"Hosh ... hosh ..." his eyes were fixed in two opposite directions, fresh blood dripping from his forehead until it hit one eye. "The war is over! Your leaders have died, there is no longer any reason for you to continue this war..."
People looked at each other, there were clearly war generals from both sides, but no one dared to voice the war to continue. It was true, after the death of the two leaders of each side, their morale was almost near zero. The purpose of the war disappeared with the death of their leader.
"Now, I want to see the two war generals make peace with each other to stop this meaningless war..." The Man in the Black Suit didn't care about his condition, he insisted on wanting to see the end result of the war that always happened.
His gaze was now focused on the two people standing in front of each side, taking turns looking at him.
The two of them who understood that the Man in Black Suit was demanding an answer, harmoniously immediately looked at the troops on each side.
His gaze spread throughout the army, as if asking everyone's opinion on the request of the person who had killed their leader. Many nodded, some didn't, for unknown reasons, whether that person didn't have the energy to just nod his head or disapprove.
However, seeing the dominance of the people who chose to make peace, the two war generals simultaneously walked towards the man in the black coat who was in the middle of the two sides with the answer that had been obtained.
"So, I will be the neutral party that embodies this agreement..." The Man in Black Suit smiled amiably who looked strange with his bloodshot eyes. Despite his words, he bowed to the two of them not because of their positions as war generals or anything like that, but because he respected their decision.
Seeing the two nod, the man in the black suit began the pledge of a peace treaty to harmonize the words of the two parties' promises.
"I, Nathan De Dracula Kingsley, bear witness to your pledge on behalf of all. So, follow what I say..." exclaimed the Man in Black, who made a vow for the two of them to follow.
Following the guidance of the Man in Black who had introduced himself as Nathan De Dracula Kingsley, the party appointed as the first pledger started his pledge as Nathan had spoken.
"I, representing the entire werewolf nation..."
"I, representing the entire nation of vampires..."
The two of them delivered vows that matched every basic word Nathan had said before. With a firm tone, the two of them looked very promising.
Nathan smiled very sincerely at the two of them after the promise of the agreement had been carried out quite briefly. "Thank you for granting the wish of the person who killed your leader. I hope, you guys keep this agreement very long. So that before I get up again, I see you two hugging each other without hurting each other. I really hope..." ended with his words, from the pores of his skin blood began to appear, his body slowly decomposed.
Nathan fell asleep again!
The world that was previously colored red due to being in the domination of the power of Nathan De Dracula Kingsley has now turned bright. Only then did the refreshing and warm air enter everyone's lungs.
A drop of blood floated in front of the two generals, then his hands were touched to each other in front of his chest.
"You really are a true Vampire Lord, Mr. Nathan..."
...
A coffin that for some time had been among the tombs in the cemetery suddenly opened. A man in a black suit rose from within, revealing fiery red eyes that made the owl perched not far away shudder in fear and decide to fly away.
"Hmm...?"
His gaze swept around in astonishment, as he did not sense the familiar aura of the vampires and werewolves.
"I woke up in a strange place..." he mumbled.
At the end of the cemetery there was a light from a lamp obscured by leaves, the man walked over to find out more about the place where he had risen. "Looks like something is coming soon..." He faintly sensed a turbulent energy surge, then from his right side came the sound of hurried footsteps.
The sound of breathing that sounded hoarse revealed a girl who was running, her face looked worried about something. Then, when she saw a person in a black suit standing on the side of the road, she felt happy for a moment before knowing that the person in the black suit was a man. She was getting more and more anxious, but she didn't look like she was going to stop her footsteps.
"Stop, you little girl!"
Several men seemed to be chasing the girl, not too far away. In a quiet place like this it was very vulnerable to danger, especially for a girl who was alone as she was being chased by several men.
The girl looked scared and quickened her steps, she didn't care about her breathing which had been very fast and was getting heavier. Tears started to roll down her face around her eyes, her lips bitten until they bled a little to keep her feet up. She was really scared and exhausted, hoping that a hero would help her from an unexpected direction.
Finally, the girl stumbled and could not get back up.
In fact, even though she didn't stop even once, the man chasing her was able to grab her hand. They deliberately wanted to play with the girl.
Basically, the girl wouldn't have been able to run this far without getting a boost from the overwhelming fear given off by the men chasing her. She could only resign herself to the fact that her nightmare was about to happen. But even so, she was still persistent, trying to stay away from the men who were walking towards him. She didn't care about her hands which were starting to get scratched by the rough texture of the road.
"Hehe... never mind little girl, there's no need to torture yourself anymore. Come on, play with us, it's much more enjoyable..."
"Yes. You will definitely be addicted..."
"Trust me, you'll love being a bad girl..."
The girl who had been helpless looked at them with fear, her tears were now all over her face, maybe because it was mixed with her sweat as well. She shook her head as she said in a trembling voice, "No... no... I-I don't want to... please, l-let me go..."
