However, this woman had already become an obstacle on his path to power, so Viktor symbolically questioned Amelia.
After all, Amelia, the blood clan elder, was in charge at this moment, and no matter what, he still had to give her some face. Viktor didn't want to gain a reputation as a tyrant or an unreasonable person.
"…"
"I'm not good at fighting,"
"Entrusting it to Elder Viktor seems like a good choice. I'll be responsible for managing the Vampires' internal affairs. However, Elder Viktor, please pay attention to one thing."
"Your last reign was crushed by Werewolf Leader Lucien. I hope you don't repeat the same mistakes. That's all… I have other trivial matters to attend to. Internal affairs are also very troublesome, so I'll take my leave first."
Watching Viktor brazenly contend with her for power, especially military power, Amelia was furious but dared not speak.
Although she wanted to refuse, unfortunately, she didn't have the ability. Viktor was still the most prestigious and influential of the three blood clan elders.
Although Amelia herself had good prestige during her reign, compared to Viktor, the Vampire warlord, it was negligible.
As for Marcus, the first blood clan elder who was still dormant underground, he was a true lunatic, almost useless except for his madness—
Therefore, Amelia could only choose to back down, tacitly agreeing to Viktor's power struggle. But upon leaving… Amelia still slightly disgusted Viktor.
After bringing up the old matter of him being defeated by Lucien centuries ago, making Viktor's face as ugly as if he had eaten a fly, Amelia turned and left, satisfied.
And with that, The council ended.
Viktor had to ponder the encirclement plan for after dawn tomorrow. Since Craven had a way to contact Lucien privately, Viktor planned to lure him into a trap.
Craven wasn't planning to secretly kill Amelia, the blood clan elder, with Lucien, so Viktor would use his own scheme against him.
He would fake Amelia's departure and notify Lucien, that beast, through a letter, telling him to bring a large number of werewolves to assassinate Amelia.
Viktor, on the other hand, would use this opportunity to set an ambush, using a larger number of Vampire Warriors to encircle Lucien and his werewolf subordinates.
After all, Lucien, that beast, surely hadn't realized that Craven had been exposed and was already dead. Viktor could create the illusion that Craven was still alive to lure Lucien, the Werewolf Leader, into his trap.
Just thinking about capturing Lucien, that damned bastard, the next day, Viktor became exceptionally excited. He would torment that beast thoroughly to avenge his failed reign and his daughter Sonja!
And with the end of the council, Javier and Seline slowly left the council table. Following Seline's lead, Javier returned to Seline's boudoir.
It was a simply decorated Middle Ages-style room with very little furniture: a bed, a few cabinets and tables, and a laptop; there was nothing else.
Because Seline rarely stayed in the castle, it wasn't overly furnished, almost like a temporary residence.
In contrast, there was a large collection of various firearms and weapons on the walls, as well as samurai swords, throwing knives, and so on.
Javier strongly suspected that this woman wanted to play Blade, except this female Blade didn't slay Vampires, but rather werewolves.
"As payment for tonight,"
"Seline, I need a blood sample from you. Of course… any Vampire's blood sample will do, it doesn't have to be yours. This is my payment for staying up all night with you, going crazy everywhere. It's almost dawn now, and I need to go back and catch up on sleep."
And as soon as he sat down, Javier didn't hesitate at all.
He directly and bluntly asked for a blood sample. After all, Javier hadn't forgotten his purpose. Besides witnessing the love-hate relationship between the blood clan and the werewolves,
Javier mostly wanted to obtain Vampire blood for virus research. This was the real reason Javier was willing to help the blood clan, not simply because he found the blood clan attractive; that was only a partial reason.
"Blood…?"
"What do you need that for—?!"
Seline, who had just sat down, was about to share her daily life with Javier, but she didn't expect to be interrupted by Javier first, who then asked her for a vial of blood.
This left Seline baffled, and her eyes began to fill with wariness as she looked at Javier. She hadn't expected that Javier really had other motives for choosing to help their blood clan!
