Aaric didn't know how to explain this to Mila anymore, but this girl had to understand that things weren't as simple as they seemed.

Of course the vampire king would also come to pick up his queen, although this was surprising, given the number of assassination threats against him and how the noble families were so opposed to their king leaving the palace, but if you knew Liam Dageus well enough, then you would know this was within predictions.

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Liam Dageus ascended the thrown when the previous king was killed in a battle against the human kind as well.

So it could be said that the people who meant something to him were always killed whenever there was a war involved humans.

For that reason, some of the elders of the vampires had forbidden him from stepping out of the palace or lead an attack personally, because they were worried that the same thing would happen to Liam.

Unfortunately, Liam did not heed their ban this time and chose to stay as close to the attack at the research center as possible.

"So, what do you want now? To leave with them?" Aaric asked grimly as the five vampires slowly approached Mila and him.

Mila didn't answer the question. Her misty eyes stared at the five vampires who were walking toward her, while she asked herself; did she trust them? How much did Mila trust them? Would she be locked up again in a place what they were calling the palace?

If so, how was it any different from her current state?

While Mila was still thinking and lost in her own dilemma, one of the vampires approached her and was about to take her hand, but Aaric held his hand and pushed the vampire away.

Of course, Aaric's actions looked aggressive and forced themselves to be defensive.

"You are a human," said one of them after sniffing Aaric. They didn't know that Aaric was the soul possessor they had been looking for. The soul possessor who had taken away their future queen.

Upon hearing that, the other four vampires became more aggressive. They growled and hissed to scare Aaric away from Mila, but Aaric didn't budge and this made the vampires view him as their enemy.

"Mila, we have to get out of here right now, you can't leave with them." Aaric glanced at the car that was parked not far from them. It was the blue four wheeler which was Steve's. "Get in that car and start the engine." Aaric nodded toward the car he was referring to and handed the keys to Mila.

"You know I can't turn that thing on, don't you?" Mila didn't remember that she could drive a car before this.

"No, you can drive it, you could even say that you are quite proficient at this," Aaric refuted Mila's statement just now and immediately threw the car keys into Mila's hands. "Go first, I will take care of these vampires."

Mila snorted when she heard Aaric's last sentence. "I am not sure you can handle the five of them on your own. They look vicious and brutal." She doubted the ability of Aaric who was only an ordinary human now. But, not worried about the possibility that Aaric could be killed.

What for? He could possess the souls of other humans, so he wouldn't really die, would he?

"Why? Are you worried?" Aaric glanced mischievously at Mila. "Don't worry, this is not the first time I have faced vampires."

Mila rolled her eyes and turned around. "Okay, it is up to you. But, if you lose, I will leave with them," Mila said lightly. She herself didn't really care, who she left this building with, because neither side had one hundred percent of her trust.

"You are so cold," Aaric grumbled seeing how Mila responded to this, he looked at Mila's back while she walked leisurely toward the blue car.

On the other hand, two vampires who saw Mila leaving, immediately tried to chase after her, but Aaric held them back by pulling their bodies with all his might before throwing them to the other side of the parking lot.

Even though he didn't have the full power he had in his original body, but Aaric was still much stronger than an average human.

"Who are you?" one of the vampires noticed this oddity and narrowed his eyes dangerously at Aaric. "You are no ordinary human."

"He is the soul possessor," one of them again said, responding to his partner's words. "He's the soul-possessor who has taken our future queen away."

Aaric grimaced when he heard the accusation. "You make it sound really bad, it is actually your future queen who wanted to get out of that world,"Aaric corrected them.

But, who would take this sentence seriously? Because in the next second a fight broke out. The five vampires attacked Aaric brutally and viciously, baring their sharp claws and fangs.

No matter how strong Aaric was, it was still not a balanced fight and it was proven when one of the vampires managed to tear his stomach apart.