"Ugh.." Mikel woke up inside his worse nightmare. The familiar damp smell, the dry sobs coming from all around him, and lastly, the clanking of chains sounding every few seconds.
He opened his eyes hoping to have been having a nightmare. However, to his horror, he is inside the blood clan dungeons. There are others all around him, he can hear their breathing even in the dark.
Worse still, at the back of his neck, he can feel the branding of a slave mark. It surprised him. A slave mark is only successful when the other party is broken in spirit and body, unable to instinctively resist it with their mental strength.
His own mental strength has been improved by leaps after rea hing 12% mana heart. So, how can they succeed in branding him? Unless, the one who branded him is a powerful blood clan member.
Even so, Mikel is not planning to go down without a fight.
Mikel knew, this thing only takes a second to snap in place if he is commanded by the one who holds the blood used during the branding.
Mikel felt disgusted, deeply in his soul. He felt utter revulsion to this whole situation. He had never expected to be the hero of humanity or anything close to that, but after researching and perfecting all those formulas for the human army, he ends up here. It made him laugh at his naivete.
Mikel tried to use his power but the slave mark burned into his flesh in response. He didn't care. He has been crystalizing his body since the day he awakened. The pain of turning his flesh into marble can not simply be described in words.
This brand can be resisted as long as the master does not command him to stop resisting. Mikel, used his crystallization power and the test awakened mental force to stab and crystalize the mark. Both master and servant will experience the pain on the mark. This is what Mikel is hoping for.
A sharp scream sounded from the main Castel of the territory. Mikel is not any better. His soul feels like it is cracking and burning.
More importantly, he will have to work fast. If the 'master' comes and demands that he stops and never attempt it again, Mikel will be screwed.
The beastly cries of a strangled beast shook the ground. Whomever is responsible for this mark seems to be very powerful. The resistance coming from this person' vast mana pool, made Mikel's job very hard on his side.
He put all his mind into pouring his power on the mark, while his mental power slashes it to pieces. All at once, the man seated on the black and red marble throne rolled his eyes to the back of his skull and then slipped into a comma.
At the same time, Mikel's eyes turned into whites and he fell limp against the ground, his hands held up by the chains on his wrists.
A moment later, Mikel appeared in an empty dark space. He walked forward, but he never seemed to reach the end. Just as panic seeped in, he saw another person looking around just like himself.
"Who are you?" Mikel asked, but his already figured out what is happening. The man has molten gold colored eyes, which means he is of blood kin royal blood.
"I presume you are that Mikel." The man is seven foot tall, Mikel looks like a teenager in front of him. When he spoke just now, Mikel's ears seem to bleed from the bloodlust in his voice.
"This is your doing." The man looked down on Mikel with hostility and distain. "You will do well to release me from this.."
He looked around, then his eyes returned to Mikel, looking at him with something Mikel is familiar with. "Spirit realm." He finished with a commanding voice.
"I don't know you, why would I put you in a spirit prison?" Mikel played dumb.
You tried to destroy the slave mark. This is the consequence." Mikel could feel the man's displeasure through the tone of his voice.
"Oh." Mikel realized this must be the 'master' whose blood is in the slave mark. Seeing his nonchalant demeanor, the man belowed.
"I said release me!" His voice has turned even colder, the blood lust harming those who heard it.
"I prefer staying here. I will not be enslaved." Mikel said calmly. What a joke, releasing his 'Master? Does he look crazy?'
The man seemed stunned. "Even in this realm. I am still your master. How are you able to resist my command?" He looked at Mikel's mark that seem to have faded from the back of his neck.
"You truly messed with the slave mark? How is this possible?" Mikel finally saw surprise in that pale and bloodless face, there is even a trace of imperceptible fear.
Mikel tried to use his power inside this place to completelydestroythe mark. But his power seems to have vanished without a trace.
The blood kin appeared in front of Mikel, held him in place and sank his sharp fangs into his neck. Mikel did not struggle, because in this place, his body is still the same as in the outside world.
A moment later, the blood kin let go of Mikel as if struck by lightning. His mouth and throat seems to melt as if he drank acid.
His power seems a bit restrained after drinking Mikel's blood. "Poison, you poisoned your own blood." Surprise, shock, and even fear showed on the man's face. Mikel is surprised his voice can still come out of the gaping hole in his throat.
He hated blood kin. But at this moment, he hated humans more. So much more. His initial idea had been to annihilate the blood kin, now he understands that humans are just as much of blood sucking leeches as these fuckers.
Mikel felt the resentment and anger at this situation. His blood seems to boil with a living pulse. He didn't know that his eyes had suddenly turned silver where is was previously brown.
