Max first called Jamie, and made sure the guy deleted his figure from the security video.

As for Julio and Nicholas, they didn’t ask, and Max didn’t care.

He also sent 79k credit to Jamie and asked him to get him the skills he had previously selected.

After that’s done, Max took out the blood essence and swallowed it.

Max felt like he ate a piece of burning charcoal. He instinctively wanted to throw up, but thankfully, he held it in.

His blood became hot and started rushing faster and faster, making his skin almost blood red.

Weirdly enough, his heart beat didn’t change much.

Max felt extremely uncomfortable, but thankfully there’s no pain accompanying the process.

Max sat like this for 3 hours.

All along, Lucy stayed with him, her tiny eyes focused on him.

Max was slightly touched. The little one should be worried about him. However, Lucy’s thought process is a little different from what Max thought.

‘why does it take so long? When will he become an animal? What kind of animal will he turn into?.’

When she saw Max turning completely red all of a sudden, Lucy was excited, thinking her useless master finally became powerful like those guys fighting earlier.

Soon Max’s skin became normal.

Max didn’t experience a significant change, despite stretching around.

But looking at the simulator’s stat window, Max could see it.

Vitality: F++.

Max wanted to text his new vitality somehow, but before he could, he felt an intense gaze directed towards him.

Looking at Lucy, she had a questioning look on her face.

And Max received a mental message,’ why are still human.’.

Max:?

“what?”, Max was confused but Lucy didn’t explain. She flew up in anger and left to watch her new anime. It’s unbelievable that she wasted so much time, yet Max was still unable to transform .

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“what?”.

Max had a question mark on his face.

Shaking his head, Max just focused on his new Vitality, ignoring Lucy’s strange antics.

He started doing pushups.

It’s kind of hard because he is still weak, however 40 push ups although it’s still hard Max didn’t feel tired at all, and his muscles didn’t hurt much.

“It’s either that my stamina is higher or it’s my healing factor keeping my muscles going, maybe both?.”

Max spent the next few hours working out, testing the limit of his vitality.

After that, Max enjoyed a hot bath and planned to head to the restaurant to eat something.

“Lucy let’s go.”

The little one just ignored him, still angry for some reason.

Max didn’t know what’s wrong with Lucy, but he knew how to fix it.

“little Lu, I already bought your new skills. Jamie should get them next station.”

Before Max could realize, Lucy was already hugging his face tightly, smiling foolishly. With her speed, Max didn’t even see her moving.

Max just laughed. “alright, alright, let go of my face”.

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Far away from star continent. On the fallen continent where vampires and non-humans filled the streets.

Driving cars, holding mobile phones. With bat swarms passing through the sky from time to time.

This place looks like a completely different world compared to the star continent.

The sun didn’t reach the land here under the constant cloudy sky.

The only celestial object that can be seen every once in a while is a blood-red moon.

After the blood gate dungeon broke open, one vampire king equivalent to the SSS rank and five vampire dukes of the SS-rank descended on this world.

The humans rushed to stop the expansion of the blood territory, but the solo king sacrificed himself to buy time.

After the period of expansion, the will of the vampire world took control of the continent.

With the buff from the will of the vampire world and different buffs from ancient Treasures and different blood arrays, every vampire Duke is equivalent to an SSS-rank Powerhouse while in the territory of the Fallen continent

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In Duke’s Lazarus vanborn’s Castle.

Lazarus sat on his throne, deep in thought, his tense mood evident in his clenched fists.

Below the throne a shivering, frightened vampire subordinate of the Duke's knelt on one knee, waiting for the Duke's answer.

But time was running out, and even though he didn't want to speak out, he had to.

“you're at most respectable highness, the Duke of the vampire race, my. … “.

“stop with the flattery, what is it” cut in Lazarus with a sharp tone.

The man shivered in flight but nonetheless he spoke “my Duke, we are running out of time. What should we do”.

The man was cautious in his choice of words to prevent further irritation of the Duke.

Duke Lazarus clenched his teeth, blood oozing from his mouth as he spoke in a horse tone, “use it, use the blood pond, bring her back to life”.

“yes your highness, as you command”.

The man practically left the throne room running.

“wait”

The man froze on the spot immediately. "Anything else, my duke”.

" She, my daughter, may not leave her palace. Ever again.

have someone make sure of that, and her resources are cut off, and she is to wear a black iron bracelet”

“yes, yes, as you. Command my Duke.”

The Little Vampire gulped in nervousness.

The black iron is a special resource from their world, forged by vampire hunters.

Wearing it will prevent the princess from getting stronger and seal her current powers.

As the servant departed, Lazarus was left alone to succumb to his somber thoughts.