Hearing this, the three looked at each other before bursting into laughter. They looked like they had no sympathy seeing the girl's pitiful condition. Their smiles grew even more, like enjoying a girl who was suffering.
"There's no need to be so afraid, little girl. However, it's quiet here. Nobody will know what happened to you. People who know you will still think of you as an innocent girl, as long as you don't tell them..." he said in a half-whisper, the man had a thin mustache with disheveled and slightly long hair. Then, he signaled to the two men behind him to hold the girl's hands, so as not to trouble himself while performing his actions.
"No... don't... DON'T!"
The girl became increasingly desperate, she herself realized that she had previously chosen the wrong path of escape and ended up leading the men to a place that greatly benefited them to more freely carry out their actions. She could not rebel any further as her tiny hands were locked by the two men from the left and right, while the man with the thin mustache was about to do something else.
However, before the girl's nightmare occurred, someone said "Young Lady, do you need my help?"
The voice came from behind. They seemed to have forgotten that someone had been standing on the side of the road wearing a tall and slender black suit.
Now, he was walking slowly after getting a small nod from the girl which indicated that she needed his help. His closed eyes slowly opened, revealing fiery red eyes, making the three men who saw him shudder in fear before they could react any further.
It was the Vampire Lord, Nathan de Dracula Kingsley that started from here, a whole new world for him to be introduced by the Girl.
"Wh-who are you!?" asked the Thin Mustache Man as beads of sweat began to form on his forehead. The tone of speech that had always been made domineering before, now immediately plummeted as the Man in the Black Suit with his red eyes walked towards him.
"Ah, pardon my impoliteness. Introducing, I am Nathan De Dracula Kingsley, the one who's lost here..."
On the way, Nathan paused to introduce himself and bowed slightly with one hand touching his chest. At a glance, that terrifying aura suddenly disappeared as he introduced himself, but after he finished...
The three men shuddered again in fear.
This time the girl who was being held tightly by the two men just let go.
"If you guys don't want to introduce yourself, I won't mind it. However, may you all let the girl go?" asked Nathan who after waiting for a while did not get a response from the three people.
His neck stiffened to just look at the two men behind him, the Thin Mustache Man asked his two colleagues for opinions on what they should do now.
But apparently, he wasn't the only one who was afraid. The Thin Mustache Man is trying to think whether he will let go of the girl he has been eyeing for a long time or face all kinds of things that will soon happen to this man named Nathan.
Thinking quickly, the Thin Mustache Man finally decided to run after he couldn't stand the eerie aura he felt from Nathan.
"Hm... Weird people..." Nathan muttered in surprise.
The girl saw a slender hand stretched out to her, then she subconsciously responded to the outstretched hand. Suddenly, her body lifted and instead entered into the cold embrace of the Black Suit Man's chest.
"Now that it's safe, sleep in peace..."
Hearing a gentle whisper from a man, the girl was unable to maintain her consciousness and fell into a deep sleep. She was exhausted, both mentally and physically. It's a miracle she survived that long. When she got an umbrella that blocked the pouring rain in the summer, she was finally able to forget the pressure and rest in peace.
Nathan gently stroked the girl's long hair, he looked with concern at the girl's calm looking face with closed eyes. "I don't really understand what's going on. But seeing
her so scared, I thought she needed help. Hopefully, I didn't do anything wrong..." he mumbled after he looked the way the three men had left.
...
In the middle of the night, sitting in a chair by the side of a deserted road, Nathan used his thighs as cushions for the sleeping girl's headrest. As a Vampire Lord, he usually looked out of the window with a cup of tea in hand without moving for a whole day or even years.
This time, Nathan sat staring at the front where there was only an iron fence and not too thick trees inside. His red eyes make the insects that live behind the leaves feel awkward to do their activities. His hands from time to time gently stroked the long hair of the sleeping girl that fell to cover part of her black trousers.
As the moonlight began to appear from behind the clouds, the girl's eyes slightly trembled. Then, it slowly opened.
Paying no heed to the softness felt from the cushion, she squirmed after sitting back down. After rubbing her eyes, only then partially regained consciousness. The memory of a moment ago made her immediately turn her gaze towards a man who was sitting firmly beside her.
The girl didn't really care about the bad memories with the previous few men, but more importantly after the Man in the Black Suit who seemed to be the one who had saved her.
"Um... Excuse me, Sir?"
Not even called Nathan actually wanted to turn his head after seeing the girl wake up. "You are awake, Young Lady. How about the sleep?" he asked, smiling warmly, so that his red eyes were not too visible to the girl.
"Ah! Th-that... Very soundly..." replied the girl who looked shy, there was a pink blush on her face. But she lowered her head, so the Man in the Black Suit couldn't see her face.
