Operation: Sneak Attack
A week later, Thrain made his escape from the Bloodfang House.
He made sure no one got wind of his departure and left with two of his servants, Mir and Luneth.
As for the third servant, he was nothing but a corpse.
Thrain had spent the entire week trying to figure out how the rest of his family had known about his relationship with his maid, Serelle.
When he found out that one of his closest servants and someone he deemed his friend had betrayed them and was also the cause of his mother's death in the past, he was immediately consumed by his rage.
He unleashed all his emotions on the servant, who pleaded for mercy while covered in snot and tears, fearing what his 'master' would do to him.
And he was right to be afraid, because for a few days, he experienced a life worse than death, while Thrain vented all his anger.
He even changed his pleading by asking Jarek to grant him death.
He was completely broken.
Mir and Luneth, who watched all of this happen, were frightened by the scene.
They couldn't believe that the master who looked like he wouldn't harm a fly could be so vicious.
They wouldn't be able to forget this moment for the rest of their lives.
He left, but not without taking some treasures from the treasury.
A few months after their escape, when they were in another territory, they received a shocking piece of news.
The Bloodfang family was completely annihilated by the royal family because of a failed assassination plot.
They attempted to assassinate the crown prince so that the second prince could ascend to the throne in the future.
The king has always favored the Crown Prince over his other children.
He was intelligent, talented, and most importantly, he had the qualities of a ruler that his siblings couldn't compare to.
Thrain, who had his eldest daughter married to the second prince, wanted his daughter to be queen, bringing even more benefits to the Bloodfang House.
But unexpectedly, even with his meticulous planning, they failed, and to save his own skin, his partner, the second prince, threw him under the bus, claiming he had no involvement in this plot.
Failing to find any concrete evidence on the second prince's involvement, the blame fell on the Bloodfang House.
In a single night, almost every Bloodfang except Thrain and Penelope was wiped out from the face of the world.
If they hadn't left when they did, Thrain and his servants would have suffered the same fate.
With all his enemies now gone, and his desire for revenge evaporating alongside their deaths, Thrain, as one of the last two members of the Bloodfang family, would then escape to the United Continent, Sylvacor.
Thrain, Mir, and Luneth eventually settled in the outer city of Valdoria in a small town known as Belmora.
He overthrew the leading figure of the town in a tough battle and became the mayor of Belmora town.
To recover from his wounds, he needed a lot of blood essence.
When the lives in his town weren't enough, he extended his hands to other towns to get more people.
He targeted commoners but found that the blood essence of the young had a better effect than that of most adults.
Over time, his reach even reached Arvenca town, where a few centuries later, fate would bring both Thrain and Jarek together.
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It was now the third week since Jarek had been in the academy, and everything was proceeding smoothly.
His cultivation has been steadily improving, and as a result, the effects of karmic burden were diminishing, and it wouldn't be long until it would completely vanish.
Jarek was now at the Initial level of the Master stage and ready to learn some Medium Tier laws.
And his first choice was undoubtedly karma laws.
After being hit by karmic burden, he immediately understood the importance of karmic defenses.
So, when he became a Master, this was the first law he learned.
Jarek, as usual, was on his way to Eira's place.
As he was walking around the town, he felt as if someone was watching him.
He pretended as if he hadn't noticed anything, but secretly spread out his qi to cover his surroundings.
His qi soon covered over a two-hundred-metre radius with him as the center, and wherever it passed, Jarek had a clear view of everything.
He soon noticed the presence of a familiar figure moving on top of buildings, watching his every move.
His expression slightly darkened, but he still kept moving forward, appearing completely clueless about the figure's presence.
If anything, he wanted to be followed.
It would make things more convenient for him.
He soon reached Eira's doorstep and entered, finding Eira, just as usual, deep into her cultivation.
With her cultivation also at the Master stage, almost all her laws had broken into the next stage, the Basic Intent Stage.
Elementary Intent is all about improving the efficiency with which one wields their laws, until one reaches a 100% efficiency and breaks through from the ninth level of Elementary Intent to the first level of Basic Intent.
Basic Intent, on the other hand, is all about one's control over one's laws.
All of her laws, except for sword laws, have reached this stage.
But it wasn't that far off from evolving.
When Eira felt Jarek's presence, she stopped cultivating, warmly welcomed Jarek into her home, completely unaware of the set of eyes watching them.
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On the top floor of a lavish restaurant, an ordinary-looking vampire was staring intently at the magnificent gates of the academy, which were a few hundred metres in the distance, while eating his meal.
He had been in this area since morning, moving around the place until he came to this restaurant when it was noon.
When he was about to leave, a figure soon appeared in his vision.
A devilishly handsome white-haired young man with a blue uniform walked through the academy gates.
For a moment, the vampire appeared confused, 'Is that him?'
The young man did indeed share some similarities with his target, but at the same time, it looked completely different.
But his hesitation lasted for a short moment before it turned malicious. 'Even if you have reached the Advanced stage, you will die this time.'
This time, he came prepared for any uncertainties.
'Hmm? Who is that?' He thought as he caught a glimpse of Eira.
He had seen Eira before, but her couldn't remember where, since he had only seen a much younger Eira who didn't look anything like her current self.
Before becoming a cultivator, her looks were average, nothing special.
But once Jarek turned her into one, her appearance had changed drastically. She was now a world-class beauty.
'Maybe I'll have some fun later.' He thought with a dark, lecherous smile.
He signaled for his men to attack in two minutes while he sneaked into the house through an open window in one of the top rooms of the house.
He stood close to the staircase, ready to descend, when he heard the sounds of both sides clashing and deliver an unexpected sneak attack.
This time, he wasn't taking any chances and took things very seriously, even when he had the upper hand.
Soon, he heard the sound of the door being forcefully opened, and thirty seconds later, the sounds of metal colliding.
He immediately moved down the stairs, ready to launch an attack, only to witness his minions standing frozen as if they were statues, incapable of any form of movement.
The vampire wore a surprised expression upon seeing his subordinates and Jarek, who stood there with two swords in his hands.
When he saw Jarek holding two swords in each hand, he felt that something was wrong.
He then tried to move back when he found that his body was also frozen still.
'What the bloody hell is going on?' It only took him a few seconds to realize the reason why he couldn't move his body. 'My shadow!'