RE:BORN Zombie

“Seems like we might have underestimated our foe.” Cassias said, as his folded arms dropped to his sides.

“We did.”

Both vampires stood there without saying another word for some seconds, staring directly at Victor. After some seconds passed, Victor noticed both of them make eye contact from the corner of their eyes. ‘Wait, that. Don’t tell me…’ Victor thought, as he had a good idea what the look they gave each other meant. That kind of look, it was either they were going to attack him together, or…

Right after they gave each other that look, Victor saw that both had slightly bent their knees, but the way it was going seem to be that they had chosen the latter. ‘That won’t happen.’ Victor said in his mind. It was clear that they planned to escape, and by what he had seen, they didn’t inform the two vampires behind them, which meant those guys were to be sacrificed for them to escape.

Victor seeing this, dashed forward immediately, targeting the slower one out of the two vampires. The one called Luther was obviously faster than Cassias, so Victor went for Cassias. He would have had no problem with them using their tactics, but he didn’t mark Luther when he attacked.

The next second, all the vampires standing behind saw was that Luther had disappeared from where he was standing almost in a blur, upwards. The other figure seemed to follow just behind, but rather than it disappearing, it was dragged down. In that split second, they saw another figure appear right before where their master stood, and before they could acknowledge the fact that their master was going to abandon them, they heard something impact the ground with much force.

Victor didn’t let the other vampires think much before he appeared in front of them, right after he broke Cassias’ left leg with a stomp. Without even saying anything, the vampires fell to the ground before Victor, as he had used his skill Touch of Death.

Victor then turned and walked towards Cassias who was still on the ground some metres away. He seemed to be looking around, and Victor could very easily guess what it was.

“He’s gone. A good friend you have there I must say. Very good.” Victor said, as he approached the slightly agitated vampire. He was still calm for the most part, and that just showed his composure. But, something about friendship had him a little agitated.

“What would you know about friendship?” The vampire said, a bit angrily, but then his expression calmed, and he returned to his former self, almost immediately.

‘Huh? What would I know? Does he think this is a scene between villain and MC?’ Victor thought in his mind.

“Why are you doing this? What is your aim, what do you hope to achieve?” The vampire, Cassias, asked Victor just when Victor reached beside him.

“…” Victor gave no response to the questions, and just walked passed Cassias’ body, only to stop a few feet away and… ‘A chair? From where? What is he doing?’ Cassias asked himself.

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‘Good thing I have an inventory. I did good to take the majestic looking one.’ Victor said in his mind. He had contemplated if he would need it, and after two seconds of not thinking much about it, he took it. It was now proving to be very helpful. ‘I can’t be sitting on the ground or standing the whole time.’

He did think of sitting atop the bones from earlier, but though that would provide a fearful image, if vampires would even fear someone sitting on bones, it would also create an image of savagery. This wasn’t something necessary this time around. In actuality, the reason Victor had taken a seat there was for a different reason than whatever Cassias must have been thinking.

After two minutes of waiting with no words said between both of them, as even when Cassias would speak, Victor would not answer, Victor stood up and the chair behind him disappeared into thin air. By this time, Cassias’ leg had also fully healed, and he could move it again. Victor had stood up right after Cassias showed that he could move the legs, and he was aware of that. He remained seated on the ground as Victor came closer. He was sure his life wasn’t in danger since Victor kept him alive that long, so he could only guess what other thing the man before him might want.

As Victor stood just before Cassias, he started, “It took your body 2 whole minutes to completely fix the broken leg. A bit slow I would say, I expected it to be faster.” Victor was still looking right into Cassias’ eyes as he spoke.

‘That’s why he was keeping me alive?’ Cassias thought to himself.

“Not exactly what I expected, but no problem. You don’t seem to be the strongest here, nor are you the head. I will allow you to go back now. Inform the head, the leader of you lot, say that I wish to meet with him, and I give only five minutes, much time. Go now.” Victor said to Cassias.

Cassias’ eyebrows narrowed a bit, but he didn’t do anything else. He stood up and looked at the pile of bones and innards some metres away from where they stood, then his eyes went towards the two vampires that escorted him. He moved closer and was about to pick their bodies, but he heard a voice from Victor.

“Leave them behind for my pets.” Victor said.

Cassias hearing this stopped and turned slowly, his eyes straying off towards the bones and innards, then he faced Victor.

“Who do I say was the one that has requested the meeting?” He asked, not so much as to say respectably, but the arrogance from earlier that one could tell came with him from birth was definitely nowhere to be found.

His voice, as dead and calm as ever, Victor responded;

“Crow.”