The girl seemed to have realized that she was sound asleep without knowing anything her physical body was doing while her consciousness was in a dream, whereas there was a handsome grown man sitting beside her waiting patiently.
"That's good then. Seeing that it's so late, it is quite dangerous for a girl to walk alone, especially in such a lonely place. Will Young Lady allow me to accompany you home? Besides, I would like to ask you a few things during the trip..."
Before answering, the girl checked her body, whether the Man in the Black Suit had done anything dirty or not. However, everything was safe, she could breathe a sigh of relief. 'For now, I think this Man in the Black Suit I can consider a good man, huh?' she muttered to herself.
"Okay, I think so too..."
The two of them started walking not long after, because it was indeed late, even now it was starting to enter the early hours of the morning. The air was so cold, it was only a few moments after the two of them started walking home, the girl seemed to shudder with cold.
Nathan who saw it did not really understand the girl's behavior because indeed he would not be disturbed by natural conditions, but for some reason he felt the need to lend her his black suit to cover the girl's body who was only wearing ordinary clothes. Then, he opened it and put it on the girl, much to her surprise.
The girl looked at Nathan's face, that's when she realized that this very handsome face had fiery red eyes. But somehow she didn't feel scared or anything, she just smiled at him. "Thank you..."
Nathan turned his head and just smiled sweetly.
"Oh yeah, earlier you said to me you wanted to ask a few things, maybe now's a good time to, um... out from this awkward moment?" the girl seemed to think for a moment before starting to introduce herself after remembering that the two had not introduced themselves.
"My name is Alina, who is this Sir Savior, if I may know?"
"Miss Alina can call me Nathan..."
After that brief introduction, Nathan asked her a few things.
"We are currently in Pearl City, in the province of the Sunda Empire, and it is still part of the Maritime Country. Although the name of this city sounds beautiful, but here it is indicated that it will be a very dangerous place at an unknown time. However, somehow people think, this city is getting more and more invaded by foreigners..." explained Alina who answered Nathan's question.
"What danger will this Pearl City have?
"That's right, here it is detected to be a place where many Monster Gates will appear at one time, like a big wave suddenly coming..."
"Then how do people know that something dangerous is going to happen here? Is there anyone who can predict the future?" asked Nathan again, he who is a Vampire Lord alone can't see for a second the future.
"Not fortune-telling, rather taking into account all kinds of phenomena that occur in magical energy in nature..."
"I see..." Nathan held his chin digesting the information he had.
Alina said, this world is called Earth, in 2034 at this time. When Nathan asked the name of this world before, Alina had a big question mark above her head, but she still answered the question with pleasure.
12 years ago was the first Monster Gate appeared and became the forerunner of change on Earth. Since then, people who initially believed in magic was just a fantasy, now they can also use it. In fact, technologically advanced weapons have been combined with this magical energy, in order to become a useful weapon against the monsters behind the Monster Gate.
"Does Miss Alina know about the existence of vampires and werewolves?" Nathan didn't hear any vampires or werewolves being mentioned in it as long as he heard Alina's explanation regarding this place. So, he decided to take the initiative to ask her.
"Werewolves? Vampire? All this time, I only knew about it from fiction stories, that was when I was very young..." Alina seemed to be thinking, as if trying to remember something she had forgotten.
Then, Alina again said "But yes, there are people who have the power of shapeshifting. That person can turn into the incarnation of a lion, he looks dashing when he does his transformation. At that time, he and his colleagues managed to repel the monsters that came out of the Monster Gate, due to the absence of strong hunters who could handle them. From the video circulating, he was standing on a mountain of monster corpses. He said he was the one who contributed the most in handling the 'Open Gate'. Well, you know? People say, the gate opens a day early, whereas before the time comes, the Monster Gate will continue to close..."
Nathan frowned when he heard that there was a human who could transform into a lion-man. That intrigued him a little. He thought, maybe that person had information regarding the vampires and werewolves. About this Monster Gate, he understood it a bit more, including when it would open or close just by feeling the chaotic energy emanating from within the Monster Gate.
The girl was so caught up in her own words that she didn't even notice that she was starting to get into a topic related to her life.
"Then yes, I am a culinary trader who always changes places. I will trade in very crowded places. Even once, I was selling near the Monster Gate, because at that time there happened to be a stir regarding the achievement of someone who had successfully completed the Monster Gate which was said to be difficult to conquer. I should be grateful, because a lot of my food is buying it, but somehow I'm starting to feel anxious..." Alina paused for a moment, the look on her face was like she was afraid of something.
"Lately, I've been having a lot of problems that are not related to trading. The three men who last chased after me was one of the biggest reasons..." continued Alina, she smiled wryly as she recalled the incident some time ago.
