"Thud!"

A body fell on the ground and moaned and crawled with the support of one uninjured hand while dragging another limp hand with all his effort he could muster. He was covered in blood and grime and looked as if he was standing on the death door. He was in a terrible, terrible condition.

"Slyff!" a horrified voice shouted as soon as he appeared. Then several figures dashed towards his crawling miserable frame. "What happened to you?" Kadyn asked with wide eyes. "Did Enwyld realise that you were tagging along with him?"

"Enwyld is dead," he said with a pale face, "everyone else is also dead."

"What?!" everyone turned pale at this shocking news. "What do you mean? Who killed them?" Khrom asked.

"Hey," Elora interrupted. "At least, give him a healing potion before asking anything. See, his left arm is almost torn apart, bones are visible. It must hurt terribly. You guys are so heartless"

"Indeed," Slyff said in agreement, eyes becoming wet. He was suffering such pain and these bastards were asking question after question. Do you even know the word 'shame'?

"Ah, yes," only then Kadyn scratched his head embarrassedly and stopped his questions. Just as Kadyn took out the healing potion a notification sounded and a window appeared in front of him.

[Due to the sudden increase in the danger of the mission. The reward has increased.]

After that the details regarding the mission came into his view.

[Quest: Spying on Enwyld]

[Reward: 30(old)→ 100(final)]

[Quest Status: Completed]

[Reason to increase the reward: Vampire attack]

Kadyn opened his mouth wide when he read the details inside the window, and peered at the boy on the ground. Then said hurriedly. "Hey, you have already completed your mission and you have enough energy points to buy the potion. Do you want it?"

Everyone looked at him weirdly. What the hell are you asking at a time like this? Kadyn saw their faces and turned somewhat red, but didn't care too much. He was the one who needed to pay every employee after they completed their missions, so he would not let the chance go to earn his energy points back. But yes, if Slyff hadn't any energy points that would be another matter altogether. After all, he could not let his employee die.

As this idea came into his head, the system replied. 'You can loan them, and when they have enough energy points they can return them, after all they are your employees and can't run away, can they?'

"I agree," Slyff was almost on the verge of crying. "Give me the potion." He said with his weak voice. This damn bastard boss.

"Alright," Kadyn poured the potion into Slyff's mouth and the healing potion started to take effect, healing the boy rapidly. He was only at the 6-star elementary mage, so the effect of the potion was more evident on him. Stronger people needed stronger to heal potions and vice-versa.

"Take him to his room and let him rest," he said to Khrom. "His wounds are terrible."

Only now have you realised it? Slyff rolled his eyes at him as did others.

"No, I need to tell you something," Slyff said with a weak voice. "It was vampires… they... they killed Enwyld and others. Though I don't know why. The strongest is the woman… cough cough cough..."

Rayna hurriedly gave him water to control his coughs. "Don't speak anymore," she said.

Before others could collect their thoughts after hearing such a shocking piece of news, Kadyn's voice interrupted the train of their brainwork "Alright, you go rest. We'll talk about it later." Obviously his words were meant for Slyff.

"Why are they here?" Barret said somewhat apprehensive. "There must be a reason they are making a move. Furthermore, there is a vampire among them who killed Enwyld. She must be Rank 3 at the very least. This is bad."

Kadyn knew a little about vampires, but it was from movies and TV series of his previous world. He didn't know if those rules even applied to these real and vicious vampires. Such as they can't walk in the sun and drink blood, and they have pale skin and all those things. He still remembered how girls loved vampires. Would they still be able to love them, if they hear such an act of bloodbath? He doubted.

He looked at Barret. "Can you tell me about vampires?" He said. "I don't know much about them." Though he knew that there might be books regarding vampires in the library, he didn't want to sit for hours to learn about them. Barret could tell him without consuming too much time.

Barret took a deep breath and said. "Let's go, we will talk about it inside the house."

