Blood of Silver

Late at night, in the basement of a villa somewhere in Silver City.

Under the dim lights, more than a dozen men had been blindfolded and hung upside down in midair.

"You're not very capable, but you sure talk big."

"Since you can buy anything, I wonder if you can buy your own lives now?"

A long-haired young man with delicate features, dressed in a tailcoat, looked at these outrageously audacious people before him. The killing intent in his voice grew stronger and stronger. If he had not needed to interrogate them about where Nora's blood had gone, he would have chopped them up and fed them to the dogs long ago.

As Nora's guardian in Silver City, Roch bore enormous responsibility for her being attacked.

In truth, Roch felt quite innocent. Nora possessed the Daywalker talent and could move about in sunlight, so he could only assign human bodyguards to protect her.

When Nora had been attacked while shopping during the day, what else could he have done?

After something happened to Nora, he immediately mobilized the entire Blood Clan force in Silver City and finally intercepted this group before they could leave the city.

Honestly, he had never expected that not a single one of them was a supernatural being. They were all ordinary people.

"Talk. The blood you stole... who did you sell it to?" Roch asked slowly as he walked up to a young man and patted his face.

This young man was clearly the leader of the group. During the capture, the silver weapons he used had nearly posed a threat to them.

"I don't know him. He wore a mask, and he probably had makeup under it too. There are rules in our line of work. Asking about a client's background breaks the rules. That's all I know," the young man answered truthfully, still managing to remain calm.

Roch sneered and suddenly thrust his hand into the neck of a man hanging upside down beside him. The man immediately convulsed and screamed. Then, all the blood in his body flowed out through the wound along Roch's hand, forming a long, slender blood sword.

"Since you have your rules, I'll use mine. Let's see whether your rules are bigger, or mine are," Roch said with a sinister smile.

For some time afterward, agonized screams and chilling tearing sounds echoed through the basement.

At last, before the moon set, everything returned to silence.

Roch came up from the basement, took a white towel from his assistant, and carefully wiped his hands. He said blandly, "Tang Bo, take some people and investigate. The thief who obtained Miss Nora's blood should be around her age, and his family should have some assets. He may have withdrawn more than twenty-five million recently. It shouldn't be difficult to find him."

"Understood. I'll drag that bastard out, and then..." the assistant beside him said with his head lowered.

Before he could finish, Roch interrupted, "Bring him back alive. Let Miss Nora handle him herself. The Duke said it was time for her to see some blood."

Logically speaking, even if her bodyguards had been shot dead, Nora herself was not someone ordinary people could easily subdue.

As supernatural creatures, Vampires possessed physical abilities far beyond ordinary humans. Even if their opponents had weapons, escaping would not have been difficult.

But Nora had been so terrified by her bodyguards' deaths that she lost all composure. Before she could react, those ordinary people had wounded her with silver.

If those people had come for Nora's life, she would certainly have died that day.

Silver City No. 3 Middle School, Class 3, Senior Year.

Yu Xian sat in the fourth row by the window on the left side of the classroom, reading a novel while basking in the sun.

After one-thirty in the afternoon, sunlight would shine directly onto this seat. Even with the curtains drawn, the heat was still noticeable. Yu Xian had never liked this seat before.

As long as food was plentiful, Vampires did not need sleep. During the day, he obediently basked in the sun at school. At night, he followed online lessons at home and practiced all kinds of fighting techniques.

Yu Xian knew very well that he already had one foot in the supernatural world.

Whether he wanted it or not, there would inevitably come a time when he needed to use violence. All he could do now was prepare for the worst and take precautions before it happened.

Only by preparing early could he avoid panicking when the time truly came to use violence.

Over the past few days, his physical strength had grown stronger and stronger. Things he could not do before had now become effortless.

For instance, he could now do a thousand one-finger handstand push-ups in one go without even getting out of breath.

His strength was surging every day.

One finger alone was enough to hang his body from a wall without falling.

The force of a punch from one arm exceeded a ton. He could truly kill a bull with a single blow.

He had no idea whether his strength was considered strong or weak among Vampires. After all, he had never heard anyone talk about how strong Vampires were.

Instead, supernatural beings such as werewolves, the Witch Clan, knights, and martial artists were known for their immense strength.

I wonder what talent I'll awaken.

Yu Xian closed his book, lay facedown on his desk, and enjoyed the sunlight as he thought expectantly.

His heart had already beaten nine times. If nothing unexpected happened, he would reach ten heartbeats today and awaken his first minor talent.

The minor talents that could be found online—or rather, the ones the Blood Clan deliberately made public—were Bat Manipulation, Blood Flame, Enhanced Smell, and Hibernation.

In Yu Xian's view, Bat Manipulation and Blood Flame were top-tier draws, Enhanced Smell was mediocre, while Hibernation was the worst possible draw.

Hibernation itself was not bad. For most Vampires in the Blood Clan, their first minor talent was Hibernation. This talent greatly reduced bodily consumption while a Vampire slept, and it could stabilize injuries and repair the body.

The problem was that while in Hibernation, a Vampire's perception of the outside world became extremely dull, making surprise attacks very easy.

In the past, an ordinary person had found a wild Vampire's safehouse and easily killed the Vampire hibernating inside, even earning the qualification to join the Blood Clan because of it.

Therefore, for a wild Vampire like Yu Xian, unless he had an absolutely safe place, he would never dare use Hibernation recklessly even if he awakened the talent.

The noon sun grew increasingly fierce.

The students in the seats ahead had already drawn their curtains. Only Yu Xian had left a small gap open so he could continue basking in the sun.

The second class was history.

Yu Xian propped up his history textbook to hide himself, then lay on his desk and basked in the sun.

It had to be said that the history teacher's lectures seemed to possess supernatural power. He clearly was not sleepy, yet as he listened to the teacher's hypnotic voice, he somehow became drowsy, his eyelids constantly drooping.

Suddenly, his heart thumped violently, instantly driving away his drowsiness.

This heartbeat was even more intense than the previous ones. It felt as though some power erupted from his heart, surging through his meridians, limbs, and bones. In the end, that power struck his brain, making it seem as if thunder rumbled deep within his consciousness, while some force condensed in his soul through his bloodline.

In an instant, realization struck him, and he knew what his first minor talent was.

His first minor talent was an active ability called: Blood of Silver!