Rise of the Blood Sovereign

64  First 'Volunteer' In the end, Lyle and Adam ended up clearing the dungeon multiple times and spent about 6 hours there. They had both managed to increase their levels by 3, and were now leaving the area and going back to Linston.

It was still daytime and the sun was shining brightly above them. Lyle was fine and could continue hunting down enemies, but Adam was exhausted.

Fighting for 6 hours with barely any breaks made him physically and mentally exhausted. He wished to do nothing more than to rest at this moment. Lyle knew that and decided to get the young man back to the inn before heading out himself and clearing out some dungeons by himself.

He could simply send Adam off to go back, but he didn't want any incidents to occur so he decided to walk him back and only turned back once the gates of the city were close to them. Adam would stay in the inn while he would hunt until nighttime.

Then, he would go back to the city and grab a random criminal in order to do his experiments.

Adam would not be joining him for the experiments as Lyle had not even told the young man about what he planned on doing. Adam was quite obedient and loyal, but the young man still had a good heart and was quite compassionate toward others, something that, although not bad, would work against him when dealing with certain scum.

Lyle needed to ease him up and slowly change his way of thinking. He had already started doing so, but it would take a longer time for Adam to truly change. Having him join the experiments would do nothing good and could perhaps even work against Lyle and his future plans when it came to Adam.

Lyle's decision to leave the caravan without telling them of the monster he had noticed had already left Adam in quite a fragile state back then, if he was to find out that his new master was going to kidnap people and experiment on them with the same skill he had used on him, he would probably lose his mind.

Even though all of the people that Lyle was going to kidnap were criminals and deserved the death they would ultimately get, it was still something Adam wouldn't be able to take. It wasn't something that the young man would agree with, and thus, it was better for Lyle to simply do it by himself.

Lyle spent the next 4 hours going from dungeon to dungeon and checking them all out. Thanks to the flaming cross and the crest he had gotten from lord Song, he was able to get a detailed overview of what had changed in the dungeons after the adventurer guild had sent their men inside.

He knew which ones not to enter, and which ones were fine for him.

Finally, after clearing the 4th dungeon for the day, it was evening.

Lyle was first going to check up on Adam before heading out and finding some 'volunteers' for his experiments.

Adam had already fallen asleep. The young man had been exhausted from all the fighting and after having a meal downstairs had decided to retreat for the day, a welcome action for Lyle who had gone outside after confirming that everything in their suite was alright.

He also placed some traps inside the suite as a measure to catch or kill any who would try to sneak into their suite like the four last time.

The traps were augmented by Lyle in a way that they wouldn't activate if Lyle and Adam were the ones to step or pass by them, only others would set the off.

'Alright, off to find the first volunteer.' Lyle thought to himself as he stepped outside the inn and slowly blended in with the shadows. He moved with an even pace and went toward the rowdier part of the city where less reputable adventurers stayed at.

Besides being less reputable, the adventurers present there were also relatively weaker compared to others and took on many different jobs, many of them being illegal.

Lyle already knew a fair number of the adventurers that stayed there and already had a couple of them in mind for the experiments.

Upon getting near an inn, Lyle stopped as a party of three came outside. They were all quite drunk and were stumbling around whilst yelling and cursing at each other. They seemingly didn't care whether someone would hear them as it was quite late and most people were sleeping right now.

Lyle started following the trio after hearing about what they were talking about.

Kidnapping, and killing people, the trio was talking about all kinds of crimes they committed without a care in the world.

'Perfect, I didn't even need to look for volunteers, they simply came to me by themselves.' Lyle smiled dangerously as he followed the trio. Upon entering a dark alley, the trio proceeded to vomit.

All three of them had drunk way more than they should have and were now paying for the consequences. Each one was a couple of meters away from the other and continued vomiting for some time.

After finishing with their 'activity', they all got back up and started walking back to where they were staying, only for them to realize that it was only two of them right now.

"Hey, where Volgen go?"

"I dunno, who cares, let's just get back."

"Yeah, he probably went to sleep in that alley, nasty bastard."

The duo started stumbling toward their accommodation as Lyle stared at their backs while a barely conscious man was being held by him. Lyle had grabbed his throat and the strength he used to hold it had almost broken the man's windpipe.

"Alright, it seems those guys won't miss you, mister Volgen." Lyle said before smiling at the man he had just kidnapped. The man's eyes were wide open as he had seemingly sobered up after being caught.

"Well, let's go on a short trip, shall we?" Lyle asked the man before knocking him unconscious.

He then took out two large robes and put one over Volgen while putting the other one over himself and making his way to the city gates.

The guards were quite alarmed to see a figure that was carrying something appear at this time, but after seeing the crest of the Song family, they merely bowed to Lyle before allowing him to exit the town without inspecting him.

The Song family was one of the most powerful noble families in the empire, and the city lord was one of their members, no soldier would dare obstruct someone that had their crest.

Happy that his plan worked flawlessly, Lyle went to one of the dungeons nearby. The dungeon he chose was the one that had the weakest monsters among them all. The monsters in that dungeon had now become level 20+ and would not pose a threat to Lyle, or even to Volgen who was around level 26 at the moment.

Upon reaching the dungeon, Lyle went inside, slaughtered the monsters near the entrance, and then he bit Volgen.

The man immediately woke up and started yelling in pain as the transformation started. The pain he felt wasn't like Adam's, who was a normal human before being transformed into a vampire.

Thanks to his heavy injuries, Adam had endured a lot of suffering during his transformation, but Volgen wouldn't need to go through the same. His body was already much more powerful compared to the average man and he only experienced great pain in the beginning, while he merely started convulsing a bit later on.

After about 20 minutes, the transformation ended.

Volgen stood up from the ground. He had gained an inch in height, but his previously bald head didn't change as there was still no hair on it. His eyes were red and he was quite a weird person to look at right now.

Bald head, pale skin, and red eyes, the man would be stared at by anyone after going to a city.

"I, what happened to me, what did you do?" Volgen asked Lyle who simply smiled at him.

"I made you into a vampire, Volgen."

"Huh?"

"You don't need to think much of it, but first things first, kneel," Lyle said in a serious tone as Volgen suddenly felt as if his body had stopped listening to him.

His legs bent and he fell down to his knees, without even trying to do it.

"Good, so simple commands will be followed without any errors, what about any complex ones?" Lyle asked himself out loud as Volgen stared at him in shock.

"Hmm, alright, I want you to jump twice as high as you can, but fall down on your face after the second jump before doing 5 pushups, 10 sit-ups, and then stab yourself in the arm with this knife," Lyle said as he threw a knife in front of Volgen who was still looking at him in shock.

"What?"