Targeted by a Vampire

"Don't worry. Dr. Warfarin is different from ordinary Vampires, so there's no need to panic too much."

Typing Girl was actually a little surprised as well. Dr. Warfarin normally would not lose control like this. Even when she was being improper, she would not openly go berserk.

"Maybe something urgent came up..."

Running into the Vampire girl had only been an insignificant interlude. The two of them soon arrived outside Dr. Kal'tsit's office.

"I'll wait outside. Don't worry, the office has excellent soundproofing."

After saying that, the angelic young woman sat down on a chair in the hallway outside, pulled out a piece of chocolate from her pocket, and slowly began eating it.

Bai Ye stood outside the door and took a deep breath.

Things had already deviated greatly from his original plan. He had not intended to confront Dr. Kal'tsit on the first day. If he wanted to discuss cooperation, he should at least wait until Miss Swire had registered a company...

Opening the game interface only he could see, Bai Ye checked his current status. All his attributes were above thirty. Combined with his skills, combat experience, and the weaknesses he knew as an old hunter, dealing with a doctor should not be a problem—provided the monster Dr. Kal'tsit kept was not around.

As a Player in his previous life, Bai Ye had seen the enormous monster Dr. Kal'tsit sent out. But the office was cramped right now, so that black thing should not be here, right?

(Players did not know that Mon3tr was directly summoned by Kal'tsit...)

Bai Ye felt like he was raising a flag. As expected, he still had too little information.

Everything in his status was normal. Bai Ye closed the game interface and knocked on the door.

"Come in." A calm female voice came from inside. It was gentler than Bai Ye had imagined, not cold at all.

"Why does this feel like I'm going to see the dean of students..." Shaking some unpleasant memories from his head, Bai Ye reached out and pressed his hand against the door.

Hmph, as if I'd be afraid of her.

The door slid open automatically, and Bai Ye walked inside.

A woman sat in the room. She had short white hair, a youthful appearance, and fair skin, like a young girl.

Yet Bai Ye sensed a contradiction in her—her temperament did not match her appearance at all.

It was the temperament of an elder, giving people a peculiar sense of security and gravity. That unusual aura enveloped the entire room, creating an indescribably strange feeling.

And yet, it was reassuring.

Bai Ye could not help staring at her... In his previous life, no Player had ever been able to observe Dr. Kal'tsit from such close range.

"If there is a particular part of my face that concerns you, you may point it out directly. There is no need to keep staring at me."

Those were the first words Dr. Kal'tsit spoke.

Bai Ye was briefly stunned before realizing that the woman had spoken.

She raised her head from behind her desk and met Bai Ye's gaze. Her emerald-green eyes were like gemstones, radiating an indescribable light.

How strange.

Bai Ye muttered to himself, but he could not judge her threat level from her appearance at all. That was bizarre. He had seen much in his previous life and naturally possessed exceptional judgment, yet he could not see through this doctor.

That black monster clearly was not here. In such a cramped space, Bai Ye believed one thrust of his sword would be enough to settle everything. Yet instincts honed through countless battles told him that his chances of winning were not high.

Could that rumor be true?

Was the strongest fighter on Rhodes Island a doctor?

How could that be?

She was just a healer. Fragile as hell...

As he pondered, Bai Ye found a chair and sat across from Kal'tsit.

"I just didn't expect Kal'tsit herself to be an Infected." As he spoke, Bai Ye looked toward Dr. Kal'tsit's exposed shoulders and saw the black crystals there.

The doctor did not care at all about exposing them to everyone's eyes, rather than desperately hiding them like ordinary Infected.

"I thought someone like you would not concern yourself with such matters." Dr. Kal'tsit neither confirmed nor denied it.

This time, Bai Ye was the one left puzzled.

Someone like him.

Just what did Dr. Kal'tsit in front of him know?

"Rest assured, I hold no hostility toward you. I am merely curious how someone like you became interested in a small pharmaceutical company." Dr. Kal'tsit continued.

Bai Ye blinked. Talking to someone who spoke in riddles was exhausting... He probed, "You know who I am?"

"Of course. Since you made no effort to conceal your identity, I quickly learned about you from the anomalous data reported by PRTS." Dr. Kal'tsit's tone and voice were not aggressive. They actually sounded rather pleasant.

"Please be direct. I still don't quite understand." Bai Ye placed his medical examination report on the desk before Dr. Kal'tsit.

"Blood Originium crystal density: 0.00u/L. Only beings entirely unrelated to Originium could produce such data. On this land, at present, only Great Beasts possess such characteristics."

"You are very young, younger than any of your kin."

Dr. Kal'tsit's words set off towering waves in Bai Ye's heart.

What the hell? A Great Beast? In other words, a god?

Was this a joke?

Bai Ye was speechless. Even if he had transmigrated, he was still a perfectly normal human. How could he possibly be a Great Beast?

The Great Beast was me?

So he actually had a boss template, not an NPC template?

"Could you be mistaken?" Bai Ye frowned slightly.

Dr. Kal'tsit did not answer directly. Instead, she slowly looked at Bai Ye's hand. "Do you possess certain innate abilities that allow you to cast spells without relying on Originium?"

Bai Ye subconsciously raised his hand, and a ball of wind gathered in his palm.

That was indeed the case. Without using a casting unit, he had directly unleashed Originium Arts.

So that was it. He had always believed he used Originium Arts through the small casting unit on his dagger, but in fact, he could cast spells out of thin air. That tiny casting unit alone was not enough to perform spells on the scale he had used before.

"Your species' abilities have nothing to do with Originium," Dr. Kal'tsit explained. "Usually, your Originium Arts aptitude is terrible, but you possess more unusual powers."

Yet Bai Ye still could not believe what Dr. Kal'tsit was saying.

