Ancestral Powers (Part 1)

'What the fuck?' Lith and the Firstborn Vampire thought in unison but for entirely different reasons.

The former because Solus's words made no sense and the latter because his own magical formations refused to obey his commands.

Arrays were just permanent spells with no personality or will of their own, yet Vladion could feel their spite being thrown in his face as they defied him over and over.

'Did someone use Forbidden Magic to turn my own city into a cursed object?' He thought as a cold shiver ran down his spine. If the field of arrays had really come to life, there was no telling the damage they might cause.

The group only had to follow the echo of the desperate screams to discover that the Second Life Academy had been attacked. It was the place where recently turned undead learned how to feed on their victims without killing them.