"You truly are as naive as ever, Selena, to think a group of down-and-out Werewolves and a hybrid could exact revenge on me."
Victor paid little heed to his adopted daughter's hatred, even finding leisure to comment.
"Whether I'm naive or not, we'll only know after we fight!" With the flames of vengeance burning in her eyes, Selena drew two silver pistols from her leather trench coat as she spoke.
"Bang bang… bang…"
Amidst the whistling, silver-plated bullets flew towards Victor's weak points: his brow and chest.
However, Selena's skills were all taught by her adoptive father, Victor, and her Vampire rank was also lower than his, so her sudden sneak attack did not succeed.
Victor, who hadn't moved an inch from his spot, caught all the incoming bullets with just one hand.
"Clink clink… clink…"
In the crisp sound of empty shell casings hitting the ground, the tiny burn marks on Victor, caused by the silver weapons, recovered to their original state at a visible speed.
"You're a hundred years too early to resist me. If you had learned to endure, perhaps you might have had a chance to avenge your birth parents in the future, but now you're too impulsive. There is still much you need to learn…" As if nothing had happened, Victor maintained his lecturing tone, his demeanor truly impressive.
Coupled with his exquisite medieval attire, it really seemed to fit.
However, his posture clearly made Selena despise him even more.
The female Vampire seemed to know her sneak attack wouldn't succeed; she waved her hand and loudly rallied the Werewolves behind her.
"The enemy is before us, revenge is today, everyone charge with me!!!"
Compared to Selena, the Werewolf tribe, with their unresolved ancient feud, hated Viktor, the Vampire leader, even more.
Additionally, the Werewolves who came this time had another objective.
Thus, over fifty Werewolf elites, roaring, bared their claws and fangs, assuming combat stances as they lunged at Viktor.
In the close-quarters combat, Viktor casually knocked away a few Werewolves, then said to his subordinates beside him, "Go, bring out the remaining seven test subjects."
Viktor's enhanced hybrid research during this period had successfully produced nine cases.
However, one "Reaper" escaped, and Mike was taken by Selena.
So, he now only had seven of those powerful, "monster-like" hybrids left.
Before long, accompanied by bloodthirsty roars and the grating noise of sharp fangs and claws scraping against steel, seven maddened, enhanced hybrids, confined in cages, were pushed out.
"Open the cages!"
Viktor retreated while commanding his subordinates.
"Roar… roar… roar…"
The seven bloodthirsty monsters, freed from their cages, first tore apart the Vampires in front of them indiscriminately, then, with red eyes glowing, charged into the battlefield, engaging the Werewolves brought by Selena.
Roars accompanied by splashing blood turned the battlefield into a giant meat grinder.
Behind, Victor looked at the combat power of the enhanced hybrids, and a relieved smile finally appeared on his face.
He now possessed the serum for these monsters, and in the future, he might very well be able to assemble an army of enhanced hybrids.
Thinking of such a scene, Victor's body trembled with excitement.
"Go, bring out that beast held deep in the dungeon as well—" After his excitement subsided, Victor gave another order to a different subordinate beside him.
Since the hybrid serum research was successful, the First Werewolf, who served as the research subject, was naturally no longer useful.
So, before that, Victor planned to make one last use of him, sending the First Werewolf to fight the Werewolves.
A few minutes later, as several Vampire subordinates tremblingly pushed out a giant iron cage, the Werewolves brought by Selena on the battlefield had already, through teamwork, contained several enhanced hybrids.
Although the enhanced hybrids possessed powerful individual combat strength, facing numerous Werewolves who also cooperated in battle, their sparse numbers seemed insufficient.
Seeing the enhanced hybrids dying one by one, Victor signaled his subordinates to open the cage holding the First Werewolf.
Compared to the cages for the hybrids, the iron cage containing the First Werewolf had bars thicker than an adult's arm.
William, the First Werewolf, lay inside, his wrists and ankles bound by thick iron chains.
Just from the level of importance, the hybrids simply couldn't compare to William.
"Are we really going to release this beast?" In front of the giant iron cage, the Vampire subordinate looked fearfully at his leader.