"What..?" The man exclaimed and jumped about 15 meters away. His ears elongated, turning into one's belonging to a wolf with silver fur.
A long tail sprouted behind him, his muscles seem to puff up. Chest, arms, legs, especially around the hips. Mikel became a half man half beast being, brimming with power.
In an instant, he appeared in front of the mysterious blood kin, swipped his gleaming silver claws on his open neck. To his delight, the man screamed in horror, as back blood oozed out from his wounds.
The man also tried to clash with him using using his own black menacing claws typical coated with vampire venom. But, Mikel felt powerful enough to physically block the man's attack and retaliated with astonishing ferocity.
In only a few minutes, the man laid on the floor with only a bloody blob of meat for a body. Although healing slowly, Mikel felt his body wake up in the real world.
The mark on his neck has completely disappeared. He wondered who that royal man was. But since he fought the mental battle and won, those fuckers will definitely come for him now.
Still lamenting over the gruesome scene in just now, Mikel woke up to find his body has broken fee of the chains they had used to bind him, his body is shockingly in a half wolf transformation as in that place.
Mikel let instinctively let out a powerful haul that shook the dungeons. The chains rattle and cluttered as if shaken by the sound.
Mikel, crouched down, his body breaking every bone faster and faster. By the time blood clan guards opened all the locked bar doors, Mikel is already waiting for them.
His chest rose and fell in the darkness of the dungeon. He crouched low and waited, even his growling stopped completely. As soon as the last cell door was unlocked, Mikel moved with the shadows.
His claws slammed the first vampire on the wall. His figure disappeared from view, all the guards who wanted to capture him lay dead on the floor.
Luckily, it is dark outside. The silver wolf went hunting inside the blood clan territory. There is no growling or hauling, just, a silent killer in the night.
Mikel had long retreated to his subconscious mind. His spirit is drained from his exertion in the spirit realm. The wolf seems to be a separate entity to him in a sense that it's lead by instinct, there is still a bit of intellect from its human side.
For instance, it didn't make a sound and killed all prey swiftly without causing a commotion.
It killed every blood clan on patrol, those out in groups. It turns out, Wolves are mighty strong compared to low level blood clan. The wolf's ears twitched, detecting several powerful auras coming this way. It sniffed the air and found the garden. This is where Mikel had been working in his last life.
It only took a few seconds before reaching the garden. Mikel is delighted that his wolf counterpart is somewhat similar to himself.
With a wave of its paw, a third of the herbs in the garden appeared in his space. The wolf did not stop until everything on the garden except for the soil is transplanted into his space.
Mikel is surprised to have been captured yet. What he doesn't know is that many high ranking blood kin members were rushing to the throne room.
The vampire prince was found in a comma, as if his mental power was shattered. Mental power is very important for any living being. It is what allows them the ability to absorb mana into their bodies. There is a mana palace inside every mana practioner, and when this palace is invade or shaken by an attack, it disrupt the abilities of that person.
Humans are physically weaker than blood kin, but humans are not necessarily weaker in mental power compared to blood kin. Mikel has already reached 12% mana heart. His mutated ability is the mental strength.
Although rare, a human can be mentallystronger than the blood kin, in the came of Mikel, he is not just strong, he is mental monstrous, because of his awakened ability after reaching 12% mana heart.
Originally, transformation consumes a tremendous amount of mental and physical strength. Today be able to transform inside a the spirit realm is beyond the capacity of a normal werewolf. That is why the prince had lost all color when Mikel started to transform.
The silver wolf visited three more places. One of which is a wine cellar. He took as much as he could before heading to wards an unfamiliar place. Here, Mikel saw through the wolf's eyes many people laying in the open like cattle.
They are surrounded by vampires on guard duty. These people are the humans from central city. Every now and then, a guard will enter and take away one of the people. A good looking man or woman will experience the brutality of being in the hands of these monsters.
Mikel saw one take his biological mother away, she started screaming in terror, but the vampire pulled her away by her hair. Mikel waited for this heart to be sad or angry at seeing her being treated like this. That never happened. Instead, he felt nothing.
He lived the same tragedy in his last life, being abused and used for his body and blood. His personality changed, twisting into dark and obsessive.
What surprised him is the absolute absence of his scent in the air. He should have been recognized by now. Seeing he is not being found out even after so long, Mikel back tracked to the place where they keep food for the human slaves and captives.
Not many vampires were put on guard here. Mikel killed the one on duty and placed them in his space like the others. Then he emptied the place. Took away everything that humans could eat here. It will make him happy to see what these people will do to the starving humans.
