Chapter 213 Nightmares and Sweet Dreams (4k)
“Ahh—”
Wit’s scream tore through the night.
Betty and Scott were almost simultaneously awakened.
The flickering firelight illuminated the vampire’s side profile.
That pale, withered face was rapidly turning rosy.
Trapped beneath the vampire, Wit struggled intensely, but the disparity in strength was glaringly obvious. His hands were tightly clamped by the vampire, unable to move an inch.
But this struggle only lasted for a few seconds.
The hormones injected from the vampire’s fangs paralyzed his nerves, and he calmed down instantly.
Robert woke up next, struggling to open his eyes toward Wit’s direction, thinking it was still a dream.
Yet, this nightmare felt so real that it made him shudder inwardly.
“Mana Summoning!”
Betty reacted the fastest. A brightly colored, slender, snake-like mana spirit flew out from her sleeve almost instantly!
That was Betty’s three-star mana spirit—the Patterned Sea Eel she had created in her second year!
The Patterned Sea Eel had a serpentine body, a small head, and a protruding mouth filled with sharp teeth, which extended beyond its lips, making it exceptionally hideous.
However, its skin lacked scales and was instead covered with intricate patterns.
These patterns allowed its attributes to switch between water, lightning, and poison, changing its offensive and defensive capabilities and even altering its ultimate skill accordingly.
As the Patterned Sea Eel flew out from Betty’s sleeve, it was adorned with golden patterns, shimmering with electric light, moving like lightning. In an instant, it bit at the vampire’s shoulder!
But the vampire simply reached out, grabbing the sea eel firmly, unbothered by the electricity.
“Lightning Beam!”
Accompanied by Betty’s roar, the Patterned Sea Eel opened its mouth wide, its lightning surging forth, forming a concentrated beam that shot out abruptly!
“Pffft!”
The vampire’s face was hit squarely by the lightning beam, leaving only a slight scorch mark.
He raised his head as a result.
The satisfaction from drinking blood gradually cleared his confusion and thirst, and the redness in his eyes slightly subsided.
“Who am I?”
“Where am I?”
“What should I do?”
Three questions struck his heart directly.
Fragmented memories slowly surfaced.
“Vlad, Vlad, I am Vlad!”
“I have been reborn!”
“I have returned!”
Vampire Vlad suddenly stood up, his blood cloak fluttering behind him.
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“Toxic Fangs!”
The patterns on the Patterned Sea Eel shifted from golden to dark green, and thick venom dripped from its fangs. It then bit down on Vlad’s finger.
Vlad lifted his left hand, looking at the sea eel, and suddenly exerted force.
“Crack!”
The Patterned Sea Eel was crushed instantly!
Betty’s face turned deathly pale. Her duel record wasn’t particularly impressive, and her ability to handle unexpected situations was average.
According to Wit’s description, apart from the occasional Minotaur, only bats had been seen in the secret passage.
With the crowd gone, all the changes that had occurred in the secret passage had reverted, and the traps and mechanisms had vanished.
This gave her the illusion that the secret passage was now harmless.
But what was happening before her eyes was violently challenging her judgment.
“Vampire?”
“Is it a mana spirit?”
“Or is it really a vampire?”
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“Squid of Three Eyes!”
Scott summoned a three-eyed squid.
The moment it appeared, it spewed out thick black ink!
Vlad, who was still transitioning from confusion to clarity, was sprayed with squid-ink in his face!
He was furious, reaching out to wipe it away.
But just as his long fingers cleared the ink from his eyes, a sharp glint entered his vision, rapidly enlarging.
The water monkey’s claws flashed with sharp light, using the ink as cover to swiftly approach, aiming to gouge out his eyes!
“Get away!”
Vlad roared suddenly.
His blood cloak writhed, extending a blood-red hand from its shoulder, and with a mighty strike, it sent the water monkey flying at the last second!
The water monkey landed with a thud against the wall, sliding down like a piece of paper.
