When John woke up the next day, he heard a knocking on the door. "Please come in". On this particular morning, the maid that delivered John's daily glass of blood was not a vampire but one of the human maids that works in the castle.
"You are a human right?", the maid put the glass of blood on the table and gave a simple answer "Yes, young master". John wanted to confirm because he can somewhat smell the difference between a vampire and a human being now but it was very feint, John thought to himself "this is weird, why am I able to smell the difference between human and vampire, is this like a new ability or what? I guess my abilities are slowly developing".
"Does master have more questions" the maid asks while standing completely still "No, you can leave thank you" John thought it was weird how these human maids acted a little differently in comparison with the vampire maid but later discarded these thoughts. John drank the glass of blood and headed to the bathroom to get a quick shower before heading to the training grounds where Reina was waiting for him.
When John arrived to the training grounds, Reina was waiting there with a wooded stick "You are late John". John gave Reina a wry smile and scratching the back of his head "Sorry aunt Reina"
Reina gave a slight sigh "It does not matter, you are going to start jogging until your legs break and when you recover, you are going to do it again while carrying a 30 kg bag". John was shocked, does this woman think that he is some kind of robot but in the end, he could only grid his teeth and nod as his goal is to become stronger.
John did as he was told and ran until his legs gave out and fell to the ground exhausted, when John recovered, he then picked up the 30 kg bag and started to jog again until his leg gave out, John was in so much pain that he wanted to cry, but drinking blood slowly helped his legs to recover. After 2 hours of running and recovering, he was then ordered to spar again.
John then said "Before I spar aunt Reina, I bought these elemental stones and I would like you to teach me on how to make use if it". Reina walked up to John "all you have to do John is absorb the energy in the stones and release it through your hand, but I have a way to make the learning a little bit easier"
Reina then used her index finger and touched John on the forehead, transferring the knowledge and instruction on how to absorb the elemental stones. John's eyes went open, he immediately took out a fire elemental stone and held it in his hands, further, he concentrated and tried to remember the knowledge and instruction that was just given to him, small amount of fire energy seeped into his body, he could feel the warmth "That's it…now release it through you hand" Reina said. John opened his hand a small flame appeared in the centre of his palm, John couldn't hide his excitement "I am now the fire lord, bow before me hahahaha".
"Calm down little fire lord, now try to shoot it fire from your palm, practise on those dummies" Reina said. John failed the first two tries, but the third time he shot out a ball of fire which set the one dummy on fire. John practised for one and a half hours before the fire elemental stone turned to dust.
"Now I want you to spar against Nate and Tip, let's see on how much you progressed"
Nate and Tip were standing in a ring where Nate decided that he would go first "Come on, come get this fade" John said while beckoning Nate to come closer. Nate was confused, he looked at Tip "what fade", Tip shrugged and then cried out "look out", when Nate turned his head John came with a straight punch to the face. Nate was caught off guard by John's punch.
Bam!
Nate couldn't believe of how fast John got, he had a shocked expression on his face but manage to recover, he looked at Reina who was standing on the side, she gave Nate a light nod and he smiled "Its on then". Nate came forwards and punched John, but John managed to block the punch but he felt the weight of the punch "damn it, I am not gonna last long" John thought. John and Nate spared for 30 min until Reina said "Move your head more you dummy".
John then tried to do what Reina said but got punch repeatedly in the face until it was started to swell. After 15 more min Reina said "Stop, you have 20 min to get yourself together then Tip will take over". When John and Tip started sparing, John came forward quick and trying to punch Tip in the face but Tip gave John a front kick in the stomach, immediately knocking the wind out of John. John laid on the ground for 30 seconds before standing up "Damn that shit hurt" he thought.
"Come, you piece of shit" John said out loud. Tip came forward and punched John in the face, giving him a 1-2 combo, John then tried to make space between them to catch his breath, but Tip did not give him the chance, John then thought of how he and his father used to watch MMA take downs on the tv, John then went down, he grabbed Tip with both hands on his thighs and lifted Tip of the ground, slamming him on the ground. Tip was shocked and John repeatedly began punching Tip on the ground. On the side of the ring, Reina was impressed by John but because Tip was not using his full power, he was able to push John of the ground, but John clearly did some damage. Tip smiled at John "Young master, you impressed me but now I am going to get a bit serious", Tip then came forward and punched John in the stomach before ending the fight with an uppercut punch, knocking John unconscious.
Later that day when John woke up, Reina was standing on the side "You did good John, I am impressed with the last technique you did, go rest for the day". John was in deep thought while walking towards his room "I did a little progress today even if those two did not use their full power, but one of these days, I will force them to".
In another location there were two people dancing in a mansion, it is a man and a woman who were doing the cha-cha dance. The one man was a vampire named Carlos Decker, he is the vampire who does business with Leonidas and a human woman who is a normal human being. These two were dancing for hours without end and the woman's feet was hurting and starting to bleed "master I am really tired and my feet is also hurting, can we please take a rest" the woman asked, however, Carlos Decker just smiled at the woman's question "of course dear" he spoke in a gentle soft tone as he grabbed the woman by the cheeks, however, the woman's expression was full of fear and before she can even utter a single word, Carlos Decker snapped the woman's neck.
"Guards", one of the men who is working for Carlos came in the room "dispose of this body will you"
"Yes master" the guard then came to the woman's body; he picked her up and left the room. Not long after another man came into the room "master we have a guest" but before the man can leave the room a woman appeared, she was very old and full of wrinkles. Further, the woman wore a black hooded cloak that had little holes in it, she walked slowly to where Carlos Decker was standing. "So do you have anything for me Vivian" he asked while pouring himself whisky.
"Yes, I found the magical scroll that can help you take down the Crimsons once and for all"
"Good, very good" Carlos Decker said this while smiling evilly.