Poker was a game of bluffing as best as possible in order to trick your opponent while heading toward our victory as fast as possible. Nevertheless, the key was to draw the cards that would add to one’s hand.Samael let Allegra pick the cards, showing his confidence and trust in her and at the same time challenging Carlos if he could do the same with Akira.“Every player is a master of his own fate,” Akira responded telepathically with what Carlos believed was the perfect answer. “We’re not dogs to imitate what the masters do.”Her response was like a mental slap to Allegra. Instead of retorting Akira with another sentence, Allegra focused on the game instead.Traditionally, poker was a single pack game of 52 cards, but now an extra poker was being used just to speed up the game a little bit.The difficulty of the game not only depended on the opponent but also the dealer. Vril, who was playing the role of the dealer, magnificently shuffled the cards at a speed that the shuffling alon

Akira and Carlos reached the border of the inner city, and Akira stopped by to meet the old border guard Angelo whom she owed, for he had helped in her escape the last time.“We are leaving. Do you want to come with us?” she asked him.Angelo remembered Carlos’ face. “H-He’s the one who fought the head of the Zones family. H-He’s not the one you brought along.”“Both are the same. He was just wearing a mask, that’s all,” Akira explained.“Ah, so that’s how it was,” Angelo’s eyes still stayed wide awake. As he looked at Carlos, he saw that his skin was gaining redness. “He’s not healthy.”“Mm? What are you talking about?” Akira wondered.Angelo came closer and sniffed Carlos and then licked his hand.“What the hell are you doing, old man?” Carlos growled.Angelo’s eyes glew brown. The veins on his face grew thick as he bore the pain. “As I thought… your blood is highly corrupted now. Just by licking you, I felt the poison worsen my blood.” He put his tongue out, and it turned bluish bl

Deep in the Outer city of Shambol where the beasts ruled the zone, Akira was hiding inside the giant cave-like hole made in a rather huge tree. It was the home of a predator, but as long as the predator was out, they could stay here, and she thought that the home of a predator would keep other predators away. So she chose to rest here since there was enough room to even walk around.What she didn’t know however was that Theron had followed her. “I’ve never come this deep into the woods, and the place she’s hiding is where the Blood Wolf resides. It is one of the top monsters in this forest that even the leaders of the great families avoid. How stupid she must be for her to pick that place for a hideout.”If not for the risk of alerting other beasts around, Theron would have already attacked Akira because she was at a vulnerable moment with her hands destroyed, and while the two men with her were still unconscious. However, he still couldn’t act rashly because it was the home of the Bl

Akira was momentarily frozen by what she saw, but she was able to dodge the next ice arrow that came at her.She immediately spotted where the arrows were coming from, instead of going toward the target, she ended up kicking the ice boulder into the cave and then stood in front of the entrance of the cave.She released blood energy through her arms, even though her hands still didn’t regenerate.“Keke,” Theron, who was still in hiding, was snickering. “She’s basically asking me to shoot at a standing target. She seemed to have learned Blood Arts, but is she confident enough to stop my freezing arrows when she doesn’t even have hands? She’s just a stupid vampire.Theron was a swordsman. He had no experience with using a bow. Nevertheless, he had a modern bow with him, which helped him automatically shoot arrows by reading his thoughts, though there was a lag of a millisecond between the two.Using this bow, he repeatedly launched arrows that flew in different directions and changed the

Angelo was standing at the border, and a horde of monsters suddenly attacked. He, along with other guards, worked hard to defeat the monsters in the front, so the other monsters retreated. Their work wasn’t done yet. Some of these monsters were highly mutated, so their bodies released powerful toxins after death, which if inhaled, even caused hallucinations to vampires. So, the corpses were dismantled and the parts were sent away to different places in the city.Nevertheless, the border where the monster blood was shed had become a land of death. The smell of blood would still come off the earth and affect the guards like a slow drug.Angelo, having breathed that drug for years, was now struggling to sleep because his body craved for something he himself didn’t know of. He couldn’t sleep in the hotel, and he felt hungry in the middle of the night, so he came out into the streets and headed to a spot that Akira had told him to.Along the way, he changed his muscular structure to look l