Chapter 3 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The smell of jasmine reached the tip of his nose; it was likely the girl’s perfume.

In the corridor, the orange flames from the candles radiated warm light, and they shone on the girl’s face at the same time as the light from the half-opened window.

As she placed her hands on her robes, her gentle movements evoked the sensation of a soft touch.

It was real, extremely real.

That was not something any virtual game could achieve.

Reed looked at the girl in front of him, who was waiting for his response, and he took a deep breath. The feeling of talking to a real person was just not something a so-called game could capture.

A soul…

Yes, he could sense the soul of a normal person in the girl.

She was not one of those rigid game NPCs but a living person.

The girl’s appearance destroyed some of the conjectures he had made in his heart, but even so, his passions grew even hotter.

Glory was truly not that simple. It was not just a virtual game.

What kind of secrets were hidden within?

Why was the game promoted and sold in such a manner?

Amid his thoughts, Reed’s expression returned to normal without much fluctuations in his eyes.

He then shook his head coldly.

“Viena, send my lunch to my magic laboratory. I’ll eat it there.”

Viena could not help but feel a little disappointed when she heard his somewhat indifferent tone.

She had seen the light in Reed’s eyes earlier and felt some joy in her heart.

However, in the blink of an eye, Vermillion Tower’s master, the object of her utmost admiration, had returned to his usual calmness.

She proceeded to bow respectfully.

“Understood, Master Reed.”

She then left to make the arrangements with a sense of sadness.

Did Master Reed really dislike women?

Thinking of the weird rumors swirling in the tower, Viena unwittingly felt a little down.

Many people dreamed of being the woman of a high mage. Not to mention, Master Reed was so handsome.

As Reed’s pale and handsome face crossed her mind, Viena could not help but bite her lip.

Reed was slightly relieved as he watched Viena’s graceful figure leave.

After his encounter with Viena, he would never take the living people there for NPCs anymore.

Since his original body belonged to a vampire, a race that had always been hated by humans, he kept a certain distance from the apprentices in the mage tower.

Should his true identity as a vampire be discovered in Grimm with its millions of inhabitants and Transcendent Mages, even a Progenitor Vampire like him would not be able to escape.

If Viena had been placed in another mage tower, she would have been long eaten up by the tower master there.

Yet, over where the original body was, Viena was just an ordinary mage apprentice, whom he used for cover.

Naturally, he would not rashly change the original vampires’ living habits, and he would be very cautious.

Vermillion Tower was named after the red alchemic material used on the tower’s facade. It had seven floors and was 25 rhents high.

Rhent was the unit of measurement in Glory. One rhent equaled one meter.

The first and second floors were where the apprentices lived, while the third and fourth floors housed a library and the place where Reed taught his apprentices.

The fifth floor was his living quarters.

The six and seventh floors consisted of a warehouse for magical materials and a magic laboratory respectively.

Despite being a vampire, the original progenitor was extremely obsessed with magic.

However, this vampiric bloodline was formed after Reed. The progenitor had mistakenly swallowed a vampiric treasure two hundred years ago and became a Progenitor Vampire as a result.

His background was extremely shallow.

Hence, he did all he could to go undercover in Grimm and joined their Lodge of Mages to learn magic.