The fire-like red-eyed male vampire, who was in front of Cassius, started to laugh at his sentence, "HUH! CASSIUS VICTUS... HAHAHAAAHA! You filthy little vampirian slave". After saying this, the vampire took the hunter out of his costume, with a psychopathic smirk and a sigh; he caught the edge of the hunter’s blade and then slid his fingers smoothly down the cold steel.
With a slow yank, he unclipped the heavy iron mesh from the hunter’s chest. The red-eyed male vampire stopped smirking while giving a lip-down biting gesture with his fangs and scrunching his eyes. With a serious, dramatic flow in his voice, he said, "With greetings of Lord Vilucious... 102, who is in charge of ’The Life Sacrament’ distribution for today?" his eyes didn’t blink; rather, they widened with a glassy, horrific stare while calling out another vampire through its serial number.
Instead of being frightened by what Cassius was witnessing, his face looked dead furious, and his eyes possessed a continuous black fire-smoke glaring at the red-eyed vampire in front of him. He was silent but confused from inside as he was feeling a bit better after he took a lick of his own blood earlier.
’Life Sacrament’... After listening to this, he felt familiar with the name, but he wasn’t able to recall when or where he had heard it before. The red-eyed vampire flicked his wrist upward. Yet Cassius had no single chill flowing through his body; his dead-serious glance was enough to destroy the enemy’s ego.
As soon as a dark red-smoke-eyed vampire replied, "With due respect to Vilucious...the lord of this universe, 300 is in charge for today, my general," to the red-eyed vampire, he sliced a low arc through the dim air, targeting Cassius’s body for a heavy whack; someone caught his same arm. The fire-like red-eyed vampire stopped right there. He looked to his right, for a peek at the thing that stopped him.
"Three zero zero... Are you aware of your actions, and take hardcore responsibility for them?" said the fire-like red-eyed vampire to a very unique kind of vampire, maybe a human? The outfit of this vampire was very different, so it looked straight outta old-generational movies. The person was covered with iron and metal all over his body; he had a red Superman-like cape attached to his whole rigid outfit and a heavy armet on his head. He started to speak, "Greetings of the lord, their general!" still holding the arm of that vampire.
Cassius thought it might be a male, but as soon as it spoke, it was a soft and gentle voice of a female. Cassius’s whole black smoky eyes turned to normal once again. His warm human eyes were back as soon as his anger faded into confusion after hearing that soldier’s voice. His theories got a pause. He was calculating everything carefully in his mind, while sitting silent, chained like a slave.
Cassius still had that genius human mind, which he used to calculate every possibility to plan an escape and find a cure to end these things completely. He always kept making theories by observing every situation that happened in front of him. He made two theories earlier,
The first theory was that these vampires might communicate normally like humans, but ’the multitasking flaw’ was still present somehow, as he saw the communication between the vampires took place using Vilucious’s name before their sentences. Yet he was still confused about the fact: if he had fully converted into a vampire, then why was he still able to multitask and got alerted easily by the noises in his surroundings before?
Well, his second theory was based on the distinct eye colors. Back in the human world, people from different countries had different levels of governing systems. Here in this ruthless realm, he found something similar- the eye color decided the physical rank of a vampire. According to his conclusion, black-eyed vampires were the lowest level of hierarchy, as they only did what they were ordered to do by the fire-like red-eyed vampires. Meanwhile, the smoky dark red-eyed vampires behaved like a personal assistant to the fire red-eyed ones, also they reffered to them as generals, so somehow their category fell below fire red-eyed vampires but higher than black-eyed vampires.
First of all, he was confused by the fact of what color the eyes of that fully covered female soldier were; that she easily stopped the highest ranker in the room from doing his work that easily and even mentioned him as ’their general,’ not with ’my’?
And why didn’t she take Vilucious’s name and only greeted by the term ’lord’, and still the fire red-eyed vampire stopped? Was it because she used her hands to stop him directly, or was something else the reason?
