12:12, Borders of the Skofn city.
As Fredick and the man were talking about the hunters. A shadowy figure suddenly appeared behind them. The subtle way the shadow walked without making any sound and the numb calmness of its movement, were erasing its presence to a degree that even a skilled hunter like Fredrick didn't even notice that someone was standing right behind him.
"Fredrick" the voice was like of a girl, but sweet and mystic.
'What?' Fredrick panicked and suddenly looked behind while taking a step back. 'There was someone right behind me and I didn't even notice?'
But as Fredrick finally lays his eyes upon the figure, then only one word came out of his mouth.
"Madam Aveline" Fredrick shouted while kneeling in front of her.
The man who was with Fredrick starts sweating buckets just upon the name from Fredrick's mouth.
'Skull mask, leather armor, raven mantel and the blood drenched tattered garb. There's no doubt about it, she is Aveline, the hunter of hunters' the man thought while looking at Aveline with eyes filled with fear.
"I always taught you to never let your guard down, but you're still as clumsy as ever" Aveline said while slowly shifting her gaze to the city. "Skofn city, huh? Bring back bad memories"
"Yes, how can I forget those moments. It was terrifying, the fight, the screams, the agony it still sends a shiver down my spine" Fredrick said with disturbed narrowed eyes.
"He was falling apart... It had to be done. Now enough trembling in boots, a hunter should hunt beast." Aveline said while taking out a bizarre pair of unusually wrapped swords. "Leave the hunting of hunters to me" she said as she starts approaching the border of the city.
"I still don't understand. You said that Madam Aveline only hunt the hunters but, why he is she taking a part in this expedition?. There's no information about a hunter turning into a beast in the Skofn city" The man asked Fredrick after Aveline began making his way to the city.
"We detected a magic anomaly of arcane 5 from Skofn city. Previous report didn't mention anything about a monster inside Skofn using high-level magic. The probability of a hunter going berserk inside the city is high, that's why Madam Aveline decided to take part" Fredrick answered.
As Aveline starts approaching the group of hunters. Everyone who were talking to themselves and murmuring suddenly became dead silent. Just a simple gaze of Aveline was enough to make a skilled hunter piss their pants.
"It's past 12'o clock, the whole city should have gone into a state of frenzy because of the moonlight. Everyone get ready, we're entering in" Aveline said as she moved past the hunters towards Skofn city's border gate. "Let the night of the hunt began"
12:20, Skofn city.
As soon as the time get past twelve, Klyn's wrist suddenly started to vibrate. He check his wrist in surprise and find out that he was wearing a watch. This is the first time Klyn have seen a clock that's small enough to fit on a person's wrist. The watch had a touch screen that was showing the current time and many small icons on screen twinkling.
"What is this?" Klyn said as he touched one of those icons.
The vibration stopped but Klyn suddenly become static, his eyes got curious, and his body posture gets defensive.
"There's something wrong. All my senses are going haywire. Something, changed in this city" Klyn said as he walked outside the clinic.
The whole atmosphere of the city was different from before. The white light of the moon that was illuminating the city became darker and the air was reeking of bloodlust. Klyn's body suddenly starts shivering, sweat starts to roll out from his forehead.
"Hmmmm.... My mind is composed, but the body is reacting to the bloodlust. This kid must've been not used to these types of situations" Klyn said saw his shaking hand.
SCREECH!!!
A high pitch, harsh scream resonated across the entire city. Klyn's gaze instantly moved towards the direction of the sound. It was coming from a clock tower that was miles away at the north-east side of the clinic.
"These screeches, sound more like cries of agony. And the bloodlust that it's immiting, I'm certain that it's also a human who transformed into a beast just like the previous one. But much more strong" Klyn said, he gripped his fist. " I can kill it, but not barehanded. I need a weapon. Good thing I drank that beast's blood, for some reason the blood was stronger than the human blood".
Klyns hand starts to bleed because of his hard grip. The blood that came dripping from his hand starts falling in an unusual way. Slowly, the blood starts to accumulate in a single place and began to form a shape. The shape was of a long sword with sharp edges, a round pommel and straight cross guard. The blood immediately hardened as the shape got completed. The whole process took around ten seconds to complete.
"A bit clumsy because of lack of blood, but It will work" Klyn said with disappointment.
Blood weapons was one of the signature ability of Morticia family. Controlling the blood cells to make a desired shape and hardening it, all by the usage of high-precision magic, was something that only Morticia family was able to do. Because of the regeneration factor, vampire don't suffer any type of disabilities like anemia from loss of blood. But making a blood weapon within 10 second while not having enough power was a feat that only Klyn was capable of doing.
Klyn then began making his way towards the clock tower. The search spell really helped him in navigating through the complex structure of the city. Halfway through, Klyn picked up a familiar sound. It was the same mob chanting sound he heard earlier, but this time it was much more intense and loud. He quickly changed his route and decided to check on the mob, now that he have a weapon and is much stronger compared to before he was confident in his strength.
Klyn finally arrived at the spot where the chanting was coming from. The mob was a group of middle-aged and old peoples, they were wearing long black garb and had pitchforks, axes and wooden shields as weapons, all of which are ineffective against a single beast, let alone the hordes of beasts that run rampant.
From the looks of it, the people looked like normal human beings with no uncanny feature or behavior. Klyn knew that what he was about to do is foolish, but there were no other choice, If they were to be normal humans, then he can ask them for help to figure out about his situation but if they were to attack him or show unusual behavior (like becoming a beast or something) then he would kill them without a thought.
Klyn gradually approached them and asked. "Excuse me, do you know where I am and what is happening here?" He sounded extremely cold, but this was the best he could do.
The one that Klyn approached didn't react and suddenly ran towards him screaming "Blood. Give me blood" with his axe in his hand ready to strike anything. His face suddenly starts looking more like a beast than a human.
Klyn narrowed his eyes and swipe his sword across his neck before he could have reached him to attack. The cut was so precise and clean that it's head stayed attached, and its body kept moving until it collapsed while moving the axe to attack. His head rolled out from his body as he falls on to the ground.
The other of the people also starts to rush towards Klyn with their weapons in their hand. But within a blink of an eye Klyn precisely cut all of their necks, killing everyone in an instance.
Klyn's face was as emotionless as ever, but deep within his heart he felt guilt killing humans even though they were acting like beats.
'Is it because of this body that I'm feeling this or is it me, who's changing'