Though it was around 3:48 A. M, no one had any intention of going to bed. Khrom also came back after sending Slyff into his room. Barret sucked a deep breath and stared at Kadyn before asking. "Do you know about the Blood Tribe?"

"Blood Tribe?" Kadyn said confusedly. "What's that?"

The middle-aged man stared at him deeply before replying. "Have you seen the carvings on the pillars inside the shop?"

"What has got to do with Blood Tribe?" he had seen them, of course.

"You see," Barret began. "There are carvings of Blood Tribes on those pillars. I'm sure you have seen the drawing of creatures with horns and wings with sharp fangs and red hair and eyes. Killing and drinking the blood of humans and elves and other races."

Kadyn nodded and others also followed. As they had also seen those weird creatures. Kadyn peered at Barret and said with a slightly surprised voice. "You mean those creatures are from Blood Tribe?"

Barret nodded. "I don't know why they are on those pillars but they are indeed those vicious demons."

"But what it has gotten to do with Vampires?" he was still confused regarding this matter. Vampires and Blood Tribe were two completely different types of demons. He seemed more and more confused.

"Everything," Barret replied when he saw his confused face. "Because Vampires are the branch — or should I say children— of the Blood Tribe."

"Huh?" he opened his eyes wide, trying to process the information he had got from the man, but he could not wrap his head. The heck! Children? Should their children also be the same as them?

"Yes," Barret nodded. "A long time ago, we used to fight with each other and war was too common with different races. Though we still fought with each other, candles could never compare to the sunlight. We killed and killed and killed each other, rivers of blood flow on the Pengolla. However, no one knew that we were giving birth to the terrifying nightmare that would terrorise us generations after generation."

He paused and sighed before proceeding. "On the battlefield of humans, elves, dwarves, and many other races a huge blood lake formed after generations of fighting. No one knew but something terrifying was being born inside it. After hundreds and thousands of years later a nightmare was born. Strange creatures with horns and wings, dripping with blood came out of that lake, and the slaughter began. Where ever they passed, they brought death and unending suffering with them"

Everyone was listening to the story keenly. The more they heard the wide their mouths opened. They never heard about it before. Maybe because they were not qualified to know about it. Even Barret knew about it because Elder Jyn had told him. Even he wasn't qualified to know such a secret otherwise.

"At that time they had slaughtered almost half of the population of the Pengolla. Can you believe it? Half! No single race could confront them alone. Therefore, all the races gathered under a single banner for the first time, to defeat those demons, and to protect their loved ones, for the future of Pengolla, and for the future of their race. They decided to bury their hatred for each other.

"At that time a horrifying battle began and rivers of blood flowed. The most terrifying thing about those creatures was that no weapon and no formation and no treasure could kill them. Humans, elves, dwarves and other races — in which some of them vanished for all eternity in that battle— could do nothing to them. Everyone was helpless."

"Then, how did we defeat them?" Kadyn asked curiously.

"We didn't because we couldn't." He said with a helpless smile.

"What?!" Kadyn almost jumped on his feet. Then he sat down. "I don't understand," he asked, if we didn't defeat them, then how did we escape those vicious demons. He thought.

"We failed to kill them time and again, no matter what trick we used, so we imprisoned them," Barret said as he eyed Kadyn. "And please don't ask me where we imprisoned them. Because I don't know."

Kadyn nodded but then frowned. "You have talked a lot about Blood Tribe, but vampires were nowhere in the story."

"Oh, they were in the story, you just missed them." Barret stretched his waist and changed his posture on the soft couch before continuing "The Blood Tribe's reproductive abilities were terrible. Very slow. Almost negligible. Therefore they started to use humans for it, and the half breeds of human and Blood Tribe were called vampires."

Everyone was staring at the middle-aged man with dumb expressions. They could not close their mouths. What they heard was too shocking. So vampires were half-human and half-demon. Holy shit! Everyone was left stunned.