Then, under a single glance from Victor, this subordinate swallowed nervously and cautiously reached for the switch on the cage.
"Howl—"
Perhaps due to the noisy environment, or possibly stimulated by the bloody scent of the battlefield, the First Werewolf in the iron cage awakened.
With a long howl, the beast stood up.
The gigantic Werewolf, over five meters tall, had sharp claws and fangs gleaming with a metallic luster.
Combined with its emotionless blood-red eyes, its danger was self-evident.
An invisible pressure spread out, even causing the entire battlefield to pause for a moment.
Immediately after, the Werewolves brought by Selena, as if on stimulants, all let out howls in response to the First Werewolf.
The reason they had been relentlessly pursuing Victor all this time was to rescue their Progenitor, William.
Now, their goal was right before them.
Instantly, the situation on the battlefield changed.
The frenzied Werewolves no longer maintained their formations; instead, they adopted the most primitive, injury-for-injury fighting style, quickly eliminating all the enhanced hybrids, then, as if on a pilgrimage, rushed towards the First Werewolf.
"Damn it, open the cage quickly—" Seeing the unstoppable momentum of the numerous Werewolves, Victor shouted at the subordinate in front of the iron cage.
However, that Vampire subordinate seemed to have been scared witless by the First Werewolf's earlier roar, and was dazed and completely unreliable.
"Useless—"
Victor cursed upon seeing this, then personally flashed to the iron cage and opened the cell door.
As the First Werewolf, William, though lacking reason, did not lack emotion. Having been imprisoned, bled, and tortured for countless years, he was now like a volcano on the verge of erupting, his rage impossible to conceal.
And Victor, the instigator, was naturally his first choice for venting.
Thus, the newly freed First Werewolf instantly lunged at Victor, biting.
As his sharp claws swung, they left streaks of afterimages.
Victor, who had already prepared to retreat, felt a sinister wind approaching from behind his head and could only stop, turn, and counter with a palm strike.
"Bang—"
In the collision, both retreated two steps, a seemingly even match.
Of course, for Victor, who reacted in a hurry, achieving this result already proved he was slightly stronger than William, who had been imprisoned for countless years.
However, looking at William, whose bestial urges were overflowing, Viktor, whose palm had some scratches, did not wish to entangle himself further with the other party.
With a sudden idea, as William charged again, Viktor grabbed a nearby subordinate and threw him at the First Werewolf's face.
"Pfft—"
With the visual sensation of a sharp blade piercing a water bag, that minor Vampire minion was directly sliced in half by the Werewolf's claw.
William, bathed in blood, had his wild nature re-ignited, transforming into a complete beast.
It was also at this moment that the excited Werewolves arrived before their Progenitor.
"Howl—"
Amidst a violent roar, William, who had been suppressed for so long, swung his sharp claws indiscriminately, attacking friend and foe alike.
Surprise, confusion, wails, accompanied by blood…
For a time, the scene became incredibly chaotic.
"Everyone, charge! Leave all the Werewolves and Vampire traitors behind—"
It was at this moment that Viktor, with the advantage in hand, chose to add more fuel to the Werewolves' fire, dispatching all the elite Vampires from the underground castle, not caring about the chaos.
[Werewolf bloodline * Progenitor-level energy + 8000]… [Enhanced Five Senses (Trait)]… [Beast Instinct (Trait)]… [Vampire bloodline * Energy + 8500]… [Bloodline Reversion (Trait)]…
[Hybrid bloodline * Energy + 5500]… [Adaptive Instinct (Trait)]… [Vampire bloodline * Energy 5000]… [Weapon Mastery (Trait)]…
[Werewolf bloodline * Energy + 2500]… [Werewolf bloodline * Energy + 2000]… [Werewolf bloodline * Energy + 1500]… [Vampire bloodline * Energy 2000]… [Vampire bloodline * Energy 1500]… [Vampire bloodline * Energy 1000]…
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When Mike followed the basement to the underground castle, what met his eyes was a scene of Vampires and Werewolves in chaotic battle.
Among them, the giant Werewolf, over five meters tall and possessing astonishing combat power, was particularly prominent.