Isn't their lives too valuable compared to his own? Wait till they start eating each other.
He saw Bai Ming, this girl is the reason April handed her over to the blood kin. Mikel took one last look and turned around, even after seeing what looked like his own mother.
He placed three bombs. One in the garden, in the cellar and in the storage room.
He left the territory until he reached the boundary. Then deadenated the three silent bombs.
The wolf felt a tremor in the ground, then nothing. He wondered why he had been placed in a different place then the rest of the central city people.
The wolf left the territory through the place Mikel had used in his last life. He went back home, if anyone looked in his direction, they will only see a silver streak
Mikel's wolf snuck into the central base and looked around. Reaching central base from the barrier took four days of full sprint.
"It is agreed then? We move tomorrow?" Huo Fang asked the people in the meeting. It,seems they are ready to attack the blood clan territory.
"What about Toy city?" Lu Song asked looking at the Wei Han.
"Don't look at me, the Toy city army returned that day and never left the city. That place has been closed off from the public since then." Wei Han defended himself. But he knows that Mikel is missing, what he can't figure out is why soldiers from Toy city refused them at every turn.
It's as if they know what they did to their leader. April did not meet anyone's eyes and stood up. "I will go check on the equipment." She left the meeting hall as if being chased by wild beasts.
The hunters realized something fishy is going on, but they are not sure. Whatever it is, it caused them to lose one of their strongest allies.
Huo Jun looked at these humans with narrowed eyes. His brother had also tried to find Mikel to no avail, after an investigation, they discovered Mikel disappeared after being taken away by April of the Bai family right after the disappearance of people from various families.
Huo Jun looked at his brother who, despite having been away from Mikel for a long time, seems more anxious than everyone to find him. The darkness around Huo Chen seems to be on the verge of eruption.
Hou Jun pulled him outside. When they left the venue, Huo Jun yanked hisnarm from his older brother's.
"You need to calm down." Huo Jun warned.
"I can't!" Huo Chen screamed, space around him distorted and cracked, black gas like substance seeped out from the cracks.
Huo Jun involuntarily let out an elephant trumpet in shock. He retreated several meters away from his brother.
This is called a berserk Blackwell curse. A step above the obsession associated with the Blackwell darkness.
"Chenchen, you need to breathe. Mikel is resourceful, wherever he is, I am sure he is alright."
Huo Chen's eyes have now completely turned black, resembling those of a demon. "You don't know that!" He shouted. Taking at step forward, Huo Chen fell on the ground after being knocked unconscious by Huo Fang who came out of nowhere.
"That was too close. We need to find Mikel." Huo Jun said with a worried look on his face.
"Did you notice?" Huo Fang looked at his son. Huo Jun nodded.
"They are hiding something from us." Huo Jun started to breathe easy after his brother was subdued. He looked at his father with a serious expression.
"I did not know his obsession is this severe." Huo Fang looked at his youngest son with worry. "I will return him home first." He picked him up and entered a mysterious portal. Probably going back to the hunters territory.
Mikel narrowed his eyes. It seems the hunters were not part of it. He turned and returned to eavesdrop on the humans.
Inside the hall.
"We need to move fast, time is running out, even though we gave them Mikel to stall for time, who knows what that made man will do to make things worse?" Ming Ye spoke with a solem tone. His twin brother Ming Fu was also taken by the blood clan.
So they were all in on it? Good, good, good.
Mikel narrowed his eyes. Stall for time? We'll see about that. He couldn't help but growl at their awful plan to use him as a sacrifice.
Turning around, he headed for their war rations. Even if there are people with space fo carry a few things, most of the supplies will be in the rear end of the procession.
Indeed, he found the location where the five families kept their supplies for the upcoming war. 'I also need to stall for time.' Mikel sneered as he neared the place.
He saw neatly arranged trucks that will be used the next day. He counted about 143 large and medium sized trucks.
With his powerful mental strength, Mikel found thousands of armor suits, lazer guns, cold weapons, and medicine for on sight treatment. About 3 million quantities of supplies.
Mikel killed the guards from the five families on duty, and stored all their bodies in his space where a mountain of blood clan corpes kept them company.
He then opened each and every truck belonging to the humans, before taking away everything. By the time he finished packing everything, the first light of dawn broke through the sky.
Only those trucks belonging to hunters were left untouched. Luckily they were parked far away from those belonging to the five families.
Stalling for time is it? Let's stall for some more time, and let your family members enjoy what its like to be enslaved by blood kin.
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Mikel snuck into the forest near his base, and entered his space. After transforming into a werewolf, he broke through his physical limits.
