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nThe reaction from the other party was hilarious as Kieth watched them gawk at him for minutes without saying anything. It was a hard truth to swallow if you got beaten up by a first-year student who had the power equivalent to the count stage.

nRegardless of their discomfort, they had to accept that Kieth was more powerful than them and they couldn’t do anything to him. Now that he was revealed to be a student of the summoning department, the lady eased up a little, still looking at him with a fiery gaze.

n“You really joined the summoning department? Where is your summon then?” The lady asked.

n” I performed the summoning technique on a beast, but he’s integrating with the blood-qi. It is still in phase one and can’t assimilate with my blood core. I can show him to you later if you want.” Keith said flamboyantly.

n“I’d love to see your summon, but why are you being so friendly all of a sudden? We are on bad terms and you are not the type of guy who would back down.” She said with a tinge of suspicion.

n“Look, I was polite to you when we first met. I didn’t want conflict in the first place. You guys thought I’m some pushover and decided to clash with me. I had no choice but to bring out some of my cards to defend myself. You know how that turned out.

n“So how about we make peace and don’t get bitter about it later. Miss. Shaw will be happy about it, and we will get our money back. What do you say?” Keith looked at her with a pleasant smile etched across his face.

nThe lady reluctantly took out her treasury card and was about to hand him the card, but she stopped for a moment.

n“I still don’t trust you, but looking at the mutual loss, I want to make a temporary truce. After we get out of here with our money, this thing ends.” The lady declared.

nEven though Keith was stronger than her and the other two vampires, she didn’t want to lose to a first-year. Her pride was on the line. She would do whatever it takes to get back at him. Be it relentless training to become stronger or to gather her friends to teach him a lesson.

nShe felt that bringing in help from her friends was not good, because it would show her weakness. To be able to do it without any help, on her own, was something she desperately wanted.

nStill, if push came to shove, she was going to ask Miss Cryel’s help and make this first year suffer. She wasn’t aware how strong Keith’s relationship was with the department that even Dean Jesper thought highly of him.

n“Whatever you wish. Don’t stumble into me outside the academy, or you will pay dearly for it. Have a good day.”

nAfter scanning the treasury card and confirming how many coins were in it, he left the waiting room that descended into deathly silence. As soon as he left, the conversations resumed and they discussed what had happened.

n“That was humiliating!” One of two vampires said.

n“We didn’t have a choice, if we attacked him, you know what would’ve happened.” The other vampire said. They already experience it first hand.

n“Stop it you two. At least I survived a couple of blows, you on the other hand couldn’t even take one hit. What have you been doing these past four years? You were supposed to be physically stronger than me.” She said angrily.

n“His strength is at the count level, so was his speed. We couldn’t predict his next moves. If we did, at least we would’ve blocked the attacks. But he was too fast for our eyes to catch.”

n“…”

nSilence ensued at that table as the three vampires looked down, immersed in their thoughts.

nKeith went to the counter and informed the receptionist about the number of gold blood coins he was ought to receive. The young vampire bit his tongue. Looking at the amount but. He had to oblige as it was the order from Miss. Shaw.

n“This is still my fault. I don’t think she will leave me be,” He handed Keith a token which was just a golden rune.

nUpon touching the golden rune with Keith’s treasury card, the new amount was added to his account. Keith smiled and put his card back inside.

n“I will come back in a couple of days with my summon. Keep an eye for any ghoul-related missions for me, alright?” Keith said after turning back to leave.

n“You want to hunt ghouls?” The receptionist asked.

n“Sure! Do you have any particular mission in mind?” Keith said without looking back.

n“Nevermind. I heard of some incidents happening, but it’s still vague what caused them. I will inform you once we get more info on that.” The receptionist said.

n“Alright.”

nKeith walked out of the central office building and headed straight to the blood warrior training facility. After getting there he saw many students lining up to enter the baron stage training chamber.

n“What’s going on?” Keith asked one of the vampires in the queue.

n“…Keith?” The vampire recognized him with a glance and almost panicked.

n“Yeah, that’s me.”

n“I’ve been looking for you for three days. Please analyze my warrior frame. I can’t evolve it to the final stage of baron.” He desperately begged Keith.

nNoticing that all of the vampires in the queue started looking at him and hurriedly walking towards him, he got the gist of what was happening. Basically, they were here for him, specifically to analyze their warrior frame and improve it.

nKeith demonstrated time and time again that he could fix the implementation faults of the frame and give a revised warrior frame technique that profoundly increased the output and helped the vampires who had long-lasting bottlenecks.

nThe vampires saw that all of them were rounding up Keith so they hurriedly tried to get to the front which caused a messy atmosphere. Keith couldn’t pass due to the vampires pushing each other and blocking the entrance to the training chamber.

nWhoosh!

nKeith revealed his viscount level aura and it suppressed all the baron level vampires in front of him. He didn’t even need to fully activate his warrior frame. His blood-core aura was enough to stop them.

n“If you do this, I might never analyze your warrior frames, so behave in a civilized manner. I have other important things to deal with. Now step aside.” Keith increased his aura.

nThe baron-level vampires turned silent and steered away from the entrance. Keith walked inside the training chamber and found it to be quite empty. Normally, hundreds of vampires came in here to train every day but today there were only a dozen of vampires.

nHe saw Garion sparring with a final stage baron, and he approached without getting noticed. As soon as he entered the chamber, he withdrew all his aura so he was basically invisible at this moment.

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nfront of him.

n“How’d it go?” He asked in an anxious voice.

n“It was fine. Nothing serious happened really. She just informed me about some of the campus rules, that’s all.” Keith replied calmly.

n“That’s a relief. I think I’m also safe. Did she say anything about me?” he asked.

n“She was pissed that you didn’t control me, but I told her it was my idea, so you are good. Also, take me to that lady. I need to say a few words.”

nKeith followed the receptionist to meet the lady vampire. She was still in the waiting room, sitting silently and thinking about something. In her trance, she didn’t notice Keith approaching her. The two other vampires sitting with her stood up as he approached them, but this time they were fearful as opposed to being angry.

nThe lady noticed that something was wrong and she turned her head only to see Keith’s intimidating face staring down at her.

n“Hey, miss. I did beat you up pretty bad, didn’t I?” Keith sat in front of her in the empty seat.

n“What do you want now?” She asked in a deep voice.

n“Can I only talk to you when I have something in mind? Keith said, smiling at her.

nTsk!

n“Are you here to just humiliate me?” She asked while clenching her teeth.

n“Not quite. I want to see how much you have in your treasury card. And also, I talked to Miss. Shaw, she won’t deduct anything from you. I will be give that amount from my compensation. How about that?” Keith said with a smile.

n“I don’t believe you.” She was avoiding eye contact with him. Keith eyes resemled that of a predetor’s gaze.

n“Well, I can’t convice a woman who doesn’t want to be convinced, especilayy from a first year junior from the same discipline.”

nThe lady’s eyes widened after hearing Keith’s words.

n“You… are in the first year?” She asked with a unbelieving expression.

nKeith shrugged.

n“You joined this year, last month?” She asked again refusing to belive his words.

n“Pretty much. I joined the summoning department even though I got invitations from al four departments.” He said without a care in the world.

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