I open my eyes, after getting the air knocked out of me, to the vampire diving from the air down directly on top of me. I roll to the side and somehow end up ten feet away and on my feet.
"What the hell was that?" I ask in amazement. I'm not the only one to be confused how I got ten feet away as the vampire is sitting in a small crater that it just made, looking around for me. While it is distracted, I take out my gun, take aim, and shoot. The iron rod goes right through the wing making the vampire screech. This again, hurts my ears. I double over in pain and cover my ears. The vampire hears this, turns around, and charges for me with it's wings extended. As it runs towards me, I turn and start running away.
"This fucker will die!" I yell in a hushed tone. I run long enough for the bolt to appear in my gun and when it does, I suddenly stop, sliding on the dirt. I turn around just as fast, which makes the vampire suddenly stop as well. It slides on the dirt towards me and I shoot my gun. "Die bloodsucker!" I yell out. The bolt enters it's heart and it starts twitching as it gets electrocuted. I stand there with my gun remaining aimed at the monster waiting to see if it explodes like the werewolf did. It slowly reaches for the bolt sticking out of it's heart, pulling it out, and tossing it to the side. It falls to it's knees and starts breathing heavy. It's foaming at the mouth at this point, but the realization has hit me. It's not dead and it's not going to die. I must act fast. I take out my sword and charge towards it. I am about to cut off it's head when it jumps up over me. I watch it as it starts diving at me once more. I pull out the yellow toxin and coat my sword with it. I have no idea what it will do, but I don't want to use up all of my acids. I watch as my sword starts to glow. As the vampire gets closer it looks away in a panic from my now glowing sword. It is shining like an angel. I scurries away on the ground not able to look at me.
"Are you afraid of this?" I ask as I point my sword closer to it's face. It bats it away and it's wing is now burning. It regenerates quickly however. I take note of this ability it has. I swing at it's neck, cutting it's head off. The head goes flying, but the body stands up, walks over to the head, and picks it up to attach it back on. "Oh come one! What the fuck are you?!" I yell out in fear. I don't let this fear tear me down however. I just need to try something else. My sword is still glowing from the toxin. It charges and I stab my sword into it's heart. The skin sizzles and blood starts pouring out of both ends of the gaping hole. It screams as loud as it can which makes me loose focus. I cover my ears losing grip on my sword. It pulls the sword out of it's heart with it's mouth tossing the sword away. My heart drops as it look up to see it's wound healing. This is when I realize the reason it has decaying holes in it's wings is because this thing isn't alive. It still somehow heals and is strong. It can somehow fly with those holes in it's wings, but it's dead. Or undead at least. I have read about zombies and how to kill them. I wonder if it's the same for vampires. It charges me and bites me on the shoulder. I scream out in pain and latch onto its mouth. I try to open it up and it is now flying while thrashing me about. I dig my claws into its flesh, as I try to pry open it's mouth. It's flesh slides off which almost makes me puke, but I look down to realize that we are pretty high up. I need to focus on not dying. I swing myself around trying to get on it's back. It lets me go from it's grip and I realize that it just drank my blood. I see it's flesh that slid of regrow. I pull at it's hair forcing it to dive down. I pull out my gun once more and aim at the back of it's head. I pull the trigger sending the bolt into it's brain. I can feel the electricity going through this creature since I'm touching it and feel the pain from it. Before I jump off of it's back so I don't get electrocuted to death, I see some of it's brain leaking out of the hole. It's a bloody mess and as I'm falling I see it swell up from it's organs liquifying and it explodes making it rain blood and flesh all over me. Before I hit the ground I see what appears to be shadowy smoke surrounding me and all of a sudden, I'm ten feet away safely on the ground.
"Did I just.... I can teleport!? Where the fuck was that ability twenty minutes ago?!" I yell out in both amazement and anger. Can all Reapers teleport? Then I remember the woman who flooded me with magical radiation saying her power was to give powers if it didn't kill you in the process. So my power is what? I hear something heavy drop. At least heavier than the blood that's raining down. I look back to see something glowing. I walk over to find a monster core. "I really need to remember these things. I almost forgot it." I say to myself. This core, just like the last, atomizes and enters my implant.
Two Monster Cores stored
"Huh, so it lets me know how many I have stored. That's cool, I wonder how many it can hold?" I wonder.
I remember that the man said there was a lodge around here. I walk around for about half an hour. It's now getting dark and I can see lights in the distance. Finally I have found it. I run over to where the lights are to see a lodge. I walk in to see a man.
"Hello Reaper, are you here to travel to the castle?" He asks.
"I am. I was told that there may be a teleporter here." I say.
"Yes there is, just let me turn this machine on, and you can enter through." He says.
He moves a lever and a bluish purple light shines from the center of this huge machine. The light start to swirl in a circle and the blue turns black. This portal stands about fifteen feet tall, with a bunch of runes carved into the metal around it. I thank the man and hesitantly walk through the magic door. I enter through the other side in the castle. I can't believe it. I just traveled hundreds of feet in two seconds. I walk up to the desk directly ahead to see a woman standing.
"Hello ma'am. I want to turn in a quest." I say.
"Of course! Did you get the quest from here?" She asks.
"No, I got it from the village Rinekor." I say.
"Thank you. Now I know who to let know the information." She says. "Just swipe your hand over this to turn in the quest." She says.
She brings out a similar circular device that the Inn Keeper showed me, but this one is more advanced. It's a black circular device that has lights shining around the sides. When I swipe my hand over it, it beeps and light surrounds my hand. A screen shows up from my wrist.
Deposit Monster Cores? Yes or No
This magic is weird, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. I tap the yes and two Monster Cores appear on the device from my implant. Two red cores now lay on it, while a new screen shows up from my implant.
Three hundred gold given
"Thank you very much." I say pretending that this is normal and not freaky at all.