As for Javier, He looked at Seline with a helpless expression.
Are you kidding? How could he come to the Vampire's lair without a purpose? Moreover, he was a human, which was equivalent to a ghost's nest. Was he here to play, hoping the Vampires would assimilate him?
"Nonsense…"
"I naturally have my own purpose. I'm not a charity case. Telling you so many secrets naturally requires a little payment."
"Vampire blood, I need to take it for research. As for what I'm researching, that's confidential for now, but it's definitely not harmful to you Vampires like it is to werewolves. As long as you don't provoke me, I won't target Vampires."
"If Seline, you're unwilling to accept, I can turn around and find other Vampires; there's no difference anyway."
Shaking his head, Javier calmly replied to Seline. Javier understood that Seline considered him a friend.
But unfortunately, he wasn't here just to make friends, so he had to take the Vampire blood. He couldn't work for free.
"…"
After a moment of silence, Seline looked at the serious-faced Javier in front of her, finally stood up, walked to a nearby cabinet, opened a drawer, and took out a syringe from inside.
She then pricked it into her arm, and soon, a tube of crimson blood was extracted. After tossing the blood sample to Javier,
Seline gently pressed the needle mark on her arm, and the wound immediately healed. The only good thing about Vampires might be that injections don't require cotton swab pressure!
"Here's the blood you wanted. I hope Javier, you can keep your promise and not use Vampire blood to create weapons against Vampires, like the werewolves did."
"And since we have a cooperative relationship, I hope you can tell me where the human with the special serum that the werewolves are looking for is? To prevent the werewolves from succeeding, we, the blood clan, must find this bargaining chip first."
After handing the blood sample to Javier, Seline slowly sat down, her deep blue eyes looking at Javier, and she asked with a serious tone.
Since it was a cooperative relationship, Seline believed that since she had paid half the reward, she was entitled to continue asking Javier, this Merchant, for information.
However, unfortunately, Javier couldn't answer this question, as he didn't know where the male protagonist Michael was. New York was so big; how could he know the exact location?
"I don't know the answer to that question either,"
"I only know that he is currently an intern doctor and lives in an apartment somewhere in New York. But I advise you not to search alone, because the werewolves are also looking for this human. Once you encounter them, you won't be able to defeat the large number of werewolves."
"Finally, as a conscientious merchant, I'll give you one more piece of advice: stay away from your adoptive father, Viktor."
"Don't easily believe anything he says. Try to live for yourself, because he isn't your real father. If anything else comes up, remember to call me. I look forward to continuing our cooperation with the Vampires—!"
Javier didn't know the location of the special human, Michael, and could only warn Seline not to search lightly.
Because it was very likely to encounter werewolf packs. At the end of the matter, Javier also played the riddle man and reminded Seline to be careful of her adoptive father, Viktor. This blood clan elder was not as good as he appeared to be.
Then, after leaving a white business card, Javier left Seline's room, leaving only a confused Seline.
She couldn't understand Javier's meaning. Her adoptive father, Viktor… wasn't her real father anyway.
But when she wanted to press further,
She realized that Javier had already left and could only stare blankly at the white business card in her hand.
It had only a simple name and a string of numbers: Javier Li, number: 1xxxxxxxxx… It looked exactly like a scam call.
"Tap, tap, tap…"
And Javier, who had left Seline's room and the Vampire castle,
As he was about to drive his Hummer SUV away from this troublesome place, he unexpectedly encountered an unexpected woman in the car.
"Click…!"
"Boom—!!!"
The key was inserted into the ignition, the engine started, and as Javier gripped the steering wheel, preparing to leave, he noticed a charming, mature woman elegantly sitting in the back seat through the rearview mirror.
Her deep eyes quietly watched Javier. She wore a pristine white, diamond-encrusted strapless evening gown, her skin fair and delicate, a silver necklace pendant adorned her neck, and her dark hair was neatly coiled high.
Her appearance was mature and alluring, like an elegant, proud, and noble black cat. And the person who had arrived was Amelia, the blood clan elder.