At that time, Alina really felt depressed. Then, her anxiety finally reached its peak when she knew someone was following him who was about to go home. The last time it happened was something new to her. When she remembered it, her heart was pounding violently, her sweat was now starting to recreate on her yellowish white forehead.
"Is that so? That means, I'm on the right side..." Nathan muttered in a low voice, his hand spontaneously slightly raised and began to gently caress Alina's head. His decision to believe Alina's expression at that time had been answered after hearing firsthand the outpouring of a girl who was hurt. He just smiled warmly when Alina looked at him confusedly, but Alina didn't comment further.
Alina herself somehow felt comfortable being treated like that. In fact, she and Nathan had not met last night.
Since Nathan woke up from his sleep, he felt a turbulent energy turmoil that from the beginning the two of them walked towards Alina's house, the chaotic energy that was felt was getting more clearly felt where there was an increase in the intensity of the energy turmoil.
However, Nathan still behaved calmly. He was very confident in his strength, such a huge turbulent energy turmoil was actually very weak. Needless to say, energy also has a certain density, just like the materials that make up the universe, which have varying material densities.
The energy from his original world was a chaotic energy that had a high density, while what Nathan had felt since he had woken up on this Earth was indeed similar. But the density is much lower, even though it has a large capacity.
"From here, how long will it take us to get to Miss Alina's house?" asked Nathan.
They have been walking for a long time, but even after entering the residential area, there is no sign of Alina's house to be seen. Or, because Alina hasn't shown any signs that the two of them will be home soon.
"Um... Maybe, in about thirty minutes?" Alina answered only estimating, her hand holding her chin while looking up, don't know what got her attention.
"Pretty good news. In that case, Miss Alina should get ready before it happens..."
...
On the road that was only a few steps away from one of the houses on the side of the road began to appear small dimensional cracks, it made one or two passersby not notice it.
The dimensional crack began to spin, until it resembled a whirlpool. The sound was like gurgling water which wasn't too loud at first, but slowly the sound that came out of those dimensional ripples turned sharper and sharper like the continuous sound of broken glass. Residents around who were sleeping, both young and old woke up because of it.
Almost simultaneously, the front doors of each house leading to the street opened. Then, someone or several people came out from inside each door. They all looked in the same direction, namely the place where the dimensional vortex occurred which was getting bigger from time to time. This phenomenon should have predicted what would happen next, but those people were unable to move.
"Ah, it seems that people are affected by the chaotic energy that has been contaminated by negative aura..." Alina muttered, afraid that she would be like them.
Nathan and Alina who was holding the sleeves of his black coat from the start of the dimensional vortex were visible, both of them walked towards it which was the direction of the destination, namely the road to Alina's house.
From a distance, it can be seen that some people are unable to move while witnessing this phenomenon. However, as Alina got closer and closer to the dimensional vortex, she didn't act like the people around her. Then, her gaze fell on a pair of red eyes that made her have to look up to the right.
"Is it possible?"
Alina speculated that Nathan was the reason she did not receive the impact of the dimensional vortex's appearance. Everyone including herself knows the characteristics of the appearance of the Monster Gate, the dimensional vortex phenomenon that is the forerunner to the formation of the Dimensional Gate. There was no one who didn't know the repercussions of being hit by the turbulent energy emanating from the Monster Gate, especially when it was still in the formation stage.
According to the notification from the government well in advance after the research was carried out, people should immediately go into a seizure if they were near the Monster Gate formation area, and then become unconscious some time after. However, the people around just stood unmoved from their place. Maybe, there are also trying to move, seen one of their fingers vibrate from time to time.
Strange, Alina thought silently.
"Is this the Monster Gate?"
Nathan watched the dimensional vortex that was about to reach the peak of the Monster Gate formation. It became clearer in his vision that there were indeed many weak monsters in there. But when compared to the people around, the monsters were quite strong.
After all, the people around who didn't get the potential awakening wouldn't have the slightest chaotic energy, while Alina was the same as them.
Actually, the people around got protection from Nathan when he was still quite far from the location. The reason those people were frozen like that was because they had been exposed to the contaminated chaotic energy, whereas they were just normal humans.
You could say, if a grain of dust is inhaled into the nose, humans who have a body defense system will sneeze because they feel tickled. Then if the dust turns out to have a lot of viruses in it, it can make people cold. The body's defense here, even if it's just a cold, the other body will respond to feeling sick too.
The same was the case with that contaminated and wild chaotic energy. A normal human body can't filter the influx of chaotic energy, but without the help of tools it would be quite dangerous. Moreover, a normal human body is exposed to the chaotic energy that is still wild, wouldn't the impact be even more dangerous?
Luckily, their fate can still be saved by Nathan's presence. He who protected them could still repair their bodies that had suffered damage from being slightly hit by the chaotic energy, but their bodies were too weak to be exposed to more chaotic energy.
So Nathan slowly repaired the damaged cells in their bodies.