…
The atmosphere froze instantly.
Vlad’s actions of killing two mana spirits with a wave of his hand instilled panic.
“Ahh!”
Robert’s scream, though delayed, finally came.
…
The sudden change alarmed Betty, Scott, and Robert.
But all three of them were still half-buried in their sleeping bags.
Wit was the same; only his hands were exposed.
The wound on his neck had healed significantly in this brief moment, but the lost blood wouldn’t regenerate quickly.
The hormones from the vampire’s fangs had made him calm.
He didn’t even think about resisting.
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Vampire Vlad revealed his vicious nature in front of the four students.
After his resurrection, he had been confused, but he had finally regained some clarity. However, the fragmented memories in his brain weren’t enough for him to fully understand the situation.
He was like a newborn child, knowing only his name and the instincts of a vampire, along with the arrogance deeply rooted in his bones!
But this didn’t stop him from viewing Wit, Betty, Scott, and Robert as prey at the bottom of the food chain!
The differences in species made the conflict between pure-blood vampires and humans irreconcilable.
This was similar to the relationship between most demons and humans.
Only when one side was completely annihilated would the war end!
But even a dying centipede could still bite.
Especially demons.
…
Vlad’s resurrection was highly accidental, but in astrology, it would be called “inevitable.”
In the words of a seer, it would be “fate!”
A seer whose ashes had been scattered once said that as long as humanity existed, demons would never truly be extinguished.
Seers based their predictions on this premise, repeatedly forecasting the return of demons.
It was as if they would lose their jobs if they didn’t predict this.
The sky outside the castle was swirling with dark clouds, hinting at an impending storm.
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“Who are you?”
Robert’s question broke the silence.
Vlad turned to look at him, his nose twitching slightly, revealing a look of disdain.
The more noble the vampire, the more selective they were. Not everyone was worthy of becoming his meal.
Among the four present, only Wit and Betty were qualified to become his food.
And Wit was the only one qualified to receive his embrace!
He ignored Robert’s question and looked down at Wit, his lips curling into a smile, revealing gleaming fangs.
“Feel the glory, you will become Vlad’s first blood slave!”
From blood slave to blood demon, and then to vampire, was a necessary progression for a non-inherited vampire.
The hormones in Wit’s bloodstream finally diluted to a certain extent during this process.
He widened his eyes, fear evident in his gaze.
Becoming a vampire’s blood slave was something he had never considered.
Not only did it negate his own existence, but it also insulted the lineage of a hero!
Wit struggled desperately to escape from his sleeping bag.
Almost simultaneously,
Betty and Scott also took action.
They slipped out of their sleeping bags, reaching for their mana card decks at their waists.
Vlad was unconcerned about their actions, not stopping them, and even chuckled with his arms crossed.
Sated and content, one naturally seeks amusement after a full meal.
Just humans, after all.
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“Gigant!”
In the end, Wit was the first to summon his mana spirit.
He achieved a breakthrough under extreme conditions, further compressing the casting time of a regular summoning spell.
The gigantic Gigant descended from the sky, charging fearlessly at the vampire!
“Inferior creature!”
Vlad sneered, casually raising his hand, causing two spell circles to appear in his palm.
The spell circles overlapped, one rotating clockwise and the other counterclockwise, mainly in black and red tones.
Massive mana erupted instantly.
A crimson light flashed, shooting out from the spell circles!
The Gigant’s head exploded instantly!
“Boom!”
The headless corpse crashed to the ground.
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Seeing his pride and joy, the Gigant, easily killed, Wit’s face turned even paler. He barely supported himself against the wall, kicking Robert, who was still dazed in his sleeping bag.
Robert suddenly woke up, scrambling out of his sleeping bag.
“Run!”
Wit could only utter those two words, his fingers trembling as he clutched the “Radiant Python.”
He had never felt such immense fear before.
