Sure enough, Hubson roared angrily, “Shut the fuck up, Noreen! Today is your last day on this earth! Even if I die, you’ll die with me!”
Even though I hated Noreen with every fiber of my being, I still had to protect her. After all, she was still in Beryl’s body. If Beryl’s body was destroyed, Beryl’s soul could never come back.
So when Hubson tried to attack her, I didn’t hesitate to take the blow. Noreen just sat in bed, watching all the action with a complacent smile.
“Hubson, just give up. You can’t hurt me. You’re wasting what precious little time you have left.”
“Shut up!” With bloodshot eyes, I turned around and roared at Noreen fiercely.
Rufus had also joined the fight, and Hubson couldn’t defeat Rufus at least, not in this condition. Hubson retreated to the door and stopped attacking for the time being.
He narrowed his eyes at me and Rufus and finally proposed a deal. “Give me the child and I promise I’lI never trespass on werewolf territory again. We’ll sign a peace treaty between the two races, and we’ll even give you the better end of the deal. For starters, we vampires can retreat five hundred miles from south of the border.”
Rufus sneered at him coldly. “It seems that you really want to live.”
“It’s not a big price to pay in exchange for my life,” Hubson said with a smile.
The next second, he doubled over and coughed violently. It seemed that the fight just now had consumed a lot of his strength.
I kept silent, racking my brains for a solution.
The stalemate seemed to make Noreen anxious. She shouted madly, “What the hell are you two thinking? Are you actually considering his offer? Don’t listen to his bullshit. My death won’t do you any good. Hubson won’t keep his word; he’s a vengeful man!”
I glanced at Noreen and found that she was so anxious that her face turned red.
When she saw me looking at her, she suddenly put on a pitiful expression and cried, “Mommy, help me! You don’t want to see me die, right? I don’t want to die! Please, Mommy!”
“Shut the fuck up, Noreen!”
Seeing Noreen use Beryl’s voice to plead with me, I was instantly enraged. I turned to Hubson and said, “I also want Noreen to die a horrible death. But as you can see, she’s in my daughter’s body now. I can’t just give her to you.”
“Then let’s just fight.” Hubson raised his hand, ordering his subordinates to surround the place.
I exchanged glances with Rufus. Finally. I said firmly, “Hubson, just give up. I know you’re weak now. Otherwise, you would’ve taken action already and wouldn’t have talked so much nonsense with me. Just leave while you still have the chance. Our army will arrive soon. You think you and your men will be able to make it out of here alive by then?”.
“Yes, that’s right! The curse is killing him. He’ll die soon. As long as you fight back, you’ll win!” Noreen shouted fervently. She spoke very fast, as if she was afraid that Rufus and I would actually hand her over.
Hubson laughed dryly. “Since you know that I’m dying, you should also know that I’ll fight for my life, no matter the cost-even if it means killing the child!”
“Don’t be impulsive, Hubson. Maybe there’s another way,” I said cautiously.
Hubson laughed wildly as though he had heard the funniest joke on earth. “Are you kidding me? Just give the child to me. Otherwise, everyone will suffer tonight.”
“No way. I won’t let you kill my daughter,” I said decisively, clenching my fists tightly.
“Okay, then there’s nothing to talk about.” Hubson was done talking. He suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers. A vampire, who had been hiding in the darkness, suddenly emerged from the shadows and rushed towards Rufus at an incredible speed.
My heart skipped a beat. Without thinking, I rushed to stop him, but I was too late; the vampire activated his power and disappeared with Rufus.
“Where the hell did, they go?” Iquestioned Hubson fiercely. It took all my willpower not to tear him to pieces at this moment.
Hubson’s wrinkled face looked surprisingly relaxed. “Don’t worry. Rufus is the lycan king. A regular vampire can’t hurt him. I just had him transported to another dimension since he’s so troublesome. You, on the other hand, should worry about yourself.”
I didn’t understand what he meant until he suddenly pulled off his heavy black cloak. Underneath, he was wearing a white shirt and white pants over his thin, emaciated body. It was almost as though his bones would crack at the slightest shove.
The light in the room started to flicker. A fierce wind blew, forcing the window open with a bang, and whipping my hair back chaotically.
Then I saw that Hubson’s white clothes slowly turned red and the pungent, metallic smell of blood filled the air.
Soon, Hubson’s white suit seemed to have been dipped and soaked in blood, Such a sight made my hair stand on end.
Blood dripped from his body, forming a small pool of red liquid at his feet.
Noreen shouted wildly, “Run! This son of a bitch is crazy! How dare he activate [his power here?”
My heart tightened in my chest. Finally, I understood what Hubson meant just now. Activating his power while he was under the influence of the Black Death Curse was akin to suicide.
I wanted to grab Beryl and take her someplace else, but it was too late. The blood on the floor quickly turned into runes and spread in my direction.
I had no choice but to retreat to the window, but there was nowhere to lun. The runes crawled up my body, transforming into blood-colored ropes that restrained my arms and legs. I tried to turn into a wolf to escape, but it was futile.
Noreen turned, to me and shouted desperately, “Use your damned witchcraft!
You’re a witch for crying out loud! Shame on you! You can’t even beat such a loser!”
Perhaps the word “loser” angered Hubson, because he suddenly turned around and shouted, “Shut up, bitch! You’ll be dead soon enough. Don’t get too cocky!”
“You shut up, you bastard! Even if you kill me now, I’ll always find a way to resurrect!” Using Beryl’s voice, Noreen roared at Hubson hysterically.
“Then let’s die together. Even if I die today, I’ll drag you down with me! I’ll torture you in the afterlife!”
The two ancient entities, who were both hundreds of years old, began to quarrel like children.
I was exhausted and couldn’t struggle anymore. The scent of blood in the room grew stronger and stronger, suffocating me.
Then, I noticed another golden rune forming on the floor. It was also made of blood, but I recognized it-it was the same rune I had seen the vampire with the skull head use at the amusement park.
“Idiot! I told you to run away, but you’re just standing there, frozen!” Noreen’s eyes were close to jumping out of their sockets. Her voice grew sharp with anger as she glared at me. “It’s over now. You were hit by Hubson’s power.
You’ll become his puppet in no time.”
“Why do you talk so much? Can’t you just shut up?” I snapped at Noreen. At a time like this, if she couldn’t help, she should at least not make anything more difficult than it already was! Had she not got on Hubson’s nerves, things wouldn’t have turned out like this At least I could have bought us some time. But no. She chose not to do anything pleasant.
The ropes on my body tightened a little, and the familiar sense of pressure surged up again. It was slowly becoming clear to me now that the vampire from the amusement park was related to Hubson in some way. Why else would the powers of two vampires be so similar?
As far as I knew, similar powers were only bestowed to vampires of the same family or bloodline, only differing in strength.
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