RE:BORN Zombie - Chapter 138 Annihilation II

After a bit of digging, Victor’s vampires were able to find a trace of them. According to the vampires, Victor learnt that the vampires they were looking for had the unique ability of shadow and darkness, so naturally they were the best when it came to stealth. Luckily, Victor knew where this place was all too well, and since he was going to go forward with his plan, he might as well start his visit from there.

Sometime later, and Victor left the base and headed towards the vampire Emricks. Just as usual, he teleported directly into their castle of a house and unlike the usual where he would be the one surprising them, this time he was the one who was to be considered surprised, as he wasn’t expecting the sight that awaited him. It was as though the vampires had been laying in wait for him to arrive.

‘What’s going on where?’ Victor asked in his mind. More importantly, he also thought how it was possible that they knew of his arrival.

Some seconds later, and the vampire lord came into view. Dracula himself had come to greet Victor as he walked through the multitude of vampires surrounding Victor, but just when Victor expected the greeting to come, Dracula scoffed at him, and without saying anything else the vampires gave way for him to walk through, leaving Victor in a bit of confusion.

It wasn’t till Victor saw Dracula walking towards his throne that he noticed another figure seated on his throne instead of Dracula.

‘Able to erase their presence… That’s something right there.’ Victor thought to himself.

He had much confidence in himself not to die to some creature, but the fact that was unable to tell that someone was on the throne was telling of their strength. He had seen it many times where the weak are unable to perceive the strength of the strong, and he really doubt that would be him.

Victor wasn’t given a chance to speak however, as Dracula simply went to stand behind the person seated on the throne.

As he drew close enough, the figure spoke. “So this is the one who has been causing my people harm?” A feminine voice came through. Victor only looked up to stare the vampire in the face before he spoke.

“And who are you?” He asked.

“A worm dares to question me?” The vampire on the throne said in a calm tone.

‘She best not be referring to me like so because she can only perceive that I’m only a vampire lord.’ Victor thought to himself.

After a bit of silence and both parties staring at each other, the vampire on the throne spoke again, this time without the earlier arrogance and pride, but with curiosity and a bit of anger. “What are you? No, who are you?” She asked.

This time Victor took his eyes off her, as he didn’t really enjoy looking up to his enemies. “How about you answer me first?” He said, in a calm and relaxed voice.

“I am Veritas of the house Emrick, the true ruler of the house Emrick.” She said.

Victor couldn’t tell exactly what it all meant, but he could figure that it meant she was pretty important. She would have to be anyway, considering her strength.

“I am Victor.” He answered himself.

“Victor? That doesn’t tell me anything.” The vampire said, her anger growing.

The others around could also see this and noticed that she was getting a bit agitated for someone who is usually calm, which made them wonder what exactly the problem was.

“Stop staring like that, or else you might lose those eyes of yours.” Victor said, as he could feel the stare he was getting from her intensify, and he wouldn’t really say he enjoyed the attention.

With anger, the vampire on the throne, Veritas, slammed her palm hard on the throne as she spoke a bit louder than normal. “Answer me, who are you?!” She said.

Victor simply looked at her as he understood what she just tried to do. Several system messages just popped up before him, none of which he understood simple based off what was displayed, he had o join the dots to get it.

Basically stronger vampires of the same family have the ability to control those below them, and Veritas’ power was that, that control she had would never weaken no matter how much stronger the vampires of her bloodline get, which is normally not the case. It wasn’t even a skill, so the system message couldn’t report it as such exactly.

“To be able to exert such authority, you must be something.” Victor said, as his face slowly moved to face the Veritas.

In that brief moment, Veritas herself must have come to some conclusion and it seemed that she no longer needed the agitation from the Emricks to act, as she went flying towards Victor.

“You…” She said as she appeared before his face.

Just when Victor had turned his face to look at Veritas, she appeared before him, and in that slit second he managed to dodge her punch by twisting his upper body to the side. To counter, he threw a punch of his own aimed at her mid section, as the momentum she brought with her carried her forward, it would do much damage even though he was to just raise a hand. To his surprise however, she was able to react in time despite the short distance and held his hand.

Going passed Victor, Veritas threw him backwards using the hand she grabbed, using her momentum as a catalyst, ending up countering what Victor was to use as his counter attack.

Victor who was thrown backwards did some twisting in the air as his body flipped into a standing position. It would seem both of them were pretty good, and if anything evenly matched.

The vampires standing around couldn’t believe their eyes, not that they had seen something completely insane. On the contrary, it was because they were unable to see what just happened. All they saw was Victor twisting through the air and standing back on his feet some distance away. Every other thing that happened wasn’t even a blur to them. They simply didn’t see it happen.