Modern World Warlock-Chapter 203: Asphodel’s Past

The following day, after Dante, Zac, and Megan had their encounter with Asphodel, they went to the briefing room to talk to Camille.

Alice and the Gamma Team were also called to the room so they could give their input, and the handler started the meeting by asking Dante how he knew the vampire Mother.

Dante had told Megan a brief story about her when they were working as security guards for the idols, but he never mentioned the vampire's name.

Back in Terra, Asphodel and her older sister, Selene, were vampires who belonged to the Blood Moon Clan, which governed the city of Lumen.

Dante and his party enjoyed visiting Lumen from time to time, as the vampire clan genuinely took good care of the city.

The leader of the clan was a vampire Father called Nicodemus, and while Dante always considered him to be a prick, he still admired the way he governed Lumen.

Dante remembered meeting Asphodel and her older sister when they were still vampire sentinels, and the two of them grew and became vampire ladies around the same time.

However, while Asphodel kept improving her powers, Selene seemed to come to a standstill. It didn't matter how much she trained, her power level stayed the same.

By the time Asphodel evolved into an elder vampire, she rose in the ranks until she was in the top three of the strongest vampires in the clan.

Nicodemus, seeing that the youngest of the sisters had more talent, considered Selene to be a failure, saying that the older siblings should always be stronger.

Without telling Asphodel, the vampire Father killed Selene and put her head on a spike as a way to shame her for her supposed failures, which was the catalyst for Asphodel to go berserk and destroy everything.

The moment Asphodel glanced at her sister's head, her mind went completely blank, only regaining her consciousness after razing Lumen to the ground and killing all of the vampires in the Blood Moon Clan.

Dante and his party were coincidentally arriving in the chaotic city when they spotted the tired Asphodel on the ground and Nicodemus rushing towards her to execute her.

They didn't know the details of what was happening, but they knew Asphodel, so they decided to help her, believing that it was Nicodemus who had gone berserk.

After working together to kill the vampire Father, the exhausted Asphodel revealed the truth to them and how she was the culprit for all the destruction.

Still, Dante's party didn't regret helping her against Nicodemus, as they thought they would have gone berserk if the same thing had happened to them.

Asphodel was later hunted by the church and its holy knights, but after the woman disappeared, she was deemed dead while the church took the credit for slaying her.

Nevertheless, Dante always knew it was a lie, as he could clearly see the priests' umbra whenever they lied about them slaying the vampire fugitive.

"And she ended up here…" Camille said after listening to Dante's story.

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"Mhmm, but she came here willingly while looking for a way to escape from the church," Dante replied.

*Sigh* "Why are all these troublesome magical people suddenly appearing?" Camille asked herself aloud.

Dante explained that Asphodel had been living on Earth for a little over fifty years, and she had been building up her own clan, so it wasn't like she had just arrived.

"Since you are the only one who personally knows Asphodel, what do you think? Should we ally with them?" The handler asked.

"I would rather work with them, yes…" he replied.

"Okay, hypothetically speaking, if Asphodel were to betray us, could you defeat her?" Camille continued.

"Umm…" The warlock pondered momentarily.

"Honestly, I think we would end up killing each other—and the damage to the city would be immeasurable…" Dante explained.

The warlock's specialty was killing demons, so when it came to fighting other magic users, there were many of them who were just as strong as Dante.

"In other words, we definitely want the vampires on our side…" Camille commented.

"What do you think, Megan? You were their target yesterday," the handler continued.

Megan wasn't bothered by the fight, but she didn't like the fact that the teenagers were dragged into it.

The brunette could tell from the very beginning of their encounter that Balthazar wasn't trying to kill her, as she could sense that the man wasn't even using half of his power.

"If they just wanted to spar with me, they should've simply asked…" Megan said.

"We could bring those concerns to them. Vampires are usually affable with the people they like," Dante interjected.

The rest of the people present didn't seem to mind the alliance with the vampires, knowing that it would be better for them in the future.

Moreover, Asphodel had information relating to people who were targeting the Jade Dragons, so even if the alliance were short-lived, they would still benefit from it.

The group knew that the man who hired the vampires was most likely one of the leaders of the Onyx Cartel, as they had been involved with the Blood Dragons.

They were also the ones who wanted to kidnap the idol, Kim Mi-Yun, by hiring the same group of vampires, making their search much narrower.

"Asphodel also mentioned that they were hired for another job related to us, so there is even more we can learn from her…" Dante said.

"Hmm, alright. Contact them and bring them here tomorrow," Camille confidently replied.

Nobody in the briefing room was against the idea of befriending the vampire clan. Considering they had demons working with them, vampires didn't seem that scary.

After everyone left the briefing room and returned to their activities, Camille looked at a framed picture inside the drawer of her desk. In it, a young Camille was holding her baby sister while her father carried them both.

*Sigh* "Dad… If you could see this mess, what would you say?" The handler muttered to herself.