Absolute Zero

Prologue

Slowly, he opened his eyes. He saw that his ankles were chained to a chair. His body felt heavy and the pain was slowly starting to be felt by him. "Urghh…" He groaned in pain and the man tried to move his limbs. His limbs could only move slowly and he realized that his hands were also chained behind his back. He looked around him slowly with a heavy breath holding back the pain he was feeling. This room looks like a laboratory and looks like a staircase not far in front of it, it looks like the location of this place is underground. He slowly closed his eyes again and soon after he heard the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs.

He slowly opened his heavy eyes again and looked slowly. "Ooh… Looks like you're awake," said a man whose voice echoed as he descended the stairs. "Shall we continue it again?" asked the man who was still descending the stairs. What continues? Where am I? Damn, I can't move my body at all. There were many things he still didn't understand why he was here and why he was covered in wounds and chained to this chair. The fragments of his memory began to form and when his memory was complete the man who spoke to him was standing in front of him. "ALEXEI…!!" He shouted with emotion to the man who was standing in front of him. The man who was standing in front of him was named Dmitri Alexei who was the thirteenth seat of the Nobilis Arcus which were vampires some of whom were chosen by the Kaiserina for their contributions and some were vampires aristocrats.

"Calm down, human… Do you all have to speak loudly like that?" Said the man with white hair whose length reached beyond his waist and red eyes, a pale face, and teeth that had fangs. His body was tall and well-built and he seemed to be dignified and had the air of a noble. "You… I will kill you Alexei..!!" shouted the man chained to the chair once more. He was filled with emotions of hatred and thirst for murder and it was all directed at the white-haired man standing in front of him looking at the man chained to the chair with a condescending gaze or perhaps a gaze that didn't consider the chained person as despicable more than a livestock. and don't think of him as a human.

"Hmm… Where were we?" Alexei did not heed the harsh words uttered by the chained man and even he considered this situation a pleasure in itself. Like a predator playing with its prey before slowly killing it. "Oh yeah, how about we resume the pending experiment. Because you fell asleep a lot of time was wasted." Alexei walked towards a table on which were various tools. Is it the tool to be used for the experiment? No, there's no way it could be used as an experimental tool, it's more accurately called a torture tool. The chained man again tried to use the last of his strength to break free from this chair. "Never mind, it's pointless, there's no point in trying no matter how many times you won't be able to escape the chain of the chair." Alexei who said that took one of the torture tools that looked like a blunt iron and walked closer to the man who was trying to escape.

"Hmm... Humans are quite different from Vampires, I wonder about humans who contract with demons and become contractors, Can you guys heal quickly?" Alexei watched the man carefully "How about I try to break some of the bones you have and find out?" Alexei started to fly the blunt iron-shaped tool towards the shin of the man's right leg. There was a cracking or snapping sound just after Alexei hit the blunt iron. It seemed the man's shin had been broken. "Argh…..!!!" The man shouted in pain. "Haah… Haah… Y-you, you bastard." There was nothing the man could do, his body didn't have much energy left, A difference between the two of them was very visible, Alexei who was enjoying the moment, and the man who was chained to the chair who was trying to stay awake despite experiencing quite a painful suffering.

"Ahh… What a beautiful voice, I haven't heard that in a long time, and when you scream like that it makes me feel very satisfied." Alexei squirmed with joy saying something like "Ha… Ha… Ha… What a disgusting creature." While enduring the pain he forced for

to laugh sarcastically. "Disgusting you say? We, vampires, are not lowly creatures like you because we are already at the top of this world's food chain and you are at the bottom of the line," said Alexei while silent for a moment. No, you are not at the very bottom of the ranks, rather you are rather far below, so far away that even if you tell them your race is not in the food chain in this new world."

Even though this disgusting Vampire said those words, he had a point because the humans lived behind fear within the walls that could protect them forever. Because creatures like them exist in this world, my relatives and even people I know fall victim to them. There's no meaning in living in this broken world, I refuse to become a farm animal and hide behind walls in fear. It's a shame that I ended up in this state without achieving anything, without changing anything, and didn't even manage to save my little sister from this bastard. It's really sad to end up being nothing, at least I want to punch this bastard in the face before I die.

