Modern World Warlock-Chapter 186: Hostage Trade

In the afternoon at Novis, while the sun was still shining brightly over the city, Dante and Megan took Irina to a warehouse on the outskirts, where the exchange would take place.

Apart from Dante and Megan, a few members of the Kappa Team were on standby near the warehouse, just in case the vampires tried anything funny.

"Well, Miss Irina, it was fun…" Dante said with a slightly sarcastic tone.

"Fuck you," she replied.

The pair was standing outside the warehouse, with the vampire still bound by the abyssal chains, which made her wonder how long they lasted.

Unbeknownst to her, Dante's abyssal chains periodically absorbed some of Dante's umbra.

In a typical setting, a warlock wouldn't be able to hold that spell for more than two hours. However, Dante had so much umbra flowing from him that he could maintain it for a few days.

After waiting for thirty minutes, an SUV arrived with three individuals stepping out of the vehicle.

Dante recognized the driver as Irina's companion, whom she called "Number 2." Even though the man had his face covered with a mask, the energy flowing from him was exactly the same, so Dante instantly recognized him.

As he scrutinized the other two individuals, the warlock deduced that the dark-skinned man was the strongest of the bunch.

"An elder vampire…" Dante muttered, catching Irina's attention, who gazed at him with a bit of shock.

"Let's see… If that guy is Number 2 and he is a vampire lord, then that woman next to him would be Number 3, right?" Dante asked the group, pointing at the vampires.

"And if you are 2, and she is 3… Then that makes this guy Number 1," Dante continued, pointing at the dark-skinned man.

"Not a bad deduction… We are here for our little sister, if you don't mind," said the elder vampire in a calm, polite manner.

"Mhmm, here you go…" Dante replied, snapping his fingers and making the abyssal chains disappear.

"She is a bit feisty and rude, but she behaved alright…" The warlock commented as Irina walked to the vampire's side.

The vampires didn't reply and walked back to their vehicle without taking their eyes off Dante and Megan, and as they drove off the site, Dante seemed to be deep into his thoughts.

"What do you think?" Megan asked, wanting to hear the warlock's opinion.

"The guy with the cane looked pretty strong… He might be stronger than you and Zac," Dante commented.

"So… It's time to train, I suppose," Megan replied with a disinterested tone.

While they were on the ride back to the Jade Palace, Megan pondered if releasing Irina was the best thing to do, as she knew a little more about them now and could use that information to attack them again.

However, Dante was sure that the vampire's leader already knew of the warlock's existence since the video from the concert had gone viral.

A vampire that was powerful enough to create their own clan must have been familiar with warlocks and demons, so he believed that they wouldn't try to mess with them again.

"Did you fight a lot of vampires back in your world?" Megan asked.

"I don't know if it's a lot, but I did encounter a vampire Father one time…" he replied.

It was an event that had happened a little over a hundred years ago from Dante's perspective.

He and his party were traveling to a city called "Lumen," which was known to have a vampire clan called the Blood Moon Clan governing it.

The Father of the clan was Nicodemus, a powerful man who not only governed his city fairly but also created a clan with hundreds of vampires.

Dante had been to the city of Lumen numerous times at that point. However, on his last trip there, he found the entire city involved in chaos.

Nobody knew why, but Nicodemus had gone berserk and destroyed the entire city and killed over 90% of the citizens and all of the vampires in his clan.

When Dante and his party found Nicodemus, he was about to deal a finishing blow to the last vampire alive from his clan but was promptly stopped by the warlock.

After they all worked together to kill Nicodemus and stop his frenzy, the sole vampire survivor revealed the truth of what had happened.

The young vampire decided to betray her clan after their Father killed one of her older sisters, whom she loved. So, in order to take revenge, the young vampire destroyed absolutely everything.

"Damn… And you guys helped her kill Nicodemus?" Megan inquired, wholly immersed in the warlock's story.

"Yeah, well… To be fair, Nicodemus was a piece of shit—We just kind of endured his actions since Lumen was a nice place," Dante replied.

"What about the vampire survivor?" Megan asked.

"We let her go…"

Dante and his party were familiar with the vampire woman, and they didn't feel like killing anyone else at that point, so they healed her wounds and allowed her to leave.

"Hmm, so you do have a soft spot for vampires…" Megan commented, placing a hand on her chin.

"Hah, maybe I do—They may not look like it, but vampires are surprisingly considerate when you talk to them…" he replied.

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When the pair arrived at the Jade Palace, Megan was still thinking about Dante's words, saying that she wouldn't be able to beat the elder vampire, so she decided to go to the MET room to train.

Inside the room, she found Zac and Alice training against the dummies and Miss Clara practicing her umbra control with a Shadow Well.

'Everyone looks motivated…' Megan thought with a slight smile on her face.

"Ah, Megan! Can you help me give Miss Alice a few tips?" The redhead beckoned the brunette.

Meanwhile, Dante visited Camille in the briefing room to give his report on the vampire exchange.

The handler wanted to know if the vampires were related to the strange monster that had appeared in the South—the ghoul.

Nonetheless, Dante refuted her suspicion, explaining that vampires didn't use undead monsters to do their bidding.