Draconic Vampire: Curse of the Blood

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The entrance of the blood summoning department was busy as all the new students entered the main hall. Many students looked happy but some looked gloomy. They were all wearing the same uniform that was given to them. 

"I was hoping to join the Esper department. This sucks! I will have to summon cats and dogs now." A vampire said dejectedly.

"Calm down, will you? This department is also good. You can enter the vampire council if you train hard enough. As for the blood esper department, it takes the most talented students. Only three were offered the spots this year."  Another young vampire said as he stood near the counter.

"Hey, look, it's that summoner, who caused a lot of ruckus on the orientation." The young vampire pointed out as Deryn entered the department hall.

All of the vampires turned their heads towards the proud-looking vampire who walked like he owned the place. He was quite happy seeing everyone's attention focused on him.

"Yes… I am the boss here. You all will obey me." Deryn said as he extended his hands and walked towards the counter.

"Is that Keith Ennes? Why is he here?" 

All of a sudden all of the attention shifted to a figure who just entered the hall. It was Kieth, wearing the uniform and looking very handsome with his hair combed properly. He scanned through the main hall and found all of the eyes were glued to him.

It was a little weird but he wasn't that bothered. He walked towards the counter and gave. His rune card to the faculty there.

"You? Why are you here?" Deryn shouted from his back.

"So I can't join the blood summoning department?" Keith said without looking back.

"You didn't choose the blood esper department? Are you a fool?"

Deryn mocked him with a laughing face.

The rest of the students were also confused as to why Keith joined the blood summoning department as opposed to the blood esper department. They didn't know he was restricted by a lot of things.

Keith thought long and hard about this and in the end, he chose to join the blood summoning department. If he joined the blood esper department, he had to stay there for an entire year without going outside. He couldn't learn warrior frame and other techniques as the Esper department closely monitored the students and only wanted them to learn blood esper techniques.

Joining the blood summoning department would give him enough leeway to learn warrior frame. He could also get some lessons from Mr. Visit on blood rituals. This meant he could learn three disciplines at the same time as compared to one if he joined the blood esper department.

He had to figure out on his own how to get the blood esper techniques from other vampires. He had plenty of time, so he wasn't in a rush. This kind of arrangement really helped him because he could be free from all the restrictions.

The blood esper department monitored their students all the time and hence he couldn't do anything else there. Due to the lower number of blood espers, it was easy for the faculty to check on most of the students.

Keith looked back at the laughing young man and smirked.

"I chose to join this and I had a choice. You on the other hand never had a choice. You came here by default, so don't talk to me about which department I should join." Keith replied with an annoyed expression.

"I will show you who is better. I always wanted to teach you a lesson when I saw you at the entrance with that bitch." Deryn took out an artifact from his pocket that looked like a horn.

As he was activating the artifact, someone grabbed him from the back and his artifact lost its luster.

"Shall we start our first day? Now that everyone is present, don't do something you will regret later." 

A vampire who was one head taller than Deryn appeared beside him. He was wearing a dress with a cape hanging from the back. It was like a floating cape fluttering in the air. Upon closer look, it didn't look real. It was made up of blood-qi.

'What is that?' Keith asked the system.

[Some kind of external blood-qi projection. Maybe it is related to his blood-qi  technique.]

From the blood-qi levels, Keith could tell that he was a marquis level vampire and his blood-qi was really profound. He was looking around the students with a faint smile on his face.

"Now that everything is settled down, I will guide you to your first class. Follow me." 

The man disappeared from his spot and appeared near a door.

The students followed him and Keith tagged along as well. Deryn was looking at him with hateful eyes, but couldn't do anything in front of a faculty this strong.

As they followed the man corridor after corridor, a decently big open space came into sight. It was covered with stone pillars and the ground was finely maintained with trimmed grass.

"This will be your practical training ground before you control a blood summon. The class is over there where you will learn the theories about the techniques." The man explained as he pointed his hands towards the room in front of the open space.

"Now, let me introduce myself. I am Kyrel Heave, and I will be taking your practical lessons for the first year." The man waved his hands towards the students.

" Oh, you brought the students here." A female voice came from the side as a beauty entered the open space. She was wearing the same kind of dress as the man named Kyrel, but she didn't have any cape on her. 

Her crimson eyes scanned the students and met with Keith. She smiled lightly and shifted her gaze towards Deryn and then back to the man.

"We have very good talents this year. I see a good future for the blood summoners." She said smilingly.

"Can we start the class already? I am getting bored." Deryn said with an uncaring voice.

"You might be Deryn, from the Arji family. I heard you have quite the temper. But you have to follow our rules here, no matter which background you come from. So the class will start when I say so. You understand?" She glared at Deryn.

He turned his head and scoffed and didn't look back. 

The lady then turned her head towards Keith.

"Keith Ennes, I have heard a lot about you. You have a viscount-level warrior frame despite being at the baron stage. You managed to cross the king layer in the orientation. These are some impressive feats. I wonder why you chose to join the blood summoning department.

"To be honest, I wanted to join the blood esper department, but their tight control over the students was a no-no for me. I wanted to be free of all the surveillance and restrictions. Here I can come and go as I please, except for the class of course." Keith said with a calm voice.

"I see, you are a type who doesn't like restrictions. The council will be very displeased when they hear this. Anyhow, you are part of the blood summoning department from now on. So I hope you take this department to new heights." 

" I will just explain how the classes will be done and today there will be no classes. YOu just have to see the demonstrations and follow along if you are capable of it. My name is Jessica Cryel. You can call me Miss. Cryel." 

She opened her hands and a burst of blood-qi expanded and covered the area.

"As you all come from noble families, you all know how the blood-qi works. It is a type of life energy found in the blood. We condense the blood-qi in our blood core and the higher the blood core, the higher the power. The amount of blood qi that can be stored is also dependent on the level of the blood core.

"When you learn a blood-qi technique, you use your blood-qi to manipulate in a certain way to achieve a certain result. We will not go into the details. I will explain it all to you later. Today, I will show you the applications of the blood-qi technique associated with blood summoning."

She condensed her blood-qi and a sphere appeared in front of her. It was glowing red and seemed very dense.

"This is my blood-qi connected to a summon that resides in my body.  This is the peak of the blood summoning technique, to turn the entire summon into a blood-qi projection.

"The summon will not lose its sense of self rather it will gain new senses and its mind will develop further. For example, you can tame a wild animal or a domestic animal. We prefer to tame wild animals raised in the blood forests as they have more life energy in them.

"Then you will spend some time to control their mind, transfer a wisp of blood-qi  and integrate with their blood."