Beyond the Bloodline-Chapter 125: Paying a Home Visit

Unnamed Mansion

Inholin Residential District

Jopia Continent

February 4th

Year 2018

Right in the centre of the residential district, this mansion exuded elegance and opulence, its grandeur evident in every detail of its architecture.

Inside, the master bedroom was a sanctuary of luxury, adorned with lavish furnishings and draped in moonlit splendour.

On the grand four-poster bed, a tall elf slept peacefully, his serene expression belying the world’s worries

Suddenly, his eyelids snapped open to reveal two glowing reddish-brown eyes and his face contorted into a light frown.

He quickly got up from his bed and tossed a housecoat on as he exited his room and stood in the hallway.

’It’s too quiet...’

This man, the Elven Transcendent Merchant Sanev, had close to a hundred servants in his massive mansion and though it was around 1 am in the morning and they were expected to be sleeping, the same could not be said about his guards.

Although he was a transcendent, this did not mean he had to personally deal with every small issue that occurred in his house, so he had guards handle the less important things like small-time intruders and assassins.

These guards were supposed to be patrolling, but after walking down the hallway and looking out the window, he could not see anyone.

’The windows are open, I can see owls outside, yet I cannot hear the sounds of the Owls hooting or the crickets chirping.

What’s more, the ambient magic power flow is weird...’

He narrowed his eyes as he walked towards the entrance of the mansion, stopping at the landing of the double staircase and looking down at the hall below.

There he saw a suit-clad man seated on one of his couches, pouring himself a glass of thick red liquid from a bottle.

’Wine? No...this smell is blood.’

Sanev silently activated his inventory skill as he stared at this unknown man who silently sipped the glass of blood.

’?!’

The elf’s eyes widened in shock right after as he felt the man’s power actively increasing the more blood he drank.

"This is a bit too strong for me..."

Dropping the empty glass on the table, the man looked up to Sanev with his clear blue eyes and asked.

"Do you know why vampires drink blood?"

"..."

Sanev did not answer, but the man still kept on talking like it didn’t matter.

"A lot of people believe vampires are corpses reanimated by magic and as such they intake blood regularly to keep their corpses moving.

But that only applies to Undead Vampires.

It’s a bit different for normal vampires who are born after a gestation period of nine months like humans and elves."

The man leaned back on the couch and crossed his legs before continuing while Sanev slowly dipped his hand into his inventory and started sorting through his weapons.

"It is believed that they drink blood for more power, and the more they drink, the stronger they get.

That’s true, but not completely.

Most of the power vampires gain from drinking blood is usually temporary.

They gain a temporary power-up from drinking blood, and after that power-up expires, only a small percentage of that power remains in the vampire’s body and becomes permanent. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

This percentage changes depending on the Vampire’s breed, talent, level and the target whose blood they drink.

The power does not come from nowhere; but from the energy within the blood they drink, so the stronger the individual, the greater the power up."

The man filled the glass as he spoke and when he was done, he downed its contents once more before finally covering the bottle and turning the glass upside down.

"Exactly 15,000 years ago, I had a little bit of an Altercation with an Elven Race King who didn’t like the policies I established in his home galaxy.

His fear of me taking over did come to pass, but that’s not important.

What’s important, is that I turned him upside down and drained out 90% of the blood in his body, leaving him with only 10%.

Do you know where all that blood ended up?"

By the time he asked that question, Sanev was already done conjuring a dozen Tier 5 magic circles around the hall, ready to fire all of them in an instant.

He wasn’t just standing around and listening to this intruder yap about another race’s constraints and had scanned the area for any other presences to see if there were other intruders.

The Elf had also drawn his sword, a blade of flaming divine power that was sure to deal a lot of damage to vampires.

’Vampires are beings of the Dark and are weak to the Light...and divinity. Though it’s not my main weapon, it’s the best to use in this case against this unknown vampire.’

"I don’t know what you came for, Vampire. But you would not be going back."

Sanev released his magic power and let it fill the area, while his body began transforming. His height increased substantially and his eyes glowed with a dark light.

His long hair rose up like it was being blown by the wind, and the left half turned red like it was suddenly engulfed in flames while the right half turned to a cold blue colour

Sanev proceeded to summon another sword, of cold frosty divine power, holding it with his right hand while his left hand held the flaming sword.

"Ice and fire, huh? Plus, the ’Frozen Inferno’ skill to make them coexist. Not too bad, don’t you think, Mira?"

"Indeed."

Sanev’s eyes widened in shock and he turned around, immediately jumping back to gain distance from the second presence that just showed up in his perception.

’There were two! But I checked earlier! No...that doesn’t matter. If they have a way to block my senses then there could be more than just two of them!’

As the man’s brain was running on overdrive to conjure plans of action, Miranda continued speaking without a care for the situation.

"Jay, don’t you think this painting looks a bit familiar?"

Jamie put the bottle of Elven Race King blood back into his subspace as he studied the painting Miranda was holding up for a few seconds.

"It does, but I don’t remember where I saw it."

"That’s the feeling I got as well.

Oh well, I’d just keep it with me until we find out—"

**WHOOSHH!!!

"—where we’ve last seen it."

"?!"

Sanev who had attacked Miranda mid-speech recoiled in shock as he saw that his blade of ice had phased through the woman’s body as if she wasn’t even there.

’An illusion?!’

"Thanks."

Miranda just thanked Jamie who had used his spatial phasing ability on her as she put the painting into her subspace.

"As for you..."

Miranda suddenly dashed toward Sanev and spun her body around to deliver a high kick to the side of his head. The elf’s body bashed through the rails and was hurtling down to the ground when Jamie tapped the table and the blood inside his glass floated out and condensed to the utmost limit before firing out as a red supersonic beam.

Thanks to the spatial expansion, the elf was still in the air when he fired the beam, but before it could hit Sanev, the elf spun around and slashed at it with his flame sword.

The law energy and divinity that burst out from his flame sword shattered Jamie’s spatial expansion and he thrust the blade towards Jamie’s head.

However, even if he broke the spatial expansion once, Jamie could reapply it in the milliseconds the elf’s sword needed to reach the Hybrid.

’This? Space manipulation! So fast! Fuck, Fire!’

He gave the command and the dozen spell circles he had conjured came to life, but in the instant they were about to fire, Jamie waved his hands and used spatial slicing.

With the condensed power of the law of space, half of the dozen or so magic circles were split in two instantly, while Miranda destroyed the other half.

Naturally, the backlash of spell circle destruction still applied so Sanev’s energy circuits were fried for a few seconds, and in that time period, he could not use the sword’s flames that had broken Jamie’s spatial expansion.

Sanev made the decision to his sword back, but even that took ’time’ as he had to pull his sword across the expanded distance, and Jamie wasn’t just going to sit there and watch him.

There was also Miranda who was still miffed that he had interrupted her when she was speaking.

The woman flashed in behind him and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck, pulling him back forcefully and yeeting him into the air with enough force that he bashed through the walls of the mansion.

Sanev’s body crashed through the mansion’s walls, through many rooms and eventually fell out into the courtyard in the middle.

"Guh!"

He coughed and spat out a bit of blood as he looked down on his chest and saw that there were crisscrossed slash lines on it.

’When did he even?!’

If it wasn’t for the law energy infused into the threads of the shirt he had under his housecoat then he was sure that those spatial slashes would have done a lot more damage to him.

*TAP-TAP-TAP!

The sound of footsteps made him look up and he saw the two intruders in his mansion calmly walking through the hole he blasted through the wall when he fell.

"Now then, Mira. Shall we?"