Vampire: World of Blood-Chapter 161: Free at Last III

Merciless led the charge, his hand wrapped tightly around Ana’s unconscious form carrying her in a princess carry as they all quickly plunged through the unstable vortex. His servants followed closely behind, their bodies flickering with the residual energies of the barrier.

For a brief moment, everything was chaos—an intense pressure squeezing against them, as if the very fabric of space was fighting to eject them.

Ana’s weakened core pulsed erratically, barely able to maintain stability. Merciless felt her grip tighten as they were hurled forward, their forms bending and twisting through the currents of energy.

Then, as suddenly as it began, the chaos ceased.

They were through.

And on the other side.

"Follow closely, my servants; I can feel the energy renewing themselves, and I’m very sure everyone but me and Ana will perish. If we were to be cast back out directly into the interior of that energy space, within the energy wall she broke for use to get through."

Merciless said, as he went out a bright light with a tint beyond the vortex could be seen.

Merciless said, while his feet suddenly hit solid ground, though the sudden stop nearly threw him off balance.

However, the moment they reached the other side, Merciless felt a slight tug on one of his fleshy hair tendrils.

He looked down at the source, and then that’s when he heard and saw it.

"Mas...ter...

A voice rang out, and when Merciless looked at the source, he saw Anastasia, who appeared frail and disturbed. Her eyes were completely black, and hollow, as if she had no eyes at all, and blue blood began to drip from her socket, which confused him because this was the first time he had seen Anastasia like this.

"Are you ok Ana?"

Merciless asked but all he got were disturbed moans as she began to say.

"My core... I need my core... I can’t... I need it.... mycoremycoremycore... I need it... I...

However, before she could end her sentence... whatever remains of life Ana had in her suddenly diminished into nothing, her hand felt and her movement halted; eventually, this body composed of Aether began to melt away into non-existence, and Ana’s physical form was no more.

Everyone watched in horror—that being Merciless Dampas. Substance’s eye briefly flickered toward the panicked servants, or as she mockingly called them, "children." The irony of their emotions welled up as they grasped the grim reality: Ana had sacrificed herself to allow their passage.

Substance, her face as composed as Merciless’s, turned slightly to face them and began to explain.

"Calm down, would you? She’s not dead."

Substance said, her voice steady.

"Ana’s existence is unique. Unlike other Michellian vampires who regenerate from a single cell, her survival depends solely on her core. As long as that remains intact, she’ll return—and destroying it is no easy task."

She paused for a moment, then added.

"In fact, look behind you. It’s already emerging from the energy wall."

At that point, the Dampas and Exile, who were at this point a little snake wrapped around Substance’s neck like a choker, were also watching. And as they saw it, a strange fiber-like tree of energy began opening and quickly closing the portal from which they originally came, mending itself from the incursion, treating the vortex like a wound, and from that quickly closing gap, a neon blue core came flying out, floating above all of them.

Just as Substance had explained, the process began. Bones and sinew slowly materialized around the core, forming a skeletal structure as veins and arteries threaded themselves through the growing frame. Flesh followed neon blue in color, knitting itself over the muscles and bones with eerie precision.

Bit by bit, her body regenerated, the skin smoothing over until her form was whole once again. Even her clothes, a testament to the intricacies of her regeneration, reappeared seamlessly as if woven back into existence.

In mere moments, Ana was fully restored. Her eyes fluttered open before her body gave in, collapsing gently to the ground at everyone’s feet.

As she landed on all four, her black hair went over her face, as she rose, a bit annoyed, and disturbed as she said.

"I will never get used to that."

Anastasia, said, meanwhile Merciless approached her.

The air around them shifted, cool and still as if the world had drawn a breath in anticipation. He steadied Ana before slowly straightening, his eyes adjusting to the sight before him, while saying to Ana.

"Are you good princess?"

"Agh!! Please don’t call me that. I am no princess, and besides I left my past behind, like hell I want to be called that again."

Merciless chuckled a little as he responded.

"Whatever you say, space girl."

"Ugh...

Ana said, pausing for a minute, seeing that Merciless was jokingly fucking around with her, calling her that subjective nickname.

"It Anastasia master."

"I know your name space girl, no need to remind me."

