The next morning, Ken had woken up to the blazing sound of the alarm, which reminded them of their first class in the academy. As he fluttered his eyes open he glanced at the roof of his room.
For a minute, he took in the air around him and could feel some kind of relief within himself, unlike how he had been feeling since yesterday.
Talking about yesterday, a certain memory had flashed across Ken's mind, causing him to jump off his bed with his eyes widely opened.
He looked around him, he was of course in his room. But how did he ended up here? He remembered heading for the canteen yesterday night, but on his way, he found a particular smell that drawed his attention.
As he skimmed through the bushy park, he spotted two students. One among them was injured badly, while the other wasn't. But the rest of the scene were blurred as he couldn't remember anything else from there.
That was until another memory appeared. He remembered seeing the uninjured student in front of him, but the state he was, wasn't very much alive.
Due to the sight of blood on his hands, he ended up passing out yesterday. But that is where the confusion comes in.
If he did passed out yesterday, how did he ended up here? in this room, at this moment? According to what he remembered, he's supposed to have fainted in the bush at the park.
Then why is he here?…
Unless maybe he woke up after some hours in the midnight and made his way back to his dormroom.
He would've thought his brain was playing tricks on him, that it wasn't real, but his blood-stained shirt, and the mud on his clothes were a witness to yesterday's incident.
Yet, he couldn't help but worry about the student, who initially wasn't injured, but later on became wounded. The more he thought of this, the more he find it hard to comprehend.
How could it have been, who injured the fellow. How did he ended up with a deep bite mark on his neck? Was there an animal attack or something.
With no way of finding answers to his questions, he decided to check the system.
[Showing Status]
[Name: Ken Layden]
[Race: Demigod-Vampire]
[Level: One]
[HP: 10/10]
[Hunger State: 0%]
This had come as a surprise to Ken, but then he realised that the usual hunger message had stopped popping up above his face every minute.
And also, the constant headaches that always bang hard on his head, had disappeared as well; leaving him in a completely normal state.
[Mana: 0]
[Exp: 0/1999 (lvl 1)]
[Strength: 5/5]
[Speed: 5/5]
[Stamina: 5/5]
[Flight: 5/5]
[Blood beam lvl 1]
[Mana balls lvl 1]
[Mana punch lvl 1]
[—Quests—]
[Daily Quest: meditate for ten minutes in a day]
[Reward: 10 Mana points]
[Main Quest: Reach level 10]
[Reward: 100 Exp]
[You have completed your first side quest!]
[Taste your first blood]
[Reward: 50Exp]
[Exp: 50/1999]
The message had came as a surprise to Ken. "Wait, I already completed the side quest? But how?" He wondered.
Then he remembered seeing blood on his hands, and the injured students collapsing on the floor.
"It couldn't have been me, could it?"
The system stated that he had tasted his first blood, and according to his understanding of the statement, he could only come to a conclusion.
Still, he hoped that what it meant wasn't what he was thinking, cause there's no way he would have sucked a human's blood. He couldn't even taste his own blood.
If anything, he needed to check the school park. This is the only way he could confirm if he actually did it or not. With nothing else to check, Ken had decided to dress up.
Their first class will be holding in a few minutes, and he'll be passing the school park when leaving, so maybe he could try and locate the spot, and see if he could find anything.
It didn't take long for Ken to dress up, and he had immediately head outside, exiting his room.
As he got to the park, he could see some people gathered at a certain spot, and seeing this, his heart had started beating fast.
"It can't be true, can it?" He wondered as he approached the group of people.
As he got closer, he saw a girl sitting with a cake in her hands. The gathered people then started singing a happy birthday song to her.
Seeing this, Ken heaved a sigh of relief. He thought a dead body was spotted, and people had gathered to look at who it was.
Besides, this wasn't even the place. The two students had gone deeper into a place surrounded by thick bushes and trees.
It wasn't mostly visited by students, so no one would know if anything happened there, or if a dead body was found in the place.
As he walked into the bushy area, he was spotted by his two friends; Scott and Travis.
"Hey, isn't that Ken? Where's he heading to?" Scott asked.
"Come on, let's follow him." Travis said, and the two had hastily followed after him.
As Ken travelled through the thick bushes, he eventually got to the spot. The place was just as he had seen yesterday. But unlike what he was expecting, there wasn't any dead body. Neither was there any sign of blood on the floor.
"Could it have been an imagination? But I've never came here before." He wondered.
While he was saying this, a certain person was spying on him from the branches of a tree nearest to him. His eyes were glowing red as he stood there, looking at him.
'He smells like us, yet differently. And only a turned vampire smells like this. I wonder who turned him. That vampire must be severely dealt with for disobeying the rules. I guess I'll have to kill this one after finding out who turned him. We can't have them mess up our mission in the academy.'
The fellow said as he prepared to lunge at Ken.