This wasn’t the first time that Butcher had received threats, but surely, this was the first time that he received a threat from someone who was weaker than him.“How dare a mere bloodsucker think he can win against me!” he smacked the box to the side. Samantha and Leslie’s heads rolled on the floor.“It seems I’ve lost my Slaughter Squad, which is completely unacceptable,” Butcher gritted his teeth. He was more worried about other powerful vampires attacking him because of him losing his squad. “Should I just go into hiding for the time being and come back when I have built a new squad?”Butcher haven’t been put under this kind of pressure in a long while.“Charles Wallace… I don’t know who’s behind you, but I’m going to kill you and everyone that’s backing you!” He smashed the table in anger and destroyed it. “I’ll hang your head in the underground city for all vampires to look at!”Meanwhile, in Myers mansion.Sofia was eating granola because she was trying to lose a bit of her wei
Charles had been looking for Butcher everywhere. From one end of the city to the other, he went through every gang and hideout he knew. From the Snake gang that was influential in the north to the Bluestone mafia down the south, he didn’t leave anyone unquestioned.However, all of them couldn’t give him any valuable information.Charles spent a few days in Bones’ hospital as a patient suffering from stomach illness. He used his enhanced sense of hearing to see if he could find anybody talking about Butcher, but he didn’t get the results he wanted.“Just where did he disappear?”Charles couldn’t help but feel anxious.“Maybe, I shouldn’t have sent him such a blatant warning.”Fighting an enemy directly was one thing, but if Butcher were to attack him using other vampires while keeping himself hidden, things would get unnecessarily dragged and complex for Charles who was tired of even thinking about Butcher.The reason he was tortured by Samantha and Leslie in the first place was becaus
“Your recovery time indicates your fitness,” Akira told Charles as they were going in a taxi. The driver thought that she was cosplaying some fictional character or something. “You don’t have any injuries even though it hasn’t been long since you fought the Slaughter Squad. This is a very good sign. I think you can definitely stand your ground against a life sucker’s attacks.”Akira’s words boosted Charles’ confidence. “I heard they can suck the lifespan out of us. Is that true?”“Yep. But I believe that you can resist it better than I do.”“Oh.. but, wait, you haven’t awakened your blood, right?” Charles couldn’t help but ask. “How can you resist against Butcher then?”“Well, the black cloak I’m wearing is not your ordinary cloak, so… that’s how,” she casually replied.“Oh, okay.” To Charles, her cloak looked normal. “Tell me more about the city. What kind of people live there?”Akira glanced at the rearview mirror and made contact with the driver’s eyes and hypnotized him to focus o
An underground city.Charles thought it would be more like a dungeon with a ceiling like that of a cave. However, when the elevator’s doors opened, he felt like he was in a world of its own. A dark world, where flame torches were the only sources of light.Regular humans wouldn’t be able to see past what the light allowed them to, but Charles was different. He was able to see everything that this place had to offer. The ceiling was thousands of feet high. And there were star-like structures embedded into the stone ceiling, though they weren’t glowing at the moment.It was like they were inside a dome, and the city before him was pretty big, too. He couldn’t see the end, but the bar owner kept bragging about the city and told them that it was over 16,000 square kilometers in area, and at the center of it, about 300 square kilometers was where the citizens lived. The rest of the area around the city was allocated to chimeric beasts.Currently, they were at the inner circle, where the Be
Akira left, and Charles took ten minutes to successfully disintegrate the food items into dust. However, he didn’t know what to do with the blood bottles.“Akira didn’t say anything about what I should do with these…” He was already used to drinking human blood using blood packets, but then Akira told him that the blood in these bottles was also mixed with aphrodisiacs.What she didn’t tell him, however, was that there was a lot more to this blood than Charles knew.There were three stars on the bottle, which meant that the blood was extracted after torturing and frightening a person for three lunations. So, the blood would taste much sweeter for the vampires, and vampires could easily get addicted to this sort of blood which generally wasn’t available anywhere else in the country. Thus, most vampires would choose to stay in this city for longer durations, which would benefit the economy of the city.Charles poured the blood in the bottles straight in the toilet, then flushed it with
“What are you looking at, bitch?” Theron’s gaze was cold as hell. The temperature dropped by a degree just from his intense, cutting gaze.“Calling me a bitch just because I was looking at you,” Charles sipped on the water. “I don’t like it. But if you apologize, I might forgive you.”The barmaids were stunned to hear that.“Does he not know who Theron is?” the customers began to talk among themselves.Theron was the descendent of the Garroway family, one of the six great families that rule the underground city. The Garroway family was known for their ability to manipulate ice. It was a secret technique passed down only to those within the family.Because Theron was a member of a great family, not just anybody would pick a fight with him. So, when Charles said he’d forgive Theron if he were to apologize, Theron felt happy and excited.A corner of Theron’s mouth curled up. “You want to forgive ME?” He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.PSSHH~~!!In a second, Charles got frozen i
Cinderella sniffed a couple of times and said, “Vampires that drink blood often smell like funeral flowers, just the same as those humans who are poisoned and are going to die sooner or later. It is one of the scents that humans in the past used to spot vampires and kill them. We are cursed beings, after all. We smell like a funeral. We smell like death.”Charles didn’t know why Cinderella was suddenly talking about funeral flowers.“But you don’t smell like funeral flowers,” Cinderella added. “It leads me to believe that you probably haven’t consumed blood in at least three nights.”“W-What are you talking about?” Charles feigned ignorance.Theron also looked at Cinderella. “What has gotten into you? Why are you suddenly chatting with that guy? Don’t tell me, you’re interested in him now?”Cinderella looked back at Theron. “If I tell you that I am, what would you do?”Theron grinned angrily. “You are doing this just because I refrained myself from fighting him. I don’t think someone
Cinderella leaped forth and clawed at the blood sphere. It was tougher and thicker than she thought, but after exerting more pressure, she was able to break it.Her claws came right at Charles’ face.Charles caught her wrist and stopped her before her claws touched him. “I don’t want to fight you.”“What are you saying after I started fighting?” Cinderella flicked her fingers, sending a burst of energy that exploded right in Charles’ face and sent him flying away.Charles’ somersaulted and landed safely on his feet, his hand covering his face.“Ho…” Cinderella was slightly surprised. “To think the face mask survived that explosion… whoever made it must be very good at it.”Charles could still feel the pressure given by her. It was so great that he wasn’t able to stand comfortably. (If she can exert this kind of mental and physical pressure on others without even trying hard…) He decided that fighting her wouldn’t guarantee his victory, so he rushed toward the exit.“You think I’ll let