Supernatural Territory, Vampire Kingdom.
Inside Solomon’s castle,
There’s a big hall that is spacious enough to hold thousands of people without it being cramped, there are many shivering humans inside it.
Many of them are not hurt, but the stares of many vampires around them greatly scare them.
The vampires around them create a circle with the humans in the middle, all of their eyes are glued on the humans as they gulp roughly feeling the blood flowing inside them.
It’s like ecstasy, the vampires are growling and dripping with saliva.
For them, these many humans in front of them are torture as if there’s a group of helpless prey in front of them but they can’t touch them.
This greatly makes them angry as the blood makes them crazy.
From a door on the hall’s right, comes Solomon and Nezera walking gracefully inside with their wings spread majestically.
Their black and red wings are beautiful, and it emits great energy.
Upon them entering the hall, the growling of vampires stopped as they started to move back to make way for the both of them.
Solomon’s red eyes glance left and right, he nodded his head as he saw the humans that got brought back are more than his expectation.
“So what is this ritual you speak of?”, Nezera asks as her eyes glance at the crowd of humans coldly.
She looks at the group of humans with clear anger, it’s like she’s unwilling to stay or even breathe in the same room as humans.
Solomon chuckles, “You’ll see”
After saying that, Solomon then flaps his wings making him levitate in the air.
He then looks at the other vampires that are already eager to strike, “My people, you may begin!”, he said while signaling the vampires to strike.
Hearing Solomon’s command,
GROWL!!
All of the vampires around the humans growl as they pounce at them, they move like maggots gnawing on corpses.
“AAHH!!”
“DON’T PLEASE! THAT’S MY SON!”
The cries of humans getting attacked by vampires filled the hall.
It’s a massacre, none of the humans are Awakened so they stood no chance against the vampires that have at least a rank five power.
Nezera looks at this scene with a frown, she looks at Solomon and said in confusion, “Isn’t this the same as a normal feeding? What kind of ritual is this?”
Solomon chuckles again, he finds Nezera’s confused expression funny, “Just watch”
After seeing Solomon smiling mischievously, Nezera becomes even more curious because Solomon rarely gets this cheeky.
She studied the massacre in front of her trying to see the differences from normal feeding, she watches carefully as the vampires bite each of the human’s necks.
While watching the massacre, Nezera realized that there’s something different.
Nezera saw that each of the humans got bitten by the vampires once, it’s weird because the vampire left a bitten human unwillingly.
As if they’re forced to not bite a bitten human again.
After a while, the vampires went back to their usual position as the humans stick together in fear.
Blood dripped from the vampire’s fangs as they got a sip of blood from the humans, although this is still far from enough.
All of them are still unwilling but under Solomon’s glare, they can only obey.
The humans are all already got bitten by the vampires right on their necks, the bite mark on their necks are two bloody dots that didn’t hurt the humans that badly.
It can be seen through their expression that is filled more with fear than pain.
“Let the ritual begin”, Solomon said as his eyes turn red, he then stretched his arms as the blood on each of the human’s necks started to float on top of them.
The humans unconsciously cover their bite marks.
They can feel their blood got sucked by Solomon’s power, it didn’t hurt them but it just feels weird and wrong.
With a wave of Solomon’s hand, the blood creates a giant rune on top of them that are made of hundreds of weird symbols.
The rune is red in color, and it shines the hall in red.
Looking at this, Nezera looks at it with awe.
She can feel the rune is a power that she never feels before, the word ancient crosses her mind as she looks at the red rune.
Solomon started to chant weirdly as he closes his eyes, the chanting uses a language that even Nezera didn’t understand.
The language comes from ancient times,
He got this ancient language after asking Nolacula again, it’s a self-made chant.
After finishing the weird chant, Solomon’s eyes opened.
BOOM!
Red shockwaves came out of his eyes as it hits all of the humans in front of him, “By the Origin of Blood, You all will fall under my family!”
SWOOSH!!
Right after he said that the human’s body started to glow red.
The rune above them spat red energy that started to envelop the humans, it makes the vampires and even Nezera held their breath.
The red energy is like ancient energy that completely froze them.
It’s similar to the energy of their origin themselves, it gives them a feeling of comfort and sacredness that makes them didn’t dare to utter a single sound.
Under the red energy, the human’s eyes glow red.
Screams of pain and agony started to fill the hall, it’s like a melody for the vampire’s ears.
The human’s bodies started to make a slight cracking sound, their fangs started to get longer, and the blood inside their bodies started to flow out from all of the holes of their bodies.
“AARGHH!!”
Solomon and Nezera watches all of this with marveling eyes,
The scene in front of them is beautiful for them, it’s like watching a beautiful person teasing their eyes in the night.
Not long after, the human’s scream reside.
While the humans transform, many of them died as their bodies can’t endure the painful and gruesome transformation.
About three-quarters of them died, only a quarter of them survived.
But when the humans that survived stands up, Solomon and Nezera widened their eyes in surprise seeing the creature they transform into.
“This, I can’t believe what I’m seeing”, Nezera said in surprise.
Solomon smiles sinisterly as he saw the creature in front of them, “It worked, It worked, It bloody worked! The origin has blessed us!”
All of the surviving humans transform completely, they’re not humans anymore.
