Chapter 296 Nutcase
“Nope, never!” Dilan said in all honesty. He sincerely hoped that he would be wrong in his analysis of the behavior of the Survivors around him but it was unlikely.
The Survivors in the Blue Star camp had been spoiled and they were told that there was no need for them to fight. However. It was the exact opposite In Dilan’s group. Everyone had to do something, whether it was to fight, to support the combatants, or do something else.
But the most important was the fact that every single member in Dilan’s group was required to have some combat training. Every once in a while even the Ascenders with non-combat occupations were told to leave the safety zone to fight monsters.
This was not bullying or torture but a necessity. Everyone would give his or her utmost to make sure that the Survivors could stay safe under all circumstances. However, if thousands of monsters were to attack the base all of a sudden, it would be nearly impossible for Dilan and the others to protect the Survivors.
Dilan wanted his people to be prepared for the worst and that was only possible if they gained some combat experience if they knew how to fight, and if they could kill.
Teaching and ingraining this into their daily activities was difficult and he agreed that it was much easier if one were to accept that only those, who were willing, had to know how to fight. Fortunately, making things easy was not something Dilan was good at.
He liked the challenges and accepted them at face value. It would help him become stronger, whether it was physically or mentally.
“Just look at these disgusting human beings…if you don’t force them to do anything, they would just wait for the Grim reaper to take them,” Victoria suddenly spat in disgust. She looked at all the Survivors around her with contempt and could only shudder at their behavior.
Most humans were selfish, entitled, and arrogant in her opinion. Their arrogance was baseless, their entitled behavior wouldn’t bring them anything but pain in the New Era, and their selfishness would break any trust that was built between humans the moment one of them abandoned another in the face of danger.
Dilan’s group was much better in that regard. Dilan told the others to stay back and to let him fight but they joined them regardless to help him out. The actual usefulness of their help was questionable but that didn’t matter right now.
Victoria liked the humans around Dilan, which was a plus point considering that she wanted to join Dilan’s group because of him and nobody else.
She pushed her body against Dilan’s arm and held him tightly. Her breasts squeezed against his arms and she batted her eyelashes at him.
‘Here we go again…’ Williams just thought, rolling his eyes, and questioning what exactly was wrong with this Vampire and why the hell he couldn’t find someone like her.
“Yeah, I don’t like it here either but calm down,” Dilan said, ignoring Williams’ stare that spoke volumes of what he felt about the situation.
In the following minutes, Dilan found Clerens, who looked at him as if he was a true monster.
“Shouldn’t you be a bit happier that I defeated the monster that nearly destroyed your entire base?” Dilan furrowed his eyebrows, and smiled lightly before he added,
“Now I want to take a look at your treasury. I saw that you guys have a small place to concoct potions as well. So don’t even try to hide your recipes!”
Dilan was laughing lightly and one would presume that he was joking. However, Clerens could tell that Dilan was being anything but fun right now.
And after witnessing what Dilan was actually capable of, Clerens didn’t even think about hiding anything. It was a great deal to sacrifice mere three items in exchange for staying alive.
“Just take three things and leave afterward…please,” Clerens requested before sighing deeply as he walked over to the treasury.
“Everything you can wish for is inside the treasury,” He said gloomily before he walked away, trying to hide from the humiliating gaze Victoria threw at him.
“And that is a Vampire with noble blood. To think that Vampires would reach such a low standard…” Victoria grumbled before tightening her hold over Dilan and rubbing her body against his.
“Well, whatever…as long as I have you it’s fine!!” Victoria’s eyelashes fluttered as she gave him a devious grin. Dilan could only smile weirdly before he moved through the treasury.
Calling it that might be an overstatement because there were only a bunch of weapons, a few books, recipes, and other stuff inside a large room. However, it was better than nothing. Dilan couldn’t actually complain.
He was already happy with the gains they had made from killing the Thunderbolt Eagle. The monster’s Essence crystals and its body were of exceptional use and value after all.
“By the way, why are you acting as if we have known each other for decades, and that we have been lovers for years?” Dilan suddenly asked as he walked through the treasury, and took a look at various items.
He read through the notifications that popped up in front of him when he picked up the treasures while acting as if the answer to the question he had asked didn’t matter much.
Secretly, however, he was trying to figure out what made Victoria follow him and act like they were in a relationship. It was simply too weird, after all.
“A reason…a reason…” Victoria suddenly mumbled trying to think what exactly was the first thing that had attracted her to him.
“You slaughter everyone and everything if you want to…you’re merciless to your enemies…you look sexy while fighting…you don’t know how to hold back…you don’t back off at the sight of dangers…you have nice blood…and something pulls me toward you, I guess?” Victoria answered, not sure if she had missed out on anything.
Meanwhile, Dilan lifted his eyebrows while his head turned toward her. He stared down straight at her without avoiding making eye contact
“But you look a lot sexier when your eyes are on me~” She added all of a sudden, pulling herself closer to him once again.
And from that moment on Dilan knew that he had picked up a real nutcase, a true psycho…
Nonetheless, Dilan smiled. A nutcase was still better than a hypocrite. Victoria was clingy but she was not actually dangerous, not to him, at least.
“I think my behavior is weird as well but it’s not like I can do anything against my instincts. Vampires usually follow their instincts before they think rationally,” Victoria was still leaning against him, rubbing herself against him. She was lightly caressing his back to relax him but Dilan could only look at her in doubt.
“Well, if that were really the case, it would hardly be possible for Vampires to stay a myth until now. Everyone on Milarn would know about the existence of Vampires if what you said was really the truth,” Dilan retorted.
It was not like he doubted the truth behind Victoria’s reasoning to follow him but he was not foolish enough to believe everything she said. He took everything with a grain of salt.
“We have been manipulating humans since ancient times. Do you really think we would allow anyone to figure out about our existence? I mean hiding our existence is not necessary anymore but many will prefer laying low than revealing themselves to the humans. After all, despite most humans being cowards, there are some, who are much stronger than others…and fearless!” Victoria seemed to hint something, but Dilan didn’t even realize that.
He could only tell that she was trying to undress him while distracting him with her words. Hence, he stopped her by grasping her wrist lightly.
“Now is not the time to be naughty!” Dilan scolded while holding her arm down.
“You are so fierce~” She exclaimed using her other hand to caress his cheek, “Let’s play later then~”
A moment later, she twisted the arm Dilan was holding to wriggle out of his grasp. Dilan heard the sound of bones breaking, which shocked him. He had not even held her hand with much force.
But as he looked at Victoria to make sure that nothing was wrong with her, he saw that her expression didn’t change a bit. She still looked as crazy as before. In th blink of an eye, she placed both her hands on his head and held his face inches apart from her own.
“You’re mine now!” She declared as she pressed her lips on his.
‘A real nutcase…’