Chapter 104 104:A Familiar Figure
Secret Intelligence Office, Horizon City Branch...
A high-level meeting took place where various men who held top positions of leaders sat before the screen with solemn expressions on their faces to hear the report.
"123 people had already been killed and there may be more people dying while we are talking."Yamato the Chief Officer reported to everyone while giving the reports.
"The bodies we have recovered are pale, lifeless, cold without much presence of blood. The bodies have several bite marks of fangs on their necks. Based on evidence collected from the group that manages to offer a fight, it didn't even last for 10 minutes before all of them were killed. The target seems to be hunting at night while lying dormant and hiding during the day."
"Is there any footage?"
"We only have the footage from base 3 from which the Vampire appeared. All we can see are faint blurs of the fight."Yamato shouted then played the footage.
In the video, a dark figure covering himself in wings glided across, dismantling everyone. The dark wings saved it from a bullet and the blast while it ripped apart the human with its sharp nails.
"If an otherworldly being managing to sneak in isn't bad enough, it had to be Vampire."A figure muttered with a sigh.
"Yamoto, what about its rank?"
"We don't have any clues regarding it. With hidden abilities, extremely fast speed, and the ability to kill others in a quick snap its level can be expected from Martial Lord or above but with the number of kills, I am sure it isn't at full power. It seems to be recovering and the recent hunt seems to be because it wants to recover."Yamoto explained
"Its ability to blend in darkness is quite annoying as the stealth is quite perfect.''
"We can use thermal vision to find it but if it had Blood Mystic abilities then we are in really deepshit."
"Damn it!"At that time, a man slammed his fist on the table furiously and shouted"I don't think this is a coincidence. During the times of war, many of them had sneaked in but still, we were able to find them out when they sneaked but how can it go unnoticed?"
"I am sure there is a traitor who helped this guy?"
"Maybe?"Another mysterious man spoke sternly."And maybe not."
"There is a possibility that this vampire might be on a mission to sneak in among us and collect information about our recent development."
The entire hall became solemn all of a sudden.
"We will look into that but..."
At that time Argent spoke, drawing everyone's attention.
"Let's first deal with this Vampire before it takes thousands of lives or goes into hiding. To recover its full power, this guy is still on the hunt. Thankfully, they have to suck blood through their fangs which would leave marks."
"Sir, that's where the problem lies," Yamato spoke softly, taking another look at him silently.
"In the beginning, he was quite crazy as he sneaked in through the Space Teleporter of the base of Division 3 and hurriedly slaughtered everyone but later he seemed to know this and covered up the marks by dismantling the corpses into pieces."
Hearing this everyone sighed.
"As expected from Vampire. They are lazy and quite less in number but a single one of them is a headache to deal with."
"In that case, we can only increase the manpower and hire people from Blood Net."
"No mercenaries this time, Argent. The last time we took mercenaries they tore apart cooperation and sabotaged the mission. Those crude guys only think with brawls."Lecco, a man of similar rank to Argent, grumbled remembering the headache.
Last time the extraterrestrial monsters jumped down from the crack creating a nationwide alert and the mercenaries instead of helping, fought among themselves.
"I am not going to take them. This time we will only take the chosen individuals, the ones we have monitored and filtered."Argent spoke with a smile that disappeared thinking about the certain individual.
'That guy even managed to create a miracle and found out the long-lost serum. If it's him, maybe he can do something, no he will certainly do as this matter concerns the lives of many.
"Okay relay the agents to form a squad of highly trained cultivators and ask them to hunt separate regions. Start procuring silver to craft silver bullets and weapons immediately."
"We need to wrap it quickly."
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Similarly to Aether Prime which lies in the middle of Elysium and Chalice City to the South, Horizon in the Eastern part is the core city of the Easter part of Elysium.
The people here were of mixed nationality Korean, Japanese, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Philippines.
However, all of them looked quite the same.
Soft, cute, and kind, prospering together.
"Even though the Eastern part was packed with many ethnic nationalities there wasn't any conflict or racism. It's a pleasant place,"
A soft alluring voice fell into Leon's ears as he looked down the plane that trailed off to Horizon.
That's what Leon liked the most in this current world.
He was sick of hearing people screaming at one another based on caste, creed, religion, gender, and color which looked stupid and bullshit.
However, Leon after a brief period finally got an understanding of them. It's just when people have so much free time and have no worries about food, money, and shelter they need something to waste time and ease their boredom.
Suppose a person who had to work hard for 20 hours to earn his living and struggle, do they even have the time to argue and waste time on stupid things?
However, when troubles went away, another trouble knocked on the door as this world was worse than his previous one in some things.
"It's quite pleasant but you know what I am here for," Leon spoke setting the earpiece
"So, are you going to catch a vampire for real?"
"Yeah!"
"Damn, you should have said that then I would also come with you."
"Sophia, get straight to the point."Leon cut off Sophia's speech.
After spending some time with Sophia, Leon knew how confident Sophia's words sounded.
Her voice carried allure, charisma, coldness, and great commanding authority but her voice looked quite frail today.
"Sophia, as I said if you have any problem just say. There is no need to hesitate. I am always there to hear your naggings and worries. Yeah on the condition that your call reaches me here or if I am in the middle of cutting someone."
The moment Leon said this, the passenger beside Leon gawked at him with wide eyes and started shivering.
The atmosphere was stirred by his words and he saw the gazes of everyone locking onto him.
At that moment, Leon was also shocked as he saw a familiar figure who gave him a disgusted look and turned around.
'Joke...It's a joke,' Leon whispered with a bitter smile and proceeded to appease Sophia to lift up her mood.
Sophia who was feeling down chuckled a bit and then sighed.
"Yes Leon, I don't know if I should say it or not as it might affect your mood. It is that your enemy has come looking for me."
"Who?"Leon asked with amusement, wondering which enemies.
"Seph Greymore."
Instead of shock, Leon's lips curled upwards with a threatening smile.
"I see."
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