Chapter 214: Four? Four? FOUR!?

"Master...?" Maria looked at Victor's face in concern while she didn't even seem affected by the man's smile.

"Hmm?" Victor lifted his gaze and looked at Maria:

"... What are you doing?" he asked in a neutral tone.

"Master looked like he was in pain So I hugged him to ease his pain!" She spoke with a determined face. It was a face that didn't show that she had ulterior motives.

"..." Victor narrowed his eyes slightly.

"..." Maria stared at Victor with a twinkle in her eye, and it was as if she was looking at an 'idol', precisely speaking, a 'god.'

An uncomfortable silence fell over the place.

"...I see." Then, in an attempt to break out of this uncomfortable silence, he lifts his face and leans back on his ice throne.

"Master, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, My Maid."

Maria's ears twitched a little when she heard 'My Maid':

"...Oh, that's good!" She looked very happy for some reason.

"..." Victor ignored the 'new' Maria's over-enthusiasm and looked at the man lying in front of him.

Victor rests his face in his hand, and as he looks at Carlos, he seems to be thinking about several things.

'Hmm, what am I supposed to do with you?' For some reason, Victor felt dissatisfied, he thinks that this man hasn't suffered much yet, but he also couldn't overdo it anymore now because he no longer had the vampire's regeneration.

Victor 'ate' all the vampire blood that was in Carlos' body.

Which proves a very important point.

'These hybrids are not perfect.'

It's like the Yin Yang symbol, in that they needed to be equal, to be perfectly balanced as all things should be.

But it seems that this did not apply to these artificially created hybrids, the proof of which is that Victor managed to 'tear off' the vampiric part of this man, and all that was left was the human side that could die at any moment now.

Victor thought and considered what he should do to prolong his suffering, but in the end, he was honest with himself. He was bored.

This man gave him no satisfaction.

'But at least...' Victor's smile grew a little; 'I know what my enemy looks like'.

Despite saying, "I found you."

Victor didn't find him literally speaking, he just discovered his enemy's appearance, and if he knows the enemy's appearance, he knows when to attack him at first sight.

Who knows? Maybe that man might be shopping on the street, and Victor sees him. It's always good to have your enemy's appearance in mind.

"Maria, what do you want to do with him?"

"Hmm?" Maria looked at Victor, and then looked at Carlos, and when she looked at Carlos and his pathetic state, her expression turned to disgust:

"This worm should just die. I would even feel disgusted trying to eat him, he'll probably taste like shit." Maria's face turned paler than usual, and it was as if she really was going to throw up at any moment.

"...." Victor's eyes narrowed so much at Maria's comment, he could have sworn he saw Carlos' dying body being hit by invisible arrows.

"Very Well." Victor clapped his hands lightly to change the mood and soon got up from the ice throne:

"He is more useful alive than dead, so I will present him to my wife Ruby as a little lab rat."

Victor turns around, and soon the ice throne begins to crumble.

"Hmm? Why the sudden change, Master?"

"hmm?" Victor stopped walking and looked back:

"!!!" Maria's body shook when she saw Victor's gaze, and she realized she had gone too far! She must not question her master's orders!

"Excuse me!"

"...Eh?"

"Excuse me! I won't do it again."

'...But I literally didn't say anything...' Somehow, Victor felt tired from dealing with Maria since he wasn't used to this kind of treatment.

'Seriously, where is that Maria from before?'

"It's okay, okay?"

"...But-..." Maria was about to say something, but Victor grabbed her shoulder and spoke again, this time with a more intense face.

"Okay?"

"...Yes~..." Her cheeks were a little red.

Victor lets go of Maria's shoulder and says:

"I left him alive for one simple reason."

"He knows a lot of things."

Victor was silent as he looked at Carlos, as he remembered that experience he had of seeing several memories.

'The moment this happened to me, I again heard the sounds of chains...' Victor looked at his hand while remembering that the same thing happened when he first accessed his vampire count form.

And he remembered Vlad's words:

"Don't become a monster like me."

Victor flashed a cold smile; 'Looks like it was too late, old man.'

"I see... In that case, it's a good idea to let him live." Maria nodded, indicating that she understood her master's motivation.

"Yes." Victor turned around and started walking towards the exit, and when he left the room, he suddenly disappeared.

'Carlos, despite being a worm, since he was a commander of the enemy, the most logical thing is to let him live to extract as much information as possible. Then, as soon as we get as much information as we can from the enemy, we will make several traps to kill them slowly and feast on their blood...' Maria opened her eyes wide, and when she noticed something, she looked at where victor had vanish