The Bloodpool

Jonathan's heart raced faster. His breathing turned into a hunt. The only thing shrouding his soul right now was thirst.

Thirsty.

The thirst made his throat feel parched, even like it was constricting.

A pair of hazel-colored eye lenses have turned blood red with flat and elongated pupils like needles. The sclera of his eyes was now pitch black.

Jonathan sniffed the air around him.

He could smell the sweet aroma, more fragrant than the food he had ever eaten from his favorite Asian restaurant.

A foreign sweet scent that seemed to have a magnet and kept calling him.

Whoosh!

Jonathan darted past the female nurse who had fallen to the floor a few seconds ago in fear of seeing the significant changes in Jonathan's body.

Her body trembled while her vocal cords seemed to stop functioning.

"Dadda?" said Nerissa looking confused by his daddy's sudden change.

Black Rose let Jonathan go. For her, nothing was more important than keeping Nerissa safe.

The figure of the baby fairy was indeed the most selfish creature ever.

Crack!

Jonathan kicked open the door of a room. The sweet fragrance was very thick from that room.

The wooden door slipped off the hinges and shattered quickly.

A crowded room in Jonathan's eyes.

Toddlers under one-year-old were seen gathered in the room. Some were playing, crying, or even falling asleep on the floor from exhaustion.

The room was an observation room for toddlers after being immunized.

The toddlers were observed indoors for thirty minutes before being allowed to go home.

The thing that made the room look crowded was the existence of baby fairies seen in their original form in Jonathan's eyes.

Jonathan's shocking appearance made the fairies alert and ready to attack simultaneously.

Snap!

Again, Jonathan darted to catch the first target. A fast-sleeping female toddler on a pillow shaped like a giant bear.

But, of course, her baby fairy did not stand idly by.

Boom!

A fireball just shot into Jonathan's face.

However, with only one hand that had turned completely black as if decay had occurred, Jonathan easily parried the baseball-sized fireball.

A sensation like being burned by fire from a small candle felt stinging him. But that's just a tiny thing.

Boom!

The second fireball was successfully obliterated in the same way.

And before the third fireball came, Jonathan's left hand quickly extended. His long, pointed fingers managed to strangle the neck of the baby fairy, a woman dressed all in green with gorgeous blonde hair.

"Arghh – let me go," the fairy tried to free herself, but it was too late.

Jonathan pulled her closer with one jolt before sticking his fangs into the woman's beautiful, rounded chest.

Turning her cry of pain into a sigh of pleasure.

"Ahhh – " moaned the woman, slowly closing her eyes while the blood in her body continued to be sucked by Jonathan.

Jonathan was still determining when he should stop.

[500 drops of high-quality blood obtained]

[Extracting the blood essence]

[1,000 drops of blood essence obtained]

The sound of the moans slowly faded more and more. And the fairy's beautiful white skin turned dark black like rotting flesh.

No more movement was detected.

When Jonathan released her, the fairy did not fall to the floor but burned in the air and charred into shreds of ash before vanishing to nothing.

Seeing what had just happened to one of their companions, the other baby fairies looked terrified.

They decided to pull their foster babies away from where Jonathan was standing.

This time, his hideous eyes focused on the sleeping baby close to him.

The baby didn't know if the guardian fairy was gone.

With his fingers still covered with blood, Jonathan was about to touch the baby's adorable face.

He took another deep breath to enjoy the sweet scent of her tiny body.

However, before his hand touched that thin, sensitive skin... a short memory flashed through Jonathan's mind.

"Dadda!"

It was a memory that looked horrible, like an old, broken, and dirty videotape. There was no color. Everything was just black and white and glitching.

Jonathan saw the face of a baby girl he knew very well from the bottom of his soul.

And in that memory, for some reason, Jonathan seemed to remember that it was the memory where the baby started to speak for the very first time in her lovely voice.

"Nerissa?" called Jonathan, his voice returning to normal.

"Stop. I don't kill babies!" Jonathan was immediately trying to fight against whatever was controlling him.

"Get out of my body, you monster!" Jonathan clutched his own head.

However, his body was not entirely under his control.

Something compelling inside his body was still trying to take possession.

[Let the hunt begins]

Scrash!

Something in Jonathan's body made Jonathan's hand want to harm the innocent baby.

However, the real him did not let it happen.

The host's refusal missed the attack and destroyed a nearby pony-shaped glass statue.

And it awoke the sleeping baby. She started to cry. And all the babies in the room were following her, crying hysterically.

Wah – Wah!

Wah – Wah!

Jonathan felt a painful sensation from within his body. His heartbeat suddenly slowed down, very slow and even slower than usual.

The pores on the surface of his skin seemed to ripple, and his body began to shiver.

Wah – Wah!

The louder the sound of the baby's crying.

It weakened Jonathan.

He could no longer support the weight of his own body and fell to the floor.

[The Blood Symbiote is in danger]

[Protection from the host is required]

"No! I would never protect anything that tried to kill innocents," refused Jonathan, yelling at anything that kept telling him through the strange notification.

[The host rejected the protection request]

"Argghhhhh!"

Jonathan didn't know that refusing to give Protection to anything hiding in his body would also harm him.

His heart seemed to have just been pierced by hundreds of daggers from all directions, making his blood leak from inside.

No one could survive such excruciating pain. No one.

Jonathan stamped like a person who had just experienced separation from his soul.

And he no longer moved.

…

Drip!

Drip!

Drip!

The sound of liquid dripping disturbed a naked young man lying on top of a room resembling a pile of fresh meat still covered in blood.

The young man groaned, feeling pain all over his body.

His hands tried to fumble around, but all he felt was a warm liquid that was quite thick.

Slowly he began to open his pair of hazel eyes.

And at the same time, he was nauseous. The highly dense metallic aroma made him vomit.

The young man managed to force himself to stand up. And he shuddered in horror when he realized where he was standing.

His body was covered with blood. He did not know who the owner of the blood was.

He ran over.

However, although both knees began to ache, he did not find a way out.

The place was really dull.

As far as the eye can see, everything looked the same.

Fresh meat with muscles that still looked like they were throbbing weakly was covered with blood that felt warm as if it was new.

The young man fell after slipping into a small mountain of blood.

However, before he could get back on his feet, the pool of blood seemed to suck him in. Make him sink slowly. And he was helpless.