Creating ghouls was one of the powers of the vampires. Vampires could only create up to three of the same vampire family, but creating ghouls was only limited by their spiritual power.

However, the death of two ghouls was a huge loss. There were only young vampires within Sidney and most of them could only use six ghouls at most. And even if the vampires had a huge influence over the world, these kinds of murders and kidnappings usually followed great danger. These beings who lived in the otherworld were restricted by the avatars.

If vampires who originated outside the country were to do something under the noses of Sidney´s native avatars, it meant that this task was important to them, but that they were going to run away quickly after it was complete.

In the past, they successfully finished their jobs and escaped from Sidney. However, it was different this time. While they were able to strike twice before they were identified as the culprits, they had failed this time around.

And soon, Steven was going to find them.

Steven took a cab to the address. When he arrived, he was faced with a high wall. Vampires who couldn't walk in the daylight hid inside their houses during the day. Steven took a look at the house — it seemed there were no security measures at all. Vampires were not able to use a lot of their powers during the day, but they were still stronger compared to regular humans. That made them arrogant enough to not worry about house security.

"You've made a mistake."

Steven look around and checked for the CCTVs on the street. There were camera blind spots where a pole was. He didn't want to use Cocktail-B yet, so he had to climb up on his own. After checking to see that no one was around, he quickly ran and jumped up onto the pole. He still had his parkour knowledge from before he returned, but his body was not the same as when he had that knowledge.

Steven was barely able to climb up the wall as he kicked off the wall and grabbed the pole climb up. At least he could jump down easily into the yard. There was no reaction from the house.

"Well, ghouls are slow."

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Ghouls were strong and did not feel pain, but they had dull senses. Steven used Cocktail-B yesterday because he did not know who the enemy was, but if he was up against ghouls, he did not need the drug.

Steven picked up a stone; it was heavy enough to do the job.

"It's your fault for trying to save money."

Steven threw the stone at a large window. After it broke, he then jumped into the room and ripped out the thick curtains. The sunlight began to shine through and Steven stretched his neck. There was a chubby man in the dark, his eyes shining red. It was a vampire.

And behind him were four large men.

"Are you Rainer?"

The vampire laughed at Steven's question.

"I thought you were an avatar or something. You're just a friggin' human! You a hunter?"

Steven asked a question in reply, "Yesterday's murder, it was you, wasn't it?"

Rainers's face turned cold and his red eyes shone.

"Bring him to me. Alive."

The ghouls moved. Steven wrapped the spiderweb around his hand. It was hard to see from the darkness so they probably thought Steven was just stretching his fingers.

He waited for the ghouls in the stage of light where Rainer could reach. He needed to kill the ghouls without any help from Cocktail-B as he needed it to face the vampire.

Rainer laughed as he saw Steven face them without using the drug. The cocktail was a drug created by hunters to fight against avatars. Not using it to fight ghouls was amusing to say the least.

Yet, in front of Rainer 's eyes, a ghoul's head was quickly severed.

"Huh?"

While he was confused, the second ghoul's hands were both sliced off and as Steven jumped over it, the ghoul's head soon followed. Steven dodged the third ghoul's attack and kicked down the last ghoul. However, since ghouls did not feel pain, Rainer thought it was over as the ghouls would surely be able to grab Steven.

The fourth ghoul's head suddenly parted from its body as Rainer finally noticed the thin line reflected by the light.

"A wire?"

No. A wire wasn't strong enough to cut through a ghoul's body. By then, Steven had turned back to the third ghoul and removed his head as well.

All four ghouls turned into dust and Steven stood there, panting. He had fought battles for ten years and he was confident in killing the ghouls unaided, but his body was not trained like before. Steven turned toward Rainer.

Rainer was in shock.

"Where are the offerings?"

Rainer gritted his teeth. He couldn't directly attack Steven who was still standing in the sunlight, but there were still methods he could use to attack. Then, Steven took out a syringe and injected it into his thigh. Rainer backed away at that sight as Steven smiled.

Rainer was trying to lure Steven into the darkness, out of the sunlight. And Steven took his bait. As he stepped into the darkness, Rainer burst into laughter.

"I heard hunters become fearless when they dope. You sure don't fear anything, huh? Daring to step into my darkness?"

Steven scoffed. Sidney was a bad place for hunters. Young avatars acted like that because they had never faced powerful hunters before. It was time to educate a young avatar who had obviously never fought a powerful doped hunter. Steven flicked his finger.

"Come."