meeting point, it seemed like they had yet to complete what he sent them to do.

He had to wait an extra two minute before Larry and Gurok arrived, and some thirty or so second later, Amadon joined them.

"Sorry to make you wait lord." Amadon said, as he took a knees with his head held down.

"Don't worry about it. Was there any lapse in the task?" Victor asked, to which three of them before him responded with a 'no'. With everything he set to accomplish done, he unsummoned all of them and teleported back to his house.

As simple as that, Victor had gotten what he wanted, something that would cure his weakness to holy energy and the related weaknesses. Since he could now use the blood and essence he collected and stored in his blood bank as evolution materials, just like with the ants, all he needed to do was ask the system to take from his blood band, and he asked it to take all. The system did just that, and the next notification he received was that the sample had gone into analysis.

With that done, there was nothing left for Victor to do than wait. He went for a short stroll through his house and to see the vampires. He was also going to have a chat with Ann and carry out her naming and all that. He was sure she would have a lot of questions, especially as she formerly had a very strong hate for Victor, only for her to now want to serve him with everything she has. The feeling was bound to be weird.

After Victor was done with Ann, he asked one of the vampires to prepare a bath for him. With his immunity to cold and heat, the most he could feel from hot water was warmth, so soaking up at the temperature he used to like was no more. He could only thank God that he wasn't a Japanese or something. He always wondered why in every anime, the person who isekied would always find a way to dip in a hot spring or something similar, whether they were a villain or hero, human or not, they always did this. Personally, Victor didn't see the appeal to go that far. Well, everyone with their own quirks.

Another thing Victor did was to leave his legion to roam about freely; at least for once they deserved it. He did ask for the house to have large underground compartments, at least as big as a hanger for a small plane, and one that could house a medium sized passenger plane.

Like that, in that house of undead that never sleep, Victor eventually moved to do something else-

The next day, a terrible news broke into the scene around various places, and of course, these places were just two.

As for the Beechmon family, their head was actually pleased that it was all resolved by Victor taking the lives of just two foolish family members. It may have seem cowardly of him and weak, but really, against such a person like Victor, what could he really do?

The remaining members of the family now listened to his words to tread carefully and not anger The Crow. Now they had seen first hand what messing around with real power could cause, they were now better informed.

Of course, Arnold had to head to his friend's place to tell him about what had happened. When he got there, once again, he entered Mark's office to find a woman on his lap… Never learns.

Mark narrated what they had found out to Mark, and how they found out. After learning that Mark was the one who asked or as it happened basically, he begged The Crow not to take action against the entire family, Mark was deeply moved and at the same time a sudden fear came over him. Knowing that he really had just narrowly escaped death was a one of a kind feeling, he was more than happy to have a friend like Mark at that moment.

As it would happen, Arnold learnt that his family was not the only one that took a hit that night, and Mark went on to tell him about what his sources told him about what happened at one of the government facilities, and his encounter with Crow the night before.

Elsewhere in a familiar room, others were planning their own scheme.

"How's it coming along? You ought to have finished, or haven't you?" The deeper voice asked, demanding an answer.

"Don't worry Lord, it will be ready soon. It won't take much time anymore." The other answered.

"Good Melchior, we are counting on you."

[Alright all good people and readers of Re:born Zombie. Thank you once again for reading my book, I hope you all are enjoying it so far?

We have come to the end of another volume, and we will be advancing to the next soon as… I might need a little break of maybe one week to rest… OR NOT.n0𝗏𝑬𝗅𝒰𝑠𝒷.𝑪0𝓂

I hope you all continue to read, and I pray I deliver better in future.

Thank You!!]

Chapter 126 The Beginning Of Chaos

Ever since the appearance of Victor in the lives of the vampires, they had been searching for a way to get rid of him. Searching would actually be an over statement, as they pretty much already had a way to do so. The only problem was that, it wasn't as easy as just putting two and two together.n0𝒱𝑒𝐿𝗎𝕊𝑏.𝗰0𝔪

After Victor humiliated the vampires and showed his power, to which the vampires were unable to fight against, the elders and the vampire lord made up their minds and settled on a plan, and that was to call upon their ancestor. The only problem with this plan was that it wasn't quite possible as they weren't in their world.

Therefore, to achieve their goal, the need to speed up an already ongoing project rose, and that was exactly what they did.