"Doctor, if you wanted to surprise me, perhaps you succeeded. But clearly, I am not as unrelated to Originium as you claim—"

As Bai Ye spoke, he drew the dagger strapped to his outer thigh. At his mental command, the miniature casting unit on the blade emitted a faint red glow, and energy wrapped around the dagger.

"The most basic Originium Art: Attack Enhancement, Type α."

As he spoke, Bai Ye casually thrust his dagger, colliding with the blade striking from behind him.

"Has the little assassin you hid on the ceiling finally run out of patience?"

As he spoke, Bai Ye turned aside and dodged the next attack, then exchanged several more blows with the ghostlike figure. Only he knew how dangerous those exchanges had been.

Dr. Kal'tsit's assassin moved swiftly, her techniques far beyond those of ordinary people, but she was still within Bai Ye's ability to handle.

Bai Ye's fighting style was unusual. He had no fixed tactics or swordsmanship, yet he could always precisely intercept his opponent's attacks.

But the process was incredibly thrilling. Both their weapons were frighteningly short, and they fought at far too close a distance. One mistake would mean total defeat.

Just then, the door to Dr. Kal'tsit's office was suddenly smashed open.

"Bang—"

Bai Ye took the opportunity to kick out, then flipped backward out of the combat zone. "It's over. I have the high ground."

At the same time, the Vampire girl who had burst into the office shouted at Dr. Kal'tsit, "Kal'tsit! Guess what I found!"

"That special blood sample can interrupt the Originium cycle and even devour Originium energy! And it tastes really good too... Wait, what happened to you two?!"

"My god, was there an assassin?"

Inside the room, Dr. Kal'tsit still sat calmly in her chair, her eyes reflecting sheets of paper and fragments of furniture flying through the air. Her eyes narrowed slightly, as though concealing her thoughts.

The ceiling, walls, and floor were covered in sharp blade marks. The office was a complete mess.

The Vampire girl felt stinging pain across her skin. It was the collision of two killing intents. Without realizing it, she had barged straight onto a battlefield.

The two people facing each other held short daggers. Those compact weapons were perfectly suited for fighting in a cramped space like an office.

Typing Girl, who had heard the Vampire girl's cry, also rushed into the office.

What she saw likewise exceeded the angelic young woman's imagination.

"Are you insane...? You started fighting in Dr. Kal'tsit's office before even joining Rhodes Island?"

"No. He was merely demonstrating his Originium Arts to us."

Dr. Kal'tsit's tone remained completely flat, as if all of this were perfectly normal. Fighting in her office was normal too, only natural. Nothing worth making a fuss over.

"Sorry." Bai Ye sheathed his dagger and returned to looking completely harmless. "Actually, she attacked first."

As he spoke, Bai Ye pointed at the petite Lupo girl half-crouched on the ground. She had been the one to leap down from the ceiling and launch the first attack against Bai Ye.

"Red, it is over." Dr. Kal'tsit gestured for the girl to put away her weapon, then looked at Bai Ye. "I apologize for this. She believed you intended to attack me. Rhodes Island has had its leaders assassinated before, so we tend to be cautious."

"However, you truly surprised me... especially with your Originium Arts."

That was what she said, but there was no surprise in Dr. Kal'tsit's voice.

"Perhaps I'm the descendant of a Great Beast and a human..." Bai Ye made up nonsense.

In truth, he had noticed something was wrong himself.

Especially the suspicious, damaged race entry ██ on his interface.

At first, he had assumed it read "human."

But now, "Great Beast" seemed possible too? Perhaps Kal'tsit's words did have some truth to them.

"That possibility cannot be ruled out. One of life's purposes is reproduction." Dr. Kal'tsit's tone seemed to carry a hint of amusement.

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Stalked by a Vampire

After a bout of chaos, the sudden commotion in Dr. Kal'tsit's office finally settled down.

The shredded pages, wooden furniture chopped into pieces, and various other bits and pieces were gathered together by Bai Ye with wind and piled in a corner of the office.

Once Bai Ye accepted that his abilities were not Originium Arts, his mastery over them began improving at an astonishing rate.

'I'm not good at Originium Arts, but this isn't Originium Arts, so I'm good at it.'—That idealistic way of thinking really did work.

Unfortunately, the blade marks left on the walls, floor, and ceiling could not be cleaned up for the moment. They could only wait for the logistics department to repair them.

The angelic young woman looked at Bai Ye with disgust. He had clearly said earlier that he would behave himself and not cause trouble for logistics, yet it had only been a short while before he started fighting in Dr. Kal'tsit's office.

He was seriously bold!

He had not even formally joined Rhodes Island, yet he already dared make trouble in Dr. Kal'tsit's office. Who knew what he would do in the future? She did not even dare imagine it.

Hmph, men.

Bai Ye, meanwhile, was somewhat puzzled. They had already started fighting, so why had Dr. Kal'tsit's summon not rushed in from outside?

Wasn't she afraid of his blade?

Also, where exactly was that black monster kept? Did Rhodes Island really have enough space to raise an eight-meter-long Mon3tr? What did it eat?

Very mysterious.

Bai Ye felt that the waters here ran too deep.

Unfortunately, no one had seen it in his previous life, and no one in this life kindly told Bai Ye that Mon3tr was directly summoned by Dr. Kal'tsit and normally hid within her body...

Man and machine had never been separate.

As for Dr. Kal'tsit, she had been observing the young individual before her. He was not as powerful as his kin, but he was purer; he seemed more human, of the more ancient kind. He bore none of his species' traits and did not even resemble a Sargos.

Moreover, his blood did not seem as difficult to utilize as that of ordinary Great Beasts.

Dr. Kal'tsit was very curious where this young man, blessed by the world and naturally endowed with affinity, had come from.