"Welcome! survivors," said Romeo.
"Thank you very much," said the male servant. The female servant hides behind the male servant but excitement shines from her eyes.
The other in the basement is nice to the servants and they offer proper clothes and give them something to eat. This makes the servants so touches and tears started falling from their eyes. Never in their lives, they were treated so nice. Beautiful clothes and decent food. It ignites their hope that able to free from the clutch of the vampire.
"We will wait until dawn before we relocate you to the transportation portal. So, don't worry and rest," said Romeo. The servants enter the second room to rest, they hope everything will proceed smoothly.
Mikayla and his group moves deeper into the woods and meet few servants, the vampires attack them ruthlessly. Mikayla never imagining that it will be this terrible. Mikayla vomits a few times and the others laugh at him.
A head fly and landed near Mikayla's feet and rolling. The despair in the servant's eyes makes Mikayla shiver. He can't help them, it is the nature of humanity in this continent. If they are on the human continent he will do anything to help the servants but here human is the food they are not less than the chicken in the coop waiting to be slaughter.
"Mikayla! come here," said Ulises.
Mikayla washes his mouth with water and goes towards Ulises. He is holding a middle-aged man. The man struggles to escape but Ulises holds him tight. Mikayla can guess what Ulises want him to do. Since they found this group of servants, he did not do anything except vomiting his dinner.
"Kill him," said Ulises.
Mikayla stands in front of the man. The man did not stop struggling his desire to live is strong. He glares at Mikayla with menacing eyes.
"You are human aren't you? Traitor!" said the man and spit towards Mikayla. Mikayla takes the sword from his back and put it on the man's neck. Mikayla's hands are shaking. This is the first time for him to kill someone.
The others stop anything that they are doing and watch Mikayla intently.
"Hahahahaha, a human yet trying to pretend to be a vampire! Sooner or later you will be their meal." said the man crazily. Seeing the shaking hands he confident that Mikayla would not kill him.
Mikayla ignores the man and the quiet surrounding is giving Mikayla pressure. He knows Ulises wants to test his loyalty. Whether he will side with the human or the vampire. The man notices the quietness of the other vampires. He knows the situation is not favourable for him. He struggles once more but something is weird, why did he able to see his body being held by the vampire.
The man screamed after realise his head already separates from the body.
"They will kill you! All of you! Vampires should not exist!" shouted the man before the light in his eyes disappear. Mikayla falls but Mint quickly supported him and Mikayla vomits again. All the vampire cheering for Mikayla and they continue torturing the servants.
They suck the blood from the servants and slowly cut their skin and let the blood flow. They lick the trickling blood and slice the servant's flesh so that more blood flows out. The screaming of the servants are like a melody to the vampire's ears and they are laughing happily.
Mikayla can't bear to see anymore, those servant is like a shredded rug and their screaming is piercing to his ears. With help from Mint, he sits a bit far from the group. At least he will not see the servants.
The dawn quickly approaching and Mikayla's group with the head of the servants they fly towards the forest entrance. The servant's body is like a lump of mud being left there to be feed by the animals in the forest.
Reaching the castle, Mikayla collapse and his body temperature are rising. The doctor is being called to treat him. When Mikayla awake in the afternoon he vomits once again when he sees the man's head on the table beside him.
"Get that head out from here!" said Mikayla.
Rinne quickly keeps that head away. Ulises comes to visit Mikayla before this but at that time he is sleeping and Rinne didn't notice when Ulises put the head beside Mikayla.
"Knock...knock" Ronald enters the room. "I heard you have a fever so I come to visits." Ronald walks towards Mikayla with the same annoying smile on his face. Mikayla didn't have the energy to argue with Ronald so he cast a glance to Rinne "Young Master Ronald, young master Mikayla needs some rest, it is best if young master Ronald can come later."
"Shut up! A mere half-blood like you are not qualified to speak with me," shouts Ronald arrogantly. Most of the servants working in the castle is a pureblood vampire. Someone like Rinne is not qualified to work in the castle. As someone born and raised by a pureblood vampire Ronald feels disdain with Rinne.
"Now I know why you didn't like me. If you shouted like that because Rinne is talking to you, you probably want to kick me out from out of your sight because I'm not even a vampire," said Mikayla nonchalantly.
"Mikayla, is this how you treat your cousin? asked Dylan. Who knows when he enters the room.
This is great! Mikayla rolls his eyes at both of them. "He disrespects my people, that means he disrespects me as the master."
"I wonder why Uncle Alaric let this half-blood stay with you, right Uncle Dylan," said Ronald.
"Well he is just an adopted child it is more than enough to give him a half-blood servant," said Dylan.
Mikayla has a headache, why did they are wasting their time here? Just to irritate him? They truly come at the right time.
"I already knew that both of you didn't like me. The Duke title will not be passed to me. You two can fight among yourself, I don't care," said Mikayla.
Dylan bends his body and he is facing Mikayla. "I know, even if Alaric wants you to inherit it I will be the one to reject the proposal.
"Then, why are you here?" asked Mikayla.
Dylan smile at Mikayla and he turns around to see Rinne. Rinne with a poker face stands beside Mikayla's bed. Dylan suddenly shots fire towards Rinne and the fire form like a spider web and bind him. Ronald pushes Mikayla to the bed and put a piece of cloth on Mikayla's face.
The cloth spread to the whole head and it suffocates Mikayla. Mikayla panicked and try to take the cloth off from his face but the cloth keeps tightening until the silhouette of his face can be seen. Rinne that fall to the ground shocked to by the attack and terrified seeing the cloth on Mikayla's face. Rinne is being bundled into the fire web until it completely blocked his view. The cocoon is like an oven slowly heating up and burn him inside.
Ronald and Dylan elated seeing Mikayla slowly suffocates by the cloth. That cloth is custom made for this day. They high five each other when they saw Mikayla's chest did not move anymore. At that moment the fire cocoon burst open and the red-eyed Rinne comes out. The first thing he does is build a barrier around him and Mikayla then blast out Dylan and Ronald from the barrier. The blast is strong and it pushes Ronald and Dyland out from the room. Both of them buried under the wall debris. Dylan reacts fast and able to protect both of them with his fire web.
Inside the barrier, Rinne quickly removes the cloth but the cloth did not budge. Rinne takes a deep breath and calms his mind. He once read about this kind of cloth. It is famous in the black market. Rinne chants a spell and conjure a mud and put it in front of the cloth. The mud slowly wrapped the cloth and Rinne pull the cloth from Mikayla's face. The mud slowly turns into Mikayla's face and the cloth try to wrap the mud face. Rinne leaves the cloth that struggles to suffocates the mud face on the floor.
Rinne checks on Mikayla and he is not breathing. He quickly put his hand on Mikayla's chest and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR. Rinne prays that he make it in time. Fortunately, Mikayla shows reaction and breath but it is weak. Rinne relief seeing Mikayla's respond and shout for the doctor.
Dylan and Ronald already gone from that room and guards are running to see what happens and when hearing shouts for the doctor, they're rushing to get the doctor. Hearing the commotion most of the castle residence go towards Mikayla's room. Jason that is discussing with Tristan about Mikayla's training frown hearing Rinne's shouts.
"I think that is Rinne's voice," said Jason.
Tristan is sweating, hoping nothing bad happen to Mikayla.