Maybe ultimately, it was Victor's fault for not being careful enough when it came to the vampires, and that was why the project could go on until completion without him knowing, but he couldn't be blamed a hundred percent.

Under Current had some spies in the vampire ranks, and through them Victor could keep himself updated. The problem came from the fact that these spies held no high position or status in the vampire house, so vital information such as these didn't get to them. He had relaxed quite a bit these few months. It had been a couple months since he first came out of the dungeon he was reincarnated in, around seven months, and one thing Victor had to believe was that he was kind of the strongest in this world.

"Today will be the day we move forward with the plan." The vampire lord said.

They didn't quite know whether they would be so unfortunate and Victor would end up popping in uninvited, so the vampire lord ordered for all the vampires to be present during the period of time the gate would be opened.

This month, they weren't expecting Victor to visit at all, as they currently around the middle of the month. He was there to collect the bodies last month, and they were sure he would also come this month, they could only hope he didn't come before the normal time. He never came ahead of time, but because of their operation, it had made them extra careful.

"Are all the humans prepared?" The vampire lord asked.

"Yes. They are all been kept in the holding room." One of the elders answered.

"Hmm. Let's begin." The vampire lord said as he stepped forward.

Over before them was a platform that had a flight of stairs connected to it from the floor. The platform seemed to be levitating, and standing on it at that moment were three people. One of them was the Vampire lord, and the other was Sebastian, one of the elders. The third person was one of the Eldest Elders, Norze.

The platform had something of an alter at the centre that had engraved in it several markings and patterns that seemed otherworldly, even for the vampires.(Who are otherworldly)

Surrounding them and watching from below were the rest of the elders. No other vampire was present except for the elders and the vampire lord.

With everything in place, they started the ancient ritual.

Right from time, the vampires had always had a secret ritual they perform to be able to call upon their ancestors from their families. They mostly did this in times like this where they needed help defeating an enemy, or other times when they need to consult the old being for one thing or the other, maybe knowledge or whatever.

Directly below the platform was a deep pit that stretched down to the point where it appeared dark and as a void. Above the platform, Norze directed the vampire lord on what to do to carry out the ritual proceedings. That was actually his role there. This was such an old practice that even the vampire lord didn't know much about the process involved in it. Of course he knew a little, but as for the whole process, he wasn't knowledgeable about it.

After reciting a set of incantations for a repeated number of times, the vampire lord continued on to slit his wrist, enough for some blood to flow out and drop on to the altar. To keep the supply of blood going, the vampire lord controlled his regeneration to slow it down and allow for blood to flow out longer. Not many vampires could do this, and if it were for another, they would have to repeatedly slit their wrist to keep the blood flowing.

From his wrist came very dark red coloured blood of unusual viscosity. His blood didn't flow like a human, but at the same time it wasn't so thick that it wouldn't flow. When the blood poured on the altar, it began moving on by itself, and after about a minute, completely moved to fill up all the spaces.

After that happened, the vampire lord glanced over at the elder, and in response the elder nodded. The vampire lord quickly covered his wound as it healed, then he took off one of his rings and placed it in a socket that had already been carved out, and immediately, the entire engraved symbols and markings started glowing and the blood within them flowed even more aggressively.

Just before the vampire lord proceeded into slitting his wrist, Melcior, who was standing elsewhere had pushed a lever that activated something, a sequence. He was the one in-charge of creating a means for them to open a portal that connected to their world. Without the portal, the entire ritual would be a waste of time and it would fail, so the success of the entire thing really depended on him.

Just before the blood on the altar started behaving strangely and glowing, the mechanics and magic that were connected to the lever had entered full drive, and only then did the pit that was under the platform where the alter sat light up with a purplish and bluish colour. The illumination created from it wasn't blinding, but it was enough to reach the ceiling of the room that was at least 40 feet high.

After that, everyone waited for what was to come, and to see whether their only hope to end the oppression they were in would come through for them.

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Chapter 127 [Bonus chapter] The Beginning of Chaos II

Five minutes passed after the alter lit up and the mega component within the pit started glowing lights. Everybody present waited for what was to happen next, but for whatever reason, the process continued without showing any definite result.

The vampire lord turned to Norze to confirm if this was how it was supposed to go, but even Norze was looking a little confused.

'I am sure it isn't supposed to take this long, two minutes is enough for the entire ritual to be completed.' Norze thought to himself.

