Ulmer’s job was made easier as there were no humans allowed from eleven to the fifteen levels.People who called themselves Highmans lived there. And they all were humans with modified DNA, which gave them enhanced senses at the least.The stronger ones even had the ability to recover fastly from wounds.They all had one thing common, though. They didn’t just look down on humans but despised them, labeling them as inferior races. Because they didn’t even like the company of humans, there were no humans living on the eleventh to the fifteen floors.Ulmer still explored through these five floors, teleporting to and fro, just to make sure there weren’t any slaves being kept secretly.To his surprise, he didn’t find any slaves or regular humans.“Some said that you can’t meet people with superpowers until you get past the thirtieth level, but that’s clearly not true,” Ulmer thought. “Since the first level itself, some people have possessed superhuman strength.”What Ulmer didn’t find plea
“Why are we being called right now?” Lera was asking her superior, who was Elian, a life-leeching vampire.Elian was more scary than handsome because he looked like he was always thirsty for blood. “The trillion-dollar man seems to have stirred some trouble with our queen. She’s gathering all the forces that were spread out in Crimia and outside.”“Huh? Are we really gathering just to fight a single man?” Lera found it hard to believe. “First of all, a trillion dollar bounty just doesn’t make sense.”“Well, considering the inflation, a trillion dollars is not beyond scope anymore it seems,” Elian opined.“You really think the calling is for capturing that man?” Lera asked. “I have a bad feeling about this, sir.”“You think she’s gathering everyone to take back the powers from those she deems unworthy?” Elian raised an eyebrow.“She’s done it before, hasn't she?” Lera felt a shudder in her heart just thinking about that incident when she had seen dozens of powerful vampires die like he
“I-It’s him!” Lera pointed her finger at Ulmer and was taken a step back. “H-He’s the one!”“Oh, to think he managed to come here by himself,” Elian briefly glanced at Ulmer but then looked at Lera. “Why are you moving backward? Didn’t I give you what you wanted? Go and bring him to his knees.”Lera frowned.She looked at Ulmer, and he was eating what seemed like raw coconut. He seemed to be very comfortable and not the least bit anxious.He should have defeated the guards and butlers and maids of this estate before he arrived here, which meant that he had taken care of all those people very easily.“This is the only food I thought I could trust and eat,” Ulmer voiced his mind. “I did see meat on my way here, but I had no idea if it was beef or human meat. I couldn’t bring myself to drink water, either. I was only able to grab a coconut because of the confidence that it grew up on the surface and wasn’t adulterated. Thankfully, it tastes sweet. Do you want a piece?”Lera gritted her t
On level 56.Seated on her throne, Claudia was talking with Silver Prince while Abbie was massaging her legs. This was Abbie’s punishment for the trouble she caused.“I think we need your support this time,” Claudia said, without mincing words. “You have seen him yourself, so what do you think about him?”“I can’t get a full gauge of his strength,” Silver Prince replied, “and that’s not a good thing.”“What about me? Can you gauge my strength?” Claudia asked, her eyes radiating the chilling blue of the abyss.Silver Prince felt goosebumps slightly. “You’re also up there. If you both were to fight, I don’t know who’ll come up as the victor. But I think we do have the advantage. Not just in numbers but also in other things. Ulmer is probably fighting Dark Monarch right now. I doubt he’d come out unscathed from such a fight, so the sooner we find him, the greater our chances will be of attaining that trillion dollars.”“It’s not about the bounty anymore,” Claudia said, lifting her foot a
Level 56 was known to be a pit of hell for humans, where they get abused and tortured in every way possible before they get killed.Human cries were heard everywhere on this level, no matter the age or sex.On such a level, who would ever think that there would come a day where they would hear the cries of vampires?Just who would dare dream, much less try to do such a thing?Who was even capable of executing it and making that impossible dream come true?Going back a few minutes in time.Somewhere on the 56th level.A vintage rock song was playing in the background as a man in his late forties was being forced to watch his wife, son, and daughter get tortured right before his eyes.His name was Joseph, and he cried and begged the vampire maid to stop. “Please, don’t hurt them. Kill me if you want, but let them go!”Twelve years after their love marriage, they got kids who were teenagers now. Seeing them get needles pierced into their bodies was the most heart-wrenching thing for the
The vampire was definitely fast, so fast Joseph and his family members couldn’t even see her movement. She disappeared from their sight.She made a half-circle around Joseph’s chair and then appeared behind Ulmer. “Die!” she clawed at his neck.She didn’t even hesitate to kill Ulmer because he entered her chamber without permission, so she didn’t care about any repercussions, even though she didn’t know his identity.She managed to strike Ulmer’s neck. However, it was her claws and fingers that broke and bent.“Krgh,” she gritted her teeth in pain and anger. “What the hell?”Ulmer turned around and pulled his hood down. Seeing his face, her eyes broadened to the max. “Y-You are..” she recognized him from the bounty poster, but she couldn’t understand why she was here. She was yet to receive the news about a war being waged against Ulmer by Claudia, after all.“Good songs remind us how nice it is to have ears,” Ulmer uttered. “And trash like you reminds me that I don’t have to feel bad
There was no such thing as a free human on level 56 also infamously known as the Den of Undeads.So, every vampire in the mess hall was surprised when Ulmer walked among their midst. There were at least 200 vampires in that hall. All their nostrils felt stirred as a lone human roamed their vicinity.Dressed in a white-hood covered in spots of black blood, and the leather jacket hugging his frame, Ulmer strode in between the tables, giving the vibe of a vampire hunter, but the sweet human fragrance his body was giving off was too striking and stirring for the vampires to think and view of him as nothing more than a mere prey.Would wolves be afraid of a rabbit just because it was covered in wolves’ blood?No.Their gazes didn’t even look at his clothes to see if they could catch the silver gleam of weapons concealed under his clothes.The faint echoes of laughter and clinking cutlery whispered to Ulmer as he kept walking.And Ulmer took out garlic from his pants. He purposely took it o
Fangs glistened, eyes burned with a feral, gluttonous hunger, and yet, underneath all that, anxiety and curiosity thrummed among the vampires as Ulmer kept crushing the confidence of his opponents.The level 56 was used to seeing only one picture: a human getting abused by a vampire. The opposite never happened.A human wouldn’t even dare to yell at a vampire, afraid of getting tortured in the worst way possible.But now, a single human was fighting against hundreds of vampires and breaking their fangs with his bare fists.Ulmer fueled his movements with the vicarious memories of those taken by the hands of these fanged monsters. Each vampire that fell under his strikes charged his resolve, and the cries grew louder, a chorus of desperation and realization.The absurdity of a human standing before them became apparent; they had not anticipated that their prey would evolve into a predator, and the theater of combat unraveled before them, their extreme arrogance humbled by the incredibl