Upon arriving ihe house, I immediately froze in tracks.

  Standing in front of me were Tam's sister, Belle, and Grandpa Rad who was holding a pitchfork in his hand, they had what seemed to be blood on their faces and clothes that didn't look like they beloo them, what truly caught my attention and made my blood run cold was the figure of little Tam lying on the floor, sensing no signs of life on him which could only meahing.

  Tam was dead. That little kid whom I spent months chatting with aing to know was dead. All because I was te.

  "Master Chamber!" Belle's face lit up in surprise before turning solemn as tears welled up in her eyes upon remembering her little brother, while I turo look at the only stranger in the living room.

  It was a tall man, wearing nothing but a full bck coat, the most distinct feature of his appearance was his red eyes, pale skin, and the blood on his mouth, which the man bared in front of me, showing his long fangs as a word suddenly appeared on my mind.

  Vampire.

  This man is a vampire and knowing their nature, no doubt this vampire is the one who killed little Tam.

  "You...Sniff Sniff." As if reizing my existence just by sniffing, fear appeared on the vampire's face as he backed away and shakily pointed his fi me.

  "Y-you're a High-css Devil! W-what are you doing here?" Despite questioning me, I didn't feel obliged to answer him as my eyes stayed on little Tam’s fallen figure.

  Anger immediately clouded me, as I slowly stepped forward, each step causing the floorboards to crack.

  Both Belle and Grandpa Rad immediately backed away, however, Belle didn't, instead, she insisted on staying beside her little brother's corpse, m over him as I could see her teardrops falling on Tam's bloodied body.

  As for the vampire, he immediately tried to flee by turning into a bat and flying out of the window. However, I was faster than him and mao jure a whip that ed around his small bat body and pulled him baside the house.

  "Where are you going?" My cold voice reached his ears, causing the vampire to slowly turn his head toward my dire, and saw the Demoniergy surrounding my figure, making the vampire's pale face go paler.

  "W-why are you doing this to me? Vampires and Devils don't have any flicts! If you kill me, yonna make the entire vampire race join the war against you devils! Do you want that to happen?" This vampire, not only killed someone precious to me, someone I sider as my family member, but he even dared to threaten me!

  Without replying to the vampire, I quickly jured Demonic Bullet and spun it around before hurling it towards the vampire's throat.

  Fwoosh!

  Splurt!

  The differeween their strengths was so vast, as the vampire was uo react from his fast spell casting causing him to clutch his throat in pain while his blood seeped through his fingers, trying to stop his bleeding.

  However, I didn't give him time to breathe as I followed up by smashing his face with my knee.

  Bam!

  "Gah!" The vampire used his other hand to clutch his bleeding faow he's c his entire face down to his neck.

  "What were you saying again? Vampires going tainst the devils? Do you think that scares me? Do you think you're important for them to risk a war with another race? I won't eveion how you vampires became a bunch of cowards upon the demise of your vampire lord, Dracu." I grabbed a handful of the vampire's hair and leaned slightly while bringing the vampire's face close to me. The st sentence was true as the history of vampires was included in my reading list during my time in Sitri's library.

  I know about the war between vampires and werewolves, thousands of years ago. Not only both sides suffered greatly from the war, but each side also lost their respective leaders.

  The vampire race lost their aor, Vd Dracu while the Werewolves lost their Alpha, Ly.

  This also proved the existence of the Greek Gods as Ly is the former king in Arcadia who killed and cooked his son, Nyctimus, and prese to Zeus, trying to trick the Lightning God iing human flesh. However, Zeus khis and turhe king into a wolf, more specifically, the first Werewolf.

  "M-Mercy please!" The vampire begged, thankfully I brought him close and I soon noticed that his broken nose was slowly healing while his neck had stopped bleeding.

  'So vampires do have incredible regeion capabilities.' I muttered under my breath and decided to end this vampire ond for all. I don't want to uimate his regeion and actally let him escape.

  Before the vampire could beg more for his life, however, instead of decapitating his head that would've just caused trauma to Belle and Grandpa Rad, so what I did was to open a portal to the other side of the earth.

  Portalling to a pce where the sun still shines.

  As soon as the portal was fully opehe sunlight from the other side easily passed through and licked the vampire's entire body.

  "GRAAAGHHHH!" The process was shorter than I expected as the vampire only mao scream for a single sed before fully turning into ashes.

  Typical vampire weakness.

  Closing the portal, I swiftly shifted my attention to the m Belle and wide-eyed Grandpa Rad.

  "K-Kid....What are you?" Grandpa Rad seemed like he couldn't hold it baymore and asked the question.

  ht, he doesn't know what my other side is.

  "I'm nothing but a humble devil sorcerer." I properly introduced myself.

  "Devil? So father wasn't crazy..." I hear him muttering the st senteo himself. That's iing, it seems like the old man has a great story to tell.

