It was precisely because he had already experienced the pendant's power that Pengge the Eighth had not immediately retreated, despite knowing that the old castle had been invaded and that its only nonhuman occupant had been killed.
This pendant was a relic left behind by Pengge the Seventh. It had been handed to him along with the Seventh's dying words... It was said to be a treasure truly capable of protecting the Pengge Family.
When Pengge the Eighth was young, he had never taken it seriously. He had simply treated the pendant as one of his father's belongings and kept wearing it... It did not take up much space, anyway.
...Until a nonhuman encounter not long ago, when the pendant's activation saved him from a life-or-death crisis. Only then did he realize that his father's final words had been true.
The man before him, who claimed to be John, was real as well.
As the current head of one of the most powerful families in the underworld, Pengge the Eighth knew very well how to seize every opportunity that appeared before him...
He had even been the first advocate in the entire underworld to propose bringing nonhumans into the organization and increasing its strength.
The vampire originally residing in the castle was the result of his efforts during this period. But... it no longer mattered.
John was obviously far more powerful than that already-dead vampire.
At this moment, Pengge the Eighth did not care in the slightest about his father's dying admonitions... After all, times had changed. How could his father have known how the world's situation would develop when he died?
In this day and age, if you did not embrace Supernatural Power, you could only wait to be eliminated!
Only by following the current of the times could