Chapter 284: Mask Shattered (cont.)

Without the stone mask's restraint, the aura of an undead leaked out. That single scarlet eye also proclaimed her race.

Humans could have red eyes as well, but pupils so eerily crimson, even carrying the stench of blood, belonged only to vampires.

Evileye picked up the fragment and spoke softly.

"You... saw it..."

"A vampire, yet you travel with humans. What a disgrace," said the white demon. "I need to set you straight."

"You... saw it..." Evileye rose to her feet. Her pupils were a deep, profound red, yet they were slowly turning cold.

"Unforgivable. I'm going to kill you."

Evileye had become a vampire when she was twelve, and she had largely forgotten why she had become one.

After all, that had been more than two hundred years ago. In two hundred years, many human kingdoms could not even endure that long.

Back then, she did not yet have the name [Evileye]. She was called [Keno Fasris Invern].

Perhaps she had contracted some strange illness. Perhaps she had come into contact with a cursed item. Or perhaps she had happened upon a vampire noble and, after luckily surviving the "Embrace," became a vampire.

How she had become a vampire was no longer important. Even she could not be bothered to recall such things.

But Evileye would never forget what happened after she became a vampire.

The country where Evileye had once lived was a small nation devoted to the God of Light. However, it possessed neither the Slane Theocracy's national strength nor military power, and thus suffered constant harassment from magical beasts and undead.

Evileye still remembered becoming one of the bloodkin from a human on a barren plain.

After becoming a vampire, the first thing she did was go home.

At the time, she had not considered