  "Master Chamber, please....save my little brother....He's the only one I have. I'll do anything please!" My attention was then attracted to Belle who kneeled in front of me with tears and snot on her face, bowing her head until her forehead touched the floor.

  Feeling an ache in my heart, I couldn't bear to see her like this, not when she was finally slowly rec. Her appearanow is far more different than the first time I met her. She now looks like a very healthy young girl, however right now, she looks exhausted and drained, as if at any moment now she'll pass out on the ground.

  "Belle..." I wao tell her that there was nothing I could do about her brother, however, I was afraid of how she'd react.

  Will she hate me for not saving her brother? Will she bee depressed and attempt suicide? Or will she turn into a vengeful girl who will swear to eradicate all vampires from this world?

  So many things could happen if I let her face the truth.

  Unknowingly, my eyes slowly trailed down to Tam, his pale face from the ck of blood, along with the two small holes in his neck, a testament to what he faced against the vampire.

  He reminds me of myself when I first arrived here and also oh's doorstep. Only through Ajuka's Evil Piece, I was brought back to life...

  Wait. Evil Piece.

  My eyes quickly widened as I brought out a small red chess piece from my pocket.

  An Evil Piece, a pawn more specifically. Before leaving Ajuka's boratory, I mao haggle a few pawn Evil Pieces from him in exge for owing him a favor. Hopefully, he'll fet about it iure.

  Will....this work? But little Tam is already dead while my case is far from different, the Evil Piece was used on me while I still have a small breath of life.

  I nervously looked down at Belle, who was still kneeling and pressing her forehead on the floor.

  I don't want to give her hope only to snatch it aon learning that the Evil Piece won't work.

  Caught between a rod a hard pce, I gritted my teeth and decided to risk it all.

  "Belle, I think I may have a solution t him back. But don't bring your hopes up, I'm not sure if I-" I didn't even mao finish my sentence as Belle cut me off by standing up and staring at my eyes filled with an abundance of hope.

  "Please bring him back, Master! I beg of you!" My lips quivered as Belle didn't seem to hear what I wao say about ning her hopes up.

  "I'll do what I but in the meantime, I want everyoo leave the house for a while." With my words, Belle didn't hesitate to folloa Rad outside while Grandpa Rad walked past me and muttered.

  "Giving someone hope will only result in two outes, either happiness or falling deep into the abyss so deep that no one would be able to reach them anymore." It seemed like Grandpa Rad also uood the importance of what I was about to do, so I simply nodded my head in reply.

  After he left, I am now alone along with Tam's corpse and the dead vampire's ashes.

  Please work.

  Muttering the same words under my breath for a few times, I crouched in front of Tam's body and pressed the pawn pie the surface of his chest.

  I watched in amazement as the pawn piece dissolved into red motes of light and spread across Tam's entire body.

  My hopes, however, were soon crushed when nothing was happening, beats or any signs of Tam being brought back to life.

  My mind immediately wandered as to why it didn't work when suddenly, I remembered what Ajuka told me about Evil Pieces.

  'Sometimes, there are some people whose strength is great and might take more than a single pawn Evil Piece to vert them into Devils.' was what he said at that time.

  Hoping that I was right about this, I took out two more pawn Evil Pieces, I pced ea Tam's chest and watched as the same process as earlier happened except this time, something happened.

  Thud!

  It was a heartbeat! More specifically, Tam's heartbeat! I sed around his body and saw that his face had regais color and the vampire bite on his neck had disappeared, only a blood mark was left.

  Resisting the urge to yell He's alive! He's alive! I quickly called Grandpa Rad and Belle, who rushed inside almost as fast as a cheetah as she k on the side of her brother's body aed her ears on his chest, hearing his heart, beating back up once again!

  "Thank you! Thank you so much, Master Chamber!" Belle didn't hesitate to bow her head towards me again, tears dripping down her cheeks except this time, it was tears of joy.

  As frandpa Rad, the old man was also tears up albeit only for a sed as he soon wiped it away after notig my gaze.

  This old man...

  Deg to give the siblings some time alone aing Grandpa Rad rest ba his room after assuring him that there will no longer be vampire attacks happening.

  As for me, I went outside and stared at the moon in the sky, sighing in relief that a disaster was solved.

  My mind then wao my inal goal. Which is t the Masters of the Mystic Arts to life in this world.

  Previously, my main reason for doing it was just to establish a powerful force at my and in this world while proteg the humans from the Supernatural side was simply the sed reason, however after witnessing and experieng how defehe humans are pared to the Supernatural beings, a sense of obligation welled up inside me.

  Sorcerer Supreme, calling myself one while only wanting to have a powerful formand feels like a painting a huge shame on my back.

  Sorcerer Supremes are supposed to protect humanity from threats they ot handle on their own.

  Turning around, I stared at the farmhouse and a decision was made inside my mind.

  I will establish the first Sanctum in this pce!

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  [ Chapter: Ch. 26 - Sacred Gears?]