Their skins become paler than a corpse, their teeth become razor-sharp, and their eyes become piercing bloody eyes.
All of the surviving humans turned into vampires.
Their eyes darted left and right in confusion as if they didn’t remember who they were before, their humanity vanishes alongside their transformation.
Sniff, Sniff!
The newly transformed vampire’s attention got caught by the blood around them.
The blood that came out of the dead humans entice them, they feel weird as they look at the blood that started to look tasty in his eyes.
They unconsciously gulp, they started to feel an unbearable thirst as they seeing the blood.
Solomon then said with pressuring aura, “You can drink their blood, you can drink as much as you want”,
He then smirks, “Welcome to the family”
~
Rex and Adhara went out of Amethyst Hotel in hurry, they immediately went to their cars and leave the place.
On the road, Rex is thinking while Adhara is silent.
‘Thankfully I manage to fend them off, one wrong move, and I could die’, Rex thought, he’s relieved that he manages to get out of that situation.
He got caught off guard by the Atkins sudden appearance.
Even now, he still didn’t know how the Atkins can track them down so easily. It’s shocking for them to find Rex so fast, they didn’t even try to find Kyran who stole it.
“Who are you calling?”, Adhara asks.
She saw that Rex is calling someone with a frown.
Rex drives the car hurrying to his house, “I’m calling Edward, we need to secure all of our weaknesses that can be exploited by them”
The phone rings for a while, and Edward didn’t answer the phone.
‘Where is he? Why is he not answering the phone?’, Rex thought, he didn’t worry about Edward because he trusts Edward’s skill.
After about half an hour, Rex arrives at his house.
He and Adhara went inside the house and found Kyran already waiting for them.
Kyran approaches Rex and Adhara with a paper in hand, “Here, I tried to remember everything that happened that night and this is all I can remember”
Rex takes the paper and reads it,
He scans the writings carefully and frowns when he saw something, ‘Three powerful presence?’, Rex thought.
“Are the three Awakened more powerful than me? Can you try and remember how they compare to my power?”, Rex asks.
Rex frowns when he suspected something, he suspected the Atkins is the one Kyran felt.
Hearing this, Kyran then tried to remember what Rex told him before he said, “I don’t know about the other two but one of them is certainly stronger than you”
Adhara and Rex looks at each other,
‘Why are the Atkins at the warehouse when the Platchi is tasked to deliver the spellbooks to them?’, Rex thought in confusion.
Adhara also thought of this before they both suddenly realize something.
“The spellbooks are not for the Atkins!”, they both said in realization.
If the spellbooks are for the Atkins, it didn’t make sense if the Atkins is there when Kyran stole the box that contains the spellbooks.
The only explanation is that the Atkins is also there to steal it.
Kyran is just there at the wrong time and took the wrong box, which explains why the Atkins are angry when they meet Rex before.
“If the spellbooks are not meant for the Atkins then who is it for?”, Rex said.
Adhara also frowns as she also fell in thought,
Now they only got two suspects, it is either Granlor or Reed Family.
Rex leans towards the Reed family because their ranks are closer with the Atkins, it makes more sense for the Atkins to intercept the spellbooks that are meant for Reed Family.
After thinking for a while, “Where is your father?”, Rex asks Adhara.
Hearing Rex’s sudden question, Adhara then answered, “It’s a bit far from here, we need at least six hours to go to my father”
“We’ll go tomorrow, so prepare to depart”, Rex said.
~
Meanwhile,
Edward is still in the Cluster Domain, he’s still waiting for a while because he wanted it to be safe before he went out.
He wakes up from his sleep when he saw the little Cyclops sitting on top of him.
Edward is surprised, he looks at the Dyrmir and said, “What are you doing? Get off me”
Hearing this, instead of getting off, Dyrmir started to jump on Edward’s stomach while laughing as if what Edward said is funny.
“Mister, Why are you no red?”, Dyrmir asks.
Edward got annoyed, he wanted to get Dyrmir off of him when suddenly Dyrmir turns into a bolt of lightning and appeared on Edward’s left.
Dyrmir is holding Edward’s phone with a slight chuckle.
Seeing this, Edward stands up and started to run after Dyrmir but he can’t quite get a hold of him.
“How did a fucking Cyclop have a lightning affinity, this is stupid”, Edward thought in annoyance, he’s too lazy to activates his element to run after Dyrmir.
Just when he’s about to give up, Ugrok caught Dyrmir and takes Edward’s phone.
He then gives back Edward’s phone, “Dyrmir is a kid”, he said.
Edward takes his phone back before he looks at Dyrmir still running without a sign of exhaustion, “Is he normal? Do Cyclops have a probability to have a lightning affinity?”, he asks.
Ugrok looks at Dyrmir too and said, “Ugrok also shocked, it should be impossible”
Both of them look at Dyrmir who is still running left and right, they both are looking at Dyrmir helplessly.
‘I thought human baby is a pain but this guy is on another level’, Edward thought.
He then glances at Ugrok and said, “Did Rex knows about him? I’m surprised Rex didn’t chain him up”
Ugrok shakes his head, Rex didn’t know about Dyrmir.
Rex will be shocked when he saw Dyrmir, the last time Rex’s here Dyrmir is still sleeping and not this active.
‘Maybe I should tell Rex’, Edward thought.