Too many questions, chances, and new theories based on the earlier ones were swirling in Cassius’s head at once. The moment Cassius was thinking all these, the female soldier jerked the vampire’s hand mid-air, leaving her grasp on him, and bowed to him, placing her same hand on her iron-shielded chest. She added with a polite tone but a pretty dramatic attitude in her words, "If you forgot your task and my power, I am the king’s beloved and today is a special day... You should have a clue why I am called here to distribute ’The life sacrament’ on my own".
After saying this, she pulled her sword out of a scabbard that was hanging from her outfit. She pointed the sword at the smoky, dark-red-eyed vampire, who was putting handcuffs on a vampire in the queue (to the seventh left of Cassius). Surprisingly, without even saying a word to him, he started to look at her.
"What?" Cassius said this slowly, getting shocked by looking at that scenario, but luckily he didn’t get noticed by her. The vampire whom she pointed at came running to her and bowed to her. After that, she said, "What is special about today’s date? Your general’s precious, speak out loud". The fire-like red-eyed vampire was also confused, and his face flickered with rage in his expression.
The vampire that she called out folded his hands at his back and stood straight at ease. After all, he said a sentence as if he was making some announcement aloud, "TODAY IS LEVEL-UP VAMPIRIAN RANKERS CEREMONY, AND OUR RESPECTED THREE HUNDRED IS THE HIGHEST AMONG THE KING’S BELOVED SOLDIERS. AS THE START OF HER JOURNEY, SHE IS AWARDED THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE ’LIFE SACRAMENT’ WITH HER OWN HANDS".
The fire-like red-eyed vampire’s eyes returned to normal human eyes, with pure shock on his face, staring fixedly at the smoky, dark-red-eyed vampire who was making the announcement.
The female soldier was also a vampire. The highest-ranking vampire among them all. Cassius placed her at the top of his list based on his theories. She moved a few steps closer to the vampire who made that announcement; the vampire grew frightened and stepped back slightly as she came closer, pointing the tip of her sword at him. She placed the sharp tip of her sword below his chin, and the vampire forcibly raised his head slightly.
She said, in a low but very clear voice, "300?... Florianthum! Repeat after me... Lord’s Beloved Soldier,Florianthum!"
"L-LO-Lord’s beloved soldier... Madam F- Florianthum-" the vampire repeated after her in a frightened and fumbling voice.
"Stellar! Your General’s Precious... ahaha, continue your exemplary work," replied the female soldier vampire while placing her sword back into the scabbard, with a small laugh and a bright, merry voice. She added, "Let’s begin the ceremony!"
As she was standing to her side, in front of Cassius, all he was able to see was her medieval helmet. But after saying these words, she turned to face Cassius directly. Her eyes were normal, just like a human’s. Cassius was not able to peek at what she looked like, but through a cut-design of her armet he noticed that she had hazel-colored irises.
She suddenly came towards Cassius and sat on one of her knees in front of him. After that, she said something aloud like an order, "Unlock his chains!" Her eyes were looking straight into his. Cassius’s eyes were also glancing straight into her eyes as she leaned close to him and said the earlier sentence while holding the chain on his chest.
Two of the black-eyed vampires came running to the spot. One was holding a tray of keys to unlock each heavy metal from which Cassius was locked up, and the other had a tray with a blue velvet cloth spread on it, as a golden syringe was kept on the same, with the same potion from earlier that the vampires used even in the human world in a small glass shot as the syringe medicine.
The black-eyed vampire who brought the keys started to unlock Cassius’s chains one by one and finally opened each lock to free his body. Meanwhile, the other black-eyed vampire offered Florianthum the syringe after filling the medicine into it from the syringe needle.
Looking at that, she spoke, "I have brought the needle with which I got injected for the first time... to cherish the memories and celebrate this occasion, I will use it for this vampire". She took the syringe and changed the previous needle from the one that she took out from her externally hung purse-like medieval thing.
After that, she leaned closer to Cassius, who was trying to escape from the situation, but the black-eyed vampires were grabbing him tightly.
And she finally inserted the medicine through the syringe gently into Cassius’s neck.