Progenitor Vampire: I Have Many Skills!

Tens of minutes after Matt and Alice disappeared, the divine knight leaped across the place and ran past, trying to catch up with the caravan.

'...There's no way they're that fast. Shit looks like I'm too late.' His mind was filled with rage as he continued down the long road.

Still, there came a point where he stopped.

'Those bastards... So it was them. Shit, I swear I'll get you, you vampire bastards.' The Divine Knight immediately returned to the city he had come from; he would let the whole empire know.

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A few days later, Matthew and Alice entered a new city. It was closer to the center of the empire and was somewhat known, although it was not one of the main cities.

But in this city, they had to be very careful and tried to hide their auras as much as possible because there were powerful people everywhere.

Besides, news that two powerful vampires were in human lands wreaking havoc had spread since that day, so being careful was the best thing to do.

Although the right thing to do would be to run straight through the empire until he left the territories and returned to the dark kingdom, Matt had made a different decision for two reasons. Find more at m _v _l _e _mpyr.

The first was to look for Charlotte, and the second was to investigate the item they had just found under that church.

The item worked similarly to the orb that Gabriel Becker was using at the time but had a smaller capacity.

If it was here, it meant that there were also traces of that organization in the Empire. But what made Matt stay was that he found that this necromancer's magic was strengthened when he put the orb together with this other item, which had a hexagonal appearance.

That strengthening was a bit strange, and Matt couldn't understand it, so he wanted to investigate it more and see if he could find another similar one.

That was why he came to this city and decided to stay here for a while.

Because he had discovered that the city's Vampire Hunter's Guild was issuing a quest to hunt a strong Undead Vampire, which had not been taken.

Apparently, one or two groups had taken the mission at the start and died, which shows that it was more dangerous than it appeared.

Maybe Matt could find some information about this hexagonal item he had gotten near that undead; that's what he thought.

So, after selling stuff they stole from the merchants and buying some other things on the black market, both signed up for the guild.

Because Matt wanted to spend more time here, he had gone out of his way to make a commendable disguise so no one suspected him.

They caused great surprises when they tried on it because their strengths were quite impressive, especially for slaying vampires.

Being the Vampire Hunters Guild, they naturally looked favorably upon them and awarded them a good starting rank: Rank B.

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Both of them were wearing light full-body armor, pretty tough and good armor that they got from the black market; not many people in this guild could wear such good full-body armor, so when they saw them entering with the B-Rank badge on their necks, many people stopped to stare at them.

"Hey, I heard that those armors they wear are made of Emerald and bathed in Mythril. Is it true?"

"I heard that too... They seem to be quite rich; I heard they live in the most expensive hotel in town, too; who could they be?"

"Don't you know? Shit, I was there when they were checking in. Those two look good under the helmet, but the important thing is that they come from the Nevod Mountains. I think you can figure out what that means."

"W-what!? They're from the Nevod?!"

"Shit... No wonder they're so rich... Fuck, from the Nevod Mountains... How I wish I had a background as great as that."

Numerous adventurers looked back and forth at them, though they sighed.

'Looks like another A-Rank group is about to be born.' They thought.

People from the Nevod, one of the most well-known mountainous areas in the Empire, could rarely be seen. But whenever people from that place are seen, they are incredibly wealthy and powerful.

After all, that's where the most powerful Grand Sorcerers are, leading the adventurers to think that perhaps they too are Grand Sorcerers, though all that remained to be seen.

Matt and Alice walked through the guild and stopped at the Missions banner.

They looked from side to side, searching for the mission they had come for.

'...Did someone take it?' Matt thought about it when he couldn't find it.

Then, a commotion occurred at the door.

"Look out, let them in; they are wounded!"

"A healing wizard, quick!"

The commotion immediately attracted attention, and when they saw who they were and what was happening, many came out to help. Several healing mages began to heal several seriously injured people.

And rumors soon followed.

"It's that group... The white eagle also failed against that Undead Vampire."

"I've been saying it since we faced him: the guild should raise the danger level of that mission; it's not a B-rank mission!"

As another group stood up, the rumors stopped.

They approached the white eagle group.

"I think you and I agree that's not B-Rank. That fucker is at least an A-Rank, and a pretty strong one at that."

The man who was the leader of the white eagle group nodded regretfully. "It's not Rank B. Even I couldn't withstand its strength." He replied, causing the guild members to frown.

Several of them looked at each other in frustration.

Mistakes kept hitting them repeatedly around that mission that initially seemed simple.

The white eagle leader returned the mission token, but before the guild could grab it, a hand held it up and spoke.

"Since they failed, could you let us try?" Matt asked, causing the guild to look at him.