"A little more." He assured the lord as he too watched on. He had come to a quick conclusion that since they were not in their original world, it would have some effects on the ritual, so Norze decided to see how everything progressed.

One of the most important components necessary for this ritual to work was energy from their original world, and that was the entire reason why the machine to fulfil that was build. This wasn't something Melcior or any other vampire had done before, so they didn't know what the portal to their own world was supposed to look like or feel like. They could only truly hope that it didn't suck things in.

The way the machine was designed and placed, if it was a portal that sucked things in, then the entire platform and the three people on top would be dragged in. They may be able to escape easily, but if the ring placed on the altar was to fall into oblivion, that was a different story all together.

After waiting for several more minutes and nothing happened, the vampire lord voiced out his thoughts and enquired from him why it wasn't working, and to that Norze gave him the same answer as what he thought was the problem. But in the end, the portal was still yet to open, and they attributed the problem to come from there. Melchior was quite curious as to why his creation was malfunctioning in such a way, since he has calculated all this already.

It would be different of he didn't know where it led, as he really didn't, but to not open at all was a different thing all together. At the moment, he was busy around the machine after descending to the control room where he placed every thing that was needed for him to control the machine. After some inspection, he still couldn't find where the fault came from.

'What is wrong?' He asked himself.

Then, a sudden realization hit him.

…

Elsewhere, Victor was busying himself around working on one of his projects. Since he had to wait a bit to get everything he needed for evolution, he decided it would be beneficial for him to learn other things. Growing stronger through levelling was no longer part of his plan, as the experience points needed for it kept growing. Though he had the title that allowed him to not experience reduction in EXP despite the level difference, getting all the experience points for the next level up was still much. He would venture into A rank dungeons from time to time, but that was all about that.

While Victor walked around his library, he felt a sudden surge in energy in the atmosphere, and that stopped him dead in his tracks. It was more of an energy wave that was passing through, and it was by no means small. Since it was passing by, it became quite apparent that it came from somewhere.

Normally, Victor might not bother himself with such things, but this one was too strong and he needed to know what the cause was, in case he needed to prepare for something terrible. Also, there was something about the energy that just didn't feel normal, in a strange way, it felt familiar.

He had thought about the possible invasion of aliens and such, or the emergence of some almighty existence, or even the destruction of earth, and at that moment, he had prepared for none of those scenarios.

Coming out of his library, he found the three vampires right outside his door, and theough they didn't exactly have the expressions of their faces that something was off, Victor could tell what they felt, they were connected after all.

"You three wait here and be on alert. Convey the message to the others as well." He said before vanishing right before them as though he was never there. They immediately left to tell the rest of the legion Victor's command.

Victor appeared in Under Current's HQ that same moment, and he was inside Maggie's laboratory.

"Master you have arrived."n0𝗏𝑒𝑙𝑈𝚜𝓑.𝑪0𝓂

"What's up with that strange energy?" Victor asked as he went straight to the point.

"Well, as soon as our closest receiver picked up the energy, we tracked it back to where it came from, and we pinpointed the origin to be this city." Maggie said as she pointed towards one of the screens on the wall.

Victor took a look at the city, which in reality should be referred to as a mega city due to its sheer size, much like the one he used to live in after taking over Larry's house. The location of the city was not too far away from the one he used to live in. That is of course when compared to their proximity to the others.

[AN: For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to the cities using latin alphabets]

"City E huh? Thats not too far away from City G." Victor said as he studied the map. While he did this, he also fed the information to his system, as he would be needing it soon. "You might want to call a meeting with the available members now and discuss whatever you have to." Victor said while still looking at the map.

Before Maggie could respond or give any other remark however, Victor was already gone. The way his teleportation worked was really bizarre. It always felt as though he was never there to begin with, as he simply faded away, but it was still fast enough not to be caught even by Maggie, and that was saying a lot giving her strength.

Back at the vampire castle, a little discomfort had spread in the room where the ritual was being held, and outside some vampires had fallen into amazement of some sort. There were other vampires that weren't as happy, but the ones that didn't seem to care were more.

"Melchior, that energy, was there perhaps a miscalculation in your work?"

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Chapter 128 The Beginning of Chaos III

"Melchior, that energy, was there perhaps a miscalculation in your work?" Asked the vampire lord, the tone of his voice perfectly conveying his emotion at the time. He usually is calm, but for some reason he seemed to be a little pissed off at that moment.

