The sharp projectiles made of blood flew through the air as it charged towards Angel.
"Tch!", Angel reacts as a blood projectile grazes past his face.
Angel continued to struggle as he parries away all the projectiles using his blood spear.
"I applaud your skill but... let's see if your control is the same!", Latisha mockingly said.
"What!?", Angel looks at his spear.
The blood spear started to vibrate as it turned back to it's liquid state.
"That was possible?", Angel muttered to himself as he turned to Latisha.
"Hmph, thought so. I never expected somebody like you to best me anyway.", she sways her hair.
Soon after, a loud howl can be heard around the campus and the image of a wolf appeared in the sky.
"Somebody found the wolf's hidden key...!", Angel mutters as he gazes at the wolf image in the sky.
"Wait!", he turns back to Latisha.
"Shouldn't have gotten distracted. For a pureblood, you sure are disappointing.", she says with a smirk as she grips the key tight.
After gripping the key, she then disappeared in a beam of light along with the key.
"Damn it!", Angel slams the tree as he sat down in defeat.
As Angel stayed there for a few minutes, the smell of blood passes his nose.
"What is this?", Angel follows the smell.
Angel ran through the dense forest outside the campus, delving deeper inside as he followed the scent.
As he got closer, the scent became more familiar and he saw himself at a familiar mansion.
"This is... where I met sir Malachi.", Angel opens the door.
Compared to the decaying interior he remembered of the mansion at Japan, this interior was more maintained and cleaned.
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Inside the academy's control center, the main room where everything can be seen.
The four representatives of their respective factions stood at the front, watching every students along with the noble prodigies that held that aimed for the gold keys.
"A wolf successfully found our faction's hidden key!", Edan howled proudly.
"The other two hidden keys will be obtained soon by it's deserving owner but none has discovered the vampire's hidden key.", Evander said.
"Just why did they have to place it there? Somewhere outside of our supervision!?", Maria said in confusion.
"We'll just have to wait and see. Who will be able to obtain our hidden key, I won't care even if its from your factions but I do hope our faction's prospects will be the ones to obtain it.", Theodore said.
"The hidden keys are the keys of our founding ancenstor's rooms. It is not us nor the faction's will where the keys would be hidden but only our founding ancestors.", Evander replied to Maria.
"Even if we wanted those keys for ourselves, the door of the room won't open just because we possess the key. The door will only open to the worthy possessor of that key.", Theodore stated.
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Angel walked through the corridors of the mansion, following the scent to it's origin.
As Angel continued, he remembered the foul memories of his past along with fragments of memories he didn't possess.
"What is this?", Angel asked.
Angel caught glimpses of the mansion's past. It was bright and filled by those who enjoyed in serving the Blood Lord Cain.
The maids and the butlers served with smiles and Cain returned it with interest, no visible conflict.
Angel watched as Malachi approached Cain but in that memory, Malachi was merely but a young teenager who clinged onto his older brother.
"Brother, I want my gift! It's my birthday today, you remembered right?", Malachi asked as he pulled Cain's sleeve.
"Of course, how could I forget my brother's birthday.", Cain said with a laugh.
"Follow me to my room.", Cain gestured Malachi.
Angel followed from behind, using the memories he could see to lead him to Cain's room.
But everything was soon interrupted when Angel felt his senses warning him.
In the brightly lit hallway, a stone statue of a dark black ghoul wearing a red colored armor stood at the hallway's end.
Angel stood there as he felt the unease as he stared at the ghoul statue.
"I'll test it out.", Angel said as he readied himself.
Angel created another small wound on his middle finger using the ring on his ring finger.
Out of it, projectiles made of blood floated behind him. As Angel extended his arm towards the direction of the statue, the projectiles charged towards it.
As soon as it almost reached the ghoul statue, all the lamps that provided light inside the hallway broke into pieces.
And at the end of the darkness, two glowing dark crimson eyes can be seen.
"I knew it wasn't ordinary.", Angel said as he took a stance with a nervous smile.
"But, I also learned how to utilize my crimson eyes.", Angel said.
Angel closed and opened his eyes, his crimson eyes now fully unleashed but the feeling of uncontrollable desire was clashing with his will.
The dark ghoul charged at him with Angel barely dodging it's golden claws.
Angel created several more projectiles of blood and flung it to the ghoul. The ghoul covered it's head, allowing the projectiles to hit's hands and body instead.
"If you're going to stay there, then I'll come to you.", Angel said.
Angel charged with a spear appearing on his right hand and plunged it at its body.
"It's not sharp enough!", Angel said, looking at the spear's tip barely breaking through its armor.
The ghoul roared in rage, pushing Angel back with it's powerful demonic energy.
"I guess this is it's phase two.", Angel took his stance once again.
"Hm?", Angel said as he felt something wrong.
"To think it'd take you this long to defeat it.", Cain said.