Chapter 300 (1/2)
“Bethanos?” said Hessiana with wrath in her eyes. “He took the key?”
As soon as Nangong Wuyue caught her breath, she examined the vampire for any injuries, thinking to heal him with her siren skills. But, she quickly noticed that there was no external wound. “Where’s the wound?”
The male vampire leaned against the pillar, looking weak and embarrassed as he turned his head away. “It’s an internal injury. It will heal itself in no time.”
Hessiana kicked him in the stomach. “You f*cking coward, did you play dead again at the first opportunity you got? Get the f*ck up and talk!”
The kick was so hard that the male vampire almost suffered the internal injury he had been pretending to have. But, he still grinned like a clown without the slightest hint of embarrassment. “I wanted to stay alive to tell you what happened…”
Hao Ren did not know what to say about Hessiana’s clownish subordinate, but it was not the time to complain. Zeon quickly examined the bodies of his men for fatal wounds, then nodded at Hessiana with a serious face. “It’s the Higher Shadow Blade.”
Hessiana looked at the mess of the aftermath, her eyes filled with fury. “Has Bethanos gone mad? Is he declaring war on the two families?”
“Could this be the reason for the energy storm in the foreign dimension?” asked Hao Ren. Suddenly, many things came to his mind. It began to dawn on Zeon and Hessiana too as they gnashed their teeth in anger. Hessiana gave her lone surviving man another kick and said, “Inform everyone to gear up; holy water and everything. We’re going for Bethanos! The Hessianite Family has not been in a fight for three years, so they think we’re easily bullied!”
“Calm down. You’re not going to go in blindly.” Zeon stopped Hessiana. “Bethanos knows more about the relic than we do and he has taken the key. He wanted us dead in the foreign dimension. He came prepared!”
Hessiana stared at Zeon. “Then what should I do, old fogy? Do we just let him do whatever he wants?”
Zeon frowned and pondered for a while. He then turned around and shouted at a body on the ground. “Andrea! Stop playing dead! Go back and inform everyone to get ready for a face off with Bethanos. Another thing, send William on recce; I want to know what the Shadelings are up to before we take action.”
A flirty woman rose from among the dead and jumped to her feet before nodding at Zeon. She then spread her bat wings and flew downtown in the dark.
Hessiana gave Zeon a silent glance and said, “…Looks like we have a common ground here.”
“Shut up.”
Hao Ren was speechless. He felt like he could no longer stand it; the dead bodies and their facetious attitude towards death had all crushed his perspective on life. He desperately needed some quiet time to reflect and ponder on whether these otherworldlings were seriously brain-dead.
Soon, the flapping sound of wings broke the night as a bunch of vampires from the Hessianite Family arrived. They came to clean up the scene as soon as they got wind of the situation. Hessiana grabbed one of them and asked anxiously, “What are the Shadelings doing?”
“The Shadelings in the city are gone,” the lesser vampire answered. “We’ve got intel that the Bethanos Family has retreated to their hole. At the moment, all areas controlled by the Shadelings have been locked down while the little recce bats have been shot down.”