She had infiltrated Javier's car at some unknown time and seemed to have been waiting for a long time.
Presumably, as soon as the council ended, Amelia, this court beauty, had been waiting in the Hummer SUV for Javier to appear.
"Respected Elder Amelia,"
"Do you have some private matter? To wait for me in the car for so long, although I am a divine messenger sent by God, to be personally greeted by a blood clan elder truly makes me feel a little overwhelmed."
Glancing at Amelia, the cold and noble court beauty behind him, Javier, having dealt with Seline, the female Vampire, was already very experienced.
So he calmly asked Amelia, completely unfazed by her cold and terrifying demeanor. The more composed he appeared, the more these Vampires would be impressed by him.
"How did you know Craven was a blood clan traitor…?"
"Including the matter of werewolves looking for a special human who can fuse the blood of the three. How did you know all this, and which faction do you belong to? Answer me truthfully, and I might consider letting you leave the Vampire castle alive—"
Without a hint of kindness,
Amelia, sitting in the car, coldly questioned Javier directly, her tone filled with an undeniable authority.
It seemed that as one of the three blood clan elders, Amelia believed she was more than capable of teaching a mere human a lesson.
But Amelia had no idea,
Who was the prey and who was the hunter in the car. Amelia thought she was the hunter,
Wanting to obtain some information by pressing Javier, but she didn't know that she herself was the prey who had voluntarily walked into the hunter's gun sight.
"Hum…"
"Boom—!!!"
Javier didn't directly answer Amelia, the blood clan elder's question. Instead, he decisively stepped on the accelerator, and the Hummer SUV immediately carried the two out of the castle courtyard.
Speeding towards the distant city streets, folks… a wild female Vampire willingly delivered herself to me. She seems willing to come home with me? What should he do!
The Hummer SUV's engine roared as it sped down the road, quickly leaving the Vampire castle's territory. Amelia, the court beauty sitting in the car, was also stunned.
Her narrow eyes stared intently at Javier, who was driving with an excited and joyful expression. She felt that this human was crazy; he actually dared to directly drive away without answering her commands.
"Do you think I don't dare to kill you, human…!"
"Turn around and return to the Vampire ancient castle immediately, and I might spare your life. Don't make me too angry, or you won't even be able to keep the secrets you know."
The SUV shook violently.
Amelia, as one of the Vampire elders, was barely maintaining her elegance at this moment.
Her fair, long legs crossed, her arms folded, her cold eyes looking at Javier as if he were a dead man, she gave her final warning in a calm and quiet tone.
The reason she didn't dare to kill Javier was because of Seline's words earlier, coupled with Javier's performance at the council table. Amelia subconsciously believed that Javier was indeed a subordinate of Viktor, that old immortal.
To avoid Viktor's wrath, she restrained herself several times from acting, giving Javier a chance to be questioned.
The reason she ambushed Javier here was merely to rely on her prestige as the third Vampire elder to force Javier to truthfully reveal some things.
However, Amelia never expected that Javier, this human, would be so bold. Not only did he show no fear upon seeing her, but he even seemed slightly excited.
He didn't answer a single word of her questions; instead, he defied her orders and forcibly drove out of the blood clan castle's territory. This pushed Amelia, who already had little patience, to the brink of rage.
If Javier, this human, dared to be so presumptuous, Then Amelia wouldn't need to care whether Javier was Viktor's subordinate or not. She would directly kill Javier and absorb his blood for Blood Recollection.
Anyway, she could still get the information she wanted even if she killed him. If it weren't for her rival Viktor, Amelia wouldn't bother with Javier; she would just bite him to death and activate Blood Recollection…
"Elder Amelia,"
"You have made a mistake. You are the one who has walked into the trap. If you think you are confident enough, you can fight me in the car right now. I will maximize the speed, and when a car accident occurs,"
"I'll see if the Vampire's recovery ability is really that strong. And even if you survive, a woman covered in blood walking out of a high-speed SUV unharmed and using supernatural abilities, when—"