"It seems so my lord." Melchior responded.

The entire room remained calm, so much so that the machine that seemed to be completely quite before seemed to have started making a particular low noise.

Norze was the one to speak up first breaking the silence. "The good news is, it worked." He said.

"And the bad news is even worse, the portal has been opened elsewhere and is out of our control." The vampire lord followed.

It would have been a different thing if the machine could be turned off, but that was where the problem came, as it could not. The machine would keep running until it goes off itself, and in that time, the portal that had been opened would remain so, and unmonitored by the vampires, especially since they had called back all their forces.n0𝔳𝐄𝓁𝔲𝑠𝚋.𝒞0𝓂

The good thing was that the device that opened the portal to begin with was estimated to breakdown by itself after ten minutes, and at the time they had only two minutes remaining. On one hand, they had succeeded in their ritual, but in the other hand, the vampires were afraid of something else, or at least they seemed weary of it.

Norze spoke, "It's starting. Now, bring the body to the altar." He said.

One of the elders moved and brought the dead body of a vampire to the platform before handing it over to Norze, who then took it and placed it upon the altar.

The blood flowing around the strange markings on the alter began glowing even brighter, more and more, until it stopped glowing and the movement stopped. Then, the blood began climbing the vampires body until it reached the mouth, then it found it's way into the body through the mouth. A few seconds after that and the body jerked like it had been shocked with electricity.

Following that, the eyes opened, but instead of the eyes of a vampire, it looked different as the eyes were completely black, as though covered by some kind of liquid. The body's eyes closed back up, and the jerking stopped.

"That is all. It is complete." Norze said.

The vampire lord on hearing this, squinted his eyes a bit, ever so slightly. Maybe he didn't really believe what Norze just said. "Why is the body still like that? We made sure to follow everything correctly-" Before the vampire lord went on, Norze stopped him.

"It is complete, don't worry about it. The next time she wakes up, it will be the ancestor. Instead, we should be preparing the other part accordingly for when she does wake up." Norze said.

"Ok, that's a good point. I also want to send some of us to check where the energy we felt earlier came from, something may have happened that we need to know." The lord said, to which Melchior responded.

"The machine has already broken down and is off commission, so theoretically, the portal should close." He said, with certain look in his eyes.

"I see, so we do need to verify that theory."

"At the very least, is it somehow manages to stay open, it will only be enough to let an orange through or so."

"We can't allow that." The lord said.

The main reason they were so concerned about this was because the direction in which they felt that the portal may have opened in, using their senses, was also the direction of the city where they get most of their life stock from. They wouldn't want anything to happen to the humans there. Getting humans from a new city is possible, but getting to that point where hundreds could disappear without any problem was not easy, as they would do so in secret. This of course was not putting in context that there was no other city close by.

Victor who was a bit curious about the source of the energy had teleported straight to one of the places he had marked that was also close to City G.

The first thing he noticed was that the energy he felt there was way stronger and more present than it was when he was far away from the city, which, obviously showed that he was closer to the source. Facing the direction where he wanted to go in now, and with the help of the map function in the system, Victor teleported again to the spot farthest away from City G, and closest to City E, and from there, he began running towards the other city.

He had never being there, so getting there was not as easy as teleporting, he had to go there on foot.

At that point, he really wished he had a flying monster in his legion, that way travelling wouldn't be too hard. He could have taken a craft that was fast of course, but that would take time when he factored in the fact that he had teleported himself closer. If he could teleport things that big with him, that would be a different story.

Victor turned out to be pretty fast, more than he originally thought. Under twenty minutes, he reached City E, and the first thing he saw was absolutely mind blowing.

Since the cities had huge walls surrounding them, he could really see what was inside the city, so he hadn't expected it. The moment he jumped unto the top of the city walls, Victor saw something completely different from anything he had ever seen in his life, even as a zombie.

"What the fuck is all this?" He said in a cold voice as he looked at the happenings below him.

Right somewhere at the centre of the city was a gate, one that was bigger than anyone he had ever seen. It easily spanned across 40 metres in diameter, but nothing came from it.. or so it seemed.

Close to the huge gate, Victor could see multiple figures engaging themselves in battle, so that was where he headed towards, to see what was going on. He needed no body to tell him that the intruders were still there after all.

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