Nyx

Vritra was startled as he saw Sana's face just inches away from his. He took a step back after seeing the intense look in her blood red eyes. After taking a deep breath, he questioned, "Do you still have your previous memories?"

While staring just as intensely at him, she nodded her head, but right now she couldn't think aside from her hunger.

"Hmm, that's good, and since others have not seen you die with their own eyes, I could make some excuse, though they might think I left you here to escape alone," Vritra pondered.

Then he looked into her eyes and asked, "Your eyes look different; can't you do anything about them?" But instead of answering his question, Sana licked her lips and spoke, "I am hungry."

"…" He frowned and sighed; since it was already done now, he would have to feed his blood to her, not that he wouldn't be rewarded nicely for that.

"So should I pour this blood in a glass or something?" Vritra asked. It was a good thing that he had made a cut over his palm not too long ago; he had already started to unwrap the cloth.

"…" Sana didn't reply; instead, her red lips parted, and inside her mouth, her sharp fangs were revealed. Vritra froze as he stared at those fangs, which gave him a feeling as if she was going to eat him whole.

"You are not going to bite me, are you?" he asked. Though he didn't have much interest in movies in his previous life, he had seen a couple of Dracula movies with Mirelle and the other members of his family, and in those movies, the prey of the Dracula died after being sucked dry.

Sana smiled. Even though her appearance hadn't changed just yet, there was already a strange charm to her. She spoke with a smile that Vritra had never seen before:

"It won't hurt, please… master~"

'It's hard to believe that she is the same shy girl who was having trouble talking to me just a few days earlier. I guess death does change people.'

Knowing that he would have to do it anyway, Vritra removed the cloth wrapped around his left hand and looked at the wound. It wasn't healed yet, but a blood clot had formed over the cut; the speed of his body's regeneration seemed faster than before.

Seeing that Vritra intended to make her drink his blood from the wound over his palm, Sana's expression turned into something that resembled a pout.

She stared at his neck; she could clearly see the delicious blood passing through his veins. She licked her lips, smelling the sweet scent; she almost wanted to bite his neck, but since that might make him not like her more, she decided not to do that.

Vritra took out a knife, planning to cut open the wound, but before the knife even went close to his left hand, Sana pulled his hand. His palm was facing up; without giving him any time to react, she bit his hand just a little above his wrist.

Her red lips pressed against his smooth skin, then he felt a slight pain as her fangs bit into his hand. Without wasting a second, Sana gave a hard suck as she felt the hot blood gush into her mouth.

"Mmmm~" A soft sound came out of her mouth while she enjoyed the wonderful taste of the warmth that coated around her tongue and flowed down her throat.

With both hands, she held his arm tightly as if afraid that he might take it away from her. She was sucking hungrily as the blood continued to pour into her mouth.

GULP GULP

Sana was thoroughly enjoying her meal. Over the period of her life, she had never tasted anything as great as the blood of her master.

Her small and pinkish tongue twirled around the blood inside her mouth while occasionally moving forward to lick his skin, as if her gentle caress would let her have more of it.

Vritra stared at how his hunger meter slowly began to move down, he could feel himself getting tired.

Just after a few minutes, he himself had started to feel slightly hungry despite eating so much food not long before. He could see her throat pulsing rhythmically as she impatiently gulped his warm blood, which then filled up her stomach and turned her belly hot.

More than a dozen minutes had passed, but Sana showed no sign of stopping. Vritra's head started to spin slightly as his hunger meter went down to forty eight. Finally, he spoke: "That's enough for now."

Sana gulped one last mouthful of the warm blood before she pulled her fangs out of his hand reluctantly. While still holding his hand tightly, she licked off his skin.

Vritra retracted his arm and glanced at it; he could see the marks of her teeth on it, though it seemed they would be disappearing quite soon.

"Demonix chil- hmmm Nyx would suck blood from others and provide it to me, then you'll take away my blood; can't you just take the blood from others?" he asked, while gesturing at the blood red soul revolving around his body. He decided to call it Nyx from now on.

A disgusted expression appeared on her face as Sana shook her head and replied, "That's dirty; I would rather starve."

"Sigh, fine, but you have to act normally like before; I'll do the explanation." Then he passed through the door with Sana entering behind him.

The door instantly began to close.

The four attendants were startled at first, but then they stared at Sana in shock and confusion. Then their eyes turned to Vritra, asking him to explain the situation; after all, they had believed she was dead.

"I thought she was dead too, but it seemed she was quite lucky. She had run in the other direction when that beast was chasing her; she hid in a crack, and before the beast could have found her, it died. While I was looking around, I found her there, but the others weren't as lucky,"

Vritra spoke, his face as emotionless as ever. The others felt happy that she survived, so they didn't ask Any questions, the other female member rushed towards her and hugged Sana, though the enchantress didn't like it at all.

While the others were talking, Vritra returned to his tent. He had a lot to think and plan; according to his order, Sana played her part and didn't do anything out of the ordinary.

******

More than two days had passed. The six attendants were now seated inside the large room where Vritra had undergone his transformation.

Vritra and Sana looked fresh and healthy while the other four attendants seemed a little tired since Nyx would sneak into their tent at night to steal some blood from their bodies.

Vritra slightly opened the door on the other side as he peeked outside, wondering how long it was going to take those rune masters.

He was worried that all of them might die since this Zhorian's tomb was much more dangerous than any of them had expected. In the worst case scenario, Vritra would have to awaken, but he wanted to avoid it since in that case, going back to the sanctum would be difficult.

Just when the third day was about to end, Vritra heard the faint sound of footsteps and groans from the distance. He instantly gestured at the others to remain quiet. After they got closer, he saw that it really was the rune masters from the Korvyn family, though the number seemed to have decreased.

'Only thirteen are walking out, so seventeen of them had died? It seems three out of the five 4th Gate rune masters had died. As I thought, there must be a 5th Gate Slug winged raptor here,'

Vritra stared at the figures who were approaching slowly and cautiously. Occasionally, painful groans could be heard coming from them; even the ones who had survived had gotten injured.

The six of them remained hidden until the thirteen rune masters had walked close enough. Finally, as they were close to the hidden door, Vritra pushed it open, revealing his figure to them.

At first, they were ready to launch attacks towards them, but after seeing the six teenagers standing there, shocked expressions appeared over their faces.