After transforming back into a human, his height is now 7'5 with lean but strong muscles. Looking at his silver hair, and silver eyes in the mirror, he couldn't believe this is his body. Especially that face.
Mikel is very excited about the herbs he took from the blood clan. They are very useful for some of his more exclusive pills and potions. These are too increase his mana heart, turn his bones into iron like material and the last one, for bloodline strengthening.
These herbs were listed in the manual Mikel got from when he first found mana grass. Their description matched the herbs in the blood clan gardens but he had no way to get them.
Now, he will focus on growing stronger. The energy convergence scroll still works even after he awakened his werewolf side. Mikel wondered how long it will take for his brother to become the blood kin prince who walks in the sun.
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Back in the blood kin territory, chaos ensued, Mikel didn't notice that below the wine cellar, was an underground space where they keep recently collected vampires.
They all evaporated from the silent bomb. All 7 thousand newly acquired vampires disappeared with the wine cellar in the silent explosion. Luckily, this is only one of four locations.
However, Mikel bombed two more such locations, wasting around 21 thousand low level mob soldiers.
The humans ran out of food. The blood clan decided to turn half of the human captives and keep half, to feed the newly transformed vampires.
Those who belonged to the higher-ups of central city like Mrs Lu, Wei Lin, Bai Ming and Ming Fu of the Ming family and others from the military side were taken to the dungeons that Mikel is intimately familiar with.
Everyday, they experienced what Mikel went through while living in this territory in his last life.
Their blood drained, while their bodies used daily for sex. They lived in the same misery that Mikel experienced in his last life. Cleaned up and fed by other human slaves during the day, and at night, they would be fucked against the wall inside the dungeons one by one.
They resisted at first, but as days turned into weeks, their eyes became dull. The fight left them and they even began to contemplate death on a daily basis.
Their suffering is mostly because of Mikel's disappearance, the bombing, and the blood kin prince laying in a comma without any signs of waking up.
In the blink of an eye, five months have passed. Some of the humans have gotten used to their horrible lives in the blood kin dungeons.
Because of who they are, they were not taken out for work in the various places where slaves work during the day. For all this time, they know nothing but darkness.
They are not branded as slaves yet so they are not trusted to roam outside the dungeons. Today, the human army finally came. Mrs Lu, sat on the stone cold floor of the dungeon, holding her knees with her head lowered. Her entire body rocking back and forth while she spoke incomprehensible gibberish.
Suspicious fluids covered her body. She is full of hate, anger and helplessness. When has she ever been treated this way? What angered her even more is the people who were supposed to rescue her. Where are they? Did they give up on them? Is this going to be their lives from now on? Isn't it better to die instead?
When Lu Aang found his mother in this state, his blood turned cold. His body started to transform in front of everyone.
His hair became so long it reached his waist, changing color into silver white. His eyes turned from the vibrant and watery brown into molten golden color. His previous fragile beauty transformed into a devilish kind of beauty.
7'5 tall, his body suddenly turned into a master piece. Luckily, he is wearing the suit armor under his regular clothes. He didn't seem to care that his sculpted body is visible underneath that tight fitting battle armor.
Lu Aang let out a powerful hiss that sent all the humans into their knees. His anger could be felt in his bloodlust, making people's scalps tingle with fear.
"He is turning into a vampire!"
"Shit, that is royal family eye color!"
"Shoot it!"
"No, don't shoot, he is still Lu Aang, he's just angry."
"Are you kidding? The bloodlust of a royal family member is so powerful, even humans can not handle it."
"We need to kill him."
While they discussed him, Lu Aang walked out into the sun. This is something that has never happened in the history of blood clan.
Lu Aang entered the resting place of the blood clan and opened all the curtains, letting inside the glaring sunlight, weakening them from their place of rest.
The humans followed behind him, slaughtering everything they meet. The humans fought from dawn till dusk.
As soon as the sun went down, thousands of low level vampires were released from an underground shelter.
The real start of the war has come. The most bloodied person is Lu Aang. He walked out of the main camp hosting his own kind covered in black blood from head to toe.
No one talked about killing him now. Blood clan is outraged to have been ambushed during the day when they couldn't fight. Their anger transformed into bloodlust.
Humans fell flies. However, Lu Aang is also empowered by night. He appeared and disappeared in an instant, killing hundreds with a single wave of his hand.
If Mikel saw this scene, he would be shocked. In the last life, Lu Ang had friends in the blood clan and advocated for peace. When Mikel confronted him about having suffered in that place, Lu Aang had encouraged him to 'move on' from all that.
It seems double standard to go on a killing spree for his mother while he had to 'move on.'
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