Progenitor Vampire: I Have Many Skills!

Chapter 29: A treasure? Devourers?

Chapter 29: A treasure? Devourers?

Seeing the dragon fall to the ground dead, Matt was finally able to relax and fell backward in exhaustion.

Alice and Isla quickly arrived.

"Matt, we slayed a dragon!" Isla said with great happiness on her face as she arrived at his side.

Matt smiled at her and nodded. At the same time, Alice fell exhausted next to him.

"It's a good thing he was injured; that guy looked like he had internal injuries, too. I wonder what he fought against." Matt said while breathing heavily at that point.

Alice agreed with this, but there was something more important right now.

"Matt, what was that attack? How could you possibly attack like that, and how did you manage to move the stakes from so far away? That was amazing; I've never seen an attack like that before!" Alice said with a smile, but at the same time, a question mark in her head.

"I don't know how I should say it, but a while back, it occurred to me that it might be possible to do attacks like that since vampire power comes from blood. I think I told you before, but I feel that vampiric power is more versatile than we imagine since it comes from something physical and palpable. That's why I've been trying to create my own attacks; maybe I can use them as abilities." He answered sincerely.

Alice was shocked and amazed when she heard this.

'Is vampiric power that versatile?' She thought with a smile and looked at her hands, making power come out. Still, it did nothing, no matter how much she thought about it.

"...It doesn't do anything." She said lamely as she saw that her power couldn't move in an unusual way.

Matt smiled, "You require high control of your power. I think not just S-Rank, but something more." He replied, and she stared at him.

"You seem to know more things than I thought, Matt." She said, surprising Matt, who stared at her for a moment.

'Did she figure me out somehow?' He thought doubtfully, but she then smiled as if she had understood something.

"Maybe you were a combat expert in some past life and had combat experience left, Matt. It's an attack I would never think we could do. Not just me; I'm sure my father wouldn't either." She replied, smiling innocently.

This made Matt take another calming breath, 'Well, this girl is too innocent. Looks like she'll never be able to figure that out if I don't tell her.' Matt thought, smiling, and stood up.

"Okay, let's stop talking. We need to load this thing back up... Might it be possible to transport it in rings?" Matt said as he walked towards the enormous dead body of the dragon.

Alice came up behind him and nodded, "That's right. But it requires larger capacity rings. I'll carry it, and at Lord Paul's house, we'll dismember it to get the important stuff out." She said, and with a flash, the dragon's massive body disappeared as Alice's ring absorbed it.

Matt nodded, 'Wow, this is much more effective than hunting days on Earth.' He thought with a smile and then walked towards a small passageway that was at the bottom of the cave.

The three walked until they reached the bottom of this place. The first thing they saw was a small shelf made of rocks where scrolls and bones were scattered everywhere.

'A grave?' Matt thought, but a faint iron-like smell came to his nose as he took another step forward.

"Blood?" Matt said and looked down.

All over where they had walked, there was a small layer of thick blood, which left them in shock, and they looked at each other's faces.

'Where is it coming from?' They thought and walked quickly to the rock shelf there.

But, just then, they felt a strange aura near them, which surprised them.

'Are we under attack?' Matt thought as he got into a battle stance. But the aura didn't disappear, which confused him.

Just then, Alice felt a drop hit her from the ceiling, so she looked up and was stunned by what she saw.

"Corpse-Eating Bloody Herb!" shouted Alice in shock after recognizing it, causing Matt and Isla to look up.

There, there was a bloody-looking herb. Its roots had spread all over the cave ceiling, continuously dripping a red liquid. Its green leaves had light red streaks that moved like blood.

After seeing such a strange herb, Matt was stunned, 'What is that?' He thought, and just then, a drop of blood fell to the ground.

"Matt, let's take it; this is a treasure!" Alice said quickly with a big smile on her face.

But just then, they felt a dangerous power heading their way.

"Devourers?" After recognizing the type of power he was feeling, Matt quickly sensed the danger as he realized there were not a few of them.

"Quick, let's get out of here." Matt said and quickly put away the grass that was on the ceiling and the scrolls on the bookshelf before running off.

But, just at those moments, the devourers entered the huge cave, feeling dazed after not seeing the dragon.

"Where's the dragon!?" a big guy shouted as he took several steps and noticed the partially destroyed cave.

"A battle just happened!" he shouted, quickly noticing the presence of Matt, Alice, and Isla trying to sneak out of the cave.

"You bastards, you did something to the dragon!" this devourer shouted as he lunged hard at them, hitting the ground as the three of them jumped backward.

Alice looked at him stunned, "He has as much strength as I do." She said and quickly drew her weapon to fight, but Matt wouldn't stay fighting here.

He knew they were at a disadvantage because they had just fought the dragon, and they could gain nothing from this battle.

Therefore, he immediately grabbed Isla by the waist with one arm and appeared behind Alice, holding her as well. She was surprised by this sudden move of Matt's but soon felt as if she had been teleported when her perspective changed.

From being in front of the big guy to being in front of many Devourers who were also stunned to see them appear out of nowhere.

"STOP THEM!" shouted the big guy behind.

But just as they saw them appear, they also saw them disappear.

Matt continuously used his dimensional movement to move out of the cave at great speed.

And once he was out, he threw Alice and Isla forward, to turn around and launch a powerful attack towards the cave entrance, causing a large number of rocks from the mountain to fall on the door, blocking it.

The cries of the devourers came from there, and a large amount of power hit these rocks.

Matt then realized that he couldn't stop them much, so he started dashing down the hill, "Quick, let's get out of here!" shouted Matt, causing the girls to get up from where they had fallen and start running with their pretty faces full of dirt.