Fwoosh…

Bright red drops of blood, a stark contrast to the darkness, began to gather and coalesce into the form of a woman.

"Urk..." The woman, a marquis-level vampire and a member of the radical faction, vomited a mouthful of blood.

Among all vampires, this woman was considered special and eccentric.

"This is not interesting," the woman murmured, a frown marring her face.

Her sole concern was finding something truly captivating. Initially, she had no desire to participate in any kind of battle. However, due to a single human, the radical vampires, whom she often utilized, had collapsed and vanished.

That particular human had defeated them in war. To make matters worse, there was a human Warrior scouring and eliminating the remnants left from the conflict. But that wasn't the end of it. She believed that the human she was interested in, Davey O'Rowane, had created and spread the virus among them.

The woman was evidently just a half-vampire. It had originally been very challenging for her to tap into the powers of a low-ranking vampire, let alone a high-ranking one like a marquis-level vampire. However, there was one aspect that compensated for this flaw in her body.

Despite being nothing more than a half-vampire, with the core of the Philosopher's Stone embedded within her, she could exhibit resistance and power on par with pure-blooded vampires. It also allowed her to resist that monstrous virus. However, this didn't mean that she was completely unaffected by the attack. In fact, unlike the moderate faction, who had fled long ago, the members of the radical faction had either transformed into monsters or been killed. The tragedy had left only a few of them behind.

The problem arose when she encountered Reina while wandering around the continent for her own purposes, and she narrowly escaped death....