Even during the night of Halloween in the Moon Goddess temple, he hadn’t felt this scared.
Everyone had been injected with “Disembodied Water,” and he alone remained conscious, feeling a sense of superiority.
When he acted opportunistically and attacked Dark, he didn’t believe he would be harmed.
He wasn’t the one facing the goddess directly.
He merely witnessed everything from the sidelines, like an outsider in a script.
But this time, he was the protagonist!
Like the protagonist in a fairy tale, he was at the core of events, the target of evil.
He must pull himself together.
He couldn’t panic.
He needed to find a way to break free!
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“Mirage!”
Betty raised her right hand as soon as the Gigant fell, releasing an extremely intense rainbow light from her mana card.
A dreamlike projection appeared in the secret passage.
The light flowed like water waves, filling the space with vibrant colors, separating the field of vision, and stirring up a roaring tide, as if waves continuously crashing against the shore.
The vampire finally showed a trace of surprise.
He stretched out his finger to touch the nearby water wave, feeling a genuine chill.
But there was nothing else.
This “Mirage” wasn’t a perfected version yet; it was just one of the topics Betty was currently researching.
The expected “Mirage” should have projected the opponent’s mana spirit, trapping it in a幻影.
But this current “Mirage” was still just a landscape card, useful only for interference!
After the initial shock, Vlad wrapped his cloak around himself, letting the blood flow freely, then suddenly contracting it, breaking the illusion!
However, as the illusion dissipated, no one was left in the secret passage.
Wit, Betty, Scott, and Robert had disappeared.
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In the room filled with mirrors.
The four held their breath, sweating profusely.
Hiding in such a cramped room with only one exit wasn’t a great idea.
But the vampire’s overwhelming power was too terrifying. There was no choice but to avoid confrontation.
“Wit, are you okay?”
Robert asked nervously, “I heard that being bitten by a vampire turns you into one…”
Wit seemed to remember this only now, his already pale face twisting.
At this moment, only Betty’s voice remained calm, “It’s not that bad. Only those embraced by a vampire become blood slaves. Flip your eyelids and check if they’re red.”
Wit hurriedly used his fingers to flip his eyelids. He originally wanted to check himself in the mirror, but Robert had already anxiously leaned over. After a while, he relaxed, “Still black!”
Wit felt relieved, “Looks like I was just drained of blood.”
At this moment, the aftermath of being drained set in. Suddenly, he felt weak in his limbs, exhausted mentally, and his eyelids heavy.
Scott was afraid, “What’s going on? How could there be a vampire in the secret passage?”
Wit, “How would I know…”
Robert, “We encountered a Minotaur before, but that was a long time ago!”
Scott hugged his head, “Damn it, we might not get out of here. What will happen to my parents if I die here? What about my family? I’m the last hope!”
Robert panicked, “No way, during the Moon Goddess incident, we made it through. The professors will save us, right?”
Wit forced out a sentence, “We weren’t saved by the professors alone.”
Betty finally lost patience, shouting, “Quiet!”
As the strongest combatant among the four, Betty had never felt such immense pressure before.
Since fleeing into the secret room, she had been working on summoning, successfully calling forth a second-tier mana spirit by sacrificing two first-tier mana spirits!
But a second-tier mana spirit alone wasn’t enough!
Her Patterned Sea Eel was a type rich in mana. In its poisonous form, its defense and mana values exceeded 2,500 points.
This meant that Vlad’s casual squeeze could deal over 2,500 damage!
At least a six-star monster!
She needed to summon a third-tier mana spirit to have any chance.
But the only third-tier mana spirit she currently had was a seven-star white card.
“If combined with other mana cards…”
Betty quickly calculated the gap in strength between them, trying to narrow it to an acceptable level.
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Outside the secret room,
Vlad had long discovered this secret room by following their residual scent.
But he just stood outside, imagining human children cowering like mice inside, trembling, and laughed cruelly.
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On the other side, Dark had a sweet dream.
