The lady vampire who had terrorized Ethan and the others only a few hours earlier, the same creature who had forced the entire group into helpless surrender, collapsed in front of them like a lifeless husk. Her body crumbled apart in silence, peeling away like a dry leaf caught in the wind before dissolving completely into drifting ashes.
William stood there without the slightest change in his expression. His calmness frightened them even more than the act itself.
For the past week, Ethan and the others had been traveling through the forest and the ruins without any connection to the outside world. They had no understanding of what had happened during that time, nor did they know what William had become. Yet now, after witnessing him erase a monster of that level as though it required no effort at all, none of them could gather the courage to question him.
An oppressive feeling filled the whole lobby.