"What is it? Why are you suddenly silent? Is it that boring of me in your eyes?" Alexei put his blunt iron under the man's chin and raised his head.

"Hahaha… That look of yours is disgusting." Alexei laughed disdainfully seeing the gaze of the man chained on the chair still full of determination.

"We need to increase the intensity until that gaze of yours is filled with despair." Alexei started throwing the blunt iron a few times and the man groaned in pain but the sound couldn't come out until Alexei hit the man causing him and the chair he was chained to fall.

"After, that much I beat you blindly, why are you looking at me with such disgusting eyes!!?" Alexei shouted in a voice that echoed through the dungeon. The man whose face had partly kissed the basement floor just smiled as if he was sarcastic. The Vampire who initially seemed like a dignified person and had an air of royalty turned into a being filled with hatred.

"What are you laughing at bastard!!" Alexei who saw that spontaneously kicked the man in the face and threw himself a few meters from where he fell. "Hahaha… Have you lost your cool already?" Said the man leaning against the wall while looking at Alexei with a look that seemed to condescend to the vampire.

"I lost my cool? Don't joke you, lowly human. I am one of the 13 vampires appointed by the Kaiserina starting. That's right, I'm a special vampire, how could I lose my cool because of your stupid words." Alexei proudly said those words.

Why does Alexei call his leader Kaiserina? Could the leader of the vampires be a woman? During my time at the academy, I never heard that they were led by a woman. Could there be an internal conflict that causes the leader of the vampires to change into a woman? That's what the man thought, even though he thought about it he didn't have much energy to escape from this dungeon, and the vampire in front of him was one of the Arcus Nobilis. It seems that this is the end for him and he seems to have given up and no longer cares about what happens to him in this room.

"It's a waste of time for me to explain it to trash like you. Plus I'm tired of playing around, we better get on with the main course."

Alexei walked back to his desk and took out a small tube and a syringe from inside a small black box. "You know," he said as he stuck the syringe into the small tube and slowly saw a brownish-red liquid enter the syringe tube. "Fifty years have passed since the destruction of your race and we are slowly starting to replace you as the top of the chain. food." Alexei put down the small empty tube and walked closer to the man who was trying his best to stay awake. "You know the past few years I've been studying the mist that turned your race into ghouls and I finally managed to get a perfect sample and if I were to inject this liquid into your body, only two things would happen." Alexei squatted down in front of the man holding the syringe.

"If you fail to adapt you will turn into a lich, If you succeed you will turn into a soulless vampire, or rather you will be my puppet."

Will this be my end? Does it have to end like this? Why must it be like this? Damn, this is a shame in my life. When I started to get reliable comrades it ended up like this. Oh yeah, what about my squad members? Are they okay? Did they manage to escape? Damn, the more I think about it the more I don't want it to end like this. Really, I'm a big disgrace to Rena. But, soon I will follow him. So, this is okay.

"Hmm, it seems like it would be a waste to explain all these things to a person who is willing to die." Alexei slowly started to bring the syringe closer and thrust it into the man's neck.

"Argh…!!" The man shouted in pain and agony.

"Ohh… It seems, it has started." Alexei watched in admiration as the liquid had started working inside the man's body and he was writhing in pain.

What's this? What happened to me? Damn, this really hurts... My body feels like it's burning, damn I can't maintain my consciousness anymore, am I going to die? What a terrible death. The man began to lose consciousness.

"Shit, looks like I got a failed test rat. What a shame, after all the trouble of acquiring such a precious rat. After that doll betrayed its master now I'm out of formula and rats." Alexei threw the empty syringe and headed towards the stairs. He had only taken a few steps when he stopped his legs when he heard the sound of chains breaking and he felt a terrifying killing aura behind him. He slowly started to turn around and saw that the man he had just injected broke the chains that bound his hands and feet and the man slowly started to stand up. His hair color, which was originally black, slowly turned white.

"Hey, how about we start the second round?"