After around 5 minutes of laying in bed, Reno fell asleep. Unbeknownst to him however was that Cassia was already asleep.

If one were to look into Cassia’s room they would see that she fell asleep with her legs crossed as if she was meditating.

This wasn’t done because of sleep training, efficiency, or anything like that but just because this was her most comfortable sleeping position.

[Inside Cassia’s Asleep Mind]

Cassia woke up in a field of sunflowers that seemed to stretch on and on. The sun was gone and the moon shone brightly making the night seem kind of ominous.

She brushed off herself as she was lying in the dirt and then looked at the time on her smartwatch.

“I’m gonna be late, uncle is gonna be so mad, he said I shouldn’t stay out so late, I just closed my eyes for 5 minutes I swear”

She then turned to her right and started to dash to a mansion that was on a hilltop.

She ran as fast as her small currently twelve-year-old body could carry her, although her vital core gave her more stamina, it wasn’t as if she couldn’t run out of it.

She soon stopped running and began to walk instead. She wanted to reach home as soon as possible.

Her uncle was a great father figure in her eyes. He had been there as far back as Cassia’s memory went.

His name was Damon Arwen and he was a tall person standing around 6 feet with a full head of light blue hair. He did have some white hairs in there but if anyone said that then Damon would give them a bashing.

If anyone asked what she thought of him, she’d respond with. “Smart! Strong! Friendly! The bestest uncle!”

After some time of walking, Cassia reached the forest that was under the hilltop.

As she was about to continue walking, she heard a loud boom coming from the forest along with some voices so she hid behind a tree.

“Fuck! Didn’t the people at the mission board say that his guy has been retired for over 5 years, why the fuck is he so strong!”

Cassia peeked out from behind her tree and could see some figures in the distance.

She saw her uncle with his katana on his hip like usual along with odd-looking people.

One of them was a guy with long silver hair and crimson eyes and the other was a lady with red hair and crimson eyes.

The lady was sitting on a tree eating candy while the guy was staring down her uncle.

The guy was breathing heavily while what seemed to be a long sword wound on his chest was healing very slowly.

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“Amelia, come down here and help me out, we’re in this together, remember?”

Hearing this, Damon laughed. “That’s it, hurry up so I can get to finding my niece, I don’t have the time to be playing around with some parasites”

Hearing this, the lady who seemed to be calm and collected snapped.

“You dare to call me, a noble vampire, a damn parasite! You know what, the mission asked for dead or alive so I’ll be sure to grind your retired bones to make a tiara when I’m done with you.”

“Make sure to go all out from the start so we can quickly kill him, Brogan ”

Hearing this, Damon just yawned, he had heard the same cliche lines over and over again, it was as if vampires had nothing better to say before they died.

Amelia then took out a staff. [Blood Art: Weapon Enhancement]

Similar to humans, vampires had their ways for even the weakest of their race to get stronger, their ability to manipulate blood to strengthen weapons was the most common example of this.

Brogan already had enhanced his fists with blood so he didn’t need to do it again.

As soon as Amelia’s entire staff turned a red color, she lunged at Damon and tried to hit him on his head.

Damon took one step to the right and kicked Amelia into some nearby trees, destroying them in the process.

Brogan was dumbfounded. ‘One kick!? One fucking kick!?’

He started to think if he should just escape, he might’ve been a viscount rank vampire but when his life was threatened he knew better than to fight to the end.

In addition, lady Amelia who was launched with just one kick was a higher rank than him at Earl.

Common vampire ranks from strongest to weakest would be duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.

Just as he was contemplating, he heard a maniacal laugh in the direction that Amelia was kicked.

“Not bad! Not bad! My tiara will be nobler the stronger you are”

[Origin Blood Art: Blood Frenzy]

Amelia’s hair turned a crimson color her eyes sparkled from the moonlight and her teeth grew longer while her staff’s red color also turned crimson

Seeing this, Brogan retreated onto a nearby tree. He knew that what was going to take place would be too much for him to handle.

Blood Frenzy was Amelia’s special blood manipulation ability that only she was able to use. It increased her strength/speed/vitality by around 500% essentially putting her at the level of a pseudo marquess rank.

“By the way, I also found this girl hiding by a tree in the distance, is she the niece you were talking about?”

Amelia then held up Cassia by her dress.

Seeing his niece in danger, Damon’s expression changed.

Amelia caught this and laughed. “If you know what’s good for you then stay still and just die you bastard, become my tiara willingly, that would be a great story to tell the others”

Damon just sighed before putting his hand on his blade hilt.

Amelia saw him do this. “No sudden movements you bastard! I’ll kill your niece right here right now, I’ll have you know!”

Damon didn’t stop, however.

[Sword Art: Slash]

Amelia was about to kill the girl when she realized that she was looking up at the moon, she moved her head a bit more and saw both of her legs on the ground.

She looked at Damon and saw that Cassia was sitting in his arms as if nothing happened.

“Fuck! When I get back, I’ll kill the blasted idiot who requested this mission!”

Damon walked over gently and seemed to be confused. “Who said you would have the chance to go back”

Amelia looked up into the sky and saw lots of wooden tree pieces right above her.

Before she could do anything else, they skewered her all over her body, her head, limbs, head, legs, it was truly a grotesque scene so much so that Damon covered Cassia’s eyes so that she wouldn’t see anything.

Damon checked to see that no energy fluctuations were emitted before concluding that she was dead. He checked for the other vampire but seeing no sign of him, he concluded that he must’ve run away.

He closed his eyes and a slight smile appeared on his face. “Didn’t get too far did you?”

Brogan was running through the sunflower field as fast as he could.

“Monsters!? Damn monsters!? No one told me humans could be so strong, the vampire academy said that humans had to fight in numbers to have a chance against us but that was nothing like that”

“When he touched his hilt and muttered something, I didn’t even process what had happened until a while later, not only was Amelia helpless but the entire damn forest was cut into two halves!”

Before he could have any more thoughts, Brogan found that his head was in the air, he looked down at his body to find that it was diced into 1000s of small pieces, and when he looked back at the forest, he found that it looked as if a storm had just passed through it!

Before he knew it, he was in Damon’s hands. “Sorry but I can’t let you report anything back”

Brogan frowned. ‘I shouldn’t have come on this damn mission’

A while then passed and Damon, Cassia, and Brogan returned to the mansion. Cassia was scolded for staying out late and had to start doing stamina training from that moment onward along with her usual sparring matches against her uncle.

While Brogan was put into a glass display Cassia talked to him every so often as she didn't want him to die from boredom

While experiencing this dream, Cassia smiled slightly. This was one of her memories where she got to see how cool her uncle was!