Huff huff A series of weak and delicate gasps echoed inside the sealed off prison. Ji Bai powerlessly sat on the dried blood-stained floor tile unceasingly gasping for breath.
Not bad youre indeed my fancied successor. You truly have quite the potential! A puerile voice whose intention to tease or ridicule was unknown reached Ji Bais ears. He slowly raised his head up and saw a silver haired loli with an innocent smile threw herself into his vision. It was shockingly the devil that had brought him unforgettable pain!
Ji Bai moved his body to the back continuously in a panic. DontDont come over A weak soft and puerile voice as mellow as the calls of a black-naped oriole came out and Ji Bai was instantly stunned.
I-Is thisIs this my voice?What is going on?!
Oh dear it seems you still havent realized what exactly is going on?~ Anyway welcome to the world of darkness my heir. The corners of her lips naughtily lifting up to form an arc Lilias revealed a crafty smile. She then reached into her long skirt fished out an expensive silver mirror filled with decorations and threw it near Ji Bais feet.
Who is that?! At that moment Ji Bai felt as if the icy winds that accompanied the twelfth lunar month were blowing against him and freezing him solidhe was completely stunned.
In the mirror a delicate silver haired lolita that was like a doll was looking at herself currently. The look of astonishment was written all over her flawless small face while her ruby-like eyes was filled with disbelief. Her fair skin made it impossible for people to believe she was human.
Are you somewhat satisfied with your new appearance? Hehehe welcome to the world of vampires. My heir.
With Lilias seemingly ridiculing or teasing words echoing in his ears Ji Bai felt as if a pot of boiling oil had been poured into his brain.
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In a small rented house a teenager with incomparably messy hair was struggling to lie face down on a bed his eyes laid an inexhaustible amount of fear within. If one looked closely they would realize that the clothes he was wearing had already been soaked with sweat.
He had dreamt about that incident againA year had passed yet to date he was still unable to cast off that nightmare.
A newspaper which was dated more than 10 months ago was stuck right next to the bedside cabinet. Its headline shockingly wrote An isolated force suffered ambush! Pioneer hero Radiant Knight perished in battle!.
That newspaper was a year ago. According to the version that was going around in human society he was already executed in that battle a year ago. It was absolutely impossible for him to appear in such a rented house intact.
Thats right. The person that was currently lying down on the bed was Ji Bai who was captured by the vampire queen a year ago. Within the past year he had been abiding by the manner of the race he hated the most obeying the thirst of fresh blood that came from his bodily instincts as he led a massive vampire army waging war on all sides. Werewolves demons succubus vampire rebels and evenhumans. He had been stained with the blood of these creatures before.
After repeatedly using discreet schemes as well as making use of the trust that hed slowly gained in the vampires faction he was able to seize an opportunity to escape. Finally he was no longer in the City of Eternal Light; hed managed to escape that place where light never shone.
Ji Bai had immediately turned back into a human form when he had escaped towards the boundary line where the human cities were. He had successfully stepped into his hometown where he had not returned to for a year enjoying the feeling of the bustling human cities that he had long missed.
When Ji Bai had been a radiant knight hed always been fully covered in his Radiant Judgement armor.As both his head and body had been clad in the suit of armor very few people knew his true appearance. In fact only a few of his closest friendsthose whod been willing to go through the fires of hell with himknew his true appearance. Because of this the first impression that most people had of radiant knight was their fully clad metal armor.
Ji Bai who had suffered strenuous hardships and returned to the human cities had originally wanted to go to the temple and find his close friends. But when he reached 100 li away from the temple his feet stopped and couldnt take a single step forward. He stood at his spot stunned his thoughts sluggish.
Do I as I am now really have the qualifications to enter this place? Me whose hands have been stained with human blood? I wonder just how much Ive become like a vampire over the past year. Am I a threat to humanity now?
It was as if those questions were interrogating Ji Bais conscience. They lingered in his mind for a long time refusing to disperse.