At these words, Anastasia mumbled under her breath.

"Sigh, and to think I feel this much-unexplained attraction to a fucking asshole, sigh... something is clearly wrong with me, yet I like it when he calls me that, but at the same time I don’t."

She said, Merciless on the other hand heard her loud and clear slightly chuckling as he commented.

Merciless’ voice carried a casual edge as he spoke, his gaze steady on Ana.

"You know I call you ’space girl’ out of affection, right? Only I have that privilege. If anyone else tries, well… let’s just say I’ll make sure they never do it again."

He allowed a smirk to form, but his tone remained composed, and deliberate.

"You’re mine, Ana. And you did good—really good. I’ll make sure you’re rewarded later. But for now, we need to figure out what this place is. Priorities first."

His words held a mix of authority and care, balancing the weight of his possessiveness with a cool, almost teasing assurance.

Merciless was never the type that enjoyed sharing his things with others, that was something he lived by.

Anastasia’s cheeks flushed purple, at his words.

Meanwhile, Merciless began to speak.

"What… is this place?"

He looked about confused by the surroundings before him.

And what he was nothing short of mysterious as it is beautiful.

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What lay beyond the energy barrier defied all expectations. He had anticipated more caverns, perhaps an extension of the labyrinth they had been traversing. Instead, they found themselves in a vast, desolate field, stretching infinitely in all directions. But it was not the barren landscape that unnerved him. It was the trees—if they could even be called that.

Each towering construct was made from glowing, fibrous material, shimmering in the soft neon light of blues and whites.

Upon closer inspection, Merciless saw that each fiber was composed of trillions of smaller threads, each pulsing faintly as if feeding on some unseen energy.

His senses were assaulted by the raw power emanating from these colossal entities, but what unsettled him most was their sheer size.

The trees stretched upward, piercing through the sky and into the very fabric of space itself, disappearing into spatial tears where the stars and void intermingled like a celestial wound.

The trees weren’t isolated, either. As far as the eye could see, there were millions—no, billions—of these towering structures, each drawing energy from the skies above.

And the skies... Merciless had never seen anything like it. Hundreds of moons of various sizes and shapes hung overhead, casting an eerie glow upon the landscape, while a sinister aurora swirled above, shifting from deep reds to cold blue and gold as if the heavens themselves were bleeding.

Ana’s voice, barely above a whisper, broke through his trance.

"I... I’ve never felt anything like this."

Merciless took a deep breath, his senses attuning to the surrounding energies. The breeze, cool and steady, carried with it faint whispers—impossible voices from cracks in reality from which these trees extended.

The energy here was unlike anything he’d encountered before.

"Beautiful, isn’t it?"

Carmilla’s voice was soft, almost reverent.

"These trees, they must feed on the energy from other dimensions... or perhaps they are the energy.... but who knows, I can’t remember seeing anything like this in the database when I was still a part of it."

Merciless nodded but said nothing. He couldn’t shake the unease gnawing at him. Something about this place felt fundamentally wrong—like they had stepped into a realm that should not exist.

Without a word, he took a step forward, his eyes scanning the endless field. Every movement felt heavy, as though the very air weighed him down, yet there was an irresistible pull, urging him deeper into this alien land.

"We’re not alone here."

He muttered. His senses had already picked up on it—the faint presence of something watching them, hidden within the swirling energy of the trees. It was distant but unmistakably powerful.

"Well."

Carmilla said, her voice now back to its usual playful tone.

"If this place is dangerous, that just makes it more interesting, doesn’t it?"

Merciless didn’t respond. His mind was racing, calculating their next move. Whatever lay ahead, it wasn’t going to be simple.

"Naturally, but we should be careful, that power im sensing is so immense it dwarfs my own aura and is more comparable to Substance."

"Yeah, I sense it too, it’s not the queen, for the queen’s aura should be vastly more imposing than everyone here."

Merciless didn’t respond. His mind was racing, calculating their next move. Whatever lay ahead, it wasn’t going to be simple.

"We continue forward."

He finally said, his voice firm.

"Stay alert. This place... it’s not what it seems.... if there is anything I learn anything that is beautiful is always the most dangerous in nature."

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